Savepoint.es posted another interview (Google Translate link) with Marvel vs. Capcom 3's producer, Ryota Niitsuma. The piece states that MvC3 has been in development for about 3 years and around 300 people have worked on the game.Savepoint: Why there are fewer characters in this third part that was in the second?
Ryota Niitsuma: Right now it's very expensive having to make new 3D models for each [from scratch], followed by three-dimensional animations too.
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Huh. So just because megaman didn't make the cut, maybe X, Volnutt or (hopefully) .EXE will actually make it into the game because technically, they aren't the same character. But whatever I'm just hoping Hsien-Ko makes the cut.
Mega Man Volnutt that's who i want only because if they were to bring x as dlc, i doubt they would even bother with X's alternate armor for hyper combos. He would definitely need them and fans would hate it if he didn't have it including myself. Marvels characters don't even have alternates costumes so that's what makes me believe they wont go all out on X if he makes it.
Did he accidentally say there will be a new Rival school character?
SavePoint: ¿Y qué nos puedes decir sobre un remake o entrega nueva de Rival Schools?
Ryota Niitsuma: No creo que haya demasiado gente esperando un remake, aunque quizás sí que hagamos un Rival Schools completamente nuevo. Dependiendo del éxito de Marvel VS Capcom 3, pensaremos en retomar o no esos personajes para una nueva entrega.
Basically the page asked if there were any chances of seeing a Remake of Rival Schools or a Remake. Ryota responds saying that there isn't enough people waiting for a Rival schools remake or a new game. which is more BS. At least he comments that depending on MvC3 success they would consider taking those characters for a new title... But hold on, There are NO Rival School characters in MvC3 unless... he accidentally just leaked that the next character could be from Rival Schools
Ryota Niitsuma: "The original Megaman has very few techniques would stick rather well with the other characters, would be very unbalanced. For the same reason we chose to represent the Zero series." <---- Straight from the translate.
Although I understand where they're coming from, I'm still pissed. So they were able to implement characters like Felicia in a way that would be balanced, but not Megaman, a robot o takes different abilities from fallen enemies? like another user here said once, Tron bonne and Zero without megaman are like Luigi and Bowser in the next smash game but not mario. They should have been more specific with the discomfirmation so fans wouldnt have waited 11 months for what seemed like an obvious addition to the cast. Capcom really F*cked the fans with that one.
i'd rather have Elektra to be revealed seriously...i;m not saying i dislike megaman, i'm just saying seeing new marvel female character would be much interesting and suprising the same time...cause its like you don't know what moves could look like etc...
look usually I'll give people crap, but not now, also this whole mega man thing....I don't know anymore....
I liked the part where none of his favorite games were from Capcom and he sounded proud about it. It made me giggle.
But, yeah, that pretty clearly states that Zero is the main Mega Man representative. I don't particularly buy the reasoning though, because, as Steele301 said, he's a robot that takes abilities from other robots. There's no real limit to what his moveset could've been.
The Rival Schools thing, it kinda just sounds like he's saying that if MvC3 game succeeds, they might look at bringing back other fighting games that've lapsed.
I don't care about Megaman right now, 'cause I already am overwhelmed by interesting characters to choose from for my team. But there's something I really don't get; how can people like Volnutt or .exe more than X? This is really beyond me. Maybe they appeal more to younger people because they weren't around when MegamanX 1-2-3 came out. I guess that makes sense. Old farts like me don't play funky Megaman RPGs :P
omg thats so bull we cant make more ppl cause of 3d oh noo they know its gonna sell like crazy and for rest of the ppl hit dlc more money and then maybe just maybe all dlc on a disc something like they did with sf4 then came out with ssf4 so dont give us that CRAP or is it xbox disc cant handle it or ps3 not easy makein games its always THE same with capcom CAPCOM IS SITTING ON GOLD WITH SF4 DMC RE ETC SO STOP THE SH*T GIVE US WHAT THE FANS WANT
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Stop reading into it. He said exactly what he meant. There's no new Rival Schools game because there isn't enough demand for one, and that the only way we'd see characters from that series in the future is if they make appearances in future Capcom titles. He's not implying they're in MvC3, quit trying to look for something that isn't there. I'd love to see a Rival Schools character represent the series in MvC3, but unless one somehow makes in via DLC down the line, I'm not going to hold my breath or attempt to decipher what someone says in an interview.
And the part about there not being enough people demanding a new Rival Schools is completely true whether you want to believe it or not. I enjoy that series, but I'm not going to pretend that it was ever that popular.
@13
You have no idea what you're talking about.
@12 I think it has more to do with Zero already in the game to represent the X series and Capcom seems to be moving away from making more than one character per Mega Man spin-off series in recent times if both this and TvC are any indication.
You guys get way to excited about things, and read into things way too much. Hsein-Ko and Sentinel are our last characters, at this point that is all but confirmed sadly....
As for DLC I doubt they will have decided who and how many will be in before seeing the games success.....
Volnutt didn't fit a lot of people in TvC, even though he was solid. And EXE character design is kinda bleh, but Bass EXE would be cool.
I feel like I should send Marvel an angrily worded letter regarding Gambit...
How hard is it to port Batsu over from TvC? Seemed to work just fine for V. Joe & Zero. Voila Rival Schools representative.
If they do decide to not put Hsien Ko or Sentinel in, just to leave a little room for surprise then please, by all means, add Bison and Spiral.
@2
I hope so. Because technically he wouldn't be lying.
@12
personally, I love X. X4 was my favorite Megaman game, but because we already got zero with x's colors, for one that could and would be confusing to fight with and two have you ever played battle network? i think .exe would be great because they could get really creative with how he would play. hell bass.exe would be awesome but i KNOW that ain't happening.
Nice couch.