23rd March 2010, 10:22 PM
I do remember Mega Man 3 being one of the hardest of the NES games, yeah... but I would say that compared to just about any Mega Man platformers from the SNES on, the NES games are actually easier. They're far from easy, certainly, but they're not as complicated or difficult as the later Mega Man games. I think that the series has gotten a bit too hard really, MM Zero 1 was way too hard, X6 is too hard, 7, 8, and MM&Bass are all harder than any of the NES games...
Oh, and Network Transmission on the Gamecube was pretty poorly designed and had some incredibly hard parts very early in the game. Supposedly it got easier later on, but I quit at the earlier point because it just wasn't any fun at all...
Overall I like the Mega Man games a lot, but they definitely are tough. But yeah, the NES games may be remembered as being "really hard", but a lot of that was because people first played them when they were kids I think... really, they're just challenging, for the most part. The series got harder later on, and kept getting harder and harder with time -- like how Zero and X6 are even harder than most of the SNES Mega Man games. (MM&B's GBA port perhaps excepted, that's very hard... but even that's a bit easier on SNES than GBA, thanks to the larger viewing distance...)
Anyway, yes, of the NES games, 3 is quite possibly the hardest one. That second set of four Wily Robots or whatever were really, really tough...
Oh, and Network Transmission on the Gamecube was pretty poorly designed and had some incredibly hard parts very early in the game. Supposedly it got easier later on, but I quit at the earlier point because it just wasn't any fun at all...
Overall I like the Mega Man games a lot, but they definitely are tough. But yeah, the NES games may be remembered as being "really hard", but a lot of that was because people first played them when they were kids I think... really, they're just challenging, for the most part. The series got harder later on, and kept getting harder and harder with time -- like how Zero and X6 are even harder than most of the SNES Mega Man games. (MM&B's GBA port perhaps excepted, that's very hard... but even that's a bit easier on SNES than GBA, thanks to the larger viewing distance...)
Anyway, yes, of the NES games, 3 is quite possibly the hardest one. That second set of four Wily Robots or whatever were really, really tough...