Why 16 years later no sprite-based game has managed to ever come close this level of detail and animation?
Why are we swarmed by indie games that have sprites that look like shit?
What was the wizardry employed by those SNK devs to make such good looking sprite work that is still relevant almost 20 years later?
I think the saddest part is that we'll never know who actually made that animation. SNK had boiler rooms full of literal slaves hammering out art assets full time.
Because the amount of effort and manpower needed to create sprites of that quality on such a large scale is unreal, and always will be unreal.
This too:
Cuphead might cut it close.
Cuphead doesn't have sprites. It has a really nice animated look, but it isn't pixel art.
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> tfw you can't unsee it
I wonder if SNK will make another Metal Slug since "hard" games like souls is hip now.
>3D metal slug
NO
not like that
Why is that crab making spaghetti?
Because it's something that is entirely reliant on talent and completely independent from technology?
It's like saying why after all these years we haven't gotten a better Sistine Chapel
This, and the fact that even with such genuinely gorgeous spritework, mainstream audiences would consider it "cheaper old-school graphics", despite the fact that these days it's way easier to make 3D models than it ever was to make high quality sprites.
Especially considering SNK's last batch of sprites involved creating 3D models as an early part of the process.
Metal Slug 2 best slug
i miss metal slug
They had an entire Japanese staff with a good budget. While indie shits are made by one or two people in the west with the sole intention of making a ugly looking mediocre story and nonexistent gameplay that is used as a liberal mouthpiece.
How about first-person shooter
>Mika will never give you such powerful head
why live
Sadly they fucked up terry bogard. It didn't look like he was wearing jeans but, very baggy pants.
because you need professional animators, artists and designers to create sprites of that level.
You don't just spend 2 hours following a youtube tutorial and be a master artist/animator. It takes decades at even 8 hours a day. For either.
>with a good budget
They went bankrupt after MS3
Wasn't Metal slug made by Nazca?
More sprites plz.
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Now SNK is Chinese owned, and plans to make 3DPD games, cellphone games and Pachinko machines. Say goodbye to good sprites forever.
JIm had such great animation shame the actual game wasn't all that great
The level of detail is awesome, I loved how in MS games there was always a lot happening in the backgrounds and several small details. Your character breath being visible in snow stages, the bullet cases being ejected from your gun, your characters reloading it.
Even in this picture, beautiful underwater background, amazing detail on the giant eel and they even went the trouble to give it a name.
Also, the death animations of those crab flying locusts you fight in the first stage where the stuff of gods.
Oh shut the fuck up.
They're just shitty indie games with a shitty dev team. Good ones are good, bad ones are bad.
Has nothing to do with liberals, just your fucking boogeyman so you can yell KEK at everything.
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When I played KOF13 i always had the feeling the sprites were converted from 3d into sprites, kind of like they did with diablo 2's sprites. The movement always seemed too... smooth for sprites.
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anyone else loved this game? I remember beating it for the first time as a kid
damn the details never cease to amaze me
specially in the first level and the torpedo trail effects
This guy gets it
forgot to mention the name of the game: in the hunt
i think they got absorbed by snk after the first metal slug game
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>in the hunt
Made by the same devs of Metal slug: Nazca corporation, they always made a pretty good Golf game on Neo Geo whose name slips me at the moment.
Sup newfag, you know you're allowed to say cuck again, right? Or does saying that hurts your feelings?
Are you kidding it's the one of the best platforming game on the SNES
I AM SINISTAR.
I HUNGER.
Metal Slug was a big budget AAA title at the time, the one man indie devs aren't big budget AAA projects. 2D is more risky to make now than 3D due to cost (see skullgirls and kof12/13).
ROYAL FLUSH
What game released in the last 5 years has the best sprite work from all games released in that time?
Is the PSP Metal Slug Anthology as bad as people say it is? Are the load times better if I rip the UMD to the memory card?
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Anyone ever played this?
Beautiful art and sprite work, fun gameplay, dat fucking soundtrack...
youtube.com
I fucking loved this game
>why neet basement dwellers can't provide triple-A quality
jesus christ just say honestly you want a sprite dump thread and don't pretend to be a fool
>why can't indie dev teams made of 1-5 people make sprite and animation on the level of a studio with 100 people dedicated to art alone?
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I have a bunch of these.
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Modern devs don't want to work hard. Which is why AAA games have hyper inflated staff made up of mostly nu-males and nu-females and each member has to complete a tiny little job between their 9-5 job with the 4 breaks, 2 smoke breaks and 1.5 hour long lunch breaks. Plus laws not letting people work longer than 35 hours a week. That is if they're not on maternity leave or having emotional issues.
Terry bogard's jeans look like baggy rapper pants rather than jeans, they fucked up.
For you
Massive
Jap
Talent
Maybe they're just baggy jeans
Just what the world needs
>want to live in big gorgeous city and see the skylines at night
>know that I will get murdered by black people since i'll have to live in the low income neighborhoods
what the fuh
TOP KEK
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It would take effort. A fuckton of effort.
3D is literally so much easier than sprites its faster to make a 3D model and draw sprites over it than to make sprites
Its just not cost/time effective for what people expect these days. People will buy a gamewith sprites at 10/15 dollars but SNK level stuff is essentially a AAA production.
Street Fighter 3 almost ruined Capcom itcost so fucking much.
nice fuckin' bladerunner
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you don't understand anything about how games are made, do you?
Because the average person literally has no eye for quality. There's no market for a pixel artist in games because dev companies realize this and instead they hire the cheapest shittest most "efficient" spriters possible for their indie games - or even better, they don't hire anyone at all and make the whole game out of programmer graphics and claim like it's a "style", it's "retro". Hence, all the 2D art in vidya is being done by people who probably don't know the first thing about visual design, and all the good 2D artists are drawing yiff shit on tumblr and deviantart to supplement their crappy income
t. Guy who does graphic design for websites as his day job and attempts to dev (C# and spriting) on the side
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pretty sure no one gives a fuck or regulators labor laws in the video game industry, I've heard some pretty shitty horror stories about working for video game companies
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because he likes you a lot
It's ok, he's too young to know that baggy jeans where a think in the early 90s.
I can kinda confirm this, one of my best friends is a graphic designer/art person and he always makes comments about graphic designs because well he is really into that field.
Then i realized how little i actually cared for graphics. Often times i only really noticed the quality of certain designs after he commented on it. I mean i could clearly see what he meant myself, i just what have never been involved enough to notice/care.
And what he said was mostly true. But i dont really care all that much if the game overall is good.
Most people dont really have an eye for it, so investing money into superp art is a waste from a business point of view.
well, hello there other me
A E S T H E T I C
It's either they don't care and abuse people to shit or the other way around where they hold your hand. Not even hollywood is that bad all the time.
Sprites aren't just pixelart.
It's any 2d render.
If you mean pixelart, say pixelart.
Because 3d is cheaper and easier than high quality pixel art.
>What was the wizardry employed by those SNK devs to make such good looking sprite work that is still relevant almost 20 years later?
Assloads of money.
This is the only thing that comes close.
>Ghost Trick
>Sprites
I don't think they use 3d models for that shit, the DS isn't made to handle such smoothness in 3d
Rotoscoped 3D models. It's a technique that's been used for a really long time. The original Prince of Persia was done like that, I think.
>on the SNES
You do realize the Genesis and PC versions are vastly superior right?
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