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A game that amounts to a graphically enhanced N64 game shouldn’t cost $50.
Gameplay looks fine, but I’m not buying a switch 2 to play.
What’s up with Fox’s appearance tho? He looks like he’s cone out of retirement being overweight. Remaster doesn’t mean you have to have realistic visuals that alter from the style of the original.
Check out the OG Star Fox boxart on SNES, it’ll look familiar. Both US and Japanese versions.
I actually really like the new style. It has been divisive though.
Sad to see the huge engine glow go. I always thought it looked cool.
We got a good reaction pic out of it, I guess
Lmao 🤣
We need the SNES remake
That’s basically Star Fox 64. The N64 version is a reimagined version of the SNES game.
Hard pass. Maybe they’ll take that engine and make new content with it. If so then I’ll pay attention.
At least it has a multiplayer mode but I do find it odd how they full release old games instead of having it as an expansion for new games.
Cool I guess. Nintendo doesn’t seem to know what to do with the franchise. They’ve remade SF64 twice now.
Am I the only one bothered by the fact Fox’s ears stick out of his helmet? I certainly wouldn’t wear headgear that left the most fragile and sticky-outy parts of my head exposed.
Yeah, I know. When seeing this post, I thought it was about the HarbourMasters PC port, which I’d rather play than this because at least the PC port isn’t $70.
This isn’t $70 either. $50 for digital.
Like that is ok too. $50 for that is WAY too much, but absolutely expect from Shittendo.
Did anyone even play the 64 game? My friends and i didnt, but we absolutely destroyed the first game.
Might also be a generational thing.
I was 8 when SF64 came out. It was the coolest game my friends and I had seen to that point.
That’s how we felt about the SNES game.
That’s very cool
I was a part of the N64 generation, we played the hell out of it. I recall my one college roommate getting really hooked to it after I bought my N64 to our apartment too.
My neighbor comes over and we jam out on retro games. I learned that the generation after mine were super into Diddy Kong Racing on the N64. My friends and i were too old for that game, we were waverace and oo7 addicts.
Definitely liked diddy Kong too. Wave racer was better though
We’ve demolished Diddy Kong Racing in the past couple of months. I have to say it’s one of the best racers of its time.
The amount of unlockable races, characters with actual different stats, boss races, time trials, an extra world, multiple vehicles, open world, four tiers of in race items, unlockable characters, and an entire second quest… It’s a damn fine game that ive personally grown to love more than the tech demo that was Wave Race 64.
Mario Kart 64 was super popular at my dorm, but Diddy Kong Racing never caught on. It just isn’t as good a game.
Yeah we all played Mario kart in college.
DiddyKong is probably the better game, imo now. But the into and character screens are incredibly grating to hear
Absolutely! It seems to have a lot more staying power judging by how often its referenced.
Star fox and rogue squadron were probably my top games for the n64. Diddy Kong racing was right up there with them, and mario tennis and shadows of the empire rounding out the top 5. I think that most of the people I knew with n64s were in agreement on the star fox game being one of the best.
Yes. I got medals on all 15 stages in Expert Mode. Then my cart disappeared. I assume someone from my dorm took it.
And I was 17 when the first one came out (which I also had), so not a generational thing in my case.
I mean, the 64 game is memed to death for good reason. I remember playing the hell out of it when I was a kid, my son used to fall asleep to Let’s Plays, and now he and I play it on Virtual Console together.
4 player battle arena was amazing, I had one friend who was annoyingly good with the tank and would routinely annihilate us with it, to the point where it was briefly banned in SF64 multiplayer in our group. Same friend showed me how to save Falco in the first mission, effectively unlocking the other half of the game for me. Fun, incredibly quotable campaign. I don’t have the same sentimental attachment to it that I do for, say, the Legend of Zelda games, but I do have a lot of fun memories associated with it.
thrice, if you include star fox zero
Also SF64 is basically a remake of the SNES game with some new mechanics from the scrapped SF2 game. And this Switch version is the third remake of SF64. Zero is a reimagining of SF64.
I think a lot of that is due to the genre of the game. I’m not sure what you can innovate with a rail shooter. There’s a video that argues exactly this. Can’t find it right now unfortunately but it talks about Star Fox as well as Katamari and Banjo Kazooie, basically great games that exhausted their entire premise after two installments, leaving nowhere else to go but down.
Sure if they want to adhere strictly to the SF formula. But if they let go of that they can push the franchise into a new direction. Like Nintendo did it with Zelda since the old LttP formula was rehashed too many times. Like they can add RPG elements like upgrading characters and ships and being able to change party members. Or procedural generation with rogue lite elements for example. Nintendo basically has zero imagination when it comes to StarFox, they could have at least created a new story line.
There are so many obvious things they could try. -New stages (imagine, a new level) -Differing weapon options/customizable ships (don’t even get me started) -Reactive galaxy map (ie: after each mission, Andross takes a “turn” and does something that changes missions or works toward his own win state) -Open world stages (would work great with the above, wherein, like 64, completing different objectives prompts a different path or different outcomes) -Multiple vehicle options for a single stage (Corneria in the landmaster, for example) -Squad control (ie: after you help out Bill, he can be sent to other planets to impede Andross’ actions away from where you’re going, or stay with you for extra gun support on your own levels) -Flight challenge stages, where there’s little to no shooting, but getting through without crashing is very difficult (allows blocking off weird routes so Andross doesn’t have to be everywhere, but a path can still be obstructed, as well)
And that’s just off the top of my head, and ignoring stuff they tried in, say, Assault
Star Fox Assault was top tier tho. I still remember the story to this day.
G-Diffuser… seems fine. Let’s go already!
Oh you know that one’s gonna come to bite him in the butt later
Yeah, we know because we have already played this game like 4 times before lol
Ugly Sonic lookin “This will be graphics in 2013” lookin character designs.
Nintendo: We cant make a new FZero because we dont know how to make it fresh.
Also Nintendo:
Look, the music was fine. Gameplay looked fine I guess. Mouse aim added obviously in response to decompilation projects. Graphics were mixed bag, sometimes they looked good and sometimes they looked like the lava on Solar. Arwing designs are way too busy. Multiplayer looks cool and actually interesting, but gameshare over the internet with gamechat is an abomination they shouldnt have even showed. Seeing that 5fps feed for 3 screens was painful.
Definitely not a system seller.
If the rumored Ocarina of Time remake looks like his, I really hope they cancel it immediately.
Do you think that the other players are playing at 5fps?
Who’s excited for Star Fox 64 4
Not missing having a Switch 2 at all.
Meh. I had the original Starfox 64 VHS promo cassette that hyped the game and rumble pak. The game got bumped as my birthday gift request by GoldenEye 007, but I eventually bought the game in its chunky cardboard box; Rumble Pak and all.
I thoroughly enjoyed the N64 game and had more exposure to that one than the original SNES title, but I think I’ll wait for either PC emulation or I cave and buy a Switch 2. The former is more likely at the moment.
It looks nice, but it’s no “killer app.”
Remake? Zzzz
Inject it in to me.
Hopefully the start of a new series.
I have wanted a new Starfox game for so long. I wanted to be excited about this, but why are they remaking it AGAIN?!? 4 of the 6 Starfox games are the same fucking game! When people said they wanted a new Starfox game they meant they wanted a NEW Starfox game. If they wanted to do just a visual upgrade they could have just tweaked Zero and released it on Switch. I mean hell at least that game had new content. The franchise has so much potential and its so frustrating to see Nintendo be completely unable to innovate on this series. Fucking Konami managed to do a decent job for fucks sake. This is the only franchise of theirs that they are just completely incapable of creating something new for and its honestly baffling.
They should fuse it with that ground RPG and make their own co-op No Man’s Sky.
You may be interested in the upcoming competition: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1921490/Wild_Blue_Skies/
Looks fine, wish it had split screen.
There is also Ex Zodiac: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/
Oh, I can boost this list:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2389830/__ASURA_THE_STRIKER/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2784620/ROGUE_FLIGHT/
Granted some of what we see takes after Space Harrier a bit more. Rogue Flight has some very good VA, at least.
Fox did make it into the Mario Galaxy movie. Maybe they have plans…
I mean they directly referenced that in the direct. This remake is the plan unfortunately. Maybe we’ll actually get a new Starfox game in 2036.
