You win, Mega Man 9

[Calculator83]

how much is this game?

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Calculator83
how much is this game?

$10 if I remember correctly (800 MS points).

EDIT:

You know the most annoying thing I saw in the game? Whenever they were printing out text on the screen, they always cut the last word or two of the sentence and had to scroll down to show that cut off text. Couldn't they have worked it out so we wouldn't have to sit there for so long reading text =\.

 

[Dorkenstein]

I wish I could just play this. But I don't really want to put money into a game that, in my memory/experience, is too full of punishing moments like Ninja Gaiden.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: Dorkenstein
I wish I could just play this. But I don't really want to put money into a game that, in my memory/experience, is too full of punishing moments like Ninja Gaiden.

I think unless you're on the Wii, you can try a demo. If you're able to beat the demo, maybe it's worth getting. If not (like me), then there's no point!

 

[Skunkwourk]

Decided to buy this as my first VC purchase. Stayed up until 4am playing, not a good idea for a law student.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I like how the gaming nerds hang on to insane difficulty as their right of passage. Guess what? Lots of people have figured out that it's just not fun struggling with something that's supposed to be fun.

I think all basketball hoops should be lowered to 4 feet and widened to the size of your average car tire. Basketball nerds are such elitists with their difficult to learn shots.

Jesus christ, grow a pair and learn something for once. Turn your brain on and stop drooling out the side of your mouth.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I like how the gaming nerds hang on to insane difficulty as their right of passage. Guess what? Lots of people have figured out that it's just not fun struggling with something that's supposed to be fun.

I think all basketball hoops should be lowered to 4 feet and widened to the size of your average car tire. Basketball nerds are such elitists with their difficult to learn shots.

Jesus christ, grow a pair and learn something for once. Turn your brain on and stop drooling out the side of your mouth.

I happen to enjoy Mega Man 9 and similarly difficult games. I enjoy the challenge, however, your attempt to equate them to basketball and your contention that people that don't enjoy extremely difficult games have theirs brains turned off is frankly, retarded. I have never learned a real world usable skill from beating a difficult platformer lol.

 

[tw1164]

Originally posted by: m0mentary
Decided to buy this as my first VC purchase. Stayed up until 4am playing, not a good idea for a law student.

You need to sue Capcom.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I like how the gaming nerds hang on to insane difficulty as their right of passage. Guess what? Lots of people have figured out that it's just not fun struggling with something that's supposed to be fun.

It's not insane difficulty. It's a challenge. Games these days aren't challenging. They are still good and engrossing, but not challenging.

No, it is insane difficulty. The challenge is in memorizing everything about the level, which takes lots and lots and lots of deaths.

The whole retro gaming phenomenon has completely escaped me. These old games are crazy and I don't see how playing the same thing over and over again forever is fun.

Well, that was the only way they could make those old school games last more than 2 hours, and arcades were still in full swing.

Nowadays where most games are 20 hours long and story driven, theres no need for it to be SO hard that you need to do it over and over...just hard enough that you cant do it without trying.

Difficulty options FTW.

And for the record, f mega man 9. If I wanted to play old school NES megaman, theres already 6 of them. Why make another 8-bit game in 2008? Give us megaman: rearmed, not this BS.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
I happen to enjoy Mega Man 9 and similarly difficult games. I enjoy the challenge, however, your attempt to equate them to basketball and your contention that people that don't enjoy extremely difficult games have theirs brains turned off is frankly, retarded. I have never learned a real world usable skill from beating a difficult platformer lol.

The basketball hoop isn't high up in the air so that you can learn a real world usable skill. It's high in the air so that you have a challenge, so that you have something to work towards, so that you aren't spoon fed every basket. Can you not understand the concept of challenge? It's the same reason Mega Man 9 is difficult.

And you'd be surprised what you may have learned from a difficult platformer. Everything you do affects your skill set in some way. However, if everything you do requires absolutely no challenge, both your brain and body can become dull.

 

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: BD2003
And for the record, f mega man 9. If I wanted to play old school NES megaman, theres already 6 of them. Why make another 8-bit game in 2008? Give us megaman: rearmed, not this BS.

Agreed. I quickly lost nearly all interest when I found out this was an 8-bit style Mega Man, and completely lost interest when I found out that it's only in 4:3. I love Mega Man, but this is not at all what I'd like to see in 2008.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: bl4ckfl4g
I happen to enjoy Mega Man 9 and similarly difficult games. I enjoy the challenge, however, your attempt to equate them to basketball and your contention that people that don't enjoy extremely difficult games have theirs brains turned off is frankly, retarded. I have never learned a real world usable skill from beating a difficult platformer lol.

The basketball hoop isn't high up in the air so that you can learn a real world usable skill. It's high in the air so that you have a challenge, so that you have something to work towards, so that you aren't spoon fed every basket. Can you not understand the concept of challenge? It's the same reason Mega Man 9 is difficult.

And you'd be surprised what you may have learned from a difficult platformer. Everything you do affects your skill set in some way. However, if everything you do requires absolutely no challenge, both your brain and body can become dull.

You're talking about a basketball hoop being high in the air (high enough that almost no one can reach it).

Mega Man 9 is like making the basketball hoop narrower than it is, having it spin around 20 feet above the court, while on fire, and it gives you a 10,000V shock whenever you miss.

 

[rocadelpunk]

hornet/tornado left for me.

Is there a death count toll in the game? I'm probably approaching 200

 

[jman19]

Finally decided to download this today... played a few stages, watched the Olympic hockey gold medal match, and just finished off Wily's 3 stage. Re-playing the robot masters now. More than one teeth grinding moment getting there, though...

 

[mumedina]

i bought the game.

i've died about 502073402384023840234 times, but I keep on coming back it's so addicting.

lol, that was my exact strategy when I played megaman on NES when I was a kid. Nothing can beat the sense of accomplishment you get when you beat a megaman game!

 

[Loop2kil]

Ahh the NES days....Never did beat Master Blaster, takes like 8 bazillion hours to get to the final stage and I would always lose....and there was no save.

 

[Rifter]

Ahh the NES days....Never did beat Master Blaster, takes like 8 bazillion hours to get to the final stage and I would always lose....and there was no save.

This is exactly why im replaying alot of older NES/SNES/Genesis games now on a emulator so i can save whenever the hell i want and i dont need to die 10,000 times to beat it. i just replayed master blaster last month!

 

[vi edit]

Yeh it's funny how hard those old side scrollers seem now. I busted out the genesis collection this weekend with some friends and we played some Golden Axe and Streets of Rage on it. We SUCKED! I guess having to pump quarters into an Arcade game makes you hone your skills a little quicker.

😀

 

[Raduque]

Can you not understand the concept of challenge? It's the same reason Mega Man 9 is difficult.

Mega Man 9 is difficult because it's retro. Like the original games, it's extremely hard because it has little depth. There was nothing to keep people coming back to games back then, so they just made them as difficult as possible so people would keep retrying till they finished it.