Another Goddamn Rockman Series Revealed

[Andy]

Haha.

[Bacon McShig]

I buy one of any franchise I happen to like that has sequalitus, what's the point of buying the same thing over and over?

You want more of it?

I'm sure Capcom (or whoever) would LOVE it if they only had to make 1 or 2 games in a series and those could be reprinted ad infinitum and it was eternal wellspring of sales ... but that's not the way the market works. A game comes out, retailers make an initial purchase, maybe one or two more if it does really well, and then when that sells out they never order again. If the publisher wants to continually be represented on store shelves, they have to keep making new games. The easiest way to do this is with sequels that require a minimum of new assets.

It sucks but it's easy to see why publishers do it. The model is firmly entrenched into the industry. The greatest hits lines alleviate some of the problem by keeping select catalog titles on the market, but GBA hasn't historically had those.

[GameGandalf]

Hey Yoshi - raze up off my ballzac. Princess.

[rama]

Im kinda surprised the series came out on GBA at all cause the DS version is soo much better...im never playing multiplayer on handhelds with cords ever again. Is it still lan and megaman or some different people?

it's still lan. uhm. yeah. it's a lot of fun. i just had some head to head battling with a friend and it was crazy intense. there's so many options available to you early on in the game now. i have all the crosses/souls and i'm only about 20 hours in...so it seems like they shortened the game a lot and just have extra shit if you wanna do it.

i don't get all the wanting megaman to die. it's just a game that has many different (kinda the same) series' and it's been around for a while. there's old megaman, megaman x, legends (kinda) exe and zero. the ones that were really different from anything they've ever done with the character are the legends and exe games. we haven't seen another legends game in years but...if they did that series like they did the others there'd be complaining about that, too. exe is pretty different from all of those games. i know a lot of you have played the first game in the exe the series or maybe some of you have played none at all. i kinda gave up on it after the first one 'cause i got bored. i skipped part 2 and came back to the series on 3 and was really suprised with the improvements. if you're actually playing the games through there are enough improvements/tweaks to the battle system for me to want to continue playing the series. blah blah blah.

and what's up with all this "megaman 2's the best!" stuff? it was a big improvement over the first one but some of the bosses were way to easy to beat. + you could metal blade your way through most of the game.

[Finch]

I actually have a thing for Megaman 3, but MMLegends 2 will always be my favorite. I went into it expecting nothing but the hotness of Tron Bonne, and it was sooooo good. The Zero series was pretty cool too, from playing the first 3.

Battle Network was fine for me, but i really started getting tired of the basic gameplay by the end of the second, and i sold 3 before i was done with it. I always love seeing the new character designs for the bosses. It's neat to see what they've changed.
6, though.... It's really, REALLY good? You promise?

[rama]

I actually have a thing for Megaman 3, but MMLegends 2 will always be my favorite. I went into it expecting nothing but the hotness of Tron Bonne, and it was sooooo good. The Zero series was pretty cool too, from playing the first 3.

Battle Network was fine for me, but i really started getting tired of the basic gameplay by the end of the second, and i sold 3 before i was done with it. I always love seeing the new character designs for the bosses. It's neat to see what they've changed.
6, though.... It's really, REALLY good? You promise?

6 is the best of the soul/cross series started in bn4. the pace of the story is a little faster. i think it's comparable to bn1 in terms of length. but...i mean...i really like megaman. i really like this series. i don't care for the zero series 'cause it's like the x series and i was just kinda tired of that stuff. if you haven't played it since 3 then a lot has changed since then. you may enjoy it lots or you may not. you'll probably enjoy it more if you have someone to play with.

[Finch]

I think it was the visual style of Zero that i liked so much. X, i don't like that much. Though i still need to try X8. And i kind of liked the little of Command Mission that i've played.

[Rem]

You want more of it?

I'm sure Capcom (or whoever) would LOVE it if they only had to make 1 or 2 games in a series and those could be reprinted ad infinitum and it was eternal wellspring of sales ... but that's not the way the market works. A game comes out, retailers make an initial purchase, maybe one or two more if it does really well, and then when that sells out they never order again. If the publisher wants to continually be represented on store shelves, they have to keep making new games. The easiest way to do this is with sequels that require a minimum of new assets.

It sucks but it's easy to see why publishers do it. The model is firmly entrenched into the industry. The greatest hits lines alleviate some of the problem by keeping select catalog titles on the market, but GBA hasn't historically had those.

That doesn't excuse not improving the games. The game play and graphics have remained the same since it's inception, this is just capcoms habitual lazyness on showcase here. It's the same reason I stopped buy street fighter games games. Great make a sequal but actually add something to it other than a new number.
I would have no problems with mega man sticking around of capcom did something new with the games. But they seem content to rely on nostalgia and name recognition rather than innovating anything about the franchise.

[Bacon McShig]

That doesn't excuse not improving the games. The game play and graphics have remained the same since it's inception, this is just capcoms habitual lazyness on showcase here. It's the same reason I stopped buy street fighter games games. Great make a sequal but actually add something to it other than a new number.

Oh, so you've played the games now? I've only played 1-3, but each one of those had a signifigant gameplay addition or two, a slew of new enemies, and every area was different from the previous save for Lan's hometown, and from what I've heard that holds true for the other games since. That seems like a fair amount of work for a sequel to me... it's certainly no SFII Turbo where they changed the color of the backgrounds and just made characters playable whose assets were already in the first game.

There ARE too many, and Capcom IS pretty lazy to not branch out, I'm not really arguing against that. But they do put effort into them, and just because a lot exist doesn't mean you have to play them all.

[rama]

wait....huh? the only megaman games that are similar are the original, x, and zero. soon to be in that bunch is zx. legends and the exe series did try something new. there are significant differencest in each game in the exe series. the first 3 started on one idea with having a style that you could use and level up. the last 3 focused on crosses and dark chips and some other things while improving the gameplay. you can't say they haven't added anything when you've never played or even examined these titles. i can see how people are annoyed that there are too many and that they're too similar...but that's like some one say "there's too much anime, anime is all the same!" well....if you don't really watch anime it will look the same to you.

finch - yeah, i enjoyed command mission a lot. i never got around to finishing it, though. + X8 is really good. much better than the last....like....2 x games. 5 and 6. oh...wait...i'm forgetting about 7. i still haven't played that one, though.