Oh, don't worry, I'm not sleeping. Always a pleasure to talk about something fun like Megaman's games. Have you ever played any of the "Megaman X" titles?
I own and have beaten Mega Man X-X6. I don't own any game beyond that, though. Personally, I liked the first three, the SNES games, better than the Playstation games. I think because the first three were more like normal Mega Man games. The only real differences were E-tanks had to be filled up, you could jump kick on walls, and Dr. Wily was gone, and the robots weren't (insert noun/verb/adjective) Man.
The last three games, though, I had a harder time getting into. The difficulty fluctuated, at least in my opinion, pretty wildly. Bosses could go from being very easy, to extremly difficult (even with the right weapons). Again, I would recommend playing them through at least once, but I noticed that the games had begun to focus more on fluff (story, graphics, music) than actual gameplay as the series went on. I think the best way that I could describe it is that the first three games were made for the same fans that enjoyed the original series, and the last three were made for a more shallow, more general audience. Does that make sense?
Of course, that's a problem in a lot of series. Many games, I've noticed, are replacing gameplay with music and plot. Final Fantasy and The Legend of Zelda are becoming like that. I played the Twilight Princess, and I beat it without any help at all, which is something I've NEVER done in a puzzle-ridden series like the Legend of Zelda before. (I have to agree with Jassian's post, though, about this series that Ocerina of Time was the best game for the N64, right after Super Smash Brothers). I do love games like the one that Jaycol mentioned, though, where the incentive for replayability is high, due to finding extras.
By the way, Night Terror, do you own a Gamecube or Playstation 2? The Mega Man Anniversary Collection is out on both those systems, and contains Mega Mans 1-8, as well as two arcade Mega Man games. Pretty fun, although switching from old NES controls to Gamecube controls is a bit difficult to do at first. I believe that on those same systems, there is a game that includes the Mega Man X series, but I don't remember which system it was exactly.
What about you? Play a lot of RPGs, or action games? Or both?