Mega Man!

[Flying Arrow]

Original. I still play through Mega Mans 2, 3 and 4 when I get stressed out. The X series isn't as good, except for the first X game, which is magnificent.

I've never had a chance to play the Zero, ZX, Battle Network or Legends games. Hell, I haven't even played 5-8 in the original series or X5-X8 in the X series.

[Yeargdribble]

I really loved the original series as a kid. I played the crap out of them. When I first saw X I thought it was going to be an abomination. It was awesome. X2 was even better. X3 was less good and then after that it was steep decline, but I probably love the first 3 X games the most out of everything if I take of the nostalgia goggles.

[Jowy]

Mega Man 2 and X2 are two of my favorite games ever.

[Mercen-X]

I'm not really a Mega Fan of Mega Man. I got close to the end of Mega Man 5, but never really tried to beat any of them. In fact, Mega Man 5 is the only installment I own and we just recently got a Nintendo to go with it. (My parents bought it somehow and I had to explain that we could have merely downloaded pretty much all of our currently owned Nintendo games onto computer for free or bought a Wii and tried to get'em on there.)

I've seen pictures of "Nightmare" Zero though, so whatever game he's from has got to be good.

[Jowy]

Mega Man 2 is pretty much the best game on the NES. And it's only 500 Wii points!

[black orb]

>>> Classic and X, all the other suck..

[KentaRawr!]

Okay, now I've beaten Mega Man games 2-7. I enjoyed all of the games, but I think that the day where I beat 2-3 was the most enjoyable. Mega Man 4 was good, 5 was neat, and 6 was okay and remarkably easy. The hardest Mega Man game may have been 3, but definitely not 2. 2 was almost as much of a cakewalk as 6.

Edit: Whichever game had Dr. Cossack was epicsauce, but I've already forgotten which it was because they were all so similar! D:

[qwertysaur]

Cossack is in 4. I remember that one because toadman is an idiot who doesn't attack if you shoot him.

[KentaRawr!]

Cossack is in 4. I remember that one because toadman is an idiot who doesn't attack if you shoot him.

Right, Toad Man. And 6 had Mr. X or some such, and 5 had Protoman.

[Robostar]

I like all the mega man games! Its so hard to choose which one is my favorite. I like Battle Network, Legends, Star Force, X, Classic the most tho. The battle network games were so much fun I loved playing them.

[Zeromus_X]

X series is probably my overall favorite in music and style, of course I still like the classic series a lot too. Recently got to play Mega Man 9 and it was pretty nice to sit down with a nostalgic game like that (after dying the first 30 times of course). Although I've at least tried out all of the X series, there's still a few of the classic series I've never even played.

Haven't really gotten into any of the other series.

[Roogle]

My experience with the Megaman series can be described easily with the following anecdote:

A friend and I decided to play through Megaman 7 on ZSNES together when I was about sixteen years old. I had only played the Megaman X series, so I thought that this might have been a good change of pace because I heard there was a shop and some other cool elements. I had trouble getting used to the different platform elements and died right away; my friend took over on her turn and got through the entire level without a problem, but she was hit by an enemy right before the boss lair and said, "Argh, I got hit!" and finished the level without a problem.

I am not good with platforming games like Megaman, I think, but I enjoy them for what they are.

I perform a rap based on Splash Woman that I will be featuring on YouTube soon, too. Splash Woman by Random.

[RedPouch]

X series is probably my overall favorite in music and style

I wish I could say the same. You'll probably hate my short review on the music for the Mega Man X series once you read on.

I perform a rap based on Splash Woman that I will be featuring on YouTube soon, too. Splash Woman by Random.

Very cool.

I voted for the classic series. It's definitely my favourite by far, but that's probably because I grew up with that [along with FF I and Dragon Warrior I-IV]. I believe that Mega Man 2 was also the first Mega Man game I ever played. I also love the Mega Man X series, but only 1, 2, and 3. I never played the others.


Read on ONLY if you care to read my opinions on the Mega Man games:



Mega Man 1: I actually played this game long after I played 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, but only because it's practically impossible to find. I think most fans of the classic Mega Man series might find this one to be pretty hard, because for some reason a lot of people have torn their hair out due to its demands on platforming skills.

Mega Man 2: This is notoriously one of the easiest Mega Man games out there, but it's also one of the most popular if only for its soundtrack. For an NES game, this game actually had really wonderful music that I loved as a kid. I've always loved games with a darker tone for a soundtrack and this game definitely hits the spot with that one.

Mega Man 3: Another Mega Man with a wonderful soundtrack, which has a darker tone that I enjoy. However this game has a higher difficulty setting than 2, but I wouldn't consider it to be "hard".

Mega Man 4: I liked it, but the music style got a little too "bright and cheery" for my tastes, which was annoying. I think music for games like this have a huge impact.

Mega Man 5, and 6: Hated them. They reverted back to very easy play-through, to the point where it was SO easy that it was ridiculous. The musics flat-out sucked.

Mega Man 7: SNES entry - the final boss was kinda hard, but like with all AI, has an easy pattern to master. Everyone probably feels nice once they master killing him without getting hit. Oh, and the music totally sucked. Disaster.

Mega Man 8: Playstation entry - this game was strangely fun. I have no idea what they were thinking with the music, but it all basically sounds like k-pop elevator music [which really doesn't fit the game at all, but it's pretty nice and relaxing to listen to]. The voice acting for Clown Man and Aqua Man will make anybody laugh. Funny game, but in a good way.

Mega Man 9: I think this is universally agreed upon to be the hardest of the classic series. It had some pretty nice music as well, except for the boss theme. The boss theme sounds like you're in an RPG game, with level 5 characters and you're fighting your first boss in the game - the mutated cat that escaped from the evil wizard's laboratory. Watch out for his claw attack!

Mega Man X 1, 2, 3: I loved these games a lot, but I hated almost all of the musics, except for the boss themes for X2 and X3. The stage musics in each game kept getting worse and worse, until the point where they all started to sound THE EXACT SAME AS EACHOTHER and I felt like I was literally listening to the same track over and over. The exception of course is the music for Blizzard Buffalo's stage in X3 - I loved it, though for some odd reason, it sounds almost nothing like any of the other musics from any of these three games.



Unfortunately, I haven't played any other Mega Man games!

I am not good with platforming games like Megaman, I think, but I enjoy them for what they are.

I'll force you to be good at them. We'll have to play one sometime once we finish playing our current game!

[KentaRawr!]

I always find it odd when people say music flat-out sucks in a video game. Maybe I'm just too forgiving of stale soundtracks, but I found all of the Mega Man games' soundtracks, from 1-9 to X1-X3 to at least be decent. I don't regularly listen to many of them, but none of them made me go "Ooh nuuuuu volume down now."

[RedPouch]

I always find it odd when people say music flat-out sucks in a video game. Maybe I'm just too forgiving of stale soundtracks, but I found all of the Mega Man games' soundtracks, from 1-9 to X1-X3 to at least be decent. I don't regularly listen to many of them, but none of them made me go "Ooh nuuuuu volume down now."

Music is really important to me, as is visual art. Mega Man 4 had some decent musics, but with this game and others after that, they went from very darker toned/interesting musics to happy cheery generic trash that sounds like any random amatuer music-synthesis artist could've made up. I never had the urge to "volume down now" as you said because I have some tolerance, but nevertheless I found a lot of the aforementioned musics to be quite poor and stupid sounding, especially Mega Man 7 [seriously, what were they thinking when they chose the synth instruments for this?], where the only decent stage music is Shade Man's stage.

Better musics of Mega Man:
Mega Man 2 - Bubble Man
Mega Man 2 - Quick Man
Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily's Castle

Terrible Mega Man musics that I wish didn't exist:
Mega Man 7 - Turbo Man Stage [AKA Happy Sunday at the Park]
Mega Man 7 - Auto's Shop [AKA SOMEONE SHOOT THE RETARD THAT MADE THIS MUSIC]

It's just my opinion, but ironically I feel that their older musics were a lot better than their newer ones.