#bad boxart mega man

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HI there! <3 for the character ask:

Can you do Megaman X? Hes my favorite boi

And just like that we ended up going through all the main Mega Mans. (Sorry ZX and Advent sorry-sorry-sorry)

Send Me a Character

And I will tell you my:

First impression When was the first time I saw X? I believe it was this bootleg cartridge of 32-in-1 games, but he wasn't even in any of the games. (It was the X4 boxart being used for something else, o'course.)

Not knowing any context for this part of the series, I obviously didn't have much interest in X. His constant angy faces just made me think it was too hardcore for me, like DBZ-fandom-powerscaling-hoo-hah-hardcore. Those sorts of things turn me off easily.

I think OP things can be fun and cool (See: My child) but talking about it like it's a BDE contest is too much for me. I just Do Not Care.

It wouldn't be until I decided to look more into Rock's brother that I learned X had another side to him, on top of the DBZ-powerscaling-hoo-hah that people will still bring up for him (and Zero). This was mainly because I wanted to draw more of the Light family together, but I had no idea about X's personality.

So yeah, I see it now. He's such a sweetie, poor thing. Because of course we don't wanna talk about the other things X can express, it's always "just this one" or "just that one" in a totally good or totally bad context. I think X is interesting because of all of that, and it's simply that he acts so complicated, like a human.

That is the point, I think.

He tried so hard and for what, to die and have four kids on his own. Poor thing.

Impression now Nothing has changed. I'd like for him to take it easy, I know he can't.

Favorite moment There is this cute image of X playing with tiny figurines of enemies (I can't find it online, but it's in the Classic/X anthology thing from UDON) and he looks so bappy-happy. It makes me think he'd like to collect figurines, maybe even taking after Dr. Cain's own hobby.

Idea for a story We're going back to Xeno, my friends ahah! I had this ongoing story in my head where X invites KOS-MOS to a friendly outing, with the idea that it would help her soften up a little (it was also Shion's idea). Of course later on, what X doesn't realize is that this was something KOS-MOS was always able to do.

Stupid hijinks were supposed to ensue in the background.

Unpopular opinion I don't think I have anything unpopular to say. Whatever I have in mind puts me on one of the two butting-sides in discussing X's being.

Favorite relationship Please see the previous character in this series of Asks.

Favorite headcanon Aside from the thing about the figurines above, I think X could've gone through "Reploid" puberty, kinda like how Axl seemingly did between X7 and X8. His mentality definitely can mature so why not? In X1 his voice sounds so high, but now one of his boys got that voice.

He's just not as soft on others.

Oh yeah, and if he could sing it'd be like an old-school VOCALOID. (HAYATOM is totally YAMAHA, yes-no?)

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aaah Tekken, there's a series i never got into. i only know about it due to that awful design of megaman they used. seriously is this just a joke now? i almost wonder if there was terrible american boxart of megaman 11 too

I don't think Bad Box Art Mega Man would have been SO bad if it hadn't happened right around the point that Capcom was cancelling Mega Man games left and right.

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Sonic 25th Anniversary Artbook by Cook & Becker

I think I should've wrote this maybe sooner but... the Sonic artbook by Cook & Becker simply sucks compared to stuff like the Japanese Splatoon artbook or the Mega Man Complete Works. And I love Sonic more than both of these franchises. So let me list the things about this book that really, really bothered me.

The size

I hate this size. It’s 32 H x 28 W cm. Who'd want to use this? It's heavy too; 2.2kg/4lb. Most shelves aren't even this tall. It can't fit in! I have it constantly laying there on my table, collecting dust. Why couldn't be the size of a book like the Japanese Splatoon one or the Mega Man Complete Works artbook. Coffeetable size is horrible.

Reference images

That's something a bit odd but I really would've loved to see. There's some reference art for the classic renditions of the characters... but the Adventure-style has no reference images (the reference image it does have is a Sonic X one). And I really hate that because there are some reference sketches floating online but all the Japanese notes are untranslated and it would've really helped me at figuring out how the heck I can draw these renditions.

Too much text, it's not a documentary, idiots.

Cook & Becker, hear me out. No one gives a crap about the history of a video game franchise in an artbook. Unless you got together the artists of these images and interviewed them to get some kind of information about the art, cut the text out. You're wasting ink and the writer's time here. People who bought an art book about the video game franchise they love, don't need to hear about what a particular title is about. Or what a fucking ring is. We already know that if we're such nerds to buy a damn artbook about it.

Take some notes from the Mega Man Complete Works artbook. That one does have some text but it’s actually kinda needed sometimes. It explains the game in a couple of short sentences and then quickly goes onto what the artists have to say about some of the art they made.

The layout

I hate this layout. Sometimes, they made the art often span across 2 pages which might sound cool for one second until you realize that you can't see the flipping middle of the art! Yeah! Great! Who cares about looking at the art without troubles? Making the user have a hardtime seeing the art is way better than looking at it without problems on one page! And sometimes they just decide to overlay one image on top of another so all that time finding the rare art was for nothing because some moron thought that this layout was a great idea.

Sometimes they go with a chronological character art layout, then they'll switch to art from games. Have some consistency here! Oh, what am I talking about? This is something Sonic related from 2016, it won't have consistency. Even if it's an artbook!

Wrong facts

Sonic 3D Japanese art dates

Hey, guys, you goofed up. Knuckles' page lists dates and the Japanese Sonic 3D art says "1996". Yet the Tails one says "1997". And both are wrong. Sonic 3D released 1999 in Japan. That's why they have their Adventure artstyle here. You could've looked this up in 20 seconds by googling "Sonic 3d release dates".

Sonic X being on the same page as Adventure Sonic

They accidently put Sonic X-Sonic on the same page as Adventure Sonic art.

Stuff missing (X-Treme? Saturn?)

The book mentions the cancelled game title "Sonic X-Treme", yet it never shows art from it. I don't get why, it's not like there's no concept art from other cancelled games in there, like Crackers. And why isn't there much Saturn era stuff? I know that Sonic didn't have many games during that but there's a lot of stuff missing. Like the Sonic Jam pre-rendered models or the wallpaper art. Heck, throw in some Sonic the Screensaver concept art too. It's like they gave up at archiving the art one third-way through.

Other missing stuff

Chao concept art

During the unveiling of Sonic Adventure, there was concept art of the Chao shown. Why is the only thing on there 3 very common Chao artworks?

Sonic Adventure art in general Yo, Sonic Retro has a ton of Adventure art archived. Why don't you guys put that in the book? Or that weird looking Sonic art from the front of Sonic.

Sure, it looks kinda bad but it's very rare. Something that you guys said was that you were looking for a lot of rare images to archive in that book. I only see a couple of them here. Most of the time, it's either stuff I've seen 100 times before or something rather recently discovered.

Environmental concept art I would've loved to see more concept art for Sonic's levels. Things that happen in the level, what the level looked like, level design sketches... That should've been in the book.

Rare art I'll just put a ton of low quality images on there that are pretty much either lost, uncommon or rare which you guys could've put in the book. For shame, for shame! https://imgur.com/a/IDc3r

"What the actual shit"-part

This is the part where I can just go "What were they thinking?!". I can't find a reason why they did this and it makes no sense why they did it.

Pages that fold out which are just screenshots of the fucking games

Do I have to point that out why this is such a bad idea to begin with? If I want to look at the game, I'll play the actual game. And why do these pages fold out? None of the other pages do this, heck, the art that spans across pages would've needed that instead of these images.

Anyways...

Transparent pages that don't line up with the art on the other page

Just look. This is a transparent page... where you can look through it to view another page... And it doesn't line up or has anything identical in the slightest. So... why make it transparent?

Sonic 2's Japanese box art

You photoshopped American Sonic and Tails on top of the Japanese Sonic 2 boxart. That's disgusting, you know that?

Pages that show sprites Look. Pixel art is still art. I get that, it takes time to put something complicated in a restricting format. But... you can look up sprite sheets online and you'd get the same expierence as looking at this book. I bought this book to look at rare or even unpublished art of Sonic. Some may have bought it to see high quality images of Sonic's art. I doubt that anyone bought this to look at pixel art because you can look at that online for free. Wasting pages with something that you can look up online for free in 20 seconds is not a good thing in your artbook to have.

Even Mega Man Complete Works artbook has 0 pixel art. The franchise known for being in the 8-bit pixel form for 8 out of 11 games.

A page about the ring

This page is pure filler. How did they get away with this? Someone at SEGA and at Cook & Becker had to look at this and think "This is great. Ship it.". I now should either have no faith in SEGA in Quality Assurance checking now or won't trust Cook & Becker as a company ever. Maybe both.

With that said, I wouldn’t ever recommend this book to anyone. This artbook is the Sonic Forces of artbooks. I bet if a lot of fans would come together and find and scan all the Sonic art they could find, they’d make a much better artbook than this atrocity. So get the Kirby artbook instead, I guess? Ugh...

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Captain N: The Game Master was a cartoon from the tail end of the NES era (late 80s/early 90s) about a generic Cool Kid who gets zapped into his NES to Videoland, where various popular NES games coexisted as connected realms. Metroid’s Mother Brain schemes to take over Videoland, so it’s up to Kevin, a knockoff Princess Zelda, and a ragtag group of video game protagonists to save the day.

Now, there’s three things to note about this production. It had the typical DiC Saturday morning cartoon production values, which is to say, none. The game companies that licensed their characters for the show (Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, etc.) were extremely hands-off about the production because they just didn’t give a shit about aggressively controlling their IP like, say, modern Nintendo would be. As a side effect of this, the people making the cartoon had very little to go on as far as reference material - it was pretty much the NES games, their boxart, and mmmaybe a blurb with the names of the characters.

So the end result is... something. Mega Man is a green robot with the voice of a chain-smoker who constantly sticks “mega” in front of words, Simon Belmont is this egotistical old-timey adventurer with a sentient whip, Donkey Kong is giant and there’s an episode where he adopts an amnesiac Simon Belmont who’s convinced he’s a baby, you get the picture.

It’s a bizarre product of its time that would never happen today, but it’s worth a look if you’re into bad cartoons. It ain’t good by any means, but it’s definitely an experience.

Since Levi Stubbs unfortunately passed in 2008, I propose having Ganon be the main villain of the Captain N reboot. Except instead of being a recognizable pig man or Ganondorf, he's a vaguely pig-shaped slime monster based on Calamity Ganon and is voiced by Tim Curry.

this is great under the condition that he carries over a few traits from the DiC zelda cartoon; namely, he always teleports instead of walking because they didn’t want to animate a walk cycle, and he inexplicably has a giant glass fishbowl thing in his lair that all the defeated bad guys are zapped into

other ideas include john de lancie as ridley, with a talking parrot sidekick loosely based on the parrot from startropics because they saw “space pirate” and went from there

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Rune Factory and the Batchelor Bias

Okay, just like... the one nitpick I have about the game. I have a few other small complaints like ‘why so much teasing of gay ships when there’s no gay marriage options’ and ‘the tutorial is a bit confusing on how seed levels work’ but this is the one and only thing I actually think was BAD about the game. Doesnt stop it from being my favourite game of the last decade, but it still made me quite grumpy!

IS ANYONE ELSE SAD THAT DYLAS GOT THE SHAFT IN THIS GAME???

There’s a really weird obvious disparity when you look at all the batchelors’s routes and confession events. He has the least route events at all, and his confession event is REALLY short and doesnt have any real quest to it or reveal anything about his backstory. When every other batchelor gets a week long quest with loads of tearjerking moments, it stands out! Its especially annoying cos you NEVER hear anything about his backstory anywhere else either! He’s the one guardian who doesnt get even the slightest hint of what his past life was like! He doesnt get any sort of even like.. currentstory! He doesnt have any plot! His events are simply him falling in love with you and opening up his heart, and its such a shame because he has SO MUCH character development compared to the others even when he has less screentime and a mega short confession... DYLAS U STILL MY FAVE I’m totally deciding I’m gonna marry Dylas cos this way we can make a plot together to make up for his lack of one. *pout* His plot is now that he married me and lived happily ever after! And seriously GAHHH Doug’s confession event even has THE EXACT SAME PLOT, except for Doug it has a twist at the end that gives it some more backstory and sad moments. They both make a ring for you at Bado’s forge and keep it secret and get into a fight with you because of the secret and then make up in a big confession. But Doug gets the entire town involved in it and has a twist and some stuff about not knowing the history of his tribe because it was genocided by the sechs empire, and Dylas just gets... literally his quest is ‘talk to dylas five times in the same spot each day and you’re done’ :P DYLAS HAS MORE SCREENTIME IN DOUG’S GODDAMN CONFESSION

And its sooooo weird because Dylas was the canon batchelor in the promotional manga and he’s prime of place on the european eshop boxart?? I mean maybe his route is small and undeveloped cos he was the first batchelor created, or something...? That could explain it in a way that doesnt seem like th developers hate him...

BUT ANYWAY I’m gonna be grumpy and think up headcanons for dylas and then grumpily marry dylas and grumpily raise grumpy children Poor poor perfect horse man!

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Nemesis in beach trunks is the true Resident Evil 3 remake horror • Eurogamer.net

Modders are having fun with the Resident Evil 3 remake demo – especially with Nemesis.

The game’s teethy terror usually wears clothes – but in a new mod, he wears nothing but beach trunks. Umbrella-themed beach trunks.

The Resident Evil 3 Remake Beachboy Nemesis Outfit PC Mod, created by a Patreon-funded modder called Marcos RC, does exactly what it says on the tin. I’ll let the footage speak for itself:

Marcos RC has been busy. In another mod, they swapped out Nemesis’ face with one based on its original design for the 1999 PSone classic. Nemesis’ redesigned face, complete with extra long teeth, has been a point of discussion ever since Capcom revealed the remake. I think it’s fair to say some aren’t fond of it, so I suspect this face-swapping mod will be popular.

Other Marcos RC mods include Venom as Nemesis, Pennywise as Nemesis and… Ricardo Milos as Nemesis.

Elsewhere, modders have swapped out Jill Valentine for various pop culture creations (2B from Nier, Isabelle from Animal Crossing etc), and have, as you’d expect, tinkered with her face and outfit. The mod below, from DarknessRvaltier, makes Jill look more like her original version. Grab it from Nexus Mods.

Carlos Oliveira has also been targeted by modders. Here he is as the bad boxart Mega Man, courtesy of modder JTeghius Kittius (brilliantly, JTeghius Kittius reworked the static mesh of the bad boxart Mega Man statue found in the Resident Evil 3 remake demo toyshop into a costume for Carlos):

Of course there’s a Thomas the Tank engine mod (thanks, ZombieAI).

Let’s end on the best: every enemy in Resident Evil 3 remake is Nemesis. Enjoy!

Resident Evil 3 remake comes out 3rd April 2020. Expect many mods to follow.

from EnterGamingXP https://entergamingxp.com/2020/03/nemesis-in-beach-trunks-is-the-true-resident-evil-3-remake-horror-%e2%80%a2-eurogamer-net/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nemesis-in-beach-trunks-is-the-true-resident-evil-3-remake-horror-%25e2%2580%25a2-eurogamer-net

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