/v/ - Video Games

Play: 1-7, X1-X3

Ignore: all the other trash made since Mega Man 8

>>15223523

>don't play 9 and 10

Alright, so you're retarded. 9 and 10 are fantastic.

>>15223523

>recommends 7 and 8 but not 9 and 10

What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>15223179

All the classic main games are worth a play, though 8 isn't great. I also recommend the classic game boy games, as they're not just ports of the NES games. The X series starts great, dips a bit around 4, becomes outright bad with 6 and 7, then becomes okay again with 8. The X rpg, Command Mission, is worth playing. The Zero series is all-around good, as is the Legends series. Of the Battle Network series, 4 is the only one you should really ignore.

>>15223179

Be sure to play Megaman Soccer.

>>15223711

>forgetting that ZX exists again

>>15223733

I never played them or seen them in action, so I can't speak for their quality.

No going to lie, It was my hatred for women prohibiting me from saying this but Mighty No. 9 is actually the best Mega Man game. Thanks to Doctor Rubenstein and his treatments I finally now see the light.

>anything focusing on zero

>good

The X series was good despite Zero, but Zero was a mistake.

There are no real stinkers among the classic games, 8 is a bit slower, and you can argue they've been scratching the bottom of the barrel for boss designs for a few games at that point, and 9 especially is a MM2 fanwank. As for the X games, 1-4 are solid, 5 is alright, 6 suffers from bad level design and enemy placement, 7 is a godawful 3D curiosity, and 8 is pretty good again.

Oh, and the Battle Network spin-off is an interesting card-collecting action rpg, I recommend giving it a shot

>>15223853

Your browser is busted or you're blind.

>>15223853

Fuck Legends

Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity

You won't be sorry.

Play 4-8, then play megaman & bass (play the original snes one, the gba version has lower resolution which fucks the game up even further), then 9-10. Its up to you if you want to play the gameboy games, but megaman & bass is a shitshow that has to be seen.

>>15224485

Play the legends games, they're really hit or miss in my experience so it would be a shame if you skipped what could have been a hit for you. Regardless of how much you like legends play Misadventures of Tron Bonne.

Play the Gameboy games. Do it.

And give Rockman + Forte a shot

>>15223523

>ignore X4

I get that the story is shit, but are you retarded or something?

>>15224485

You should try Powered Up and Maverick Hunter X. I think you should give Legends a shot too.

>>15224545

It's cute at best. The extra levels are nice but not great.

>>15224120

Don't get mad at Legends just because Crapcom are a bunch of cunts who would rather shit all over the entire Megaman franchise rather than finish the fucking story.

>>15224485

sounds about right

>>15224545

It's a nice alternative but in no way is it a replacement for the originals. Also play the jap version, the PAL release is badly optimized and slowed down at 50hz

If you like 1-3 you'll like the rest of the "Classic" series. They're all pretty much the same thing, but they're good at what they do. Some people talk badly about the later ones but I like that they add a tiny bit more depth to things (like some hidden items to find) but still keep it pretty simple. The Game Boy games are must plays as well, and even the one on WonderSwan is good, though short. Don't forget Mega Man & Bass, though it's hard as fuck.

X is the same type of deal but with more focus on exploring for hidden items and stuff. Pretty fun. But once it starts doing things like missable story sequences (which IIRC are as early as X2) it starts to hamper my fun and I kind of just prefer the simple run and gun of the original series. The story is melodramatic and dumb but whatever you don't have to pay attention. But eventually half the game is Zero and you're running around with a sword instead of a gun and it plays substantially different. That's when it kills it for me. Then the PS2 ones are very different because 3D and stuff.

Legends is great but obviously doesn't play much like the originals. Early third person shooter with RPG elements and very light platforming.

I never played any of the ones from the 21st century yet because I can't give enough of a shit about Zero to play Mega Man Zero. Mary Sue faggot double edgy Proto Man ruined the X games.

>>15224485

Just play all of them you cunt

>>15224545

Wily Wars isn't a very good remake but if you beat all three games you unlock Wily Tower, which is basically about the length of half of a normal Mega Man game and you can customize your weapons and items before each stage by picking from all the weapons and items from MM1-3. It's really cool and worth playing. Maybe you'll want to find some way to skip playing 1-3 again and get right to Wily Tower, but personally I just beat them again because they're great games to begin with, and by the time I got to Wily Wars it had been a long time since I had played 1-3. Also, technically Wily Wars is a sequel where the story is Wily goes back in time to the first three games and then after Mega Man beats them again Wily Tower happens.

The fact of the matter is that all of these games are pretty much the same. The different sub-series are a bit different from each other, but each entry in a series is pretty close to every other entry in that series except for the earliest and latest games in the X series. Mega Man 7 and 8 have fancy graphics but they play incredibly closely to Mega Man 1, just with some minor stuff added on over time. If you like one you'll like them all.

>>15223822

I can see what you mean about 5. So far there are some neat stage gimmicks and I appreciate that it’s a bit harder than 4. 3 is still my favorite so far.

>>15224800

Gotcha, then I’ll save it for when I want to play more old school Mega Man once I’ve gotten through the series. I’m almost done with 5 now.

>>15224485

>Did they ever patch that to the point where it was worth pirating?

No. Even with all major technical issues fixed, it's still a shitty MM ripoff. It has a few good ideas, but the level design and gameplay mechanics just aren't good.

>>15223833

If you mean how he was made to cuck Mega Man yeah, he sucks, but having the option not play as Mega Man is what helped the franchise to not get axed… until it did got axed I remember more stages that just robot masters/mavericks because the rock-paper-scizors mechanic cripple those who are weak to your current attacks, if not then is just as useful since most of the time they roughly deal as much damage as a charged mega buster, but you can spam them until you run out of ammo

>>15226105

Even story-wise is almost the same

>A doctor turns evil

>A good doctor must stop it

>Good doctor just has a robot who is outside of the manipulation plot and can just Kirby his way through

>Evil doctor gets arrested after Kirby-bot deals with the 8 something or another and him

>Throw some shades of X saga just to make people believe it's a deep story.