Ripot’s Round-Up – 1/29/12
Another week, and time for another edition of Ripot’s Round-Up!
To start things off, Magnet Man and Shotoman have informed us that Capcom Unity has announced they will be doing a streaming playthrough of each Mega Man game from the Classic series each month throughout 2012. They began Friday with the original Mega Man, and will continue with Mega Man 2 in February and so on.
Of course, the question this poses is: with only 10 games in the Classic series*, this can only last through October. Might they have something planned for November, before the 25th anniversary of Mega Man in December?
* Excluding the Game Boy and other side games; then we’d have too many.
Thanks, Magnet Man and Shotoman!
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We know that Mega Man X is joining the fight in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 as a downloadable costume next month, but once those are finished, what then?
Some have been hopeful that Capcom might move on to other DLC– new characters, perhaps, including some form of Mega Man who doesn’t sound and act like Zero– but according to Capcom’s Seth Killian, that won’t be the case. “Unfortunately,” he responded to an inquiry on Capcom Unity, “there are still no plans for UMVC3 DLC beyond the costumes.”
Thanks for the tip, DaiSeiSei!
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Auto from E-Can Factory dropped us a link to the following video. It’s no “Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny,” but this Robot Bar Fight is still kind of catchy, just the same:
Yeah, X doesn’t quite get a fair shake here, but let’s be honest: he’s probably the Mega Man least likely to start a bar fight over a stolen drink. That, and it is Megatron (from Transformers Animated, no less), so we’re willing to let it slide. At least he was included!
Thanks, Auto!
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From Jonathan Bilski, we have a way to use Mega Busters to make love, not war:
Click to enlarge.
That’s pretty cool, but what do you use to water plants like that?
Click to enlarge.
…of course.
Thanks for the tip, Jonathan!
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Razor has passed along word that on Sony’s official Top PlayStation Network Sellers for the month of December 2011, Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X was number three among the five PlayStation Portable games listed. Awesome!
Maybe there is some hope for the series yet? We’ll just have to wait and see, though the timing is curious… you don’t suppose the iPhone game released that very same month might have had something to do with it, do you?
Thanks, Razor!
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We may not see another Mega Man Legends game for some time yet, but you can always create your own adventures with MegaMan Volnutt and the gang if you win this lot of Mega Man Legends 2 figures Sam spotted on eBay! There’s less than a day left on the auction, which is at $26.99 with three bids, so hurry if you want a shot!
Thanks, Sam!
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And finally, via Get Me Off The Moon, we have the following fan’s proposal:
Archie’s always stating how they want to hear from you on what they should do, so maybe dropping a line to [email protected] is worth a shot? Heck, they just asked for it! At the very least, maybe we’ll luck out and get a mini-series to test the waters.
Also: nice shirt.
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That’s all for today! Thanks to everyone who submitted a tip, and remember to submit your own to the.mega.man.network[at]gmail.com, or just use this handy form!
Thank you, and goodnight!
Tags: Capcom Unity, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Mega Man, Mega Man 2, Mega Man Classic, Mega Man Legends, Mega Man X, Seth Killian, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Zero
Filed under: Mega Man News
I know this is off topic, but has the Robot Master Field Guide Book been released yet?
They could stream Mega Man & Bass one of those months too, since it’s different enough from the rest of the games, unlike the Game Boy titles (V aside, but that’d be hard to stream).
I don’t think MMV in a Super Game Boy would be hard to stream. I’d prefer that to the normal monochrome version, too.
It seems every time X goes to a bar to drink out his woes, SOMETHING has to pop up. Poor guy can’t catch a break, can he?
January: Mega Man
February:Mega Man 2
March: Mega Man 3
April:Mega Man 4
May: Mega Man 5
June:Mega Man 6
July:Mega Man 7
August: Mega Man 8
September:Mega Man 9
October: Mega Man 10
November:((MEGAMAN 11 Announcement?!))
Matt: A few new dates have come up on Amazon, but we’re still waiting to hear back from UDON about whether one is legit or not.
I want to remind people that Seth has also said that Super Street Fighter 4 was the final version of 4, and then said AE was also the final, and now there’s a 2012 version.
Additionally, Niitsuma commented that he wanted UMvC3 to add 20 new characters, but because Capcom (and Marvel?) wanted UMvC3 out by December, he had to settle for 12. So there were 8 other characters decided on and perhaps some work was already put on them? Hard to say…
Right now, Capcom wants attention on SFxT so I wouldn’t expect them to say anything about MvC3 even if there are plans that they want to keep under their hat for at least four months after SFxT lands. They also may want to let UMvC3 to stay out there to breathe for a bit since Ultimate’s quick release making original MvC3 completely worthless pissed off a TON of people before considering an expansion.
With BBA MegaMan revealed and MegaMan’s 25th in December, we’re in for a dry spell of any MegaMan game news. I think that’s one reason for the monthly MegaMan stream as something for us to look forward until whatever horrific surprises await this Christmas.
Very cool that MHX gets some attention, such a great game.
They could always just use an *whisper*emulator*whisper*.
Why would they use an emulator when they have the actual hardware readily available?
@LanceHeart: Because an emulator is easy to screen capture.
Jan: 1
Feb: 2
March: 3
April: 4
May: 5
June: 6
July: 7
August: 8
Sept: Bass
Oct: 9
Nov: 10
Dec: ?
@j04353 They ain’t doin’ MM And Bass.
The last two months will instead stream conferences of Seth saying things will be TOTALLY ok for real this time.
I figure Capcom Unity would do Mega Man & Bass for September since its title in-code is “Rockman 8.5″ and then finish it all off with a run of Mega Man Powered Up since it’s different enough from the first game to be interesting to watch… not to mention it would be nearly a year after their run of Mega Man 1.
Also dang it! I would have bought that lot of Legends figures for roughly twice the ending price. I wish I had read this article when it came up instead of putting it off thinking “Ehh, I can read that at work tomorrow.”
January: Mega Man
February:Mega Man 2
March: Mega Man 3
April: Super Adventure Rockman
May:Mega Man 4
June: Mega Man 5
July:Mega Man 6
August: Mega Man 7
September: Mega Man 8
October:Mega Man and Bass
November: Mega Man 10
December: Awesome Mega Man news announcement!
Or they could also do the same as above except replace Super Adventure Rockman with Mega Man V for the Game Boy and play it after Mega Man 5 for the NES.
Oops…forgot to add MM 9 in there. So scratch SAR from that lineup.
Um, don’t you think you should have warned people the video has some inapropriate stuff in there? The robot bar fight one that is.