Fucking imagine Marco or any other Metal Slug character in Smash
Normals: Uses punches for jab, blasts from a handgun for smash attacks and some air attacks, and a knife for tilts
Side B: Grenade. Can’t drop it like Snakes, it’s a simple toss that’s pre-set every time, with an explosion hitbox with good vertical range
Up B: Had to make this one up. Grenade drop. Has you drop a grenade beneath your feet while in the air, and once it blow’s you get a crazy jump that has great air control and is very fast. Slow setup, but great reward
His gimmick is focused around Down B and Neutral B Down B: Gun change. Can change Neutral b to various different gun types.
Neutral B: Shoots different types of guns, which has ammo displayed next to percent. You can move while using it as well. Types include
-Machine Gun: Shoots fast, decent damage out put, medium range, decent ammo, and no knock back/hitstun
-Rocket Launcher: Shoots slower, great range, decent kill power, but little ammo.
-Shotgun: Close ranged, great kill power, Shoots very slow, very limited ammo.
-Flame shot: Slow shot, decent range, and great damage and shield damage. Medium ammo. Similar to Plant’s side b, but in a single burst. No hitstun or knock back.
I know I shouldn’t get my hopes up but this would be great
love the concept and honestly I couldn't think of a more Ideal SNK rep than Marco or the entire squad (with 4 different alts ala hero with marco alongside tarma, eri, and fio), but I will say there is always the option of a helicopter for the recovery not that i dislike the grenade drop concept you presented, but just figured I'd share a possible alternative
Yeah I had helicopter in mind, but I was worried that it would be too large, clunky and odd, especially for smaller stages. Same with the use of tanks in the actual moveset. I’d personally save that stuff for an all out military ambush for the final smash
Josiah Clark
>Fucking imagine Marco or any other Metal Slug character in Smash I can. It's called Mii Gunner
Juan Diaz
while we're living in our own personal fantasies, how sick would it be if he wasn't 3D rendered but instead he was beautiful pixel art?
Leo Nguyen
Definitely more deserving of being in Smash than Terry "Nobody Ever Wanted This Retarded Literal Who Cuck In Smash" Bogard.
Isaiah Ward
I was just kinda under the assumption that the final smash would be a metal slug, but yeah I guess I never considered the fact that the helicopter depending on the character and object sizing could be too cumbersome for its large size even more so when the stage itself happens to be small and an all out military ambush would be a lot more cool and cinematic than just a metal slug, so yeah I guess that unless they find a way to handle it without the helicopter feeling too out of place that a grenade drop is probably the better alternative.
Connor Davis
>why?,yes,we are the next smash characters,how could you tell?
More than just that >Audio clips from MS >HMG or lawnchair as items >'Mission Clear' jingle as a victory theme
Jackson Sanders
>Everytime you switch weapons, you hear the name of it being called out
Angel Bell
I hope these guys get in. I have no idea what the story of ms is or even what systems they were on (except that one ps2 collection) but man they look cool. I'd main Marco for his looks alone, he looks like a chill dude who just wants some fun. That and metal slug is the only SNK franchise I've ever heard of and didn't even know KoF was snk until yesterday
Caleb Davis
when playing on the metal slug stage as the Marco, Eri, Tarma, and Fio you get a mission start at the beginning of a stock match and a mission complete for when you win or a game over for if you lose. victory theme is mission clear that takes place in the standard character victory screen, game over music plays prior to the opposing character's victory screen.
What should his moveset be? I posted this in another thread; I think that >the metal slug would be his final smash. >Standard B would be black grenade. >Side B would be an rng of weapons from the metal slug series (i.e heavy machine gun, enemy chaser, iron lizard.) ( Kinda like G&W's side B). >Down B would be breakfast where he eats food to recover. Do it enough times and he'll get "woah big" and all his special will get a buff. >Up B would be his rocket pack and can move in any direction. >And his side smash would be "secret blow", the oversize boxing glove in his packpack.
I think more than likely Marco would be calling out his attacks. Would be nice hearing the audio clips from the game.
you're absolutely right, there's also always the option of the astro slug and the one man ufo from as well. I just felt the helicopter best fit the military theming early metal slug went for, but it would be nice to reference and use the zany elements that they started embracing with 3 onwards.
Marco(and the MS crew) has the most interesting interactions and given that SMU tends to bring non fighters into the roster, he seems like the most likely to enter.
Eli Perry
if they ever make it in i can see Nintendo making random POWs appear and walk around the stages whenever he is in play giving him upgrades/grenades
Hostages would be assist trophies. They often announce new Assists with new characters. Alucard got announced with Richter for instance.
Zachary Bennett
Just gonna dump this here until I finish the image later:
- [ ] Properties: Marco is a mid sized character, being about the same size as Little Mac, only slightly bulkier and shorter to find a mid-point between his artwork and sprite depictions. Weight is on the heavier side of mid-weight on foot, and super heavyweight when in the slug, being as heavy as Bowser to be exact. Attack-wise he can be quite strong, though he is somewhat lacking on the defensive side. Edging on the faster side of mid-speed on walking and dashing. His design most closely resembles his first game’s appearance and has Eri, Tarma and Fio as alternate skins, similar to Hero. - [ ] Playstyle: This fighter is a fully fledged Gunner, meaning they’re a hard zoner. He deals somewhat weak damage while he’s on his own, with his weapon switch being a very slight upgrade to damage output, though it is used more so to tackle different obstacles, so he is reliant on his Metal Slug to deal the heavier damage or finish off an opponent who he may be having trouble with on his own. - [ ] Active Gameplay Mechanic: Metal Slug. Marco has the ability to pilot a standard Metal Slug tank, where he gains a great deal of power in exchange for speed and some of his moves.
- [ ] Passive Gameplay Mechanic: Weapon Switch. Marco has the ability to temporarily switch his main weapon from his handgun to one of many other guns. When Marco uses the gun switching move, his gun’s design will change to the shotgun-like design, no matter what type of ammo it has. Each gun will have their own set of ammo that can be used up before he is forced to go back to his handgun. Every time you chose a weapon, the same announcer will say the name of that weapon. The guns are: * Heavy Machine Gun: deals double the damage of the handgun, being 2% per bullet, and a much higher fire rate. However, this gun only holds 30 bullets. * Rocket Launcher: High damage projectiles that are the only one of the guns in Marco’s arsenal that can be reflected. Each one deals 3% damage and can shoot up to 20 of them. These missiles are much slower than all of the others Marco can use. * Shotgun: this move deals the most damage out of all the guns Marco can use, dealing 7% per shotgun blast. This weapon has a much shorter range, and has damage that tapers off the farther you get from point-blank of the gun itself. Can be fired 10 times before returning to the handgun. * Flame Shot: A weapon that fires a large singular blast of flame. This move deals 5% damage per shot, but is much slower than even the shotgun. The burst of flame will travel 1.5x the distance of the shotgun, begin to travel upward the farther out it goes in a parabolic arch and will leave a burn effect on opponents that will last for 3 seconds every time they touch the flame. This weapon can be fired up to 15 times
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Hudson Garcia
Jab is sorta like megaman’s. I’ll get into it later. - [ ] Standard Special: Weapon Switch. Marco can switch between four different super weapon types. He will control this move by pressing the B Button, which will open a menu where he can select one of the four weapons. Once you have made your selection, a Prisoner of War will jump out from behind you, pull out his boxers from his pants, which will end up covering you (and shielding you from damage). Once the boxers are put away, you’ll have your new weapon type with an indicator next to your damage percentage. - [ ] Side Special: Grenades. Marco will lob a single grenade - [ ] Up Special: Astro Slug. Marco will jump into an Astro Slug and fly upward by holding the B button after the initial Up-B, like R.O.B. - [ ] Down Special: Metal Slug. Marco will jump into a standard Metal Slug tank. The Slug will control nearly identically to Marco himself, but without the ability to use his Standard and Up Specials, Smash Attacks. Its health will be displayed with a pulsating red glow, that will begin to show, then pulsate faster and faster once damaged, until eventually Marco must jump out of it to return to his normal moveset, as the tank explodes behind him, which will deal about 10% damage and a large deal of knockback to the opponent if hit by it. His Side Special is replaced with a single tank round that flies in a similar arch to the grenades, but makes a much larger explosion, which reaches 2/3 the length of Palutena’s Usmash. The Slug itself is slow to walk and dash, however it has the same jump height and speed as Marco. It will have armor similar to Bowser’s Though Guy ability, but can withstand a bit more, as well as having the ability to never be grabbed or thrown. This move will take a significant amount of time to recharge, as it is able to be kept out longer and is more versatile than something like Wario’s bike.
I’ll elaborate more on these later.
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Jonathan Bennett
If anything they'd appear on the Metal Slug stage and give you an item when you rescue them, similar to the chests on the Dragon Quest stage
Logan Gomez
not in the fighter pass tho
James Morales
Allen O'Neil boss battle
Henry Parker
God damn it marco sounds so fucking kino I want a MS rep so damn bad
Jeremiah Bennett
I didn't know I wanted Metal Slug in Smash until the SNK leak but why would Nintendo or Sakurai pick them? It doesn't seem like anybody was asking for an SNK character, it came from out of nowhere.
Noah Baker
people do still love metal slug. They probably saw how it's a huge arcade classic, similar to the other classics that get added.
Carter Sullivan
I had in mind that Marco's entire normals (sans a few) would be firing his gun, but the pistol is like Fox's blaster, fast with decent range but weak and no knockback at all, so his whole plan is to rack up damage with pistol and then finish the opponent with his other weapons. His main gimmick would be his down-b where he uses his walkie-talkie to call for support in the form of a POW (gets summoner after 2 secs of using the move and only 1 pow can be summoned), when Marco touches the POW he gives him a random weapon (heavy machine gun, rocket launcher, etc..) and all of Marco's normals get enhanced with said weapon (HMG does better damage than pistol but still no knockback, rocket launcher is like Samus' missiles but a bit stronger, Shotgun is his strongest weapon but lacks range and is low on ammo, Flame shot does massive damage but it isn't that strong with knockback and laser gun has amazing range but also no knockback), if the opponent touches the pow then he releases food to heal a bit. Only non-gun moves would be his dash attack being the slide from Metal Slug 5 and back air being the mechanical boxing glove he uses. UpB would be the jetpack he uses in MS3, Neutral B would be his grenades and Side-B would change his weapon (he can hold 2 weapons at a time, it also can go back to pistol). Fsmash is zantetsu sword slash, his strongest move sans shotgun UpSmash he summons a thundercloud to strike above him, strong move DSmash he throws a fire grenade that burns the area around him, does good damage. Get up attack and ledge attack would be knife slashes. Final Smash would be a cinematic where he gets in the metal slug, using all the arsenal it has and finishes it with him jumping out of it while the slug does the kamikaze attack (ending with the clasicc X explosion).
Robert Miller
Just imagine that as the fucking ultimate smash. >You and your bros are fighting in the final space stage >Marco grabs the smash. >The fucking crabtank with waves for legs appears
He looks kinda shitty and the focus of Metal Gear was always the bosses so nah
Sebastian Anderson
I'd love Metal slug!
But lets get real here. Its almost definitely Terry or Nakoruru or whatever.
Thomas Hughes
No doubt people still love Metal Slug, the games hold up incredibly well and are playable on just about everything. It just doesn't seem like there was a demand for an SNK character at all. If Nintendo really did it, they're based as fuck, but zoomers are going to lose their shit just like with Hero.
Jose Kelly
they would be like the flying men in magicent
Tyler Rivera
>It just doesn't seem like there was a demand for an SNK character at all. hasn't that been the case for most new fighters?
The point of the dlc was to bring in new people from different demograhics who never played smash before. We already have fighting games covered with Ken and Ryu so Kyo and Terry might feel a bit too samey. Nako is just a bit different enough to slip through but Metal Slug? Now THATD be really interesting.
Jaxon Howard
It's probably too soon to decide that. I'd say Hero had a lot to do with the "Goku in Smash" meme and people have wanted Banjo in Smash since 64. Joker and Piranha Plant, if that even counts, have both been out of nowhere though.
Charles Rivera
>Pixel-art stage with original SFX digitized voices youtube.com/watch?v=4TG7pE1jboo Now I will be really sad if that doesn't happen...
Nathan Russell
his stage should be final attack from 2/X or on top of rootmars.
Aaron Gonzalez
>The original MS2-3 announcer voices their names in the character select screen instead of Xander >The arena where you fight Allen in Metal Slug 1 is the stage >that or the Independence Day pastiche from 2
Levi Baker
what about the full last mission from 3? and if there is no winner by the end of of the rootmars section, the one that jumps first into the slug wins.
Ryder Murphy
you mean one of those transformation stages? like you start on the part where you fight fake morden then go into space, then inside the mothership and finally on top of rootmars? sounds great
Such is the way of interesting characters. There is always a character more boring and uninspired to overshadow them and get picked by sakurai
Christian Morales
That would be nice too (maybe put Allen or Morden as boss fights there) but I think the final attack of MS2/X and the Rootmars fight are the most iconic moments of Metal Slug, so them being represented as stages would be phenomenal.
Oliver Phillips
Exactly.
John Nguyen
I would honestly say, that for the average audience, the most iconic part of the series is the typical military enemies remember: most people who played the game did not in fact reach Rootmars
Kayden Gonzalez
C'MON BOI
Tyler Edwards
>most people who played the game did not in fact reach Rootmars personally i never reached the rootmars level until i got a ROM for my pc, but there was always the madlad that managed to beat the whole thing with 5 CC or less and always had a small multitude of kids cheering for him.
Anthony Allen
GO HOME TO MOMMY
Carson Russell
SEE YOU IN *whoops can't say hell in this game*
Jeremiah Smith
>SEE YOU IN HECK
David Allen
>Palutena commentary >Allen interrupts them >SEE YOU IN HE >you can't say that in this game!!!!
Levi Ortiz
Fuck man all these ideas are great but no the smash community wants fucking owl girl and hat ken
Carter Hill
Would honestly be a really good choice to make an interesting move set.
I really hope the metal slug gang is choosen, seriously look at all the creativity by the fans meanwhile with the other characters it's just the generic moveset,I hope they are added
Ralph and Clark are from the Ikari Warriors game, that's why they have that name on the team meanwhile Leona is from the king of fighters
All The SNK characters share the same universe and that's why they where added to metal slug,you can even see Marco and the gang watching fights of Kof in several games
Ayden James
The more you know. thanks user!
Jonathan Peterson
too bad they went for something boring, metal slug would've been based
Blake Adams
So if the Metal Slug squad gets in, how should they look? >like the MSXX art aka >A more realistic look like Shinkiro's art >Anime-style like the first metal slug or the concept art of the games >The more cartoony/chibi look from their in-game sprites
Parker Hernandez
this thread has literally made me hate Terry even more now, thanks guys.
Adam Smith
Knowing Sakurai, it would be closer to the ingame sprotes
The PF squad also exist in the KOF universe but it's a different universe from the MS one. The KOF universe is at (relative) peace while the MS one is constantly at war. My personal headcanon is that the KOF universe is one where Morden never left the Regular Army.
Julian Nguyen
I love Terry but he already was a guest in a different game and Ryu & Ken are good enough for a fighting game rep, besides Metal Slug is the only SNK franchise that hasn't gotten any crossover with other games these years. >Terry in FEXL >Iori in Million Arthur >Geese in Tekken 7 >Haohmaru in SC6 Last crossover MS had was with the Battle Cats. Not to mention MS8 is already confirmed to be in the works so a MS rep would really help for hyping it up (Samsho is out already and doing better than ever and there's already hype for KoFXV).
Levi Foster
And occasionally, Hyakutaro pops up and fights for whomever tags him first with fireballs and jump kicks.
Christian James
YOU'RE MINCEMEAT!
Also, Allen would most likely be the Assist Trophy.
Tyler Morris
SEE YOU IN H*LL...
Aaron Watson
Trailer should be Snake being informed of a new Metal Gear only to find himself battling the Metal Slug.
Boss is Gen. Morden piloting the giant Metal Rear tank. I know it's technically not a Morden boss, but it's probably the best one that could transition to Smash gameplay. youtube.com/watch?v=0CHofTkBmCE
Juan Hernandez
>final smash summons the ayy lmao mothership from metal slug x
fund it reggie
Landon Nelson
>Snake gets to destroy the metal slug after an intense fight >But a silhouettes jump out from the tank before it explodes >Snake gets surprised by this >The smoke starts to dissipate, showing who this shadow >It's Marco >tag-line "Marco Slugs Out!" >youtube.com/watch?v=8xdv3fKqbYk >Some gameplay of Marco is shown, clips showing his normals and battling the other characters >Some random nods at the games like him being assisted by Diddy Kong using the peanut popgun or him shooting like crazy at the bus AT >Suddenly Marco gets KO'd by Snake who hides on his Box >The continue countdown from Metal Slug appears on the Screen >*continuecoinsound.wav* >Close up to Snake getting out of his box just to be launched far off by Fio >Behind her are Tarma, Eri and Marco, and they all taunt >youtube.com/watch?v=K0MRIsrK_Wo starts playing >Footage of Marco's alts (Eri, Tarma and Fio) fighting the rest of the cast and showing their specials moves >Their Stage is shown, it's the scenario where you fight Allen in Metal Slug X >They show them fighting for a bit before a close up of Allen (or maybe Morden) to show them as the Stage Boss >Trailer ends with the Final Smash being Marco getting on the Metal Slug, shooting the vulcan and the tank's cannon at Snake then finishing it with the Metal Slug Attack (aka the kamikaze) >Cutscene ends with Marco & his squad getting on the metal slug, shooting towards the screen, which flashes white (nod to the metal slug 1 intro) >Super Smash Bros X Metal Slug >Extra Cutscene is Marco eating a bunch of food and getting fat (one of his taunts, gets back to normal after the animation ends) with Kirby just looking at him
Landon Rodriguez
>Mfw this is 25% probable and 75% not
Goddamnit I hope Nintendo announces the direct soon so I can loose my hope or actually being excited by the dlc,all the others dlc aren't relevant for me
In-game sprites for the chibi style and moveset, but face animations and outfit designs like MSXX art.
Grayson Lopez
what's the best neo geo emulator?
Jackson Hughes
haha
Brandon Sullivan
I think Sakurai might make them a biiiiiiiit taller/slimmer than their sprites, but otherwise I agree with you.
William Jenkins
Having a Slug as a special move would be fucking based. The size comparison to Bowser is also perfect. Only thing is having the tank as an easily accessible special seems a little OP. Imo the tank should work like Joker's Arsene meter. The only difference is you build meter by landing hits on your opponent. When the meter's full a POW comes and says "Thank You" and spawns the Metal Slug.
I was temped to make it a meter move, but figured there were a lot of characters I'd already made movesets for had meters of some kind. Also having it be based on its own health would kinda be more faithful to the slugs playable in the games themselves, as they can withstand a certain amount of damage before breaking down and exploding. To balance this it'll just have way less health than it does in the MS games and a long recharge time to be able to do this again, coupled with Marco himself being somewhat weak without it.
Benjamin Stewart
god this would be so fucking perfect
Lucas Lopez
Down B: Drop Shot Neutral B: Grenade Side b: Pistol Final Smash: Either the tank or any super strong gun like Heavy Machine gun/Shotgun/RocketLauncher for 10 seconds
Jacob Russell
WOAH, BIG
Nicholas Martin
A lot of that stuff would make sense being part of his normals tho. We need more gunners.
Jose Russell
bump
Benjamin Russell
fucking nice
Brandon Barnes
>they can withstand a certain amount of damage before breaking down and exploding Yeah, usually three hits.
Carter Hernandez
It’s a new and stage feeling seeing so many people care and love METAL SLUG being stuck on gacha hell. Ryan O Neil assist trophy if happens
Alexander Sullivan
You better mean Allen O'Neil, or YOU'RE MINCEMEAT!
Jeremiah Smith
I forgot about his name and I remember the name of his daughter Also would you imagine if this is the game where Drop shot will finally be useful? if not Op
Aiden Cruz
>implying that's a bad thing
Angel Kelly
I mean obviously it wouldn't be the EXACT same, but it'd be similar enough to get the point across.
Levi Jenkins
>Ryan O Neil Eh? Allen only has a son named Allen Jr.
David Carter
Why not the whole crew? You could have Marco, Tarma, Fio, Eri, Ralph, Clark, Leona, and then either the pig tail girl or Mushi-shi looking mother fucker from Metal Slug 4. Or make the last character Heidern if you need a playable villain.
Dylan Perry
Trevor, Nadia, Ralf, Clark, and Leona all have unique melee and victory poses in their game appearances. The base 4 have identical animations aside from victory pose/taunt.
Dylan Cruz
Up-B could just be jetpack
And honestly, for as much as I want Terry, a Metal Slug rep would be hype as fuck.
Juan Morgan
Guys stop I’m gonna fucking kill myself if it another character
this. Terry is fucking terrible in comparison to a MS character.
Dylan Cox
The idea that we could get a fucking Metal Slug character never crossed my mind and now that it's so close I can taste it I'm literally going to McFucking kill myself if it's a King of Fighters character.
Christopher Gray
go play metal slug
Joshua Roberts
just fuck my shit up.
Colton Thomas
I specifically remember a thread where Metal Slug was mentioned as the DLC character and everyone hated the OP for giving them hope.
I know Terry is all but confirmed but that thread was so specific about Metal Slug way back before all this happened and it’s driving me crazy that I can’t find it anywhere
Carson Taylor
there was a post with Marco being a DLC but the other character was undertale or something like that. At this point I expect a Marco costume for Mii Fighter
Justin Clark
>The closest thing we’ll get to Metal Slug characters are going to be mii gunner costumes
this thread just made me try out ms3 fucking incredible game
Grayson Parker
Overall pretty good...
>Shotgun only dealing 7%
I would change the shotgun to have even less ammo, but potentially be a high knockback killer.
Ian Clark
I dont even like SNK but this sounds way better than Ken with a hat plus gives us at least one gun user in this 3 swordsman DLC to bad it wont happen cause Samurai has abysmal taste
Only the Ikari Warriors, Nadia and Trevor are almost the same as Eri and Tarma. That being said, I don't think those two are as memorable as the other characters to be alt skins, but maybe Eri and Tarma could have an extra color based on them.
I have never played a Metal slug game in my life, what did i miss out on?
Anthony Thompson
lots of fun
Bentley Fisher
The PF squad are working for the vilains, even if they are good themselves. REMINDER THAT MORDEN DID NOTHING WRONG except losing.
Aiden Garcia
IIRC, Sakurai say he likes making no fighter characters into Smash because he has to think the moveset. This thread is proof of how fun it can be. Thanks Anons.
