Dr. Light posted:

WARNING:

"X" IS THE FIRST OF A NEW GENERATION OF ROBOTS WHICH CONTAIN AN INNOVATIVE NEW FEATURE - THE ABILITY TO THINK, FEEL AND MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS. HOWEVER THIS ABILITY COULD BE VERY DANGEROUS. IF "X" WERE TO BREAK THE FIRST RULE OF ROBOTICS, "A ROBOT MUST NEVER HARM A HUMAN BEING", THE RESULTS WOULD BE DISASTROUS AND I FEAR THAT NO FORCE ON EARTH COULD STOP HIM.

APPROXIMATELY 30 YEARS WILL BE REQUIRED BEFORE WE CAN SAFELY CONFIRM HIS RELIABILITY. UNFORTUNATELY I WILL NOT LIVE TO SEE THAT DAY, NOR DO I HAVE ANYONE TO CARRY ON MY WORK. THEREFORE, I HAVE DECIDED TO SEAL HIM IN THIS CAPSULE, WHICH WILL TEST HIS INTERNAL SYSTEMS UNTIL HIS RELIABILITY HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB THE CAPSULE UNTIL THAT TIME.

"X" POSSESSES GREAT RISKS AS WELL AS GREAT POSSIBILITIES. I CAN ONLY HOPE FOR THE BEST.

SEPTEMBER 18, 20XX
T.LIGHT

Gamesfreak13563 posted:

X is wearing loving clown shoes in this game

Dresh posted:

#BlazeHeatnixIt #420SmokeMavsEveryday #ThisCouldAllHaveBeenAvoidedIfColonelSmokedAFuckinBlunt

Kurieg posted:

I do appreciate the brazeness of not allowing you to play as X from the start despite his name being in the loving title.

And his characterization in X7 has him hitting the Dr. Light brand Pacificider a little bit too hard.

gently caress it I am bored enough to badly photoshop this terrible joke.

FeyerbrandX posted:

Also, here's your wish The Nightmare of Music.

Heavy Sigh posted:

Zanzibar Ham posted:

A cool goon (think called Violen, but may be mistaken) has videos of him completing the SNES X games without dashing. Per OP I won't link'em though.

Nidoking posted:

I don't like the way the text appears all at once in the HD version - it's still got the old text appearing sound, but now it seems to imply that that's the sound of someone talking, which makes little sense to me.

MithosKuu posted:

Wait. The entire series?
Well, just about, we're covering every game, including the Xtreme games

Olesh posted:

There's something screwed up with the Irregular version of 1-2; someone more video-savvy than me can probably determine what exactly is wrong but the video quality is nowhere near as good as the other videos. Did the video miss being deinterlaced or something?

MithosKuu posted:

Hmm, it should be the same quality as Irregular 1, they should have all been exported the same way. Can you take a screen shot with a timestamp? I'll take a look at it tonight.

Or is it Sputnik posted:

There's another "balcony" further up from that one, I think. I don't know how long I've spent trying and failing to reach it with a charged Shotgun Ice. There's seemingly nothing on it but why would the developers put it there if it doesn't lead to anything?

Dresh posted:

His name is Jiggle Billy, thank you.

Fun Fact: Kuwanger's Dead Lift is one of the very few attacks that can actually damage X when using Game Genie invincibility.

George posted:

I'm pretty sure if you're a pro speed runner you can get that heart tank without Kuwanger's weapon or a charged shotgun ice. Takes some kind of goofy frame-perfect technology.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

The subIDs for the Anglerges, those minibosses in Octopus's stage, are 80 and 82. There's an Anglerge at 81 that only blows, while the first only sucks and the third both sucks and blows. I guess they figured three is too many and took out the one that was the least threat to X.

The end of Octopus's stage has no vertical scrolling, hiding the fact that...



There is a second, redundant set of boss doors. Was there a plan for a secret Octopus fight that's not underwater? Was this the original door that was only slightly hidden from view? Who knows?

MithosKuu posted:

Sounds like something you would only see in a TAS, I can't imagine the time savings would justify trying to pull off a frame/pixel perfect jump just to get a heart tank slightly faster in a live run.

DOOP posted:

Which game was the one that was complete poo poo and everyone hated? X7?

FeyerbrandX posted:

X7 seems to be the consensus. X6 isn't much better. It killed the series for me and couldn't even bring myself to think about playing 7.

MithosKuu posted:

There is a general downhill trend in quality from 1-7, though it really doesn't start to noticeably drop in quality til 5, I can safely say X7 is the worst game in the entire X series. I honestly cannot wait until we get to those episodes.

Fionordequester posted:

Eh...I wouldn't say that, personally. Honestly, I thought X2 and X3 were better than X1. I mean, obviously X1 had the best story-telling, atmosphere, and soundtrack...but as far as gameplay went, you could tell that this was the very first X game ever made. Having the game's most important power-up (the Dash Boots) be something that you could potentially miss for 7 whole stages was something that radically affected the stage design for the game. The Dash Boots made the stages way too simple, since the designers were forced to accommodate those who may not have had it yet.

In addition, I don't feel like the game designers got the gameplay tempo entirely down in X1. X2 and X4 (X3, not so much, but that game was fun in other ways) were very good about throwing enemies at you without bringing the gameplay to a screeching halt, but X1 did not do that as well. It's probably because the game designers were still used to the slower pace of the original games, but IIRC, there were a lot of moments where the game forcibly stopped your progress by throwing a really bulky enemy at you that was easy to beat, but took a while to take down if you didn't know how. I'm speaking of the huge turtle things and two-legged robots smattered throughout all the stages, the sea serpents and wind blowers in Launch Octopus's stage, the ball-n'-chain guys, and etc...

And honestly, compared to all the crazy power-ups you could get for your leg and head armours later on, the upgrades here are a little...boring, in comparison, especially since you START OFF with the Dash Boots in every other game.

Now, am I trying to imply that X1 is a bad game? No, of course not. It's marvelous, and I'd definitely put it over X5-X7, in addition to the Mega Man Zero games that I've played (haven't played X8 yet, or anything from the newer series), but I feel like there's a lot of little things that put it behind X2-X4, at least if we're just talking about gameplay. If we're talking about presentation though, then yeah, it's definitely ahead of X2-X3 . I mean heck, this game actually had FACE PORTRAITS! I still have no idea why they didn't keep those !

Dresh posted:

The balls are a bit cooler,

Choco1980 posted:

I like how the Metools are still around. They're so overloaded through the whole series, that it seems like they're a species unto themselves by the time X rolls around, outliving the old robot orders and still being a part of the Reploid age.

Chokes McGee posted:

I like to think they're actually common pests in the series' timeline.

"Dammit, we have Mets! This is why we should've gotten a robo-cat!"