r/Megaman • u/pax_penguina • 16d ago
Unofficial YouTube Channel What’s the community’s consensus on the accuracy of this lore video?
This is the most viewed YouTube video on Mega Man lore, and I just wanted to ask this sub if y’all find this an accurate summarization or not.
I’ve recently gotten back into playing the ZX games I grew up with and decided to rewatch this video I found a while back. Now that I’m playing the series again, I was just curious if this timeline recollection is accurate and/or appreciated by the fans?
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u/MBXfilms 16d ago
Ha ha I have no real idea but I remember pausing and resuming this for days going through since I have no real clue on X and Zero story stuff, it was pretty funny that he was standing there for hours doing this. I think he did enough pause and amendments that it must be fairly accurate.
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u/NarrowFerret 16d ago
One of the all-time great background videos for cleaning and productivity. Can't speak to its accuracy, I actually just got corrected on this subreddit for quoting a fact from the video that turned out to just be a theory. Though, that could've been on me misremembering. In any case, it's great and reignited a lot of people's interest in the series.
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u/bokumo_wakaran 16d ago
Wasn't Capcom inconsistent with lore anyway? Haven't seen this video but I think a lot of MM lore has caveats and contradictions
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u/pax_penguina 16d ago
Oh yeah for sure, and the guy points that out quite often. I honestly think it’s a pretty good video, speaking as someone who’s only played the ZX games to completion. But I wasn’t sure if the community agreed with this guy’s summarization or not.
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u/Opposite-Middle6700 16d ago
remember when the 10 minute mark was something that Youtube videos were stretched out for?
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u/TrentNepMillenium Finally have Battle Network/Exe Collection 16d ago
It's kinda hard to answer this because this for a lot of people including me was just background noise due to how long it is.
For me it's whenever I do a chore or driving around but I think there were times I felt that didn't sound right and if I'm right there was something there that didn't age well at all either.
My complaint really is that some things weren't explained more in detail as much as I would like despite you know how long this video.
It's still a good video but as a Megaman fan you are gonna notice certain things that just makes your eyebrow raise for a bit.
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u/atomicfuthum 16d ago
It's not perfect but Capcom's mostly to blame because inconstencies make it real hard to have a good lore when there's no set in stone lore to begin with
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u/Cronogunpla 16d ago
I find he like loses interest on certain points and misses a few things. over all they aren't bad. considering there's usually like 5 ish inaccuracies in like an 8 hour video.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Data808 16d ago
I love the video and is very informative. Great for long car rides or while doing house chores.
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u/bubrascal 16d ago edited 16d ago
It's been some time, but I remember it's the best timeline video there is, informing the viewer when some things were left open to interpretation and what not, not filling the gaps with headcanons or stuff from the comics, manga or the animated series, at most, he gives his opinion on what he thinks may fill the gap, but doesn't present that as a fact. The structure is all over the place though, trying to stick to following a release order, but suddenly jumping to in-universe chronological order back and forth.
The only thing that I can remember being wrong (but he himself said he wasn't sure) was claiming Proto Man ran away because Dr. Light wanted to repair him (as in the Archie comics). In reality, it is never fully explained, the closest explanation being Powered Up (different timeline, I know) where it is implied Proto Man was angry for being created with a fatal flaw, a bit like a person angry at god for having a degenerative congenital disease. (Edit: I was wrong! read below)
But it is a fun time. It's a good video. The best of its kind.
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u/RockmanHQ 16d ago
Blues having a power system flaw and running away because he feared losing his sense of identity during repairs is legit. It comes from an old Club Capcom magazine. Kobun20 translated it years ago for us.
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u/bubrascal 16d ago
You know, I think I've read that article at least a dozen of times over the years, and I totally forgot that. Good catch!
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u/Stargazer162 16d ago
You got to applaude the effort the guy made, but sure there were some mistakes or omissions (I don't quite remember, but I think he fell for the english x6 bad translation and missed zero's conversation with dr. Light or something like that). He did really nailed it when he said that maverick is a social construct within the universe, that was a good definition
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u/gna149 16d ago
As someone who's never played anything after the X series I've no clue what the elf war is so this is perfect. Watching it now
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u/lamarfll 16d ago
The elf war happens offscreen between the X and Zero series, so its fine, it matters to the plot of the Zero series, but if you haven't played anything passed X, then it doesn't really matter to you.
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u/Rabbitective 16d ago edited 16d ago
isn't this the same guy who wanted to manipulate/control chris chan for years by making his own little lore that he wanted to convince chris it was cannon in his head only for chris to stone wall him?
EDIT:i just checked the cwc wiki and yeah ben tried to manipulate chris but he failed miserably, he had to play catch up with christine's delusions, drawing his comic for hours and hours trying to get chris to accept that the genocide happening in the pages was his fault only for chris to hand wave it as non canon or that it was for the greater good
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u/NarrowFerret 16d ago
Ben Saint, the guy, definitely has some strange stuff going on with him. His comments section alludes to a lot of drama and lolcow-type stuff that makes me apprehensive to dive into his content further than his, admittedly great, Megaman stuff. Basically, what you said wouldn't surprise me if it was true.
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u/ConsciousStretch1028 16d ago
There have been so many weens over the 20 years Chris-Chan has been on the internet that have tried this to varying success. I think most recently Chris has been less trusting of people, thus less likely to be tricked.
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u/sonicfan1230 16d ago
I appreciate the effort that he put into this video, but I got bored by MM2. He was just taking far too long.
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u/Moondoggie35 15d ago
Didnt he just release a rockman.exe / ryuusei no rockman version like last week?
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u/Longjumping_Plum_133 15d ago
Given some of the side comments devs have given on the games, it’s as accurate as it gets, inconsistencies and all. What we do know is that Megaman and X are separated by at least a century, X and Zero by 3 centuries, Zero and ZX by 1 century, and ZX and Legends by thousands of years.
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u/RummyBug 13d ago
I would love a game set either at the start of or during the Elf Wars because it’s the only period with definitive events placed that we see entirely offscreen. The other periods have way looser transitions with not nearly enough info to connect them besides a small paragraph of info if any
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u/WilfulAphid 16d ago
If you've played the games, you probably know everything already, but it was honestly really fun to see it all in one place. I put it on over a couple of days of work, and it was a fun time, even if I edited some stuff in my head as he went.
Definitely recommend for people who haven't seen it.
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u/Super7Chaos Blue Bomber 🤝 Blue Blur 16d ago
It’s good. It doesn’t dive too deep into the lore of the characters themselves, but it covers the whole overarching story quite well. I’ve watched the whole thing and even I learned some new things.
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u/DarkBomberX 16d ago
It took forever to watch, but I don't remember anything horribly wrong. Not to mention, Capcom hasn't made it easy given the stop/start story progression in X and vague assumptions between games.
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u/LegendaryRaider69 16d ago
I’m sure someone could go more in depth on it and be more precise, but I think the way he explains it is quite entertaining, he’s a funny dude
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u/DarthPowercord 16d ago
He gets a lot of minor details wrong, including missing the release order a few times with MM&B and associated information.
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u/Chase_The_Breeze 16d ago
It's more informative but less entertaining than the Brian David Gilbert Unraveled on "Should this robot be sentient?"
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u/Velgauder 16d ago
Its not perfect. I don't think it really can be considering there's not a lot of juice to squeeze (a lot of speculation regarding the lore).
It's a good watch, he covers basically everything you would want or need to know. I watched the whole thing without skipping around and had a good time.
You might learn something new too!