Why Did They HUMILIATE Mega Man? - Street Fighter X Tekken Outrage!

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In today's video we look at the ridiculous inclusion of North American Bad Box Art Mega Man within Street Fighter X Tekken. Let's look at the story behind this incident and why it caused outrage.
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@Mage_Nichlas_ Жыл бұрын

It was also explained by a former Capcom employee in Matt McMuscles's video on Street Fighter X Tekken that Bad Box Art Mega Man was a victim of poor timing, as development of the character was put into place before the Mega Man cancellations of the time.

@Lastjustice Жыл бұрын

Correct. if this jokey Megaman had came out during a tiem when plenty of other Megaman projects were being greenlit then no one would have read anymore into it.

@shlurpslime1212 10 ай бұрын

It was supposed to be a day where mega man fans would feast

@mrstickmantas Жыл бұрын

I think they just hate him bro not gonna lie

@realamericannegro977 Жыл бұрын

Capcom at that time was a highly disrespectful company. They ruined Dante right before this with DmC. They were on a roll.

@WilliamHungVEVO Жыл бұрын

Honestly I think most people would have been okay with Bad Box Art Mega Man being in SFxT. The problem was this came out during a time when there was mass outrage against Capcom after Inafune's departure. Pretty much everything with Capcom's name on it had swarms of haters attacking every work/announcement. Again, just very bad timing.

@Zetact_ Жыл бұрын

Given a lot of the stuff that's come out about Inafune, turns out that people should have probably been happy that he left Capcom. The guy directly contributed to the "Westernized" reboots in the 2010s that pulled the wind out of the sails of many great franchises and as his work for Mighty No 9 showed, he was moreso involved with the art direction of Megaman than he was the actual creation (even then, the series did fan contests for Robot Master designs so MOST of the artistic direction of the series wasn't even Inafune's).

@WilliamHungVEVO Жыл бұрын

@@Zetact_ I agree. People gave Inafune way too much credit for MM while MM11 has shown they can be completely fine continuing the franchise without him. I'll admit I was actually one of those haters back in the day and followed Inafune all the way to his dogshit Kickstarter game which I regretfully contributed money to. I was a fool for worshipping the man as much as I did lol Kamiya was right

@caldw615 Жыл бұрын

This would have also been not long after Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 had released. Megaman was absent from the original MVC3 with only Zero and Tron Bonne representing the series which many fans felt like an odd choice. Fans were really wanting Megaman in the game but of the new characters added to Ultimate none of them were Megaman. A few months later around the time SFXT was releasing, Ultimate got a costume DLC pack thar gave Zero a Megaman X costume instead of X being his own character. Many fans felt like Capcom was just trolling them at this point.

@jeffersonjjohnson Жыл бұрын

The game was broken on release. There was on-disc dlc, and Homer Simpson Mega Man looked like garbage. I don't think Inafune's departure had much, if anything to do with this. Capcom was diving right back into what caused players to call them Crapcom after pulling themselves free with SF4.

@Vespyr_ Жыл бұрын

No it was perfect timing, since it was designed to literally be an insult to the fans and the creator.

@Finfection Жыл бұрын

I always felt that by itself the inclusion of "Bad Box Art Mega Man" as a character in SFxT isn't bad. Everyone just viewed it as another shitty thing regarding the MM franchise as a whole because this was around the time when anticipated MM games were getting canceled.

@budgiecat2885 Жыл бұрын

Since Inafune suggested it; I see that as intentional sabotage since he had already left Capcom and was talking mad shit about them lol

@lnsflare1 Жыл бұрын

If they had a regular Mega Man alongside the Bad Box Art Mega Man, then it probably would have been very well received.

@TheSoCalledZoner1 Жыл бұрын

megamans always mid wdym especially the franchise as a whole

@budgiecat2885 Жыл бұрын

@@lnsflare1 hmm yeah regular Mega Man was in Marvel vs Capcom 1 & 2, Tatsunoko vs Capcom and Marvel vs Capcom Infinite. Oddly enough he was missing from Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Capcom said 'he didnt make it high enough up the request polls" yet Zero was in; and in Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Zero got a Mega Man skin

@BasedRamen Жыл бұрын

@@TheSoCalledZoner1 ur mum's mid

@codemonkeyattack Жыл бұрын

I don’t remember people being actually upset that they chose him over regular Mega Man but I do remember the on disc DLC being a big controversy. I thought he was fun but never played him because I refused to buy the dlc.

@davinj4806 Жыл бұрын

Dlc? He...i had him abd pacman and didnt pay anything extra And i wouldn't have taken thr time to download free dlc back then so ik damn well i didnt buy them

@Ckoz2829 Жыл бұрын

That’s all I remember from this game too. I found out recently that a former Capcom employee at the time tried to get them to reconsider on disc DLC. The Xbox 360 was always the first system to crack the game’s code and he knew that once someone found the on disc dlc it will leak ahead of launch. And the investors asked the former employee, “why would anybody do that? That would be illegal.” Some people are seriously tone deaf and out of touch. But if you’re interested, the video is Street Fighter x Tekken - What Happened? By Matt McMuscles. It’s pretty entertaining how much of a train wreck the whole game was with awful rescission after awful decision.

@codemonkeyattack Жыл бұрын

@@davinj4806 Pacman and Mega Man were "Exclusive to the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita versions of Street Fighter X Tekken, this character is added to the playable roster via a free download from the PlayStation Network." So you did take the time. But looks like they never made it available for the 360 even though they were on the disc so that's my mistake, I thought when the game was in its final hours Capcom would have tried to milk every cent by putting them up.

@aegisreflector1239 Жыл бұрын

I was upset. One of the (many) reasons I didn't buy the game. Why would you humiliate your own main character franchise? 🤦 Dumb af

@Ckoz2829 Жыл бұрын

@@aegisreflector1239 It was supposed to be a lighthearted joke, but before his reveal they canceled something like 3 Megaman games and fans were upset that, after a promise of a huge Megaman revival, all they got was fat, bumbling, American box art Megaman in a substandard fighting game plagued by its own set of issues.

@luisgentil Жыл бұрын

This "disrespect" backlash wasn't making much sense to me until I put it in the context of 2012. Not long after that Inafune launched the Mighty No. 9 campaign. It wasn't a bad idea in itself if you think about how Ugly Sonic was recycled and redeemed without anyone saying it disrespected Sonic.

@DragoonMS Жыл бұрын

Ahhh, yesss. "Bad Box Art Mega Man". A nod to the US releases of Megaman 1&2 on the NES, as well as Megaman 9&10. If I recall correctly, wasn't there an ending or something in SFxT that showed off a (rather surprisingly attractive) "Bad Box Art Roll"?? *Sees the intro scene* Yup, as I thought. But why does Roll's English VA sound like Team Rocket's Jessie from Pokémon??? 🤔🤔🤔

@RabblesTheBinx Жыл бұрын

Because the VA for BBA Roll is Michele Knotz, Jessie's VA since 2006.

@wcclark Жыл бұрын

I just had a crazy thought. What if "Bad Art" Mega Man is/was a famous space hero in 19XX that Dr. Light used as his main inspiration when building Rock Man? Rock "Mega" Mann was a famous space mercenary that would take dangerous missions from his handler, codenamed Roll, for great justice. Think Solid Snake meets Star Lord.

@Krakenburgvortex79 Жыл бұрын

I love that idea!

@l0sts0ul89 Жыл бұрын

Yooooo

@davedavidson8208 Жыл бұрын

Welp, this is cannon in my head now. Bad Box art Mega Man is now a Flash Gordon style space hero of the MegaMan universe.

@IAmTheEagleHTM 9 ай бұрын

Now that's how you make it respectable

@gothnerd887 Жыл бұрын

"You are so naive to think that Rock is still relevant" - Capcom (probably)

@off-the-grounder568 Жыл бұрын

“The Age of Rock is over! SFT rules this city!”

@gothnerd887 Жыл бұрын

@@off-the-grounder568what's SFT?

@off-the-grounder568 Жыл бұрын

Street Fighter Tekken, abbreviated like NSR.

@black2785 Жыл бұрын

Ive always wanted the Street Fighter 2010 Ken as an alternate costume for MVC3 or any other SF game. Maybe we will get it in 2030

@Rationalific Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it would have been particularly funny in a game that actually came out in 2010...but it would be nice to see it show up someday in the future.

@KenMasters. Жыл бұрын

The rosters stopped being satisfying after MvC2. The best game to have Kevin "Ken" Striker return is in an SF multi-verse crossover.

@RaddSpencer Жыл бұрын

"Many fans were still seething over the cancellation of Mega Man Legends 3" and there it is, the crux of the issue. Capcom had been neglecting the franchise and leaving Mega Man fans out in the cold. That right there is why fans took "bad box art Mega Man" as a slight against them, rather than the cute and creative nod to gaming history that it was intended as. Context is always important. Was bad box art Mega Man intended as a sign of disrespect for the classic gaming hero? No, of course not. But releasing him instead of classic Mega Man in an era where Mega Man fans already felt shafted was bound to stir up bad feelings from the fans.

@GiordanDiodato 10 ай бұрын

blame Inafune

@RaddSpencer 10 ай бұрын

@@GiordanDiodato Why? All of this took place literally YEARS after Inafune had left Capcom.

@danieldiehl6063 Жыл бұрын

ever since this happened I've been wishing for a Nintendo version of Street Fighter X Tekken with Mario and Luigi as guests, based on their live action appearances in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

@chillstoneblakeblast3172 Жыл бұрын

Bad boxart MegaMan is a joke gone heavily wrong. People would have loved to see actual MegaMan in Street Fighter, but Capcom wanted to insert a Joke tier at a time where MegaMan was very low on the radar and a dying series because Capcom abandoned it. I have seen a bit more praise for Bad box art MegaMan, but the Outrage is still there and is definitely a long list of why Capcom almost went bankrupt around a decade ago. Nowadays, Capcom has given some more love to MegaMan, but I am still don't think Capcom gives it the love it deserves.

@DANCERcow Жыл бұрын

It only "went horribly wrong" because you have no sense of humor nor irreverence! .-.

@Void0602 Жыл бұрын

Megaman looks like the average megaman Cosplayer at Comic Con

@ungenbunyon5548 Жыл бұрын

Watching him try catch light cracked me up "i dont understand"

@MegaManNeo Жыл бұрын

I really liked Mighty No. 9, no joke here. Having Bad Box Art MegaMan in SFxT however was the sign for me at the time that Capcom really hates the series and wanted to piss off fans after Keiji Inafune leaving. Didn't know it was Inafune himself who requested this nightmare of a design to be in the game.

@tenkrow Жыл бұрын

Fucking Keiji man. "Something original", he says. Come on.

@hugejackedman3447 Жыл бұрын

@@tenkrow If you really think about it, that was the perfect f/u from Inafune to Capcom. The whole reason he even had to do Mighty No 9 in the first place is because Capcom kept the rights to Megaman/Rockman despite not even wanting to use the character, plus the MML3 fiasco.

@rockk9753 Жыл бұрын

Mighty number 9 is kind of disappointing its an ok game because it borrowed a lot from megaman but it still doesnt compare to megaman for some reason megaman is just more fun

@ironrex6979 Жыл бұрын

I agree Mighty No 9 was a bad game. It was super solid.

@IAmTheEagleHTM 9 ай бұрын

@@hugejackedman3447but it ended up being a f/u to the fans

@zephyr8072 Жыл бұрын

Nintendo: "We completely humiliated Samus to the point that Metroid won't recover for at least a decade!" Capcom: "Hold our beers."

@orangeslash1667 Жыл бұрын

The problem is that the Prime games are so good, that Nintendo wasn’t ready to top it.

@MasterAlpha1000 Жыл бұрын

SEGA: amateurs

@fonzworthbentley7455 Жыл бұрын

What happened to Samus?

@MasterAlpha1000 Жыл бұрын

@@fonzworthbentley7455 Metroid Other M.

@mr.awesome6011 Жыл бұрын

@FONZWORTH BENTLEY Federation Force. While not an outright bad game it was released at a time when Metroid fans were starved for a true Metroid experience and the most recent game was Other M.

@jonathan-6958 Жыл бұрын

I remember people were absolutely pisses for 2 reasons: 1. Megaman fans hadnt had games for a long time and choosing this design was a huge slap in the face to them. 2. People didnt thought chooing to make fun of "bad megaman art" was distasteful and wasteful of a character slot/ coupled with on-disc DLC characters. It definitely felt like a troll to megaman fans and players of the game.

@DrDirtyLeggz Жыл бұрын

The fact that Inafune wanted Bad BoxArt Man just tells me he was looking to kick the hornet's nest on his way out and do as much damage as possible. I'm almost convinced he was sabotaging things to make his own future start up look better by comparison.

@IAmTheEagleHTM 9 ай бұрын

And he tried with Mighty No. 9, but the irony is that Capcom themselves released MegaMan 11 two years later and it was everything fans wanted, needed and deserved. In the end, Inafune was the real villain

@goldenninja9053 4 ай бұрын

@@IAmTheEagleHTMToo bad Capcom never had the guts to follow that up with any other games.

@Unquestionable Жыл бұрын

Huge fan of pretty much everything shown off on this channel so happy that Mega Man, another one of my all time loves, being featured even if it's the controversial version. Personally I found the appearance hilarious but it was a slap in the face during and era where Capcom was treating it's classic character like trash. Recently I've been exploring this very odd time in Capcom's history where they legit were so confused they were just throwing whatever at the wall and hoping it would stick. Recently got a copy of Dark Void and planning on getting Bionic Commando despite hearing it was very average, but still I appreciate the drive to try something completely different out even if they had clearly lost their way for awhile.

@thaneros Жыл бұрын

Bionic Commando OST alone is worth a playthrough the game.

@Towelie42O Жыл бұрын

Bionic Commando was actually a really decent game, at least worth a playthrough! I played it for a while when it first dropped.. Beat it 2 or 3 times

@joshuaolsoncook Жыл бұрын

Bad Box-art Megaman is a true example of a wholesome “Ugly Bastard” type character.

@dochikari210 Жыл бұрын

I always just saw it as a hilarious homage to the USA box art for the OG Mega Man games

@YeldellGW Жыл бұрын

As I stated in another video, it’s a miracle that MMXD became a reality given how many Mega Man related projects got canceled prior to it’s release.

@davidgusquiloor2665 Жыл бұрын

That was Capcom Taiwan wanting to make it. The main Capcom HQ only got interested in it after it became the most profitable they had on Mobile.

@annfrank5959 Жыл бұрын

The guy who actually drew up MegaMan back in 1987 never played the game & weren't familiar with the concept of what MegaMan was and was just told to draw him up for the box cover the arm cannon art style was unheard of back then in traditional Western art so he gave him a gun instead of a arm cannon

@HumanB312 Жыл бұрын

That is not an excuse the animators and programmers know they should of named it something else

@annfrank5959 Жыл бұрын

@@HumanB312 You're preaching to the choir, It wasMe, the same reason the Phalanx box art was different these artists have follow the directions the companies give them or they'll put out a job

@davidanttila9305 Жыл бұрын

Bad Box art Mega Man in Street Fighter X Tekken is a leftover from the canceled year of the MegaMan celebration that Capcom ended up canceling because they had so many disastrous game sales the year before.

@Mewdo45 Жыл бұрын

The way I see it bad boxart megaman was a wrong place wrong time situation. This came out right after the cancelation of a few potentially good megaman games. It most likaly felt like capcom was saying "you want megaman? Well here you go!"

@kuda6578 Жыл бұрын

Street fighter x tekken is still so painful. How they dropped the ball

@KenMasters. Жыл бұрын

Nintendo sure did the Capcom legends better justice in SSB, me included.

@baddragonite Жыл бұрын

I think people wouldn't have been upset with that version of there was an option for a normal MegaMan

@omarortega55 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the incredible content! Any history on Hudson’s Adventure Island ?

@strangelovemd1 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, what was this about ? There was a time there where I felt like MegaMan was being punished by CapCom for some reason and I didn’t understand.

@evilgosu378 Жыл бұрын

This was a great video I would love to see you do a video on Hyper Street Fighter Alpha sometime in the future

@CanonRulesSaysGod Жыл бұрын

Gaia armor Megaman X would have been sick, interesting and never in a game before. Its also interesting to mention, as far as I am aware, no fighting game has X in any of his various armors ready to fight.

@Chrisezo Жыл бұрын

I thought it was odd that they used Bad Box Art Megaman for that game, unfortunately I never owned the game as I wasn't into fighting games at that time, but I also thought that it was just Capcom's way of trolling the fans, they made a lot of bad decisions in the 2010s, its why people started calling them Crapcom, but I am glad that in the recent years they started celebrating their franchises, and we have gotten games like the Megaman collections, though I wish that instead of them emulating the original console games, that they had ported the games natively, or at the very least had done something similar to what they did for Megaman Anniversary collection, I just really hope that they don't butcher the Battle Network collection, because so far it seems promising but this is still Capcom we are talking about...

@mexmexican8619 Жыл бұрын

10 years old. Where did the time go?

@tracyndiyob162 Жыл бұрын

really was poor timing with the cancellations that happened to the blue bomber(alongside other dumb moves from capcom like darkstalkers resurrection being digital only or their attitude towards older works at the time and tbh megaman's 25th anniversary being more an extension to street fighters as street fighter x megaman could've had more added to it from being a fan game they took to celebrate.) that alongside the problems with x tekken(on disk dlc,flanderizing some of the characters on tekken's side,bad matchups like zangief with rufus instead of r. mika,imo ugly look for pacman that was creepy and giving an actual reason to hate ingrid with how the events are her fault creating pandora.) was unintentionally an insult to megaman fans as well with how his story reference classic & legends,even for a joke should've just been classic or x/volnutt(and being ono missing with fat joke characters again/roll being a odd mix between her and poison.) and was just a bad era for capcom in general outside a few titles. would be down with another attempt at tekken x street fighter as honestly compared to mortal kombat where they are just too different that i could only see it happen in super smash bros. think tekken's writers could have fun with street fighter's cast.

@BioMega96 Жыл бұрын

wait ingird had something to do with the events of the game? Didn't know that part of the story

@tracyndiyob162 Жыл бұрын

@@BioMega96 it was in a comic for pre-orders of street fighter x tekken that revealed she sent it to test humanity.(is very weird it's never addressed at all.)

@BioMega96 Жыл бұрын

@@tracyndiyob162 ahh ok

@Flafex Жыл бұрын

We love this channel, the best content about game history

@xShinigamiRyukuux Жыл бұрын

Honestly, it wouldn't have been so bad, maybe even a funny joke, if they hadn't cancelled MML3, MMU, and Maverick Hunter all within that same year.

@psychobluesfxt Жыл бұрын

I remember hearing the rumors and I thought it was going to be a Jack Bauer-esque super serious Megaman.

@jahar1gaming Жыл бұрын

Long story short in Japan hes called rockman and this character is megaman

@KenMasters. Жыл бұрын

Blue Bomber suits him more, too bad one of the Rock'em Sock'em Robots already trademarked that name.

@VictorHernandez-nj2lo Жыл бұрын

He also showed up (along w/other variants) in a cover of Game Informer magazine. Btw, I'm surprised u never mention Game Informer magazine in ANY of ur videos 🤔

@MerelyAFan Жыл бұрын

Mega Man getting into Smash Bros while Street Fighter x Tekken undersold and Tekken x Street Fighter eventually was canceled pretty much was the hilariously fitting epilogue to the entire fiasco.

@davinj4806 Жыл бұрын

I still want tekken x sf....

@GAPMan88 Жыл бұрын

What makes even more hilarious that Mega Man in Smash plays exactly how he does in the games. Capcom pretty much had no excuse not to make another Mega Man game.

@Lastjustice Жыл бұрын

Street Fighter X Tekken is a fun game, and I think it could gone great if Capcom wasn't so deadset on milking DLC to the max at the time. It put a bad taste in people's mouths as they didn't want to have buy gems to win the game. I'd love to see it get another look and see Namco do their take fully with the Street Fighter side of things. They dabbled with including Akuma in Tekken 7, but it needs be done in earnest.

@cryptocsguy9282 Жыл бұрын

@MerelyAFan Tekken x street fighter is some epic vapourware lol. When tekken 7 came out and they put akuma as the boss I personally thought that they included him to test how a street fighter character would work in the teken gameplay style

@cryptocsguy9282 Жыл бұрын

@@Lastjustice I agree 100%

@firestarter6488 Жыл бұрын

They could've easily just have done both, and kept BBA Megaman as a secret fighter to unlock.

@Polychi1998 Жыл бұрын

Ah… the dark era where everyone calls Capcom ‘crapcom’.

@Polychi1998 Жыл бұрын

@@kingstarscream3807 same here, god it was a embarrassing for Capcom fans on that time. Glad that Capcom didn’t became the next EA and Ubisoft and stick to their roots.

@gamerman7276 Жыл бұрын

A futuristic ice cream man in front of your favorite Disney ride

@kingchamuco1 Жыл бұрын

I still dig this game today.

@nowi9776 Жыл бұрын

It sucks the game flopped. Yeah, gems and on disk dlc was a bad idea, but the game was fun as heck to play.

@Burrier82 Жыл бұрын

I wanted to revisit this game I have enjoyed it in the past it seems to be discontinued on Steam.

@ianhadlock2405 Жыл бұрын

It should have been a Skin, bonus character or dlc. Honestly I love the originality, but it was a risky choice for sure.

@MrGonz801 Жыл бұрын

I'm still salty about the decision to bring this mega man into SFxT over a decade later I still say "this MegaMan can F*uck right off"

@joppalowe3870 Жыл бұрын

PAL Megaman 1 boxart is outstanding, not weird.

@etrotm1226 Жыл бұрын

I would like to take this time to disagree with Top Hat based on him saying "No one asked for this crossover", because I was just a little kid at the time, and being on the internet having a huge hard on for Tekken back then I remember seeing a LOT of Tekken vs Street Fighter fan videos on youtube back then. Some MUGEN vides especially. I spoke with people on what would they think if there was a Street Fighter VS Tekken, most of everyone I spoken to about it was pretty positive on that. Not exactly a hype crossover but one that many people I met and seen online were interested in since I do remember many people were upset about Namco X Capcom being Japan only. Along with the fact that it was the closest we would ever get to seeing Street Fighter VS Tekken. Thats not even mentioning the reveal trailer from 2010 where we can hear the crowd with an overwhelming hype response for the game. So it may not be a HUGE amount of people, but its safe to say it was a big enough group of people that made Capcom and Namco aware of a lust for a crossover fighter between Street Fighter and Tekken.

@dirtmerchant4718 Жыл бұрын

Without seeing this video... This looks like the box art version of Mega Man Nintendo game from the 80's. This is hilarious.

@onehitwonders7729 Жыл бұрын

It crazy how Zero have been chose to represent the Megaman X series more than X and that not never actually got in a crossover game until MvC infinite. And when Megaman does get into a fighting game, it either as a joke, a different Megaman entirely (with Zero being in the game also), or as a skin for Zero. Like seriously how Zero got to fight SNK, Marvel, other Capcom characters and Tatsunoko characters while X and Megaman only fights the like of Ryu and Captain Marvel

@retror.d.1630 Жыл бұрын

Love your video. I just won a copy of Mega Man 1 in an auction! This ugly box art game is pretty expensive! I’m so lucky I got at a pretty good price.

@ignorethis214 Жыл бұрын

Have not watched video yet - will edit later after I see if you addressed this: I remember being annoyed by it, but recently I heard someone lay it out like this: This was supposed to be 'the year of megaman'- Megaman Universe, Megaman Legends 3, and some other project were all going to come out, and with all of those amazing projects, they could fit in this bad box art megaman as a joke, and it would feel tongue in cheek because the character was going through his new renaissance... buuuuuuut everything got canceled, so what was supposed to be a fun joke ended up appearing spiteful to the fans.

@Rationalific Жыл бұрын

I like that Capcom did this. I think the "VS" series of games are not meant to be canon, so wacky characters can be added. Also, Mega Man 9 (2008) and Mega Man 10 (2010) already had American box-art versions that catered to fans of the "bad box art" from the original. It's cool to show that you're in on the joke (as long as you still respect the main character in other games). However, at the same time, Mega Man had not seen much love and still hasn't, aside from Mega Man 11 (which I think is the best Mega Man game ever). It's also a shame that (like with Sonic Mania), Mega Man 11 didn't see any follow-up. They already had a team together. They had an engine. They had lots of programmed gameplay physics and such. Why not just use the tools to create new levels, and put out a brand new game? Why spend all of that time and energy for one game and not continue with it? I know that the same thing over and over again can get stale, but two great games in a row that are very similar but have different stages, etc, would be loved, and fans would have more beloved content to play.

@budgiecat2885 Жыл бұрын

Joke game Joke version of Mega Man Joke sales

@Fate263 Жыл бұрын

So... we have Inafune himself to thank for his presence... but... I dunno, sure, Mega Man in fighting games was done before, sure... but they could have, and just hear me out... COULD have used X instead. But paired with the Legends 3 cancellation, this was salt being rubbed on an open wound for the fandom. The only thing that botheted me personally is that they made Roll, who WASN'T playable, better designed than BBA Mega.

@xelgun5408 Жыл бұрын

Did'nt expect Thanos would be a guess character in Street Fighter x Tekken and in search of Mother Box?! (So its a DC, Marvel, Street Fighter, Tekken, Bad Cereal box art cover cross over) 😂

@zaynmitchell Жыл бұрын

Since Konami is making a RISING RESERGENCE will you be doing something based on a Konami Franchise like Silent Hill, Metal Gear Soild and Castlevania (Again)

@colinlarson9656 Ай бұрын

I remember getting this game as a small boy, probably 7 years old. I had no idea who Mega Man was but that box art made me think my mom bought me a stinker for Christmas. Boy was I wrong. That said, truth be told I thought that art was trash at that age. I recently saw the PAL art and that is far the best version of Mega Man box art. He should have got the gig.

@DeusMors Жыл бұрын

Did KZfaq do something to the ads? It seems like I get a ton of them. I mean this video alone stopped itself three times for ads. No wonder everybody wants to find an alternative

@zombie8u213 Жыл бұрын

This really pissed me off back in the day. He is in love with roll.... WTF. I get it. The idea of bad box art is kinda funny. But the execution of it was horrible

@sayachan6069 6 ай бұрын

I was on the ground level when it all went down and backed the get me off the moon/100K legends facebook campaign. I can tell you the air around then in the fandom was extremely bitter after capcom axed legends 3 and other megaman projects so the timing of this in 2012 was misread during an era when tensions where hot with the fans.

@Crow_Rising Жыл бұрын

As a passionate Mega Man fan myself, I often find myself at odds with others in the fanbase. Every fanbase has its morons, and Mega Man is no different. Personally, I find Bad Box Art Mega Man to be a harmless and honestly quite funny joke, and I don't at all believe he was intended to be a jab at the series as a whole. The whole on disc DLC thing is a much more valid thing to get mad about. I get the outrage, I really do. But seriously, people need to chill. Capcom doesn't hate Mega Man, it's just not as consistently profitable as many of their other more popular franchises such as Street Fighter, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, and even Devil May Cry. The wait between major releases and even the cancelations suck, yes. But Capcom doesn't do it out of hatred, but as simply business. The franchise will keep getting new releases. We'll get updated versions of old games, and we'll get new games. It's just not going to be anywhere near as frequent as it was back in the day, especially after the pandemic.

@LordProteus Жыл бұрын

Remember, if they can do it to Megaman, they can do it to anyone...

@bobbydazzler329 Жыл бұрын

This incarnation of Megaman kind of made sense to me as the original Rockman was a smaller sized character and would of had a small hit box

@amissaangelus2876 Жыл бұрын

When I saw the megaman series bite the dust in the late 90s when everyone absolutely drooled over converting everything to 3d shooters or just 3d in general it angered me and I didn't play video games for many years. The side scrollers all died off. When they did make new megaman games they were all stupid spinoff sequels and none of them improved or did any kind of character or world building they just remodeled megaman way too many times. They should have stuck with the formula they began with and then improved upon it

@MaverickhunterXZero Жыл бұрын

I don't think Inefune had the forethought to request BBA Mega Man to prop his own Mega Man-like creation. He is a massive Westabo(Weeb, but for west) So it was more likely he wanted to add that as a nod to the west's version of Mega Man cover art. As we were warned by Hideki Kamiya; He's buiness man, not a creator. Mega Man was originally to be an Astro Boy game, before Capcom lost the rights. I don't know how much stock I take in Ono, since he snubbed X who was number 1 most requested character for MvC3, but they went with Phoenix Write and fans being told he didn't have any fighting game moves by him if I remember correctly. Then BBA Mega Man shows up and uses a lot of Mega Man's fighting style from MvC 1 and 2 - as well as you have Zero in SNK vs. Capcom Chaos. Ironically enough; They kept This, after Inefune left and wanted to still be paid by the company, but scrapped a bunch of projects. Some I won't lie, would probably have not done well. There were rumors the X skin for Zero was actually the beginnings of adding him to the game, since there was screencaps of X in his typical fighting pose, not Zero's, It's just speculation, but I believe since they had X in MvCi and not Classic since they already had Zero.

@VictorHernandez-nj2lo Жыл бұрын

As someone who's never played the Megaman Legends games, I was more pissed about the cancellation of Megaman Universe. It could've been as popular as the Mario Maker games

@BioMega96 Жыл бұрын

dude same here, was looking forward to that game at the time and got a bit upset when it canned. Sure we have mega maker nowadays (though kinda wish it didn't feel too close to Mario Maker at times) but part of me still wonders how Universe would've been liked (and also how Ryu would've played in a MM game)

@VictorHernandez-nj2lo Жыл бұрын

@@BioMega96 the closest thing we Megaman fans hav to a "Megaman Maker" is Megaman Powered Up's stage edit mode

@JasonBaker1978 Жыл бұрын

Its because at this point in time (when SFxT was release) Capcom was looking to move onward from MM games entirely. They didn't want to "honor" the legacy of a quality game series (the proof of that is in the fact they stopped making them) it was a move intended to distance themselves from the "laughable" past. A way of demonstration to the fan base that this joke was the Capcom of the past and not the ultra cool Capcom of today.

@austinreed7343 Жыл бұрын

Then they did 11 and X-Dive, plus the Taisen leak

@jblue88hoodgamer54 Жыл бұрын

And that was at the same time when Capcom started to lose there fans and regret mistreating Mega Man.

@protoform001kikira2 Жыл бұрын

Fast forward to 2023 and this is how western entertainment deals with most male characters

@mobiusbelts3607 Жыл бұрын

How old are you?

@OnlyTheStrongest116 Жыл бұрын

@@mobiusbelts3607 Older than you that's for sure

@austinreed7343 9 ай бұрын

And increasingly moreso white women too.

@Mankey619 Жыл бұрын

I guess Inafune requested it to make MegaMan like his badly made NES box art cover. Kinda makes sense to me. He did have personal heat with Capcom at that time so making fat MegaMan is his way to despite the company.

@kingcombo9799 Жыл бұрын

So I thought roll was mega man's sister not his friend. HOW DO THEY MESS THAT UP!?

@mrNobody100 Жыл бұрын

never played it, but i remember this coming up once around the time it came out... looking back, using bad box art mega man is pretty fucking funny.

@Ghostviperz Жыл бұрын

It’s around the time of dead rising and I would say it’s heavily influenced by the Megaman costume in that game

@Sauceyjames Жыл бұрын

Last good Capcom fighter was MVC2... Maybe the SF2/3 HD for Xbox/PS3 was good too, but that's not a new game. So yeah.... Every fighting game afterward was a disappointment and wasn't this after the MegaMan legends 3 being cancelled?

@thriftingtonpost 2 ай бұрын

As a die-hard Megaman fan starting with MM2 when I was 5 years old, I thought that Bad Box Art Megaman was amazing - I adored that they made such a callback in the game. I'm surprised so many people took a little joke like that so personally, it's not like they cancelled a real Megaman game in order to have him make a cameo here.

@TheRealDustinNunn Жыл бұрын

I loved Street Fighter X Tekken, but Capcom humiliating Mega Man (aka Rockman) back then, that went way too far.

@daviddyer3543 Жыл бұрын

Roll is very sexy in that game. Pity Capcom couldn't make a new series of Roll games featuring Sexy Roll.

@napoleonfeanor Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I wanted to ask at the beginning if he was named Mega Man in JP

@FoxFireUnlimited Жыл бұрын

Before watching the video, here's the truth I'd heard from a friend in Japan that worked for Capcom: This was their caricature to make fun of Americans complaining aboot Mega Man Legends 3 etc.

@mattdarrock666 Жыл бұрын

The US box art of MM1, made me skip it altogether at first. Like many here, my first MM game was 2. And yes, i could beat Airman...

@SharifSourour Жыл бұрын

The American Mega Man box art looks like a bad Ai rendition based on text description! 😂

@billcook4768 Жыл бұрын

The entire reason I bought SF x Tekken was to play as BBAMM.

@metrowater2819 Жыл бұрын

Cap

@redseagaming7832 Жыл бұрын

Reason why easy they were embarrassed with the original design of Megaman or rock man as he's known in Japan

@BaneMcDeath Жыл бұрын

I like this version of mega-man. I'd watch/read/play a whole series based on this middle-aged mega man. He's like sn older Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers (albeit not the brightest star in the galaxy; but a good heart)

@davedavidson8208 Жыл бұрын

I could see his adventures playing out ala Space quest with his Roger Wilco style personality. lol

@BaneMcDeath Жыл бұрын

@@davedavidson8208 i just find him more relateable than robo-rockman.

@NantoShin Жыл бұрын

It was a time where for some reason Capcom didn't care about Mega Man anymore. They didn't even include him in Marvel vs Capcom 3! Mocking fans with this bad cover art Mega Man and then the dlc costume for Zero in MVC3...

@Matt08719801 Жыл бұрын

its a quirky twist to the game , as an adult in my 40s the nes mainstream megaman does not apeal to my gaming taste , the bad box art style mega man has a more adult theme and humor which i would prefer in the first place

@Home_Rowed Жыл бұрын

Wow, I've owned this game since launch, and barely played it due to its questionable gameplay, but today I learned that Roll in that game is voiced by the same VA that plays Jessie in Pokémon, I recognized her voice.

@geezerton1404 Жыл бұрын

I love MegaMani have the sonic and MegaMan worlds collide vol1 and 2 I have the MegaMan x legacy collection but I don't really care about bad boxart MegaMan he's funny looking and I can't not laugh. Also mighty no.9 sucks I hate it it's not fun and the main character looks stupid but I worked my dad got it on PS4 and Xbox 360 a long time ago.

@thesaltyweeb Жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, I'll still choose this Megaman vs Beck... or uh Mighty Number 9

@Athanase48067 Жыл бұрын

People can mald I guess, but BBA Megaman was a hilarious character

@deadpoolnerd Жыл бұрын

I think it'd also be better at least if he had an alt attire that was traditional Megaman

@GAPMan88 Жыл бұрын

I remember this character first appearance of this character. I remember how angry I was when this character was released especially after Legends 3 got cancelled. Also, Mega Man and Pac Man do not belong in this game.

@JohnnyProctor9 Жыл бұрын

"American" Mega Man, lol! 😆

@BigCort Жыл бұрын

I asked for street fighter vs tekken! Mainly because it was supposed to be 2d version and 3d version. But I wholeheartedly agree street fighter vs mortal kombat the dream game of the century

@jive238 Жыл бұрын

It was honestly the timing, the timing was everything wrong with bad box art megaman. If capcom hadn't cancelled all those megaman games going up to this release no one would have thought anything of this, but they did and so fans weren't in a mood to receive what was obviously a humorous little reference. They wanted to know megaman was alive and well. I can remember another game that was received poorly all because of bad timing following fans' uncertainty about the health of a franchise, Metroid Federation Force. Like bad box art megaman, that game did not deserve the level of backlash it got, but I understand why it did. If fans knew the metroid 2 remake was on the horizon, they would have received it better, I guarantee.