MegaMan's Revival is Long Overdue
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Someone had to say it. This is an intervention, Capcom.
As usual, all footage is borrowed from other channels. Links below:
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Megamen rise up.
Also no offense is intended to Hero.EXE or Duelists of Eden. I love indie devs, I think they are all champs and are the lifeblood of this industry, keeping alive genres that AAA games have left behind. Games like Hero and Duelists look great and I'm glad they're getting produced. I sincerely hope they get the sales they deserve. I'm just a little wah-wah baby man-child who wants my Megaman characters lol.
Network transmission and battle cc are great and I won't allow this slander to stand.
@@roaringthunder8069 Lol I happen to genuinely like Network Transmission (despite some massive flaws), but the wider Battle Network community really doesn’t care for either of those titles from what I tend to see online.
Megaman Battle Network already pushes my reaction speed to the limit (I have slower than average), Duelists of Eden looks actively impossible to me. Though I have never heard of Hero.Exe so thanks for the heads up.
For another Indie attempting Battle Network style gameplay Endlanders has been pecking away at it for a while and had a pretty decent demo. My main problem with it is that when you use your default blaster it locks you in place for a little bit. It is just a change I couldn't get used to over a demo but it has a very nice and distinct art style with plenty of potential.
@@ThrillingDuck man I really wish I can play network transmission in modern console...the gameplay looks great to me.
@@NetBattler I would have killed for a second, more competently executed stab at the concept.
Also, MMBN Legacy Collection outsold every MM collection and MM11 in 2 weeks.
Absolutely amazing. PLEASE put 2 and 2 together Capcom.
Wait, it did that good. I had no idea
i mean obviously.. we are in a modern era now.
It still hasnt. It made a million in 2 weeks, but 11 is at over 1.6 and the classic collection between 2 volumes is at 2 mill. It will outsell them for sure, maybe even this year, but not yet. What I'm assuming you read is that it is the FASTEST selling, since no other game had made 1 mill in such a short amount of time, but fastest selling is not best selling.
But wasn’t that with number determined by splitting up the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection 1 and 2 numbers and then combining them so if you bought one $60 physical it would count as two copies sold?
You: Bring back the Blue Bomber.
Capcom: *throws Mega Man into a safe, shuts the safe door, resets the combination, throws out the key, and dumps the safe into the Mariana Trench* I'm sorry, what?
In the age we are in, smartphones, Battlenetwork would be so meta I don't know how Capcom hasn't capitalized on it for almost a decade now. Imagine the merchandise they can sell when they capitalize on smartphones. Imagine carrying battle chips in your pocket at all times because you don't know when virus programs will appear out of nowhere. Imagine having a phone case like the PET in MMBN6. If ever Capcom does sell battlechips I hope it's cheap enough for kids to buy with their lunch money, AND PLEASE NO BOOSTER PACKS, NO EVENT EXCLUSIVE CHIPS, AND REGION LOCKED CHIPS EITHER! GOD DAMN IT CAPCOM STOP SLEEPING ON BATTLE NETWORK!
SERIOUSLY BATTLE NETWORK AUGMENTED REALITY WITH PET SMARTPHONE CASES WHEN??!!!!
God that is cool concept tbh.
A MegaMan PET App would have been Awesome.
lol we're making it for them yet they still dont get it
its like whats heavier a kg of steel or a kg of feathers
@@ThrillingDuck The problem is that Mega man was important to Capcom back then, but ever since Devil May cry, Monster Hunter, and Resident Evil came in, Mega Man became slightly less important by comparison. Not helping matters is that without Keiji Inafune, Mega Man become difficult to evolve.
The good news is that we have a Mega Man successor called Azure Striker Gunvolt 3, it even has Keiji Inafune involved.
I don't know if I'd want a sequel to the X series but a revival of Legends and Battle Network would be nice.
I just want an elfwars series that illustrates the ending of the X series and the events that leads up to the zero series.
I would like all of those plus the third ZX game
Actually wasn't starforce supposed to have a fourth game? I'd like that as well.
@@PanicGun yes it was supposed to be.
@@PanicGun yep, there were concept arts and plots already in place at the time. Something about an slightly older teenage Geo together with this teen wave-detective who is the descendant of Lan Hikari.
CAPCOM: [[invents smartphones]]
smarphones: [[BECOME REAL]]
CAPCOM: huh anyway
Mega man.exe newest and most insidious villains yet...Siri and Alexa!
@@bezoticallyyours83 guess it's time for me to jack-in oven.
I feel like in the age of online cardgames a new megaman battle network would fit nicely.
Kind of surprising there isn't a gatcha card Mobile game with MMBN
@@baddabaddabaddaswing Mega Man X DiVE has a few .EXE characters
I couldn’t agree more dude, I’ve been obsessed with 4.5 since I was like 10 years old in 2005 (I actually managed to figure out how to order a copy of it online at that age, on my own, because I was that determined to have it.). It never lost its magic to me, and a modern version of it would be a literal dream come true.
I've been playing it since it came out, every so often. Booted up the english patch on my PSP Go again last night.
Please PLEASE let this reach them. I’d pay MONEY for a personalized Net Navi on my phone. I’ve been saying this for years
Take my money Capcom you cowards!!
With Chatgbt and OpenAI I mean, NetNavi sounds like it could be a reality.
I recommend Super Alloy Ranger and 30XX as Mega Man alternatives.
you're literally the only TH-cam that talks about Megaman with the PASSION IT DESERVES. Before anything at all Megaman is just so fucking cool I just can't. All iterations of Megaman are just so darn cool, he's seriously a fantastic character. Capcom PLEASE just take my money and give me more of Mega Man Battle Network :(
Preeeeeeeeach! The "coolness factor" (for lack of a better term) is so under-represented in fan discourse these days, but it's a huge part of why indie spiritual successors just can't serve as full stand-ins for the mega man himself.
I've said it before, but when I look at the MMBN Collection and the effort put into it (ignoring the bugs, because no release is ever perfect,) I get the distinct feeling that that particular development team poured all their pride (assuming any of the original devteam was present) and affection for the series into it.
It seemed like they tried their hardest to put the best foot forward for Battle Network. I hope they do the same for the Starforce Collection that is almost certainly coming, because *you'd be stupid not to, Capcom.*
agreed. LET GEO FREE FROM THE DS CONFINES AND LET HIM JOIN EXE ALL IN THE FUN.
Damn that sucks all pride and effort into a port...
@@rogue1248 I'm curious how they will adapt the second screen functionally in a port
they'll nix starforce since they don't want to deal with touchscreens
I think I'm the only one not satisfied by BN legacy collection. If you take the fluff out, it's just not good enough. Playing the romhacks that fixed the issues the originals have (specially the localization mess ups) gives a vastly superior experience to the official release.
I totally agree with you. It's so weird that Capcom does a fantastic job with the Resident Evil remakes and Monster Hunter franchises, but just sleeps on Megaman. Battle Network was such a unique take on both the turn based and action combat that it still resonates with me two decades later. One Step from Eden was cool, but because it was a roguelike, it lacked the same bring your own battle chips to the fight feel that Battle Network did.
I hope that the success of the Battle Network Legacy Collection shows Capcom that there is still a market for these games. They did some phenomenal work with adding online PvP to each of those games, which if they were any other developer, probably wouldn't have bothered. But I think I speak for all of us when I say we need new games!
Mega Man is like the 4th or 5th best selling franchise for Capcom. At least acording to that sales document they published a few months ago.
But they seem to operate on the "why make millions if you can make dozens of Millions" mentality.
@@davidgusquiloor2665 Shinji Mikami of Resident Evil fame stated that the reason he left Capcom is that they grown too big, thus they take game sales way more seriously than they did in the 90's.
We need PETs on our phones or at least an reality game that lets us. DO IT
Inafune gets a bad rep because of MN9
But he was basically the sole reason Capcom made "Western focused" games like Dead Rising and Lost Planet for a while.
They didn't want to do them and he used his senior position to basically go "nah we're making em anyway" and moved funds to them.
And he really was a huge part of alot of the good MegaMan games
He was, but he screwed the pooch soooooo badly on so many levels with MN9. The issue is he demonstrated judgement and management skills poor enough to permanently soil his reputation, and frankly I have no sympathy for him. I was SO enthusiastic about MN9 and he absolutely annihilated my faith in him.
EDIT: It’s the same with like Shigeru Miyamoto. Dude made some legendary games and evolved the entire industry but for the past like 15 years he’s been a parasite on the creative minds at Nintendo and he needs to fucking retire.
@@ThrillingDuck **BUT BUT THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE THOUGH. Miyamoto helped that one. And now getting billion dollars that one against DISNEY crap**
@@seabookfarno8656 Do we really know what he contributed to that movie lol? Cuz I can't imagine it was creative narrative ideas.
@@ThrillingDuck if I had to guess, probably holding illumination at gunpoint to make sure they didn’t mess it up
Capcom going "Western" is the worst move they've made
Seeing the MARVELOUS job Capcom has done with RE, MH, DMC and are about to with SF6, it's heartbreaking to see them pass up Mega Man for that treatment.
At least as far as we know. There was the leak of Rockman Taisen when a bunch of Capcom games got leaked but we have no idea if it's been canceled, delayed or maybe wasn't a full game at all.
Literally the greatest video game series ever IMO!
Thank you for giving equal love to all the series here. It's really awesome to hear a fan scream for all of us, not just the typical x9.
The fact they have all this lost content does make it seem like they’ve just got this stuff locked up in a vault or safety box just waiting to be opened up and used whenever they want
It feels like they’re going with the “Starving” mentality (You used it yourself) of just holding out with their most iconic franchise to boost ratings for themselves just being able to get a team together to port Megaman games to new consoles like this at any time so it feels like Megaman never actually died and is simply locked away
Ah, the Darkstalkers and Ace Attorney approach
@@Klonoahedgehog 💀
i need a new fresh start for this series, this series means so much to me.
I remember being a kid watching the Megaman tv show on Saturday mornings and imagining how cool it’d be to have Pokédex-like devices with net-navis and battling friends… the Switch is/was a perfect opportunity to bring Megaman back into the forefront while running parallels to the Battle Network franchise. Chances are Nintendo will be capitalizing on the Switch’s form factor and bringing something similar to the next gen console. C’mon Capcom… don’t do us megamen dirty. Playing the X franchise on SNES is part of the reason why I even got into game development in the first place.
They could even make some good spin offs with MegaMan. Maybe a warriors game.
This video takes me back to 2011-2014, the peak of the Mega Man drought
I liked MMBN back in the days and still are. Really like the story and sometimes a bit challenging. I do wish they pump out mor MMBN/Starforce games
Hopefully a new game will come sometime in the next year or two. Mega Man always has a spot of honor in my vg library and a special place in my heart.
I bought the legacy collection as soon as i saw it I didn’t even know it was gonna be out or anything I was just browsing the e shop and saw it was number 3 in best sellers and I was like bro no shot this was my childhood
They need to promote a Megaman game with an anime. Battle Network had good reception because of that.
"Why aren't you selling netnavis for people's homescreens, seriously I would pay money for that shit. What's the matter? You don't like money?"
Seriously such a good point. My lord you're so right
You know how bonkers people would go if legends 3 dropped? The fandom for legends is so insane, that in of itself would revive the rest of the series.
Though the other gameplay styles of Megaman don't appeal to me (maybe ZX would since I like Metroidvania's) I would love for a new Battle Network title to exist as a jumping on point. For some of the games people love it feels like you need to/are expected to play every entry in the series when I have only gotten to like 80% completion on BN 1 + 2 years apart. Having a bit of reset button for a Battle Network 7 and having quality of life improvements to make cheats unecessary to enjoy the game nowadays would be nice.
First off, I am so grateful for the Battle Network collection, and all the work/ love put into it. All the added content, the 3d Megaman.EXE ( with Andrew Francis returning) , it makes me so happy to see Battle Network in action again.
That being said, I feel that Megaman.EXE fits very well in today's world, more so than he did 20 years ago , Capcom would do well to revive the franchise and continue the adventures of Lan and Megaman.
Now, im partial to this version of the character, while I don't dislike the other iterations of Megaman, EXE is the version I have very fond memories of as a tween in the 2000's. Nonetheless, the Megaman IP should get more exposure, with all the iterations of the character, there is a Megaman for everyone
Hard agree on all points!
The fact that this year AI is going wild....
God I wish there was a revival. Could still recall my earliest memory since I was a kid, hell it was probably my earliest memories in life, to be obsessed with the megaman ExE anime. I've lost major portion of that memory but I still remember back then craving to recall those memories. Hell I even remember the days where I call roll as pink megaman because she looked so similar to megaman but pink. God nostalgia hits hard.
It took me 12 or so years to finally find it and when I did I was introduced to rockman (megaman 1) and the rest of series like megaman x, megaman zero and ofc, battle network. If there is a revival then I can be a child just one more time. Obsessed with the famous blue boi
Great points, subbed. Btw, the closing tune for the video (mmbn 5 theme) was the perfect touch. Well done
Thank you! You're the first person to comment on that and it was a deliberate choice :)
Great video and a great point being made. Capcom should reinvent MegaMan as a labor of love instead of a cash grab.
Here's hoping we live long enough to see it!
There are some Mega Man alternatives like Super Alloy Ranger and 30XX.
Well, there were those horrific mobile ports of Megaman 1-6 and Megaman X1.
Lol
Considering the founder of megaman rebelled against capcom, flipped the finger and basically said “watch me, i’m better” and then he fails. Utterly. So i feel like as evil of a corporation capcom can be, i can’t really blame them for wanting to stay away from the franchise for a bit: but the re-releases do smell like something.
With the Battle Network Legacy Collection nearing franchise peak sales, I'm getting real sweaty in my underwear at the potential for a new game in the series.
I'm hoping we get a DLC for the Battle Network spinoffs too. 4.5 and Operation Shooting Star!
Seriously though, if CAPCOM were to announce a new mascot, saying that there would be riots is a major understatement.
I hope someone tagged CAPCOM for this video. They need to see this.
There's a simple reason why Capcom doesn't make Megaman games. They don't sell. Megaman's reputation is distorted by SNES days' popularity when like 200 000 games sold was huge. They could sell those figures or they could make a new RE game or Monster Hunter and sell over 10 times more. It's true Megaman is one of the most recognized gaming mascots, everyone's played at least one Megaman game in their life. But that's the problem - They've only played one. Passionate MM fanbase is surprisingly small. Now MMBN Collection did sell probably the most the series has ever sold, so maybe it'll open Capcom's eyes that MMBN has some untapped nostalgia value in it and we'll get a new MMBN game. Hope so.
I don't think that the people making MH are the same ones makine RE games, different departments and different so a megaman game wouldn't in anyway hinder the next RE or MH, Capcom are back to their glory days with hit after hit, the next MH6 will most likely be the best MH game in terms of sales, RE is the most successful and SF6 looks to be one of the best SF game ever, also can't forget DMCV which was a huge success, so I'm crossing my fingers that they revive MM with the same love and dedication given to their other franchises.
@@alenezi989a3 Yeah that is true. I was just trying to make a point that Capcom probably won't commit to something that doesn't have a possibility of profit. I just don't see Capcom bringing back classic formula MM(or MMX or MMZ) because those just don't seem to sell even when there's some money put into them like MM11. People keep asking for new games, but either those people are just a vocal minority or people just have trouble putting money where their mouth's at.
MMBN Collection does show promise, so maybe Capcom will make a new one? I could see a new MMBN game be a bit more appealing to normies too. I'd kinda love to see a new MM series actually. It's been a good while since we had a new one and that might be something that doesn't have the baggage a long series brings along.
Totally agreed about what you said on megaman being the mascot thing. Its such a Shame that megaman is gone 😢
Well said brother I actually almost forgot about Megaman and you shed some light on the fact that gaming companies these days are hitting the stupid juice these days because if they tried to sell me a legitimate Megaman game these days I'd probably buy it...
You made a bunch of great points. Love the energy!
Thanks!
The battle network series is the greatest game that a studio just let die
I would so pay money to have my own NetNavi. Even if it's not unique or even customizable, as long as I can choose a character I like from the games/show, I'd shell out big time. I'd also like to see the rest of _Megaman NT Warrior_ get a dub if they're getting the voice of Megaman.exe to reprise his role, since only two out of five seasons were dubbed in English.
I mean, Sonic is back in the spotlight, thanks to how great of a game Sonic Frontiers turned out to be and how great the his movies are. Why can't Capcom do the same for MegaMan? Like Mario and Sonic, MegaMan is a huge gaming icon that needs to return. If they don't want to revive any of his old series, then why not make another version of him?
Megaman is a lot like Samus where everyone knows them just like sonic and Mario yet no one seems to actually buy their games
@@dc7981 I've bought a lot of MegaMan's games back when they came out
@@UltimateSuperX The problem with Mega man is that coming up with new ideas for a franchise is easier said than done. Mega man is known for the Robot Master abilities and choosing which which one for different levels, the hard part is making them all interesting. Mega man 4 and 5 are prime examples of games that have a couple of interesting abilities while the rest are not as useful as the mega buster. With Inafune gone it's even harder than ever to make mega man games where all the abilities are interesting. This could explain why Capcom took a long break from mega man so that they can answer the question, can we still make all the abilities interesting????
If Capcom were to treat Mega man like Sega is treating Sonic. We would just get more games like 4 and 5 where most of the powers are boring.
So if feels like Capcom is treating Mega man, like Nintendo is treating Metroid. Their there's a good chance we'll get another game, but it will take forever!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sad truth is that Capcom sees a generic Rathalos from MH as more of a mascot for their company then Mega man
It is not ok for Capcom to sleep on Mega Man Legends
Capcom.. Also give us breath of fire back
ON FUCKING GOD. Not only this has been brewing in my mind (been in a megaman zero fever lately) but the passion and urge in this video made me pumped up. Like I wanna bust in capcoms HQ and shove this video to their faces
Wasn't a MM fan at all until I played these games. Great concept and setting for MM and Capcom should definitely make a modern .EXE game.
every year i think more than once is that megaman battlenetwork deserves a continuation, be it reboot, expansion or remakes of the original 6 installments in the series
this game is a childhood legend and all the way till middleschool with the final game siding for cybeast felzar which i loved so much
4.5 is one of my favorite megaman games. It was so cool.
Absolutely criminal so few fans were exposed to it thanks to lack of official localization.
Since you mentioned Sonic what do you think of Sonic frontiers also good to see you posting videos again
I loved your Kingdom hearts and mario RPG vids
Hey, thanks a lot! Tbh I haven't played Frontiers. It seems that it was well-received, so I may give it a shot at some point after a price drop or sale, but after years of being at least partially disappointed by release after release Sonic Forces was the last straw for me. I just don't really pay attention to Sonic games anymore. I found Forces to be genuinely insulting.
@@ThrillingDuck I think you should give it a go. Frontiers is nowhere near perfect, but it is actually fun and engaging. Not to mention they have REAL free content updates coming out with more playable characters.
@@hornie_pie_7861 That would definitely be a big draw for me! But with my current schedule and priorities, it's gonna have to wait for a sale anyway lol
@@ThrillingDuck Frontier's controls are not as good as Unleashed or Generations.
Something I always found interesting about Megaman was how a new version of the character would be created for new pieces of hardware. This lent a degree of versatility to the character that not many others have. As a fellow Battle Network fan, that was my introduction to the series, and that wasn't the first, second, or even third version of the character!
I think what we are long overdue for is a new rendition of the Megaman character and world that is built specifically for current gen hardware. Or the Switch I guess.
I never thought about it that way but that would be rad!
A new (well made) interpretation of mega would be awesome.
Every time I think about a new mega man game that clearly isn’t dropping: 8:18
Bring it back capcom
Meanwhile in the Video Game Mascots Therapy Session:
Rayman: This year is gonna make a decade since my last consoles and PC game, i'm starting to lose hope.
Sly Cooper: Same, a decade without new games sucks.
Megaman: I though everything would change with Megaman 11, but i guess that was just a distraction, just to pretend they care.
Banjo: Come on guys, don't lose hope! our fans didn't lost, so why should we?
Sparkster: Do i even have fans nowadays?
Not to mention the V-Tuber community. I think there could be fans of Mega Man within that community, and if that's the case they could become a community that represents Net Navis or Cyber Elves.
It feels like something happened between Inafune and Capcom that made Capcom just despise Mega man
That’s exactly what happened, they Order 66 every upcoming mm title and refused to bring him in mvc3 even tho he was the most requested, didn’t make it for the expansion or dlc and he was one of the faces of mvc, it was insane how petty that looked for capcom, it was one of the things that turned them into “crapcom” back then.
Probably the guy who made megaman
@@JunDageki And the fact that Capcom ultimately cancelled Megaman legends 3 make me sad even though I'm not fan of that franchise.
@@NetBattler Here's what happened th-cam.com/video/fuLHwfO0xMI/w-d-xo.html.
@@skakid271 Mega man 11 didn't well enough compared to Street Fighter, Devil May Cry, and Resident Evil for MM to be a high priority!!!!!
There MMBN 4.5, the star force crossover episode that could be done, the supposed 4 star force game that got cancelled due to the crash. They have a lot of avenues to work with here.
there's so much potential for our blue bomber.. I hope they see this :,)
Very good video and absolutely right!
Bring back the Blue Bomber!!!
I think one of the big reasons Mega Man went on hiatus is that Inafune pissed off everyone.
Love your energy and I 100% agree with you, Megaman is marketable as f*ck!!!
In fact, with AI and robotics becoming such a trending thing this is like the perfect era for Megaman to make a comeback.
Damn, your video is giving me copium, not good, not good....
after the heartbreaking failure of Neo: The World Ends With You, i needed a failed series revival that actually succeeds 😭😭 battle network deserves this shit
If I'm not mistaken that game received anime adaptation too right?
@@NetBattler the first game did, in promotion for the sequel. unfortunately compared to the game, it’s basically just a short recap of the original story told in 12 episodes, and many scenes, moments, and dialogue bits that made people love the original game’s story were excluded. I will commend the dub though for keeping the same tone and vibe of the original game’s english release, as that’s super important with twewy, but at the end of the day it serves as promotional material for Neo more than anything. animation was dope tho
despite square saying it ""underperformed|" (it placed #1 in a top switch games sales july chart so im just gonna assume their expectations are astronomically high) they still talk about the game on twitter occasionally so i have some hope twewy aint dead lol
My dream if we're not getting entirely new games is getting classic MM1 -10 remade with the MM11 engine and artstyle. They could charge full price with 3 games per release (and maybe add some extra bonus modes), basically the Wily Wars treatment but for the whole series. Add some extra dialog and some cutscenes.
MM1, 2, 3
MM4, 5, 6
MM 7, 8, R&F
MM 9, 10 and bundle in MM11 and add some extra content to MM11 like maybe playable Roll.
Agreed with all the points here, Megaman could very well be Capcom’s Mario or Sonic, and I always saw him as exactly that.
Ngl, I loved the RPG megaman including Starforce series. I get that people disliked the mechanics in the game but people didn’t let it grow enough. MMBN 1 and 2’s mechanic (messy PA, using power ups to improve MM, imba chips, etc), people start to love the game after the 3rd one. To me, MMSF was getting better at the 3rd installment and it felt like I was playing MMBN but nah, fans didn’t even want to give it a chance. MMSF3 Black Ace and Red Joker was peak design for SF series
Capcom when they said that will not be Lady/Trish DLC to DMCV (at least we got Vergil)
"Capcom, do you not like money?"
Capcom ignores potential of smartphones for Megaman
"Capcom, do you not like money?"
Deja Vu?
I would pay a full $60 to have an Android home screen replacement that adds my choice of voiced Battle Network Navi as my home screen assistant complete with voiced ringtones, or a full Transer themed homescreen replacement. There is BIG money in this idea Capcom, get on it!
Preach
Im a big fan of the 2d platformer genre, new and old(never played a mm game) and your enthusiasm has pushed me over the edge. Easiest sub I’ve given now just gotta decide which to start with first lol. The art style and gameplay has always looked so good even though I’ve never touched the franchise.
With all these re-releases I’m sure they’re gauging interest and I hope your dream comes to fruition and capcom starts releasing some unique new games that the fans deserve. I think it’s just hard to be like Nintendo where even the worst game of their IPs are still not dogshit. As you’ve stated sonic has been used and abused and I’m sure they don’t want to make the same mistake. But at some point you have to give the people what they want.
Thanks a lot! Really glad you enjoyed the video :)
If you're trying to pick one of the platform subseries to start with, I'd suggest either the X Collection Volume 1 or the Zero/ZX Collection. The X games are basically like Classic but evolved, although the front half the franchise is notably more well-liked than the back half (hence my recommending Volume 1). X also maintains the iconic boss weapon copying feature.
The Zero/ZX games don't hav as much in common with Classic or the boss weapon copying, but they have more involved narratives and the most buttery smooth controls you'll find this side of the 2D platforming genre - their game feel is unparalleled imo. And the final game in the collection, ZX Advent, forgoes weapon copying but instead lets you flat out TURN INTO all the bosses, which is insane.
Hope that helps! Classic is great too, but it looks and feels much more dated. Megaman 11 is decidedly more modern than the rest of it though.
Sonic had a movie
Mario had a movie
when's Mega Man's turn
i call for a new battle chip gate attachment for the switch (preferably making it look like a PET in the process) along with the revival of physical chips and a DLC for battle chip challenge. i am willing to pay thousands for this. The whales are waiting capcom, you are leaving a lot of money on the table.
If only Capcom could promote megaman battle network in this era with the touch of modern concepts like seriously the game itself is very timely and I really agree with the smartphone one like bro with the stuff we have now I dont think it is impossible to even get a megaman battle network Go.
The classic capcom test, where they make a re release instead of a new game, happened with dark stalkers and dmc.
Get my boy off the Moon!
I want my favourite Robot Master's Net Navi. His name is Tornado Man.
I’d kill to see Acid Man adapted, loved him in MM11
I'm conflicted on Battle Network.
On the one hand i want a new Megaman RPG, those are great and i feel like the Battle network universe could have more stuff, but on the other hand Battle Network ends on such a satisfying note unlike the other games which are deliberately left open for more sequels that i would feel uncomfortable a bit if they just dropped a Battle Network 7 one day.
I completely get that, but I’d love a return to that universe and gameplay in any form or fashion, whether that’s another adventure with Lan or someone related to him. Regardless, part of the satisfaction of 6’s ending involves a time skip to his adulthood, so I don’t think another childhood adventure would erase that :)
I don't know if they would even be able to make a direct follow up to BN6. Give me a BN7 that has Lan's kid and Mega Man going on some new adventure.
@@PlayMadness According to a sidequest in the Megaman Star force games Lans son actually has a navi of his own who's built off of chunks of Megaman's data.
So it would be a second Megaman going on adventures.
@@Klonoahedgehog RockmanX.exe? Please?
Or you know, have Capcom do what they are already doing with the RE series. Just remake the Battle network series for the modern era. That way we can get all 6 games again without ruining the existing conclusion of 6.
Other words, what we need:
"We're bringing y'all Megaman Legends 3 that was bigger than envisioned, Red Ash but it's good, and MMX9...AS HOME CONSOLE RELEASES!...oh and next year we're doing a fighting game for Battle Network with s few X and ZX characters"
Capcom hates money unless there’s a huge company shift I won’t get my hopes up I’ve been saying what you summarized in this video for years I am not surprised BN sold so many copies it was inevitable
No, Capcom loves money too much to the point where they are scared to take risks. This is the sole reason Capcom has been giving the Mega Man franchise pittance with mobile games, collections, and lower budget sequels.
@@swarthybullxxx That's the problem with Triple A companies.
The good news is that we have a Mega Man successor called Azure Striker Gunvolt 3, it even has Keiji Inafune involved.
I haven't played X7 or X8, but I heard the X saga was supposed to end at X5. Stuff happened, Keiji Inafune did not produce X6 or X7 or X8, but I think it was supposed to end there. I'd like to see a remake or demake of MMX7 and X8 since they weren't the most memorable games in the series.
I really hope we don't get another megaman past 11. The Starforce games definitely need a collection release. Idk if a ZX 3 is necessary. Played both but didn't care for it much. A P.E.T. app would kill the game if it ever were to happen. Let me create my own Navi, give it A.I. speech, be the dream I always wished for.
Capcom should be held close to the fire to put some work into a MMLegends 3 game. It feels like the only chapter in Megaman's legacy that had it's pages tore out.
the only question is which megaman to continue first? honestly the premise i heard for starforce 4 sounds so fucking amazing its ridiculous
Rockman simply rocks
We need Battle Network 7 asap. I would pre order it so fast
I’m not happy that they didn’t put the battle network series to the Xbox One / Xbox Series X
You got a sub from me for life after this video. Capcom needs to hear this BADLY! I have been playing Mega Man games ever since I seen it on PC back in the day, I still have every single game out and have been pissed off cause they keep doing Mega Man dirty as hell. I asked people here in Georgia if they ever heard of Mega Man before and so many people have not. This is because Capcom refuses to bring out any games with him any more unless it's a legacy collection. When is he gonna get the hell off the moon in the Legends series? Why is it that when they make a legacy collection they leave games out? Mega Man & Bass is no where to be found, Network Transmission isn't on this new legacy collection, Command Mission is gone and hell, the Sega Saturn version of Mega Man 8 just keeps getting skipped. It was obviously the best one. Why leave that one out? Mega Man 11 is great but why make him look like Beck from Mighty #9 when getting a weapon? Why compete with that game? I was pretty sure he was at one point suppose to be called something like Rainbow Kid or something due to the color change he goes through when getting new weapons. I don't remember him ever being called Beck.
Agreed on all points except I actually really like the Beck-style model swapping with boss weapons in 11 lol. That aesthetic choice was the one element of Mighty No 9 I thought was any good and it’s the one thing they took. Honestly I always felt like the color palette swapping was a result of inherent hardware limitations, and this feels more in line with the series vision.
But that’s all personal preference aesthetic stuff anyway haha
I would love to se what they could do with a new entry on the series for the new gen.
WE ARE MEGAMEN
I'd like to point out how capcom consistently doesn't have a main mascot. Back before mega man, it was captain commando(capcom), and after mega man/during mega man they had street fighter which had a bunch of spinoffs and then resident evil which became they're biggest thing which eventually got followed by their niche games that slowly built up massive follwings like devil may cry and monster hunter. Capcom has so much compared to companies like konami or even western devs like ea or ubisoft that it almost seems insane 🙃
Megaman Legends Collection next. Afterwards, market it all to kids, us adults will def already have picked them all up. Then make, a megaman battle network 7, and megaman legends 3.... we don't talk about starforce I'm sorry.
I like Starforce lol, but I agree with the rest!
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God I just want a new Megaman after battle network and starforce. The Megaman rpgs hold up extremely well to this day, a modern game would sell bonkers amounts of copies
Seems like capcoms priorities the past few years has been resident evil. Not complaining but I do want some new megaman
Resident evil, monster hunter, and street fighter they basically milk those franchise non stop
I've been thinking this same thing for the last decade, they really got a BIG crowd waiting on the Mega Man resurgence and they're not going for it??? Whaatt???? That's crazy
1:28 already sold over a million copies... so yeah, it did well, lmao
I would seriously kill for a new battle network game
If Capcom were to announce.... not show trailers, not show concept art...just ANNOUNCE MMX9, I would go and pre-order immediately
I see you failing to address the interview where the MM.EXE devs saying they'd like to make another game, but have ran out of ideas on how to go forward due to the rapid advancement of technology we've seen over the past two decades overtaking their own creativity.
While I'd love a new game from this section of the franchise, forcing the creative team to make something new is a recipe for killing a franchise.
Let me remind you, aside from smartphones, what else they've predicted:
Smart devices(we could in fact connect a toaster to the Internet if we really wanted to, or a doghouse, and we already have smart cars), WiFi was probably already in develolment, but nowhere near as widespread as they were in later Megaman installments during that time, wireless technology in general, pet robots(not quite as new, but we never had anything to the extent depicted in these games until more recently), and probably a few more I'm forgetting.
Hell, considering that we've successfully connected an artificially created brain to a computer chip, some form of _Soulnet_ may be possible now.
Well, I don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of dev interviews lol. While I agree that forcing something new from devs who aren’t inspired is a recipe for disaster, I think the reason given there is kind of a cop-out. It’s not like each successive narrative ever hinged on promoting some new outlandish technology, and the Navis and gameplay alone are still extremely fresh given how long they’ve been out of commission.
So, do I think they should make another game if they’re actively disinterested in doing so? No. But do I think literally anything you just cited other than that notion is an adequate excuse to leave the franchise dead? Absolutely not. Throwing together a basic, kid friendly sci fi story with this evergreen gameplay loop isn’t exactly rocket science.
Mega man battle network with a breath of the wilds feel anyone?
The Blue Bomber 🥺💙💣
Definitely felt the burnout around MMBN 6, and again around MMSF 3, although I would have bought a Mega Man X9 if they had tried giving it a SNES-like look the way they gave Mega Man 9 a NES-like look.
I think the Mega Man "classic" burnout is still in effect, since nobody seems to want to acknowledge Mega Man 11, and the friends of mine that bought it kept just calling it "Bad Mega Man" :(
Then again, those friends were also pretty toxic in other ways so maybe I shouldn't have taken their word on it.
Bruh Megaman 11 is my favorite of the Classic line lol. Although tbf, the Classic line is my least favorite overall, so a lot of what I like about it are modern features.
I will say though that I do feel like Megaman 11 discourse online is surprisingly quiet considering what a big deal it should be. All the more reason to revive Battle Network first haha
@@ThrillingDuck After getting dash-jumps & wall climbing, and a melee option with the Zero games, I don't know if I could go back to the Classic stuff either, but I'll sometimes boot up MM2 on Virtual Console. I'm just real happy that they put online play into the Battle Network games. Hoping to get into that a little more with some of my friends, now that it's back.
@@QMulative Classic series is more about deliberate platforming than X/Zero/ZX. Even charge shot and slide are not necessary for it.
No mm11 is terribly behind its predecessors and the prince of persia thing it had was cool but unwanted not too mention its still short like why are they stuck in making the games like an hour long? Its quiet cause they put effort in the graphics after complaint of 9 and 10, and somehow forgot we wanted to be protoman with current graphics. We want to see mm with current hardware or decent since its 2d, and we dont wanna forget all the cool stuff in the other games especially when they could be expanded on or the characters.