/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9510805]

>>ruins your game

[Anonymous No.9510813]

RNG is a blight in any game.

[Anonymous No.9510901]

>>9510813
Haha people have posted about no matter how good or fast their runs are they can still get the bad ending

[Anonymous No.9510903]

>>9510813
RNG is the only thing that makes games interesting, otherwise it's just repetition leading to a guaranteed outcome

[Anonymous No.9510920]

>>9510903
It only belongs in rpgs and has no fucking business being in anything else

[Anonymous No.9510939]

>>9510903
>Players should get randomly punished for playing well
Never be a game designer.

[Anonymous No.9511407]

>most heart tanks on zero
>do both the laser and shuttle properly
>zero goes maverick
>im left with fully basic megaman only
It only happened once but damn I was pissed.

[Anonymous No.9511435]

This shit is why its the worst x game and 6 and 7 were shit but at least it they didn't punish you for replaying stages

[Anonymous No.9511446]

>>9511407
Ah but that's why they made a fail-safe with the ultimate armor.

[Anonymous No.9511449]

>>9510813
It's not even RNG, success is automatically determined after exiting the stage you just did regardless of what the percentage in the game says.

[Anonymous No.9511457]

Look at this shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfD7ez0aejw

[Anonymous No.9511469]

>>9510903
What you consider repetition is probably just gameplay.

[Anonymous No.9511483]

>>9511449
Do you even understand what a RNG is?
Let's say you have 75% of chances to succeed.
A random number between 0 and 100 will be generated by the RNG when you leave a stage.
If this number is between 0 and 75, you will succeed, if the number is between 76 and 100, you will fail.

This result is already pre-determined before you choose to fire the laser/launch the rocket, but it is RNG regardless.

[Anonymous No.9511491]

>>9511449
>>9511457

[Anonymous No.9511580]

>>9511435
Your opinion is automatically invalidated if you think anything is worse than 7. That game felt half-finished.

[Anonymous No.9513280]

>>9511580
Half-finished? Nah. It is at least feature complete and there aren't any game-breaking glitches or softlocks.
Half-baked? Absolutely. The game only starts to feel any level of good when you've got upgrades unlocked.

At least it doesn't permanently lock you out of a character because RNG didn't go your way.

[Anonymous No.9513283]

>>9513280
X7 locks you out of a character at the start of the game.

[Anonymous No.9513303]

>>9513283
And every X game locks out the ability to use the new armors at the start.

Your point?

[Anonymous No.9513314]

>>9510939
>what is the orange ghost in pacman

[Anonymous No.9513315]

>>9511469
gameplay doesn't have to mean you do the same thing over and over. there can be variation

[Anonymous No.9513320]

>>9513303
>An entire character to play as is the same as an armor set for that character
This is not a valid argument.

[Anonymous No.9513327]

>>9513283
While X7 locking you out of a character is indeed terrible (and made worse by said character being X himself), anon's point is that you will get X one way (save enough reploids) or another (defeat all the Mavericks) whereas in X5, you can lose Zero for the rest of the game if the game decides so.

[Anonymous No.9513349]

>>9513320
Once you unlock X, he stays unlocked for all NG+ playthroughs. You can never lose him to RNG.

>>9513327
Pretty much. The worst part about that decision is that as far as we know there basically a blank for why X retired from the fight to begin with.

There could be details in japan-only strategy guides, interviews and such like there was for X4's external canon.
About the most we have for X7 is that Red is either a survivor of the Repliforce incident, or was a former Repliforce soldier.

[Anonymous No.9513358]

>>9513283
Pretty sure only mario game also locks you out of ita name sake

[Anonymous No.9513362]

>>9513314
Orange is the hardest to manipulate but the easiest to avoid. His AI is explicitly "Yeah I ain't getting near the Man Of Pac".

[Anonymous No.9513397]

>>9513349
>as we know there basically a blank for why X retired from the fight to begin with.
The game's explanation was that X was dissatisfied with the fighting or something to that effect.
There was a smarter way of going about it though: Assuming that Sigma was truly gone (given that he only returned in the first place due to Gate and was in bad shape both physically and mentally), X could have felt like the rest of the Hunters could take care of things and step down to focus more on helping people who were affected by the past incidents, unaware of how badly his absence would cripple the rest of the Hunters.
Granted, him not getting immediately involved is more questionable. I guess you could write it as him having dropped off the radar after stepping down and returning once it became clear how much damage Red Alert was causing, allowing for a build up to his return.
>Red is either a survivor of the Repliforce incident, or was a former Repliforce soldier.
The prequel storylet stated that it was rumored that Red was part of Repliforce, though it's unconfirmed since Red doesn't like talking about the past (though Red claims not to like the Maverick Hunters, so take that as you will).
Another backstory facet for X7 it mentions is that Axl himself has no idea where his own admiration of X and hatred of mavericks comes from.

[Anonymous No.9513471]

>>9513315
True, but also not an argument. You haven't actually validated any retarded opinion that RNG is necessary to avoid repetition.

What you consider repetition is probably just gameplay.

[Anonymous No.9514429]

>>9513397
My take on the lead-up to X7 is this, based on in-game dialogue and that bit about Red:

Somewhere between X6 but before X7, X decided that doing the fighting himself was not accomplishing anything long-term. There needed to be broader measures taken to stop what he saw as an endless cycle, and one of those measures was him taking his leave from the front lines for a more management oriented position within the Hunters.

X's command style with his new approach leads the Hunters to being ineffective, thus the creation of the Red Alert syndicate happens and the two entities end up in something of a contest with one another. Red Alert would be beating the Hunters to the punch on incidents, usually handling situations in ways that X wouldn't approve of. Probably stepping on the Hunters' toes while they were at it.