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Posted: May 19th 2008 7:15PM OMGITSJAD said

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OK, Let's go!
LEEEERRRROOOOYYYY JENKINS!

Posted: May 19th 2008 7:24PM Wraith242 said

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Holy crap i just now watched leroy jenkins! FREAKING HILARIOUS!! But anyway i couldnt agree more nintendo needs a good MMO.

Posted: May 19th 2008 7:29PM Mr Khan said

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Nintendo could be the one to do it. The Secret to WoW's success, aside from a few other factors, is the fact that it is a technically undemanding game, and is incredibly addictive

Nintendo has both of those in the Wii. Plus Pointer capabilities that could rival any PC MMO

However, on the opposite side, it's Nintendo. They haven't even given us Friended free chat on Wii yet (though often enough on DS), a full-on MMO could just be too contrary to whatever twisted online strategy they're trying to stick to

Posted: May 19th 2008 8:09PM OMGITSJAD said

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That's what I don't get.
Nintendo gave MP:H voice chat and AC:WW text chat(minor censors though) and it is great.
Heck, I probably wouldn't be called TheOverlord#2 if it wasn't for full text chat in AC:WW.
I'll be mad if AC:Wii doesn't have text chat or voice chat.(Not meaning "Hey!" or "Look at my flowers!")

That and the apocalypse didn't come early like Nintendo speculates!
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Posted: May 19th 2008 7:43PM Gun Barrier said

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if Nintendo were to ever make an mmo, it would either be a new IP or pokemon. Theres no way animal crossing would ever work, or be interesting.

Posted: May 19th 2008 8:35PM Haohmaru said

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Age of Zelda: Hyrulian Adventures

City of Plumbers (With spinoff, City of Koopas)

World of Fire Emblem

>.> Maybe not the first two.
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Posted: May 20th 2008 4:19PM Mr Khan said

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The latter one would be hard, too, considering the great discontinuity between pairs of Fire Emblems (1,3,11-2-4,5-6,7-8-9,10)

Although if you had your own character from one of the basic sets of units, then could team up with other units to a sort of RTS-style battle, choosing which of the listed continuities you could go to to fight evil, or a PvP thing

That actually sounds like a good idea
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Posted: May 19th 2008 7:55PM (Unverified) said

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Am I the only one who found the image in this article a real riot?

-no monthly fee!
-hi res graphics!
-INCREDIBLE NPC AI!

Outside sounds like a smash hit.

Posted: May 19th 2008 9:18PM DonaldMick said

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As someone who's been playing Outside for what seems like almost 24 years, I can tell you that the grinding is HELL.

Maybe I should re-roll for more charisma and not choose the "Fat guy" body type.
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Posted: May 19th 2008 10:19PM (Unverified) said

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Yeah, all guys seem to forget charisma's EXTREMELY essential for the 'relationship' quest chain. You need a minimum of at least 25 charisma if you want access.

But on the opposite end of the spectrum, you could just sacrifice intelligence and jack up agility for a good shot at the professional athlete class. Makes getting through levels 14-30 a freaking breeze.
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Posted: May 20th 2008 4:35PM Snicker the Cat said

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You're all over looking things: Nintendo SUCKS with servers, seen as in BRAWL.

Nintendo would NEVER want people to play against people they don't know, I mean they DO, but not in any way use communication, which is essential for a MMO. So, it would be like playing an online game, with no communication

Posted: May 19th 2008 9:14PM (Unverified) said

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Ooh, don't know about Nintendo "sucking with servers," Patrick -- Mario Kart runs beautifully.

Must agree with you about the communication point, though. An MMO seems to go against most of Nintendo's current approach to online gaming.
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Posted: May 19th 2008 8:39PM (Unverified) said

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For nintendo to do a proper MMO they need too
#1. Scrap friend Codes
#2. Learn how to run a dedicated server
#3. Implement communication
#4. Grow some balls.

Posted: May 20th 2008 1:04AM hvnlysoldr said

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Pokemon MMO. It would rule the world.

Posted: May 20th 2008 7:00AM (Unverified) said

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I don't know... When it comes to the idea of MMOs, Nintendo is a real dark horse for sure. But that would also be it's strength - it would take other gamers by surprise. I think an MMO based off of Kingdom Hearts could do really well - and being Square-Enix, they already have experience with MMOs. It could be the thing to look for.

Posted: May 20th 2008 11:50AM (Unverified) said

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Geez!
I'm discussing about that in a brazillian forum!
Look at the email i sent to nintendo (like its going to work though.)

"My name is David, and I'm from Brazil.

I miss so much a better interaction with other wii's owners, like a chat room to exchange wii codes, or direct contact through Check mii out channel.

I was wandering, since there is a fever in that kind of game, in you make a massive online world for people to use their Mii's as themselves. To chat, to organize events, just like World of Warcraft, but with no fighting. A simple world. If you evolve the idea, you can make people's houses , hidden wii points in the world, etc.

I know of the techical problem of Wii doesnt have enough space inside it. And probably that idea of mine would occupy a lot of blocks, each modification in the world, or stuff like that. I don't know techincal issues.

Anyway, i really miss a good interaction center in wii's online service. Really do. And what better way to do that than with the miis?


Thanks for your attenttion."

Posted: May 20th 2008 12:06PM (Unverified) said

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Geez!
I'm discussing about that in a brazillian forum!
Look at the email i sent to nintendo (like its going to work though.)

"My name is David, and I'm from Brazil.

I miss so much a better interaction with other wii's owners, like a chat room to exchange wii codes, or direct contact through Check mii out channel.

I was wandering, since there is a fever in that kind of game, in you make a massive online world for people to use their Mii's as themselves. To chat, to organize events, just like World of Warcraft, but with no fighting. A simple world. If you evolve the idea, you can make people's houses , hidden wii points in the world, etc.

I know of the techical problem of Wii doesnt have enough space inside it. And probably that idea of mine would occupy a lot of blocks, each modification in the world, or stuff like that. I don't know techincal issues.

Anyway, i really miss a good interaction center in wii's online service. Really do. And what better way to do that than with the miis?


Thanks for your attenttion."

Posted: May 20th 2008 2:48PM GameGoal said

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I would like to see a MMO come to the WiiWare line up. I would be a great addition. You may be thinking 512MB????? But it stream from the Nintendo Wifi Server and have a 300 blocks out of the memory for caching purposes so it doesn't lag (as much) because its loading two things. I hope that someone does this idea. If nintendo would let them the server they would be using for streaming could be paid by the ads that they put in the game. I think it would be a great idea but first they will probably bring a disk based MMO to the wii first!

Posted: May 20th 2008 4:23PM Mr Khan said

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The on-board memory would just limit it to being console-side-saved, like the old PSO games were, where your character data, item data, etc, were all stored right on your Memory Card or what have you

Of course, this lent itself to all kinds of abuses, which made the GC PSO famously hackable. My character that could transform into Knuckles the Echidna (I kid you not) by entering a quest is testament to that
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Posted: May 20th 2008 4:39PM Snicker the Cat said

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Really now, well I know that Brawl's suck. But most DS game's don't, and I guess Mario Kart doesn't now. Strikers was a little ok. Maybe Brawl just can't take it.

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