2013-06-22, 02:32 PM
Lozmaster Wrote:What do you expect them to do?
What do I expect them to do? At least have some plans for a game. Not just say they have no ideas what to do with their own franchise. The last innovative Mario game was Galaxy but that hasn't stopped them churning those out. Ten years and they couldn't come up with one idea? They don't need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to a game like F-Zero.
The studio that made GX may be gone but I'm quite sure it's possible for someone else to take on the challenge. According to that article they don't want to rely on Third Parties anymore and that's fine I'm sure Nintendo could make a great F-Zero game. They just don't want to. I get that it is not a system seller or anywhere near as popular is Mario/Zelda etc but there is a market for it.
Lozmaster Wrote:Besides that, while Nintendo is flailing around trying to get a decent foothold for wii U, the last thing they need is to waste MORE time in one of the two genres that they actually have good support for on their console. (I.e. racing and platformers).
Waste time? They have racers, what, one? Mario Kart. So once that's released next year that's it is it? No more racing games needed for the Wii U see you next gen? F-Zero and Mario Kart may both be racing games but they are quite different. I didn't say they should drop everything now and make it right away but I don't believe at no point in the future do they have no time to make one.
What they are releasing now is hardly innovative. An HD NSMB and now 3D World, that's totally nothing like the 3D Land. I mean the pipes are transparent this time! The four player co-op is just the same as NSMB too. I like Mario sure but I don't just want a Wii U Full of Mario games and nothing else. I agree that platformers are covered and we have Donkey Kong on top of that to boot, plus Yoshi's Yarn etc. So to me it's a better time than ever to get to work on a new Metroid/F-Zero/Starfox etc. Hell I'll even take Wave Race or 1080 at this point.
Smash Bros is also a good tool for getting Characters and franchises popular again so hopefully they will use that effectively with the upcoming games.
In the end it doesn't really matter anyway. With the Anti-Grav mechanics in Mario Kart that's the final nail in the coffin for F-Zero.