Originally Posted by
ManBurning
Wow, never thought I would see a Star Fox thread...
Out of everything shown at E3, the new Star Fox game easily had me the most excited, hands down. And that's quite interesting considering they barely showed or told us much about it. But all I needed to be on board were the words "Star Fox" and "Wii U" in the same sentence.
From what was released, it looks like they're going back to the roots of classic Star Fox flying in a plane game play. I mean, the game is still in early development, but I think that's ultimately all the fans really want. I never cared about star fox running around on foot completing missions. Although, I will admit, being able to use an on foot character in Nintendo 64's deathmatch mode was AWESOME!
The shit you had to do to unlock the ground character in that game was insane as well. I think you had to get a gold metal in every course and then complete hard mode and get a gold metal in every course, and there was something else if I recall correctly... I did all that as a kid and it was worth every minute. I remember when people would come over to play, they were always shocked that they had the ability to use an on foot pilot in deathmatch. People were like, how did you hack this game? A lot of people never knew you could get the on foot character, and that's understandable considering the goddamn hoops you needed to do to accomplish it.
I still have my original copy as well complete with box, manual and rumble pack. It's one of the very few N64 games I kept. I guess I was so proud of completing it 100% I never wanted to sell and trade it in.
If anyone recalls the Nintendo Power magazine and how they used to have little challenges. They would say "Whoever can get the fastest time in Mario kart 64 circuit 1 take a photo and we'll feature your photo in the magazine" and there was a contest on Star fox 64 to get the highest score (highest number of enemies defeated) in a single route by the end of the game. I got the top score and sent in my photo and they published it in volume 103... I got rid of my original magazine, for some odd reason... So i'd like to get a copy of that back to see that. Was the December 1997 issue with Diddy Kong racing on the front. It's way too much on eBay, it's like between $1-8 but most people want fucking $10-15 to ship a magazine to Canada... I know that's rubbish as I can ship a magazine to the USA for $5 or less in an oversized envelope.
But yeah, Starfox is awesome... can't wait to hear more information about the new game as it becomes available.