Podcast for 10-22-07 | Fulfill Your Potential

Fighting games are NOT dead. The refusal of fighting game makers to create a combination of good game + cutting edge graphics has seperated the common player from the hardcore, of which there is a much larger base than you would think.

While games like Tekken continue to inspire with updated graphics and such, it and Virtua Fighter are only 2 of many fighting games that get released, all of which have their own community, and the fighting game community itself is branching and huge.

Hey, great podcast, but I had a comment I wanted to make about your Pictochat on Brawl discussion. There's a possibility that Nintendo considered having that sort of interactivity with the DS, but there's so much scope for abuse. What if the user on the DS created a box around a player, or drew a wall across the entire stage? Also, while drawn elements have been integrated into games like Pac-Pix, I doubt that there'd be the interactivity with the user-created art that there seems to be in the screenshots we've seen.

Not that I'm saying that it wouldn't have been nice to have this option, but it's something to consider.

@Chris

You're assuming there that the person drawing the stage would be one of the people fighting - I thought of it in terms of a spectator being able to interact as the other players fight. I doubt anyone would put down their controller to draw on the DS during a match. Drawing before the match is a good solution, but doesn't solve things like drawing walls across the stage, or maybe enclosing the general area where people start in a box, for example. It also turns the stage into a static drawing, which is far less interesting. Especially as the majority of Pictochat drawings are penises, after all.