Game Discussion of the Week: Megaman X

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I really enjoyed the original Mega Man X when it game out. The dashing and wall climbing provided a nice change in gameplay, while keeping the excellent platforming of its predecessors.

I find I actually quite like collecting the heart containers for extra life, and those who want an extra challenge can avoid them. Same with collecting the E-Tanks and armour pieces.

The character designs were great, and having the maverick bosses based on animals instead of being just _____man was a nice way to set the series apart from its roots.

The Maverick Hunter X remake on the PSP is a fantastic update. It was a shame we only got one.

One of the better Super Nintendo games, looks fairly good, plays relatively well, has some good music, some memorable levels, bosses and other stuff, I especially enjoy the big mech suits you can hop into and wreck some additional havoc with, overall a pretty good game.

I prefer the 3D PSP Maverick Hunter X remake myself.

Also, there's hadokens in it... 

I no longer care much for the Mega Man series as a whole, but taken in the context of its time, X1 was an amazing game. A real showcase for the SNES' capabilities. Could'nt stop playing it in the day...
It was soo good I had friends willing to trade Street Fighter 2 with me for it.

But truth be told, I never followed up with the sequels. Joined in with my cousin playing parts of X4-6 during the PS1 days, but never really played through any of them myself.

I did play X7 however, which was such a dissapointment it turned me off the series completely - haven't bothered with a Mega Man game since...
Except for the PSP remake, which I did try... but all the hearts and secret locations were not in the same places anymore, I couldn't be bothered looking for them all over again...

The X ones are easier, more approachable because of the extra gameplay mechanics. People just hate to die so often in the originals, but if you get good at the originals, you probably would end up liking those more. It is the NES Dark Souls effect.

I have the PSP re-release of this game. When the modern titles left me soft, Megaman (Maverick Hunter) X hardened me right up again with its old school difficulty. I like how completing one level may have an effect on other levels like beating Chill Penguin freezes the molten metal in Flame Mammoth's foundry. I also got a real Astroboy vibe from this game.

Megaman X has got to be one of the tightest, most responsive action games ever made. It's part of the reason why I still love to play some of the more questionable entries in the series like X5 or 6, because the core gameplay is so good. The platforming and the shooting blends together so well they feel as if they're one thing. That's why it feels so natural to blast through the game with nothing but the X-buster, which only fires straight, in a game with plenty of vertical level design.

As fun as it is playing through the levels though, I think the boss battles steal the show for me, and is one of the aspects that makes me like the X series more than the classic series. Yeah, bosses can be cheesed with their weakness just like in the classic series, but boss encounters become much more memorable when you stop using boss weaknesses (aside from Armored Armadillo). Of course, you can do the same thing in the classic series, but Megaman X relies on less of the pattern recognition required to win in the classic games.

The PSP remake is overlooked too. I think the music is a downgrade, but the story, environments, and designs are more fleshed out, and you also get to play hard mode which gives bosses new abilities. Vile being playable is a nice addition too. He has a shitload of cool weapons, the only problem is he controls weird due to not having a dash and they only play one track for every single stage.

stratogustav
I think I ended up voting for SNES/Megaman X, but that was a tough one for sure.