Battle Network. At the time, it just felt different and I enjoyed it way more than X or any of the other platformer Megaman games. I still even have the toys from back in the day; A real P.E.T with chips. Safe to say I was obsessed. 😆
Battle Network. The rating stuff is actually decent in that series. Megaman Zero punishes you for using upgrades and making mistakes will take away rewards from you for good.
Right now, I am playing something way better than Megaman Zero: X3 Zero Project, v4.8 + MSU music. This romhack replaces the password saves with actual saving, has NG+, makes Zero into a fully playable character, and you can collect chips and still get the Gold Chip - you are just limited to using one upgrade chip at a time, until you get the special one.
As polished as Zero is, it is kinda just another Mega Man platformer. Some variations on the formula to set this subseries apart, but if you’ve played other subseries you know the core formula.
Whereas what made Battle Network so special is that it was a completely unique kind of game that was never seen before, and we still haven’t really seen anything like it since.
Zero. Easily my favorite MegaMan series. Great controls, art, music, story.
ZX.
Zero if those are only options. Zero gave exactly what was wanted. A tough Zero focused adventure.
Each game expanded on the last one. Story is decent and just a fun game to play.
this is an impossible question. mmbn has unique gameplay and a grassroots pvp scene. mmz is the mega man 2d platforming formula perfected.
If I’ve never played a megaman game, is megaman zero a good place to start?
I tried battle network and thought it was real neat. Would be happy to get abck into it but I understand it’s not really a “megaman” game
I wouldn’t call zero a good place to start. It’s relatively high difficulty and suffers from screen crunch on the gba. If I were recommending a starting place in the series, it would either be one of the more recent megaman games (Megaman 11, perhaps) or the start of the X series (Megaman X). The series is old enough that “just start with the first ones” can be rough. Megaman 1 shows its age, and commits to a lot of NES “Nintendo hard,” so knowing if a more refined, modern take is for you before trying to dig in deeper feels valuable, to me. If you like the base games, I’d recommend playing 1-7 and then moving on to X, which 7 does some setting up for, then come back for 8-11.
If the megaman mainline games feel slow or punishing, jump straight to X, which has greatly expanded movement and a great upgrade system. Play X1-6 and then move on to Zero (1-4). X suffers from many of its games being “the last of the series” until they weren’t, but X7 and X8 are considered to be terrible and extremely mid, respectively. X6 has very mixed takes, but also sets up for the start of the zero series. Zero is followed by ZX but, frankly, those games work against their own design and I find them hard to recommend. They bring in exploratory metroidvania elements, but you end up needing to take a quest to go somewhere before going there, when you have many quests and can only do one at a time, meaning a lot of the game is just wandering searching for the one place you’re looking for, finding places for the other quests instead. Not to mention using your new abilities requires a transformation mechanic that is slow and clunky.
Damn I would love more x/zero style games. Capcom please give us elf wars. For now I’ll keep playing 30XX I guess
Zero was made for fans of the series, so it’s harder for new players. Battle Network is a different genre altogether, you’ll play it for that gameplay, not to get into the standard Megaman style.
Battle Network is great, but honestly, I’d start with Megaman X or even the original series before Zero.
How about Megaman X4 😉
Legends.
But betwee those two, I like Battle Network better (but wish it didn’t have random battles).
