The Syndicate

Sloonei wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:11 pm Who’s the jerk that hasn’t signed up for this yet?

Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Sep 13, 2018 2:44 pm

Epignosis wrote: ↑Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:52 pm Even if this fills up soon, I cannot start this weekend. Air Man, Electric Man, and Wave Man have our number.

Stay safe, Epi & co.

White wrote: ↑Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:21 pmSign me up

Long Con wrote: ↑Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:45 pm Get with it Kyle. GEEZ.

Long Con wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 1:11 am I want to play this, but I can't commit until mid-September because of Sandwich Shack events during the first two weekends in September... August 31 to Sept 2 and Sept 7 to 9 I will be working the food truck all day and into the late evening, and will not be able to participate reasonably. After Sept 9 I have a couple more events going on, but they're all one-evening or one-afternoon events.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 8:03 pm Hey yeah an Epi game.

Spoiler: show

Because then I don't have to worry about you being on my ass.

Long Con wrote: ↑Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:41 pm

Epignosis wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 8:32 pm

sprityo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:51 am

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:31 am Mega Man 7 is probably my favorite. I love the 16-bit art and it was also somewhat more forgiving, iirc.

megaman 2 is the best, change my mind

Two was my introduction to the series, and I'm glad for it, because after that one, everything that came after seemed easy (the first one is by far the hardest).

Mega Man 3 was excellent.

Mega Man 4 mesmerized me as a kid and my only experience for the longest time was renting it. I got it eventually, but man, trying to beat it two nights at a time is frustrating when there's only one TV in the house and you've got parents and several siblings. Mega Man 4, I think holds the most "nostalgia value" for me, if you dig, and might have been my favorite...

Except that Mega Man 5 was brilliant, and I think I'd have to award that one the best in the series. The Mega Buster looked badass, there were fresh elements to the levels (particularly the stages of Gravity Man and Wave Man), and Beat was a cool surprise. The visuals were the best. I think Wave Man's soundtrack might be the best tune in the series.

I used to subscribe to a gaming magazine, and I'll never forget that I was in Virginia to attend my aunt's wedding, and I took the latest issue with me. When I saw the Mega Man 6 preview, I drooled little kid drool. When I finally got to play it, I was underwhelmed. The robot masters were shamelessly derivative in some cases ("Plant Man? With a Plant Shield?"). It was still good, in the way that all of the games in the series were (rock-paper-scissors game play, figuring out the best order, oh gosh you'll never guess who the villain is), and the music was excellent, but it just didn't have the same magic as the previous titles.

Then I saved my lawnmowing money and got Mega Man X, but that's a different story...

I also started with Mega Man 2, and loved Mega Man 3 as well... especially the 'player 2 controller superjump trick'! I remember jumping the height of the screen and chucking Shadow Blades in all directions as Metal Man did the same with saw blades... so intense! I also made grid-enlarged drawings of Spark Man and Magnet Man for a couple of art classes... they're laminated and I almost definitely still have them somewhere. Never continued in the series though.

sprityo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:51 am

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:31 am Mega Man 7 is probably my favorite. I love the 16-bit art and it was also somewhat more forgiving, iirc.

megaman 2 is the best, change my mind

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 5:12 pm Nah final level of MM1 isn't that hard compared to some other stuff I played (i. e. Zelda).

Problem is that it seems intentionally designed to be unfun to play.

And this is a game that is beaten with trial and error. So you have to play the same boring and frustrating sections over and over until you master fighting the bosses. It's just bad game design.

Spoiler: show

First there are some jumping robots that have too much life and are better off avoided, except they jump at random so you will take the risk to let they damage you. Then there are three flaming pillars that you need to freeze with perfect synchronization to pass through. You probably won't be damaged so this just makes you waste time. Then there is a life restorer that you don't actually need but is extremely hard to reach, so it will tempt you as you fail to jump to it. Then a section with a thousands small robots that are easy to kill but respawn like crazy. Then a section where you have to ride some floating green robots over a lava pool. But they move at random so you'll spend most of the time waiting for them to decide to go where you want. And praying they don't randomly decide to take you to the spikes in the ceiling. Then you gotta use the magnet beam to make some very precise jumps over two walls. Fail and you'll have to go back to regain ammo, which is easy, but takes at least 2 excruciating minutes of going back and forth the screens.

All of that to get to a boss, die in 10 seconds and have to redo it all again.

That said I loved the game before this level. Some levels are great and so is the music.

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:54 am I never got past the Yellow Devil. These games are hard, man.