Current Events > Man, remember when people were emotionally invested in Mighty No 9? >_>

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and there was gonna be a TV pitch, and Mega Man Legends successor too?

Then the game came out and people cried like an anime fan on prom night lol

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NeonOctopus posted...

Then the game came out and people cried like an anime fan on prom night lol

Tagged as didnt go to prom

Yeah, the KS looked legit af.

But of course, I'm not a sucker, so I didn't back it.

Some people actually said it was not bad, but the PR fallout was so catastrophic that I never bothered to check it out mys lf.

I think its funny Inti Creates think he is still a sellingpoint usein the dude as the face for Gunvolt 3 in the trailer

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Remember when he was supposed to be the King of the indies?
Remember when he partnered with the Queen of the indies?


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Game had some good ideas, and some interesting subversions of the classic Mega Man story. Id honestly be down to see if the franchise could redeem itself with a sequel. <_<

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I'm still waiting on my backed 3ds port. I've been crying like an anime fan on prom night for years

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Turbam posted...

Remember when he was supposed to be the King of the indies?
Remember when he partnered with the Queen of the indies?

shantae needs to get cancelled for this

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What happened to the red ashes thing?
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DeadBankerDream posted...

What happened to the red ashes thing?

It didn't reach its kickstarter goal but some chinese publisher funded the rest. idk what happened after that.

An OVA was made for it but that's it >_>

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https://imgur.com/10YKSAf
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Remember Red Ash?

Edit: nvm it was already mentioned.

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i can't believe capcom sabotaged mighty no 9. Is there no ends to the depth their evil will go!!!

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AlisLandale posted...

Game had some good ideas, and some interesting subversions of the classic Mega Man story. Id honestly be down to see if the franchise could redeem itself with a sequel. <_<

This, I mean I wasn't involved in the kickstarter BS or stuck with the buggy as hell Wii U version and I agree those problems dragged the game down a lot. But I bought it, completed 100% it and based just on its own merits it was an okay platformer. Definitely some areas that had issues and could've been improved but nothing that made me hate it.

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I Like Toast posted...

i can't believe capcom sabotaged mighty no 9. Is there no ends to the depth their evil will go!!!

*Inafune quits capcom*
Everyone: OMG CAPCOM IS DEAD
*Mighty no. 9 comes out*
*Capcom starts making good games*
Everyone: wait a minute

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Gafemage posted...

https://imgur.com/10YKSAf

lol all that pro-MN9 artwork is so awkward now

Post more >_>

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The one that always comes to mind:



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Been wanting to ask this for a while, could someone tell me the context of this might no 9 thing? I played a demo recently for a couple minutes and deleted it, seemed like some mii game, or those discount viewtiful joe type games.

But I distinctly remember some kinda fuss in 2013, just not specifics
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Tried it when it was free on PS Plus. Quit after 15 minutes because there was so much boring shitty story and dialogue boxes that the game was making me sit through.

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saspa posted...

Been wanting to ask this for a while, could someone tell me the context of this might no 9 thing? I played a demo recently for a couple minutes and deleted it, seemed like some mii game, or those discount viewtiful joe type games.

But I distinctly remember some kinda fuss in 2013, just not specifics

1. Over promised and under delivered and then told everyone "it's better than nothing"
2. Late on everything and begged for more money after KS closed
3. Bait and switch gameplay focused around this dash mechanic no one asked for or wanted.
4. Game was buggy as fuck
5. 2 big marketing / pr disasters. One with the CSM staff and another with the legendary commercial

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saspa posted...

Been wanting to ask this for a while, could someone tell me the context of this might no 9 thing? I played a demo recently for a couple minutes and deleted it, seemed like some mii game, or those discount viewtiful joe type games.

But I distinctly remember some kinda fuss in 2013, just not specifics

to really feel the full effect, youd needed to have been part of the Mega Man fandom back then. This is not very long after Keiji Inafune left Capcom, and a slew of Megaman games just start getting shit-canned out of the blue. (Notably Mega Man Legends 3, which was its own special kind of bullshit. But there was also a Mega Man version of Mario Maker, before Mario Maker was even a thing)

so Inafune starts a Kickstarter to do a spiritual successor to Mega Man after Capcom all but killed the franchise, and it builds up a lot of hype around hardcore/retro gamer circles.

from there, youd be best served doing a deep dive yourself, but the short version is that it was an incredibly troubled development cycle with countless delays, botched attempts at marketing/connecting with the community, Inafune started ANOTHER Kickstarter before MN9 was even close to done, which was just bad optics. Game starts showing progress, but the actual game looks nothing like what was promised, notably a shift from the 2D concept art to janky 3D models, ditching a transformation mechanic for generic power ups. Hideki Kamiya said some shit and thanks to a Kickstarter gimmick where backers have their name in the credits, the official game credits list Kamiya Was Right lmao.

therea just so much to unpack, but at the end of the day it was basically like Dan Akroyd talking up Ghost Busters 3 for 30 years only for the 2016 reboot to be the final product lol.

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Those bas guys cried so hard

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saspa posted...

Been wanting to ask this for a while, could someone tell me the context of this might no 9 thing? I played a demo recently for a couple minutes and deleted it, seemed like some mii game, or those discount viewtiful joe type games.

But I distinctly remember some kinda fuss in 2013, just not specifics

Inafune, the guy who had been in charge of Mega Man for decades (he wasn't actually the creator, as some people think), left CAPCOM and acted all smug about how Japanese video gaming is way behind the west.

Fast forward a year or two and the same guy has a Kickstarter for a game called Mighty No 9, which is clearly just Mega Man with a few design tweaks and a different brand, citing "traditional Japanese gameplay" as one of the selling points.

It was an awkward turnaround, but considering Mega Man had been presumed dead for a couple years at this point, and the pitch actually did look pretty swell, the project made its KS goal and all stretch goals several times over.

For a while, things looked good. They even had managed to recruit some of the other people who worked on the original Mega Man games. Then, there was a series of massive PR fallouts, on every topic under the sun, and to make matters worse, they completely fumbled the damage control. Hence the famous "it's better than nothing" comment, which came from an actual interview with the devs. The timeline kept pushing back, and the quality of what was being presented was a massive letdown (especially in the graphics department). They even followed this up with an advertisement describing the player's arsenal as making the bad guys "cry like an anime fan on prom night", which honestly, despite the fact that there was definitely quite an overlap in the MN9 audience and the anime fan base, could have still been played off as a cute little jab if the PR wasn't in such a disastrous shape already. As it was, it just came across as if the devs were actively mocking their own customers, you know, being smug about it.

When all the dust finally settled and the thing actually released, the conclusion a lot of players drew was that they had been conned.

From the official Sonic account

https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/745311041987371008

The first and last kickstarter I'll ever back

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Remember when the community manager got mad that the main character wasn't a woman?

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The biggest thing that fucked up Might No 9 was that they under estimated how much if would cost to bring it to 8 different platforms. They were so concern on getting the game to work that they didn't really put that much effort into the actual gameplay.

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Add to the above the game was so glitchy on Wii U it could presumably hard brick your console.

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I wanted it to be good because everything people got mad about leading up to it was invariably stupid. Ill never forget people claiming it was going to have a trans rights storyline or something because the lead moderator on the game forums was a Twitter feminist. Gamergate was so stupid and tiresome

Nobody actively chasing the mega man formula has succeeded since 9. I thought 10 and 11 were kinda lame even

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mighty no. 2

I got the game free on PS Plus years ago and still havent played it since w

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It had some cool ideas and the levels had decent variety, but the abundance of instant-death bullshit and wonky ledge-grabbing mechanics made a good chunk of the game too frustrating to be fun.

The weapons are actually neat for the most part, even if some are blatantly overpowered compared to others that are useless.

I had to try pretty hard to find stuff to like, but I did manage to come away from it feeling "okay" about playing it. It's not even brushing the tailfeathers of the best Mega Man or MMX games, but it's got some of that spirit--even if it's bogged down by silly design choices and unpolished/poorly tested levels.

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I remember their anime nerd trailer

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Ohhh ok this makes a lot more sense. So the gist of what I'm getting so far is that it was supposed to be the "next mega man" game, it was a kickstarter game, and to top it all off the devs were all smug about not delivering? (though again, it was a kickstarter game so to be expected)

AlisLandale posted...

therea just so much to unpack, but at the end of the day it was basically like Dan Akroyd talking up Ghost Busters 3 for 30 years only for the 2016 reboot to be the final product lol

This analogy helps too.
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ultimate reaver posted...

Ill never forget people claiming it was going to have a trans rights storyline or something because the lead moderator on the game forums was a Twitter feminist.

There's a little more to that one.

They officially released a sketch of a female Beck, because some chick one of the dev team members was dating drew it for some reason.

I remember the fan art from that community manager being really really bad >_>

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CruelBuffalo posted...

From the official Sonic account

https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/745311041987371008

Omg lol that was amazing, the sonic 06 creators throwing shade at some devs? That's got to hurt XD
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saspa posted...

Been wanting to ask this for a while, could someone tell me the context of this might no 9 thing? I played a demo recently for a couple minutes and deleted it, seemed like some mii game, or those discount viewtiful joe type games.

But I distinctly remember some kinda fuss in 2013, just not specifics

https://youtu.be/kCIYMPfDQW4

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I remember seeing a game in my Steam queue that the reviews said was everything Mighty No. 9 should have been, but I skipped past it because that's not my style of game. Can't remember the name for the life of me.

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GranolaPanic posted...

Azure Striker Gunvolt?

Nah this wasn't a series, to my knowledge.

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ZeroX91 posted...

I think its funny Inti Creates think he is still a sellingpoint usein the dude as the face for Gunvolt 3 in the trailer

To be fair he worked on Gunvolt 1. I enjoyedthat series more than mighty no 9 lol

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