as an aside, I miss the days where they couldn't patch s*** easily and you decided whether a game was worth playing based on the initial incarnation. you take the infinites, you take the cheap s***, that's the game. either it's still worth playing with the cheap stuff (3s, Marvel 2) or it isn't (Alpha 3, CvS).
when Capcom tried to release a new version of 3s that removed Oro and Urien's unblockables, the 3s community voted to keep playing the old one. No one plays version 990608 even though it's probably "fairer" or whatever. Imagine if that happened today. As soon as someone discovered the Aegis unblockables people would've been on twitter complaining and begging for it to get fixed. And man, I can't even imagine how Marvel 2 would've gone. It's basically a broken game and people played it anyway. It would look so vastly different if it released in this era of "patch every infinite, unblockable, and thing people complain about."
SFxT would probably fail the "is this game worth playing long term" test with the initial version, but it's not like it's going to survive anyway even with the patches. and really they should just let Marvel 3 rock, infinites and all. I mean it's Marvel.
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