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The current age of gaming is a bit of a strange one, in that more players and publishers (especially publishers as of late) are more excited about bringing back games of old instead of creating new games. Retro gaming has gotten incredibly popular, and cloud service GOG.com got its booming start by offering “good ol’ games” for the nostalgic gamer. With consoles in particular, the industry has witnessed a boom of direct ports of old school games as well as complete remasters. Frank Cifaldi of Digital Eclipse is a driving force in helping keep old games alive, but he doesn’t want to remaster the games for the new generation of consoles, like 343 has done with Halo and Sony has done with God of War. He wants to preserve them exactly as they originally were, and his development team’s first foray into game archiving is with Mega Man.
The Humble Capcom Heroic Collection Bundle just launched recently. It has ten items including Monster Hunter Rise, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, and more.
I took advantage of the $1 deal for lost planet 3, strider, bionic commando and mega man. 3 of them run great on my steam deck. bionic commando sadly does not.
ive left humble bundle long time ago the pricimng is now off as well as game collection. humble monthly used to be excellent but thasts also downhill
With the recent release of the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection, the next collection of games starring Capcom's Blue Bomber seems obvious.
Hey I would’ve loved an Onimusha collection. They do these to test interest, unfortunately. If nobody buys these, then they assume nobody will buy an entry that they spend a lot of money to develop.
You’re sad that you got an entire collection of their series in one package?
Weird reason to get disappointed
With the release of Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection this week, it joins an already-impressive catalogue of Mega Man re-releases from the past several years.
If you combine the titles from Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 & 2, Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 & 2, and Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection, you've got a total of 24 classic games available to fans and newcomers. With the addition of the 10 Battle Network titles found in the latest release, this brings the running total up to a staggering 34 games. That's a heck of a lot of Mega Man!
It really feels like Capcom is looking to release as much of the Mega Man back catalogue as possible on modern consoles, possibly to preserve the series going forwards — at least in digital formats. There are still quite a few games from the series that remain untouched, however.
The Legends and Power Battles games should make the jump. Those were fun games. I remember playing the Power Battle games at a local mall before it randomly was removed. It had a bunch of Capcom games on it.
