/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8245035
Where do you guys put the World / Game Boy games in the classic series timeline? Common sense puts it in release order, but the problem with that is it puts V between 6 & 7, and pretty much nothing can take place there due to Wily being jailed for once. (I'd also argue that I shouldn't take place between 3 & 4 since Wily is presumed dead - Mega Man was too bust daydreaming of Proto Man to see the saucer in the distance to the right at the end of 3, and when told Wily's behind it all in 4, his initial reaction is stunned silence.) The most common timeline theories I see put them at the earliest point they can be when you factor the Robot Masters that show up in each game and the state of the Mega Buster over time, but as 9 & 10 show, the Mega Buster's upgrade isn't set in stone. I like to put them all sequentially between 5 & 6, and that's because it satisfies two conditions: 1) 4's intro directly states that Mega Man thwarted Wily three times in the past, which only leaves room for the previous three NES games, and 2) V's intro confusingly states that Wily had been defeated for the fourth time (same in Japanese version), obviously referring to the Game Boy games, but with those games taking place between the NES games, the only way that makes sense to me is if it meant Wily's fourth CONSECUTIVE defeat in a row. For similar reasons, I put both Xtreme games between X3 & X4 - Doppler says that he can't believe X defeated Sigma twice in the past, even though I'm pretty sure Capcom confirmed Xtreme's timeline placement as between X2 & X3, which retroactively means the good doc can't count.