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Title: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: Block Devil on June 08, 2017, 07:31:06 AM
Megaman has departed from the abhorrent company Konami and (If I stand corrected) has moved to Nintendo, Which is a good thing since Konami is basically going into a downwards spiral. But here's my concern:

Is Nintendo going to do anything with the Megaman series? If they are, I just hope it wouldn't be just a half-assed game with Megaman's name slapped on it.

Edit: This is my first go at making a post.
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: GameAndWatcher on June 08, 2017, 03:42:48 PM
Konami? Mega Man's a Capcom franchise, not Konami.
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: fortegigasgospel on June 08, 2017, 09:00:09 PM
To everyone who thinks "Nintendo is a great place for Mega Man and that they would show him the love and respect he deserves."
F-Zero
Metroid (Pre-Forces, which many people argue is barely a Metroid game)
Starfox (Pre-Zero)

Ask yourself when the last serious release to any of those games were then try telling yourselfs again "Nintendo will show Mega Man the love and respect he deserves."
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: Promestein on June 09, 2017, 04:25:17 AM
Capcom, not Konami.

Mega Man didn't leave Capcom - aren't they funding a new Mega Man cartoon?

The future of the Mega Man franchise? Expect a game after the cartoon starts airing. Probably based on the cartoon, but maybe not.
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: Block Devil on June 12, 2017, 09:46:13 PM
Konami? Mega Man's a Capcom franchise, not Konami.

Shit, my bad. I was gonna rewrite this whole thing anyways.
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: ZipZap on June 18, 2017, 02:12:12 AM
Metroid (Pre-Forces, which many people argue is barely a Metroid game)
we have like 2 new metroline games coming out
delet this
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: -FiniteZero- on July 03, 2017, 06:46:50 AM
Honestly, I think what we could use is something new. While classic 8-bit style gameplay is nice, I think we could use something out of left field to give the franchise new life. I'm thinking a third-person shooter (not cover-based but more mobility-based) with modern graphics, but still sticking to the artistic style Mega Man is known for. I've had a few ideas for mechanics (such as a lock-on where you can aim with the right stick to be more precise, and in order to hit a moving target) and how the weapons would interact (like the Rolling Cutter normally going either a set distance or until it hits something before returning, and if you're locked on and aim to the side it boomerangs in a way to hit them on the side; useful against Sniper Joes).

While a traditional platformer would be nice of course, something like this could renew interest in the series.
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: Kapus on July 03, 2017, 10:14:36 AM
Nintendo has not adopted Mega Man. I dunno who told you that.

So far capcom has left the franchise to stale aside from that new cartoon (which i really don't like so far). If anything they might make a game to promote that, but otherwise I don't see them doing much soon.
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: Heihachi_73 on July 05, 2017, 07:15:56 PM
Megaman's future? I think the franchise is long dead, Capcom has been milking the cash cow for all it's worth for nearly 15 years, releasing nothing but compilations of the same old games over and over. How many times can they sell Megaman 2 to the public? It's almost expected that the next version will be yet another 8-bit style game from a second party like Inti Creates to cash in on MM2. They even screwed up the model when Megaman ended up in Smash Bros. - put the amiibo next to an official Megaman figure (e.g. not from the cartoons) and count the differences.
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: RockSyndicate on July 20, 2017, 10:17:39 PM
I think it more so depends on how the show goes and toy sales, they have guys crunching numbers in the back seeing how big of a profit margin they will get prior to okaying any future Megaman endeavors
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: Skysplitter on July 23, 2017, 03:22:06 PM
Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 is slated to release this August.
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: Heihachi_73 on July 27, 2017, 09:19:02 AM
And no doubt they will release it on disc in the US only like the last one and screw the rest of the world over with a digital-only release, unless by then they have woken up that Japan and the United States are not the only two countries on planet Earth. If you ever find that physical Legacy Collection copies become ridiculously rare 20 years from now, you will find that the vast majority of US copies have left the States and gone into the hands of collectors all around the world or are still factory sealed and in a graded hard plastic time capsule, complete with a four or even five figure price tag that no-one will ever pay. On a similar note, I regret having to sell my Australian copy of Super Luigi U now.
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: fortegigasgospel on July 27, 2017, 06:22:38 PM
And no doubt they will release it on disc in the US only like the last one and screw the rest of the world over with a digital-only release
By the way, you DO know that Legacy Collection 1 was not actually made by Capcom right? It was a licensed game by a small company, hence it not being hugely available. Legacy Collection 2 IS being made by Capcom.
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: Heihachi_73 on July 31, 2017, 06:12:15 PM
Small companies like Phoenix Games had absolutely no trouble releasing millions upon millions of (crappy) games all over Europe, UK, Australia and New Zealand. There is no excuse whatsoever to limit physical release to one or two countries only, they're only shooting themselves in the foot.

If what I read is correct, Legacy Collection 2 has Megaman 7, 8, 9 and 10. Is that all they could squeeze onto a 25GB or 50GB BD-ROM?

Also, Sony and Microsoft consoles only (http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/06/mega_man_legacy_collection_2_is_announced_but_is_skipping_nintendo_switch_and_3ds)?
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: Kikasuru on November 20, 2017, 03:01:33 AM
What's his future? Well, getting captured by Dr. Wily and turning into Quint of course! :mrgreen:
Title: Re: What's Megaman's future?
Post by: Ivan1997 on December 17, 2017, 07:16:34 AM
According to Polygon (https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/4/16734630/mega-man-x-series-pc-ps4-switch-xbox-one), Mega Man X1-X8 are going to be re-released for the PS4, Xbox One, PC and the Nintendo Switch sometime during summer 2018. That's pretty awesome news to deliver on the Blue Bomber's 30th anniversary. However, I am quite curious, will this new collection contain the SNES version of X3, or the PlayStation/Saturn/PC version of X3 with FMVs and arranged music? I hope that the new "X Collection" will have both. And as for X4, not sure whether they will have all the English voice acting re-done by different people or keep it intact, but I think that the latter is most likely to happen, although it would be cool if there would be an option to choose either the old voices (with X having a female voice, the infamous "WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOR?!", etc.) or the new voices. As for X5, will the Mavericks have the Guns N' Roses based names, or will they have new names based on their Japanese names? And X6 had plenty of problems, like the J-pop music that was kept in both the Japanese and international releases (this basically covers all games from X3 onwards; I don't mind Japanese music, personally, but I have a feeling that all of the J-pop opening and ending songs will be replaced by instrumentals, like how "Electric Communication" was omitted in Mega Man 8 when playing the Japanese version in Legacy Collection 2, probably due to copyright issues), the translation errors all over the place (I hope that X6 gets a new translation), and the fact that Capcom didn't have time to find English voice actors due to X6 being rushed for Christmas release, so there's only Japanese voices. (Hopefully, X6 will also have English voice actors that will read the text based on the new English translation.)

Still, though, it's great how the X series is coming to PS4, Xbox One, PC and Switch.