4th February 2003, 1:36 AM
This isn't even about tradition (which I actually like to be adhered to in some cases, like TC's cow tradition, which shall NEVER be killed, ever). I don't see how not releasing one specific game series constitutes an actual "tradition" here, unless it's the tradition Nintendo had of not releasing all their quirky games here. FE isn't even half as quirky or off-beat as Animal Crossing, and look at how amazingly popular that game is, despite it's graphics. A sequal built with GCN in mind, and with online support, and MAYBE even some real engine to actually "read" the letters you write to NPCs, would be UNSTOPPABLE, like some sort of black hole made entirely from dark matter pushed forward by dark energy from some distant source.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)