Thread 11939006

Why does nobody ever talk about this game, or this franchise in general? Hands down one of the best RPGs on the SNES, and that's saying a lot.

Why does she have a massive bulge down there.

>>11939025
puffy vulva

>>11939006 (OP)
Zero releases in the west. As for why that is you'd have to ask Data East to know for sure. They probably didn't see the money in bringing an RPG to the west where they were still making most of their money in arcades and hadn't really scored a home console hit yet

Metal Max 1 & 2 are fantastic games.

>>11939034
The ps2 game got released on the west though

>>11939006 (OP)
Are you kidding? I've been spamming Metal Max on /vr/ for years

>>11939732
Looks ugly. Pass

>>11939034
It's an RPG with tanks and guns, Americans would have loved it.

>>11939732
How's the NES game? I remember reading it was open ended and thought that sounded cool but I wasn't able to find a good/translated rom or something and just forgot about it

>>11939743
The NES game's been translated, it's the SNES game that hasn't because it's been "dibbed" by someone sitting on it for a decade.

I've always thought the claims that the games are "open world" and "you can do anything and go anywhere" to be wildly exagerated. In reality Metal Max has a structure very similar to Dragon Quest 2/3, the only difference being that in several cases you can fuck off and not even solve every quests before moving on if you want to. It's like, imagine if in DQ2 you weren't forced to recruit the Prince of Cannock before moving on but then you're still forced to do that boss fight in order to get the ship, that's the Metal Max philosophy. Only in the late games is there so real intended non linearility, similar to DQ2/3

Metal Max 2 feels even more linear in the first part of the game, but then once you get the boat you can truly go almost anywhere and do things in whatever order or not at all, though there is still a somewhat intended order.

>>11939006 (OP)
Always feel like SFC RPGs are underwhelming when you compare the box art to the in-game presentation, the abstraction I can convince myself of with older RPGs doesn't carry over as much. I think I just find 16-bit graphics quite garish and ugly.

>>11939006 (OP)
impressive tits

>>11939006 (OP)
If it got a western release with that mound on the cover art, it would be in the top 10.

I can't believe I never made a collage for Returns so I just went and made one

>>11939736
>>11939804
Nobody cares. What are you faggots doing on this board anyway

>>11939824
imagine a spent shell landing in her bosom. that shell is you, king

>>11940267
I articulated my opinion, retard.

>>11939006 (OP)
are any of the later games in the series good? i tried metal max returns and it was alright but a little too primitive for me.

>>11939804
Make zoomers illegal

>>11940413
I've played them all except the newest one on 7th gen console/Steam; and except the first one on DS which is played with the touchpad because fuck that casual shit

Metal Saga on PS2 was a super comfy game however the balancing is horrible. The game is balanced in such a way that 1) if you're behind on lvls compared to your current area you'll be getting a TONS more exp to catch up and 2)once you're a few levels higher than what is intended for an area you're literally invicible (enemies won't even damage you at all). This combined with the freedom of movement the world map offers is a terrible thing: all you have to do is walk a few steps in the wrong direction, fight 4-5 fights, then go back to the "right" direction and you'll be invicible.

1, 2 and Returns are the bests. 3, 2R and 4 are okay as well but they reek of modern anime / modern RPG shit. The thing I enjoyed the most about 4 is that it punishes the players who stick to their comfort zone: if you're betting everything on multi-hit weapons like 2R and 3, you're going to do okay, but it's not the best solution. Instead if you're willing to experiment you'll be rewarded with something that truly breaks the game though I'm not going to spoil what.

>>11940484
Appreciate the writeup. The one on steam was the one I was kind of curious about, but I might check out 4 too. I've always had a weird aversion to portable games but I guess if I'm just emulating it anyway it doesn't matter.

>>11940429
I'm 35 in December.

>>11940515
That's worse, even.

>>11940517
8-bit RPGs look better than 16-bit ones.

>>11939743
The typical way Metal Max does open-ended is basically that you get a small open-world area with lots of options with a chokepoint challenge. When you pass the chokepoint you get into another bigger open world. Like in MM2R (I haven't played SFC MM2) you have the initial western area chokepointed by a dungeon with the boss Skunks at the end, then you get a bigger open world with the boss Cagliostro chokepointing, then you can go all the way to the endgame. Most things in between are theoretically optional besides travelling itself.

In MMR (the SFC remake of MM1) you have a tutorial area chokepoint, then the game has a choice of big optional skip that can take you right to endgame or a relatively linear path of challenges, but there is a hidden piece of information you need to actually enter the endgame and you need to search the entire game world to find it so it's really a replay thing.

>>11939006 (OP)
idk

Can you battle Noah in MMR2? I found his battle theme in the OST but never found him in the game proper.

>>11939762
would the person who "dibbed" it be Aeon Genesis?

>>11940567
No

>>11940571
Of course

>>11940587
Huh, so just a little bonus remix in the CD? That's pretty cool.

>>11940597
It might have been used as the theme for one of a few battles that might just be alluding to Noah? I don't really pay attention to music that closely myself.

>>11940605
I didn't explore the whole world back when I played it, so there's a chance a superboss hidden in a corner somewhere plays that theme if that's the case.

>>11939736
t.

>>11940267
The /v/ jr-ists of /vr/ are spreading ritual spam (i.e. auster) and obvious flamebait, and other forms of /v/ermin garbage, accross the board to the dismay of the jannies' apathy.
It's likely going to keep being this way until they open the lame-o applications again.

>>11939006 (OP)
No idea.
The first one is the best RPG on famicom. Easily.
And the second is easily in the top 5 best RPGs on Super Famicom.
The lack of enthusiasm for these games is a fucking mystery to me.

>>11939736
Retard.

>>11940281
Dumbass.

>>11939025
Its a meaty veiny girlcock.

>>11940961
Have you played Famicom Jump II? It has some tracks by the composer of Metal Max and a couple of dungeons have Metal Max-y music
be careful to do things in the correct order in the late game or there is a softlock

>>>11940961
Have you played Famicom Jump II? It has some tracks by the composer of Metal Max and a couple of dungeons are very Metal Max-y (sewer and factory settings)

It's basically the "dream team" Famicom JRPG

be careful to do things in the correct order in the late game or there is a softlock

>>11941041
>Have you played Famicom Jump II?
No i haven't. But i will now.