Megaman X4 has the worst music in the entire series

[Lars]

If it wasnt for the flawed Gameplay in X7 i would put it as the worst X game in the series.
Because all other X games have awesome music

But because X4 has to focus on "Muh story" then you get bland emotional forgettable music that you see in X4.

Besides X6 is the best game in the series, and if you dont like X6 then you're a boring nerd.
But X7 as much as the gameplay is what kills it, you cant deny that it has a killer good soundtrack!

[Amumu Faxineiro]

i mean, comparing perfection to megaman x4 ost will obviously be unbalanced, but to be honest x4 have a great ost. Might i add some great usage of motiffs (like the cutscene where x is concerned if he will turn maverick, and the main motiff of his theme plays along in a very sad mood) and synth+rock instruments. I would even dare to say that X theme in this game is probably the best he had. very energetic and heroic, but still melancholic, which fits the character superbly.

But yeah x6 has top 10 best ost in gaming, of course is miles better compared to x4. Also as much as i'm a fan of x6, it is a bad game, and x4 is miles better both in design and pace. X6 has the better art direction and ost (is the best megaman artistically speaking), but the level design, artifitially hard mechanics and annoying collection of power ups (i love the game, but i hate the reploids that have to be saved) makes the game an awful experience for anyone who didn't grew with it and isn't playing a modded version like mmx6 tweaked. Megaman x4 though has some great level design, bosses, direction, gameplay, and is artistically solid although not better than x6 in that front, so overrall it is the better game (although x6 will forever be my fav closely followed by x1)

[Lars]

Nguyên văn bởi Rance:

Waaaahhhh! The music is too emotional and not Scooby Doo or Persona Waaahhhh! Grow the ♥♥♥♥ up please!

Dont care about Persona since it looks lame.
But give me Scooby Doo all day long, atleast its fun!
Well except Velma recent show i heard that show is bad, probably because they went with this advice.
0:06
https://youtu.be/SfHylCEoidg?feature=shared&t=6

[matohin]

Nguyên văn bởi Amumu Faxineiro:

Megaman x4 though has some great level design, bosses, direction, gameplay

Nah, X4's levels are some of the most basic in the series, similar to X3 except at least there's some fun to be had trying to avoid enemies as much as possible in X3, where-as X4 is usually just mindless straight lines and enemy spam without any depth once you know what to do, though some of the levels do have a nice flow so there's that. The bosses have a similar issue where most of them are so consistent and basic that there's nothing interesting about them, fights like Stingray or Peacock for example. X4's fortress stages are the worst part, they're extremely short and basic and the fights in them are all filler (except for Double, maybe) but then the final stage is a refight gauntlet combined with the most tedious Sigma fight. There's not much X4 really does "wrong" aside from stuff like that Sigma boss, but it's just an incredibly shallow game.

I could talk about what X6 does right despite some flaws for a very long time, but I think one of the main points is that it actually has depth: the Nightmare system, boss levels, rescues, parts system and certain paths requiring certain weapons/parts/effects to get through means that routing requires thought and no playthrough is ever the same. In X4, every level is essentially equal and that also means when ignoring items (which is easy to do since, just like X3, almost all of them aren't useful enough to get), you don't need to think about stage order at all.

[Lars]

Nguyên văn bởi matohin:

Nguyên văn bởi Amumu Faxineiro:

Megaman x4 though has some great level design, bosses, direction, gameplay

Nah, X4's levels are some of the most basic in the series, similar to X3 except at least there's some fun to be had trying to avoid enemies as much as possible in X3, where-as X4 is usually just mindless straight lines and enemy spam without any depth once you know what to do, though some of the levels do have a nice flow so there's that. The bosses have a similar issue where most of them are so consistent and basic that there's nothing interesting about them, fights like Stingray or Peacock for example. X4's fortress stages are the worst part, they're extremely short and basic and the fights in them are all filler (except for Double, maybe) but then the final stage is a refight gauntlet combined with the most tedious Sigma fight. There's not much X4 really does "wrong" aside from stuff like that Sigma boss, but it's just an incredibly shallow game.

I could talk about what X6 does right despite some flaws for a very long time, but I think one of the main points is that it actually has depth: the Nightmare system, boss levels, rescues, parts system and certain paths requiring certain weapons/parts/effects to get through means that routing requires thought and no playthrough is ever the same. In X4, every level is essentially equal and that also means when ignoring items (which is easy to do since, just like X3, almost all of them aren't useful enough to get), you don't need to think about stage order at all.

The only thing X6 got against it is the enemy spawn choice. Usually its right infront of you which is legit unfair. But i dont think that should count as a reason for it being a bad game since it does so much right in any other way.

But agreed, X3 is great!

I have updated my list now though to this.

Sure X7 is bad in execution of gameplay but.. the music in X4, i mean it just has so much more going against it. X5 flaw is too much text but give it some cred though, it atleast improved the lore compared to how bland and forgettable X4 was

List from best to worst
- : Megaman X6 - 9/10
- : Megaman X3 - 10/10
- : Megaman X5 - 7/10
- : Megaman X1 - 8/10
- : Megaman X2 - 6.5/10
- : Megaman X8 - 6/10
- : Megaman X7 - 5/10
- : Megaman X4 - 3/10

https://youtu.be/RjNuVvLZUiU?feature=shared

[TekFan]

Nguyên văn bởi Amumu Faxineiro:

i mean, comparing perfection to megaman x4 ost will obviously be unbalanced, but to be honest x4 have a great ost.

Agreed. X4 has some of the best music in the series to me.

Nguyên văn bởi Amumu Faxineiro:

But yeah x6 has top 10 best ost in gaming, of course is miles better compared to x4.

Disagree on this one. Sorry, not sorry, but the Ground Scaravich music makes my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ears bleed. It's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad. That alone, if nothing else, knocks it down a lot.
Commander Yammark stage music is mid. Shielder Sheldon stage music is mid. Gate's Laboratory Stage is an annoying remix of a mid song from X2.
Most of the other songs are solid, but there are just too many annoying tracks in X6 to be considered top 10. No where near close.

[Devsman]

Nguyên văn bởi TekFan:

Nguyên văn bởi Amumu Faxineiro:

But yeah x6 has top 10 best ost in gaming, of course is miles better compared to x4.

Disagree on this one. Sorry, not sorry, but the Ground Scaravich music makes my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ears bleed. It's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad. That alone, if nothing else, knocks it down a lot.
Commander Yammark stage music is mid. Shielder Sheldon stage music is mid. Gate's Laboratory Stage is an annoying remix of a mid song from X2.
Most of the other songs are solid, but there are just too many annoying tracks in X6 to be considered top 10. No where near close.

I think we can all at least agree it has some really good highlights. My favorite is Blizzard Wolfang.

I'm kind of a sucker for ice levels anyway. But still.

[matohin]

Nguyên văn bởi TekFan:

Commander Yammark stage music is mid.

Death sentence.
Fair enough honestly, even if I completely disagree

[funewchie]

Nguyên văn bởi TekFan:

Nguyên văn bởi Amumu Faxineiro:

i mean, comparing perfection to megaman x4 ost will obviously be unbalanced, but to be honest x4 have a great ost.

Agreed. X4 has some of the best music in the series to me.

Nguyên văn bởi Amumu Faxineiro:

But yeah x6 has top 10 best ost in gaming, of course is miles better compared to x4.

Disagree on this one. Sorry, not sorry, but the Ground Scaravich music makes my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ears bleed. It's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad. That alone, if nothing else, knocks it down a lot.
Commander Yammark stage music is mid. Shielder Sheldon stage music is mid. Gate's Laboratory Stage is an annoying remix of a mid song from X2.
Most of the other songs are solid, but there are just too many annoying tracks in X6 to be considered top 10. No where near close.

I dunno, that one guy on YouTube made a good case for Scaravich's music being decent.
(at 34:38)

https://youtu.be/s7QyhtGEbeU?t=2077

Gotta admit, he's right, it does actually make a good hip-hop/rap beat.

[Midas]

Argument invalidated by the fact that X's Sky Lagoon theme is one of the best tracks in the entire franchise.

[Coach's Coach]

X4 has good music, I'm not sure what people here are talking about. It's also a great game. I need to check out the OST to X6 - love me some video game music, and Mega Man stuff goes hard.

[Zunnoab #931]

I like the game's music but it's a huge departure from the sound of the SNES games and their distinctive "rock" sound. I think X2's instrument samples are the worst of the SNES games though, but I like them all. So even though I like X4's music, I can tell it's different enough I understand how someone might not.

They went all out with X6 though, that's for sure.

[RunningWild]

X4 has the best voice acting in the series along with Mega Man 8.

[Wild 7s]

Honestly, I'm not a fan of most of X4's soundtrack and do greatly prefer X6's.
That said, I generally prefer X4's gameplay to X6's not because of the difficulty (I don't find X6 to be too hard, but I'm an old dinosaur from the early romhack masochist crowd) but the pacing.

X4's pacing is excellent (with one notable exception) while X6 drags to a crawl at several points if you don't spam screen-clearing attacks or abuse the Nova Strike starting on Ultimate Armor. (especially Ground Scaravich, Blaze Heatnix, most of Gate's Lab 2)

That one exception? Well, X6 has one big plus going in its favor over X4, and really, every MMX game from X4 onward: It doesn't include any those stupid, gimmicky auto-scrolling Ride-Chaser stages.
I play Mega Man X to play...MegaMan X. Not Babby's Furst Racing Game Maker Project.

[OmegaΩ]

Nguyên văn bởi Lars:

If it wasnt for the flawed Gameplay in X7 i would put it as the worst X game in the series.
Because all other X games have awesome music

But because X4 has to focus on "Muh story" then you get bland emotional forgettable music that you see in X4.

Besides X6 is the best game in the series, and if you dont like X6 then you're a boring nerd.
But X7 as much as the gameplay is what kills it, you cant deny that it has a killer good soundtrack!

As a Mega Man fan since I was a child im gonna say, X6 is the worst of the three 32 bits games, I like the game, I love it, but is the worst, the nightmare mechanic is painful, it's not funny that the rainy turtoid level gets darker bc the nightmare effect, even so it's pretty good, of course, I say this in an objective way, objectively speaking Mega Man X4 is the best of the 3 games of 32 bits, because it has a pretty good story plus the soundtrack is not as bad as you say, and the gameplay and mechanics are good, now if we talk about what I think personally, my favorite of that trilogy is the X5, and the worst Mega Man X game is X7 of course

[Lars]

Nguyên văn bởi OmegaΩ:

Nguyên văn bởi Lars:

If it wasnt for the flawed Gameplay in X7 i would put it as the worst X game in the series.
Because all other X games have awesome music

But because X4 has to focus on "Muh story" then you get bland emotional forgettable music that you see in X4.

Besides X6 is the best game in the series, and if you dont like X6 then you're a boring nerd.
But X7 as much as the gameplay is what kills it, you cant deny that it has a killer good soundtrack!

As a Mega Man fan since I was a child im gonna say, X6 is the worst of the three 32 bits games, I like the game, I love it, but is the worst, the nightmare mechanic is painful, it's not funny that the rainy turtoid level gets darker bc the nightmare effect, even so it's pretty good, of course, I say this in an objective way, objectively speaking Mega Man X4 is the best of the 3 games of 32 bits, because it has a pretty good story plus the soundtrack is not as bad as you say, and the gameplay and mechanics are good, now if we talk about what I think personally, my favorite of that trilogy is the X5, and the worst Mega Man X game is X7 of course

Thats the problem. The story. It has to be the center, not the gameplay. Say what you want about text interuption in X5. But man did they fix the lore to something relevant and better interms of game design.

Megaman X4 is kinda like Hitman Absolution. Good if you are into Hollywood movies. But bad if you want intellectual game design to it.