Thread 714567908

Why does SNK refuse to make a new real Metal Slug? I can only replay 2 and 3 so many times.
Official MS art while we are at it: https://game.snk-corp.co.jp/official/ms_gallery/gallery4.html#middlecontents

asian devs have no interest in anything that isn't souls or gacha

>>714567908 (OP)
How well did 7 do?

Fio's BIG mode if she real.

>>714567908 (OP)
>2 and 3
>"Real" Metal Slug
Fake fan. Metal Slug 1 is the only "real" game in the series, it actually focused on portraying a grim war setting with cartoon violence, and treated the subject matter more seriously. Which made its endings far more heartfelt and earned in their gravitas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqvmIAX0tXs
The series went off the deep end when it started doing goofy stuff with aliens rather than letting the cartoony presentation be a grim contrast to the themes of combat and war which is what made the level of violence present in the game so perfect.

>>714568610
I'd think if they kept aliens for the final stage in X it'd be fine.

>>714568610
Fuji please take yours meds

What do we think about Kohachi studios?

>>714567908 (OP)
Because the devs that were capable of making a real and good Metal Slug game no longer work at SNK. At best you'd get the team behind 5 and 7.

>>714567908 (OP)
Why are you playing 2 instead of X?

>>714569534
Just make it 3D, worked for KoF.

>>714567908 (OP)
So play the other Metal Slug games. The original devs are working on Black Finger JET. They haven't been at SNK for a while now.

>>714569601
Those already exist and they were mid

>>714567908 (OP)
im pretty sure that said that they were working on a brand new classic style Metal slug game years ago, it was in conference or something, they also announced Awakening there, and KoFXV was in development but i dont remember if it was revealed there too or before

>>714568610
Sorry man, I like being able to shoot diagonally.

>>714568610
>gravitas
existence disregarded

>>714567908 (OP)
Original MS team is working on a new real Metal Slug. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOIzt3edIgQ

unfortunately, there has been no news since.

>>714571913
They promised a Steam demo this year, hopefully they'll stick to that milestone.
It's being funded by saudi oil princes, btw.

>>714567908 (OP)
I think they said somewhere that they have literally zero ideas on what to do for a MS8.

>>714572123
>It's being funded by saudi oil princes, btw.
Rather that than to be funded by some Blackrock arsehole for more woke grants.

>>714572376
How the tides have changed. To think we would rather trust Chinese or oil money rahter than ours.

>>714568415
I need to visit a soapland when I go back to Japan

>>714572570
That's happens when all you release is garbage.

>>714571913
>no Slug equivalent shown
So, no vehicles?

>>714573425
It's in alpha stage, they don't even have a level completed yet.

>>714573425
Who knows. Maybe the concept art is teasing it

>>714567908 (OP)
Because making highly detailed foreground AND background pixel art is expensive as shit, and the genre is fucking dead. How many people besides you and me would be excited for an under 2 hour sidescrolling run & gun game? Might as well ask why people refuse to make new on rail-shooters. Because there's only like 20 nerds who would go hard for it, and the rest of the world has no interest.

>>714574385
>Might as well ask why people refuse to make new on rail-shooters
We've been getting some of those recently
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2389830/__ASURA_THE_STRIKER/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2403620/Air_Twister/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2784620/ROGUE_FLIGHT/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2509660/Unit_Down_Charge/

>>714571913
Looks horrible.

>>714571913
The fuck is this ugly 2D HD art style?

>>714575514
>>714575395
It's getting slightly better, as far 2,5D goes. Just don't expect painted backgrounds.
https://youtu.be/K_nsImL-1N4
Hopefully it will allow them to make levels as dynamic as the last Ghost'n Goblins.

>>714575778
Jesus, what's with those overdesigned backgrounds?

>>714575345
Not saying it's impossible, specially for indies. I mean hey, people still occasionally make typing of the dead style games.But when I say "the genre is fucking dead" what I mean is: to publishers. It's not seen as a profitable market, so nobody wants to invest into a studio making one. In cases like that, you need a big huge surprise smash hit to wake the industry up and make copy cats.
Star Citizen kickstarted made infinite dollars, suddenly we got space games again Amnesia was huge? Suddenly horror games again. DayZ exploded? Suddenly open world zombie games everywhere, You need an indie to make a metal slug type game, become notch levels rich (but hopefully less racist) and that'll re-start metal slug style run & gun games. If that doesn't happen you're doomed to eat whatever scraps the indies throw you now and then forever.

>>714576569
Cuphead did relatively fine and has some popularity.

If SNK really wanted to break out in popularity they'd tap the larger market (America) and bring back Metal Slug and Crystalis. The West doesn't give a damn about their fighting games.

>>714577202
Didn't it had a fucking animated adaptation?

>>714577341
would people actually care about crystalis? i feel like everyone would just call it boot leg zelda

>>714567908 (OP)
The fact arcade games have been suffering a slow death for the past 25 years and now even in Japan are getting replaced by glorified gambling machines.

>>714577341
>Crystalis
Nigga, wtf is juice?

>>714568610
Shit take. Realism is good and Metal Slug 1 is good but it's not all there is to it. The goofy stuff gave it a personality impossible to replicate and even provided for a damn interesting story in 3. Something very few games that don't use dialogues or long cutscenes can replicate nowadays.

>>714567908 (OP)
SNK does not give a single shit about your opinions.
They've been turned into the side hobby of the Saudi weeb prince so the only things actually getting done are whatever he's currently into, regardless of the potential for critical or commercial success.

>>714577443
Yes and it's as cheap as you could expect. On top of that, old-school designs don't fit modern cartoon cinematography and technique. Makes you wonder what were they thinking.

>>714577341
>If SNK really wanted to break out in popularity they'd tap the larger market (America)
They've already tried once and failed spectacularly at it. Games like Maximum Impact, Samurai Shodown Sen, Metal Slug 7 and KOF 11 had a big push on the USA but ultimately flopped hard.

/v/:
>Why do devs keep making the same game over and over?!
also /v/:
>Why aren't they making new game!?

>>714581457
When was the last time we had a (good) run'n gun?