i guess mvc2 could be considered a button smashing game for those who seek no advancement or can't that differentiate the types of attacks and combos. i used to play mvc2 religiously in my ex-local arcade and had my share of victory and defeats. back then, i thought i knew everything possible about the game, until you learn something new (getting a royal beat down is a good way to learn, ortherwise youtube). the really strange thing about mvc2 is that the more you learn, the more complicated it gets. i have been playing this game for years and i can say from my personal experience is that button smashing is no way to victory.

LOL, Ultima holding it down like I knew he would. When I saw the thread title I was expecting him to have his say- my hero.

Nov 8, 2008 -- 6:06AM, Toki wrote:

ive never played this game... but i can say its semi street fighter and street fighter is the most skillful game out there.

Well... that's one way to put it. If I remember correctly, the hardcore crowd reveres MvC2 because it emphasizes some of the things that the old SF2 games did. Namely, space control and putting a lot of thought into doing things, lest you be punished greatly. As (no doubt) mentioned earlier, beyond the totally clueless/horsing around level of play, mashing will simply cease to work. Someone with even a little knowledge of how to go about things.

That being said, I see mashing  in Marvel not as a means of play in general, but mostly for a)getting out of capture stuff like Magneto's hyper grav and b) Maximizing damage in supers that allow mashing.

re: Cable

While AHVB to destroy careless assists and to instantly punish missed/slow moves is still a fact of life, I think it's not as important as used to be. These days, all the big cats are picking mostly Sentinel and Storm.

Getting late here, but I'll post more as I re-read.

Well, kinda. Once you know the combo patterns, they are incredibly easy to pull off and the rest is just figuring out how to land them. Button mashing or not, it's still a heavy and free combo based fighting game and those never provided me as much replay value and fun as the convencional fighters. It's probably because I feel that chain combos kill the very core of a good fighting game gameplay.

Yeah, I agree. the CPU in a way should be "training" cause real people are smart and dont walk into a set up.

Well, I thought the game was not so much balanced du to the fact that Akuma can easily die from any long marvel combos like Magnetos or probably Psylockes...