>>13396078Haha but seriously tho, back when they were coming out, I always thought a cool idea would be to give you, like, the choice to revive a past maverick as a playable character in some way. Like, say you kill a new maverick and, instead of simply giving you the weapon, the game gives you the choice of using the "soul" to instead bring back one maverick (maybe a corresponding one for each "soul") which can then be used as, say, an assist, or maybe even full-on playable character. I mean, it's not like they didn't already have the sprites, and it's not like Capcom isn't great at reusing them.
Furthermore, you could make it more interesting by adding an additional variable like, imagine they end up being OP as playable characters. However, you explain in-game that they're "more vulnerable" to the Sigma virus than you are because they already were infected once. So you get some sort of restrictions to play them like "if they get below a certain HP they become mavericks again and are now a mid-boss for that stage you lost them in" or maybe "you can only play them for x amount of time and if you don't beat the stage by then something bad happens (maybe you lose them, maybe they become mid-bosses)" or any other restriction that plays around with that idea. Same if they're instead made to be super abusable assists instead of playable characters or something.
idk i just think there was so much designer space to that side of the game.
