Yeah, it’s just a shame. There was a brief era where Nintendo was a lot more willing to let other companies play with their IP, which got us everything from Super Mario RPG to F Zero GX/AX. Zelda had the Oracle games and the Minish Cap, and hell fucking Smash Brothers has never been made by one of Nintendo’s development teams.
Recently there was the Mario+Rabbids XCom game, Fire Emblem/Hyrule Warriors, and I guess the big one Metroid Prime 4 is still in development, but it’s definitely a slow down from the old days.
There’s a gap in the market for proper F Zero and Star Fox sequels, a hundred great game dev studios who could make those games, and plenty of historical precedent is what I’m saying. It’s strange that those franchises have seemingly been thrown in a vault, never to be seen again.
F zero was so fuckin rad. There was nothing that fast in the gamecube era on any platform. Racing game developers love to throw around the term white knuckle a lot but god damn was that it.
Yeah, it’s just a shame. There was a brief era where Nintendo was a lot more willing to let other companies play with their IP, which got us everything from Super Mario RPG to F Zero GX/AX. Zelda had the Oracle games and the Minish Cap, and hell fucking Smash Brothers has never been made by one of Nintendo’s development teams.
Recently there was the Mario+Rabbids XCom game, Fire Emblem/Hyrule Warriors, and I guess the big one Metroid Prime 4 is still in development, but it’s definitely a slow down from the old days.
There’s a gap in the market for proper F Zero and Star Fox sequels, a hundred great game dev studios who could make those games, and plenty of historical precedent is what I’m saying. It’s strange that those franchises have seemingly been thrown in a vault, never to be seen again.
And Metroid Prime, often put on lists of the best games ever, was made by a second party studio.
F zero was so fuckin rad. There was nothing that fast in the gamecube era on any platform. Racing game developers love to throw around the term white knuckle a lot but god damn was that it.
Cadence of Hyrule as well. We need more shit like that.