What was the best time to be a Mega Man fan?

It peaked at Megaman 2, 3 and some other sequels was fine, but the peak was always Megaman 2

Today, where you can emulate every single one of his games for free and have the foresight to skip the shit ones.

>>714256869
This except there's no shit ones

>>714256767 (OP)
Legends and Battle Network imo. I like the classics and the X series but pigeon holing your entire franchise into one of the most linear aged designs is bad for the health of the IP. The only way to make them more fun or engaging is to make the platforming just balls fucking hard which doesn't has mass appeal.

>>714257240
Mega Man X7 is objectively shit.

>>714257558
>aged
leftist argument

>>714256767 (OP)
2000

>>714256851
4 was still great, it was just impossible for the follow-up to 3 not to feel disappointing at the time

>>714256869
And yet the thread jept getting needless replies after this one.

>>714256869
>there's no such thing as novelty value, you can keep playing the same games over and over and they are still as fun as the first time
I still like Mega Man but it's just not the same knowing there will never be any new ones. I've already played the shit out of the ones that interest me.

>>714256767 (OP)
>this reveal was in 2013
Good heavens
It was a great reveal and I have some nostalgia however let’s see what the MM fans got
>this
>MM11 which was a middle finger to the Conman and nothing else
>slow porting of X, Zero and BN in separate collections
>you were expecting a new game???? LOOOOOL FAGGOT!!!

>>714256767 (OP)
MEGAMAN!!!
MEGAMAAAAAN!!
FUCKING MEGAMAAAAAAN

>>714257579
The only good thing X7 did was the memes that came out of Flame Hyenard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJTK_iNA5s

>>714256767 (OP)
From about 1990~2003

That was Mega Man's peak of relevancy

>>714256851
This but Mega Man X was alright for the time. I'll never understand the love for the Legends games but to each their own.
Captcha: XWASS (xtra wide ass)

>>714258841
Games age, sit a 10 year old today down with Mega Man, he'll be crying to go back to fortnite and minecraft in under an hour.

sit a 10 year old from 1990 down with them and they'll be having a blast. Time changes expectations and interests. What once entertained kids won't always.

Those old cowboy movies the boomers loved as kids will be boring to the kids of today because they have aged.

>>714261538
Comfy sovlful late 90s early 00s shounen anime feel is like 70% of it probably. The gameplay is not that bad if you compare it to fellow early 3D contemporaries, most of which were severely janky, MML is only somewhat janky.

>>714262306
I honestly miss when the anime aesthetic was still rare enough in the west to feel like a breath of fresh air every time it appeared. Now anytime I see that a game has an anime style I just close the tab and never think about it again. It was definitely comfy back then though.

>>714261619
>games quality are based on what literal 10 year olds think
Games' quality is constant. If a game was bad then, it's bad today, and if it was good, it's good now. Mega Man 4 trumps the vadt majority of games made today and Mega Man 2 was always boring and rushed.

>>714262517
I can't really sympathize with that mindset but I will say that most modern anime-derived art styles are infinitely less appealing than what we had in the 90s. I don't know if that's just me getting old or if there really was more of a spark in artists back then or what. Maybe it's the over reliance on photoshop and drawing tablets whereas most stuff was hand drawn on pencil and paper back then.

>>714262637
Developers were hamstrung severely by technological limits back then. The possibilities now compared to then are practically infinite, except now they're hamstrung by other things like ideology, design by committee, shareholders, focus groups, etc.

>>714263491
Wrong. In the early 90s you could easily put together top Japanese talent to create bite-sized adventures, nowadays you need to make open world DLC slop to make a profit upon which the modern talent is wasted. The only top talent 90s-like games to be made in revent years are the Project Tengo games

>>714260625
>I still like Mega Man but it's just not the same knowing there will never be any new ones.
You people say this every 5-8 before getting a new one. You have my sympathies though: it suuuuuuuuuuure is tough having like, 50+ fucking games already, and an endless stream of ROMhacks and fangames to a number and quality you usually only see with much more successful franchises. That's soooooooooooooo rough for being a Mega Man fan.

>>714263946
What dead franchise are you in love with that's giving you asspain today?

>>714264171
Mega Man
I just fucking hate you ingrates

>>714264643
I think you take the idea of being a "Mega Man fan" too autistically literal. Mega Man outside of the OG is really a bunch of different subseries that play almost completely different from eachother. Most "Mega Man fans" are in reality only a fan of one or a few of those subseries, not every single game that happens to feature an armored blue guy with an arm cannon. For me, it's X, Legends, and Battle Network. I've tried to get into the rest but it turns out that simply having a blue guy with a gun doesn't do it for me.
>X
The dash feels so good to use, the movement in the OG doesn't even come close.
>Legends
Comfy shounen anime and treasure hunting.
>Battle network
Chip collecting is addicting. Battle system is unique and has barely been copied to this day.
>Star Force
Why the FUCK did they remove 2/3rds of the panels?
>OG
Too stiff.
>Zero
Too hard. I don't like the cyber elf system where they are single use, die, etc. I don't like being encouraged to speedrun missions.
What am I missing?