10 Critically-Acclaimed Video Games That BOMBED

Marvel has an estimated value of $53 billion.  Capcom has an estimated value of $10.6 billion.  Combined, you'd think the marketing power the pair could harness could be an unstoppable brain-wrecker - just waves and waves of pure mind control targeted at the masses.  We'd be helpless.

So imagine the surprise when Capcom announced Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite - the latest in the highly-popular Marvel Vs Capcom series - and the most prominent response from its audience was "is that supposed to be Chun Li?  Why does she look like Bob Geldof?"

Cynically referred to as a "transparent cash-grab," Infinite suffered from a litany of issues, not least of which being its presentation, which somehow managed to "make the ugly characters look unappealing."  Add to this netcode issues, a spartan selection of characters and modes, and a $200 special edition which included a set of five cheap acrylic love eggs masquerading as "infinity stones," and suddenly the game's inability to really cash out seems a bit less perplexing.

Whilst Capcom would blame Marvel Vs Capcom: Infinite's lacklustre sales on a slow marketplace and "waning interest in superhero [properties]," it's widely accepted that the game simply failed to live up to expectations, and wasn't worth its price tag.  And, given that Marvel-loving ebayers frequently buy literal Marvel-branded toilet paper for over 100 dollars USD, that really is saying something.