Why hasn't anyone tried making a successor to Metal Slug?

>378295025
Friendly bump.

Ive always wondered the same thing, its like no one even remembers it.

some did but as far as I can recall, their versions either flopped or failed to retain the unique elements of Metal Slug

Because to do that they need spite work on the same level of quality.
And that shit ain't happening

>>378295025
But they did?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2FP0iX1Zkc

It would require pixel artists with actual skill. Big publishers don't care and indie devs don't have the ability.

See something like that Bro Force trash. Ugly, stiff, broken.

>>378295025
If you like Metal Slug so much why are you implying you are tired of it?
Go play them, they're still great.

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>>378295025
There have been some attempts by indie developers with meh results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLV-BGvufgw

The real question here is, why hasn't SNK (or whoever holds the rights) made MS8?

Fio

I'm surprised no one posted this yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-RUHFK0u8

>>378295848
Mercenary Kings is garbage.

>>378295583
>indie devs don't have the ability
Yes they do, or some do at least. Old games don't look good because they had one or two good artists, they look good because they would have at the very least 10 artists all working together on nearly every image. Final Fantasy 6 had at least 16 artists working on it and the majority of them worked on the environments.

>>378296078
>Mercenary Kings is garbage.
yeah, that's why I said "ATTEMPT" and "MEH RESULTS"

Because they have.

You just don't like thinking of them as successors when they are. The only thing that really even makes metal slug that unique is the sprites. Try volgarr the viking. It's pretty good.

>>378296148
It needed to be emphasized.

>>378295848
I liked that game a lot outside of the grinding for materials. I can see people being disappointed if they expected an exact clone of MS though.

>>378295025
Try Noitu love 2.

It plays differently from MS, but it scratches the same itch.

It's the only indie attempt of a MS type game that's actually good.

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>>378296397
fuck, i forgot the trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWGGybAEZkc

>>378296373
it pisses me off that every indie game has to have grinding, crafting, rpg elements and procedualy generated bullshit.

That's why I was let down by Flinthook, it had all that bullshit.

>>378296397
>>378296540
IIRC that game fucked my wrist up horribly.

>>378296397
Damn I haven't heard of that game in a while, good taste anon

>>378296898
It adds length, because the #1 complaint about indie games circa 2010 was "wow this is so short!". Thus the roguelite genre was born.

>>378297040
>It adds length
yeah, but it does it with the least possible effort and doesn't make the game any more fun to play

That's why I despise roguelites, they are 2 hour long games stretched to 20 hours.

>>378295848
>Simplisctic cartoony-faced enemies
Why is this so common in hack-fraud indie games and who started it?

>>378297180
I agree, but i'm just saying that's why it's been done. Unfortunately indie games aren't really developed because the developers have a story to tell or want to build a portfolio, they're just as subject to greed as AAA games, and it shows when you have steam descriptions for games that are just blobs of other game names.

"A metroid-inspired castlevania SOTN typed roguelite with elements similar to rogue legacy!" is literally a description for a new game. I shit you not.

>>378297416
>Why is this so common in hack-fraud indie games
It takes little effort, work and talent

In gameplay or production? Alien Hominid is a complete ripoff gameplay-wise and pretty dang good.

>>378297971
>Alien Hominid
Good game, I had completely forgotten about it.

>>378295025
there was that commando series on minclip

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>>378295025
This looks more like "Contra meets Streets of Rage" but it could be good... maybe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZuoyIqTZ1w&spfreload=10

>>378296898
Yeah, if you're trying to make a not-Metal Slug you should keep it simple and based on reflexes over stats or other RPG bs..

>>378295025
I tried Metal Slug and it fucking sucks. Every enemy has too much damn life and it's so easy to just constantly die

it's an industrial-scale pixel art game and pixel art games aren't profitable enough for anyone but indies to make

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>33 replies and no lawn-chairs

>>378295848
>that art style
No

>>378295025
Lots tried.
But they failed.

>>378295530
Demobn Front was litteraly made by the same guys as MS

>>378295848
could have been cool if they did not tried to change everything.

>>378296040
Probably one of the worst game I've ever player, mostly because you can't see shit most of the time.

>>378296540
this was nice but was more like Gunstar Heroes than MS

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>>378301458
We were busy lamenting the general lack of worthy successors and sequels...

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>>378295025
Why Fio is so cute?

>>378303634
Because Fio a CUTE.

Also working on a metal slug would require at least 720p sprites unless you blow up the 480 image. Personally MSX and such still look great when I boot them on the Wii.

Like I did before, indie artists just dont have the skill for them and as another anon said they're usually filled with shitty RPG mechanics to make up for good game play or level design.

The last MS was 7/XX and though it kinda felt like a mash up rom hack it still played a lot better than every indie attempt.

Thought in this day and age I would love if it was just 3D models on 2D backgrounds but keeping the cartoony proportions and animation.

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>>378303634
Because she's a nerdy Italian heiress.

I am curious how she's depicted in that game though.

>>378295756
There are only three good Metal Slug games

>>378301458
I still remember like seven years ago when /v/ randomly had this image and RAWKET LAWN CHAIR embedded on loop for a couple hours.

Surreal as fuck. It was gone by morning, and I never saw anyone mention it after that.

>>378295025
Because Metal Slug was product of its time. You can't make ultra short games with crazy expensive pixel art without quarter munchers.

Also, Rise & Shine, and it's shit

>>378304031
1, 2, and X.

>>378295025
Dolphin BLue, for fuck's sake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a5A4-b1630

>>378296397
It either scratches the same itch or it's ugly.
Noitu falls in the second category.
Metal Slug 4 doesn't scratch the same itch as Metal Slug despite having the same gameplay because it doesn't look good.

>>378304142
What's wrong with 3?

Because there is no market for it.

No matter how you cut, people would rather spend $60 on the newest early access open world survival thing than $20 on a pixelart arcade game focused on gameplay.

I mean, the only pixelart game that I can think of that has "made it" in the last years is Terrari and that's because it is an early access (not anymore) open world survival thing.

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>>378303942
Shouldn't be too far from the original, personality-wise. Her role is changed to classmate though if the wiki is correct.

>>378304506
metal slug 1 and 3 are on the ranking for top sales on the Nintendo eshop for the switch.

So no, I think there is a market for it.

>>378304614
It's kinda hard to say there's a correlation between demand for a Metal Slug game and how well they're selling the Switch's e-shop given how starved the Switch's library is at the moment. Would you say that there was a huge demand for a new Bomberman because that sold fairly well during the Switch's launch as well?

>>378304614
there's another reason for that, friend. That reason being that any fucking game that's out on the system is being bought, and old ACA ports are being brought over while the actual modern ports aren't. There's no online on the switch version of metal slug 3, that's pretty fucking stupid.

>>378304614
Street Fighter 2 Remake sells well in virtual stores. Would a clone sell well?
Doom 1 and 2 still sells well. Would a clone sell well?

Branding skews sales. It's nothing new.

>>378298703
Doesn't really look like it will play like MS, but thanks for sharing anon, this gritty "near future" is something that I really miss from relatively older fiction.

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>>378295848
>Metal Slug homage
>health bar