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This is why you shouldnt temp too much with the localization of the game's title name!
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It ties because if Capcom had left the normal numbers everywhere like they did in Japan people wouldn't have been confused that when they released Megaman X in 1993 and think MMX was Megaman 10. You see?
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I'm not seeing it.
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A sheep is actually downright menacing compared to some of their other bosses.
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X is the roman numeral for 10.
COINCIDENCE!?
/removes tinfoil
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*Activates Brain-Control Satellite, and aims it at Frank*
Yesss yessss, exactly according to Plan... You should never have removed the Tinfoil...
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So no, it's Proto Man, and any discrepancies are due to the intentionally bad, throwback artwork.
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Does this bear a striking resemblance to the Star Wars: A New Hope poster to anyone besides me?
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Then I realized, that the Mega Man in that picture doesn't have Mega Man's helmet......he has X's helmet. The red jewel/light, the extra bars on the side....
Looking further, I realized that the Protoman pictured isn't the normal one, beyond simply the helmet style. He has a short laser-blade on his right arm, as well as a tattered cape instead of a scarf. As if he was no longer a prototype of Mega Man, but more of a prototype of Zero.
So I hope....nay, am CONVINCED, that this entry will be the last of the classic Mega Man games, leading into the X series story-wise. It's to perfect of an opportunity to the developers to close the story of Mega Man, and leave the classic series finished.
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Only one problem with that theory: why put a permanent end to such a popular series? Sure, there could still be 2D Mega Man games, but capping the original incarnation with an actual end would put huge limits on what they could do in the future.
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Speaking of which, off topic but Megaman Legends 3... anybody got 10 million dollars lying around?
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EDIT: After perusing some more comments/info, etc. there's actually the possibility of the third character being Bass. I'm not sure he would work in an 8-bit style and function, but he could fit story-wise.
Also, the article says the revealed story is about a virus, making robots overheat and malfunction...which seems reminiscent of the X-series. Oh, and the Sheep Man blurb does mention the "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" connection, and as everyone knows, AI has a lot to do with the X series.
Pretty much everything is pointing towards a game that will better bridge the gap.
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But the helmet on Mega Man, specifically, is designed like X's. More than in some coincidental way. There is pretty much NO chance that this was random, the design is too similar.
I've seen the old box arts, including last year's for MM9. I took those artworks similarities (the gun being used, the human proportions, the general action-oriented depiction. Taking none of those types of things into consideration, this work still has more too it.
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If you're not an amateur Zero user, wich is denoted by saying "the last good X was x4" , or a very puritane and canonic person "the series ended in x5, period", then I can only asume you don't have a PS2. X7 was better than X6, and x8 is even better than both..
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If MM9 was a one-off release that left all us of salivating for another decade plus (again), it wouldn't have been the most instantly gratifying choice for us, but it would've been a brilliant display of restraint and respect for the franchise.
I can't say I'm displeased that a sequel has been announced, but it won't be the same "event" that 9 was. I just hope they don't run the franchise into the ground again, and cheapen what they've managed to accomplish here.
[nerd]"Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."[/nerd]
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It's exactly the same as the intentionally bad, inaccurate, throwback Mega Man 9 box art helmet. All of you saying that this looks like it might have something to do with X are forgetting that this art isn't supposed to be representative of the actual game. It's intentionally horrible, as a throwback to the Mega Man 1 art that looked nothing like what it should have. I mean, look at Wily in that MM9 image. Fucker's got a ninja mask and cybernetic eye.
The purpose of these box arts for 9 and 10 is to vaguely resemble the characters, but in no way actually be accurate, to create more nostalgia from all the people that remember how bad 1's box art was.