Star Fox Zero
 

During today's Nintendo Direct, Nintendo announced that Star Fox Zero will finally be released on April 22nd 2016.

Here's the new trailer.

This was the killer for me, CAN NOT WAIT:D:D:D:D

The 6 month delay from November all the way till April 22 is going to work wonders for this game. So glad they didn't rush the game out this month and delayed it for 6 more months all the way till late April.

I get the feeling this will be the last Starfox game we get for a long time (if ever) so I hope they make it a good finale.

Right before my birthday, haha. I am very okay with this new release date.

I too can't wait. I love Starfox and I am just dying to play this one.

Really hope it improves from the near garbage they showed at E3.

Quite frankly, I'm a bit worried about Nintendo's competency.

How on Earth could they postpone a PORT of an old game?

*rimshot*

....This isn't a port?

Looks pretty cool. Haven't played a starfox game since 64, would be neat to play another.

Looking so good!

The intended joke escapes me, but I am intrigued, at least.

It's an in-joke in this section. You must have missed it cause its pretty recent lol. Don't worry, you're not missing much.

****ing Fox McDave :lol:

I'm pretty disappointed this got pushed back to 2016. I hope the wait is worth it with some good improvements.

New Star Fox Zero game trailer, the game comes out on April 22nd.

I dunno if I'm gonna be into it. I originally thought you could turn motion controls off but now it seems like you're gonna reeeeally need to depend on the gamepad, which sounds bad.

The word I believe you're looking for is "not what I'm used to". It's ok.

Yeah, that also.

I'm a bit hung up on this concern, too. & while I've never really given a damn either way with respect to graphics, for how long this taken, what year it is, it doesn't look nearly as good as it should, even for Nintendo.

And yet its still going to be the best Starfox game since Starfox 64.

Starfox Assault on Gamecube wasn't exactly pretty either. Let's face it, Starfox has always been a "B-tier" franchise from Nintendo. They never put as much work in it as they could.

Cannot speak on the GameCube games since I have not played them yet, but the first two Star Fox games clearly had effort put into them. SNES Star Fox might look terrible nowadays(I still like it, regardless), but it was quite impressive back in the day.

As for Star Fox 64, it had good visuals for its time as well, and was one of the most popular and well remembered N64 games. Arguably the most quotable game ever.

I do agree with you that Nintendo doesn't release much Star Fox stuff. It doesn't seem to milk it, not even merch wise.

A franchise that could use some more work into it is F-Zero. I know it's hard to top GX, but no harm in trying. I've never played a bad F-Zero game. Every instalment in the series is quite good. I think the only thing that holds down F-Zero a bit is the lack of interesting characters. Obviously characters aren't the most important thing in a racing game, but a video game series needs a few marketable characters in order to garner interest. As far as I know, F-Zero was never the highest selling game out there. I mean, F-Zero Climax was a Japan-only release for a reason, right? And this might be one of the main factors why Nintendo hasn't released an F-Zero game in a long time now.

The mascot of the series is Captain Falcon who has been in every Super Smash Bros. game out there, but people don't seem to care much about the rest of the cast. Characters like Samurai Goroh and Pico have untapped potential. F-Zero GX had character profiles for each character and we could see a bit of each character's personality at the post-Grand Prix interview, but that game is over a decade old now and not that many people have played it.

I mean, think about it, F-Zero games are pretty good and the series was a pioneer in the futuristic racing game genre/theme. I'm sure many racing games fans would find that appealing.