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The Nintendo Sequels We're Still Desperately Missing
An anonymous reader writes "While the Wii U struggles, Nintendo's been raiding the archives and resurrecting some of its lesser known stars from yesteryear, including Chibi Robo, Steel Diver, and yes, Mario's oft-ignored brother himself — the company is going so far as to call 2013 the "year of Luigi". But as an article published today points out, there are still many more forgotten heroes in Nintendo's IP back catalogue. Series like Excitebike, Waveracer and 1080 used to be trusted to launch a new console, while NES classics like Ice Climber have all but been forgotten, alongside some of GameFreal's lesser known creations. Will they be enough to save Nintendo this generation?"
Those seem fine. Some of the other titles mentioned here are more stale than piss.
This is the XXIst century. People do not have a lot of time to invest in console games a lot of the time. So a shoot'em'up or boxing game sounds like a pretty good idea.
Look, if you're going to make a claim that they should resurrect old and dusty IP you might actually bother to look to see if they haven't already re-released it on prior systems.
Excitebike - 1984
Excitebike 64 - 2000
Classic NES Series: Excitebike - 2004
Excitebike - 2007
Excitebike: World Rally - 2009
3D Classics: Excitebike - 2011
1080: TenEighty Snowboarding - 1998
1080 Avalanche - 2003
1080: TenEighty Snowboarding - 2008
...mentioning Megaman Sequelitis? Not sure. Anyway be careful where you play this because IIRC there is lots of swearing. But pretty amazing game dissection.
There's a reason Steam is so popular now, and there's one word to describe it - indie. Indie games are innovative, not rehashed concepts everyone's seen before, and are taking over because of attitudes like the one in the article. It's cool if you can take a game like Excitebike and toss a bunch of new concepts and mechanics into it to make it innovative again, but the way forward isn't rehashes for the sake of rehashes.
Speak for yourself. As far as I'm concerned the elephant in the room is "why are we still waiting for a new franchise?". I've had about as much Mario as I'm prepared to take and Zelda has already reach the point of diminishing returns.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Skies of Arcadia. I know it was originally a Dreamcast game and ported to Gamecube. I had it on my GC. That game was by far the most fun RPG (and probably video game) I've ever played.
I'd also recommend remaking River City Ransom. I know there's been some remakes and some clones. But that game was special and deserves a proper remake.
Nintendo got a lot of money from the DS and the Wii. They need to spend all that stuff in updating all their franchies. The 3DS is fine. The Wii U needs more software and more features. Their hardware may not be powerful, but can do a lot of stuff.
It's coming.
Benford's Corollary to Clarke's Law: "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
But if you remake things game play, but have different graphics, music, etc, then you're set
The Tetris Company managed to win a lawsuit based mostly on having copied the piece set: all seven one-sided tetrominoes and no other shapes. See Tetris v. Xio from a year ago. Changing the piece set would affect the balance.
Micro Machines! Oh god, multiplayer mode my face hurt from laughing.
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The Ocarina of Time took the Zelda series to shit? You might be the only person in the world who holds that opinion.
Struggling? So the Xbox One ran itself off a cliff, PS4 is less than exciting people, and PC gaming is "dead." So everything everywhere is losing? I'm pretty sure that the Wii is winning the console wars thus far even if they're selling less than they hoped.