SF2 was a bit better than SF1, although they finally got the good groove with SF3.
X2 was just very undersnowed by the awesomeness of X.
ZXA was okay I think.

On the subject of ZX, I DON’T consider it a haven for hardcore X fans, seeing as I am one, and I greatly detest the ZX series with a passion that burns more than a thousand suns, and I can assure you, that there are others like myself who feel the exact same way.

Anyway, I have to disagree, but I like X2 more than X. I know Vile was a cooler villain than The X Hunters, but the music and stages I enjoyed, especially the stages after you fight the eight Mavericks. The difficulty was much harder, and all the levels were enjoyable.

First, It’s acually better than ZX in my opinion, it has a deep storyline, and acual dubbed voice acting unlike ZX, and ZX’s storyline was pretty much total CRAP, don’t even remember how it ended, while ZXA’s ending was decent.

but ZXA wasn’t perfect either, most of the voice acting sounded crappy, though Grey (who acually sounded like a 14 year old going through puberty, which i like because I can relate) and Aile (who sounded nice and mature) were decent, but Master Thomas and Albert sounded completely the same, and Vent sounded terrible, sounded gay acually, and Argoyle and Ugoyle sounded like singing crap going through puberty, and don’t even get me started on Hedgeshock, *shivers*, model A acually sounded not as bad as people say, and the inclusion of the ability to play as 8-bit model a was cool (still having fun with that.

Off the voice acting, controlling the biometals was nearly unchanged from ZX, except you get all abilities at once, which was nice, but most of the A-transes were useless, the 2 a-trans’s I ever really used were Buckfire, for fast movement and barrier braking, and Queenbee for reaching high places, the others had pretty much one good use.

a nice change from ZX was a refilling BM guage, which was nearly pointless since there is so much BM refill capsules in the game that you could fill it up before it even reached 10 bars by itself, and that made it too easy, since even though biometals used BM for loaded attacks, you never needed to worry about it running out like in ZX, another thing I hated was that they couldve used the giga crush button for something usefull, like OIS or an Item list like the A-trans list,

yeah, my opinion on ZXA, thank you

(Damn, that was a mouthful.)

And the games can be much more fun for everyone if they used the cyber elves (not even all of them;the 2x health one and a health increasor/sub tank are all that are needed). Anyways, MMZ had an awesome Metroidvania like feel which unfortunately wasn`t carried over to the other games.

Well you do make a point that difficulty is in the eye of the beholder, in other words while some games might be a real challenge for some they may not be for others. However, that being said, the Zero series in general is widely accepted as being a bit of a step up in difficulty from some of the other Mega Man series’.

So yeah, I’m going to have to completely disagree with you on ZXA, anyway, because I feel it did build on what ZX gave us. Yeah, it introduced a lot of new things, and that’s a fair complaint, but is there anything wrong with ADDING? None of the information given in ZXA disregards or subtracts from what was in the original, it just adds to it and the world of ZX as a whole.

I can agree that the changing into bosses thing could have been implemented better, though. But really, did you… pay attention to the game at all or just decide you didn’t like it from the get go?