/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8502368]

Which of the Mega Man X games is the best?

[Anonymous No.8502395]

X2. Fight me.

[Anonymous No.8502407]

>>8502368
X1 is the best in X1-3.
X4 is the best in X4-6.
I like X4 best myself because of the production value probably. No comment on the 3D ones.

[Anonymous No.8502414]

X2 > X1 > X4 > X3 > X5 > X8 > X6 > X7

Possibly swap X3 and X5 depending on how I feel that day.

[Anonymous No.8502425]

X1 and X4 are the best.
X2, X3 and X8 are good
X6 is a battlefield of opinions but I personally like it to an extent
X5 is kinda shit
We don't talk about X7
Command Mission is an RPG if that's your thing.

[Anonymous No.8502431]

>>8502425
You know what? You're right about X8. It's much better than it's given credit for. But for whatever reason I just never feel compelled to revisit it that much.

[Anonymous No.8502445]

>>8502431
The graphics are frankly average, the jumping is heavier than the previous games (it feels like you fall faster), the combined special attack is overpowered and Man'O'War stage is clunky, but other than that it's not a bad game. It has a great OST, actually decent voice acting, good character designs and it redeems Axl after his X7 debut, on top of putting a neat twist on Sigma.

[Anonymous No.8502530]

>>8502368
series peaked at X and games were shit past X2

[Anonymous No.8502542]

>>8502368
The first one unfortunately. X2 was lazier and feels less complete, X3 sucked, X4 was okay, X5 was shit, X6 is unfinished, X7 is garbage, and X8 is mediocre. The classic series, Zero games, and ZX games are better than the X series as a whole.

[Anonymous No.8502561]

>>8502530
I'd say past X3 it started to go downhill, but I agree with you that X1 was probably the best. Crush Crawfish had the best stage music in the series, bar none.

[Anonymous No.8502585]

>>8502542
X2 fixes the handful of problems that X1 had though.

Forcing Penguin first to get the boots
The levels forced to be designed around not having the boots even though you're likely to always get them right away
Making the boots mandatory for every other armor upgrade
An especially useless helmet
A very stupid hadoken process
A weird as hell difficulty curve where if you start with Octopus it's damn near a challenge mode

[Anonymous No.8502586]

>>8502395
Based and patrician pilled.

[Anonymous No.8502593]

>>8502585
>Boots
Fuck your challenge runs dude. All it does it allow you to dash, just don't press the damn button.
>Hadouken
Secret item that is not necessary to beat the game, which you'd only know it exists from a videogame magazine.

[Anonymous No.8502616]

>>8502585
>A very stupid hadoken process
Dude, you can't complain about the Hadouken when X2 has the Shoryuken.

[Anonymous No.8502670]

>>8502585
Yeah, X1 is not without problems, but I'd rather play it over X2 for a few reasons:
The soundtrack is better
The level design is better
I like that beating some stages affects the other stages, although this is not a necessary thing
The special weapons are a lot better, and I actually find myself using them throughout levels
The fortress stages are not a fucking slog
The final stage is its own thing, and not a copy and paste of a previous stage in the game
The final stage is designed so that you can refill your sub tanks before fighting Sigma again, because the devs actually cared about the player
Secret areas are a lot less convoluted and don't require a walkthrough to figure out

Starting off with the dash, having a better armor set, and better sprite animations are about the only things X2 does better than X1. I'll even say that X2 has some wonderful bossfight, but that's really all the praise I can give it.

[Anonymous No.8502673]

>>8502670
Bossfight*

[Anonymous No.8502680]

>>8502670
Bossfights*

[Anonymous No.8502694]

>>8502395
>>8502414
>>8502586
God tier taste.

[Anonymous No.8502753]

>>8502368
you posted it

[Anonymous No.8502767]

>>8502616
The process of obtaining the shoryuken is much more elegant than the hadoken.

[Anonymous No.8502774]

>>8502395
Correct

[Anonymous No.8502778]

>>8502593
>which you'd only know it exists from a videogame magazine.
That's what makes it stupid. The Shoryuken can be intuitively discovered. The hadoken requires a guide.

[Anonymous No.8502782]

>>8502368
X1, only that one, and only on a real SNES with composite cables.

[Anonymous No.8502785]

X4 > X1 > X8 > X2 > X3 > X6 > X5 > X7

6 may be a broken, buggy, poorly designed disaster but it didn’t bore me to tears like X5. You didn’t have to go through that horrible lava donut level 3 times just to get all the upgrades. X7 is just garbage

[Anonymous No.8502789]

>>8502414
I would probably swap X3 and X4, but this is a pretty solid take

[Anonymous No.8502817]

>>8502778
>Secret item is secret
That's the point. A fuckton of games have secrets that people only discovered in magazines.

[Anonymous No.8502931]

>>8502817
Which was a shitty practice back in the day. They'd pull shenanigans like that just to sell Nintendo Power subscriptions.

[Anonymous No.8502941]

>>8502414
X6 is unironically worse than 7

[Anonymous No.8503030]

X2 is one of my favorite games ever, but god I hate the music. That same annoying guitar soundfont in every song. And X1 has probably the best soundtrack of any game ever.

[Anonymous No.8503046]

>>8502778
>The Shoryuken can be intuitively discovered

Give me a fucking break. If you didn't have to die several times trying first, I'd say sure.

[Anonymous No.8503057]

>>8503046
It's a clear alternate path that begs investigation and a long chasm that you're likely to slide down slowly out of caution and stumble onto either the capsule or an empty room, which in that case would be suspicious enough to warrant repeated visits. It being "hard" to navigate is what would make people want to know what's so special about it. Which is exactly how you properly hide a secret.

[Anonymous No.8504016]

>>8502368
People always say 5 is bad but never say why. Fuck em.

[Anonymous No.8504020]

X3 (SNES). X3 PS1 sucks. Completely fucked up the soundtrack, and the added cutscenes are cringe because they don't fit in with the mood of the game at all. X1 > X2 > X4 after that (all amazing games), and the Xtreme games are also great. X8 is also great. X5 sucks and X7 is gay trash. Command Mission is all right.

[Anonymous No.8504025]

>>8504020
Forgot to mention that X6 is underrated and worth trying, despite being broken and incredibly frustrating at points.

[Anonymous No.8504031]

>>8504020
>cutscenes are cringe
Oh fuck off.

[Anonymous No.8504035]

Why does it seem like everybody and their grandma likes the Mega Man games with shitty, uninspired level designs?
Mega Man 2 is exclusively straight lines, with each stage having a changing point around the middle in which you go down/ up for a screen or so.
Mega Man X is almost exclusively straight lines as well.
What is with you faggots?

[Anonymous No.8504041]

>>8502368
X1 is the only good one. The series just gets progressively worse in different ways. X3 is at least funny in how pathetic and bad it is, but after it there's no looking back. Just awful, awful shit.

[Anonymous No.8504046]

>>8504016
5 is way overdesigned. Its not bad per se but it tries to do too much and suffers for it. This being when they started including multiple armor sets you no longer get equipped with the parts as you find them, only being able to use an armor when its fully assembled, making the whole process a lot less interesting. And X5 is especially dumb for trying to railroad you into specific boss orders. Yes, you don't have to follow it as instructed but it's irritating. I pair it with X3 because they're both similar in that respect, where they threw in way too much and it hurts the game, even if the overall experience isn't terrible.

[Anonymous No.8504062]

>>8504035
If any X game has boring level design its X3. Almost every stage is loaded with damage sink enemies that barely move, has some big open area you have to weave through, and is annoyingly miniboss happy.

[Anonymous No.8504067]

>>8502395
fpwp

[Anonymous No.8504123]

>>8502368
X2 > X5 > X6 > X3 > X1 > X8 = X4 > Xtreme > Xtreme2 >>> X7

[Anonymous No.8504219]

>>8504035
This post makes sense if you ignore level gimmicks and unique hazards, sure

[Anonymous No.8504228]

Who gives a fuck about gameplay which one has the better soundtrack?

[Anonymous No.8504428]

>>8504035
What, is Elec Man the peak of design to you? Or Quick Man? Or Crash Man? Or Boomer Kwanger?