People who waited almost a decade for their pre-orders of Mighty No 9 have finally been notified that their orders have been cancelled.
  • @caseofthemattsEnglish
    18•8 hours ago

    It’s weird that a game can be made after initially being backed by fans and then absolutely slated by those same fans, but I guess the world works in mysterious ways.

    How is this weird at all? People hopped on it because they wanted more Megaman by a major creator and contributor to many Megaman games. Turns out, with only one cog in the Megaman machine, a great game does not make.

  • .DonutsEnglish
    48•10 hours ago

    Not super related, but a tidbit:

    Can you remember when Amazon kept changing the goalposts for Metroid Prime 4? I can, and I’m still annoyed about it to this day.

    Depending on Amazon to reveal the release date of a video game (they don’t publish) is a dumb fucking idea

    • @BuddahrifficEnglish
      3•2 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s kinda like asking your mail deliverer when something you pre-ordered will arrive.

  • @madsenEnglish
    8•7 hours ago

    I’m a big Mega Man (mostly Classic) fan. I think MN9 was judged way too harshly. It’s not a bad game in its own right, not markedly great either, but certainly a passable and enjoyable one nonetheless.

    People were hoping for another Mega Man X but of course it was never going to be exactly that. They need fangames and ROM hacks for that, not someone who could lose pretty much everything (job, work, money) if they stray too close to Capcom’s IP. I don’t know exactly how much Comcept promised and how much was hype built up by fans, but somewhere along the way expectations became misaligned and people were pissed and disappointed.

    But yeah, going into it without any big expectations certainly helped me enjoy it.

    • @OstrakonEnglish
      7•7 hours ago

      Hard disagree because of the bait and switch with both the graphics and gameplay of the game. All people wanted was a reskinned mega man game which is what they billed this as in the kickstarter all those years ago. Then they pivoted to ugly 3d models instead of sprites, and failed to live up to gameplay expectations.

      If a game is terrible in terms of fulfilling what it advertised itself to be, IMO that makes it a terrible game.

    • @taiyangEnglish
      2•6 hours ago

      It’s a game in my todo list, but pretty low on that list. Actually, speaking to getting closer to that design, you’d think 20XX (and I guess 30XX but I didn’t play) gets even closer. It certainly scratched my MMX itch in an interesting way.