I'm not really a regular here but I wanted to ask some Megaman fans their opinions.
Has anyone noticed that the X series can't seem to decide what sort of story it's telling? Sometimes they focus on the virus or some other malfunction that makes reploids go maverick, other times it seems to be about inequality between reploids and humans. In X4 for instance, Repliforce didn't seem to be infected at all. Sigma just manipulated them AND THE HUNTERS into fighting each other. The individual members of Repliforce each fought because the Hunters blamed them for something they didn't do at the beginning of the game.
I know I'm still stuck in the past because X4 is my favorite in the series.
If anyone even cares anymore, please share ANY thoughts on the direction of the story.
!MEGAMAN X8 SPOILER AHEAD!At the end of X8 Lumine says they went maverick by their own free will.
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Sigma isn't slated to come back after X8, if that's what you mean by regenerate. But it looks like he'll be having a successor in due time.
NOW IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!!...sort of.
You may have read this before, but I found this interesting interview with Keiji Inafune from 2004. Here's part of it:
Another difficulty arose when it came to continuing the X series after the fifth installment, which Inafune had planned to be the end of the saga. "I was originally planning on ending the series at around X4 or 5," Inafune reveals. "I really expected that to be the ending. And so I was all happy... 'OK, done with X5. That series is now closed off, now let's start Zero. I'm really excited to start Zero series.' Here's Zero, you know, he's kind of dead, and you power him up and he comes back to life, right? In my mind, in X5, Zero died. And so I'd always planned to make Zero come back to life in the Zero series, but then X6 comes out sooner from another division and Zero comes back to life in that, and I'm like, 'What's this!? Now my story for Zero doesn't make sense! Zero's been brought back to life two times!"
So not only is Inafune not involved with the newest games, but he intended X5 to be the end. This kind of stuff makes an already jumbled story even harder to follow. No wonder the past few games seem more like spinoffs than real sequels.
welcome to three years ago.
we knew it was supposed to end with X5.
