What Was Your First Experience With MML?

[atomiccrusader]

This is just out of plain curiosity, but how were all of you introduced to the world of endless water?

I was introduced to it in an issue of Nintendo Power when they had an article on Tatsunoko Vs Capcom. They had a character profile on MegaMan Volnutt, and i noticed that he had hair (prior to this, I assumed that Megaman didn't have hair). So I got interested, looked it up, and instantly loved it.

[Deleted]

I had heard about the Legends series, but wasn't interested in the series until I had found a copy of Legends 2. I bought the CD and decided to play it. I was hooked since then.

[RyanLEO]

I saw it in the store and thought it looked pretty fun. Ended up being a great game, good thing I didn't go with cubert that day

[Chaotic Chao]

I got Tatsunoko vs Capcom (Even though I didn't want it. This introduced me to the vs series as well and made me like Capcom more. A lot.). I expected a Megaman of any type to be in it. I got Roll, and Megaman. Volnutt. I thought, "Volnutt? Of all the strange last names..." I saw he came from a game called Megaman Legends. I knew of most of the main Megaman series, but this was a completely new one. In fact, I mostly looked into it just to see if Volnutt was human or not. When I saw the game was for N64, well...

I'm here now.

[rivers]

This was in 1999 or 2000.
I was at my cousin's house. I didn't own a PlayStation yet. I became addicted to Mega Man 8, and I wanted my own Mega Man game (I was like, six). So, my parents went to the store, and the only Mega Man game they had was Mega Man Legends. Before anyone asks, they bought me a game for a system I didn't own yet because I was living with my cousin for a few months while I moved into a new house.

[Dashe]

My cousin showed me the game when it was new, and he was still renting it. Then I puked on his controller after Bon beat the tar out of me. Naturally, after the fever went down, the next time I saw him I got him to loan the copy he wound up buying to me and 'accidentally' held onto it for the entire summer of 1999, and wound up with severe post-partum depression after clearing Easy Mode, realizing I had nothing left to accomplish in the game, and returning it to its original owner. You know how these things go.

By the way, that summer spawned five crappy self-insert fics about Mega Man Legends and MoTB, three of which were more about owning and buying the games instead of the actual characters, and one of which was a mindboggling fifty-some pages. :07:

[Mikéy]

I could have sworn there already was a thread like this active somewhere. Or maybe I was just thinking of PL and/or my looooong introduction. Ah well, let the copy-pasta reign free!

Dec 6, 2010 19:14:13 GMT -5 Mikéy said:

and now, a bio that is OBVIOUSLY not copy and pasted.

Legends was actually the first game to catch my attention. I sure couldn't read any of the explanations, but listening to Roll and the dialogue made my play experience somewhat bearable. It wasnt until the 3rd or 4th time that I played it that I figured out how to ROTATE Megaman, to where he could open the first door I was supposed to go through. I was literally strafing for a day or two... and I died twice on the Ceiling bot and was scared of them for the rest of the time I played. I died again, once or twice on the 1-armed reaverbot as well. I don't remember any details on strafing, but it takes quite a bit of practice for a 6 year old eh?

I saw the first cutscene of flying away from the Reaverbot, and that hooked me to the rest of the game. Eventually, I made it through the rest of the story and unlocked Hard Mode. One day, all of the Sony games are just gone. GONE. All of my favorite titles just dissapeared, leaving me with just Twisted Metal 4, and Tomb Raider, the Last Revelation, the only two Sony Playstation games that I still own today from back then. A few other worthless titles I did get from garage sales, but I never did get to see Legends 2. My only assumption at the time was that either my mom, or my older brother decided to sell them.

Somehow, the cover of MML2 still looks a tiny bit familiar to me... Like I saw it briefly those many years ago. But, I emulated and beat TMOTB and MML2 just to have the experience at hand.

That thing still makes me dizzy. Had to snip the noodles so it made more sense. :22:

[Captainkirk923]

I think it was sometime in the middle of 1998...can't be certain, but I was in a Target with my mother to buy a video game when I was about 10 years old, and there weren't any games that were catching my interest. So out of nowhere my mother, who is NOT a video game person, mind you, points to a Mega Man game on the shelf. "Hey Kirk look, it's Mega Man! Yada-yada-yada. And so, I reluctantly agreed to get that. And what a good decision that was...funny knowing that if it wasn't for my mother I wouldn't have ever got into Legends in the first place...thanks Mom! Haha, my God has it been that long since...I still remember playing the entire series mindlessly like it was yesterday...hell, to be honest I've just recently started a new file on MML2 and it STILL doesn't get old!

[TronBonne]

(Huh, I feel like everytime I’ve talked about this topic in the past, I’ve always said how I got the game in 1997 instead of the correct date of 1998…weird. O.o)[/color]

Anyway, one of my brothers got Mega Man Legends for Christmas in 1998, I was probably around 8 or 9 at the time? I was watching both of them play, and I saw them kick a vending machine. I thought that was the coolest thing ever, and that’s pretty much where my initial interest in the game came from. I played it and instantly took a liking to Mega Man (and his ability to kick not only vending machines, but that yellow can and garbage pales), and really connected with the game. However I wasn’t able to get past the Tron battle, or beat the game until I was a few years older. Then I found out he could kick dogs, too. <3

[Sudo Iwaki X]

I wanted to try a new Mega Man game after playing Mega Man 3 and Mega Man 6 for the NES. The next game I found first was Mega Man Legends for the PS1. After playing the game a few times, I eventually loved the game and the Legends series. From there, everything else was history.

[cyberguy]

My cousins owned it when I was little. I was too young to really play complicated games like Megaman, but I was still a fan and I loved watching them play it and talking about it with them.

[Avegodro]

I first heard about Legends from my cousin's boyfriend back in the summer of 07. He described it as "A 3d mega man game where you start off underground, crash your plane on an island and end up at a shopping mall." ;D

So I played the 64 port and fell in love with the series.

[Speculator]

I was seven. I got a playstation for my birthday. it came with the first games set they hand out. loved it ever since.

[Adrian2040]

I liked the Classic MegaMan Games and the MegaMan X Games, so I bought MML1 when it saw it for sale little after it's release date. I liked it, even though I couldn't understand the story perfectly due to my basic knowledge of the English Language. I replayed it twice, the understanding everything by in my third playthrough due to my improvement in the mastery of the English language and the fact that I had played through it twice before.

After that, I saw Legends 2 for sale half a year after it was released. I bought it, played it and finished it. Then, I continued to play my other games. I re-played them from time to time.

In my early stages of research I found out about MoTB and I bought it at a high price. (But not as high as today's prices.) I played through it and beat it.

After that I continued to re-play the games every year or two, enjoying the massive Servbot fan-service. (Especially on Dead Rising.) I even knew Inafune wanted to make the third game because the Legends series was his favorite since it was fun. Legends 3 was announced for the 3DS and the rest is history.

[Edich]

I grew up on Classic Megaman as a kid. I got Legends for my ninth birthday(so a year after it's initial release, I think) along with Ape Escape and Digimon World. All three were amazing games, but it definitely stood out the most. It's been tied as my favorite series along with Earthbound ever since.

I still remember my exact reasoning for wanting the game.

"I get to play as Megaman without a helmet!"

Seriously, that was the only reason. Ah, youth.

Copy-pasted from the Project Legends thread. Thinking back, that was really a great birthday.