Upperleft said:
omg.. you guys hate mmbn4?
it was my first (and favorite) mmbn game
That's probably the reason you like it. Being your first, it probably seemed fresh and it has a special quality because of that. I don't really hate it, I just find it heavily underwhelming compared to the rest of the BN series. Technically, MMBN1 is probably the weakest of these games, but it's the first one and is fresh. I played it and liked it a lot for being original, but it was too short and easy. I played BN2 and 3 simultaneously and they were both vast improvements upon the first.
The things I didn't like about BN4 (opinions are only my own):
1- a shallow story compared to the others. The game is an entire tournament and had no real character development or good plot twists. Nebula was a placeholder for the WWW and a ripoff of Gospel. It's like they added the meteor part as an afterthought.
2- you only fight a couple of evil Navis. There was Shademan, but the game makes you KO him in one hit. No challenge there. And he was a cool one too. At least he was fightable for real in BN5.
3- weak ending with weak final boss music (and the boss itself was uninteresting).
One thing I DID like about the game was the new graphics. They're cleaner, more colorful, and more cartoon-styled.
I'm not trying to insult your opinion, just stating mine. It's cool if you like it.
EDIT: Is SF2 out in rom form or just in stores?