Megaman Series

[black orb]

>>> I like the original and X series before they went 3D, I dont like the new games like Legends, and Battle-network.
also I never played "MM Zero" but the character design is already a turn-off for me.

[Rengori]

The original series never went 3D.

[Erdrick Holmes]

I still want Megaman 9 to arrive. Hopefully it'll be great.

[black orb]

The original series never went 3D.

>>> Yeah, i was refering to MMX.

[Classic Axe]

First game I ever played was megaman. The definition of classic gaming.

[Lord Chainsaw]

"Reploid" refers to a robot based on X's design. X himself isn't a reploid, and since Wily apparently began work on Zero prior to Light's construction of X, neither is Zero.

Or, that's the way it used to be. It seems like after the first game, the term "reploid" gradually came to mean just any robot existing in 21XX.

(SPOILER)I can't recall anything about reploids being copies of X's design, but if you're going by the context of the word reploid as a reproduction of a prototype design, then they are copies of Sigma's design, not X's. Light's original creation was Sigma, not X. X is the superior design and is able to beat Sigma because unlike Sigma, he has the capacity to become stronger through heart tanks, weapon upgrades and such.

Though Capcom considers both Sigma and X to be reploids, so nothing is really certain anymore. Personally, I think the story got shot to hell as soon as the words "Sigma Virus" showed up in the series. I think that was X3 but I'm not sure.

[abrojtm]

The original series for me (up to IV at least, and then of course VII), then the X series, then the Battle Network series, and I haven't played enough of the Legends or Zero series to know enough about them to put them in ranking. But lionx is right, Mega Man Soccer am goal!! (That game actually was pretty fun). Rockman and Forte was also really really fun; especially if you had played MMVII.

[Chzn8r]

Playing Megaman for the story is like reading Playboy for the game reviews.

And the original series is the best, though I have favorites among some of the others.

[Rengori]

(SPOILER)I can't recall anything about reploids being copies of X's design, but if you're going by the context of the word reploid as a reproduction of a prototype design, then they are copies of Sigma's design, not X's. Light's original creation was Sigma, not X. X is the superior design and is able to beat Sigma because unlike Sigma, he has the capacity to become stronger through heart tanks, weapon upgrades and such.

Though Capcom considers both Sigma and X to be reploids, so nothing is really certain anymore. Personally, I think the story got shot to hell as soon as the words "Sigma Virus" showed up in the series. I think that was X3 but I'm not sure.

Dr Light made X, not Sigma, Sigma was created later as a Maverick Hunter. Dr. Light is in the upgrade capsules that were recorded at least 30 years earlier and refers to X alone. Sigma then got Maverick Virus and spreaded it around. Later, Sigma made a stronger Virus, called the Sigma Virus. And I said it earlier, a reploid is a robot capable of advanced thinking and human emotions.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

From Dr. Cain's journal in the MMX manual:

April 15th

I've been going over [Light's] design notes and they are...beyond anything the world has ever seen. Using them as a guide, I may be able to replicate his design and integrate them into a new generation of robots.

Then,

November 22nd

With X's help I have completed my first "Reploid." Although I don't completely understand how all of Dr. Light's systems work, I was able to make some minor midifications and the reploid seems to be functioning perfectly.

Also, read this.

[Rengori]

I need to start thinking more before I write these...

[Lord Chainsaw]

Well that's pretty interesting. I didn't know that. I had just assumed that some dude who wrote an 8 page thesis on the Mega Man X7 board on Gamefaqs a year ago knew what he was talking about when he described the history of X and Sigma.

Just goes to show why the original series is still my favorite.

[Rengori]

Ah. It's not that hard to figure out the original series, since this is the storyline right here: Wily makes 8 new robot masters, puts on a disguise, frames someone, or blackmails someone to making 8 robot masters, for some reason the army can't take out a single robot master locking itself up in a fortress, and then Rockman, possibly Forte, steps in to save the day.

[Ryth]

Legends. The first was my favorite Megaman game ever.

[Momiji]

Well, I like all of them, but if I had to play favorites, it would go in this order...somewhat.

1st Place- Legends
1st Place(tied)- Battle Network, but only 3, 4, and 5.
2nd Place- X series (MM Zero is somewhat a story of the X series in itself, so they are the same to me)
3rd Place- the original RockMan series.

Although I have never played Legends 1, 2, or Misadventures of Tron Bonne, I have played Megaman 64 on emulator... Tron is just too hilarious to be in second or third place.

The series that really made me like the Megaman series was the battle network series, just for its ability to be fun, yet however to remain so simple.

X1 was really the first MegaMan game I ever really played through... at that time, the only one I had played before was RockMan 4, and that was just too hard for me. (God, give me a break... I wasn't even 6 years old yet!)