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Lokarin posted...

Megaman 2 is what really got everything together, Megaman 3 perfected it and Megaman 4 slammed it!

I'd say Mega Man 1 was fun, but it wasn't incredibly great, and it had a lot of rough edges. Mega Man 2 basically took everything good about 1 and improved on it, making it a great game that was better in every possible way.

For 3, I'd say it was better in a lot of ways, but also weaker in some ways, so I usually have trouble deciding which I'd say was actually the better of the two games (or at least which one I prefer more) - if nothing else, 2 feels way more iconic to me than 3 does for the bosses and stages, 3 just feels more developed when it comes to supporting cast, with Rush and Proto Man.

Mega Man 4 is the game that basically made me stop caring about the series forever. I don't know if it was the fact that I was completely losing interest in the NES in favor of the SNES at that point, or if I was just shifting in terms of what I wanted from a game by that point (games like Myst and Maniac Mansion 2 were just around the corner), or if the game itself really failed to sell itself to me on any level, but I just couldn't even remotely care about 4 - and afterwards, I was barely aware that they were still releasing new games at all (and Mega Man X just left me utterly cold).



Sahuagin posted...

12yo me understands and agrees completely. 40yo me wants to do something else instead.

This sums up so much of my attitude towards gaming.

As a kid I was much more willing to put up with bullshit in games because there wasn't a massive selection of brilliant games and I didn't have anything better to do anyway most of the time. But as an adult when I'm constantly being pulled in a dozen different directions, in an age where there is more media available to consume than ever before in the entire history of the species, and I can feel the cold specter of death creeping up behind me, I have neither the time nor the patience for games that feel like they're wasting my time, or deliberately trying to piss me off.

I get it - frustration gaming is basically built on the idea that if you fail 99 times then that one time you DO succeed you get a phenomenal rush - but I don't have time to fail 99 times when there are so many other better things I could be playing or watching or reading or listening to. I'd rather spend most of my time consistently enjoying something 100/100 times, even if that "high" is comparatively lower, than getting one big moment and then spending most of the rest of my time chasing the dragon.

I understand why people enjoy games like Dark Souls, but there's almost nothing about it that appeals to me at all.

12 year old me probably would have been really into it, though.

Then again, 12 year old me was an idiot, and couldn't even beat Zelda II. Hey 12 year old me! I beat that shit in one night while drunk after a party in my late 20s. Adulthood, woo!
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