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Boxman posted:I would buy this for maybe 6 of the 8, but what was the point of Shadow Man and Top Man? Hey man, I'm not behind the story, Capcom is.
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Throwing my lot in with the people who absolutely loved Mega Man 9 and want to see the series stick with retro 8-bit goodness. It's not that I reject modern gaming, it's just that with this particular series nothing (except maybe X1 and X2) has matched the sheer joy of those classic NES games. I've played each one at least three or four times each (MM2 and MM3 probably way more than that) and they just have such a specific, purely fun vibe. I'd go so far as to say that Mega Man 9 was one of my top 10 games of 2008, because it's the only one I played where every single second of playtime was pure fun; no filler, no dull cutscenes, no confusion, no padding, no wonky play control, just platforming bliss. Mega Man 10 will be a minute one download for me. My own personal top 5 Mega Man games: 1. Mega Man X 2. Mega Man 2 3. Mega Man 3 4. Mega Man 9 5. Mega Man 4 / Mega Man X2 (tie) mind the walrus posted:But those Wily levels, where losing all your lives on Wily 3 means a trip back to Wily 1. gently caress that noise. Seriously, gently caress that noise. I beat one of those Wily Levels then I should not have to go back there unless I drat well please and for that alone I will never finish MM9 unless I suddenly find myself with 50 spare hours to practice until I get it right. I'm a completely average gamer (never beaten Contra, never beaten any NES Ninja Gaiden games, never beaten GoldenEye or Perfect Dark on 00 Agent, etc.) and I beat Mega Man 9 in about two hours fifteen minutes my first time playing it, and after a few more playthroughs I was down to less than an hour with two or three deaths per run (although I admit I never did beat it without dying). Just keep working at it; once you've figured out one room's obstacle/trick you'll never really die in that room again. Here's my own contribution to the informal "post your Mega Maniest youtubes" contest in this thread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COvUGvx1a3I
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Gammatron 64 posted:Mega Man 8's manual had specific bios and described what was going through Wily's head when he built each Robot Master. I.e. he was went overboard making Clown Man, and all the leftover parts were slapped on a refrigerator and Frost Man was born. I'd like to see the world the way Dr. Wily does, if just for a day.
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Schwarzwald posted:I'd like to see the world the way Dr. Wily does, if just for a day. It's easy, just get hooked on crack.
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This thread doesn't have nearly enough timeline discussion. But here's this: Now I want to play some Mega Man, but I have none of them nor do I have any money. Soon though, I will return to MM after a long time.
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I like most of the original series, but none of them have enamored me like Mega Man 2. It's in my top 5 favorite games (and soundtracks) and I can beat it pretty consistently without dying  (the Wily Fortress stage 4 boss with the wall-cannons is pretty tricky). I like the "Air Man Will Not Die" video but c'mon, even just using the arm cannon he's the easiest boss, just indiscriminately run at him and shoot.Mechahamster posted:And of course I knew about the charge on his weapon, how else was I ever gonna beat Slow Down Dragon? That boomerang meant getting close! Stand on the top block and spam the boomerang. Don't worry about getting hit because if you are you'll fall safely back onto the middle block, just jump back up and repeat. Schwarzwald posted:I'd like to see the world the way Dr. Wily does, if just for a day. 
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MokBa posted:This thread doesn't have nearly enough timeline discussion.  No clue where .EXE fits but who cares they suck.
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Swilo posted:There's not much to discuss when it has an official and coherent timeline (MM/GB, X, Zero/ZX, Legends)
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Swilo posted:No clue where .EXE fits but who cares they suck. I always assumed the Battle Network games were a prequel to everything else. Also, for anyone curious about playing the Battle Network games, just play BN6, if only cause you can turn into this: 
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TaurusOxford posted:I always assumed the Battle Network games were a prequel to everything else. Battle network games are an alternate universe, where instead of investing his time in something useful like robotics, Dr Light went into internet stuff.
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I got the first Battle Network and loved the poo poo out of it. I thought it was pretty cool and really liked the story and battle system at the time. Its was a pretty cool game but gently caress there's too many of them. Whatsup with that ZX and Starforce Megamans? What the gently caress are those all about?
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PonchAxis posted:I got the first Battle Network and loved the poo poo out of it. I thought it was pretty cool and really liked the story and battle system at the time. Its was a pretty cool game but gently caress there's too many of them. Whatsup with that ZX and Starforce Megamans? What the gently caress are those all about? ZX and Starforce games are sequels to their respective precursors, Megaman Zero and Battle Network. In fact, there's a ton of reference (names, bosses, etc) in each game to their related games, so much so that there's bonus content in a few of the games if you have a GBA game in the appropriate slot. For instance, in Megaman ZX, you can fight the Megaman Zero bosses if you have one of those games popped in. In Starforce 1 (I think 2, too), you can have a Battle Network game in and get a new weapon. Starforce also has an upcoming crossover with the Battle Network series. I'm not sure how it's going to work, but I enjoyed the last Starforce (3) and all the Battle Network games I played, so I'm looking forward to it.
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PonchAxis posted:Whatsup with that ZX and Starforce Megamans? What the gently caress are those all about? edit: Yeah, what he said.
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PonchAxis posted:I got the first Battle Network and loved the poo poo out of it. I thought it was pretty cool and really liked the story and battle system at the time. Its was a pretty cool game but gently caress there's too many of them. Whatsup with that ZX and Starforce Megamans? What the gently caress are those all about? ZX is megaman zero with a little bit of metroid, but they don't pull off the metroid aspect well at all. It's still fun if you like megaman zero, because the gameplay is just as tight. Starforce is pretty lovely compared to battle network. One of the funnest, most strategic battle systems got turned into something that's pretty to look at, but incredibly unstrategic. The story is still there in massive amounts, along with low production value on the entire overworld and navigation aspect... I swear, everytime I see a well animated sprite I've never seen before in one of those games, I celebrate. I can't count how many times the screen flashes white or fades to black for a second so they don't have to animate something that deserves to be animated awesomely. My favorite battle networks are 3 and 6. 3 was actually pretty interesting plot wise (or maybe I was just 14) and I actually clocked in over 99 hours getting every single thing. As for 6, it's just the finale of the series, and tight poo poo happens.
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Nahxela posted:Starforce also has an upcoming crossover with the Battle Network series. I'm not sure how it's going to work, but I enjoyed the last Starforce (3) and all the Battle Network games I played, so I'm looking forward to it. This crossover was already released in Japan in November, and it's basically just an enhanced remake of BN1 similar to BN5 Double Team DS, also allowing you to play as Geo in his Megaman form, with slight variations in terms of gameplay between the two. I wouldn't mind an international release since BN1 is the only one that gives me some trouble starting over again because of the Net and some other aspects in it. It just feels so outdated when you get used to the gameplay in the later games. Also, everybody seems to forget about Network Transmission when talking Battle Network. It wasn't THAT terrible(And it had some pretty good music)
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MM3 is probably still my favorite, only because it was the first one I got. I remember being a kid and having finding a 3 or 4 page preview of the game in some old no longer existing magazine and reading those 4 pages entirely EVERYDAY until my birthday hit and I got the game. As such I can blast through the game in one sitting in about 90 minutes. And I honestly didn't find MM9 that hard, until Wiley himself. Sure there were some surprises that would get you at first, but once you knew they were there, they were simple to avoid. None of the bosses were particularly hard. Hell, none of the bosses in any of the MM games are particularly hard outside of Wiley/Sigma. And those mini-boss guys you get the Zero parts from in X3. gently caress those guys.
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I just got this emailquote:World renowned game developer and father of Mega Man, Keiji Inafune, joins us for a live chat Wednesday, 12/16, at 9 PM PST to celebrate Mega Man's 22nd Birthday! Stop by and celebrate with us as Mr. Inafune will be taking questions from the live chat! Expect a few surprises in store for Mega Man fans. Additionally, there will be guest appearances from renowned cartoon artist Hitoshi Ariga and Mega Man game producer Hironobu Takeshita. Visit http://www.capcom-unity.com/mega_man/blog for more information.
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Oh please Jesus say something about mega man legends 3.
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There was a new Mega Man game released this week actually. Mega Man: Rush Marine was released for mobile phones. It has a bunch of levels, ten robot masters, and weapons you can get and use, all underwater inside of Rush Marine.
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Smoke posted:This crossover was already released in Japan in November, and it's basically just an enhanced remake of BN1 similar to BN5 Double Team DS, also allowing you to play as Geo in his Megaman form, with slight variations in terms of gameplay between the two. There is a loving map display. I'm so satisfied.
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Boxman posted:I would buy this for maybe 6 of the 8, but what was the point of Shadow Man and Top Man? Wasn't Top Man made to entertain children or some such?
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Figured there'd be interest in this thread - Via Joystiq, Famitsu reports MM10 is coming to PSN and XBLA as well.
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Boxman posted:Figured there'd be interest in this thread - Via Joystiq, Famitsu reports MM10 is coming to PSN and XBLA as well. EDIT: I'm going to throw out wild speculation that this game will at least start the tie-in between classic and X with the inclusion of Sheep Man, since all the Mavericks in the X games are based off of animals.
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Orgophlax posted:Woo! Snake Man kind of puts paid to your wild speculation.
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No one's going to get this, but this is all I can associate with the Sheep Man:
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There's better ways to wild guess. 1.) The entire plot is about a virus that makes robots go crazy, and Wily's probably behind it. Sounds suspiciously like the problem that starts Megaman X's woes. 2.) Third none-DLC playable character if I have my facts straight. Bass is DLC, so who could that be? 3.) X=10 in roman numerals, which would make setting up a tie in in this game a really fun little call out. Honestly I'm pretty much kidding and if they do start the bridge it will probably not be anything huge, maybe just showing Dr. Light building X or something, they are not done making new Megaman sequels yet. PS.) Infune himself has deconfirmed the theory that Zero killed the original cast. Google for it or something, just wanted to bring that out early.
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The only games in the series I've even seen hint at a bridge between the two series are Power Fighters and X4. I do personally hate it when games leave important details as nebulous implications (Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy VIII drive me up the loving wall), and when I was a kid I really hated how much Mega Man X (1) left unexplained. But now I can understand why. The original series and X series are so stylistically different that I really think that it would look incongruous to have too many elements of the two series together. I think it even did look incongruous in those games. I think Capcom's mindset is that what the fans want is more 8-bit Mega Man. And that's what they're getting. No more, no less.
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Shanty posted:No one's going to get this, but this is all I can associate with the Sheep Man: As long as you have to go through that creepy hotel with the in-between floor to get to his room. That would actually be a cool stage, riding up and down a hotel elevator till you find the secret dark floor.
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CloseFriend posted:I think Capcom's mindset is that what the fans want is more 8-bit Mega Man. And that's what they're getting. No more, no less.
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mathaeis posted:However, I COMPLETELY agree that Mega Man is a world that has amazing potential for a serious, non-kiddie story, and from what I understand The Protomen deliver on that idea. Still, I find a big difference between the light-hearted fun of The Megas, and the disappointment Capcom can sometimes provide - like any of the English voices in the American games. "It's time to get serious!" at last... A Mega Man game for ADULTS!! I can't think of a reason why games about lil cartoon robots fighting should not be accessible to children.
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swamp waste posted:at last... A Mega Man game for ADULTS!! I don't know about you man, I want a Mega Man game where he looks like a quarterback and has a chainsaw gun covered in spikes and snorts cocaine off hookers' tits and fights demon guys from warhammer 40k and swims in pools of blood of the mortals! And with lots of metal. Oh wait, that's for people who are mentally children, never mind.
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Gammatron 64 posted:I don't know about you man, I want a Mega Man game where he looks like a quarterback and has a chainsaw gun covered in spikes and snorts cocaine off hookers' tits and fights demon guys from warhammer 40k and swims in pools of blood of the mortals! And with lots of metal. I dunno. Could be cool. Then again, Bomberman...
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Now that you fuckers have put it into my head, all I want now is a 16-bit style Megaman X9. As much as I love classic Megaman, the X series was like crack to me as a kid. Up until about X6 anyway. Here's a dirty secret: I actually like X6. Even with the stupid difficulty and dead ends. X7 was a pile of dogshit though.
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BlueArmyMan posted:Wasn't Top Man made to entertain children or some such? Something I found interesting somewhat relating to this. I remember an issue of Nintendo Power back when either MM5 or 6 came out, there was a contest to design robots. They had a 4 page spread of all the entrants, and announced the two winners. It wasn't until a year or two ago that I found information pointing out that ALL the robot masters from MM2 on were the result of similar contests in Japan - the two in NP were just the only two American children ever had anything to do with. So I guess form denotes function, despite how silly that form might be.
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Mecha Labrador posted:Here's a dirty secret: I actually like X6. Even with the stupid difficulty and dead ends. I also enjoyed X6, with the exception of some of the bullshit locations for armor capsules and the music.
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MokBa posted:This thread doesn't have nearly enough timeline discussion. As Far as I know, the general timeline (Including possible non cannon games) goes like this OG Mega Man 1-10 30 years after the final Megaman vs Wiley Showdown Dr Light Creates X as a robot who can think and make choices for himself. X is sealed away for 30 years of diagnostic testing. Dr. Light dies sometime during this diagnositic period. 100 years after X has been sealed away, he is discovered by Dr. Cain. X assists Cain in the production of the first reploid 1 year later the first reploid standardized and mass production begins. 3-7 years later the first reploids start going maverick due to the yet unknown Sigma Virus, and the Maverick Hunters are formed with Sigma as their leader. Zero shows up somewhere during this time but nobody knows exactly when or how. At this point X is more of a scientist than a fighter. Sigma goes maverick along with most of the Maverick hunters. X feels it's his fault and goes to fight the Mavericks. Megaman X series starts Megaman Zero series takes place 100 years after that. The ZX series takes place 200 years after Megaman Zero. Legends is about 1000 years after ZX. All other games don't really have a place in the time line as they are alternate universe (Battle Network and Starforce), or are just plain silly and don't fit. I'm looking at you Megaman Soccer. God Damn Dam God fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Dec 16, 2009 |
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Orgophlax posted:Don't forget that Zero was built by Wiley I think before Light started X, and X was more of a counter to Zero. I might be wrong with the reasoning, but Zero was definitely built by Wiley. Yeah. I should have added this. It was actually before X, but I don't think Light had any inkling that Zero was being built. For all the bumbling that Wiley did fighting Megaman, he may have been even more of a genius than Dr Light. He created a robot with the same thinking and moral capability as Light did, but he did it earlier, and he did it knowing that the robots copied from his would be susceptible to the Sigma virus he included. He basically figured out a way do distribute his brand of insanity on a much larger scale after he would be long dead. I'd say he's as evil genius as they come.
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When I was a kid, I had Mega Man 3 and 4, or more properly displayed as Mega Man III and Mega Man IV, like in the game's opening title screen. I knew they put out a Mega Man 5 and 6, but I wasn't much interested. When Mega Man X came out though, I thought it was awesome. Before I played it and realized the main character was called X, I like a lot of others I think, just assumed it was Mega Man 10 and that I had not been paying sufficient attention to the original series. After they made 7, 8 and 9, I figured, hey if Mega Man X is the next game in the series, it would mean that I was actually right all along, albeit unknowingly. Too bad they had to make this. I enjoyed MM9, but if they made a 16 or 32-bit 2D Mega Man 9X, I would play the gently caress out of that. Play. The. gently caress.
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