Colt47 said:
I don't mind they are releasing older Megaman titles for people to enjoy. Not sure why people are jumping on this like they are bringing about some kind of massacre. We have a new game coming out in September from Keiji Inafune and kickstarter, anyway, so there isn't much point getting angry at yet another incompetent company attempting to still play at being relevant.
Because they've already done a few re-releases of the Megaman franchise, specifically the Megaman Anniversary Collection (which not only has the 1-6 this is offering, but 7, 8, and the Power Battles) and Megaman X Collection (which had Megaman X 1-6, as well as 7 and a racing game I admittedly didn't play much). Those were worth the price of admission.
But with the individual games themselves being piss cheap to get if one really wants to play, and being released downloadably a couple of times still as time passes, the worth of re-releasing them gets lower and lower and lower. Add in that Crapcom seems to be skull-fucking the series even worse than they do their regular cash-cows (ie not even trying to make anything new for it, and stopping projects that the fanbase genuinely wanted, along with disrespecting it in what little media they do mention it in); basically whenever Crapcom and Megaman are mentioned in the same breath, it's normally not going to be a good statement.
The fact that Inafune is doing the series justice with Might No 9 only serves to highlight Crapcom's massive failings. To add a nice visual, Megaman's like a nice dog. Like a husky. Inafune, on one hand, is trying to get me to purchase a husky-puppy, to which I at the very least am willing to pay decently for. Crapcom, on the other hand, digs up the corpse of my old husky, and then is trying to sell it back to me after having peed on it.
Insult Nintendo all one wants for their "re-release" strategy, but at least it -seems- like they let time pass between the updating of their games, in addition to adding extra content to help justify the value. Unless this Challenge Mode is so fresh Will Smith's face will appear at each high score (and considering this is the company to whom freshness is considered akin to airborn ebola), it's a pretty save bet that Crapcom isn't putting any more effort into this than they think they should, let alone they actually should. And the fact that they -could- be making good Megaman games, but instead re-release content already re-released from... 10 years ago, and less content than then?
This is not an incompetent company attempting to still be relevant. This is a rude company that stopped giving a rat's ass years ago, and has no respect for potential customers at all anymore. Though, I will give them that the recent Resident Evils have been hella better than RE6, so in that front I'm at least still interested, a bit. Otherwise, I'd hope that every single employee at Crapcom who has any skill and/or morality leave for fresher shores, and let it drown.
