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NL: NoE had asked Criterion for a take on F-Zero U [Up: Alex Ward Comments]

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Pie and Beans

Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Perhaps if Most Wanted had done better on WiiU and not been one of those "get the fuck out now" signal games to third parties, they'd have made the time!
 
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Bjoern the Smexy

Member
CRITERION, WHYYYYYYY?!?

Seriously, no matter that NFSU is the definitive console version, there is no chance IN HELL that you'll pass something like this up, and yet you did?

I am so dissapointed :(

Imagine F-Zero with a realistic damage model.
Super arcade-y feeling.

Oh my god, I can't contain the feels!
 
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SolarPowered

Member
Frack

Frell

Fuck

This is a horrible way to start the day. Oh well, it probably would have bombed and permanently doomed F-Zero. Maybe we'll get something for the NX (which hopefully won't megabomba like Wii U).
 
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EVH

Member
NotLiquid said:
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This is the most depressing news I never wanted to hear

I never realized this is what I wanted
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Who is this guy and why is posted everywhere here? What did he do?
 
Banjotanooki

Banjotanooki

Member
Well, guess that means we can't blame Nintendo on not trying to resurrect F-Zero. They tried guys, but ultimately, it wasn't meant to be. :(

EVH said:
Who is this guy and why is posted everywhere here? What did he do?
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Jontron. Look him up on Youtube, his video are amazing.
 
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Madao

Member
a revival slipped between the cracks.

hopefully they try again now that they're preparing a new console (it's vital for F-zero to be a game made early into a console's lifespan because the best selling ones were launch titles)
 
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LonelyGreyWolf

Banned
And then they didn't ask anyone else? They just dropped it? Lol, that seems too strange, they must've gone to someone else and F-Zero is now in development, however since this was 2011 you'd think that if it's been in development since then we would have seen it by now.
 
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Thomper

Member
raziel said:
Why don't they make it themselves?
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The last F-Zero for consoles developer in-house was released over 15 years themselves. There's a very large chance that most of the people involved in that game have either moved on or are working on very different projects.
 
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Azure Phoenix

Member
The most depressing part about this news is not that Critereon were approached and turned it down, since quite honestly I don't think they'd have done a good enough job looking at NFS:HP and NFS:MW. It's the fact that in 2011 Nintendo were shopping around for someone to work on an F-Zero game, yet since then despite the demand growing much higher they've buried the franchise to focus on making unwanted spinoffs and sequels with other IPs.
 
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Hugstable

Banned
Seeing as Nintendo was asking around for someone to do an F-Zero game, I wonder why they never talked with Shin'en in updating Fast Racing Neo more F-Zero like?

Either way I'm just glad Fast Racing Neo exists if it plays good once it comes out. It can hopefully fill that hole in my gaming heart that the death of Wipeout and Fzero have left me.
 
Kerotan Frog

Kerotan Frog

Member
WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.


Would've been god tier. Holy shit that's depressing. Ugh just for another need for speed too... They could've gotten anyone too do nfs ffs. Could've gone without knowing this.


Who else would trade everything Nintendo announced at E3 for a new F-Zero?
 
Werewolf Jones

Werewolf Jones

Gold Member
Surprised GAF wants this so badly, F-Zero is just one of those games I couldn't imagine ANYONE tackling. It wouldn't sell well enough but it could have been nice for them to try. Loved older Burnout.
 
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Komo

Banned
GreatCharleston said:
Surprised GAF wants this so badly, F-Zero is just one of those games I couldn't imagine ANYONE tackling. It wouldn't sell well enough but it could have been nice for them to try. Loved older Burnout.
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Euro/AusGAF are awake.

I like to think they're more into racing games than rest-of-the-worldGAF
 
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Neifirst

Member
Really, Nintendo just needs to get a remastered F-Zero GX out there and then revisit the series with a new entry on NX.
 
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JoeM86

Member
GreatCharleston said:
Surprised GAF wants this so badly, F-Zero is just one of those games I couldn't imagine ANYONE tackling. It wouldn't sell well enough but it could have been nice for them to try. Loved older Burnout.
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To be honest, I'd settle for F-Zero GX HD with online. F-Zero GX was so ahead of its time and still looks so good to this day. Slap a new lighting engine on that and give it a bit of touchup.

But still, a new one would be better.
 
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Stairouais

Member
I haven't played their NFS games, but knowing their abilities to push the hardware limits (Black, Burnout 3...), it would have been glorious.

Still, i'd hope that they weren't the only studio tasked to do a F-zero on wii u.
 
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Markitron

Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
An F-Zero game in the Wii-U launch window woulda forced me to buy one.

I suspect I'm not the only one either.
 
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Axass

Member
Reactions aren't what I expected. These are great news, it means that Nintendo is still actively trying to do something with the franchise (as shown by Nintendolands and MK8), instead of letting it rot by the sidelines.
 
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Deleted member 125677

Unconfirmed Member
This is actually pretty great news for F-Zero fans. It means at least intentions are there to make a new game.
 
Toadthemushroom

Toadthemushroom

Member
This would have ended so much better than the treatment Criterion got over Most Wanted U, which landed in the middle of the Nintendo/EA fallout.

You can piece together what happened through both the press' hands-on previews of the game, and what Ward lamented about the whole ordeal afterward:

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(In short: neither EA or Nintendo were willing to back the software, so Criterion personally flew out to show the game to reporters on their own initiative, on a trip to NoA's offices. While the trip to visit the press was undeniably a success, it is sad to hear that Criterion and Ward were turned down at NoA -- Most Wanted U would have been a great third party game for NoA to push).

The problem with this is it burned bridges between Criterion and Nintendo (and EA) afterward, so there's not much hope we'll see a Criterion-developed F-Zero again. Sad stuff.
 
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Hanmik

Member
Criterion is part of EA.. they are not independent..

so it should be EA who turned Nintendo down.. not Criterion..

ohh 2011... EA didn´t own them back then..
 
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