Bomberjack
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 #17 Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:42 pm |
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| All I meant was that, in general, the story in Mega Man is never really the strong focus of the games. The story is really just the excuse that the game exists |
Yeah well, that's what I call a troublesome lack of effort on the programmer's part. It's kind of like those people that criticize some movies saying "Oh sure it's great, but if you take away the soundtrack it's not nearly as good." It obviously wouldn't be, because they're taking away part of the experience. Same is for videogames. Just because they can exist without a real plot doesn't mean they should.
The industry isn't doing anyone, not us nor itself, a favor by largely dismissing storylines as an unnecessary aspect of videogames.
| Didn't mean to put it out like that. What I meant is that, at this point, the Mega Man X story is pretty much beyond help, and any effort they'd make to it just add more questions and problems rather then answers. |
Yeah, unlike the classic series (which already had a direction, namely going into the X one) the story of the X series has already outlived its original purpose and intent... so the only way to go would be a completely different direction, forgetting Sigma and all attached plot threads.
| Capcom doesn't exactly have a good record for telling good saga based stories. |
Oh yeah, I won't argue against that. Just consider the wild retcons the plot of the Street Fighter Series has gone through...
| On their own, ignoring the events that happened beforehand, the stories of each game isn't that bad, but when put together it's a giant mess. The only real way to make the X storyline better is to reboot it, or continue the Maverick Hunter X project and fix any plotholes and such, and that isn't gonna happen. |
Things were going rather well up to X5. it's too bad there's no chance they'll remake just the games from X6 onward (nor is there any that they'll get that far remaking the previous five first).
| It doesn't matter if the later chapters are written better then the previous ones, unless the whole book is written better, it's not going to be a very good read. |
Yeah, that's why I say the only way is a completely new direction, not to mention that the ties to the Zero series have already been muddled up enough.
I think they may actually have tried to do so with Command Mission, but nothing more came of it.
| So you didn't find it strange that Sigma always has a similar appearance in each game? Somebody or something must keep making a new body for him, cause I really doubt Sigma just happens to have a ton of spare bodies for him to use in his basement somewhere. |
Don't think so, uh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVMctYNyMlw
Even if Sigma didn't have spare bodies like that hidden all over the planet (and really I would if I was him), he's a virus, he can bend the will of other reploids to make him a new body (like he did with Doppler). He can probably even take control of an automated factory and make himself a temporary one if need be.
| Who rebuilt Vile again and why was he rebuilt in first place? |
Sigma? Lumine? Vile was a legend among hunters before he became a maverick. That's reason enough to give him another chance to make X and Zero's lifes miserable.
| Or how does Dr. Light's hologram know of Zero or Ayla or how does he seem to make more suits of armor for X to use, despite being dead for over a hundred years, or how it suddenly developed some kind of personality by X5 (maybe even earlier, I don't remember)? These things never bothered you? |
Most people assumed Light has an A.I. replica of himself making these capsules. In Japan he never spoke like a recorded message that was Capcom USA screwing up.
The real reason though it seems was only revealed in the Zero series, more specifically its storyline guides. Now that does piss me off. I shouldn't have to buy books to understand these things.
| They explained the ability to play as certain characters as being clones? That's just so ridiculously cliched and overused. Suppose it's the only one that works without creating more questions, but still... |
Yeah, considering there's going to be countless players meeting each other, it was either clones or creating new "classes of characters" that only had a superficial resemblance to the originals yet in the end played pretty much the same... I'm glad they're going with the clones.
| Again, Dr. Cain wasn't a very important character anyway. I completely forget about his existence when I play the games until I see him. Besides, in the remake, the guy was clearly on life support and on the verge of death. Even if he wasn't killed in the explosion, I doubt he'd be alive by the time X2 takes place. |
But what good does it do for the remake to kill him? Does it serve a point? Does it help fix a plothole?
No. |
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