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there, shortened that for youThank you.
That was outsourced to a relatively unknown company called 'Atomic Entertainment'. The reason MM7's credits got [tornado fang]'d up was because of them.Outsourced because CoA themselves weren't up to the task. They were the ones in charge.
The "Bonus" you get for beating MM1 was the "Atomic Planet Credits".
I sorely missed something similar in X Collection.That much is true. Although, as memory serves, X Collection was done by a CoJ studio.
also the whole "songs don't loop properly and will fade out after a given time before fading back in with a restart" thingWhich is probably evidence that some remastery WAS intended. If they were simply emulating the SNES sound chip (which you DEFINITELY want to be doing as it significantly cuts the needed storage space compared to the alternative), there is absolutely no reason that should happen.
It's the wings and tail feathers. They look like hands. I found my version.It reminds me of the hand-glow of Snag Balls from the GCN games.
I'm sorry, I can't say that with a straight face.If that's the case most of the cheep death's started to wind up at Gate's Lab 1 due to t-bagging. As far as I remember, there were these wolves that you had to dodge as well as spikes to avoid. If you jump as the wolf is about to fire, it's pretty much insta-death as the shot would trigger knockback and kill you by spike.Impossible. Your damage barrier protects you from spike death.
For me, there are two different types of deaths: fair and cheap. Fair is when you feel like it is your own fault for dying, when you see the dangers and fail through your own inability to overcome said dangers. Cheap is when you die to things you had no way of knowing what was going to happen (ie. lines of spikes right under you as you switch screens in MM9).I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices MM9's cheapassery.
A lot of the segments in X6 feel cheap to me. Not everyone agrees clearly, but that's the way I see it. Sadly X6 isn't the only game to do this, nor will it be the last. Just ask some parts of MM9.
I wonder if that means an overhaul of the IV system like what happened with Gen III and will that mean no transfers from Gen IV/V?You CAN adapt old data for use in a new system, such as Gen 1 'mans being transferred to Gen 2 where the Special stat has split.
I like X6 for what it did... It's still flawed though. You bring up Metroid in your argument, but the design philosophy in those games is not the same thing. You can't get into an area in the first place if you're missing the necessary equipment in the first place in Metroid (for the most part).What exactly stops you from entering Turian with the Wave Beam? Hell, what INDICATES IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER that you're supposed to forsake it? In nearly any other area in the game, the Ice Beam is the pits.
Such is not the case in X6. In X6, you can get into areas you are completely unable to traverse, and guess what? You can't backtrack out like you can in Metroid, effectively leading you to restart the area completely.Again, Gate's Lab 1 is the beginning of the stage, before any enemy appears, so no progress is realistically lost.
If they had more time to work with, X6 would probably have had those kinks worked out and it would have been even better. But yeah... hindsight is 20/20 right? Fact of the matter is they didn't have much time, and here we are with a game that had high aspirations but fell flat a bit in the design phase. Such is the way things are with time constraints.Unfortunately it's not always development time that causes that. We waited quite a bit for X5, and I could make the same poor-implementation arguments there. Actually, far worse so, in that while you can plan around X6's "flaws", there's a lot wrong with X5's level design that you simply cannot work around. ESPECIALLY the implementation of the Gaia Armor. It's virtually impossible to obtain without having visited all 8 Maverick stages already (and using "mad Zero skillz" alternative requires forsaking the Speedster for Jumper, something you should NEVER do in any X-centric playthrough because it cripples the Falcon Armor). This means that the first "new" stage you get to use it in, Zero Virus 1, is the very worst level in the entire game to be using it.
Do note I do like X6 more than X5. I just wish I could run through it with nothing like I do in any other X game that lets me. To this day, X2 is still my favourite for that sort of run (and tied with X1 for overall).Honestly, while I'm not generally an "unarmored run" kind of guy, I like it best in X3. Mainly because I hate X3's buster so much... Also, charging a close-range Z-Saber in half the time isn't without its benefits.
Any "intellegent" gamer would realize how easy it is to short-circuit the game's design when all that's needed to defeat High Max is one single weapon. If the game punishes you for doing that anyways, then it's a trap. Why put that there? Is the point to give us the option and then chastise the player for taking advantage of it? It's a case of mixed messages.Yes, it is completely unexpected and unreasonable that there will be consequences and handicaps to deal with if you decide to skip 7/8 of a game that emphasizes collecting abilities to become stronger.
Again, my comment was directed at the fact that, according to what Flame said, you either need the armor or and I quote "two specific special weapons" to get past a certain point in the game.If you lack both, there's still Hyper Dash. "Armor" also entails three options in itself, including your starting set. Could possibly add a fourth if you're that obsessed over Shadow Armor's ghetto version of the special weapon exploit, but that's really a shits-and-giggles thing. For practicality's sake, it's more trouble than it's worth (although I personally would have said that about the special weapon route to begin with).
And then MM3 fixed the MM2 flaw by making Items 1-3 an adorable, awesome, transforming robotic dog. Not to mention Blues!Can't argue with that.
Wait wait wait. Are you saying that instead of dying, you can just reset the game and start off at where you last saved? If that's the case, then what's the freakin' difference?What I'm saying is that on the PS1, you don't even need to save. The game keeps track of where you last were automatically as long as you don't power the system off, it's just that the game designers for some reason felt the need to make you jump through a few extra screens to use it. Rather than fixing (ie: just make the damn Exit button available at all times), X Collection removed this feature outright.
I have no idea what you're talking about, but all I'll say on the matter is that saving reploids is god awful and should never have been implemented in the X series! LET THEM DIEEEE!Mark my words, ONE OF THESE DAYS I'm going to upload an LP where I do exactly that. The importance of the Reploids who can die is seriously overestimated. (though I admit, X7 did start to [acid burst] me off a little...)
Then they should have given the air-dash to everyone, much like X8. No excuse. It's just poor design foresight.I realize that you're talking about availability and not mechanics, but NEVER use X8 as an example of proper dashing.
Only one boss left to get a Lv.4 win (the second water boss).THAT was your last Lv.4?! All you had to do is screw-halberd his face into oblivion.
That's a cop-out.One born of a gamer who evidently never played ZX...
You do realize you're also calling the health/weapon refills between boss rushes a "cop-out", then, right? That's basically what I was citing.Rarely do Mega Man boss gauntlets restore weapon energy between rounds. And even rarer still does such a restore fill an entire weapon bar.
I've never played X6, but if what you described is true then that's a whole lot worse than MM2. With MM2, you only need to learn your lesson once. From what you just described, X6 is like X5 in that it gives you the option to skip some of the bosses before the final stages. It also gives you the option of Armor Free X. So one can't get past this area without either these two special weapons or X wearing his Armani. The game gives you multiple options to get through the game while insanely hampering your choices depending on how you want to proceed. Which is [tornado fang]ing terrible. MM2 is at least linear."Linear" is not an indication of quality. The original Mega Man was in fact very non-linear as compared to its competition, and that was its whole damn hook (BTW, on missing optional stuff, Magnet Beam).
