Rockman Xover

[MusashiAA]

I'm gonna guess this is just a quick cash-in on the "rising mobile gaming industry"

This is far from a serious attempt at a conmemoration to the series in general.

I still remember those days of youth where I wished that Rockman was finally put to rest after MM9. Well, now we have THIS...needs more games, ey?

[Super Bros Bros]

Yeah this is going to be....f-fun I mean who doesnt like megaman r-right? OH GOD CAPCOM WHY

[Turbodude]

http://www.gamesabyss.com/rockman-is-ov ... pressions/
(warning, foul language in the article)
Looks like our predictions were true, Capcom's REALLY screwed up this time.

[BiscuitSlash]

Yes, my dear readers, Rockman is indeed over; it says so in the fucking title.

When Keiji Inafune left, people were saying "R.I.P. Megaman", despite him still going and not being dead.

That's not what has killed him.


R.I.P. Rockman, 1987 - 2012

You will be greatly missed, along with all those amazing experiences your games have given us. It's a real shame to see you go.

[Red]

Mega Man will never die.

As long as the fans who care about him, and keep making amazing fangames, such as MM8BDM...

Mega Man will never die.

[BiscuitSlash]

Mega Man will never die.

Sorry, but I genuinely heard his explosion.

Fangames will keep part of his soul intact, especially since we have fans that can do much better than crapcom (certain rom hacks such as 4MI prove this).

[Red]

To be honest, if you're talking about Capcom's MegaMan games, then they died a long time ago, everyone knows that.

[BiscuitSlash]

No, that was just Megaman standing on a Yoku block with another one above him and a bottemless pit under him. Crapcom told him to try and jump to the one above but he failed and fell to his death.

Really, this piece of shit makes it seem like he was still alive.

[MusashiAA]

The franchise is far from dead, seeing how it is still marketable in some ways.

The game part of the franchise, though. That fucking died with MM10. I said it back then, and I'll repeat it now: we're not getting anything better than what we currently have.

Back in 2010, I said "fuck official games". I am satisfied by what Capcom was best capable of offering. Oh, as far as I'm concerned, they're done with Rockman games. Back then I also bowed to believe that anyone besides Capcom is more than free to try their hand at a new Rockman game, be it official or not.

Rockman 4 Minus Infinity is marginally better than anything Capcom has ever tried to do with any game on the franchise in over 25 years, save for MMX1, BN6 and MML1. The capacity was there, and was never exploited until now.

The Capcom we knew and trusted died with Resident Evil 4 (PS2 release). There is nothing good to be expected from them nowadays. Just deal with it and embrace us, the fans, as the responsibles for keeping the character and the games legitimately alive.

[Red]

You know, I actually was thinking "If this weren't for the IOS, I'd get it", but hearing how it's just MegaMan on a conveyor belt... kinda not anymore...

With AA5 and Wright vs Layton, I will pretty much forgive Capcom for all its sins anyways.

[TheDoc]

Rockman 4 Minus Infinity is marginally better than anything Capcom has ever tried to do with any game on the franchise in over 25 years, save for MMX1, BN6 and MML1.

Thank you! I've heard from some people that they prefered BN6 the second-to-least out of the BN series (BN4 was the worst). I have no idea why people hate BN6, but I digress.

Can't say I'm surprised. I said at the beginning of this thread that this game was a train wreck. I think Capcom's motivation for this game was to give fans hope of Megaman not being dead but they're done trying to sell Megaman. Hell, I doubt anyone in my school knows who Megaman is, so why try to sell it? If Megaman is to stay alive, it's up to the fans because Capcom is done with Megaman, and this sad excuse for a game is the proof.

[Ivory]

Exactly what I keep trying to say, TheDoc.

The Megaman fanbase is a niche market. A very vocal fanbase, but still a small fanbase. The problem with the fanbase is that they are very vocal, so vocal that they outright confuse themselves into thinking they are a bigger market than they really are. Megaman has always been a small niche market, further divided between even more fanbases based on which series we're talking about.

Heck I've even seen fans compare Megaman to being as big as Mario or Sonic. It is not.

So to put it simply, Capcom doesn't see much of a dollar value in us anymore, and would rather work towards its more bigger franchises like Street Fighter and Resident Evil.

[MusashiAA]

The Rockman franchise, despite it being small and not being a blockbuster, has a substantial part in gaming history.

This is how it is remembered. It's not remembered as a big blockbuster franchise, but as one of the franchises that helped shape the new gaming industry during the NES era. This is how it should stay: a piece of gaming history. Anything further than that will lead to the same fate Banjo-Kazooie met.

[Super Bros Bros]

Despite Rockman having some bad games chugged out recently It is far from dead and saying it is is just stupid
Sure Crapcom made some shitty choices all games do remember Sonic 06 and Sonic Unleashed or Sonic X
Those were shit but at least Sega is trying now.
Plus we still have this megaman fan game hopefully when this dies (sad but it will happen) Crapcom will get their shit together
Megaman 9 and 10 were a step in the right direction but they were just a cash in on the "REMEMBER THE OLD ONE GUIS?!" trend
Rockman X over is an abomination but so were the other Iphone megaman games and will soon be forgotten like that  One time bubble man wasn't ridiculous

[Mr. X]

The reason why Sega is trying now is because they have a reason to try:  Those games still sold well over a million copies.  We don't know how much MM9/10 sold, but probably nowhere near that much considering the top selling Mega Man game of all time was MM2 at 1.5 million copies.

I mean, look at this chart:  http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=Mega+Man

The highest selling individual release (as in a game where they don't count two versions together, which just inflates things because there's more incentive to buy both versions) in the past decade is the Mega Man Anniversary Collection on the PS2 at just 590,000 copies - really, not an impressive number when you look at pretty well any other franchise.  Let's compare it to recent installments of other franchises, shall we?:
Street Figther IV PS3 - 2.04 million (normal only, no super)
Street Fighter IV 360 - 1.64 million (normal only, no super)
Resident Evil 5 on the PS3 - 4.74 million
Resident Evil 5 on the 360 - 3.22 million
Super Mario 3D Land - 6.62 million
Sonic Generations PS3 - 840,000
Sonic Generations 360 - 770,000
Kirby's Return to Dreamland - 1.36 million

Many of those games haven't even been out a full year yet and consider that the aforementioned anniversary collection was released on the highest selling console of all time.  The numbers are just bad.  Hell, even when you compare it to games considered niche or "didn't sell well", it's pathetic:
Pikmin 2 - 1.2 million
Earthbound - 810,000
F-Zero GX - 650,000

Hell, there were more copies of Pikmin 2, Sonic Generations (those two versions together, not even counting steam sales), and Kirby's Return to Dreamland sold than any Mega Man X game ever.  Face it:  the series just isn't popular.