[Nemphtis]

So there is the big vote. Get voting and if you need to know more info on what's going on please read this topic.

Vote carefully and think well before coming to your decision since we need YOU to help make it happen. Don't think you're just gonna vote and Max is going to magically create an awesome fansite, we need the help of the GSSF community to make sure our forums stay alive and grow ever more active than ever before, so any effort is apreciated.

[Someone Else]

Not that anyone cares but, I can't do content for any game on a console unless there are working Emulators and ROMs for it. I don't have any consoles, I only have a GBA(s) and a DS.

[Max]

Wind Dude, that topic was already discussed in the brainstorming topic. Look back through the posts to see the discussion between Anubis and I regarding getting content for different systems.

[Someone Else]

Hrm, I must've been skimming then.

So anyway, is this going to be poll-only or what? Not much is being discussed here other than my ignorance. =P

[Nemphtis]

Anyhow I voted AW. After seeing the lack of decent fansites for it even though it's technically one of the best games on the GBA not to mention the best Turn-Based Strategy title for the GBA/DS I think we could really get this going especially since the DS hasn't been out for long so there should be alot of 'fresh' fanboys for us to kidnap and take to our hopefully-soon-to-be-fansite assuming it gets the top vote.

[Echo_djinn]

It should be a game that we know will have a good future ahead of it. Don't want to make the same mistake twice. It should also be a game that's new. Last time I checked TOS is one and a half years old. it's should also be a game with lot's of depth in it. Something everyone can talk about. So far all most of those games don't seem to make the cut.

I think the new FE game(Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance) to hit the GC would be an appropriate choice. It's new and the fan base is now way up there and is still rising plus it has tons of depth for much to be discussed upon.

[Lemontime]

Echo_djinn, on Nov 27 2005, 09:13 PM, said:

It should be a game that we know will have a good future ahead of it. Don't want to make the same mistake twice.

That's not for sure. Capcom have announced an RPG for the Revolution..


My vote is for AW. Partly because I suggest. But also, as said before, there's a lack of good fansites for it.

[Nemphtis]

Echo_djinn, on Nov 28 2005, 02:13 AM, said:

It should be a game that we know will have a good future ahead of it. Don't want to make the same mistake twice. It should also be a game that's new. Last time I checked TOS is one and a half years old. it's should also be a game with lot's of depth in it. Something everyone can talk about. So far all most of those games don't seem to make the cut.

I think the new FE game(Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance) to hit the GC would be an appropriate choice. It's new and the fan base is now way up there and is still rising plus it has tons of depth for much to be discussed upon.

Fire Emblem sites are out there, lots of them. Infact you advertise one yourself as far as I know which is the irony. As for ToS, there's also going to be ToE for the PSP so I'm sure it has sequal if you decided to choose that. Sadly I've never played ToS but I look forward to buy ToE since I need a decent RPG for my PSP.

[smeagolio]

I vote Grand Theft Auto.

[Eugine]

OMG. GTA isn't even in the poles... AW: DS will most likely be the first game, never played it so yeah, I'll not be part of the community at the beginning. B)

This post has been edited by Eugine: 28 November 2005 - 02:53 PM

[Aquamarine]

Well... I'm not a fan of any of these games and the only one I've actually played is Advance Wars. But I'm thinking of getting Baten Kaitos maybe one day so I guess I'll vote for that... Actually, I won't vote for any game, as I don't think you want some guy who doesn't know the first thing about these games voting. Sorry for waisting your time guys! =P

[Golden Djinn13]

GTA isn't such a bad idea...but anyway, I voted AW. That game is soooooo addictive, that up till now, I still play the first one. Its a turn based game that anyone can enjoy, and since their still making AW games, it would be a great forum to have.

[Someone Else]

Heh, wow, I didn't think AW would be that popular in this poll...

Guess I've gotta get a copy of Dual Strike.

[Nemphtis]

GTA is an awful idea. It attracts the wrong kind of people (un-educated morons) and there are tons of fansites for it already. Plus the series is way too big, it'l take a long time to cover all the games in it.

[I'm Always BROKE]

Well I really dunno. I haven't played these games so I can't judge.
And what's wrong with Zelda and Fire Emblem? I think they should be on the poll to.

[Echo_djinn]

I still think the FE game for the GC would be the best choice but if I had to choose from the list above I would say Advance Wars for the DS. I have yet to pick up the DS and I doubt I ever will.

[Sea of Time]

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance would have been a great choice. I would love to do a site for that game if anybody wants it.

Anyways, as for my vote, I voted for Tales of Symphonia/Eternia because I might be able to help with material for those games.

But we should consider FE: PoR.

[Eugine]

To series should be the second series considered... But then I guess a poll without Advance Wars is reccomended IMO to see what the people thing again, so those who voted for AW can help select the second fansite.

GO TOS!!! YOU CAN STILL DO IT!

[Someone Else]

-.-; I'm not whining about Animal Crossing being un-popular...

Anyways, Advance Wars looks like our first game to be covered. I guess, like Eugine said, we can start thinking about the next game to be covered. Should we make both sites at the same time, e.g. one team works on Advance Wars while the other team works on Animal Crossing, or should we do this one at a time?

I'm still rooting for Animal Crossing, the games just look so... complete. B)

EDIT: By the way, should we really make a site for FE: PoR when we're already going to do Advance Wars? I mean, they're both strategy games, maybe we should actually do an actual RPG this time?

This post has been edited by Wind Dude: 30 November 2005 - 05:18 PM

[Eugine]

What I suggest is that those who suggested another game prepare content in the mean time so that when their fansite comes around it will be easier for the site and you assuming you're not making content for the *main* site.

[Nemphtis]

People, put your fanboy instincts behind you. Don't think of series' that you love, but series' you think will be the most succesful compared to the others listed. I would love Baten Kaitos to have won but oh well, but when I think about it AW has more to offer considering it's more well-known but still has no decent fansites.

Before you start *****ing about what fansite you would prefer over AW. Ask yourself what way is it better than the AW series? What makes it good enough to be used instead of AW?

Also, there is no point starting a vote for our next site now. No need to rush, we need to take this slowly and think carefully before making each move otherwise we will put alot of effort into this just to see it flop. We must always make the BEST decisions for everything, not just good decisions. We will vote for the next site AFTER we complete the first, until then there will be new games, new opinions and less to worry about.

[Nick Presta]

I voted S(W)oM.

It's a great RPG series and I have a passion for it.

[Echo_djinn]

AW gets my vote since I think we should stick to handheld games instead of venturing into console games and such. I picked up SOM a while back and though I thought the story line was entertaining but the game quickly got repetitive and boring. I felt the same way with GS and GSTLA.

[Someone Else]

So now what? We've picked AW. Are we going to be "hiring" people to work on the site now?

[Lemontime]

Hiring 'eh?
Ooh! Ooh! Pick me! Pick me! It was my idea!

[Wiflewood]

There is already a large AW Fansite called advancewarsnet.com, which has all the sprites + info etc, and a section for making custom COs.

I vote AW anyway though. I can certainley help with content etc (after my exams)

[Someone Else]

Wiflewood, on Dec 4 2005, 11:21 AM, said:

There is already a large AW Fansite called advancewarsnet.com, which has all the sprites + info etc, and a section for making custom COs.

Doesn't come up on Google, though... so it must not be popular.

[Eugine]

Forum seems popular, much more popular than GSSF for sure.

[Someone Else]

Then what does this mean? Are we still going for AW? :o

[Sea of Time]

I agree that we should stick to handheld games, it seems like that is the best idea. So what about Breath of Fire? Those games were pretty enjoyable.

[Nemphtis]

They may be popular but their fansite looks like ****. Not to mention we can appear on google and attract more people than they do in the long run. As for sprites and such, content is just a matter of time, not skill. Whatever they have in the form of content we can get just as easily, even more infact. Max is good at coding things that seem useless but turn out cool, so if he felt like it (which he won't) he can create a doomsday machine that can nuke the country that has the server for their website, or something like that. You get the idea, in other words we can pwn their site if we put the right ammount of effort into it.

[Eugine]

YEP! One thing I know the site will have is a super-good-coder who can create anything they can't!

[Sea of Time]

I guess I'd better start playing AW :) I would like to help with the site.

[Nemphtis]

Well I re-bought AW1 for me GBA SP, been playing it at work. I got some nice tips for certain maps which I feel I might be able to write content for, nothing definate as of yet of course. I want to quickly finish AW1 and move onto AWII, and finally AWDS. I get the feeling that most people will focus on AWDS, so I'm doing the opposite and starting from the old so we have both sides covered, hopefully.

[Someone Else]

I'm going to have to wait for X-Mas before I can do content.

[Wiflewood]

I can do content for both AW2 and AW:DS.

[Neon]

AW for sure.
1. Popular series.
2. potential for a great community.
3. great, high quality, addictive games.
4. there's sure to be more high quality, addictive sequals and most importantly...
5. I can help with content :(

[Chrono]

I vote Advance Wars.

The only thing I think I could contribute is that I make and record my own music, which has nothing to do with Advance Wars? I also used to make AW sprite comics...

[Split Infinity]

THE FAMICOM WARS GAMES ROCK. I'VE ONLY EVER PLAYED AW2, BUT THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH.

I would also like to help out with this site. I've pretty much unlocked everything in my game, so I think I must be pretty good at it.

[I'm Always BROKE]

I only played 1 for some 15 minutes and then again I knew why I don't like strategy games. Fire Emblem is much better I think, although it's not on the list I think it would be best. Since Golden Sun and Fire Emblem attract the same kind of people...

[Toasty64]

I can help out with strategy for AW:2 & AW:DS. Put me in the staff.

[Toasty64]

Well Is there going to be an update on anyting about making this new site? Or did everyone but me forget about it? Can somebody post an update?

[Max]

Anubis had to leave for awhile back in January, and I'm not sure when he is going to return. Project Zephyr has been put on hold until I have the GSW beta out. I'll decide what to do on this next month.

[Blink]

My only concern is that the AW series is such a foreign genre compared to Golden Sun that the majority of the forum wouldn't actually like AW if they picked it up. My vote goes to Tales of Symphonia since it's much more similar, and equally enjoyable to me...after trying AW and FE, neither compared to GS for me.

[Someone Else]

Maybe we should make a new poll for a game

I'm still rooting for ACWW. There's a lot of content to be covered, and it's also a lot less work in a sense, since we wouldn't need to do a walkthrough.

[Toasty64]

I'm pretty sure the site has already been desided. Work hasn't started because Anubis hasn't been around lately. I think :P

[Someone Else]

Well... if you read the last few posts then yeah, you would have seen that. XD

[Sea of Time]

I agree with Blink, though, these games have almost nothing in common other than the fact that they are both somewhat strategy games and they have games on the GBA. ToS is closer, and FE is another good idea that isn't on the poll. They both have similar fans of those who play GS.

[Toasty64]

Yeah, but like Anubis said in another topic before this one, FE has too many fansites, while AW has few, and seems very promising. You can post strategies, and secrets that you have found in the game. And for AW:DS, mabey even skill setups with CO's.

[Sea of Time]

If we were to make the FE fansite as good as we could make it, we might even be able to surpass the other ones, because most of the ones left aren't very good.

[Blink]

New Idea. Tales of Phantasia!

It's made for the GBA, so no worries there in terms of people not being able to grab it( since GSers have GBAs), but it has the gameplay style of Tales of Symphonia. Win win, right? Heck, I don't know if this game is even out yet, but it's worth looking in to for the community.

[Nemphtis]

I was also thinking of the Tales of... series as it is quite good. Recently checked out ToE, ToL, ToS etc. and they are pretty decent games above average quality. But that's not the problem, the problem is my own website is growing bigger and bigger day by day and as you can see I barely have any time left to post on here let alone lead such a big project. I'm buried in so much crap I even had to cancel our E360 project so unless someone else wants to lead this it will have to be put on "hold" until we can find someone.

[Toasty64]

Well, list the requrements that the 'leader' would need for this besides spare time (which I usually have), and I'm sure we'll think of someone.

[Nemphtis]

You'll have to be like a manager, make sure **** goes smoothly, things are organised, find people to help out with the project, become a demi-god etc.

[Golden Legacy]

Hmm, I'd definitely consider it. Well, perhaps not as the head of the entire project, but certainly to be in charge of specific duties.

[Toasty64]

Well, really all I have are hints, tips, and spare time :P . I guess I could be a mod on the site. That would help things go smoothly. Sure I spam. But that's only here <_< . I'll be a mod on the new site. I have spare time.

[Lemontime]

I'd like to make a suggestion for a POSSIBLE game we could do..
Just think it might work better for a forum of Golden Sun players..
http://www.nintendowifi.com/gaminghub/Lost...DSGamingHub.jsp

[Kemosabi]

I have to go for ToS. I LOVE that game! I think it would be a great project because of it's length and all the stuff in the game that could be worked on.

[Toasty]

Too bad I've never played it............... :P

[Sea of Time]

I think the Tales series would be great because it not only has a bright future, but it also ties closely with GS because of Phantasia, a GBA title. I would definitely back that, if FE is not a possibility.

[Toasty]

If it was either of those, then it would be best to make a site for the one that has the least fan sites for it already. Personally, I still want it to be an AW site. There aren't many of them, and I've played the game, so I could contribute. But that's just my opinion.

[Mathak Kraven]

Chances are if you pick games like Tales of Symphonia and other games you'd be attracting almost zero to no crowd even though you'd be having a wonderful site. better is if you picked a game like Advance Wars which I haven't heard of, you would be able to get quite a lot of traffic.

[Wiflewood]

Err... care to give a reason for that?

I've not played the Tales series, even though I've heard a lot about them. Maybe I could work on sprites/images ot something if we chose Tales.

[TheDogWho]

I chose Animal Crossing, because I thought it was the best game among the choices.

[isaac rules]

i vote advanced wars because it is the only game i own and have played. also it is one of those games that get me so frustrated that i can't stop playing it. the setup will be easy to do also since it already has catagories for different "groups" like GS (venus, mercury...; yellow comet...)

[Nemphtis]

Can I just point out that we no longer need people to suggest phucking games and actually need people to volenteer for managing this project as you can see I'm not very active anymore so heading this project myself would make it suck.

[Somia]

No idea why, but I thought Sword of Mana'd be nice..

[Mathak Kraven]

Anubis, on Apr 20 2006, 12:41 AM, said:

Can I just point out that we no longer need people to suggest phucking games and actually need people to volenteer for managing this project as you can see I'm not very active anymore so heading this project myself would make it suck.

If I played any of those games, I would gladly help, but sadly, I don't have any knowledge. Unless someone cared to send me the requirements to play it through mail. -_-

[Toasty]

Anubis, on Apr 19 2006, 03:41 PM, said:

Can I just point out that we no longer need people to suggest phucking games and actually need people to volenteer for managing this project as you can see I'm not very active anymore so heading this project myself would make it suck.

So what was the phucking game we chose? If it's AW, I can do strategies. Soon, hopefully, I'll be able to help make the actual site. I'm just finishing learning all the stuff.

[Golden Legacy]

It's been four months now. How far has the site progressed? When can we expect it to be released?

[Toasty]

Well I've only been working on it for about two. And if all goes well, before the end of November. WD is working on content at the moment, and the skin and banner are done. Right now, I'm getting the rest of the pages in, and ready to be filled, and trying to get the CSS file working, along with getting PHP in there as well. It might be a little while.

[Sea of Time]

I'm glad to see someone's working on it. Good luck, if I could help, I would. But I have no knowledge of web designing or AW, so I really can't.

[Max]

Mr. T, please contact me on either MSN or AIM. I would like to get a preview of what you have so far, and I will have to audit all of your PHP code to make sure it is secure. We've had problems in the past with insecure PHP scripts at GS Adept's Refuge (which used to be hosted by GSS), and I never want to go through that experience again.