Welcome To The World Of A Black Chivalrous Nerd: Throwback Nerd Out: Mega Man X Collection

Today marks the beginning of a new segment called the "Retro Nerd Moment of the week" and the topic of discussion is Mega Man X Collection. I for one am excited that I found this and I found it for the Playstation 2 on amazon.com for 22 bucks. The game features the first six mega man x games before they went to the ps2 with it and all I can say is as I play the first six X games I feel like a little kid again with the look of the game, the soundtrack and the noise that would happen when you would hold down the fire button to power up your arm cannon. Here's the back story about the X series courtesy of Wikipedia.

PLOT

Mega Man X, commonly known as "X", was created by Dr. Thomas Light an unknown number of years after the Mega Man series.

Unlike the original Mega Man, X was a new type of robot with the ability to make his own decisions. After completing X, Light realized that there was a possibility X might choose to turn against humankind. He also feared that even if X chose a beneficent path in life with regard to human welfare, people would inexorably be unable to accept him, and that X would be viewed as a technological anomaly at best and an abomination at worst. Both would result in X's rejection as the cogent thinking machine Light originally intended him to be. Fearing that his life's work would be destroyed by fearful human beings, Light sealed X away in a diagnostic capsule for over 30 years of testing to make sure he would not choose an evil path in life.

Though what happened to him during these years is not specifically mentioned, it is assumed that Dr. Light died and left his diagnostic experiments unfinished. X's capsule was eventually uncovered by an archaeologist named Dr. Cain almost 100 years after X's creation. With X's help, Cain created a legion of new robots that replicated X's free will; these robots were called "Reploids" (Repliroids in Japan). For a time, everything seemed calm and peaceful.

However, a virus that caused Reploids to turn against humans (later discovered to be originated by Dr. Wily implanted in Zero and transferred to Sigma) began to spread. This was because X's circuitry was duplicated imperfectly. These Reploids were dubbed "Mavericks" (Irregulars in Japan), and a force called the Maverick Hunters (Irregular Hunters) was formed to combat them. The Maverick Hunters were originally led by Sigma until he, too, became a Maverick. Because of his betrayal and eventual declaration of war against the humans, X took it upon himself to join the Maverick Hunters and current leader Zero, another powerful robot (created by the evil Dr. Wily), on a mission to save Earth from Sigma. Throughout the series, X and Zero fight against Sigma and his Maverick followers to stop their many diabolical plots to destroy the human race.

The Reason why for the creation of the Mega Man X Series is because Capcom wanted to create a newer, edgier cooler image for Mega Man and when they came out with Mega Man X for the SNES, they blew it out of the water.

GAME PLAY

Mega Man X plays similarly to its predecessor series Mega Man, but with various new features: X has the ability to dash along the ground at any time, cling to walls and Wall Jump, and dash and jump at the same time, increasing his speed in the air. This all gives X more mobility than his Classic counterpart; these modifications make it easier to go through the majority of the game without using any other gun than the default, which is different from previous Mega Man games where players were more inclined to rely on weapons won in previous fights (Like Metal Man's infamous Metal Blades) against boss characters in previously conquered stages.

X is also able to locate capsules that permanently upgrade a part of his armor, such as his helmet, boots, chestplate, or arm cannon. An upgrade common to each game is the ability for X to charge weapons earned from bosses, which gives them an enhanced secondary fire mode. In later games, there are multiple armor types available that can either be mixed and matched, or completed for additional armor set bonuses.
In X3, Zero (the leader of the Maverick Hunters in the first Mega Man X) is a playable character from the beginning. In the second game, Zero is armed with a beam saber in addition to the traditional "buster" gun, but relies on his saber almost exclusively starting in X4. In X5, both X and Zero gained the ability to duck; an ability previously unavailable. In X6, there is a new rescue system where the player must rescue reploids.

All in all i love this series and Shout out to The 8 Bit Animal for letting me know about this collection disc and the fact that i put it down so i could post this blog post is definitely killin me so I'm going to Teleport (Mega Man X Style) back to HQ and continue to play this childhood favorite of mine. I believe that the Mega Man X series is one of the greatest Series of All Time and the fact that Capcom are acting like a bunch of Scared Little Bitches and don't want to Release a new Mega Man X Game is fucking bullshit but we're not going to go there with Capcom.

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