What makes a cool Mega Man game? Oh, that's easy:
1. DON'T make it 3-D. Mega Man is a sidescroller.
I STRONGLY disagree...brace yourself for a rant...
Any popular platformer can work well in 3-D...ANY. Now I know what you may be thinking, Sonic failed hardcore. Well here's the truth. Sonic DOESN'T fail in 3-D. SEGA fails at developing Sonic in 3-D. The gameplay bugs are not as issue of Sonic being incompatible with 3 dimensions, it's a matter of Sega developers being too homosexually lazy to make sure important holes in their gameplay engine are in tact. And that's what they've consistently failed to do. Sonic in 3-D also doesn't lose ANY speed. In fact, I don't know any classic Sonic game that runs faster than any of the 3-D ones (maybe except Sonic and the Secret Rings...wouldn't know since I haven't played it). The problem with Sonic was merely in-game crap that no one was interested in (hunting, shooting, fishing, lame-as-balls voice acting, terrible ranking systems, etc.) and laziness of the development team and had jack **** to do about Sonic being in 3 dimensions.
Metroid Prime is a way that a 2-D game with a similar style to Mega Man could easily be converted to 3-D. The difference between 3-D platforming/adventure is that the controls have to be smoother than Smooth Criminal. And the graphics and physics engine has to flow flawlessly. Metroid Prime succeeded pretty well (though personally I would've wish the Metroid Prime games to be 3rd person shooting (Tomb Raider style-ish) rather than 1st person., but the 1st person aspect allows you to immerse yourself into the game much better.
A 3-D Mega Man platform adventure could be made in the Metroid Prime manner, or even better, a 3rd person 3-D shooter. That way, all the platform jumping, ladder climbing, and sliding can still be in tact...except in a 3-D setting. And if your worried about the free roaming 360 degree exploration factor, it could just be constrained to levels with only one real path to the end like Crash Bandicoot style.
Forgive me for going on so much, but I fail to believe the 3 dimensions should be the bane of the existence of classic greats. Metroid, Zelda, Mario, and even Rayman were really successful. And so Mega Man easily can be too.
Mega Man 4 Brawl
, and as long as I manage to forget it's supposed to be a Megaman game (which is pretty easy to do, given it looks and plays nothing like a true Megaman game), it's a half competent RPG.
