Capcom Announces Street Fighter x Mega Man. Yes, Seriously. And It’s Free.

Young_Chitlin

By: Evan Narcisse

Two of Capcom's biggest franchises are celebrating quarter-century anniversaries right next to each other. Street Fighter has enjoyed all sorts of lavish promotions: a fancy chess set and an anniversary edition chock full of games and collectible goodies.

What's coming for poor, ol' neglected Mega Man, though? The poor robot hasn't had a release in years, after all, and fans are very upset about it. One fan took matters in his own hands and made a game. It's coming out in little more than a week and it's free.

Revealed exclusively here at Kotaku, Street Fighter x Mega Man is an all-new retro-style game that pits the Blue Bomber against Ryu, Ken and six other World Warriors. The game's development was spearheaded by Capcom super-fan Seow "Sonic" Zong Hui, who also happens to be a pro competitive gamer. Kotaku will have more on SFxMM soon.

Young_Chitlin

http://kotaku.com/mega-man/

Bcotton5

1st day cop

Bcotton5

http://www.twitch.tv/capcomfighters

street fighter 25th anniversary stream is live here

Top Cat

This better be fun

satyrone

The Hacker wrote: »

This better be fun

Bcotton5

LOL thats Uriens aegis reflectors

KingGivBiz

It even looks free...

grumpy_new_yorker

Damn they are really that mad at Inafune...

A homebrew game and an iphone port of MMX for the 25th anniversary of Mega Man. He deserves better.

EDIT: Can't forget the fat american box art version of Mega Man in SF X T

earth two superman

fuck this. release the mega man collection for psn/xbl and vita you bastards. In english, not jap.

Young_Chitlin

Dear Capcom,

Please continue production of Megaman Legends 3.

Regards,

Young_Chitlin

funkdocdamc

grumpy_new_yorker wrote: »

Damn they are really that mad at Inafune...

A homebrew game and an iphone port of MMX for the 25th anniversary of Mega Man. He deserves better.

EDIT: Can't forget the fat american box art version of Mega Man in SF X T

Refresh my memory, what happened again?

grumpy_new_yorker

funkdocdamc wrote: »

grumpy_new_yorker wrote: »

Damn they are really that mad at Inafune...

A homebrew game and an iphone port of MMX for the 25th anniversary of Mega Man. He deserves better.

EDIT: Can't forget the fat american box art version of Mega Man in SF X T

Refresh my memory, what happened again?

He left Capcom after being with the company for over 23 years saying he hated the direction the japanese game industry was going. Also said he hated his job at Capcom. Then he started his own company called Comcept.

Now he's working on Soul Sacrifice for the Vita.

Raging Raven

Soul Sacrifice looks better than any Capcom game in the last decade ...yes including RE4. The only games that I am anticipating more than SS i TLOU, GOW:A, B2S, and Ni No Kuni. The game looks beast and has the creativity that (Japan) gaming is lacking today.

MC The Rapper

Dragon's Dogma was a good game might pop it in this week

Broddie

Was ready to say "my how the mighty have fallen" after reading the thread title but that actually looks kinda cool.

themadlionsfan

if they are gonna make Mega Man with the outdated graphics (which I have no problem with because I've been playin mega man 2 heavy on my vita)......they should at least make them to where they have Mega Man x graphics.....

themadlionsfan

earth two superman wrote: »

fuck this. release the mega man collection for psn/xbl and vita you bastards. In english, not jap.

Backwards Compatibility FTW!!!!

Stomp Johnson

themadlionsfan wrote: »

if they are gonna make Mega Man with the outdated graphics (which I have no problem with because I've been playin mega man 2 heavy on my vita)......they should at least make them to where they have Mega Man x graphics.....

Cosign, that 8 bit shit ain't cute. The hell they waitin on to drop a 21st century Mega Man game?

earth two superman

themadlionsfan wrote: »

if they are gonna make Mega Man with the outdated graphics (which I have no problem with because I've been playin mega man 2 heavy on my vita)......they should at least make them to where they have Mega Man x graphics.....

U playing mega man 2 on vita? The jap version?

themadlionsfan

yeah....theres only the jap version on psn

earth two superman

Is the text in japanese too? I know u dont play mega man for storyline, but since I never had them on NES Id like to get the most out of it

grumpy_new_yorker

what story? kill the 8 robots. kill dr. wily. the only japanese text you will see is the menu at the beginning and when you get a weapon upgrade.

MorganFreemanKing

Bcotton5

release date Dec 17th

The Lonious Monk

The retro style Megaman games isn't a new thing. They've been doing it. Over the past couple of years they've released Megaman 9 and Megaman 10, both of which were 8 bit games.

That goes to show you they don't really care about the franchise much anymore. They actually used numbers from the series to name some novelty games.