why did it FLOP and KILL the series?

Weak soundtrack and bland art style. It was fun to play at least.

Ah, the only mainline Mega Man game I beat thanks to the easy mode.

>>715966957 (OP)
I don't post in Capcom threads any more because every single person stupid enough to make them makes the most awful bait and spam imaginable. I have literally several thousand hours accumulated across all mega man games because I enjoy replaying them. Will never discuss them in these awful threads though

Isn't it the second best selling game in the franchise?

>>715967535
Not that hard when the gaming user base is much bigger then the last entry

>>715967489
MM9, MM10 and MM2 also have easy modes.

What if Mega Man was BETRAYED and TRAPPED in ROM collections for 8 years?

>Normal is too easy even without using the gears
>Hard makes the game actually reasonably challenging by changing enemy placement and level design and adding more moves to bosses
>But hard also removes all pickups from throughout stages
The devs were retarded.

>>715966957 (OP)
>>715967342
>>715967489
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>>715971695
best selling mega man game btw

>>715971847
>2 million
SAD!

Best bosses in the franchise

megaman games are slow and boring, they still have the speed of an NES game which is all they could do at the time

>>715967342
>Weak soundtrack

Fuse Man stage has like one of the best stage music in the entire franchise. That track goes hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsNHB_V1hTU

>>715966957 (OP)
I thought it did well (Turned a profit)? but it was something the guy making it had to genuinely fight for to get to make. The other IPs are just THAT much more profitable and involved larger numbers.

Im a megaman fan but we dont need more classic games really, specially now with MMMaker

>>715975124
Not getting much of... anything either, spin-offs become lesser versions of their predecessors and considering X DiVE's direction, reboots will attempt to replace the main cast with barely disguised fetishes shotacon, older sister, schizo and otaku/simp
There's also getting scammed, but I guess getting garbage games is better that the franchise dying

>>715966957 (OP)
>Mega Man 10 Release Date: 2010
>Mega Man 11 Release Date: 2018
It was almost a decade between MM10 and 11, and it has now almost been a decade since 11 with no new game on the horizon. Mega Man is a gaming icon, but when you're drip feeding games once a decade, it's hard for the series to maintain relevance. The [current generation] didn't even grow up with classic Mega Man games. They might have grown up with X or one of the spinoff series, but classic Mega Man can be a tough sell when there just isn't much to go on aside from lazy ROM pack re-releases that Capcom loves to shit out every now and then. MM11 was a solid game, and the Double Gear mechanic was actually great, but it's the kind of game that should have come out 2-3 years after MM10, not 8 years. They either need to get these games out the door faster, or each installment needs to be an absolute masterpiece, and that's just not what MM11 was.

>>715978643
Also, Capcom is just notoriously greedy. Mega Man makes profits because the games are cheap to produce, but they have never and probably will never match the sales of a Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, or Street Fighter title. So Capcom will pay lip service all day about how "important" Mega Man is to them, but their actions show that they're far more interested in churning out more Monster Hunter and selling DLC for their bigger games than to worry about Mega Man. Until Capcom can find a way to monetize Mega Man the way it does with Monster Hunter/RE/SF, they'll keep focusing on those games while Mega Man takes a backseat.

>>715971474
underrated post

>>715966957 (OP)
>make the best selling classic Mega Man game
>they don't make a yearly asset flip sequel on a shoestring budget with a small team
Capcom is retarded

>>715979484
No, that repetitive post was not underrated, moron.

>>715981694
True. A sequel built on reused assets is perfectly in line with Classic Mega Man and, frankly, the Double Gear system was so good it deserved to be used in a second game.

>>715966957 (OP)
Megaman has been dead for like 2 decades

>>715975124
I hate to admit it, but you're probably right. The Classic Series just feels slow and outdated by modern standards, and it's hard to think of way to "modernize" the Classic series that doesn't just turn it into Mega Man X. The X series was already an attempt to modernize Mega Man all the way back on the SNES. I know the X series has gone to shit, and was similarly abandoned, but maybe the path forward for Mega Man is to reinvent the X series with fast movement and high octane action rather than trying to keep forcing Classic

>>715983283
Mighty number 9

>>715966957 (OP)
This game was Capcom's big fuck you to Inafune, and nothing else

>>715966957 (OP)
It didn't. It's the best selling game in the series.

>>715966957 (OP)
mega man was never a normie series and the normies that played it couldn't beat it. of course nobody's gonna buy it in modern times because it actually takes skill to play it.

>>715966957 (OP)
X dive killed megaman

>>715985160
Still a flop by modern standards,

>>715985970
for modern standards and the modern audience?

isn't it like the best selling mega man to date? Greed, greed is what went wrong

>>715978643
This is especially a poignant issue for Mega Man when multiple classic, X, and Zero games had development periods of less than six months.

Make a first person megaman game. Why wont they do it? Obviously quality control doesn’t exist at capcom and people are always craving FPS’s, you could even resell bossfights as “souls-like” with their patterns and draw people in that way

But no, capcom decided they “can’t take the series anywhere” while making the 11th resident evil and another street fighter game(but with story mode!)

>>715988775
The FPS craze already died a decade ago, bro. That's exactly why they were originally planning that one X FPS, to hop on the bandwagon.

>>715986359
for modern capcom :)

>>715966957 (OP)
To hard to beated so shitted and flopped

>>715988775
There was a realistic game similar to the robocop reboot in the works but the fans were the ones who shot it down

Lol almost 40 replies and no images, let me change that

>>715966957 (OP)
Oh a shame, I was gonna make a Mega Man thread that wasn't a bait OP

I don't think Capcom ever had any real intention of bringing MM back. It seems very clear now that someone at Capcom did want to make a new classic game but the only way they got it approved was by going to he suits and saying "Hey why don't we shit on Inafune's Mighty game by making a good MM game?" And that's the only reason why they approved it.
Shame too, especially since it's the best selling one. Capcom is too focused on Resident Evil and SF rn

>>715989426
The fans didn't even know it existed until it was revealed it was cancelled, what the fuck are you talking about?

>>715971474
WAIT A MINUTE!

>>715983283
>The Classic Series just feels slow and outdated
Mega Man needs to fight TikTok Man for an ability to hold the attention of zoomers.

>>715988775
They already tried to do a FPS MM game
People hated them for it
https://youtu.be/olYCsHuqjOo

>>715973861
And yet they still reference the fuck out of MM2, it really lightning in a bottle huh, took MM11 years to dethrone it

>>715989708
You'll get your turn probably.

>>715989347
>gravity man literally gets out of your way by standing in the ceiling and flipping the gravity when you can't collide with him and misses most of his bullets, charged shots take chunks of his HP and he sets himself in the line of sigh of your attacks
>the only hard stage in that specific game is crystal man and even then is just a matter of timing

>>715989907
Wouldn't Code Veronica fit better? considering it was meant to be the true RE3

>>715989907
It's not fair bros...
Even Shantae GBA got to come out....at least release the Legends 3 demo and call it a day

https://youtu.be/IhK4D3ytYMc
Air Man had the best theme out of any classic games

>>715978643
Reploid REVO said it best, what if 8+ year gaps is the new normal for new non compilation Megaman releases? I think we just lucked out on Kazuhiro Tsuchiya who begged for Megaman to the higher ups and even helmed 11, then he left after Street Fighter 6…

I never liked how Megaman was portrayed in Smash, People people act like mega man is some emotionless robot because of how Smash portrays him, when in reality the entire purpose of Dr. Light’s research was giving robots independent thought and personalities.

He was always characterized as a kind and loving boy with a strong sense of justice.

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>>715990369
Pretty much. We just have to wait another decade until someone at Capcom feels like taking the helm for the franchise again.

Any day now

>>715983585
>number 9

Anybody hyped for RE9?

>>715990541
Smash is really bad when it comes to properly representing certain characters. Mega Man is an unfortunate result of that

>>715989667
Honestly I’d rather Capcom pull a Mother 3 and make a send off game to the franchise there’s a few options

>MM12
>X9
>ZX3
>Legends 3

>>715990998
MEGAMAN: MULTIVERSE COLLIDE
They all meet and fuck Willy once and for all

>>715991113
Iirc that was Rockman Online's plot

>>715991113
Meet and huh?!

>>715967489
but the entire series is pretty easy anon....

>>715991171
I wish we got Rockman Online instead of X Dive. The trailer actually made the story look interesting and dramatic.

I always thought it was a damn shame Universe got cancelled
It was essentially Powered Up 2 x Mario Maker. Actually a few years ahead of its time.

>>715991369
>HEEEELP, THEY'RE SENDING ME TO A SHITTY MMORPG!!!

>>715990740
It's almost been 20 years.
5 more couldn't hurt.

>>715985970
First of all, we live in a very depressing world if cracking 2 million units sold is unilaterally a flop by any measure, and I have no idea how anyone sentient would even want to entertain that thought. Second, success is relative to budget and not competition. How much a AAA game sells hardly matters to a game with a fraction of a fraction of its budget, and as such only needs a fraction of a fraction of its sales to be a relative success. And honestly, I'd much prefer that the world actually works this say, and for the time being it still does.

I want megaman legends 3 and star force 4 damn it!!!!

Will we ever get a Roll spin off game?

Capcom spits on Mega Man.
You know it to be true.

>>715992143
when is AI going to get good enough to have my own roll.exe is what I want to know

>>715991474
Ironic considering X DiVE takes a lot of inspiration from Rockman Online, specially the DiVE alts/armors

>>715992567
More than inspiration anon, X Dive was literally the leftovers of Rockman Online being used to create a mobile game.

>>715989685
it's a shame the fans didn't want to get more involved :-( if they saw there was an audience for MMXFPS people might change minds

>>715992238
>RE gets a new game every 2 years now
>SF gets a new game with constant updates every few years now
>MH gets a new game every few years now
Meanwhile MM has only gotten 2 games in the past 15 years. 3 if you count the X Gacha I guess

>>715992948
>Go check the MML3 moon Facebook page
>It never even made it to 100K
Grim as fuck

>>715989592
thanks

>>715990541
Mega Man has never enjoyed fighting, and he takes battles seriously. He emotes about as much in Smash as he does in his actual games.

Did Zero kill Mega Man

This kills the Mega Man 9 and 10 fans

>>715967515
good thing you didn't posted then.

>>715992143
Too bad, we got Megaman & Bass instead

>>715997612
This kills the 3-8 fags

>>715998460
I love every single game fuck off with this nonsense

>>715998484
Ho-Hoh! Seems someone is a bit meeved that 9 is considered a masterpiece while 3-8...well....small steps I suppose

>>715998765
uh no not really I replay ALL of them every year

>>715997612
Not really, plus you can play with Protoman if you're really that diehard about it.

>>715998460
Those are fine games too. Well, 5's a bit touchy but it's decent enough.

The only bad classic game is 8