F-Zero

pics from the latest build.

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just a month away :D

damn that's all I can say, damn.

This better be good.......

Sooooo good looking.

Wow. Fucking wow.

Godamn... Game of the year.

I don't own a cube but I will by the time this comes, and that's for certain! The tracks look like so much fun, the backgrounds are just "breathtaking".

I guess I had more to say than damn.

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Originally posted by Lucas Barton
http://www.polygonmag.com/ftp/media/fh3.jpghttp://www.polygonmag.com/ftp/media/fh4.jpg
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these are incredible. i hope there's an option to turn off the gui/hud..

That's fucking beautiful!

Those screens look awesome but I just want to play the friggin game already.

here's some scans from Famitsu...
http://80.65.232.92/images/photos/00...00336134_2.jpg http://80.65.232.92/images/photos/00...00336137_2.jpg
http://80.65.232.92/images/photos/00...00336146_2.jpg http://80.65.232.92/images/photos/00...00336144_2.jpg

i'd also like to say that im glad they ended up having 30 characters racing at once. i remember whent hey first showed the game off it was only half.

i just can't wait to see levels that haven't been unveiled yet when the game finally comes out.

When you play the lightning level, you will know God.

The scans look decidedly less impressive.

Those player positions on the left look too big.

"these are incredible. i hope there's an option to turn off the gui/hud.."

I'll second that.

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Originally posted by Green
Those player positions on the left look too big.

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definately. i felt the same way about f-zero x. hopefully, we'll be able to switch them off. wouldn't want anything to get in the way of the scenery..

it's even better in the arcade cabinet. ^^

oh, and as far as I know (the time I spent was strictly on the arcade build), those portraits are not a given. Or maybe Sega left em out for the show...but when I played, current position/total participants was the only way to know where you were.

add one more to wretched character designs...

but F-Zero has always been about deliciously horrible character designs.

That's hardly an excuse. More like, "Hey, we can only design crappy characters...let's just call it a motif!"

Yeah, but it stuck when it started and now it's a sort of 'tradition.'

Seriously, what's up with the interface components as per the Famitsu scans? Opinion of character design aside, everything on the screen that's not part of the racing (the portraits, the font for the race times) looks completely asstastic.

Are there any in-game shots of the arcade game yet? I'd hope it would look different from that...

from what I played, the fonts, positions, lap times, etc. were the same in the arcade. Just no portraits.

And yeah, given the 'future'-y feel that is F-Zero, the gui really doesn't fit. If it was used in a new Rock n Roll Racing though...

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Originally posted by Jeremy
Godamn... Game of the year.

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No chance in Hell.

The GUI-less pics look fucking sweet. As for the scans, they seem to be pretty low quality and not enough to do total justice to the actual game.

That position display sidebar does look a bit obstructive. The 6 portraits should be in the upper left corner in 2 rows of 3 rather than the way it is now. I'd like to see some Power Drift style animations when a driver goes up or down a spot.

game looks fucking amazing cant wait for it

Yeah, so I just remembered I have a modded gamecube. When does this come out for import?

Ummm...sometime in July?

shit what just shot all over my monitor?

oops.....*feels dizzy*

Everytime new pics show up I say the same thing.

God damn that looks good. Definatly going to buy it.

This game looks better and better all the time. Let's hope it has some challenging level design that was completely absent in the N64 F Zero.



---B.j.

I don't know if I'll have the will power to not import it...

Meh.

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Originally posted by MVS
Meh.

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Thanks, I was waiting for that.

Well, I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long.

I would have been here sooner but it wasn't worth the effort to click the topic.

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Originally posted by MVS
Well, I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long.

I would have been here sooner but it wasn't worth the effort to click the topic.

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what made you change your mind?

The dearth of decent-average-good topics in this forum.

what you're sick of all the "ode to such and such game series", "official" and "should i buy a pre-made or self made pc" threads?

I stopped by SVGL over the weekend to try this out and, well...

holy fuck.

Samurai Goroh will rise again

This is a game I've been waiting for a long time to come out, but now I don't know if I want to get it anymore... it kinda looks like Xtreme G x_x and God knows I hate that game... well I hope the game still feels fast and has great music.

Damn game looks better every time I see screenshots/videos.

Are you the vic viper I know?

Uh... probably not, I just registered

Ok. I know a Vic Viper from a few other message boards.

Another thing, are all the stages really those shown in f-zero.jp? That's sad....

I'm not sure if this has been done yet or not, but

http://www.theconcretedonkeys.com/images/stfu.jpg

Are you the Vic Viper *I* know, from GT?

:-P This is fun!

I just have to say it, I know its trolling but here goes..

I find it amusing how many people think this looks fucking amazing but Halo 2 looks blah and the same. I swear, if Halo 2 was made by Nintendo or Sega is would be the greatest game EVER! :D

I think F-Zero looks good but not the OMFG LOOK AT IT good some people seem to feel.

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Originally posted by EvilMog007
I find it amusing how many people think this looks fucking amazing but Halo 2 looks blah and the same. I swear, if Halo 2 was made by Nintendo or Sega is would be the greatest game EVER! :D

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IIRC, only one person tried to bash Halo 2's visuals, and the rest of the people in the thread pretty much laughed at him.

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I think F-Zero looks good but not the OMFG LOOK AT IT good some people seem to feel.

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I think it's more for the draw-distance and speed then it is poly-counts. I don't think it looks very good in screenshots, but watching it in motion is pretty damn impressive and breathtaking. The speed is incredible and I haven't even seen it actually before me, just grainy videos.

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Originally posted by EvilMog007
I find it amusing how many people think this looks fucking amazing but Halo 2 looks blah and the same. I swear, if Halo 2 was made by Nintendo or Sega is would be the greatest game EVER! :D

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I know what you mean. Personally, I think Halo 2 looks amazing as well.

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I think F-Zero looks good but not the OMFG LOOK AT IT good some people seem to feel.

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Admittedly the first batch of screen, courtesy of Lucas, look amazing to me but the Famitsu scans he posted later on look meh. I think the final product game will look as clean as the first screens, tho.

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Originally posted by EvilMog007
I find it amusing how many people think this looks fucking amazing but Halo 2 looks blah and the same. I swear, if Halo 2 was made by Nintendo or Sega is would be the greatest game EVER! :D

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don't get me wrong, halo 2 looks great, but:

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halo
http://www.meristation.com/img-filer...n/Halo/678.jpg
halo 2
http://www.phatmacfilms.com/Pics/Halo2pic.jpg

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f-zero x
http://outerspace.terra.com.br/retro...e37/fzerox.jpg
f-zero gx (ax?)
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Originally posted by epmode
don't get me wrong, halo 2 looks great, but:

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Wow, a Cube game is more of a step up from a N64 game than an Xbox game is over an Xbox game. Amazing!

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Originally posted by EvilMog007
I just have to say it, I know its trolling but here goes..

I find it amusing how many people think this looks fucking amazing but Halo 2 looks blah and the same. I swear, if Halo 2 was made by Nintendo or Sega is would be the greatest game EVER! :D

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I think Halo looks grand. If it was made by Sega, every TNLer (where's their 'Halo killer' btw?) would wet their pants and sacrifice 5 lambs in Sega's name. If Nintendo made it, TNLers would call it 'gayer than Sunshine' and call it a day.

Again, looks good, but...

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I think F-Zero looks good but not the OMFG LOOK AT IT good some people seem to feel.

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It's all about seeing this thing in motion. Whereas Halo runs at 30fps, and Halo 2 does as well (so far), F-Zero's 'wow' comes from being blazing fast. It runs 60fps without ever getting the jitters and the nature of the game means everything burns by at an amazing rate. You may think it looks 'good' - I know I did - but seeing in motion and playing for yourself is a whole other experience from screens and internet clips.

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Originally posted by AFX
Wow, a Cube game is more of a step up from a N64 game than an Xbox game is over an Xbox game. Amazing!

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isn't it? :chick:

it's just surprising to see an ultra-stylish f-zero game is all. halo already esablished its general look and feel in the first game, so new screenshots don't have the same impact.

Dont get me wrong though, I WILL get this for sure. I was just pointing some stuff out thats all.


If they get the music right I'll be happy. I DEMAND remixes of Mute City and Big Blue at the very least.

Jeremy: never, ever try to own anyone on the boards, and don't point out someone else's failure to grasp the obvious, at least until you stop being the most obtuse person on the boards. Also, don't bother posting something and then deleting it, unless it's something fun like a suicide threat.

I deleted the post since it didn't appear after the intended post, which was yours.

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Originally posted by Jeremy
I deleted the post since it didn't appear after the intended post, which was yours.

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And might I add.

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Originally posted by AFX
Jeremy: never, ever try to own anyone on the boards...at least until you stop being the most obtuse person on the boards.

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AFX, aren't you wasting bandwidth with that post?

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Originally posted by Jeremy
AFX, aren't you wasting bandwidth with that post?

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I liked F-Zero at E3. It was my game of the show. Its feeling of speed and graphical scope is unmatched in any game ever.

Now get back on topic before I ban you.

No matter how good F-Zero looks (and trust me, it looks really, really, really good), it will never touch Wipeout XL or Wipeout 3.

At least not from what I've played.

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Originally posted by Jeremy
AFX, aren't you wasting bandwidth with that post?

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He isn't, but you just did by asking.

Nice try.

I can't wait to play this game, and will be putting a pre-order on it this week. It's definitely my most anticipated racing game of the year and I envy all who have played it.

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Originally posted by Jeremy
I can't wait to play this game, and will be putting a pre-order on it this week. It's definitely my most anticipated racing game of the year and I envy all who have played it.

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By getting back on topic, he assumed you understood that that meant to shut up and type nothing instead of allowing your opinion to be formed off of everyone else's and generally just being useless and unnecessary.

This game looks insane. I can only imagine how good it looks in motion.

Ninjas, I've been excited about this game since I first saw screens of it, and have expressed that opinion for quite some time now.

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Originally posted by Jeremy
Ninjas, I've been excited about this game since I first saw screens of it, and have expressed that opinion for quite some time now.

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That is exactly why I just told you to shut up.

"Oh yeah? Well your not allowed to rent here anymore!
YEAHHHHH!"

I also intend to purchase this gaming product upon it's release. count +1...

I think the game is going to suck...... the money right out of my wallet. I can't wait for a US release and what I've seen on the Gamecube preview disk is quite amazing.

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Originally posted by sleeveboy
No matter how good F-Zero looks (and trust me, it looks really, really, really good), it will never touch Wipeout XL or Wipeout 3.

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i dont know and i know ill probably get flammed for this but ive just never been able to get into the Wipeout series

dont know why *shrug* just never clicked with me


this new F-Zero will be big for me though

i wish they did something like they did with WW and had a pre-order offer of like a disc with the SNES and N64 F-Zeros on them

would be cool

John, that'd be the greatest thing ever. They could throw in that JPN SNES pseudo-sequel of sorts on it as well and make it even better.

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Originally posted by Jeremy
John, that'd be the greatest thing ever. They could throw in that JPN SNES pseudo-sequel of sorts on it as well and make it even better.

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true that

the one that was on the satelite thing right

that would be cool as hell

or how about they continue the trend of releasing 64DD stuff. F-Zero X with Track Editor would be god like. that would be a million times better than an upgraded psuedo sequal.

would be perfect timing too considering that the SD-Digicard adaptor is about a month away from japanese release from what i remember.

Ah, I totally forgot about the 64 DD thing. John, yeah, the satellite thing. Right now, Nintendo is in a great position to do something like that. They want to do anything they can to get folks to buy their games, and this kind of thing appeals to both dedicated folks, and casual followers of the series, and even the system itself. Giving folks an extra incentive to buy, especially one as lucrative as this, never hurts.

I have a projector at home for the summer, so I'm gonna recreate the E3 big-screen gameplay in my bedroom :)

I'm estatic about this game. It's gonna be sick. In the meantime, I'll listen to Sleeveboy and play some more Wipeout 3 in preparation :)

Now they're teasing the Americans now with all the display boxes. "It's...it's...an empty GC case ;/"

Maybe I *should* get the import. I say this for every game now, only to not do it.

So basically you just slide down a cylinder the whole game? Or on the outside of a cylinder? I haven't seen any part of any movie where there's a huge 90 degree turn like the original had. I believe the original had jumps too, didnt it?

The game looks great, but to be honest it looks a little boring. You can only go down a track so many times before it becomes stale, and without competition variation I'm not compelled to play it over and over. I'm probably missing something here, though...

Well, actually not a whole lot :P. The physics and driving system (well, I guess the physics are part of that) in F-Zero games is very excellent. It's like a very believable racing game with supersonic speeds, great handling and fun tracks.

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mods please close this thread or whatever.

I'll pick it up EVENTUALLY. But not at full price, probably. I just like games like Double Dash where it may be a bit slower, but the multiplayer is more chaotic and you can get in to it better. Instead of laughing at your friend because you passed him, you can take him out of the lead or maybe even form alliances in Mario Kart, to which you soon betray thereafter for your own personal gain.

"Yeah. Here I'll just take him out with this red turtle shell and you'll be in the lead!"

"Yeah man, thanks."

"wait, what's this? Another red turtle shell."

"Fuck off man, I'm in the lead now, we're winning!"

"Don't you mean, I'm winning?"

*turtle shells away!*