/vr/ - Retro Games

Who do you prefer in MMX4? I always go X, I know it's practically the "easy mode" while Zero is the "hard mode" but honestly, if I want to challenge myself further I'll just put self enforced challenges like skipping upgrades or hearts etc, for some reason playing as Zero just doesn't "flow" with me, like it seems the game was designed for X mostly, which sucks cause I love hack n slash action, but it is what it is.

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I've heard next to universal praise for this game. Many people saying it's one of the best in the series, quite a few saying it's hands down the best. I have to be missing something, because so far (I'm not far in) I absolutely fucking hate it.

I'm two Mavericks in, and so far I've hated the entire experience. The levels have been obnoxiously designed with tons of instant death, cheap enemies, and everything feels incredibly cramped. X is so huge on screen and everything is so tightly packed together. Mushroom's stage in particular was fucking AIDS beginning to end.

The Maverick fights so far are just irritating, my deaths rarely feel like they were my fault, and when I do win it never feels satisfying. And were the tutorial boss' attacks even avoidable? It died just by trading with it and nothing I did could avoid its stream attack so it ended up feeling like you're just meant to lose health but I could be missing something.

The sound effects are also pissing me off. The unnecessary voices, the sound of the buster charging, the weird sound X makes when he jumps, the OBNOXIOUS as FUCK sounds Mushroom makes constantly, that hideous blaring WARNING siren you have to listen to EVERY attempt on EVERY boss.

The game looks gorgeous and the music itself is really, really solid... but that's like all the praise I can give the entire game so far. I WANT to like this game so I'm hoping I'm just not getting a certain mechanic or I haven't adjusted yet, but of the first four X games this is the ONLY one that's consistently pissed me off without any real enjoyment anywhere.

>controls inferior and less responsive than X1-3
>horrible plot even as far as MM games go
>voice acting is equally terrible
>X's playthrough adds literally nothing new
>final stages are lackluster and feel rushed
>music is unmemorable save for a few tracks and has that crappy early-CDrom synth sound
>started a snowball of Zero fanwank with X practically being an afterthought

Why does everyone on /vr/ put this as their favorite again? Hell, I prefer X5 over this.

This game has some pretty pitiful final stages. Do they get any better in X5 or X6?