MARVEL Tōkon Fighting Souls

[Maf]

I have never been more shocked by a game announcement in my life. This is fucking wild from every conceivable perspective. 
 

How do you say Excelsior in Japanese? 

[mfnick]

🥰 

[Maf]

Dragon Ball Fighterz, Guilty Gear Strive, Marvel Fighterz

 

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

 

(Let’s just put DNF Duel over there)

 

Get all these thots and e-girls off my Twitter I need to see what FGC is saying get these boobs out of here video games are happening 

PS5 and PC (makes sense)

[Maf]

 

Block that 

 

EDIT:

 

 

 

[Maryokutai]

Time will tell about that second picture. UMVC3 might not be for everyone and I was never its biggest fan, but it's an incredibly accomplished, flexible and complex fighting game I can't for the life of me imagine a developer coming close to reproducing in the current development climate. It also featured probably double as many character as this game will launch with, which is important in a tag fighter.

 

Also I wonder if Capcom's relationship with Sony has soured or if they're in a position now where they can just confidently pass over opportunities like these.

 

In any case, great get for Arc, the game itself looks visually quite nice (though I don't like how anime-fied the characters are during close-ups). But 4v4 seems very excessive, wonder how that turns out.

[mfnick]

I really enjoyed UMVC3. It was infinite which shit the bed and rolled in it. How much of that was Disney interference though we’ll never know. That was at their peak so I bet they made all sorts of demands which negatively impacted it. 

[DANGERMAN]

My memory is that I didn't especially love MvC3, but maybe that is Infinite clouding my memory of it. I don't remember liking many of the characters though 

 

Tatsunoko Vs Capcom was the best of that run of Capcom fighters imo 

[Maf]

I hope, and don’t expect it, to play too much like the MvC games. I want it to be like DBFZ or Strive. Games that are simple to control with low execution barriers but high skill ceilings, visual craziness and fast paced mix ups. 
 

My only concern is 4v4. That’s a lot of assists 

[Maf]

 

 

 

Watching the internet explode last night was so fun. Max’s live stream ended up going on for 6 hours. 
 

There’s basically 3 takes 1) Why not Capcom and MvC4 is dead 2) Why Arcsys and DBFZ2 is dead 3) WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING 

 

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game announcement as wild as this. I was so shocked. Until you see it not a single thing about it is conceivable. Jaws were dropped and heads were rolling it was such a good time. 

[Maf]

 

She looks the best she’s ever looked and she’s a grappler? I get to have high mobility, spider-sense countering Spider-Man and Dhalsim who can command throw? I don’t even need 2 more other characters, I’m good

 

Related, 2XKO is getting cooked online. People are saying it’s DoA (Not that DoA)

[Maf]

Reading my Twitter you wouldn’t know the Switch 2 came out today 

[DANGERMAN]

Can we keep this thread for news now? 

[one-armed dwarf]

I think my issue is when I see anime Spiderman I immediately think of a shit talking 12 year old kid who blames everyone but himself and doesn't notice where the AOE heals are. Marvel Rivals has just scarred me. 

 

Picture of me playing Marvel games (I trust that this counts as a news post, because it's a picture of James Jonah Jameson)

 

 

Watching the trailer back again though, the game does look good. It has little of that really annoying screen shake nonsense that Arcs other games have, which is badly needed in a game which has tons of characters on screen doing stuff

[Maryokutai]

 

That almost chibi-looking Ms Marvel is hilarious, in a good way.

 

Anyway, context for this image is that the game will be playable at EVO and the build includes these characters. I'm not particularly interested in ever playing this game but it'll be interesting to see how the MvC pros adapt to it and how it looks when it's actually being played.

[Maf]

This the most exciting game in the world right now. Nothing is as hot as this. It’s not even close

 

This going to be the best game of 2026 and I feel like that’s not even a hard prediction 

 

I’m actually going to get it on PC this time because if I play it on TV I will absolutely get burn in on an OLED

 

I’ll probably get a PS5 copy as well just for the shelf, though

 

[Maf]

Just a thought but if Human Torch is in this game he best have the best fireball of all time 

[Maf]

I’m hesitant to post this because I can’t believe it works like this. This sounds bad?

 

Why do you get an extra team member just for throwing someone? That sounds arbitrary as fuck 

 

Edit: controls

 

[one-armed dwarf]

I wonder if this game will have motion controls. I expect lots of newer fighting games to start dropping it tbh, with how SF was going for modern modes and how Granblue straight up made it the default, giving motion controls no meaningful advantage. 2kXo is going that way too I think

 

edit ok I read here, it's doing it like Granblue. Supports both, but you should probably just go for simple controls, even if you're good at fighting games (maybe especially if you're good)

https://www.resetera.com/threads/marvel-tōkon-fighting-souls-beginners-guide.1258632/

[Maf]

This game is confirmed to have motion inputs. However it doesn’t mean there won’t be a modern controls equivalent or something 

 

EDIT: But it might be like DBFZ where it’s exclusively quarter circles. Maybe with the odd 3 input

[Maryokutai]

The whole assemble thing sounds like the first round is just going to be a monumental waste of time, but maybe I'm missing something (highly likely, never play it of course).

 

The button layout looks a bit odd, too. Can't you freely switch characters around like in MvC or am I just misreading the jargon (don't know what quick moves are)?