Don't know how you can declare that MvC3 is "broken and frustrating" without owning it.

VS games are never balanced, and this game has been way more fun that any "balanced" fighting game I've played.

Do you like:
 

• Evil dudes with giant heads?
• Darkstalkers?
• Street Fighter?
• Marvel?
• to be taken for a ride?
• the color mango?
• Servbots?
• flashy combos?
• watching a crazy man break the fourth wall in his hyper combo?
• crazy in general?
• games that don't take themselves seriously at all?
• being able to take down Galactus with a team comprised of an iron-clad superhero, a giant, angry green man, and a Chinese zombie?

Do you have friends at your skill level you can play with?
Do you have the patience and time to devote to getting good at this game?
If not, do you have zero problem with getting your ass kicked repeatedly?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, buy it.
If not, don't.

Killzone 3 has a jetpack gun. 
 
Point for Killzone.

I love fighting games, especially lately since I now have an arcade stick. I've watched close to five hours of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 videos, and actually showed my mother Justin Wong destroying Sentinel with Wolverine and Akuma. I've gotten fairly good at BlazBlue Continuum Shift, and decided to play that recently over Super Street Fighter IV due to having trouble picking a character in the latter, while I feel deeply in love with Litchi's move set almost immediately. I've also spent the majority of my gaming career playing competitive shooters, but have grown tired of playing Halo: Reach and Blops. 
 
I actually got to the point in Blops where I didn't see any point in continuing playing simply because online match-making was no longer a challenge, and didn't feel like getting on a team and joining some league. I was hugely disappointed with Halo: Reach, having played nearly two years of Halo 3, and was very, very unhappy with the state Reach was released in, and only keep the game a part of my collection with the hope of a major patch being released at some point down the line. 
 
Anyways, I absolutely loved the Killzone 3 beta, which felt like a huge improvement over Killzone 2's multi-player. Tomorrow, I have just enough money to make one new purchase, and am having trouble deciding if I want to feed my interest in fighting games and hopefully get better sooner rather than later, or get another shooter that I will probably love, even though it's probably more of the same. 
  
The main reason I'm posting this on the Marvel 3 board is because I want to hear what the fans have to say about this new game, and if they feel that their experience with Marvel 3 was worth the 60 dollar price point. 
 
@ricetopher:  @Hailinel:  @audiosnag:  @extremeradical: I really shouldn't have made this a poll, or should have at least typed out my information before creating the poll, since my points are pushed pretty far down already.

Not answering your poll because I can't recommend Killzone 3 to you without calling MvC3 broken and frustrating.

"LIFE BAR IN YOUR FACE!!  
 
Feel the love of the hyper combo! 
 
And it's a HOOOOOOOOME RUNNNNNNNN!!!
 
This is the hyper commmbo!"

One word: MODOK.

I own MvC 3 and it's great.  Not really sure how deep I will get into it since I like SSFIV more and would rather become gawtlike in that game.
 
I say get the game that you will think will last you longer.

I say buy it. I don't have any good reasons to offer other then that I am having a lot of fun with it and I like how its not to hard to get into like other fighting games can be.

I've always had a distant interest in fighting games, but I find it really hard to justify the price to myself. I realize that a lot of work goes into them, balancing and such, but when you look at the total file size or think about the complexity of the engine, it just doesn't seem right that they cost as much as their contemporaries. I realize that's superficial judgment, but still, $60 is too much for me.
 
I don't want to seem like a prick, there are definitely those of you who get your money's worth out of it, and that's great, but as someone who is outside of that contingency, something like MvC3 just doesn't compare to the expansive, detailed, busy world of RDR, or the feature rich and properly networked Halo: Reach.
 
So I guess I'm saying get Killzone 3.

" @iDarktread: just out of curiousity what did you like about halo 3 that you didnt like about reach? Pretty much everyone I have talked to about it thinks that if you liked h2 multi more than h3 multi you will also like halo reach multi more than h3

• The bloom on the DMR is absolutely game-breaking. For anyone who doesn't want to believe it, go play Shadowrun, a game that is extremely under appreciated and handles bloom wonderfully. I'd probably be playing it right now if there were more people online.
• Lack of real ranking system, though Bungie has apparently working on tweaks to the Arena the past week or so. Sadly, though, Arena has never been worth playing since the game released due to horrifically unbalanced game-types and maps, and Bungie isn't worried about that.
• The fact that MLGis not a ranked playlist is nothing less than a slap in the face to the competitive community, myself included. This is not only because playing feels worthless since the skill gap has been demolished by randomized game-play, but because even with "true-skill being present in every playlist," I would get players in my game going -20, and get matched up against full parties of four, which forces one to play custom games. While I played thousands of custom games in Halo 3, I've noticed that more people complain in Reach than the other Halo games, and makes planning and playing customs annoying.

Play a unique fighting game with some minor problems that will be fixed in an upcoming patch, or play one of the most bland, generic shooting games out there.
 
Tough choice.
 
 
If you want a good PS3 shooter (lulz), and haven't already purchased it, grab Resistance. Brilliant series.

" Play a unique fighting game with some minor problems that will be fixed in an upcoming patch, or play one of the most bland, generic shooting games out there.  Tough choice.   If you want a good PS3 shooter (lulz), and haven't already purchased it, grab Resistance. Brilliant series. "

It has good music.

I own MVC 3 but I don't recommend buying it. It's pretty bare-bones and it is busted at the moment online (not talking about balance but connecting to other players). They'll probably release a more fully featured version down the line which will include all the DLC characters and what not. Can't say much about Killzone 3 because I haven't played it but I say hold off on MVC 3.
 
Edit: My post count is 1,234 at the moment. Radical!!

" @iDarktread:  Could you explain how DMR bloom is broken? I'm still playing and not aware of any issues. "  

If you need convincing on a game, then i would rent it first.

" @iDarktread:  I'll keep that in mind next time I play, but I never felt the game was unbalanced myself. "

You should probably get the game. The so called online problems are in ranked due to having the game actively trying to search for an opponent for you. Since all I do is play with people on my friends list, finding and connecting to a match is never a problem. Yes Marvel is super fast and all, but honestly most regular combos take off a pretty big chunk of your life much less the harder ones that you have to train for. Working on what I should do in this situation (and reaction speed as well) is much more important then going to training mode no matter what others say. If you were down with BlazBlue, then you would probably be down with this. 

30.6% of people who voted on this poll are jealous at how much fun the rest of us are having.

" @Zaft said:

" Play a unique fighting game with some minor problems that will be fixed in an upcoming patch, or play one of the most bland, generic shooting games out there.  Tough choice.   If you want a good PS3 shooter (lulz), and haven't already purchased it, grab Resistance. Brilliant series. "

The same could be said about MvC 3. The Killzone 3 beta was excellent and actually convinced me to buy the game. On the other hand I bought MvC3 also because it's a pretty fun game and I wouldn't mind getting better at it. At the end of the day it really comes down to which genre you enjoy more. "

Wait until Mortal Kombat. DO IT!

MvC 3 requires skill. The question you must ask yourself is: do I have enough skill ?

" I own MvC 3 and it's great.  Not really sure how deep I will get into it since I like SSFIV more and would rather become gawtlike in that game.  I say get the game that you will think will last you longer. "

If you need convincing, this game isn't for you.

Stop being a bitch and buy the game, it's easy as hell to pick up and start doing combos, and it has MARVEL AND CAPCOM CHARACTERS.

hate people asking to be convinced to buy games... use your fucking brain and decide yourself, how the hell should we know what you like

" If you need convincing, this game isn't for you. "

Just remember folks. 
 
"Capcom Presents: Marvel Comics"