/vr/ - Retro Games

No gimmicks and get off Legends fucking dick for 3D elements.

>>9801907
Axl was the best part of the game and, in my opinion, he didn't get enough attention.

Unironically make it a third person action game where X looks and points his buster in the direction the camera is looking at, but can move in any direction without you having to turn the camera around.
You know, exactly like Megaman Legends, but without the jank.

>>9801907
2d only, no auto aim

Change nothing from the game, make Axl shoot faster, make holding attack as Axl full auto. Now at least it's a boring thing that's over quickly. Any "2D only" idea is too much work to imagine.

>>9801907
i would make it 4th person view

Make it a Ratchet and Clank clone.

>>9801907
Imagine a mario game where you don't get to play as mario for most of the game

>>9802243
Actually I guess the Japaness have done that a few times before

>>9801907
make rescuable reploids not die from enemy attacks
Thats about it, I enjoy the game

>>9801907
Make it 2D and not 3D trash

>>9801907
Not make X7

>>9801907
I would start by not playing the PAL version.

>>9802243
You don't have to imagine

X past 4 was a mistake

>>9803735
that's a Yoshi game not a Mario game

>>9801907
Get the team who did DMC, Chaos Legion or Onimusha instead of the D-listers that originally worked on it.

>>9801907
turn it into a dating sim starring gungaroo

>>9803965
I want to romance Flame Hyenard!

>>9801907
Give it the Mario 3D World treatment where controls are 8 directions, tighter movement, and translate the platforming challenges into 3D the same way Nintendo managed them with this game.

>>9801907
Throw it in the dumpster

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>X Playable from the start
By the time you get him, Zero and Axl got the majority of the good shit from rescued reploids, such as upgrades like extra heart tanks and weapon energy, and the upgrade chips, rendering him useless by the time you get him. X is really good, overpowered even, but you have to do a New Game+ to really make X shine. If any of you have the patience to do a newgame+ in X7 and get him all the upgrade chips too, it makes X7 a lot more bearable, he is seriously overpowered in that game (when you can use him right from the start).
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>Less Sluggish/Clunky Zero
Zero controls quite slowly and awkward for a character that is melee in a 3D environment.
He has the strongest attacks and makes quick work of the annoying bosses though.
Pro-tip: Flame Hyenard or whatever the fuck his name is, you can cheese him easy with Zero. Get on the giant walking dog-robot-thing and he up to the neck, you can jump up there, keep holding up and mash attack. When the walking-dog-robot-thingy makes a turn make sure you hold your running directiong to compensate. You may or may not fall off. The launching missiles will hit you every time - tank the damage (that is also what could lead to you falling off and into the lava). This is the fastest way to beat him and end the annoyance so you don't have to mute the TV.
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>Bosses Less Annoying
New voice actors or none at all. Only allow limited speech for certain things, instead of the same annoying shit each time they do an attack. X8's bosses voice acting was average at best but it was still waaay better than X7's, and they didn't spam the same stupid lines over and over.

I mean... excluding refining the basics you mean, since X7 even has walls you can't wall jump, so excluding the obvious lack graphics, hitboxes, overall gameplay feel, frame rate and so on.

First would be to remove the auto aim, second would be to remove the 3d areas, third would be to focus the game on a single character.

X7 and X8 are both terrible games with terrible broken mechanics, terrible level layout and dumb 3D gimmicks, thatcall there is to it, you can't really fix them, it would unironically be less effort to make a full hack of the previous games.

>>9802250
>pic unrelated

You only play Snake for the first hour of the game, and that's if you drag ass and fuck around with the physics engine. which admittedly is very fun.

All of the rest of the game you play the "Son of Liberty" Raiden. You never switch once! Consider the beginning a tutorial.

>>9801907
Remove 3D segments and remake all those into 2D areas
Remove lock on
Increase the speed of everything by about 30%
Reduce enemy health by 25%, boss health by 50%
Make X unlock after rescuing 32 reploids or defeating 4 mavericks

Just these alone would be a substantial improvement, but it'd still need more level design work and stuff to be any good.
Fixing the damage tables should also be a top priority, the power plus parts don't make you deal 30% or 50% more damage, they give you a 30% or 50% chance to land a critical hit, which deals +1 damage, and the weaknesses need to be fixed to actually do major damage to bosses they're supposed to, and the tornado weapon needs to be nerfed so that it doesn't shred every single boss in the game including Tonion himself.

>>9806521
I think the issue is not even boss health but how long the invicibility lasts, I suspect the game speed issues are just frame rate problems, wonder if the PC releases run better, not that I will ever play this shit or X8 again

Just burn it to the ground.