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Oh hey a song I actually know! Thanks, incessant Ford commercials during NFL games many years ago!
Man, that battle went ten jillion times smoother than I expected.
Man, that battle went ten jillion times smoother than I expected.
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I hope you at least put Zero's chips in for the sake of showing them off.
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this storytelling is incredible
Well it is a decent hack but sometime its just too repetitif there no level that actually pop in your face and your like oh yeah that level they all ressemble themselves and just monster along the way.
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Man, now I kinda want to see raocow react to the main games's plots. This is honestly hilarious.
Too bad the random battles/grinding put a hard end to this line of thought.
Too bad the random battles/grinding put a hard end to this line of thought.
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at approximately 11 minutes into today's video, raocow beats the game
i've honestly never played a video game in my life
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So PharaohMan's role in the main Battle Network games more or less consists of being a decently challenging post-game boss with no real plot surrounding him to speak of.
The anime, for some reason, decided that not only should he actually be a really big deal, but also that the anime version of Bass should be an amnesiac "reincarnation" of PharaohMan because...fuck, man, I don't know. I guess they thought Bass.exe's backstory from the games was too dark for a children's cartoon or something?
The anime, for some reason, decided that not only should he actually be a really big deal, but also that the anime version of Bass should be an amnesiac "reincarnation" of PharaohMan because...fuck, man, I don't know. I guess they thought Bass.exe's backstory from the games was too dark for a children's cartoon or something?
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[In PharaohMan.exe's level] "Oh, that's a remix of an old Mega Man song, MM5 era maybe!"
Also, I guess we'll never see a PA hit something but whatever. (Life Sword doesn't replenish health, it's just a fancy name. Z-Cannon DOES make you invincible, though!)
Also, I guess we'll never see a PA hit something but whatever. (Life Sword doesn't replenish health, it's just a fancy name. Z-Cannon DOES make you invincible, though!)
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raocow, that dog you fought? His name is Rush.
Well it is a decent hack but sometime its just too repetitif there no level that actually pop in your face and your like oh yeah that level they all ressemble themselves and just monster along the way.
Blood Ghoul wrote:Sometimes it seems my blood spurts out in gobs, as if it were a fountain's pulsing sobs. I clearly hear it mutter as it goes yet cannot find the wound from which it flows. Before I met you, baby, I didn't know what I was missing.
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Funnily enough, Pharaoh Man is in the first MMBN game as a post-game boss. He is super easy by the time you fight him though, so whatever. Last thing I did in that game before I moved on to the sequel. All he does in that one is just let his traps do the work as he moves back and forth on the back row of the grid, so the fight here is pretty accurate to the original game's encounter.
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also i was prepared for this game to end, like, three episodes ago. it's fine that it's continuing, but i thought for sure zero was going to be the end but it just keeps going
Well it is a decent hack but sometime its just too repetitif there no level that actually pop in your face and your like oh yeah that level they all ressemble themselves and just monster along the way.
Blood Ghoul wrote:Sometimes it seems my blood spurts out in gobs, as if it were a fountain's pulsing sobs. I clearly hear it mutter as it goes yet cannot find the wound from which it flows. Before I met you, baby, I didn't know what I was missing.
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I mean, it's Mega Man 4 music that isn't Dust Man. It's bound to be good!
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I actually liked Dust Man's theme. :( This is probably heresy to post on this particular web sight, but Skull Man's theme was the one that never impressed me.
My fiancée pointed out to me some time ago that, when it comes to video game music, the desert theme is always the best theme. That definitely applies here, with how they ratched the desertiness up on this particular theme by about 5000%.
My fiancée pointed out to me some time ago that, when it comes to video game music, the desert theme is always the best theme. That definitely applies here, with how they ratched the desertiness up on this particular theme by about 5000%.
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good thing we have Food Man's theme, the superior cover
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Original internet programmers: "well in the future they're gonna want to know this area is old right? So we should theme everything to look like ancient egypt, which will represent this place being 'old' in a few decades from now"
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y'know i've always wondered this but it popped up fresh in my mind recently
what even are navichips, zero in this game and iirc mayl in the others implies that they're just flat-out the navis but like, that feels like it raises way more questions than it answers
did we ever get any sort of official explanation
what even are navichips, zero in this game and iirc mayl in the others implies that they're just flat-out the navis but like, that feels like it raises way more questions than it answers
did we ever get any sort of official explanation
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I'm willing to forgive/overlook literally everything this game does because Battle Network 3 really just fucked everything up far beyond what any of the other games do.
EDIT: Okay, I take that back, Battle Network 5's major crisis outclasses Battle Network 3 in terms of sheer ridiculousness. But everything else still comes up short.
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His name is weirdly inconsistent. In the first games those viruses are just called mole/mole2. I think they only started calling him rush starting with his NaviCust role in 3?
Unless translation shenanigans are involved of course.
Best song in the game today. Hooray!
Also, since the game is ending soon, I'm just gonna say the requirements to access the postgame: get every Navi chip (the ones that are not summons don't count)... and that's it. It's a bit surprising the game doesn't make you have to complete your chip library like the main series.
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Since we're approaching the end of the game, I think it's worth mentioning that this game also has a secret boss. Unlike WS, this one is actually managable since there's no crazy boss rush.
In this one, all you have to do is get all of the Navi chips. You get the Roll chip and the Zero chip through the story, but all the others you get by beating boss refights quickly. You can find the refights in the Park. Once you've gotten them all, you'll get an email with the details about the secret boss.
In this one, all you have to do is get all of the Navi chips. You get the Roll chip and the Zero chip through the story, but all the others you get by beating boss refights quickly. You can find the refights in the Park. Once you've gotten them all, you'll get an email with the details about the secret boss.
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Yes in JPN versions his name is always Rush.
Well it is a decent hack but sometime its just too repetitif there no level that actually pop in your face and your like oh yeah that level they all ressemble themselves and just monster along the way.
Blood Ghoul wrote:Sometimes it seems my blood spurts out in gobs, as if it were a fountain's pulsing sobs. I clearly hear it mutter as it goes yet cannot find the wound from which it flows. Before I met you, baby, I didn't know what I was missing.
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Dang it translation team.
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On a side notenote that nobody asked for or cares about. I got around to doing sponge messing with the RAM. Turns out, even if I force the game to think I have certain chips equipped as my five chips in use, it does a check for how many of each I have. So, if that value is zero, I can select the chip with L and R, but I get no uses.
Can any real players of the game confirm a max number of chips in "Folder" or "[Not Folder]"?
Can any real players of the game confirm a max number of chips in "Folder" or "[Not Folder]"?
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Another really solid entry.
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That level was another one of those things for me. Had some decent challenge in both the stage and the boss which is something you don't see too much of in this game. As for how close you are to the end of the game, it kind of showed when you were hurrying up to stock up at the shop. You're nearly there.
This one drags on more than other Mega Mans because of the text dumps and a bit of the whole exploration dealio that other entries in the franchise don't really have. You are only fourteen vids in, but there's definitely a difference in time played compared to older titles you've gone through!
This one drags on more than other Mega Mans because of the text dumps and a bit of the whole exploration dealio that other entries in the franchise don't really have. You are only fourteen vids in, but there's definitely a difference in time played compared to older titles you've gone through!
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I don't think it's text, I think it's pacing and structure. Think of it this way, Mega Man games generally follow the structure of "intro stage, a series of stages you get to pick the order of, then a series of linear stages leading up to the end."
Network Transmission loosely follows this for a good portion of the game. It's two intro stages, and then you get your choice of four, and then another choice of two - somewhat weirdly staggered, but still a normal number of stages for the main chunk of the game. Then you go to a line of teleporters that have to be cleared in order, leading up to the confrontation with Zero of all people, the originator of the virus that is the game's main conflict. When we were going through the hallway that had those four stages, I thought for sure, "this is this game's way of doing the Wily Fortress".
And we beat Zero, and we stopped the virus! Since Zero isn't a villain, it would make sense to have another stage where we fight the true culprit or something, but instead... we get two more choices of robot masters around town! It would have made more sense to have these stages in the batches from before the fake climax, but nope, instead, there's suddenly a totally different plot and the game just... keeps... going.
I also find it really weird that after Zero was saved he just... presumably is just living a day-to-day life when he's not being summoned. I suppose it's better than the trend of "kill off the newly introduced characters every time", but it's Zero, he seems too important to just be relegated to "just a normal guy now".
Network Transmission loosely follows this for a good portion of the game. It's two intro stages, and then you get your choice of four, and then another choice of two - somewhat weirdly staggered, but still a normal number of stages for the main chunk of the game. Then you go to a line of teleporters that have to be cleared in order, leading up to the confrontation with Zero of all people, the originator of the virus that is the game's main conflict. When we were going through the hallway that had those four stages, I thought for sure, "this is this game's way of doing the Wily Fortress".
And we beat Zero, and we stopped the virus! Since Zero isn't a villain, it would make sense to have another stage where we fight the true culprit or something, but instead... we get two more choices of robot masters around town! It would have made more sense to have these stages in the batches from before the fake climax, but nope, instead, there's suddenly a totally different plot and the game just... keeps... going.
I also find it really weird that after Zero was saved he just... presumably is just living a day-to-day life when he's not being summoned. I suppose it's better than the trend of "kill off the newly introduced characters every time", but it's Zero, he seems too important to just be relegated to "just a normal guy now".
Well it is a decent hack but sometime its just too repetitif there no level that actually pop in your face and your like oh yeah that level they all ressemble themselves and just monster along the way.
Blood Ghoul wrote:Sometimes it seems my blood spurts out in gobs, as if it were a fountain's pulsing sobs. I clearly hear it mutter as it goes yet cannot find the wound from which it flows. Before I met you, baby, I didn't know what I was missing.