A reader makes five enticing suggestions for Marvel Vs. Capcom style games, including crossovers with Disney and Transformers.
As soon as Capcom announced Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics fans like me immediately started hoping that this meant they had the Marvel licence and were now free to make a new game. Things aren’t as simple as that though and there’s actually reason to think they don’t have the rights to anything other than the older games, but let’s pretend, eh?
Except I don’t want to do the obvious and just reel off my list of characters that I think should be in a possible Marvel Vs. Capcom 4 (or will it be 5?). Instead, and as a back-up in case they don’t have the licence, here’s some ideas of other crossover fighters they could do.
There have been a lot over the years, including with SNK and Tatsunoko (the anime company that made G-Force). They’ve also collaborated with Namco and Sega a few times, although the only actual fighter was Street Fighter X Tekken. They generally seem up for team-ups with anyone, so I don’t necessarily think the following are as impossible as they might sound.
DC Comics Vs. Capcom
Let’s get the obvious one out of the way. It’s probably not going to happen because Warner Bros. owns Mortal Kombat maker NetherRealm but if it did, I would be over the moon as not only are Capcom a much better fighting game developer but I love the way they reinterpret the characters – Marvel Vs. Capcom is still my favourite look for many Marvel characters. Marvel Vs. DC would also be great, but that’s obviously not going to happen. Mortal Kombat Vs. Capcom isn’t either, because Capcom doesn’t want anyone ripping Ryu’s head off.
Sega Vs. Capcom
I can’t believe this hasn’t been at least discussed in some way, but obviously Sega has a wide roster of both fighting games and recognisable characters. I’d like to keep it as Sonic light as possible and focus more on their classic arcade and Dreamcast games, which could actaully fit in with what Sega is doing at the moment, with trying to revive their older titles. You’d want the Virtua Fighter and Fighting Vipers crew in there, but I’d also take a lot of influence from Fighters Megamix, with weird stuff like the Daytona USA car and the AM2 Palm Tree.
The weirder the better with crossover fighters, as far as I’m concerned, but while Sega is the most obvious partner I’d also go with similar set-ups for any major Japanese publisher, including Bandai Namco, Square Enix, Konami, Koei Tecmo, etc. And of course more SNK would be great.
Nintendo Vs. Capcom
The big one, that deserves its own space. I’d also be surprised if this hadn’t come up before, at least in casual conversation between the two companies. I would’ve loved to see 2D sprite-based versions of Mario, Link, Samus, and co. back in the 90s but I’d settle for anything these two choose to collaborate on. I don’t really see much competition with Smash Bros., as the gameplay style would be very different, but what I’d love is if Nintendo designed the Capcom characters and Capcom designed the Nintendo ones. I think that’d be really neat and something Nintendo might actually be interested in.
Disney Vs. Capcom
This is the biggie for Capcom, if they could convince them to go for it. Obviously, you could do Marvel Vs. Capcom, Star Wars Vs. Capcom, and so on separately but a combined fighter with everything Disney owns would be hilarious. They made Kingdom Hearts happily enough, although I suspect the fact that it’s a fighting game will put them off. Punching Mikey Mouse in the face sounds bad but then you do the same to Mario and Peach in Smash Bros., so why not here? Having all their cartoon characters and live action properties together would be really cool and there was that Disney Infinity toys to life thing they did which mixed them up just like that.
Transformers Vs. Capcom
Throwing this one in for GC but I actually don’t see it as a bad idea at all. It’s certainly a lot more marketable than Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom and Hasbro don’t seem to care who they give the Transformers licence to or what the quality of the games are. Again, one of the main appeals here would be seeing Capcom’s take on what the Transformers look like, but what I think would be cool is if the Capcom side of things were robot versions of their characters, that transformed into something else from their game. I think that’d be a really neat gimmick.
By reader Johnson
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