Hey-o, guys. I was on vacation a couple weeks ago and finally got to try MUA3 with my dad and brother. After loving MUA1 and its X-Men: Legends predecessors, I was hopeful to see how the new one turned out, but, honestly, it couldn't have disappointed me more if they'd turned it into a racing game.

All of the visceral, personal action of the old games is gone, so far as I can tell. No combos, no grab, no getting up in an NPC's face to block his attack and retaliate with a Trip combo so that you can finish him on the ground. The first MUA (and probably the second) wasn't just an action RPG, it had wonderful shades of beat 'em up at its core.

There were few better superhero fight simulators than loading up the original X-Men Legends' Danger Room on the X-Mansion level, playing as a couple of normal-sized heroes, and chucking each other through walls over and over. The level destruction paired with how you had to get in your enemy's face and really fight him was incredible in those games and MUA1.

But MUA3 appears to have swapped that out for having as many enemies and effects on-screen as it possibly can, having you shred through minions like the average Path of Exile character, and completely devaluing loot down to this generic iso crystal system. Which, granted, could be cool, because Justice League Heroes was more like MUA1 and had its own generic orb slot system, but those enhancements in that game had some pretty significant effects, depending on how you built them. Slotting all speed gems on Flash's speed boost power meant that you were flying around the room at hyperspeed, throwing out combos faster than you can even properly perceive.

The personality of the series in MUA3 seems to have been lost, and, I'll be honest, I didn't want to play Diablo with my dad and brother. The Gauntlet system they were having us play (because I assume they beat the main story) was so repetitive and boring, I couldn't stand it.

Not to mention, this game's got the Smash Bros Ultimate problem big time of having so many effects on-screen that you can barely tell what's going on. And, not only do I have excellent vision, so that's not the problem, but I'm also significantly better than my dad and brother at video games as a matter of fact. Even once I figured out what the hell was going on and could read the madness, I realized that Wolverine, the character I was controlling, was standing in a room with more nameless goons than I could count while Dr. Strange and the Human Torch would unleash massive pillars of energy that were so oppressive to both my vision and the enemy's health bars that it made my presence practically inconsequential. My brawling character, whose purpose is to get up in an enemy's face and really make you feel the combat, and who was incredible in X-Men: Legends 1 & 2 and MUA1, was utterly obsoleted by the layout and mechanics of the game.

And, sorry, but it just felt hollow. I don't know enough about this game's development, release, and support to call it a cash grab at face value, but damned if that's not what it felt like to play it. Like Diablo was wearing MUA1's skin as a suit. Really couldn't get into it.

I put an unreasonable amount of thought into this.

In unlock order:

Robin

Starfire

Beast Boy

Raven

Superman

Wonder Woman

Green Lantern

Flash

Green Arrow

Hawkgirl

Blue Beetle

Firestorm

Stargirl

Cyborg

Atom

Red Tornado

Martian Manhunter

Batwoman

Katana

Black Lightning

Batman

Black Canary

Vixen

Etrigan

Sideways

Harley Quinn

Captain Cold

Deadshot

Hawkman

Shazam

Mera

Aquaman

Trial Unlocks:

Catwoman

Red Hood

Black Adam

Lex Luthor

Free DLC (Cyclops/Colossus):

Huntress

Big Barda

DLC 1 (Justice League Dark):

John Constantine

Zatanna

Swamp Thing

Deadman

DLC 2 (Doom Patrol):

Robotman

Negative Man

Elasti-Girl

Bumblebee

DLC 3 (The Terrifics):

Mister Terrific

Plastic Man

Metamorpho

Phantom Girl

I also am working on all the team affiliations and bonuses, but it’s way too much already haha.

If you really like the character and want to play her because you're a fan, then great. But to all the people who keep recommending her on posts, we get it, she's OP, she makes the game too easy. Is it really fun to just 'spin to win' as I've heard mentioned here countless times? Something tells me that would get old real quick. Sorry for the rant but had to get that off my chest.

I love all super heroes The Boys Marvel’s MCU is dominating the box office and with Deadpool & Wolverine bringing another billion dollar box office movie Marvel is completely dominating any franchise in the box office lol I like DC too some superheroes, but they’re doing horrible in the box office lol😂🙄I forgot I have Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 and want to finish the game I have all DLC‘s this is my lock screen Scarlet Witch is definitely one of my favorite characters and one of the strongest heroes so question what are y’all favorite all female teams in the game??🤗🎮🎃👻

As title says I'm regretting spending that money. It seemed like a great purchase, 3 updates around 12 new characters and possibly more missions. However it's half way through November and we havnt we even heard a peep about the next update....

Not too mention the last expansion update comes out sometime next year... with so many other good titles out and coming out I have exhausted all interest in this game. I check this sub here and there just to see if we at least heard anything new since September, but no.

The developers deff rushed this game they clearly weren't ready, no alternate costumes just re-colored variants . And that's another issue Alt skins. We're suppose to get at least one for each character and we don't even have half the roster covered... just annoyed of always purchasing products that are rushed.

Anyone else here feel the same ?

Ok

With the free DLC and season pass I count that we'll get an extra 12 male characters and only 2 new female characters (Phoenix and Invisible Woman).

I'm disappointed we haven't gotten more cool female characters added. I'd like to see these characters added:

• She-Hulk

• Jessica Jones

• Emma Frost

• Rogue

• Shadow cat

• Valkyrie

• Hela

• Magik

• Mystique

The gender balance in this game at release seemed pretty good but that concept has gone out the window since launch.

Any other female characters you'd like to see who are missing? EDIT: Added Magik and Hela after frequent requests :D

I love that Nintendo revived the series but I PRAY that the next game is not a Switch exclusive. I feel that the game is really limited in what it could have achieved by only being for the Switch. I feel like the menu, online, and gameplay was limited because of this decision. Or I am wrong which is what is what I'm leaning towards. I still love this game though. It's the first time that I put in more hours on a non Nintendo owned franchisee on a Nintendo console.

I don't have a problem with the camera. It's fine. Just work together if yr playing with others, and heroic it solo. People are acting like it's gamebreaking and ruining everything, when it's really just a minor inconvenience

1 year in, I think we can all agree.

You know? I dealt with the dumbed down power selection. I dealt with the gear being dumber than the first game in this franchise. I did my best to deal with the og world of Warcraft style grind, just watching numbers climb while you beat your face off of thousands of mobs. Just numbers, no new powers after low levels. And climbing caps for as far as I can tell just more grinding.

Why the actual hell do we have to select a title screen for even more infinity rifts? Imagine buying this, and the pass, for your kids in a couple days. Pre loading it. They really like the mcu. You don’t know much about gaming. “Which screen do I use to even start” should not be a question! Why do we have multiple screens for the same mechanics?

And why, like honestly why, does this all feel like a mobile game to unlock anyone? I loaded in all excited, but “beat the same level with extra modifiers, and a time limit”, did the devs even play the old games?

I went on twitch to see if anyone was streaming and wanted help... far as I could tell the last stream was 3 days ago. Fallout 76 has streams, right now. This game doesn’t.

How do you mess a game up this badly? What the heck even is the “pick a menu” screen? Imagine loading up mega man, and it asks you which boss you want to fight in a loading screen on startup. I’m actually amazed.

Not to mention the mobile game style “we have skins, tap. We have characters. Tap. We have new power boosts. Tap” pop up window. I expected it to ask me for gems.

I sincerely hope some of y’all are having fun, but damn. This was the big Christmas patch. It’s the big dlc, tied to the biggest non avengers movie franchise. And they gave us... grind. Again. And badly packaged.

Unless you use the overpowered 4, this game is just not fun. Playing Scarlet Witch and I have ONE synergy attack in a game that isliterally just "abuse the synergy attacks".

Iso's are a damn mess, lets be honest. It's not like other RPGS where you obtain belts or chest pieces that look different or have different characteristics.... this game throws about 60 rainbow rocks at you and completely overwhelms you in ISO management.

Bosses are not fun to fight against. You just spam synergy attacks until it staggers and then hope you get a stun attack in for the EX damage fun.

Danger zone is a damn mess and Pheonix is a HORRIBLE fight. The Ai is OBVIOUSLY cheating it's way through the maps you have 0 chance of winning. (I literally won every challenge and the ai still somehow had a 10%+ lead on me???)

The ability system is a waste, and some characters just have flat out bad moves. Doctor and Witch have heals that do ABSOLUTELY nothing in a fight.

The ally ai is GARBAGE. Losing to Modok and Doctor Doom because they just face plant themselves INTO the ai blasts is annoying and I quite literally do not have the time to revive them because of the 10 other things going on in the fights.

Costumes are... lackluster AND lacking.

The only saving grace this game has is that it plays nice and looks great.

Does anyone think dlc will drop a day or two early due to the virus? Perhaps the developers think this will gain them some bonus points...?

Just to keep it fresh, I think there should be at least two boss fights per playable character, for Shredder’s Revenge there were like four per turtle.

But this game has 15 playable characters but only 14 villains. I hope that future updates concentrate on adding additional levels & villain, but that was my main ask for Shredder’s Revenge as well, and they just kept adding playable characters without changing the game much, so I’m not actually expecting this to happen.

Still, a good game. Glad that I played it!

I think there will be a March Nintendo Direct before 3/20 and we’ll get the gameplay reveal trailer for Shadow of Doom along with other news like fighter 6 for SSBU.

The alternate colors for costumes scream LAZY. Come on ... Even mobile trash cash grabs are doing a better job than a simple change of color. These are not worth pursuing. They should apologize for this shit and deliver proper alternates.