Excite

Macawmoses · April 21, 2009, 11:04:21 PM

The Excite series debuted as one of Nintendo's earlier franchises, then it lay dormant for many years, before becoming a proudly Wii series.

It's also seen a number of changes - be it from bike, to truck, to crazy morphing animal vehicle things. The dynamic has changed from a linear racer to a full adventure racing title.

To me, Excite will always be Excite Bike. I'd like to see a return ala MegaMan 9 - be it on WiiWare or the DS as a robust title. Am I the only one? Are do you guys like the erratic development the new titles have? (As a note, I love them...they're just not Excite to me).

Doodle · May 07, 2009, 06:21:30 AM

Another original styled Excitebike would be awesome. Selling it on the DSi Shop Channel would be good, the DSi needs some good WiiWare games.
The closest we've gotten to that is BS Mario Excitebike.

Macawmoses · May 09, 2009, 01:58:16 PM

Quote from: DOODLEboy99 on May 07, 2009, 06:21:30 AM
Another original styled Excitebike would be awesome. Selling it on the DSi Shop Channel would be good, the DSi needs some good WiiWare games.
The closest we've gotten to that is BS Mario Excitebike.

Yeah, I agree. I can't imagine the port being hard to do, but it would definitely sell.

Tupin · June 14, 2009, 02:35:21 PM

I like the series, and I recently got the new game for Wii which is why I'm bumping this thread.

Excitebots was a failure, it only sold 13,000 games. Didn't expect much from it, I never saw an ad for it, online or off.

Macawmoses · June 14, 2009, 02:42:01 PM

Quote from: Tupin on June 14, 2009, 02:35:21 PM
I like the series, and I recently got the new game for Wii which is why I'm bumping this thread.

Excitebots was a failure, it only sold 13,000 games. Didn't expect much from it, I never saw an ad for it, online or off.

Really? My email was spammed by Nintendo with Excitebots promos, as well as seeing some posters and stuff.

Tupin · June 14, 2009, 02:44:44 PM

Quote from: Macbeth on June 14, 2009, 02:42:01 PM
Really? My email was spammed by Nintendo with Excitebots promos, as well as seeing some posters and stuff.

Nintendo usually puts out TV ads, and I never saw one for this game.

Plus, no one really talked about it, and Nintendo seems to rely a lot on word of mouth advertising.

Macawmoses · June 14, 2009, 02:46:47 PM

There was a lot of all of that, except maybe TV ads. Publications, for instance, have been raving and stores pushing the title.

Lotos · June 14, 2009, 06:10:31 PM

Yeah, the ExciteBots is a little ridiculous in my own opinion. I remember playing ExciteBike in Animal Crossing. I thought it was a really fun game, that and Balloon Fight.

chaosgear · July 09, 2009, 11:40:52 AM

ive never played any excite game ever, but i looked at excitebots on nintendo power and it looked pretty fun. then i looked at a clip on gamespot and read a review and it looked even better. should i not get it or something?