StarFox 3DS Denied Online Play

By Jorge Ba-oh 13.05.2011 26

StarFox 3DS Denied Online Play on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

Earlier this week Nintendo held a retailer briefing, which included details on the 3DS port of the much loved N64 classic, StarFox 64.

Nintendo's popular space shooter is once again taking off, discovering a familiar world but in a whole new level of detail. The prospect of competing in Arwing scraps with friends from afar and strangers will have to be left in your wishlist - Despite refined animation, sound and optional control, the 3DS version will not be able to head online in multiplayer.

They can send a fox willingly into the nether-regions of time and space but not through the wired planet earth!

There will be the return of the four player Battle mode from the N64 version, with the benefits of your own screen to keep the space-aged dogfights as climatic and exciting as possible! Those without a copy of the game can play via Download play also, with player faces displayed as cheeky icons.

Via Andriasang.

Box art for Star Fox 64 3D
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Nintendo

Publisher

Nintendo

Genre

Shooter

Players

4

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Willy Wonker (guest) 13.05.2011#1

Another wasted opportunity from Nintendo and shows they still aren't taking online gaming serious enough.

jb is offline. jb 13.05.2011#2

Terribly disappointing move from Nintendo. Whilst multiplayer wasn't the highlight of the original N64 game, it was still an awesome addition and really they should have taken it online.

Worldwide free for all and a team option would have been great, surely not much extra programming needed and Nintendo can easily afford the upkeep.

Nintendo go on about how they're trying to improve online/social networking, but just goes to show how they're really aren't. Third parties are doing it right, why can't Nintendo?! The bloody game is already built for them, over 10 years ago.

Painful.

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bornforthis43 is offline. bornforthis43 13.05.2011#3

It would've been awesome if they somehow integrated co-op. How sad. C'mon Nintendo.

 
welshwuff is offline. welshwuff 13.05.2011#4

And so it begins, yet more ignoring online multiplayer.... yaknow when you think about it, Nintendo needs online play more than anyone.... like i have 1 other friend in RL with a Wii and i rarely see him and he has no online games. i know NOONE in rl with a DS or 3DS who isnt my mother or grandpartents. i talk to ALOT of people online with Wiis, DSs and 3DSs, however nearly half my friends in real life have a ps3 or 360, i often hear the same from my fellow nintendo gamers, so why is it that the systems that need online play the most for us whos player two are overseas most the time always get neglected the most where people who live next door to eachother to play "current retard FPS game", get the most....

( Edited 13.05.2011 02:17 by welshwuff )

 
Azuardo is offline. Azuardo 13.05.2011#5

Yep, like I said in 3DS Discussion, this is a big disappointment. There's no excuse for multiplayer games like this one in this day and age to not have online play. Nintendo, you better sort yourselves out for Wii 2.

 
Darkflame is offline. Darkflame 13.05.2011#6

I suspect porting a game too online is harder then doing it from scratch.
Any fast-paced game is hard to do online - you gota anticipate and extrapolate movement, and in this case bullets too - its no where near as simple as sending the co-ordinates over the net for each player. (even good connections are irregular and lag would be insane).

Its not that Nintendo shouldnt do it, but its understandable to me they dont want to do it with a port.

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Marzeee is offline. Marzeee 13.05.2011#7

Whilst Lylat Wars is all about the single player for me, I'm disappointed that it has no online play. Starfox games basically scream for it, it's just the perfect sort of game to take good advantage of it.

If they added online play, it would have actually made me more interested in the multiplayer mode. I never really played it in the N64 original.

I don't think any excuses can be made here. Rare added online modes to Perfect Dark (on Xbox Live Arcade), so I don't see why Nintendo can't with Lylat Wars. Even if it would be just a basic four player battle, like Starfox Command's online, it'd still be better than no online play.

 
Lynk is offline. Lynk 13.05.2011#8

Just ridiculous. This might have sealed the deal as I've already played the original plenty of times.

Add me on anything. I'm always looking for new friends/opponents/town visitors/chances to appear more popular than I actually am.
 
meeto_0 is offline. meeto_0 13.05.2011#9

Another silly decision. This game is perfect for online play. I wasnt planning on getting this, even if I did buy a 3DS. This tells me nintendo just doesnt understand.

I have to classify them as a truly dumb company, like lemmings. You can show them the right path hundreds of times but left on their own, they still walk of the tallest building.

( Edited 13.05.2011 10:46 by meeto_0 )

 
LKR000 is offline. LKR000 13.05.2011#10

Disappointing but I was expecting it tbh. When me and my mates use to play it, we had so much fun with it. What a shame Smilie

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J4K is offline. J4K 13.05.2011#11

There is no good excuse for this. "It would be difficult" is frankly lame, and giving Nintendo a pass they don't deserve.

I'm not buying it one way or another, don't care about Star Fox. But this concerns me about whether Nintendo's attitude to online has truly changed like they say it has.

 
Lynk is offline. Lynk 13.05.2011#12

When you think about it it's shocking! The work that goes in to XBLA remakes of games from this era and earlier that add online play as standard whilst updating the visuals to 1080p make a complete show of a full retail game on a console supposedly pushing connectivity.

Are we ever going to experience Nintendo franchises online in the way we can enjoy Halo or other games? All they have done is spruce the graphics up, and the game is kinda short when you think about it.

Add me on anything. I'm always looking for new friends/opponents/town visitors/chances to appear more popular than I actually am.
 
Squidboy is offline. Squidboy 13.05.2011#13

I expected this, and I'm OK with it.

I'll just continue to pray for a Project Cafe game from Retro Studios.

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Azuardo is offline. Azuardo 13.05.2011#14

Squidboy said:

I'll just continue to pray for a Project Cafe game from Retro Studios.

That'll be the saving grace. The SF franchise needs a bit of a reboot.

 
Rasengan (guest) 13.05.2011#15

Even Star Fox Command on the DS had online play for up to 6 players! WTF are they thinking, it pisses me off that they're not even trying to incorparate some online aspects into the game. What a wasted oppertunity. =/

GreythaGreat is offline. GreythaGreat 13.05.2011#16

This completely sucks, or better yet, as Slippy would say: "NOOOOOOOOO!"

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Azuardo is offline. Azuardo 13.05.2011#17

It's not even necessarily about online matches. Online leaderboards are absent with this news too. Star Fox is a game that has a lot of competitive players, and leaderboards would be such a good way to keep people coming back for more. I see no excuse for at least having that implemented either.

The Sonic the Hedgehog series springs to mind. The games are fairly short, but the appeal of leaderboards for times and scores is there, and Sega did that for Sonic 4.

I hope Nintendo hear the feedback from fans, and really change their attitude in the future. I do have hope for Project Cafe; I think they'll give us a good service akin to Xbox Live, but the way they're going about it at the moment is still no different from the past.

 
Agul is offline. Agul 13.05.2011#18

"StarFox 3DS Denied Online Play"

WHAT?!! *goes to rally a posse*

( Edited 13.05.2011 18:02 by MechaG2 )

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Dr.Shrapnel (guest) 13.05.2011#19

Four player Battle Mode dogfights exciting? Uh yeah...sure.
In Nintendo's defense I just don't see online dogfights to be fun period. If anything online co-op would be the better choice. But hey, it's Nintendo, and we all know they're stuck in the dark ages when it comes to modern inventions like online gaming and DVD movies.

Star Wolf (guest) 13.05.2011#20

Cant't let you do that Nintendo.

BASEDmamoon is offline. BASEDmamoon 13.05.2011#21

Wow! This game is a classic and when you're remixing it to make it smoother and more in tune with modern hardware it's a such a disappointment to see an idea like the possibility of online multilayer, which was highly anticipated, go to waste it creates an even bigger fall for us fans. It's my fault for getting to hyped up about the idea of "Starfox 64 online," as a result i feel even worse. Thanks nintendo

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vivisapprentice is offline. vivisapprentice 14.05.2011#22

With this attitude, the Xbox 3 and Playstation 4 will kill project cafe. Sort it out nintendo!!

 
Amethyst is offline. Amethyst 14.05.2011#23

Lame. That is all Nintendo, thought it wont stop me buying this.

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Lynk is offline. Lynk 15.05.2011#24

A good angry article on this subject:

http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=4155

If anyone is ever going to pay any attention then we need to make a difference with our wallets. If this angers you, don't buy it. I know I won't be now.

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Vorash Kadan 16.05.2011#25

Lamesauce...:-/ That is all.

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