'Yes this is the last playable MMX game. But, the Gunvolt series is very similar to X4.

For me the main flaw is that the player gets free HP/energy recharge each time there is a loading screen, like in MM8. This ruins the game for me and I wish there was a romhack that fixes it, but these days "QOL" romhacks would tend to do the contrary to abide to the shitty modern standards.';

'>>10854782
Of course the retard dislikes X8';

'>>10854782
>And it goes without saying X7 and X8 are rough.
>goes without saying
X8 is way better than X5 and X6. It's worse than X1-X4 but it's still alright';

'The plot is completely retarded. Why do so many characters say "GRRRRR how dare you accuse me of maverickism, I will attack you just like a maverick would!!"';

'>>10854782
>I don't really know why
Time crunch, burn out, no solid plan, Capcom was working on tons of games. X4 seems like it was a rush job to get something out on the Saturn. Allegedly at the point it was being made Sony didn't want to release 2d Mega Man games and Capcom forced their hand by going forward with a Saturn release of X4, so Sony agreed to allow X4 and 8. X5 seems like they were trying a bunch of new ideas to make the game feel more like other games of the time, make the world feel more alive and that your actions actually matter, more focus on story, then they ran out of time and rushed it out. X6 wasn't originally supposed to exist, end of the Playstation's life cycle, I think they just took everything they had worked on for X5 but hadn't released and cobbled it together into something that's at least playable. I think that's also what they did with X3, some ideas are obviously unfinished or barely working in that game.

X7 was just not surviving the jump to 3d combined with being out of good ideas. Game sucks, was seriously disappointed.';

'>>10854905
TVs were bigger in 1997 than 1991, if they kept X the same size he'd look like like an ant';

'Mega Man X4 is my favorite mega man game and one of the best games of the 5th generation.';

'>>10855103
it's called honor. doesn't exactly explain why they kept secret weapons though. maybe the space colony was set up by sigma to be a weapon but spider and walrus were literally hoarding cannons.';

'>>10854905
Will OP's savaged butthole ever recover?';

'>>10854782
>the stages aren't really built for the same high speed blasting
They are you just suck at the game,';

'>>10854782
>stages aren't really built for the same high speed blasting around like the older MMX games
playing as Zero in X4 and X5 always felt way faster than the SNES games to me, especially just spamming that spin attack and flying through everything';

'It's depressing how visually bad X5 and X6 are compared to X4, should have just used those assets to make totally different games.';

'>>10858016
This is where it's probably most apparent how rushed these two games were, the old animations copied from X4 are notably smoother and more detailed than the new ones in X5/X6';

'>>10858016
I don't mind X5's visuals, they're lower budget than X4 and a lot of assets look reused but overall it's also a great looking PS1 game.
In particular I've always liked the intro stage, Dark Dizzy and the Virus levels. I also like the prerendered backgrounds and bosses.';

'>>10858035
I like them too but when you consider them to be the successor to a 1997 game they're night and day.';

'still better than x8. btw';

'>>10858048
for sure, but that decline was obvious even as a kid when you realized X5 didn't have a single anime cutscene like X4 or 8.
its honestly shocking that with all the rehashes, fan successors, etc. that other MM games haven't surpassed the production value of X4';

'>>10858062
Sign of the times, we've been in decline for a while.';

'>>10854909
It's absolutely horrible. I just gave it another try, and I hate you for making me do it.';

'>>10858110
>you made me do it!
You could have stood firm in your beliefs and not played it.';

'>>10858062
Those anime cutscenes were too expensive to justify another try. As far as I know, while 8 and X4 sold decent, it wasn't enough.';

'>>10858138
Mistakes were made, lessons were learned.';

'>>10854905
>says the camera is zoomed in
>replies with an image proving the camera is, in fact, zoomed in
The tranny must have been off his meds when he made this image.';

'>>10858776
youre the guy that complains when your soda isnt exploding out of the top of the cup at the drivethru, despite being entirely full. every mmx1-4 was good, overly good.
.3% zoom isnt worth mentioning is the point
like makeup on a tranny, it doesnt matter its still a megamanX game no amounts of zoom will change this';

'>>10858776
The SNES megaman games were technically always zoomed in on playing on a CRT, since the SNES outputs natively at 8:7 but developers had to compensate for 4:3 displays.';

'>>10854905
NTA but x8 sucks, both by hiding the upgrades behind a shop system and the stages not being fun to play at all.
Even x6 is better than it.';

'>>10855103
I will never understand why people take the X lore so seriously. Even Capcom never gave a shit .';

'>>10855103
The original plot linework was written by Hayato Kaji and Keiji Inafune (whom wrote everything mainline from MM4 up to X3 as a duo) and was supposed to be a more ambiguious story where nobody's right. Because they were raised to higher positions due to seniority per Japanese corporative life, Koji Okohara from the arcade Capcom division was brought in and reworked the plot, as he thought it wasn't a good look to make the the heroes' side so ambiguious.

The move was met with split decision, Inafune when interviewed by Comic Bon Bon (and later by another magazine in the mid-00s when the X4 manga got uncancelled) praised Yoshihiro Iwamoto's version of the X4 storyline saying something along the lines of "that's how the game's story should've been executed".

Make of that what you will.';

'>>10856394
FACT: Facing Sigma's level without defeating all the maverick robots first can end in tragedy';

'What’s the reason for x5 hate? That’s my favorite in the entire x series and it’s not nostalgia because i only played through the series recently.';

'I like this game better than the OG trilogy for sure MMX and X3 have "better level design" than this game but I think MMX4 is the better game';

'>>10859751
X3 has better level design than cow shit but that's it';

'>>10859734
It's kinda on the easy side compared to the others, Alia is annoying that you have to stop the game dead in it's tracks when it's a fast paced action game with no way to turn it off or skip it, every single boss and even Dr. Light capsules have long ass conversations attached to them.';

'>>10858810
Are ya copin', troon?';

'>>10854782
https://youtube.com/shorts/K3eehFlOCV0?si=E5ZMMBOypeDLQVzX';

'>>10855103
>>10859623
virgin Inafune vs chad Iwamoto';

'>>10856568
Deterrence, to make it clear that if they get attacked, they will retaliate harder.';

'I can't get into X4 - The production values are tremendous but the game just bores me. The level design has very little vericality, mostly being full of linear corridors where nothing happens, the difficulty is too low to ever really engage outside of the final boss (Which while challenging borderlines on tedious with how much you have to hit him and dodge his attacks)

I genuinely prefer all the other PSX entries to it.';

'>>10860704
Oh no, Inafune always praised Iwamoto and he was one of the guest designers for Mega Man & Bass' robot masters. The guy loves Iwamoto as much as he does Ariga.
It was actually a jab at Okohara, who went on to direct X5 through X7. After X7 he got demoted/"transfered" to the mobile game division (as in, the old cellphone games, pre-smartphone) and was replaced by a different director in X8.

Okohara, despite writing Bass' ending in Power Fighters, had this headcanon the X series wasn't the future of classic, at odds with Inafune, Kaji and BAMBOO on this.';

'>>10860909
Have you tried playing as Zero? Try going through the game as him, fun as fuck';

'>>10855103
its kino';

'>>10854782
>the stages aren't really built for the same high speed blasting around like the older MMX games.
Ummm, anon, I hate to break it to you, but I can remember dashing through the entire game as Zero once I knew what I was doing. It was really fast paced and awesome.';

'It was the beginning of the end, when they abandoned the proper MMX style for a clashing, ugly, shiny look, giga shit gameplay with levels and whatnot and pants on head retarded muh military story.';

'>>10862778
None of what you said makes any sense.';

'>ARE YOU READY FOR ROUND TWO?!';

'>>10862782
learn the difference between being too stupid to understand and something "not making sense"';

'Based Mega Man X4.
X for safer gameplay, Zero for intensity.';

'>>10862789
Learn to not be retarded.';

'>>10860991
Wish X7 wouldn’t handle by breath of fire dev';

'>>10862823
Magma Dragoon was a really rough fight, until you find out that there's a secret entrance to his arena that you can get to if you have ride armor. Going into that fight with ride armor was pretty awesome.';

'>>10863047
>Going into that fight with ride armor was pretty awesome.
Sure was. A pretty neat "secret". Not actually hidden, but the player might miss it during his first playthrough. It was the first time something like this was ever possible, and only for that specific fight. Kinda ironic, since Dragoon wanted a fair duel so badly.

Anyway, for Zero, the player shouldn't get too comfortable with that, since he will have to fight Dragoon again later, with no ride armor (or boss weakness) to help.';

'So I'm not the only one that noticed how this guy's intense boss fight ended up getting inadvertently nerfed right? I got the Megaman X Collection for PS2 when it came out and naturally replayed X4. When I got to Slash Beast though, he would roar 4 or 5 times in a row while on the original PS1 version he only ever roared once before continuing to attack. It ruined the fight for me.';

'>>10862872
Was X7 handled by him? IIRC the BoF guy was doing Command Mission, not X7.';

'>>10863047
>>10863301
My childhood memories';

'>>10863301
What a pussy';