How well do you think a Wind Waker type game would translate on the Wii, and if it was in production, what features would you like to see in said title?

Despite Transformers stinking up the summer, there were still some great movies out these past few weeks.

Have you guys seen, or heard, about Moon, Anvil, or Public Enemies?

discuss if possible!

Have you ever had a game where there are multiple ways to play it, but one is significantly more fun than the other (like I hear InFamous is, but not that)?

Other: Have you ever had a game which is expanded, improved or fixed by fanmade content? Recently I've seen a few people mentioning Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines as a game which was horrifically buggy but awesome, which it was, but it had a very dedicated fanbase which releases large patchs for it (The official patchs went to 1.2, the fan patchs are still ongoing and are at 6.2).

I remember being a bit sad when I started playing phantom hourglass and discovered it depended on the stylus as as opposed to the d-pad, put after some play time, I really felt that it worked well.

That being said, you know if they make a proper sequel for the Wii there is going to be all types of waggle. oh the waggle... So, WHEN they put waggle in, what would be the best way to implement it? What should they NOT waggle?
Obviously Okami style stuff is welcomed, and Twilight Princess style (that's sad isn't it?) is less than desirable.

Oh and as a side, how many times did you go through the temple of the ocean king before you wanted to chuck your DS?

After watching Man Island I was wondering what the Podtoid cast's fatalities would be if they were in a Mortal Kombat game?

What is your opinion of link?

Was he a character that you loved because he masked your personality because of his lack of an opinion or did you wish he had his own voice and personality?

Also, what age did you want him to be? Did you want him to stay a kid like wind waker or did you wish that he was adult link like twilight princess?

Have any of you ever worked as game testers? If so, any stories worth telling?

Also, should Link remain a silent character?

Were you annoyed that in order to get absolutely everything in Wind Waker you pretty much had to have a guide?

Any opinions on the new commenting system over at all the Gawker sites? Do you think it's a viable solution to reduce trolling and/or support actual discussions? Are there any changes you would make to Destructoid's current system (e.g. Joystiq's comment lifebar, Yahoo and others thumbs up/thumbs down, etc.)?

How do feel about almost every Zelda game being a reimagining of the same story? Would you rather they had multiple games spanning a deeper, connected storyline as opposed to putting the same characters in similar scenarios time and time again? Do you think Link could grow as a character this way? Do you want him to?

(I know Majora continues from Ocarina, and Wind Waker takes place much later in the same universe, but the stories are still quite seperate)

What was your first impression when watching the first trailer of Wind Waker?

With reference to gamers' sense of entitlement, do you think that it comes from the fact that a lot of the whiners are the PS2 generation? Obviously I have nothing to back this up, but it just seems likely to me that most of the fools were young when the PS2 was strong and were ensnared by it. Now they're old enough to use a computer but not old enough to be able to formulate full sentences or have any sort of logic in their brains.

Bald space marines were a product of hardware limitations. The dilemma really is whether BSMs should be done away with in favor of an army of super-pectoral bloom-lit gents with flowing manes. With the exception of a virtual Chet, I'll take the former.

Do you think No More Heroes will *only* benefit from going to HD consoles? Do you think its possible for the series to lose its charm by no longer having iterations on the Wii?

As we get older, we sometimes come to regret things about our past that we would never dream of regretting at the time.

Do you think there will ever come a time when you will look back at your time on Destructoid and facepalm?

How come Rpg's still after all this time relegate themselves to having save points in very poor places. All i am asking is the ability to save anywhere thats all

Which bald space marine have you felt the most connected to, if any?

How would you feel about a shift from the bald space marine archetype to a more Chet-inspired model?

Which do you find more annoying: 1) the giant-eyed, spikey-haired, and whining protagonist or 2) a character whose vocabulary consists of grunts and swear words when they aren't ingesting an amount of steroids that would kill a horse?

Should the Zelda series evolve? Nintendo is frequently accused of releasing the same game over and over again and in a recent interview Miyamoto mentioned the new Zelda would be "more of the same"-

Do you want more of the same or would you like to see something new and different.

Personally I think there's something wrong since the best Zelda of the last few years is called "Okami"

The latest Monthly Musing topic asks readers about the cool moments that they themselves have created in games. Inherent in this discussion is the idea that because we are making the experience happen for ourselves, that moment is somehow richer and more compelling than a scripted event that is out of the players hands.
First of all, do you really believe that we, as players, have ever, at any point in any game ever, been able to have genuine "authorship" over a game?
You used the example of Far Cry 2 as a game that presents the players with the opportunity to play the game they want to play it, providing the kind of "improvisational gameplay that will allow individuals to define themselves through their play sessions. But that simply isn't the reality of the situation. You may think that you have control over a series of events in Far Cry 2 because you can choose to snipe enemies or throw Molotov from the shadows or do that machete stab move that was lifted straight out of the terrible Dark Messiah of Might and Magic...but at the end of the day, you have still simply completed the mission, and you will still go back and receive another mission. That isn't authorship, is it? That's more like role playing. Role playing allows you to take part in events that are happening inside a given world. Authorship would (or, to me, should) involve the creation of a entirely new set of worlds and rulesets, and using that setting to tell an entirely new story. You can play Far Cry 2 as a driver or a grenadier or as a poacher who ignores the story line entirely and spends the whole game time putting sniper shots into the heads of Zebras, but that doesn't sound like authorship to me. Don't get me wrong, it's still fascinating, and it's still important(I'm totally going to play Far Cry 2 as a poacher now) but it isn't a new story line.
Should we look at role playing in games as a form of authorship? Does game authorship only apply to the creation of these tiny moments where we use the at hand game mechanics to play individual events in very different ways? Does this not mean that Halo, with it's smart enemy AI and well-designed battle layouts that allow players to approach the same fight in drastically different ways every time, be considered as authored events? Banjo-Kazooie:Nuts and Bolts has an identical structure to Far Cry 2; both games give you missions and where the only objective is to complete the mission, and the "how" of each mission never even enters into it. As long as you complete the mission, you've won. And in Nuts and Bolts, you can make a car that can DRIVE DIRECTLY UP WALLS, so it's already a better game than Far Cry 2(more charming and better written to boot). But are the varied and unique ways I chose to solve the game's objectives instances of Authorship? Or are they, like in Far Cry 2, missions with a great deal of choices that have very little impact on the specifics of the structure of each game?
To me, games like Far Cry 2 are really good at hiding their limitations. That's the point. Video games don't want you to realize all of the constraints that they put on players. Games are programmed with limitations, because if a player ever circumscribed these barriers, the game wouldn't know or understand how to interpret your action, and would stop working abruptly. Can we have authorship in any game that is designed to keep us from performing certain actions? in Far Cry 2, there is an artificial limit to the amount of fire that can be spawned or spread at any given time, because testers discovered that, without some kind of artificial check, the player could set a fire, leave their game running, and come back a few hours later to find that the entire game map had been BURNED TO THE GROUND.
Your game experience in Far Cry 2 was limited and controlled by factors, but the game is really good at hiding those barriers on your choices. By that logic, isn't the only way to truly assert authorship in a game to deliberately try and do things the game is programmed to allow you to do? Isn't the famous Smash Bros. Melee black hole bug - where the right combination of events combing together to form a black hole that sucks in all onscreen objects and subsequently crash the GameCube- isn't that a much more real, more potent example of game authorship, because it involves players IGNORING the rules of the game?
Don't you think the only way we can dominate our games is if we don't play by the developer's rules
(Hope this didn't seem too rude, I'm genuinely interested to hear what you guys think genuine Game Authorship entails.)

So, I can admit that I used to be a nintendo fanboy. But now I feel as though I've matured somewhat, finally having gotten an Xbox360 and considering getting a psp and a ps3. Now that I'm not so biased I can't understand why other people hold these loyalties, all it really seems to do is keep people from playing great games and essentially criticizing anything for being different. So what does it? What really causes someone to be so loyal? What makes people so hard over a Halo game despite it's utter lack of originality? And is there a real way to stop people from being so closed minded?

Why is it that Wind Waker has only gotten 2 other games with the art style, both which are on DS, and can we expect another console release with Wind Waker art style? Wind Waker was a beautiful game, and it's style has been bastardized by Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks. Phantom Hourglass took away what Wind Waker did right, and I expect Spirit Tracks do the same, especially with the train blasphemy.

What kinds of bribes (if any) has the Destructoid crew been offered by companies for better review score

Do you think that the industry would gain more respect if it dropped the label "videogames?" Similar to how comics came to be called graphic novels.

Do you think that it is possible for graphics and sound to improve a game with bad gameplay? I ask because I was recently played Call Juarez and despite the shoddy gun play, I was still able to enjoy the game thanks to it's great music and story.

I doubt this question will be asked even if it mentions Half-Life.

I recently got into a debate about how games present their narrative when a silent protagonist is involved. I feel that the success of engaging the player can sometimes depend on how the silent character is presented. For example, in games where a silent protagonist has moods and expressions of their own, I sometimes feel more interested in the story because despite being silent, the protagonist is a character that I can relate to through their apparent emotions and reactions. Examples of this would be Link in Zelda, Crono in Chrono Trigger, or the Persona protagonists (more so in P4 than P3, really). On the flip side, I feel less interested in the story when I am thrust into the roll of the player character and the character has no expression or "voice" of their own, which is a staple of first person games. Some examples could be any game Bethesda's made or Half-Life 2 (seriously, when I am in Gordon's shoes, I become an asshole who just likes to shoot first and ask questions NEVER). I guess the real question here is how do you guys feel about your silent protagonists? Which do you feel better moves a narrative along?

Take a shot anytime someone talks about Half-Life.

Because of the conditions EIDOS put upon Arkham Asylum reviewers that both effect how well a publication may sell, the game will sell with free advertising in the way of covers, and how well the game will be scored critically; do you think that EIDOS' decision to let reviewers have the go ahead, given the conditions, with printing Batman Arkham Asylum has tainted both the game and any critical reception of the title? Or will the BS be seen through and the title and critical views of the game will be legitimized by the gaming community?

PS.
I would like to point out that the review does not need to fall within the 90+ score to be tainted. In order to appear to not be swayed and bribed by EIDOS, reviewers could drop the score or act in similar ways in order to keep their pride and appear to bending at the will of the shady British publisher's will.