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Top Ten DS games that will never happen
by Coxster

10 – Fallout 1 & 2

As soon as I had finished Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360, I just had to go back and play these classic RPGs.   I was playing them on my way to work on my bulky laptop when the thought occurred to me that these would be perfectly suited to the DS.   Why anyone hasn’t seen the potential for a Fallout game on this popular handheld is anyone’s guess.   If it was handled with enough care it would be one of the best DS games of all time, plus the developer would make tons of loot.

9 – A wrestling game developed by AKI

Remember wrestling games back on the N64?   Forget Zelda, forget Mario, the reason I bought a N64 in the first place was because of the release of WCW vs. NWO Revenge.   It was developed by a Japanese company known for the excellent wrestling games.   The engine and the gameplay were perfectly suited to wrasslin’.   They then went on to release WWF Wrestlemania 2000 and the outstanding No Mercy which is still one of the best wrestling games of all time.   Instead of the poor efforts that the Smackdown games have delivered over the last couple of years, get AKI back on the case (or at least lease their tech) and create something that does the sport proud.   Instead of focusing on the touch screen for control, focus the controls by actually using the buttons and the DPad.   While having the touch screen is cool and all, for wrestling games actually make it so that you feel in control for once.   The visuals have been excellent on SVR 2009, it’s just the gameplay sucked.   Give AKI a call; they know all about making perfect wrestling games. (They also were responsible for Def Jam Vendetta and Fight for NY…seriously these guys know how to make amazing games).

8 – Diablo

I will admit that my exposure to Diablo has been a recent one, but with the announcement that Diablo 3 is in the works it would make perfect sense to port Diablo 1 & 2 over on to the N64.   Think of the possibilities!

7 – Command and Conquer

As a huge fan of RTS games (especially older ones, sadly this PC can’t handle the CPU hungry newer titles) I would love to see Command and Conquer make its way on the DS.   The touch screen would be perfectly suited to such a game which is proven when you look at the likes of Advance Wars and similar games.   One thing that the DS doesn’t have is a good resource management game that allows you to build your armies while you’re gathering resources.   It would be great to see Kane appear on a handheld!

6 – Final Fight Collection

I know that a Final Fight game was released on the GBA, and it was almost perfect in every way.   In fact I thought it surpassed any other version of Final Fight on any previous console…ever.   It had extra costumes and characters and was a wonderful send off for what has to be my favourite scrolling brawler of all time.   In the DS release it would be great to see all the subsequent Final Fight games appear for the first time in one complete package.   As Haggar would say “ROOOOOLLLLOOOO!!!!’

Final Fight - Freddy Mercury Edition

5 – Fable DS

Who said that Microsoft and Nintendo can’t live in peace and harmony?   One need only look at the recent collaboration of Viva Pinata on the DS to see that the two gaming giants can put their heads together to produce amazing games for the clever little handheld.   In continuing that tradition who else thinks that a slimmed down version of Fable would work nicely on the DS? Maybe a top down isometric look would look snazzy.   I certainly would love to see this happen.

4 – Lucasarts Point and Click games

Take your pick of any one of them and tell me they aren’t perfectly suited to the DS.   Seriously, Lucasarts could make major bank if they used a little vision and ported some of these timeless classics into handheld form.   I’m not sure if there is a Scumm emulator for DS, but I think actually having a full retail version of the game that is revamped to exploit all the functionality of the DS would be a dream come true.   Monkey Island, The Dig, Day of the Tentacle…dear gaming gods, make this happen.

3 – Goldeneye

Call me the king of wishful thinking, but wouldn’t it be great to play this N64 classic on your way to work? Because of licensing and a host of other things that would stand in the way of this ever being released I think it’s safe to say that this is one game that will just have to be played on the old 64.

2 – Perfect Dark

I’m a sucker for Perfect Dark.   It’s one of my favourite games of all time and I even liked the Xbox 360 version when everyone else was poo pooing it.   This could even be a possibility when you consider that RARE own the rights for it.   I’m sure they would like to collaborate with Nintendo again and I fail to see how this couldn’t work out.   With a revamped multiplayer and controls this would heal the wound that we would never see Goldeneye appear on the DS.   I think I should probably let the dream die but it’s nice to be optimistic.

1 – Starcraft

Starcraft is awesome and rad and deadly.   It is one of the best RTS games I’ve ever played.   Starcraft + DS = gaming nirvana.   The maths speaks for itself.   (note: there was actually a couple of very smart guys who were working on their own version called Starlite, but after releasing a demo, Blizzard sent them a “You naughty boys should stop doing that” letter…so close yet so far)

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