I loved the touch buttons too, but I won't be heartbroken. Btw, for anyone needing HDMI cables, I'd just like to shill for monoprice. If you buy a MonsterCable for anything, you deserve ridicule.
An FF4 prequel detailing Cecil's descent into evil henchman reminds me of an book I bought years ago called Treachery and Treason. It was a collection of short stories where the bad guy won and the good guy usually got the pointy end. It was great. I wish more people would realize that the good guys don't always make it, and there are definitely good stories to be told there.
Favorite moments:
-Golden Sun DS announcement out of left field.
-Watching M$ and Sony completely shame Nintendo's motion controls (which seems to be the one thing keeping them going at the moment).
-Hearing/reading the massive amounts of content posted up by the GR crew over the past couple days. Immense task, fellas. Fucking immense.
PS3 price drop; PSP redesign somethingorother; a decent Sonic game; Nintendo to announce SOME SORT OF PROPER SYSTEM (please Nintendo, stop twisting the knife in our collective gaming heart)
Also, I think a fancy remake/update of the Mutant League games would be hilarious.
I hope I wasn't the only one who shouted a little cheer when Jack Thompson was disbarred. It should be a day celebrated annually by gamers everywhere. In case you weren't aware, on Sept. 25th, 2008, Thompson was permanently disbarred for consistent misconduct and ordered to pay $43.6k and change to the Florida Supreme Court.
Some of my fondest memories of gaming as a kid were playing Aladdin and Lion King on the Genesis. I'm not sure what I'd think of them today, but I'm inclined to say they'd still hold up. *nostalgic sigh*
I'll say fallout 3. It wasn't really beloved but its the only game that qualifies for this question since i don't really hate any games i used to love. I went through it (mostly story a few side quests, really just scratched the surface) and was right at the end of the story and my friend erased my save. This has since caused me to really just lose all interest completely because i wasn't that captivated by it to begin with. its an excellent game, but i guess im more of a jrpg fan haha.
I have never really hated any movie games from experience, just avoided them because i knew i should. However, I did once acquire the non arcade version of T2 for genesis and that game was damn terrible.
It's gotta be Ps1. I had an atari 2600 followed by an NES to a genesis but PS1 is where it really came together and solidified me as a gamer. it was the first system that made me start paying attention to gaming and buying my own games. My dad bought it for me because my parents had just gotten divorced and i needed something to do at his place, i never asked for it. it could have just as easily been an N64 and i would be a completely different person.
As far as dead franchises go, i really would kill to get another Zone of the Enders and a new Musashi title. Twisted Metal too but i hear that's in the works. I would love to get Working Designs back and a true, proper Squaresoft. Square and Enix were so much better when they were separate. As good as FF13 looks like its going to be i miss Sakaguchi and the original Final Fantasy team.