Mega Man

[Pike]

What is your favorite Mega Man game?

I'm oldschool and I have to go with 2.

All that insane difficulty.

All those classic enemies:



All that music. Suuuch good music.

Let's talk about the Blue Bomber.

[Skyblade]

Pike, slow down a bit. The forum can only handle so many new threads.

Megaman Battle Network 3, followed by Megaman X3, and then Megaman Zero.

[Pike]

Pike, slow down a bit. The forum can only handle so many new threads.

I refuse to slow down! We can always use more gaming threads.

[Del Murder]

I'm partial to Mega Man 3 because it introduced Proto Man and the slide move which added some variety to the gameplay. It's also before the Mega Buster made the games too easy.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I honestly haven't played very many Mega Man games, but I love Mega Man X. It's the one I've probably played the most.

I did love Mega Man Legends when I was younger. I need to find a copy and play it again because I can't remember very much about it, though. It might be my actual favorite, but I can't remember it well enough to know for sure.

[Sephex]

Any one who frequents here knows that I love Mega Man 2. Second favorite game of all time. Beat it black out drunk I am so good at it, blah, blah, blah...

Anyway, the original series is my favorite, and I got quite good at them. You won't catch me doing some insane speed or no hit run, but I can handle them all with little to no trouble. Hell, when I first played Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10 I cleared both those games with a times around 2 hours (a little less for 9, a little more for 10)! '

If I sound like I am being a typical internet Brag Man, I apologize. It's just that besides MM2, I used to terribly suck at all of them. Well, maybe I am being a but too hard on myself, but MM2 was seriously the only one I could conquer.

As for the other series? I love/like Mega Man X through X5. I adore the Legends games, and other games from other series were pretty fun.

Pike, you keep reminding me of great video game memories today. Thank you!

[Slothy]

I like the older Mega Man games quite a bit, but the X series has always been among my favourites. Granted, X was the first actual Mega Man game I played so there is that, but I'm also a big fan of games with really cool movement mechanics and the dash in the X series is pure genius, especially combined with the wall jumping.

And, of course, Mega Man Legends is an awesome series and Capcom is dead to me.

[Bolivar]

Mega Man X5 for being an awesome, FFIX-esque tribute to the series and originally meant to be the last game in the series.

My favorite one to go back to and mess around with to challenge myself is the original Mega Man, whether it's a PC rom, the Gamecube anniversary collection, or the PSOne Import on my PSP Go in Japanese lol.

And Mega Man Legends is a crazy slept on classic. It had open-world, RPG, dungeon-crawling elements, it was way ahead of its time. Archaic camera controls of the pre-dualshock era hold it back, but it's still a great game.

[Andio]

Megaman X1 was my first megaman game and is my favorite. I memorized all the secrets too, heart containers and sub tanks.

Sad to know that they quit making them.

[Electroshock Therapy]

It's so hard to choose.

Mega Man 1-8 is pure bliss. I never played 9 and 10 and I'm not rushing out to buy them. We already have 6 NES games, do we really need two more in that style?

Mega Man X1-5 and X8 are also pure bliss and in some ways an improvement. I like that you had to find items and I love intricate platforming with spikes all around like they did in X5 and X8. I really need to play Command Mission.

Mega Man Legends 1 and 2. It's Zelda and Mega Man combined! How can you not love that?

I'm going to go with X5. Not only was it my first traditional Mega Man game (Legends was my actual first), but the gameplay and story are just awesome. Legends 1 and 2 closely follow.

[Dr Unne]

Mega Man 2 is best Mega Man. Best soundtrack of any Mega Man by far. Enemy and level design was very solid. When you consider that a couple people at Capcom pretty much made Mega Man 2 in their spare time, it's pretty impressive.

Mega Man 3 is a close second. I do miss Rush in Mega Man 2. I don't miss the slide mechanic or the charge-up cannon mechanic.

I never played 9 and 10 and I'm not rushing out to buy them. We already have 6 NES games, do we really need two more in that style?

Yes. Yes we do. The series started going off the rails around Mega Man 4 or 5. They kept adding a bunch of extraneous features. 9 and 10 strip most of that out and go back to the roots of 1 and 2. 9 and 10 are amazing, everyone owes it to themselves to try them. Or at least download the soundtrack. Or one of the many remixes of the soundtrack.

If they released a new Mega Man game in this style every year, I'd buy them for sure and I'm not alone. People are starving for games like this. Look at the success of fan-made Street Fighter x Mega Man and Mega Man Unlimited.

[Electroshock Therapy]

Yes. Yes we do. The series started going off the rails around Mega Man 4 or 5. They kept adding a bunch of extraneous features. 9 and 10 strip most of that out and go back to the roots of 1 and 2. 9 and 10 are amazing, everyone owes it to themselves to try them. Or at least download the soundtrack. Or one of the many remixes of the soundtrack.

If they released a new Mega Man game in this style every year, I'd buy them for sure and I'm not alone. People are starving for games like this. Look at the success of fan-made Street Fighter x Mega Man and Mega Man Unlimited.

I just don't understand it, really. We've already had those types of games, so why go backward when you can go forward. That's why I like 7 and 8. They felt fresh and new. I do agree with many people that Mega Man does go crazy with it's sequels, but they usually always add some new feature to make it different from the last. I think that's why I like the X series so much. They're always changing. That's what keeps me playing them.

[Hollycat]

Battle Network 3 is my favorite Megaman game

Next it would go
BN1
BN2
ZX advent
BN4
BN6
BN5

Everything else.

[Elskidor]

I've been wanting to play Mega Man Legends a lot lately.

[Spuuky]

I like Mega Man 4 the most, because it's the point where things really go off the rails in terms of character design.