DevilRising said:
Zucas said:
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.
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Sorry, but I'm damn glad Nintendo doesn't think that way. Turning the Star Fox universe from a unique "Aniverse" of talking animal people, into a bland, generic sci-fi universe akin to Mass Effect, and making it "dark, gritty and hardcore", is one of the single worst ideas I've ever heard presented in my long history with gaming......
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Well then we will just have to agree to disagree.
