/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9268903
Less fun, more tedious.

screwattack g4 mtv millennials

>>9268906
Lol the zero series is faster paced and has much more technique

>>9268903
It came out during a time Mega Man was getting a lot of simultaneous releases and MMZ punishes you by not getting better at the game. You have to grind to make your health bigger instead of finding Heart Tanks and it counter-balances it by stopping you from being able to earn Boss Skills.

Zero series is garbage on par with X6

>>9268903
MMX 1-3 was fun, so are the GBA zero games. Just slightly different approaches to a fun platformer just like MMX was a different spin on the original MM platformer.

>>9268908
So people who are 36?

>>9268903
Handheld is not a good device for precision platforming and anything on such a device will automatically be worse simply for that reason. The level design is also notably worse due to having to compensate for being on said device. There are also some really questionable design choices due to inti not knowing what they were doing.
>>9268910
>Lol the zero series is faster paced and has much more technique
X6 Xtreme is both faster and more mechanically difficult, as if that was really what decided the quality of a game.

>>9268903
Because it's a challenging game and they suck at it. It's easier to blame the game than to admit your own faults.
>>9268967
Cope. The controls are great and it's designed around being a handheld game.

>>9268974
>it's designed around being a handheld game.
yeah thats what i just posted and the reason its shit

>>9268967
Zero has instantaneous gameplay reaction in his series akin to classic NES Mega Man, while in X6 he's tied to needing his animations to end, such as putting away his Z-Saber before running, making you a sitting dunk and the Skills being prone to accidental input, especially that one saber dive.

>>9268903
I'm sure people would have liked it more if they didn't ruin the character design.

His new design is faggier than the original.

>>9268967
>X6 Xtreme is both faster and more mechanically difficult
Xfags are delusional beyond belief

>>9268903
I like both series, fight me.

>>9268903
life/continue system is really shit and i dont want to replay every single level thousand times for good ranks just to unlock the weapons.

>>9268908
This series debuted in '02. It's as zoomer as you can get for /vr/ standards. I don't know why you're trying to talk shit

>>9269484
rank a is easy to get, as long as you don't die and don't use elves you're pretty much guaranteed to get it

>>9268903
I didn’t play MMZ for a long time because the art style is trash, unfortunately like a lot of post-90s anime. Cluttered, gaudy, and designed for cosplay.

I just tried zero 1 on the GBA and I got filtered by how shit it was by the second level

>>9269589
>filters 90% of players

>>9269597
Die in 3 hits with no space to manuever as the first boss does that to a mf

>>9268903
>X6 & X7 exist
They still in denial.

>>9268967
>Handheld is not a good device for precision platforming and anything on such a device will automatically be worse simply for that reason. The level design is also notably worse due to having to compensate for being on said device. There are also some really questionable design choices due to inti not knowing what they were doing.
You've never played a Zero game.

Zero is a sub-series made up entirely of good games whereas half of the X series is dogshit.

>>9269540
i remember having to do some bullshit like killing X number of enemies on the intro stage.

Zero is a good MM subseries to display your buster skills.
Overpowered laser sword in close-ish combat is for pussies.

>>9269810
The anon you're replying to is talking out of your ass. To get an A Rank you also need to clear the stage fast enough, avoid as much enemy damage as possible, kill just about everything in your path, and never die.

>>9269548
>cluttered
Nigga, the whole point of Nakayama's art is that it's simple shapes and very little clutter. Zero's original design is bussier with the shoulderpads, the lightboots, the yellow spikes on his boots, etc.

>>9269872
Damage value is surprisingly lenient, you can even heal with your Subtanks, as long as you don't die, A Rank is attainable. S Rank is a true bitch to consistently get.

>>9268903
playing on the GBA sucks. unlike most people, I prefer dashing with A/O and not one of the triggers

>>9270018
How do you hold a charge while jump dashing?

>>9269597
>>aztec FUCKING falcon
>>filters 90% of players
ahaha thisss is the correct answerrr. the legacy collection with "save-assist" throws in a checkpoint before the bosses and at the start of the level which makes the series 500% more playable. definitely one game I wouldn't shame anyone for save stating

>>9270024
my thumb is big enough to hold Y/[] and press B/X and A/O at the same time

>>9270024
Weapons on triggers, jump dash with a+b, x+o
Having the attacks on the face buttons is retarded

you did get a good enough rank for ciel to let you in her room, right anon?

>>9270034
No. Also I'm using every Cyber Elf I can, just to kill those fuckers.

>>9270026
You can tank Falcon, he takes damage like a motherfucker.

>>9270034
>Codename: Redeemer

>>9270046
>using every Cyber Elf I can, just to kill those fuckers
>>good riddens passy

>>9268913
Jap devs were stupid about this kind of shit when it came to handheld games. So many games had super-grindy mechanics, or "card based" bullshit, or proto "games as a service" shit where the full game game would be released in "episodes." I never understood it. Japs are always so technically proficient, but religiously make the absolute dumbest design choices that bring what could have been a 9/10 game down to a 6 or 7.

>>9270079
>religiously
Fucking creep. There is no need to bring that word in to videogames. You professional victim chud.

>>9270079
Those aspects are stupidly popular with children over there, like bug collecting. It's the reason Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Battle Network took off as they did in Japan.

>>9268903
>fucking cool robo-samurai mavrick hunter with anti-hero vibes
>turn him into a little twink bitch

don't even act.

>>9270030
So is mine, but I've never manage to charge+dash without also hitting jump. Sometimes, I just want to dash while charging.

>>9268903
its even harder
but i dont think thats what people wanted

>>9269490
Nothing you said is a bad thing

>>9269872
You can even die and still get an A. I don't think you can get a B without abusing elves

>>9270179
More defined muscles than you
The art style helps accentuate how scary the world of MMZ is but I guess millennials are too retarded to appreciate this hence they are up Advent Children Cloud

>>9270179
More defined muscles than you
The art style helps accentuate how scary the world of MMZ is but I guess millennials are too retarded to appreciate this hence they ate up Advent Children Cloud

>here's collectables!
>FUCK YOU FOR EVEN THINKING ABOUT USING THEM F MINUS MINUS YOU FUCKING RETARD
Never looked at the games after I found out about that system.

>>9270468
Yeah, a world where everyone is built like a little twink bitch is pretty scary.

>have to grind weapon levels
>get punished for using upgrades
>get punished for not rushing like a retard

yeah fuck off

i'm thinkin about playin these soon, i was goin through the series and then stopped
is there any benefit to the ds version? besides storage space ig

I got X1 when it came out because it looked so fucking sick. I ended up hating it, then years later I thought they fixed the formula with X3 NOPE.
It's because there's about ZERO remove to maneuver which makes it far too hard. ZX is fine, Z is crap.

Do you even lose anything by having lower ranks? I never beat these games.

>>9271069
In Z1 not really. High rank just means the bosses get desperation moves. From Z2 onward you need high ranks to get EX skills. Extra saber moves for Zero

>>9269038
>>9269051
a important thing for a developing mind who came for the cool big feet/arm armored x series also the egdy early 2000....well anime egde
>>9270087
where is the lie zero fag?
you ruined the megaman fanbase forcing the naka style everywhere, also get back to pol with idiot terms

It plays really differently.

>>9270079
>or "card based" bullshit
Hey now, the BN games are fun

>>9270923
and yet zero fags have the gal to call others delusional

>>9271138
>trashcans for legs

>>9270445
kys zoombie

I suck at the Zero games. I don't have much issue with the X games, but Zero doesn't fuck around.
The Buster Shot is a cool gun though, and I love the design of the Z-saber

>>9271806
pantheons are also the coolest foot soldiers

Seriously I love this shit. It's even cooler that it's implied Zero slots his saber into it as a power supply. So fucking cool.

>>9271816
i wish he got better extra weapons in z2 and z3. the chain rod and recoil rod are nice, but visually they don't look as good as the triple rod, and i'm not even gonna talk about the zero knuckle

>>9270468
You can stop being scared of the millennial boogie men who are in their 40s and still paying rent.

>>9271826
oh i'm sure he will stop with that just as soon as you lads stop with the zoomer bogeyman who are 20-25 and in college or the trades

>>9268903
Let's see, why do I, a fan of the X series, hate the Zero series...

>I hate the art direction and designs as a whole
>I hate the Casshern Sins-tier perpetual misery
>I hate Zero getting memory erased into a blank slate making everything that happened in the X series pointless
>I hate the story
>I hate how it disjointed and disconnected it feels as a continuation of the X series
>I hate the retroactively damning effect it has on the X series
>I hate how it caused the Mega Man franchise to develop Castlevania syndrome

The one thing I will thank it for is enlightening me on why openly bridging the Classic and X series is a bad idea, because it'd make everything that happened in the Classic series, including potential new games, feel completely pointless.

>>9271894
>>9271894
>deals with the consequences of the x series
>you even said it retroactively affects the x series
>"the x series is pointless because zero has a bit of hibernation sickness in Z1"
???? Fucktard

>>9271903
>deals with the consequences of the x series

No it doesn't, the Elf Wars never actually happened in the X series

>you even said it retroactively affects the x series

Yeah, everything X and company do in the X series is pointless because everything will end up in the miserable future that is the Zero series.

>"the x series is pointless because zero has a bit of hibernation sickness in Z1"

Zero being memory wiped into a blank slate means that everything he experienced that shaped him into who he was in the X series was all for nothing, and he never returns to being who he was before.

>>9271914
The Elf Wars happen because of the X series...
Oh no the day is saved on Friday guess I should do jackshit on Thursday. Nihilistic retard.
Zero isn't the blank slate the first thing he does after waking up is help Ciel because he's a top bloke, unlike you. Zero was a top bloke in the X series and he remains one now; you tell me what is missing from his character.

>>9269810
Ranks only really matter in Z2 and Z3. In Z1 all rank does is give you the one cyber elf, which you can get as soon aa you finish the intro mission. Z1 is the one with the most bullshit requirements for A/S rank, so those requirements don't really matter.
For Z2-Z4, A rank is easy as long as you comolete the mission objectives in a reasonable amount of time without dying or using elves. With Save Assist, these are free. And in Z4, the rank doesn't matter unless you want to see the boss' EX skills.

>>9271914
>everything X and company do in the X series is pointless because everything will end up in the miserable future that is the Zero series.
That's like saying everything X and company did in X1-X4 is pointless because everything will end up in the miserable future that is post-Eurasia crash, a supremely shitty way of viewing things.

>>9271894
>Playing Mega Man for the story
The absolute fucking state of some of you autists.

>>9272138
Not him, there is no denying Mega Man became more story heavy as the series progressed.
The Zero series is personally full of memorable moments, the whole Z4 ending part was one of the most epic things I ever witnessed in a videogame, even with the shitty gba screen resolution.
It is wrong to play Mega Man solely for the story, but there is some good in it.
Even X4 suffers from bad execution and memes, but the Repliforce rebellion was interesting and partly justified.

>>9270079
>Japs are always so technically proficient
This has to be bait

>>9271894
Absolutely shit taste.

Zero has far and away the best (and only good) story in the Mega Man series.

>>9268903
No bosses intros. Who was the imbecile who decided that no bosses intros was acceptable in the franchise that pretty much created them?

>>9272710
>REEEEEE WHY DID THEY CUT A GLORIFIED LOADING SCREEN REEEEEEE!!!

> good story
zero wakes up and set out on a quest to fucking kill megaman x and his elemental clone lackies who now rule the world by joining a rebel fighting force... in the first game... thats pretty fucking epic.... well it beats mario at any rate.

>>9271914
Mega Man Legends had already confirmed the world was ultimately doomed about 5 years before Legends though. Humanity has gone extinct, the Maverick Hunters essentially became a shadow government organized by classes rather than ranks, with anything that even remotely contradicts their directives as Maverick behavior, the artificial life forms working and terraforming the planet experimenting scheduled purges if they populate too much while simultaneously forming their own culture based on the remnants of what the true human culture was like and a lot of inside conflict both among carbons (crime, piracy etc) and the last remaining system reploids (Trigger going rouge as well as being the last robot with free will, Sera's resentment, the Municipal Units like Juno just doing their job because it's all they know).

Mega Man's robot timeline was always fucked, had MMZ been made or not. The Internet timeline ostentively got saved because robot technology wasn't there to continuously ruin everything and Lan trying to reach for Dr. Wily, being human, unlike classic Rock's "gotta stop him and arrest him and then resume household functions" directive.

>>9272787
>5 years before Legends
I meant 5 years before Zero, I need to proof-read shit.

>>9272787
I think nobody cares about it in that case because Legends happens after such a long time skip it literally wouldn't matter, while the Zero series is still using the same players as the X series but tells you "oh horrible shit happens off-camera dude it was horrible you should have seen it"

>>9272138
>>Playing Mega Man for the story
>The absolute fucking state of some of you autists.
this chump probably doesn't even know why mega men fight. he'll never megamerge and become the mega man king. pathetic.

>>9272798
Blame Capcom not wanting Inti have any sort of contact with Value Wave, who were handling the series at the time. It's the exact reason why Zero doesn't even start with "In the year..." and we didn't had any confirmed date until the Rockman 11 Production Book, they had to dance around shit hard. Makoto Yabe always intended Model A to be Axl's DNA Soul for example but because Axl's fate after X8 was "unknown" the Model Albert bit was written in as plausible deniability.

There's also the whole thing about Rockman DASH 2 in the Japanese dialogue trying to lowkey imply Trigger/Volnutt is related to X somehow by vaguely alluding to how he's the only one in the whole system with true free will and that he's a "very ancient robot" that Sera resents because The Master spent all his spare time with him rather than paying her attention since she doesn't have true free will, existing only tied to the System's program. Probably Model X was going to lead to the origins of Trigger, given how similar by design Aile and Vent were made to look like Rock Volnutt.

>>9271023
>> ds version
if you got a switch get the legacy collection for the checkpoints or just play it with save states... its not a super noob friendly series... it'll make it more fun. unless you're already some sort of megaman x4+ god and don't need it... people say you need to grind, but that's not really accurate... you can totally grind etanks or boss order to get all the elemental weaknesses to make things easier, but its more just knowing the boss patterns imho

>>9272860
People forget you can find subtanks in stages as well and each subtank allows for plenty of refills on your base life bar, and weapon levelling is dropped after Zero 2, so grinding is more a punishment for players who won't get good.

>>9268903
Do they? I played Z1/2 on emulator and thought they were cool, just hard. (I used savestates obviously, but I was also playing on keyboard.)
When the remasters game out on Steam I bounced right off them, wasn't interested at all. I think it's the size of the screen, you can hardly see anything around you compared to the X games.

>>9272920
Level design got better in Z3 onwards to accomodate for the field of view.

>>9272996
FOV is why I said nope on the series. It is nice they got better.

>>9272138
Mega man lore is gangsta. Nigga have you played Zero? Legends? Nigga the whole series is a metaphor about industrial relations and man losing himself through technology (even BN achieves this)
>>9272171
The Repliforce Rebellion was meant to show that Maverick Hunter are sketchy cunts who will just accuse anybody of being a Maverick
>>9272227
Legends is good too. ZX never got a third game to really get the ball rolling but I like what we had
>>9272809
YOOOOO

>>9272809
I wonder if planned implications were going to be that Model X/Trigger became the origins of a true free will software which was used to create the free wills of the Carbons synthetic race.

Besides 3, i always wanted a 2.5D Legends prequel covering some kind of conflict between the Mega Men models, maybe that could have been a ZX3, ending with a "factory reset" of Trigger reverting him into an infant form with maybe his memory banks removed and converted into Data.

>>9272138
>nooo!! Good games aren't allowed to have an engaging or intriguing plot that raises the stakes or emotional connection to the segments you are playing through!!

>>9273461
X was the first reploid with free will way before Carbons and supplementary materials do state reploids themselves have varying degrees of free will depending on which era they were made. The government in-universe pushes the narrative reploids are perfectly safe and there's absolutely nothing wrong with treating them as second-class citizens and if any reploid turns aggresive or against humanity, it was due to a malfunction in their electronic brains (Vile) or a computer virus that was being broadcast from an ancient laboratory (Sigma, the X2 bosses, X3 bosses, X5, X7...), Lumine pushes against this when claiming they're going "Maverick at will", that next gen reploids have actually decided to fuck the old world. Officially, they're malfunctioning, but even Man-O-War denies it.
>I'm not a Maverick. I am perfectly aware of my own actions.
Dr. Weil always disagreed with how the Maverick conflict ended in-canon with X using the Mother Elf to completely delete all remnants of the Sigma virus. According to the dramas and written material, even in his youth Weil resented and despised reploids because their free will means virus or no virus they would rebel against their creators just the same in spite of the government's denial of it. Weil wanted reploids to be tools like mechinaloids are, nothing more. we don't know what happened between ZXA and Legends, but at least we know the Master of Elysium greatly limited the free will Mega Men and other Units could have, save for Trigger, who's simply described as "a very ancient robot". This is me reaching for straws, but Master Thomas claimed he had attained the original Reploid data (X's documentation left by Dr. Light which only Ciel would understand), so maybe Makoto Yabe was going for that approach. This is purely me guessing though.

>>9273487
one of the few things i have to give credit to inticreates is realizing that reploids no rebelling out of free will is stupid, well just inafraud things
also making sentient ia robots be animals is stupid af, not to mention there no stated reasons why reploids weren't trashed after x1

Z1 had a terrible fucking lives system. Did some hack ever correct this?

>>9273605
Makoto Yabe solely deserves the credit for that as the scenario writer as Inti are writing themselves into the exact same hole with Gunvolt 3, with Adepts becoming rogue "Dragons" due to a form of radiation emmited from Azure Spirits, essentially the exact same as the Maverick Virus and if they do turn out to be fragments of Asimov's soul, we would go full circle with Asimov being the Sigma stand-in in Gunvolt in more ways than one.

People blame Inafune for a lot of the writing mishaps but the virus was set up during pre-production as a concept by the Mega Man 5 planner who also served as the X1 director IIRC. Inafune's best work has always been as a producer of and supervisor for gameplay, we got shit like wall jumping trying to evolve the classic gameplay further and Copen's air dashing gameplay from him actually looking back on what went mechanically wrong with MN9. IDK why people keep bringing up Inafune when his input on the plot were only key scenarios. Stuff like
>I want Zero to fall in love and then painfully lose it as his character turn from cocky to bitter
>I want X and Zero to fight
>I want the grand finale to involve a catastrophic event
I think the most involved he ever was with a game's plot was with Legends after reading Iwamoto's X1 manga and being motivated for Mega Man to have more focus on plot, as well as some stuff in BN3.

>>9273717
Z1 on the collection has checkpoints that bypass the life system. They even have spiffy new sprites for them.

>>9273392
There is legitimately nothing more embarrassing than a white guy trying to act black.

>>9268908
You brought this up in multiple threads already

>>9272798
>>9272787
I don't genuinly believe Legends actually follows from Classic-X-Z-ZX/ZXA. There's no concrete evidence to support it, while at the same time there's not much to explicitely say it doesn't either.

Using terms from the previous games feels more like just recycling existing content similar to how Battle Network makes Netnavis out of Robot Masters and other charater names or how its version of Dr Light was Lan's grandfather.

>>9274131
The Japanese dialogue activelly adresses "Aberrants" as Irregulars, the Japanese name for Mavericks, and when Data requests Juno's backup to be deleted he used the suspicion of going Irregular as the reason to, while Juno himself is programmed to treat Carbons over-populating as Irregular Behavior. The supposed next halcyon days would happen according to I forgot what the fuck calendar after the year 8000, which matches the now-confirmed date of 80XX as of Rockman 11 Production Book. Unlike over here, the Japanese Rockman fandom treated "DASH" as the inevitable future of the series day one on BBSs, seems like some kids magazine over there confirmed it but I don't have evidence for once other than Japanese randos telling me "dude trust me".

Finally, Makoto Yabe's own word as he joined Inti Creates to write Zero and ZX, he was told about Legends and dedicated to start writing how the world would lead to that, which led to the Ciel System storyline and it's byproduct, the Quantum Refractor.

IIRC, Hideki Ishikawa, one of the people responsible for Legends said in his twitter that Legends is basically Mega Man's Turn-A Gundam. Super far into the future previous events aren't necessary to enjoy, but knowing them makes the experience better. Guy answers a lot of cool shit albeit on broken english on twitter, like answering questions regarding the purpose of Carbons and the like.

Inti Creates is a garbage developer that doesn't know how to make good video games. They can make good pixel art and decent music but when it comes to game mechanics and level design they are absolute shit.

>get zero 2 as a kid
>assumed cyber elves were just collectibles and never figured out how to use them
>still finish the game
Painful but fun

>>9274168
>>9273732
>>9273487
this is based and epic. I love ZX so much bros

>>9271069
For Z1 and 4, nothing. For Z2 and 3, you miss out on EX Skills.

>>9274438
>but when it comes to game mechanics and level design they are absolute shit.
Shit taste. The GBA was IntiCreates batting 1000.

>>9268903
I tried to play MMZ and between the stage grades, missable shit, and one time use elf things I just hated the whole experience and couldn't even finish it.

>>9268903
They dont know about the combo system.

>>9274131
>I don't genuinly believe Legends actually follows from Classic-X-Z-ZX/ZXA. There's no concrete evidence to support it
Doesn't one of the endings to X5 have X straight-up wanting to create Elysium

>>9274986
Yup. And in their Japanese dialogues, both also refer to Elysium as "HEAVEN" (similar to how the space colony monoliths are deployed from to perform carbon purges is named EDEN).

That anon brought up MMBN, but BN was written with the idea of "what if Dr. Light got laid and went for network research instead of being a bachelor in robotics? What changes?"
It's hilarious to think the fate of humanity soley rests on Dr. Light's sex life.

>>9275270
W-w-why did Light build robots to vent his sexual frustration

>>9276320
Pardner, you don't want to know.

>>9269967
Silhouette has a whole bunch of shapes to it. It’s like G1 Transformers vs Bayformers.

>>9271894
>I hate the Casshern Sins-tier perpetual misery
But that's the best part

>>9268906
So X fanboys are casuals?

>>9269038
>ruined
You mean enhanced.

>why yes, i am a kino in-between design.

>>9276835
Why did they turn him into a kindergartener?

>>9272175
oh yeah of course because Americans are so much better with the invention of trannies and niggers

>>9276841
Bulky ass Zero isn't going to keep up as technology advances.

>>9268903
As someone who loves the X series and particularly X6, I personally just don't like how the Zero games play. I really like how in X6 you can get tons of upgrades and even skip entire stages once you learn the game well and I really like experimenting with parts, and I feel like Zero's moveset in that game once you gain all the techniques is the most fun he has ever been. In the Zero games, you don't really get anywhere near as much freedom - those games focus way more on the player perfecting them, which is fine, but that requires rejecting using elves at all (until Zero 3 and 4, which fixed this), or if you instead go for elves, you lose out on the EX Skills and you will have to grind a lot in Zero 1. Not to mention that Zero 1 in general really isn't that fun, and Zero 2 is also pretty meh in my opinion. I think Zero 3 and 4 are good games, definitely, but as I've said, they're not really the kind of Mega Man game I am interested in.
>>9268967
X6 Xtreme is really fun, but it's not really faster. Sure, you can use the movement modifier parts, but as others have pointed out, your main animations need to end - which I prefer, since it feels more satisfying due to the cancellable slashes feeling a bit too weak in the Zero series for me, but that's just my preference.

>>9271138
>Naka style
The block and toyetic look started with Legends/Ishikawa retardo.

>>9272754
It does, because all Classic and X do is just shit out Sigma and Wily's lying ass again, just like Mario does.

>>9268903
Because the Zero wank as a character and setting was getting to be Sonic the Hedgehog levels of retarded.

>>9272809
That's pretty nutty if true. Such a shame we'll never get to see ZX conclude.

>>9276852
What an absolutely fucking retarded reply.
Japan is notoriously known for sticking to what they know. They still all regularly use faxes. Websites are built to work on phones from 20 years ago.
Nintendo has constant shit net code because they can't into 2010 much less 2020.
Konami's Japan division has yet to release a Yugioh multi-player game that isn't susceptible to client side injections because they can't into anticheat.

But sure. Cope about trannies and niggers you faggot.

As a fan of the Zero series but not really a fan of the X games, I always assumed it was because X gradually becomes a side character in his own series while Zero shoves him out of the way because Inafune(?) or whomever it was drafted Zero as concept art that was originally going to be for X, but Capcom thought the design was too much, so they drafted up a new design for X that looked more like classic Megaman, but Inafune(?) wanted to push his OC so he made kept pushing for Zero to have a bigger and bigger role in the X series, and eventually Zero got his own series, where X doesn't really have a series all to his own and was almost humiliated in the Zero series by making him a cyber elf, and maybe even was going to be the original villain...
I thought that was the reason, but I guess not

>>9276971
>Sonic the Hedgehog levels
Never watched any tokushit before, tendie, or is Dragon Spic Z is all you know?

>>9276852
>astolfo

>>9277372
>is a man

>>9276375
Not too dissimilar to tokusatsu super heroes like Kamen Rider. The design is simple enough for children to draw but the silhouette is interesting. Take Kamen Rider Faiz, for example, in comparison to MMZ Zero.

>>9276835
>gay vest
>gay skin suit
>gay midriff
>gay underwear
This is a gay design for gay pedophiles.

>>9277004
Inti not being allowed to intereact with Value Wave was an interview Aizu once gave a few years back to either Famitsu or Dengeki, I forgot which, and Makoto Yabe mentioned it as well in his Rockman Zero/ZX Double Hero Collection interview for Rockman Unity when asked in regards to Model A. To Yabe, because Model A IS Axl's DNA Soul, the bottlecap in the forehead helmet, where Axl's sapphire orb would be, is a seal keeping Lumine at bay after X8, or at least that was his logic behind Model A's design. If the bottlecap were to be removed, Lumine would be free once more.

>>9277372

>>9278102
Nakayama never made a single homoerotic illustration in his life, so that's just on you being a well-knowledge faggottron. Especially your fujolust for X Zero.

>>9277008
building websites to work on phones from 20 years ago is based.
Fashion-forward web design is mostly cancer.

>>9278106
I think something to precipitate the Elf Wars woulda been Axl dying and Lumine going sicko mode

>>9278102
>>9278305
Literally he does fuckton of lolicon.
I think he did Precure lolicon scat tho but I'm not sure.

>>9268910
>>9276825
>Grinding XP for progression
>not casual
Pick one, or just continue to seethe about X further.

>>9279351
You only grind if you need Cyber Elves to get a handicap, otherwise you don't need to even collect them, let alone grind crystals for them.

>>9279351
I didn't grind I just played the game to have fun

>>9279339
That's still not Homoerotic, scat aside. (That was part of the rape sequence anyways, not faggoty shit anon is gawking about)

>>9279351

Not only lying but pulling shit out of his ass.
Xscrubs, i swear.

>>9268903
I don't speak for them since I still need to play the Zero series but I always liked X better than Zero. Its weird how much the creator wanted to just say fuck X in favor of Zero. Its also too bad though they Capcom ruined the X games so I just wish we could get good Mega Man games again.

>>9268903
Zero was missing his iconic green titties

>>9278305
Zero series fans could see an image of Zero getting his ass pounded while he sucks off a cock and jerks off two more with his hands and they'd go "UNF LOOK AT HOW MANLY THAT PICTURE IS COCKS ARE MANLY THIS IMAGE HAS SO MUCH OF IT ZERO YOU ARE THE MOST HETERO THING EVER"

>>9280417
>Green tits

>>9279940
I know, I'm just explaining how calling Nakayama's art homoerotic is wrong when he's the one who made Alouette with the idea of being "cute but somehow fuckable" and official panties concept art.

>>9280487
Exactly

>>9280417
Why do Xfujos like to project so much?

>>9280562
Why are Zerofujos pedophiles for a diaper shota?

>>9280594
>No u

>Xtards will tell you this isn't a grown dude in a diaper

>>9280594
Fangirls and fujos from The Ciel Network (anyone remember that forum?) were the ones thirsty for MMZ!Zero ass, I remember one particular spic girl (I think she went by Iris? I forgot) who did very competently drawn doujinshi on pencils, one where Zero goes out on a date with Iris and one where Zero and Ciel are stuck on a hotel and she loved to always comment on Zero's ass, both on her doujins and her personal website.

The guys meanwhile wanted to FUCK Levi, Ciel and Alouette. And some with the finest taste wanted to fuck the redheaded rebel from Z1.

>>9268903
I hated the open world shit it has, I want the boss stage select screen other games have
That is how it should be

>>9280627
So both genders were pedos for angsty teenager designs then.

>>9280627
She's from Z4 but ok

>>9280635
>angsty teenager design
That's pretty much what Wily intentionally designed Zero as, yes.

>>9280634
But it literally had that

>>9280635
Man, here's that word again, throwing "pedo" over drawings. Hell, where do you think you are?

>>9280356

>>9280637
No, not Neige, I meant the redheaded NPC with a green beret. She even gives Zero a kiss and tells you to not tell Ciel.

>>9280645
Xfujos are the normalfags of Mega Man, they probably thought that shitty FPS pitch from Retro was raw as heck when it was Inafaggot's attempt to westernize Mega Man

>>9280641
I played one and it didnt have it. I was wandering around some level looking for something

>>9280645
A site that deleted its pedo boards because they were attracting actual pedos?

>>9280654
You haven't gone to /b/ or /jp/ have you? Loli has always been part of the site since day one, but people had to ruin it posting 3dpd, drawings are nice, real people are disgusting.

>>9280653
The Mission Select, you retard.

>>9280654
>allowed in /bant/ and /b/

>>9280662
Is not the same, retard

>>9280668
It is, you select the stage there and then suddenly appear in the stage, you don't have to manually walk to the stage. If you select for example, "Rescue Colbor", you spawn at the Bay area stage/Harpuia's stage.

>>9280668
They even made it more obvious in later games by giving the boss portraits in the mission select.
You're just mad they put an actual hub than a shitty menu.

>>9280674
>>9280676
Yes, I don't want a stupid hub or have to talk to npc to advance the game
Just give me a screen to select a level and that's it

>>9268903
Because they're stupid idiot doo-doo-heads and they smell.

>start X
>start straight into action no need to talk to anyone
>after the level is over Zero shows ups and helps me out
>next part is the boss select menu
>no need to talk to anyone, just pure gameplay
That is how it should be

>>9280682
You literally don't have to any of that retard

This whole thing seems less of an MMX vs MMZ thing and more of a X Zero vs Z Zero thing.

>>9268906
fpbp. Zero games are still good, but they are hard to go back to.

>>9280624
What the fuck did they do to my boy?

>>9281206
Gave him a hideous redesign for the GBA and then pretended they didn't redesign him.

>>9281206
Changed the art style to fit what was popular in the 2000's, the same way the original X shifted things from Classic.

>>9281207
>>9281246
I'm not talking about MMZ Zero. The proportions of that >>9280624 model are absolutely horrendous.

>>9281280
I know. They changed the art style in X8 to make everything slimmer and more in line with modern (at the time) anime trends. The franchise as a whole had been moving away from the big boots look since Legends.

>>9281349
Gross.

>>9268903
I absolutely love the X series and I don't hate MMZ, but I don't really care about it either since it doesn't feature X himself as a playable character (Zero's not that interesting).

>>9281206
X7-8 was a weird period for X

>>9281207
>managed to be even worse
>a semi-officially "borrowed" redesign of Omega looks infinitely better than the future X Zero
Still got the giant diapers X Zero had though.

>>9281542
This design is actually kind of a neat re-imagining.

>>9281369
X is boring, they made him way more interesting when they made him Robot Jesus and a fake copy

>>9280637
>>9280647
I want to irrumate this bitch

>>9280682
You don't have to explore the hub you can hole yourself up in the command room (read: STAGE SELECT ROOM) for the whole game

>>9281206
Made him better

>>9281581
Yeah, giving him bigger pampers is a bit better, right Xsisters?

>>9281581
Take that back.

>>9281573
Jesus fucking christ anon, why? There's better Capcom bitches to necro with such as Juri Han and Jill Valentine.

>>9281635
>juri han
Footfags die and stay die

>>9281638
Oh no, I'm not a footfag, but I want to irrumate that bitch for being a bitch.
Captcha: MYD1K

>>9281635
Wtf that's not necro

>>9281573
>>9281642
I had to look up what that word means.
That is also my fetish.

>>9281656
It is, many killers like Ed Gein did plenty of irrumation.

>>9281667
Yeah that's not what I'm about

>>9281730
Then what're you talking about? Irrumation is, after eye, skullfucking through the eye socket.

>>9281751
Nigga it's Latin for facefucking

>>9281759
Irrumation is always used in the context of fucking a corpse's head through the eye socket, especially in criminal records and the like. Did you mean deepthroating?

>>9281762
It has always referred to male-led deep-throating. As reference to eyesocket fucking, the term is new to me. Where have you heard it used like that?

>>9281549
When both of them are together as the best of bros Zero is fine, but his mulling over how he's a war machine and dying over and over got old. Meanwhile X is carrying the world on his shoulders not only interms of ending wars but also because he's the only real bridge between humans and reploids. In MMZ Zero is just being used by someone else (again).

>>9281781
reading through serial killer databases, I discovered the word and the description given there. It's just a hobby, seeing how twisted people can get.

>>9283269
what is the meaning of this

>>9284140
To expose the young and the new.

>>9284193
I have no idea what this means and I've been a fan since 2006

>>9284197
lol, get bullied

>>9280627
>The guys meanwhile wanted to FUCK Levi, Ciel and Alouette.
glad nothing changed

>>9284718
Ciel's... real leggy here

>>9268903
All of the fun weapons/moves were hidden behind ranking and grinding.

>>9284746
A ranks are easy you can die and still get an A roflmao there's no excuse

>>9268903
judging by this thread, they're simply god awful at video games

cyber elves are a crutch and were properly treated as such, the games were fully designed to be beatable without them or the EX skills. the EX skills were a bonus for skilled play, they made you feel awesome for stepping up to the plate but you didn't feel like you were missing something vital if you missed out on nabbing one either. it's simply good, rewarding game design.

zero 1's mission system was extremely dumb but you were able to circumvent it pretty easily. zero 2 was a plain great game, it still kept the weird EXP system but there was no "grinding" to be had, you simply played the game normally and it'd come to you. 3 dropped it entirely which was admittedly for the better, probably the most solid all around entry.

they control extremely tightly and have great challenging level and boss design. meanwhile the X series outside of X1, which is admittedly godly, is a hell of a mixed bag.

i wish zx had been better, lots of creative ideas but it was a hell of a quality dip as a result of said experimentation.

why do people bring up grinding xp? literally never did that and beat all 4 games, i beat 1-3 without using any elfs and only used a healing elf in 4 during the final bosses second phase.

>>9284973
Because they are sobbing 30-40 year olds who played the shit out of X1 and Mega Man 2 (and only those two) so they know them like the back of their hand; thus, when Mega Man Zero presents them a newfound challenge, they say it's too hard/bad design and feel like they are forced to grind to beat the first boss kek

>>9285000
i thought millennials liked a challenge and that zooms had it easy and were soft, what happened? it’s not even like the zero games are that hard after you beat the first one anyways. zero 2 and 3 are pretty easy if youve beat the first game. i beat some bosses in zero 2 with only one hand while eating chicken nuggets from burger king.

>>9285023
Millennials would ring phone numbers to give them guidance in games haha, plus they had Nintendo Power, cheat codes, and action replay. I feel you are my spirit brother, I too shall embark upon Zero 2 with Hungry Jack's nugs in hand (emu version of Burger King)

>>9273463
Good games don’t need a story to “raise the stakes” you bumbling autist. The quality of the writing in the X series is atrocious, anyway. I don’t know how it could be the main reason someone plays these games.

>>9285148
The plots may be badly executed but the lore is cool and the characters are likeable. X and Zero are niggaz. I want you to understand I not only refer to "niggaz" with an a but "niggaz" with a z. They keep it 300 hundred always

Okay I made it to the final boss

>>9285560
A bunch of twinks was all that was between you and the final boss?

>>9285560
I don't think I can beat X. I just end up taking too much damage on his first phase to even learn how to deal with his 2nd phase. Sorry guys but I think I failed today

>>9285052
much love, hope you have a great day brother.

>>9275270
MMBN SPECIFICALLY states that its a world where Dr. Light worked on the internet instead of robots. BN's Dr. Wily's entire gripe with him was that his research was what was going to lead into the Classic timeline, but the funding with to Light's internet tech.

>>9272787
Both Carbons and Humans were practically indistinguishable from one another outside of who was in charge, though. That's part of why The Master rebelled; he didn't see why they had to genocide beings that were functionally human just for their own sake.

>>9281542
>>9281548
This should have been Omega's body. I don't give a fuck about "constant body upgrades" or "That's just want Zero looks like in that artstyle; even if they do a flashback to the X-era."

When they say ORIGINAL BODY, the should mean ORIGINAL BODY.

>>9284886
>Xfags are literal scrubs
No shit
A majority of X games are easier than the easiest Classic game, and those tend to be hard.

>>9285000
2 is still pretty hard, but blame the awful resource management for that.

>>9285571
I once thought Harupia was a girl

>>9285920
>When they say ORIGINAL BODY, the should mean ORIGINAL BODY.
It also makes the whole concept hold a lot more emotional weight for the player. It would make you think, "Wait, is there really something to this? Is my Zero a copy?" It would be a super cool reveal.

>>9285908
and the reason he chose networks was because Yuuichirou became a factor. Thus, his sex life was the core factor. He got on networking for "our children and their children".

>>9286135
Wait a minute... are you saying the only difference between the timeline of technological nirvana and the timeline where 40% of humanity is trapped on a nigh uninhabitable Earth is whether or not Dr. Light has sex

>>9286146
Yep. Dr. Light marrying and having Yuuichirou is the core factor that makes him decide to go for Network Research over robotics at the RIT.
He still meets Wily and ostentively becomes friend with him but they're truly fated to have that fallout.

>>9285970
One of my friends in high school thought that too. One of the few people I knew who'd played Mega Man haha. He looked very ashamed when I told him Harpuia was a guy, he just got done saying Harpie and some Pokeslut were prime vidya bitches

>>9286245
I always wondered how this happened, I saw Harpuia first on a magazine preview showing artwork and I thought instead that he was X.

>>9286387
Probably by looking only at the tiny sprites on the dim GBA screen and being confused by the androgynous gayboy design.

>>9286387
Well he and the other guardians are literally modified clones of X. As is basically every Pantheon-type enemy in the game.

>>9287445
Which leads to a whole mess of questions.
>How close to X's original specs are Copy X and the Guardians?
>Could you just install Cyber-X into one of their bodies and it's just him again?
>What is the level of AI in the Pantheons? Are they essential just Sniper Joes with better bodies or do they have the same level of AI as a robot master? They're CALLED reploids, but they don't seem to be as sentient as most reploids seem to be.
>And how close are THEY to X's original specs?

>>9287495
Pantheons are smarter than Mechaniloids, and on the level of Reploids when it comes to battle tactics and combat but they've been intentionally degraded in that it seems like that's all they're capable of. They can find their way around the battle field but they don't have the level of sapience necessary to develop a personality or create social connections. Also it seems like they were originally intended to be a hivemind of Starro-style face huggers that latched onto Reploids who'd been judged as Mavericks.

Also I feel I always assumed the big issue with Copy X is that like Cain, Ciel didn't understand Light's work anywhere near the level she thought she did, filled in the gaps with her own research, didn't know to perform the necessary ethical testing the original X was subjected to, resulting in Copy X never developing the moral backbone the original came out of his capsule with.

>>9287526
she made him when she was 6

>>9287609
I know, and that's pretty much exactly why he was such a fuck up. Even as a super genius she was too young and working with something she very clearly didn't fully understand.

>>9287526
you just know those facehuggers would have been fetishized like the rainbow devil if they found their way into the game

>>9287621
Which is a shame, because it casts her as an unwitting villain. It's why I wished they had just kept the whole "It really is X, but all the decades of war have led him to being a nihilist".

>>9280624
Zero's design in X has a lot more white in it in general so the white pelvis area doesn't stand out as much, whereas his Zero design doesn't have much white in it at all except for his pelvis so it looks way more like a diaper.

>>9287765
X would never become a nihilist. Even when he was a whiny faggot in X7 he was ultimately sticking to his ideals. Dr Light made sure X wouldn't go evil

>>9287765
Yeah it puts her more in line again with Dr. Cain. Well-meaning but ultimately led to disaster. Almost every problem in the series after classic can be traced back to future generations just not understanding Light's work or reasoning for the things he did. It's like Metal Gear and how every problem in the series stems from everyone misunderstanding The Boss's will in their own ways.

>>9287771
ZX fixed this by making it a belt with a codpiece

>>9287774
Light didn't evil-proof him; he just made sure that X would understand the weight of his actions. If he's incapable of doing wrong, he has no true free will. The whole point is that he actually thinks like a human being and no one could withstand a 100 years of their action doing jack shit nothing without breaking.

>>9287792
If Sigma disappears for just a little while, then it was worth it. I guess one man's jackshit is another man's jacktreasure

>>9287445
>>9287495
>>9287526
If I recall correctly, MMZ2 states, in Ciel's computer, that the Guardians were built from X's "Body Parts".
Body Parts is how X's armors he gets from Dr. Light are called in Japan, so this has created some theories among the Japanese fandom that:
>Harpuia is the Falcon Armor given a face and with the split fragment of X's DNA Soul that embodies his sense of duty
>Fefnir is the Gaea Armor with X's DNA Soul fragment that embodies the restrained love of battle Squid Adler accused X of always having and calling him a hypocrite
>Phantom is the Shadow Armor and is the DNA fragment that represents X's resourcefulness to commit to his ideals no matter the cost
>Leviathan is the base blue armor modified for underwater movement and... I guess part of X is dainty? I guess X do really want to bang Zero IDK.
Cyber Elf X is the last remain of his DNA Soul, X's mercy and inability to think of human lives as more precious than reploid lives and vice versa after all the ethical tests.

Copy X is the first 1:1 copy of X minus the ethical tests. turns out those were important. He's also confirmed to be using the Ultimate Armor, it's why he has the Nova Strike.

>>9287986
>the restrained love of battle
...is X a feisty warrior deep down? I also think Leviathan was meant to be a subtle nod to this scene

>>9288851
According to Squid Adler, yeah. Adler claims he can see beyond X's fascade of a pacifist, that when the battle becomes unavoidable, he engages with everything and loves every moment of it. Apparently X's hypocricy (from Adler's perspective) was more the reason for him to retire from the Hunters rather than Octopus going Maverick.

>>9268903
The image kind of explains it all. X Series Zero is actually cool and masculine, Zero series Zero looks more like a kid with a toy sword. The game itself feels nothing like the source material, more like a new IP with Zero slapped on for no reason.

>>9287774
It really doesn't make sense to me that they made X evil. Literal fanfic writing lol

>>9269597
The timer messed me up as a kid. Since then I've realized that no boss in the series takes over a minute to fight.

>>9287771
>being this delusional
It's literally a giant fucking pamper.
Zero's thin ass underwear is almost a speedo even.

>>9288851
X is a robot, he can install breasts and vagina at legitimate ease.

>>9289747
Just admit the underwear would look better if it was red

>>9288851
I heard the original English actors as I watched this webm

>>9289386
The original reason X was going to be evil (which was alluded as far back as X1's warning screen) was the ending of X5 in which X gets factory reset by Dr. Light and goes somewhat mental as his brain gets rewired to not accept any input that has anything to do with Zero. Dr. Light would've unadvertedly undone the 30 years of ethical testings. However, both X6 being made behind Inafune's back and the Inti's staff own feelings regarding making X turn against reploids caused to come up with the Copy plot very late into development. It is thought that originally it was Dr. Light who gives Zero the Z-Saber back, you can see a reference to this in the archie comic where Dr. Light has a vision of the Elf Wars and you can see him as a cyber elf

>>9290282
>X gets factory reset by Dr. Light
>brain gets rewired to not accept any input that has anything to do with Zero
Sounds stupid as fuck. Also sounds headcanon as fuck. Where did this come from?

>>9290359
X5's very own ending, the X bad ending.
>Dr. Light Hologram: ......... ...Not yet... Actually, I want you to rest and relax for now... Hold on, X... ... Just for a few more moments. ... Forget all the painful memories...

>One Week Later
>Douglas: But...why was only Zero's memory data deleted from X?
>Signas: I have no idea... maybe it disappeared by itself? Otherwise it was deleted on purpose...
>Alia: Besides, there's a protection, now. He won't even accept data related to Zero... I couldn't program such a protection... We've got another mystery about X...

>Hunter A: ... Captain X... ...Don't you remember anything about what happened?
>X: ... You're still on about that? The answer is No. I don't remember anything...
>Hunter B: ...You see? Captain Zero and Captain X are both special A level Hunters for all to see. You worked together and solved a lot of problems.
>X: I remember Sigma. His name doesn't leave me... But I don't have any memory of Zero. Maybe whoever repaired me deleted the data by mistake.
>Hunter B: Did...did he really delete your memory?

>Hunter A: Captain X. Although it will take time, I think this battle will lead to peace.
>X: It will. We need to work harder for that... For peace...
>Hunter B: What is your private dream?
>X: Huh?... I've never thought about it... Well... I've got it! I want to create "Elysium".
>Hunters: Elysium...?
>X: Yes! It's a paradise where the human race coexists with Reploids peacefully... Yes... that is my dream... I'd like to create "Elysium"... Someday in the near future...
>Hunter B: I wish Captain Zero were here...
>X: Huh? You're talking about Zero again?
>Hunter B: No, nothing...
>X: "Elysium"... Oh yes...I'll do it someday...

Aizu did confirm once they found out about X6 near the end of Z1's development they had to scramble and rewrite the ROM's story to fit with the new Mega Man X canon, Copy X had to be written in. Z1 has a few plot holes as a result that got patched through CD Dramas amd tje book.

At the end of the day everything in Zero 1 was just a not so subtle attempt to homage Mechanical Violator Hakaider and I can't really blame them for that because it's a fucking rad movie.

>>9290381
It's really on the series' DNA. Classic Mega Man was basically a homage to Astroboy and other 60's super hero boy shows of the day, X is Casshern. Even now, Gunvolt is Choujin Locke, even though the third game's plot suffered by forcing the reference to go full circle rather than just it being a homage.

>>9290373
So headcanon. Light removing bad memories and not allowing data related to Zero was just your generic giving the hero happiness by taking away the bad memories and anything that would cause him sadness. Good ending is has Zero dead and X remembers him and doesn't look like his determination will waver at all. So the Zero series is just a bad end what if sequel which is now my headcanon.

>>9290406
>So the Zero series is just a bad end what if sequel which is now my headcanon.
Not anymore, are you paying attention? The X5 bad ending isn't canon anymore and Zero 1 had to get rewritten in the last second to fit with the X series, it's the reason why the MMZ series don't give a set year as Capcom didn't even allow Inti Creates to be in contact with Value Wave, who were handling the X series from X5 onwards, causing the references to the X series to be either sparce or on suplementary material (such as the book stating the Jakob got damaged during the Maverick Wars and when the period of piece arrived, X and the government retrofitted it into Area X-2 where meetings would be held, and where you fight Copy X MK-II is the same spaceport you fight Vile Penta in X8). Had the Zero series kept X as the villain then yes, it would've been a timeline fork split, where X6 happens after X's good ending and Z1 happens after X's bad ending but that was not the case in the final release and the sequels and material hammer down that point, and even was reconfirmed once again in the Rockman 11 Production Book that everything in the robot timeline is a single canon, and finally gave us official dates for Zero, ZX and Legends (24XX, 26XX and 80XX in that order).

>>9287445
Literally every robot since X1 besides Zero is a copy of X.

>>9290696
They're replicas of X's basic function as an "android with free will", yes, but they're not 1:1 copies, per Dr. Cain's own admision in his journal he had to make do with alternatives as he didn't fully understand X's specifications. Some Japan-only printed media state even the very first batch of reploids, while a step over the old Robot Masters, didn't had the same level of free will X enjoys, and even the earliest Mavericks are believed to have been due glitching and errors in their electronic brains, such is supposedly the case of Vile.
Copy X was the first 1:1 copy of X ever created and from there the four guardians were made from X's Body Parts and remains of his DNA Soul following him using his body to seal half of the Dark Elf's data on top of the Yggdrasil.

>>9290723
I know about the reploid the history. I was putting it plainly for the other anon.
Copy X was only a 1:1 reploid copy in terms of hardware, as evidenced by his AI diverging from real X's real ideals and suffering circuit experience like all the others. It may be a "better" copy, but it still a reploid all the same, and still lacking what makes X, really X.

>>9290737
The key element, the one thing Dr. Light did that Ciel did not was the 30 years of ethical testing. The tests basically served to program the suffering circuit to work as a moral compass, I'm not saying Copy X would've been a 1:1 imitation of X's personality but at least had the time been there and Ciel had known X went decades of tests (not like the government would've allowed it, they needed a public figurehead NOW rather than admit publicly admit X was dead), Copy X would've at least hopefully been a decent reploid. But he was a newborn without a moral compass fed up curated data on the guy he's replacing and what he needs to be a hero.
Oh woops, but "reploids are just machines right? If we're having an energy crisis why don't we just get rid of them? Humans would love that!"

I'm sure you know this already but it's fascinating nonetheless to see what X could've potentially been like had Dr. Light not had the foresight to test his reliability.

>>9290753
Nobody would expect a child genius to bother with ethical tests when all she wanted to do was bring back a war hero for short-term benefit, let alone bring back a war hero who is also a walking armageddon without a backup plan to shut him down after his first public speech to calm people down.
What really fucks with the idea of Copy X is the fact that he just becomes Genghis Khan and starts a genocide to solve an energy crisis despite not malfunctioning or having his AI fucked with by a virus or anything like the typical oversimplified "we have a problem, so lets kill everyone" logic, which says more about Ciel's competence than Cain's, whose reploids only really had actual malfunctions.
Not once did he study how Neo Arcadia thrived under the original X's leadership and suggest reploid decommissions (which could lead to civil unrest over individual rights and thus add some real meat to the reason why he starts killing them) or him being convinced by Dr. Weil that he should get rid of the reploids due to his AI's innocence, which would also make sense and add a fresh, ironic spin with the idea that Wily is in control of X and Zero has to play the role X played way back in X5.

>>9269038
>>9269051
>>9269548
>>9270179
>hurr why is he chibi
Because the GBA is less powerful than the PS1. It was very common for portable games to go for the chibi look due to this. Zero looked like a chibi/more childlike in the original SNES games as well. Only major difference between the designs is that it's sleeker. Not to mention original NES Megaman where X is literally a kid.

>>9290847
reasonable post.
X and Zero were literally supposed to be 14 in the X series too.

People who want to see X and Zero as these macho non-faggy manly men aren't looking at what they really were. The designs were as camp and silly as Adam West Batman.
MMZ Zero is much more literally muscular and macho, technically.
In fact it may be the fact that he's basically a naked samurai in nothing but boots and a fundoshi, and that you're asked to take it more seriously that puts these people off; but calling them calling the X designs less faggy is so strange to me.
There's a strong argument that the Zero series is less gay, and that MMZ Zero is even more of a raw expression of brutal masculinity, basically rocking out with just a sword and his cock out
Comes through somewhat in the Japanese versions of the games with blood splatters, or the concept art for Z1 like this >>9287526 where the pantheons are made from civilians with those facehugger things, or the Solid Snake early version of X. Zero's jacket is literally supposed to be a bulletproof vest. This shit was all supposed to be very raw and awesome in a way that's not immediately obvious.

>>9290954
They had to tone this stuff down because it's a kids series, but I love the dark raw wild take on the characters and the world they were going for.

>>9290954
>People who want to see X and Zero as these macho non-faggy manly men aren't looking at what they really were
Oh fuck off. Reploids in the X series looked neither faggy nor like something out of goddamn Conan the Barbarian. They looked fine and very unique as they were.

>>9290979
I like them. Never said they weren't fine and very unique.
Just that when I look at the X designs I see something very similar to pic related. I love Adam West Batman btw. I think he's the most fun and entertaining version of Batman.
The MMZ series is literally trying to be More Conan/macho, which is also what I like about that series.

>>9291001
Megaman really should've gone its own way instead of chasing after existing properties/japanese capeshit.
I like how they look in the X series because the designs clearly look like some parts are not miniaturized yet hence why the bulky armor, but over time technology improves and so do the designs. In fact the reason behind the reploid designs in X8 looking sleeker was because the designers and writers wanted to depict the improvements reploids were receiving over time, with less bulky leg/arm parts, seams along the Titanium-X skin parts to represent modularity, etc. but it still maintained the kinda boxy kinda round robotic silhouette that's very recognizable and well-departed from the likes of Casshern.

>>9291021
>Megaman really should've gone its own way instead of chasing after existing properties/japanese capeshit.
You're talking about a series that's literally the videogame version of Astro Boy/Casshern from the outset.
If you're not ok with that, that's a (You) problem.

>>9291021
this is the most retarded post ive read all day

and i say this as someone who posts some RETARDED shit

>>9291036
I know its inspirations, that's why I said it should've departed from them instead of trying to keep copying them. Keep up, will you.

>>9291043
That's just not how creativity works. Astro Boy and Casshern are hardly original either, and Mega Man is full of references to other media. Off the top of my head, there's tons of talk of "retiring" "reploids", which is a lot like the idea of Bladerunners "retiring" "replicants".
Originality doesn't just spring out of the aether, everything has its influence.

Mega Man X arguably already was something that was moving away from its influences and was developing its own style, culminating in games like X8 which is a pretty well developed version of the Mega Man X world, and MMZ took the series even further from its original influences.

So I don't really understand what you're saying unless what you're really saying is you're hopelessly nostalgic for the style of the X series, which is fine, but you could have just said that instead.
But if you are, you're eventually going to have to reckon with the fact that you like camp style.

>>9291070
I'm not involved with this discussion you're having with that guy, I just want to say that art is cool.

>>9291072
luv me megamans.

>>9291070
>I don't really understand what you're saying unless what you're really saying is you're hopelessly nostalgic for the style of the X series, which is fine, but you could have just said that instead.
>But if you are, you're eventually going to have to reckon with the fact that you like camp style.
Addendum to that, the X series designs are almost as faggy to me as this pic >>9291001, and that's fine, that's fun. That's camp style, and it's a fun style!
You can see X8 Zero here >>9280624 and even with the explanation that he's supposed to be a robot, he still looks like a superhero with his underpants on the outside, and that's fun. That's a fun design. Kinda silly, but that's honestly the point. Superhero stuff, including Mega Man is ultimately supposed to be light hearted stuff at its core.

Sorry, this is just a personal axe to grind for me. I just don't understand people who talk about the X designs like they're taking them so seriously and think they're extra heterosexual compared to stuff like MMZ Zero, when MMZ Zero goes out of its way to make the characters look like mechanical androids wearing bulletproof vests, at least in the early art, which to me is an awesome update of the style of the X games, but somehow this shit's too faggy for X fans to touch?
I like both, and at the end of the day I don't really care what the internet thinks, so it's not a big deal, but I read over this thread and it's just hilarious to me.

How old is the average X fan anyway? It's not zoomers getting nostalgic for X, they don't even know this series exists

>>9290785
In an innocent way rather than crooked politician way, Copy X really care more about his approval numbers. Ever since the X series, reploids have always been second class citizens, an actual real concern Sigma brings to the Repliforce General in their secret meeting. If any reploid dared speak against his masters then woops he's a maverick, reitre him. That kind of makes Copy X fascinating, you have a literal child wanting to be loved and appreciated by the human population which to him are the ones who really matter, maybe even his parents to him.

The Eight Gentle Judges did raise concerns against X's "sudden personality change and decisions" once the Copy replaced the original, but Harpuia basically shot them now they're not to "question Master X", lest they wish to be labelled as Mavericks and taken to Aztec Falcon's gulag.

>>9291164
>How old is the average X fan anyway? It's not zoomers getting nostalgic for X, they don't even know this series exists
I don't know if I'm the "average" X fan, but I'm 32 years old, I played X1 when I was about 5 years old, maybe 6. That said, unlike some here, I don't hate Zero, quite the opposite, I love this series as a whole.

>>9290847
>original NES Megaman where X is literally a kid
Are you trying to make me mad by being retarded on purpose?

>>9290954
>Zero's jacket is literally supposed to be a bulletproof vest.
That would be really cool if it didn't look like a Marty McFly vest.

>>9290976
These designs do seem cool, maybe if they hadn't toned it down so far the game would have come out in a form I could appreciate instead of looking gay and dumb.

>>9291164
you know, is it ever explained why Zero and X's bodies became more slim in the future?

>>9291431
Apparently as technology improved, the balance pieces in robot bodies became much more efficient and havign such thick protection wasn't necessary anymore, thus allowing for their frames to be more human-like. Roll herself, being an old robot, has popeye arms and thick calves (sometimes just wearing boots like in MM8) because of those balancing parts that allow them to walk, and not collapse when encountered by stairs.

>>9291431
Just a different art style
Hence Omega has Zero's original body and Copy X is a perfect copy

>>9291452
What about Command Mission tho? The artist of that game did mention X's limbs are different there because in 22XX technology began to go towards the path to MMZ in the Complete Works book.

>>9291458
Idk anything about command mission I just want to hold Cinnamon's hand

>>9291458
Anon, it's all bullshit retcons due to the initial negative fan reaction to the changed art style and autistic retards demanding canon answers for a stylistic change.

>>9291482
Anon, look a the boots and detailing, even the "blurred lineart beneath the solid lineart so it looks like some bloom" shit, it's clear the artist behind this was looking at Nakayama's art and given how this is the only X game taking place in 22XX, his comment in the artbook makes sense. It's an in-between step between sagas.

>>9291520
Man, looking back at it: Command Mission's art style was pretty cool.

>>9291520
>Mega Man Zero released April 26, 2002
>Mega Man X: Command Mission released July 29, 2004
It's a retcon to appease angry autismos who can't comprehend an art style just being an art style.

Lore-wise, Zero series were suppose to took place on X series and Zero was suppose to be main character but Capcom didn't like this and they forced the team to make the X series as how we know them today.
Zero series were the ability of the team to put out some of what it was suppose to be only on handheld and extremely changed.
Personally looking at Zero using a fucking pistol disappointed me asking myself where the fuck is the buster and what shit was what I was playing. Then I realized is more RPG focused and the story-telling is waaaaaaaaay to fucking deep and that's good but bad too, cuz guess what lot of Rockman players care about lore but not as deep and executed as how it was on Zero series. For the typical player all Zero games across feel the same, look the same and are the "same" maybe was fair comparing to OG series but released after X series, those feel really odd, also character design, yes those designs aren't the best ones looking. To fix all this thoughts is quite easy, the problem is the game being called <<Megaman>> Zero but yeah is a name that sells, no way changing that, preferable to screw over on Zero, right? Cuz money, dah - Capcom.

>>9291540
It is a better medium between MMX and MMZ than X8. X8's style did grew on me, but CM's artwork is just bitching.

Although is it me, or does Commander X in-game look like Ruby Spears X? Especially in the beta, before they decided to redesign X a slight bit so he looks like he did in Zero 2. It's his proportions with that head being smaller than usual, I swear.

>>9291472
ok marino

>>9291590
Why do people ship Marino and Cinnamon anyway? They barely interact in-game.

>>9290976
proto ciel is ugly

Since this seems to be the mega man lore thread

Who was created first, X or Zero? Were Light and Wily aware of each other creating the first "reploids" and one copied from the other or did they just independently create them?

Holy shit! I did it! I fucking did it! I actually fucking beat him!

>>9291520

the belt is way better than the underwear-over-bodysuit look. I get that the latter helped to show the legs crossing over in sprites, but after a certain point it should have been ditched.

MMZ Zero would look better with a simple white belt as well.

>>9292186

X is the first Reploid. Zero is a Robot Master, it's why he learns techniques instead of absorbing weapons.

>>9293076
ZX without a doubt has the best interpretation of this region
>>9293081
>>9292186
Technically Reploids are those robots based on X's schematics, Zero gets called a Reploids though because he's as advanced as Reploids. I would say Zero does absorb boss weapons (except for Z1 LOL) such as the screen nukes, elemental swords, and all those buster EX skills

>>9293081
X is technically a Robot Master. The first reploid was whoever Cain build upon discovering X and attempting to reverse engineer it, since they're replicas of X they're "Replica Android".

>>9292186
According to the Development document shared by the planner on twitter a while back, they roughly began working on each other's project around the same time but the popular theory from the 00's (popularized by Bob and George) was that in MM7, after Bass attacked Light's lab and stole data from the computer, X's pre-planning was there and Wily began working on his own, Zero.

It is canon Wily was always better with hardware and Light was better than software, while X needed 30 years to confirm his reliability, Wily made Zero with the intention of being a war machine from the getgo, but his program was riddled with mistakes and became difficult to control. Wily sealed him to finish him (both program and body) later but died before he could finish him. The "good Zero" we all know is actually the real Maverick Zero, because Zero was already "the baddest robot by design", the virus made him essentially have an evil stack overflow and looped back into being good. The virus "fixed" Zero by breaking his program further, but this wasn't what Wily ever intended. Hence X2 and X5.

Weil would later fix Zero's ill-willed program as Omega while Ciel's ancestor handled Zero's good program, which served as the template for the Mother Elf antivirus program.

>>9293204
There's a double meaning to Replica Android. A replica of X, and of the human brain!

>>9293217
The latter I've not seen used, only in Dr. Cain's journal, the chou hyakka and (not canon but interesting nonetheless) Irregular Report, the novelization of Mega Man X1, which did took from official sources to write the story.

>>9293102
Wait did they make Zero a girl for real?

>>9293307
In ZX. Zero as we know him is dead but his armor and fighting skill were inherited by new character Ashe

>>9293307

ZX is a sentai series basically. You play as a boy or girl who can change into 'model ZX' based on X and Zero's capabilities.

>>9293329
>>9293307
Wait my mistake. I meant Girouette

>>9293307
>>9293329
>>9293336
Motherfuckers, it's Aile who inherits the Zero data alongside the X data after Giro dies.

Ashe gets Axl's.
>but muh Model Albert
Refer to the interview with Yabe.

>>9293329
>>9293331
>>9293339
Interesting, I never really looked into the ZX series. Is it fun?

>>9293347
It is but it also has a more Metroid like aspect. The whole world is an explorable map and you get to stages the first time by foot. You then unlock warp points though making fast travel a thing similar to the GBA Castlevania games. Only issue I have with the first ZX is the map, it's not useful at all. ZXA improved on that. That said the world map IS simpler than the average Metroid/Castlevania map so it's not too bad.

>>9293339
To add to this the canon route for ZX/ZXA is Aile/Gray. Ashe is Vent's counterpart.

>>9293354
Gray gets to be /ss/'d by grown up Aile.

>>9293347

Both games are good, they're the only MM platformers that have a true overworld hub with exploration if you're into that sort of thing. It's also pretty cool to wander around an actual Mega Man city for once.

ZXA lets you transform into a boss after you've defeated them, but most of them aren't that useful outside of the obstacles they're designed for.

>>9293350
>>9293376
I might actually give those games a shot, then. I happen to be a sucker for Metroid elements in this kind of game so it sounds right up my alley.

>>9293413
For both the DS and PC releases there's undubs if you're into that sort of thing. Namely for the first ZX, since they originally removed all voice acting from that game, as the original Japanese DS release was fully voice acted.

>>9293307
>>9293339
>>9293347
ZX is epic I love it so much. For the first game I would recommend a guide for the overworld so you can just get straight into the levels (I'd still talk to the NPC's) cause this is some 10/10 Mega Man action. The rolling slash is so satisfying in this, oh and the music omg. If you get the Steam version you can install a mod to get the HQ album versions of the soundtracks https://youtu.be/9EMsG82tuX4

There's also two characters in each ZX game, a boy and a girl. They have pretty different scripts so worth it to play both, but imo in ZX1 the girl's is much better and in ZXA the boy's is much better

>>9293439
The PAL version of ZXA removed voice acting from textboxes haha, guess they weren't fond of the voicework

>>9294547
Apparently they did to fit in multi-languages in the ROM, which is stupid. Who the hell wants to play games in Spanish?

>>9294564
They could probably have fit text in all the different languages without losing the English dub, but in Yurop it's considered offensive to treat English better than other languages, and it would've been expensive to record dubs for all the other languages, so they'd rather strip every language down to the same level of capability. True crab mentality.
Not that I would ever defend the English dub of ZXA. What total ass.

>>9294850
The voice dialogues are hardcoded on a weird way where they're tied to the dialogue boxes, it's the same reason why one can't undub the game by simply swapping files with DSlazy and the undub patches are actually translation patches for the Japanese versions. Pretty sure that was the reason the EUR version was just voiceless.

>>9293081
>>9293204
Reminder that "Robot Master" isn't even a canon thing.

>>9295972
Retroactively became canon with stuff like Robot Master Field Guide and other Capcom shit. Similar to how Capcom in the late 90's began using the term Blue Bomber themselves.

>>9296017
I've never heard anybody call him blue bomber, he doesn't even drop bombs. I've only ever heard people claim that he's known as the blue bomber, without actually calling him that themselves. Is it a forced meme?

>>9296084
It was what he was called by magazines back in the 90's and 2000's. Hell their 15th anniversary ads had kids calling him that.

>>9296017
>dubs are canon

>>9296096
The name was first used in Nintendo Power #7 July/August 1989, in their Mega Man 2 guide (see the middle section of the page titled Metal Muncher Madness). It would become more common over the next few years with countless other game mags calling him that.

>>9296245
And another example from Game Now #20 June 2003.

>>9291260
>Harpuia basically shot them now they're not to "question Master X"
That's stupid. They have X's real AI in them, not Copy X.

>>9292186
X was made first. Zero was built after MM8 when Wily captured and reverse-engineered Evil Energy.
>>9293081
X is X. Reploid is the name given to robots that are copies of him. Zero isn't a Reploid either.

>>9296245
>>9296251
I remember a TV commercial for Mega Man's 15th anniversary where they showed clips of street interviews of people talking about Mega Man and I remember at least one of them calling him the blue bomber.

>>9296410
That's the same ad I mentioned here >>9296096 turns out it wasn't the 15th anniversary, but a commercial for the Megaman games releasing in 2001.

>>9296551
Forgot the link.

https://youtu.be/M9wHxkfmBjM

>>9292606
On hard mode without save assists, I assume.

>>9291036
What about Chargeman Ken?

>>9296585
What power would Megaman get from beating Chargeman

>>9296626
Assisted Suicide.

>>9296373
>they're X's real AI
They're incomplete fragments of his core personality and none of the memories since the core cyber elf X has those. They weren't even seemingly sure their master was a copy.

>>9296084
I know you're shitposting and all since you added "sage" in the box field but here's the back of the box for Mega Man Legends. The N64 port used the exact same quip. MMBN3 ads in magazines during the 15th anniversary also had shit like "Join the blue bomber's 15th anniversary bash in white and blue"

>>9297457
>box field
name box field, shit.

>>9297457
I accidentally put sage in the name field, I attempted to sage a different thread and didn't notice, and it saved

>>9268903
Because its not megaman.