Proto Man invades Mega Man 9 for a price

Maybe I should clarify... I'm not just dubious because of the source, but I believe that this is a BOLD-FACED LIE, because it does not sound like anything Capcom would actually do, the "screenshots" are absolutely terrible (notice how everything else from Capcom is an actual game shot, not a crappy, lower-than-8-bit resolution shot of grid-like area?), GamesRadar is known for starting false rumors, and again... every other piece of info is posted straight to Capcom's own blog, but this was handed to a random blog site in the UK for them to post as an exclusive, with no official confirmation.

Honestly, I'm ashamed of you, X3F, for posting this as fact, instead of stating it as a rumor, or better yet just ignoring it altogether.

Oh yeah, and if you look very closely at the first "illustrative picture" it's a grey Protoman shooting a red Protoman in the back... with a Cyclops-like eye beam.

I mean, c'mon. Seriously?


...seriously, X3F?

I don't get which part you are upset at. During PS3Fanboy's hands-on a while ago they confirmed Megs can't charge or slide. Also, this DLC has been reported at many other sites.

Sorry if you're angry with it but we're not bullshitting you, man.

Also, not to defend GamesRadar but they are an official site from Future Publishing that owns a number of gaming magazines including The Official Xbox Magazine, Nintendo Power and PlayStation: The Official Magazine.

I must admit, I'm not on top of things about the PS3 hands-on (that's the one site/system I don't pay attention to), and I did say that that, in itself, isn't reason to cry fowl. But every site I've seen reporting this is linking BACK to GamesRadar.

If every other blogging site links back to the first one, then that first one MUST be reporting facts, right?

Oh yeah, and sorry to keep posting so much, but I really don't think you're bullshitting me, and never said I did.
I'm disappointed that you're buying into someone else's bullshit.

Everyone is linking back to GamesRadar because we are referring to their story. It wasn't a post on Capcom's blog that we're referring to. They broke the news, they get the source link. That's the way we all do things if we credit sites, which we always do.

This kind of reminds me of the Bungie E3 Announcement Cancellation. Everyone called us out for reporting something as fact when they were convinced it was bull and for days we were lambasted by angry readers. When the time passed and nothing was announced no one said a word about how the story was accurate.

If you'd prefer to get your Capcom information from them then that is completely fine. You seem really upset about the possibility of downloadable content. Sorry if this story brought stress upon your day. There really isn't much else to say at this point.

I have nothing against DLC, or again, the actual content of what you posted.
However, one of my pet peeves is when misinformation keeps spreading because every goes back to "He said she said that he said she saw someone mention this." In the day and age of the internet, everyone can go back to the original source and see for themselves where the rumor originally started, so it's even more disappointing to see this sort of thing passed on and spread when there's nothing behind it.

If the way this news broke weren't such a departure from how everything else MM9-related has been announced, I would be fine. If they had any proof besides two pictures that could easily be assembled using MS Paint and two sprites from Sprites, Inc (if you want me to go into even more detail about how terrible those pictures are, I can, but it never seemed necessary), then I wouldn't have any problem with linking back to that site being the only proof the rest of the blogosphere needed.

Sir, if it comes out that this was complete nonsense, or crafted together from other news and rumors and GR happened to be right about one or two things but they never got any "exclusive info" from capcom... I will sigh, and say "glad that's finally over" and go back to whatever it was I was doing.

If it turns out that they were totally right, and the pictures they posted were straight from the mouths of Capcom's developers, I will purchase and consume a hat, and send you pictures for your pleasure.

I never mentioned a thing about the screens they put up. But, when Capcom announces this DLC then I'll gladly LAWL at images of you eating a hat.

"Megaman can slide in every game from 3 on, and charge in every game after that, but now he can't in 9? I'm not saying it's impossible, but I'll need more proof than GamesRadar"

Go check out IGN's video review right here: http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14265758/mega-man-9/videos/megaman9_vidrev_091908.html

about 2 minutes 15 seconds in: "You don't have the slide anymore like you used to have in some of the 8-bit games [and] there's no charge shot either...".

We should do a poll to decide which kind of hat he'll eat...

While a poll would actually be pretty awesome, I already admitted to not knowing about the slide and charge. My point of contention is that there's no proof to any of the reposts of this news except to link to GR, and they provide no proof except those pictures and "We said so."
And also "C'mon, Capcom will totally back us up on this. See, this official blog over here? Where they don't mention this at all? They totally will. Eventually."

I'd continue this wonderful conversation but you are extremely rude.

That seem uncalled for. Rude, maybe, but extremely?
I was done with the conversation, and ready for one of us to be proven wrong, but CPTStewart seems to think he outsmarted me with his barbed wit. I just wanted to point out that yes, YOU had already pointed out I was wrong about the charge shot and sliding. And I admitted that I was not on the ball about that.

Gee, I'm very sorry that when I say "X seems unlikely, and I downright refuse to believe Y", I'll admit to being wrong about X. I guess that makes me a terrible person.

Let me be very clear, here.

I was wrong about the slide/charge thing. I admit this because another source, with hands-on experience, that's not GamesRadar, said so before the GR article. I said it was unlikely, but it is true. That proves nothing about the verifiability of information that started with the GR article and has propagated from there.

i....i bakked a kake for yus guys...it tastes like friendchips. :D

Somebody takes Mega Man a little too seriously...

Wait, wait, in your second post you say "it doesn't sound like something Capcom would actually do"!?! Sorry, but milking a franchise for every last dime is EXACTLY what I'd expect Capcom to do. They're famous for finding a way to get a buck out of everything a series has to offer. DLC characters that should be packaged with the game? Yup, right up their alley.

Let me just say I'd like to see him eat a bowler:

http://www.villagehatshop.com/media/thumbsup.php?image=christys-bowler-main.jpg&width=375

http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2008/09/22/full-mega-man-9-dlc-revealed/

May I recommend a New England Patriots baseball cap?

Sorry this is late, but now that all the DLC for october has been confirmed in the manual for MM9 for the Wii, I believe we are all owed a video of someone eating a hat now.

BREAKING NEWS, Author X gave me exclusive rights to his hat eating story.

To find out more, just hop on over to my wordpress. There's even a picture.

http://bluestreak2.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/he-really-should-stop-eating-hats/