The release of Marvel vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics has resulted in a wave of people jumping into Marvel vs. CAPCOM. Not for no good reason: Marvel vs. CAPCOM 2 is one of the crown jewels of the fighting game community, a game beloved by aficionados for almost twenty years that has nevertheless developed its own weird Galapagos situation.
See, if you’re an MvC2 player, you’ve been playing that game for a good long time—either as part of the original wave of players from back in the day or as one of the newer players from that short period when Marvel Vs. CAPCOM Origins was available. There’s just a body of knowledge you’re going to have that a lot of newer people don’t have. There’s also the matter of gameplay balance; the raw power of characters like Magneto, Storm, Psylock, or
