this is really a said year in my video game life. I love Nintendo more than any other video game company out there. But it became a strange kind of love over the last few years. It's like children going to college and live their own live. You still love them, but you might not agree with them anymore on everything they are doing. You can spend a nice day with them - but you could not live the every day loving family live anymore as you have been able to do so much in the past. I know it is not all about graphics - but we live in 2015 now and what you can see what other people - I cannot be excited about something like this anymore. I am all for minimalistic art style, pixel art or photo realistic rendering - but this is neither - it is not 64 bit standard - it might even look better than the Gamecube version - but I do not care. It disappoints. And Starfox as a Franchise was quite often about pushing the limits. The original on the SNES blow my mind - the N64 version just give you the greater scale - Star Fox Adventures on the Gamecube (though one can argue that being a true Star Fox title) showed some awesome fur and looked overall very good.
Not this one. I hardly think the game would be no fun - and I think the controls would be good as well - I have trust in the Mr. M. But I am not sold about the 2 screens mechanic either. I can see it rather confusing as well switching between the two displays. And I sincerely hope that you can avoid that most of the time and focus on one screen.
The Wii U gamepad - as nice and interesting the idea sounds - has not really been utilized in a must have way - no bigger titles use it properly - most of the time the functionality distracts you. A few minigames are using it properly - but I have yet to be convinced. This has potential - but even Nintento cannot prove it with proper titles.
And I say that loving Nintendo all my live long (owning even the Virtual Boy). It is not all too late. They do have their strong IP's a lot of people just cannot abondon. I might just gy their consoles for the next big Zelda. But - although I did not want to - I have done this now for 3 generations. And I would like to see Nintendo being back at the top - with strong 3rd party support, new IP's as well as new versions of the existing ones.
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this is really a said year in my video game life. I love Nintendo more than any other video game company out there. But it became a strange kind of love over the last few years. It's like children going to college and live their own live. You still love them, but you might not agree with them anymore on everything they are doing. You can spend a nice day with them - but you could not live the every day loving family live anymore as you have been able to do so much in the past.
I know it is not all about graphics - but we live in 2015 now and what you can see what other people - I cannot be excited about something like this anymore.
I am all for minimalistic art style, pixel art or photo realistic rendering - but this is neither - it is not 64 bit standard - it might even look better than the Gamecube version - but I do not care. It disappoints.
And Starfox as a Franchise was quite often about pushing the limits.
The original on the SNES blow my mind - the N64 version just give you the greater scale - Star Fox Adventures on the Gamecube (though one can argue that being a true Star Fox title) showed some awesome fur and looked overall very good.
Not this one. I hardly think the game would be no fun - and I think the controls would be good as well - I have trust in the Mr. M. But I am not sold about the 2 screens mechanic either. I can see it rather confusing as well switching between the two displays. And I sincerely hope that you can avoid that most of the time and focus on one screen.
The Wii U gamepad - as nice and interesting the idea sounds - has not really been utilized in a must have way - no bigger titles use it properly - most of the time the functionality distracts you. A few minigames are using it properly - but I have yet to be convinced.
This has potential - but even Nintento cannot prove it with proper titles.
And I say that loving Nintendo all my live long (owning even the Virtual Boy).
It is not all too late. They do have their strong IP's a lot of people just cannot abondon. I might just gy their consoles for the next big Zelda.
But - although I did not want to - I have done this now for 3 generations.
And I would like to see Nintendo being back at the top - with strong 3rd party support, new IP's as well as new versions of the existing ones.