Just why isn't Star Fox 64 3D's multiplayer mode online?
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/27920
Yusuke Amano, game development coordinator between Nintendo and Q-Games, explained why Star Fox 64 3D's expanded multiplayer mode lacks an online component in an interview with Official Nintendo Magazine.
"Personally, I play a lot of online FPS games," Amano states. "This leads me to think that just making multiplayer parts of existing games playable online isn't enough to create a satisfying experience for users. The popular online games work in lots of things, so they play well online - and if we wanted to satisfy everyone who bought the game, the costs required for including online support would be vast."
In addition, one of the reasons why the game isn't online is because the development team was pressed for time and wanted to focus more on delivering the promise of improved 3D graphics. Amano explains that "for this project what we needed to do was use Star Fox to provide users with a game that shows the appeal of Nintendo 3DS as quickly as possible. We put a lot of effort into the graphics, and if we had included online support then we couldn't have reached this level in the time allowed."
Despite its absence in Star Fox 64 3D, Amano doesn't discard the opportunity of adding online play to a future Star Fox game, explaining that they were satisfied with how the current multiplayer mode worked out.
We should have put explains in quotes...
Anyone know of any spaceship-based online multiplayer games that are awesome?
also, of all the characters that Nintendo has created, Starfox is probably the one that lends itself best to a cartoon.
Co-op would be nice, but something I'd actually like to see was something that was hinted at in Star Fox Assault of all games. There was one level in Assault's Single-player campaign I remember thinking was a brilliant idea, where you had to infiltrate a space station while a space battle was going on outside. You would fly in on your Arwing, do some on-foot fighting, and every once in a while you'd be called to jump back in your Arwing and dogfight with some enemy Fighters before rejoining the mission inside. It was just a really cool idea, and it would have made a pretty cool multiplayer mode. Imagine playing a version of Capture the Flag or whatnot where each team is trying to assault the other team's space station, with players constantly jumping in and out of various vehicles to either defend or take the fight to the other team.