08/05/02
Mega Man X4
  
     Am I getting worse at this shit or are X games getting more difficult. I mean here 
I am riding the half pipe on my BMX Skateboard when BAM! Right on the face. Skid marks 
of gravel and blood and brain matter everywhere. No wait, Not that kind of X-Games. I 
mean Mega Man X games.
  
    Apparently, unlike most game manufactures these days, it seems Capcom has decided 
not to dumb down its products to impossibly easy levels. Instead of course they up the 
difficulty at an exponential rate. This isn't too bad for a "hard core Mega Man gamer" 
like myself. I wiped through the Mega Man quest pretty easily, till the inevitable end 
boss of course. Now after easily slaughtering the 8 robot masters again as is customary 
in these sorts of forays, and managing to get the pattern down to beating Sigma's first 
two forms without loosing a single drop of life, I finally get to face down his third 
and final form. Then horrible bloody double penetration gang rape.
  
    I won't go into too many specifics but it was quite messy. Mess to the point of 
taking like ten tries to even figure out how to damage the thing. Or things. There are 
heads and bodies flying all over the room in this fight. That includes both X's body 
and head after of course Sigma tears them apart with his hate filled fury of attacks. 
What happened to the Gamma Robots and their easy Search Snakes to the skull? Half the 
time I can't even see what I'm shooting at anymore.
  
    Not to fear though, I'm sure eventually Sigma will fall. Now my to address the 
"casual gamer" aka my brother, who started this recent mess of playing Mega Man games. 
Let's paint a picture, it's say, Midnight, and a person sits down to play a rousing game 
of the Playstation title of their choosing. Hypothetically let's call this Playstation 
title, Rock Man X4, to save the face of any REAL PSX titles available. Now let's say 
this person plays till around 3AM, then decides to go ahead and sleep. The next day this 
person wakes up and plays for several more hours. Now that's not too bad of a time for a 
game such as the hypothetical Rock Man X4, 5 hours to play through. Thing is, 
hypothetically of course, let's say this person has played for 5 hours and had defeated 
exactly zero of the eight Robot Masters. Now let's say that this hypothetical person, 
who by the way is not my brother (I swear!) is very upset at this game and swears to 
never play another "Rock Man" game again. Then for the sake of a hypothetical situation, 
we'll say this guy's brother comes along and then beats a boss for him on the first try.