With regard to X4 not being released in Europe, note that Capcom didn't release X3 in Europe either they licensed the game to Virgin Interactive for the PAL version. But I'm just speculating here.Īnyway, I found that interesting. Apart from every other game on the market, given enough delay MMX3 would have been competing with its own sequel in North America, the same situation Capcom deliberately avoided with Darkstalkers. Presumably the deal fell through for some reason or another, and with the time lost Capcom felt MMX3 was outdated to the point where a North American release would be worse than pointless.
They don't say which USA company, though the EGM journalist felt they were hinting at it being Electronic Arts.
Well, guess what? In this issue Capcom reveal that they had licensed these two versions to a USA company to be published in North America. People have commented before on how the Saturn and PlayStation versions of Mega Man X3 were never brought out in North America. Like Derek, I once had a PAL copy of Megaman X3 and don't remember the screenshots being blurry.įunny that someone else should bring this game up now, as I just a few hours ago dug up an interesting tidbit about it in the June 1996 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. Especially after a point and click adventure or FMV game, it's fast, frenetic, no-nonsense gaming action! I think Megaman has always been the only videogame to give me a true adrenalin rush.I know you can only have three bullets on screen at once, but of course, one of them disappears as soon as they hit a target, and I love hammering out the shots super fast, by pretty much vibrating my how exhilerating it can all be at times, =). But wow - the train level was pretty exhilerating. X4 has traditional gameplay too, but so far I have to overlook the fancy graphics, that are distracting me from classic gameplay mechanics, that are still there underneath, =).
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Only just got a ROM of Megaman X4 after years of failing to track it down or afford it when I did see it, and X4 has blown me away - it's a proper 32-bit game, with some epic stuff going on! It was a bit overwhelming, although lots of fun so far, whereas X3 was more immediately familiar, and I was able to crack on with traditional gameplay. Critics always say Megaman games are too hard, but if you know the enemies' patterns, and crucially - if you tackle the bosses in the right order, and use the appropriate special weapons they have a weakness for, it's brilliant classic Megaman - although I also loved the addition of finding new bits of armour which give you different abilities, and the exo-suits you can climb into. but I went straight from Megaman II on the NES, to Megaman X3, and I think I've done very well for myself.they are both excellent games. Megaman X3 is bad for its VERTICAL(!!!) borders.and its loading times.