Perhaps you prefer the Classic series today, perhaps not. Regardless of that, for those of you who played Mega Man on NES growing up and who were around in 1993 when Mega Man X came out, can any of you say with a straight face that at that time, you witnessed and played this game and thought "meh, not impressed"?
MMX came out in late 93.That's 3 years after ActRaiser (2 in the US), Gradius III and Final Fight. 2 years and a half after Turtles in Time. 2 years after Castlevania IV and Super Ghouls'n Ghost. 1 year and a half after Contra III.1 year after Cybernator.It wasn't a straight jump from "NES Mega Man" to "SNES Mega Man X", that's just youtuber knowledge talk.
>>12382825I wasn't aware of it until a few years down the line since I was born in 93 but Megaman X absolutely registered as being the most badass thing imaginable when I went from Megaman 8 on my dad's PS1 to X1 on my best friends SNES.>>12382832Eh, you know what he meant.
>>12382825i fucking loved it when it came out. was blown away on every conceivable level. it was a masterpiece, and was a feather in nintendo's lineup against the mega drive
>>12382825It was the best mega man game in 93. Heck, mega man 6 came out the same year. and yes I did play it when it came out. It completely blew you away as a gamer.
>>12382825I wasn't "blown away," but that's only because my expectations were high. It's what I assumed a Mega Man game for SNES should be like. It's only in retrospect I can appreciate how much better it is than other games.
When a new game came out you mostly compared it to its contemporary peers, not an old game from the previous gen.No one went OH WOW THESE GRAPHICS ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN A NES GAME on a console that has been out for a while
>>12382825No, are there really people that contrarian?
"good game bad" is just a low effort way to troll people, don't tell me you believe the anons posting stuff like that actually played the games in any sort of meaningful way. At most they emulated for a bit
We'd already had five main series Mega Man games before Mega Man X released, and to be quite frank, most Mega Man games are kind of samey, so I remember quite a few people weren't all that impressed by Yet Another Mega Man Game.
>>12382825I can’t I liked itThe run animation was a little weird but other than that, it was great
>>12382825I didn't like the dialogue, but otherwise it's pretty good.Never been a favourite or anything, but it's good.
>>12382825I picked this up on a rental during the winter blast we had in January 1994*. I fucking loved it. It tries so many new ideas and they all work. It was THE breath of fresh air the series needed.*I'm a huge mark for 1994 in general and the fact the year STARTS with this game (at least in the US) and ends with stuff like FFIII and DKC gives you an idea of what an incredible year it is.
I love the game to pieces, but I'm gonna be that guy and post some flaws with the game, though many of them are mostly technical.- The intro is great, especially for newcomers to the series, but it's a bit slow on repeat playthroughs once you're used to dashing around- it becomes pretty easy once you get most of the upgrades, though Sigma can still be trouble if you don't know what you're doing- there's lots of slowdown when there's more than a few sprites on-screen, but this is more of an issue with the slow CPU (I'd love to see if a hack has fixed this with SA-1 integration or something)- music is awesome, but brought down a little by the muffled output of the SNES audio chip, though not by much (maybe someone's done a "restored" high-quality MSU-1 hack?)- password system rather than a save system makes it a bit more tedious to resume a playthrough, though on the other hand, it does allow you to mess around with password generatorsThat's about all I got. Again, some of this is just due to tech limitations. It's really just an awesome game overall.
>>12389875The pw shit doesn't bother me cause it's a very short game
>>12390835That's true, and the password isn't that long either. It's cool for dicking around, too. Sometimes I just wanna feel powerful and put in a password that gives me every upgrade without having defeated any mavericks.
>>12389371The dialog is a little lame but there's not much of it, and it's all consistently on-theme. The worst part is that tards started expecting more dialog and 'plot' and melodrama from the series and the devs seemed only to happy to shovel it out. It started the trend.
