it’s honestly bullshit and cowardice that the series completely reversed course on this and never again gave us a weapon that more or less functioned as a mega buster alternative, even if it wasn’t quite so powerful as the metal blade.
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I’m never sure where to tell people to start with Mega Man, since my own path of entry was something like
4 -> 5 (which I played the most because it was the first one I owned) -> 1 -> 6 -> 3 -> 2
with X a fair bit after
I always have a great deal of fondness for 4-6, especially 5, but find that most people think I’m wrong to value them. I think by 6 the obvious desire to add novelty and the lack of anything truly game-changingly new starts to get glaring, and maybe they’re overpolished level packs, but I’ve never found them less than engaging. I admire Mega Man 2 a whole lot
Mega Man 9 may be my favorite in the series now. I’ve only been through it twice (much less than any NES title), but I think it has my favorite stage design in the whole series. other games stand out more for their boss design (I really think the bosses in MM5 are great), but I think the whole package in 9 is really nice and plays to other parts of the series’ strengths
I don’t, won’t, and can’t give a shit about 7 or 8. sorry. i tried. i tend to think a lot of what drives the mega man nes/-esque games is their pixel-precise tidiness and a phenomenally well-measured series of ratios between character size, movement speed, and screen real estate.
also, i really don’t know how much my dumb nostalgia has to do with all of this. these games are too much a part of me.
i keep meaning to give 11 more of a chance, but I just don’t feel inspired
anyway, I don’t know what to play first. be like me and throw yourself at 5, fall in love with it, and then spend your life wondering why everyone tells you it’s dumb to like it
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best is that Megaman game on the PSP where you can make your own levels
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you’ve convinced me to play 5
Powered Up is a pretty cool remake of 1 by itself. Even has an Original Mode where it shrinks the screen size to 4:3.
I remember looking through the user levels once and the top downloaded one was something like SEXY PORN in which you jump and shoot across an erect penis and then skate off the tip of it with your oil slick ability at the very end.
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you’re welcome/i’m sorry
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would you say … that mega-bustin makes you feel mega-good?
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the gameboy megamans are interesting remixes of the nes games.
mm1gb is a neat little 6 stage game with a healthy dose of contempt towards the player. i like it a lot.
mm3gb is pretty similar to that, except it’s long and has an unhealthy dose of contempt towards you personally. i wish i could like it more.
mm2gb is like a janky fangame by a different dev team that never worked on the series ever again. screeching music aside, it’s lightweight and adorably hokey.
4 and 5 on gameboy are very ambitious, nut they are also some of the laggiest games i’ve ever played. it kind of ruins my groove (tho if you’re playing on an emulator i’m sure there are ways to fix that). 4gb also suffers from the stages being too long, but the final boss is pretty great (it’s what mm3’s should have been)
5gb is the only gb game to have a wholly original cast of bosses. it’s pretty neat and charming
i’m not sure if i’d mark any of these games as being “essential” or whatever, but it is interesting to see how much of their design dna was adopted by the mainline games from 7 onwards.
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Stage Select was my Sound Test with gameplay on Mans 2 & 3.
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In Mega Man, you play as a robot and it shows.
Mega Man never shoots bullets out buttguns and that’s a big problem that haunts the entire series.
the best thing about the mega man game boy games is that they are numbered in roman numerals and the console games are numbered in arabic numerals.
i just think it’s neat
wait maybe only for 2
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this thread is seriously making me consider buying the ps4 megaman collections and playing through all of them again damnit
i should have just bought them when they were on sale a few weeks ago ;-;
In the JP version one of the weapons you acquire is called the Sunacchi Busuta
Or
Talk about makin’ you feel good
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I remember playing Mega Man 1 at some point after playing Mega Man 2 (which a friend owned) and Mega Man 3 (which I owned) and not managing to defeat a single level. A few years later I got a copy of Mega Man for the gameboy, found out it was a version of Mega Man 1, and never managed to beat a single level in it.
I just realized that I never beat a single level in the first game across multiple attempts and multiple versions of it. I don’t know what to do with this realization.
Also I remember picking up X4 for a couple bucks when it was on sale on the playstation store and I’m not sure it was worth those few bucks.
it is time to fulfill your destiny
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Aw dang I like X4. Sword boy rules
As someone whose most formative Mega Man franchise ended up being Z simply on account of it being on the last handheld I’ve ever owned back in secondary school, are the GunVolt games any good aside from what I’ve seen of the cringe-inducing writing and character design?
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i liked the DS one, idk
They’re decent, yeah.