Mega Man X4 is so good

[Guinea]

I just finished X3 and started X4 and holy hell, this is the first game I ever played where the freakin' LEVEL SELECT got me hyped.

I love how X is just so pissed and ready for action, the music is awesome, and I feel like this is going to be the most badass Mega Man game ever.

 

[Miles]

The music is awesome!

 

[dilsworth]

Mega Man X4 was my first X game when I was 11, and I loved it. I remember having trouble finishing Zero's story until patience and persistence paid off.

Like Miles said, the music is indeed awesome.

 

[Turbo Kid]

It's hard to find a Mega Man X game that doesn't have good music. Wait until you play as Zero, his first level music is epic.

This game is one of my all time faves.

 

[Rox00]

I love Megaman X4, it's easily in my top 3 X games. Having replayed it again a year or so ago, the game easily still holds up in the best way possible. Just wait till you play Zero OP, his gameplay just makes the game even better.

 

[Turbo Kid]

I remember being so excited when I got to the character select screen. The first time in the series where we had a character select screen. It still gets me excited today in a nostalgic way.

 

[RageBurner]

X4 really set a new standard; that standard arguably quickly faltered with X5 and X6, and the less said about X7 the better (but Alcediez' patches/tweaker do a lot to salvage X5 and X6 in particular.

 

[Turbo Kid]

X4 was the last entry where they didn't mess with the formula in stupid ways. They just gave us something that we all wanted, a playable Zero. That's it.

After that we got X5's random generator bullshit, X6 with its nightmare virus/reploid saving crap, and X7 which I actually don't hate as much as some people do but it's mix of 2d/3d gameplay obviously rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Even the Mega Man X Legacy Collections had to add another dumb gimmick with the 1 vs 2 boss fight mode.

Like just give us classic Mega Man X gameplay with classic 2d sprite work. We don't need all of the gimmickry.

 

[χKai]

HU HA HO

 

[Mal]

X4 is easily my favourite game in the franchise.
the sprites? impecable (the cutscenes with the hilarious VA are chef kiss)

the music? ALL tracks are banger what can i say.

the gameplay? feels great to control and it has the right amount of challenge IMO. (also wait until you play zero, he is so fun to control).

My only caviat if i where to really look for it, would be that megaman's power ups while cool on paper arent really that usefull (which i honestly think about for a lot of the games)

regardless i hope you have a lot of fun!