tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post188607543271056706..comments2024-03-27T23:00:43.757-05:00Comments on Rockman Corner: Rockman X DiVE's DiVE Festival Brings Eratoeir Next WeekProtodudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08650204880792333537noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-74138556667395890442022-05-07T10:19:01.050-05:002022-05-07T10:19:01.050-05:00This comment section hilarious (but also depressin...This comment section hilarious (but also depressing to an extent)DeepSighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953681213260312438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-66612337215465475322022-05-04T07:07:15.531-05:002022-05-04T07:07:15.531-05:00while you say that many economists agree with you ...while you say that many economists agree with you about BI, many also agree with me on BI. having money doesn't make you an authority, and we've seen musk and zuckerberg fail miserably with endeavors. zuckerburg is completely failing to revitalize facebook with the "meta" scheme and can't get that young audience, Musk has just as many bad ideas as good ideas. furthermore, about musk, he's not particularly smart or anything, he just has money and invests in other people's ideas or companies. Yang is just a politician. <br /><br />The best thing is to actually study economics and look how things panned out historically. the industrial revolution was yesterday's automation. many jobs were lost, and you had luddites fighting to protect people and fought against advancement, because they insisted the people couldn't adapt. but we can see that it did. we've seen the negative and positive results of top down reform and taxing the rich more. we've seen every one of those ideas before, because they're nothing new, and we've seen how they effect things.<br /><br />What has pretty much always worked the best is letting the market work it's magic, i.e., leaving things alone. most if not all professional economists will not agree with this, because to be a professional economist, no one wants to pay you to tell them to do nothing. But if you look at actual economics, and look at history, the road to hell is always paved with good intentions.<br /><br />Every government attempt at "protecting the people" through such reforms has done nothing but cause problems. Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-35567458548463841162022-05-04T06:59:33.186-05:002022-05-04T06:59:33.186-05:00"the rat race" is something pretty exclu..."the rat race" is something pretty exclusive to the US and Japan primarily. Europe has a saying "in america, you live to work, here we work to live". in europe, without and long before automation, depending on the country, everything closes around noon for a few hours were people get to go relax before returning to work. they work significantly less and live more. europe also has more small businesses and public transportation. really, the solution for what you want is really going to europe.<br /><br />and about jobs being more difficult. creating a video game today is 100x easier than it was 20 years ago. you can make money making online videos about pretty much nothing. while technology gets rid of the easiest jobs, it makes all the harder jobs easier.<br /><br />take programming. programming to is much easier than it was 30 years ago. you have software that tells you when you're doing something wrong, high level languages, tons of libraries and frameworks. early coders had to do so much more, and couldn't compile regularly and such. it also opens up the world to new jobs. you could have a job where you just sit and listen to someone talk, because people will have disposable income for such a thing, and everything else will be automatic or dirt cheap. it's ironic that such a futurist looks at "jobs" so statically.<br /><br />there will always be jobs that cannot be automated, or are too expensive to automate, mostly in the service industry. and less intelligent people can accomplish a lot, don't underestimate them. they just have to work harder than most, but most crafts just take practice. you don't have to be a genius to be a repairman, you just need to go through training. <br /><br />Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-69850177097698179542022-05-04T05:54:29.409-05:002022-05-04T05:54:29.409-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gary Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516536622127508280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-19860430673132530762022-05-04T04:02:56.745-05:002022-05-04T04:02:56.745-05:00X6 offers WAY more than that, and the moment you s...X6 offers WAY more than that, and the moment you start the game, you have the option: you can pick the Falcon Armor, something that can mostly beat everything in the game and all that it could possibly need such as Wolfang's weapon cannot be lost, EVER, something that's given to you in the Intro Stage, or you can pick Armorless X, who has quite some trouble without parts or weapons, but every upgrade given to any other version of X is also carried out to Armorless, except the parts, because (it's more fun that way since you can get parts on Armorless runs rather than avoid them): you can go nearly anywhere and plan almost any path, something X1 or X4 would have never let you do because they're as linear as a stick and eventually all of their playthroughs become the exact same, turning them (in particular X4) into games i want to replay less and less. is THAT not bad design? the fact that the games get worse each time you replay them since there's barely any variety. or is 'bad design" just something that people repeat by listening to some "correct" ideals about games, without care if someone disagrees and wants games to be entirely different than that? what if game design isn't just a bunch of checkboxes? what if you CAN'T make a great game just by trying to do something so inoffensive, something that fears the sheer idea of ever doing even one segment with "bad game design", that it in of itself becomes great in everything but gameplay, the only part that is absolutely mediocre?<br />what i am saying is the same point i've said before - no matter the possible traps, once you know how to avoid the small amount of them that there truly is, X6 still offers an experience that no other X game could match. freedom and replayability that's still fun to this day. maybe, maybe yes, i am wrong and stupid for even daring to say that i don't just like it, but consider it a great game, but i'd say just like i said in the post before: consider the idea that maybe your words aren't the absolute and maybe you're the one who just has a personal hatred for things that aren't anywhere near as impactful as you make them out to be. <br /><br />as for Magma Area, i won't even bother. just saying, even one Nightmare Snake still requires more effort and actual gameplay from the player than the entirety of the last 3 patternized "midbosses" in Octopus ever did. and i still like Octopus's stage! <br /><br />as for the caterpillar enemy, you see, the beginning of the stage tells you that if you shoot them, they move in your direction, and that you can also use them as platforms. if you, in that cave section, stand on one safe ground in front of a seemingly "faith jump" (the only in the game), you can either do that jump... or shoot the caterpillar, luring it to the right. if you do that, it will assume the position inbetween the two other caterpillars and the camera will perfectly scroll. cool, ain't it?<br /><br />as for "the options" and "X3 is a bad designed game too" - guess that's where i won't even bother because for X6, i have said many times that while all of that is nice, not only making reploids not give lives, exiting the stage at any time and changing armor within stage would bring a plethora of their own issues (mostly those that would turn X6 into kirby levels of difficulty and how would you even make lives work otherwise), while for X3 i'll just say i simply disagree, because it's collectible implementation is still far better than what X1 and X4 did. <br /><br />i love doing discussions like this, but i've simply become tired of this one. i won't bother to reply after this post - i wish you a good day as i have before, but i prefer to have discussions that make me think about the other person's opinion and whether i am right or wrong: however, a discussion that consists entirely of repeating the same points, with neither sides seeming to bring anything new to the table is just not worth it - yes, i am quite guilty of that aswell, as seen by the post i've wrote, which is why this time, i'll just stop replying. once again, have a good day!Sprite Recreatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12775951928458833897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-73646621358634445572022-05-04T04:02:52.694-05:002022-05-04T04:02:52.694-05:00@Erik the Red
i won't even bother anymore, tal...@Erik the Red<br />i won't even bother anymore, talking with you is like with a wall - i say why things are the way they are and why the arguments aren't there, you just go repeating the same stuff over and over and over. yeti has a long animation before each midboss and takes a LONG time to be actually able to be hurt, and goes off screen like you describe A LOT just to do some extremely easy to avoid attacks that take a humongous amount of time. <br /><br />why, i am glad that while X6 needs every possibility to satisfy every player, the only solution to some of the most not fun and horrible 3d stages in the series is "just grind and get upgrades and then use as an exploit to basically skip the stage lol"<br /><br />it's not "very little options" - memorize the layout, create a good path and what move is to be used when, and then execute it well. and best part is, X5's is over in less than a minute and then becomes a full platforming stage! there's no exploits needed, no stupid long animations, do it and you're done unless you want to revisit, which is fine by me. also, X2's controlled like garbage.<br /><br />i won't even bother with all this talk, because of the sheer amount of times i said "UNLIKE X4 OR X8, ONCE YOU FIND OUT THAT THERE ARE TIMES WHEN GOING TOO EARLY IS A BAD IDEA, YOU STILL GET TEN TIMES MORE REPLAYABILITY OPTIONS AND VARIETY." you know what bad design is for me? the camera in gigavolt. the fact that yeti takes like 10-15 minutes and is as fun as watching paint dry while a lot of that time is wasted on dumb midboss showoffs. the fact that to get collectibles in troia base you need to perfect garbage challenges that ALWAYS have some that are extremely tedious that you have to beat and then throw some incredibly tight timing sections that you still have to perfect. or just use Axl's flamethrower/Zero's Sigma Blade and skip all that garbage, because X8 is basically a game of "here's a bunch of linear, tedious segments with LOTS of stuff locked by default - the worst sections can be skipped with exploits, the rest you'll have to sit through sloooowly". because i've said time and time again - no, i do not care for Magnet Beam being "bad design", i don't care for X6 being "bad design" because 1 is extremely fun otherwise and X6 still opens far more paths to play through. i don't care that "well you like it but you need to accept it's bad" - i've played X1-X6 at least 15 times each, and i've come to the conclusion that still, to this day, i prefer X6's approach, because even if there are some dangers if you try Armorless (something that you NEVER have to do and can be still be beaten with Jumper, Hyper Dash and Speedster, two of which are absolutely impossible to infect and the other is literally in your way in one of Scaravich's paths), i still have a game that has WAY more variety than anything in X8. because surprise - getting to alternate paths in X6 is simply FUN, because no matter how much "evil player traps" there are at the start, the level design is still fun platforming action that doesn't force me by a autoscroll camera that moves at the speed of a turtle. you CAN take your pace, you CAN equip any part you can ever want, you can use weapons, armors, all of that, and you can still get absolute 100% just by playing as Armorless X with parts. i've done that, by the way. and it was FUN. because the criteria for fun isn't "completeable by all" - by that criteria, Sonic Forces is an outstanding game (in fact i'd say X8 is quite similar to that game, even if it's more like Sonic Colors Wii in story), as it can be absolutely beaten no matter what and you will never run into unbeatable situations. because at core, after all times i tried to give a chance to X8, it still ended up being as fun as Sonic Forces, except Forces at least respected my time and had really short levels with nearly no autoscrollers. because once again, i explained multiple times why even if not being able to beat the game as Armorless X partless weaponless isn't possible, Sprite Recreatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12775951928458833897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-1678997053418927572022-05-03T22:37:54.519-05:002022-05-03T22:37:54.519-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gary Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516536622127508280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-57707287850931192342022-05-03T20:39:27.983-05:002022-05-03T20:39:27.983-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gary Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516536622127508280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-48983882187247910502022-05-03T17:53:37.123-05:002022-05-03T17:53:37.123-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gary Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516536622127508280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-32177930201024426702022-05-03T10:04:27.889-05:002022-05-03T10:04:27.889-05:00I'm not sure what happened, but you deleted th...I'm not sure what happened, but you deleted the messages and reposted most of it if not all of it... so now my response to it all is above your comments. weird.Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-75700396887857431612022-05-03T06:45:46.627-05:002022-05-03T06:45:46.627-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gary Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516536622127508280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-37205380280564110022022-05-03T06:45:28.488-05:002022-05-03T06:45:28.488-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gary Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516536622127508280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-49736052849459183682022-05-03T04:59:54.616-05:002022-05-03T04:59:54.616-05:00so if you establish a global police state, and kee...so if you establish a global police state, and keep producers from leaving, you either get a black market, or the producers stop producing. they've done all kinds of examples to show how it doesn't work in classrooms with grades. if points are taken from the best achievers so that nobody fails, everyone stops achieving because the extra work isn't worth it. business owners work like 80 hours a week. it takes dedication to run a business. you have to deal with a lot of stress, like people not coming in to work, hiring, firing, investors, lawsuits, etc. everyone will work less and just rely on the BI, because why not? you won't die, and you can pass your time with liesure activities like drugs and intercourse. <br /><br />building your own PC is expensive, that's like top 20% living right there. would you be so inclined to live the same lifestyle if you were taxed 20% of your income so that someone who isn't working doesn't have to worry about food? if you couldn't afford to build your PC, would you be motivated to produce? you have the weights already, and you can do cardio, why wouldn't you just live off BI and just focus on your health? just spend your time working out and grooming yourself, and go have intercourse all day? why not?Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-9252474917034019052022-05-03T04:52:47.128-05:002022-05-03T04:52:47.128-05:00I work as a programmer, my job requires me to sit....I work as a programmer, my job requires me to sit. I can still get up and walk around, and still have time in the day to workout and exercise. my office also has a gym. There are many jobs that don't require sitting for long periods of time, office jobs are just the safest/easiest. you can work with oil in alaska and get a lot of exercise and get paid well. we really need that right now. people just want to go for what's easiest, and that's the problem with people, and why your idealistic ideas won't work.<br /><br />most people don't like challenges, most people want to sit at home and binge netflix, as seen by that being what most people actually do. look at mega man. it's not all that popular, and the more challenging the game, the less popular it is. MM11 was one of the easiest games yet, and it was super popular. most games that are the most popular are the least challenging, and are basically movies with minor input. people don't want challenges, they want to feel good, that's why so many people do drugs, because it's instant gratification.<br /><br />as you take jobs that require more skill, you make more money, as you make more money, you need to work less. as people focus more on skilled labor, rather than unskilled labor, they get to work less as they'll make more money. automation in tandem with competition willl bring prices down, thus making it so you don't have to work as much. the problem though, is the hedonic treadmill. if you lived like people lived in the 1950, you can easily afford it on minimum wage. you get some roommates, get a landline, have no internet, no cable, and cook modest meals for yourself, depending on coupons and such. but, people don't want to live like that, they want the latest iPhone, a beefy rig to play the newest games, high speed cable internet, their own car, their own house. when I was in college, I was living with roommates on minimum wage, paying for food, housing and school. I could have saved more money and avoided loans if I just stayed at home with the folks and went to community college instead. you just need the paper, that's all.Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-81066430156019356572022-05-03T04:42:48.605-05:002022-05-03T04:42:48.605-05:00really, because elon musk thinks it's a good i...really, because elon musk thinks it's a good idea? just like the hyper loop eh? how about starlink's failing business plan? the guy has a lot of money, but he also has a lot of very stupid ideas. BI is very idealistic and utopian, in reality, it's just not feasible. just like every other top down government program, it always causes more harm than good.<br /><br />try listening to some Thomas Sowell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPZU2GloZQU<br /><br />everyone you link are people who just want BI for themselves, and talk about idealically, talking about all the benefits to human life. that's fine and all, but it's just not feasible and would do more harm than goodErik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-13949515100389261782022-05-03T04:28:30.245-05:002022-05-03T04:28:30.245-05:00raising tax on companies who automate is a guarant...raising tax on companies who automate is a guaranteed way to stop automation. the reason why companies are automating now, like how mcdonald's now has ordering booths, is because minimum wage is pricing people out of a job. people are becoming more expensive than automation. Automation though, requires a high initial investment, and is only accessible to large companies. minimum wage is part of crony capitalism, and big corporations love using it to smother small businesses.<br /><br />but, if you tax people more for automating, that's a big risk there, because automation requires taking in a huge amount of debt. the idea when a company automates is the profit will eventually cover the automation equipment in like 10 years. if you tell me that by automating, I'm not going to be making more money, but I still have the same risk of failure and a greater possibility of bankruptcy, I'm not going to automate, I'll just hire fewer people and make them do more. <br /><br />it's easy to look at a corporation that made 20 billion dollars in profit last year and hold your hand out and say "where's my share?", but when the same corporation has a 10 billion dollar loss this year, are you gonna give them money to cover those losses? yeah, but you'll still want them to pay that increased tax on revenue. remember, REVENUE is taxed, not profit. even if they suffere a 10 billion dollar loss, they're still paying taxes on all the revenue they made. and automation has a continuous cost. you need to upgrade software, upgrade hardware, protect your investments (people damaging your equipment) etc. <br /><br />TAXING more for something makes less of that something. if you raise the tax on gas, people drive less. if you tax cigarettes more, people smoke less. it's basic economics.<br /><br />if you subsidize something, you get more of it. subsidize growing soy and corn, and you get more corn and soy farmers. subsidize people eating, people will eat more. Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-55801243864249182312022-05-03T04:10:40.115-05:002022-05-03T04:10:40.115-05:00"Well the past 40 years, costs of living has ..."Well the past 40 years, costs of living has been going up faster on housing, rent, healthcare, and education more than incomes."<br /><br />costs of housing goes up because of zoning, and the government not building more houses. this is because boomer homeowners don't want the value of their nesteggs to go down. healthcare is more expensive because less people are dying from working in factories, so more people become elderly, and people live such sedentary and unhealhty lives. we have a lot more diabetics than we did 40 years ago, and it's all because of the individual's choices and how cheap food is. education is completely free (except for taxes). you just pay for university, but most people go there for useless degrees or should be going for a cheaper affordable education. instead of going 10's of thousands into debt, apply for scholarships, go to community college while working part time. <br /><br />The cost of college goes up because the government throws student loans everywhere. if the government will pay however much a university charges, the university will charge more. once again, welfare and big government ruining things. <br /><br />another factor is inflation. we give the rich tax breaks (also the middle class) because of inflation. we print money and raise inflation, then adjust the tax brackets for the wealthy for inflation, because there is this economic concept known as the laffer curve. there is a point where if you raise taxes, you make less revenue. this is a very simple concept to exemplify. if you could work an easy job for up to 40 hours and keep 100% of your earnings, how many hours would you work? now if you were taxed 100% of your earings, how many hours? most people don't want to work for free, so likely 0 hours. so somewhere between 0% taxes and 100% taxes, people stop working their desired maximum and head towards that 0 hours. <br /><br />Most people in the USA don't actually pay net taxes. yes, they pay taxes at some point in time, but they are given more money by the system than they put in, so in essence, most people don't pay taxes.Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-86085439870070307902022-05-03T03:59:32.426-05:002022-05-03T03:59:32.426-05:00ending slavery? what is slavery? is it not when yo...ending slavery? what is slavery? is it not when you force someone to work, and make them work with no compensation? so, if you make the rich run their company and take 50% of their money to pay everyone else BI, then the majority is basically enslaving them for 50% of the time they work. <br /><br />while taxation is necessary for the government to function, government should really only be involved in enforcing and protecting borders, as well as protecting people's property, and keeping the peace. Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-30804391695988955222022-05-03T03:54:37.041-05:002022-05-03T03:54:37.041-05:00I have nothing against changing the work-week. 40 ...I have nothing against changing the work-week. 40 hours and 5 days isn't especially ideal, as they've found more idillic schedules that result in greater productivity. people should also be allowed to work more hours and profit more. for a business owner, 40 hours would be luxurious, as they easily put double that, especially when starting the business, and remain on call.<br /><br />while I'm fine with changing the workweek, ending child labor and making minimum wage was a mistake. you took away all ability for children to help with the family or get a head start financially. Child labor was ended because children were being exploited in dangerous jobs. there's no reason why a child who is able and willing can't work a job they can accomplish. instead of preventing them from working, we should just protect them at work. <br /><br />when I was a teenager, I hated that I could only work so many hours a week, and only until so late, made saving for college all the harder. <br /><br />and minimum wage just makes less jobs, and puts more work on those jobs that remain. example, there used to be a job for just cleaning bathrooms in places. it payed well below minimum wage to be a bathroom attendant, but it was a job nonetheless, which is better than having no job. minimum wage erased that job, because it wasn't worth paying someone minimum wage to just do that, yet bathrooms still needed to be cleaned, so what happened instead is that the employees getting paid minimum wage had a more stressful job with more responsibilities. you had fewer employees, responsible for more tasks, thus making demand for labor smaller, making less jobs available for the dim and incapable (someone who didn't speak english could easily clean bathrooms, but they can't clean bathrooms AND run the register in places where customers only speak english). most jobs require some math skills, but people with absolutely no math skills have nothing available now, because all the jobs were combined. <br /><br />worse thing is, minimum wage increases the cost at the lowest skilled labor level, which generally revolves around commondities. people who work around food and energy for example, like gas station attendants who no longer exist thanks to minimum wage (which also makes gas stations less safe). this increases the cost for businesses selling these goods, which raises the price of basic goods. you pay the people at the bottom more, but increase their bills by just as much, which ends up not helping them at all, and just makes everyone else poorer! Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-89723361954223809612022-05-03T03:42:44.161-05:002022-05-03T03:42:44.161-05:00The reason MM9 looked far worse than 4 onwards was...The reason MM9 looked far worse than 4 onwards was because everyone has a nostalgia boner for MM2. MM9 was designed to be MM2 again, which is why they removed sliding too. they made the backgrounds simpler, reminiscent of backgrounds of MM2, even using that annoying as all hell password theme from MM2 for the main menu. it was an homage to MM2. because MM2 was the most popular classic game of all time, and the wily stage theme is so iconic. <br /><br />ZX sales were bad, but it still got a sequel and pretty much ran until inti was moved to MM9, thus ending their work on ZX. and then MM10 tanked, and then inafune left capcom and that was the end of inti working with capcom. so while ZX didn't sell well (MMZ didn't sell all that well either), it might not have died if inafune didn't spit on capcom.<br /><br />and again, mega ball, I'm not sure if it was meant to be a utility, and didn't just happen to work out that way, as it seems more like a nod to mega man soccer being a thing. tornado hold was a poor implementation, because you basically ruined a weapon to make it a utility. it's slow, it's clunky, and you pretty much just use it against clown man and if you don't know how to use the mega ball exploit. Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-40583545203677829712022-05-03T03:35:26.458-05:002022-05-03T03:35:26.458-05:00yes, being able to run into unpassable situations ...yes, being able to run into unpassable situations is absolutely inexcusable, and terrible design. just like how in MM1, you can get stuck in wily stage 1 without magnet beam, and you just have to kill yourself. it's bad design, that they corrected by making the items mandatory that you get along with beating certain bosses. MM2 though really messed up with boobeam trap though, and MM3 with the over reliance on rush jet in the doc robot stages. <br /><br />anyone doing a minimum run in X6 will run into issues. most fans don't even know you can't pass the gate stage without the right armor, though they might conclude that you can't pass with shadow armor because they don't have the right loadout. it's just really bad design. <br /><br />The donut, while taking a different path, is just a tedious game of waiting to hit the spheres. it's a terrible stage, with the same donut 5 times, pretty much back to back. you can say that you're fine with it, but it's still bad. X6 is one of my favorite X games, but I can admit that it's very poorly put together. <br /><br />and I'm not complaining about revisits, but that those "more fun paths" require a second playthrough. still have to play at least the main less interesting path for every stage, no exception. MM6 did a similar thing (X5 ripped off jet and power adapters, X6 ripped off the alternate path gimmick), but you didn't have to take the main path, you got to choose a path and be fine with that. one was required for beat, but you don't really need beat, so you had freedom to take whichever path you wanted without being forced to take the other. <br /><br />and X6 is the worst technically in terms of X games, not considering licensed classic games, or even official classic games. X8 could use some polish, but every stage is completeable with every character. you can use whatever loadout you want, and you can beat the stage. X6 has too many impassable sections if you don't have the right equipment. it also has leaps of faith, which are just terrible to have. primary example, in yamma stage, in the lower route, when you jump on those caterpillar enemies over spikes. at one point, you are on one, and you can't see what is waiting for you ahead, and just have to jump and hope you don't die somehow. I love the equipment system of X6, and the reworked sprites, and X6 has some of my favorite armors, but levels design wise, is the weakest in the X series.<br /><br />and no, it's not that X6 needs restrictions, it needs to at least have a path that can be passed by all characters. add routes that armorless X can take that are more difficult, but passable or something. don't give use lives everytime we rescue a reploid so that gaming over is a major hassle. allow players to exit the stage at any time. add options to change armor/loadouts within the stage. there are tons of options that are beyond "don't let the player go here". it's just bad design, just like how X3 is badly designed because they included a cluster of features, designing for none of them. everything in X3 is implemented poorly.Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-31054461064219925932022-05-03T03:17:17.614-05:002022-05-03T03:17:17.614-05:00you can hurt the yeti midboss pretty much right aw...you can hurt the yeti midboss pretty much right away, depending on what characters you use. X's charge shot has great range, zero's shots have a lot of vertical splash, and axl has rapid fire. you just gotta boost a lot, you can even hit it with X's charge shot when it's dropping enemies at you. the only time you really can't hit it I think is when it goes off screen to rush you, in which you can still hit it as it passes by. <br /><br />manawar can be completely in literally 5 seconds or less. the key is to upgrade weapon energy, which is used for boosting. if you just stay on manawar's butt and spam shots, he goes down really fast. you also need to swap characters when you run out of boost power. even without upgrading energy, it doesn't take all that long. <br /><br />I actually prefer these strategic thoughtful stages rather than X4 and X5 dying over and over again with very little actual options. in yeti stage, characters mattered, and braking/boosting matters. while I'd prefer to never have a ride chaser autoscroller in any X game ever, X8's is the less aggregious one imo. honestly, X2 did it best.Erik the Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09073994002815514809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-30611006967031347892022-05-02T21:34:46.847-05:002022-05-02T21:34:46.847-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gary Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516536622127508280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-37656292264591848052022-05-02T20:44:36.367-05:002022-05-02T20:44:36.367-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gary Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516536622127508280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080026879350344019.post-18360073763719693082022-05-02T20:44:31.913-05:002022-05-02T20:44:31.913-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gary Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17516536622127508280noreply@blogger.com