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I would like counter-nominate the above as the best gif.

You guys why did Capcom keep making Mega Man X games after X4. X4 is fantastic and everything that followed is poop. Louke:



This stage is awesome. It has a lot of variety and is pretty well designed. Every 30 seconds or so there is some new challenge to overcome. The rotating spiral staircase effect looks pretty choppy, but to be fair, that would have been super hard to animate at that resolution. It gets the job done.

I love the miniboss. It's a perfect execution of "simulated danger" in a game, where it looks super dangerous, but if you know what to do you will be ok. The difference with this and more recent games that rely on QTEs is that you can actually die at any moment (in one hit). It's just not as severely dangerous as it initially appears.

Now look at this shit.



To begin with, the first part of the stage is an absolutely shameless copy of Knight Man's stage from 6. What I can't even believe is not only did they also completely copy the spiral staircase from Split Mushroom's stage, look at how ridiculously wrong the perspective is. Are you kidding me? I get that side scrollers are 3/4ths views that don't strictly make sense, but that is just absurd. It's like they didn't even try. None of the stages even bother with parallax backgrounds like X4 did. It's so phoned in.

And that is to say nothing of Tidal Makkoeen's stage, which is effortlessly the dullest, most uncreative stage in Mega Man history. I defy you to name one that is worse.

Also Mattrex is literally Magma Dragoon. I get that there are a lot of similar elements repeated throughout the series but I'm a little less forgiving for making a carbon copy of a boss from the IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING INSTALLMENT.

What happened?? It seems that they were made by almost completely different teams, and that Inafune had next to no involvement. Capcom apparently had no interest in treating the intended series finale with any sort of respect since they wrung that stone for all the blood it was worth.

Not so sure Capcom aggressively nosediving is a semi-recent development anymore you guys.

also I can tell you exactly why Capcom kept making X games after x4

the answer is:

X5 was supposed to be the end of the X series.
flat-out. I don't understand what's with the terrible stage design in it, but when zero got his body blown up and shit at the end, that was supposed to be the chronological jump to MMZ.

MMZ1 was supposed to start the new series of megaman focusing on zero, who wakes up after being suspended in the same torso-only state for some few centuries or so. that's why he looks that way at the start of MMZ.

but people wanted more megaman x! and so capcom said fuck your story inafune and made X6 and fucked both series, so MMZ2 had to retcon some shit

honestly MMZ5 isn't as bad as the 3 after it. I'd rather play 5 than 6 any day.

and yeah it's 6 that's considered the worst in the series because it's full of bugs.

it's the only game in the series where you can straight up trap yourself in a no-way out part of a level and have to lose all your lives and game over to get out.

some examples of the impossible obstacles:

the leap of faith in Gate's Stage 2. have fun with that

You can get stuck in any of the nightmare areas if you're not careful. literally any.
I've done it, it's a bitch
basically what happens is if you go to the stages in the wrong order, you get screwed because you're missing an item you need

normally you can go to any stage and get through it. not X6.

at least you don't almost need the shadow armor like you need the gaea armor from x5 but... bleh