Capcom Says It's Always Considering What's Next For Mega Man

As a lifelong Mega Man X fan, I would love to see them offer a definitive end to the plot. Just tie those threads and let it lie.

But, over time, I've come to hope for something a bit different. They already had so much work done for Mega Man Legends 3, and presumably a plot. My ultimate dream would be to see Capcom establish a new framework with a modern engine for faithful remakes of 1 and 2 - both to test the waters and to set the stage for the long-awaited development of 3. I just can't let go of Legends, and as much as I hate to say it, 1 and 2 really show their age. 1, 2, and 3 all made with modern sensibilities and the art style of the Legends series? I want nothing more than that.

Well can they consider it a bit faster, please?

Megaman 11 felt like it was gonna be the start of the blue bomber's bounce back, and we even got a cool collection of the old ones!... And another! And another. And another... they're awesome to have, don't get me wrong, but they're not really a substitute for an actually new game, and always felt like they should've launched in between some new ones, like how Zelda get HD remasters and remakes in between the big releases.

Really hope we see something new from Megaman soon, cuz they're running out of games to put into two-part collections

Please remaster the Megaman Powered Up to Switch and PS5.
The cutest Mega Man game on PSP and it has something like the stage maker. ☺

Honestly, as a Mega Man fan, I mostly want a Legends collection (1, 2, and Tron Bonne). Remakes would be nice, but a simple legacy collection would probably do.

At this point though, Mega Man 12 would be fine. I don't think I want anything in the other sub-series other than zx3. In the meantime, play Gravity Circuit, it's great.

@Platinum-Bucket I really want to play the Legends games, tho. They're expensive physically. I might get a ps3 one day, but still...

can they either make a game to either look like SSB Megaman or a very nice sprite based one. Or this one is a long shot, legends (64) collection with the announcement of a new legends game.

They’ll just keep pumping out more collections and making vague comments like this until they run out then they’ll put out Mega Man 12 which will be as milquetoast as 11, anything more than that requires the kind of budget Capcom isn’t interested in giving out.

Whenever Capcom starts talking about their legacy franchises, I hear three dreaded words in my mind: “the Capcom test”…

This reminds me... what happened to all those games SEGA promised a while back?

How bout making Mega max X9? We've had a few revivals of the classic series already with 9,10 and 11. I want more of the far superior IMHO X series!

Mega Man 12 with playable Proto Man, Bass and Roll.

They could use time travel to go back and fight old powered up bosses.

Done Capcom, you are welcome!

But not as highly valued as their Resident Evil IP, yes? RE7 released before Mega Man 11, but RE fans didn't have to wait very long for RE8, as well as remakes of RE2, RE3, and RE4 to release.
Meanwhile, The Ace Attorney games have all been ported to the Switch, even games that previously had never been localized officially. Mega Man fans have been given collections of different Mega Man series, but are not getting full remakes, or freshly localized games that had previously only released in Japan (specifically looking at the AFC version of Mega Man & Bass), and there certainly have not been any new games in the franchise over the past 6 years.
My point is it would be nice if Capcom would treat the Mega Man series that they apparently highly value with as much love and support as they have other IPs that they own.

I want megaman 12 with better graphics design than 11, megaman 11 design is like a mobile games compared to megaman 8 on psone. Or a new megaman x5 (just make it only x1 - x4 is cannon).

I grew up with the series and got the games as they came out. Even as a kid I got pretty tired of the series. I'd love to see a comeback, but the formula was done better with Shovel Knight and Gravity Circuit. A gorgeous 2D entry might be enough though.

I always thought it would be cool to do a 3D isometric type game - similar in style to supper Mario 3D world with more tightly confined levels.

Come one give us Megaman X9!! The gameplay of the X series is far superior than the original!

The collections are a positive sign that Capcom at least knows the games have a dedicated following still. A collection of Legends and Star Force would be the next logical thing to make.

But if we exclude the collections it's still not great in terms of new games. Since 2010 there's only been 1 new game in the entire franchise in that 14 year span. I don't count the mobile games since that's a whole different category.

Would love to see Mega Man X and Battle Network get new entries. But as of now I don't have much faith Capcom is making anything Mega Man related anytime soon. The primary focus is RE, Street Fighter and Monster Hunter nowadays. Everything else is an after thought.

You'd think after the Collections kept doing well, and Megaman 11, the first new game in 8 years at that point became the best selling Megaman game, and that was followed by the BN Collection selling incredibly well, that SOMETHING would have happened by now but no. It's just more Resident Evil and the odd Monster Hunter.

There's only two more possible collections they can do. After that, it has to be new games.

A fun remake of MM 1-6, a collection of the Legends games (with Inafune coming back to do part 3), and finally Mega Man 12 with multiple Robot Master paths like Konami did for Castlevania 3. Each path would lead to a new blend of the Robot Master weapons.

You’re welcome Capcom.

I'd love for them to create something new, preferably an RPG. But I agree that we are long due Mega Man X9 and Mega Man 12 would be most welcome. Or something brand new, like a Metroidvania type Mega Man with a more intricate story, or a roguelite game. There's enough potential left for my favourite Capcom icon.

Legends 3 was cancelled back in 2011, and I felt like Mega Man 11 was incredibly safe and uninspired. Aside from collections of previous games, just what are they "always considering", exactly? I mean I don't have any respect for the way SEGA rushes out their Sonic games, but at least they have been taking some risks and keeping Sonic relevant to some degree. I doubt most gamers even think about Mega Man these days when they think of Capcom.

We need more 3D Mega Man

What's left to port? Legends Trilogy, Star Force, Soccer, and & Bass I think are the only ones with translations, and then there's the REALLY weird ones like the Wonderswan one, the Boardgame one that was only in Chinese I beleive, and the one where people die on screen that got turned into a multi-year Archie comics arc.

Hoping For The Xtreme Games To Get Some Type Of Rerelease At The Least, The Only Time They Were Rereleased Was On The 3DS EShop

little effort solution: MegaMan Legends + Tron Bonne Collection
new project solution: classic MegaMan aesthetic + MegaMan Legends playstyle/mechanics

Why not SEGA x Capcom like they did in Archie comics the plot was everyone vs. Sigma and the Deadly Six with the Mavericks in the fight especially Vile! Eggman and Wily were already plotting behind bars. A fighting or a RPG or both could work? 🎮

@Fizza Platformers in general are not easy to make, I should know. I've tried to make one in GameMaker before.

There's surprisingly a lot that goes into making a 2D platformer than you'd think, and there's surprisingly even more things that can go wrong when trying to make one.

For example, if you don't properly separate the X and Y axis movement, you could end up with bugs where one axis' movement affects the other in a way you don't want it to (such as getting completely stuck inside walls and be unable to move at all or get out of it, instead of sliding down them).

You also have to account for when a character lands on a corner of a platform during movement, how does the game determine whether or not they made the jump? What about moving platforms, how do you make sure the character stays on it, unless an obstacle is in the way?

You also have to account for ceilings depending on the level design, and make sure none of the game's elements interfere with each other in buggy ways they shouldn't be.

Heck, this is true even of top-down games like Zelda. A lot of the similar considerations there.

@Fizza They'll just wait until the 8 year mark to give us another game...and then another 8...and another...

@MegaVel91 Of course, no game is easy to make, but I think the point they were trying to get across is that it can't take 8 dang years to make one 2D platformer can it? I thought we would get one maybe 3 or so years after Mega Man 11, since Mega Man games aren't that long and stuff. Either it's harder than it seems as you mentioned, or Capcom is just not trying to do anything with Mega Man at this point.

@GoldenBot It actually can. It took the people behind AM2R a decade to make the game, using a small team.

Then you have to take other things into account, like the pandemic, the fact these people might also working on other projects within the company, the title is considered lower priority due to the big boys pulling money into the company...

But the bottom line is, we have no real,concrete idea what's caused any kinda delay on a new game's part. We still dunno if Rockman Taisen still exists as a project in the works or not.

Assuming they have no intention to make anything doesn't help matters either.

And my whole reason for responding to Fitta was, as someone who has experienced trying to make a platformer (and failing) was to illustrate that it's not as simple as it appears. Like... 2D platformers by themselves are deceptively more complex than you'd first imagine just by how they look from a gameplay perspective.

Yeah right, sure Capcom...

I'd be happy with any new Mega Man game, I just want to see it happen.

Ultimately I'm open to whatever with Mega Man. But if I had my way, I'd want Mega Man X9, Mega Man Legends 3, or Mega Man 12. I'd also be ok with Mega Man 64 on NSO or the re-releases of Mega Man Legends 1 and 2.

MM11 didn’t look like Capcom’s best effort so not really counting on them putting out great MM titles. Sequel Wars on the other hand is the effort I’d hope for

I think if they do more Mega Man they should probably stick with the Classic and X series. The other subseries are fine and all, but I think they overcomplicated things a bit.

Also, why is so much animosity towards 11? I'll admit it's not a perfect 10, but far from a terrible game.

You sit on a throne of lies, Capcom. No Mega Man 12 news, no Mega Man X9 news, Legends 3 cancelled, Bad Box Art Mega Man included as a joke that nobody wanted to endure, World cancelled, Mega Man forced to play second fiddle to Street Fighter during his anniversary, Mega Man Fully Charged was... a thing... Capcom likes the iconography and nothing more. They'd rather spend more time on Monster Hunter and Resident Evil.

I think this is just PR talk. Unless it's easter eggs, weird mobile games (X Dive, what?), or merch, Mega Man is basically retires. Keiji Inafune, for some of his blunders at the end of his time at Capcom, truly cared about Mega Man. Not very many at Capcom do, save the prior director who worked on the collections and MM11, but he left Capcom too...

I just want my boy off the moon.

This is dumb PR talk. Mega Man is a sadly dead IP. They're too busy milking Street Fighter, Resident Evil and Monster Hunter to death.
Mega Man is no longer necessary for them. And they won't sell it either.

I would love to have an official new Mega Man game but in the meantime I play Make a Good Megaman Level 3 (which is huge) and Mega Man Maker (new update 1.9 releases in August)

Ironically, this was one of the benefits to the game design formula that was fully cooked during the creation of Rock Man/Mega Man, and was fully implemented into the sequel, RM2/MM2. The formula allowed flexibility in who the members of the design team were for each game, because each game follows the same formula, with enough room for minor changes from title to title. This is the same formula that allowed Capcom to slowwalk, & have 6 RM/MM titles on the NES, before finally transitioning the ip over to the SNES.

If Capcom truly wants to continue the series, then they should set aside a budget for 2, or 3 new games, and do what they did with the property in the 80's, and 90's, keeping the ip relevant by releasing titles yearly. Of course, to make the games look nice, games require larger budgets, so yearly isn't literally necessary. They should try to release 1 a certain year, then the next the following year, or 2 years later, etc. The games don't have to be stupendous, they just have to be consistently good. Not every RockMan/MegaMan title was a smash, though they were all good, as well as playable. (I'm specifically referring to the Classic series.)

Also, Akira Kitamura, & Keiji Inafune are not the only ones who can do the ip justice, especially with the aforementioned design formula, that even to this day is largely unchanged for the Classic series.

@WaveBoy yup. 4 was where I was pretty much done too. Ofc there's been some great ones since, but I think MM might be the first game series I got burned out on.

Recently got all the collections on sale (they’re frequently discounted on the eshop) as I had an itch to play some throwback Blue Bomber.

Mega Man is a strange “pillar” IP for Capcom in a similar vein of Metroid for Nintendo in that they’re each staples for their companies, the games are usually well-received.. but yet they don’t sell as much as you’d think or hope they should.

Regardless I still adore Mega Man and would like to see:

• Mega Man Legends (New Entry and/or Remaster/Remake/Collection)
• Mega Man X Command Mission 2
• Mega Man 12
• Mega Man X 9

@WaveBoy Yeah mine would be 2&3. I can't separate them from nostalgia. I loved 9 and the art in 8 largely carried it at the time. I have not played 11.