Yeah my man doesn't know common sea creatures, i mean he could have missed the dr. Moreau Island reference and i would not be suprised, but you have to be an absolute monkey to dont know what a crab is.

carcinization

jojo brain damage

Tbf they look a lot closer to the lovers than to an actual crab

Jojo brainrot is not only real but terminal

The Rugname's(Marspeople mothership) height itself is actually only about 2 storey's high (12 meters) but it more than makes up for because of its wideness. Metal Slug 2's concept art shows the scale of it compared to the Daimanjis(The spherical ships that attach to the bottom of the Rugname) and they are TINY compared to the Rugname's girth.

Thats some outstanding use of technology holy hell. This game is even better in term of quality than I though

@@perteks7639 Here's an example of the effect I am talking about. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qZqBgquWmcizipc.html The first 4/5s of the video is showing emulator attempts with various shaders/filters to recreate the waterfall effect on a digital monitor. Some are very close, most are horrible with either Sonic or the Waterfall being most visible. The last fifth of the video shows what the game looks like going to a CRT. That is the effect I was talking about.

That's not an accurate description of how this effect works or even the effect that's happening here (or in Sonic). The checkerboard dithering in the waterfall is simply for transparency, not a rainbow effect. It also works (to a lesser extent) on modern LCD TVs when the console is connected via composite. Composite is kind of inherently shitty and blurry, especially horizontally. The blurriness is increased on CRTs by the phosphor glow as the electron gun scans across the screen, but is still there on LCDs, because again, composite is shitty. The moment you switch to component, RGB over SCART, S-Video, or anything digital, the effect falls apart, even on a CRT, and especially on an LCD. Because of how blurry composite is, you can put checkerboard dithering on a sprite and the entire dithered region becomes a sort of gradient between the colours involved. You can use this to get partial transparency in a sprite, which is what's going on here. Sonic uses vertical transparent lines for its gradient transparency, which looks better on composite (checkerboarding would a little bit more obvious because composite is less blurry vertically) and far worse on RGB (now Sonic has vertical transparent lines through him). This is awesome in an era where transparency is basically limited to 1 bit, because now you can easily fake partial transparency. It also obviously works well for gradients, and on CRTs, producing colours that the console naturally can't as the phosphor glow causes colour "blending". The reason it's switching which pixels are transparent every frame is to create a sense of motion, but the transparency works without that. The rainbows happening in Sonic's transparent waterfalls happen even on LCDs over composite, because it's specifically the Genesis's composite output not entirely conforming to spec causing that, nothing to do with CRTs, or phosphor, or pseudo-partial-transparency. I know I'm gonna type (have typed) too much already, so I won't get into the Genesis's video output or subcarriers or anything like that. A huge number of older games use dithering for this exact reason, and some consoles straight up supported it in hardware. Soooo many PS1 games use the built-in hardware dithering heavily, and they look much sharper, but much shitter, as soon as you switch to RGB output. Some of the skyboxes in Gran Turismo 2 are totally fucked on anything but composite, regardless of the display. Ecco's title screen is a great example of composite+dithering being used to get blended gradients, and Streets of Rage uses big checkerboard yellow/transparent cones for partially transparent ceiling lights. I don't know that I can post links here, but google "the case for composite" and you'll get a blogspot post with great still examples of what I'm talking about, including the ones mentioned. Nothing mentioned here is a very fancy use of the technology of the time though, it was all very normal game dev stuff, though Sonic did at least kind of use the janky Genesis video output to its advantage in an interesting way. CRTs don't really work how you described- by the time the electron gun gets back around to any given point, that phosphor has mostly stopped glowing. That's why CRTs are mostly dim with one big fat glowing line when filmed. At any given time, most of the display is pretty dim, but human persistence of vision makes it not really matter. If they did work how you describe, they'd be terrible, especially at high refresh rates, and anyone who has played CS at 120Hz on a CRT so heavy that it causes their desk to bend knows that isn't the case. Thanks for coming to my TED talk yadda yadda

@@HotClown thank you for this!

@@perteks7639 Most of the process of programming is finding clever ways to do stuff better Back then it was about using the system's to the fullest Same reason Mother 3 has a vastly superior soundtrack to other GBA games, the dev knew what instruments to use in order to get the best music quality

How is Shakespeare that good?

@@goldra8409 The short version is, dude wrote decently entertaining stories when nobody had really figured out how to do that yet, he did a bunch of different genres, he invented most of the cliches of English writing, and he did it all in iambic pentameter, just for that added bit of aural flair. If you enjoy anything ever made in English media, you owe some small thanks to Shakespeare for creating part of it.

@@Trygon Huh, makes sense. The best explanation my literature teacher could give was that he wrote so many plays that he still sticks around today

@@goldra8409 Your "teacher" is also something that OP mentioned on how Shakespeare at first and naked glance is just mediocre and nothing special, because it takes some understanding to why the guy is so coveted. Otherwise, people may think he's just some writer from the past.

@@goldra8409 also he invented like 500 or so of the English words we use now

Don't forget breathing and feeling. It was living, thinking, breathing, feeling human beings. I can definitely agree that clowns are unfeeling and inhuman.

Implies? Isn't that common knowledge?

Why do you think we have colleges just for clowns?

clown here, can confirm, im actually in a hivemind

that's because they're not they never were the instant you become a clown, your brain gets connected to a hivemind of nothing but the words "entertain them all"

The zombie grenade is completly broken It's perfect

I knew I wasn't Mandela-remembering It!!! Thank you!!

​@@Scrubermenschi tought it was a random animation every character can do lol

MY GIRL FIO'S VIABLE LET'S GO

Sol Dae Rocker or something, I hate him

Lol yeah I saw that as well , that rebel flew into space lol

And they do it all with such a GUSTO that you don't expect. Like they all feel impactful and easy to read, your eyes are drawn over and you just keep wanting to see more and more of them.

Also you have reloading animations if you shoot x amount of bullets and stop, and the animation also is different for characters who have different types of pistols

I also noticed that, when he pressed DOWN towards the ground while flying with the jetpack, the character started jetpack-running on the ground. He didn't even notice

It's also how everything bounces, shakes, bends, and breaks which I've never before seen in a high quality pixel art game, since usually the art and backgrounds alone is the spectacle, less so the animations. Shooting tanks and cars with a pistol shouldn't be this satisfying, but somehow they just made it work.

the whole metal slug saga reeks of ultra detailed personality. i feel like there's no other game that has that much personality.

I'm personally partial to F L A M E S H O T

I'm more of a HEAVY MACHINEGUN guy myself

no love for I R O N L I Z Z E R D ?

Don't forget SHAWTGUN!

Plus some portable ones, a 3d one and the upcoming tactics

The three games were made officially by SNK before they went bankrupt on the third one. So they decided to end the series out with a bang before a branch company (if that what you guys call it) picked it up and continued onward with the series.

I think the games take inspiration from WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam war respectively for the settings But always having that high anime tech touch The first game takes place in very old looking places with more "vintage" palettes and shows plenty of small and simple tanks The second game introduces the pseudo-naz* symbols and the main leader Finally the third takes place in jungle like zones with fights in the trenches

@@tivvy2vs21 “””””upcoming”””””

@@rompevuevitos222 they also seem to take some inspiration from the soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the gulf war

It does the insanity even better, because unlike Metal Gear, it doesn't try to take itself seriously and mix it with the over the top stuff It knows what it wants to do and it does it perfectly

Grayfruit: the people’s champ

He's like a 2000s GameStop employee showing kids cool games to buy and we're the kids

THATS WHAT IM SAYIN, I love this man so much no homo. been a supporter for 2 years now and every stream just keeps getting better. I fall asleep to him almost every night, he is just so calming, I'm glad u enjoy him too.

@@elcuh3316 bro I always put his videos on to sleep, they’re so nostalgic somehow??? Like I love falling asleep to the goofy fruitman

@@vickster97 u got insta? we can talk about the fruit man more :>

Which makes the final scene so much cooler The main character is just so done that he throws away his gun in the hopes of never getting it back. He went trough hell and back and he shows it

O thanks!! Can you please explain me more about Geographia (The Avatar of Evil[Final Boss of MS5, symbol of the parade flag of the Rebel Army]) I've searched online but never found anything important about him or why the Rebel Army disappears exactly in the game where their "God" is the final boss, also the true end of the series as it was.

I've watched this frog bit 50 times now thanks to your timestamp thank you

Same here, blowing my mind a little bit. Also reaaally makes me wanna install flashpoint so i could replay that series.

oh my god that's also where I used to know them from holy shit

The POWs are fairly fitting actually In a cartoony setting with just evil guys, it would be logical to have prisoners just be stripped down to some shoddy hay pants that just stash their contraband in their underwear You also get the name and rank of every POW you rescue at the end of each level

Someone else said it was “diarrhea” instead but either one is still really funny

Oof, I feel for you dude. I was convinced as a naive little boy that if I just searched enough, I would eventually be able to find a copy of Halo... for the game cube 😅 My friend had an xbox and I didn't, but I loved playing it over at his house, so I *needed* to find it! Eventually I got a 360 a bit after it came out, and I was perfectly happy with Halo 3 and eventually Reach then! Also, they made a version of CoD WaW for the Wii! Like not a pirated one, and the motion controls worked alright lol. But I found out the hard way that it didn't include Nazi Zombies 🤦‍♂️ (I still had a lot of fun with it, but once I eventually got a gaming PC I also bought the game on steam to play zombies with friends).

A friend still has one of those "200 games in one" disc for his PS2 He only really plays Mario World tho

@@rompevuevitos222 that's exactly what I had

As a someone born in Argentina i'm going to Say i can Beat metal slug in on life

its the same technology that lets them upgrade a revolver to fire seeking missiles

@@Badsy_the_Edgecat Wrong. They technically switch to a much larger gun when they pick up a powerup, so the revolver is just firing 200 rounds a minute. There's no other conclusion but that.

@@isaacbypass oh, huh, as it turns out i wasnt paying that much attention

"more than enough shots to kill anything that moves" means a whole lot more in metal slug

As a fan of xcom but not run n gun shooters, metal slug tactics finally seems like a way that I can fall in love with this franchise

It's not really Metal Slug, but hey, maybe it brings enough attention to make SNK consider another sequel