I dare say the best-looking Mega Man game I've ever played!
You should see it in RGB. Absolutely fucking stunning. X4 is, too. This was the first game I tested when I got my PS1/PS2 RGB adapter from Matt. I hear the Saturn version of MM8 looks great, as well, plus it has two extra bosses not in the PS1/MMAC versions.dave4shmups wrote:Immediately I checked out 8, and it is indeed a gorgeous game!
I definately like 1-8 better then any of the X games I've played, but I'm still picking up the Mega Man X Collection that Capcom is putting out.sethsez wrote:Personally I think this series died with Mega Man 6. The level design was at its best when MM was a small sprite in a large level. When his sprite got bigger, the platforming got duller and the level designs got more gimmicky.
Yes, I feel the same way about the X series too (though that did have a couple good games... 1, 2, 4 and 5).
Personally, I felt that MM8 was a step in the right direction after MM7 - the sprites were too big in MM7, and the control was too rigid. I find myself yelling at the TV when I missed a jump from a platform to a ladder because MM bumped his head on the platform above and I missed it my a millimeter. At least MM8 put things back into a more feasible proportion.sethsez wrote:Personally I think this series died with Mega Man 6. The level design was at its best when MM was a small sprite in a large level. When his sprite got bigger, the platforming got duller and the level designs got more gimmicky.
Yes, I feel the same way about the X series too (though that did have a couple good games... 1, 2, 4 and 5).
well i didn't know that the Xbox release, which is cheaper, included the bonuses from both GC and PS2, so i'm getting that now.Moogs wrote:That won't fix the issue with the jump and shoot buttons being reversed, though, will it?captain ahar wrote:hopefully one day soon i can get this for gamecube along with the snes style Hori controller.
I had never played 1-6 on "the real thing" before I got MMAC for 'Cube, either. But I still find the control for them kinda wonky, since when they added separate buttons for turbofire and sliding (:D) they put the turbofire on the Y button, above the fire (captain ahar wrote:also, i never played Mega Man way back so it wouldn't get in my way. before dreamcast i didn't play video games, on accounta i didn't like them.
), so in order to jump and turbofire you have to either crane one finger over the button or hold the controller in your left hand and put your right hand over the buttons as if the controller was a keyboard, and if you do the latter you can't easily hit Z, which is the subscreen button instead of Start, which would have made much more sense. Also, for MM1-6, you can hit L and R to change weapons a la MM7, and since it's so non-intuitive to hit Z for the menu I end up hitting L and R a lot until I recognize the right palette for the weapon I want, and that's awkward and screws me over when the action is getting heated. Also, I heard that they took out the ending for MM7, but I haven't ever beaten that game so I can't verify, and probably won't anytime soon because they couldn't bother to add the extra turbofire/slide buttons for that game, never mind that the original only used two face buttons like the NES games.
