Mega Man with a Portal Gun + PSN Discounts

[Malacite]

Mega Man with a Portal Gun proves that there are better realities than this one | Joystiq


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Mega Man 1, 2, 3, 9, and 10 on sale on PSN | Joystiq

In addition to the Mega Man 9 and 10 DLC packs listed as discounted in this week's PSN update, you can also get ... Mega Man 9 and 10. And Mega Mans 1-3. Though they didn't show up on Sony's official list of updates, the entire Mega Man catalog on PS3 is on sale this week, half off.

The PSOne Imports versions of Mega Man 1, 2, and 3 (based on the Japanese PlayStation re-releases) are now available for $2.99 each. Mega Man 9 and 10 sell for $4.99 each this week, with DLC bundles an extra $2.99. Given Capcom's recent attitude toward Mega Man, we'd love to see what happened if these discounts led to a massive sales boost.

[Armando]

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Given Capcom's recent attitude toward Mega Man, we'd love to see what happened if these discounts led to a massive sales boost.

Given Capcom's recent attitude toward Mega Man, I doubt these discounts are gonna get them anywhere, especially on the games that a 15 year old computer can emulate without breaking a sweat.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Given Capcom's recent attitude toward Mega Man, I doubt these discounts are gonna get them anywhere, especially on the games that a 15 year old computer can emulate without breaking a sweat.

And we wonder why they're reluctant to make more of them.

Because when they make a new one, its then:

"Why pay when I can just pirate it?"

One guy within Capcom of America recently stated that Mega Man was still an important franchise, but super important? Not really.

I can't say I disagree, really. I stopped caring back around the subpar MMX games on PSX, when they stopped bothering with things like level design entirely. I'm amazed people still care at all and there really don't seem to be that many that do save for an incredibly vocal minority who can't let go of the nostalgia - because its really all the series has now and seems to be the only thing that gets it sales at all.

Not even other older franchises of the same era are saddled with that - Mario, Sonic, Metal Gear, Zelda have all moved up and onward to greater success.

[Malacite]

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4 was amazing (save for the horrible voice acting/script) 5 and 6 were rush jobs - 5 was also meant to be the end of the series but Capcom insisted on more.

Also, I still think Hunter vs Hunter is one of the best tracks Capcom's ever done for the series.

[Armando]

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Because when they make a new one, its then:

"Why pay when I can just pirate it?"

Show me a 15 year old computer that can play Wii games. I was talking about Mega Man 1, 2, and 3.

I can't say I disagree, really. I stopped caring back around the subpar MMX games on PSX, when they stopped bothering with things like level design entirely. I'm amazed people still care at all and there really don't seem to be that many that do save for an incredibly vocal minority who can't let go of the nostalgia - because its really all the series has now and seems to be the only thing that gets it sales at all.

Nostalgia doesn't get Mega Man sales - Powered Up and Maverick Hunter X were flops. What would've gotten Mega Man some sales was Legends 3.

Not even other older franchises of the same era are saddled with that - Mario, Sonic, Metal Gear, Zelda have all moved up and onward to greater success.

Other than Sonic Colors, it's arguable Sonic moved on to greater success.

4 was amazing (save for the horrible voice acting/script) 5 and 6 were rush jobs - 5 was also meant to be the end of the series but Capcom insisted on more.

How was X5 a rush job?

[Malacite]

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Nostalgia doesn't get Mega Man sales - Powered Up and Maverick Hunter X were flops. What would've gotten Mega Man some sales was Legends 3.

I have and love both of those games. Maverick Hunter X was especially awesome, and there was plans for X2 to be remade but the first game didn't sell well enough.

How was X5 a rush job?

It just seemed to be very sloppy and poorly made in all honesty.

[Armando]

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I have and love both of those games. Maverick Hunter X was especially awesome, and there was plans for X2 to be remade but the first game didn't sell well enough.

They were well-made and full of all sorts of extras, there's no doubt about that. But they didn't sell, in part because they were recycling old games and in part because people were already desensitized from the absurd amount of sequels and spin-offs.

It just seemed to be very sloppy and poorly made in all honesty.

Are you sure you're not thinking of X6? The ending to X5 was a bit stupid, but otherwise the production value was there - anime cutscenes and dialogue that wasn't horribly mangled. It had a bunch of throwbacks to older games like the Yellow Devil, Dr. Wily's skull machines, the use of Zero's theme in the intro and Launch Octopus's stage theme in the whale boss's stage, and the foreshadowed fight between X and Zero. Plus the Eurasia incident was brought up in Mega Man Zero 4...X5 was way more significant than X4.

Let's not even get started on X6, THAT was sloppy and poorly made.

[Malacite]

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They both were to me, quite frankly.

X5 especially pissed me off because Sigma gave a big hint that Wily was somehow still alive or otherwise disturbing shit behind the scenes (which in a way, he was vicariously through Zero).

The one thing I liked about X6 was in Zero's ending, it at least sets up Mega Man Zero. It's quite obvious that was the canonical ending, even though they went and made X7 and 8... otherwise how/why the fuck was he underground and outside of his original body?

But then the whole series was always stupidly written (and I mean the entire thing - not just X). Capcom just loves plot holes. Like Sigma coming back after Zero laid into him with the anti-virus in X3

[Kailea]

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and with so many plot holes..... the biggest one of all that some people want a game/anime/something for, is the MegaMan > MegaMan X gap

For example in MegaMan Power Battle 2 Bass' ending give a big hint that Wily built Zero

[Armando]

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X5 especially pissed me off because Sigma gave a big hint that Wily was somehow still alive or otherwise disturbing shit behind the scenes (which in a way, he was vicariously through Zero).

Did it ever occur to you that it could be, I don't know, holograms of him just like Dr. Light?

For example in MegaMan Power Battle 2 Bass' ending give a big hint that Wily built Zero

Actually they first time they hint that is in X2, which came way before Mega Man 8.

Sure, he only says "the doctor," but the ending to X3 states X will have to destroy Zero to save mankind so it's pretty obvious by then. Plus Sigma says he'll com back after every game - even after Dr. Doppler/Zero hits him with the supposed vaccine. It shouldn't have come as a surprise that he was back in X4.
Unfortunately I don't see themselves filling that gap because it would prevent them from making further classic series sequels. Sure, they clearly don't give a fuck about Mega Man either way but if they can push out Mega Man 15 they will.

[Kailea]

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wow I forgot he said that..... I need to replay some of these again ;p

[Malacite]

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I always hated how they didn't clarify the gap between the original and X series (or X and Zero series for that matter).


Every time it's just "Hundreds of years later"


Umm... wut? Like, what about the massive wars that took place after Sigma was finally defeated but before the start of MMZ? And X disappearing to seal himself away etc etc... Or again in the past, what about Wily? Did he just finally die of natural causes? Did MM actually kill him (as he almost does in 7) and had to be dismantled? Did Blues ever explode? What about Forte? So many questions

I liked "The Cataclysm" video that David Anez did for his Bob & George comics. Basically, Zero was activated early and went berserk, and it took everything to bring him down >.>

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Armando - Nostalgia is all Mega Man has.

It didn't sell on PSP because it was hard to sell anything on PSP before Monster Hunter. If Final Fantasy, Metal Gear and Grand Theft Auto couldn't sell it, Mega Man didn't have a chance in hell anyway. PSP needed a social game, its own Pokemon - Monster Hunter was that game.