What the fuck did I just play Why is this so ass?
>>738138850outsourced to south koreans back when they had no zero relevance in the industry, same with kof2001-2003 and svc chaos
>>738139757It also had its development rushed out of the door by SNK, hence why the game is all over the place.
>playing Metal Slug after 3LolLmao
>>738139862I was told 5 was better than 4 but 5 kind of sucksis 4 even worse?
>>738140402The only good thing 4 added to the series was the two machine guns powerup.
>>7381404024 is essentially an officially licensed romhack.
>>738138850A metal slug without Nazca Corporation, like everything after 3 when Akio and other relevant members left following SNKs bankruptcy.
>>7381408685 has that also>>7381408865 already felt like a romhackthe environments and enemies/bosses are so much more bland than even the first game, much less X or 3there's also a bajillion screen transitions every level that makes it feel amateurish
>>738140868>>738140886is 4 worth getting for 4 bucks?it's the only neo geo slug I haven't played besides the original 2
>>738141114The environments and bosses in 4 ARE the ones from the old games, they just recolored them and jumbled them together, it's that lazy.
Should I boughted this on sale?
>>738138850>>738139862>>738140402>>7381408862>1>4>X>3>6>5Make sure to emulate all of them on MAME or FB Neo with max overclock to remove all the slowdown and get lowest input lag.X really is pointless when you overclock 2 as that was the only real advantage it had. It's 1 step forward, 2 steps back in terms of level design and all the new weapons it adds just feel like shit. Still a great game just because it's so heavily based on 2.3 is bloated and unbalanced as all hell, filled with bullet sponges, and has a ton of shitty sections and dead air, but would be a really solid entry if the entire game was like stages 3 and 4.4 is really underrated. It reuses a lot of assets from 3, although frankly most of those assets were just shoved in 3 without much care because it was supposed to be their last Slug game so they didn't want anything to go to waste. The level design and bosses are really solid though.5 has the absolute worst level design and bosses in the series, and is largely an irredeemable turd, plus it has the slide that only exists in that one game and can't be disabled, completely fucking with your muscle memory and leading to constant accidental deaths.
>>738141159Why the fuck would you skip chronological order just to start with the three worst games?All you need is 1-4, 6 is decent but can be skipped without missing much and is a pain to play properly
>>738141345Even ignoring all the reused assets in 4, it's still dogshit because it loves to enemy spam more than any other entry in the series, although 6 gets close.There are multiple sections where the screen locks until you kill everything and it's tedious as hell.
>>738141114They planned and sprited most of 2 and 3 when making 1, even the aliens concept in there in an early form on the concept art. 4 and 5 were patchworks of existing assets and discarded ideas like the airship boss fight.
>>738141508It has way less enemy spam than 3 you subhuman retard zoomer. I've no death cleared all the mainline games, try again poser faggot
>>738141613Korean spotted.
>>738141338Isn't this the offline version of the mobile game that got shut down? That should tell you enough
>>738141613Very aggressive today aren't you? But yes it does. At the very least 3 has something interesting to look at, but 4 has nothing interest to look at since it's all reused, so you're just killing endless waves of enemies with the blandest visuals ever until the game randomly decides you killed enough and unlocks the screen for you to keep going.
>>738141508It's the shortest game aside from 1 and has a pretty even split of open/skippable vs. closed arenas
>>7381418084 doesn't have waves and waves of enemies. The level and boss design are far more interesting and varied in 4. Slug 3 has tons of assets shoved into the shitty alt paths that no one ever takes because they are boring as hell and filled with bullet sponges. ALL Slug 3 has is its visuals, it's peak cinematic posercore
Uh-oh, the /vr/ Metal Slug autist is here
>>738141280bitch I've played the shit out of X and 3 alreadythe rest of them are on sale because of the 30th anniversary so I just got the first one and 5don't want to get 2 when X is just 2 but better and everyone says 4 sucks so I avoided it
>>738142114>>738141280uh, wrong reply>>738141462
>>738141907>boss design are far more interesting and varied in 4.Alright, let's see what the bosses in 4 has to offer...>mission 1Oh, soldier spam.>mission 2Oh, more soldier spam.>mission 3Helicopter spam! Something different!>mission 4Nevermind, back to soldier spam.>mission 5Would you look at that, soldier spam.>final missionFinally some good fucking food. Only took you six missions.
>>738138850What happened to the cult leader?
>>738141345>Make sure to emulate all of them on MAME or FB Neo with max overclock to remove all the slowdownsoulless retard detected arcade games are designed around the lagt. has actually played metal slug on cabinets
>>738142250They gave up, I'm not kidding they just dropped that plotlineafter the first mission.
>>738142250He died on his way home.
>Overclock>MS3 hater and 4 contrarianOh, it's that faggot again. Ignore him as always.
>>738141345Why not the pc collection? It has no slowdown.
give me ONE reason not to
rank the metal slugs
>>738139757Only 4 was outsourced to gooks. Gooks also didn't touch kof 2003 or SvC Chaos.
>>7381448673 -> X=1 -> 4 -> 5 -> 6(art style was atrocious) Didn't play tier: GBA / DS If you like the series just for the sprites: Metal Slug Attack Reloaded, I seriously wish there was a modded balance patch for this one
>>738145592>4>5substantiate your reasoning
>>7381448672>1>>>>>>>6>>>3>X>5>7Play 1 and 2 back to back, skip the rest, honestly.
>>738142778It has considerably more input latency than the Neo emulation we have these days. Also inferior audio accuracy and frame pacing issues. Still much better than the god forsaken Anthology collection released on console a few years earlier, though.
>>7381457694 and 5 was mid tier, but I SLIGHTLY enjoyed 4 more. The levels were tolerable if underwhelming / lazy with the enemy placements. It could be argued 4=5 too
Do the Steam releases have that annoying emulation lag?
>>738142221That's not what you originally said, you said it locked the screen and doesn't let you progress. Having adds on bossfights is fine, the bosses in Slug 4 aren't as strong as the best of 1-3 but they are really solid.
>>738142428Metal Slug sure as hell isn't, they just pushed the hardware to its absolute limit. The slowdown starts and stops suddenly and throws off your timing and flow, massively increases input lag, and literally eats your inputs. Let me guess, you also defend 30fps as artistic vision?Slug is far better with no slowdown and how the devs would want it if hardware was capable.
>>738147043Skill issue
>>738146596No but a lot of the sound effects play weirdly and distorted and it annoyed me a lot.
>>7381388501>2≈X>3>5>>>4I really liked the concept behind 5 actually, and it should have been the last chapter. The final boss (god of apocalypse) blew my mind. Instead 4 is such a mess, reused assets tied together in a clunky shitshow with ridicolous computers/robots final boss(es), what a fucking nerd bullshit
>>738147094>skill issue>no death cleared the entire mainline seriesHoly shitter cope
>>738147714>what a fucking nerd bullshit
>>738147263damn
why the fuck do people put 2 above x when x is just 2 but better
>>738149343X has worse level design, more fat gimmick bullshit, and adds two shitty weapons. If you play on emulator with overclock, the main advantage of X is completely irrelevant.
>>738149425>emulatortard>more content=bad 2 has the shitty announcer from 1that alone makes X better
I have 1, X and 3 on MVS and plan on getting the Fusion convertor to play them on my AES+ I'm getting in November. I'm getting the anniversary edition with the AES+ reprint version, but it is nice to have options. I would get 2 on MVS, but the slowdown just kills it for me. The AES+ may have an overclock feature that might fix the slowdown, but still.
>>738138850>this threadam I the only one that likes 5? it's my second favorite after 3
>>738151414what the fuck is wrong with you
>>738151554>good tracks like always, a bit more metal this time>cool enemy and boss designs>cool aussie setback and jungle themeidk. it just hits nice
Is MS1's 1cc reckoned to be particularly hard?
I played this soooooo much, i think i still have my copy of it too.Very fun and highly replayable.
>>738152514GBA was slept on, incredible game for the platform.
https://youtu.be/70PJGJNKvzs?si=v5NYvlUTc6-_WEi7which one of you niggers made this video cause its hilarious
>>738141345There is no reason to play 2 over X. X has extra mechs that make it more enjoyable when playing with two people. The fact you have to overclock 2 just to be on par says it all. 1 has the classic appeal but hard to go back to with all the advancements of the later titles. 3-6 comes down to taste and what you started with as they all try to relieve the high of 3.
>>738152514The NGPC games, especially the second, are a billion times better.
>>738153206I like 1's simplicity honestly. The game design is tight while not overly bloated.
>>738152123Nah, 1 is actually considered very reasonable. Both relative to the rest of the series, and for arcade games in general.
You guys gonna buy Navinosuke when it releases? Its made by metal slug devs and the spritework is gorgeous
>>738153486Started with X so very hard to get into 1 as an advancement whore. Do the same thing when trying Sonic the Hedgehog over S3K.
>Boot up Steam>No Metal Slug 4, 5, 6, 7, AdvanceLiterally am forced to pirate
>>7381532062 has miles better level design, pacing, and balance for solo play. Both games should be overclocked (X also has a good bit of slowdown) in which case they both have zero slowdown
>>738153831If there's a physical release, for now I'm more concerned about Black Finger Jet living up to the team's legacy.
>>7381532062 has a simple programming bug that causes it to have twice the amount of slowdown as it normally would, that has no bearing on the actual level design and is easily fixed with overclock.
1>x>3>6>5>4From a casual fan's perspective
>>738141345>Make sure to emulate all of them on MAME or FB Neo with max overclock to remove all the slowdown and get lowest input lag.The slowdown in all but 2 is perfectly fine. It’s part of the game, and emulation without the slowdown is inaccurate and soulless.
>>738142778Play the ACA ports by Hamster Corporation. They are very good, honest ports of the arcade game.
>"Introducing The Spiritual Successor to the Metal Slug Series!" >is the worst spiritual successor in all of human kind This was literally the last time I've ever preordered a game, I'm still mad. Which is a fucking shame cause I loved the artwork done by Paul Robertson.
Ha ha haHa ha haCome on, boy!Ha ha haHa ha haSee you in hell!
>>738155062Metal Slug sure as hell isn't, they just pushed the hardware to its absolute limit. The slowdown starts and stops suddenly and throws off your timing and flow, massively increases input lag, and literally eats your inputs.Let me guess, you also defend 30fps as artistic vision?Slug is far better with no slowdown and how the devs would want it if hardware was capable>emulation without the slowdown is inaccurate and soulless.You are one subhuman brown retard lmao
>>738154035Only a faggot tendie would play 7 over XX to begin with.
I only play attack to look at the sexy sprites that's all the game has going for
>>738155062I know you're stupid as a fucking rock, but surely you realize that the game having twice the amount of slowdown it would normally, means a 200% overclock (or the Turbo rom) would be the superior with the same amount of slowdown in line with the other games (if you actually prefer slowdown for some reason)
>everyone talks about the mainline games>the portable games>the literal phone games>*tumbleweeds*
>>7381398624, 5 and 6 are worth at least one playthrough
>>738156083It's surprisingly pretty, but the fact it's made by a westoid devs ruins a lot of the appeal for me.
>>738152123Doesn't get hard until the final stage.
>>738155874i dunno what they were thinking when they dreamed up half the designs for attack, but they were cooking
>>738156083Ayy
>>738156083It being a rogue-like ruined it for me. I was wanting FFT-but-Metal-Slug.
>>7381432041. switch can be hacked easily so you shouldn't be paying for switch games2. you could just emulate it
>>738156712
Slug Gunner is my favorite slug though.
>>738156584That female girl second in command from Morden's army is too darn hot, her sprite has tons of curves..The Rebel army is pure soulful goober core in Attack desu, wish they showed up in Tactics
Loved 6 cause the tracks were cool and Martians helping us in the end was cute
>>738156584That's bootleg Angel, they didn't cook shit.
>>738138850SNK collapsed around 2000.All metal slugs after 3 are junk, and even 3 is pretty bad compared to 1 and X.
>>738157112>wish they showed up in TacticsFuck off. They put the AI Miku bitch in there and that was already bad enough, those garbage OCs deserve to rot, all of them.
>>738155372jej
>>738157489>They put the AI Miku bitch in there
what ever happened to the chinese metal slug game?
>>738156761Same.
>>738156584holy fuck
>beating 3 on the OG xbox and getting the storm the mothership mini gamei wish there was a whole spinoff on that as a squad based run and gun than a FFT spinoff
>>738141345>3 is bloated and unbalanced as all hell,holy shit what a retard.
>>738138850>Why is this so ass?>very first level with the very first segment starts you off on some lil gay ass canoe 5 told you everything you needed to know before you knew
>Search "Let me guess, you also defend 30fps as artistic vision?">2 matchesLmao
>>7381388505 is great as far as the first level and first scene of the second level. First level actually has a shit ton of hidden routes, you can get either the normal slug, the slug walker, and there's a HIDDEN MINIBOSS, only time in the entire series. Then a cutscene setting up a story.Unfortunately development was rushed and they left out half the fucking game after that point. You would've had a commando prisoner who follows you and shoots shit after freed, and the final boss sequence was significantly more elaborate: you first destroy a gigantic stone turtle, climb up its back to fight the metal elephants, climb up again and fight the cultist dude from the cutscenes, and presumably after that you fight the death god thing. The entire sequence got axed and reshuffled so you just jump a bunch of pillars, shoot the elephants, then fight the demon and that's it.The demon, even though it has only 2 attacks, would've been a good final boss if you had the entire sequence before it intact...>>738153831I'm waiting for them to release more news on Black Finger Jet. The trailer music is fucking ace.
>>738157223I like Namiki a lot, but his MS6 OST was kind of underwhelming for me, specially the remixes of old tracks. The chinese level one was very good though.
>>738159651Asia Impact was way too good a song for what may be the worst-looking level in the entire series.
Can't Saudis pay Chinks to make Metal Slug 6+?It's 8 levels of run and gun plus one final mission.
>>738154035Only a faggot would complain about being "forced" to pirate 20 year old games.When did this place become infested with buyfaggotry?
>>738155703>If you don't have a slug during the fleshy segment of Metal Slug 3 final stage he shows up to help youDidn't know this for YEARS.
>>738159598
>>738159481Does Metal Slug seriously have a dedicated autist that lurks every single thread? Is no game safe from this?
>>738158668Maybe try playing the game you fucking retarded shitter?Stage 1 is completely braindead filler, just hold right and fire the entire time including the boss, pure spectacle slopStage 2 is just a retread of Slug 2's stage 2, except more bland and with no verticality whatsoever, just a flat plane from beginning to end, and with zombies that crawl at a snail's pace with gargantuan health bars, and you just sit there in the corner and fire away while nearly falling asleep.Stage 4 boss is fun but absolutely miserable if you don't route the shotgun to him, and some of his random patterns can cause guaranteed hits if you get unlucky.Stage 5 is a giant bloated piece of shit (takes up 70% of the game's runtime btw), with two shitty shmup sections in a row (the second one is especially egregious, and just full of dead air). The earliest part of the mothership is not bad, but just continues the trend of throwing hordes of bullet sponge enemies at you with zero interesting level design, just mobs of enemies. The section with the clones is terrible, you just sit in a fucking corner and fire at hundreds of copy-pasted trashmobs. The final section with the gates is arguably the worst section in Slug history, with hordes of the biggest bullet sponges in existence, and you have to repeat the same exact sequence of slowly shooting at the door while dealing with hordes of slow moving bullet sponges four times in a row, and basically the only viable strategy is to cheese it. Then you have the single worst final boss in any Slug game by a fucking mile, you just jump back and forth between the tank and this one tiny pixel safespot every time he does his attack beam attack (which has a very questionable and unclear hitbox), while slooooowly whittling away at his absurdly massive healthbar for five minutes straight. If you didn't enter with flameshot or shotgun and a shitton of grenades, you better hope to get lucky with weapon drops or you will be there all day.
>>738160739Oftentimes, it's the same guy across different games/series.
>>738152123Nah I just did it as my first 1CC ever. Its basically just the last two levels that are hard the rest are very easy and almost impossible to die in after you've gone through them a handful of times. I've been grinding MS3 1CC and I'd say its more than twice as hard.
>>738155768>Oh no, my inputs just got eaten! Not fair!!!! You’re already playing with autofire surely, how much of a boost do you need? It’s part of the game, anon. Fuck off.
>>738155768I play metal slug 3 MVS on a candy cab regularly at my local arcade actually. Real hardware you probably have never touched. The idea that you think these games are unplayable without turbo boost overclock whatever-the-fuck mode is so fucking cringe, holy shit.
>>738160739Yes, check the guy who keeps spamming "shitter".
1st game is the best there's no contest. 2nd/X comes very close. 2 is better in a way because it keeps aliens to final level, though I like new variations for squids and mummies in X3 is gimmicky shit, the paths you take are not very thought out. 2nd, 4th and final levels suck.4th game is garbage, nothing of value except good music.5th could be kino but bosses and levels suck. Wasted new faction on another romhack tier game.6th one has great potential, but man do those ugly backgrounds kill all the soul the games have. Another problem is it's too short, there's 2 levels against soldiers, 2 against aliens and 1 gimmicky scroll level that sucks ass. Bosses are mediocre. 7/XX is too long lol. The variety of enemies is gone now, future soldiers don't do enough to compensate for it. Same issues as 6, ugly backgrounds, mediocre bosses (the crab is nice though) and because of its length it's the most boring game in series. Wet fart of an ending to the entire saga, I wish there was more. anniversary trailer hinted at something, I hope it's 2D pixel art thing and not another mobile game gacha
>>7381398623 still isn't perfect, it merged missions 5 and what was supposed to be 6 into a single massive mission for no reason whatsoever.
>>738156882You can’t upload your score on the Japanese leaderboard without paying, anon. Plus Hamster Corp are worth supporting.
>>738138850>3 is badSuck nog dicks, retards.
>>738161261It's much easier to mash on a cabinet than it is on a controller or keyboard. Especially if you're playing without slowdown, your mash rate needs to be a bit higher You are a shitter with no clears though, so your opinion is irrelevant regardless.
>>7381617406th could've been an underrated underdog, but if only they kept some semblance of the original art style. That washed out digital artwork is just so bad, like unforgivably bad.
>>738161494>playkey word there, you have never cleared it or even come close. Keep mashing buttons and feeding credits while basedfacing to the epic cinematic setpieces you retarded shitter
>>738153206You are actually retarded.
>>738161740>Another problem is it's too short, there's 2 levels against soldiers, 2 against aliens and 1 gimmicky scroll level that sucks ass. Bosses are mediocre. I see you didn't play hard mode.it's not worth it.
Yeah, it's the same retard who lurked the Metal Slug threads on /vr/. The board is a rotting corpse so he came here like a vulture.
>>738155118just tried the nsp version it has slowdown. ill stick to the pc collection for now
>>738162082Hardware change means making some risky choices (same stuff with the contemporary KOFs), sadly here it didn't work. The sounds are also not good.
>>738141683if im not mistaken it ran for like 7 years before getting shut down plenty of other games have lived for far shorter amounts of time
>>738156083It was okay... but I remember all of the delays and thinking that this game was vaporware for the longest time before it, surprisingly, actually came out. And when it did... it was just okay. There wasn't nearly enough variety in the """random""" elements. I only ended up logging about 30 hours in the game and I eventually dropped it because every run started feeling very similar and I could recognize the patterns. It was a good idea to do a Metal Slug Tactics game, but the execution wasn't great
>>738162351what do you mean, the final alien cave? I always played it on Hard with infinite credits .The way I counted was like this - first 2 levels against humans, 3rd when invasion begins (asian impact is the name of the music in it), then 4th is that awful scroll level in the air, and 5th is the final cave. 3rd and 5th I counted as 2 levels against aliens, even though you fight them in that scroll level too. Confusing, I'm sorry
>>738162718I just found it odd that you called it "too short" because that damn final level goes on forever.
>>738162413I've posted on /v/ since before I've posted on /vr/
May I offer you gentlemen an indie game for consideration? Its a bit overpriced for the quality, but its fun and sovlful. Some guy decided he liked Metal Slug and Kirby, so he made a sluglike game with Great Cave Offensive style enemy chatter during the levels. Got a cute little story and lots of run and gun gameplay with some clever twists and a lot of Metal Slug omages, for instance the boss of area 2 is gameplay wise almost literally the Shooting Ray from MS5 despite the completely different context.I recommend playing on the second hardest difficulty as the hardest one removes all your customization options. It makes things more challenging for sure but it also takes the feeling of progression away.
>>738162189>>738162063100% fake interest take right here
>>738141345>it's the 4 good 3 bad schizoNo one is going to read your walls of text.
>>738163093>Metal Slug: Faggot Tranny EditionGTFO and get this fucking trash out of here
>>738163151I didn't say 3 is bad, it's just not one of the best Slug games and is weighed down by a lot of bloat, bullet sponges, and dead air. Stages 3 and 4 are great.
>>738160819Lol its the faggot from /vr/
>>738159598I really enjoy 5, it's got a unique style to it, but it absolutely fucking should have gotten an X like version.
>>738154035If you are playing digital copies, you should be pirating to begin with.
>>738152123Its easiest of the arcade games.
>>738163679Nah, Metal Slug is like 90-95th percentile in terms of arcade 1cc difficulty.
>>738155372Looks like absolute retard slop.
>>738155372I might be thinking of the wrong gameThis looks crazy familiar Did they make a run and gun back in the newgrounds days?Like broforce but more edgy?>pamala anderson's left tit as a bossI keked heartily for an hour
>>738163158>Brain rotten sperg addicted to buzzwords.GTFO and get your fucking ass out of here.
>>738163714I meant of the arcade slugs.
>>738164052Oh it's definitely the easiest of the Slug games, but still no slouch.
>>738163093>Great Cave Offensive style enemy chatter??? You mean Meta Knights Revenge?
>>738160739He just copy-pasted his post about slowdown because he saw another post about slowdown and was probably lazy. I don't think that's enough to qualify him as "a dedicated autist that lurks every single thread" also no I'm not him
I am craving a metal slug "like" gameAny game out there that is similar and can scratch that itch?
>>738163093>what if we took gunstar heroes and metal slug and put them into a blenderI'll look into it, when it goes on sale for $1.99
Anyone ever play Mighty Goose? I thought it was a nobel attempt at a slug like, but if you are doing a StarFox/Bucky O' Hare setting, don't make your main character just make non intelligible animal noises.
>>738161986that's 5 you blind nigger
>>738164181CT Special Forces series. I also find Contra Force to play closer to MS. The two gba Lilo & Stitch games if you dont mind some BS sections where you play as Lilo. Alien Hominid of course. Also one i played on ps4 called Speedollama which i think uses randomly generated stages.
>>738159071Every game with an autoscroller needs an option to speed the scrolling up. In this case, it'd be smacking your ThankYou-man.
>>738164367Thanks anon>Ct special forcesLol lmao this is a blatant copy
>>738164181In The Hunt and GunForce II are probably the closest, as they're from the same Nazca team.Not really much else out there like Slug, it's by far the best run and gun, although I do like Contra, Shinobi, Cave Story, Shock Troopers, Cuphead, Jackal, Mercs, Elevator Action Returns, Out Zone, Sunset Riders, GnG, Kero Blaster, etc. but I wouldn't really say any of them play like Metal Slug.I guess the most blatant clones would be Demon Front and Dolphin Blue, but those are both pretty bad..
>>738164181If you want a good run and gun with personality I can recommend Huntdown. It's great, but on the other side of genre's spectrum
>>738164181Contra: Hard Corps
>>738162189>>738160819>>738156049>>738155768Hi steel_cat
>>738165134no clue who that isyou're not really doing a good job here
>>738138850>arcade lives system>infinite lives>just try to 1CC broWhy can't the ports for these games just send you back after you die like a normal fucking game that isn't stuck in a rusty coin box?
>>738164560Gunners Heaven
>>738166293just restart manually if you run out of lives you pedantic faggot
