Do You Have Any Unpopular Gaming Opinions?

[Ack]

I greatly despised Mega Man X7 when I played it.

I also dislike Mega Man 8. I find it to be the worst of the original series.

But Mega Man Legends is amazing.

[Gunstar Green]

I greatly despised Mega Man X7 when I played it.

It's pretty despicable.

I have mixed feelings on Mega Man 8. It's certainly different. It could certainly do without all the SLIDE SLIDE JUMP JUMP.

[pook99]

Is it an unpopular opinion to say that I generally don't like the mega man x series? Mega Man is easily one of my favorite franchises of all time, and I constantly replay them, but the x series kind of annoys me, I hate all the hidden items and the fact that most of the games require you to play levels multiple times in order to get them all, it just reeks of artificially lengthening the game.

I also greatly prefer Mighty no 9 to every game in the x series.

[Tanooki]

Probably but it's a popular comment to me. I strongly dislike almost hate the X series. I finished one, and don't like the others at all. It's just not well made in how gimped you are and how often you have to revisit whole stages to pick up this or that, it has no flow in its poor attempt to ape the Metroid/SOTN style. The story is fine and all they did the arc with but I detest the design of it almost entirely among the changes from the normal MM format.

[Gunstar Green]

Is it an unpopular opinion to say that I generally don't like the mega man x series? Mega Man is easily one of my favorite franchises of all time, and I constantly replay them, but the x series kind of annoys me, I hate all the hidden items and the fact that most of the games require you to play levels multiple times in order to get them all, it just reeks of artificially lengthening the game.

I also greatly prefer Mighty no 9 to every game in the x series.

The X series lacks consistency in both gameplay and storytelling. When it's good it's fantastic, when it's bad it's really bad. I honestly like Mighty No. 9 (especially the Ray playthrough) more than almost half of the X series. I think nostalgia blinders and real world outrage has condemned that game more than it deserves.

There are only two X games, X6 and X7, that I consider bad by my own personal tastes, but there are others like X3 and X5 that I would recommend for fans only. I don't really feel that way about any of the classic series games. Though some are better than others there aren't any I'd be horrified to play again.

Probably but it's a popular comment to me. I strongly dislike almost hate the X series. I finished one, and don't like the others at all. It's just not well made in how gimped you are and how often you have to revisit whole stages to pick up this or that, it has no flow in its poor attempt to ape the Metroid/SOTN style. The story is fine and all they did the arc with but I detest the design of it almost entirely among the changes from the normal MM format.

The intention, at least with the original Mega Man X as stated by Inafune, was to give the character a sense of RPG progression since RPGs were gaining in popularity in Japan at the time. I agree it has a sort of half-baked Metroid feel to it though. However you don't really need the upgrades to progress through the games (unless the game is named X6) and while some of the tougher ones like X3 will be a challenge they're totally beatable without the need to 100% them beyond gamer OCD. You might be weaker at the start of X games, but the games themselves are usually less challenging than the classic games to compensate. In most of the games collecting everything makes you ridiculously overpowered. But let me not kid myself for a second, most people are going to want to collect everything.

[Xeogred]

Now you've completely lost me Gunstar. I went into Might No 9 like a year after its release so the storm was done brewing and I thought it was absolute trash. The level design, the graphics, the voice acting, the list is endless. Only played a few levels and that game doesn't deserve any more of my time. Besides, Shovel Knight utterly destroys it in the indie field.

Is it an unpopular opinion to say that I generally don't like the mega man x series? Mega Man is easily one of my favorite franchises of all time, and I constantly replay them, but the x series kind of annoys me, I hate all the hidden items and the fact that most of the games require you to play levels multiple times in order to get them all, it just reeks of artificially lengthening the game.

I also greatly prefer Mighty no 9 to every game in the x series.

I was fine with this until the last sentence. NO.

I prefer the NES series in the end, but still love X and Zero.

I also wish Inafune would stop getting the overexposed credit. He did not create Mega Man, didn't direct Mega Man 2 or anything, etc. As the annoyingly snarky Akira Kamiya joked, Inafune is not a game designer and just a producer/businessman, Mighty No 9 is pure proof of that. There were surely others that made the Mega Man, X, Zero, and Legends games the magic that they were. Hate to beat the guy up, but he gets way too much credit for things he had nothing to do with.

But hey, the once character designer Nomura basically runs Square Enix now, so what do I know.

[Gunstar Green]

Now you've completely lost me Gunstar. I went into Might No 9 like a year after its release so the storm was done brewing and I thought it was absolute trash. The level design, the graphics, the voice acting, the list is endless. Only played a few levels and that game doesn't deserve any more of my time. Besides, Shovel Knight utterly destroys it in the indie field.

Yeah Shovel Knight is worlds better than Mighty No. 9 but that's an irrelevant non sequitur.

I can only judge Mighty No. 9 based on how I felt playing it and I would put it above X6 and X7 in design and about on par with X8. I had a lot of fun playing as Ray like I said, and a lot of the issues that Mighty No. 9 has are just as present in X games including the voice acting and level design problems. You could argue that they're less forgivable for MN9 because it's a more recent game but that's why you need to look at the other games with the nostalgia blinders off.

I don't think it's an amazing game, or the game that it should have been, or that it's even worth anybody's time, but I also don't subjectively find it to be worse than the lowest points of Mega Man.

[Tanooki]

I don't know, but I would argue any game unless it's forced is beatable no matter how gimped, but to make anything other than maybe MMX1 sound easy even not getting the items is way more than a stretch as that series was nastier than the old series especially when you're a cripple. I've only bothered with MMX1-3 and Xtreme 1-2 on GBC. That was more than I could tolerate of it and just passively watched (video) or read about the others having no interest.

I detested being so damn whipped, but also there was this lousy imbalance I did not care for with MMX2 and 3 SNES. The stages I found were relatively other than maybe one or two outstanding in each (as it was even in MM2 with cheapo beam Quickman stage) were just pussywhipped easy but then conversely the bosses were a fury inducing annoyance. Calkwalk the stage, get manhandled on the other. MMX had a better flow to it, felt more like the old games, but maybe that just because they were still within but also coming off the old MM series.



Xeo--Sound like Inafune is the same credit stealing not so great blowhard gloryhound equal of that stooge for Sega Yuji Naka, no you didn't create Sonic, and your Sonic Team efforts were nearly complete crap that almost killed the franchise and broke the trust of most in it so bad it took an outsider fan to show people what they were missing with Sonic Mania not by that clown or his crap studio of coat tail hangers.


I've never touched Mighty No9, didn't care about the MMfanboy rants as they didn't phase me, but I just lost interest reading collaborative commentary on how the game plays a bit, but also just the sorry excuses with the many delays and then canning the version I specifically wanted too pissed me off.

[marurun]

Yuji Naka was at least a talented programmer, and while he didn’t create the character design for Sonic, he was lead programmer, and the actual concept of the game was based on some early programming demo work Naka did. Once he advanced to producer he produced some really great titles at Sega. AFAIK he was not a glory hound at all, but legit worked his way up at Sega. If you want to badmouth people just because you don’t like their games, at least make sure you have your shit straight.

[Gunstar Green]

I don't know, but I would argue any game unless it's forced is beatable no matter how gimped, but to make anything other than maybe MMX1 sound easy even not getting the items is way more than a stretch as that series was nastier than the old series especially when you're a cripple.

I'll say that X3 is an outlier like X6, the levels are overly long and the enemies hit like tanks (the Mavericks have the IQ of sponges though) but it doesn't litterally require certain items like X6 does.

I don't agree that the X series is nastier than the classic games outside of being able to cheese E-Tanks in some of those. I think you're likely just better at the classic games or are willing to put more effort into clearing them/don't get as frustrated because you like them more.