Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 is a beautiful, complex, deep game. I'm sure this has been said hundreds of times before and the scene has been thinning out, but I think now we are actually seeing some of the best days of the game now, even though the game has been out for several years.
The most brilliant thing to me about the game is it is exactly as deep as you want it to be. This can be true of pretty much all games, but the basic combos are very, very low execution in Marvel. Nearly every character has the magic sequence combo: LMHS xx Sj.MMHS OTG Super. This combo can be pretty much mashed out with every character with a few exceptions that have a variation of this combo. Even more basic than this, command normals are pretty great with a lot of characters. If you and a friend are absolute beginners for fighting games, you can instantly do pretty cool attacks with H and a direction.
On the deep end of the spectrum, the game is a complete sandbox for combos. There are definitely optimal combos, but if you are having trouble with a combo you see in a video or would rather use a different assist you can probably come up with a combo that works. I have seen so many combo videos for this game and I can assure you there are near limitless possibilities in this game. At tournaments, you will see a lot of top-tier teams being utilized still, but you can see many teams that are utilizing really creative strategies with the mid-low tier characters.
This brings me to my next point: I think that we are actually seeing some of the best days of UMVC3 at a tournament level right now. There are a lot of people who have probably been playing for years with unconventional teams that are NOW placing top 8. We still see plenty of Morrigan-Doom and Zero May Cry type teams, but now we are seeing much more than that. In the last year, I have seen Deadpool teams, Phoenix Wright teams, Jill teams, Morrigan's that don't rely on Astral Vision, Resident Evil teams...the list goes on. There is just so much creativity that is now working in the game. This could be a result of some of the top players moving on to SFV and other games but I don't really care. I am just happy to see so much creativity in this game that, at one point, looked like it was going to be all Zeros, Morrigans, and Vergils. Like I mentioned earlier, this game has been out for several years and we are now seeing such a burst of creativity actually winning in the game. It's beautiful.
This whole article is really just a love letter to a game I just find endlessly fascinating. It's not my favorite fighting game of all time, I just love it like I love all fighting games. I think it will continue to be played at tournaments and be a consistent highlight, but I want to make sure of it by spreading the word that it is still very, very exciting.
This brings me to my next point: I think that we are actually seeing some of the best days of UMVC3 at a tournament level right now. There are a lot of people who have probably been playing for years with unconventional teams that are NOW placing top 8. We still see plenty of Morrigan-Doom and Zero May Cry type teams, but now we are seeing much more than that. In the last year, I have seen Deadpool teams, Phoenix Wright teams, Jill teams, Morrigan's that don't rely on Astral Vision, Resident Evil teams...the list goes on. There is just so much creativity that is now working in the game. This could be a result of some of the top players moving on to SFV and other games but I don't really care. I am just happy to see so much creativity in this game that, at one point, looked like it was going to be all Zeros, Morrigans, and Vergils. Like I mentioned earlier, this game has been out for several years and we are now seeing such a burst of creativity actually winning in the game. It's beautiful.
This whole article is really just a love letter to a game I just find endlessly fascinating. It's not my favorite fighting game of all time, I just love it like I love all fighting games. I think it will continue to be played at tournaments and be a consistent highlight, but I want to make sure of it by spreading the word that it is still very, very exciting.
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