Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Knuckles-Fajita I mean, if it actually was a sensible launch in all territories on all platforms, would it really have that authentic Capcom feel?

@link3710 Mega Man 8, Mega Man and Bass, and any of the other series in the franchise.

Megaman Legends!

Imagine having X7 be your first Mega Man game.

@NEStalgia Mega Man 1 sucks. It's way too hard, has a weird, pointless scoring system, and the music is some of the worst in the series. Get thee to an NES and play Mega Man 2.

I wouldn't say Mega Man 1 sucks, it's just "first-game syndrome" where all the rest of the sequels are just better. Just like Mario 1 and Sonic 1 and Crash 1.

I wouldntt start on 2 as the game is horribly balanced and also has the "Dont miss a shot or youre screwed" boss.

About as beginner friendly as it gets until the end.

@Knuckles-Fajita I'd definitely need save states for that last part of MM2 now... I really don't want to miss that last shot, then have to get myself killed and get the weapon bar filled again with blue canisters... Hated those moments!

@Knuckles-Fajita Yeah, I was just referring to the core series. I'm... actually unfamiliar with 8, Megaman & Bass' sole western release I've never been able to beat due to the glitches locking me out from continuing on all 3 of my attempts through the game, so I wouldn't count that one.

But yes, any other subseries is more accessible than the original games. ZX in particular is a nice place to start.

To a large degree it goes back to "NES games haven't aged well at all"....most of them were designed with arcade "gotcha'" mechanics that made sense back then but today are just annoying and poorly designed. If you didn't play Mega Man in its own time it's doubtful you'll start to love the NES games now.

@NEStalgia I'm lukewarm on Mega Man classic/X itself (I'm more of a Zero/Star Force fan myself), but poorly designed isn't really what I'd describe Mega Man 2 and 3. 11's demo was good too, and I didn't use the double gear system much. If you take your time and make sure you read everything's movements, everything goes down like a stack of dominoes. It's the same philosophy with literally every other hard game out there from Dark Souls to Castlevania, where once you read everyone's little bit of animations and tells, they all fall apart like a stack of dominoes.

There are duds in Mega Man, no doubt. But as a whole it's more fair than bullcrap. I just don't really like classic/X because I find the games mostly boring and uneventful with a few exceptions. Then again, I'm not really a fan of 2D shooter platformers. I err more on games with melee combat like Castlevania, Mega Man Zero (playing as Zero in Mega Man X isn't that fun), Shovel Knight, and Hollow Knight, so I bet there's some degree of bias.

@subpopz The later half of X I've never played so I can't say. But if I were to play Mega Man, I'd just play Mega Man Zero or Star Force first. Despite Star Force being really average if you look at it "objectively" with a campy story and simplistic gameplay, it's still something I grew up with as a kid and it was a ton of fun for what it is: a simplistic RPG that does enough differently to be pretty dang fun.

The Zero series may be tough as balls, but I jive more with that series than classic/X.

That reminds me, I really want to try ZX and ZX Advent. Perhaps those would be great games too if they built themselves on Zero.

@IceClimbers
Yes, I am very pleased.

That said, practically everything else in the eShop those games are going up against is indies/retro, aside from a few select titles (Okami, Mario Tennis and Odyssey, Zelda). Valkyria Chronicles 4 is still 3 spots below... wait for it... Ultimate Chicken Horse. Yeah.

Nonetheless, that's a clutch comeback. Still haven't seen South Park though. And those poor, poor Banner Saga games. Trilogy peaked at #632 on Amazon during its release... Ouch.

I have no doubt Mega Man 11 will do well though. That's a game that actually has done well in the charts as a preorder, and continues to outperform other versions. Switch was definitely prime real estate for that one.

It wasnt till this statement that I figured out who you are. People, stop changing your names lol.

Wait, who am I?

@EvilLucario ZX/Advent are definitely easier than Zero (not that that's saying too much but) though technically they are the far future sequels to the Zero games the same way Zero is to X and X is to the original. They're metroidvanias, which led to very different gameplay from their predecessors. Advent is significantly better IMO, but I still recommend both. Oh, and ZX plays a lot more like Zero than any other game from the little I've played of the Zeros, though you do have the option of using a buster as well as the sword.

South Park is at #31 last I checked, so that should be on the charts soon. Mega Man 11 seems to be a crowd pleasure. Capcom seems to be the most successful third party, even if they haven’t had a lot to bring that’s new until now,

@link3710 They're Metroidvanias? Holy crap, that's awesome. Gonna need to hunt down a copy then. If it's like Mega Man Zero but as a Metroidvania, I am 100% down with that.

@Mrtoad
Capcom is my Nintendo.

Monster Hunter is my favorite game series of all time. Up til 5 min ago I was playing Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, which I play every day, and may well be my new fave game of all time.
Mega Man is what I grew up with, and was my fave for many of my younger years.
Street Fighter is my fave fighter and one of the only fighters I truly, truly love.
Resident Evil (at least, Revelations line of games) is my fave survival horror (hate that new evil crap though)
Okami, Dragon's Dogma, Devil May Cry... all classics.

I love Capcom games. Pretty much all of them.

Would love if Capcom did more current gen ports. Even if MvCI wasn’t that good, it still would’ve been a cool port and I imagine they could’ve made it work, Capcom has done great portable conversions of their fighting games before.