Mega Man X: A Not So Brief History
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- Welcome back as we continue to explore the plot and history of EVERY Mega Man game. Today we jump forward and join X and Zero as they forever battle the Maverick Sigma, and his evil forces! Mega Man X is very lore heavy so we have a lot to go over. And yes, plenty of time is spent on X7! So let's see why many consider this their favorite of the Mega Man Series!
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#megamanX #megaman #retrospective - Hry
Man, I would pay a ridiculous amount of money for a Megaman X Anime
I know right! I LOVED the Battle Network anime (one of the few times I will say SUB not DUb for it. The Dub is bad.........4Kids One Piece Bad) and each season was a games plot but expanded. Do this with X, imagine how deep the characters could get!
4kids is the best
Me fokin too
@@laurael1884 They’re the best creating unintentional abridged parodies of their own shows I guess. The 4kids version of Yugioh GX might as well be a parody show. It’s super funny and nonsensical unlike the Japanese version. And One Piece has so many edits the show is laughable in a good way because it’s a completely different show with different story, so the ability to have an alternate comedy version of the show is funny I guess. If you don’t care about a serious story then 4kids can be fun sometimes, yeah.
@@TheNintendoNetwork The Battle Network anime Rockman.exe was SOOO good! I wish it wasn’t mostly episodic and had more plot, but that’s where the sequel shows Axess, Stream and Beast shine. I was watching Stream last year after only having seen the first series, and it’s just wonderful. Also the EXE Stream movie was fantastic! I think it was called Program of Light (Or dark, can’t remember). I watched it twice it was so fun! :D
I would love a MMX anime by the same studio.
Bruh I really miss the Megaman X games, I personally enjoyed these more than the classic Megaman games.
I love the Classic, but I agree the X series evolved it. As I said at the start of the video, it seemed like it with us, which I loved. The stakes were higher, which added more to it.
Damn straight they revolutionized 2d platforming. What would hollow knight be without the fluid wall jumping or air dashing of the classic mmx
@@TheNintendoNetwork hey XCM isn't canon, it takes place in a parallel universe where zero didn't seal himself away
Well, CAPCOM released Mega Man x DiVE so appreciate it
What if they did an anime series based on the original Mega Man leading on to the X series, maybe a Zero Spin off, and a Legends story arc...all of a sudden you have your own Mega Man aniverse! 😄
Into the Mega-verse Please!
“It’s almost like he’s a Wily bot”
Me: *HOW BOUT THAT SHIIIII*
hahahaha "hey megaman, megaman!"
Also, congrats on No Man's Sky Next
You really need to put more effort into matching the visuals to what you're saying. That would improve your videos exponentially.
well if you just lie down and listen to it for sleeping it's perfect!
Agreed
Yea, a few min in... its a Written Story with non relevant b-roll videos.
I like the story though. Voice and audio is good.
this
Or you could just make your own that meets your standards, and leave this video creator alone
41 minutes?! That’s crazy impressive!! Most AAA CZcamsrs barely get 15 minutes!
Thank you. There was a lot to say, and even still a lot more I could have. People say short videos are more appealing, but I think with how much certain games, like the Mega Man Franchise, a longer video works well.
@@TheNintendoNetwork I honestly picked yours because it was the longest . Videos that are like "the whole history of your beloved childhood gaming franchise in less than 3 minutes " turn me off
I really like how you said AND WE NEVER HEAR FROM SIGMA AGAIN because this is so ironic 😂
Probably one of my favorite jokes I have done.
One thing I didn't realize about X7 until recent years was that the cutscenes between Red and the "Professor" (that eventually ended up with Red falling victim to blackmail) happened BEFORE the events of the game proper.
7:42 essentially him and and Wiley
12:42 The space colony Ark is actually an amalgamation of the Final Weapon from X4 and the space colony Eurasia from X5.
I knew it!
Hmm said there weren't a lot of side side, and completely missed the Mega Man X-Treme games on the Game Boy Color. Those games were set between X1 and X2 and X3 and X4 respectively. There is a lot of interesting story in these games and even the second one even went far enough to set up the events of X6.
I should have covered them yes, and will in the near future.
@@TheNintendoNetwork Also, when defeating Gate as Zero in Mega Man X6, Isoc is found inactive but Zero still hears his voice calling him "the strongest robot". Alia mentions that this appears to be "similar to the Erasure Incident" which took place on Laguz Island in Xtreme2 between X3 and X4. During that time Iris worked with the Maverick Hunters as a Navigator. Also X and Zero were playable in their own story modes, and/or a combined "Extreme Mode". Point is, for this mention in X6, Xtreme2 is considered canon.
Shows the Chill Penguin level while playing the Storm Eagle theme. Lol.
Double is a double agent and his name is... Double...… *Gets joke after 20 years.*
I love the snark at 20:00. Good stuff!
MegaMan X Command Mission isn't Canon in the Main Series for many reasons that you should know, Actually it is an alternate future from Mega Man X7 and not a sequel of X8, because it was released before this last one
Great video. Only thing I would mention is that the helmet upgrade in X2 doesn't give the screen killing buff, that's the chest upgrade. The helmet upgrade is still somewhat useless as it's like a radar that helps you find hidden walls amd such (not to be confused with the satellite helmet upgrade in X3. Completely different)
Cheers!!!
AHHHHH how could I have gotten that mixed up! Thanks for letting me know though. I appreciate the support
12:55 officially, yes, 5 of them are Repliforce members, but Frost Walrus was almost branded a maverick, avoiding it by joining Repliforce. TBH, I just want balance, 4V4 and all that...
Mega Man X was one of the SNES games I had as a kid. I played it for hours. But never beat it..
When I was a kid in the 90s. And I first rented at blockbuster. I knew it was an iconic hit. Legend. Even back then as a kid. I knew what I had rented. And part 2 and 3 was more of the same. Mega man x was a home run even as a kid.
You deserve a heck of a lot more respect!
I greatly appreciate that. I truly do.
F
You just voiced my problem with x4
We just met iris so the relationship feels not good
The MMX1 soundtrack is pretty much standardized repertoire for a guitarist these days.
This just makes me really want a Megaman X9. Things were finally heading in the right direction at X8.
Can't ALL Reploids TECHNICALLY go "Maverick-at-will"?
Yes, there is both free will and the virus that compels them to to be maverick. The free will part is covered in the plot of MM Zero 3
Dr Light:: "You must recover all the energy at once m-mega man. "
MMX::..."what?"
Dr Light:: "that's a good question." -then promptly disapears.
I really liked Mega Man X Command Mission and I enjoyed X4-6 a lot.
I hope they will give us a CM 2, new X games and of course an Anime!
Who wouldn't like a MM X Anime?
If done well it could be better than HxH or Fairly tail or whatever the Animes these days are called.
I got MMX not too long after it was out, I believe it was marked down to sell at the time. I fell in love with the story, art style, and gameplay. It's a perfect transition to 16 bit!
I hope of they do a X9 they go back to the X1-X3 graphics.
@@TheNintendoNetwork I'd love that. Maybe just touch em up to make them smoother, high clock speed
"im tired of reploids turning into mavericks so lets move on the moon"
I mean sure, i get your point
"So lets make reploids to help us out getting there"
didnt you hate reploids?
"and instead of making a spaceship to get there lets make a 384,403 km high elevator reaching to the moon which will obviously be structularily stable and not collapse"
?????
"Oh no the elevator fell appart"
Okay i give up on you making common sense
"OH BTW 12 SIGMAS HAGAHAHAHA
Just a small nitpick. Mega Man & Bass did have Wily behind all the strings. The only time it wasn't Wily was Mega Man & Bass 2, or Challenger From The Future, which had Rockman Shadow behind it all.
The helmet in X2 gave you an item radar. The Giga Crush was the chest part.
Ahhh crap, your right!
10:52 you aren't missing out. In X3 zero is slow, has less weapons, and a bigger hitbox. Zero in X3 is the reason I hesitated to try him out in X4.
25:50 omg it's a Megatron knock-off
Awesome video
2 small things
You prounounced
Polygonal and infamous in a non typical manner. I knew what you meant and so did everyone else, but yea
To be clear, I REALLY liked this video a lot! Covered one of my favorite game series. Thanks for the work brother
I just realized vile is spelled with the same letters as evil
You can also spell 'live' and 'Levi' with the same letters :D
reploids=no
Irregulars=yes.
After watching both of these videos I really hope you consider making a third Not so brief history with the Zero/Zx series
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like he’s Active anymore
I recently played throught X5 with Zero. Some of the conversations with the Mavericks is about how Hunters are rude and violent. The dilema of how they decide a reploid has gone maverick. That's why X fights Zero. Zero hasn't gone maverick but his avoidance of the medics is very suspicious. They resolve all this with violence of course a hunters do...
23:14 I read her text at first but after the first few levels it really becomes clear that she isn't saying anything important.
Once goddam again, Inafune isn't megaman or megaman x 'creator', he was only an illustrator and is only mark of work was the design (not even the story) of zero in Megaman x. He only took the license for himself around megaman 7 (and megaman X3 in 1995). He say he wanted Zero to be the main character and it was supposed to be the case in first place, but all other interview of the team seems to indicate that to be a lie and that zero was never intended to be more than a secondary character, maybe a second playable character.
Dr Wily??? Ohhhh, you mean Dr. Wowy!
This actually makes me want to give megaman x 8 a try
The game boy series already explained why x was crested
It's not the 1st time to find out that 0 was created by Wally Mega man battle network and Mega man bass
Dr. Weil is Wily? I have a Theory. Wily fought Zero to see if Zero was truly capable of being the World's strongest Robot and to see his Power after Omega's Defeat
OH man I love all the hints, nods, an teases as to Wily in a lot of characters, Serges, Isoc, and Dr. Weil. I will be covering it in length in my Zero video, which is currently in production.
@@TheNintendoNetwork Cool!
In Mega Man X3 Zeros sword is a one hit kill on all bosses. I once used a cheat to keep playing as zero the entire game.
They had a voice actor? Damn this shit is serious.
watching this before playing Zero lol thanks
Enjoy playing the Zero games, and make sure to come back as I will be making A Not So Brief History of Zero and ZX
@@TheNintendoNetwork i might when i finish everything thanks!
Im watching it too before playing Megaman Zero/ZX Legsct Collection, good job with this video man!
MegaMax on SNES was awesome played it over and over so challenging of a game. It has to be ranked one of the best games of all time. Does anyone wanna enlighten me on its status among the great SNES beloved games?
When I was a kid I loved these games, still do, but I didn’t have an SD card in my GameCube so I couldn’t save.
Ouch, the days of Memory cards could be harsh!
Dang that x5 play through is lit 🔥 😂
Vile=no
Vava=yes
I always thought that when the reploids went Maverick is because of the Roboenza Virus in classic megaman
It is a popular theory that the Roboenza is a basic version of the Maverick Virus, but nothing officially stated yet.
It makes a lot of sense, we thought the virus was destroyed in Megaman 8, but some how Wily has it?
@@gameplayer2120 well the virus weather it just be its own thing or the roboenza leaked from zero's pod my guess people completely forgot about roboenza and the cure was lost to time
Thanks for the video man !
Your welcome, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I've never understood why people put so much weight on "story" in video games.
If anything, it gets in the way of gameplay, so the less of it, the better.
Depends on the type of game. In a platformer story isn't that important. I just want to blow stuff up.
In a RPG you need a good hook in the beginning because in the early game there isn't much you can do in the way of strategy (leveling up isn't strategy)and quite frankly watching numbers go up just isn't exciting.
In the late game you can make actual plans because you have tons of tools at your disposal and in an RPG the most rewarding thing as far as gameplay goes is coming up with a tactic and it actually working but without an early game story hook you'll never get to that part.
Then of course you have horror/mystery games where figuring out the story is the entire point of the game
Of course as laughable as it sounds some people legit expect a good story from their hentai so maybe some people just have really high standards.
I think the story of the x franchise is cool, even if muddy in parts. It’s what drew me in honestly, cause I wouldn’t have cared much about it otherwise. I’ve never touched a megaman game, not sure if I Will. but I wish there was more of the x gang, to truly wrap up after the finale of X8. All that complexity fizzles out, though maybe that’s good- maybe not. Perhaps a synthesis of the story so far would be best. Alternatively, will we get official stories for the events between x and the classic series? I’d LOVE that
I'm suprised there wasn't a brief mention of the Elf Wars
I wanted to focus on plot within the games. The Elf Wars will be covered in the Zero Episode
BURN! BURN! BURN! BURN TO THE GROUND!
WOO!
BURN!
If you look at all the MegaMan box art over the years you can tell he was getting tired of fighting Just look at his face.
You did research but cant handle the fact that capcom has no idea what they're doing and the retcon at x6 wasnt part of the plan? Did you think x5 ending would make sense if x6 wasnt part of the plan?
Well zero finds out what hes fighting for ib zero 4
That video will come in due time.
Maverick Hunter X was not a bad game. Not the best, but imagine if Capcom succeed at rebooting the canon storyline. With great anime like Days of Sigma too. MMX7 hurt the franchise so bad that ppl automatically assumed 3D MMX is very bad.
The sun is a deadly laser
Mega man x 5 was my fav lol I still gotta do 1-3
Does anyone replay the scene where they all say sigma and its always him and will be? I do
It's hilarious, and pretty much the plot of all the X games, mostly.
@@TheNintendoNetwork its pretty accurate
My list of Megaman X games.
Megaman X:The best
Megaman X2:Great
Megaman X3:Good
Megaman X4:The best
Megaman X5:Good
Megaman X6:Bad
Megaman X7:The worst
Megaman X Command Mission:Very good
Megaman X8:Great
Megaman Maverick Hunter X:Great
When Megaman X9 comes out and is released the Megaman X franchise will go to a whole new level.
X9 will never happen.
@@AzumangaFan13 Hey, Megaman X9 will come just like Megaman 11 it's just in the works and being worked on.
What kids these days don't understand about mega man X2 is it had a physical hardware chip in the cartridge that allowed it to be the first video game of all time to use polygons instead of sprites! That's what it added!
In my head x6 can be three weeks after the 3 years time skip of x5.
I dare you to say one not widely known fact
Why does everyone forget about the Megaman Xtreme games. It was two spin offs fir the gbc and even had Iris as the navigator in xtreme 2.
What’s the track that plays at 22:36?
Edit: or at least a little earlier than that time stamp.
X vs Zero - Mega Man x5
Thank you kind fellow, I’ve only really become familiar with the tracks from the SNES trilogy.
@@GS-hz4yv You're welcome! I hope you have fun playing the other games if you are planning to.
Thanks!
You skipped over the two Mega Man XTreme GBC games. The Erasure is directly mentioned in Mega Man X6.
Sigma is Bowser
Was the not so brief mega man legends video made?
What am I fighting for?!
X5 was the end (some one has probably said this already) and they made X6-8 behind inafunes back. sooo
X6 should be the epilogue to X5
I grew up on x4 x5 and Megaman 8. Didn’t like x6 so much when I was little
X6's biggest weakness is its story. It was obviously rushed, and then coming from Japan to the US translation was done even quicker.
Personally I found the plot of x5 rather enjoyable because it bases itself off the ending of x3 which is further hinted at in zeros storyline in x4. In x5 It is hinted at that wily has allied with sigma somehow and has told sigma to purify zero using the virus. Now the enigma/shuttle thing is a bit weird but there is a cutscene were Douglass and signas talk about zero getting stronger from the sigma virus and not weaker which was of great concern to them, which could foreshadow x and zeros duel. Of course if you fail to destroy the colony, zero is "purified "and you fight a super powered version of himself which has a one shot kill attack. As a side note sigma says something interesting before you fight him as x. Says he gained an ally who built him his new body and who hates x as well. Between what x and zeros version of the story it is heavily implied that its wily. But sigma also mentions he used to be a comrade of the hunters or at the very least x in general, so that means wily was with the hunters for some time. My hypothesis is that dr.cain=dr.wily.
I don't personally see Cain as Wily, but it's not out of the realm of possibility as we know so little between the gap from Classic to X.
Wily was a colleague of Light, not of the Hunters. Could have been a translation error and really referring to that.
@@Koraxus but we dont know for sure. All i know from the english version of x5 is that someone sided with and built sigma a new body, someone who used to be a friend of the hunters or part of them and this person hates x for some reason, meanwhile sigma states he met someone who told him about zeros truth, who is heavily implied to be wily due to sigmas words about father and what not. Hence the sigmas plot to "awaken" zero.
@@patrickleblanc613 yes, all of it makes sense except the "friend of the hunters" part.
unless it meant x hunters and was referring to x2 serges
@@Koraxus dunno about serges and the rest of the x-hunters possibly being old friends or something however sigma does state that he found someone who hates x as much as he does and that he used to be a "comrade" of x's
Why there is a platform there? 24:23 Every time I play there is never a platform there.
I really reaaalllly wish the x series would get some more love, mmxdive is dope but we need new x games, or remake the old ones instead of collections
Wait, WAIT! You can just buster the flammable tanks?!?!
Also, X7 is my favorite game in the series. It was my first full playthrough of an X game, which helped me overlook a lot of the negative elements, and the more I played the more those issues felt less present. I played it on PS2 and never encountered any bugs. The voice acting was just awful though
x4 was one of the saddest games i’ve ever played
Do a not so brief history of megaman zero please
Are you gonna do one of these for Megaman Zero anytime in the future?
Currently working on the script right now. I hope to get it out early next year.
@@TheNintendoNetwork oh nice
What show was added to the x collection, that movie is only 30 minutes long, were is the rest of the movie
38:24 what's the song name?
X's Theme from Command Mission
i grew up with the early games. 4 was the best!
What about the xtreme side story games? They took place in between some of the others.
They were not on my mind radar when making this video. I do eventually plan on making a side video going over them
I would love to see a mega Man x anime especially growing up in the nineties I got to see the mega Man cartoon and there was an episode on the cartoon where megaman x got to meet OG megaman vile was also and episode
You didn’t talk about Megaman Xtreme 1 and 2
i didn't and that is a semi regret I won't lie. They are more than just a rehash of X1-X3 and has there own story and characters. I might do a GB Not so Brief History and do them and the Classic GB games.
Was x3 also on ps1?
How about show some scenes from the actual story while telling it....I dont know maybe storytelling 101. There is an entire orgin scene. 😞
There are tweaks I want to make to this in the future. A version 2.0 if you will. Especially if a X9 is ever made. Visuals being one of them, so I do see where your coming from. Although the snarky way of your comment is not very helpful. I am a one man operation, and this video in particular was made even before I got a huge boost of subs.
But that all being said, again the fixes you suggest are going to be implemented when I can.
Where is the zero history video at
It is being worked on slowly. My biggest hurdle was quality video and obtaining it. Well with the Zero/ZX collection I will have it. A rough draft of the script is complete, but I want to replay the games and then finish it up.
The Nintendo Network just finished the video and I was wondering the same thing. Thanks for responding to your comments, love your work!
I’m a bit surprised. Your the 1st person i’ve met who talked down MMX5, but talked up MMX6. I know i haven’t played 6 cus it has a monstrously horrid reputation. So idk from personal experience.
Just kinda thrown off by that. Most people argue it’s about as bad as MMX7. But opinions are a thing.
Willy created zero
Is the 30th anniversary collection worth 30 pound for ps4 .
100% yes
Great im gonna buy it . Thanks!!
I want a sad a fuck 90s ova detailing the last desperate moments of classic megaman standing against awakens zero...he puts up a decent fight but zero is too advanced, this time Wiley has sent his best to kill dr light,
Just as megaman is about to be cutdown by z sabre, proto mans whistle , his shield slams into the ground making a barrier between him zero and megaman, his chest is cut open exposing his atomic core.
He has just enough time to look back and tell his younger brother to " protect farther" as he grabs zero with one hand and rips open his chest ,focusing the huge blast of his over heating power core into zeros face. The dust settles. Megaman was protected by the proto shield .Zero a little scuffed but emotionless looks up activates his z sabre and dashes towards megaman.
I would love a story the closes the gap between the 2 series.
So..nothing for the zero series?
Same here
Why does red look like a bootleg zero
Tyler Yueng
His role in the story is bootleg Colonel.
After X4 there was so much dialogue that I finally stopped playing. I didn't buy the games to watch a movie. I bought the games to play the games.
Compared to many games, there is not much talking, but I understand your feelings. Personally I liked the world building they were TRYING to make, key work trying.
@@TheNintendoNetwork Its like, i always skipped all the dialogue when i was younger but here i am 10 years later trying to figure out what it all means.