Talk:Mega Man X4
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Desided to add the name of the two artists who sang the opening and ending theme for the japanese version of the game
Added a variant for the EX item, since my copy goes with 2 and 4 lives.
Reploidof20xx 03:27, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Translation
No remarks about the cutscenes? Nothing about change in art? I'm hurt.
Maybe something about: "Largely regarded as the best translated Mega Man to date." No proof, but it seems that way to me.
Also, who changed the art? It rocks! -Shadow the Edge-hog 06:05, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Non-Animal
From trivia:
Not only is Split Mushroom the series' first non-animal Maverick, he is also the first, and so far, the only Maverick from the kingdom Fungi.
It may be me being picky, but again, wasn't there a spunge maverick in X2? Are spunges animals? (user:HannuMakinen)
I take it you didn't look at the sponge article before posting this. It clearly states that (sea) sponges are animals, not plants. Forteblast 15:03, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
- Proves what a dumbass I can be sometimes since I checked the article not long after I posted this and promptly forgot about it. -TheHande 18:31, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merger
Don't argee with it. Unlike several other one time appearences, Colonal has enough of a following and backstory information to warrant a seperate article. (I do recall the article being longer last time I checked though) And Iris actually appears in THREE games. First chronological appearence in Xtreme 2, first release date appearence in X4, and appears during the ending of X5. She's also mentioned in X8. She is a major character in the X series and has one of the strongest followings in the fandom. She's not a one off character, far from it - she's a crucial piece of the X history and deserves her own article. --82.37.115.147 02:13, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Official statements
(Please understand that English is second language for me. I make a lot of grammar mistakes, but I will try not to make them.)
I played this game, and read all the descriptions about it. I also visited CAPCOM's Official website of Rockman(Megaman) X4. And I realized that many people are confusing between Capcom's X4 and Yoshihiro Iwamoto's X4.
Yoshihiro Iwamoto is a comicbook artist in Japan, who changed and remaked the world of Rockman X. For example, Rockman X never cries in the game, but he can cry in Iwamoto's comicbook. I think that Yoshihiro Iwamoto changes too much, and it makes his own 'Rockman X world' that is totally different from the original game.
"Colonel was the result of the Perfect Soldier Program, originally designed as a perfect fighting Reploid and compassionate peacemaker in one, but when scientists could not reconcile both sides within a single reploid, they made him as the fighter and his sister Iris as his counterpart."
This part of article is written by someone in Wikipedia, and I could not find this statement in the Game or Capcom's official sites. That article is maybe based on Iwamoto's Comics. I have his comics, and I read it. In his Comics, some scientists tried to make 'Rockman(Megaman)' who possessed both 'Power' and 'Softness'.
If CAPCOM, not Iwamoto, mentioned about it ever, I want to find it. In CAPCOM's official website, there is a statement that Colonel and Iris SHARES 50% OF CPU, and that's why they are called 'siblings'. That's all I remember.
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Also, I have one more question.
"Colonel recognized his sister's fondness for Zero, and at first he was glad to see Iris happy. After the outbreak of the Repliforce War, however, he did everything he could to prevent the relationship between Zero and his sister from growing both out of brotherly-protection and Zero's reputation as a dangerous Reploid."
This part of article is written by someone in Wikipedia, and I think it is wrong. You can see that Colonel let Iris to be in Hunter Base, if she wants to. (If he wanted to prevent the relation between Zero and Iris, then why he did not take her back to Repliforce when he met Iris at the memorial hall?)
p.s. If I made some grammar mistakes and you cannot understand what I wrote, please tell me. I will change this article better.
[edit] Reploid Question
Hey guys, just curious, in the opening cinematic sequence, one part shows The General raising his right hand, similar to what I've seen in Nazi Germany, could this be a reference to Adolf Hitler? Iris also talked about a "World where only Reploids exist", to me that kind of sounds like Reploids wanted to make a perfect world where there was one perfect "race", similar to what Adolf Hitler wanted, a world filled with a perfect race. Let me know if I'm not real far off with this guys! Peace.
(+)personal discussion added
The writer above has unique point of view. I am also interested in what part of our real life inspired this war game. I believe that the group Repliforce represents 'America'. The flag of the Repliforce has blue and red color, and a star at the center. The Repliforce War looks like American Revolution. They hoped to be separated from the Earth, and they tried to leave the Earth and build a new colony at the distance space. I was thinking that American ancestors did not want to be restricted by England. (for example, they refused to pay taxes or buy England products, etc.) The general's speech at the memrial hall sounds like the 'Declaration of Independence'. They desired 'Liberty', and they wanted to protect their own 'Life' from human creatures and Irregular(Maverick) Hunters.
Maybe, Final Weapon represents the atomic bomb fallen in Hiroshima, Japan. It is common that Japanese games and animations try to mention about the disaster happened in the past.
In addition, Navi Colonel EXE in Rockman EXE(Megaman Battle Network in English ver?) belongs to 'Amerope Net Navi Force'(which is simply called 'Ameroppa'). Amerope represents 'America and Europe'. See the comics of EXE series, drawn by 'Takamisaki Ryo'. Vol. 10 shows Colonel with American Flag(the Star-Spangled Banner).
[edit] Request to change the box art.
Since the Sega Saturn version was released first, I think its art should be displayed. On all the video game pages I've seen here at Wikipedia, they all seem to be following some (unwritten?) guidelines: That it's the first release, and/or in English (at en.wikipedia at least). That includes games like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (which was developed for the GameCube in mind, but released for the Wii first), or a game like Silhouette Mirage (which didn't see an English Sega Saturn release, but it did for PlayStation). Mega Man X4 was both released for Sega Saturn first AND in North America (actually just before the Japanese release, and a long while before Sony of America was convinced to allow the PlayStation version to be localized). So why should Mega Man X4 stick out as an exception? By the way, here's great scan I found on Google that I don't know how to upload: http://media.gamestats.com/gg/image/object/001/001780/megamanx4_SATURNUSboxart_160w.jpg 208.101.129.217 14:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Iris wasn't just in X4 and EXE 6
Iris also appeared in Megaman XTreme 2 for the Gameboy Color as X's and Zero's guide. This game does follow the X series characters so it is important to this page....but someone keeps taking it off. Sure they never say if it's a recreation or the original and somehow lived but she was in that game, commanding X and Zero to defeat the evil Reploids. You can't deny the fact that she was in that game.
