Goes to show these people had so much free times on their hands to be doing all of this.

Looks like Xbox is following in the footsteps of their long dead competitor, Google Stadia. They love to give credit to their workers creating a false sense of accomplishment and then firing them the day after tomorrow from that. This betrayal of creating a false sense of accomplishment only to get rid of your own team will come back to bite Xbox in the rear soon just like how it did Stadia.

I wish they did a Remake or Remaster of the Megaman Star Force Series for Switch and to make the Megaman Star Force 4 that was never finished

It’s dissapointing how they’ve let Mega Man flounder. I’m glad we’ve gotten so many retro collections and Mega Man inspired items/costumes in other Capcom games, but he needs his own title. They can’t keep using him as a Capcom mascot if younger generations develop no connection to him.

....I saw that AI voice audio is used in this game and instantly stopped reading. >_>

DK64 should been added in June to kick-up the hype train for DKB.

PS1-era graphics are the new trend in the indie-sphere, I guess?

Also, did nobody tell them that "Modern Retro Stealth Action" is MRSA?

I don't really think FFIX needs a remake. It's a great game, but V or VI deserve one more. If we are looking at a full on 'fantasy' story, give me V. It's wonderful and would benefit a lot from a modern retelling.

Actually, the current rumors suggest it isn't going well, or even maybe cancelled.

I hope those aren't true. But I also hope its not another 7-style complete redo.

Expecting a different answer is like expecting the big chiefs at Nintendo to tell us "Yeah, we pretty much don't care about Star Fox anymore, deal with it".

So Capcom says Mega Man is important but they aren't making any new game? So where's Mega Man Legends: Legacy Collection Capcom? That collection should be easy to make as it only had 3 games on there: Mega Man Legends, Mega Man Legends 2, and The Misadventures of Tron Bonne.

The real question now is will we get a new Mega Man game before Half-Life 3?

@Grumblevolcano Oh, that's a good point. I would imagine it applies to teh original too. (Although it's still fairly mature in EU.) So dunno.

I'm sure the fact that Nintendo is selling the Switch 2 dock separately for a high price has NOTHING to do with this oak or compatibility.

Reading some comments, it'd seem that the constant brainwashing is working and many people already are shocked and appalled that anyone would want to use the hardware they bought however they want, with whatever accessories they want, not 100% following the Word of God (Nintendo).

For society at large payroll is future consumption.

For individual companies payroll is present expenditure.

Basically, what benefits the few, hurts the many - and vice versa. This is an blatant contradiction that causes obvious strife.

Instead of rallying against Microsoft, it would make more sense to me to rally against the cause.

That said, Microsoft's gross incompetence in managing their studios for at least the last 12'ish years is staggering. If Xbox hadn't been part of a balance sheet that makes one question the very notion of the abstract thing often referred to as "marketplace" it would have gone out of business years ago ... which would have left all these folks without a job btw.

@Overzeal

“ In 5 years they put out 8 exclusives and 6 were financial failures.”

Something something about monkeys and typewriters…

It’s crazy with how bad they mismanage their studios and subsidiaries. Even as someone who owns an Xbox and had fun playing it, my main issue with Microsoft when it comes to gaming is how they buy game studios or establish their own studios, but it seems almost every time after buying/establishing a studio, they mismanage them poorly or don’t focus on them, and then sometimes close or layoff the studio some time later, even if they make good and well-received games (Tango) or before they can even release their first game (The Initiative). They just build up a large portfolio of studios, but don’t work with what they have and keep buying up more studios, or just manage them terribly, plus, I feel like them owning a bunch of game studios is somewhat unsustainable since they’ve shown they can’t manage all of them well for years now. These are maybe one of the worst company layoffs I’ve ever seen, on top of the dozens of games they cancelled.

The layoffs make me wonder what the future will be like for some of the studios, like Rare, given their next game they worked on for 6-7 years just got cancelled despite reports saying development was getting better, they lost the last few veterans at their studio as part of the layoffs, and their about to go a decade without a new game. I just hope all the people affected can land back on their feet fast, and that this isn’t immediately followed up with another wave of layoffs.

A new mainline Mega Man game is my biggest wish after a new Zelda or Mario. Holding out hope....

@RupeeClock yeap

Man, Microsoft. It's almost as if buying up all those companies was extremely shortsighted and unsustainable in the long run or something...

I’m looking forward to a new Mega Man but it’s not from Capcom and it’s probably better that way anyway

Mega Man 11 was a huge misstep. It was too easy with new ideas that fell flat. Just keep making them 8-bit. 9 was perfect and 10 was really good.

@Kyloctopus What theory?

@GrailUK Was that for the N64 original or the XB1 remaster?

Imo, Capcom has not been treating Mega Man with respect ever since Kenji Inafune left the company. In the past, Capcom was making a lot of Mega Man games including it's spin-off like the Mega Man X and Mega Man Legends, almost making it look like Mega Man is Capcom's mascot. But now, despite making a new Mega Man game in 2018 and re-releasing various games in compilations, the series has been really scarce since they have been milking other IPs like Resident Evil and especially Monster Hunter to death. They need to give Mega Man more love as with its other IPs.

@Kyloctopus I believe.

@RupeeClock Based on how well Fantasy Life i turned out, Capcom could probably make a better Mega Man Legends 3 without Inafune being part of it. 😅

@nessisonett

It definitely is a tough one, it's been a good 15 years or more since I played it properly and 100 percented it.

Memory is a little vague as it was so long ago but I seem to remember thinking id completed it only to then unlock a secret outer space area

I can always appreciate pixel art games. They're timeless when done well. What I never understood was this obsession with going back to the time of the ugliest 3D graphics in existence. I didn't like them even back when they were new; the game experiences were novel enough for me to look past PS1/N64 graphics, but I never thought they were objectively 'good'.

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

@RupeeClock - Forgot about ZX, which is sad because I own it... it's been sitting in my backlog for years, haha.

Maybe they should hire some of this talent so their “Nintendo” games can look and run like they are made on the current hardware.

This industry is so broken at its core.

As much as I would love to see Mega Man more often, his heavy lifting hey day is behind him, at least, because of Capcom. The franchise is a legacy pillar of Capcom that helped build their house, but not a main pillar anymore to their business sadly. At this point he's premium fan service and nothing more. How I would love to see the original series keep going with 12, the X series with X9, or a whole new original Mega Man series.

“The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites”

checks NL disregarding that

and that’s why I don’t use social media.

@RupeeClock still a pretty gross display... Really makes you realize how other companies value their talent and actually push through the hard times together if they believe in them...

This is awful and generally mass layoffs have a net negative at studios post firings.

Pfft... Over seven years is nothing new when it comes to waiting for a new Mega Man game. It'll happen when it happens. Also, there's still a few collections Capcom could release in the meantime.

You'd think a huge tech giant like MS could get their act together and - I dunno - sustain most of their employees and subsidiaries. But no, it's about always chasing a higher bottom line while sacrificing most of the chess board along the way.

Never played a Megaman game that I've liked and have played a bunch

@turmeric16

I'm really social media ignorant, but if he didn't want it quoted or otherwise reproduced he shouldn't have put it on social media. Perhaps he wanted to share it with friends and associates, but that could have been done via other means.

A good rule of thumb is that if you don't want blow-back for ideas that you hold, don't post it.

I need a review before I commit to a purchase.

The main character kinda makes me think Samus and Snake had a girl and she followed her father's line of work.

Maybe Mega Man Legends 3 is coming to Switch 2 and that's what Capcom has been working on this whole time.

Lol

soooo...I clearly remembered commenting on this in the past. And I figured, why not babble about what I'd like to see once again by copy/pasting what I said back then. And...in the process of finding my comment...I saw that they said this EXACT thing in July 2024! And I think that says so much more about how concerned they are about reviving the series.

...but. anyway. here's my input.

As a lifelong Mega Man X fan, I would love to see them offer a definitive end to the plot. Just tie those threads and let it lie.

But, over time, I've come to hope for something a bit different. They already had so much work done for Mega Man Legends 3, and presumably a plot. My ultimate dream would be to see Capcom establish a new framework with a modern engine for faithful remakes of 1 and 2 - both to test the waters and to set the stage for the long-awaited development of 3. I just can't let go of Legends, and as much as I hate to say it, 1 and 2 really show their age. 1, 2, and 3 all made with modern sensibilities and the art style of the Legends series? I want nothing more than that.

This is word-for-word the same response they give out every year lol

@Grumblevolcano it got a new rating of T.

Nintendo Life are not believers in the MegaMan/Pragmata theory eh?