All things considered this should not be surprising given how well Mega Man 9 did. (http://forum.rockmanpm.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=ac4b0b888bd59e204b087a27c9f6d2ce&topic=3071.0) It was announced in Nintendo Power. It like Mega Man 9 will be in a retro faux 8 bit style. This announcement DID come out of nowhere and was a pleasant surprise when I got back as I've been out most of this evening.
And while I cannot speak for people here I'd rather have this then say Battle Network 2 getting ported to the DS with one new scenario. Also it ends all the stupid Mega Man X = Mega Man 10 theories. It's worth pointing out the thread on Rockman PM got more replies in the time it's been announced than OSS ever did so I'm not alone in this.
Picture here (http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7070/mm10.png). Like Mega Man 9 they created a horrible "cover image" (http://i45.tinypic.com/29cv31k.jpg) on purpose.
Anyways Mega Man is out to get a cure for a virus that causes robots to overheat and go crazy. Before you start saying OMG X SERIES TIE IN, I'd like to point out how many people thought nine would do the same thing.
Proto Man is playable FROM THE START and a third character will be as well. Given how much bitching there was about his lack of appearance in nine this is likely Bass/Forte. Hopefully they'll actually play differently.
Only one robot master seems announced at this time, Sheep Man which is pretty lame looking. Sheep Man is an electric boss for reasons that should be obvious to anyone who has ever worn a wool coat on a dry day and took it off too quickly. He's not the best design but it's new at least which is a step in the right direction from nine's OH HEY THIS ISN'T GUTSMAN AND NEEDLEMAN, WE SWEAR.
One stage has a computer theme with evil mouse cursors that draw boxes on you no I am not making this shit up.
There will be an ice stage.
It's a fairly safe bet at least one more Robot Master will be female, as they originally wanted to make Hornet Man a woman but didn't because they thought people would hate Splash Woman enough as is. Well given that people for the most part didn't hate her I wouldn't be surprised if there is more than one this time around.
No more retarded than Wily wearing a cape calling himself Mr. X and hosting a robot tournament.
Oh apparently the game has an Easy Mode for people who had problems with Mega Man 9.
LOL
Rockman 9 was easy as hell as-is... Rage-inducing, but easy.
It'll probably be like the Easy Mode they put back in the Anniversary Collection back for the Gamecube/PS2/XBOX combined with what they did for the ZX series (given that this is likely still being done by the same group) that is to say it will half the damage done by anything, possibly give free Beat Whistles and make spikes/lava/Instant Kill Beams/etc. simply deal a large quantity of damage instead of instant kills.
On a completely unrelated note, apparently the new lava stage is vertical, probably like Elec Man's but with lava, oh joy.
So to keep track we have:
An Ice Boss
A Fire/Lava/etc. Boss
An Electric Boss (Sheep Man, in fairness this actually kinda makes sense unlike Clown Man)
Some sort of computer themed Boss
I'm a bit surprised they didn't give all the boss names as they did with Mega Man 9's press release.
I don't even think anything's been done other than the fact they found a single sketch in Inafune's office and immediately announced a new game.
They wouldn't announce it if all they had was a sketch.
That and the guy has about as much to do with making Mega Man games as Miyamoto does with Mario games, which is to say not as much as he used to.
Heck I don't think he designed most of the Mega Man 9 bosses so Sheep Man's probably not even something he made.
Same rant, different sequel.
Some more information (http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=107372), it's marked as a rumor so don't take it as true just yet.
It will have no relation to Mega Man X.
Bass will be DLC and will play like he did in Mega Man & Bass.
Some sort of 2 player mode.
what the fuck is up with companies announcing DLC even before the game is released (and in this case, before there's even solid information about the game itself!)
motherfuckers getting greedy.
Well yeah it is a bit of a dick move on their part.
UGH. Please tell me he at least has some significance to the story.
Bass kills all the people that aren't white or old or Capcom cameos.
Seriously, most likely it'll just be Bass trying to prove that he's strong to Wily, like he did in the Power Battles.
So the other half of the Nintendo Power finally got scanned and there was some info in it we didn't know yet. (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2009/12/11/meet-a-robot-master-commando-man/)
(http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/1850/commandoman.jpg)
Well we haven't had an explosive based one since eight unless you count Pirate Man I guess.
There will be a desert stage with sandstorms that obscure vision and blow you around.
... a sports themed stadium stage with a soccer goalie as a mid boss... oh god please don't go all backwards battle network on us and make a classic version of Grid Man.EXE he was LAME.
A sewer stage.
Hard Mode is now a feature instead of DLC. And yes there will be an easy mode.
Will release in March.
No sliding or charge shots as Mega Man, Proto Man can use both however but given how he played in nine... well yeah...
Challenges return.
As does the shop.
No female Robot Master as all the bosses this time around where designed by the dev team and not Inafune (who designed Splash Woman)... and apparently they wanted a sausage fest. Guess we'll have to wait until Mega Man 18 until we get the next one at this rate.
Know we know and knowing is half the battle.
SO,
Sheep Man
Commando Man
Ice Boss
Fire Boss
Sewer Boss
Desert Boss
Computer Boss
Stadium Themed Boss
Unless the bosses are pretty weird like Sheep Man this is looking to be the most cliched group of Mega Man bosses ever.
Edit: On Hard Mode Commando Man should totally be able to do Captain Commando's supers just for shits and giggles, it'd be awesome.
I think Gas Man would be fun. You use a fire or electric weapon and nobody survives.
I wonder if Forte will have dash, though.
No charge shot for Rock again? Y'know, maybe I can see where they're going with this. X could charge any weapon. Perhaps they're not just trying to differentiate Rock and Blues, but so X at least looks like he has better features.
lol calling mega man rockman
what a weeabo
Isn't it spelled with two o's?
I remember reading something back before Mega Man 9 was released was that the decision to axe the charge shot was in part due to them wanting to make special weapons seem better.
Which kind of is a valid concern I guess as some of the games special weapons where pretty much only useful on bosses... like 6's which barring Silver Tomahawk most of the weapons well sucked.
That aside I think it should at least be an unlockable option personally, Powered Up got it right after all.
'
So with better quality scans here's a bit more on the bosses:
Commando Man has Guts Man's and Concrete Man's earthquake jump... for some reason... he really doesn't look THAT bulky to me. He also has homing attacks, which is probably the weapon you get from killing him.
Sheep Man can split himself into four duplicates (really? what?) that hover and attack where you can't reach them... you know flying sheep... this seems familiar some how... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkw2DdoskPY) I'd take it he's weak to the weapon you get from Commando Man then. His weapon is Thunder Wool which flies up at an angle.
Quote from: UHMEEEEBA on December 11, 2009, 11:30:13 PMflying sheep... this seems familiar some how... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkw2DdoskPY)
The game will be a mustbuy for EVERYONE if the stage features giant feet dropping
Quote from: Tyrannosaurus Reich on December 11, 2009, 11:17:24 PM
lol calling mega man rockman
what a weeaboo
fixed your typo and agreed
So Famitsu's out with some new info and screenshots (http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2009/12/mega-man-10-coming-to-all-three-home.html)... but it hasn't been fully scanned or translated entirely yet. That link though says it'll have more info as it develops.
But what they have revealed is the game will be for all three consoles, no real surprise there and that the games japanese subtitle is "Threat from outer space!". Maybe this will end up being a tie in to Mega Man V (the Gameboy one) as Sunstar was created by some ancient space civilization or some crap. I really doubt that though because it's a really minor thing to follow up on.
Expect a bit more information from this one in a few days I guess.
Perhaps someone from the same place as Duo?
A bit of a small update with the text in the screens from that scan translated. (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2009/12/16/mm10-headed-to-all-three-consoles-japanese-subtitle/)
Proto Man's mode does not need to be unlocked, it's available from the start.
So Wily is on their side, because he didn't do the same exact thing in 3 or to an extent 9. Yeah Capcom just make Wily the villain from the start it goes better. Only thing to really note in the Wily screen is the blue thing in the background is the infamous Wily UFO which apparently has broken down.
There is apparently a castle stage too, which means that either Sheep Man or Commando Man is the boss of one of the other stages as that's nine stages so yeah. The only one that really even begins to make sense is having Commando Man the boss of the desert... which would be in exceptionally poor taste.
Also has a screen of the mid boss of the sports level a sentient soccer goal, no really.
ROLL GON' DIE
She made it through Super Adventure Rockman just fine.
Double post for some more screens from that Nintendo Power (http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-mega-man-10-screens-from-nintendo.html) really nothing special though.
Triple post for some information from a Inafune question event.
Sheep Man is the boss of the computer stage. Said stage has a lightbulb miniboss and has color based platforming puzzles among other things.
Commando Man is the boss of the desert stage.
You can now switch weapons without pausing.
Easy Mode adds extra platforms throughout the game notably over spiked areas.
W Tanks return.
Apparently the flashed outlines of the bosses but it went too fast for anyone to notice anything besides the fact one has a sword.
Shield Attackers have a new design and are blue, while not much of a big deal they've always been red before.
Some Sheep Man stage footage, the guy fails then tries on easy and well...
And Proto Man in Commando Man's stage. It blatantly reuses the sand from Mega Man 4's Pharaoh Man's stage.
So with this new information a boss count:
Sheep Man in the computer stage.
Commando Man in the desert stage.
The boss of the ice stage.
The boss of the fire stage.
The boss of the sewer stage.
The boss of the castle stage.
The boss of the stadium stage.
?
Unrelated to MM 10:
He still wants to make Legends 3.
He says he's too busy to make a new X series game and that before he makes a return to that he wants to do something completely crazy with the Mega Man franchise first, then if he has the time he might consider an X9.
When asked about making a faux retro 16 bit game he said he likes keeping it 8 bit because it lets him do things he could never do back for the old 8 bit games.
He thinks makes a high graphics X game would be nice but he would feel like he doesn't want to rip off other peoples art styles.
He says there is a
very strong possibility of seeing a Powered Up 2 someday.
YES. Although I'd rather have MHX2, but Powered Up is still OK!
Then we might actually learn about the Green Biker Dude, and that would be wrong.
Japanese website just went live, (http://=http://www.capcom.co.jp/rockman/10/movie.html) no like literally at the time I'm writing this it. It has a trailer shown at the event with the boss outlines.
There is a night city stage, perhaps Fake Man got promoted to full boss?
Boss of one of the sports stage appears to look VERY similar to Air Man. From the looks of it he's probably a football player.
Boss of one of the stages with a car, doesn't really look like anything. Countdown bombs are present in his stage but they where in Blizzard Man's too back in 6. He's the boss of the stage that hasn't been announced yet.
Boss of the fire stage doesn't look like much of anything
Boss of the sewer stage looks like he has a mohawk or something.
Boss of the ice stage has a pointed head, Icicle Man? That'd be sort of lame seeing how we already had Ice Man...
The aforementioned sword using boss has a blade on his head too, maybe some one on the dev team heard of the horrible PC Mega Man 3 and decided to redesign Blade Man. Furthermore he appears to be the boss of the castle stage.
A midboss that is two birds that have Heat Man's old fire dash.
Shows off Easy Mode at the end.
ERROR 404 POST NOT FOUND
English site went live. (http://megaman.capcom.com/10/)
Unlike the Japanese one it has music, and the track changes every now and then.
Confirms the final stage is a Highway one.
Some footage of the stadium stage from a Capcom game in Normal and then easy mode. Still no name for the robot master of it. The stage has a soccer mid-boss, baseball enemies and a tennis ball dispenser it's not sticking to one sport.
And here's a video of the stage select from one of the events, apparently it may be fake but who knows. If it isn't then the Robot Masters are:
Sheep Man
Commando Man
Blade Man (called it)
Solar Man (Who might end up not being a fire boss by the name...)
Chill Man (we've started to reuse Mega Man X prefixes, joy. I'd have preferred Glacier Man or something)
Pump Man (... what)
Nitro Man (Oh great a fast one)
Strike Man (guess he's an umpire)
PFFFFFFFT..... PUMP.... MAN? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Oh man, now we have Snake Man, Hard Man, Flash Man, and now PUMP MAN? Jesus, Capcom.
And Strike Man's already sounding lame.
I think Capcom pays the devs to put in one boss in each classic game with a vaguely suggestive name.
DAS PORRMEISTER, JAAA!
Englisch bitte.
The music? I wouldn't peg that for Mega Man at all. Just doesn't sound the part, to me.
The rumors of there being a co-op where false Capcom stated to IGN there isn't one, I'm too lazy to dig up the link now so just take my word for it.
Megaman? Co-op? Fat chance of that ever happening regardless of how much they teased the possibility of it with X7 and X8.
I could see it working if they went with the NSMBW fashion of auto-teleporting people when one character changes screen. They'd have turn of friendly fire though.
Also I don't like the way you worded that Fusion as there were two co-op Mega Man games, they were called Power Battles and Power Fighters, ever hear of them?
Yeah I heard of them, played 'em too, but they were arcade titles, and were more like boss rush modes than actual Megaman titles.
If you read your post you will notice you did not specify what kind of Mega Man game wouldn't be co-op.
Must you do this every time somebody isn't specific...? End this, now.
And here we have the artwork of all eight Robot Masters. (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/01/13/corocoro-reveals-mm10-robot-masters-official-like/)
Pump Man looks like Dive Man's retarded son. Nitro Man is basically Turbo Man but with a motorcycle instead of a dragster. Strike Man is actually a pitcher and also looks like Air Man's retarded son. Pump Man is the obligatory shield boss.
Copy-paste:
Commando Man: Attacks with a powerful explosive wave.
Blade Man: Attacks with three swords.
Nitro Man: Can transform into a motorcycle.
Sheep Man: Splits up and creates lightning strikes.
Solar Man: Absorbs attacks and attacks with solar energy from his head.
Chill Man: Fires an icy shot.
Pump Man: Has a water-themed shield weapon.
Strike Man: Throws a powerful fastball.
And now because I can, a weakness chain prediction:
Blade > Sheep > Pump > Solar > Chill > Nitro > Strike > Commando > Blade
Actually looks like it's spelled Chilled Man...
Blade Man looks cool.
It was listed as Chill Man on the leaked stage select awhile back but they might have changed it.
Some more info and better screens on IGN. (http://wii.ign.com/articles/106/1060921p1.html)
(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/6127/tornadomanrip.jpg)
(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/1075/megaman10robotmasterrev.jpg)
...
I noticed the same thing.
Would've made a GIF but I'm too lazy.
I just realized Nitro Man is a motorcycle, I am no longer called him Nitro Man hence forth he shall be known as: Red Bike Dude.
Oh and this stupid observation:
QuoteSennoma says (2:40 PM):
Chill Man looks so fucking pissed off he needs to chill, man.
UHMEEEEBA says (2:41 PM):
...
That's bad.
Yeah it is but I needed someone to share my pain.
Turns out Blade Man's design is a rather blatantly retooled one that was submitted back to the Nintendo Power Mega Man 6 contest that Knight Man and Wind Man won. (http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2010/01/mm10s-blade-man-solar-man-inspired-by.html)
Normally I'd say it's a coincidence but the three swords, one of which is on his head/is his head, the color scheme AND THE NAME make it a bit too similar...
There's also a claim for Solar Man too but I really don't see the similarity.
Japanese profiles for the robot masters translated... (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/01/15/get-to-know-your-mega-man-10-robot-masters/)
Blade Man is a museum guide. This is officially more retarded than having a lumberjack robot with giant scissors on his head.
Oh and Strike Man was a dick even before becoming evil, I think that's a first.
What the fuck? Museum guide? WHY DOES A MUSEUM GUIDE NEED GIANT FUCKING SWORDS?! At least Cutman made some damn sense.
QuoteThere are occasions where he's been sent to the maintenance factory for hospitalizing opponents he doesn't like with dead balls.
Wow, that was terribly-worded.
Hell I would even been ok if he was like a knife company spokesman or something, hell Shade Man was stolen from a Haunted House ride and that's more fucking believable.
A new demo at the World Hobby Fair (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/01/17/details-on-mm10-zero-collection-from-world-hobby-fair/) features Blade Man's stage in addition to Strike Man's. No videos yet and it isn't known if the Robot Masters have been added yet.
The mid-boss of Blade Man's stage is the castle robot from the promotional video it's weak point is its eyes.
But what?
Some achievement names released, same names as Mega Man 9's for the most part. (http://forum.rockmanpm.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=50c75edf71dad1f2d93df4ae1d0d069c&topic=3416.0) Mega Man 9 also had way more than the initial release showed so it's safe to expect more.
Oh and it revealed the final boss, no surprises there.
meh, I'll probably be downloading the Wii version anyway
They'll probably still have them, just hardcoded into the game like Mega Man 9 did as challenges instead.
Some new screens. (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/01/29/new-mega-man-10-screens-time-attack-and-proto-man-shown/) Shows some Proto Man screns and a returning enemy that haven't been shown in earlier shots, Suzies/Octo-batteries from the first Mega Man game. They where also in a few of the gameboy games and the Playstation X games.
Just Capcom being cryptic. (http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-mega-man-10-art-revealed-plus.html)
Whoa, the images connect... The third one better be Forte!
Also that art is.... Awesome.
Third one is probably just referring to the right side of the image.
Capcom is indeed doing the same thing for the third piece of art. (http://www.capcom-unity.com/jgonzo/blog/2010/02/02/capcom_mystery_art_needs_your_help_to_be_revealed,_part_2) Nothing has been unlocked at the time of this writing.
PLEASE BE FORTE
Only two pieces left.
Some sort of spike head thingy I'm making out...
For what it's worth Duo has spikes on his right shoulder. And the games subtitle did involve something about space...
And a virus!
WE MUS' WECOVA' ALLODEE ENAJI IMMEDIATEWY, M-M-MEGAMAN
It's finished. It's... um... err... I guess it's supposed to be a robotic Dr. Wily and Reggae?
lame
SCREW YOU, CAPCOM
and yes, I DID post that on their blog. motherfuckers, come on this.
WAIT WAIT WAIT
The moon's blowing up. And three chunks fell off. Does that mean we're going to be seeing a Megaman version of Three Moons Over Milford? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Moons_Over_Milford)
Here are some possible things that will happen to the characters because they're reconsidering their lives after this incident:
1) Roll and Dr. Light will fall in love
2) Dr. Wily will become a grassroots hippie
3) Forte will join a monastery to search for himself
4) Protoman will devote himself to streaking at every possible opportunity.
5) Megaman will start mercy-killing people so that they don't have to see the end of the Earth.
The moon is fine in Mega Man X8.
IT WILL BE A SERIES REBOOT THEN LIKE THE NEW STAR TREK OR SOMETHING
i dunno
Wouldn't that necessitate someone traveling back in time to fuck things up?
I nominate GBD.
INGRID
Oh.
no
Some scans of the book to come with the OST. (http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-rm10-soundtrack-details.html) I bring this up because someone noticed that there is a rather obvious black censor on the third and fourth image, so Capcom still feels the need to hide something.
Oddly enough when they didn't censor the fact one of the tracks is named "Dr. Wily Castle".
FORTE!
meh
I tried filling out the form for pre-ordering but then I remembered that Japanese addresses have all this other stupid shit you have to fill out too, so I gave up.
All the weapons revealed (http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-mega-man-10-screenshots-weapons.html), a new "challenge" mode in addition to the challenges like in MM9. You can do certain stages with various challenges (this actually isn't new it was in Complete Works too). It looks like they're specifically for this mode.
Here's another post that has some screenshots in an easily viewable form. (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/02/11/mega-man-10-weapons-release-dates-revealed/)
As for the weapons we have:
Blade Man's weapons which shoots three projectiles... wow BLADE Man gives you the multi-projectile weapon...
Commando Man's which is the bastard love child of Drill Bomb and Gyro Attack. The resulting explosion follows the landscape.
Strike Man's weapon which seems to be Wheel Gator's from MMX2, but you can hold it and shove it in enemies faces.
Sheep Man's weapon which launches a cloud that rains down lighting.
Solar Man's weapon which is pretty much the same as Pharaoh Man's from Power Fighters, but with a delay.
Chill Man's weapon... which is just Ice Slasher at a different angle. Nice creativity Capcom.
Strike Man's weapon which is Mega Ball from MM8 but with directional aiming like Metal Blade. THIS PLEASES ME GREATLY.
PUMP MAN'S WEAPON, THE OBLIGATORY SHIELD WEAPON, NOW WATER FLAVORED. GOD CAPCOM HOW MANY OF THESE HAVE YOU DONE NOW.
This weapon set sort of sucks.
Blade Man appears to be weak to Chill Man's weapon.
Strike Man appears to be weak to Sheep Man's weapon (makes sense he'll run into the thunder).
Pump Man appears to be weak to Blade Man's weapon... ok if that's true Splash Woman being weak to bees can now stand aside as there's a new most retarded weakness in the series.
Oh release dates:
Wii Ware: March 1st
PSN: March 11th
X-Box Live: March 31st
Gee Capcom way to piss on X-Box users.
Funny, I thought XNA was supposed to be more developer-friendly.
I believe they just need to port it. Might be the way achievements are coded or something.
It's possible it's just the release date Microsoft gave them, I'm fairly certain they control what gets released when.
I remember once Nintendo decided to delay the releases of one week, because they could I think Mega Man 1 was part of it.
Would've been better if all dates were separated by 10 days anyway.
Maybe they actually meant that until Microsoft fucked it up.
(http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/7457/weapreboundstriker.jpg)
Is it just me or does Mega Man look disappointed?
Also in before obvious Pokemon edit.
Pokeman
... LOL.
Some videos. (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/02/19/igns-mega-man-10-video-blowout/)
As expected IGN still sucks at these games, hard.
Mega Man and Dr. Light are still idiots in the intro.
Has probably the best sounding 8 bit rendition of the boss selected fare.
New crawling Mets that shoot purple blobs that attach, and I am assuming, slow down Mega Man.
Blade Man's mid-boss sort of reminds me of one the fortress bosses from Mega Man 5, you have to jump on platforms to shoot its eyes.
So naïve.
IGN hands on, (http://wii.ign.com/articles/107/1070442p1.html) they note that the main game will have 16 stages, so either they brought back the two fortress system, the Doc Robots, or Dr. Wily has one hell of a fortress this time around. IGN themselves doesn't know.
They state Mega Man 10 is harder than 9, but watching their videos I wouldn't exactly trust them.
Hard Mode has to be unlocked.
There will be 88 challenges in challenge mode.
I kinda want to play this now.
I should play the rest too, I haven't played them all.
..... You didn't play 9?
So last week I uploaded a video of Dudley's voice over Mega Man footage, and on the same day Dudley was confirmed in SSFIV, an amusing coincidence.
Today I uploaded a video of Mega Man V for the Game Boy and commented that Tango, Mega Man's robotic cat, had faded into obscurity outside of a token reference in Mega Man & Bass's CD Database.
Well today people scouring through images found a Tango sprite randomly placed on the games wide screen borders. (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/02/21/getting-geeky-mega-man-10-image-analysis/) Also a sprite of Mega Man sneezing, oh nooooooo.
Also lots of sprites of various enemies in the game. While I'm still reading through the article here's what I've just noticed by looking at them:
Purple shield-less Sniper Joes.
The bird enemies from Air Man's stage that drop eggs, although different looking.
Metal Man's drill enemies with new sprites.
Walking Met's are back.
As are the helicopter Mets from Mega Man 3.
Sambo Man was going to start off with the Megaman 2 intro building scrolling up, but then watching a plane crash into it. Maybe Megaman 10 will fill that void.
For those without a Wii who are fearing being spoiled (I don't know why it's a Mega Man game what's there to be spoiled about?), you might want to start hiding your head in the sand as IGN is mobilizing their game guide. (http://guides.ign.com/guides/54796/index.html) If you use it, you suck.
The Wii version launches noon 12 EST, unless Nintendo decides to be retarded.
Seeing how the releases is near I give to you the best piece of fan art to come out of Mega Man 10. (http://www.capcom-unity.com/jgonzo/gallery/view_gallery.one?pid=101871583¤t_nav=32)
I'm playing Megaman 10 right now. I don't know what's a funnier death, getting hit by a bus in Nitro Man's stage, or barely surviving the goalie boss in Strike Man's stage only to get owned by a locker.
Also HOLY SHIT BASS DLC ON APRIL 5
Yeah I would recommend you NOT to start with Nitro Man's stage. Or Blade Man, he's an ass without his weakness.
Beat the eight Robot Masters and here's some impressions/info:
Weakness Chain: Sheep < Pump < Solar < Chill < Nitro? < Commando < Blade < Strike? < Sheeep
Not sure on Nitro and Strike but they're the only ones out. Strike man is also slightly weak to Nitro Man's weapon.
Bolt rate drop is MUCH higher than in nine, to the point where I had four E-tanks after beating the first guy!
Blade Man is weak to Commando Bomb's EXPLOSION not the Bomb itself.
Pump Man tends to interrupt Thunder Wool's attack, making it hard to use on him.
Pump Man, Commando Man and Wily 1 have alternate stage routes.
Thus far there only seems to be one castle with five stages, hmm.
In the first castle stage at least (had to take a break) Wily has created a machine to copy DEAD ROBOT MASTERS. The first one can be Elec Man, Wood Man or Gemini Man, and the second one can be either Ring Man, Napalm Man or Flame Man. They seem to retain similar weakness, i.e. Elec Man is weak to Nitro Man's wheel and Wood Man and Ring Man are weak to Solar Man's weapon.
The Robot Master stages strike me as a bit gimmicky, and I'm not fond of the weapons just yet.
I'll have more impressions later but I had to take a break.
More impressions now that I've finished it, I'll make a larger list later.
After the MM4-6 guys you fight Slash Man, Frost Man and Tornado Man. By the way Elec Man's thunder beam still stings like hell. Slash Man is oddly NOT weak to the ice weapon, I remembered after the fact he's weak to Turbo Man's weapon in seven too so he's probably weak to Solar Man's.
The second Wily Castle boss is a GIANT ENEMY CRAB, and then you battle it.
The third Wily Castle boss is YET another Devil incarnation (these are seriously getting as overplayed as the shields now), Block Devil who is sort of like that one boss in MM2 that fly out of the wall, but like a devil too. So he takes parts of the wall (and floor, by the way there is a pit) and combines with those. He's weak to Blade Man's weapon.
Wily Machine X is a pirate ship. After beating it you go to another short stage and fight Wily's Capsule again, he's mixed it up by having a clone.
So in all five Wily stages, which leaves three unaccounted for, they're probably Special Stages, I'd like to point out Mega Man is oddly missing three weapons on the pause screen, Capcom could have easily cropped things and placed "Item" in the unused slot to fill the whole grid.
No ground shaking plot revelations towards the X series, which honestly I don't think Capcom will ever do as it'd end the classic series and I don't see Capcom doing that.
Some more DLC stuff (http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2010/03/mm10-dlc-revealed-bass-confrmed-as.html), it confirms yes Bass is the third guy and plays like he did in MM&B and has "different abilities". Three Special Stages, and the return of Endless Attack, all due in April.
SLASH MAN AND FROST MAN?! IN 8-BIT?! AWESOME!
Well not quite, the robots simply copies their attacks, sort of like Doc Robot only with ADD in that they can send 1 of three guys at you. Even then most of them use only a few of their techniques or have a VERY exaggerated pattern, notably the Ring Man one which is SIGNIFICANTLY slower than his MM4 counterpart. Would have liked fourth set with some Game Boy or Wily Tower guys but whatver.
It's still a pretty clever idea for a Wily level and had me more or less say OH SHIT a few times (Elec Man, Ring Man and Napalm Man). Makes the Doc Robots look like jokes.
Going to be starting up a larger impressions thread here in a bit.
Through the magical powers of brute force tileset hacking, people have determined the three bosses of the three special stages. Highlight at your own spoilerish risks.
Or you can click the image right here (http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g295/ZanSidera/RKN.gif) but you'd probably be better to have me explain it for you.
Enker, Punk, and Ballade, the three Game Boy bosses that aren't Mega Man from the future riding a pogostick. As someone who played the GB games first I am REALLY happy Capcom is acknowledging the games exist.
Wow.
Through the powers of MORE hacking, (http://i50.tinypic.com/rm20ll.jpg) maybe I'm still looking for some more confirmation on this. I honestly think it's fake.
Screen 1 (http://i50.tinypic.com/2cxuh5h.jpg)
Screen 2 (http://i47.tinypic.com/14cd7rm.jpg)
Screen 3 (http://i50.tinypic.com/28qs2de.jpg)
Also,
Punk is going to actually be EASIER as they can't take into consideration you have the slide so he'll only be able to do his low dashing attack instead of randomly choosing between the high and low one. If MMV is any indication Punk will be weak to Water Shield.
I imagine Ballade will probably also get nerfed a bit... but he has sprites of his second form, maybe you fight him twice in the same stage. If MMV is any indication Ballade will be weak to Commando Bomb.
Enker like always will probably only be damaged by the Mega Buster. I'm interested to see how his pattern will translate to a much wider screen, either he'll be able to jump even farther or he'll jump multiple times.
Bass footage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0spJ3PKWvsI&feature=player_embedded). The guy CANNOT pronounce his name right though, it's hilarious. Bass's shop is run by Reggae Wily's obscure bird who only has had a few cameos throughout the series. Bass can make a "Treble Item Number 3", dunno what it does. Treble Rescue which I guess Bass's Beat Call (get's him out of a pit?). He starts with Treble Boost from Mega Man & Bass but doesn't have a coil.
Three bonus weapons footage. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcicyXNduiw&feature=player_embedded)
Mirror Buster reflects projectiles, not really any guys for him to have tried it out on in that stage.
Bass looks like shit
Yeah he does.
Just started Hard Mode, enemies are faster and some act different (the return of the Game Boy jumping Sniper Joe variant notably). Bosses have a new attack, Chill Man can jump up to the middle of the screen and shoots Chill Spikes in five different directions at once. He's still easy though and I killed him first.
Sprites look alright to me. Could be better, but they're alright nonetheless. I JUST WANT TO PLAY HIM, FUCK ROCK.
Someone on Rockman PM did a full play through as Bass. (http://forum.rockmanpm.com/index.php?topic=3666.msg215173#msg215173) Bass lost his double jump and dashes like a slide (down+jump).
By the way the music for Bass's Shop is an 8 bit mix of his old theme music. (http://lol.rockmanpm.com/MM10%20Bass%20Shop%20Theme.mp3)
Seems that was removed. Oh well, at least I still got the cool remix.
Capcom might have sent a cease and desist or something.
By the way the hacks to get Bass result in all your saves becoming fucked up it seems.
Look I don't care if you don't care about DLC spoilers this is awesome. Go away if it bothers you or something.
Is a heavily arranged remix of,
This even makes up for the third guy not getting a full mix of his theme (they did however put the main refrain from in it in the background of part of the music). Similarly the second guys' stage music starts with his intro theme from his game.
On a related note, have a ripped soundtrack. (http://www.mediafire.com/?ddkkyxmmzty)
I heard Solar Man is one bad mother... (http://fast1.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/jgonzo/mega_man_10_solar_man_submissions_pt._2/large/2d52e6a990415ce2687daf5d87585379.png?v=126000)
Also next week Capcom is holding a fan art contest of Duo, so I guess they haven't totally forgotten about him. Probably be DLC in Mega Man 11 at this rate.
Capcom has themselves announced the content of the three special stages ahead of time (http://www.capcom-unity.com/jgonzo/blog/2010/03/22/mega_man_10_special_time_attack_stages_and_bosses_revealed!), although most people knew of the bosses from hacking it does show a few screens and all three of them have new artwork.
So with that in mind I'm not going to censor spoilers anymore.
You do appear to get their three respective weapons upon their defeat somehow, and are shown used in the regular game not time trials. I mention "somehow" as hackers who tried to use them with Proto Man or Bass were met with a nice game crash, so I guess those two just got shafted. This also makes the weapon set much better as it gives a reflecting shield, an exploding Metal Blade, and a curving weapon.
Enker's stage is full of spikes and even has a mole segment very similar to his stage in Wily's Revenge. As a bit of a quasi homage, I guess, his boss door is in the ceiling as most of the stages in Wily's Revenge had you drop into the boss room. The tileset for Enker's stage is based on his Wily's Revenge stage, that mole segment is burned into my mind. The flooring in his boss room appears to be new.
Punk's stage is full of those bomb enemies that jump out of pits. Punk's stage uses the same tileset as his Mega Man III one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84OvZXcEq28), I noticed because the machine in the background is in the same spot. Punk's stage in MMIII was a straight walk to a boss fight so it looks like they're improvising.
By the way, if you ever thought Metal Blade was broken for it's energy consumption rate Punk's weapon can be fired 224 times in Mega Man III without having to refill it, the best energy consumption rate in the entire series.
Ballade's stage is full of conveyer belts and other traps and is billed as a stage specifically for Mega Man pros. They mention he doesn't give up when he's about to die so he probably has his two forms. As you probably guessed by now, his stage is using the tileset of his first Mega Man IV stage. Ballade's two stages in MMIV where basically a short path to his boss fight like Punk so again they're improvising.
Holy shit they made Enker not be a complete and utter joke, he's much better now.
You get his weapon and can use it any mode you play as Mega Man after wards.
Haven't tried out Bass yet.
No good anyway, both videos have been deleted by the user.
Actually his whole account went up in smoke with the JUMP JUMP failure as well.
Just so you know that old retro NES styled bad artwork has been updated to include Bass. (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/04/29/bass-gets-his-80s-makeover/)
THANK YOU, CAPCOM.
I just realized Mega Man
chopped off Rush's head and put it on a guitar, that's fucking brutal.
Hey UHMEEEEBA I think you're going to like this pic a lot
[spoiler](http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/2025/934df85f825314eba14b3f8.jpg)[/spoiler]
LOL QUICKMAN