I'll shed some light into my megaman history. The first one I ever played, by coincidence of a store clerk recommendation, was Megaman X4 when it first released and I completely fell in love with it. It'll always define a period of time during my teen years. But aside from that, I didn't care for the series. Legends was announced instead of X5 and it made me cringe (it's a bad 3D game, sorry fans).
The only reason I picked up MM8 was due to my naivity. I needed a fix similar to the brilliant side-scrolling/Anime dark story mix X4 presented and even thought Zero and the hunters were in it lol. What I was left with was confusion and hatred towards the game's simple mechanics when compared to X4 (the non-wall jump especially killed me). Atleast the music was good.
Mind you, this was over 13-14 years ago. I have since become an MM buff and passionate X series fan especially (artbooks, Zero T-Shirts, keychain... etc.). And I can tell you that, in my opinion, 8's problem was simply the bad presentation. Team didn't capitalize on it like they did with X4's 32-bit transition. Story was bad and levels were uninspired. That's 2 classic MM games in a row with a mediocre reception. Its release timing also hurt it badly, like I mentioned prior. I personally don't hate it. I'm more an X series guy. Classic series never really grabbed me as much.
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The story was fine, it was just the same thing over again done in 32bit. The levels were uninspired though I am not sure, heck megaman can swim. Not saying that Megaman 8 is better, i think it is mostly because the game came out when megaman X was already becoming a more popular series and if I recall outsold the entire original series over all. I do agree that the game is much simpler, although i will miss Megaman 8's most greatest acheivement of fire all weapons on the screen at the same time. 
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