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    Mega Man 10

    Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Mar 01, 2010

    When a robotic virus causes robots to either malfunction or go berserk, it's up to Mega Man and Proto Man to help cure it in the second deliberately-retro installment of the Mega Man series.

    MM10 will probably be the last classic Mega Man.

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    #1  Edited By Icemael

    Look at the cover art: 

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    More specifically, look at Mega Man and Proto Man. Mega Man is wearing X's helmet, and Proto Man's scarf and weapon have been designed to resemble Zero's hair and Z-saber. Furthermore, Mega Man is wielding two weapons -- a gun, the weapon he has been seen with on the classic games' hilariously terrible boxart, and an armcannon, the weapon he had on Mega Man X's boxart. Add to that the fact that X is the roman symbol for 10, and you've got quite a number of details that point to Mega Man 10 bridging the gap between classic and X, making it the last classic Mega Man game.
     
    And what does that mean, people? That's right, they might revisit the X series next, bringing us Mega Man X9 and possibly X10. Awesome.
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    #2  Edited By GunnBjorn

    Deductive reasoning there, but you do know that you might be completely wrong, right...?
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    #3  Edited By Snail

    EDIT: Oh wait, you're just GUESSING! Oooh. This is a silly thread then.

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    #4  Edited By Icemael
    @GunnBjorn said:
    " Deductive reasoning there, but you do know that you might be completely wrong, right...? "
    That's why I wrote "will probably be". 
     
    But still, it's obvious that these hints are intentional. The helmet Mega Man is wearing is clearly X's, and there's no way Proto Man's cape and weapon just happened to turn out that way.
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    #5  Edited By Megalon

    Is there some reason they can't make more classic games and X games in the future?  If it sells well, I bet we will see more.
     
    Then again, it does seem like they are running out of names for villains. I mean, "Sheep Man"? Come on.

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    #6  Edited By ryanwho

    They could just start making Megaman Z(ero) games in this faux classic style if people continue to want them. Or, they could ignore the tens of people who care about Megaman "cannon" and just make the games forever.

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    #7  Edited By eirikr

    It's mostly the same helmet that's on the Mega Man 9 cover. 
     

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    Capcom would never bridge the gap between the two series (other than maybe a hint or two here and there) because that would signal finality of a franchise they probably don't want to end.
     
    And besides, this is the joke American cover.
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    #8  Edited By Icemael
    @Megalon said:
    "Then again, it does seem like they are running out of names for villains. I mean, "Sheep Man"? Come on."
    Sheep Man is a nod to the sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
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    #9  Edited By Skald

    Numerology? 
    Game-related art?
    Guesswork? 

    OH SWISH, YOU SOLVED THE DA VINCI CODE.

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    #10  Edited By ryanwho

    Yeah really, the whole point of the art is to emulate the early games art, which gave absolutely no indication of the actual game within. If anything, these things were added specifically because Megaman can't duel wield and doesn't have that helmet.

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    #11  Edited By Megalon
    @Icemael said:
    " @Megalon said:
    "Then again, it does seem like they are running out of names for villains. I mean, "Sheep Man"? Come on."
    Sheep Man is a nod to the sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. "
    Having read that book a few times, I'm not sure I see the "nod" besides it's, well, a sheep. Is Mega Man now hunting down robots that look and act like humans? Or did Mega Man used to own a sheep that died and now he's replaced it with a robot sheep, who is in fact Sheep Man </plot twist>?
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