What do you think Michael Pachter does all day? I imagine him sitting at his desk, located in an office on the top floor of a building, throwing darts at a board labeled "Videogame Industry Predictions." Someone pays him a lot of money to do this and people who get paid a lot of money we should listen to. Thus his E3 predictions are being duplicated here. Pacther was given the chance to comment on what the big three would/should do at E3 this year.
Starting with Microsoft he said the company had to focus on its exclusive games and keep on running its own race, which it has been doing very well up to this point. As for Sony, they need to come out of the gate charging and Pachter believes that the (rumored) new PSP redesign will help them do this along with a possible announcement of a new Twisted Metal (all of this is news he clearly stole from Dtoid). Finally Nintendo has to come out and appeal to the core since last year they decided to Wii all over us. He claims that this means a big core game announcement like Star Fox or GoldenEye -- something from the past.
Some pretty safe bets there Mr. Pachter. What do you guys think? Does he have each company nailed or are they going to be doing something completely different? And, yes, I did make a Wii/wee joke.
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3:00 PM on 05.16.2009
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No, the creator of Star Fox (who worked on Star Fox and Star Fox 64, a.k.a. the good ones) recently said he has no plans on returning to the Star Fox series. His reasons were something to the effect of he didn't like what Nintendo had done with the franchise.
So new Star Fox = yes, good Star Fox = questionable
Do I think Star Fox will be announced? No.
Do I wish it to happen? A Million Times Yes.
So long as it scraps Assault's on-foot missions.
So then Star Fox is actually Nintendo's Sonic. I think they should just bury it then. Star Fox 64 is one of my favorite games, and the series still has some dignity left. No one should have to go through what Sonic fans have gone through. Just leave us with the memories.
Sadly, I know a lot of you like the virtual console, but I wish it was more like the XBLA or PSN. I want a port of SF64, but with some extra options/effort put into it: Online play perhaps? The fossilized strategy of the VC blows my mind sometimes, when I think about how incredible an online SF64, with a few extra levels could be.
I'd love to see a true sequel to Star Fox 64, but if they're just going to put out another Star Fox Adventures/Assault type game then I couldn't care less.
I'm not sure why but I really hope they do announce a new Twisted Metal game. I don't remember any of the old Twisted Metal games being particularly great games. But they were fun, and it would be cool to see a new HD Twisted Metal with online multi-player.
I think that the reason a lot of people hate Pachter is that he gets paid to predict things about games while the rest of us do it for free.
A new Star Fox would be great, but Nintendo doesn't seem to internally develop any of their non-core franchise games anymore, with the meh GC Star Fox being outsourced to Namco, F-Zero being with Sega last, and Punchout being done by some relatively obscure Canadians now. I miss all the N64 games Nintendo made that were totally awesome... also bring back Pilot Wings plz.
The VC was one of the reasons I sold my Wii. Originally, I was hoping that they would update the games they put on it in some ways, but now we know that that's not how they do it. No point in spending money if I can just download the rom.
This is all in my humble opinion, but if they made another one, here's a laundry list of things I'd like to happen:
- Get rid of Krystal. Regardless of what she did for the franchise, for better or for worse, she's not much more to me than furry-fodder. The community that erupted with her arrival brought the franchise to a creepy place for me. I'd like to see her go, along with all the creepy famale versions of the main cast. They came out of nowhere, and just make for shitty fan-fic.
- Get rid of the on-foot missions. I'd like on-foot portions throughout certain levels (more on that in a bit), but please ditch the excusive on-foot missions.
- Bring it back to the roots. No more of this super-polished rendered animal crap. I'd really like it if they brought it back to the look of the original and filmed all the cutscenes and voice-boxes Jim Hensen-style. Yes, that means puppets. Nintendo have made an effort recently to bring a few franchises back to their roots (Punch-Out!!, Wario) so I think this would fit in nicely.
- Use the Wii Remote exclusively. No nunchuck, no CC, no GameCube. Just the Wii Remote; point to move the ship, swipe left and right to barrel roll, tilt the Remote to tilt the ship, press A to shoot, B to brake, D-pad down to use a bomb, and +/- to pause.
- Use on-foot sparingly and only for parts of missions. I think it might be cool if during a mission, you had to secretly dock your ship on a much larger, enemy ship, and in a very cinematic fashion, Fox would jump into one of the corridors of the ship for and on-foot mission. Because you would only be using the Wii Remote, controls would have to be simplified greatly and utilize automated camera angle (a la Code veronica), and convieniently placed hide points; hold the remote upright to stay hidden, point it forward to run, and if you came accross an enemy, it would switch to an on-rails-fps so you could defeat it before switching back to third-person. When you got to your destination, like the cockpit or something, you could, I don't know, slam the remote down to knock out the pilot, set the ships destination for the sun, an high-tail it outa there and back to your ship to complete the level... Just an idea...
- Use the Wii Remote creatively. I think it'd be neat if during the course of a space mission, you found yourself running into an asteroid (similar to the Star Tours ride at Disneyland) and you had to tilt the remote back and forth to safely navigate your arwing out of it. Another neat thing might be on a planet-based mission, where you're fighting in a canyon or something and have to hold the remote on its side (you know, gangsta style?) to squeeze through a tight fit.
- Keep story to a minimum, and bring back branching paths via planets. I don't need to explain this, but I fucking hated Star Fox Command and its stupid soap opera story telling methods. Gag me with a spoon.
And that's it! I'm not saying I wouldn't buy a Star Fox if it didn't have one or all of thse things, but it's my own little fantasy...
Personally though if you really want to play Starwing or Goldeneye its on the console (SNES and N64 respectively) as its the true experience :P No amount of emulating on Wii or PC would sell it for me on the VC. Lucky me though I guess as I have both games on SNES and N64.
Thanks for clearing that up, I wasn't quite sure of what I was saying. :P
It doesn't appeal to new audiences and the series history has sent most of the older fans away.
If they announce a new Starfox it'll go over just like "RIIIIIIDDDGGEEE RAACCCEEEEEEEERRRRRRR!!!"
Nintendo, please at one point or another, bring the franchise over to the Wii.I don't care if you do a remake o the N64 version or a new title that's based on the N64 version, just bring it to us!
It just crossed my mind cause each year I have been hoping Rare would finally bring killer instinct to the 360...
Also, Twisted Metal is the exact type of game I have been missing. I sold my old copy of Black. Give me sadistic horror racing combat, damn it, Sony. And give it to me NOW!
Or, do all of that for a retail re-release and sell it for $40.