This is literally the same condition that previous Ride Armors are confined to: about 10 percent of the entire stage they're in. Besides that, it's just fun to bash or blow stuff up with the armors even though they're confined to a limited space. You don't need to rescue a random Reploid to get them or lose them to one of the many ubiquitous Nightmares floating around. At least the items you have to find in that game are distinguishable, few, and simply distinct or they were a Light Capsule, which were a real treat half the time. They're partly for item-hunting mostly, sure, but I never considered that a bad thing in X3 of all games. The Hawk Armor is arguably the most useless ride armor in the game, but lemme tell you, I would've loved that Ride Armor in Crystal Snail's stage and even though the Armor Chips were useless compared to the Gold Armor, the Hawk Armor was the best choice to get at the one in Blast Hornet's stage. The same could be said of the Chimera or the Kangaroo armors in Blizzard Buffalo's stage, where you use them to destroy the ice blocks to get to the life-up. Technically, the Frog Armor was part of Toxic Seahorse's stage, but nobody likes that one, so it doesn't count (right?). X4 and X5 actually come to mind most when thinking about Ride Armor's done well. At their best, they are used for all of 20 seconds. At their worst they are for Item hunting. They dont adapt the stages to them at all. They dont actually give you any obstacles or environmental bits for you to utilize the armors potential fully. X3 however, while still optional, GIVES them to you to keep, like a power up, and Summon whenever you find the appropriate area to do so, and yet they have the same amount of utility they did in X1 and X2, and no more. They are things you come across, and can use.
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And even then it's only for about 3 seconds before you have to drop it to keep going on foot.Īlmost every other X game has done Ride Armor's better, simply because they are part of the stage design, and are optional.
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Only about 2 sections really utilize them fully. Quote from: Flame on September 03, 2012, 06:45:31 AM On X3's ride armors: They were "keepable" and had lifebars, and were summonable, but the fact is, they just were not implemented well.