Topic: General Mega Man Discussion Thread

[thernz]

The stages are cut up, the view is closer in, gaps are made smaller, loading times, hideous graphics.
They got rid of the slide and etc too iirc.

[VladCT]

Bleh. Still kinda makes me wish there were high-res remakes of the SNES MMX games though.

[Kale]

X can slide?

[VladCT]

Wait, did you mean the wall slide or the dash ability?

[Flame]

Neither, he gets the dash. what you DONT have, is a dash button.

X auto charges, and auto shoots. And when you get the leg armor, it seems he auto dashes as well, instead of walking. Yep.

The visuals initially look nice, but that wears off when you realize the only visuals that got any real attention were X and Zero, (and even then they didnt correct their flaws, such as Zero not having his chest lights.)

They simply passed the graphics through a photoshop filter and gave X and Zero more detailed eyes.

the font used in text boxes is hideous, and just doesnt fit at all.

And the combination of the 16 bit era style with the Maverick Hunter X images just clashes really horribly.

You have the option of buying every upgrade the game has to offer, and can do so before even touching the game.

Then there's the fact that its a touch phone game, and action platformers  like Mega Man were not meant for touch screen controls.

Also, it has a pretty bad framerate, last i saw.

[crisis]

I'LL PASS 

[Inccubus]

I'm tempted to try my hand at a similar approach to MMX myself, just, you know, NOT half-assed and lame.

[Flame]

To be fair, the sprite of X is appealing to me, but like I said, the charm wears off once you see the stages and some other sprites and realize how little time was put into it.

[KaZudra]

actually, Dash is down.

but that doesn't matter because the game is so choppy its not even funny, and the worst part is that the emulated MMX plays better on the Ipod touch.

Don't waste your money, wait til someone rips the sprites and let the fans do it right.

[crisis]

soo mmx costume is available for UMvC3 2day


am very excite!!

[Flame]

Fuck that costume. Fuck it to hell. It should be a DLC CHARACTER, not a costume. Capcom is deliberately denying any sort of Mega Man entrance into the game for whatever reason.

[Inccubus]

Yeah, they're running out of excuses too. They said all kinds of bullshit when they were making the first game. Then they made the mistake of doing the update and taking a poll to see who the fans wanted as dlc characters. So the number 1 most demanded character was X, with Rock & Trigger in the top 5. So what the fuck was the point of asking the fans what they wanted?

EDIT:

OK. I've got one for you guys. How come X's upgraded buster looks the same as Zero's normal one which he had even before he became a Hunter.

[Flame]

oooooh boy.

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Best not ask that, we dont know and the resulting discussion could go on for hours. Suffice to say in X1 it was most likely a gameplay mechanic, so as to

A.not have to make two sets of sprites for the buster, a

and

B. follow the theme presented in the intro stage that you will eventually become as strong as Zero.

MHX however, kept this, but actually edited it and gave the two versions different charge shots. the Light version gives the standard wave shot, while the Zero version is a red version of X's charge shot.

We cant say how it works storywise.

[Inccubus]

Heh heh. 

My vote goes to B and a nice dose of pure lazy/time constraint/overlook. I say that because the buster graphic in the game isn't shared by X and Zero. They could easily have made them different.

And, while I'm at it. What do we know about the "carbons" in MML as opposed to androids such as Volnutt/Sera/Yuna? They seem to be functionally the same having normal growth cycles, only the android characters are immortal and don't grow old. The "carbons" seem to have mechanical parts and no one seems to find it strange that Volnutt can exchange body parts for weapons.

[Flame]

Carbons and System units such as Sera and Trigger are VERY similar. They are both artificial beings- and both seem to be able to age. Although I cant entirely be sure about the Mother Units such as Sera and Yuna themselves, since they are a whole different class to Trigger. Or Juno for that matter. We cant say what units are similar to Carbons and which are more different, sicne we know little about the Master System and it's robots, aside from a little of it's structure. (Beurocratic models, 2 Mother units which monitor Earth and Elysium respectively, Purifier units which hunt down aberrant units that go against the system- named "Irregular Hunters" in Japan if I recall-)

But again, they were also able to trick Barrel and Von Bleucher that they were "Ancients", and Sera DID need to rest to recuperate after Rock recovered them, so they must be pretty similar.

But just think like this. Rock = Trigger, = a former system unit. He is indistinguishable from a carbon, although the fact that he probably looks different to how he used to is a factor there. (armoring, etc) He can replace his body with a robotic digger body, as folks can do that. Some opt for smaller changes, like an arm or so, and others swap out the whole body.

Think about the ZX world, and how Reploids are much harder to differentiate from Humans aside from forehead triangles. Now imagine Carbons as the final step in that evolution. Artificial Humans who are very much like the real thing, and suffer the same ailments.