IGN - It all started very simple: On Wednesday night of every week, a group of people would gather in a garage in Westminster, California to play video games. More specifically, they gathered to play Street Fighter IV in an attempt to recreate the glory days of arcades, the camaraderie and rivalries that would form between frequent patrons.
Artist Chris Cayco, who we’ve featured a few times before on Kotaku, grew up playing Marvel vs. Capcom (and Marvel vs. Street Fighter) games. His tribute to this, which took him over 175 hours, was to combine every single character to ever appear in Capcom’s crossover series in the one enormous image.
Makes me despise Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite that much more
So much wasted potential
As common as it is today, it is hard to believe that there was a time where gaming franchises crossing over was just a pipe dream. Capcom broke down the wall, but they took the combination of some of the most unlikely of franchises and made it the norm.
Whether it was a colossal successful partnership with Marvel Comics or a collaboration with rivals Namco and SNK, the “Vs.” series brought unforgettable experiences to the fighting genre.
Marvel doesn't just have a bright future ahead of it in films, but in the gaming realm as well. Some exciting new titles are showing up on all hardware, so does that mean gamers are finally catching up with the MCU?
Oh, how I miss the days of waiting in line at the arcade -knowing exactly which little pile of quarters that lie on the machine is mine - hoping to take down either the previous victor on Virtual Fighter, or finally get a chance to jump in a slot of a 4-player brawler!
So Magneto, Sentinel, and Pheonix are overpowered apparently
No, Sentinel is not "Just plain cheap". That was a day-one complaint. Learn how to play the game.
He has lower health than wolverine and dies rather quickly. He has a huge hitbox allowing a bunch of characters to do character specific combos on him. Spider-man can kill him off a jab no problem.
Will people who don't really know how to game, just not talk please? It seriously ruins the community.
Nice to see James Chen writing for IGN.
I've been watching WNF for a while now, and I gotta say Jwong and Floe have been tearing it up. Viscant is looking scary too now that he came into the picture. Never heard of Genghis before Marvel, nice to see some new blood stepping up.