Mighty No. 9 - Keiji Inafune's Next Mega Man

Phantom_Angel · December 7, 2015, 1:23am

For my $20 pledge, I get a copy of the game on release for the console of my choice and my name in the credits. PS4/Vita is cross-buy, so I get both.

Not a bad trade off. Seems more like a pre-order from my perspective.

orochizoolander · December 7, 2015, 6:57am

That’s Eitr which is shaping up to be one of the best games of 2016, and it’s intentionally slow as shit because it’s heavily inspired by the Souls series where you have a stamina bar and can’t just mindlessly mash attack, although you can dash and the developers have gotten comments about it being a little too slow so they sped it up by 1.25x check out their interview on it

Here

While I’m in the minority of people who doesn’t think MN9 looks that terrible (nice use of color IMO), I definitely think MN9 compared to other indies prove the point that how you use your resources matters just as much if not more than what your resources actually are. Did anyone play the alpha? the background detail and lighting looks better to me than what’s been shown in the latest trailer.

Alpha:

Newest:

crotchpuncha · December 7, 2015, 11:43am

The problem isn’t that this game doesn’t look like the concept art, or that fan gif that runs for 5 seconds. It’s that it’s just kind of ugly in general. It does have nice use of colors Zoo, but the models still look pretty ugo and the enviroments are bland and kind of empty. Still interested in checking it out sometime, but yea the problem is the games ugly, not that it’s not like something else someone else made in their free time, or a piece of concept art.

mowr · December 7, 2015, 11:48am

It feels like they’ve tried to transfer the MM visual style over to 3D 1 for 1, instead of adapting it for 3D. That’s why shit looks so bland and empty.

It’s been said so many times but the less detail you have the more your mind fills in the blanks, which is why this worked for 2D MM but is failing really badly for MN9.

angelpalm · December 7, 2015, 1:50pm

These kind of games really hinge on the look of the main character, if people can’t get behind that then you already lost.

Tien_Gouki · December 9, 2015, 4:30am

It looks like dollar store/flea market mega man then.

Blindknagg · January 25, 2016, 4:25pm

To the fans eagerly awaiting the release of Mighty No. 9,
Unfortunately, we have an announcement that will be very disappointing to all of you. In preparation for the February release of Mighty No. 9 we have been working hard with our partners to resolve any network issues and porting work necessary to publish Mighty No. 9 on the various platforms. However, the issues relating to the network modes were more critical than expected, and it has become apparent that we will need to delay the game from its February 9th release date. We have been working up until the very last moment to resolve these issues in order to make the February release, but it has become clear that we no longer have enough time to fix the issues and have everything prepared for release.

The reason for the delay is rooted in bugs inside the network modes, and specifically problems with matchmaking. There are two large reasons for this problem, one of them being the large number of platforms supported (the solution for each platform is slightly different) and the other stems from the fact that the engine we are using is no longer being updated which means adjustments for matchmaking and online code are being made manually (actually reprogramming parts of the engine by the dev team themselves). Unfortunately, this is all a result of miscalculations on the part of us, the development staff. As a result, our fans who have been looking forward to Mighty No. 9 have been forced to wait for over half a year longer than expected, and for that we are sincerely sorry. I want to take this chance to apologize personally, and on the behalf of the development staff.

Over the end of the year break and the beginning of 2016, the development staff has been working on these issues non-stop without break, and thanks to their hard work the end is in sight. We continue to make progress to resolve these last issues that have been holding up the release of the game on the different platforms.

Because we are constantly working on it in cooperation with all our partners, we want to wait and make sure that everything is confirmed to be ready before giving a new specific release date. But we expect it to realistically be in Spring 2016.
For this 3rd delay of the game, we have no excuses for disappointing our fans and especially our backers once more. We want to take this chance to express our sincerest apologies to everyone who has looked forward to the release.
Although we are far past our original release date, the release of Mighty No. 9 is still right around the corner. We are all working hard to make sure that we can finish and release the game to all of our fans as quickly as possible, and ask once more for your support of this project that we have created together over these last few years.

Keiji Inafune

Mighty Delay No. 9 getting even more delayed.

Cestus · January 25, 2016, 4:47pm

orochizoolander · January 25, 2016, 5:54pm

Dated 10/25/15

Hawkingbird · January 25, 2016, 8:30pm

Mighty Delay was pushed back before for the exact same reason. The fuck Inafune been doing for the last 5 months?

Cestus · January 25, 2016, 8:32pm

Tbh fault of anybody that believe anything from polygon, lol

Phantom_Angel · January 25, 2016, 8:32pm

LOL

This game is never coming out.

Legendary_Hoamaru · January 25, 2016, 8:36pm

Lol.

Knew Mno9 would get delayed again with the complete silence on information these last few months. This shit never coming out. If the network shit is that much of a problem add that shit afterwards like every other company would end up doing. People care more about the single player.

I bet La Mulana 2 is going to release before this shit.

Phantom_Angel · January 25, 2016, 8:40pm

Half-Life 3
Bloody Roar 5
Devil May Cry 5
Mega Man Legends 3
Might No. 9

ArtVandelay · January 25, 2016, 9:32pm

I feel for people who invested in this fraud.

Kinniku_Buster · January 25, 2016, 9:52pm

Unless there is an update actually posted on their Kickstarter or their website I’m not going to believe anything any gaming “news” site says.

Pertho · January 25, 2016, 9:55pm

Is it possible to teach myself to code and do 3D modeling, then finish putting together a platformer before this comes out?

I can understand that dealing with porting issues is complicated but god damned Cave Story was a one man band from start to finish. Something’s gotta give.

Kinniku_Buster · January 25, 2016, 10:06pm

Blllleeeehhh just got the push notification on my phone about the delay.

Womp womp

tataa8P · January 25, 2016, 10:12pm

can you say “stretch goals”?

ba-dum, tsss…

atirador · January 25, 2016, 10:13pm

Because EVERYBODY wants that multiplayer in a Megaman game…

Here’s a picture of me with Inafune, what you can’t see is his hand reaching out for my back pocket… that picture cost me $50…

http://i.imgur.com/L6fXhiv.jpg