29th December 2009, 12:27 AM
Um, no, just like Mega Man 9 last year, it's a new game designed to look like it's a NES game. Mega Man 9 was very successful, so as always with Capcom of course they're making a sequel!
The whole point is to make it look authentically like a NES game. It's doing a little more than a NES could, particularly in terms of game size, but in general it holds very close to the NES... and I think that's awesome, a Mario All-Stars style overhaul wouldn't necessarily be an improvement. Some people like the look of NES Mario over the SNES overhauls, you know. :) (Though the fact that All-Stars alters the controls in a somewhat negative way is the more important complaint, I think)
But either way, it's gameplay that's important... and there Mega Man 9 is rock-solid classic Mega Man stuff from everything I know. It's really hard, evidently, but great stuff. This looks similar, but with an easy mode to make it much more approachable to people who aren't great at Mega Man games.
Oh yeah, and Capcom tried a Mega Man title with classic gameplay but updated graphics and added features. They tried two, in fact: Mega Man Powered Up! and Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, both for the PSP. Maverick Hunter X is a remake of Mega Man X, and Powered Up a remake of the first Mega Man for the NES. Both were released in 2006, and almost everything I've heard about them says that they're pretty good (You didn't like Powered Up, DJ? Why not? I haven't played them of course, not having a PSP...). They sold absolutely abysmally. Capcom got the message and stopped making PSP Mega Man games. The next Mega Man platformer was Mega Man 9 for WiiWare, Xbox Live, and PSN, and it did much better. With 8-bit graphics. :)
You know, there's a lot of nostalgia out there for the NES, from lots of people who grew up in the mid '80s to mid '90s... you don't share those feelings I guess, but they're common. I definitely have some. Even if I didn't have a NES then, a lot of people I know did, and I loved NES games and still do like a lot of them... Mega Man 9 and 10 fit into that nostalgia perfectly, except they're on the modern systems so most current gamers can play them.
The whole point is to make it look authentically like a NES game. It's doing a little more than a NES could, particularly in terms of game size, but in general it holds very close to the NES... and I think that's awesome, a Mario All-Stars style overhaul wouldn't necessarily be an improvement. Some people like the look of NES Mario over the SNES overhauls, you know. :) (Though the fact that All-Stars alters the controls in a somewhat negative way is the more important complaint, I think)
But either way, it's gameplay that's important... and there Mega Man 9 is rock-solid classic Mega Man stuff from everything I know. It's really hard, evidently, but great stuff. This looks similar, but with an easy mode to make it much more approachable to people who aren't great at Mega Man games.
Oh yeah, and Capcom tried a Mega Man title with classic gameplay but updated graphics and added features. They tried two, in fact: Mega Man Powered Up! and Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, both for the PSP. Maverick Hunter X is a remake of Mega Man X, and Powered Up a remake of the first Mega Man for the NES. Both were released in 2006, and almost everything I've heard about them says that they're pretty good (You didn't like Powered Up, DJ? Why not? I haven't played them of course, not having a PSP...). They sold absolutely abysmally. Capcom got the message and stopped making PSP Mega Man games. The next Mega Man platformer was Mega Man 9 for WiiWare, Xbox Live, and PSN, and it did much better. With 8-bit graphics. :)
You know, there's a lot of nostalgia out there for the NES, from lots of people who grew up in the mid '80s to mid '90s... you don't share those feelings I guess, but they're common. I definitely have some. Even if I didn't have a NES then, a lot of people I know did, and I loved NES games and still do like a lot of them... Mega Man 9 and 10 fit into that nostalgia perfectly, except they're on the modern systems so most current gamers can play them.
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