So true
Unfortunately, there are a shocking amount of self-proclaimed fans who only played X1 and X4. Or, in other words, the popular ones. And X1 is actually starting to slip, comparatively.
That's too bad, because X1 really is the best. X2 & X3 could've been just as good if they were balanced a bit better, the difficulty kept spiking with each entry.
Maybe it's just me but I swear, coming off X1, the box rendering and the text printing felt slower in the next 2 games than it was before.
God, this reminded me how much of a trip hearing fujo cope in this fandom is.
It's because it's not one of the widely-memetic ones.
Fujos can stick with the manga where X is a crybaby Gary Stu who everyone (including Zero) is jealous of. They gotta have their seme/uke dynamic, I guess.
That's actually one of the cope lines. That either the manga is canon, or because somewhere a dev said that they took some inspiration from the manga for X4 on, that somehow means Zero is gay. They then get very defensive if you point out that Zero attacks X over Iris.
Something like that actually, literally, happened recently. The cover of the X Dive artbook had X and RiCO looking at each other, so people started shipping them.
Hahaha, that doesn't surprise me. A lot of yaoi fangirls talk about stuff as if they're definitively canon. It gets me kind of mixed up, like when someone claimed reploids canonically cannot sing. I don't know if this is actually canon but it feels like one of those things that would make X speshul.
X3 is the best x game, how can someone not play it, let alone recommend against it? all 3 SNES x games are pure gold if you ask me, especially X3 with the fully playable zero hack.
There are people who think you are crazy if you think X3 is good at all. I'm not joking.
Since you edited this in, I'll expound a little more: not only is this a thing, but you can bait a good chunk of the fujos in the fandom by saying Zero bottoms. For some very strange reason they are very invested in the idea that Zero is some kind of rapey top.