Unofficial Official Mega Man Thread

No, Sigma is just literally the Moon now. The climax of the game has X, Zero, and Axel pilot a Megazord you spend the game building in order to destroy him.

So we get a Nova fight only with a giant Sigmaface?

edited 22nd Feb '17 8:05:05 AM by AceOfScarabs

More or less.

Then we better get to finish him off with a drill attack :V

Um....but you need the moon.

Despite what Jackie Chun would tell you.

It's okay because that's no moon.

Besides, X's world has gone through two Apocalyptic events by X8 with three more on the way and a lot of other really bad things. Losing the moon probably wouldn't make things that much worse.

But isn't Elysium from DASH/Legends on the Moon?

Yes but there's no reason they couldn't make another one.

Another MOON?!

Why not? They managed to science up the reality warping Cyber Elves and I believe the CIEL System provides infinite energy. You also have whatever the hell's going on with the Biomerge which, given the name, I'm assuming is more complicated than the transformation of tokusatsu heroes. Then you have all the crazy tech showed off in the Legends series and the fact that, if memory serves, Elysium isn't a base on the moon but rather the entire moon.

It wouldn't be all that crazy for the series, is what I'm saying.

Yeah, Im pretty sure Elysium was an artificial moon.

I was talking more about how he survived his death in X7 that he reappears in X8. But whatevs.

I heard ppl say that X5 was worse (i.e a step down in quality) than X4. I wonder why?

Those people are crazy. X5 is, by far, my favorite X game. I've replayed that one so many times.

Some of them just hate being on the clock and the randomness of the Cannon/Shuttle launch against the falling Eurasia.

The shuttle being able to fail even if you got all the parts for both it and the cannon is pretty bad, yeah. However, I don't see the clock as being that big of a deal since you have more than enough time to beat every stage. Hell, at least once I purposefully advanced the clock until I had to beat every stage in one go for the sole purpose of getting all of the chips or whatever they were called.

edited 23rd Feb '17 5:22:11 AM by Zelenal

It just kinda felt like noise - a subsystem that doesn't add much to the game.

X5 had a great boss theme, though.

Going back to the topic of building another moon, has anyone else ever found it really odd how humanity just has like two giant death satellites hovering over the Earth over the course of two Mega Man series? I'm referring to Final Weapon from X4 and Ragnarok from Zero 4. I've always wondered, especially writing the Maverick Hunter X4 stuff, why the HELL would they need them.

Well, Weil specifically built Ragnarok to nuke everything.

And Final Weapon was built by Repliforce apparently.

I'm guessing the killsat part of it was for leverage in establishing their own independent nation.

As a sort of 'don't mess with us or we'll laser you oh shit sigma took over our big gun'

edited 23rd Feb '17 5:50:58 PM by Bocaj

That just raises further questions! WHO in their right mind let Repliforce have the time to build a killsat in space?!

Apparently while you were going around killing their guys, they were building it and withdrawing to it.

There's not really any information on that, sadly.

So for the sake of a modicum of reason I'm going to incontrovertibly for the record state that the satellite was preexisting since Mega Man X timeline just has satellite colonies and floating cities.

Since it was supposed to be the new Repliforce nation, it has to have enough living space for an army of the bastards. So it was probably a military or colony satellite. And then when war were declared, they installed the giant gun while everyone was distracted.

And hell, they had Web Spider guarding a giant beam cannon in the jungle. They had access to giant beam cannons. Oh and Frost Walrus was guarding a weapon being constructed at Replifroce's secret snow base that they had for some reason.

Geez, they were awfully prepared for revolt if you think about it.

edited 23rd Feb '17 6:13:22 PM by Bocaj

I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and assume some of that shit was made for beating up Mavericks.

Either that, or a lot more time passed during the war than we realize.

I know that the Great Repliforce War is treated in-universe as a major failing of the Maverick Hunters but

I mean.

Repliforce leapt immediately into building a secret killsat.

That seems like maybe they would have gone bad or crossed a line eventually anyway.

All of this is making me want at least a new Mega Man X collection. I much prefer X to Classic.

I thought they didn't immediately build the Final Weapon during the events of the game... and, well, they are "the strongest army in history", and the weapons stashed in Web Spider and Frost Walrus' stage would show it. Storm Owl's fleet is no slouch either.