Megaman!

[iago]

Over the past couple months, me and my friend dusted off the old NES and played through the Megaman series. We've beaten 1 - 8, and X1 and X2. X5 and X6 suck, and I'm not going to play them. We're part way through X3 and 9.

Has anybody here played Megaman 9 or 10? As a fan of the old 80's/early 90's platform games, I'm really excited with that they did. And they did an amazing job recreating the look and feel of Megamans (Megamen?) 1 - 6. They took the best parts of each, put them together, and designed a bunch of great levels with great bosses and everything.

I'm disappointed with what happened to Megamen 7 and 8, and the X series. They are still fun (not counting X5 and X6, those suck), but they tried too hard to be different. The SNES and PS days were all about being new and flashy and all that nonsense. Thank God companies like Capcom have realized that retro is in, and that people will play retro games given the chance.

So yeah, for the price of Megaman 9, I'd highly recommend buying it.

Some levels are fairly easy, and some are really hard. Tornado Man's level is killer hard. I don't know how I beat it (literally.. I drank heavily while playing, and literally don't remember beating the level. I went back this morning and couldn't beat it again, and didn't even recognize parts!)

[dark_drake]

I downloaded MegaMan 9 a while ago, but never got around to playing it, but I've played Megaman 1-8 and Megaman X-X6, as well as some of the spinoff games on the gameboy and things like Command Mission and Legends. I've been meaning to play X7, X8, Megaman 9, and Megaman 10.

And I love the X series. X-X5 are some of my favorite games, with X and X2 as my top picks. I prefer the dashing and dodging to the carefully timed jumps of the classic series, but enjoy the older ones, too.

I agree completely on Megaman 7 and 8; those were screwed up. They were far too easy and rather immature.

If you're interested in playing them on another system with the save feature, there are collections of the games available. X-X6 come in one and 1-8 come on another for the PS2 or gamecube.

[iago]

I do like the dashing, wall sliding, and upgrades from the X series, but it's no replacement for the awesome gameplay of the originals. Going back and forth between X3 and 9, which I did today, is weird. They're like whole different genres.

Megaman 7 was super easy, right up till the final boss which was hard as all (bad word). Holy hell he was hard!

Also, saving's for chumps, passwords are where it's at! (just kidding, somewhere around 7 and X we switched to PS2 versions. :)

[Joe]

Can retro be "in", by definition?

[iago]

Can retro be "in", by definition?

Yes.