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Posted: May 15th 2009 2:33PM (Unverified) said

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Could have been a Pilotwings game, that was the rumor going around for a while. Oh Factor 5, you alone could have convinced me to buy a Wii if that was the case.

Pilotwings 64=greatest flight sim ever.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 3:12PM butaneko said

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Only if it made heavy use of Mode 7
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Posted: May 15th 2009 3:16PM Anticrawl said

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Pilotwings for the N64 was awesome, I never did any of the challenges really. I just liked flying around, trying to land on stuff and blowing up stuff to find the easter eggs.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 2:34PM (Unverified) said

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Free Radical...
Factor 5...
Oh Sony, how many studios are your exclusives going to kill?
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Posted: May 15th 2009 2:47PM (Unverified) said

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Right, because Sony made them release terrible games. It totally wasn't the fault of the people actually making them.

Yeah, go to hell Sony.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 2:50PM (Unverified) said

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Disclosure: I am not blaming Sony per se, just pointing out a tragedy. :(
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Posted: May 15th 2009 3:10PM (Unverified) said

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Was it Factor 5 who said that they would never work on a Wii game because of the lack of graphics power?

Shame they went for "GRAPHICS OMG" than coming up with better gameplay. Narrow minded view, taint it? :(
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Posted: May 15th 2009 3:17PM (Unverified) said

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I'm an idiot. Obviously they were working on a Wii game...

So which developer was it who said that?? Im sure shortly after that statement they began to go down.

Bah, brain dieing.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 3:21PM (Unverified) said

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Oh no, it was them alright. Then they made a good looking PS3 game. Good looks, but sadly almost everything else about the game sucked...
After this they realized that graphics aren't everything so they wanted to give the Wii a chance.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 4:28PM (Unverified) said

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"Free Radical...
Factor 5...
Oh Sony, how many studios are your exclusives going to kill?"

Funny thing is though, tmac, had the above statement been about Nintendo, not only would you had been agreeing with it, it would probably been you actually stating it.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 4:53PM Paviel said

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Eluno:

I think "disclosure" is appropriate in this case, since you are in fact disclosing a fact. Nevertheless, I think the word you were searching for is "disclaimer."
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Posted: May 15th 2009 2:36PM DeepFriedSushi said

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anyone who put all their eggs into one basket(sony) pretty much deserves to get screwed.

whats awesome is factor5 which could have stayed with nintendo and probably would have been massively successful as a result.

free radical won dev lottery and got bought out by crytek and now are working on stuff that they always wanted to.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 9:02PM (Unverified) said

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You contradict yourself in there. You're suggesting Factor 5 put all of their eggs in one basket and get screwed.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 3:13PM Anticrawl said

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Nuts & Bolts is great, I just wish they would have focused on expanding the old school platforming rather than the vehicle stuff.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 3:18PM DBuckEye said

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I think I would have liked Nuts and Bolts more if it was a new IP, but just because it was Banjo, I felt they screwed up the formula. It's the same thing with Star Fox Adventures or the 2007 Transformers movies or even the Simpsons Movie.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 4:07PM (Unverified) said

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^ I'd buy it.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 3:05PM MarkezJM said

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Neat model, where are the bums and weirdos that hang out in front though?
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Posted: May 15th 2009 4:15PM (Unverified) said

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Posted: May 15th 2009 8:27PM MarkezJM said

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I'm assuming you've seen the documentary on those folks? Pretty good stuff.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 3:59PM Ryudo said

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Oh man if this was Pilotwings I am going to cry,I have been wanting an update to that game since N64 ,IF this is Pilotwings PLEAAAAAAAAASE F5 Germany pick this up and finish it.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 4:13PM (Unverified) said

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I really think it was R, or something very close. Factor 5 was known to have worked on a Pilotwings for the Gamecube but that project got shitcanned for some reason. Seeing these images, I can only imagine that's the kind of game this was going to be, if not an actual Pilotwings-branded game. =(
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Posted: May 15th 2009 4:14PM (Unverified) said

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They're not working on anything anymore, at least not the US office. They got shut down.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 5:01PM Mr Khan said

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It was Achim Moller, of the surviving Factor 5 Germany, who confirmed that an unannounced Wii project was in development.

Aside from the fact that, if it were Pilotwings, that would be in cooperation with Nintendo. Highly doubtful that such a project would be canceled, since it would be more promising on the financial front
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Posted: May 15th 2009 7:42PM (Unverified) said

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Hmmm... I recommend everyone read the link to unseen64 above. It sources a really interesting blog with alot of this information from March 31st. That blog (GoneisGone) states that there are still 2 Wii games in development by factor 5 Germany, and that one of them allows you to go (read fly) all around the world to major cities, including London (see Big Ben pic above).

Sooo... this makes me think that maybe we will see the light of Day on Pilotwings Wii... I suppose it's possible that the blog has wrong/outdated info though. It's just that they seem to have really unique insight on the history of the game and why it Factor 5 actually moved it from GCN to Wii development.

A new Pilotwings would be dope! Despite very mixed reviews, Hudson's launch-window wii title Wing Isalnd actually satisfies alot of PilotWings fans urges and is a great game for its now sub-$20 budget price.
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Posted: May 15th 2009 8:32PM (Unverified) said

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If only they could make a Wii version of Rogue Squadron. They'd be able to start up business again from just that one game
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