Capcom to release Mega Man 9 DLC this Thursday

This should all ahve been in-game and it seems the only content they can develop is more difficulty. I hated the demo anyways. If they added SNES graphics, and charge up blast I would get this.

I love MegaMan, but I didn't buy this game because it was too hard to be fun. And now two even more difficult levels?! What about us who love games but can't spend 20 hours a day playing and brag to our other geek friends?

i will not buy. Even if i love mega man i have more interest if i see a North america release of resident evil serie.

I have every megaman since megaman 2 (I lost the first one :( ) and maybe I forgot, but I don't remember Megaman every being THIS hard. I used to beat them without too much of a problem when i was little and i downloaded the demo (If this looked like it took some effort to make instead of a lazy attempt to milk a dead franchise under the guise of "retro feel" I would have paid)to find that the elevated difficulty is anything but as fun as the originals. It did make me want to get Megaman Maverick Hunter X.

If they could make Mega Man 2: Rearmed, or something ;)

I hope it's free.

Isn't it hard enought already... now they want us to pay more to make it even harder? :-/

I like that game, but I am not going to pay for difficulty settings.

Yeah I can't believe this game was released as Megaman 9 but he doesn't even have a charge shot. He's had charge shots since Megaman 3. On the Sony blog I asked a Capcom guy what happened and if the designers of this game even played 3-8. I got silence.

Lame moves Capcom. There's a difference between a game being truly difficult, and being difficult due to poor level design.

i just hate the fact that all this dlc isn't compatible with rankings....why the hell not? i mean i think if you can beat the game in "stupid crazy i mean you wanna throw a brick at your 60 inch plasma" mode i think you should be able to compare yourself to others around the globe.

megaman has always been difficult, so to expect any less from this iteration does not make sense. and this one really wasn't that hard, i think it took me 3 nights or so to complete it. i am kind of excited for the time trial mode.

a lot of stuff to buy is implemented but no (free) trophies were... and capcom is getting a personalixed store??

they shoul get their ass kicked so badly!!

So, everybody complains about the DLC and Mega Man's limitations in-game. I was following the development very closely, and I'd like to throw a couple things out there.

Mega Man 9 was based on MM2. The team decided that MM2 was the most played and highly regarded title of the classic series, so they modeled MM9 after it. I read that they wanted to keep it simple and close to the style of MM2.

Next, the DLC. Many people are complaining that the DLC is garbage, it should have been included for free, whatever. I'd like to point out that MM2 had only one thing included that MM9 sans DLC did not: an 'Easy' mode. The harder difficulties that the DLC offer are also different from MM2's difficulty levels in that they change enemies' spawn points and distribution. MM2's difficulty was based on damage from what I can remember (I could be wrong there though?) There was never an Endless Mode, you could never play the classic games as Protoman, there was never the ability to download a new level and boss onto your NES cart. These really are extra features. I can't say I agree with ALL of the DLC, but I do think people are giving it a hard time. To avoid the game altogether is a shame, because it really is a great title in the series. Endless mode is extremely awesome IMO.

Last, I'd like to share some items about the development. The dev team thought it would be easy to just throw an 8-bit Mega Man game together, but I read that they found it to be a daunting task. It was apparently very difficult to create an 8-bit game that was still fun, and to have it retain the classic feel of the old MM's. Dev time ended up going way over, as well as the budget. I remember reading one of the Capcom guys saying on the Playstation blog that he thought the title wasn't going to make any money because the project was so over budget. I think the DLC might be a way to try to basically make this game "worth it" to Capcom - but can you really blame them? From a business perspective, you don't do something unless it works out financially. If you like the game, but the DLC makes you mad, look at it this way: without actually paying money for things like Mega Man 9, they won't make these kinds of games. If you don't like the DLC, but like the game, why not just avoid the DLC?

There's my two cents. I tried to keep my Mega Man fanboyism out of it, don't think I fully succeeded, but I think I did an OK job :)

Kind of nifty, but I'll stick with the vanilla version.