Say what you will, I liked TvC because of Alex and Batsu and the way the game played. I thought TvC had a pretty solid system and nice gameplay, overall I liked those aspects more than Marvel 3. The character balance was effed up, but then that's every VS. game ever, look at CvS2, that game is ridiculous. The reason people dropped TvC is obvious, it's on the Wii, and with MvC3 on PS3/Xbox360 announced there was little to no reason to play it anymore. I don't think it was dropped because it was a terrible game, it's just that it was more like filler than anything else and it lived its purpose.
I liked the earlier Marvel games to an extent, but after Marvel 2... no thanks, I don't like the game. Honestly, I think all Capcom's fighting games since they returned to the scene in 2008 have been pretty bad. HDR, SF4, MvC3, and now SFxT. All Capcom's been doing is dumbing down their games since their return, SF4 is and will always be a shitty game to me, the way it plays, looks and feels is just ass, and SFxT is no better in that regard. I am not looking forward to a Darkstalkers 4 with the way Capcom is doing things now, if that game becomes a reality with Ono at the helm, fuck it. I think the way Capcom has been handling their games is a joke, yet everybody plays them... I've washed my hands with Capcom, I'm sick of tired of their bullshit. I waited 2 years to play KOF13 and the game blew up in my area because everyone wants to go back to boring SF4 or nonsense MvC3, even though players here acknowledge that these games are ass, they continue to play them, rather than take the time to learn a whole new game. Last night I watched a bunch of SFxT matches and it was the dumbest thing I ever watched. I lost braincells just watching.
SNK tried to dumbdown the series with KOF12, and that blew up in their face, then we got 13 returned the series to the way it should be. It might not be the best KOF, but I think it's one of the better fighting games of this generation for sure and it deserves more love.
But if I can't get any interest for KOF in my area, then I'll just have to go back to being an online warrior in old SNK games that nobody outside of South America gives a damn about lol. That, or just remain focused on 3D fighters, which I can at least get a little bit of competition for, that and the online play in those aren't so bad compared to Capcom and SNK's efforts.