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Because Miyamoto. Honestly, I feel the guy is so out of touch and in his own game design world. He seems to be in control of what games get made and his passion projects seem to get the green light. He's still trying to justify the GamePad... and wasting time and money doing so.

Yeah Wii Sports should have had a definitive Wii U entry, instead of a weird under the radar re-release with online. And I don't remember either game getting any real advertising.

It's a weird design, considering the Wiimote and Nunchuk seem more a more advanced solution. Although if they needed temperature/pressure sensors in there, they'd have needed to release upgrades of them. Despite it's lack of buttons, I still love the Wiimote-Nunchuck combo as a controller.

Anyone seen those new 'U-shaped' controller patents...

Don't get me wrong, it's a personal opinion that I've always held of Star Fox. I didn't ever really like Lylat Wars outside of some multiplayer. I thought I would give it another go on the 3DS via the remake, and I didn't enjoy the game at all then either. Nor does this new one seem any different to me. Somehow the games come across as almost clinical and sterile. They just give off a weird vibe to me. It's why StarFox Adventures is undoubtedly my fav entry in the series despite its shortcomings. I actually do think Platinum looked to have delivered a good Star Fox game here... if you're looking for a game that's as tried and tested as that same formula is by now. It looks a far better, worthy to the name entry than Assault. Like I said, I see this as kind of the Episode VII of Star Fox... feeling very familiar and playing on nostalgia. It does look to offer replayability as well. Personally I'm not really a fan of how it does it, but that's personal taste again. I couldn't agree more about Miyamoto's/Nintendo's stance on sequels. It frustrates me no end. To me this seems to have been a passion project of Shigsy... he gets to shoehorn his precious gamepad all over the experience, whilst at the same time effectively finishing development on StarFox 2. Win, win for him.

I don't think the game needs some big story, but a new story that isn't a re-write of the one before/others each time. It's almost the same complaint people levelled at Star Wars Episode VII, except Star Fox is an even stronger example. Also, Fox's jaw flapping around like Fi's in Skyward Sword during the end cutscene etc... Starfox Adventures was doing a better job 10 years ago.

Ok, well I can only go off the playthrough I've just watched, but Damiani was constantly, and I do mean constantly referencing levels, bosses, dialogue, stage design, cutscenes etc... as having come from Star Fox and Lylat Wars. He said he had almost been tempted during the playthrough to pull up sections from the previous games to show similarities, but it would have broken it up too much.

Oh I don't disagree they've made some strange control decisions. Honestly, Star Fox has never been a series for me, and watching this latest entry confirms that. I think the game in it's current form just comes across as quite boring. The levels are so short, there's no real story there, and the world just seems empty. Maybe I'd care more about each planet I was going to if it seemed to have any real form of life on it. Corneria's cityscape is just a bunch of geometrical shapes and empty 'highways' if you can even call them that. The same with all the space stations you visit. The game just comes across as empty and shallow. Point A to Point B, via a bunch of random shapes... and in space, sometime quite literally. EDIT:

So I'm watching Damiani from Easy Allies doing a full playthrough of this game... He's playing pretty much the entire thing in First Person, using the Gamepad display up on the TV. Seems pretty fun like that. It seems to have a better sense of speed and more like a rollercoaster that way.

Finding it so hard to not see Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss in this film.

I don't really see any advantage in Star Fox Zero playing on Lylat Wars nostalgia and harkening back to the N64 days. It only serves us long-time Nintendo fans who remember a 20 year old game, and I'd imagine even the majority of us/those would rather Nintendo mixed it up more.

@lostmario Display it. Frame it!

OMG that video is hilarious!!

Easy Allies Review - 4/5 Stars

I'll buy it on Day 1 with Zelda if... Nintendo deliver on Zelda... as in whatever the big shake up they've got planned for it needs to work/be appealing. And I'd also need a strong indication of what's to come on NX, the types of games they plan to release for it, and how they've learnt from the Wii U.

Don't know when the game was meant to be out, but it's received a delay to incorporate feedback from the closed BETA - probably should have factored that time into the release EA :p - until June 9th in Europe. June 7th in US.

I bet you it's........ THE TRUTH!

New JasonBourne trailer out today. Very disappointed. There doesn't seem to be a story... Jason Bourne remembers more and wants vengeance. Good on you Jason, we got there in Ultimatum. Also as I said before, it doesn't seem to be filmed in that gritty Bourne way the trilogy was known for. This looks far more Hollywood in its presentation.

NEO... clearly it allows us to enter The Matrix. PSVR is just a cover-up... plug that shit into me.

No worries. Yeah fully understandable man. I think we had some indication this might be the way the console industry was headed, but it's a difficult move for all consumers. There was a lot of talk about the PS4/XB1 architecture being very similar to PC architecture for ease of development when both consoles had their reveal events. We've had the continual move towards digital, digital updates, patches, and talk of maybe consoles in the future being just a box that would just be continually updated, removing the need for console cycles and hardware releases. I guess it's possibly just beginning to arrive a lot earlier than we all thought. Again though, we don't even know for sure what the PS4K is. As boring as it is to keep saying that. This could be very insignificant and the above sentences I've written a complete overestimation. For me, I was happy playing Wii games, happy going back and playing older games... I don't think I'll mind missing out on what the PS4K rumours suggest. But then I'm not a competitive online gamer either.

Yeah as Ashley said, I was only posing the question. I have no idea about it. I think saying 'well you shouldn't have released your console' or 'you should have waited 2 years and released the PS5' is just such an unrealistic thought process. This is the 21st century, we're all well aware, or at least should be, of how quickly things are moving. I mean my god, I'm 31 now, I try and keep up with things as best I can, and I always thought I'd be someone who'd be able to pretty much stay on the cusp of things, but it's just crazy. I can't. There are plenty of things that I don't know how they work properly, so many features within devices that I've never used or tried... Telling Sony - one of the worlds leading electronics manufacturers, in one of the worlds most competitive and continually evolving industries - to not release one of their products, or delay releasing one of their products to make a percentage of the market happy just isn't realistic, it's crazy talk. Sony need to release products when it makes business sense to. They have competitors, be they Microsoft, Panasonic, Oculus, Apple... They're not going to let Microsoft (also rumours of an Xbox 1.5) get a 2 year head start. They're not going to let Panasonic get the run on 4K TV's. If they wake up and see that today a window has opened up to combine their console, TV and VR strategies, they need to act on it like it was yesterday.

How does it work on PC?Is it a complaint in the PC community? can't say I've ever heard of it being.

'Meant' being the key word, yes. Honestly people will be pissed given it was given a 2016 date, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't slip. It's very unlikely there'd been any real work done on the game up until a few months before last E3. They say they don't want to reveal too much of the world, and I'd be happy if that were true... but I'd also fully accept and understand if that's a lie and the area we've seen is all they have (of course, more like ICO, maybe the whole game does take place in one [albeit massive this time] area). We've waited long enough, you kind of think, don't rush it out now.

I think with this game, as with Uncharted 4 and Deus Ex, take as much time as you want.

Netflix. Good shout!