Mega Man Quick Poll - Overall Best NES Mega Man Game?

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RolStoppable said:

Kasz216 said:

RolStoppable said:

For me in large part the music determines how much I like a Mega Man game. While most of the latter Mega Man games recycle boss and stage themes, I don't mind it in MM9, because it has the best music since MM3. From MM4 onwards the music just kept getting worse and less memorable. Of course MM9 does more things right than just having good music, so it ranks pretty high in my list of favorite MM games. I am not sure if I like it more than MM3, but it's at least my third favorite of the whole bunch.

Generally, music in video games doesn't get the credit it deserves, it's way more important than graphics.

I agree with that.  I'd actually go a step farther in that i miss the NES and SNES style music.  It was unique... now it's usually just generic classical or rock music.

I think the hardware limitations forced the composers to work harder in order to achieve good results and in return that led to more memorable music than we have in most of today's games. It's pretty telling when a lot of today's best music are remixes of classic video game music.

Yeah, I've been thinking this is the case. Or maybe all the awesome composers are just getting old...

As for music > graphics, I'd agree, with some exceptions. I imagine you probably don't play too many western games, but music wouldn't be very useful in Counterstrike, when you're listening for footsteps. I'd guess most games that end up having you use voice chat (or have you yelling at each other local multi) don't need much music, you wouldn't hear much anyway. I'd say Wii Sports is the best Japanese example, but... it doesn't exactly stress graphics, either.

 

On topic, MM2. Yeah.