I rather loved X6.

What about it did you love?

The idea that levels could be revisited in order to obtain various powerups. It was hte first time levels had more than one part. The nightmares killing powerups forever, that was a bit harsh. It made for interestingly crafty scenarios to compensate.

The graphics were very great, the music was super god, and the character design was kinda the peak of the series. You got some points, certain bosses were incredibly easy, but some were impossibly hard.

Having played X5 adn X6 altogether within the same range of time, I got a bigger liking to 6 than I did to 5. The addition of the z-saber for X made him do interesting things he never did before, like destroying invincible foes, an dit also increased the amount of such, in order to give value to it.

The special weapons, and some of the enemy sprites, though, have their negative touches. Some bosses were just shit if you had the right weapons for them, and others, well, there's Infinity Mijinion...

I'm not in love with the story. I predicted literally everything the moment I saw the first cutscene. But again, it was almost similar to X5's...

I do know why most people would hate it, but for me, it's jumping the gun. I've had MANY people coplain they hated X6 because it was 'incomplete', because of japanese dubbing. Some people criticized it for reusing old graphics adn being unoriginal. Excuse me... X5 had REPLIFORCE enemies in it, and every level was themed after the ones in X4.

Actually, from what I remember, the Nightmare-captured hostages could actually be rescued if you didn't kill them and went back into their associated stage when it turned red.

Oh? I must've never tried that, cause I don't remember that. o.o

what if it was red to begin with like the ice stage?

Then you wait until it turns red again.

Okay I have the 1-7 collection for GC I cant get to 7 till I beat 6. That said I was just playing and got 2 bosses and dynamo. And Im not impressed. First of all the opening sequence where "Mysterious voice" with sigma, I mean the myserious voices face pops up. Anyone who has beaten 1 game knows its sigma. Also Dynamo's moves were pretty much the first sigma's sword swinging around and throwing. Not original, used before and he didnt telegraph well. Thats when bosses become a chore vs a challenge. Also they had enemies with no animations, just shots coming out, fish enemies from the FIRST GAME and lots of other things like that. The levels wernt very interesting, mostly just rock platforms and places to get around on. Ultimately it felt like a game that they spent all their ideas on and came up with some new generic bosses, reused (I mean in the first world they even change the sprite to the first air enemy in the first game) without much creative process and the story is cliche. Honestly it feels like a transformers movie. same plot, new actors.

X7 was way worse.

However you have to remember, Keiji had NOTHING to do with X6.
He wrote X5 as the end of the MegaMan and X series... it lead gracefully into Zero
Then it sold 1 million units and Capcom was like "We need more!"

D:
Hey! I liked X7
*whimper*

Explains a lot.

Yeah, as Marbs said, it was primarily because Keiji Inafune had nothing to do with X6. Capcom just wanted more sequels and more money, as usual, so they went and made the game without him. Why? Because Capcom owns the rights to anything Megaman, and not Inafune...

In my opinion, there was little to like about X6. I mean, there WERE things, but not many. The nightmare effects in levels made them sorta interesting to go back into after going to another boss' stage first, and often made it either easier to traverse, or more challenging when things felt too easy. Also, Japanese voice acting, which was a nice touch. I think Zero's and Gate's voice actors were sexeh. Just sayin'... The Blade and Shadow armors, respectively, were also kinda cool. The ability to do a midair dash in four directions was a good throwback to X3's foot part, but modified to be a bit better, and as for Shadow Armor, well...fuggin' ninja X. Need I say more?

Those points being covered, I'm really not fond of X6. Hell, I like X5 better in comparison, even with the cookie cutter dinosaur boss (If you know what I mean, props to ya), and X7 less than either of the others. The line that is forever engrained into my mind is "Burn to the ground!". But yeah, bad games are bad, in my book.

And yet...despite this not being Capcom's only time making a Megaman game without Inafune, I am almost compelled to state that Megaman X: Command Mission was....actually good. It irks me in the most irksome way, but I do enjoy CM a lot. Fun concept, fun presentation, fun music and bosses, and the story wasn't...horrible. Redips, though. Srsly Capcom wft lol.