It's clear that since the crappy waifu units were implemented, MSA slowly became a P2W game and SNK doesn't even care about the franchise and It's meaning anymore, It just cares about getting money with microtransactions. And what i mean with my question is: Is there ever going to be a MS8? And if It's actually created, how will it be? SNK has filled MSA with so many shit characters and recolors that it would be nearly impossible to put them in a main Metal Slug game. I only hope that if Metal Slug 8 is conceived, it sticks with the classic formula, story and characters from the originals.
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Frankly I have my doubts as to them making MS8 in the first place; sure granted the art department is getting their act together but still given that sprite work is immensely difficult, I don't think that they could ever pull off a KOFXIII style overhaul nor afford to reuse the assets like the games post-MS3 did since it'd be too cheap and lazy (even if it manages to have more hardware like 7 and XX did). At this point they could either pull a Kirby 64 in having 3D assets yet play in 2D or a reboot of the series that puts the focus back on grounded war-themed action (of which I'd advocate for), though I'd imagine the latter would get severe backlash from the fanbase that from what I can tell are still looking forward to MS8 in spite of what I'd just said.
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Well they made a few good male units like Owen, Sho, and Dion in MSA as well as some more Special Versions of any previous Box Crank units well while the Try Line ops has a Ball Slug unit which never seen in other Metal Slug games. In version 3.10.0 update, they paused the Special Rare Unit pre-aquisations for bringing back the Everlasting Summer Female units without any existing male holiday units for just money plus also they keep bringing back old Box and Step Up crank units in the same way rather than putting them in a special Premium Shop (a shop that sells old Box and Step Up crank units with the amount of medals for each part just like the recent updated Shop for old units from Regular Soldier to Annette, Extra/Rare Shops for previous Non-Super Rare Event Ops units, and Mars Shop for old Guild Ops units) which is much more better than spending too much medals on those same repeated cranks. Also they stopped the one time offer medal sales too for nothing.
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I could see MS8 as a digital title made by a indie third-party company like IntiCreates or WayForward.
But hey, SNK may be preparing something...
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Nah, Metal Slug is dead in SNK hands, tho it will always live in my heart
Fokin SNK
(Edited by FelipeGames2000)
(Edited by Magma MK-II)