Ahhhh, this takes me back to my hardcore importing days.I think I found it. This is SD Gundam Gashapon Wars. 3D Action game with
デフォルメ art style.
It was co-developed by Nintendo & Bandai Namco.
Nintendo was involved in the development, but they don't own or even co-own the game. It's a LEGO City Undercover situation -- Nintendo had a minor role in the development, but it's not a Nintendo game.I think I found it. This is SD Gundam Gashapon Wars. 3D Action game with
デフォルメ art style.
It was co-developed by Nintendo & Bandai Namco.
I agree that it's not a fantastic game, but at least it would be a cheap way to get Star Fox on Switch. Sure I'd much rather see a new game, I really think the series really needs to stop copying 64 at this point. But honestly who knows how much Nintendo want to invest into a new game for this series. And while I wouldn't take a port of Zero over a new game, I'd take a port of Zero over leaving the series for dead, I think it would sell fine, and ultimately it's still using 64 as a base, so it would be pretty fun if the controls were defucked.
A lot of the "need" for the Gamepad is artificial, you can't use the traditional view in boss fights, and the reticule is purposefully inaccurate. Getting rid of both of those would get you 90% of the way toward a functional game without the gamepad as is. As for the remaining 10% I don't think redesigning a few enemies or bosses would be more expensive than bringing over Assault, or even Adventures & Command for that matter.
They wouldn't, that's kind of my point, I don't see why Nintendo/Namco would port Assault when it has a HD Star Fox game they could already use to test the waters or fill a software gap. Could be done by any place which has done other first party ports to Switch, like Eighting as an example.
This isn't true. Star Fox games always have apparent "less accuracy" the further your cursor get away from facing forward on your ship, because of how the cursor looks. Zero just allows you to point in more extreme directions separate from your ship so the difference is more obvious. But they only let you do that in the first place because you have the game pad.
Oh man I absolutely love the SD art of those characters, especially Kamille and Char. Never seen this before.I think I found it. This is SD Gundam Gashapon Wars. 3D Action game with
デフォルメ art style.
It was co-developed by Nintendo & Bandai Namco.
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If they are taking the time to actually remake Assault, I can see them changing the on-foot segments to be more like a traditional tps rather than the arcadey shooter it is now.
Namco literally made Star Fox Assault, so it's likely they still have access to the source code, engine, assets, etc. and coud more easily rework those into HD and make tweaks to the gameplay. Nintendo remasters like Xenoblade Chronicles DE and Kirby: Return to Dreamland DX show that it's possible for them to go back and not just spruce up the graphics to look nice in the HD era, but to also reuse the assets to create new single player content, and introduce online leaderboard elements in Kirby's case.
Nintendo likely still has it, yes.
To bring them to newer platforms, spruce them up? Just like the point of any remaster?
The GCN Star Fox games are almost always in people's top 10 games to remaster and bring over from GameCube, heck even in top 5 most of the time.
Fine, don't believe the truth I guess. Star Fox Adventures is a highly requested one, and sold more than Kirby Air Ride and F-ZERO GX, also two highly requested games to be remastered. Aside from that, it also sold almost as much as Paper Mario TTYD, which is perhaps the most requested GameCube game to be remastered.
Yeah who cares. It's not like anybody likes the franchise or anything. The series only sold about 12 million copies over its lifetime in the past 30 years, and all but two (arguably three) games were million+ sellers, and the latest one was released on a dead console that few people bought.
I'm not sure Nintendo owns the code, especially since the engine is Namco-proprietary (the Klonoa one, I believe).
Air Ride and GX are very beloved by the fan base, whereas Assault is at best considered "good ideas, lost potential" and Adventures "below average 3D Zelda game".
Just checked, and it is! But the game couldn't be re-released without Namco's involvement anyway, as it includes Galaga as a minigame (kinda like Donkey Kong 64 and Jetpac).
Considering F-Zero and Star Fox were originally developed for arcades (due to the Triforce initiative), it makes sense. Nintendo themselves were not interested in making arcade games, so they left the development to Namco and Sega, who had to use their own engines for that reason.
Harada would like to have a word with you.
Is Tekken 8 getting rollback?
No one knows really but Arika who are working on 8 and mentioned last month they would bring their own online function into the game. Fighting Ex Layer did have rollback but it was shitty.
I'm expecting a bare bones port of SC 1 and 2 for all platforms.
Last time I checked, Harada hates it. They will probably try something similar to rollback.
Not sure if the assisting company has much of a say in that aspect
