Hmmmm, Touch screen functionality is almost a given, so theres little need tosay somethingabout that.

The FE series is getting enormously stale, however. Radiant Dawn might be the last one I am getting, because it finishes the story of Path of Radiance. But they will have to come up with somethig awesome if they want my money again.

So something that would make the gameplay fresh again,without losing the FE feel. How to do that?

Whow man, this is hard! I honostly can't think of anything that could pull that of. Seems that FE has been stale for a reason.

New classes might be nice, but I would actually object if it doesn't do much else then the standard myrmidon or mage. A new 'supportive' class would be my choice. Classes from the same group of the 'dancers' and 'herons' that don't do either healing or fighting. The 'Dream weaver', for example. Creating illusions that letenemies make big mistakes like attacing the character with the best defence within reach (they usually go for the one with the weakest, so that shouldn't be hard to program), or scaring them so they will either paralyze, or run into the opposite direction. Yeah, that would give some interesting strategic stuff, as the weaver self is as bad at staying alive as the common healer. Also, status changes done by the player towards the opponent have been rare for far too long. You can't even poison the enemies, unles you use glitches! I would buy it.

Now, perhaps some more involvement of the player character? It has only been done in FE7 that the player has an actual role, but it might be good.

No, scratch that, unless you can do something with it. I think that's a bad idea after all. The lord or hero is enough of a 'player character'.

But that's all for now. Fire Emblem is indeed a game that's supposed to be stale, and appeal to a select audiance. ANYTHING that would change the gameplay would change the formula so much that it won't be Fire Emblem anymore. New strategic features, like new types of classes or terrain bonusses would be interesting though.

Hmm, good one. Off course, we, as Nintendo fans, can't sleep easy untill a new Metroid has been announched.

Well, if it's forthe Wii, we should stick to the Prime-type first-person view. And without the respawning enemies off course.

Not having played any Prime after the first one, which I disliked, I can't say much more on the subject. I guess the developpers just have to read the reviews on what can be improved.

^funny. As far as I know about the second one, emotional interaction with your teammates was supposed to be souped up.

Good,so now we know how this can not be reached. So,how can we get better involved with the characters?

Very well, then let us brainstorm about this one. WHAT could be improved over the originals?

Having only played the first (without even finishing it, sue me) I don't have much to say about this. However, I would like to hear some ideas that go beyind the 'bigger and better'. If there is nothing to improve, then there is no need for a sequel. No matter what people think, there is no way a game could excactly recapture the feeling of the original. So a sequal should provide new rules to play to, giving the game a unique feel of his own.

Well, I am the the Nintendo fanboy, so I never even heard of all the other games mentioned. I do think though, that Dragon Blade deserves a sequel. Not because the game was that great (hell no!) but the very concept was just SO awesome.

So, I am afraid that all I can say about this game is that this should be a sequel 'done right'.

Well people, I think we are making a nice start with the union. We have an original idea, a few members, and some topics at the board. Now what else could we think of to get the union to the next level? For as far as I can say:

1. Userbars. These things are great for getting people to know us. The better it looks, the more people will flock in.

2. A banner. Like really, it would give the union some more proffesional look, right? I noticed that there was quite the artist on the union. Could he/she please take care of these two points?

3. Something to put on frontpage. The frontpage is the first thing people see when visiting, and a 3-sentence description isn't all that promising. It migh be a bit problamatic though, as this union is more about speculating on what could be good, instead of following the regular news. (correct me when I am wrong)

Well, that's what I could come up with. I thought it would be a good idea to get the union fully operational as soon as possible. If I was mistaken, forgive my arrogance. If I wasn't, what can we do to make the union better then it's now?