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441TheSecond
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I think I feel like sharing a story. Namely about how I first got to know Zero.
 
As you know, I played X2 first, and as such, didn’t know of what happened to Zero in X1. I didn’t really pay any mind to the X-Hunters in my first playthrough because hey, I figured it wasn’t a big deal, I didn’t even know how to fight them.
 
Then came the fight with Zero. He CRUSHED me, he was so fucking hard, that I would have never beat him if I wasn’t playing on an emulator with save states. I remember being one of the hardest things I had ever seen as a kid. But maybe I just sucked back then, I don’t know.
 
Now, the real part of the introduction comes when I decided to play the game a second time. This time, I had figured out how to fight the X-Hunters and gather Zero parts. I strolled all confidently in the final stage, thinking that I wouldn’t have to fight Zero again.
 
And then Sigma shows up with this shadow Zero. I feel a small tinge of fear, am I going to have to fight him again? Oh god I was not ready to fight him again.
 
Then, this music starts playing, and an offscreen shot blasts Dark Zero to oblivion.
 
And then the real Zero swoops in and shouts “You should have studied the blueprints closer, Sigma, there is only one Zero!”.
 
And that line struck me so much that it has stuck with me to this day.
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They released Tron Bonne like maybe they were testing to see how that does
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@441TheSecond  
X6 did seem rushed. The X series was supposed to end at 5. But they decided to extend the series for some reason. If I recall, the Zero series and what happened between it and the X series were supposed to pick up from X5. Sigma was supposed to be defeated sometime after X5 when they used the Mother Elf against him. But with the weird X7 and X8 plot, nothing makes sense anymore in canon.
441TheSecond
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@SeraphimDawn  
Honestly, I just assumed that 6, 7, and 8 are on an alternate timeline where everything didn’t go to sit.
 
Story-wise, I mean. In terms of actual gameplay, it did go to shit.
 
Xcept for X8.
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So, anyway… the first four Battle Network games are on the Wii U Virtual Console. We’ve established that the fourth game sucks, and the first one isn’t too great either, but what about 2 and 3? For that matter, if I decided to get Battle Network 3, should I get Blue or White? Or are the differences pretty much your standard Pokemon version differences, where the only differences are what you can get?
441TheSecond
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@Jarkes  
Seriously, X has no point in X4. Zero is the only one who has connections with the Repliforce, Zero is the one who undergoes serious character development in the game, Zero is the one who ultimately loses somebody significant to him. Honestly, I have the feeling that Double was added to the game at the last second to give him SOME stake in the whole affair.
441TheSecond
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@Jarkes  
2 and 3 are fantastic, get them both, specially 3, which is debatable the best game in the series, only rivaled by 6.
 
The differences between Blue and White are pretty much Pokemon differences, they have version exclusivity of a few chips, and each one has an exclusive form. If I’m not mistaken, White has GroundStyle which improves your perfomance with field-changing chips, and Blue has ShadowStyle, which gives you some ninja-esque abilities like Invisibility and AntiDamage.
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They released Tron Bonne
 
Wait, seriously? That had better be on the European PSN too, then. Otherwise Imma be a very unhappy servbot.
 
@SeraphimDawn  
It was rushed. Inafune wanted it to end at X5 but Capcom naturally wanted more money out of it. Zero’s ending in X6 is supposed to be the end of the X series, at some undetermined point in the future. Command Mission takes place somewhere in 22XX so it’s probably done as a way to let them make more games.
 
It still makes some sense. Sigma himself is beaten in X8, the Mother Elf is created from Zero’s data and used to wipe out the Sigma virus worldwide which leads to the Elf Wars and the Zero series.
 
@441TheSecond  
If I recall right Inafune always wanted Zero to be the main character but Capcom wanted someone more familiar to help sales, hence X. Guess that shone through a bit more in X4.
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@Solitude  
I know that, but thing is, I actually like X better than Zero.
 
I mean, Zero is cool, but there wasn’t really much to his character up until he got his own solo series.
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@441TheSecond
 
Was it X who had the “Black Armor” that allowed you to do the Hadouken, or Zero? I know they both had special suits of armor that were tricky to find but powered them up significantly begin with… X3? I forget exactly when it started.
441TheSecond
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@Jarkes  
Uhn… What?
 
The Hadouken was only present in X1, and it was a hidden secret only available after you 100%‘d the regular stages.
 
The “black armor” you’re referring to could either be Dark Zero, a reoccurring hidden armor for Zero, or the Ultimate Armor, a reoccurring hidden armor that acts mostly like the X4 armor save for a few powered-up features. Both of those in X5 and X6 are unlocked only through code, while in X8 they can also be unlocked through regular gameplay, though I don’t remember how.
 
While the tradition of hidden super-powerful armor began in X3 with the Golden Armor replacing the usual Street Fighter moves, Dark Zero wasn’t available in that game, and never was available through normal gameplay save for X8.
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@Jarkes  
Zero traditionally has the black armor.  
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While X’s ultimate armor is dark hued it’s at its blackest in X6  
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And while we’re on the subject: Behold! Absolute Zero!  
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