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2009-12-09 08:25:50 pm

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Looks like after so many games they are running out of ideas.

nah. have you seen the names of some of the other bosses in the series?

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2009-12-09 08:26:56 pm

Servin' you realness!!

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Looks like after so many games they are running out of ideas.

nah. have you seen the names of some of the other bosses in the series?

I have to admit that I haven't kept up after Mega Man 3. There are some weirder than sheep man?

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2009-12-09 08:36:21 pm

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Looks like after so many games they are running out of ideas.

nah. have you seen the names of some of the other bosses in the series?

I have to admit that I haven't kept up after Mega Man 3. There are some weirder than sheep man?

Megaman 6: Tomahawk Man. Yamato Man. Knight Man. Centaur Man.

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2009-12-09 08:37:53 pm

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^what he said. great game.

sheep man's design actually looks pretty kick ass. like something out of kirby's dream land.

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2009-12-09 09:25:29 pm

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wonder if we'll ever get prime 2 the way rockman got 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 and 9 and now 10.

i can think of so many ways to be even more obnoxious with this post but i have to go to work now.

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2009-12-10 01:14:28 am

The flesh is spongy and bruised

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The problem is that I could play Prime enough to know it that well. I honestly can't do that with Echoes, the beginning is so completely terrible that I can't do it.

It's not just the beginning, the entire concept of Dark Aether was a fail

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2009-12-12 03:18:36 am

Death to skinfags, sieg heil.

I just watched the Cataclysm video for the first time today. HOLY SHIT, it's going to be epic

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2009-12-12 03:47:50 am

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I have to admit that I haven't kept up after Mega Man 3. There are some weirder than sheep man?

I can kind of understand 5's Stone Man sort of being okay. But 4 had Ring Man (had a ring on his head), Toad Man (is a toad), Dust Man (a vacuum...uncleaner?), Skull Man (a skeleton! oooh, spooky!), Drill Man (made of drills), Dive Man (a humanoid submarine or something?), Pharaoh Man (a pharaoh...that tosses energy balls at you!), and Bright Man (a light bulb). :^/ Just odd ideas all around.

I'm not sure if you just forgot, or if you just didn't think MM3's Top Man to be all that odd.

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2009-12-12 03:52:53 am

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It's not just the beginning, the entire concept of Dark Aether was a fail

I'm likely the only person in the world that didn't mind Dark Aether and would have liked for it to have been explored a lot more. They had a good idea going, they just found a way to make it more half assed than the rest of the game. I maintain that Prime 2 would have been good if it was set entirely in Dark Aether.

But then again, they kinda fucked up the same concept with Phaaze in 3 so maybe not...

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2009-12-12 04:50:31 am

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If it was all Dark Aether it'd just be... Aether?

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2009-12-12 06:02:32 am

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Yes, yes exactly. Focus all of the attention on one world, the potentially interesting one preferably, give it all of the love and it will be much better than two under explored ones. Especially considering how painfully bland Light Aether was.
A Link to the Past did the gimmick better anyway.

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2009-12-12 04:12:53 pm

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I maintain that Prime 2 would have been good if it was set entirely in Dark Aether.

weird, for some reason i totally agree with that. it might not feel so gimmicky and lame if the entire game were built around the concept of staying alive in a harmful atmosphere. that's very metroid if you ask me.

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2009-12-12 04:30:02 pm

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Yeah, I kinda liked the "Even the planet wants you dead" feel that the Dark World had. Seemed like it was something they could have had a lot of fun with if they had tried. I mentioned before that making "You shouldn't be here, it's not a nice place" type areas is something Retro's pretty good at, it would have been nice if they'd recognized that and ran with it.

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2009-12-12 04:52:06 pm

You know, put it that way and I too wonder if that would've made Echoes better in the end. Because you're right, Ark, about that sounding very much like a Metroid concept I could see them running with one of these times. Having both the planet itself and its inhabitants trying to kill you would definitely make whatever world Samus ended up on seem as alien as possible, especially if they could get some really cool aesthetic behind it as well. (Sort of like what Phaaze could've been if it had been a complete final world rather than a five minute trip.)

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2009-12-12 05:14:49 pm

Somebody please tell me why the fuck the 360 gets so many exclusive arcade port SHMUPs. :|

I don't want a console that blows itself up. Especially not if I won't be able to have a warranty on it.

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2009-12-12 07:06:15 pm

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mine's never had any problems.

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