Cancelled Megaman FPS sub-titled: Maverick Hunter info comes to light.

What does Sarah Palin have to say about this?

They killed this fucking badass thing?

Metoid Prime was awesome... sad this was cancelled. If Armature did as good of a job as they did with Metroid this could have been great.

Seriously, what could have been so disastrous about having critically acclaimed developers from Retro Studios developing this when they had the grace of Inafune to work on it and it was going to have you fight Mega Man X in 3D as Zero? They have had prior experience with the Metroid Prime Trilogy and went on to develop the ports for the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection AND will be developing the new Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate.

And this also now makes 4 awesome-looking Megaman projects that have been cancelled since 2009, the others being Rockman Online, Megaman Legends 3 and Megaman Universe. (Not including the one refuted by Capcom earlier this year)

So many generic FPS games, why the hell cancel this? I am mad and wish I didn't watch that amazing clip.

This Megaman FPS looks like awesome, reminds me of Hard Reset. I love all the megaman - except when they made Megaman a fat slob in Street Fighter x Tekken.

Yeah, because all the video game world needs now is yet another FPS game with a theme tacked on to it to try and pass it off as unique.

Developers have no good ideas left.

What if this is a strategy from Capcom to see if this is what the fans want safely and if the fans consider it Awesome and Great they will announce it for real??

Eh, basically an attempt to cash in off the "Mega Man" brand. If it's good but dramatically different, why not set it up as new IP?

Well, they are still making some games for the series since then.

Proof

In my opinion it would have been a complete disaster for the megaman franchise, turning it into the stereotypical FPS nowadays.
Agreed. Interesting game, but from what the videos show, it's not "Mega Man" -- release it as something else and it might be cool.

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I think what I dislike most about it is the artistic style.
For those arguing Metroid Prime, Metroid makes sense -- it's a gritty sci-fi world akin to the Alien universe
Mega Man is cartoonish. If the visual style of the game was a little more TF2-esque, it might make sense. If they continued on the path of the hard sci-fi style that's shown, it would just feel all kinds of wrong.
(And somewhere in between, there is Halo's visual style (disclaimer: I only significantly played the first Halo).)
Contrast: Mega Man style vs. Metroid style -- at first glance, not that different, but on closer inspection, a huge stylistic difference.
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Not Legends, don't care.

I would have bought it because Megaman.

This actually looks pretty decent, especially considering it's very early in development. All of the art assets probably were not implemented (or even created) yet. Even if it kept to a relatively gritty style (though I still think Mega Man's appearance could be improved to make him more recognizable), I would have been ok with it. It would just be a different take on the franchise.

Even though some people here are like "WOW THIS LOOKS SO COOL" I bet some of the same people would of been like "I just want Megaman Legends 3".

Looked at the videos and didn't read the articles. It looks cool, but the enemy rushing attack seemed like something you'd be using a lot.

Maybe I should start playing Legends.

megaman 8-bit deathmatch is all we need for a megaman fps. :)

When I heard about a "Megaman FPS" I thought "This is gonna be baaaad", but after seeing that footage, I think it had some potential, after all Metroid Prime was great :)

If it was the same folks that made the Metroid Prime series, than it most likely would have been pretty good. For something so drastic a change, the Prime series was pretty good, though the final one was a bit meh due to the motion controls. (Aiming with the wiimote was horrible.)