Unofficial Official Mega Man Thread

Why need special weapons when elemental chips shave 1/6 of the boss' health?

The first Mega Man Zero was very experimental.

The following games get back to more of the mega man formula but are also quite a bit less bullshit overall.

I've made the horrible mistake of trying to go through Mega Man 3 while only using the Top Spin (or at least, where possible).

Seriously, who the hell coded its collision? The Shadow Man fight is already a pain without his weakness randomly using up all its energy in one hit.

edited 4th May '16 8:48:41 AM by AceTrainerEli

Why would you do that? It's Top Spin. That's like going through Pokémon only using Magikarp.

Because I love misery.

My condolences.

http://www.themmnetwork.com/blog/2009/09/13/did-you-know-the-top-spin-doesnt-suck

The Snupsters recently went through Mega Man 3 with only the Spark Shock....they found out it was impossible.

Where'd they get stuck?

Just about everywhere. It either 'pinks' off just about every enemy and all wily bosses and isn't worth damage and merely stuns enemies outside of the robot master whose weakness it is. You can't win with it.

The same applies for the Top Spin in most cases. Makes the challenge feel impossible, because it is. Because of this, I've actually set up a little score system to help gauge how well I'm doing for each level.

• +2 points for each enemy defeated with the weapon of choice
• +1 point for avoiding enemies immune to the weapon
• -2 points for each enemy defeated with the Mega Buster or other weapon.
• No points counted for Robot Masters or the stage the weapon is obtained from.

I guess Wily learned from Elec Man in 3 and gave all his robots extra insulation.

It's not any better, but it's less worse in the MM3 Improvement Patch. Outside of the weapon, everything else is definitely changed for the better.

The double Gatling guns were unexpected.

...Monty...

edited 12th May '16 7:20:18 PM by HandsomeRob

Wow that was pretty good better than most of the other stuff I've seen done with Megaman.

Shane was basically the apprentice of Monty Oum so that level of quality is to be expected.

I don't really feel all that martial arts is very X-ish.

Honestly they should have made a custom weapon for X that lets him shoot out handcuffs so he can arrest people less-lethally.

Or electric nets

Hey Web Spider.

I never understood why X didn't try to take down enemies non lethally or why the Maverick Hunters in general didn't have any non lethal weapory.

There's been non-lethal options evident in the setting since the first X game. Vile has that attack that stuns you once your health is low enough.

I guess X just would rather blow his enemies to smithereens.

Which is weird considering his pacifism.

You might excuse it by saying its because they know there's no cure for the Sigma virus but they didn't know the virus was a thing until X3.

A mechanic where you can use a special attack to capture a maverick once their health is low enough but only if you haven't used their weakness weapon against them would be fun.

My guess is that the Mavericks X is sent to fight in the game have basically already been given a death sentence. X isn't acting as a police officer but rather a soldier.

Considering what we learn in later games about the term maverick being politicized, that's kind of messed up.

And X just kind of shrugs it off.

It doesn't seem there's ever an attempt to make sure only irredeemable dangerous reploids are marked for death.

Well X was intended to turn out to be Copy X, I think this is intentional.