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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- Dumb guy that swears too much decides to make a video about Megaman X4. Contains spoilers for the Megaman X series and the Megaman Zero series, in case anyone cares about that. Also, flashing lights once or twice towards the end.
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credits music is track 1 of this: surri.bandcamp....
sorry there's some weird green flashes that pop up on the screen during the credits, that was not intentional at all LOL. My video editing software decided to set itself on fire and the outro sequence is about 30 seconds longer than I wanted it to be, my bad.
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the title alone already exudes "this guy gets it" energy. but then I got to the part where you talk about the menu sound effects and I was like "no seriously this guy GETS it."
Apollo justice mention aswell this guy double gets it
The description of the hurt poses was amazing.
On the voice acting: we did an interview with Ruth Jarman, the voice of X in X4 as well as Mega Man in MM8, and it really shed a lot of light on the situation. Mostly that they had literally no direction or context for anything, just lines on a page. And they weren't even told that they were recording for two games at once. It's all wild. But you're right that the talent wasn't the problem, it was the direction, or lack thereof.
Seems to be the case with Resident Evil.
Seems to be the case for damn near all English dub recordings handled in Japan.
Damn LOL! Ngl though as silly as Zero’s dorky teen voice is when THAT scene happens he sounds like his heart shattered into a thousand pieces
Apparently, the reason why Colonel and Iris are siblings is that they were originally meant to be 1 Reploid, but its personality was too complex to process in 1 body, so it was divided into two; one that was meant for fighting, and one that was meant for peace. That crystal she uses during her boss fight is actually Colonel's core that she's incorporated into herself, which causes her to become even more unstable than she already was due to the above reason.
Like the X games weren't messed up enough, right?
Oh my god, I completely forgot about that piece of trivia.
...Yeah okay this makes it worse, but it's also kind of... cool, in how pseudo-realistic this is.
@@twaggytheatricks4960 Yeah, the idea is further explored in X DiVE in the form of Iris Another, though I don’t know too much about it since I haven’t played the game myself.
@@whichcache2517 I remember that! Another Iris even has several designs, and she's actually called Harmonious Iris in Japanese, in reference to her being the "what if they _could_ unite Colonel and Iris in a single design?" variant.
What I can tell you from there is that she's got moves from both Iris and Colonel, and though the Iris body shape is dominant physically, the Colonel mentality is dominant emotionally. At least, that's what the dialogues allude to.
(I play X DiVE from time to time)
@@twaggytheatricks4960 That must make things super awkward for Zero, everything considered...
You said megaman so I subscribe it’s that simple
one of the little things I love about Zero's campaign is when your health gets low he goes "It's not over yet!" And it's my favorite line in the game.
The Dr. Light description of Cut Man's rampage was so good.
Lute, I love this video so much1, in fact, I love everysingle video you've make, is greate!!! I hope you can make a video about Megaman Zero in the future, of course if you like it!
It has your favorite kind of leveles, Ice levels which everyones knows you love
pelo!!! what's your favorite mmx game?
I didnt know you like mega man too this is mega fantastic
Holly shit I wasn't expecting to see Pelo in Lute comment section. That's awesome 😊
i always knew pelo also fw mmx4
I love your Brian edit of Iris's death scene, definitely wasn't expecting it after you insisted we take this game seriously lmao
i absolutely couldn’t help myself
Props though it was such a good edit
36:57
"Zero, I have heartburn. Have you seen my Tums anywhere"
You killed me there so hard lol
This a good ass video, Megaman fans be eating good.
Low-key I think Megaman fans do a lot of memeing on the lore because at its core the series is probably a lot darker than we realistically want it to be. Even the Repliforce's obvious faulty pride ends up being pretty tragic because they end up being right in the end. General and Colonel announce their desire for seperation from human society and are *instantly* deemed Mavericks by human society meaning pretty clearly they would have been scapegoated for Sky Lagoon whether they complied with X and Zero or not.
I very much am in the same boat in that if the Megaman series had better presentations for their stories they'd be recognized more for their decent writing. Hell X4 literally defines X's character for the entirety of the Zero series and that reincorporation shit's pretty neat.
i always read the magma dragoon fight as the reverse: that he actually admired x and zero so much to the point of wanting nothing more than an all-out fight with them, because had he just asked them to spar or something clearly they'd hold back, but if he convinces them he's a terrorist, they can go balls to the wall and display their full strength
Wanted to add to this tangent at around 45:15 because I love this observation so much, which is that to further emphasis the difference between X and Zero is one very important notion- Zero doesn't get armour upgrades. X must constantly upgrade his base form into new, more monstrous weaponized versions of himself, but Zero doesn't have to. My reading of that has always been because he was Wily's final creation, his ultimate weapon to defeat Dr. Light's creations. And since every reploid is based on X's schematics, architecture, and format, Zero can and does come out on top swinging every time. The *sole* time Zero ever gets an armor upgrade in the mainline games is X5, and it's a missable secret, and most importantly it's not made by Wily, but *Light* rather. Even more interestingly, in the doctor's own words, he has no idea the full extent of Zero's own make up as it's not based on any of his works, so the most this upgrade does is like a stat booster more than a "armour."
So why am I going on this tangent which itself is in comment to another tangent? Because it so clearly and thematically establishes the amazing internal conflict within both X and Zero, and ultimately why they're best friends. Despite their different creators, their different purposes- X is a peaceful man with limitless potential to be whatever the world needs him to be, as his own name tells us- yet he is *forced* to fight and kill in the name of that peace he wants so badly. Zero meanwhile is built to kill and destroy with absolute power, and might have done just that if not for Sigma's subduing him, but he comes to using all that immense power for carnage to protect life, protect humans and reploids, because he chooses to.
X fights to protect because he feels like he *has* to. Zero fights to protect because he *chooses* to.
Holy shit
Wily honestly lost in the most humiliating way possible, despite actually coming out on top technology-wise. The robot he created to destroy those made by his rival (and former friend) Dr. Light, winds up choosing to use his immense strength in order to help people and achieve peace; most importantly, though, he adopted this philosophy because of *X* the magnum opus of that very same Dr. Light, and that Zero was specifically created to destroy.
It's very "power of friendship" but it's handled really well imo. Light didn't win by creating the more powerful robot (as he essentially always had in the past via Rock) but the robot that was more compassionate, and had a set of morals and the charisma and strength to pass those same values onto others.
This is why I love the internet. I 100% agree with megaman being underrated because I've never met an actual megaman fan irl, but thankfully there's videos like this to keep me satisfyed.
that fucking collage of 9/11s with the Sonic Adventure 1 Perfect Chaos as the center image fuckin cracked my dumb-ass up at 2:20am
Thank you for covering this game with such care and relaxed enthusiasm. Truly a childhood gem.
46:39 I'd like to say, X didn't really gave up, he definitly was way more on the line of completely breaking down, more than Zero, but he still tried his best, and this is what I like about him, this is what makes him MORE HUMAN, just like how Dr.Light wanted him to be, but Zero, on the other hand, he was maded by Wily, Zero isn't the same as X, so he still being OK with all the shit happening, and still moving on, makes the X and Zero palallel even great
X in the end just runned out of juice how someone once said, he never gave up, he just... lost sadly...
Honestly, I rather die like X than keep going on forever like Zero. Mortality gives meaning to life. Living forever will eventually make you either insane, nihilistic, or both.
I'm just surprised Zero managed to live as long as he did. Literally everyone he ever cared about died around him. He became super depressed because of immense survivor's guilt, and just wanted to die like everyone else, but couldn't, because he promised X to protect the reploids. He was pretty much a shambling corpse by the time of Zero 2.
I love all of the random tangents you go on out of nowhere. Great work!
@mlg noob i dunno, i like the anticipation of wondering how this is going to get derailed next.
I know it's a less serious video, so it doesn't bother me.
@mlg noob I genuinely appreciate that you stated exactly why you kind of dislike the tangents, only to then express your understanding as to why someone else than you would like 'em.
Really based, man, I'm glad you're as chill as the rest of the audience here seems to be.
"Zero, I've got heartburn. Have you seen my Tums anywhere?" That won't be leaving my mind for a long while.
Dude that Brian Griffin bit had me wheezing in the middle of my work, that got me so good
Well, well, well, look what we have here... Can't go ten paces without running into the likes of you it seems. Either way, hope you have a lovely day, and get back to work Ms. Saulsbury.
Yo Lute, I have no idea if you'll read this but you're quickly becoming one of new my favorite channels, I love your Tail of Concerto vid and 2nd installment of Playing on the Computer or whatever it's called, your vids are so unique and I love the deep dives you go on, keep up what you're doing I'm a new fan but I'll stay here for a while and I enjoy the content that you create :)
Lute? Clearly he’s an industry plant
This really was a great one; I was really late to the PlayStation party, and when I finally did get one in the summer of '98, and later managed to track this down, I was totally blown away. I'd been a Mega Man fan since the '80s, so this was a no-brainer, but this was the first game I remember playing that brought the feel of those big, dumb Action games you'd play in the arcade home to your own TV... even if it was a crappy monaural thing that didn't have anything but coaxial hookups in the back. Then, you start to notice all the details, like the frozen Chill Penguin and Blizzard Buffalo corpses in the background, the catchy synth soundtrack underneath all the shouting and explosions, and eventually the story that got me a lot more invested than I could've ever imagined.
Love what you said about X and Zero, too. My sister was born in the '90s, which puts quite a lot of years between us, but she grew up watching me play everything under the sun; we were talking the other day, and she said, "Mega Man X was always one of my favorites, and when I was little, I always understood it like Zero was X's big brother, and I always thought of you as that kind of big sister; I was X and you were Zero." Until this video, I'd never given any thought to how accurate that was, either... I've seen so much; I've BEEN that monster; I've turned myself around from what I was originally to become, and now I just keep going, because I've always had to. I think a lot of what makes X and Zero what they are is exactly that: X always got to be the hero, and eventually, he realizes that there's a never-ending war all around him; a never-ending war that it's his job to win. Zero's quietly killing it behind the scenes, supporting X's growth from the shadows, and he's able to do that without becoming so outwardly world-weary because as tiring as the war against the mavericks can be, he knows how much worse his own internal struggle has been; the rest doesn't seem so bad by comparison. Sorry if this is over-sharing, but I couldn't resist the urge to get a little philosophical; you're so loose and casual in these videos, and still manage to pack so much depth into them.
Also, I've been thinking of your Earthbound Zero video a lot lately, because I've finally gotten around to playing YIIK; after almost 20 hours, I get it now.
Christ, I wish you were my IRL friend growing up. 8 and X4 were my favorite games, and I have their soundtracks downloaded.
Aqua Man's stage, Frost Man's Stage, Astro Man's stage, Wily Stage 2, the X4 command room and Split Mushroom's stage are my favorite tracks.
Great video, you got a new sub for sure :)
What I like about this is the arcade like gameplay to its composition music. Both fits the stages very well. The guy who created the password music in x1 made the whole tracks of x4. I laugh so hard just discovering that because that composer Toshihiko Horiyama is at his best when he develop own composition rather than arrangements. Just because of this I love this game.
EVERYONE always say
"Why make a fat robot? why design him fat?"
My theory is that psychologycally, fat men are seen as less of a threat by other males, he is fat, is not going to take your spot as the alpha, letting them integrate faster in group dynamics, so for a double agent, makes sense to look innofensive.
Bro, the wrap up at the end was great. I think we feel pretty similarly about the series.
The whole story is a compounding tragedy. Nothing ever gets better, only worse. It's the reason I'm terrified of robots and AI. X is built, and has to watch as the technological revolution based on his design systematically destroys humanity. Zero can't escape the violence he's destined for, and even his relentless, duty-bound attitude cracks after being forced to kill his own friends, leaving him bitter and jaded.
I have a fucking X tattoo on my forearm, and consider him my favorite character design of all time. X4 goes so hard, it's probably the best action platformer of all time.
Sure, the video was a nostalgia ramble, but that's what made it good. Thanks for this.
I only ever had X1 & X4 as a kid. I never could beat either of them yet I played them to death. I finished X1 as I got older and it has been one of my comfort games for longer than I can remember, but X4 has also always held a special place in my heart. It has so much style and charm. A best friend and I finally finished it a few months ago. It's still awesome.
You representing the rank challenge in Cyber Space not being tacked on with Martin Luther nailing up the 95 theses is the stupidest joke I've seen in a long time. I loved it
I liked iris's voice because I think she sounds very cute.
Also, x did have to see someone else die right in he's arms, that's zero. Tho one was a best friend ship vs a somewhat relationship
They still very much go through almost the same thing.
After the x series, zero is out and x fights for a hundred years, so when he gives it to zero because he's about to die and does die in zero 3, it's not him just saying here I don't want this, it's him saying, zero everything has finally taken a toll on me can you pick it up?
And then one game later dies
"zero everything has finally taken a toll on me can you pick it up?"
I found those aspects of Zero really wholesome. You can tell X feels bad about putting this burden on Zero to take his place fighting for peace; Zero is just like "of course I will, best buddy".
Man... Lute you make the absolute comfiest gaming videos on this whole site. Your passion for each and every game you cover is inspiring, and you have loads of comedic and analytical talent. I'm here for whatever comes next, thank you for creating.
You can actually smoke a lot of bosses in this game with zero if you know a few tricks. Magma dragoon, for example, when he does the flame beam attack and transforms his hit box doesn't extend to the edge of the stage so you can jump over him and stand behind him and swing while he breaths fire. If you do the full combo you get some good damage in but you really melt his health bar when you learn to dash cancel your combo. There are tricks for every boss that feel very satisfying to figure out and pull off.
Also, the electric sword technique is really good against the midboss in split mushrooms stage. Give it a shot and you'll probably kill him after he's destroyed maybe 2 platforms.
I've gotta comment to say that I'm a pretty tough crowd with comedy, and there were at least 5 moments in this video that got a genuine laugh out of me. This video is on a level few content creators can reach. Your channel is definitely going to grow quickly if you upload regularly. Best of luck! subbed
I’ve been so excited to see this since you started talking about it on twitter! It’s easily one of my favorites so far, it’s so lovely to just get a tour of something you obviously love presented with this kind of breathless enthusiasm, and it has the funniest diversions. Really great job!
43:30 I'm so glad that someone else finally gets what I mean when I say that main characters in anime all have the same high pitched scratchy voice that's grating on the ears.
I'm sure you don't mean it exactly the way I said it but yeah I agree that they all sound the same
Dude, I played this shit ALL summer when it came out. I was never able to have an SNES to play Mega Man X 1-3 but my brother gave me his PS1 when he went off to college. I just remember being really worried that X was asking Zero to destroy him if something went wrong. And watching Zero suffer time and time again in this game was alot to take in as a 13 year old.
Finally, a high quality video that focuses on my niche hyper-fixation.
I loved this! The X series desperately needs to be fleshed out more and finished. It was great hearing someone who grew up with this talk about it; I didn't play it until I was 16 but it quickly became my fav in the series. I used a voice pack for the old PC version that swapped the in-game voices with their Canadian ones from 8/CM and it sounded great! (vids are Lucas/Mark in X4 on youtube)
Also love the shoutouts to MMHP! I used to browse the site all the time as a kid, when I could only play X1-3 on emulators (PS1/2 emulation were still new). Mandi Paugh also wrote some really fun fanfiction, including one where Classic Megaman meets some other versions of himself including Ruby Spears Megaman. She also did the sprites in Dragon Ball Z Legacy of Goku 2, of all things :o
and hell yeah all pigs are class traitors
I watched my sister playing this game wayyyy back when I was little. I must have been 4 or so. And ever since that moment I have loved this game. I've replayed it so fucking much to the point I have the stages memorized. Every stage has a banger soundtrack especially sky lagoon when playing as Zero. God I love this game. I just watched your mother video, and decided to view your channel and saw you uploaded this just a couple days ago. New subscriber right here my dude.
i love your videos dude, everything you make is so chill. youre like a human quaelude
42:55 If you strip out the voice acting, this scene is powerful
This reploid is supposed to be one of the toughest, hardest, and fiercest of the Maverick Hunters
But here, in this moment, we find out what breaks him
I always laugh at this scene because the VA clearly had some trash direction, but it is an impactful moment in the game (and on Zero's entire story)
MMX 4 is my absolute favourite, and I love how the composer for the BGM had a total hard-on for Vince DiCola. Like, something about Slash Beast's and Jet Stingray's music makes me think of the stuff DiCola composed for the 1986 Transformers movie, like the shuttle escape scene, or the battle over Autobot City.
This video is basically every single one of my intrusive thoughts all at once, and its about one of my favorite games ever. I love this. Insanely good editing too. You got my sub!
Also thank you for using stills of Connor O Malley and Gregg Turkington. They made me so happy.
14:15 I speak for my entire country, we don’t claim him
That ending where you talked about the internet culture being affected by Megaman was spot on.
The first TH-cam video I ever watched was a ytp of that Zero Iris video. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
13:11 how does a robot have a sister? ‘roll’ with it, lol genius
OH SHIT that rules i didn’t even realize that connection till you pointed it out. lmfao
X4 soundtrack was so far ahead of its time, the world still hasn't fully caught up to it yet
There is not one memorable tune in there
Dude, you made me cry with the Iris scene. Great content.
This was my first game I ever played. I love your take, it makes me feel younger again
Also I think Double was intentionally designed to be silly/pathetic, it adds to his innocence and makes him seem non-threatening. But since he is a "Double Agent" you wouldn't expect his nightmarish transformation
It was cool hearing a bit about the animation studio that did the cutscenes. Those sequences in x4 and megaman 8 are my shit fr fr
I've always loved X4's cutscenes. I don't have the bias of x4 or even x1 being my first mega man game either as my first was mm2.
The voice acting out of context is hilarious, and I love that for it. Every single line is a meme. But that's only possible because in context, it's actually good
This was awesome. I love how you didn't rag on the voice acting like everyone else.
Review Megaman 8 next? Plz? Prty plz
I really appreciate you highlighting some of the positive aspects of this game’s story. Could it have been better? Yes. But, as it is, does it contain interesting ideas worth exploring and talking about, or even building upon elsewhere? Absolutely. Even the most flawed, unusual stories hold value as long as there is genuine earnest backing them up-and I feel _X4_ contains one of those stories.
after resolving my sleep deprivation i wanted to add shoutout to Xebec for doing not only the cutscenes for X3 (that volt catfish intro rules since it has Auto from Classic Megaman as a cameo), but also doing the animation cutscenes for motherfuckin Killer7. also shoutout to u for also using Megaman 8's stage select theme which is one of my favorites
18:12 This makes more sense if you're playing as X. X is a huge pacifist, he hates fighting and needless violence. Even after watching Sigma slash Zero unconscious, X still disarmed and refused to shoot Sigma. It took Sigma launching warheads and nuking a city for X to get pissed enough to attack him.
Dragoon would never get the same level of fight out of X by just challenging him. At best, X would hold back and consider it only a duel or sparring, or even decline his challenge. Dragoon is like Akuma (lol Street Fighter moves), he wants a fight to the death. Challenging Zero he may have gotten that, though Zero won't hold back he's still likely only to go so far. With X it's a different story lol.
Never played any Mega Man games but X4 has a god-tier soundtrack
I find not one tune memorable.
You have a great sense of humor. Ive been binging your videos
X4 is a Shakespearean masterpiece.
And I'm right there with you on voice actin'. Gimme the janitor they pulled walkin' by man. It's just genuine.
I love your presentation and your sense of humor. Thanks for making these man
"How are they siblings? Who f-ing cares. Just "Roll" with it"
-unintended genius comparison?
This channel is amazing it's like having a second running shine
If I can say something about Iris' death and the voice acting (you probably know this but I didn't see you bring it up):
If you watch the Japanese version of the cutscene, it's absolutely *HEARTWRENCHING.* Zero truly sounds like someone who lost the love of his life, arguably by his own hands. Also, Lucas Gilbertson (who voiced Zero in Megaman X8 and Maverick Hunter X) made his own fandub of the cutscene, bringing out the serious intent if the scene. Both are on TH-cam if you're curious.
*[Fair Warning: long comment below. A bit nerdy, definitely geeky, but not hostile.]*
I'll say a few things; and I want to preface this with the following. Uh, I love this channel? As in like, I discovered it randomly when I was looking for video essays on Wario Land 4, then I saw the Paper Mario one afterward and it _really_ got me going. I've since binge-watched every video on this channel because these are two of m favorite games, I _really_ wanna play Earthbound Zero and noticed a lot of fun parallels with Undertale, _and_ now I'm happy to see that you're also a Megaman fan.
I'm just so happy you're bumbling your way through distractebility and good tastes, man. Keep doing what you do - and I _really_ need to drop more comments here. I kinda hate that this is the first one, so, I'll make it up to you later.
I say this because I know long comments are typically a bad thing in TH-cam, and I don't want to be some sort of obnoxious idiot, but there's just a bunch of things I want to address for love's sake.
Ugh. Why does it sound so intimidating.
Well, here goes! I hope this comes across as nice, since it's supposed to be.
•The first thing that comes to mind is tiny. It's with regards to Light. He totally does put the M in Mad Scientist, but to be fair to him, he never built robots like Cut Man for any other purpose than to cut down trees, and even had a failsafe to make sure he wouldn't do anything dangerous. Blaming him for it being repurposed is like blaming whoever made the chainsaw because the chainsaw massacre happened, y'know?
Wily's the bitch for removing the failsafe and then reprogramming Cut Man as a battle robot - which is true for pretty much all the robots made by Light. The rest of them in Megaman 2 and onward are, for the most part, either made by Wily, or other people like Dr.Cossack. So like, Light is waaaay less at fault than what was implied here. He also put X in statis for 30+ years to run tests on his mind and make sure he stayed a good boi, and given that _that_ succeeded, he's honestly not _that_ bad. We even see what would happen if he didn't do that (look up Copy-X, if anyone cares), and the difference is pretty frightening.
•The second is with regards to X - and it's what made me want to write this comment. I'm biased because I _utterly adore him,_ but also, I did play the Zero games, and for anyone who was interested in playing them, please know that X didn't completely give up. Or rather, what he did give up wasn't fighting. It was his entire physical body. He did this to prevent a new world plague from forcing robots to become insane, and he specifically entrusted the care of the world to Zero because that's the only dude he really trusts; and Zero accepted because they both share peace as a goal. Oh, this is also why Lute's video is still worthy of respect, by the way: like he stated, both X and Zero are super relatable, and Zero is just literally built different. Or rather, _X_ is built different.
[Clever Segue]
Basically, the biggest reason X struggles way more than Zero about the bloodshed thing is mostly because of the 30+ years of testing I mentioned earlier. X was built to be literally just a man. Zero, amnesia or otherwise, was built _specifically_ to be a murder machine. So, even when he eventually becomes a good dude, he naturally has an easier time coping because X is a some dude with a gun going through years of Vietnam, whereas Zero is a Day-1 war vet' (who went through way, way worse than X, but still a Day-1 war vet').
However, _both_ Zero and X eventually kept fighting 'til their end; X just grows slower than Zero in that regard because again, mentally-speaking, he's literally just a dude.
I don't think comparing them is super fair for that very reason, but I still respect the opinions shared in this video up there, it's just... Well, the Megaman series means a lot to me too, so, I felt compelled to share mine.
If anyone bothered reading all of this, I love you for caring, and Lute deserves all of your support because his videos are cool. At least I and the rest of his watchers think so.
Bro I literally yelled”YOOOO “ at the gym when I saw this new vid keep it up nigga
I love the Brave Little Abacus and I used to scream “I NEED TO LEAVE THIS PLACE NOW!!!!!” Whenever that Zero cutscene happens.
So when you mentioned them in the SAME BREATH?!?!???? Had to listen to the whole song. Thanks Lute, you are the best guy on here.
X4 is so great that Capcom had been making games to prepare us for it since 1987.
I could literally listen to you talk about stuff your passionate about for hours, it’s so interesting. Great video
This man has great taste in music. Loved the Autechre tree.
I’ve been searching for content like this, thank you!
I think the funniest part about me as a kid is that playing X4, I never got too far, my X Collection was on PS2, but I noticed that X and Zero do say 'damn' a couple times, which I felt was badass, not to mention they'd be running around doing cool stuff at night in cities, but then I'd never put it together that Sky Lagoon and Grounded Lagoon were basically the same location, I just thought that was what the ground looked like. I can't believe Dragoon threw Lagoon into the Spitoon
emulation based as fuck ftw, thanks for the amazing and wonderful video yet again!!
This is a criminally underrated review.
I believe that the consensus on the W on Zero's forehead on top of infecting nearby robots (Sigma) with the Maverick Virus was a kinda a system update for Zero that was meant to make him not totally crazy and evil. Sigma forced an unsafe reset on Zero's mind during the process which caused the update to break and just make him not crazy.
I know this super late, but thanks for making this video. When you first dropped it, I impulse bought the first Mega Man X Legacy collection and fell in love with Mega Man. I wouldn’t have experienced one of my favorite video game series without you. Thank you Lute, your a banger TH-camr.
This guys is literally the more diverse version of cybershell.
I've never seen this channel before, but easy sub.
Megaman x4 does own.
One of my favorite series ever I just love megaman. The X games are my favorite series but X4 is my favorite out of all of the X games. Great video man I love any video about megaman like this I just like seeing this series get more attention since it’s “death” and hiatus for a few years
oh boy lute is back with a new video. love the comedy very on point. hearing you talk about mega man man me feel old. thanks for not describing mega mans difficulty like a souls like......every time i hear that description i die a lil inside.
The "Brian's dead" gag had more emotion than the entirety of the English dub of this game.
Yoooooo love the video homie, you’re quickly becoming one of my new fav game TH-camrs. Also I gotta say I died seeing the King Cobra still in here.
I forgot if I ever left a comment on this video, but I've been revisiting your videos during a train trip. You make top tier content, man, keep it up.
48:12 "Apparently, before X was awakened..."
Keeping this short and sweet: reploids couldn't exist in a time before X was awakened, least of all Sigma. Aside from a timeline that someone no doubt made to compile the essential information, the best we had prior to the internet was Dr. Cain's journal entries from X1's manual: first there was X, then the reploids, then the mavericks, then the Maverick Hunters, and finally Sigma. One exists primarily as a result of the other, no sooner.
That being said, your "moral compass" line isn't wrong.
TH-cam kept recommending this video and I'm glad I finally remembered to click on it because I really enjoyed this. Wasn't able to play this entry until that legacy collection came out years ago and it's one of my more favorite entries in the franchise. Watching this was really enjoyable and opened my eyes on some things I never thought of till now especially with the story. Thank you for making this video and now I might go replay X4 sometime this year.
So tell us, what exactly does the 1997 instalment 'Megaman X4' own exactly?
My heart.
@@Lute01 Hell yeah! I've wanted to use that dad joke for a while now, and just never got the opportunity. So when this presented itself, I jumped on that opportunity.
Either way, I've really enjoyed your stuff, specifically your 'Tail Concerto' video was what got me to try out that series, and I thought it was a blast especially 'Sola to Robo'. And of what I've seen of this video so far, it's been great. Your editing and scripting is very natural, and lends itself to a calm retrospective look at things one enjoys, yet still has a comedic edge.
Ultimately, I just want to say thank you for making cool stuff, and I hope you keep on making cool stuff, because I think it's neat. Keep up the great work, and have a lovely day.
Always nice to see some Megaman X4 love! It's my favorite Megaman game _ever_ and I really like how they went completely dark with the story and explored Zero's backstory and how the Maverick Virus (which later became the Sigma Virus) was born and spread through the reploids.
43:08 Yeah, this scene is _really_ sad in the japanese version. The voice acting is top notch there even if you can't understand japanese; it's conveyed in such a tragic way. Ryotaro Okiayu's voice acting is amazing. I'm glad I actually experienced X4 in japanese because my local video-game rental store only had the japanese version available.
46:56 It's interesting because originally Zero's design was going to be X in early development, but he looked so drastically different than Megaman that Capcom was afraid people wouldn't connect with him, so they made Zero a separate character.
I was 7 when I first played this. Such a great Christmas. X4 is the best
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Well. That just earned a sub, haha.
Edit: All right, wow, I need to definitely watch instead of listen to this. "A good shakeup" he says, while a photo of Michael J Fox flashes on-screen. You mad lad lol.
To the people getting ready to play this for the first time, here's a tip for Zero: do a regular slash before using his electric attack and it'll come up way faster without windup frames. It makes that boss in Split Mushroom's stage that destroys the platforms stupid easy. You can kill him after about the third platform.
Also, you can jump cancel out of it earlier as well.
My interpretation of the Magma Dragoon post fight has always been the edgier notion of "Zero...you never accepted my requests to fight back when I was a part of the force, and even if you did, I know you'd never go all out. I needed you to see me as a serious threat in order for us to fight the way I always wanted...I'm sorry Zero..this was the only way....."
There is something to be said about repliforce being dumb because of what they represent. Like you might say they're supposed to be compared to people who demand Japan return to it's military past and I'm here for it but in the very simplest terms they're a military and are supposed to show that they're concerned with honor but not with actually saving lives. Yes, they could hold themselves accountable to the people they serve but it's more important to protect themselves from the dishonor of admitting fault. You can see stuff like that in the real world when Australia protects it's war criminals and prosecutes journalists or in Japan when right wing imperial apologists refuse to acknowledge the horrors the empire committed.
Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but it's the love I have of these games that make me want to understand these things.
Great vid btw!
Not gonna lie, that was hella good. Your rambling and cuts gave this personality and kept me in it. I played X4 so many times since I was a kid and bust that out doing stupid ass shit to just see what I can do like beating it on an arcade stick or no upgrades and your take was real fun. Keep up these sorts of cool videos.
Megaman X deserves an anime.
I really love your videos, Lute. I first found you with your Paper Mario video and Im super happy I did, your energy presentation is so chill and really give the feeling that youre listening to a friend talk to you about these games. Also i really should just jump into Megaman finally, everything from the game itself to the lore os so interesting but i always got scared off bc i get my ass kicked everytime I play them haha. Anyway ty for making these vids for us and I hope you continue to grow.❤
Lute be killing it with these videos my boy going to make it big I’m calling it now boys.
I’ve only ever beaten Megaman 3 (a ball-grating experience but rewarding experience if their ever was one) but watching this video has really inspired me to go through the series until I get to X4 and see what a bad ass game it is from the perspective of playing through the series; thank you for this fucking awesome video
I definitely enjoyed this video a lot. Megaman X is a series that I hold near and dear in my heart and it makes me sooo happy to hear someone talk about it with the same enthusiasm as I have for it!
The how robots can be siblings thing is easy, they were most likely made by the same creator. Just like in the Classic series Protoman is Megaman's brother and Roll is his sister because they're all built by Doctor Light.
Also its cool how X and Zero's different playing styles also reflect them as characters!
Dude, can't stress enough how much of a badass one felt as a kid watching that anime violence in a videogame. Might seem quaint nowadays but I remember saving those FMVs from the PC version to my shitty ipod knockoff and showing Double slicing people's arms off to my friends and we all thought that was the coolest shit ever. I played the earlier X games when I was younger but this is the one that's stuck the most with me over the years, the only thing I dislike is the (lack of) Sigma stages but I forgive the game, the core 8 stages are really strong.
Damn I'm feeling a connection to you. Between this, Wario 4 and Paper Mario, we share a bunch of adolescence/childhood faves. Cheers.
It is interesting how Zero is often seen as the stronger of the two because ironically X ends up having to fight for way longer than Zero. X does eventually lose his way but only after a hundred years of fighting on his own. I think no matter what someone thinks about the stories of these games, X and Zero are a great duo. I also find it kind of emotional how Zero in his own series kinds of just resigns himself to being X's tool, he has no connection to the world anymore and he knows he isn't the kind of person to guide the world so he just commits to being X's sword.
Love these two robot goons
Then they just chill as sentient rocks in ZX, you love to see it
25:50 at the very start of the level is also Blizzard Buffalo frozen in the background
The thing with Repliforce makes more sense when you understand the politics of the world. Repliforce was clearly framed for the Sky Lagoon attack, but they don't have a real alibi for why they were there in the first place. So even if Colonel were to go quietly with the Maverick Hunters, there's no way in hell they wouldn't still get branded Mavericks because of how sus things look.
Now, once a Reploid gets branded a Maverick, that's it. They don't get a fair trial, they don't get to plead their case, they get retired. Reploids are critiqued A LOT more harshly than humans, to the point that even prioritizing another Reploid over humans gets you branded a Maverick. Meaning that yes, if Colonel had mentioned he was there searching for his sister Iris, he'd _still get branded a Maverick_ because instead of trying to aid in evacuations for the attack, he was prioritizing the safety of his sister.
Yes this is fucked up, glad you noticed.
So Repliforce was screwed. They did nothing wrong, but it looked so bad and any attempt to plead their case makes them look WORSE, so they're Mavericks now. They have two choices here. One: Give themselves up to be destroyed willingly _knowing full well they did nothing wrong here,_ or Two: fight for Reploid independence. They chose to do that, but since A) they ARE a military faction, and B) they're openly rebelling against humanity, they have no choice but to fight back.
And as for why the base for the new Reploid only society is a giant orbital laser, that's simple. It was meant to be a deterrent. "Don't fuck around unless you want to find out" essentially. They weren't going to ever have to fire it in an ideal setting, but due to the circumstances I've mentioned above, they kind of didn't have a choice but to look as threatening as possible to scare people away from attacking them.
My point in all of this is, Repliforce was innocent, and everyone needs to apologize to them right now. #RepliforceDidNothingWrong
"MegaMan is my shit", same here bud.
This is easily my favorite one
I'm quite tickled that I've never noticed certain parts (such as 15:42) where "Maverick" is mistranslated as "Irregular" (イレギュラー , the Japanese name for Mavericks). Consistency!
X4 is one of my favorite Mega Man games in the series and I'm really glad TH-cam put this video in my recommendations because this is one of the best videos I've seen on the game. Definitely gonna check out your other videos and subscribe for more because I really enjoy your style and analysis!