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Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 Combo Tape: Someone Has A Lot of Free Time

Way back when people couldn't look up a moves list or faq in two seconds on their phone (less than 10 years ago), people used to play a fighting game they liked for hours -- discovering combos and special attacks mostly on their own. A self-proclaimed Japanese combo master named Joo took that concept a million steps further by completely dismantling Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, making combo videos, and taking the arcade hit in directions most people wouldn't even consider possible [via Capcom Unity]:

Helping Joo make this compilation video was an actual MvC2 tester named Magnetro. This masterwork of arcade strategy will be available to watch starting February 22nd on Magnetro's site, and it will even give detailed instructions on how they performed some of the amazing feats of gameplay. Die hard game fans and testers are usually dedicated to the extreme, but is there a point where love of a fighting game can be unhealthy? Just asking...

Comments (10)
I've always loved MvC2. It was the first 2D fighter I really put time into learning. I even loved Joo's 2000 video with the "Steelgods of the Last Apacolypse" song. MvC2 is classic fun I must say, beautiful in it's animation, comical in its premise, and darnit I'll say it; the soundtrack was cool! Still I think the biggest problem with the game is that maniacal studying of the game have led to a FIERCE learning curve against certain characters. Basically the game just isn't balanced. And with more tips on how to exploit that, I fear the game will be totally unplayable to less hardedn players. Already the game has become like the steroids situation in sports. If you want to win, you have to use certain characters, forcing others to follow suit if they want a chance. The only good thing that could be done is if Joo made a video for the LESSER used characters. Showing players how to take on the popular powerhouses. I'd love to see that!
Yeah, there can be, especially with the crack formally known as marvell. To play marvel well means playing lots of people better than you. It doesn't matter how good you're at preforming combos, you can have the freshest fly combos or have infinites on lock but you can get bodied by someone pretty easily if you don't know how to play defense against mag, or how to push block when you're in a spiral/sent trap, etc etc. There's a lot of depth to it, it just doesn't look like it on it's surface.
Having said that, this vid's sick and so are all of Joo's combovids. Definitely support it.
I've been a fan of Meikyousisui for years. It's good to know that Joo is still doing his thing.
would you look at all those hot, sexy spreadsheets, just asking to be perused FOR HOURS. Wanting it.
@Demian Comment of the day!
The "X has a lot of free time" cliche bugs me. Someone does something AWESOME on youtube and clearly worked hard on it, then some punk kid with nothing at all to say says the free time thing. come on, man, that's old meme.
@Alain: If I had a lot of free time, I imagine I would make a youtube documentary of people doing whatever they like to do on their free time. I'd edit it like a seamless speed run. Then title it "Someone Has a Lot of Free Time". Then the article making fun of it would be "Someone Has a Lot of Free Time: Someone Has a Lot of Free Time." But I don't have a lot of free time, so I'll just leave it up in the air for someone else to grab. I look forward to an excellent piece of documentary and journalism. And I'm not sure if that was sarcasm. Seriously, I'm not good at this. With no intention of giving offense, I'm not sure if that disqualifies it as sarcasm.
That actually scares me,and I never knew there were people who spend that much time on one game trying to get good at it,and I'm not just talking about the regular amounts of time used playing games you want to best other people at.
if this scares you watch the king of kong. nightmares for days.
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