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Post by Fundertaker on Feb 8, 2023 4:42:53 GMT -5
eShop listing for Tears of the Kingdom has it listed as $70, which is a firm, "Well f*** right off with that game then," for me, though predictably people are tripping over themselves to go, "Well actually it's okay that this game made off the bones of one already made that is guaranteed to make money hand over fist is going to cost extra because the first one was so good!" because Nintendo can do no wrong with their constant corporate vampirism. I already had to pay 70€ for BOTW (and Smash Ultimate) back when it came out (and it's still that price on the eshop. Most local retailers already cut 10€ off), so I already have had the brunt of it on my end years ago. Guess it's time for the rest of the world to follow suit.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 8, 2023 5:04:37 GMT -5
Give us a non-gimmick Star Fox Game with capital ships and shit That'd be cool, but honestly, I also wouldn't turn down a strategy RPG in the setting or something. Like, as far as gimmicks go, that'd be a solid one.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 8, 2023 5:17:47 GMT -5
Honestly a part of me would kind of be genuinely annoyed by a new Star Fox. Maybe some ports or something to try and build more momentum for the series - there were those rumors of an Assault remaster, I'd be down for that (and I like Assault more than 64 anyway) - but after Assault, Command, the 3DS version of 64, and Zero all flopping, and Starlink flopping while being heavily marketed around it, I'd just kind of roll my eyes at them giving Star Fox yet another new game while having so many other properties they haven't touched in ages.
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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 8, 2023 6:20:32 GMT -5
At this point I'd just take a Star Fox game without a funny hat on it. The franchise has consistently failed to evolve the core concepts in favor of unnecessary gimmicks, so I can't even say its done its best shot and fallen short. Star Wars Squadrons was a better followup to SF than most of actual canon games in the last 18 years.
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Post by Mike Strike on Feb 8, 2023 7:50:50 GMT -5
At this point I'd just take a Star Fox game without a funny hat on it. The franchise has consistently failed to evolve the core concepts in favor of unnecessary gimmicks, so I can't even say its done its best shot and fallen short. Star Wars Squadrons was a better followup to SF than most of actual canon games in the last 18 years. Part of me wants to say the Starlink devs are working on an open world SF game. Like Starlink but set in Lylat and you got a bunch of SF characters and ships to choose from a la Command. The rest of me knows that Starlink utterly crash and burn sales no doubt scared Nintendo away from that very idea and Ubispft probably disbanded the team.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Feb 8, 2023 8:12:42 GMT -5
Honestly a part of me would kind of be genuinely annoyed by a new Star Fox. Maybe some ports or something to try and build more momentum for the series - there were those rumors of an Assault remaster, I'd be down for that (and I like Assault more than 64 anyway) - but after Assault, Command, the 3DS version of 64, and Zero all flopping, and Starlink flopping while being heavily marketed around it, I'd just kind of roll my eyes at them giving Star Fox yet another new game while having so many other properties they haven't touched in ages. *Me gesturing wildly at Eternal Darkness just sitting there*
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 8, 2023 8:17:18 GMT -5
Star Fox is one of those things that should be bigger but Nintendo overthinks it. The fact that so many of the entries are just telling the Starfox/Starfox 64 story over again isn't helping anything.
"Furries in space" should kind of be a license to print money, frankly, get it together, Nintendo.
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Post by chrom on Feb 8, 2023 9:13:02 GMT -5
Never cared for Star Fox, but how many times do they gotta retcon the same story?
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Post by chrom on Feb 8, 2023 9:19:58 GMT -5
Been nearly a decade since Tropical Freeze: We're due for a new Donkey Kong Country.
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Post by Ganon83 on Feb 8, 2023 9:56:25 GMT -5
I’ll go a bit on the wild side here and predict a new F-Zero. I just think there’s too much demand for it in spite of it also being a meme that it’s never going to happen. It would just make sense in that there’s not much else in the Switch pipeline outside of Zelda, a game in that F-Zero/Punch Out/Kid Icarus tier made by one of their smaller teams internally just seems obvious.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 8, 2023 10:26:26 GMT -5
Been nearly a decade since Tropical Freeze: We're due for a new Donkey Kong Country. This is the one and only reason I'm looking forward to Prime 4 coming out, so they can do another Donkey Kong Country.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 8, 2023 10:32:05 GMT -5
I do kind of suspect we might get Super Mario RPG today. I'm sure they've been trying to get it, it's been six months since the last SNES update, and the February Direct last year was when they announced Earthbound and Mother.
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Post by chrom on Feb 8, 2023 11:39:23 GMT -5
I do kind of suspect we might get Super Mario RPG today. I'm sure they've been trying to get it, it's been six months since the last SNES update, and the February Direct last year was when they announced Earthbound and Mother. As I mentioned a few pages ago, other than that, what's left to put on The SNES there? All the other notable games like MM7, Super Castlevania, Turtles, and FF4-6 are on other collections. Only thing's left now they can put on are the dime store games.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 8, 2023 11:48:57 GMT -5
I do kind of suspect we might get Super Mario RPG today. I'm sure they've been trying to get it, it's been six months since the last SNES update, and the February Direct last year was when they announced Earthbound and Mother. As I mentioned a few pages ago, other than that, what's left to put on The SNES there? All the other notable games like MM7, Super Castlevania, Turtles, and FF4-6 are on other collections. Only thing's left now they can put on are the dime store games. Offhand one I remain continually baffled by is the Ninja Gaiden trilogy. They never put 2 and 3 up on the NES games and there's a bundle of all of them for the SNES so no clue what the deal is there.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Feb 8, 2023 14:32:36 GMT -5
I do kind of suspect we might get Super Mario RPG today. I'm sure they've been trying to get it, it's been six months since the last SNES update, and the February Direct last year was when they announced Earthbound and Mother. As I mentioned a few pages ago, other than that, what's left to put on The SNES there? All the other notable games like MM7, Super Castlevania, Turtles, and FF4-6 are on other collections. Only thing's left now they can put on are the dime store games. Illusion of Gaia isn't on the Switch, or the SNES Mini. And of course, there's still Chrono Trigger, but that's a rights issue much like Super Mario RPG.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 8, 2023 14:45:22 GMT -5
As I mentioned a few pages ago, other than that, what's left to put on The SNES there? All the other notable games like MM7, Super Castlevania, Turtles, and FF4-6 are on other collections. Only thing's left now they can put on are the dime store games. Illusion of Gaia isn't on the Switch, or the SNES Mini. And of course, there's still Chrono Trigger, but that's a rights issue much like Super Mario RPG. It's weird as hell that they haven't ported Chrono Trigger at this point with everything else Square's ported by now, including its shitty sequel, but I kind of suspect at this point they're waiting to do a remake of it for the 30th anniversary in a couple of years. Which... Eh. I'm fine with it I guess but I'd a lot rather have a straight port, especially since at this point I kind of just actively hate the HD-2D aesthetic from how rapidly it's gone from relatively novel to just all over the damn place.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 8, 2023 14:46:40 GMT -5
As I mentioned a few pages ago, other than that, what's left to put on The SNES there? All the other notable games like MM7, Super Castlevania, Turtles, and FF4-6 are on other collections. Only thing's left now they can put on are the dime store games. Illusion of Gaia isn't on the Switch, or the SNES Mini. And of course, there's still Chrono Trigger, but that's a rights issue much like Super Mario RPG. Illusion of Gaia is a really damn nice game. "Signs of the Past" is one of the best tracks on any SNES soundtrack, period.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 8, 2023 16:19:52 GMT -5
So, probably won't happen here, but wouldn't be surprised either.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 8, 2023 16:25:31 GMT -5
I would loooove a Kid Icarus port, would scoop that up immediately.
On that note I do wonder if something might finally come of that remake Namco's supposed to be doing that was rumored to be either Star Fox Assault or Uprising. Been awhile since word was going around on that.
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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 8, 2023 16:43:37 GMT -5
As I mentioned a few pages ago, other than that, what's left to put on The SNES there? All the other notable games like MM7, Super Castlevania, Turtles, and FF4-6 are on other collections. Only thing's left now they can put on are the dime store games. Offhand one I remain continually baffled by is the Ninja Gaiden trilogy. They never put 2 and 3 up on the NES games and there's a bundle of all of them for the SNES so no clue what the deal is there. Koei Tecmo's long overdue in not doing a 2D Ninja Gaiden collection by now; all the arcade, NES, Master System, Linx, Game Boy, & DS titles in one package would be relatively inexpensive to do and could find an audience rather easily.
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