Frosty Burr

I just want to get a completed Star Fox Adventure where Krystal is playable! I just want Krystal to get the respect she deserves! It’s not much to ask for. It’s not. I’m still waiting for the day Nintendo finally finally gives us Dinosaur Planet like how Rare originally wanted…

I’ve been playing Starfield for the past week and have been enjoying it but it got me thinking about Elder Scrolls 6. We know nothing on where or when it takes place nor do we have any concepts of a story if it has one at all. What we do know is that past games have taken place in Morrowind, Cyrodil, and Skyrim. My assumption is that we won’t be returning to these specific places. As for ESO, I’m not ruling out the locations found in that mmo.

Which brings me to my thought. There’s a large area of water between Summerset and Hammerfell and, from what we know of those locations in Skyrim, those two hate each other. Like a lot! Which reminds me of what went down between nations who hated each other between 1650s-1730s.

PIRATES!

After browsing through space ship customization in Starfield I was gripped by the thought of “they should do this for sail boats in the next Elder Scrolls game” and my mind blew off with that. It’s my belief that Bethesda takes a look at their previous game and implement what they liked best and what they want to improve on in the next game. Fallout 4 had settlements which moved on to become bases in Starfield. Skyrim had skills with perk level up system and Fallout 4 made an entire chart of perks to replace it. Which then followed into Starfield under specific scenario groups. It’s likely everything in Starfield will be brought over to ES6 with mild changes to fit the fantasy mood.

One of my hopes is the story starts out with you on your way to the hangman noose because that’s what they did with Pirates back then… mostly, other executions were available but hanging was the most known. Anyway, player character sets up creation at the noose, the rope gets tied around them and something happens to save your life. After that you flee your captors and get options on who to become a privateer for. Because that’s how old piracy went down. I would have the choices be Aldmeri Dominion, Hammerfell Alliance, and Breton Kingdom be the prime choices for privateering. There could also be an option to be independent pirate if you want to go full criminal scum paying fees in blood.

Now with this being a pirate game, would guns play a major role here? Personally I’d say no. We have wizards throwing fireballs and crossbows. Guns would just be unnecessary. Besides, the Elder Scrolls could benefit from having something that separates it from every other fantasy out there. Pirates wielding magic and crossbows sounds like something that should be common fantasy yet we don’t see it often. Pirates always have guns. Always. Let’s not do it this time.

Remember how Oblivion had underwater combat and they took it out in Skyrim? Yes, I’m bitter about that, I’m an argonian player GIVE ME MY DEEP SEA FIGHTING! It’ll be awesome to battle ocean monsters in the water… how deep do you think we can go? Would we be going subnautica on this and set up deep sea bases or find sunken treasure ships protected by weresharks? There’s a whole new can of terror and intrigue on that train to ponder… maybe as dlc.

Speaking of trains to ponder, what side quests would go well with this? Mage guild? Nah, a research society trying to gather clues from ancient sunken civilizations like Atlantis would work better! Dark brotherhood might be active as would the thieves guild. However I think they’ll have a complete overhaul on methods in their quests. Thieves guild could become the independent pirate quest line. Ah and we always have a fighters guild type of quest line but I’m drawing a blank. Can’t have ideas for everything all the time.

Then you have daedra and (potentially) aedra quest. Aedra quests were few in Skyrim and Oblivion had an entire Knights of the Nine dlc. I personally wish they bring back aedra based side quests that can rival the daedra quests everyone is familiar with.

Based on irl moment

With their GameCube selection on the Nintendo online package. There is a significant short amount of games they put on it when I know for a fact they have more because I had a GameCube with a library of games. I know what games I played and which ones were Nintendo exclusive. Sure luigi’s mansion, wario world, and wind waker are on there but that’s not even a fraction of what I played when I had the console.

I do recognize several of the games I played were third party but there were still plenty of first party games. Custom Robo, for instance, is owned by Nintendo and featured the ability to customize battle robots that fought in an arena. If you remember Meda-Bots, I would say it’s similar to that but more legally distinct enough to avoid japan’s aggressive copyright laws. Last I checked, there has not been a custom robo game since that GameCube game which makes it a dead franchise waiting for resurrection. I believe custom robo would do very well with online multiplayer provided by Nintendo and could turn a profit off those who are tired of splatoon or call of duty clones. Third person robot arena action sounds epic for modern age gaming.

Of course I also have to mention Star Fox Adventure along with Star Fox Assault. With the recent inclusion of Fox McCloud in the Mario Galaxy movie (for some bizarre reason) it is a rather cruel pull to not have anything Star Fox related soon. I personally want Adventure remade because the original was rushed thanks to Microsoft swiping Rare away from Nintendo. Think we deserve a real fully complete release of Dinosaur Planet. Perhaps making Krystal the main character? Eh, maybe asking for too much there but I can dream. Anyway, either we get a Star Fox game soon (which would most likely be a remake of the first Star Fox game AGAIN) or they’ll plop one of the two GameCube games on the online subscription service. That’s assuming they’re not going to be corpo dicks and leave us with nothing. Rude.

Then there’s the hated Twilight Princess and when I say hated I mean Nintendo really did not want this one to do well. Limited marketing, developed at the end of the GameCube era, selling it on wii, and a cheap target practice game to confuse parents with. Yeah they were intentionally trying to Sabotage this one or just didn’t know what they were doing. People were not kind with Wind Waker and Twilight Princess was Nintendo answer to the people wanting realistic legend of Zelda. Nowadays people love Wind Waker and Nintendo seems to be wanting twilight princess quietly swept under the rug. Skyward Sword was released as a switch game and I’ve yet to see anyone comment something remotely positive about that one. They’ll likely never release Twilight Princess as a switch game but they can at least have the courtesy of putting it in the corner of the subscription service for those of us who enjoyed it.

Oh and Kirby Air ride. I personally do not care for that game. I quite disliked it when it was on GameCube. But are we really going to ignore it after having its sequel released? Probably but the option to have the first one would be nice. It’s not begging like F-Zero has been so I guess this one is fine staying out.

But one game that won’t stay quiet outside is Super Smash Bros Melee. Nintendo has gone on rampages trying to shut down melee tournaments, charities, and even uh whatever they call the thing you do to play Nintendo games on a personal computer. It’s clear to see melee has a much larger fan base than any of the sequels. Add in the same multiplayer from ultimate and Nintendo can probably bank off of melee fans. It’s such a simple suggestion that yield large profits, why wouldn’t they do it?

We have Mario tennis. We have Mario football. What we don’t have is Mario baseball! Yes baseball! The game where you cause chaos by swinging a stick that may or may not hit the ball being thrown at you. Mario sports are always whacky and insane with everyone powered up on not steroids unless steroids make you burst into flames now. Don’t know about you, but I would consult a doctor about that… if you can afford one. Regardless, all Mario sports are more fun than real sports primarily because we don’t have to go outside and touch dirty grass. Nintendo should complete the set and bring Superstar Baseball online. And/or release a Super Mario Sports collection like they did with Super Mario 3D All Stars. Speaking of which, WHERE IN BLAZES IS SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE? That’s one of the 3 3D all stars, Nintendo, did you forget about it? 64 in online. Galaxy is sold as a switch game. So where is Sunshine?

Right, let me cool off a bit as some animals cross by… ooooh, Animal Crossing debuted on the Nintendo GameCube. Sure we have new horizons on switch with switch service, but the original on GameCube has a much different flavor to it. For one, the villagers are absolute asshats that make you want to axe them. If you’re tired of the beach resort and super friendly npcs then you’ll definitely enjoy a visit to middle of bumfuck nowhere where the hills are as billy as the residents. Just keep in mind that you’ll be more in debt to that raccoon.

Hey did you know Metroid Prime was on the GameCube? Yes, all 3 of them… I think, I know the first two were at least. Well I won’t be interested in Metroid but that’s no reason anyone else should be denied it. Metroid Prime has waited decades for its 4th game and it’s finally out on the switch after a remake of the first prime game. Which begs the question: what about the other two primes? Prime 2 and Prime 3 are missing from the switch. Are they remaking them much like the first Prime? Hopefully that doesn’t take another two decades. Switch would be long gone if it was that long. So if they won’t remake them, they should port them to the online service. Let people have the full story! How rude it is to force people to go from the start of the story and drag them to the end with nothing in between! Tragic. Nintendo needs to fix this.

On the other side; we have all the Pikmin games out as switch games. I am pleased with that. Don’t know if they’ll drop Pikmin 1 and 2 off on the subscription service but they don’t need to. If they want to they can. But why would they? To get sales on a game they’re already selling on shelves? It’s weird. It’s stupid. It’s possibly something Nintendo is going to do. Corpos have such smooth brains, they’re lucky they stay in their heads.

Last one I can think of is Donkey Konga. There was a total of 3 maybe 4 on GameCube. They all used that weird bongo controller. No idea how they’d configure switch controls with that! They can certainly make an attempt. This one might be lost for good. They’ll have to remake the whole game to fix those controls. Or maybe they already have konga set for regular GameCube controls and my brain slipped out because of how smooth it is. Idk, I’m not much of a donkey kong fan. Is konga something worth playing? Maybe I’d try if it somehow works on Nintendo switch.

One more thing that’s not GameCube!

Mystical Ninja staring Goemon. It was a Nintendo 64 game created by Konami. I remember enjoying it quite a bit waaay back in the day. Can Konami please give Nintendo permission to showcase it on Nintendo online? If not, can Konami remake it for modern consoles? It was good fun and I’d like to relive that time. Please?

Storm atronatch seem to stay afloat even after death.