everyday gamer

My very short list of what I want to see from E3 2008.  All of which are incredibly unrealistic!

• Earthbound finally brought to the Virtual Console. C’mon Nintendo! It was reviewed officially by the ESRB back in May, over 2 months ago.  Stop making the starmen.net community cry.  Educate nu-Nintendophiles about who Ness is and why he has appeared on three incarnations of Super Smash Brothers.  Pull the trigger already, we’re all waiting for this gem.
• Kid Icarus on the Wii.  So what if the NES game wasn’t that good?  It’s been 20 years.  Announce the sequel already.  The masses have spoken…and whined and cried.  Hey Nintendo, do you really want to taste the salty tears of all those die hard Nintendophiles?
• More retro remakes of games.  Words cannot describe how excited I am to see Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Mega Man 9, and Chrono Trigger DS announced.  Let’s see more of this stuff and keep the classics current, a la Stephen Totilo’s vision on an old episode of 1up Yours.
• Rez for PSN to go along with the upcoming Pixeljunk Eden.  Playstation Network has been home to all sorts of hyper-artsy games like Everyday Shooter and Echochrome.  Rez (or a Rez sequel) being a part of that library would further cement the indie scene on PSN and additionally would mean I would finally get a chance to play it.
• Anything regarding Final Fantasy XIII on the show floor.  I’ll take another 15 seconds of FMV at this point.  Just say something, dammit!

I don’t expect any of this stuff to be announced next week, but hey!  We’re allowed to dream, right?

P.S. I’m glad I held back on getting a new 3g iPhone so I could avoid the lines and they could work out the kinks. It’s a no brainer they were going to hit load issues on day 1: the phone has gotten more buzz than anything else tech related in the world within the past month. Not surprised in the slightest that iTunes servers exploded, regardless of whether or not the problems were load related.   Conversely, I did not expect the new software turning old-gen iPhones into iBricks in relation to this.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to get a 3g iPhone. But c’mon Apple, let’s do a little more testing before milking that cash cow a little more.