How about they just make a game without the id politics? They can easily make male characters to play as. They can make civilians without mask AND they are both male and females of all ages. They can MAKE female enemy soldiers.
This. It reminds me of people who say "So? Why do you care?" when I complain about something that was changed (like the black little mermaid). They never ask why they changed it in the first place. They only criticize those who criticize the change.
This. It reminds me of people who say "So? Why do you care?" when I complain about something that was changed (like the black little mermaid). They never ask why they changed it in the first place. They only criticize those who criticize the change.
>But they didn't because they're into politics. >its politics to add women to a game
>series had male characters >adds female characters >modern series aiming to succeed it only has female characters for "some reason" >also has zero fanservice for "some reason"
Sorry that anons notice things
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I didn't really care about that until I saw the fucking Masks. Anyway, I bet this thread was made by a dev. Hey dev, if you're reading this then add in the blood because you're fucking shooting people, and get rid of the fucking masks.
>women has drunk sex and gets pregnant >its rape and the man has to pay child support >man has drunk sex and impregnates woman >you should've thought about that before drinking and man has to pay child support
being a man means losing in every situation
>They can MAKE female enemy soldiers.
that would require them to actually draw new sprites. all the sprites they have are clearly traced from metal slug.
Oh wow, another IP where some indie studio takens an IP a company literally doesn't give a shit and become wealthy, because the company is a retard and focus on milking the few cows they have.
Wow, what an unique original idea.
I am clearly now extremelly interested for some metal slug shit since, SNK hasn't touched the IP since the 90's.
I heard that the Lodoss War metroidvania got sued by Konami because it copied the sprite animation of Alucard, not even the same sprites, but the way Alucard sprite animates
I like the sprites and art, but the action really doesn't pack a punch like Metal Slug did.
One of the greatest thing about it was how a single burst of machine gun could tear apart multiple soldiers and and destroy all kinds of background element.
Those harpoons look and sound like hot farts by comparison, doesn't feel satisfying.
Probably ripped, altered in places, or they're good at copying the original assets. The animation doesn't really look like the in-game art style and the characters look really out of place. Metal; Slug had a more cohesive art style where it's like exaggerated realism.
Why do we reward shameless ripoffs and imitations? Be creative, make something new. These people clearly have a ton of talent, how about they put it towards an original idea.
>people want more of X >company refuses to make more of X >someone comes along and makes not!X >people praise them for giving them what they wanted
its not that hard
There has not ONCE been a knockoff that ended up being anywhere as close to the original in these countless cases, so the fact that this can keep happening but retards think, “This time it’ll be different!” really shows how much some people just want to be obliviously content with mediocrity.
There has not ONCE been a knockoff that ended up being anywhere as close to the original in these countless cases, so the fact that this can keep happening but retards think, “This time it’ll be different!” really shows how much some people just want to be obliviously content with mediocrity.
Fight'N Rage
Streets of Rage 4 (effectively, different devs)
The difference is that in the past sequels were interspersed with new IPs and tried new things in those sequels. Look at this game, not only are they not the original devs of the game, but are using years of their life to make a 1:1 copy with different characters. It's the same trite as BRC, these games are not much more than rom hacks and shouldn't be treated differently, especially not be given a price tag. Even if these games sometimes end up better mechanically (because they have an extra 20-30 years of game design to draw upon), they fail horribly as works evaluated in the the context of merit.
Also if you want more metal slug how about playing the game from the actual og devs that's coming out instead of this, at least there is some dignity there because they made metal slug
The problem here is that they're ripping off the art style, but aren't even going all the way with it with the characters. Either do a totally faithful imitation or do something completely new. You can do a clear homage without totally ripping off stuff too.
Main characters look fine in the cutscenes albeit somewhat bland and uninspired but there's just something lacking compared to Metal Slug. Maybe the in-game sprites are just weirdly thin for this resolution? Maybe it's that they have no bright colors to speak of?
I never understand the point of making a work that's so derivative. If I wanted to play Metal Slug then I'd just replay one of the old ones. I'd rather not drop money on a fake that's trying so hard to ape it.
I applaud their effort to make the backgrounds and sprites that faithful. But at the same time I think they should be a little more original and add their own vision to their game instead of just remaking Metal Slug with their donut OC femoids.
Also the title name is awful and there is literally no blood in-game.
I'm not upset, I'm giving you my honest opinion on the game.
If being called derivative hurts your feefees, then perhaps you should've put effort into making something more original.
Ok, mindbroken retard, just be careful of the wokeness in your little Sheerio's
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Sorry i don't like playing as monkeys in my videogames you might enjoy them because they please your wife but i don't honestly also your game looks like shite honestly its like you ripped off the backgrounds from the actual game then put your shitty made characters in it.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Bla bla bla whinning blq bla bla pozzed bla bla bla retard retard
Yeah, not petty or childish at all, anon
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Lol we broke him.
I just reported your game to snk btw hopefully they sue your moron loving ass into oblivion.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>thinks i'm a dev
Maybe get off Ganker for a while, champ, you're getting too paranoically retarded
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I dont think youre the dev i think youre a moron lover and also the dev and you need to go back to plebbit.
now this is how you make a good metal slug homage, you can tell it has metal slug as an influence but it isn't directly ripping it off like the one in the OP.
can't wait for the ripoff to get copyright struck lol
You mean this game? It's pretty much dead with 10-20 daily players. The repetitive timed missions and grinding for materials turns the game into a slog.
this is just shameless. There was no attempt made to make it its own thing, it's basically just plagiarising metal slug at this point.
Sure it looks nice but that's because it's copying someone else's art style.why would I play this when I could just play metal slug?
because... uhhh they're indie or something so they're way better than that pesky corporation! didn't you see the masked civilians and the generic soldiers? you have to be pc in gaming now!
I don't mind having babes but we need men to balance shit out or else its just an another women empowerment bs like the new gta. if its only women being mc's then it subconsciously makes you accept that women are actually capable of kicking ass.
Irrelevant, I can watch Wonder women beat up a demigod and don't suddenly feel female soldiers are comparable to their male counterparts. Yeah I wish there were male character(s) too but its not a deal breaker.
when wonder woman was established there were already a majority of male badasses so she was an exception amongst the majority. Now the female empowerment agenda has reached a level where women are being depicted as strong and main character worthy in many titles in all sorts of media. Basically it has gotten out of hand with minor women characters becoming the stars now. Me and you are smart enough to look past it but the majority of people are npcs that can't think for themselves and accept propaganda subconsciously hence the huge rise of trannies because of mainstream media shoveling this garbage down our throats.
>Now the female empowerment agenda has reached a level where women are being depicted as strong and main character worthy in many titles in all sorts of media.
you were probably born past the 00s, but le empowered wahmen has been a thing since the 80s and there's a lot of critically acclaimed media that pushes that trope.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
no im no zoomie. You missed my point. Right now it is being pushed more than before by the media. Back then it was accepted just to give them hope but never taken seriously
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
> Right now it is being pushed more than before by the media
and? if you want to turn back the clock, invent a time machine and go assassinate James Cameron and Ridley Scott. you should have nooticed when it was becoming a trend early on instead of later. now you sound like a reactionary without a game plan.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>still missing my point
it really is pointless arguing with an average Gankerner
I don't mind the visuals being very similar to MS, but what bothered me the most were the sounds. Using the same sounds is incredibly distracting, makes it feel like a cheap knock-off more than anything else.
That art style reminds me of Megatokyo.
Wait shit, is Megatokyo the stuff Gamestop used to slip onto game covers that they didn't print out?
It's a sort of generic "western" anime style for people who want to draw anime style, but don't really have the talent for it.
Looks soulful to me.
Imagine being this cucked. Must be hard.
The same could be said about your father but nobodies bitching mr dev.
>The man is still going
girl is cute
words words words
Holy wall of text.
Hold up, didnt the gamer bro speak in 1337 from the start?
metal slug is kill
>Just two women
>No male heroes
>All the good people are wearing masks
>No blood
I want to like it but The Small shit is getting to me.
Demo was pretty good but bullets feel weird
the first metal slug didn't have any babes, it was a homo game?
Nope. Because it was a game about two dudes falling in love unlike this Yuri fanfic.
>Nope. Because it was a game about two dudes falling in love unlike this Yuri fanfic.
real shit?
>Femtoids
Ewwwww
>Femboys*
Everytime there are females characters in a game I tell myself they're in fact FEMBOYS.
>Two chud protags
No thanks, Metal Slug still holds up and there's no need to play this.
>I wake up
>I think about trannies
>I sleep and repeat the process
They're literally mentally ill, they can't help it.
>They're literally mentally ill
That's all I see when looking at trannies. Thanks for being honest about it.
Enjoy your game being dead in the water.
shut up about id politics and just have fun for once you underages
How about they just make a game without the id politics? They can easily make male characters to play as. They can make civilians without mask AND they are both male and females of all ages. They can MAKE female enemy soldiers.
But they didn't because they're into politics.
OB-FUCKING-SESSED!
>Reeee chud groom homo devs! THE PCS ARE FEMALE!
>Can't think of a good argument
Anon stop being a big stupid. But you know what else they can do? Make the enemies all color too.
This. It reminds me of people who say "So? Why do you care?" when I complain about something that was changed (like the black little mermaid). They never ask why they changed it in the first place. They only criticize those who criticize the change.
>But they didn't because they're into politics.
>its politics to add women to a game
Seems like YOU are the one obsessed with politics
>stop noticing things!
Nah
"Noticing" to you is seeing dark figures in the corner of your eyes schizo retard
>series had male characters
>adds female characters
>modern series aiming to succeed it only has female characters for "some reason"
>also has zero fanservice for "some reason"
Sorry that anons notice things
I didn't really care about that until I saw the fucking Masks. Anyway, I bet this thread was made by a dev. Hey dev, if you're reading this then add in the blood because you're fucking shooting people, and get rid of the fucking masks.
Also get rid of the foid shit.
>You're crazy goy, ignore it
Same old tricks...
Pretend I posted that Niezchste quote about looking in the abyss. That's you.
If you get drunk at parties women won't sleep with you nowadays because muh consent or whatever. I feel bad for zoomies.
shit sux, man
holy shit I haven't thought of this show in at least a decade.
Why do zoomies act like sex is the worst thing that can happen to them?
because gnomish criminals are still committing crimes
zoomies are scared to grow up. The idea of stop playing nintendo games is equal to dead.
>women has drunk sex and gets pregnant
>its rape and the man has to pay child support
>man has drunk sex and impregnates woman
>you should've thought about that before drinking and man has to pay child support
being a man means losing in every situation
>They can MAKE female enemy soldiers.
that would require them to actually draw new sprites. all the sprites they have are clearly traced from metal slug.
which ones? traced in what way?
this is the worst bait post i've seen here
you don't know what tracing means
looks like the devs have found this thread
>implying they weren't the ones that created it in the first place
>ignore it goy
Just make a normal game, gay
bringing up the topic of trannies at all should become a bannable offense next to wojak
I am commander shephard and this is my favourite post on the board.
Frogposting should also be bannable
Hell yes my brothers
Their sprites are a bit looooong
Well it looks strange, like chink hack with reusing assets because some parts are well done but others pretty basic
Oh wow, another IP where some indie studio takens an IP a company literally doesn't give a shit and become wealthy, because the company is a retard and focus on milking the few cows they have.
Wow, what an unique original idea.
I am clearly now extremelly interested for some metal slug shit since, SNK hasn't touched the IP since the 90's.
in english?
SNK doesn't give a fuck about anything but KOF.
>the looks
>the sound
>the humor
Man, wish SNK didn't gave up on this franchise
>are those two hecking women as protagonist? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Well, didn't expect much but it sounds like a yuri fanfic, sorry but it's a redline
>Yurichud shit
Hard pass, doesn't look that good either.
Get excited by Black Finger JET instead, which is made by former Metal Slug devs.
Yeah, I'm backing this horse because it's not an asset flip and the main characters don't have pancake faces
interesting
>Black Finger JET
I didn't know about this, thanks for posting it
>That music
Kino. Thanks for making this thread so I know about this game.
God is real and his name is Akio
So how long is the demo?
Ugly artstyle. Looks like the game and art was made by some pajeets that can't understand nuances.
what's the diff here?
looks like either 4:3 (square) or full (stretched to whatever)
Looks like a romhack. Elaborate, but a romhack nonetheless.
doesnt matter.
the fandom is literally starving for a new Metal slug for more than a decade.
Stop talking for me, nigro.
The "fandom" wants pixel art games and animation that's on par with the original Metal Slug games, not neccearily a ripoff of them.
Is it made by japs or is it a western studio using the IP?
some of the sprite looks lifted from Metal Slug. did they permission/own it?
I mean SNK are very litigious about these things, they even sued High School Girl manga because he drew SNK characters in the comic
None of them are actually Metal Slug sprites, they just look really similar. Go compare them yourself.
Yeah. If you played the games, you'll notice this exactly. Thwy look similar, btu a bit off
I heard that the Lodoss War metroidvania got sued by Konami because it copied the sprite animation of Alucard, not even the same sprites, but the way Alucard sprite animates
News to me, and didn't find any articles about that.
>main gun sounds like shit because it's a harpoon gun
bad idea
I like the sprites and art, but the action really doesn't pack a punch like Metal Slug did.
One of the greatest thing about it was how a single burst of machine gun could tear apart multiple soldiers and and destroy all kinds of background element.
Those harpoons look and sound like hot farts by comparison, doesn't feel satisfying.
you now remember Commando
Did they ripped assets from the base game, besides the sounds? It's weirdly familiar.
Probably ripped, altered in places, or they're good at copying the original assets. The animation doesn't really look like the in-game art style and the characters look really out of place. Metal; Slug had a more cohesive art style where it's like exaggerated realism.
I played some metal slug back in the day as a kid and a game similar on miniclip.
How should I play the series as an adult?
>no blood
>only female protags
pass
female don't bleed
They do once a month.
They fake it, just to have an excuse to annoy normal people.
>ANOTHER indie ripoff spiritual successor
Holy shit just stop it
>Watch trailer
>See moron
>Oh surely this must be done by westoids
>Look them up
>Switzerland
>Aqua Ippan - Demo Trailer!
Kino
looks to be going for a MS1 aesthetic, which was my least favourite of the trilogy but it was also the least used so kudos there
Why do we reward shameless ripoffs and imitations? Be creative, make something new. These people clearly have a ton of talent, how about they put it towards an original idea.
>people want more of X
>company refuses to make more of X
>someone comes along and makes not!X
>people praise them for giving them what they wanted
its not that hard
There has not ONCE been a knockoff that ended up being anywhere as close to the original in these countless cases, so the fact that this can keep happening but retards think, “This time it’ll be different!” really shows how much some people just want to be obliviously content with mediocrity.
Bombrush Cyberfunk seems to be JSR but actually good.
Stardew Valley
This is probably the best example. Stardew Valley makes Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons redundant.
Cuphead is better than Alien Soldier.
Ion Fury is better than any Build engine game.
Dusk is better than Quake.
Cope gay.
also this
>Dusk is better than Quake.
I'm gonna kill you with my bare hands.
>Cuphead is better than Alien Soldier.
Fight'N Rage
Streets of Rage 4 (effectively, different devs)
>Fight'N Rage
>Cuphead is better than Alien Soldier.
LOL
I agree with that anons general point that some of these rom hacks are better than what they are cloning but that take in particular is terrible
>Ion Fury is better than any Build engine game.
>Dusk is better than Quake.
lmaoing at you, serious sam mogs both.
Arrest sperg.
>serious sam mogs both
said no one ever
Torchlight 2
Freedom Planet
Bind8ng of Isaac>Saltar Tropics
And ST isn't even a bad game
paperball is actually better than the modern monkey ball games honestly
The difference is that in the past sequels were interspersed with new IPs and tried new things in those sequels. Look at this game, not only are they not the original devs of the game, but are using years of their life to make a 1:1 copy with different characters. It's the same trite as BRC, these games are not much more than rom hacks and shouldn't be treated differently, especially not be given a price tag. Even if these games sometimes end up better mechanically (because they have an extra 20-30 years of game design to draw upon), they fail horribly as works evaluated in the the context of merit.
Also if you want more metal slug how about playing the game from the actual og devs that's coming out instead of this, at least there is some dignity there because they made metal slug
The problem here is that they're ripping off the art style, but aren't even going all the way with it with the characters. Either do a totally faithful imitation or do something completely new. You can do a clear homage without totally ripping off stuff too.
This is not more of x though. It's a shitty x clone
Main characters look fine in the cutscenes albeit somewhat bland and uninspired but there's just something lacking compared to Metal Slug. Maybe the in-game sprites are just weirdly thin for this resolution? Maybe it's that they have no bright colors to speak of?
>2 new tomboy babes
nice.
that gameplay art hasnt changed a bit either. fuck yea
Awful title
I never understand the point of making a work that's so derivative. If I wanted to play Metal Slug then I'd just replay one of the old ones. I'd rather not drop money on a fake that's trying so hard to ape it.
This is what happens when they don't hire an ideas guy.
I applaud their effort to make the backgrounds and sprites that faithful. But at the same time I think they should be a little more original and add their own vision to their game instead of just remaking Metal Slug with their donut OC femoids.
Also the title name is awful and there is literally no blood in-game.
You sound upset about petty shit. That's a sign of immaturity
I'm not upset, I'm giving you my honest opinion on the game.
If being called derivative hurts your feefees, then perhaps you should've put effort into making something more original.
>"I don't like the title!"
>"Game has no blood!"
>"Protags are girls, ewwww!"
Cry more dev your game is shit if youre going to rip off a game then do it all the way gay.
Ok, mindbroken retard, just be careful of the wokeness in your little Sheerio's
Sorry i don't like playing as monkeys in my videogames you might enjoy them because they please your wife but i don't honestly also your game looks like shite honestly its like you ripped off the backgrounds from the actual game then put your shitty made characters in it.
>Bla bla bla whinning blq bla bla pozzed bla bla bla retard retard
Yeah, not petty or childish at all, anon
Lol we broke him.
I just reported your game to snk btw hopefully they sue your moron loving ass into oblivion.
>thinks i'm a dev
Maybe get off Ganker for a while, champ, you're getting too paranoically retarded
I dont think youre the dev i think youre a moron lover and also the dev and you need to go back to plebbit.
Ok, 4chan reject
I dont go on pol cuckfag.
and you spund upset that no one is gping to play your game lmao
Why are those chicks so covered up? Show some damn skin.
>morons
They cant help it do they?
>"UWAAAAHH THIS 16x16 PIXEL DOESNT HAVE A PENIS A BLOO BLOO"
it looks like shit, the characters look like shit... why should we be excited for this again? at least metal slug had charm.
Anyone knows a essentially metal slug-like game for arcades? i played one long ago but could never remember the name.
Gun force?
no, but they both look interesting.
Although the perspective is different you might also wanna look at shock troopers too.
Dolphin Blue?
what
said, specially the sequel. It's like a blend between Contra and a proto-MS
Demon Front?
now this is how you make a good metal slug homage, you can tell it has metal slug as an influence but it isn't directly ripping it off like the one in the OP.
can't wait for the ripoff to get copyright struck lol
YEAH THIS ONE
Fucking thank you, i still remember the fucking fat flying dinosaur
What happened to Mercenaries King?
You mean this game? It's pretty much dead with 10-20 daily players. The repetitive timed missions and grinding for materials turns the game into a slog.
>moron on the front
Lel no wonder the game died
Honestly the animations were dissapointing
Character models seem really watered down
Is that a scuba diver pun you son of a bitch?
>metal slug but shittier
absolute fucking state of gaming
>Tumbler Slug
no thanx, i rather play that upcoming chink 3D mobile game than touching this low effort turd
how is this not immediately Cease & Desist from SNK? Fucking lazy devs need to be shot
because it's a game nobody gives a shit about
I am almost certain that commando 2 capture the aesthetic of metal slug better that this and it didn't even have the same gameplay style
Holy shit I thought I was the only one that played commando 2 , that was some miniclip kino right there
Without CRT's or at the very least, shaders, pixel are looks like absolute garbage.
Ywnb Metal Slug
welp this game totally isn't gonna get dmca'ed
this is just shameless. There was no attempt made to make it its own thing, it's basically just plagiarising metal slug at this point.
Sure it looks nice but that's because it's copying someone else's art style.why would I play this when I could just play metal slug?
because... uhhh they're indie or something so they're way better than that pesky corporation! didn't you see the masked civilians and the generic soldiers? you have to be pc in gaming now!
I agree with this.
Granted some anon brought up the same about Bomb Rush Cyberfunk and I was one of them laughing at him. But in this case? Nah man.
BRC at least has he bonus of filling a void. But Metal Slug still exists, its not a shelved franchise.
Making a game like Metal Slug? Sure, but this is straight up plagiarism.
Really nice spritework, too bad the two main characters are the sole, horrendous exception.
Why do the Metal Slug games run like shit on modern systems?
that was how they ran on original hardware, if you want the slowdown gone you need to overclock your emulator, it's a setting somewhere
Nah I'm pretty sure even the PS1 version didn't run as shit as this
>It's about two divers
>all the game will be on land
trash
>oh a spiritual successo--
>wait no it's literally just metal slug
yep, literally plagiarism, not surpised.
>itch.io
nooo another delayed cash grab
oh damn it that website is full of grifters already, now there's blatant plagiarism there?
metal slug is still alive, this game will die however
Looks alright. The sound for the harpoon gun is trash though.
Stop shilling your stolen-assets game
I don't mind having babes but we need men to balance shit out or else its just an another women empowerment bs like the new gta. if its only women being mc's then it subconsciously makes you accept that women are actually capable of kicking ass.
Sounds like a you problem. I can separate fiction from reality. Otherwise I'd throw a tantrum when I see Superman fly and shoot lasers from his eyes.
>I can separate fiction from reality. Otherwise I'd throw a tantrum when I see Superman fly and shoot lasers from his eyes.
you clearly didn't understand my post. i said women bro
Irrelevant, I can watch Wonder women beat up a demigod and don't suddenly feel female soldiers are comparable to their male counterparts. Yeah I wish there were male character(s) too but its not a deal breaker.
it just reeks of idpol. metal slug has cool men and cool women, why can't this ripoff do that?
when wonder woman was established there were already a majority of male badasses so she was an exception amongst the majority. Now the female empowerment agenda has reached a level where women are being depicted as strong and main character worthy in many titles in all sorts of media. Basically it has gotten out of hand with minor women characters becoming the stars now. Me and you are smart enough to look past it but the majority of people are npcs that can't think for themselves and accept propaganda subconsciously hence the huge rise of trannies because of mainstream media shoveling this garbage down our throats.
>Now the female empowerment agenda has reached a level where women are being depicted as strong and main character worthy in many titles in all sorts of media.
you were probably born past the 00s, but le empowered wahmen has been a thing since the 80s and there's a lot of critically acclaimed media that pushes that trope.
no im no zoomie. You missed my point. Right now it is being pushed more than before by the media. Back then it was accepted just to give them hope but never taken seriously
> Right now it is being pushed more than before by the media
and? if you want to turn back the clock, invent a time machine and go assassinate James Cameron and Ridley Scott. you should have nooticed when it was becoming a trend early on instead of later. now you sound like a reactionary without a game plan.
>still missing my point
it really is pointless arguing with an average Gankerner
morons and biscuits
i'm all for homages but being this derivative without any creative spark of your own is just lame
I don't mind the visuals being very similar to MS, but what bothered me the most were the sounds. Using the same sounds is incredibly distracting, makes it feel like a cheap knock-off more than anything else.