69bd70 No.15544959
will we ever see neo-geo tier sprite work again?
c939a0 No.15544961
No, you will never see another game with the amount of love that was put into Metal Slug. Never ever.
e4e343 No.15544966
Will we ever see decent OPs again?
ad710f No.15544972
>>15544961
there's cuphead
131ff7 No.15544975
Animation as a whole has gone to shit; people simply do NOT have the work ethic or sense of sacrifice necessary make it possible anymore. That's why 3D animation is king now, because renderers take care all of the hard parts (at the cost of everything looking same-ish).
c939a0 No.15544984
>>15544972
NOT ENOUGH LOVE
131ff7 No.15545000
>>15544972
Cuphead is good; but if Metal Slug is a cake, then Cuphead is a candy bar.
4ccb6c No.15545009
>>15545000
What game is the klondike bar of candy bars of games, Mr. Tripsman?
723ea2 No.15545014
>>15545000
Agreed, I had fun with Cuphead for a week, but haven't play it since.
69bd70 No.15545016
>>15545009
darksouls because they're hard to eat
131ff7 No.15545032
>>15545009
I don't know, I want to say Adventures of Lomax but there's a better example.
2f58de No.15545034
9a06c9 No.15545060
>>15544959
Not at all since old sprites were done on gridded paper as opposed to bitmap editors. Each grid represented a bit that inhouse software automatically mapped when scanned. They were actually hand drawn, but were made to fit a resolution at the end.
Most Indie games don't have that old look because they're done on bitmap editors with the intention of copying styles from other videogames, rather than transfering the traditional art and animation skills onto a grid. Are there any digital programs that "scan" your drawings on a grid?
9a06c9 No.15545078
>>15544975
3D and 2D are pretty tough to learn, but it's easier to use 3D as a crutch.
89cbcb No.15545087
>>15544975
3D animation is king, but most 3D animations aren't even hand animated anymore. It's all mocap, and it's what leads to a lot of modern action games feeling like shit to play.
Plus mocap is dirt fucking cheap compared to hiring an entire team of animators.
f78a3d No.15545097
>>15544959
No, SNK was bought by chinks and ever since then SNK only makes pachinko and gachashit. The only actual game they make is KoF, but they turned it into 3D garbage.
c29302 No.15545555
>>15544959
Considering SNK kept the Metal Slug developers anonymous it's hard to tell, but considering the quality of the gachashit metal slug games, I doubt it.
pic related, the ptolemaos and guerilla soldiers are clearly from the original team, while the future soldier looks downright lazy in comparison.
01991d No.15545600
I think ladybug has some decent sprites. PR+ has arguably the best sprites they had but it's been a while since my new game run and I don't have all the abilities to show off the animation.
ad710f No.15545629
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
This year Infinos Gaiden got released, which really nails that Taito FX board look down well. The whole game including the graphics is made by one guy for that matter, with Hyakutaro Tsukumo from Thunder Force V/Hyper Duel doing the music.
bae9d9 No.15545654
>>15545600
>first webm
Flashbacks of Kirby's Dream Land 3.
>>15544972
Fuck off.
255ee6 No.15545672
Most modern artists don't know what the fuck they're doing, so no.
0461e7 No.15545736
>>15545672
Art is subjective. There is no way to "do" art. God damned I hate being surrounded by smooth brained lumpenprole.
69bd70 No.15545790
>>15545748
yeah but what if someone else made something like it?
9cd960 No.15545795
>>15544975
Metal Slug is Japanese though, and the Japanese animation industry still sticks to hand-drawn animation.
>>15545736
>Art is subjective.
Within reason.
ccf8bc No.15545848
>>15545748
Bait image. Most of the team moved on to Capcom , two of which died in the same car accident.
99706b No.15545855
Retards bought into the meme that it takes too much work to draw pixels, so we are stuck with either low effort indie shit or HYPER REALISTIC(tm) 3D models
2cc2da No.15545870
>>15545855
Don't forget early-Newgrounds-tier motion tweening instead of actual animation.
bec58f No.15545916
>>15545736
>Art is subjective
Interior semiotics.
2f58de No.15545965
>>15545736
>Art is subjective
You're going to the gas chamber, (((anon))).
69bd70 No.15545989
>>15545965
fuck off poltard
9cd960 No.15545991
>>15545965
Maybe that, too, is art.
7d8cca No.15545993
>>15545736
>I hate being surrounded by smooth brained lumpenprole.
I suppose being envious of others having a brain makes sense when you dont have one.
b0833f No.15546062
>>15545736
The greater the degrees of subjectivity that we allow art to be, the less it is art. The more abstract, metaphorical and interpretative art becomes, the harder it is to tell apart from chaos.
There is a reason we liken things to art, and that is because art is precision, but delivered with form. Nature is like art because it has evolved (or been designed if you're into that kind of thing) to be precisely as it has been, to function intentionally in a perfect way that suits its environment.
Art is often likened to an achievement of craft; the way he wields a sword is like art, he makes furniture like an artist, etc. An abstract swordsman dies. A post-modern piece of furniture is not sold to be sat on nor comfortable. They may be meaningful, but they are not functional.
And that is why 'art is subjective' is a stupid argument.
Don't believe me? Alright, I have a closer example; the written english language.
The reason we appreciate rhyme, lyric and quality prose is because they cleverly wield language to their advantage. Try and apply the 'art is subjective' rule there and you allow people to declare whatever books they like as art, as they are all written and sold, from Star Wars wedding fart jokes to vampire love stories to Chuck Tingles entire catalog.
>But why can't those things be art?
Because they are poorly written, stupid, often insipid and lack quality wordsmithing.
b66714 No.15546083
>>15545848
Source or fuck off.
69bd70 No.15546120
0dfc63 No.15546131
Probably from some passionate indiefag, but I can guarantee you no AAA studio or publisher will ever finance or develop another game with pixels like those ever again.
948909 No.15546142
>>15546062
>Art is often likened to an achievement of craft;
Art originally meant a craft. The ability to design structurally sound buildings and to paint a beautiful picture were seen as the same thing. In fact, artists during the Renaissance derived mathematical formulas in order to describe what made things beautiful or ugly. It was the closest we ever came to being able to objectively understand beauty, and unsurprisingly, the highest point in human history in terms of skill towards artistic pursuits.
9dd0b7 No.15546151
>>15544959
The pixel graphics were a result of technical limitations and are now obsolete
a7e4d0 No.15546168
>>15546142
This vision of art endured until the end of 19 century.
Them modernism came with all the philosophical relativism and shited everything, tough produced some good art within some logic and reason, post modernism styles came to destroy art.
9cd960 No.15546171
>>15546151
That doesn't stop people from still making chip music and painting on a canvas.
106be7 No.15546195
>>15546151
>The pixel graphics were a result of technical limitations and are now obsolete
What makes them obsolete?
There are still pixel graphics used in modern gaming, but they're worse than ever.
948909 No.15546199
>>15546195
In undertale's defence, it was modeled itself after Earthbound which looked like total shit
69bd70 No.15546204
>>15546199
why do people like earthbound?
gameplay == sucks
graphics == sucks
music == shit
story == confusing and trashfire
948909 No.15546211
>>15546204
Why do cuckchan posters like you think they're welcome here?
69bd70 No.15546215
>>15546211
cuckchan? I don't follow
cbe30d No.15546216
>>15546204
In Undertale's defense, it had fuckable characters.
69bd70 No.15546222
>>15546216
but the characters are children and animals
106be7 No.15546238
>>15546120
Of couse you were going to reply that.
d89fe6 No.15546239
>>15546222
>Children and Animals
0ecd9e No.15546267
>this circlejerk again
>never mind that gameplay is shit
>never mind that music is shit
>never mind that game is literally pay2win
>never mind that most large sprites consist of static parts that just tween and move around on X/Y axis which the crab from op vividly illustrates
Metal Slug is the Assassins Creed of /v/ - overrated casual trash with micro transactions but muh graphix.
Grow some standards.
106be7 No.15546274
>>15546267
>pay2win
I'm sorry that you are bad at Videogames.
0ecd9e No.15546279
>>15546274
>dying and paying a bunch of times to learn trial and error levels and bosses is getting good
Yeah tell me how you 1cc the entire franchise on your first try nigger.
cbe30d No.15546282
>>15546222
THAT'S WHY THEY'RE HOT
2f58de No.15546283
>>15546239
The webm threads are cancer and I hate everything that comes out of them.
69bd70 No.15546288
>>15546279
just play on emulator nerd
>>15546282
proof?
106be7 No.15546296
>>15546279
I played the first one on the Play Station one until i was good enough to 1cc it and then went to an arcade.
7ea94d No.15546302
>>15546267
Holy shit kill yourself mate. Go play overwatch.
255ee6 No.15546308
>>15546279
>>15546267
>if it has any challenge at all and you can die in it it's pay2win and makes me shit my diapers
106be7 No.15546315
>>15546267
Also
>music is shit
What the fuck are you even talking about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omMSgjePnfY
69bd70 No.15546318
>>15546315
it's shitty generic rock
5963a8 No.15546332
>>15546288
If God didn't want use to fuck children and animals, why did He make them so sexy? Checkmate, atheists!
e1702f No.15546364
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>>15546267
>Music is shit
Go bellyflop a tablesaw.
f05108 No.15551412
>>15544959
will we ever have original threads again?
>>15545000
what a bunch of bullshit