/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9941545]

From the best to the worst
Objections?

[Anonymous No.9941610]

>>9941545
Nah that's about right. Nice to see someone who finally appreciates X5

[Anonymous No.9941746]

What's the best and worst Maverick stage in each X game you played?

[Anonymous No.9941750]

X3>X1>X4>X2

Only those with the mentality of a whipped dog coming back to his master care about the rest of the series.

[Anonymous No.9941767]

1 4 2 3
This is basically the order in how often I replay them. I actually really like 3. I had 5 and 6 on PSX and the rest on switch, but whenever I start them its just not a good time and I usually don't finish.

[Anonymous No.9941786]

>>9941545
correct opinion

[Anonymous No.9942107]

>>9941545
I can respect it. I'd put X8 between X6 and X7, but I put it down to appreciating the sheer audacity Capcom had by letting X6 ship and also me being burnt out by the time I reached X8 because I played the entire series in order one after the other. One day I'll give it another try.

[Anonymous No.9942226]

>>9941545
Shockingly accurate, what the fuck /vr/

[Anonymous No.9942254]

>>9941545
X8 and X3 don't have as many sins as X5.

[Anonymous No.9942974]

>>9941767
>I actually really like 3
It's quite fun as long as you avoid the buster upgrade.

[Anonymous No.9942987]

>>9941545
X8 is worse than X3. Otherwise correct.

[Anonymous No.9942994]

Don't understand why people like X1 and X4 this much when X2/3 and X5/X6 are just direct improvements. X6 is a hard pill to swallow but once you get used to the game it's one of the most fun games in the franchise

[Anonymous No.9942996]

>>9942994
no.

[Anonymous No.9943025]

>>9942996
Yes

X1
>the standard

X2
>more collectibles
>better replay value

X3
>best intro stage, playing as Zero with his theme kicking is untopped
>just more X2 with some goodies and some awesome moments
>tons of collectibles
>even better replay value

X4
>a bit of a backslide in terms of mechanics but still pretty good, can't be helped as this was the transition to PS1 on a new engine
>less collectibles
>can play as Zero for the entire playthrough instead of just as a gimmick though
>fully voiced animated cutscenes which is a huge plus

X5
>lost some budget so no animated cutscenes and less voice acting sadly
>but you can pick between X and Zero at any time
>X can keep his armor from X4
>a lot of replay value with multiple "routes"
>awesome final boss, my personal favorite in the series

X6
>confusing and frustrating at first but once you figure out what's going on it becomes really fun
>multiple routes
>really hard which is a nice last hoorah for the series, if this is your sixth X game you better be good by now
>the most replay value out of any X game

What don't you like about X3? For X6 I can understand just hating being confused and needing to play through multiple times to understand what's going on, but what is the problem with X3 to where someone would rate it lower than fucking X8?

[Anonymous No.9943030]

>>9941545
X3 and X8 above 5

[Anonymous No.9943040]

>>9941545
X1>X4>X2>X8>X6>X5>X3>X7

[Anonymous No.9943043]

>>9942994
Yeah X5 is such an improvement over X4:
>Can't use armour until you've gotten all 4 pieces
>You don't internalise the presence of enemies at all
>The platforming is mostly nonexistent
>Bosses are slow
>The final boss is just a picture of Sigma
>Alia

[Anonymous No.9943263]

>>9943025
>X can keep his armor from X4
This is one of my favorite parts about the game. Also you can finally duck

[Anonymous No.9943662]

>>9943263
>Also you can finally duck
The dash already lowered your stature, which made for more engaging gameplay since you couldn't be stationary while avoiding overhead projectiles.

[Anonymous No.9943685]

>>9941545
X5 should be next to 6 and 7, it's just barely any better than those two. No other nitpicks really of this list really, I think X4 and X2 are neck and neck

[Anonymous No.9943718]

I don’t really care about X past the original but this is a good.

[Anonymous No.9943868]

>>9942994
>each x game is an improvement over the last
lol i want to live in this guys timeline. x8 must be the pinnacle all of gaming for him.

[Anonymous No.9943880]

i’m actually surprised X5 is so high for everyone. i mean it’s a solid entry. but i don’t think it’s as polished as x4 or the snes games.

[Anonymous No.9943882]

X1 > X5 > X6 > X8 > the rest

[Anonymous No.9943951]

>>9942994
>X5
>Direct improvement over X1/X4
Wrong.

[Anonymous No.9943960]

>>9941545
X8 is pretty awful imo. The levels generally suck and the movement/controls feel pretty horrendous in comparison to everything that came before it (except for X7, of course). I'd place it below X6. Outside of that, I agree with this ranking.

[Anonymous No.9943970]

>>9943882
X1>X6>X4
The rest are trash not worth remembering.

[Anonymous No.9944282]

>>9943960
i agree with this. x8 just feels bad to play. move it to second last and it’s fine. x3 and x5 are a toss up.

[Anonymous No.9944351]

X2 is just as good as 1, even better in some aspects (more creative levels, you can get all the upgrades without revisits), so if it isn't in your top 3, you're wrong. The only legitimate flaw is not having a different ending if you get all Zero parts.

[Anonymous No.9944779]

>>9943970
X6 is so good and so bad at the same time.

[Anonymous No.9945039]

>>9941545
I could switch X5 with X8 and X6 with X7. But it's a pretty solid list.

[Anonymous No.9945070]

X4 is the best "complete package" in terms of gameplay, graphics, aesthetic, and music.
X3 is the best "secret extra stuff" game since it's balanced in other categories.
X7 and X8 are unforgivable.
X is just kind of mediocre IMO; played it too many times and it just seems too easy.
X2 is slightly better than X but I prefer X3.
X6 is the worst PSX game but leagues better than 7 and 8.

4 > 3 > 5 > 2 > 1 > 6 > 8 > 7

[Anonymous No.9945073]

>>9945070
Forgot to say X6 has probably my favorite track from the entire X series.
https://youtu.be/9sQpLCavP7g

[Anonymous No.9945151]

>>9945073
>Mentions X6's music
>Links a song from X5
>Which is just a rehash of Bubble Crab's theme from X2

[Anonymous No.9945337]

>>9943960
If nothing else X8 has the BEST controls in the franchise, maybe losing to ZX

[Anonymous No.9945412]

>>9941545
Flip X8 and X5 and it's right

[Anonymous No.9945591]

>>9945151
Shows how little I care about anything beyond X4. I'm a MMBNerd anyway.

[Anonymous No.9945597]

>>9941545
Never played 7 or 8, but this looks about right. Was the first just lightning in a bottle?

[Anonymous No.9945897]

>>9941545
I'm never going to understand what the fuck is with this gaslighting campaign on here and even /v/ with X3 somehow being this awful game.

For those who aren't trolls. There is a reason why the HD collection got split into two parts and why parts 1-4 are seen as the much better half of the collection. The real truth is after X4 this series really started to fall apart with each successive game getting worse until X8 since X7 was so bad you could only possibly go up from that piece of garbage game.

My ranking:
X4 > X3 > X1 > X2 > X5 > X6 > X8 > X7

Really though any ranking that puts 1-4 above the other half is absolutely fine by me.

[Anonymous No.9945901]

>>9941545
Yes. Best to worst is just the chronological order. X1 is perfect, X2 is good, then after they're all differing levels of bad.

[Anonymous No.9945913]

What do people dislike so much about X3? I always thought it was a solid entry in the series

[Anonymous No.9945967]

>>9945913
They probably cry because they got filtered as you can't just hold right and the charge button to win like in X2.

[Anonymous No.9946004]

>>9945913
>Bosses have about two frames of animation
>Needless backtracking
>Mandatory Bit and Byte battles
>Zero's implementation is oddly limited for some reason
>Kaiser Sigma takes up half the screen
It feels like the game was rushed out the door, we also know that Capcom outsourced most of the work to Minakuchi Engineering and not the main devs who worked on X1 and X2. The Saturn version somehow manages to be worse with borders around everything and very long load times for a 2D game, though I commend its usage of FMV cutscenes before X4.

Some people also really hate the SNES soundtrack as it moves from metal to grunge with almost nothing but guitars, I like it though.

[Anonymous No.9946013]

>>9946004
> outsourced

Like that means anything in regards to quality. It was "outsourced" to the people who made MMV GB, a game which influenced the main series in several ways. Meanwhile what do we get when it's not "outsourced" ? X5.

[Anonymous No.9946034]

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

[Anonymous No.9946064]

>>9946004
To add to this:

>The soundtrack is absolute garbage to my ears, some of it sounds like a parody of video game music
>The enemy respawn scroll threshold is insanely, we are talking NES Ninja Gaiden levels here.
>One of the more common enemies is that red robot with two spiked balls whose hitbox is shaped in a way that charge shots will just bounce off it. Really stupid.
>Very expensive in it's day due to the stupid add-on chip (meant to deter piracy?)

At the end of it's day it's still a Mega Man game so it's better than a solid 80 percent of games out there but I would consider it one of the less X titles.

[Anonymous No.9946168]

>>9946004
>Bosses have about two frames of animation
>Needless backtracking
>Mandatory Bit and Byte battles
>Zero's implementation is oddly limited for some reason
>Kaiser Sigma takes up half the screen
I don't refute any of these but I don't see them as justifying the ire X3 draws. I thought I might be missing some fundamental flaw that everyone else but me can see

[Anonymous No.9946175]

>>9946013
They had experience doing Game Boy MM games, but this was their first X game.

[Anonymous No.9946286]

>>9946064
>The soundtrack is absolute garbage to my ears, some of it sounds like a parody of video game music
This was during Capcom's edgy heavy phase but I always liked the soundtrack.
Now that you mention it, I do seem to remember the respawn rate being pretty bad and the spiked ball enemies being annoying (but not as annoying as the missile launching enemies in 4 that always block your shots).
I still think it's a great X title though, and better than anything after it, including 4.

[Anonymous No.9946295]

>>9941545
X6's core gameplay is still better than X3

[Anonymous No.9946494]

>>9946295
If they're going to give X a gimped Z-saber then they might as well not give him one at all. This applies to all X games of course. Same with Zero's bullshit weak buster shot.

There's nothing wrong with Zero being a fundamentally better character than X before X's upgrades.

[Anonymous No.9946563]

[Anonymous No.9946587]

>>9946563
What kind of fucking sicko would put Mega Man 2 in C tier. MEGA MAN 3 in D???

[Anonymous No.9946592]

>>9941750
Perfect list.

[Anonymous No.9946704]

>>9946004
>Needless backtracking
You only have to revisit 1-2 stages more than X1, it's not egregious.
>Zero's implementation is oddly limited for some reason
Zero is the clutch character for people who want to play easymode, but with a permanent loss if they die with him.

[Anonymous No.9946706]

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

[Anonymous No.9946835]

>>9946704
>Zero is the clutch character for people who want to play easymode, but with a permanent loss if they die with him.
That's not a bad idea in theory, since the beginning of X3 is pretty rough with enemies dealing way too much damage. The problem is that the game doesn't let you use Zero where you really need it, against bosses. A really dumb fuckup.

[Anonymous No.9946840]

>>9946592
I know anon, I know.

[Anonymous No.9946843]

>>9946835
Yeah and if I am not mistaken, each level has multiple boss gates, which Zero can't go through, meaning you can only use him for 1/3 (or 1/2?) of each stage, max.

[Anonymous No.9947010]

>>9946835
>the game doesn't let you use Zero where you really need it, against bosses
Of course not. Game's called Megaman X, not Megaman Zero.

[Anonymous No.9947032]

>>9941746
Best
---
X1: Mandrill
X2: Gator
X3: Beetle
X4: Stingray
X5: Dinorex
X6: Sheldon
X7: Stonekong (by default, I guess)
X8: Antonion

Worst
---
X1: Kuwanger
X2: Sponge
X3: Tiger
X4: Peacock (not terrible, just annoying)
X5: Whale
X6: well holy goddamn
X7: Boarski
X8: Man-O-War

[Anonymous No.9947097]

Holy shit I was excited to start playing mega man but there are so many games. This series is like a really big dragon dildo