I just want them to solidify a bit of the information between the X and Zero series, myself. Yeah, they made an entire 4-year war between the games (that was brutal) and all it gets is a bio in the computer and some references? Uhhh...Yeah? Kinda nonsensical, if you ask me.
There's no real reason to. We got all the info we need about that. That little bit of info was enough to explain where Wiel and Omega was up until MMZ3.
We learned that a century prior X uses mother elf to stop the sigma virus for good. Not long after Wiel uses Zero's original body (Omega) and Dark Elf (mother elf) to cause another brief war.
Zero is reawakened and helps X stop Wiel then goes to sleep again for 100yrs till MMZ1.
Yeah I mean it wouldn't be a bad thing to expand on it, a good megaman game could probably be made from it or it could even make a great way to conclude the X series but the info itself if plenty solid and serves it's purpose.
Not like KH were all the important details are left out of the games, if it was that bad I'd agree. xD
OR, they could have the Zero prequel I mentioned and have the two tied in somehow. You can't say you wouldn't play Zero, then; and you already know what's going to happen and how he BECOMES the main character. Can I just play Harpuia, please? ;^;
Except there's no real conflict in the time period. It's pretty much peaceful till X tries to hinder the Dark Elf's return by sealing her with his body.
Whereas you already have an pre-established conflict in the Elf Wars set a 100yrs before MMZ1 taking place not long after the Sigma Virus is stopped.
It'd have both X and Zero from the start and actually feel a bit more involved to me than a game were Zero doesn't come in till near the end. I'd have no interest if I couldn't play Zero till it was almost over.
As for Harupia, if I remember right, his exact age isn't defined so you could always have him and the others being made during the Elf Wars and thus playable as well.
Just got to excuse their lack of knowledge of him during MMZ as them having been damaged during the prequel.
Well, ain't that what Smash Bros is!? But I see where you're comin from. I guess that'd be ok, but I don't know the two companies' personalities. Who's ideas would shine through more? Is Nintendo pushy like Disney and willing to ignore Capcom's conditions, or vice versa?
Given Capcom's treatment of it's series for the past year or so now it's likely they'd just leave it to nintendo. Its pretty much what they did to DmC when the let Ninja Theory handle everything. (and it was an insult to the series >_>)
I'm not looking at it optimistically, I'm using the information we actually have. Capcom simply loves milking franchises for all they're worth, and a lot of their business comes from their undying obsession with making sequels and spinoffs of their existing franchises. Perhaps now that Inafune is gone they're unsure whether or not it would be a good idea to make Mega Man games in the series that he was involved in? I'm just saying that this drought is odd; ESPECIALLY for a company like Capcom that mostly uses things like this to make the big bucks.
No matter how you word it, it's looking at it optimistically because the info of them milking their series before is just as true as them pretty much ignoring most of those beloved series for the past year or two.
Them milking the series was happening when they had most of their most creative people. Inafune wasn't the only man to leave but once he was gone it was like Capcom just went into a stand still.
I don't know every bit and detail myself but I've seen plenty of long essay length debates with people that do and I can tell that putting hopes in them to have plans or finding the drought odd is just being optimistic of the current Capcom.
Especially after they just up and canceled Legends 3 after Inafune left when it would've had plenty of fans to at least get some money from it.
They of course could actually have ideas, trying to figure out what to do with all these fan loved series of which the creators have left, but until you actually see something I wouldn't be to hopeful of them.
Megman in SSMB could very well be leading to something more but at the same time being asked, and I'm sure to some extent paid, to let one of your most famous characters in a fighting game isn't the same as them leaving hints or such they got ideas for him.
All I'm saying is not to get to blindly hopeful but don't rule it out either. It's one of those things were its best to wait till you actually know more.
As for if they actually have a plan, I think it'd lean towards rebooting it all. But that may be me doubting what they could actually do with the series' that had Inafune's influence no matter how slight.
EDIT: Also given neither of us seem to keep to much track of actual company going ons it's likely best to just drop it.
Only one of the people I mentioned arguing with essay long posts that follows the companies happenings would know enough to truly debate the issue.
Well then I hope you're ready to call X and Zero cyborgs since they've got DNA ;3
But I think of it more like this: since they're so much like humans, human terms can be used to describe them. Perhaps the use of Reploid 'DNA' is just referencing using that Reploid's unique source code that evolves to dictate their actions. The term could be loosely implied like that to allow it to make more sense.
Same with Volnutt, but the idea of 'carbons' and 'MegaMen' aren't fleshed out enough to tell. Just how human IS he exactly, and how human are the carbons themselves? We need a more modern retelling of the story with all the facts to really know this. Since the Legends games were all about play and the plot was heaped up and thrown at you near the end of the games, it doesn't really leave you with much to go on about the actual CHARACTERS.
They likely are to some extent since X & Zero actually seemed to require sleep and rest in X series. Though it all depends on what their "DNA" consists of.
For biological life, DNA is a part of our body like blood, for a robot it could just be a piece of their body that holds data or even hints to the secrets of their design. =3
It's kinda hard to tell really with X or Zero because they aren't actually reploids but robots. We see the reploids evolve as the series goes so them having DNA of some kind would make sense.
X and Zero on the other hand are robots from an era predating them. The very name 'Reploid' comes from them being "
Replicated And
roids" off of X's design. (and imperfect copies at that)
From what I've read the Carbons are in a sense human but not actually the same species as human. Plus given that the last human, The Master, died at age 3000 in Legends it might be safe to say Volnutt has actual biomatter DNA.
I mean if science can progress to let a human live past their natural life span a couple thousand fold then robots being more akin to actual living beings isn't to far fetched.
Heck Carbons and Volnutt might be the natural end result of the "Reploids" or "Humanoids" (cyborgs) of the X, Zero and ZX series.
True living machines. =O