10:55 PM on 09.15.2009
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Fronz
Last week we stepped on another sports course to watch another industry rivalry. With a long line of games on other consoles in both series' pasts, it was tied for the first half of the votes. However, long before it was time for a sudden death hole, one side blasted five votes in a row -- an albatross and an eagle if you will -- to take the lead to the finish. Here's the results:
- Mario Golf series (26 votes) -- Winner!
- Tiger Woods series (11 votes) -- Golf clap!
This week brings another series showdown, but this time with hugely different play styles facing off against one another. Don't let the titles fool you, the pacing and action setup for these two well acclaimed series are complete opposites, and it will be interesting to see how it polarizes the Dtoid army this week. And I do mean Dtoid army. This one could get ugly.
Which series do you like better as a whole, and why? What aspects or individual games of the series made up your mind? Give it some serious thought, get your gamer friends to share their opinions as well, and check back next week for the winner who will receive a five hour cinema.
Bonus Question: What is one thing you do not enjoy about the series you voted for?
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Contest:
Bonus Question: 7 has no variety :(
well that was easy
It changed the stealth genre forever, it's story is phenomenal once you understand the timelines, the real-world references tying in with the game and it's politics, the memorable characters, hidden Easter Eggs and "Kojima-isms", and it's stellar voice actors. Besides David Hayter, Phil LaMaar is WIN.
Bonus question: I hate it's (sometimes) trial and error gameplay your first time through any game. If you don't get caught by something you passed by while looking good, something else caught you.
So, Metal gear by far.
Metal Gear.
The reason I choose Metal Gear is, despite Metal Slug being enormously fun satisfying, I can honestly say it doesn't make much of an impact over me than other games of the same type. The original GunStar Heroes, Mega Man X, Castlevania, Metroid, Contra. There's just so many side-scrolling games that come up head and above Metal Slug.
Metal Gear however provided me with much more than a very enriched gaming experience. As someone who played every title in the franchise, sans Portable Ops and remakes, I must say with each progressive installment, the series has reinvented itself or try new things which eventually led to the amazingly spectacular-spectacular game that is MGS4. I understand the resentment a lot of people have for it due to the fact that it's exclusive to the PS3 and some people hate the PS3. However, no unbiased hardcore gamer can deny that it wasn't an amazing experience. It brought together every title and looking back, the evolution of Metal Gear almost parallels the video game industry as a whole. Each successive title attmpting to give the gamers, not only more than their buck's worth, but a gaming experience that could never be done before.
Metal Slug has repetitive replay value. It's cool, entertained me at arcades, and is fun to play multiplayer with. However, it never made me think, never offered me more ways to play each title than straight forward, never built any characters up on a story-driven level.
In Metal Slug's defense, shooting and lobbing grenades is more fun in it than Metal Gear, but that doesn't being to stack up against the rest Metal Gear has to offer.
Also, "ROCKET LAUNGER!" beats "I feel asleep" or "BROTHER!" any day.
Portable ops SUCKED,
Metal Slug wins.
I like Metal Gear Solid's characters but the story can be pretty confusing and unnecessarily complex. Plus, there's too much time spent on cut scenes that just drag on. While the gameplay is undeniably good, I'd still prefer Metal Slug for being one of the best 2D classic co-op titles ever made.
Bonus Question: Metal Slug 4 was awful, and Ralf is too awesome to be limited to only a few games...
Ultimately, while I loved Metal Gear Solid on PSX, I don't think I can live without Metal Slug games. Perhaps Metal Gear tried too hard too early to be the video game industry's Citizen Kane, but with Metal Slug you always knew exactly what you were getting into- the quarter eating, high scoring, bullet hell bringing quick action fun that was and always has been the very essence of video gaming.
So yeah Contra. I mean Metal Slug.
While I appreciate the consistency, what I do not enjoy about the Metal Slug series is how it has remained relatively stale. Where are the HD efforts? 2.5D remakes? Character crossovers? RPG elements? Anything. Oh well
They had a awful 3D game, since 5 or so they have Ralf and Clark from KoF as playable characters, and I remember a SNK fighting game with Mark...
There's a whole slew of reasons I could name for choosing it, from seeing how crazy MGS3 was, to the voice work of people like Jennifer Hale and Phil LaMarr. But really, it's because I never really played Metal Slug enough for it to impact me in any way.
But one thing I hate about it? Small spoiler here.
Not enough playing as a Metal Gear REX.
Bonus: That bastard arcade machine sucks quarters like a motherfucker. Also, the games are kinda short.
metal slug is good for quick fun and that's all its good for.
Sure the cut scenes can be long as hell but it's still redefined how videogames are to me. It has a complex and intricate story, awesome boss battles, great voice acting, etc.
Bonus question answer: I'm not a huge fan of the way Portable Ops has a mission-based structure.
Portable Ops Plus is waaay more suited to portable play, you should check it out...
I feel bad though, I'll be sure to play some metal slug in the future if Fronz thinks it's worthy of being compared to Metal Gear directly.
Bonus Question: The pointless cutscenes that make the game load a little bit slower.
20 years of console gold
Bonus: 20 years of monologues
One is stealth, the other is run-and-gun.
One demands patience, the other demands immediacy.
One has a story that, overall, is a convoluted mess. The other has a story that revels in the fact that it makes no damn sense and it's meant to be that way.
One demands time invested, the other asks for just a moment (or a few hours, all your choice).
It's like putting day vs. night in the cage of death. I love the beach in the sunny daytime, but I get laid on the beach at night, so....tough call.
I love Metal Gear, I love it dearly, and always have and will.
But I'm going with Metal Slug on this one. Marco Rossi and his boyz at SNK ain't never asked me to watch a cutscene that featured two people's faces talking to each other for 30 minutes about something that makes no goddamn sense at all. That alone clinches it.
I hope you're speaking for yourself, dude. I love me some David Hayter-delivered lines just as much as the next everybody else.
But I still hear "HEAVY MACHINE GUN! RAWKET LAUNGER! SHUTGUNN! FRAME SHOT!" in my sleep, man.
"SEE YOU IN HELL!"
"Metal GEAR?!"
that's it.