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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Star Fox Reboot In Emergency Star Fox Direct

« Last post by broodwars on May 07, 2026, 07:38:02 AM »

Everyone needs to stop lumping Zero in with 64. Those stages are designed and played COMPLETELY differently. Honestly the stage layout in Zero is better than 64 in some cases. Star Fox Zero was an entirely new game with a similar narrative. The vast majority of you couldn't deal with the Gamepad so here we are again. Same goes for Star Fox SNES, that is not Star Fox 64 in the slightest. Similar story(if you could even call it that) with planets going by the same name. Everything else is completely different.

Haven't played many remakes in the last decade, have you? The modern Resident Evil 3 is designed and played completely different from the original PlayStation RE3, with completely different levels and mechanics.

But it's still unquestionably a remake. It's telling the same story with the same characters.

We have the entire concept of a "reimagining" to cover games that divert so drastically from their original that they're practically new games. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a complete overhaul of the original Silent Hill to fit an Adventure Game mold.

But they're still remakes.

It's been 10 years since Nintendo had a bad developer release a bad Star Fox game on a bad console sporting a bad controller with a bad mandate to force players to accept a bad gimmick. You don't have to run defense for it anymore. 

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Star Fox Reboot In Emergency Star Fox Direct

« Last post by Caterkiller on May 07, 2026, 03:12:54 AM »

YOOOOOOOO!!!!!! This looks good!

I got texts out of the blue from a lapsed gamer like "did you see this?!"

Everyone needs to stop lumping Zero in with 64. Those stages are designed and played COMPLETELY differently. Honestly the stage layout in Zero is better than 64 in some cases. Star Fox Zero was an entirely new game with a similar narrative. The vast majority of you couldn't deal with the Gamepad so here we are again. Same goes for Star Fox SNES, that is not Star Fox 64 in the slightest. Similar story(if you could even call it that) with planets going by the same name. Everything else is completely different.

I would have preferred an entirely new game but holy moly am I all in on this! That fleshed out multiplayer is calling to me! Only 8 players is slightly disappointing but I imagine it will get expanded over time. I have a good feeling people are going to get insanely hooked on this. The base movement in 64 looks to have remained the same and in multiplayer settings it is so satisfyingly frantic. You can increase the speed of multiplayer as well. Not sure what that means but faster is faster!

You old grumps didn't show up for Zero so you need to just wait a little longer for a new game. Fox just got reintroduced to millions of young'ns and old'ns alike. The quality of this game and the expanded multiplayer will earn Star Fox new fans. This will get us a new game in the next 4 years I'm sure of it!

We got the spirit of the uncanny puppets back and a huge expansion on the narrative. This is Nintendo's first game that truly looks next generation. This whole thing seems very un-Nintendo like and I am so here for it!

The new Star Fox crew in the next Smash is gonna be wild!

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General Gaming / Re: Games Beaten, Completed, or Played in 2025

« Last post by ilyacolton on May 06, 2026, 11:04:23 PM »

That's a fantastic list of games! It's always interesting to see what people have been playing and what resonated with them. You've hit some major titles there, and it sounds like you got a lot out of them.

fnaf

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Star Fox Reboot In Emergency Star Fox Direct

« Last post by Evan_B on May 06, 2026, 08:26:09 PM »

Andross’s monkey’s paw curls yet another finger…

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Star Fox Reboot In Emergency Star Fox Direct

« Last post by broodwars on May 06, 2026, 06:45:14 PM »

*sigh* You know...the game will probably be fine, but this announcement was fucking lame.

After all these years, we're doing YET ANOTHER remake of Star Fox 64, and mind you...Star Fox 64 was ITSELF a remake, so this is now the FOURTH time Nintendo's remade this game. Hell, considering that Star Fox Adventures also recycles the final boss from 64, I'd say we're up to at least 4.1 times that game's been remade now.

Really? That's really the extent of your fucking imagination, Nintendo? Yeah, screw putting forward any creative ideas and pushing the story forward. Let's just make a cheap and lazy tie-in product for another franchise's movie.

I'd say I expected better of you, Nintendo, but I can't say that I did considering how monumentally Nintendo's screwed up this franchise over the years.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Star Fox Reboot In Emergency Star Fox Direct

« Last post by Kairon on May 06, 2026, 06:44:16 PM »

It has bots in multiplayer mode! If it can be all players on one team and all bots in the other I can't wait for some good old fashioned comp-stomps! Whooo!!

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Star Fox Reboot In Emergency Star Fox Direct

« Last post by Ian Sane on May 06, 2026, 06:35:27 PM »

Such a whiplash.  I find out about this surprise Star Fox Direct, I'm excited to go check it out and... it's a remake of Star Fox 64.  What?  That's so lame.  Star Fox 64 is already on the Switch 2 with NSO.  They couldn't make a new game instead?  It's Star Fox.  You've got the basic gameplay ready to go so make new levels and make a new game!

There can't be a series that at some point was well regarded that has been so badly botched by their publisher as much as Star Fox.  Nintendo's instincts for what to do with this series is always wrong.

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General Gaming / Re: 6th Annual NWR Four on Four

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on May 01, 2026, 07:12:46 AM »

It looks like the Four on Four has officially come to an end, but feel free to continue posting about games played in April. I was able to play six games across six different devices:

• Cat Girl Without Salad: Amuse-Bouche - Switch
• Gunright - ZX Spectrum/Xbox One
• Alien Crush - TurboGrafx 16
• Chicken Wiggle - 3DS
• Tron: Evolution - PlayStation 3
• Mario Clash - Virtual Boy/Switch 2

Maybe I can get 7 on 7 next year 

I want to thank broodwars and Evan_B for joining the fun!

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General Gaming / Re: 6th Annual NWR Four on Four

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on April 30, 2026, 04:42:47 PM »

Over the weekend I was able to beat all 99 levels of Mario Clash which I was playing on Switch 2 as part of the Virtual Boy - Nintendo Classics app. First off, a hot take, the Virtual Boy is not really virtual reality, it's just 3D. You can't change your perspective or interact with objects the way you can in VR. As for the game, it is a nice 3D version of Mario Bros. (the not super one), which is a game I really like. When playing this I wondered why I never tried to get to the end in the Arcade Archives version of Mario Bros  .  Anyway, I heard there were only 99 levels so I aimed to see them all. Most are really quick but a few of them took quit a while and I don't think I would be able to beat this without save states. I did only use save states between levels and I did not use rewind. When the score hits a milestone you get cool little graphic like the one shown below. The Princess/Fantastic one is the highest I got as my final score was 640,950. Turns out if you get to 1,000,000 you get a message indicated you have beat the game. If I ever replay this I will chase that score, but marking the game as beat for now.

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General Chat / Re: Hockey Discussion: The Leafs Would Like To Borrow Taylor Hall's Horseshoe

« Last post by NWR_insanolord on April 30, 2026, 02:16:26 AM »

That was a crazy game, it's too bad you missed it, even if you wouldn't have liked the ending. I don't think either of these teams would stand much chance against Carolina, but blowing a 3-0 series lead would have been embarrassing so I'm glad they avoided that. Hopefully the Ducks give you something to cheer about tomorrow.