Is using E-tanks in Mega Man considered cheating?
Yes, picking up health and using anything other than the buster is also cheating. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
>devs add a power up>you can't use because I said noFuck off
>>12594857No, the level designs and bosses are shit because they are all designed and balanced around the e-tanks which is why the first is the best and most pure
No, it's a finite resource and you have to manage your usage of them. It's a leniency mechanic introduced to give players a chance to beat the game.The original Mega Man games didn't have any kind of evaluation system (ignoring MM1's nonsense score system), but if you approached it like Mega Man Zero, using it would incur a score penalty.The temptation to grab the useful item itself is also effective in stage design. Your image omits the part where there's an gap you cannot jump over; a novice player will jump down to grab the E-Tank, but fail to account for needing an Item like 1 or 2 to keep both the E-Tank and their current life.
>if you>use e tanks>get health>get extra lives>use boss weapons>use items to skip parts of levels like heat man>use pause glitches>damage boost over spikes>play on normal on mm2>use charged buster in mm4 and after>use passwords at all>use lag to your advantage>used a continueYou didn't beat the game.
>>12594857I'd say they definitely feel like a crutch for unskilled players. Can you really say you mastered the game if you just facetank a boss chugging health refills until he's dead?
>>12594871Most (all?) Mega Man games let you farm e-tanks repeatedly, some even let you repeat completed stages for e-tanks. Plus there's plenty enough e-tanks to trivialize every difficult section of the games. If somehow you missed or wasted every e-tank and are in a situation you can't win, you can blast through the whole game in an hour once you know what you're doing and just steamroll with your collection of e-tanks.Basically the e-tanks are way too strong and absolutely fucked the balance. This is even worse in the X games with the body parts and Zero games with the elf shit.
>>12594880Obviously not, but you can't conflate beating the game by any means, with conquering it.Now, the W-tanks and M-Tanks on the other hand; skilled players can take advantage of them to be time and weapon energy efficient in the castle stages, where weapon energy does not refill between levels.>>12594881Mega Man 2 in particular doesn't let you re-attempt stages. I can't recall which games let you replay cleared stages off the top of my head though, but I would expect it's the games like 5 onwards where there are hidden collectibles in each stage that amount to unlocking something new and useful.
>>12594879If you die, you should just turn off the console, throw away the game and buy another copy, because multiple lives doesn't exists
>>12594886>Mega Man 2 in particular doesn't let you re-attempt stagesBut you can keep killing yourself and collecting E tanks until they're maxed out.
>>12594890Sure, since you can abuse game overs to farm lives, and there's little consequence to those in Mega Man 2 onwards since you just go back to the start of the level. It's more consequential in the castle stages though.If you actually need to resort to that strategy though, you must really fucking suck at the game.Hell farming for lives in the Air Man stage is really fucking easy.
>>12594902>If you actually need to resort to that strategy though, you must really fucking suck at the gameStill beat it though :^)
It's cheating if you use them in Mega Man 1.
>>12594919Well that'd be impossible, unless they were added in some kind of re-release.Did Powered Up have them?
>>12594927No. That's one of the things that makes the Oil Man playthrough fucking impossible.
>>12594890E-Tanks don't reappear in any Mega Man game until you fully game over (not just killing yourself), and in only MM2 you lose all the E-Tanks you have on you when you game over.
>>12594890>>12594902Wanna know how I know you've never played Megaman?
>>12594857if you even ask this question you didnt, and can never beat the game
>>12594857yes using what the game provides you in the stages is cheating
>>12594857
If you specifically replay levels and GRIND for them, it's not cheating, but it's pathetic.
>>12594949Pro-tip: don't grab the checkpoint on Wily 3. You will get to grab the 1UP before the teleport room after each death, which makes rematching Fire Man actually somewhat reasonable as Oil Man.
