now that wii condom will get some good use, as i throw the 'mote in frustration again and again.

HUZZAH!

This game is all going to come down to level and boss design. I'm excited to try out a game with the aesthetic and challenge of the games I grew up with.

damn, forgot to end my fake quote

yeah, this better not be one of those 'keep dying until you memorize the stage perfectly' kinda difficulties, just mega cheap in an old school kind of way

No f'in way I get this day one. Have to see teh looksies.

Panda knows the score. Mega Man hasn't ever really been about throwing in impossible/cheap situations. Just about every thing expected of you is doable in so far as you can eventually figure it out on your own through trial and error (Boss weapons weaknesses) or a keen assessment of the situation (Disappearing blocks).

The new demographics are already scared off by the 8Bit graphics. Might aswell go the full way and make this hard as hell too.

I wonder if it really is that hard though, since after some playing the old Mega Man geames weren't that hard.

Disappearing blocks are my curse, but I still can't wait spend all night just giving it "one more try before going to bed".

I guess it'd be alright if it was hard but... That is kind of a turn off for me. Not only will it be yet another mega man with a background story that has basically nothing to do with the game itself. But it will be yet another mega man that plays exactly like the last 15 or so.

I wondered as to why the hype was so large on this one, that I began to look around for the purpose. I asked, and I got... Kind of a response.

I took it upon myself to look up the background of mega man games since I stopped playing them and I was enjoying the story. It seemed to have developed quite a bit since I had last played it. But with the advent of this, are they looking to make a very plain mega man game once again to sell on the name alone?.. What makes it okay for Mega Man to do that and yet the same situation causes outrage when Square does it. It's all very confusing.

On a side note.. What in the flying hell is going on around here with all the Ron Workman Avatar Copies?

@Dennen

For Mega Man, story is secondary to gameplay, imo. While Battle Net and the X/Zero/ZX series infused the games with more story, Gameplay varied with hit and miss results. Some would say more miss as time went on.

I think the hype is in large because people are so often vocal about their love of Mega Man 2 and how great that a game was (arguably). The aesthetic is very intune with the older style Mega Man from NES, from graphics, to gameplay, to level of story involvement (it seems).

Mega Man, by now, is so added onto, that people were craving just plain Mega Man. Its like having a vanilla ice cream that you enjoy. But they keep adding more stuff to it as time went on. By now, with Mega Man, you have Vanilla flavored freezie pops with sprinkles and easy open tabs.

So you're telling me I can just get vanilla ice cream, no sprinkles or chocolate sauce, or vitamin-enriched sour pwoder again? awesome!

Man, they just keep saying everything that I want to hear with this game. I was interested at "new Megaman", I was sold at "retro graphics", I was hard at actually seeing said graphics and listening to the music; at this point I'm rummaging through my drawers for a tube of k-y.

Good responses and both very valid I would say.

For HarassmentPanda, I too had a similar situation where I haven't enjoyed a mega man title *at least in traditional gameplay* in a long time. I guess my situation differed as whenever I felt like playing one of that standard, I opted to just play one of my classic games rather than buying a newer one. So naturally as time went, so did my will to purchase any new mega man game regardless of what it was named or the genre it was placed under.

For Tubatic. I would definitely agree that story was secondary to gameplay. That was almost a constant in every genre that the series expanded over with a few exceptions. I am one of those people who would love to see the original games re-released in correctly edited fashions.. One method to keep my interest is to keep going what was great. But to do so without feeling like one is dragging it out. Having played the originals, I felt as though the next was going to basically be the same game I already owned. So over time, my will waned and swayed back and forth on the lines of caring. I think I will have to see more footage of the game in order to be excited. The graphics bother me not. But will the gameplay introduce any new elements or twists to make it familiar, yet somewhat evolved from its old standards. Or will I essentially be playing Mega Man 2 with different bosses.

Take Final Fantasy 7. I love the game. Some don't some do. But that's not the point. For me, I would consider it a sad change to re-release Final Fantasy 7 with its storyline altered to compensate for anything else. I would rather the graphics be redone. If VO work is to be added, then so they shall. But it should be a choice whether or not to have it active at all. The battle system and so forth should remain as pristine as it was in its original format unless it was horridly broken... When Final Fantasy 1 Anniversary Edition was released on the PSP, I was pleased. Some was different, but the game retained very familiar appeal. The most drastic change came with graphics, but they stuck with a finely detailed 2D style. I was pleased with the work done. Then I picked up Final Fantasy 3 for the DS and I became displeased with lackluster graphics by comparison. I felt that they took something that was great and destroyed it by attempting to make a more powered game for the DS. That entire change from 2D to 3D, done in the fashion akin to giant heads and bad poly models disappointed me and I felt saddened by this.

In a long way of saying it, that is my message *nod*

P.S. I still don't get all the Ron Workman Avatars.

I think they should release this along with the other 8 games on vc, xbox live and psn. That'd be the ultimate challenge set.

Mega Man 9, showing people who wears the daddy pants since daddy pants was a common thing.

@pseudo hero:

You don't have the Mega Man Anniversary Collection? It's not perfect, but it's cheap and available for all 3 previous consoles. Certainly cheaper than buying each of the games separately, physical or download.

My Megaman Anniversary on PS2 has slight controller lag, makes the game unplayable for me. Not sure if it's the game or the PS3 running the PS2 game. My PS3 is 60gb so it's running on PS2 hardware, it shouldn't run any worse.

I came.

This game is gonna be a cakewalk.

I can't wait to be challenged.