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Samus Aran on 02 April 2015
WhiteEaglePL said:
Samus Aran said:

They designed the game while knowing that. I'd much rather see Kid Icarus turned into a Metroid/GoW combo game. Throw all the weird Japanese stuff out and focus on Greek mythology.

There's a lot of greek stuff in Uprising anyway, including more Gods and monsters. But too Greek will spoil the fun in the awesome world Uprising created.

Anime is staying for a while, because it's in Smash too.  I like wierd Japanese stuff even the SMG x FE overload so imo I like it.

Well, you're talking to someone who wrote his thesis on the Romans and specializes in ancient antiquity, so I might be a little bit biased... ;)



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hsrob on 02 April 2015
Samus Aran said:
hsrob said:

There were two other paragraphs in my post, conveniently overlooked ;)

Nintendo have made sequels to games that have sold less and not made sequels to games that have sold more.

F-Zero would not be a big risk to make.  They could even use the MK engine.

What sequels have they made to games that sold less than 650k and 160k?

When I ask people what makes F-Zero so different from Mario Kart they say the speed. Well, now you got it.

Fire Emblem, Sin and Punishment for example. Look through Nintendo's 2nd and 3rd tier franchises and there are plenty of franchises with entries that have sold under 600K. 160K, probably not so many, but there are some.

If you didn't even want to debate that point then you just had to say so: Setting, track design, speed, characters, vehicle damage, no weapons, story mode, number of racers, DNFs, difficulty, driving model and controls, music, custom-made vehicles.

Am I to take from this that you haven't actually played F-Zero?  Funny that, thinking that a game you've never played doesn't deserve a sequel.



Jumpin on 02 April 2015

Retroverrated.



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Ultravolt on 02 April 2015

Hopefully it's Metroid!



   

Samus Aran on 02 April 2015
hsrob said:
Samus Aran said:
hsrob said:

There were two other paragraphs in my post, conveniently overlooked ;)

Nintendo have made sequels to games that have sold less and not made sequels to games that have sold more.

F-Zero would not be a big risk to make.  They could even use the MK engine.

What sequels have they made to games that sold less than 650k and 160k?

When I ask people what makes F-Zero so different from Mario Kart they say the speed. Well, now you got it.

Fire Emblem, Sin and Punishment for example. Look through Nintendo's 2nd and 3rd tier franchises and there are plenty of franchises with entries that have sold under 600K. 160K, probably not so many, but there are some.

If you didn't even want to debate that point then you just had to say so: Setting, track design, speed, characters, vehicle damage, no weapons, story mode, number of racers, DNFs, difficulty, driving model and controls, music, custom-made vehicles.

Am I to take from this that you haven't actually played F-Zero?  Funny that, thinking that a game you've never played doesn't deserve a sequel.

I played it at a friend's once, Mario Kart is a lot more fun.



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KLXVER on 02 April 2015

Yeah, Ive heard enough Retro rumors to just wait until they show something before I get hyped...



hsrob on 02 April 2015
Samus Aran said:
hsrob said:
Samus Aran said:
hsrob said:

There were two other paragraphs in my post, conveniently overlooked ;)

Nintendo have made sequels to games that have sold less and not made sequels to games that have sold more.

F-Zero would not be a big risk to make.  They could even use the MK engine.

What sequels have they made to games that sold less than 650k and 160k?

When I ask people what makes F-Zero so different from Mario Kart they say the speed. Well, now you got it.

Fire Emblem, Sin and Punishment for example. Look through Nintendo's 2nd and 3rd tier franchises and there are plenty of franchises with entries that have sold under 600K. 160K, probably not so many, but there are some.

If you didn't even want to debate that point then you just had to say so: Setting, track design, speed, characters, vehicle damage, no weapons, story mode, number of racers, DNFs, difficulty, driving model and controls, music, custom-made vehicles.

Am I to take from this that you haven't actually played F-Zero?  Funny that, thinking that a game you've never played doesn't deserve a sequel.

I played it at a friend's once, Mario Kart is a lot more fun.

So you don't know the series, that's fine, but someone who doesn't know a series is never going to advocate for a sequel and their opinion on whether a sequel is 'deserved' is missing some rather critical information. Sales-wise you can make a decent case, quality-wise you can't.

I agree Mario Kart is more fun but F-Zero is a much purer racing experience and is much more challenging, they are VERY different games.  It baffles me when people liken Metroid to Halo and the like, I would contend that this comparison is equally stretched. Overall I prefer Mario Kart too but I would still love to see another F-Zero game as its been 12 long years since the last console version.

Having said all that, I strongly feel that Retro would be wasted on it.



umegames on 02 April 2015

What ever they're making I'm buying and it will be great.



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Samus Aran on 02 April 2015
hsrob said:

So you don't know the series, that's fine, but someone who doesn't know a series is never going to advocate for a sequel and their opinion on whether a sequel is 'deserved' is missing some rather critical information. Sales-wise you can make a decent case, quality-wise you can't.

I agree Mario Kart is more fun but F-Zero is a much purer racing experience and is much more challenging, they are VERY different games.  It baffles me when people liken Metroid to Halo and the like, I would contend that this comparison is equally stretched. Overall I prefer Mario Kart too but I would still love to see another F-Zero game as its been 12 long years since the last console version.

Having said all that, I strongly feel that Retro would be wasted on it.

I never talked about the quality of F-Zero. Nintendo is a business, they look at sales. If a good game doesn't sell than the concept is flawed.

Of course I won't complain if Nintendo outsources it to a third party studio. The last one was made by Sega.



CarcharodonKraz on 02 April 2015

this isn't even close to news! As long as it's not a 2d sidescroller i don't care. It will probably be awesome. I'd prefer they not be the ones to bring back eternal darkness i suppose