hamzik said:Endless Ocean 2 already gave me over 20 hours of brilliant gameplay. Red Steel 2 (hopefully) and SMG2 and Metroid (surely) will do the same. Wii is alive and kicking in the first halft of 2010. Now give me Zelda in december and this year will be remembered as legen...wait for it...dary. And while you´re at it Nintendo, throw in some Pilotwings in the pot. You tested the waters with Wii Sports Resort and the airplane was awesome. Now make a fullblown game out of it.
You just became friends with just about everyone on the site with that one post. Good job.
hamzik said:Endless Ocean 2 already gave me over 20 hours of brilliant gameplay. Red Steel 2 (hopefully) and SMG2 and Metroid (surely) will do the same. Wii is alive and kicking in the first halft of 2010. Now give me Zelda in december and this year will be remembered as legen...wait for it...dary. And while you´re at it Nintendo, throw in some Pilotwings in the pot. You tested the waters with Wii Sports Resort and the airplane was awesome. Now make a fullblown game out of it.
I have a feeling you'll fit right in. 
gamingeek said:
Do you think Pilotwings still has what it takes as a major franchise? Wouldn't it be on the Punch Out level of popularity?
As a major franchise? No. But I do think Nintendo could make the game a big seller if they opted to go the fanservice-route and let players fly and do missions over wellknown Nintendo locations. Let the player play as his/hers Mii and fly over Wuhu Island, Mushroom Kingdom, Animal Crossing-village...you get my point. Make the missions revolve around the staples from included franchises and you get what Nintendo does best. Old and tried gameplay presented in a new way, a mixture of novelty and nostalgia and accessible to everyone but truly mastered only by the hardcore (man I hate that term but it's the best way to get my point across). Now tell me this game wouldn't sell.
hamzik said:gamingeek said:
Do you think Pilotwings still has what it takes as a major franchise? Wouldn't it be on the Punch Out level of popularity?
As a major franchise? No. But I do think Nintendo could make the game a big seller if they opted to go the fanservice-route and let players fly and do missions over wellknown Nintendo locations. Let the player play as his/hers Mii and fly over Wuhu Island, Mushroom Kingdom, Animal Crossing-village...you get my point. Make the missions revolve around the staples from included franchises and you get what Nintendo does best. Old and tried gameplay presented in a new way, a mixture of novelty and nostalgia and accessible to everyone but truly mastered only by the hardcore (man I hate that term but it's the best way to get my point across). Now tell me this game wouldn't sell.
Have a starfox level set on the planet lylat and you pilot like a commercial air liner version of an arwing. 
angrymonkey said:gamingeek said:hamzik said:Endless Ocean 2 already gave me over 20 hours of brilliant gameplay. Red Steel 2 (hopefully) and SMG2 and Metroid (surely) will do the same. Wii is alive and kicking in the first halft of 2010. Now give me Zelda in december and this year will be remembered as legen...wait for it...dary. And while you´re at it Nintendo, throw in some Pilotwings in the pot. You tested the waters with Wii Sports Resort and the airplane was awesome. Now make a fullblown game out of it.Good to see you
Do you think Pilotwings still has what it takes as a major franchise? Wouldn't it be on the Punch Out level of popularity?
How did punch out do? I was really suprised that a non gamer friend got it. Wondering if that got into the mainstream at all.
Nintendo listed Punch-Out as one of the 1 million sellers last week, so it's safe to say it did okay. I don't think it was necessarily mainstream successful though. That certainly wasn't something you can throw at Nintendo as their fault. They did one of the better marketing jobs I've seen, with the commercials for "Little Mac's Big Comeback." Those were some of the funnest things I'd seen in some time. I think they got the Retro Gamer interested enough to make up for the Casual Gamers who likely passed on it since it didn't have a name like Mike Tyson attached to it.
How did punch out do? I was really suprised that a non gamer friend got it. Wondering if that got into the mainstream at all.