its just another example of capcom being dicks to their fans
Oh yay, fanboy entitlement.
Well, put me down as somebody who didn't want to see a beloved series end in a design-by-committee sequel that so disappointed its creator that he quit the company he'd spent 25 years at. I guess I'm just not much of a Mega Man fan.
And you go on to say that it was the risks that the MML series took with the franchise that made it such an amazing game?
Really it's the fact that it had nothing at all to DO with the franchise except for a handful of cursory details.
Legends was the perfect antidote to everything that was wrong with the Mega Man series at the time. Both series had gotten stale and repetetive, and with the transition to 32-bit had introduced truly awful voice acting. MML offered fresh gameplay, a good story with some of the best voice acting in a 32-bit game, and a tone diametrically opposite to the angst of the X series.
It had its share of flaws, but there's a pure JOY to it that the preceding two series had lost when they turned into cynical exercises in repetition.
But no, let's go back to talking about how pissed we are that the Legends series isn't going to go down that same path now.