Talk:Mega Man X (video game)

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Contents 1 The Journal of Dr. Cain 2 Music Section 3 Stage Names 4 FAQ or Article? 5 Fortress bosses? 6 Cleanup 7 European release date(s) 8 Zero's sacrifice

[edit] The Journal of Dr. Cain

Should a mention or transcription of The Journal of Dr. Cain be made in the Story section here? Or should it be discussed in its own article, or not at all? As it's a rather lengthy (in Wikipedia terms) piece, if it's to be transcribed it should probably have its own article. What about offsite linking? (For those not in the know, this piece describes the events from immediately before X's discovery up until X's descision to join the Hunters. You can read it in Japanese or in English; the text is mostly the same, but there are severe timescale discrepancies between the two.) --Boco XLVII 5 July 2005 19:55 (UTC)

I believe a transcription is not an option, for copyright reasons, but I added a little bit about the journal to the story section and made a couple of other small changes to help the flow. --Pagrashtak 8 July 2005 02:07 (UTC)

[edit] Music Section

I did minor editing to the Music section that someone just added, but as it stands right now, it's practically all opinion. I think it needs to be expanded with more information or removed. --Pagrashtak 8 July 2005 01:43 (UTC)

[edit] Stage Names

A caption in the article refers to the opening stage as "Awakening Road". I'm not aware of anything in the game or instruction manual that gives the names of the stages. Can someone confirm where this came from and if the other stages have official names? --Pagrashtak 8 July 2005 02:16 (UTC)

"Awakening Road" is the name given on the Alph Lyla acid jazz CD. Also, the level is called "Awake Road Again" in X7. I'm sure the other levels have names but I don't know many of them.. --Boco XLVII 8 July 2005 04:18 (UTC)

This site seems to indicate that Awakening Road is the name of the song and Highway Stage is the name of the stage. However, I haven't played X7, so if there's an explicit in-game reference to "Awake Road" or "Awakening Road" I'll have to defer to that. Awakening Road has so much more panache... --Pagrashtak 8 July 2005 21:17 (UTC)

Yes, that does seem to support the stage being called "Highway Stage" rather than "Awakening Road". The X7 soundtrack uses the track name "Awake Road Again" for the music that plays during the stage, which is not a remix of the original music, hence my association of the track title to the place and not the song. Go ahead and change the caption; the rest of the info can be worked in in the Music section (which needs cleanup anyway) and the Stages section. --Boco XLVII 8 July 2005 22:45 (UTC)

In the game's ending credits, it does refer to the beginning stage as "Highway Stage". Neum 04:24, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] FAQ or Article?

I mean no offense to the authors of this article, but this article seems more like an FAQ guide rather than an article. Do you think it would be better if the article was re-written using the same information?(Specifialy I mean the section about boss section) --ShadowJester07 23:52, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

That does need to be done. Wikipedia is not a how-to. I've put a cleanup tag on the page, in case someone else wants to take a look at removing/rewritting that. --InShaneee 04:17, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I did a little more tidying up, but it appears User:ApolloBoy was right on the ball and took care of the lion's share of the job. Thanks! --InShaneee 17:36, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I re-wrote The Sigma's layer part, adding some more detail. Should we go on to write about the ending sequence?--ShadowJester07 21:17, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fortress bosses?

The articles for the 'classic' Mega Man games have them listed, so how about for Mega Man X? Sprinter h 04:05, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

They certianly should not have them in first place. I'll take care of them when I recieve a chance.-Zero^Talk 12:17, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

This article needs to be cleaned up.

• It still uses the second person.
• In particular, the IBM PC section needs to be totally rewritten.
• The entire Maverick Hunter X section is a bulleted list, and needs to be rewritten into prose.
• Likewise for the upgrades section.

I thought this would be plain, but the cleanup tag was immediately reverted for some reason. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 06:36, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm surprised you would invoke such hastiness. Why not fix these minor problems yourself..? It is a wiki. I'm suggesting an immmediate action, as we're both aware no one will clean-up this article, and most articles with clean-up tags nowadays don't.-Zero^Talk 06:38, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, {{sofixit}}, I know. I'm in the middle of writing something else, but I noticed this was a trainwreck, so I tagged it. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 06:41, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

• I see. I did not revert because I didn't agree with your sentiments, its simply its very unrealistic. This article is fairly low traffic, and a clean-up tag is just clutter various editors don't take in account. Similar situation with the Kyo Kusanagi page. Over my time here at wikipedia, I've gathered such tags are essentially worthless. If want something done, you have to do it yourself. And that's the simple truth. -Zero^Talk 06:47, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Some improvement is warranted, but these are quite cosmetic. I've removed the clean-up tag after reviewing said material. -Zero^Talk 14:04, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

You know, you're using me! You depict a {{sofixit}}, causing me to come under the presumption you would return and make the necessary edits. I'll take the initiative and make the changes. -Zero^Talk 17:33, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Done. -Zero^Talk 16:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] European release date(s)

Could someone add them?

[edit] Zero's sacrifice

This isn't terribly important but its mentioned that Zero's sacrifice isn't made pointless because X was still trapped. It sounds like someone changed it(I didn't check before). I'm not saying it was or wasn't rendered pointless, though since the armour isn't invincible, zero could have just attacked his head. I doubt X would have died in the amount of time it takes to injure Vile.

Anyway it should be mentioned that either this is debatable or alternatively, not mentioned at all, as its not really important. I haven't altered it myself because this small decision might need some concensus.