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Message: [QUOTE="Graw, post: 514981, member: 90249"] Most of the long running series I used to enjoy have long since stopped resembling anything I actually used to enjoy about them. Yeah, that's part of what made X7 so terrible. It wouldn't have been as bad if he was just an extra character, but trying to force him as the main character really made the game not even feel like a real Megaman game. I felt kind of the same way about the Zero series when it came out. It felt weird to call it Megaman Zero and in a lot of ways the series feels fairly disconnected from the X games and the other Megaman games. The aesthetics, play style and overall story were just very different than what came before. X might have been a new character when the first Megaman X game came out, but he was still Megaman. He was a blue robot that was built by Dr. Light that fights against evil robots. Sure they made the story a little more complex and dark, but it was still basically the same and X came with a bunch of gameplay improvements that made playing as X feel like a genuine improvement over Megaman. Going from Megaman to Megaman X is actually probably one of the best examples of a long running series introducing a new character properly. There's not a lot of other series, even in the Megaman franchise, where the new updated character is genuinely more fun and almost more iconic than the original. [/QUOTE]

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