Written by NoA_Steven. The DS may not have gallons of blood but at least they're innovating. If you recall that flash that Cadaceus posted with the old classic consoles battling the psp...well, Nintendo is fighting to preserve games, and just games. They've said that several times. Anyways

Don't get me wrong. I adore me the violence. Really good, extraordinarily well done videogame violence is a thing of great beauty. But as ya walk the floor of E3 this year, originality across all systems definitely seems to be going the way of the dinosaur.

Everywhere you turn, another gritty street brawler. Another first-person splatterfest. Another zombie-hacker. More bullets to the head. More bone-crunching brutality. And more elbows to the gut … or was that just me taking out a line of people to witness Pac-Man getting his 25th birthday celebration from a lap's worth of booth babes?

But I digress.

Though it's very possible that I've drunk the Kool Aid, I think it's more possible that there IS way way way too much testosterone in this year's E3. Everyone wants to make a buck off of urban violence, suburban violence and even undead violence. Like I said, I love playing a few of these a year, then switching gears and playing something silly, or stoopid, or fantastic, or transporting, or imaginative, or whatever.

But the only place where I've seen the kind of range and originality that I NEED in a year's worth of gaming is among DS titles: Viewtiful Joe DS is adding in touch-based VFX powers, Black & White Creatures is bringing the PC smash to the touch screen (my dreams have been answered), and turn-based games are getting their due via Advance Wars DS and Age of Empires.

Dual-screen gameplay is coming into its own with the Mario & Luigi sequel and the New Super Mario Bros., WiFi gaming is taking Animal Crossing and Mario Kart online (more dreams come true), and then there are my DS super-favorites from the show: Electroplankton and Nintendogs. The former will be an instant cult hit at the least (and cult hits DO rank among my top 10 all-time games) but could be as much of a megasmash as Nintendogs, which is probably one of THE big success stories of the show. I knew that Nintendogs would turn out to be a worldwide phenomenon a year ago when I first saw game footage; now all of E3 knows it, since you CAN'T get on the demo units to play with the pups unless you wait a good half hour.

The over-over-overdone bloodshed really risked making this my least favorite E3 in quite some time; but the breakthroughs we're seeing on Nintendo platforms (I'll need to talk GBA and GCN some other time … though that Odama is definitely on my most wanted GCN list now) has really made this an important E3 for me.

I could be wrong, but I feel like there's a sea change at work in gaming: Innovation doesn't always get respect; but in Nintendo's booth, where E3's densest concentration of DS gaming is on hand, gamers and non-gamers are swarming the games.

What's the point of this post Ponuh, that you couldn't post in the Nintendo On thread? All this seems to me is that you're trying to be a bigger fan boy then Sefier :P Don't get me wrong; I own all systems, appreciate all systems for their own *thing* but I don't think there is much to gain from arguing over which is better, which sold better, which has better games, because quite frankly, not many people know the actual facts. I do think, however, that it's great that you strike of hype for games you look forward to, because it may make others appreciate Nintendo more, yes?

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60 Night Elf Warrior - Mikekirby

I have 0 console systems, i wouldnt have time to use them.
I remember when metroid prime came out, and i got the
system just for that game, then returned it. I dont really
care whats better or who sells more, if i like a game i'll get it.
I bought a N64 controller just to play Zelda on my compy emulated,
and i bought a PS2 just for FFX, all these systems were just sold
back to EB, i'm sure i'll get a system someday, but i dont see that day
being anyday soon.

i see a ps3 in kiotos future!

check out "infected" for psp.

The truly unique feature of the game is that when you beat a player in multiplayer mode, you will "infect" that player's PSP, which puts your own custom skin on all the enemies in the single-player campaign of the player you defeated. That player then must complete certain objectives to restore the game. In addition to being able to upload your custom skin on another person's PSP, you'll also be rewarded with virus points based on how many people you've infected and how many people those people have infected since. You can use these points to purchase weapon upgrades and other bonuses, which are downloaded when you connect to the Infected server. Since you get more points for defeating higher-ranked players, you're given incentive to challenge people at your same skill level rather than picking on newcomers.

sounds inovative and violent

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