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Mega Man 9 Released, DLC announced
Today Capcom released Mega Man 9, the franchise's return to the 8-bit styles of the '90s. It's currently available for the Wii, and will be coming to the Playstation Network and Xbox Live soon. Capcom also announced some upcoming downloadable content, which will include extra difficulty modes and a stage that never ends, in which you are endlessly attacked. It will also give you the option of playing as Proto Man. Unfortunately, since the game is available through downloads only, the awesome box art will not be available to the public. Gamesradar has some screenshots and boss pictures.
This game is only a way to play old-skool Mega-man on the newer platforms and it isn't the first MM game to do it.
:)
Nothing new to see here, move along.
On the other hand, there are so many damn characters that they could start a Mega Man MMORPG -- would it be called a MMMMORPG?
Present it.
Talk about nickel and diming your customers, announcing DLC for a downloadable title, before it is even launched.
Read through the DailyRadar comments and it's full of people who have never played a Megaman/Rockmangame in their lives due to age. Christ on a stick, I'm 23 and I'm already telling geeks to get off my lawn! The shitlet geeks are either growing too fast or are getting dumber by the year. *shakes cane*
3drealms needs to come out with the Duke nukem forever side stroller and was due after duke3d
You have to BUY the privilige of playing as ProtoMan, sliding and Mega Buster with real money. The game only costs $10, but I've heard that playing as ProtoMan will cost you $4, and sliding will cost you $2.
No, just Hell no. I will not pay for something I can do for free since Mega Man 3
Incidentally, there's already porn of Splash Woman...
NSFW (obviously)
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/Splash_Woman/1
At last...my collection is near complete...
My hermy pedo fantasy and she-boy collection has just got some more residents.
Remember, the Wii can play Gamecube games, so you can just get a Megaman Anniversary Collection for the Gamecube to play.
Didn't Anascape get an injunction barring Nintendo from making and selling GameCube controllers, which are required to play GameCube games on a Wii system? I seem to remember Anascape suing Nintendo over a patent on a spring-loaded analog button that has a tactile snap at the far end of its travel.
The "awesome" aspect of that box art could be strongly contested, especially since Megaman keeps winning the "Worst Box Art Ever" contests on every gaming site.
The game was likely designed to be played without protoman or the slide. As with most downloadable content for titles like this, it's not likely crucial to gameplay. This is nothing new, it's an established business model. It was likely added on as an afterthought because all the info we had before indicated that these features wouldn't be present at all. I'll be buying this game. I probably won't be buying the addons.
You have to BUY the privilige of getting a cone, chocolate, or nuts top with real money. The ice cream only costs $5, but I've heard that getting cones will cost you $4, and chocolate will cost you $3.
No, just Hell no. I will not pay for something that I could do for free with a Drumstick
They did put out Duke Nukem Manhatten Project.
Splash Woman first.
They've got a new company (using the apogee name) working on a set of 2d Duke games, unless that was all just a big joke.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Whats the title? Duke Goes for a Walk With HIs Dog and Meets Some Friends Later for Dinner?
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You have to BUY the privilige of playing as ProtoMan, sliding and Mega Buster with real money. The game only costs $10, but I've heard that playing as ProtoMan will cost you $4, and sliding will cost you $2.
No, just Hell no. I will not pay for something I can do for free since Mega Man 3
You can't slide in the game while playing as Rock because the new game is a throwback to the classic format - no sliding, no charge-shot, just jumping and blasting the living shit out of enemies with lots of regular shots. To me this is a good thing - going back to the basics, the real strength of the series.
You can probably think of Blues as "easy mode" - if you want a big shield to hide behind, and a charge shot feature and the ability to move more quickly, play Blues.
Bow-ties are cool.
As a kid I played a bunch of other NES games but never much of Mega Man. I downloaded MM9 yesterday and I see a screen when I press + with a two regions where things are listed. In the top for example I can choose an item where a robot dog appears but what does that do?
On the bottom list there are MANY items, can someone tell me what those things do? The instructions are very much lacking in details. Maybe someone knows of a good web site to read that explains this stuff for someone that did not grow-up with MM-MM4 or so. Not a walk through, I want to figure-out the game myself.
Also I am loving this game. My previous favorite game to play was SuperC, and this shares a lot of the qualities of that. It is very rewarding playing MM9 since I get progressively better the more I play the stages and it requires a level of perfection to play well.
Unfortunately, the Gamecube game has the jump & fire buttons swapped. Years of muscle memory down the drain.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, START