MegaMan at TGS: Time to Get Serious!
September 24, 2009 by LBD "Nytetrayn"
Filed under Mega Man News
Posted by Capcom’s Chris Kramer at Capcom*Unity:
“Why so serious, Mega Man?”
Says Capcom’s JGonzo, “everyone looks so depressed! It’s infectious!”
Now MegaMan (or shall I say “Rockman?”), is this any way to get people excited about your game?
ysosrs?!?
TGS in general has been pretty depressing this year so far.
Then again, that’s probably because the public events haven’t started yet. That and the whole ‘Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo barely announcing anything new game-wise thus far’ thing.
I wonder what those girls are doing, standing around him? It looks like they’re setting up the booth, but whoever’s in that suit must be either ticked off and/or have a wicked sense of humor to have his picture taken like this.
Perhaps the photographer snapped the picture just as their faces were in mid-transition? (when their faces were changing.)
I want that costume!
Rockman knows his new game sucks…
The woman on the right is just like….”C’mon now…”
XD ahahaha! that is so funny….. yet so sad. -_-
@Seiko
You beat me to it
As much as I hate to agree with the obsessive EXE haters, they’re right – OSS will suck. First NA Megaman release I won’t be buying since that trash, Misadventures Of Tron Bonne.
Hey guys, can I have your time machines, please?
I’d like to say that I only dislike BN/SF because I’m a Megaman fan. Megaman happens to be the first video game I’ve ever played, and I’ve grown up with it there my entire life. Megaman is near and dear to me and I hate to see it milked to death with the more recent spin-offs. They have nothing to do with the games I’ve grown up with, the character designs are garbage (SF more so than BN, admittedly), and the plots and graphics are recycled to the point of stupidity (Yes, I realize even the core games do this graphically I don’t agree with it there either). The only franchise in existence that underachieves more than this is Pokemon, which I have very similar feeling towards. It just seems like I’m never going to see Megaman again, and all there is of him now is crappy cash-in shovel-ware games that come out within a year of each other. I only hate these new games because I love Megaman. I wouldn’t care so much if they could have stopped at three or so but Capcom has proved that they can’t help themselves when it comes to making sequels that the original fan-base doesn’t want. Those of us who have known Megaman longer than others have been pushed aside again and again to make way for Battle Network. Now if you enjoy these new games, I’m not going to hate you for it or throw personal insults or anything like that, even I enjoyed the first entries to both spin offs. But I knew where they were going and refused to help fund what I see as the destruction of the entire franchise.
To Windsor Genesis:
Well, even though everything you said was true ( meaning the recycled game-play of BN, and pokemon in my opinion) Megaman Battle network 3 blue was MY first video game, and my favorite, and will forever be my favorite( series, not the acualy BN 3, i prefer 6). But you don’t have to go off disliking Bn and Sf just of that reason. As the sequels get higher, Capcom fixes mistakes, complaints, and adds a new spark. Thats what makes it worthwhile to get the sequel. So, even though i think BN and SF is way better than classic megaman, i think its more on what we first played. So next time, try and hide your dislike of BN so much for fans like me. thanks
Tenny: I wouldn’t tell him to hide it. He has a point, and he’s allowed to have an opinion.
However, I would tell people to hide it if all they’re going to do is complain in a snarky/trolling way without explaining themselves. Kind of like what Darth Maver (and Seiko to a lesser extent) does on a regular basis.
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…Hm, reflect a bit on the past few months. Man, EXE OSS has been an emotional roller coaster.
I see MegaRockEXE in particular go from being excited about this game, then absolutely trashing it, and then gain some hope/sense of denial with suddenly starting to believe that Capcom’s planning to do something special with the game.
Then there’s Regal, who went from wanting to buy it, then trashing it on GameFAQs, then considering to buy it as soon as the CoroCoro scans for this month were revealed, and then suddenly trashing it again right here in this article.
In response, I will say that it’s not about who played what first, but what came first. I was there for Megaman’s prime and I helped build him up to what he is today by purchasing the original games. BN would not exist if it wasn’t for the original fan base that Capcom is now pushing to the side as if we didn’t exist with each BN/SF game that they release.
I do believe that I said that I hold no ill feelings towards fans of the newer games. I’m not gonna call you names, and I’m not insulting you for the fact that you like them. I respect the fact that it was your first game.
I have to say, I really do try and hide my dislike, but when 90 percent of all Megaman news is all about it, hiding gets much more difficult. I’m not saying it to be mean to anyone, but the frustration just gets out sometimes, and for that I apologize.
I’m only going to skim over that wall-of-text, because I wouldn’t even entirely read it in a message board. I promise to use the enter key as often as possible, to make sure you can read every point I bring up.
Megaman 1 was my second NES game (That is, the second video game I ever owned), but that doesn’t mean I feel obligated to hate the EXE series for ’stealing’ its popularity (Actually, most game media outlets bash EXE and praise the old games – Screwattack even goes so far as to say everything after X3 sucks). I’d like to point out Classic is my favorite Megaman series, before I continue.
The reason I ever liked EXE to begin with (Aside from obviously thinking they’re fun games) was because of seeing characters and bosses from games from my childhood reimagined, while having a large RPG story of its own. It’s also why I really do not like SF that much at all. You are in no position to dictate what the ‘original fans’ want.
It is ridiculous that you would complain about EXE being milked to death – it’s like you ignore just how many sequels Classic and X have, let alone spin offs. Classic series has more crappy spinoffs to its name than EXE, last I checked.
Also, while you say EXE wouldn’t exist without the old games, yes that’s true. But Megaman wouldn’t really exist this moment if it weren’t for EXE. Why do you think there hasn’t been a ZX3? Have you ever visited any sale-records websites?
BTW, saying ‘I helped build Megaman up by buying the games,’ and ‘I get frustrated at the sight of a video game I do not like’ does nothing but destroy your credibility.
I don’t think it’s so much that they ‘Get frustrated at the sight of a video game they don’t like’, so much as it is ‘Throw your original fanbase a freakin’ bone’. Oh, and Megaman 9 doesn’t count,
The lack of effort they’re putting into the EXE games that they crank out at least once a year? Capcom put in less effort for Megaman 9. Capcom didn’t even think it worth their time to make Megaman 9 themselves and got Inticreates to do it for them. Yeah, it was neat and all, but it decidedly ‘half-assed’.
And yeah, the original Megaman and the X series all had tons of continuations. But each one of them grew and developed over time along with all the other 8-Bit/SNES games around them. They simply had to develope, evolve, grow, or the franchise would die out.
Nowadays I guess the industry doesn’t have to put forth any effort. It’s like with the cartoon channels kids watch. Just put any brain-numbing, shallow, half-baked cartoon in front of them and they’ll soak it up without giving a thought to if it’s really worth their time.
While the people who grew up with the really great cartoons/games look back at the younger generations and woefully wonder why it is that things have gone so downhill.
In my honest opinion, Capcom is very much taking advantage of the fact that they can put through absolutely no effort at all.
But you know, that’s all what it tacks up to. Opinion,
Really great? Downhill? Hmm, is this one of those memory bias things, where you only remember the minority of art that was good in the past and forget the rest, and then you lament how much bad art there is now that it’s in the present and obvious? I’m sure the previous generation thought that whatever you enjoyed back then was all shallow and lazily made too.