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Zucas on 29 December 2013
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DevilRising said:
Zucas said:
Not sure if this suggestion is blasphemy, but I feel that Nintendo would also need to get rid of the animals as well and more towards more traditional sci fi characters. Whether they turn them into humans or aliens that resemble the creatures they are named from, I do think that the animal aspect would limit the seriousness of the game.


I don't know about "blasphemy", but it's certainly not a sound suggestion. That would be about as pointless as making Mario "less cartoony" to somehow "make it appeal more to core (meaning guys who like boobs and blood and shooting stuff) gamers". Or for that matter, making Master Chief a furry cartoon animal character. The Star Fox universe is populated by anthropomorphic animal characters. That's what they are. Changing them would not only be a betrayal of the series, it would also bomb harder than the "serious, realisitc" Bomberman abortion that Hudson Soft tried on Xbox years ago.

People like Star Fox for what it is. If they made a game JUST like SF64 (with all new levels and more content of course), with gorgeous HD graphics and swarms of enemies and things happening on screen? People would swoon. It would be a massively big deal, and the hype for it would likely equal some pretty solid sales.

Well that is a false analogy.  No one would suggest changing Mario to appeal to the "masses" because it already does appeal to the masses.  Change, at least drastic change, is not necessary for Mario considering it still has mass market appeal and doesn't seem to be losing it.  Star Fox is not analogous to Mario because Star Fox is not appealing to the masses in droves.  Now a potential argument could be that the sales are on decline because Nintendo did move away from its core gameplay in both Gamecube editions.  But I think an appropriate counter to that would be questioning the selling power of the on-rails shooter genre, which over the last 10 years, has not been a very powerful genre.  Thus, I would argue, putting large amount of resources into a faltering franchise and then suggesting it continue to take on a genre that hasn't had mass appeal in over a decade would be a "less than sound suggestion".  Instead, if that was the reasonable option, then Ninty shouldn't bother making another Star Fox game ever, bar a downloadable only game.  

But as I said I am just making potential suggestions.  Personally, given everything about Star Fox, they are probably best just leaving the series alone and maybe doing a downloadable game that brings nostaligia to fans every now and then.  Although I suggest drastically changing it, I am not sure if they could execute it well enough or be willing to go far enough to pull it off.  Then we really would get something like Bomberman Act Zero haha.