Mega Man 9: Official Thread

I just want to be able to shoot diagonal and up.

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Originally Posted by Dyne

how did MM stray too far in 7 games? all they added was the E-tank, the dog, a slide and a charge shot.

if anything the games stayed exactly the friggin same.

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The mechanics stayed the same, but the level designs became cluttered. I can't think of a way to articulate it, but something about Megaman 6 just seems too "busy" compared to MM1 and 2. It's even more prevalent in the progression of the X games.

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Explain Mega Man 7.

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Sprite artists not yet accustomed to working with a larger palette. I can point out a million other examples of this.

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Originally Posted by Dyne

how did MM stray too far in 7 games? all they added was the E-tank, the dog, a slide and a charge shot.

if anything the games stayed exactly the friggin same.

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I can't really put my finger on it, because Mega Man 3-6 really blend together for me. It just seemed like, with the addition of each new ability they threw into a Mega Man game, the designers had to change the game in other key areas (mostly the level design) to compensate for it.

For example, they added the slide in Mega Man 3. In order to compensate for that, the developers had to create some extremely annoying level design choices. I seem to remember having to slide between spikes and I never cared for sliding between all the bubbles in "Gemini Man's" stage.

Also, I hate to admit it, but I really hated the addition of Rush. I hated having to use Rush Submarine, Rush Car, Rush Hoverboard, or whatever the hell else Rush could do, just to navigate through a stage. There is nothing more annoying that having to use the Rush Submarine and accidentally running out of the "energy" you need to use Rush.

The Mega Man X series is even more ridiculous. The addition of new power ups, which led to odd level design choices, made everything after the original Mega Man X painfully bad.

Just give me Mega Man, with his Mega Buster and the ability to jump...and I'm set with that. Forget all the extra shit that I really don't care about.

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

I was.

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Liar.

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Originally Posted by magnifiedplaid

I still enjoy the earlier games much more than any of the sequels. I recently played through the Mega Man Anniversary Collection and The Mega Man X Collection. After playing through all the games, I came to the conclusion that Mega Man 1, Mega Man 2, and the original Mega Man X are the best of the bunch. Capcom seemed to stray from the simplistic formula and just seemed to add unnecessary crap to each successive sequel.

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IDBTN. If they kept churning out the same MM game over and over (as Capcom is well known and criticized for) you'd have complained about that, too.

I was only talking about it for like three pages there, Dole.

Why aren't we talking about the real MM9 megaton, Splash Woman? This is surely more controversial than shitty graphics.

You Got: Red Tide

That's more like it!

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

IDBTN. If they kept churning out the same MM game over and over (as Capcom is well known and criticized for) you'd have complained about that, too.

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I would actually agree with your opinion here, if it weren't for the fact that I hated Mega Man 3 at the time of its release. I was 10 years old at the time, and still very far from becoming a jaded old bastard. I simply didn't like the little changes they made to the core gameplay at the time, and I still don't like it 16 years later.