Erich

@Flashpoint

Why stop at free Cable (I would personally steal satellite instead of cable because they can't locate you)? Get a plumber to bypass your water and gas meter and steal those, then get an electrician to bypass your power meter and steal that shit too. Stick it to the man!!!

While you're at it, now that the power company won't see your power useage, it'll be safe to start a grow-up in your house and make money the easy way - with illegal drugs. Work!? Fuck work, I'm not doing that shit.

Live the american dream, that's what I plan on doing.

Megaman would be pretty sweet, especially since he has rather unique physics. Along those same lines, Jeff from the Earthbound (Mother) series would be pretty sweet too.

Earthbound, I also enjoyed Star Tropics, but it borrowed a lot from the Earthbound series.

- Young boy destined to save the world
- Armed with a Yo-Yo and Baseball bat

Tho, Earthbound is more of a Quirky-Funny pure-rpg. Whereas Star Tropics was more of an Action-Puzzle-Platformer with RPG elements.

hm

Super SMASH Brothers Melee and Super SMASH Brothers!!!!

To further my point, I think if you did it properly, you could make a game like this game so that people will report "losing their balance" playing the game. With the right control scheme, it'd be easy to give a very surreal sense of falling and gliding.

I think, the "on the rails" idea would be the easy way out. It would ground the game and easily make it succesful, but not great.

If they were to take a freeform true-3d approach, and do it well, it would truely make this game one of the greats for this system. It would take some "outside the box" thinking and a fairly consistent ideaology in it's overall design and restructuring. Being that they already announced "multiple control schemes" I don't think the latter is going to come to fruition - which is dissapointing. But until there's a copy on the shelves at my local walmart, I'm going to take every report with a grain of salt.

@Mr Khan (#2)

I agree with your estimate. I think it would be in Nintendo's best interest to come out with the next console, before Miscrosoft and Sony (assuming neither one of those pull out). They don't even really have upgrade the wii THAT THAT much. Since they're now in a power position and can afford to "risk" a little more, I could easily see them push for the capabilities of the other consoles in a Nintendo way.

They'll have some online experience by 2009, they'll realize the shortcomings of the wii in that respect, probably add a harddrive of some sort (atleast ipod nano 5gigs style to allow for reasonably sized updates and such). Improve the graphics processor to beyond PS3 / 360 levels (should be pretty easy to do by now even). And carry over the backwards compatibility, in all respects. Make it kind of like a wii 2.0.

Of course, the option also exists to expand to newer, greater and better technologies that aren't foreseen in any of the other consoles. They should make those abilities either expandable (VR headset? LOL), or not to overshadowing as to take away from "indevelopment" wii games that will be coming out at that point. Just simply add the more powerful 2.0 experience.

Well, alot of this is along the lines of a "fanboy wetdream..." but it's simply using the momentum of the wii, to strengthen nintendo's position in the market place and removing any possible ability that the other companies may have to "copy and improve."

Kinda like how PS1 road the wave into PS2. And as long as Nintendo has learnt from the past, their future could be very bright for decades to come.

The fact of the matter is, his average rating doesn't really matter. The way the point system works is it's a total sum of the votes. So if you vote 67, 67 points gets added to his score. And the person with the highest score wins.

Considering the poll is about "how influencial" the person is. If the combination of websites that would promote him can't muster enough voting power to move him far up the list... obviously he wasn't that influencial. So I think asking for people to vote 100 for him on this site is well within the scope of this poll.

Right now, #1 is Nintendo's to lose. They will pass xbox360 before the year's end, and they will continue to outsell PS3 until November atleast. I got laughed at on most message boards I posted this on over a year ago (I think shortly after the controller was announced) but they NEEEEED more full motion games. 2-3 more would send a message to third parties.

By full motion I mean the likes of Wii Sports. I hear Tiger Woods golf is not bad once you get used to the mechanics, I've been meaning to try it. In any case, we need more games like that. But most importantly, we need games like that in genres other than sports (sports is the easiest, so I'll take what I can get right now).

Proper full motion swordplay. We need a full motion FPS that feels heavy (a completely fresh look will have to be taken of the genre... make reloading a chore, not a jolt or button press. Be able to backhand someone with your gun hand etc.).

"Gestures" were okay for release titles. But now we need to start seeing a new calibre of games. Games that the system was designed to play. And this will determine the long-run success of the wii.

Right now, it looks like blu-ray is going to win. When prices start to come down and the market's over-saturated with blu-ray discs, people are going to start looking at purchasing a blu-ray player. And if the PS3 is within $200 of a blu-ray player at that point in time, expect them to sell.