The Dreamwave Mega Man comic was beyond AWFUL.  It could not have died soon enough.

Knowing full well it wasn't true without even LOOKING, I looked just to see what you had actually linked to.  Random SF3 info?

:: gives ASR "get out of Mauling Tent free" coupon ::

The ass was a brilliant touch...  Though this one is just TOO busy.  The other one still seemed pretty coherant whereas this one is just kind of ALL OVER.  A bit too messy, but still good.

Where are good scans of the manga dammit!

Read better.  I saw that "video".  Those are horrible, horrible shots.

I'll say it once more because it bears repeting: No. More. Female. Robot. Masters.  Ever.  Thank you.

Where are good scans of the manga dammit!

I want the new Mega mix manga that comes with it...

Well, plotwise the series is outright ruined.  The only possible salvation is retcon or ignore X5-X8.

X9 would have to have the following to even ATTEMPT a comeback:

1) 2D.  3D does not work.  Psudo 3D/2D dose not work.  Leave 3D to the series that were built to run in it (Legends so far).

2) Return to finger numbing platform action gameplay.  Greatly related to point 1, get rid of the awful theme levels and go back to the basics that defined the games, much like MM9 has (though Classic didn't stray NEARLY as much as X had).

3) Sigma has to be involved as the villian.  Sigma is as much a part of the X series as Wily is Classic.  If not as the main force behind the plot, he needs to be have substancial involvement.

4) X or Zero, choose.  The X series has come to be defined by it's two stars.  While extra playables in Classic feel tacked on, X and Zero have the sort of synergy that doesn't come around often.  They're the pefect partners, balances to each other and offer legitament play style differences that gives more play value.  Much like in X4, I think you should get to pick from X or Zero, and play the game through as that character.  X being normal difficulty, with his ranged attacks and Zero hard mode since he's up close melee.  That being said, Axl has no place as he offers nothing X can't do and does nothing but disrupt the dynamic duo's synergy and feeling of teamwork.

5) Lose the unnecessary complexity.  Keep it to hidden heart tanks and sub tanks.  Lose the shop, it does nothing to the gameplay but add grinding.  Hidden stuff is still good, such as enviroment effects depending on stage order (like X1).  I'm not averse to "chips" to modify abilities like in X5 and X6, but not from random rage inducing "save the reploids" crap.  Maybe something more akin to the CDs from Mega Man and Bass or just outright hiding them in stages to find.  Alternate paths would also be fine if kept simple.

Basically, keep most of the early games stuff, and pick and choose the extras from the later games that actually added something.  But given how much more the X series is being pissed on by MMZ/ZX in terms of continuity and having to conform to it, I think the chances of an X revival like Classic (that actually works) is highly unlikely.  Sadly.

Except X8 wansn't any better than 5 or 6.  I'd argue it wasn't even as good as either of them.  X8 was not a good game, and it sure as hell doesn't even come close to "redeeming" the series.

I wouldn't even BEGIN to know how to make a game.

Don't let that stop you, IntiCreates doesn't either.

As funny as bees are, this is a really stupid weapon.

Better than snakes.

Best Party = X, Zero and anyone else to recover HP.

It's X and F'ing Zero for Reploid Christ's sake.  When those two team up you're just #####ed.  All the 3rd person can add is #####ting thier metal pants as they watch the most bad ass duo ever made do what they do best.

I usually had Marino in because she's hot and Nana isn't playable.  On the more tricky bosses I used Cinnimon to conserve on items.

Botos is a bastard.  I think he's weak vs ice, so equip that item that does 100% hit percent.

I'll just leave this here.

Wait, so did you get one?

Aparently, as I got shipment confirmation today.  It's all a big cluster#####, and bittersweet.

They really didn't do a good job with it, but hey, at least they made them for us.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.  They caused so many bad feelings and so much bitterness among fans it outdid any good 100 to 1.  "at least they made them" is not a pass for how #####ty they handled it.

Hold the phone.

Jill Valentine is DEAD?!

I'll assume that's what Rez was talking about when he mentioned RE5.

That's kinda #####ed up.

No, no it's not.  It's a #####ing out and out generic action shooter.  It's BUILT around being co op played.  It has removed every last vestage of what made Resident Evil Resident Evil.  Check point saves, respawning when you die, it just goes on and on.  Plus more new characters when we still haven't seen Barry, Jill or Rebecca for like 10 years.  Oh, and I don't buy Jill is dead for a second.  End of story, RE4 was a LOT more of an action game than Survival Horror, but still had enough touches that I had hope Capcom would find the balance in 5 and really get back the Resident Evil feel.  They didn't.  They went the exact OPPOSITE direction.  And while I did like RE4 enough, 5 looks to be as far removed from 4 as 4 was from 3, and that's enough to not be what I spent years enjoying and bought consoles for.

---

Great Novaman.  YOU JUST #####ING SPOILED IT FOR ME.

It's in the trailer, it's something they want to be known and not a OMG LUKE I'M YOUR FATHER plot twist moment.  And it's so painfully OBVIOUS she's not dead because they DID show it if you believe it you're an idiot.  No disrespect

Yesterday was a bad day.  A very bad day.  Made worse by the MM9 press kit bull##### that we've all suffered from.  So I tell you now that when I get an email from the Capcom store confirming my MM9 press kit shipped, I just shook my head with a mix of redemption, disgust, joy and contempt.  To be sure this is a most bitter sweet victory, and I'm still utterly disgusted with Capcom right now (new news on RE5 yesterday didn't help with that either).

I wish the rest of you the best of luck.

The entire way Capcom handled the press kit makes me sick.  It's created nothing but malice and disappointment among fans.  As quite possibly the most incredible extra ever made given the game can't be bought if they couldn't make enough to meet demand or at least TRY to meet demand it shouldn't have been made at all.  They way they gave out line cut codes did nothing to serve fans, as I'd wager 99% of them aren't members of the CU forums.  How many do you think they gave out the people who just signed up to get a code?  I'd be not a lot, if any.  Bah, you know what, I'm not going to keep going.  We all know what bull##### the entire thing has been.  Way to destroy the good will and excitement Mega Man 9 created Capcom.

Sorry you got a particularly large ass full of bull##### Morg.  You definitely deserve one a press kit.

Uh yup, it's official.  Back order.  Now I get to spend I don't know how many weeks getting my $60 out ouf limbo in Capcom land and back into my paypal account.  So now I have no press kit and am out $60 for who knows how #####ing long.  I think I'm going away for a while.  Until the rage is gone.

Keep the mauling tent full for me.

Oct 9, 2008 5:02:34 PM

2 and a half minutes.  Who the ##### knows.

Also Metrod!

I've never heard of this "Metrod" but it sounds INTREAGUING!  Tell me more!

I didn't notice anything, I just stated a fact.

Hey, at least now X8 will look like a good game!

How does that render my previous statement false?

I think you're missing the point he's an idiot, Mike.

Now you know our pain.

I turn sounds OFF on Trillian because they ARE annoying during a conversation...

Maybe give the option to turn them on or off with a command?

Well, her old one DOES show more skin...

Assuming since after I paid, the screen came back complete garbage with no confirmation screen, that it didn't get through in time.  Upon logging back in to my account, it says order submitted.  So looks like after the server rush is over and it emails me back an "out of stock" I'll be looking at having $60 in transit for a good week/2 weeks until it's refunded.  I... sadkfj

:: walks away before he puts his fist through the monitor ::

: preventerWIND   9 October 2008, 17:58:09

Yeah, all positive feedback. This is going great, hopefully he'll get it within the next couple of hours..

Just in case, I bought a Mega Man T-Shirt so that I could have an account at their store (So I could get through the flood gates quicker).

It's disgusting that you actually have to buy something to get a store account at Capcom.

Wait, what?  You have to have an account, and the only way to get one is to buy something? SON OF A BITCH.

I'm not buying something I don't need/want just to get an account to buy something I do want but have next to no chance to get.  Christ on a Crackerjack.  You know, what, ##### it.  ##### IT.  ##### Capcom, ##### it all.  I'm done.  ##### MM9.  Way do nothing but piss people off over something that should be reason to celebrate.

That's far too grating.  You have to use something softer and more subtle.

I don't trust anything X related because Zero would be MMZ'd style and X would get his god awful X8 style.

Guess I'll be importing this one...

Trigger AND Classic Roll?  Do want!

NES MM 1up sound.  Subject closed.

Resident Evil Code Veronica would like to argue with you.

All time should be 10, as should the weekly.

That's going up right when I'd leave work.  So I guess I'll stick around and F5 before I leave.

But it is Rez. Companies do this all the time.

I mean, look at Brawl. Compare it to DBZ Budokai.

People have no sense of originality these days...

What the ##### are you talking about?  That has nothing to do with him saying TvC is literally just Capcom slopping ##### together using MUGAN or a similiar method.  I don't really care about how original you think the concept is, because even "original" fighting games have little originality.

Shouldn't that be auto-ban?

I got Endless Attack mode... It's GREAT... but cheap sometimes. 

Oh, and I'm never looking at the rankings for it ever again. Seriously, someone got over 3000 screens done. I barely got 97 done and only died because of #####ing TornadoMan and I also had no health left.

I can't believe some loser just stays there playing the game repeatedly to get 3000 screens.

I think we should probably make a topic here called "MMM's MM9 Leaderboards" or something so we can post the top 10 best scores/times for us, because to be honest, all these ridiculous times/scores in MM9 is really getting kinda sad.

Those ridiculous scores should be removed.  Or the scores reset weekly or something.  If you want, maybe keep an "all time" list, but at least fresh weekly/monthly tables would let NORMAL people compete.

The only difference is that it is in 3d but still it looks almost identical

No, it doesn't.  Not even close.

i use the newest version it is highly upgraded it is basically using the same graphic output as marvel vs capcom.

It has the same "output" as whatever ripped sprite they frankenstein into it, it always has.  Really, the more you continue to insist that TvC looks like/is a MUGEN ripoff the more you make yourself look like a complete idiot.  I really have no choice but to assume you're just trolling, and that will result in a prompt ban.  So I strongly suggest you quit while you're ahead.

I wouldn't mind one CUSTOM avatar as long as we can use other ones as well.
Hell, do you mods complain about it?

No, but we get a custom avatar AND can use the Mega Man ones.   You'd be limited to one avatar FOREVER if the rules were the same as they were back in the day as far as space goes.  We'd have to clear out all the MM avatars to make space for the custom avatars.

No i am not its just that MUGEN has the set up. Playstation and Capcom just ripped of mugen to make a cash game what a holes

... Christ.  What are you, 5?  Mugen at it's BEST looks like and plays like an amateur effort.  To even SUGGEST that TvC is running on MUGEN or something of the like is so utterly laughable it's sad.  If this is the best you can offer to the community, I think you should go back to sucking on your mom's teet and leave the discussing to the adults.

I was refering to Xero's ZX comment.  Though, when you have 6 games in a series and 2 are good, 1 is great and the other 3 are beyond ass (5 if you count BCC and NT), can you really say the series as a whole is good if you have to quantify either or?

Noting, of course, I agree with Mikero that 1-3 are awesome and 4-6 are abortions.

ZX isn't ass....

Don't correct the boy when he's right.

Save female robot masters for MEGA ROLL!  Christ, it makes so much more sense.

I'm pissed off AND jealous!

Odd, why would he asked to be mauled from from the inside out?  Well, I always try to be accommodating. 

:: releases Nibbles ::

I'll just add again, ##### YOU CAPCOM.

Nice RMs, but I do not like female bosses.  One is fine, but I think it should be left at that.

Violence against women is WRONG.

...

:: frowns DEEPLY ::

I liked quite a few of X2s themes, though no where near approaching X1s.