To everybody who says it looks shit, I think you need to open your eyes, go to Specsavers and come back. If you don't like it, fuck off. Lol.

It looks really good. I'm super stoked to play this!

Looks great, too bad Nintendo is going to eventually call out the dogs on them and take away 6 years of hard work.

@Zippyduda

Everyone just needs to STFU and stop complaining and be happy someone's going to the effort instead of thinking it will get shut down.

Counterpoint: Why should I bother to get my interest and hopes up over something that almost assuredly is going to be shut down now that they've gone and prematurely announced their existence?

If this doesn't end up getting canned by Nintendo, then good for those guys, but I'm not going to care all that much about this until it's actually released and isn't just a trailer. And even if they don't get shut down by Nintendo, there's no guarantee at all that this won't simply stagnate and die like so many other promising looking fan projects in the past.

I've never bothered to get worked up about unreleased fan projects ever since the old Ghostbusters Quake project got killed, some time back in the early 18th century or so.

@Magnalon

Think of all the insane Mario hacks that have come out over the past years and chill out!

Because most of them are just shitty rom hacks, or shittier flash games, that nobody really gives a fuck about anyway?

Well, except for this one. Does anyone have any idea what's going on with that one? Did they get FOXed, or did the project just stagnate and die? The wiki link in that old-ass Destructoid article (so old that the comments are gone) is broken and their forums seem to be all but dead, so it seems to be the latter.

Great, now that you are reporting on it, Nintendo will catch wind of it and shut it down. Way to go, guys.

Also, Star Fox Adventures was a great game.

@Im OK
I'm not only talking about the ROM hacks (some of them are big-time), but the myriad of other ground-up Mario and Zelda projects that, I'm pretty sure I saw in an interview once, Nintendo said "helps their brand".

@Zippyduda

Sorry for getting your knickers all twisted. Sheesh.

They'd have to do more than change the name. They'd have to remove all the references to Star Fox and art assets. You know, like the logo... on the side of the Great Fox... the design for which is pretty much lifted straight from the official games. You don't see how Nintendo has any grounds here? Really?

Sure, they could totally change all that stuff and still have a game, but then it wouldn't be a Star Fox game anymore, and then what would be the point? The only reason this is getting the attention that it is right now is because OMG STAR FOX!!!11~`11!

Look, I'm hoping that this doesn't get FOXed, just like most everyone else. I'm just saying that the likelihood for that to happen is high, just like most everyone else, so I'm not going to get all happy and out-of-hand over this.

@Magnalon

The fact that I've never heard of any of those projects seems to indicate that they're intelligently keeping a relatively low profile and aren't being announced to the world by being featured on Destructoid's front page like this Star Fox thing is. If and when they do get featured here or elsewhere in a similar manner, I would say that the likelihood for those projects to get canned will have become significantly higher, just as it is now for this Star Fox thing.

@Im OK
Mushroom Kingdom Fusion was in a nationally syndicated print magazine. EGM I think.

Wow, this is effing incredible. Screw lawsuits, Nintendo should just hire these guys to make the game for them.

Could it be?! Is the Freespace 2 engine finally getting attention?

Looks like my dream Star Fox game for the most part, I hope they can pull this off.

Do A Barrel Roll

Isn't this how Ghostbusters came to be, a fan-made project that proved to be pretty incredible,and thus was made so?

Frankly, I don't see how Nintendo could C&D them--if it's being distro'd for free after they're finished and not profiting at all from it, it falls under a fair-use clause. I do a comic strip based on a very popular TV series and three years later, it's still going strong, because I include disclaimers that the characters belong to the network/production company and I'm merely producing a parody that does not defame the show in any way, nor am I profiting from it..

Nintendo isn't fan-hating Square after all. I mean, I already brought up Mother 3. I understand that NoA isn't particularly kind to the Earthbound fans and whatnot, but the translation was essentially a ROMhack, and most people who played it didn't buy the game. And they (Nintendo) had all the time in the world to shut it down.

And they didn't. You could argue that they were doing a lot of the work for Ninty, what with translating and everything, but there's no way to buy Earthbound or Mother 3 in a way that gives Nintendo money (currently). There'd be no interest at all financially. Perhaps in the future if, say, there was a Mother Compilation for the DS, but we know Nintendo isn't THAT nice. =P

@Solid Squirrel: People are afraid that something like this is gonna get shut down after the horrific knee-jerk Square pulled on Crimson Echoes. Not only did they C&D, they essentially banned any future ROM hacks, any research into the game, and pretty much eliminated the entire fan mod community for that game. It wasn't done the same way as this--it's a modification of already established and copyrighted code--but people are still afraid right now that anyone else can freak out and do as Square did.

I think they may be safe given how this isn't a hack of any kind (but that didn't stop Square with Chrono Resurrection, did it?).

I bet nothing that it will be shut off and the creator sued by Nintendo when the game is on Beta!

A lone tear falls down the side of my face as i question why Nintendo doesn't do what is begged of from them. This is going to be awesome.