Those who bought a Nintendo 3DS may wonder why their system -- which perfectly allows for online gaming -- hasn't got any online games. Crucially, they may wonder why a multiplayer-focused release like Star Fox 64 3D is local only. Well, apparently the most profitable company of this generation didn't have time and couldn't afford a multiplayer feature.
As is typical of a Nintendo rep, Yusuke Amano tried to make it look like an altruistic decision, claiming they wanted it to be far too amazing, thus too expensive: "... Just making multiplayer parts of existing games playable online isn't enough to create a satisfying experience for users. The popular online games work in lots of things, so they play well online - and if we wanted to satisfy everyone who bought the game, the costs required for including online support would be vast.
"For this project what we needed to do was use Star Fox to provide users with a game that shows the appeal of Nintendo 3DS as quickly as possible. We put a lot of effort into the graphics, and if we had included online support then we couldn't have reached this level in the time allowed."
So, they rushed out the game as a glorified tech demo and didn't want to spend the cash to make it truly outstanding. That's pretty much what he just said. So yet again, my 3DS' online capabilities currently exist only so I can disappoint myself every Thursday morning by seeing what shit they vomit onto the eShop that week.
Seriously, what a crap excuse.
Nintendo: Why Star Fox 64 3D isn't online [ONM]
Contest:
11:45 AM on 09.22.2011 | 
Sometimes your criticism of the 3DS is fair, but here you're just a hypocrite.
I also disagree about SF64 being "multiplayer-focused". The campaign is short as shit, sure, but one will easily run through it five or more times if they didn't play the original game. I've been through it three times and only got a couple of medium-difficulty levels because the alt. routes are pretty hard to access.
Just say "we don't get how to do online because we are Nintendo" and that would have been fine.
+1
Nintendo wants to do it right when they would include online which takes a lot of effort. Almost every game nowadays has online but its almost never worth your time because its just a cheap cash in. Nintendo didnt want that so they didnt make online. If they where to make a proper online The game would not have been released this year and whit the huge amount of games released on the 3ds that is no problem at all.
Damn chumps, always ruining things.
Jim, I think you got a new fan!
That being said, I was pretty bummed to find that this game didn't have online multiplayer. I would have been perfectly fine with an online version of the multiplayer they already have in, but it sounds like they have much bigger ideas. Is a strictly online Star Fox game in the works?
Keep up the good work Jim. Your articles are my favorite to read on Dtoid.
I've played over 110+ hours od DoAD online and over 55+ hours with RE:Merc... WTF is this shit.
"Almost every game nowadays has online but its almost never worth your time because its just a cheap cash in. Nintendo didnt want that so they didnt make online."
The game already has local multiplayer, so adding online would hardly have been to the game's detriment. Sure, it would have taken more time and resources, but it isn't as though they'd be throwing multiplayer into a primarily single-player experience like in some cases.
I completely agree that it wouldn't have taken much effort at all to add basic multiplayer, but that isn't what he's saying. While the second quote that Jim included makes it sound like the game was just a quick cash-in, the first one implies that they wanted to include more than just basic online.
That's fair enough. Somehow, however, I think buyers of the game would have been more happy with "basic" than with nothing...
At any rate, i tend to expect re-releases to preserve the original experience to an extent. Star Fox 64's multiplayer was a small treat, but never the reason I bought the game originally or now.
But, really, all this post serves it to whine and bitch about Nintendo when countless developers will gut online play from titles that are indeed multiplayer-focused on PSP and DS, even 3DS.
BlazBlue Continuum Shift II is the sort of game that NEEDS online multiplayer and SSFIV3D and DOAD have that. All fighters should.
Star Fox? Its not something I'm expecting or wanting so badly.
Do you know how many Monster Hunter clones, to say nothing of Monster Hunter itself, got by on PSP without internet play? A ludicrous amount of them, considering they are ABOUT MULTIPLAYER.
The US and UK are not Japan and its time JAPANESE DEVELOPERS AS A WHOLE got it through their skulls. Online modes for multiplayer games or don't fucking bother with your game.
Star Fox is the least of our worries in the multiplayer department.
Then you go ahead and try and sell me $40 ports!?! And Star Fox is only a 2 hour game at most! And THEN you tell me that you didn't want to add online functionality because it was too expensive!? Really!?! You fucking liars. You fucking dickhead liars. Why not just come out with the truth, here I will do it for you.
"We at Nintendo are fucked. We're fucked bad. We totally, truly fucked up. We released a completely overpriced piece of shit handheld. We rushed the piece of shit out the door to try and beat Sony. We had no God damn games for the piece of fucking shit. We fart out ports and cheap tech demos instead of real games. We don't even try to give you online multiplayer, which further proves how fucked we are and how far we are behind the competition.
We admit it, we are fucked. Totally, totally fucked. I guess this is goodbye, because we got about a year left before we pull the 3DS from store shelves and admit that we are a completely useless, arrogant, stubborn company who shot itself in the foot, reloaded, and shot the other one."
I absolutely agree with you on that, the complete lack of online does kind of sting. I bought the game because I loved the original, but I know many people who would bought it based on multiplayer alone.
I tend to agree that Nintendo really dropped the ball on something that could have been huge.
"Sorry guys, we know you paid full price, but we wanted to get a game out for the 3DS faster, so here is most of the game you paid for..."
you're an idiot. that is all
Reminds me of that old Miyamoto quote: "a delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever."
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!
Keep on the defense guys, pretend you don't know what bad decisions Nintendo is making and hopefully u can ride out the shitstorm.
Not that I know you, but I don't recall you ever saying anything relevant or meaningful. All of your post consist of "haha Nintendo fans."
Not that I know you, but I don't recall you ever saying anything relevant or meaningful. All of your post consist of "haha Nintendo fans."
Definite agree on that Miyamoto quote.... I just wish Nintendo would stop trying to dig themselves out of the hole they are in with rush jobs.
So then why did you rush out starfox, a game with a big focus on multiplayer, in the year 2011 when the competition easily places in online multiplayer? It's not a bad game, but no online multiplayer in a game like this is really unacceptable in this day and age.
Game companies clearly want to say a big Fuck You to the consumers it appears.
But yeah, pretty lame.
I think every website and review writer would have a problem with that when they gave the game eights and nines
Also what is it with all of the remakes recently? Did every company realize that instead of making a new game in the series they could just make the same game again? There's Halo, Mario, Zelda, Star Fox, Resident Evil 4 (Although it just keeps coming out consistently on every platform ever)and I think even Deadly Premonition is getting an HD remake, and that sucks because the graphics were part of what made it so great. Then again I will probably buy it anyway. I fear the industry might resort to remakes way too much. It's like the hollywood industry making everything into a movie, from Battleship to Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. We haven't reached that territory yet, but you know that as long as it sells, companies will do it.