12:28 One thing to highlight about the history of this match is that they encounter each other in multiple grand finals during the whole year, and Chris G beat up, and sometimes even demolished JWong every time. But Justin made a surprising change for this gran final. Instead of using his classic Wolverine as the starting character (Morrigan utterly destroyed him time and time again during the year), he used Storm as the tip of the spear instead (She has better aerial mobility, and could evade and somewhat counter Morrigan a bit better). That little huge change, gave him that little edge in the matchup that ended up finally giving him that iconic victory. PS: Ironically, Chris G was the demon that Jwong had to defeat in 2014. Just the next year, Jwong himself was the demon that KBR (KBR never had defeated JW in a tourney before that point) had to beat in 2015.
Man, the year of ChrisG shutting everything down was crazy. It's impossible to describe how depressed and discouraged everybody was. He made Justin Wong feel the way Justin had made Yipes and Sanford Kelly feel in MvC2, and that's saying something.
Still in shock I was featured there amongst those names, hype watching you go over it Max. Btw the Wolvy Berserker Barrage X super does less than the Fatal Claw super, but it also lasts longer. The extension with Dark Hole into Barrage H xx Fatal Claw leave Dorm still on recovery throughout the super, only becoming available to DHC in once Wolverine starts falling. Barrage X lasts long enough that I'm guaranteed to not to fumble the DHC and drop the combo. Worth the damage loss to get the kill at Evo, but it also leaves me closer to the corner and makes the next mixup less optimal too so it's a trade off.
I miss prbalrog playing like a very skilled lunatic in mvc3/umvc3. I think it was ect, but it was one of the early umvc3 majors. He was playing like such an animal in the finals with wolverine. It was so funny and great to see. There was so much wrong going on in the tourney scene during the like 4-5 years post sf4, but the 2-3 years towards the end of umvc3 were buckwild.
I can't believe how many years its been since I discovered Max via top 5 EVO moments, it's the first time I learned how much HYPE existed around fighting games!
Marvel 3 in 2014 is special for me as It was the one year I was actually watching from the audience. The JWong vs ChrisG match is something I will never forget
UMVC3 was the first fighting game I played in a "serious" capacity, and all of that is largely because of you Max. I vividly remember picking the copy up from my local estore at a bottom shelf, with Phoenix Wright on the cover pointing up at me. I also vividly remember a good while after getting fed up with the horrible online, x factor and the imbalance that I ended up trading in my game. UMVC3 is a game I love to this day, but I would probably never play it again unless if it was with a group of people.
two quick notes here: 1) i feel like many people arent aware of how much more epic justins 2014 win was. he didnt just beat chris g and f champ. he also beat flocker and kaneblueriver, 2 past and 2 future evo winners, and didnt get sent to top 8 losers bracket in the process. he basically climbed the highest mountain while overcoming EVERY hardest obstacle in the process. 2) crazy idea with this one but they should have put in apologymans 2014 match vs ta wolf instead where he pulled off a literal triple perfect with his firebrand/doom/super skrull team.
Another note about Super Skrull is that the reason he has fire powers was as a result of utilizing the powers of the Fantastic Four due to his biological Skrull abilities. This also gave him aspects of other members’ powers that made it into the moveset, such as Mr. Fantastic’s stretching.
Yea originally Capcom wanted all the F4 in the game as one character but Marvel said no. They thought about using The Thing but too “similar to hulk”. Human Torch always being on fire slowed/glitched the game out so marvel suggested Super Skrull which in my opinion was a better choice. He was my favorite character to ply in this game. A bunch of the heroes and heralds cards are characters Capcom wanted or was in the development process to put in the game.
They forgot to add all the matches that were hype in top 32, and top 16 throughout the years! Apology man vs kbr Apology man vs jabril Just to name a few
Was too young for Marvel 3. Like i knew of it but I was born in 98. I remember watching some of these old clips. By far one of the coolest and hype fighting games to watch ever. So many storirs and comebacks. Even to this day with mods and stuff it lives on.
Mvc Evo was so weird this year. There were people in bracket that literally didn't know how to block playing directly next to multiple instance of lightning loops
If I remember right, I believe Zak Bennett discovered the Skrull Firebrand duo, it's just that Apologyman took that team and really put in work with it. That team was so demoralizing lmao
Yep, EPIC EVO MOMENTS. I absolutely love seeing these incredible battles and EPIC MEMORIES. Edit: I STILL REMEMBER YOUR TOP 5 EVO MOMENTS!!! Along with your BOSS RAGE, they were the videos that made me see your videos MAX!!
marvel 3 was my gateway into fighting games as a whole. and the assist me series about the game led me into the max rabbit hole. most of my childhood gaming years is tied to this game and i will forever love it because of it
Man MVC3 was at it's best when the meta was developing and you were just seeing people like first-time showing off characters we've never seen before in tournaments. That shit was crazy. I still love the game but it's not the same seeing everyone totally optimized with infinites and Zero teams everywhere.
Omg I was thinking ahead before I watched the latest moment and I was like "Oh god Max better not have the actual finals... maybe he should have Spartan Throne". And lo and behold - SPARTAN THRONEEEEEE!!!!
watching spartan throne win was fucking insane, i was absolutely losing my mind on that livestream. i had seen him some time ago at celtic showdown versus apologyman, i knew that iron fist had to be cooking up something. and boom! one of the best sets in modern marvel history.
Man this was (and still) the game for us. Every weekend there was a WWE or UFC/boxing ppv we'd order doordash and bring like 12 packs of energy drinks (no alcohol) and go full Kyle. 48+ hours of no sleep. Just irl fights on one TV and Marvel matches with fgc tourneys in the background all weekend. We always tried the new SF or SC or MK but it always came back to this(and screaming, and property destruction, and mental breakdowns, and angry spouses.. until they played😂, then they were REEeeing)
Ther are two types of xbox 360 d pads: the regular and the metal pro version that could be adjusted from the standard 360 style to the traditional + style. The pro d pad was sick…
on a personal level, seeing ChrisG here is wild to me since i see him every week at the Luxor recently and actually fought him (then got massacred) lol
EG was such an underrated team in a lot of games. When I was heavy into Dota/2 I ended up playing against a few EG people. Got my ass beat, but learned a lot. Shame they are not more popular.
2011-2015 Marvel 3 tourney streams and EVOs were peak entertainment for the FGC and it’s never been the same since. i also always loved the old setup in the big hotel lobby , im not really a fan of the EVO in stadium arenas that they’ve been doing for the past 5 years or so.
whenever Dark Phoenix gets hit in the face with a raw level 3 super is always the best thing ever ALSO HUGE SHOTOUTS TO FRUTSY!! Frutsys were legit my favorite juice when i was a kid
21:26 That's still the case to this day 😅 It even got to the point that Epic is working directly with Sony to being down the Input Delay they have on PlayStation. I almost think that Sony Had to buy Evo to remain relavent in specific Gaming Markets, in this case in fighters.
MvC3 and KoF were my highlights from the only time I've been able to make it to Evo back in 2012. Still have such a soft spot for Marvel 3 (Edit: popped so hard for Frutsy)
This game will be hard to find and play in the future. Just like MvC2. A licensing nightmare. I've got multiple copies of the game on both PS3 and X360 in preparation. 😊
If Zero, Morrigan, Phoenix, and Vergil got patched, I'd probably play this game more often. This is coming from a dude who's played Vergil more than he has studied anything ever.
25:42 "It's not about fun, it's about winning" True for alot of things in life. It's blood, sweat and tears to reach the top, but after you got that trophy, that success, you can take a deep breath and reflect on accomplishment. It's not about fun, it's about satisfaction.
I hated the 360's dpad too, I preferred playing on Playstation, but it depended on the game. I brought in my PS3 when handling GFWL calls at the local Xbox call center, and one of the other guys on my team tried out MK9 and was like "This is so different playing on the PS3 controller, and the Dpad is so much better, that it almost feels like its harder on PS3 for these towers." He seemed convinced that the difficulty was different on PS3 compared to the 360 for MK9.
When ChrisG turned Mvc3 into a bullet hell game, i knew that he was gonna win a championship. When I learned how to do soul fist loop on a PAD, I knew it was gonna be copied online. And boy was it.
21:04 u know it’s funny I had a PS3 and a 360, but I always got all my fighting games on 360 because IMO it’s felt “right” for some reason. Except MK9 cus Kratos was only on PS3
Maaaaan. You called Apologyman's team cheap (which is was sure) but as a response to Morrigan SoulFist spam? I'll take it. I dont *CARE* that doing that many optimal soulfists was really hard. that shit was ANNOYING.
12:28 One thing to highlight about the history of this match is that they encounter each other in multiple grand finals during the whole year, and Chris G beat up, and sometimes even demolished JWong every time. But Justin made a surprising change for this gran final. Instead of using his classic Wolverine as the starting character (Morrigan utterly destroyed him time and time again during the year), he used Storm as the tip of the spear instead (She has better aerial mobility, and could evade and somewhat counter Morrigan a bit better).
That little huge change, gave him that little edge in the matchup that ended up finally giving him that iconic victory.
PS: Ironically, Chris G was the demon that Jwong had to defeat in 2014. Just the next year, Jwong himself was the demon that KBR (KBR never had defeated JW in a tourney before that point) had to beat in 2015.
Man, the year of ChrisG shutting everything down was crazy. It's impossible to describe how depressed and discouraged everybody was. He made Justin Wong feel the way Justin had made Yipes and Sanford Kelly feel in MvC2, and that's saying something.
You know Sanford probably has a graveyard of sticks from all those times lol.
Man watching Morrigan spam is not fun. I thought that would kill the game, but credit to the people for finding new tech.
really fun to watch this since i got into the fgc a couple years ago and chris is The Guy at my locals.
Still in shock I was featured there amongst those names, hype watching you go over it Max.
Btw the Wolvy Berserker Barrage X super does less than the Fatal Claw super, but it also lasts longer. The extension with Dark Hole into Barrage H xx Fatal Claw leave Dorm still on recovery throughout the super, only becoming available to DHC in once Wolverine starts falling.
Barrage X lasts long enough that I'm guaranteed to not to fumble the DHC and drop the combo. Worth the damage loss to get the kill at Evo, but it also leaves me closer to the corner and makes the next mixup less optimal too so it's a trade off.
Cool seeing MvC3U getting love still after everything. Game still going strong.
Thank you Tampa Never Sleeps
so happy its still going strong
Wolverine was so good in vanilla Marvel 3 they added a specific move in Ultimate to nerf mashers.
as a pad monster who mashed with wolverine with like a 95% win percentage...i aint even mad. the trauma ive endured from salty losers...im ok with it😂
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I miss prbalrog playing like a very skilled lunatic in mvc3/umvc3. I think it was ect, but it was one of the early umvc3 majors. He was playing like such an animal in the finals with wolverine. It was so funny and great to see. There was so much wrong going on in the tourney scene during the like 4-5 years post sf4, but the 2-3 years towards the end of umvc3 were buckwild.
What was “wrong”?
I can't believe how many years its been since I discovered Max via top 5 EVO moments, it's the first time I learned how much HYPE existed around fighting games!
Marvel 3 in 2014 is special for me as It was the one year I was actually watching from the audience.
The JWong vs ChrisG match is something I will never forget
UMVC3 was the first fighting game I played in a "serious" capacity, and all of that is largely because of you Max. I vividly remember picking the copy up from my local estore at a bottom shelf, with Phoenix Wright on the cover pointing up at me. I also vividly remember a good while after getting fed up with the horrible online, x factor and the imbalance that I ended up trading in my game. UMVC3 is a game I love to this day, but I would probably never play it again unless if it was with a group of people.
two quick notes here:
1) i feel like many people arent aware of how much more epic justins 2014 win was. he didnt just beat chris g and f champ. he also beat flocker and kaneblueriver, 2 past and 2 future evo winners, and didnt get sent to top 8 losers bracket in the process. he basically climbed the highest mountain while overcoming EVERY hardest obstacle in the process.
2) crazy idea with this one but they should have put in apologymans 2014 match vs ta wolf instead where he pulled off a literal triple perfect with his firebrand/doom/super skrull team.
Another note about Super Skrull is that the reason he has fire powers was as a result of utilizing the powers of the Fantastic Four due to his biological Skrull abilities. This also gave him aspects of other members’ powers that made it into the moveset, such as Mr. Fantastic’s stretching.
Yea originally Capcom wanted all the F4 in the game as one character but Marvel said no. They thought about using The Thing but too “similar to hulk”. Human Torch always being on fire slowed/glitched the game out so marvel suggested Super Skrull which in my opinion was a better choice. He was my favorite character to ply in this game. A bunch of the heroes and heralds cards are characters Capcom wanted or was in the development process to put in the game.
People dont know the basis behind super skrull?
It was a treat to see Marvel 3 again at this years Evo. Marvel has always been enjoyable to watch.
Grands was kinda mid but the players were very good
@illford6921 Yeah.
@@illfordnot kinda mid, but lackluster
They forgot to add all the matches that were hype in top 32, and top 16 throughout the years!
Apology man vs kbr
Apology man vs jabril
Just to name a few
Was too young for Marvel 3. Like i knew of it but I was born in 98. I remember watching some of these old clips. By far one of the coolest and hype fighting games to watch ever. So many storirs and comebacks. Even to this day with mods and stuff it lives on.
Holy throwback!! Love this, and yes, want more. Good shit, Max.
Mvc Evo was so weird this year. There were people in bracket that literally didn't know how to block playing directly next to multiple instance of lightning loops
Cheap Zero May Cry teams
If I remember right, I believe Zak Bennett discovered the Skrull Firebrand duo, it's just that Apologyman took that team and really put in work with it. That team was so demoralizing lmao
"Hard drive please!.." Max's fingers probably twitch the inputs for hard drive, even though he wasnt playing
I still think to this day that UMVC3 is one of the best fighting games ever made.
Yep, EPIC EVO MOMENTS. I absolutely love seeing these incredible battles and EPIC MEMORIES.
Edit: I STILL REMEMBER YOUR TOP 5 EVO MOMENTS!!! Along with your BOSS RAGE, they were the videos that made me see your videos MAX!!
People sleep on Sparty, but that man has amazing synergies with his team and if you ever catch him on a TNS stream, he's always stylin' and profilin'.
marvel 3 was my gateway into fighting games as a whole. and the assist me series about the game led me into the max rabbit hole. most of my childhood gaming years is tied to this game and i will forever love it because of it
Reminds me of when you used to do Top 5 Evo moments. This video is welcome for sure!!
I love KBRs team. The way he played that team was so entertaining.
What a coincidence that I was watching the best of EVO MVC3 Moments before Max uploaded this one😂
I'm just impressed that Iron Fist made it to EVO top 8.
crazy how next year its gonna be 10 years of the greatest EVO grand finals ever (galileo vs dogura BBCP)
Between Human Torch, Dormammu, & Ghost Rider, can you imagine having 3 flame heads in the game?
Lmao definitely saw this video title and thought it was July for a second
I love hearing the crowd just screaming in unison 5:58 BIONIC ARRRMMMM
Man MVC3 was at it's best when the meta was developing and you were just seeing people like first-time showing off characters we've never seen before in tournaments. That shit was crazy. I still love the game but it's not the same seeing everyone totally optimized with infinites and Zero teams everywhere.
Omg I was thinking ahead before I watched the latest moment and I was like "Oh god Max better not have the actual finals... maybe he should have Spartan Throne". And lo and behold - SPARTAN THRONEEEEEE!!!!
I Remember In the Original Marvel Vs Capcom I Couldn't Beat Apocalypse For Beans lol
Marlinpie rocking up on a tricycle lives rent free in my mind.
watching spartan throne win was fucking insane, i was absolutely losing my mind on that livestream. i had seen him some time ago at celtic showdown versus apologyman, i knew that iron fist had to be cooking up something. and boom! one of the best sets in modern marvel history.
I miss your top 5 Evo moments, that's how I got introduced to your channel way back when. 🙌🏻
Man this was (and still) the game for us. Every weekend there was a WWE or UFC/boxing ppv we'd order doordash and bring like 12 packs of energy drinks (no alcohol) and go full Kyle. 48+ hours of no sleep. Just irl fights on one TV and Marvel matches with fgc tourneys in the background all weekend.
We always tried the new SF or SC or MK but it always came back to this(and screaming, and property destruction, and mental breakdowns, and angry spouses.. until they played😂, then they were REEeeing)
I get on RUclips to watch these kind of videos! Thank you Max and thank you EVO! FGC baby 👌!
The reason the first clip is so good was because Pheonix was broken AF. So to see her get bodied was like YES! FINALLY!
Ther are two types of xbox 360 d pads: the regular and the metal pro version that could be adjusted from the standard 360 style to the traditional + style. The pro d pad was sick…
MvC3 was around the time I took a break from fighting games, but man I wish I watched EVO back then cause all the matches are so nutty
on a personal level, seeing ChrisG here is wild to me since i see him every week at the Luxor recently and actually fought him (then got massacred) lol
EG was such an underrated team in a lot of games. When I was heavy into Dota/2 I ended up playing against a few EG people. Got my ass beat, but learned a lot. Shame they are not more popular.
Max back at it again with the MVC vids!
UMVC3 is such a fun game to watch let a lone play.
I think Justin vs Fchamp in semi finals was more hype than him winning in grand finals cuz of the crazy Akuma comeback
It’s like if you were still there 😂😂🔥
I did a house party with some friends to watch that top 8 with ChrisG and RyanLV. That was nailbiting.
24:17 Fanatiq, Smug, and Wolfkrone all played on 360 pad.
There better be that deadpool accidental suicide from a while back
2011-2015 Marvel 3 tourney streams and EVOs were peak entertainment for the FGC and it’s never been the same since. i also always loved the old setup in the big hotel lobby , im not really a fan of the EVO in stadium arenas that they’ve been doing for the past 5 years or so.
Man... MVC3 is one of the few games that makes me HOLY SH*T WTF JUST HAPPENED!?!? constantly
"If everyone is broken, then everyone is balanced."
I thought the EVO where Justin won was him saving the game from Zero May Cry. EVERYONE used that team but Chris and Justin.
whenever Dark Phoenix gets hit in the face with a raw level 3 super is always the best thing ever
ALSO HUGE SHOTOUTS TO FRUTSY!! Frutsys were legit my favorite juice when i was a kid
Man, I wish MvC3 was still a main event and not just a hype as fuck sideshow. Definitely the most fun game to watch. So wild.
Remember these halls if hype compilations in RUclips it Was godlike 🔥🔥
This...got my juices flowing
Bruh that 2014 Evo was insanity Jwong was going crzy
Max, where in the hell is The Thing? You know he's out already and you should be playing that UMvC3 newest mod character soon!
YES FINALLY MORE EVO MOMENTS
Honestly when I see this my reaction to this was just “……..cool”
I still have my badge and shirt from evo 2012. Shit was hype
21:26 That's still the case to this day 😅 It even got to the point that Epic is working directly with Sony to being down the Input Delay they have on PlayStation.
I almost think that Sony Had to buy Evo to remain relavent in specific Gaming Markets, in this case in fighters.
the best mvc3 time for me was when fchamp vs nemo money match. watching it live was so sick!
MvC3 and KoF were my highlights from the only time I've been able to make it to Evo back in 2012. Still have such a soft spot for Marvel 3
(Edit: popped so hard for Frutsy)
Someone actually said the 360 DPad is goated?
I need to know names. I want to chat with this person....
What year did the Viewtiful Joe, Frank West, Rocket Raccoon team take evo?
This game will be hard to find and play in the future. Just like MvC2. A licensing nightmare. I've got multiple copies of the game on both PS3 and X360 in preparation. 😊
If Zero, Morrigan, Phoenix, and Vergil got patched, I'd probably play this game more often. This is coming from a dude who's played Vergil more than he has studied anything ever.
30:55 Hey I'm in the video!!!!
Seeing this makes me nostalgic for when they actually cared about the Vs series and the disappointments we got with Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite.
25:42 "It's not about fun, it's about winning"
True for alot of things in life. It's blood, sweat and tears to reach the top, but after you got that trophy, that success, you can take a deep breath and reflect on accomplishment. It's not about fun, it's about satisfaction.
I played on 360, but I had a chronus converter to play with a ps3 controller. I can’t imagine actually using the Dpad on a 360 controller.
I can't believe they didn't show the dominant Phoenix Wright or All white Fire brand era
That was a WHOLE ride!
MVC have some of the best moments. Wish I didn't suck at it
Can someone please tell me what game soundtrack inspired Max’s theme? I can’t quite place it but it seems so familiar.
Was the guy who came from Japan and rocked the ladder with rocket doom trap log not in the top
some pretty hype moments!
I hated the 360's dpad too, I preferred playing on Playstation, but it depended on the game. I brought in my PS3 when handling GFWL calls at the local Xbox call center, and one of the other guys on my team tried out MK9 and was like "This is so different playing on the PS3 controller, and the Dpad is so much better, that it almost feels like its harder on PS3 for these towers." He seemed convinced that the difficulty was different on PS3 compared to the 360 for MK9.
Forgive me for my ignorance, but from watching these highlights does top level marvel turn into touch of death if you lose neutral once?
I’m so sad I wasn’t a big fan of fighting games especially mvc3 back then looked really fun 😢
When ChrisG turned Mvc3 into a bullet hell game, i knew that he was gonna win a championship. When I learned how to do soul fist loop on a PAD, I knew it was gonna be copied online. And boy was it.
mvc3 was so peak.
I love this game so much. There will be another game like UMvC3.
ChrisG with morrigan- Duudes With VergiL n Justin with AkuMa!!
SOUSHI - MESSATSU
I miss the long version of the intro.
Is it normal to use the D-Pad if you play fighting games with a controller? I use the joystick with no issue, so I wouldn't know...
21:04 u know it’s funny I had a PS3 and a 360, but I always got all my fighting games on 360 because IMO it’s felt “right” for some reason. Except MK9 cus Kratos was only on PS3
The return of the king tho
I’m surprised they just skipped 2013 entirely in that video
Maaaaan. You called Apologyman's team cheap (which is was sure) but as a response to Morrigan SoulFist spam? I'll take it. I dont *CARE* that doing that many optimal soulfists was really hard. that shit was ANNOYING.
I didn’t like marvel 3 at the time but looking back now with the current games… marvel 3 was the best
I really wish an MvC4 was in the works
For me, it's Angelic VS Cloud in 2013.
Hahaha, you're ok, you're ok......oh shit you're not ok!!!!
I was expecting the KBR vs FChamp matches ngl
RyanLV is my fave among the champs
New Intro, Maxi?
They didn't show flockers evo?