Thread 723588934

Why is metal slug not a popular game?

Because Fiocucks don't play the games.

>run and gun arcade game that takes 20 minutes to complete and hasnt had a (non mobile) game in years whose appeal also relied a lot on beautiful pixel animation which is a dying art
its as popular as it can be given the circumstances

>>723588934 (OP)
cuz it’s fucking old

>>723588934 (OP)
They haven't made a new mainline game since 7/XX and a lot of people haven't even played that entry, or at least give off the impression they haven't. Stuff like the spin offs like Tactics is neat, but still.

Metal Slug is an arcade game, so no one is going to play it unless they actually enjoy playing the game, which automatically filters all of the secondary fags who just think its cool because muh heckin pixel art

>>723588934 (OP)
i sorted my arcade backlog by popularity and it is literally the most popular game on the list

>>723589038
I do I play with Fio.

for me it's tarma

>>723589246
Cuphead fits that as well and it was popular enough to have a cartoon series.

>>723590258
t.

>>723590260
>cuphead
>20 minute arcade game
Retard-kun...

>>723589990
These lists are curated by low-income hires located in Trinidad and Tobago and paid by Limited Run games to artificially drive up interest for "Pixel Darlings" (a new brand they're building) in order to sell more Raspberry Pi-based keychain handhelds and should not be taken as gospel

>>723590260
cuphead is a more modern property and rode the wave of interest in retro and rubberhose animation
it also focused more on bossfights than run and gun segments

>>723590260
If you're asking why there isn't more media about Metal Slug, the answer is because the people who own the Metal Slug IP are complete absolute retards

>>723590684
is ok, maybe keychain handhelds deserve their spot in the market

>>723591154
there's lots of media about Metal Slug

arcade first series that launched(1996) after basic arcade ports had kind of fallen out of the zeitgeist besides fighting games. the people who were around to have known metal slug as an arcade phenomenon and are still online to talk about it is an increasingly shrinking number.

>>723588934 (OP)
just post the porn

>>723588934 (OP)
It used to be the most popular SNK game in my country by a fair margin 20 years ago or so. I remember that it even had arcade cabinets.

>>723589246
I still can't believe the final mission of 3 took a half an hour alone.

i mean i like it. I achieved 1cc in MS3 recently.

>old
>quality expectedly nosedived after the bankruptcy and outsourcing
>none of the games have been as good or even as finished as X and 3
>became auto battler slop
>Tactics turned out to be shit
>most recent entry was a P2W mobile game full of every bad practice imaginable from gacha slop and premium packs to unlock basic characters to PVP, stamina recovery, and paid skins

>>723588934 (OP)
Because arcade died shortly after console became a thing
But Metal Slug was the last king to come out of it

>>723588934 (OP)
Because SNK recognized the run & gun genre was on its way out in the wake of consoles so they turned Metal Slug into a strategy game without realizing that genre is even more niche.

I liked it...

>>723588934 (OP)
Because they never bothered releasing another anthology for 7th/8th gen consoles.

Tactics is pretty good for anyone that hasn't played it just wish it had more levels

>>723595939
It was.... okay. It was short and very repetitive, especially given how long it spent in development

>>723595939
>surely we can copy Into the Breach!

I am one of those autists that did custom sprite for an army on a forum of fellow autists that did the same

>>723595939
The best thing to come out of this game was Fio's massive rack.

>>723588934 (OP)
Normalfags don't like arcade games.
Fighting games are probably the most popular arcade games currently and even they're on life support.

>>723595939
>all those delays for a randomly generated selection of desert tiles
>barely any actual Metal Slug fanservice outside of the home base
>constantly glitching out
>doesn't even play Final Attack for the last fight
>just ends with an abrupt cut to credits

>>723591154
This, Nu-SNK is so fucked that they even forgot how to make good fighting games.

>>723588934 (OP)
it's still very popular among spics

>>723588934 (OP)
Because there hasn't been a good game in fucking decades
>4 was Korean shit recycling content
>5 wasn't finished
>6 looked and played like shit
>7 was a blurry mess that played it safe
>XX was 7, but better, which brought it up to mediocre
>literally EVERYTHING else was either tower defense shit or gacha shit

>>723596525
uuuuh based?

cuz

>New metal slug game introduced in 2025 tokyo game show
>Nobody gave a shit so there's no footage of the gameplay
Kekaroo

>>723588934 (OP)
What do you mean? It was very popular back in the 90's and 2000's when they were still making Metal Slug games. It's not popular anymore because they stopped making them aside from spinoffs and mobile slop. The last numbered entry, Metal Slug 7, came out in 2008. Of course the series isn't as popular almost 20 years later.

>>723595939
Damn, It was such a letdown. It felt rushed despite it being in development hell for so long.

>>723596271
You've got evidence?

>>723588934 (OP)
Favorite weapon?

Metal Slug has a similar curse as Star Fox, where the original type of core gameplay (the simple run-and-gun arcade style) is just not enough to get people excited anymore. You unironically need a BIGGER scale with more crazy shit going on that still has the essence of Metal Slug baked in. Unfortunately, when all the people who are told to "update" Metal Slug are given the chance, they either shove in gimmick shit or they make a spinoff of a completely different genre. Then when that flops, they say, "Oh, I guess the franchise just isn't popular anymore."

>>723588934 (OP)
3 came out 25 years ago, the series might as well have ended there so who cares. I's just a name and a couple of designs without the people behind it

Which is why I'm looking forward to black finger jet, even if it'll probably be shit

>>723600996

just make a third perso shooter.

>>723588934 (OP)
It's a series in a dead genre that hasn't had a good game in literally decades

Really it's pure incompetence because these are probably fairly simple to make outside of the charming art style. But it's a game you can charge at most 10 bucks for, you can squeeze maybe 1 hour of gameplay from most non-autistics who don't give a fuck about maximizing scores.

>>723595939
>hear there's a new metal slug game in development
>it's an x-com clone
They could have made an RTS with all the selection of rebel vehicles at their disposal.

Why no one makes games with metal slug's pixel art quality nowadays, that was what i expected with the new retro bs not just ancientware with a couple of modern mechanics

Why is OP always a giant faggot?

>>723588934 (OP)
Fio is a Sicilian

>>723588934 (OP)
I still love metal slug I play 3 or X at least once a year but I can see why the franchise "died" no matter how beautiful they make it the games lack something new to show

>>723588934 (OP)
They were mostly restricted to arcades without home console ports so normies (including me) didn't really know about the series outside of the occasional arcade visit. I think I saw a Metal Slug machine in a Waffle Shoppe.

I can't believe Metal Slug 7 did not have multiplayer or network play. I also can't believe it was never ported to any other console.

>>723603570
Metal Slug's art was made by what was most likely the most talented pixel art team on Earth coming from years of practice back in the Irem days and constantly making new and new art, which they also worked on by first making real drawings then tracing pixels over. Indiefags just don't have the patience to become that skilled.

>>723600594
RAWKET LAWNCHAIR
but srsly probably the shotgun, it's just satisfying as fuck

>>723588934 (OP)
It was designed for arcades which have become more and more niche. All the MS games combined are about the length of one modern game once you know what you're doing.

I'm playing XX right now. Managed to clear Mission 3 with Ralf without getting hit once. Getting half ammo and grenades sucks for clearing bosses which means I probably should lean more into using his vulcan punch but I find it hard to slot in when shooting weapons pickups is much more damaging. Any tips?

>>723600594
Fat+big heavy machine gun.

>>723603927
The most impressive part is how they mange to translate their drawings in such a scrunched-up resolution. The spinoff also shows they can into perspective.

>>723600594
Flame Shot
Super Grenade
Rocket Launcher (big)

>>723603927
Its weird that out of all things in vidya, they cant top 30 year old graphics

>>723600594
LASER GUN

>>723588934 (OP)
>"wow the sprite animation is great and fio is hot"
>doesn't play the game

Many such cases. Shantae is the same

>>723603752
>without home console ports so normies (including me)
1 and 2 were on PlayStation, granted they ran like shit but they existed.

>>723605345
I've 1CC'd the first three games and I only use her, Fiote me.

>>723605121
They in theory could, but like traditional animation it's become prohibitively expensive compared to either 3D or the same low-budget 2D limited animation sprite art probably derived from RPGmaker that even Square uses.

>>723605437
X on playstation is pretty amazing

>>723605783
my brother
2 or X thoughbeit?

>>723595939
It's piss easy
It runs like shit (3080 btw)
Short (which is whatever)
Kinda shit replayability

It's a shame the run and gun genre seems dead...

What would people want to see in a new Metal Slug game?

>>723606603
see
>>723596651
It's been so long since the last real Metal Slug game that I really don't want or expect much. I would be happy with a relatively simple revival entry that is just a good, enjoyable Metal Slug experience. It really doesn't need to do much more than that at this point.

>>723606603
Its really not that good of a genre when you think about it. Like even metal slug is kinda just a gauntlet fancy set pieces that isn't fun to play beyond pure dodge and shoot survival. Like how much money would you willingly shell out of an arcade accurate port of a metal slug game? Let alone an uglier indie version of it? I don't think these types of games are fun in a vacuum, on the spectrum of arcade games they are rather shallow.

>>723607010
Don't you have a shmup thread to samefag in? Or did everyone else already catch on to what you do in them?

>>723603570
There's Legally Distinct Metal Slug by one of the Metal Slug artists with music by the original composer too.
https://youtu.be/UOIzt3edIgQ?si=W4i_8g0v3qepqBwD

>>723607098
I have never samefagged.

>>723606603
Assuming SNK could pull it off, a new Metal Slug would be good. Branching stages is something I'd like to see, with 2.5D being used, albeit done well. Maybe have the old cast return while remaking their skills to not be so broken. The old combo system can stay, but the weapon switching should go in the interest of fairness.

>>723596178
How well they look? I'm curious

>>723600996
i don't know why SNK didn't try to capitalize on the gen 7 hype for shooters with trying to do a re-invention of the series
i know they barely had the funds, but they sorta just kept making fighting games instead

>>723588934 (OP)
Millennials can't 1CC or play arcade games format

>>723607507
>i don't know why SNK
You realize that all the people who made these games were seperate teams that SNK bought out and either left or got destroyed forever ago, right? Like SNK hasn't made a successful game on their own in like over 25 years.

>>723607507
Everyone is gone, dude

>>723607595
most people in general can't do that

>>723588934 (OP)
IRON LIZARD!
I like the PS2 Metal Slug 3D game. F8 me.

>>723608013
Anyone who wants to 1cc a metal slug game definitely can, it's not that hard

>>723608052
It's charming, but I wouldn't call it good

>>723607235
Looks fucking awesome
>261K views 2 years ago
>This game is not yet available on Steam
>Planned Release Date: To be announced
Oh no

>>723608256
>Looks fucking awesome
I initially thought it would be okay but the latest trailer makes me think it has zero chance of being good. The 2.5d art style is just hideous. You can't see shit. I wish this meme would die.

>>723608256
They got some more co-developers last year. It's doomed if we don't get any updates in another year though.

>>723607010
>>723607610
>>723608349
Man, all you do is whine and bitch while crying that /v/ does the same

>>723600594
ENEMY CHASER

>>723595939
>>723602982
more jacked fio please

>>723608572
>sticks head in septic tank
>look at this shit game, hey everyone look at this shit game
>hey why are you calling it shit?
Its all the same retarded grifters, look at /neog/ those people don't play a damn thing

>>723588934 (OP)
Its because you aren't Mexican

>>723588934 (OP)
I've only played the first game, rank em for me anons. Do I just play them in order? There's quite a lot of them.

>>723610731
Yeah just play them in order honestly. 2 and X might be a problem but you can figure out if playing a remake is a problem for you.

>>723609192
I wanna FUCK Fio!

>>723610731
1->2/X->3
everything else is trash, 5 is wasted potential

>>723595939
>roguelike
I mean I played it, I enjoyed it. Its fine. But it wasnt the metal slug meets final fantasy tactics I thought it was when I first saw the trailer.

They made so many unique sprites for the Metal Slug mobile games and we still don't have a proper shmup using them. Sad!

>>723588934 (OP)
>Used to think getting fat was an upgrade
>Turns out you deal less damage despite the projectiles looking chunkier
what the fuck