Introduction

Wait. The entire series?
Well, just about, we're covering every game, including the Xtreme games, except for Command Mission, this shit is going to be long enough without including an entire RPG

Is this going to be an informative playthrough or is it going to be a rambling stream of consciousness?
Both! We actually recorded two versions of each game, one version is just a group of friends, chilling on the couch, shooting the shit. We figured not everyone would appreciate that, so we recorded a separate version where just two of us sit down and keep our commentary focused on the gameplay and relevant trivia. For more information, please watch the Primer video, it covers the differences in more detail. If you don't want to bother with that, just pick a version at random, if you enjoy it, sweet, if not, try the other one.

How often will you be posting?
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 5pm Pacific, from now until we finish.

What about thread participation?
In the interest of giving you all a consistent upload schedule we have prerecorded all of the episodes and are in the process of editing them, which makes guess commentary a tad difficult. If you would like to cover something we missed or didn't cover, such as the Zero storyline from X4, or want to do a special run (Buster only, speed run, etc) by all means go ahead, I only ask that you wait until we hit the relevant game before you do.

Any spoiler policy?
X isn't exactly a story heavy series, but just to be safe, the more obscure the game is the more careful you should be about spoilers. Everyone and their mother has played X 1 so go nuts, but hardly anyone has even heard of Xtreme, so try to avoid it. In the same vein, don't spoil X 8, thats the only one with a real plot twist that isn't widely known in the public conscious. And of course, once its been covered in the video its free game.

Episodes

Dr. Light posted:

WARNING:

"X" IS THE FIRST OF A NEW GENERATION OF ROBOTS WHICH CONTAIN AN INNOVATIVE NEW FEATURE - THE ABILITY TO THINK, FEEL AND MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS. HOWEVER THIS ABILITY COULD BE VERY DANGEROUS. IF "X" WERE TO BREAK THE FIRST RULE OF ROBOTICS, "A ROBOT MUST NEVER HARM A HUMAN BEING", THE RESULTS WOULD BE DISASTROUS AND I FEAR THAT NO FORCE ON EARTH COULD STOP HIM.

APPROXIMATELY 30 YEARS WILL BE REQUIRED BEFORE WE CAN SAFELY CONFIRM HIS RELIABILITY. UNFORTUNATELY I WILL NOT LIVE TO SEE THAT DAY, NOR DO I HAVE ANYONE TO CARRY ON MY WORK. THEREFORE, I HAVE DECIDED TO SEAL HIM IN THIS CAPSULE, WHICH WILL TEST HIS INTERNAL SYSTEMS UNTIL HIS RELIABILITY HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB THE CAPSULE UNTIL THAT TIME.

"X" POSSESSES GREAT RISKS AS WELL AS GREAT POSSIBILITIES. I CAN ONLY HOPE FOR THE BEST.

SEPTEMBER 18, 20XX
T.LIGHT

X's design interested Cain, and he analyzed Dr. Light's notes. Months later, Cain was able to create robots similar to X, called Reploids, and they began to be mass-produced around the world. For unknown reasons, some Reploids began to act strange and attacked humans, being labeled Mavericks. To counter any possible threat, the Maverick Hunters were formed. Sigma, an advanced Reploid, was assigned to be their leader. X also became a member of the Maverick Hunters. Time passes and the Maverick Hunters are able to keep peace, but one day Sigma himself became a Maverick, being joined by other Maverick Hunters to start a war against humanity. Although X was by nature a pacifist, he had to do something, so he joined the new leader of the Maverick Hunters, Zero, to stop the ambitions of Sigma and the Mavericks.

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Gamesfreak13563 posted:

X is wearing fucking clown shoes in this game

Dresh posted:

#BlazeHeatnixIt #420SmokeMavsEveryday #ThisCouldAllHaveBeenAvoidedIfColonelSmokedAFuckinBlunt

Kurieg posted:

I do appreciate the brazeness of not allowing you to play as X from the start despite his name being in the fucking title.

And his characterization in X7 has him hitting the Dr. Light brand Pacificider a little bit too hard.

Fuck it I am bored enough to ~~badly~~ photoshop this terrible joke.

FeyerbrandX posted:

Also, here's your ~~wish~~ The Nightmare of Music.

Heavy Sigh posted:

I want to thank everyone that's helped out so far, ACES CURE PLANES, Gamesfreak, Dresh, and HeavySigh all gave Zero their own unique brand of love, Fionordequester, Gemcrim, and mkwong98 all gave us additional insight on the games, and anyone who commented gave us the motivation to finish this monster even when our apartment was launched back in time by the Sigma virus, and even those of you who watched and never commented, thank you all, so very much!

Up next we're going to take a bit of a rest, knock out some bonus content, then move on to the next series. Going forward I think its been decided we will be focusing on more Hunter style commentary, Irregular is fun but we got more personal pride trying to be informative. If you have any other feedback or constructive criticism we would love to hear it.

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