Could Elite 4 Be Headed To WiiWare?

I don't think it's likely to happen.

i hope so it would be pretty kool.

Never heard of it. But I like Duke so it might be good.

Lets hope thats all I can say.

What the hell is Elite? A description of the series would have been nice

It's my understanding that previous frontier games have doubled as tech demos for Elite IV.

Virus -> 3D Terrains (in FFE)
Roller Coaster Tycoon -> massive population modelling
Outsider -> Free Roaming worlds
Wallace & Gromit -> ???? paying the bills i guess

so er... my point is the vision for Elite IV is way to ambitious to distribute on wiiware etc.

This game must have been popular overseas because I was a big Commodore 64 nut and I had never heard of this game until today.

I was a big nut
At least there's still a few honest people on the internet.
And this news would've been a little more exciting if it wasn't a game nobody's ever heard of...

We are going to be able to take on the Elite 4 from Pokemon... SWEET... I hope Gary is the Champ so I can kick his butt once again SARCASM

Wait, so it's not about the final battles in Pokemon? Aw man. In that case, goodbye.

What in the world is Elite 4?

Unlikely to hit the Wii, it's more the sort of game they'll want too graphically over-engineer to the point where it looks really, really great but plays like a ball and cup with a string attaching them.

I played Frontier: Elite II on the Amiga, I loved that game... Still play it from time to time. I'd love to see it come again, but I'm not holding my breath for a WiiWare version.

Elite is the first 3d space sand box game.
You are given a space ship and the goal is to gain money and honours until your rank is Elite. The way you do this is to trade and take missions. The places you go and the way you trade is up to you.

Elite IV should :
Keep the spaceships in space like the original.
The flight and fighting controls should be different for different spec ships.
The exterior visuals should also change from wireframe, to solid, to fully textured.
The player should be able to create missions.

I used to have the Speccy Version of Elite, but as I remember there had been a NES version too (hmmmm could they try and ship it on VC then release the wiiware game)

I also had Frontier (elite 2) on my Amiga, I really hope that if this finally gets released as wiiware it is made as a massive online space trading game possibly with wiiconnect24 functionality. which would make a wiiware version (if this went multiplatform) a must buy.

Sounds cool. I can see this happening aswell since Frontier's LostWinds sold excellent-ly on WiiWare.

Used to play the original Elite on a BBC computer back in 1984/85 while at school.
A great game!!
Never played any the others though.
Elite 4 could well be worth a look.

Thank you Valan. Damo, when I'm reading an article about a game, it may sound lazy but I expect to read about what the game is (in addition to the article's point) in case I don't know it, rather than having to go to another site.

I discussed this with a few fellow Kotakuites a few weeks ago, and taking as concept the controls for our shiop from Metroi dPrime 3, I think a remix version of Elite would work really really well with Wii Controls. Someone shoudl really hit the foruns for Frontier developemtns and just ASK them to do it, its almost criminal if they dont!

I´d rather see a fullscale Elite 4 as a complete retail game. But of course a WiiWare Elite 4 would make me rejoice, Elite is one of the best games ever.

All I can say is Wow!!! I followed the development of Frontier: Elite II for years and when it finally came out was so impressed. No game has come close to what that title acomplished. The whole galaxy in a 3 1/2 disk!!!!

Still, it seems Elite 4 could be too big a game for wiware, but I hope they release it for the Wii, and if they don't, at least for the mac...

Now that we have C64 games on the VC, why not add Amiga games starting with Frontier?

BTW, I enjoyed Frontier more than the original Elite, and the way you could land and explore any planet was excellent.

Considering you were a Commodore fan Corbie and the fact that both Elite and it's sequel appeared on your system, you must have been sleeping under a rock fella

Quite simply, Elite was a 'revolutionary' 3D space trading game. Revolutionary in the fact that the whole game would sit in around 22K of the available system memory of a BBC B (and maybe also in the fact that it used wireframe 3D) As a game it was yawn-tastic and frustrating to say the least but like certain games to us console fanboys, the game just seems to have this reputation that makes people think it's some sort of god of games to home computer owners.

The sequels fell by the wayside (I played Elite, Elite II and Arc Elite) simply because most people realised the gameplay mechanics were quite frankly really boring and limited and although there were some 'adjustments', overall I'd rate the whole experience as one that only a select few would appreciate. Particularly to those who have the patience of a saint and the find watching paint dry exciting.

If you really want to know what it's about, you could always download an emulator or buy a BBC B and about 500 game for £5 (or something like that) from ebay.