check it out, x. i look horrible. worst fucking robot body design you've ever seen. like if somebody asked for 'megabloks super sentai robots meets 90s rob liefeld overdesign and it should make my head as tiny as possible'. and it makes me stronger than god
Zero i've been turned into some fucking weird shit I'm fucking dying as we speak this is my best plan grahahaha
im still bewildered by the fact an earlier build of the game has a bigger head for sigma at the cost of literally no extra VRAM usage they just...made it smaller with literally no benefit.
Guarantee if you asked the answer would be "we thought it was funny"
You don't understand, they MUST make the head smaller, how else will players have the challenge of landing shots on it instead of hitting the armored body that takes no damage
What's funny is I'm pretty sure it's not even to scale with his regular body, the head here is just too small in every conceivable sense lol
Bro wishes he was this Keizer
"Also my hitbox is dog shit and you will miss your shots because you chose the big-ass buster shot instead of the correct upgrade."
Look, Dr. Doppler, a medical doctor who specializes in reploid viruses, was coerced into making "the ultimate battle body" based on abilities of gravity-controlling beatles and explosive bees. It is a goddamned wonder he was able to pull anything together at all!
Reminded of this sprite from the game of him flying back into position after moving forward. Look at his head trying to look behind himself, there's no way he's seeing anything.
THIS LOOKS EXTREMELY FUNNY KDJFSJKRETHKJSGFGSJF
installing a backup camera on sigma
youtu.be/ohSfmy41_kg
@purifierunit37.bsky.social didn’t you once say Tyson Hesse looked at this and go “what the fuck is a character design” when Archie was doing Mega Man X stuff for the Sonic crossover?
X can't even look at him from how hard he's cringing
On the other hand i respect his pansexual pride
I'm pretty sure this mess is supposed to be a Devil Gundam reference, as tons of other X to ZX-series final bosses have very clear gundam design features to them as well. But yeah, Siggy's a bit of a hodgepodge here :'D
Serpent's final form in ZX looks just like him too, not even subtle about it.
"I just wanted to be a big wolf stuck in a wall Contra 3 style and you RUINED THAT FOR ME"
Look, Dr. Light started this trend by having Mega Man fuse with Rush. Everyone afterwards has just been trying to figure out how "fuse with my robot dog pet" can make you unstoppable.
Technically he just stole Mega Man's power up. Bass is a big fat PHONY.
what if my dog but very big
Does your dog breathe palette-swapped Rolling Shields? You may want to see a veterinarian about that, or maybe an exorcist?
at least in X2 he got to be a cool Mode7 Head that continually vomits lasers
I am gonna pixelate his ass so hard
X3 Kaiser Sigma on that Sattou0 grind
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
laugh all you want at his tiny, tiny head, somehow that's his hurtbox and it's annoying as fuck to hit
ZERO!!!! I TURNED MYSELF INTO A PRE-RENDERED 3D BACKGROUND, ZERO!!!! I'M PRE-RENDERED 3D BACKGROUND SIGMA!!!!
Look, we get it. Size differences are hot. Get a room, you two.
And in the opening, he was just a head.
You know I never realized this. We fight sigma'ss head as the first boss and the last one is his (kinda) head too. Nice book ending.
I played X5 a lot as a kid, but I could never beat it.
Oh same. I had to use a cheat code to get X's ultimate armor so I could spam his OP R2 dash attack.
keep thinking about how i saw a let's play of the game describe this as a designer was told to make sigma a final body design and no one told them to stop
I think that was @tactlessogre.bsky.social. And never more was a statement true. Like, what the fuck is that shit?
His two shoulder mounted turrets of primer spray paint, which as you know every reploid hates.
Colin I love you, but I will fight to the death in the name of Kaiser Sigma, sickest shit ever this is the game that also gave us the Third Armor, equally-sickest shit ever
Sigma chose the body that gave the best stats instead of the body with the best style. Typical Min/Max goober behavior.
i really like this form he gets in X4 where his face is just stuck on the helmet of some other robot and he looks like he's having such a good time
Sigma: Behold X! I am a GUNDAM! The ultimate in giant fighting robot technology! X: Where yo legs at? Sigma: ok listen here you blue dingus...
I NEVER NOTICED THE FACE BELOW SIGMA'S LOL
it really changes the whole vibe when you notice that guy. i have to wonder what he thinks about the whole situation
yeah like that whole fight is delightfully *bizarre*
it's the most fucked up sigma has ever felt. it's a confusing mess of a fight and i love it
It's my favorite final boss in the X series honestly. Had a lot of fun fighting it.
X4 sigma is key to my love for the character because it really feels like his turning point from 'I want to spearhead a robot uprising' to 'I'm just gonna fuck around and mess with my two ex-coworkers and see where it goes' and he's just having the time of his life
*manipulates Zero into killing his girlfriend* *shows up dressed as the grim reaper* Bro was absolutely just being a prick for funsies.
croissant-ass lookin head mf
In motion I could never tell he's mugging for the camera. "Get a load of this guy" (in my case, zero)
holy shit this is just layzner but instead of a clear canopy, it's sigma
For years I thought his mouth was intended to be an eye and his chin as like, some sort of fucked up mouth covering.
in the words of Mathew Matelli "It looks like someone sat down, started designing this thing and never fucking stopped"
