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TheRedPriest
Matrix Marine
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« Reply #42 on: 24 November 2008, 23:14:45 » |
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What was wrong with X8?
- Awful stage design. AWFUL. All of them. Without exception. X8 took everything X5 - X7 did wrong and rolled it into one game. The levels were each poorly made "themes" that stiffled your playing to some degree, in some cases rivaling Metal Shark Player's stage. There was not ONE single good stage in X8.
- 2 man party system was broken and poorly implemented. It was bad enough changing characters between stages, but IN THEM? It removed any reason to play as one character as stages were made to be played by switching. Remember X4? Some parts were easier with X, some with Zero, and it really extened the gameplay because each character required you play the stage differently. X8 does not. It's the same. Every time.
- 3 playable characters. Same problem X7 had. Axl serves no purpose. He does not offer anything different X or Zero already gave. He's a 3rd wheel fan character that kills the dynamic between X and Zero.
- Buying your upgrades do not belong in an X game. I'm sorry, you are not allowed to disagree. Finding your 8 heart tanks and 4 sub tanks was half the fun of the game and worked quite well. X8 just adds so much unnecessary GARBAGE that gets in the way of the core gameplay.
- The music was among the worst in the series.
- The change in art direction was like vomit in your eye, and the only reason it isn't the worst thing to ever happen to X and Zero is Mega Man Zero.
- All of the complete and totally RANDOM ##### put in the game to make it "cool". Vile. Why's he back? No fanfare when he dies again. He was just there. No reason other than VILE IS COOL LOOK! LOOK! X8 IS GOOD AGAIN! The utterly mind bogglingly WRONG use of the word Maverick. But getting into that is a whole other discussion and not necessairly in itself X8's fault.
X8 isn't awful, certainly no X7, and I can entertain the argument it's better than X5 or X6 (it's not), but you can not say it's a good game, because that is an out and out lie.
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ChaosVortex
Super Robot
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« Reply #45 on: 25 November 2008, 04:50:40 » |
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If I could make quick comments... - Awful stage design. AWFUL. All of them. Without exception. X8 took everything X5 - X7 did wrong and rolled it into one game. The levels were each poorly made "themes" that stiffled your playing to some degree, in some cases rivaling Metal Shark Player's stage. There was not ONE single good stage in X8. Actually... there's quite a couple I liked. I just missed some sort of actual side-scrolling gameplay, and a lot of the stages supplied that. Of course, other offered cheap gimmicks that I hate to replay, like bike riding, elevator riding, etc. - 2 man party system was broken and poorly implemented. It was bad enough changing characters between stages, but IN THEM? It removed any reason to play as one character as stages were made to be played by switching. Remember X4? Some parts were easier with X, some with Zero, and it really extened the gameplay because each character required you play the stage differently. X8 does not. It's the same. Every time. I can agree to that. While swapping in between characters I felt was a nice idea, it would've been better as a sequel if you just went alone. You can thank X7 for that implementation. - 3 playable characters. Same problem X7 had. Axl serves no purpose. He does not offer anything different X or Zero already gave. He's a 3rd wheel fan character that kills the dynamic between X and Zero. Agree fully. - Buying your upgrades do not belong in an X game. I'm sorry, you are not allowed to disagree. Finding your 8 heart tanks and 4 sub tanks was half the fun of the game and worked quite well. X8 just adds so much unnecessary GARBAGE that gets in the way of the core gameplay. Agree fully. - The music was among the worst in the series. ... give or take. Some of them were catchy. I still have the Jacob theme on my iTunes. - The change in art direction was like vomit in your eye, and the only reason it isn't the worst thing to ever happen to X and Zero is Mega Man Zero. Agreed. - All of the complete and totally RANDOM ##### put in the game to make it "cool". Vile. Why's he back? No fanfare when he dies again. He was just there. No reason other than VILE IS COOL LOOK! LOOK! X8 IS GOOD AGAIN! The utterly mind bogglingly WRONG use of the word Maverick. But getting into that is a whole other discussion and not necessairly in itself X8's fault. Agreed so much. If there's one thing I downright hate about the game, it's the cruddy storyline. Everything made little to no sense at all. I mean... orbital elevator? Fight Sigma on the moon? wat?
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Fatso
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« Reply #47 on: 25 November 2008, 05:04:35 » |
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