I genuinely enjoyed F Zero 99. And think it represents a second chance not an end. Nintendo favors low high mixes in terms of its investments. 2D Zelda / 3D Zelda. 2D Mario / 3D Mario. Remasters like Samus Returns acting as ptoof of concept for a new entry like Dread. 99 is a good indicator we will see more. Likely as either a 4K remaster of GX on switch 2 or an entirely new entry.
Speaking of 2D Top Down Zelda it’s been a whole decade since A Link Between Worlds on 3DS, not counting that Link’s Awakening Remake. And come to think of it I wish that got ported to Switch aside from Kid Icarus Uprising and besides Luigi’s Mansion 2, Nintendo is basically repeating the 3DS in its twilight years when it received a port of Luigi’s Mansion 1.
This. I Love the 3D games and still would 1000% prefer a new 3D game (or enhanced port of GX with online multiplayer) to 99, but 99 is the first 2D entry in the series I have actually been able to ENJOY. Because the quality of life tweaks make it MUCH more playable, and the human opponents make getting a 2-digit place number a lot less FRUSTRATING than it is when you get curbstomped by CPUs on normal mode. And as a freeware “event” game it’s introducing a LOT of people who’ve never tried the games to the world of F-Zero, and SOME OF THEM ARE GETTING HOOKED. 99 is a bit disappointing to me as a fan who KNOWS how much the series has to offer, but it’s a genuinely fun little game and when i see how fast the lobbies fill up and the sheet number of youtubers giving it a try “for the heck of it” and getting converted into real fans of the series I can’t help but think it was a smart tactic.
@@IONATVS Remember GX was so hard to the point of being kinda annoying, and since Nintendo has a bad track record of online. There a chance that an online 3d F-zero may look cool at first but any mistake could turn it into absolute torture. What I love about the original F-zero is that it's the easiest in the series, so it feels safer to put online into that, at least for right now.
@@orangeslash1667 The annoying difficulty was primarily in the singleplayer content and the fact that so many unlocks were gated BEHIND the most brutally difficult modes-if the online multiplayer, like the original’s couch multiplayer, is entirely for the fun of playing against humans, it’s not nearly as big of a dealbreaker if it has the occasional hiccup. I would also love to see a port of GX to switch add some accessibility features, an easier difficulty to story mode, and an alternative way to unlock a lot of the hidden AX content instead of “beat the hardest challenges in any racing game” or “find an extremely rare arcade cabinet and feed it quarters for weeks” but even without those QoL improvements, as long as any online shenanigans are quarantined from the unlock loop I really do think they could just release the decade old game with improved graphics and an online multiplayer mode and the larger switch install base would be enough to make it a moderate success.
I watched the full vid, I wouldn't say he's egotistic, he's just mad that F-Zero has been dealt a bad hand like how most F-Zero fans today including myself are. He's just exaggerating that anger and "ego" for comedic effect.
F-Zero was dying because with every game it became more and more niche. They never succeeded in giving it broad appeal to people who didn't play F-Zero, so the player base never grew. If you really want F-Zero to revive, you have to be happy for new fans. F-Zero 99 did this. The franchise has new fans. It has set the groundwork for a mainline sequel to finally succeed.
temporary new fans...these fans are just mindless consumers these days...whether their a true fan or just a new one, they just consume and move on to next thing.
@@kukukachu One of the reasons F-zero was important back then are the controls. If you look on the earlier Mario Kart karts, the drifting isn't that great. It didn't take until Double Dash for the controls to feel really good and even then F-zero GX was released before it. So Nintendo may not need 3d F-zero, because Mario Kart was evolved. The good news is that arcade racing games are still a thing in indie games.
@@YoshizuyunerMario Odysee wasn't even that good, in fact I'd say it was a step backwards...same goes with Zelda. But yea, you could say that about fans in general, which shows the symptom.
After learning about all the techniques people developed to master GX, I'm kind of inclined to agree. Hell, I never even dtd'd in X and somehow still unlocked the X cup. Never unlocked the AX cup though, and probably never legitimately will. The point is that the games weren't only challenging, but sometimes brutally difficult, and I imagine that'd turn a lot of people away. Then again soulslikes are a thing now and people play those despite whining all the time so who knows?
Really good video but also L + No 1st Place + Get Bumper'd. F-Zero 99 is unironically a hit, so I'm hoping Nintendo will see the numbers and let someone make a proper sequel (maybe shin'en?). I don't think anyone is faking enthusiasm, because everyone who actually tries the game is really enjoying it. It's just an actually good game.
The difference is Miyamoto would throw a fit if Pikmin didn't get budget. On the other hand, he and many others at Nintendo have just had zero interest fir the past 20 years in F Zero.
I don’t know if I’d describe Pikmin as “stomping” F-Zero. Animal Crossing, yes. Mario Kart, definitely. When your games are in the 1-3 million category, you’re a small series regardless. Although I must admit I was a little surprised F-Zero GX sold half a million. That seems crazy low to me.
@@brandonwilliams6119 What are you guys talking about? Pikmin total sales, across all platforms, is 7.8 million. Granted, we don’t know Pikmin 4’s total sales across the globe (think it’s sold around 700k in Japan). Even still, Luigi’s Mansion 3 has out sold every Pikmin game combined.
I will always put aside F-Zero retrospectives to watch on the big tv in a dark room to get the full immersion. Thank you so much for making this and the future is bright for F-Zero after 99
I really hope that F-Zero 99 does well enough to warrant more F-Zero games being made. Maybe I'm just being overly optimistic, but I really believe that the game's purpose is to either test the waters and see if the demand is there, or to hold players over until the next big F-Zero game
@@xBox360BENUTZER To be fair, the fate of the Mario series was never really dependant on Mario 35, because it's already a huge IP. F-Zero 99 on the other hand, could potentially regenerate interest in the F-Zero IP, which has been dormant for 19 years
That's what I'm hoping for as well. Granted, I don't really know what kind of analytics or useful data they can get off of a free download for NSO, but we'll see what happens.
Watched the entire video. Imma be honest, the amount of anger and jadedness behind your voice in this video is the same energy I would have if I made a video retrospective with Star Fox entirely and how Nintendo is also responsible for its death. So, kudos for the great video and making me feel upset with F-Zero's predicament as well. (I too wasn't a fan with F-Zero 99 initially despite the novel concept of it)
In a perfect world where F-Zero game had an infinite budget, I would want a full story mode with Captain Falcon beating up dudes while Bounty Hunting as like an action game and then have F-Zero racing intertwined into it. I feel like there's so much cool stuff lore wise to tell a pretty compelling story.
@@HyperCharge Just take his moveset from Smash, give him the story from the manual, and the gameplay of F Zero GX, and we would have the defintive F-Zero game.
F zero GX is so fucken good it felt like it was made by fucken aliens. Literally every single thing about this game is perfect, the gameplay, the tracks, the fucken amazing soundtrack, the absurdly insane ammount of content, and the fact each racer has its OWN SOUNDTRACK is just mind blowing. The work that was put into this game is outstanding.
Agreed on the lack of closure. F-ZERO not getting its own "Fire emblem awakening" game and instead went from firing on all cylanders to completely gone within 18 months is absolutely wild
It genuinely is wild how many people have made up their mind already that nothing else will come, without having any proof of that being the case I think thats whats the most annoying part about people who are let down by fzero 99
41:20 GP Legend and Climax had Blast Turns. One of the in-game tutorials for Climax explicitly states how to do blast turns, and you're expected to use them for some of the harder courses (more so in Climax, but GP Legend had some too). Watch gameplay videos of the pros playing those games and you'll see them using Blast Turns for the Expert and Master level cups.
They missed the boat to re-release F-Zero X on the 3DS with online play and Expansion Kit content added. It was so easy but I can’t imagine why it didn’t happen.
You managed to inspire me to play GX and now I've actually beaten the chapter 2 story mode on the very hard difficulty, but yet i still struggle with ch 1 on hard lol Im still having fun with it and having trouble putting it down, thanks a lot for introducing me to f zero Mr. Sam!!
I honestly think Nintendo should hire RGG Studio to make a spinoff title based on the lore established. It'd be pretty sweet going around as captain falcon and beating up thugs, and engaging in a racing minigame to chase fugitives before fighting them hand to hand. It's quite ambitious, but given the series' lore it's fitting. And a racing game like GX, with the chaoticness of 99 would be brilliant, you could also race around in your modified machines with your custom drawn livery - in due time someone's going to use their absurdly good pixel art skills and cover their machines in lewd faces. Also, you *can* blast turn in GP Legend, it's essentially the only way to control C grip or lower vehicles, or heavy behemoths like Black Bull. Mastering blast turning will show you how OP Mighty Typhoon is in this game - it has a rather high natural speed, it is very light and therefore can turn easily, and it has an A rated boost which means you will outrun anyone, the D rated grip is its only flaw but blast turning is how you mitigate it.
F-Zero GX is such a perfect game to constantly come back to over and over and over, its the most accessible game in the series while also being able to crunch someone's balls with sharp razor blades. It aged like the finest of wine, even if the story mode is harder than carbon nanotubes
I was JUST talking to someone about how you're my favourite AUTISTIC VIDEO ESSAY maker. You got the correct takes again, and very entertaining video scripting and editing. You taught me about the most drug crazed business decisions I've heard for a while and even helped me articulate my feelings on fZ99.There's a reason you're the BIGDIGCK WORLD CHAMP. I'd say my biggest hope for a spiritual sucessor is XF Extreme Formula, it only has a demo so far but its nailed the feel of fast and sick music even though its different. Who knows though.
The majority of ratings about F Zero 99 across the internet, whether from fans or specialized platforms, are 8.0 to 9.0. The feedback of game is very positive and the search high. Keep to crying GX widow keep crying hauhuhauahajahaaha
Great vid! A couple of points: There actually was a super-esoteric game mechanic in GX that, if you could master it (I couldn't), made the game's brain-melting AI difficulty just evaporate. The momentum throttle (and alternately, "snaking"). Now, the entire reason for those existing is because AV used the same momentum-based physics engine for GX that they used for Super Monkey Ball, which introduced its own set of particular physics rules for how you lost speed after hitting a booster pad (put simply, there was a reason you could just never seem to keep up with the AI machines on harder difficulties). For that reason alone, I remain more partial to X over GX all these years later. Hands down I had a lot more fun with X, despite beating all of GX on Master and unlocking *A FEW* of the AX rewards through Story mode. Oh yeah, on that note...I had an AX cabinet at a local fun park arcade not far from my house. Annnnnd some jerk screwed a piece of plexi OVER the card slot! As for Miyamoto's relationship with the franchise in general, video I watched some time ago on the development of the original F-Zero and then Super Mario Kart led me to realize that F-Zero has always just been a "tech demo" IP for him. MarioKart has always been his baby, the "favored child" if you will. F-Zero was the technical proving ground, and that explained to some degree why Miyamoto countered persistent interest in the franchise with that lame excuse: what could we do differently? (My personal answer to that aside from the obvious online play, is make F-Zero a little more like Gran Turismo / Forza in that you have an "career mode" where you can create your own racer and build up points, acquiring parts to build new and better machines along the way-similar to what's already been done in RedOut 2.) To that end, with so many GCN titles getting Switch remasters, I'm hopeful for the possibility of a legit GX remaster on Switch, and/or a true successor game on "Switch 2." Now even if we never get that, some indy devs have taken up the mantle to create games that embody the spirit of X and GX as much as they dare. But, especially after playing 99, I definitely want to see new games happen in *that* world that Nintendo built, and has ignored for far too long. Sadly, while they may be enjoyable (even moreso than GX and even X), no indy game will probably ever fulfill that.
And people Wonder why I dislike Miyamoto! I’m glad you see exactly the problem and why Franchises like F-Zero and Star Fox seemed cast to the Wayside. While Mario and Zelda get all the Attention! Fucking Miyamoto. Maybe in the early days this man had ideas. But as of late, this doesn’t apply any of that thing to any Gameplay evolution! He almost Ruined Star Fox by fucking with Rareware’s Dinosaur planet and forced them to make an impossible Deadline while they were being bought by Microsoft! Let’s also not forget that Nintendo Botched Namco’s Attempt at trying to Branch out Star Fox Assault, which was a Much better game and a natural Evolution for the franchise! And then There’s Star Fox Zero, a Clunky Messy Retelling of Star Fox 64, but with even Shittier controls! The Fact that it was even promoted on that failure of a console for the Wii U just Screams Nintendo Fuck Up.
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This video was absolutely hilarious and I didn't expect to watch the whole thing so late into the night. Well done! I really hope the series can come back fully with an actual brand new game, but for the time being I'm absolutely loving Fzero 99
I'm so happy to have watched your video. This is exactly how I feel about F-Zero! If Nintendo just could give us an remastered version of GX would be amazing! Let's hope for a new F-zero on the Switch 2🙏 Thank you for a great and very funny video❤
This video appeared on my recommended to my surprise (probably after searching for the F-Zero GP legends OST). My first (and only) experience with F-Zero was F-Zero GP Legends, being 1 out of 4 GBA games I got with my very own first console, the GBA SP. (If anyone asks, the other 3 games were Super Mario 3, Simpson's Road Rage (which used an "input code" as checkpoint system but it honestly sucked) and Need for Speed Underground 2 (which was nice but the minigames were literally impossible so I could never 100% the game)). Seeing this video showed me that there was an anime about GP Legend after all these years so I am kinda dumbstruck about that discovery. And I also kinda want to see it now (okay nvm its not even possible unless its subtitled, if thst even exists). The fact that the most we've gotten since 2004 is F-Zero 99 is almost like a kick in the nuts despite the fun multiplayer, but given how gaming has become much more mainstream and adopted worldwide I suppose if they made an honest to God sequel it would at least wake up the curiosity of people watching. And I am sure as hell would dust off my Switch to buy it (which I only remember exists every time I travel, which is twice a year for like a month in total).
You can actually watch the entirety of the anime on UA-cam with english subtitles, just search "GP Legend Anime" and you can find a playlist of the entire show.
Great video, I only have F-Zero X though, it is fun. Also finally a UA-camr that doesn’t censor his curse words. 🙂 Edit: 30:01 Thank you! I’m finally not the only one that’s sick of these boring simulation racers that LITERALLY are all the exact same. Arcade racers have way more variety and excitement. 👍🏾👍🏾
Wow, I had no idea only under 700k copies of GX were sold. It is one of my favorite games of all time. Thank you for this retrospective :) F-Zero 99 is super fun, love that Nintendo did this. But oh man, a proper sequel to F-Zero GX would be an absolute dream (assuming they basically keep everything that was great).
The character bios in X were written by 5 year olds. "He's generically evil! :O No motivation, goals or details what he even does that makes him evil. He is just too evil! No, wait... He's VERY evil.''
Ok, but imagine... considering Metroid was ignored for a good while and then suddenly, bam, Metroid Samus Returns, Metroid Dread and Metroid Prime Remastered ...What if Nintendo is cooking up an F-Zero GX Remastered?
frick i loved and praised up and down about F zero Max velocity on m advance i thought it was the best thing since portable long mozzarella cheese sticks.
You are so Right!! Thanks for all that energy, that inspire me to keep going in some special things totally related, but I mean Totally!.. If I just could send you something, but I can´t.. when it come out I hope you be happy. thanks again and have a good life, good luck!. 👍👍🔥🔥
I'm a little disappointed that you didn't mention the DTD, an advanced FZero X technique which was super fun and fully exploited in the modding community. Still, great vid. Keep it up, bro.
I'm not too familiar with all the F-Zero X/GX tech in that high of a detail, so I legit didn't even know that was a thing. Regardless, since I don't really expect the average player to learn those kinds of techniques, I don't think I would've mentioned it anyways.
I actually 100% completed GX earlier this year. And by that i mean i beat the story mode on very hard, beat every grand prix on master mode, unlocked every character, obtained every character's secret cutscene movie (you unlock one by beating any grand prix on master mode with a specific character), and beat every time trial staff ghost. I also unlocked all of the available AX content that is in the game. Did it take a long time? Yes. Was it hard? Yes. Am I good at the game? Yes. Am i completely insane? Yes. Would I do it all over again? Absolutely. GX is a total masterpiece, i love every single thing about it. The game is hard as balls, but once you understand the physics and how to exploit them to your advantage, NOTHING comes close to replicating the GX experience. Doing literally anything successfully in the game feels amazing. I am a massive racing game fan, I've played so many of them over the years, and GX has stuck with me like nothing else ever has. I decided to 100% complete the game out of sheer love for it. If Nintendo ever makes another one, I desperately hope they follow what GX did. Also, a local convention actually had an F zero AX cabinet there to play a few years ago. I did a few races and my god, AX is insanely fucking fun. The steering wheel makes the races feel way more intense. I'd love to try our those "virtual reality" cockpits.
As someone who’s been playing F-Zero 99 for weeks and got almost everything in the game, my enthusiasm for it is not “fake”. I’m glad Nintendo made this, and I think it’s a great way to gauge interest in the series after a long hiatus without a new entry. Think about it, it’s released at the tail end of the Switch’s life. Chances are we might get the next F-Zero game on the next console down the line. And given the amount of players and the fact that this game has it’s own meta, I think 99 succeeded in what it set out to do!
There's an arcade in Indianapolis, Boss Battle Games that has 3 working AX machines. The memory card slot on one of them didn't work, but the other one I tried did. I was able to get all ten AX characters very easily. The trick is your memory card has to be made by Nintendo, no third party cards and that card can't have any other games saved to it GX only.
I completely forgot about Maximum Velocity. And my brother had it, too. I also forgot there was an anime. All I remember is peak with GX (if Samurai Goroh was the final boss, the story Mute City was the hidden Kingdom Hearts super boss). F-Zero 99 has been doing a decent job holding me over, but as you said, Nintendo is holding F-Zero back.
F-Zero's life as a franchise played out just like a GX race: Short lived, incredibly stylish, and simply the best of it's kind. Also how did you not mention the insane clusterf*ck fever dream that was GX's story mode? Like, one minute you have a geriatric old man enter (ie, drag like a child who doesn't want to enter a store) Captain Falcon into an illegal street race so he can earn millions through betting on him... Then the next minute you're essentially stopping evil not-Batman from commiting terrorism while he literally squanders the freest kill on any main character ever... Then the next you're in hell fighting mecha-cyborg Satan over a belt that makes you the god of the universe... Then 2 seconds later you're fighting the actual, canon gods of the universe in the form of the staff times (I mean, talk about sucking their own dicks!) Then the ending is all like this Proto Man - Halo esque un-helmet scene with credits music that LITERALLY sounds like it came out of a church dedicated to Captain Falcon. It's all wrapped up in terrible, entertaining voice acting that (as far as I know) was in English EVEN IN JAPAN. It's unlike any video game story mode I've ever seen.
So did you have this video script since 2015 and just happened to actually kinda finish it just before a pseudo new F-Zero was released? That's hype as fuck!
I have to agree with you on 99. I sold my switch to someone who would use it more than I did shortly after f zero 99 came out. I didn't even have Nintendo online at the time either, so I wouldn't have been able to play it anyway, and beyond that I wasn't interested in it. I want another X or GX. I played those, and the Gameboy games. I enjoyed them all, but really just loved the attitude style and atmosphere of X. GX has a different music direction but the gameplay is stellar. Just... Gimme more of that. I don't care if it's on a new console or what, if it gets made, I'll at least give it a try. Or shit just package x and gx into one collection and I'll buy and play that too while I quietly curse Nintendo for being lazy again.
I'm going to be honest... I hate the feel and look of Mode 7. I honestly wish they would have released a Remaster for F-Zero GX because F-Zero 99 doesn't scratch the same itch that I have when playing F-Zero GX. I'm currently playing a bunch of F-Zero X on the online service, but honestly considering downloading Dolphin just so I can play GX again... I WANT MY LUNAR WOLF BACK! Q~Q (Edit) Going out on a limb here, but I liked F-Zero GP Legend. The idea that Rick Wheeler is a past cop that got revived in the future was an interesting concept.
Great video dude. As someone who wasn't even born until the year after F-Zero's last major release, I'm ever so glad I was able to get into this series with it's best stuff at all. Racing games have always been my favorite genre, but F-Zero is simply so unparalleled to any contemporaries, including games piggy backing off of people saying "It's a new game that plays like F-Zero!" when the series has had no equal matches in gameplay until now maybe with the indie game Aero-GP. I'm glad F-Zero 99 is at least a thing at all but I agree that it's so lame after hearing rumors of GX remaster from Next Level Games that could possibly lead to a big new game, just have our nuts twisted and be nostalgia baited towards the same 16-bit original style when it feels like that's all Nintendo has interested in us remembering. I hope 99 receives DLC like Tetris 99 and Pac-Man 99 that allow for offline play and the hope that Satellaview and even new tracks could come so that way this game can live for longer than any possible shut-down, but I'm not letting it rest until I can see Captain Falcon in full on Switch once again outside of Smash, even if only with a return of GX. Also I feel like ot goes without saying but what the hell is Nintendo thinking that drip feeding F-Zero tracks that already exist and are already in the game without updating because jesus christ it's like they get a kick out of sabotaging themselves
I completely agree about them drip feeding the tracks in F-Zero 99, cause I would be playing it a lot more if I wasn't playing a constant loop of Mute City 1 and Big Blue when it came out.
I think HyperCharge is pretty hyped for the remake according to his retweet of Nintendo's announcement of the game on Twitter. As for me, I'm glad Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is getting a remake, but I still think the Paper Mario series is dead until Nintendo decides to make a new Paper Mario game that actually follows through with what made the first two games special.
The remake itself seems kind of cool, but the way more exciting thing about the remake is the fact that Nintendo actually skipped remaking Paper Mario on the N64 and went straight to TTYD, which shows at the very least that Nintendo is acknowledging that TTYD is the GOAT and that there's a built in audience for that old style of Mario RPGs. It makes me hopeful that Nintendo might actually make good Mario RPG games again, especially since they are also remaking Super Mario RPG as well.
@@HyperCharge I'm surprised you've posted your response 34 seconds after I've posted mine. Of course, I'm still not as optimistic about the future of the Mario RPGs until Nintendo can prove that they can actually make new games in that genre without having to resort to some stupid gimmicks like how the last four Paper Mario games ended up.
@@HyperCharge Them skipping the original Paper Mario most likely has to do with the fact that it's on already on the Nintendo Switch N64 Online subscription. That being said, I am also really excited for the future of Paper Mario, especially for the idea of them going back to the first two game's playstyle.
At this point, Nintendo is wise to not throw money at a AAA reboot and instead test the water and introduce the series to younger players with a low-budget F2P title.
I totally get the reasoning as to why they are doing that, but it just sucks that Nintendo suddenly acts like this fiscally responsible, profit seeking video game company when it comes to making a normal F-Zero game. I mean, this is the company that made Nintendo Labo for god sakes! Granted, it makes sense that they want to play it safe as much as possible, but I feel like putting down some money for a decently budgeted F-Zero game isn't that high of a risk in comparison to a lot of the other stuff they've done over the years.
@@HyperCharge Yet you're not exposing this side of the 99 "reboot" in your otherwise great retrospective video. Labo had potential to grow their business with a product that nobody had any idea how it would perform. The "connected toys" market was projected to do a lot better than it did and they most likely got a lot of positive feedback with their target audience during internal tests. The cost of the "game" development side of labo is probably much less than a full fledged high-resolution F-Zero since you and many others don't want tight gameplay with dated mode-7 graphics, while they most likely could get tax reductions on the research & development that birthed the whole Labo project since it was uncharted territory. There's no hypocrisy here, only sound business decisions.
@@bbreimm The point I was trying to make is that Nintendo has done wacky things throughout it's entire history as a company and I don't think an actual F-Zero sequel is that much of a risk in comparison to a lot of stuff they do on a regular basis. Obviously, these risks pay off (like the Wii for example) but there's also a lot of instances where it doesn't (like the 64DD). Regardless, I don't think anyone is expect NIntendo to release a AAA Zelda-esque budgeted F-Zero game, I would be more or less happy with like a AA F-Zero game with maybe like a couple new mechanics or something.
I'm a huge fan of the majority of Nintendo's popular franchises. Sad that F-Zero isn't among those even though it could have been, & it still could, if Nintendo gets itself together & actually tries again like they did with Metroid Dread. Also, we're just glad to have another F-Zero game, dude. I get your point, & it is a good one but, how about being grateful to have another F-Zero game, & for Nintendo testing the waters after 20 years?
Funny enough, I played the game for like 15 years, and then used the action replay to unlock everything in the game of fzero gx. Like who is going to beat all the story mode missions, let alone on super mega death hardcore you won't win mode. Like fuck that. It was hard enough to win on easy mode on the story mode missions, which I eventually did. But I think that the rubber banding in fzero gx was ungodly in story mode. Fuck that mode.
F-zero MaxVel DID have a Captain Falcon. A descendant of him at least: Kent Akechi driving the Falcon MK-2. Looks like someone didn't played the game at all~😏
Goddamn my boy, this is or borderline is video game investigating journalism haha pretty cool. Breaking down the whole life of f-zero for the fuck of it haha. Keep at it my boy 😂
i’m hoping, and so many others are hoping, that they all pull a Tetris 99 and keep it up. Please, please, FZero fans, keep playing this. Let Nintendo know. It’s the only way to let them know we want another FZero game. play this, and if you have Nintendo switch online, or the expansion pack, or both, play FZero, and FZero X. Please. Let them know we want another game.
When you were talking about stupid gimmicks, how did you miss the insanity that is the e-Reader cards for GP Legend in Japan? Thankfully there has been a romhack made that adds all the exclusive tracks and content into the game. Speaking of fan projects, there is also the English translation patch for F-Zero Climax, along with F-Zero Final for the SNES that adds in the available Satellaview cars and tracks into the game. Also shout outs to Nintendon't and the other unofficial ways to play F-Zero AX.
When I was editing the video down to keep things more concise, it didn't end up making the final cut. I didn't have much to say about it besides one or two off hand comments. I could've swore when I looked it up that they made the e-reader content in the USA/EU versions of the game unlockable somehow since E-reader support got cut entirely, but I'm not too familiar.
@@HyperCharge I would have discussed the absurdity of the card distribution. Some of those cards were quite limited and it took several years for them to be backed up digitally. Still, a neat tidbit for those wanting to know.
This will be the ultimate test to see whether people comment before or after watching the whole video.
gonna order some nice food and watch it later. i always get hype when you upload.
Step one is always to say that every time you upload, we know it is going to be a real treat. Step two is to watch!
I mean… you included 99 in your thumbnail so…
@@leeartlee915and in the video description
Funny how they release F-Zero 99 on GX’s 20th Anniversary. Yeah, personally, I’m not too thrilled on 99, kind of seems like a monkey paw wish IMO.
I genuinely enjoyed F Zero 99. And think it represents a second chance not an end. Nintendo favors low high mixes in terms of its investments. 2D Zelda / 3D Zelda. 2D Mario / 3D Mario. Remasters like Samus Returns acting as ptoof of concept for a new entry like Dread. 99 is a good indicator we will see more. Likely as either a 4K remaster of GX on switch 2 or an entirely new entry.
I like it cause fzero snes never had multiplayer, and Fzero99 finally let's me do that
And that's the fzero I played the most
Speaking of 2D Top Down Zelda it’s been a whole decade since A Link Between Worlds on 3DS, not counting that Link’s Awakening Remake. And come to think of it I wish that got ported to Switch aside from Kid Icarus Uprising and besides Luigi’s Mansion 2, Nintendo is basically repeating the 3DS in its twilight years when it received a port of Luigi’s Mansion 1.
This. I Love the 3D games and still would 1000% prefer a new 3D game (or enhanced port of GX with online multiplayer) to 99, but 99 is the first 2D entry in the series I have actually been able to ENJOY. Because the quality of life tweaks make it MUCH more playable, and the human opponents make getting a 2-digit place number a lot less FRUSTRATING than it is when you get curbstomped by CPUs on normal mode. And as a freeware “event” game it’s introducing a LOT of people who’ve never tried the games to the world of F-Zero, and SOME OF THEM ARE GETTING HOOKED. 99 is a bit disappointing to me as a fan who KNOWS how much the series has to offer, but it’s a genuinely fun little game and when i see how fast the lobbies fill up and the sheet number of youtubers giving it a try “for the heck of it” and getting converted into real fans of the series I can’t help but think it was a smart tactic.
@@IONATVS Remember GX was so hard to the point of being kinda annoying, and since Nintendo has a bad track record of online. There a chance that an online 3d F-zero may look cool at first but any mistake could turn it into absolute torture. What I love about the original F-zero is that it's the easiest in the series, so it feels safer to put online into that, at least for right now.
@@orangeslash1667 The annoying difficulty was primarily in the singleplayer content and the fact that so many unlocks were gated BEHIND the most brutally difficult modes-if the online multiplayer, like the original’s couch multiplayer, is entirely for the fun of playing against humans, it’s not nearly as big of a dealbreaker if it has the occasional hiccup. I would also love to see a port of GX to switch add some accessibility features, an easier difficulty to story mode, and an alternative way to unlock a lot of the hidden AX content instead of “beat the hardest challenges in any racing game” or “find an extremely rare arcade cabinet and feed it quarters for weeks” but even without those QoL improvements, as long as any online shenanigans are quarantined from the unlock loop I really do think they could just release the decade old game with improved graphics and an online multiplayer mode and the larger switch install base would be enough to make it a moderate success.
If you harnessed the power of this man's ego, you could probably revive F-Zero 20 times over.
He just needs to unleash the greatest Falcon Punch to bring it into existence.
Ego? I don't really think he has an ego
Bro didn't watch the video.
I watched the full vid, I wouldn't say he's egotistic, he's just mad that F-Zero has been dealt a bad hand like how most F-Zero fans today including myself are. He's just exaggerating that anger and "ego" for comedic effect.
F-Zero was dying because with every game it became more and more niche. They never succeeded in giving it broad appeal to people who didn't play F-Zero, so the player base never grew.
If you really want F-Zero to revive, you have to be happy for new fans. F-Zero 99 did this. The franchise has new fans. It has set the groundwork for a mainline sequel to finally succeed.
temporary new fans...these fans are just mindless consumers these days...whether their a true fan or just a new one, they just consume and move on to next thing.
@@kukukachu One of the reasons F-zero was important back then are the controls. If you look on the earlier Mario Kart karts, the drifting isn't that great. It didn't take until Double Dash for the controls to feel really good and even then F-zero GX was released before it. So Nintendo may not need 3d F-zero, because Mario Kart was evolved.
The good news is that arcade racing games are still a thing in indie games.
@@kukukachu you can say that for any mario fan or zelda fan in general they move on because it takes years to make mario odyssey
@@YoshizuyunerMario Odysee wasn't even that good, in fact I'd say it was a step backwards...same goes with Zelda. But yea, you could say that about fans in general, which shows the symptom.
After learning about all the techniques people developed to master GX, I'm kind of inclined to agree. Hell, I never even dtd'd in X and somehow still unlocked the X cup. Never unlocked the AX cup though, and probably never legitimately will. The point is that the games weren't only challenging, but sometimes brutally difficult, and I imagine that'd turn a lot of people away.
Then again soulslikes are a thing now and people play those despite whining all the time so who knows?
Really good video but also L + No 1st Place + Get Bumper'd.
F-Zero 99 is unironically a hit, so I'm hoping Nintendo will see the numbers and let someone make a proper sequel (maybe shin'en?). I don't think anyone is faking enthusiasm, because everyone who actually tries the game is really enjoying it. It's just an actually good game.
I love it, hopefully Nintendo notices how many people enjoyed F-Zero 99 and want a real sequel for their next console.
You know it's bad when Pikmin sales stomp F-Zero into the ground.
The difference is Miyamoto would throw a fit if Pikmin didn't get budget. On the other hand, he and many others at Nintendo have just had zero interest fir the past 20 years in F Zero.
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I don’t know if I’d describe Pikmin as “stomping” F-Zero. Animal Crossing, yes. Mario Kart, definitely. When your games are in the 1-3 million category, you’re a small series regardless.
Although I must admit I was a little surprised F-Zero GX sold half a million. That seems crazy low to me.
Not only that Pikmin stomped Final Fantasy XVI and people made memes about that.
@@brandonwilliams6119 What are you guys talking about? Pikmin total sales, across all platforms, is 7.8 million. Granted, we don’t know Pikmin 4’s total sales across the globe (think it’s sold around 700k in Japan). Even still, Luigi’s Mansion 3 has out sold every Pikmin game combined.
48:55 "So many fans showed and stayed to watch" Indeed I did. This video was insane, 10/10.
I will always put aside F-Zero retrospectives to watch on the big tv in a dark room to get the full immersion. Thank you so much for making this and the future is bright for F-Zero after 99
Stunning desperation
I really hope that F-Zero 99 does well enough to warrant more F-Zero games being made. Maybe I'm just being overly optimistic, but I really believe that the game's purpose is to either test the waters and see if the demand is there, or to hold players over until the next big F-Zero game
I don´t think so, after Mario 99 and Tetris 99 they were just looking for another game that would work well with it.
@@xBox360BENUTZER To be fair, the fate of the Mario series was never really dependant on Mario 35, because it's already a huge IP. F-Zero 99 on the other hand, could potentially regenerate interest in the F-Zero IP, which has been dormant for 19 years
That's what I'm hoping for as well. Granted, I don't really know what kind of analytics or useful data they can get off of a free download for NSO, but we'll see what happens.
Watched the entire video. Imma be honest, the amount of anger and jadedness behind your voice in this video is the same energy I would have if I made a video retrospective with Star Fox entirely and how Nintendo is also responsible for its death. So, kudos for the great video and making me feel upset with F-Zero's predicament as well. (I too wasn't a fan with F-Zero 99 initially despite the novel concept of it)
He's got a star fox one too, that's a banger video
@@bboyy97 I'm worried that Nintendo may have replaced Starfox with Splatoon 2, since they're both fast paced shooters in a 3d environment.
Another absolute slammer of a video sammy! Can't wait for the next one!
I didn't like it. Failed the takeaway at the end, too salty in the face of a good thing, mfer crashed right in front of the finish line.
The fact this is an one hour review of a dead franchise that only had 6 games is nuts.
It was too beautiful for this world.
I share my condolences with the greatest racing game series of all-time, and an incredible story that would make for a fantastic movie.
In a perfect world where F-Zero game had an infinite budget, I would want a full story mode with Captain Falcon beating up dudes while Bounty Hunting as like an action game and then have F-Zero racing intertwined into it. I feel like there's so much cool stuff lore wise to tell a pretty compelling story.
@@HyperCharge Just take his moveset from Smash, give him the story from the manual, and the gameplay of F Zero GX, and we would have the defintive F-Zero game.
@@MrGojira95 There's a game called Burnout Paradise that may have what your looking for. It's a racing game that lets you crash into other cars.
F zero GX is so fucken good it felt like it was made by fucken aliens. Literally every single thing about this game is perfect, the gameplay, the tracks, the fucken amazing soundtrack, the absurdly insane ammount of content, and the fact each racer has its OWN SOUNDTRACK is just mind blowing. The work that was put into this game is outstanding.
Agreed on the lack of closure. F-ZERO not getting its own "Fire emblem awakening" game and instead went from firing on all cylanders to completely gone within 18 months is absolutely wild
Can you really say it was firing on all cylinders if the game didn't sell well?
@@saintlugia it didn't even save the gamecube, even melee cant save it and that shit is extremely popular
@@Yoshizuyuner Well, Melee is literally the best selling game on the Gamecube which says a lot, given how poorly the Gamecube sold.
Did not expect an f-zero video would be the funniest thing I’ve seen all week
It genuinely is wild how many people have made up their mind already that nothing else will come, without having any proof of that being the case
I think thats whats the most annoying part about people who are let down by fzero 99
41:20 GP Legend and Climax had Blast Turns. One of the in-game tutorials for Climax explicitly states how to do blast turns, and you're expected to use them for some of the harder courses (more so in Climax, but GP Legend had some too). Watch gameplay videos of the pros playing those games and you'll see them using Blast Turns for the Expert and Master level cups.
Man, I miss your videos, they are always hilarious!!!
They missed the boat to re-release F-Zero X on the 3DS with online play and Expansion Kit content added. It was so easy but I can’t imagine why it didn’t happen.
they were too busy working on the next system to care
You managed to inspire me to play GX and now I've actually beaten the chapter 2 story mode on the very hard difficulty, but yet i still struggle with ch 1 on hard lol
Im still having fun with it and having trouble putting it down, thanks a lot for introducing me to f zero Mr. Sam!!
I honestly think Nintendo should hire RGG Studio to make a spinoff title based on the lore established. It'd be pretty sweet going around as captain falcon and beating up thugs, and engaging in a racing minigame to chase fugitives before fighting them hand to hand. It's quite ambitious, but given the series' lore it's fitting. And a racing game like GX, with the chaoticness of 99 would be brilliant, you could also race around in your modified machines with your custom drawn livery - in due time someone's going to use their absurdly good pixel art skills and cover their machines in lewd faces.
Also, you *can* blast turn in GP Legend, it's essentially the only way to control C grip or lower vehicles, or heavy behemoths like Black Bull. Mastering blast turning will show you how OP Mighty Typhoon is in this game - it has a rather high natural speed, it is very light and therefore can turn easily, and it has an A rated boost which means you will outrun anyone, the D rated grip is its only flaw but blast turning is how you mitigate it.
Woah. Good to see I'm not the only one thinking of RGG Studio and a Yakuza/Like a Dragon style beat-em up about Falcon.
That Zack Fox reference at the end 😂
The GOAT
F-Zero GX is such a perfect game to constantly come back to over and over and over, its the most accessible game in the series while also being able to crunch someone's balls with sharp razor blades. It aged like the finest of wine, even if the story mode is harder than carbon nanotubes
You can partially blame G4 back in the day for crapping on FZero back in the day
I was JUST talking to someone about how you're my favourite AUTISTIC VIDEO ESSAY maker. You got the correct takes again, and very entertaining video scripting and editing. You taught me about the most drug crazed business decisions I've heard for a while and even helped me articulate my feelings on fZ99.There's a reason you're the BIGDIGCK WORLD CHAMP.
I'd say my biggest hope for a spiritual sucessor is XF Extreme Formula, it only has a demo so far but its nailed the feel of fast and sick music even though its different. Who knows though.
Have you seen Aero GPX? That one looks damn close to X/GX mechanically.
Love your reviews and retrospectives, dude. fekkin siikk
The majority of ratings about F Zero 99 across the internet, whether from fans or specialized platforms, are 8.0 to 9.0. The feedback of game is very positive and the search high. Keep to crying GX widow keep crying hauhuhauahajahaaha
100% commenting before watching the entire video. Always grateful when i get a notification saying you've made another video.
The smoking crack gag was the funniest shit in this video bro
Dude, chapter 2 is like the 2nd or 3rd easiest mission in story mode.
Great vid! A couple of points:
There actually was a super-esoteric game mechanic in GX that, if you could master it (I couldn't), made the game's brain-melting AI difficulty just evaporate. The momentum throttle (and alternately, "snaking"). Now, the entire reason for those existing is because AV used the same momentum-based physics engine for GX that they used for Super Monkey Ball, which introduced its own set of particular physics rules for how you lost speed after hitting a booster pad (put simply, there was a reason you could just never seem to keep up with the AI machines on harder difficulties). For that reason alone, I remain more partial to X over GX all these years later. Hands down I had a lot more fun with X, despite beating all of GX on Master and unlocking *A FEW* of the AX rewards through Story mode.
Oh yeah, on that note...I had an AX cabinet at a local fun park arcade not far from my house. Annnnnd some jerk screwed a piece of plexi OVER the card slot!
As for Miyamoto's relationship with the franchise in general, video I watched some time ago on the development of the original F-Zero and then Super Mario Kart led me to realize that F-Zero has always just been a "tech demo" IP for him. MarioKart has always been his baby, the "favored child" if you will. F-Zero was the technical proving ground, and that explained to some degree why Miyamoto countered persistent interest in the franchise with that lame excuse: what could we do differently? (My personal answer to that aside from the obvious online play, is make F-Zero a little more like Gran Turismo / Forza in that you have an "career mode" where you can create your own racer and build up points, acquiring parts to build new and better machines along the way-similar to what's already been done in RedOut 2.)
To that end, with so many GCN titles getting Switch remasters, I'm hopeful for the possibility of a legit GX remaster on Switch, and/or a true successor game on "Switch 2." Now even if we never get that, some indy devs have taken up the mantle to create games that embody the spirit of X and GX as much as they dare. But, especially after playing 99, I definitely want to see new games happen in *that* world that Nintendo built, and has ignored for far too long. Sadly, while they may be enjoyable (even moreso than GX and even X), no indy game will probably ever fulfill that.
And people Wonder why I dislike Miyamoto! I’m glad you see exactly the problem and why Franchises like F-Zero and Star Fox seemed cast to the Wayside. While Mario and Zelda get all the Attention!
Fucking Miyamoto. Maybe in the early days this man had ideas. But as of late, this doesn’t apply any of that thing to any Gameplay evolution!
He almost Ruined Star Fox by fucking with Rareware’s Dinosaur planet and forced them to make an impossible Deadline while they were being bought by Microsoft!
Let’s also not forget that Nintendo Botched Namco’s Attempt at trying to Branch out Star Fox Assault, which was a Much better game and a natural Evolution for the franchise!
And then There’s Star Fox Zero, a Clunky Messy Retelling of Star Fox 64, but with even Shittier controls! The Fact that it was even promoted on that failure of a console for the Wii U just Screams Nintendo Fuck Up.
Blast turning was in F-zero original tho... Who knows if it was intentional or not. But they liked it enough to keep it for the GBA release.
I like the doomposting clickbait, it worked
3:34 to be fair, Super Mario kart had lives aswell
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I always thought that f zero 99 was A test to see how popular the f zero Franchise was
My spouse and I have a hard time finding multiplayer games that we both enjoy, but GX is one of the few outliers which he asks to play constantly.
This is going to be my favorite video for the next few weeks.
This video was absolutely hilarious and I didn't expect to watch the whole thing so late into the night. Well done! I really hope the series can come back fully with an actual brand new game, but for the time being I'm absolutely loving Fzero 99
I'm so happy to have watched your video. This is exactly how I feel about F-Zero! If Nintendo just could give us an remastered version of GX would be amazing!
Let's hope for a new F-zero on the Switch 2🙏
Thank you for a great and very funny video❤
This video appeared on my recommended to my surprise (probably after searching for the F-Zero GP legends OST). My first (and only) experience with F-Zero was F-Zero GP Legends, being 1 out of 4 GBA games I got with my very own first console, the GBA SP.
(If anyone asks, the other 3 games were Super Mario 3, Simpson's Road Rage (which used an "input code" as checkpoint system but it honestly sucked) and Need for Speed Underground 2 (which was nice but the minigames were literally impossible so I could never 100% the game)).
Seeing this video showed me that there was an anime about GP Legend after all these years so I am kinda dumbstruck about that discovery. And I also kinda want to see it now (okay nvm its not even possible unless its subtitled, if thst even exists).
The fact that the most we've gotten since 2004 is F-Zero 99 is almost like a kick in the nuts despite the fun multiplayer, but given how gaming has become much more mainstream and adopted worldwide I suppose if they made an honest to God sequel it would at least wake up the curiosity of people watching. And I am sure as hell would dust off my Switch to buy it (which I only remember exists every time I travel, which is twice a year for like a month in total).
You can actually watch the entirety of the anime on UA-cam with english subtitles, just search "GP Legend Anime" and you can find a playlist of the entire show.
Tetris 99 is still going strong. I play it regularly
Love the videos man always dope to see you post
Great video, I only have F-Zero X though, it is fun. Also finally a UA-camr that doesn’t censor his curse words. 🙂
Edit: 30:01 Thank you! I’m finally not the only one that’s sick of these boring simulation racers that LITERALLY are all the exact same. Arcade racers have way more variety and excitement. 👍🏾👍🏾
Wow, I had no idea only under 700k copies of GX were sold. It is one of my favorite games of all time.
Thank you for this retrospective :)
F-Zero 99 is super fun, love that Nintendo did this. But oh man, a proper sequel to F-Zero GX would be an absolute dream (assuming they basically keep everything that was great).
The character bios in X were written by 5 year olds.
"He's generically evil! :O
No motivation, goals or details what he even does that makes him evil. He is just too evil! No, wait... He's VERY evil.''
I love it
I still play GX to this day. Such a banger game.
Always happy to see you upload dude! The HYPEST SHIT like usual 😂
Ok, but imagine... considering Metroid was ignored for a good while and then suddenly, bam, Metroid Samus Returns, Metroid Dread and Metroid Prime Remastered
...What if Nintendo is cooking up an F-Zero GX Remastered?
4:30 lol. I’ve been playing this game for 32 years and never thought how they COULD save you from crashing off the course. LOL
Sam you are so entertaining I hope you never stop making content
Bro made most of this video in 2015??? Nice!
Oh yes, this is the one I've been waiting for. 🍿
frick i loved and praised up and down about F zero Max velocity on m advance i thought it was the best thing since portable long mozzarella cheese sticks.
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My condolences
I'm a little disappointed that you didn't mention the DTD, an advanced FZero X technique which was super fun and fully exploited in the modding community. Still, great vid. Keep it up, bro.
I'm not too familiar with all the F-Zero X/GX tech in that high of a detail, so I legit didn't even know that was a thing. Regardless, since I don't really expect the average player to learn those kinds of techniques, I don't think I would've mentioned it anyways.
Probably didn't even play them much lol.
9:14 Big thumps up for the F-Zero Rearranged Jazz soundtrack in the background !!
The F-Zero Jazz soundtrack is extremely good!
I actually 100% completed GX earlier this year. And by that i mean i beat the story mode on very hard, beat every grand prix on master mode, unlocked every character, obtained every character's secret cutscene movie (you unlock one by beating any grand prix on master mode with a specific character), and beat every time trial staff ghost. I also unlocked all of the available AX content that is in the game.
Did it take a long time? Yes.
Was it hard? Yes.
Am I good at the game? Yes.
Am i completely insane? Yes.
Would I do it all over again? Absolutely. GX is a total masterpiece, i love every single thing about it. The game is hard as balls, but once you understand the physics and how to exploit them to your advantage, NOTHING comes close to replicating the GX experience. Doing literally anything successfully in the game feels amazing. I am a massive racing game fan, I've played so many of them over the years, and GX has stuck with me like nothing else ever has. I decided to 100% complete the game out of sheer love for it. If Nintendo ever makes another one, I desperately hope they follow what GX did.
Also, a local convention actually had an F zero AX cabinet there to play a few years ago. I did a few races and my god, AX is insanely fucking fun. The steering wheel makes the races feel way more intense. I'd love to try our those "virtual reality" cockpits.
As someone who’s been playing F-Zero 99 for weeks and got almost everything in the game, my enthusiasm for it is not “fake”. I’m glad Nintendo made this, and I think it’s a great way to gauge interest in the series after a long hiatus without a new entry.
Think about it, it’s released at the tail end of the Switch’s life. Chances are we might get the next F-Zero game on the next console down the line. And given the amount of players and the fact that this game has it’s own meta, I think 99 succeeded in what it set out to do!
We are so back
_A yes the SS technique, speedrunning F-ZERO legends always mention the SS technique, not to be confused with the SS technique from the GBA._
so fucking stoked whenever i see a new upload by you bro
There's an arcade in Indianapolis, Boss Battle Games that has 3 working AX machines. The memory card slot on one of them didn't work, but the other one I tried did. I was able to get all ten AX characters very easily. The trick is your memory card has to be made by Nintendo, no third party cards and that card can't have any other games saved to it GX only.
I completely forgot about Maximum Velocity. And my brother had it, too. I also forgot there was an anime. All I remember is peak with GX (if Samurai Goroh was the final boss, the story Mute City was the hidden Kingdom Hearts super boss). F-Zero 99 has been doing a decent job holding me over, but as you said, Nintendo is holding F-Zero back.
I fucking love your videos I hope you get the attention and fame you deserve you speak with so much truth I just Crack up 😂
" it's not even Over!!!"
Ive only ever played f zero gx but i always loved the high intensity of it. I dont think nintendo wants to have 2 competing racing IP series
Not the crystal meth! LMAO
Geez a full hr. That's a pleasant surprise
F-Zero's life as a franchise played out just like a GX race: Short lived, incredibly stylish, and simply the best of it's kind.
Also how did you not mention the insane clusterf*ck fever dream that was GX's story mode?
Like, one minute you have a geriatric old man enter (ie, drag like a child who doesn't want to enter a store) Captain Falcon into an illegal street race so he can earn millions through betting on him... Then the next minute you're essentially stopping evil not-Batman from commiting terrorism while he literally squanders the freest kill on any main character ever... Then the next you're in hell fighting mecha-cyborg Satan over a belt that makes you the god of the universe... Then 2 seconds later you're fighting the actual, canon gods of the universe in the form of the staff times (I mean, talk about sucking their own dicks!) Then the ending is all like this Proto Man - Halo esque un-helmet scene with credits music that LITERALLY sounds like it came out of a church dedicated to Captain Falcon.
It's all wrapped up in terrible, entertaining voice acting that (as far as I know) was in English EVEN IN JAPAN. It's unlike any video game story mode I've ever seen.
So did you have this video script since 2015 and just happened to actually kinda finish it just before a pseudo new F-Zero was released?
That's hype as fuck!
I have to agree with you on 99.
I sold my switch to someone who would use it more than I did shortly after f zero 99 came out. I didn't even have Nintendo online at the time either, so I wouldn't have been able to play it anyway, and beyond that I wasn't interested in it.
I want another X or GX.
I played those, and the Gameboy games. I enjoyed them all, but really just loved the attitude style and atmosphere of X. GX has a different music direction but the gameplay is stellar. Just... Gimme more of that. I don't care if it's on a new console or what, if it gets made, I'll at least give it a try.
Or shit just package x and gx into one collection and I'll buy and play that too while I quietly curse Nintendo for being lazy again.
can you stop screaming at me
I'm going to be honest... I hate the feel and look of Mode 7. I honestly wish they would have released a Remaster for F-Zero GX because F-Zero 99 doesn't scratch the same itch that I have when playing F-Zero GX. I'm currently playing a bunch of F-Zero X on the online service, but honestly considering downloading Dolphin just so I can play GX again...
I WANT MY LUNAR WOLF BACK! Q~Q
(Edit) Going out on a limb here, but I liked F-Zero GP Legend. The idea that Rick Wheeler is a past cop that got revived in the future was an interesting concept.
He's back yall!
Great video dude. As someone who wasn't even born until the year after F-Zero's last major release, I'm ever so glad I was able to get into this series with it's best stuff at all. Racing games have always been my favorite genre, but F-Zero is simply so unparalleled to any contemporaries, including games piggy backing off of people saying "It's a new game that plays like F-Zero!" when the series has had no equal matches in gameplay until now maybe with the indie game Aero-GP. I'm glad F-Zero 99 is at least a thing at all but I agree that it's so lame after hearing rumors of GX remaster from Next Level Games that could possibly lead to a big new game, just have our nuts twisted and be nostalgia baited towards the same 16-bit original style when it feels like that's all Nintendo has interested in us remembering. I hope 99 receives DLC like Tetris 99 and Pac-Man 99 that allow for offline play and the hope that Satellaview and even new tracks could come so that way this game can live for longer than any possible shut-down, but I'm not letting it rest until I can see Captain Falcon in full on Switch once again outside of Smash, even if only with a return of GX.
Also I feel like ot goes without saying but what the hell is Nintendo thinking that drip feeding F-Zero tracks that already exist and are already in the game without updating because jesus christ it's like they get a kick out of sabotaging themselves
I completely agree about them drip feeding the tracks in F-Zero 99, cause I would be playing it a lot more if I wasn't playing a constant loop of Mute City 1 and Big Blue when it came out.
New Hypercharge dropped lets go
I have to say they hiped me Up showing fzero on the Nintendo Direct to only be the 99 thing
Hey Sam, just thought i'll ask but what are your thoughts on the upcoming Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake?
I think HyperCharge is pretty hyped for the remake according to his retweet of Nintendo's announcement of the game on Twitter.
As for me, I'm glad Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is getting a remake, but I still think the Paper Mario series is dead until Nintendo decides to make a new Paper Mario game that actually follows through with what made the first two games special.
The remake itself seems kind of cool, but the way more exciting thing about the remake is the fact that Nintendo actually skipped remaking Paper Mario on the N64 and went straight to TTYD, which shows at the very least that Nintendo is acknowledging that TTYD is the GOAT and that there's a built in audience for that old style of Mario RPGs. It makes me hopeful that Nintendo might actually make good Mario RPG games again, especially since they are also remaking Super Mario RPG as well.
@@HyperCharge I'm surprised you've posted your response 34 seconds after I've posted mine.
Of course, I'm still not as optimistic about the future of the Mario RPGs until Nintendo can prove that they can actually make new games in that genre without having to resort to some stupid gimmicks like how the last four Paper Mario games ended up.
@@HyperCharge Them skipping the original Paper Mario most likely has to do with the fact that it's on already on the Nintendo Switch N64 Online subscription. That being said, I am also really excited for the future of Paper Mario, especially for the idea of them going back to the first two game's playstyle.
@@kirbytheartist3318 Hopefully, the sales of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch will convince Nintendo to go back to their roots.
At this point, Nintendo is wise to not throw money at a AAA reboot and instead test the water and introduce the series to younger players with a low-budget F2P title.
I totally get the reasoning as to why they are doing that, but it just sucks that Nintendo suddenly acts like this fiscally responsible, profit seeking video game company when it comes to making a normal F-Zero game. I mean, this is the company that made Nintendo Labo for god sakes!
Granted, it makes sense that they want to play it safe as much as possible, but I feel like putting down some money for a decently budgeted F-Zero game isn't that high of a risk in comparison to a lot of the other stuff they've done over the years.
@@HyperCharge Yet you're not exposing this side of the 99 "reboot" in your otherwise great retrospective video.
Labo had potential to grow their business with a product that nobody had any idea how it would perform. The "connected toys" market was projected to do a lot better than it did and they most likely got a lot of positive feedback with their target audience during internal tests. The cost of the "game" development side of labo is probably much less than a full fledged high-resolution F-Zero since you and many others don't want tight gameplay with dated mode-7 graphics, while they most likely could get tax reductions on the research & development that birthed the whole Labo project since it was uncharted territory.
There's no hypocrisy here, only sound business decisions.
@@bbreimm The point I was trying to make is that Nintendo has done wacky things throughout it's entire history as a company and I don't think an actual F-Zero sequel is that much of a risk in comparison to a lot of stuff they do on a regular basis. Obviously, these risks pay off (like the Wii for example) but there's also a lot of instances where it doesn't (like the 64DD).
Regardless, I don't think anyone is expect NIntendo to release a AAA Zelda-esque budgeted F-Zero game, I would be more or less happy with like a AA F-Zero game with maybe like a couple new mechanics or something.
The first game In the series wasent actually f-zero. It was F-1 racing for the gb... if you wanna count that
GX is fucking amazing.
He's alive
This mf said bedlam
Love your videos! Keep it up
I'm a huge fan of the majority of Nintendo's popular franchises. Sad that F-Zero isn't among those even though it could have been, & it still could, if Nintendo gets itself together & actually tries again like they did with Metroid Dread. Also, we're just glad to have another F-Zero game, dude. I get your point, & it is a good one but, how about being grateful to have another F-Zero game, & for Nintendo testing the waters after 20 years?
Funny enough, I played the game for like 15 years, and then used the action replay to unlock everything in the game of fzero gx. Like who is going to beat all the story mode missions, let alone on super mega death hardcore you won't win mode. Like fuck that. It was hard enough to win on easy mode on the story mode missions, which I eventually did. But I think that the rubber banding in fzero gx was ungodly in story mode. Fuck that mode.
GameXplain = F Zero 99 is Incrible⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
he only way to get a new F Zero game is for people to play it
I like f zero 99 and im hoping for a GX remaster or port for the switch. New game maybe another 10 or 20 years lmao
F-zero MaxVel DID have a Captain Falcon. A descendant of him at least: Kent Akechi driving the Falcon MK-2. Looks like someone didn't played the game at all~😏
I one hundred percent agree.
I like your raw and honest style. Nintendo ecelebs are overly sugary and circle jerky
I just picked up fzero gx because of this video. After like 50 tries I beat the final boss(chapter 2) So I guess I’ve attained fzero god status?
Talk to me if you have unlocked Phoenix by playing GX story mode
Goddamn my boy, this is or borderline is video game investigating journalism haha pretty cool. Breaking down the whole life of f-zero for the fuck of it haha. Keep at it my boy 😂
Like i am not an F-Zero fan. Mostly because im shit at racing games. But goddamn if F-Zero fans aren't the most screwed over fandom by Nintendo.
i’m hoping, and so many others are hoping, that they all pull a Tetris 99 and keep it up. Please, please, FZero fans, keep playing this. Let Nintendo know. It’s the only way to let them know we want another FZero game. play this, and if you have Nintendo switch online, or the expansion pack, or both, play FZero, and FZero X. Please. Let them know we want another game.
Bring it back full 3d
When you were talking about stupid gimmicks, how did you miss the insanity that is the e-Reader cards for GP Legend in Japan? Thankfully there has been a romhack made that adds all the exclusive tracks and content into the game.
Speaking of fan projects, there is also the English translation patch for F-Zero Climax, along with F-Zero Final for the SNES that adds in the available Satellaview cars and tracks into the game. Also shout outs to Nintendon't and the other unofficial ways to play F-Zero AX.
When I was editing the video down to keep things more concise, it didn't end up making the final cut. I didn't have much to say about it besides one or two off hand comments.
I could've swore when I looked it up that they made the e-reader content in the USA/EU versions of the game unlockable somehow since E-reader support got cut entirely, but I'm not too familiar.
@@HyperCharge I would have discussed the absurdity of the card distribution. Some of those cards were quite limited and it took several years for them to be backed up digitally. Still, a neat tidbit for those wanting to know.