Metal Slug

AKA: Contra if it kicked ass!

Favorite installment? Favorite weapon? Character?

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I always play as Marco. 1, 2 and 3 are great, but 1 is probably my favourite because I always enjoyed fighting soldiers and tanks more than monsters or aliens. All three are incredibly awesome games, though.

I love the shotgun, there's nothing as satisfying as blasting away five dudes with one shot. Honourable mention goes to the ROCKET LOUNCHER! and MOBEEL SATELLITE!

edited 27th Dec '11 1:22:24 AM by Talby

I usually play as Eri, my favorite installment is X, and my fav weapon is the hadouken POW, with the standard Metal Slug being my favorite ride.

As far as console ports go, my favorite combat school instructor is Sophia Greenville from Metal Slug 1.

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Contra doesn't kick butt? .-.

I always play as Fio. Lucky for me that she also got the best ability when Metal Slug 6 came around.

God, I love these games so much...

One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -Landstander

Contra does, but Metal Slug just has a lot more... charm XD

Also, how the fuck long were they planning on making Metal Slug 3? Did they really think folks had an hour and a half to kill at the laundromat?

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I JUST bought Metal Slug anthology on the Wii. The PS 2 version is apparently superior, but it was twenty five dollars more.

I got them on MAME too, but the blood is white there! WHITE! Do they really expect us to think it's sweat!?

It really needs a 3D title. There was one on the PS 2, but it used lock-on targeting and everyone looked like insane chibis instead of the cool halfway they have between normal and SD proportions in the main game.

Bleye knows Sabers.

You can switch the blood to red

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F2 > Setting up the soft dip

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The first Metal Slug is not merely my favourite game in the series, it is my favourite game of all time. I honestly believe it's art; The perfect pacing, the perfectly tuned difficulty, the gorgeous sprites and background, the sly attention to insignifiant details most players will never even notice etc. It is at the very least a masterpiece.

The sequels are still excellent games but I think they lost some focus with the lack of background interraction, annoying transformations that mostly slow down the pace and weird vehicles/weapons that are more there for the show than to be actually usable. Oh well, they're still fun.

I'm glad someone feels the same way as I do.

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

Downloaded one of the games from the PS 3 store as soon as I saw it. It's the same one that I used to play in some old-fashioned arcade when I used to go on holiday in Spain. It was the coolest thing ever, especially when you got a two-player going with another kid who was actually good at the game.

And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)

Though man, wasn't Metal Slug 4 kind of a shit dump? Cut and Pasted enemies and environments from previous games. this odd, detached feel all throughout. bland music, an anticlimactic and bullshit final battle (and well, bosses). Just blah.

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4 and 5 weren't the best.

My favorite is either 3 or 6.

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People are way too harsh on 4 if you ask me. Sure, some of it i rehashed, some of it's downright unfair, and Eri and Tarma got shafted in favor of what amount to two Original Generation characters. But it's still Metal Slug and it still has the balls-to-the-wall action you'd expect from a game bearing that name. Hell, the wintertop level in that game is one of my favorite stages in the series.

Actually, why is the Japanese soldier named Tarma Roving and the Korean one named Trevor Spacey? Are they immigrants or what?

Bleye knows Sabers.

Dem crazy Japanese.

I remember when my mom rose an eyebrow right when she first heard Tarma F Bomb upon player miss.

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

I wonder if these strategies work on any other Allen O'Neil fights.

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

I thought 5 was pretty good. I kinda dug the slide move, and the final boss is probably one of the best in the series.

I'd have to agree with this. What I especially liked about 6 was that feeling of "oh yeah! SNK's back!" It just...felt more like a Metal Slug game than the previous two. I despise the Brain Robot and Sea Worm, though.

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Oh hells yeah. Metal Slug is the game I remember when I think of Arcades. I still remember my Brother's birthday when we had free reign of the Arcade, and then I proceeded to go right through the ENTIRE GAME. I lost count of how many tries I had by the end. I remember going through Stage 2 in Metal Slug 2 and vowing revenge on that damn Tower Maw boss, so many memories. And it's easily one of the most beautifully animated games out there, and it's sheer charm and creativity is what made me love it.

Also, Allen O'Neil totally needs to get into King Of Fighters.

A corpse should be left well enough alone...

I never played the first one, and the 2nd one I can barely find anywhere these days, I think I saw like only 2 machines during my lifetime and one was somewhere in Vegas IIRC. The 3rd one is my favorite and the 4th one I remember from a Round Table but didn't really get anywhere in it. I didn't even know there was a 6th one.

I don't know how people can get to play Metal Slug 6, let alone 7. Poor Malaysia being a media backwater....

My favourite has got to be 3.

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As much as I love Metal Slug 3, NO visit to the laundromat or grocery store is THAT LONG.

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Yeah, the final level was really exhausting. Took me at least 10 lives.

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I've only ever played Metal Slug X.

It's the hypest shit. (fistbump)

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Hypest of the hype!

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Metal Slug 3's last level is one of my favorite of all time. HALF AN HOUR of shooting the crap out of everything, your main character gets CAPTURED and CLONED and you have to fight those clones with another character while they spout the mangled lines of your other player character, and then you fight the big martian and blow up the colony and you're like "hell yeah mission accomplished" and then the big martian DROPS OUT OF THE SKY AND GRABS YOU and you need to shoot it in the brain until it dies! There will never be another game ending that effing sweet.

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