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NL: NoE had asked Criterion for a take on F-Zero U [Up: Alex Ward Comments]
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I think it would be nicer if they wanted to do it themselves. It's what Mr. EAD would have wanted.
Devs who love a series can continue the series; even if they have never worked on a title in the series. Case-in-point; Deus Ex: HR... Not as good as the original, but still, much much better than the sequel Specter and crew put together. I don't think a single team member on HR came from Ion.
Yeah you're absolutely right in that. I still think it would be best for them to approach companies that are likely busy (companies that make good games often are) even with the risk that they get turned down rather than take whoever is available. I also don't think getting Criterion to make F-Zero was as unlikely as Nirolak suggested above. Of course it's not like I have a good grasp of how these things work.
Would creating a decent pitch take 3 to 4 months? I know a vertical slice for E3 to be shown next to your new console is quite the effort but what about something that Nintendo could take a look at and decide whether this company has a right idea or not?
Like it's a risk for any company but one that comes with a decent reward if you're confident in your work.
Guys like CliffyB are always asked why they love Nintendo so much but never developed a single game for Nintendo etc. And they always say Nintendo never came to them once, never called them or tried to build a relationship. For a long time, Nintendo felt it could do it all, now they're struggling because they're being left behind in the post-HD era. They wanted an unprecedented partnership with EA but then made a console that couldn't even run their newest game engine Frostbite without reducing major assets that make the engine impressive for next-gen etc.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Making money over fzero you mean
This has little to do with the topic at hand but Frostbite 3 does run on PS3 and Xbox 360.
Starwolf_UK
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Imagine if development had started but the EA meltdown had canceled it...I'm better off it didn't get off the drawing board (though even drawing board sounds a lot further than this thing even got).
Someone doesn't like a certain Metroid game...I'll be a bit more original. F-Zero is back...in Musou form! What? Guys, you all begged and screamed for a Captain Falcon Brawler and you've got your wish and now you're holding the pitchforks....must you be so fickle?
professor denim
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Just Remake F-Zero GX HD.... Add online, a track editor, youtube upload and 2 dlcs packs. Thats all the F-Zero the world would need forever.
Or ask Sumo Digital to do it
Or ask Sumo Digital to do it
Triggerhappytel
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Good comparison.
Wasn't the consensus that EA wanted Nintendo to run Origin as its online backend, but Nintendo were against that as it put EA in a power for netcode for third parties?
Was that debunked?
The Nintendo UK one? Why? It's not a teaser if that's what you're thinking.
E_Darkness
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Well, I guess they tried to get an F-Zero this gen.
Nintendo seems to prefer working with those teams for some reason. Hell they had the Kingdom Hearts and FF MMO team develop Mario Sports games for them.
Bony Manifesto
Member
It wasn't debunked, but then it wasn't exactly bunked either...
The fact that Nintendo is partnering with DeNA for their network services possibly adds some credence to it.
Lord Kefka
Banned
Could have done without this news
What is it then?
This is only half true.
When Most Wanted was finished, of Criterion's 100 staff, 85 of them turned into Ghost Games UK to work on Need For Speed and assisting with games like Battlefield Hardline and the Frostbite Engine.
The remaining 15 were given free reign to figure out one of EA's new IPs as a reward for doing so well with reviving Need For Speed, and once they figured something out, they would progressively have a full team hired up to make it.
They'd essentially be trying to hire someone the size of an indie team anyway, that might not even have enough resources to make the full game, and that team had the ability to make whatever they wanted at EA to pioneer a new IP. Obviously EA would want them to focus on that instead, since they get 100% of the revenue from that scenario and can put it on any platform they feel is relevant.
Oh that's interesting. Never heard about it like that.
Absolutely nothing. Here's a list of times Nintendo has teased like that:
No kidding. You would think that this would have been the news to leak during that period, not whatever was going on with the Origin thing.
Off-Kilter
Banned
This depresses the hell out of me
Some of that team did eventually leave (including Alex Ward) to make indie games instead of ramping up into another AAA studio over the next few years. That's probably a more realistic studio arrangement to go after.
That said, they're busy making a new take on sports gaming and a Burnout: Crash Mode type game, so they are likely at capacity by a good margin. They're also using UE4 so their toolset isn't a great match as it stands. I still think someone who does lots of contract work like Sumo makes the most sense, since working on F-Zero certainly beats doing last-gen versions of Forza when you're just getting paid operating costs either way.
AX content was already in GX
Orakio Rob
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Came to post this.
Not if you play it on PC. And it was a pretty light game, too.
The Retro Gamer magazine has F-Zero on the cover. It's in the OP now.
F-Zero would have been relegated to one system vs. NFS could be legally ported anywhere. It's no wonder that they went with the latter.... much to my chagrin.
Triggerhappytel
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Wait... Criterion's new game will be using UE4? That's quite surprising considering almost every other EA studio is working on Frostbite - is there a particular reason they're not using Frostbite?
Unless you mean Three Fields, but they've not yet announced what they're working on, have they?
Imagine F-Zero with a track editor that was as intuitive as Super Mario Maker....
Now that you mention it... how was the track editor in F-Zero Expansion? I'm expecting a post from Madao in 3, 2, 1.....
Triggerhappytel
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Ah, fair enough.
bumpkin
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I always got the impression that AX had content (courses or cups) that the GC version didn't.
There is an additional cup in GX that you can unlock by winning all cups on the highest difficulty, and this cup contains the AX courses. I know because I did it (but it's been a long time so maybe I got some of the details wrong).
Could be that there is more content in the AX than what was in the AX cup in the GX version. Maybe someone here knows.