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Published: 2014-04-21 10:47:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 4113; Favourites: 128; Downloads: 37
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I have been working on this one all the time for the last few days. A picture of one of the most famous videogame foxes, you do know him too! Star Fox 64 (Lylatwars in Europe) is still an epic game and is the base for his fame.So this picture was made for coming with an article I am writing to Germany's biggest Nintendo magazine about how Nintendo is too much neglecting some of their best franchises, as Star Fox is one of them. Sure, the polished up Star Fox 64 3D on the 3DS still catches the epicness of it's origin, but hell, with a console like the Wii U they could make a game, that would easily increase the selling of the console. The lack of good games and the beloved franchises is a major reason why the system isn't selling well. It's genious, creative hardware, made with highest quality, I love the console, but look at the number and the titles having come out for it since it was released in 2012!!! Very very poor. No Star Fox, no real Mario Game, no Zelda, no F-Zero, Smash Bros. is taking forever, and............. you know what I mean. AT LEAST there will finally be a Mario Kart, more than 1 1/2 years after release. Do you remember all the other consoles? They had a Mario Kart as one of the starting titles. WTF? Is Nintendo getting lazy or just ignorant?
Oh well, as I will be writing a quite long article, this one here could get just as well, but that wouldn't be the smart idea. Anyway, if you are gamers too and have something to say on the matter, I would really like to know your thoughts
Also, I honestly dislike his modern squirrel-look as he's having since Smash Bros. Brawl. Sure I made him look truely fox-like and also a little more adult. Today he's having a bigger head than ever with Nintendo, what's up with those people?
(and just in case you are wondering about this kinda weird "half shot": it's supposed to work with the magazines layout, being placed on the right side of the page, so that he's only shown by half - comes more interesting than a full shot and saves a lot of space on a magazine's page, since they have only limited space for such things)
Image made April 2014
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Comments: 29
Wow, Fox McCloud this time? One more badass pic, You rock totally, that looks so cool. You're a genius!
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Thank you much! As a specialist for fox characters, I combined my way of drawing them with his original design. Nintendo usually messes up one or several aspects of his looks in the different versions they usually come up with. What I dislike most about his current official look are his stupid squirrel ears, and in SSB 4 additionally the weird, oversized red boots.
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You are quite welcome and I rather agree. Assault is still my favorite rendition of Fox.
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Really? I mean, he doesn't look bad there. They made him well, but made one major mistake: His muzzle looks absolutely awful, looking like a damned plush. For me the best model of him is Star Fox Adventures, couldn't look seriously better - but I am talking about the ingame model, the render model on the package and other promotion pictures doesn't look so well. But in both games, he at least still got actual ears.
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His muzzle looks good to me, but his Adventures one rocks too.
Command's one sucks to me though. ^^
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Indeed, it's a weird comic look, and his head looks damned stretched...... The game anyway contains lots of cheap, awkward pictures in my opinion. All characters looked really nasty in the ingame drawings.
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The crappy (IMHO) story and dialogue did not help much either.
The best things about that game to me were and are Lucy Hare, Amanda Toad, and Marcus McCloud. ^^
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Yes, it seemed like a big franchise was just shrunken down to the level that small console had to offer. And since that was the time where Nintendo started experimenting with their new technologies, where every god damned game needed to have touchscreen controls, that didn't do the game a favor either. Those touchscreen controls work, but it's a weird feeling while playing. Not a really bad game, but why do they passionatedly stay below the qualities and good decisions of Star Fox 64?
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Star Fox Zero looks really good
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Honestly, I am a HUGE fan of the franchise, but I have mixed feelings about what was shown. Graphics are good, but not amazing. Gameplay seems nice, but reminds me of Assault, what wasn't the real deal. Presentation: Nothing shown. You have seen basically nothing but a few regular ingame levels. No cut scenes, no models of the characters, no intro sequence. I am sure it will not be a bad game, but 1) I don't assume it will be better than 64 and 2) it is uncertain what we will get in general. I am fearing, there will be almost no presentation (means, no catching sequences and such). You will jump into the game, play through, and that's it. My fear is, it will be forgettable. What Star Fox 64 was not at all.
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Awesome and I do agree with ya. In order for the Wii U to sell, Nintendo needs to start bringing back some of their beloved franchises that we haven't seen in a while to help the system sells. True, the Wii U is a great system. But it needs more games that are worth playing from. At least with Starfox, we're finally getting a new entry on the Wii U coming out next year and from the looks of it, they are making a really big deal out of it along with the new Zelda game.
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From the looks of it? Have you seen any screenshots already? Because it has a very early state of development. But since Shogeru Mijamoto himself is supervising the development, I am sure we will get the best experience since Star Fox 64. In the ideal case, it will become the best of the series. Hard to achieve that goal, but it's well possible
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I'm aware and he's making a big deal out of it. We'd be lucky if we hear something new on it in a duture Direct probably by the end of this year. But surely we'll hear more on this game next year.
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there was a time when nintendo was at the forefront of technological progress in gaming. The original SNES Star Fox was at the vanguard of that (3-d graphics on a system that shouldn't be able to produce them) alongside F-Zero (60fps which outperforms many modern games). Squaresoft was able to produce music out of that system the likes of which wouldn't be heard again until two generations of consoles later. In Japan, a module for the SNES linked to an early DLC system known as "Stellaview", which ran for many years and pioneered much of the technology Dreamcast would later be hailed for... Xbox with its constant connectivity owes Nintendo for doing the hard work of figuring out the nuts and bolts of the technology.
Fox McCloud, once secretly an avatar of Inari, fox-god of success in agriculture and industry, was perhaps the best symbol and spiritual offering to that technological advancement. His first game, with its many arches corresponding to the gateways of a Japanese temple, was a virtual shrine to Inari.
His decline, beginning with the withholding of Star Fox 2, (out of fear it put Lylat Wars to shame) and the awful outing in Star Fox Adventures (out of a prudish fear a loincloth-clad Krystal would have been too sexual if allowed to star in her own game), is symbolic of nintendo's decline. Nintendo can trick themselves into thinking gimmicks like the wiimote are progress, but they are not. Just as they seem to trick themselves into thinking they are doing justice for their game franchises, but are not doing that either. Fox is the very embodyment of technology taking steps beyond the cutting-edge... and he has been abandoned along with the spirit of innovation he represents.
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Wow, that was a heavy message, from someone who seemingly knows a freaking lot of videogames and their history. And nothing of what you said I have to argue with, so Amen to that
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Thanks. I... don't even know where that all came from. It was just spontaneous. I only regret not doing it someplace where other people might actually read it.
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Hey, very nice. looks like it would fit as part of a edge of a desktop wallpaper or something, as well. Wow, your skills have gone up a few notches while I was off of DA!
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You were off of DA? Why would you do so? :b
Anyway, I wouldn't say those are improved skills, it was just that I was highly motivated for that, the motive is exactly what I am best at and also, pose and view are pretty simple, that's why it came out optimal =} And he was drawn as an artwork for a gaming magazine, being intended for being displayed at the right page side, so yeah, it would also work as a computer wallpaper =] But I'd say it would need some cool background for that.
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Ahh, that explains the pose, because that would fit quite nicely in a magazine.
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Hold on a second... ... HOW COULD IGNORE THIS?? I am disappointed of myself for not looking at this earlier... For some unknown reason I did not pay the attention that you did this. sigh...
Well I'm not into this kind of thing about what Nintendo is screwing around with, but when I think about this now it upset me for what they are doing.
I remember in my childhood I used to play Star Fox on SNES sometimes, I can't remember if I played Star Fox 64 on the N64, but I know I played it on the Wii since I had a "classic" controller for older games. I even tried to make a lego version of the Airwing before 
I have also played both of them on an emulator before, + I have a Logitech Rumble Gamepad F510 for PC too, which pretty much work with any emulators and games with configurable keys/gamepad support. But since after the wipe on my main harddrive I haven't been bothered to try to get the emulators properly working again with the games yet.
I say; I am very impressed about how you did this one if compared to your work of "Krystal", which was made with your usual drawing style if I could describe it like that. Don't get me wrong, that one still looks awesome for me anyways, this one won't change my mind about it
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Well, this image here was done with different purpose than the Krystal image, for sure to make it perfectly fit on a page. I also think this here looks a little better, I believe that's because of Krystal's plain white face structure, that looks odd in that drawing, while Fox offers fur structures I could work with.
Sure my report will be in German, it will basically be about, that Nintendo seems to be getting a little lazy with countless remakes and lacking new games, my special example there is Star Fox, since Star Fox 64 the quality of the series went constantly down, and for so many years now, there hasn't been a new game. No good.
If you'd like, I can later send you a photo through e-mail as the magazine will be out. I am also curios as hell how this is going to be looking then
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Yeah, I'd like to have that through e-mail, you got my address so.
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Personally, there hasn't really ever been an official art design for Star Fox that I felt truly did the characters justice. But I think your style, along with a few other people's that I've seen really do them justice.
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Thanks much =] Though I think it gets less a challenge over time since I'd say Nintendo is making his style worse. Having a way too large head and squirrel ears >___>
Also, I don't know if you know that original little SF64 comic that was released back there, while it was basically drawn well, the characters had such a horrible design, lead by the badness of Fox's one. I guess I felt there needed to be done some justice for him, seeing so many bad versions of him and stuff...
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