/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4015407
Bait harder faggot

>>4015413
Explain to me what makes these games good. The only reason I ever see is that the final battle is le epic and CUHRAYZEE XD

>>4015407
Try end this game by use only 1 credit.

Beats me. I played the Playstation port and the animation wasn't even as good as they said.

>>4015426
Its got good graphics
Thats the appeal

>>4015524
Good enough for an SNES game I guess.

The PS1s port of Metal Slug 1 plays well enough, but has terrible mid-game loadings and terrible frame cuts, the waterfall in the first stage has two frames at best.

Babby's first belt shooter. If you wanna a true challenge try playing Contra without the lives code.

>best in class animation
>solid run n gun gameplay
>challenging yet fair enemy patterns
>humorous send up of contra style gamess
>anti-war message

you mad op?

>>4015538
Looks like a Sega Genesis game.

>>4015407
It's only overrated because a famous Japanese e-celeb shilled it. Nobody remembered or cared about the series until it started appearing in a Japanese TV show, Game Centre DX or something. Now it's posted and revered everywhere as if everybody had played it in their childhoods or something. Fucking millennials.

>>4015407
This stupid game is too easy! You can beat it in 30 minutes, you never die and when you do you just respawn immediately in place and they even give you a bonus machine gun if you keep dying enough! There's Zero replay value to be found here.

I played this game and it didn't even HAVE any slugs, let alone metal ones. False fucking advertising I want my quarter back.

>>4015560
Yeah you just get to the end and move on to the next game. There's no point to beating hi scores either since you lose all your hostages bonuses when you die anyway and most of the items dropped are random. They didn't really think this through.

>>4015535
Well they should have worked harder on it since that's the flagship console everyone used to experience the game.

>>4015560
>>4015562
okay, this thread was funny bait at first but now im getting triggered

>>4015568
What bait?

>>4015542
Genesis doesn't have enough palettes to run Metal Slug.

The SNES would run Megal Slug easily with a big cartridge / S-DD1, though.

Colors are not a problem and Donkey Kong has about as much frames as Marco Rossi.

I dislike how there's no health or armor system, it makes no sense for a soldier to go head first against an enemy army without any sort of protection.
Also the game is too linear, you only go from left to right and kill a boss at the end, there's no secondary objectives or sprawling maps to explore. Some side missions to break the monotony would be nice. And people complain about CoD being a corridor shooter!

>>4015575
>The SNES would run Megal Slug easily
That's what I'm saying!

>>4015575
Even the gameboy could run Metal Slug, there's no excuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNbY60Y6LWM

>>4015568
He's not lying, some of the items dropped ARE random

>>4015587
Prime example, Rootmars' red orbs is like a mini slot machine.

Flame shot, flame shot, flame sho- aw man, shit came out. just like the developers of this GAME.

>this thread

>>4015537
In fact, Contra is way harder than Metal Slug since you can't just credit feed and continue in place.

There are no cute girls in the first one so there's no point in playing it over the sequels.

>>4015613
Real talk, the only real thing holding Metal slug 1 back from 2 is how the heavy machine gun handles. I'm too used to how it controls in 2 and beyond so going back to 1 always puts me off.

>>4015624
I like how crounching while inside a tank and spamming grenades is completely broken in MS1

>>4015629
*crouching

>>4015629
Yeah it's hilarious how fast the bosses just fall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4MoR3ittc8
This video is a fucking masterpiece, it goes really into detail on the scoring systems. Expect a lot of waiting around for milking, though.

>>4015641
Has no one done anything for MS2, X, or 3? This is still insanely cool though.

>>4015407
Why is this series so overrated? All you do is shot things and it is very boring. Is it because it appeals to the lolsoedgy style over substance types?

>>4015650
For X you don't actually have a lot of such moments as far as I recall, other than a bunch of hidden spots you can shoot, and one point in the pyramid where you can wait around for a genie to spawn.

For 3, such a video would take hours with all the alternate routes.

>>4015665
>genie
Shit, I didn't know that.

>>4015665
oh yeah, that fucking genie. THOSE fucking genies, I should say.

>>4015668
blew my fucking mind the first time I found out about it. 'cuz that path DID look legitimate to young me but it didn't look like I could jump to it and there's a path that I'm obviously supposed to be going through I should stop screwing around.

>tfw i'll never HUG fio

so is this how desperate people are getting to have metal slug threads

>>4015694
I guess. I don't think I like /vr/ stooping down to /v/ levels of desperate. Your turn.

>>4015554

Most retarded thing I've read in a long while.

>>4015705

Metal Slug is all about tits these days.

>>4015561
Tarma is a pretty swell dude.

>>4015554
Breddy gud b8, I kekked

>>4015538
Is that sprite animation supposed to be good? Because its not.

Luckily 4 u I'm just baiting like your regular /vr/ contrarian xD

>>4015575
>The SNES would run Megal Slug easily with a big cartridge
Yeah + severely cut sprites, animation and performance.

>>4015426
Troll or under 20 either way fail/10.

>>4015407
If you just credit feed, get hit all the time, shoot random directions and put no effort, the game becomes way less interesting.
Big part of the fun in Metal Slug is trying to not die in a survival manner, this leads to a smart playstyle that's a lot more interesting than just "hitting continue over and over, using the free Machine Gun and spamming 10 bombs every 15 seconds", learning all the secrets and alternative paths (in games like Metal Slug 3) and choosing the most optimal one is part of the fun, too.

In other words, Metal Slug is a game that gets better the more you replay and learn about it.

>>4015537
The Konami code wasnt meant for us. The devs found the game so difficult that they needed the codes just to test the later levels
> they were just trolling with the difficulty and they knew it. Battletoads deserved a Rare code

the art is pretty good, and the gameplay gets you hooked

>>4015537
>Contra
Way easier than any Metal Slug to be honest familia.
>try playing Contra without the lives code.
If we're playing the "limit yourself" game, how about beating a Metal Slug with 3 credits or less? Not so easy now, you can bet.

>>4016308
Why didn't they remove it from the final build, then?
Usually debug functions like these get removed.

>>4016323
>Way easier than any Metal Slug to be honest familia.
No it's not

>>4016327
Contra 1's difficulty is kinda overrated, compared to Metal Slug the game is a LOT shorter, there's a much less stuff going on at the same time, bosses are not as intense, etc etc.

Not saying it's a bad game, mind you.

>>4016334
Contra 1's difficulty is kinda overrated, compared to Metal Slug the game is a LOT shorter, there's much less stuff going on at the same time, bosses are not as intense, etc etc.

Not saying it's a bad game, mind you..

>>4016327
Contra 1's difficulty is kinda overrated, compared to Metal Slug the game is a LOT shorter, there's much less stuff going on at the same time, bosses are not as intense, etc etc.

Not saying it's a bad game, mind you..

>>4016337
Contra is superior in every other way besides graphics. Sorry, kid.

>>4015407
Just kys
You're obviously dead from the neck up. Whether this is bait or your genuine opinion, it doesn't matter at this point.

>>4016351
loooooool le mad metalslugfag is le mad

>>4015651
This is truth though.

>>4016356
Not even mad, just feeling pity for Op.

>>4016349
Nah, Metal Slug is more complex, Contra still is fun and one of the best of the genre in its console, though.

>>4015554
False.

Although the release of Metal Slug 3 on ps2/xbox seems to have really taken off for some reason and made the series more well known to younger gamers and casuals

>>4015554
At least you tried?

>>4016437
apparently he succeeded, look at all those yous

>>4015538
Don't forget the sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofpH7bo93I

Too bad the series got relegated to Tower Defense cellphone shit now. OH WELL.

>>4015561
>I played this game and it didn't even HAVE any slugs

MS3 has slugs. They spit acid.

why is /vr/ so easy to bait?

>>4015426
It was in every arcade ever. At times more than one version. It was always there for you to drop some quarters into.

>>4017030
vr people just want someone to talk to
about old games.

1-3 were great fun games.
4 was garbage. The amount of asset reuse makes it feel like a shitty Romhack.
5 was okay, but nothing compared to the first 3. Music is good.
never played any of the others.

>lolsorandom style over substance types

I love self-owns.

>>4015407
Don't you have some Zeta threads to make on /m?

>>4015531
SNES couldn't come close to running Metal Slug.

>>4016327
Yes, contra is. The fact I have beat them without cheats but can't say the same for Metal Slug is enough evidence. I am sure most others have this same experience. Stop trying so hard to hate on a good game that did contra better than contra.

>Why is this (series/game) so overrated? All you do is (insert thing you do a lot here) things and it is very boring. Is it because it appeals to the lolsorandom style over substance types?

>Place picture of literally any game as your file
OPs type of autism shouldn't be allowed on 4chan.

>>4019268
Even the gameboy could do it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNbY60Y6LWM

>>4019270
I have to agree Contra must be easier after having beat it on the NES (no continues) and just from looking at Metal Slug.

They may be similar, but they were not going for the same type of gameplay. Contra was way more "floaty" (high, slow jumps) and less about memorization enemy patterns (as it was more predictable). It boiled down to a lot of shmup-reminiscent mid-air bullet-dodging (and ducking), only it was a 2D Platformer/Run&Gun. Metal Slug also had a lot of gimmicky gameplay facets like the vehicles and fancy boss fights, but they had more developmental manpower and more capable hardware to work with, after all.

Contra is beatable in a weekend, while Metal Slug seems to require a lot of practice if you're stingy with quarters (read: don't stuck).

>>4015538

How is that eye laser fair

I go to the left and jump ?

>>4021492
Yeah. It's one the easier bosses in MS3.

Metal Slug is childplay, Contra is a real man's game

>>4015583
That's a fucking terrible port though.

That's like saying that Halo runs on the 2600.
Yes there's a port, but it's terrible.

Speaking of Game Boy, I feel like this game doesn't get talked enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuvfvu6E8R4

>>4021801
Better video with less glitchy music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3J5CsVL4sQ

>>4015537
>Belt shooter
Le kek. Dafark is going in here.

Metal slug and all video games are shit. All you do is press buttons in a particular order with the tv on.

I saved myself a lot of money by not buying games or consoles. I have a controller and sit in the dark and press the buttons, because that's all game playing is.

>>4021821
It's a belt shooter because the screen is set on rails and scrolls from left to right.

Childhood was playing Metal Slug.
Adulthood was realizing Contra made much more sense.

>>4021827
As is r-type and any other side and vertical scrolling shmup.

So, therefore Metal slug is the same as thos shooters! Great genre classification guy!

i'm with you OP, tried it on the playstation because people here never shut up about it and was incredibly disappointed. maybe if i had played it as a kid i would have liked it, but as an adult it's pretty lame. sprites are very pretty and well-animated though, i'll give it that.

>>4015426
Trying to rescue the hostages and not dying is fun as hell what is your problem? Oh yeah you're the idiot who says "style over substance" when you have no fucking clue what that means. Metal slug has tons of substance if you want just paying your way through the game to see the end you shitter.

>>4023143
>well-animated
>playstation

yeah it was so overrated it got 8 sequels

Yes, sometimes all a game needs is the player being capable to run and shoot.

Pro-tip: Basing your opinions of Metal Slug off the PlayStation port of the first game is like believing that the SNES version of the first Mortal Kombat are the GameGear port of Mega Man are the definitive versions of those series to base an opinion off of.

>>4023961
It's the version most people are familiar with/have access to on a flagship home console. If they didn't want people judging the whole series by these ports they should have never made it in the first place.