X4's 10th Anniversary!
Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:19 pmNot only is the year 2007 Megaman's 20th Anniversary, but it's also the 10th Anniversary of what I think is the BEST game in the X series!
When I first became a die-hard MM fan back in 1996, I had only thought the X series was just "Okay". I mean, I didn't hate it or anything, I liked it, but I just mostly only liked the original classic series. When X4 came around, that's when I got around to liking the X series alot. You could play as Zero, anime cut scenes, 32 bit graphics, Toshihiko Horiyama's AWESOME music (I STILL can't find a picture of this guy anywhere!), and the introduction of the prettiest reploid girl ever, Iris:
And the romance between her and Zero is what got me into the game most I think, because I found it quite interesting the first time I saw it. I also think this sort of kicked off my obsession with romance between game and anime couples if it wasn't Heero & Relena. (no wait, I take it back, I think it was Ryu Hayabusa and Irene Lew from Ninja Gaiden that did that, but Iris and Zero & Heero and Relena made the addiction spread).
I never got to play the Saturn version of the game until 2000 when I got it used with no case or manual, and this version kicks the [bubble lead] out of the version for the PSOne! I also bought a japanese Saturn copy in 2003 (first Saturn import I ever got), and to celebrate the game's 10th Anniversary, I bought another copy of the US Saturn release, but this one comes with the case and manual! So now I've got......5 COPIES of the game. Two US Saturn releases (One with case and manual, one without), one japanese Saturn import, The original pressing of the original PSOne release, and the PSOne Greatest Hits version......and if you count MMX collection for GCN, then that makes 6. And I still think it's the best of the X saga 10 years later.
When I first became a die-hard MM fan back in 1996, I had only thought the X series was just "Okay". I mean, I didn't hate it or anything, I liked it, but I just mostly only liked the original classic series. When X4 came around, that's when I got around to liking the X series alot. You could play as Zero, anime cut scenes, 32 bit graphics, Toshihiko Horiyama's AWESOME music (I STILL can't find a picture of this guy anywhere!), and the introduction of the prettiest reploid girl ever, Iris:
And the romance between her and Zero is what got me into the game most I think, because I found it quite interesting the first time I saw it. I also think this sort of kicked off my obsession with romance between game and anime couples if it wasn't Heero & Relena. (no wait, I take it back, I think it was Ryu Hayabusa and Irene Lew from Ninja Gaiden that did that, but Iris and Zero & Heero and Relena made the addiction spread).
I never got to play the Saturn version of the game until 2000 when I got it used with no case or manual, and this version kicks the [bubble lead] out of the version for the PSOne! I also bought a japanese Saturn copy in 2003 (first Saturn import I ever got), and to celebrate the game's 10th Anniversary, I bought another copy of the US Saturn release, but this one comes with the case and manual! So now I've got......5 COPIES of the game. Two US Saturn releases (One with case and manual, one without), one japanese Saturn import, The original pressing of the original PSOne release, and the PSOne Greatest Hits version......and if you count MMX collection for GCN, then that makes 6. And I still think it's the best of the X saga 10 years later.