They're back, and they are currently selling 32 of their old games in a $20 bunduru. It'll be a much higher price starting tomorrow. Frankly, it sounded like a good deal to me as I generally only ever owned the shareware versions of any of these, so playing the other two chapters of a lot of these will be pretty fun.
Yeah, it was like ten years ago. If anyone still has a copy, btw, I'd really appreciate getting it back.
Anyway! I have done another one, for Super Mario World. I call it Thoughtful Mario World, because I am conceited and put a great deal of thought (and a ridiculous amount of playtesting) into it. I've replaced every level up through Roy's Castle, as well as the regular Star World levels, so that's 65 unique exits (the vanilla game has 96).
Quote:- originally in the works for the Xbox
- Factor 5 became interested in motion controls on Wii
- the team decided to resurrect the Xbox Star Wars Trilogy project for Wii
- the team salvaged the code and started bringing the game over
- the project was 50% done on Xbox
- all control schemes were supported, including GameCube controller and various peripherals
- you could even use the Wii wheel to control your X-Wing, using the balance board for pedals
- revamped content included speeder bike racing levels, third-person action sequences, and lightsaber battles
- lightsaber battles used 1:1 motion controls
- all-new graphics engine running at 60 frames per second
- the project was completed, but then cancelled
- cancellation is blamed on the financial crisis of 2008
- other publishers tried to help out
- unfortunately, financial hardship, legal snafus and budgetary restrictions killed the game
- Julian Eggebrecht, former president of Factor 5 loves the Wii U, but its unpredictable trajectory and licensing troubles in general make a new Star Wars Wii U game unlikely
Hmm... if the game was actually 100% done I'd think we'd have heard more about this game before and seen SOMETHING of it, so I don't know if I believe that or not, but while we knew this game was in development, I had no idea it'd apparently gotten so far along... it's definitely very disappointing. I mean, I'm not as sad about this games' cancellation as much as I would be for a new Rogue Squadron game, but still, I loved Factor 5, they were one of the best action game developers for years. I was very disappointed when Lucasarts and Nintendo refused to save them when they were going down, I think it was probably a mistake. Not publishing this game was frustrating too, of course; I had heard it was in development, the name was out there even if no pictures or videos of the game have ever been shown.
And on that note, as cool as hearing this information about the game is, I wish that this had come with screenshots and/or video too... I want to see what it'd have looked like! :(
Of course, what I really wish they'd done is gotten Lucasarts to back them at making an entirely new Star Wars game, but after the Lair debacle, I can understand why they were hesitant.
Turns out it's kinda the opposite situation. In one the law predated public acceptance, and in the other public acceptance is quickly predating the law. Actually, this seems like another argument we can use. So many politicians opposed to equality treat legalizing same sex marriage as "forcing the gay agenda on all of us". Well, the law previously "forced" racial marriage equality on a far more unaccepting populace. Was it wrong then? Should we settle for just waiting for public opinion to support minority rights, or should things work a bit more like the "good ol' days" where laws could be passed recognizing the legal necessity of equality even when the majority was vastly opposed to the minority?
By the way, how the hell did it take until 1995 for "interracial" marriage approval to get above the halfway mark? That confuses my sheltered little mind and goes against how I was raised, but hell's bells, it seems that using "that's how I was raised" as any sort of metric of popular opinion doesn't work so well with me.
Yeah, after seven years of work... they're giving up. I guess Blizz thinks that the future is more F2P stuff like Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm, and fewer paid games... too bad. From what has come out about the game, it sounded kind of interesting:
Yes, eight years after being announced, and two years after they apparently started over and threw out most of their prior work, FFXV, nee FF Versus XIII, is only 55% complete... http://kotaku.com/the-man-who-saved-fina...1637142585
On that note, Nomura was removed from the game; the guy in these articles, Tabata, is the new director.
I've never been too interested in this game, and all this stuff doesn't help... but of course, I'm not a Square fan, and never have been one. The only one of Square's games I've actually finished is Final Fantasy Adventure, I believe...
I'd only get them on sale for cheap ($5 or less), and even then I'll probably wait because those specs they want seem high for such an old game, but still, it's nice to see the game finally come to PC. The sequels apparently will follow by early 2015. Japanese developers need to release more PC versions of their games, as always, so it's always good to see more come over to PC.
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