Going back to Bebpo's posts:
Ehhhh, from what I understand Marvel basically dictated the Marvel lineup and Capcom had no say. So it's not just "no x-men/doctor doom", but Capcom didn't have the freedom to pull all kinds of interesting comic book characters like back when they did Shuma-Gorath and what not and the lineup was basically TEAM BORING AVENGERS + some GoTG. Like that stuff works in the films because it's the safe characters, but it just makes a bland roster in MvC. Then you have stuff like that actual interesting additions like Black Panther being locked behind DLC -_-
Nah, Marvel has always been like that with them. There were certain things that didn't happen with MvC3 because Marvel wouldn't let Capcom do things in regards to character design and gameplay. Even shit like alternate color schemes had to be submitted to Marvel for review. This is why Magneto never got an alternate DLC outfit and why we didn't get balance patches.
I just want to add though that part of the reason I never picked up MvC:I or was too interesting is that even MvC3 felt like a downgrade to me coming from MvC2's roster. It was still enough that I picked up MvC3 and enjoyed it. But I always felt like one of the key selling points to vs games was having a billion characters ripped from various games. So MvC:I having an even smaller roster than MvC3 was a big turn off personally.
Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 was a mess of a game. It was Capcom MUGEN. They just threw all their sprites into the game (with a couple of new ones- was legit surprised by this at the time since their Marvel games were such asset recycle-fests) on top of 3D backgrounds and shitty music and called it a day. Seeing as how they started over completely with MvC3 years later, I wouldn't have expected anywhere near that size roster. Plus MvC2 is the only one with a roster that large.
But around 2010s era the FGC took off and "balance" became important :'(
Bruh.
It has always been about having good balance...what are you talking about?
People complaining about broken and unbalanced games has been a staple for almost two decades (if not longer). I was always amazed by how the FGC actually accepted MvC2 since it's such broken garbage. They basically just made their own game out of it in the sense that they ignored like 90% of the roster and stuck with the same few characters to make a game out of.
I'd rather have 50+ characters with crappy balance, but that's just me
I'd rather have 50+ characters AND good balance. And I don't think that's just me.