Your thoughts on the Mega Man X series?

[-FiniteZero-]

By the by, if you guys like X3 and wish you could play as Zero more often, there's a hack for that.

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/888/

It's a pretty neat hack.

[Laggy Blazko]

Uh, you don't need the chips in order to use the armour's functions.

Wut? Then I never could figure out how to use Dr. Light's Capsules. When I entered, nothing happened.

[-FiniteZero-]

I think you need the armor pieces from the red capsules before you can use the pink capsules.

[Rui]

First X game I ever played was Mega Man X8, tbh.



I had a lot of fun with it, gameplay felt personally nice, and the Japanese opening theme will always be the best. Which is what got me into Janne Da Arc and Acid Black Cherry..

Other X games I played was X1 and X4....

X1 was pretty fun and the opening stage theme grew on me.

X4 I instantly got when i realized it was also on PC and it was the only game I ever played on my old tiny laptop. That one is probably my favorite.

I haven't beaten any of the X games, though.... they're pretty hard..

[*Alice]

Hard? X1-X3 are a lot easier than the classic series' first 3 games.

[Emmanuelf06]

The hardest are X3 and X6 I think.
X5, even in hard mode, is not so hard (but without the fourth armor, it can be really difficult), the boss of final stages of X3 is pretty complicate too.

[Yuri Sakazaki]

I like Mega Man X1 quite a lot, being the only X game I personally own. Something I like to personally pick up and play every now and then, alongside pretty much any of the Classic series.

I however thought the series got blander as it went on, X2-X3 I have no real fond memories of, there's way too much to collect, the instrumentation in the music was worse compared to the first game. (Composititions weren't bad, this was certainly fixed in X3's arranged soundtrack)

X4-6, I can't really comment on as I haven't played those in possibly over a decade. One thing is for sure though, X6 made me quit the series.

(Also all the serious tone plots got bleh relatively quick)

[-FiniteZero-]

So I played X1-3 (using copious amounts of save states, of course) all the way through. I actually quite enjoyed them, and they were all fun. Though, it helps that I was using that Zero hack of X3 that helped my enjoyment quite a bit.

Now, onto X4-6!

[Accel]

Hard? X1-X3 are a lot easier than the classic series' first 3 games.

Really? I found X1 to be moderately difficult, X2 was 2EZ, and X3 just mindbendingly hard. Maybe I just suck at X3.

[-FiniteZero-]

X3 is pretty hard. Especially that final boss.

[LlamaHombre]

X3 is stupid hard until you get a couple of Heart Tanks - everything in that game does Glue Man levels of contact damage early on.

I generally don't like this series much at all, but I'll elaborate on why a little later.

[Emmanuelf06]

Find the armor is cool but when i must find the "heart" parts, it's really boring....Some weapons could be hard to find or Armors, like a cool challenge.
A friend told me He prefer the classic serie because you dont need to do some useless search.

[BiscuitSlash]

Finding heart tanks is no where near as satisfying as finding HPmemories from Battle Network.

X5-7 has a problem with heart tanks, in that the character that collects them is the one that uses them, which is actually hard to keep track of and can create imbalance with the characters and also reduce the feeling of progression and gaining power. There should have been 2 (or 3 in X7) heart tanks together in each stage for each character to use.

I can see why X8 changed the heart tank mechanic.

[Emmanuelf06]

Finding heart tanks is no where near as satisfying as finding HPmemories from Battle Network.

NOT really because the gameplay of Rockman EXE is PROGRESSIVE. You start with easy virus and finish with hard virus.
You can't say MMX is progressive, well 8 boss harder or less, it depends, i think, only the armor is fun to find because:
With 100% of the heart/life jauge, you can finish the game without armor (if you are very good).
With 100% of the heart/life jauge, if you are not good, you can finish the game but you need the armors.
But start with a very few of HP is boring....specially if the game is HARD.

For rockman EXE, you can find it easily (with netdealers by exemple or blue crystal), and it looks more balanced for that. 100 HP in the start is enough to start the story of the game (EXE 3 by exemple).

[BiscuitSlash]

Bit of an odd comparison on my part. I always love finding a HPmemory but I don't get that satisfaction from heart tanks. It's likely because I almost never expect the HPmemories, whereas the heart tanks are easy to expect and memorize.

But start with a very few of HP is boring

Agreed. X and Zero (and to a lesser extent, Axl) are supposed to be some of, if not, the most powerful characters of their series, and to not be very durable to most of their enemies does break that suspension of disbelief a little.