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It's about time we had a DS thread to stop us butting into threads to talk about our lovely handhelds at the slightest opportunity.

So,what are you anticipating/playing/loving/hating at the moment, DS-wise?

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Playing like crazy:
Osu! Tatake! Ouendan! (best game for the DS)
Jump Superstars
Advance Wars
Meteos

Enjoying a bit:
Trace Memory
Kirby

Anticipating:
Castlevania
Trauma Center
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Mario Kart
Animal Crossing

Not impressed:
Warioware
Nintendogs
Metroid Hunters demo

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Ok, Osu! Tatake! Ouendan! is just amazing.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/aosj/175r/index.html

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, I'll check that one out, it does look rather good (although that demonstration could have spared us the few minutes of comics strips before the level).

Not impressed with Warioware or Nintendogs? I've been highly anticipating Nintendogs for the last couple of months, to the point of considering importing it, but I'm waiting until the 7th when it's out here. It completely looks like my sort of thing! I also thought Warioware was very good, but when I'm on my own it doesn't have much replay value. If I'm with someone else though, we'll try and beat eachothers scores on the "Gnarly Mix" level where you only get one life.

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I want to play Trace Memory and Nanostray.

― Allen E. Riley (allenriley), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Convince me to buy a DS over a PSP. I am not rich, and there can be only one. I heavily favor Nintendo on principle, but I can't waste my money purely on nostalgic allegiances. Does the DS really have the games to justify this? I'm really down with the notion of Mario Kart, Castlevania, and Children of Mana, but they aren't out and I need more to really tip the scales.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

The comics in O!T!O! are amusing--the one in that demo is one of the least good, though I obviously have no idea what they're saying.

Trace Memory is very, very pretty and makes good use of the DS hardware but is a little to linear for me. Also the dialogue fucking sucks.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Laura: I have both and use the PSP basically as a $250 Lumines machine. The DS gets way more use, the games are way better and much cheaper.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

I played a 5 minute deom of Nintendogs and was completely, totally, absolutely enthralled. I think my wife was slightly disgusted with me.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

the DS can play GB/GBA games, too.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

I want one.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

The PSP can also play GB/GBA games, mind you.

― antexit (antexit), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

how?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Pffft, emulation! Does that count?

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

it doesn't. the DS actually has the slots where you can plug shit into them.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

it counts, of course

there are advantages to playing the GBA games on the DS though

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Why would anybody need convincing to purchase a DS over a PSP?

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

TS wireless throwdowns edition:

decent, ordinary people who eat apple pie and listen to yellow magic orchestra Vs. guys in suits?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

tons of games vs. nothing

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

fun Vs. guns

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

batty Vs. twatty

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

yr street vs. wall street

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

it doesn't. the DS actually has the slots where you can plug shit into them.

Oh no, I was talking about the PSP! Don't get me wrong, you're your regular DS fanboy!

dual screen vs size queen, innit?

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

how are people carrying around multiple DS carts?

now I have more than one I'm puzzled

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

I have an extremely dorky case with extra cart slots.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

does it strap to your belt?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

It has a strap. Also for some reason a carabiner clip thing. Usually when I stick my DS in my bad I use the neoprene sleeve that came with my PSP. For my PSP I use the awesome Logitech protector.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Just announced: Rainbow Islands DS.

YEAH.

― allenalenelnalenelnae (allenriley), Thursday, 6 October 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

now pray for a new zealand story DS

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 6 October 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh wow!! So Taito are developing for Nintendo - does this mean we might get some kind of Puzzle Bobble DS (though they'd have to re-think it a bit, it'd be rather easy on touch screen)?

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 6 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Taito got they ass up and purchased by a Squeenix is how come that is

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

enix making a mario basketball game as well

well I never

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

RAINBOW ISLANDS DS.

PLZ TELL ME YOU'RE NOT JOKING.

― rio natsume, Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

guys.

i just realised.

PANG! DS

make it happen.

― rio natsume, Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

puzzle bobble ds is already out over in the land of the rising red slime approaches, is it not?

― rio natsume, Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

wait, is camelot (dudes who make all the mario sports games and the golden sun rpg on gba) something to do with enix then?

― rio natsume, Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

http://image.lik-sang.com/images//large/ds-acrossing-jap2.jpg

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 6 October 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

You're right Rio!!

http://ds.ign.com/articles/645/645572p1.html

"The import version features a fair balance of English text in its design, so there's nothing here that forces up a language barrier to make it hard to play if you don't know Japanese."

Woo! Consider it bought as soon as I can afford it.

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 6 October 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

OK so who has nintendogs, I might have to get you to help me with the japanese menus (I guess I should try learn some video-game level kanji) but so far it is just too god damn cute... little K-HOLE will be a full grown dachs in no time

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 7 October 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

oh I found one on IGN

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 7 October 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

cozen, where do you get your imports from?

― rio natsume, Friday, 7 October 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

I stay in glasgow; in the west end there's a shop called CA games, they've been selling all their japanese stock that they now have in via the US for £10 (!) so I've been buying imports of games I wouldn't otherwise have bought (kirby, nintendogs, polarium &c.)

other than that lik-sang.com, I've only used once, recently, for firepro wrestling, and it's not arrived yet but they seem pretty good.

you?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 7 October 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Lik-Sang is pretty good but some people have had bad experiences with them. They got my my Ouendan in less than a week.

― adam (adam), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Lik-Sang have always been good for me, though I usually end up opting for Play-Asia for some reason. I like the boxes their stuff comes in.

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 7 October 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

my lik-sang is taking ages

I'm a play-asia next time

off to nintendogs for me!!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 7 October 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm having a lot of trouble with nintendogs but kirby is fine language-wise

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 8 October 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

new lost magic screens

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 8 October 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

OK this is not funny:

both advance wars DS and nintendogs don't go to sleep when I shut over the DS. I'm not sure if nintendogs is supposed to or if I'm supposed to set something up in the options but AW has always gone to sleep before... now when I fold over the DS it makes a glitchy sound, a repeated clicking and the light flashes on and off very quickly... both kirby and yoshi both go to sleep fine when I shut over the DS... it's funny because I've not used AW in a while, it's just been sitting in its box and was fine the last time I used it... FUCK! I don't think I still have the receipts...

so strange... any tips on ways to try test getting them to work? I've tried blowing! really hard!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 8 October 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, I don't know about Advance Wars, but I'm not sure if Nintendogs is supposed to go to sleep or not. When you close the DS it apparently goes into "bark mode" which alerts you when anyone else near you has a DS with nintendogs closed up in it. I'd still have thought it'd go to sleep though, like the inbuilt alarm clock. The glitchy sound doesn't seem right, does it?

I don't know much about this, when was the last time you charged your DS?

― melton mowbray (adr), Saturday, 8 October 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

UGH so not xool

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Shiiit, that's terrifying. But you know it's not the DS because some games still sleep fine?

― melton mowbray (adr), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

yeah

I'll take it into the shop, see what they say

― jeffrey (johnson), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

oh tht ws cozen at jeffrey's house

― jeffrey (johnson), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

guy at the shop switched it over no problem

cept now I've lost my save obv... oh well

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I Love Nintendo DS.

I am nintendogs and castlevania. Nintendogs is great but the mic input is screwing me over because i always have too much background noise for it to recognise what i say, i don't want to play in total silence. Bad men.

Castlevania is Castlevania and that is good. I wish there were more games.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Well, I finially bought Nintendogs today and so far I'm loving it! I see what you mean about the mic thing Jeffrey, but it's not actually as difficult as I thought it was going to be. I guess I must either scream into my DS or not listen to music as loud as everyone else.

Has anyone had a random encounter in Bark Mode yet?

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I have to send my DS into nintendo... turns out my DS + AW = that thing I posted above, so... oh well, god bless warranty... castlevania is pretty great

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh damn! Any idea how long it's going to take to get back to you?

I was looking at Castlevania today and wondering if I should. I think I might. But not yet, I've got Nintendogs to play with.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I fixed my nintendogs mic problem by setting the sensitivity to normal and not sitting right next to music speakers while i play. Now i am addicted.

I just got warioware and advance wars in the mail today too, amazon led me to believe it was going to take a fortnight but only 3 days. It's an exciting time to spend an hour travelling to work.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh excellent, I might give that one a go. Any ideas of what to record on the White Record other than a goofy "HI DERE?" message?

I just washed my dog and was told she looked beautiful, which is probably the nicest thing anyone (or anything)'s said to me all day. Thank you Nintendo!

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 13 October 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

people be going crazy for nintendogs!!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

I recorded an insult to play to a friend on the record. I won the beginner levels of the competitions and can afford another dog now. The small joys.

Warioware is kinda sad, i completed it in an hour and a half and don't really want to play it again, It does give me a huge urge to play the original GBA one though.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I have three puppies now and I'm bored shitless. Nintendogs tricks ou into thinking it contains months worth of gameplay by only letting you play in 15 minute bursts. 5 of which are invariably spent listening to ted and archie spouting that same tired guff over and over again. Seriously, it's the worst shigs game ever.

I bought meteos though and that's pretty great.

― JimD (JimD), Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

any UKers bored with their hunters demo and willing to let it go?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 16 October 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000049928.JPG?0.34794878863222234

oh my! so obvious!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

omg

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

The battery life on this thing is retarded long

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

yeah WTF I'm convinced there's hidden solar panels

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I left mine closed on Electroplankton for about a week when I lost my stylus and as soon as I had some, opened it up and played a good couple of hours on it. WTF.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

oh you can put it on sleep for WEEKS and open it up and it'll play fr ages... thing's invincible...

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Any idea how it fares with Bark Mode on Nintendogs though? I get the impression that'll run it down quite a bit.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

WTF none of these cool games for the DS are out in aus yet, it isnt fair. I bought Nick one for his bday and now he has to put up with nintendogs and spinter cell until everything else comes out. GAH.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

I want someone to release a Sims2 for it - the touch screen would be WICKED GOOD for the sims.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Sims 2 is coming out for it.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gamespot.com/ds/strategy/thesims2/story.html?sid=6122655

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

and from sims2.ea.com:

"Be aware of what time it is because the Nintendo DS Internal Clock dictates the date and time of day in the game. Depending on when you are playing will affect who you can socialize with and what you can do.

Create in game objects like music utilizing the built in Nintendo DS microphone and paintings with the touch screen - and trade them with friends via the Nintendo DS wireless link.

Max out your Nintendo DS with seven all new touch screen activities."

The whole clock thing scares the hell out of me because i am awake at unusually late hours and maybe there'll be no-one to play with, apart from that it's the exciting.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 20 October 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

OMGWTFBBQ, thats it I am buying a DS!!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 October 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

*falls over, froths at mouth, twitches a bit*

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 October 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

I want to max out my Nintendo DS right now.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.decalgirl.com/prodimg/ds/ds-plaid-470.jpg

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 20 October 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Do they sell a lot of those sticker cover things around the place? I know there's nintendogs ones, but urgh. That tartan is kinda cute, in a bit of a genki sort of way.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

An energetic and healthy sort of way?

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Heh. I knew I would probably use that word wrong blargh. Here genki is also a chain of really cutsey japanese clothings stores is all.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 October 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Maybe kawaii is better, but actually that DS looks more like fruits style.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Haha, in the UK I think it's more "I'm a mace yer fuckin' gameboy bruv" style.

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

finally convinced to buy electroplankton

(plus it has a US release date now: jan 9th)

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

Fantastic! Electroplankton is SO good, but has led to many a lost stylus when I've falled asleep playing it late at night. Does anyone know where I can get some proper official Nintendo pens, which are the same as the ones which came with the DS?

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 21 October 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

FF3
http://www.ds-x2.com/viewimage.php?t=1129908796&filename=../news/dennis/ffds.jpg

― c7n (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

oh my

― c7n (Cozen), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

fuck yeah.

― rio natsume, Friday, 21 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

oh yes, yes, yes.

The 1st panel says something about how "of course" it is in 3d, and how the enemy is a boss named "Rando Turtle."

The 2nd panel says it is a screenshot from the interior of a dungeon. It mentions that you can see two treasure chests on the sides of the screen.

The 3rd panel is a screenshot of Shin inside a shop. "Can you shrewdly guess from its atmosphere that it is an item shop?" They take note of something on top of the counter.

The 4th panel is from inside a town. There's something about Shin and a star in the town. You can see the roofs of a magic shop and item shop.

That's all I can do off the top of my head.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

How are people getting on with advance wars? I'm thinking I shold maybe pick it up while I'm here (cos it's cheaper in the US than in the UK) but I never got round to playing any of the previous games. How does the DS version compare?

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

it's time!!
http://sonspring.com/images/19.gif

― c7n (Cozen), Saturday, 22 October 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

GBA slot memory card

― c7n (Cozen), Saturday, 22 October 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

I was actually wondering last night, why Nintendogs didn't let you draw your own little avatar. It gives you the choice of various ages, male and female, but would be so much better if you could just draw them yourself.

― melton mowbray (adr), Saturday, 22 October 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

have you seen the leaked spanish videos of mario kart DS? one of them shows you can design the motif for the front of your kart... I guess it's a nice little touch... the game looks great, btw...

― c7n (Cozen), Saturday, 22 October 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

also: polarium's hi-score input is stylus-drawn as is the file-name in castlevania

― c7n (Cozen), Saturday, 22 October 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

so... unexpected tax rebate... uh... should i get one of these?

is the screen(s) big enough?

can you do fun hacky stuff with it?

warez?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 23 October 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

Oooh, I can't think of a better excuse! If it's hacky stuff you're into though (and big screens), you might want to wait for one of these babies (though they're something completely different entirely. I had the GP2X's baby brother, the GP32 a few years ago, and if that's anything to go by then this one'll be incredible. It's made for emulation.

That said, you can do a lot of stuff with the DS too, from what I've heard, such as Linux and other homebrew stuff. Thing is, the actual commercial games are good enough that you don't really have to bother with all that to get fun out of it.

Re: warez, I'm not an expert on the subject, but can't you download pretty much every GBA rom ever released, and play them on some kind of flash GBA cart in your DS?

― melton mowbray (adr), Sunday, 23 October 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

ok i just read about this TOTALLY NEW super mario bros game. i'm sold.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

haha, it is actually called "NEW Super Mario Bros" isn't it?

― melton mowbray (adr), Sunday, 23 October 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

yeah!!

oh man and ADVANCE WARS... 1&2 on the GBA were real faves of mine

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

must... own...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

so here's the games i'm gonna get, right away or in the first few months:

mario 64 (this is good right?)
advance wars
NEW SUPER MARIO IF IT'S OUT

maybe mario kart? is it substantially better than the GBA version?

what else?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Mario 64 was excellent. I'd complain about it being a re-hash and all, but it's a re-hast of one of my favourite games ever! I still haven't gotten all the stars on the DS version though - the 100 coins ones were killing me.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 24 October 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I got all 150 mario stars, but still pop it in now and again just for 2 or 3 of the minigames, which are always worth playing.

Shouldn't Advance Wars be called DS Wars, now?

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

VERY TRUE.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

it's called famicom wars in japan!! go figure

― c7n (Cozen), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

is there going to be a zelda?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

How did they work the 3D in Mario 64 DS? I never played that game on the n64, so the prospect of playing it is a big incentive for me to get/borrow a DS (or encourage someone I know to get one, slutsky). I tried once at a friend's house when the 64 first came out, but I wasn't used to 3D controls and I was on mushrooms, so I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on and spent like an hour tweaking and pinching Mario's face in the intro screen instead.

Kind of funny, come to think of it, that mushrooms were what I happened to be on when I played that game.

― antexit (antexit), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

xpost: There's a Zelda game for DS in production, but I think it's more Four Swords than Ocarina. Though imagine if they ported THAT fucker???

― antexit (antexit), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

hahaha! i was going to say!

I never played that game on the n64, so the prospect of playing it is a big incentive for me to get/borrow a DS

(this is my reasoning exactly)

(xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 October 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

i gotta try that weirdo mario/luigi rpg for GBA

or just wait for the DS version to come out

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 24 October 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Electroplankton to be only sold stateside via online channels and from the Nintendo World store in Manhattan, January 9th

http://www.n-sider.com/newsview.php?type=story&storyid=1466

T/S was going to probably order it online anyway vs. another excuse to get the fuck out of DC.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm quite looking forward to the American release of Electroplankton, because I've got a feeling all the English FAQs on gamefaqs are suddenly going to be bursting with new tips and things to do. I might be wrong though, as there's hardly any written Japanese in game, and the manual's mostly written in pretty pictures too. It's not as if that hasn't been translated by fans, either.

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

THERE'S A NINTENDO WORLD STORE IN MANHATTAN!?!?!?

Wow.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I got advance wars btw. It's started out very cute but I'm worried it'll get hard, fast.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

it gets hard, fast.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

only two weeks till the DS goes online btw

anyone down for some online mario kart throwdowns?

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/614/614237/new-super-mario-bros-20050515005346351.jpg

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

did anyone else see that extra songs have been released for daigasso band brothers on a GBA cart?! so impressed with nintendo lately

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

xposts!

You betcha! Is it coming out in the UK at the same time as America, or will we have to import? (and will this work?)

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

the DS has completely blurred the import-domestic lines for me... because it is region-free it seems that most retailers have just been buying in the imports and selling them... castlevania, AW... I'm not sure if these are even out in the UK yet but I see them in all the shops... to answer yr question MM I'll just buy MK from the usual place and I'm assured the US version will work wi-fi within the UK

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

did anyone else see that extra songs have been released for daigasso band brothers on a GBA cart?! so impressed with nintendo lately

what does this mean?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Fantastic! I'll import too them. OTM about the import-domestic thing, it's fantastic. I'll pop down to the local games shop tomorrow and see if they're importing the USB adapter. If not, I guess it's a job for the internet. Any idea how much it's going to be? (xpost)

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

what's the USB good for?

man, i'm pretty psyched. i guess i picked exactly the right time to buy a DS huh?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

If I understand correctly, it's so you can connect to your home broadband connection with the gameboy if you don't have wifi (we don't). If I can't get hold of that, I'll just have to find a pub that's got free access.

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

daigasso band brothers is a rhythm/music game for the DS which was very popular and apparently pretty great, slocki, and it seems that the developers/nintendo have been so clever that they have released an expansion (!!) to the original game via a game boy advance cart... I don't know the specifics cos I only read about it in a side-bar in EDGE but an informed guess would seem to suggest that you can load in the new songs and rhythm-patterns into daigasso DS via the GBA expansion cart... which although not alluring on its own if you've not got daigasso it hints at the possibilities for the DS' games when you think and start to realise that the GBA cart can be used as another input, kinda like the memory-card slots on regular consoles... nintendo always promised extra peripherals applied via the GBA... we're just starting to see them trickle through (see the GBA-cart rumble-pak pictured above)... (there's been hints at a GBA-cart memory card too)

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

that is totally cool.

should i wait for mario kart to drop to buy my DS? you think they'll have some package dealy?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

holy shit, the tracklist for daigasso:

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-2c-74-632b-29-text-44-ci.html

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

dragostea. din. tei!

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

should i wait for mario kart to drop to buy my DS? you think they'll have some package dealy? Definitely, I think I read somewhere (or saw a picture) that they've got a bright red one coming out with Mario Kart.

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I just noticed a post of mine upthread to kingfish, where a) I made out he'd misunderstood me when he hadn't, b) accidentally insulted him when I was actually calling myself a fanboy and typo'd. I hope I was wasted at the time, I can't even recall posting it.

Sorry about that, kingfish!

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

do you think that'll mean a deep-dish discount? or just the pride of owning a bright red ds (which sounds kinda gross)?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm I'm not sure. I'm not even sure how much DS's are now actually. I know mine was Â£90 on it's own when I got it, and a friend of mine bought a special blue Nintendogs one with the game for Â£90 last week. I imagine the Mario Kart one would be Â£90 too, but whether that's the same price as the console is normally, I don't know.

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

re: red DS!

http://www.gizmodo.com/images/DS_HotRodRedhw-thumb.jpg

It's not quite as gross as it sounds!

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

still PRETTY gross!!

if that means i don't have to pay for mario kart, i might do it--if it means i save $10... i might not.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Zi Corporation Licenses Decuma Handwriting Recognition to Nintendo Co., Ltd. for Nintendo DS

the software comes "Totally recommended... you just gotta have good handwriting" apparently

Wowies

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

6. Posted Oct 26, 2005, 3:14 PM ET by Mr.Wiggles

Am I the only one who looked at that mouth on Peach and had some not so clean thoughts?

So tiggggghtt...mmmmmmmmhhhmmm yeahhhhhh mhhhhmmmmm

7. Posted Oct 26, 2005, 3:31 PM ET by weaszel

Mr. Wiggles, I think that would have to be a yes.
http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000050979.JPG?0.23874234770671499

― c7n (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

excuse me?!

― c7n (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Man, that Robitussin-coloured DS looks terrible.

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

i know!!

but i might end up buying it!!

what's the street date anyway?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

You're going to look like a real star playing that thing.

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Hey, it comes with a hot decal set! You'll be the coolest 29-year-old in town!

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/kenjuggle3/Dcp_3887.jpg

― c7n (Cozen), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

mine is blue:

http://img.engadget.com/common/images/4341358581402224.JPG?0.24812921791132736

i don't really care about the colour one way or another but the blue one was the only one i cld get as part of a £99 nintendogs pack.

I bought super mario 64 ds today, i was worried about analoguelessness but it seems to be working out pretty well, plus different characters but, so far, the same levels is an enjoyable twist.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Heh, the hitler pic was taken on MY ds!

Advance wars is kicking my arse, and I'm only up to mission 11. :(

I visited the Nintendo World Store today! They seemed to have a grand total of about 5 customers all the time I was in there. I wanted to try out metroid pinball with the rumble thingy but they didn't have a demo pod for it. I forgot to take my own DS. They've not got much there, really.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to look COOL with my red DS!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

I am also going to buy a red DS/mario kart package, and I will like it. There's nothing wrong with red.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

d'you think it'd be possible to patch games over the DS wi-fi?

what I'd like is a version of AW mutliplayer online with turn notification, a la redhotpawn.com, please nintendo

― c7n (Cozen), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Advance Wars has the most perfect difficulty of any game I can think of, always challenging without ever getting really frustrating.

Will someone sell me a GBA, actually? I wanna play Fire Emblem.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

OMG! We should totally have a DS drawing competition via camera and the internet.

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Dudes who has checked out the Mario & Luigi Sequel coming this november?
Like wo
http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2005/297/928290_20051025_screen011.jpg http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2005/135/928290_20050516_screen004.jpg http://img.gamespot.com/gamespot/images/2005/135/928290_20050516_screen004.jpg

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

anyway the important thing is not that I posted the second screenshot twice. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE FIRST PICTURE?

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

caterpillar is drinking a glass of milk that goes through its ass to power two UFOs?!

― c7n (Cozen), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Brilliant!

Both the new Mario DS platformers look like second rate PC games (in a good way).

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

let's hope this is as good as 'michigan'

did anyone play killer7?

― c7n (Cozen), Friday, 28 October 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

those mario kart videos

― c7n (Cozen), Friday, 28 October 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes, a friend brought his cube over recently and I had a game of it! Seemed very, very good. Another game that makes me wonder why I don't have a Gamecube yet.

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 28 October 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Killer 7 is out on ps2 as well.

― jeffrey (johnson), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

i don't think i'm going to wait for mario kart as

a) future shop is selling the silver ones for $20 off
b) that's probably what i'd save by waiting
c) i don't wanna wait till mid-november, esp as i have at least one train ride in my future

just FYI guys

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 29 October 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

i want to sell my GBA and buy a DS

― captin crunchheart (dr g), Saturday, 29 October 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

weird... my DS has fixed itself... now I can play advance wars, without worrying about being caught short... how you getting on jim? on my last save I got stuck at mission 20... finding my second play through pretty easy and have steamed ahead to mission 11...

― c7n (Cozen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Killer 7 is out on ps2 as well.

It is, but someone, somewhere along the line told me it was nothing on the Cube version, a la Viewtiful Joe. Of course, they could have been fibbing.

― melton mowbray (adr), Saturday, 29 October 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

how you getting on jim?

I think I'm on something like mission 15 now - pipes to the east, sea to the south, more of them than me and I've got no bases. It hammered me frist time round but I've not had a second go yet. The worst thing about advance wars is that you can play it in bed, theoretically having "one quick go before I fall asleep" and then suddenly it's 5am. This happened last night, and I had to get up at 8.00 this morning. When my alarm went off, my dream-state brain started getting really worried that I didn't have enough turns left to do the things I needed to get done before I left the house, and it took about ten minutes for my conscious mind to step in and say "HEY! REAL LIFE ISN'T TURN BASED YOU IDIOT!". It was a very weird and worrying experience.

I can't get ANYWHERE in the war room either, it seems insanely hard in there...

― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 30 October 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

I never played the war room in the first two games. is it... good?

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 30 October 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

i got my ds!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Woohoo! What game(s) did you get?

― melton mowbray (adr), Sunday, 30 October 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

woohoo indeed!

i only got super mario 64, because

1) it was the only one i wanted at future shop
2) even if it hadn't been i didn't want to give FS any more money and reward them for their supremely shitty service

as a real mario maniac i've always been curious about mario 64. so far i'm still getting used to the whole mario-in-3d thing (i'm kind of a platformer rockist that way). but seems good so far.

the sound really is remarkably good, isn't it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

I feel a bit of a pain always posting on the DS thread : /

...but advance wars is massive, in terms of things to do...

really the only £30 you need to spend after you get your DS

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 30 October 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

I've been playing the AW combat mode this afternoon. It's a bit daft, but mostly fun. The gameplay is nice and old school, and there's still a little strategy element in there too, and I guess if it'd been released as a stand alone game 15 years ago people would've loved it.

― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 30 October 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

advance wars is DEFINITELY my next purchase. like i said i was a huge fan of the original two. so... excited! especially after what cozen just said.

still getting used to mario... does anyone do the touchpad thing with the wrist strap? it's actually a pretty good analog joystick manqué. but... i guess i'm not really a 3D running around videogames kinda guy so much... or at least that's not why i bought the DS. on portable systems those kinds of games are not my favourite thing! but still, i'm having fun with it.

boy that was a rambling paragraph!!

what have we learned?

1) i like mario 64
2) but it's not my favourite thing
3) i'm looking forward to advance wars
4) and mario kart
5) and ESPECIALLY new super mario
6) and should i get the sims or will i get bored of it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 31 October 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm really curious about the Sims, but I don't think I should splash out on it with Nintendogs still taking up so much of my time.

I think Mario 64 was just a really clever way to break people like me into the DS. I already knew the game really well, so it was just a matter of getting used to controlling him with the touch screen. Great game though!

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 31 October 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

I will not get used to controlling him with the touch screen, ever. I wish i could.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 31 October 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Nintendo of Europe spills the beans.

In an interview wit Meristation.com (online Spanish magazine), Jim Merrick of NoE confirmed the friend chat in Mario Kart DS, as well as a bunch of info about Revolution:

"If you don't know the people you are playing with, you won't be able to chat with them, to protect the privacy of the young users. On the other hand, if you play against a friend you'll be able to chat. Every DS has a MAC code, and you'll have to give this code to your friends to be able to play and chat with them."

- Nintendo of Europe will set up over 25,000 wi-fi hotspots across Europe.

- The USB Wi-fi adapter will available on Nov 25th at 39.95 €. This adapter will be compatible with both DS & Revolution.

- Revolution will launch worlwide within a 14 week window.

- LAN multiplayer in Revolution will be similar to DS's download & play function. Needing only one copy of the game.

- You'll be able to download retro games from all regions (for instance, a European user could download Super Mario RPG from the US server).

- N64 games will have better framerate on Revolution but there won't be significant graphical improvements.

- No Revolution games will be shown in 2005.

- There won't be any significant differences in the graphics of Revolution compared to Xbox 360 and PS3.

― c7n (Cozen), Monday, 31 October 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

WE GONNA PARTY RIGHT?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

LIKE IT'S 1996!!

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

i can't find advance wars anywhere :(

hey will we be able to play THAT over wifi?? OMG

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Man, I feel left out. I want to play games on the train every day and contribute meaningfully to this thread. But I need to try really hard to avoid impulse buying a DS, because I am poor and Christmas is not that far away. And yet so fucking far away.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

i got mine on sale!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

only possibility advance wars is playable over wi-fi is if they somehow release an expansion pack for it or patch it over wi-fi to integrate that

AW:DS normal campaign is a lot easier than than the GBA AWs... although that's not surprising given that AW2 was absolutely nails... I still haven't beat the final battle in AW1, cos I always end up with the weak combination of COs... : /

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I just finished mission 20! After about 15 attempts. And now it's four in the morning. Sheesh.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm through to mission 17 now... and dreading mission 20 again... I have problems managing more than one army at a time... and I'm not entirely sure how to beat that map yet

― c7n (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

heads up s1ocki

― c7n (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

DROOL

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

According to a translation at 4 color rebellion, the two-player mode will be mostly competitive, but with just a touch of competition

Do they mean "mostly cooperative, but with just a touch of competition"? If so, that sounds great, like Mario 3 two-player!

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

BACK TO DRUNK ADVANCE WARS

― c7n (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

ANTEXIT FOUND ADVANCE WARS FOR ME... THANK YOU ANTEXIT!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

That new Mario looks awesome! But why can't I get used to the way polygonal characters look in a 2-D game? I always hate it!

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Yes! (xp)

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

is antexit... a real person?

― do you know each time you access the internet... it gets logged against you (Coz, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

not the other vaudeville dude, surely?!

― do you know each time you access the internet... it gets logged against you (Coz, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

no he's my buddy!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

hi antexit!!! how is montreal?? and you only found advance wars so yyou could play it, RIGHT?!

― radio pyongyang and the pytlik sisters (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

AM I RIGHT?

― radio pyongyang and the pytlik sisters (Cozen), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

he has a PSP!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

But I did at least partly find Advance Wars so I could play it, on Slutsky's DS during some inevitable swapperoo.

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Eventually I will have to get this advance wars crap you people keep talking about. Damn it.

Though I have to disagree with cozen about playing GBA games on the thing. As much as it might sometimes be annoying to have one of the screens blank all the time, I can't imagine playing for very long on the gba sp or the micro, way way too narrow for my hands. The DS is close to ideal.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

ok, does anybody else have this problem:

my DS shut down w/o warning (the light didn't turn red). so i plugged it in, assuming that it was out of juice, but i still couldn't turn the thing on! five minutes or so later, it started working again.

has anyone else experienced this? or should i bring my unit back to future shop and get it replaced?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 3 November 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

might as well return it

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I have no idea what you're on about at all. Sounds like bad news.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

luckily FS has a no-questions-asked return/exchange policy!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

unluckily that probably means i'm going to have spend 20 minutes trying to flag down one of their douchebag floor reps to open the locked gameboy case for me

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 3 November 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

yeah I've never heard of that either : /

― radio pyongyang and the pytlik sisters (Cozen), Thursday, 3 November 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

ok it's exchanged. that was painless

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

The two-week wait for the DS to go online (not to mention for the AVALANCHE of killer-app games coming out on the 14th/15th) is KILLING me.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

And me, though I'll have to wait ten days or so longer, as I've found I can get a substantial discount if I buy the UK version.

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

what else is in that avalanche besides mario kart?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 4 November 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

mario kart DS (online), mario & luigi RPG, & animal crossing DS (online)?

― radio pyongyang and the pytlik sisters (Cozen), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

mario kart is shaping up to actually overtake the SNES version for quality... see the link tom posted in the games-testers thread

― radio pyongyang and the pytlik sisters (Cozen), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

mario & luigi rpg (which i am excited for... tho i didn't play the first one) is at the end of the month, i think?

what's the deal with animal crossing?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

it's addiction in your pocket, I think

― radio pyongyang and the pytlik sisters (Cozen), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

"nintendogs for gamers" (c)someone else

― c7n (Cozen), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Keep in mind I am a perfectionist who has yet to play a game developed specifically for the DS

As much as I love the platform, as soon as I realized that it could be improved simply by adding a 1" nylon twine strap to the stylus, I became more rockist than you could ever imagine

Since then, I am determined to ignore all DS games until there comes along such a combination of protagonist and plotline combinacion irrest9blE!!

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 5 November 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

i'm kind of shocked you haven't tried advance wars yet!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 November 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

s!oki are you blasted?

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 5 November 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

mario kart is shaping up to actually overtake the SNES version for quality... see the link tom posted in the games-testers thread

I may be wrong, but I don't think the SNES Mario Kart had that "rubberband-ing." The later ones might, but that one always felt legit to me.

― The Yellow Kid, Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

SNES was like a rubber factory!!!

― radio pyongyang and the pytlik sisters (Cozen), Saturday, 5 November 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

Ah c'mon, advance wars is yes, my favourite DS game yet, but...it's not really a DS game. It feels better without the stylus. It could've been on the GBA. I mean, I actually understand now why it's not called DS Wars.

But yeah, MK...yum. No point importing, I'll just have to get a UK one on release day. Hey, we should ready ourselves for the friend-code (ie MAC address) swapping that we'll need to all race each other!

― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 6 November 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

The Mario Kart DS producer also highlights the cultural hurdle of convincing Japanese gamers that online Karting is the way to go. He admits to some surprises in the game, including ”… something” [his words] that will help gamers recognize elite racers from those who need a lot of work. The interview also includes some minor technical questions with the game (such as why you can’t drag items behind you in online mode) and concludes with a rather audacious claim: that Mario Kart DS may finally surpass the SNES Mario Kart as the best in the series. Only time will tell.

― soul provider (Cozen), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

actual interesting part of tht quote not emboldened

― soul provider (Cozen), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

guys who knows how many levels there are in advance wars campaign mode?? i'm already at 19 & if it ends soon i'll be sad

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

it's like 26/7 I think... plus there are the side missions you get if you find the new maps/research plans by capturing certain buildings

― soul provider (Cozen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm up to number 23, and it's not going to end any time soon cos this one's a right bugger.

But according to the faqs I've skimmed, it looks like finishing campaign mode opens up a new, harder campaign anyway. Raa.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

is it like the first one where the new campaign is just the old campaign but on a harder setting?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh, erm...possibly. I hope not though, it's bloody hard enough as it is. :(

(Just got my arse kicked by mission 23 AGAIN, and each play through is taking me an hour, grr).

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

i'm playing the map with a million enemy forces each with 1 health, and lots of crystals. it's a really fun challenge.

should we just have an advance wars thread??

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Should I go out and buy this game? Is this a really stupid question? I can't really afford it, but I will do if I have to.

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

yes.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Anyone know anywhere online that's cheap for DS games? Play.com have AW for £25 delivered, which doesn't seem too bad. Is there anywhere that has it cheaper?

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

OK, I bit the bullet and put down a $25 deposit on the DS/Mario Kart bundle. If I just keep eating $3 lunches for the next two weeks, everything will be fine.

When Mario Kart goes live for wifi, we should organize some ILG games!

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Three cheers for Laura!

I can't wait for ILG Mario Kart, but it looks like I'm going to have to shell out another £25 for the wifi USB stick as we've not gone wireless yet. Perhaps I can find a hotspot in town, or sit outside someone's house and piggyback on their connection until I can afford the stick too.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I might have asked this before, but I can't find the answer: I know the DS supports old GBA games, but can it connect to a Gamecube like a GBA does?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 5 December 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

My hands are way too big for a nintedo DS. It feels very uncomfortable.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I think the DS is pretty perfect for my hands most of the time... although in Mario Kart I sometimes have trouble pushing the Y button for the map while holding down the A button because my fingers are too small. I have to let go to hit it or take my left hand off the directional controllers.

― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

i have to do that too. and i have big hands!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

I have to do that too!

My ring and pinkie fingers have nowhere to grasp the DS.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH JAPAN HANDS (ex machina), Monday, 5 December 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

I use my tounge! (I know, hygiene and what-not.)

― melton mowbray (adr), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000057319.GIF?0.642478552344788

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

haha! The middle one in the right column is me. What wrong with doing that?

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 8 December 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

DO NOT CHUCK YR DS ON TEH FIRE!!
DO NOT STAB YRSELF IN MOUTH WITH TEH PLASTIC STICK!!
DO NOT FUCKING SMASH SCREEN, OK!?!?

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

DO NOT BALANCE DS ON TOP OF A DOOR TO TRAP BURGLARS!!

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 9 December 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

don't reach for DS

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO GIVE DS POT SHOTGUNS

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 9 December 2005 04:17 (twenty years ago)

Don't even think about swinging your DS around by the strap. Are you fucking mental?

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 9 December 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

Don't drive on the left-hand side of the road!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 9 December 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

...and whatever you do - don't feed the DS after midnight.

― melton mowbray (adr), Friday, 9 December 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

Don't make your DS angry. You wouldn't like it when it's angry.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

The DS should NOT be carried around by inserting into an orifice.

― kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Also, the DS is like the only gamer thing I want for christmas. I work a subcontractor job where I have to wait around a lot for other assdragging subcontractors to get their shit down. being able to play castlevania and that remixed River City Ransom thing would be great.

― kingfish trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Upcoming DS games I'm looking forward to:

- Metroid Prime: Hunters (I usually hate all console FPSes, but it seems that they may have stumbled onto a control scheme that makes enough sense to my motor-skills cortex that I really really really wanna play it. And of course, the wifi mode should be great, or at least until I actually go online and start getting massacred by 13-year olds)

- Electroplankton (I hate the fact that it's only being sold through online channels since it's the definition of the kind of game I pick up "while I'm in the store" and then turn out to love. But it seriously looks like it could be something unique and awesome, so I wannit.)

- New Super Mario Brothers, Super Princess Peach (2d platformers from Nintendo - I mean duh.)

- Ultimate Brain Games (simple chess/checkers/backgammon/etc + wifi. Makes way too much sense not to get.)

- Black Bass Fishing (Playing Animal Crossing has made me want a good fishing game for the first time in my life, and apparently the Black Bass series is a pretty decent one. This could be insane with the touchpad. I'm still

- Bleach (FOUR PLAYER WIFI FIGHTING GAME MADE BY TREASURE OMG. I'm sure I'll probably get no further than %75 through it, as is always the case with me and Treasure games, but MAN this should be great)

And I'm still mulling over picking up Mario & Luigi and Metroid Pinball (mostly for the rumble pack to use with M&L, although a good pinball game is pretty inexhaustible). I'm also sorely tempted by Band Brothers and Ouendan even though I am TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE at rhythm games.

I can't say enough good things about this system. If only they could come up with an unloseable stylus, it'd be perfect!

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

playing gba games...

TS: top screen or bottom?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 December 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

I switched from bottom to top. It makes things feel a little less stupid.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Too bad you can't play TWO GAMES AT ONCE.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

i must be a dunderhead because i can't figure out if the image is smaller on the top screen than the bottom

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Jordan, I pre-empted you with my email address! Pwn3D!!!

I would totally load up both Fire Emblems and Bobby Fischer that shit.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Haha!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

there's two fire emblems?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/b7/92/5031024128a0cfddc4de7010.M.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007ZSHOY.01._PE3_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

oh shit i had no idea!

my brother got me the second one there for chanukkah. pretty good so far but lots of text boxes.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

The text boxes are like the main part of the game! If you have two characters fight within 3 squares of one another for enough turns you get to access extra special dialogue and it gives you a "support bonus" to stuff. It's like some kind of gay tactical dating sim.

If they don't "localize" Pokemon: Fushigi No Dungeon and DQ: Slime Mori Mori for English-reading DS owners I'm going to be, well, I'm going to be like I always am, basically angry at the world's fundamental inability to give me everything I want. What the fuck, earthlings.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, the "support conversations"!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

The most potentially entertaining screenshot I have ever seen

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

please tell me what that is.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

never mind i figured it out

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Electroplankton is backordered at Gamestop and EBGames! :(

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Availability: Usually ships within 2 to 3 days

Shipping estimate: March 12, 2006
Delivery estimate: March 16, 2006 - March 20, 2006 (More about estimates)

OK AMAZON

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I am on this

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)

it is some BULL SHIT that I can't walk into a store and buy this.

Also I've been reading a lot of stuff about Touch Golf that makes me want it powerfully.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 05:08 (twenty years ago)

Also, Phoenix Wright seems to have gone out of print (at least in the US), so y'all might want to buy it if you see it.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Boo! I was going to wait until I went to the US in March to get that!

From Nintendo: MULTIPLAYER WIRELESS TETRIS.

Touch-Controlled, Wi-Fi-Ready Tetris DS Falls into Place on March 20

Some modes give players special Tetris puzzles to solve. Others feature
head-to-head action between two players, or massive wireless battles between
10 DS users, even if only one player has a game card. Players also can log
onto Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to compete in two- or four-player battles.
Tetris DS even includes a point-based rating system based on players' battle
results. Opponents can see one another's ratings, which indicate their skill
levels.

HELL YES!

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:29 (twenty years ago)

i've had electroplankton for a month now, and while its a beautiful thing etc it really isnt more than a demo of the capabilities of the ds. i'm even considering selling my import copy while its still worth something (the headphones were rubbish of course)

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

I was just about to post that about Tetris DS. Yet another game to add to the arm-long list of upcoming DS titles to buy, GAWD.

Speaking of which - anyone else excited for Touch Golf? I'm unbothered by the lack of frills since I already own Mario Golf Advance for that, and the swinging mechanic described sounds like a really on-the-ball use for the stylus.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

I want a DS, but I want one for like $80. Or for someone to give me one.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Ultimate Brain Games & Ultimate Card Games were both pushed back six-plus months. I for one think this is a field-goal-kick to the balls, seeing as how they were going to be wi-fi enabled and lord knows I lurve the games that I can just idly play. On the plus side, I guess this means I don't have to balance anything else out of the budget since I found Phoenix Wright in an EBGames the other day. DS is still KILLING my wallet, though.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 12 January 2006 09:57 (twenty years ago)

rainbow islands revolution. i'm not sure about this. it features all of the original levels and music and bad guys except they've switched the game play up so instead of ascending the screens and trapping enemies with your rainbows, you fall down the screen and draw rainbows with the stylus yoshi touch & go style. i'm not sure about this. especially since taito fucked up bubble bobble ds so monumentally. NOM (rip) gave it a good review, and i'm sure it will be cool, but i was kind of hoping for a straight conversion with new shit and some kind of tentative touch screen uh stuff.

oh and let's talk about how great LOST IN BLUE looks.

― rio natsume, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

what that

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

after screwing me on the GBA with the whole SP debacle

the bastards have done it again

http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/683/683684/redesigned-nintendo-ds-revealed-20060126000945978.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

This one is supposed to be smaller, rght? I don't know if my massive manhands could grip the thing.

http://www.rintinaby.co.uk/images/Tufty%20dance.jpg

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad I waited!

Although I still haven't heard about any games that really make me want to get a DS (Mario Kart is great and all, but I'm not very good at it).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

well how do you ever expect to get good at it if you won't even try?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I play it on GBA sometimes!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 January 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

My hands are too big for the PSP

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

What is that, some kind of euphemism?

― antexit (antexit), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

That makes me imagine Jon as having big blocky club-like hands like the characters from Final Fantasy 7.

http://www.juegomania.org/Final+Fantasy+VII/fotos/psone/0/576_t/Foto+Final+Fantasy+VII.jpg

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Ive become addicted to DS Sims2, even though it is nothing like Sims, and is a bit crap. Its addictive tho! How do y'all handle long sessions though? Its so hard to hold the damn thing and mash the touchpad without ending up with hand crampage :(

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 29 January 2006 04:25 (twenty years ago)

i don't really play button-mashy games

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 29 January 2006 05:55 (twenty years ago)

Normally neither do I, but sadly Sims2 is little more than this - they took the concept and simplified it so much that (for eg) conversations with another NPC sim is reduced to mashing one of 3 button options. Mindless. As is "X object has been stolen from player! Go find it!". So you go into the desert, and it is ALWAYS IN THE SAME SPOT.

It wasnt made by Maxis, and boy does it show.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 29 January 2006 06:10 (twenty years ago)

Yea, the PSP sims 2 is a bit crap also..... and makes Tombot's "LOADING..." criticism totally valid. What a turd.

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone excited about Resident Evil DS? I'm not, because, you know, I don't have a DS, but it looks cool.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

what's the best way to clean the screen you think?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 February 2006 06:15 (twenty years ago)

Ive been wiping it with a glasses cloth. I mash the touchscree with my thumbs, its too fiddly using the stylus.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 February 2006 07:58 (twenty years ago)

When I lost my last stylus I went out and bought a pack, which came with a FREE DS CLEANING CLOTH! It's a glasses cloth :)

Trayce, you're probably better off using your thumbs. To be honest, I would if everything I played weren't so damn small. My screen's not in a good way after Warioware/XXXY stylus action.

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 2 February 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

i use my shirt to clean my screens.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 3 February 2006 02:57 (twenty years ago)

meteos!!! yes I'm late to the party but hot damn. that is some frantic shit!

― rez one-bagger (haitch), Friday, 3 February 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

I HATE THIS SIMS 2 GAME.

I'm at one of the last bits and there are these crims skulking round the hotel on a crime spree. HOW DO YOU STOP THEM??? I have no tools at my disposal that get rid of them and the minute you go anywhere near them, you get scared and piss yourself and end up back in your hotel room. WTF?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 3 February 2006 04:14 (twenty years ago)

Super Princess Peach later this month! !!!

― adam (adam), Friday, 3 February 2006 04:20 (twenty years ago)

I think I won't need a home console any time soon. between meteos, mario kart, advance wars and EXCITEBIKE (yeah yeah ok I wanted something to keep the other slot full) I'm only playing DS at the moment. and I have electroplankton on order! and then tetris and a new mario!

a version of pro evo would be nice tho.

― rez one-bagger (haitch), Friday, 3 February 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

Sims2 started to piss me off so now I'm playing Zelda Minish Cap on it.

I think Nick is secretly doing a Monty Burns hand-dance and grin at my burgeoning gamerdom argh.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 February 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)

... secretly?

I was saying "One of us!", like, all night!

― PlayfulPuppy (playfulpuppy), Monday, 6 February 2006 01:23 (twenty years ago)

i saw electroplankton in a store yesterday. SO tempted but broke

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 6 February 2006 01:56 (twenty years ago)

...I'm already stuck on poopy minish cap :( I'm hopeless! I always need walkthroughs after like 2 levels!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 6 February 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

Just got Phoenix. Kinda fun!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 February 2006 06:53 (twenty years ago)

Haha Trayce, I'm the same. I'm playing Viewtiful Joe at the moment, and it's driving me insane. Every time I get to a boss I have to squint at gamefaqs with one eye to get the gist of what I'm supposed to be doing without ruining the fun. Of course, this doesn't belong in the DS thread, so I'll pretend I'm playing the DS version.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 6 February 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

i saw electroplankton in a store yesterday.

!!!!! Are they selling it in stores now?

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 9 February 2006 06:28 (twenty years ago)

I beat Ouendan, and am currently playing Phoenix Wright (on Episode 4). I play Electroplankton on and off.

― Harpal (harpal), Thursday, 9 February 2006 09:39 (twenty years ago)

james--this is in canada, maybe they're retailing it differently here

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 February 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.australian-postcodes.com/DS-money-fast.gif

― it does for them, Monday, 13 February 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

electroplankton arrives TOMORROW.

― weekly handle change (haitch), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/3/scroogemciwata7lo.jpg

― inert false cat (sleep), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Yo the Tony Hawk DS game is way better than I expected. Best TH game since 2.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

MARIO IN MAY MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

ds lite

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Opera Browser for use with Nintendo Wi-Fi.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

now we're talking

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Who is selling this in America?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

electroplankton still hasn't arrived yet, I am saaaad.

― doctor wu-tang clan analog brothers (haitch), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:59 (twenty years ago)

where did you order it from? i cancelled my super-delayed amazon order and went straight through nintendo.com; it arrived in 4 or 5 days.

― inert false cat (sleep), Friday, 17 February 2006 07:04 (twenty years ago)

i kinda want to try before i buy with electroplankton

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 17 February 2006 07:30 (twenty years ago)

where did you order it from?

I went in on a friend's order (a bulk order, for dreamcast maracas!) from play-asia.com. it probably got delivered to work on my day off on friday.

― WROFLMOTHER (haitch), Sunday, 19 February 2006 03:13 (twenty years ago)

I think I want a ds lite:
http://www.4colorrebellion.net/media/pics/06/03/ds_compare01_s.jpg

― Greig (treefell), Saturday, 4 March 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

mario + luigi partners in time has been a serious TREAT.
Go get it.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 March 2006 05:44 (twenty years ago)

And can anyone address how I'd go about getting that Opera browser?
Did it manifest? Does it require L33t Sk1LL5 to operate?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 March 2006 07:05 (twenty years ago)

its not available anywhere yet. there is a very basic linux browser available (i havent tried it yet) http://www.dslinux.org/blogs/pepsiman/

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 5 March 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.revo-europe.com/news.php?nid=8681

― anonymous celebrity (anonymous celebrity), Sunday, 5 March 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

woah if there's seriously that much difference in the screen brightness between standard DS and lite, I'm trading up.

electroplankton finally turned up. one of the "levels" is like phillip glass for kids! I also created a rudimentary "under me sleng teng" cover with the mic on another level.

― electrogrouse (haitch), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

This board has basically functioned as a huge ad for the Nintendo DS, tell me to GET IT GET IT GET IT GET IT.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

no love for the recently-announced-for-April Brain Training? That's a first-day instabuy for me, which makes three in three months for Nintendo.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

tell me why!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Because low-impact games that make you feel productive are the straw that stirs the drink of my sad little life, and Brain Training sounds like it's the alpha and omega of that. Basically it's a game of little mental workouts - not so much brainteasers as math problems, spatial relationships, that kind of thing. I realize that I'm making it sound like Nintendo Presents Homework, but seeing as how (1) it sold like crazy in Japan and (2) we're talking about Nintendo here, I have absolute unchecked faith in this one.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

i must admit i'm intrigued.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Nintendo Presents Homework

If this had been the case, I'd have made it through school.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

But it seemed like my school was in cahoots with Electronic Arts instead.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

OK, you win. I got one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 16 March 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

awesome! games?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 16 March 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting for DS Lite/Mario.

Btw, is this our thread to talk about GBA games? When I was sick earlier this week I tried to get Castlevania: Circle of the Moon or Mario Tennis, but couldn't find either (or Yoshi's Island). Recommended?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Aminal Xing and Mario Kart, of course.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 16 March 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Mario Tennis I actually beat completely in a matter of weeks, and I am not so much a guy who beats video games.

DEFINITELY get Mario Golf, though - between that and True Swing for the DS, I doubt that I'll ever need to buy another golf game again (until the inevitable wi-fi game comes out). Pick-up-and-playability is crucial for me, and Mario Golf is up there with the best (actually, Mario Tennis is pretty good about that too, although nowhere near as deep). This, incidentally, is also why Wario Ware Twisted is motherfucking ESSENTIAL.

I also bought Gunstar Heroes and it's pretty good if you're in the mood to shoot any/everything.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

(Do I even want a golf game, though?)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:53 (twenty years ago)

Who doesn't want a golf game? Golf is absolutely the most effortless way to waste time at video games outside of Tetris.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 17 March 2006 05:02 (twenty years ago)

yeah i LOVE golf games. and mario golf is GREAT. i played it out of existence though :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 17 March 2006 05:27 (twenty years ago)

Martin just mentioned how great Mario Golf is too. Hm.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 17 March 2006 07:46 (twenty years ago)

Mario Golf is brilliant on both the GBC and GBA - among my favourite games. For some reason they decided not to go with the rpg-style career approach and mini games that improve your stats for the N64 and GC versions of it and both are worse off for it.

― Greig (treefell), Friday, 17 March 2006 09:15 (twenty years ago)

The bloke in the arcade shop here always tells me how great Mario Golf on the GBA is too. If it's anything like the old Gameboy one, it must be good.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

DS TETRIS IS THE FUCKING BIZNESS. I'd never played Tetris against anyone before last night, so I basically just caught beating after beating online, but then I looked up and it was four hours after I'd started playing. Needless to say, the game is a winner.

My copy of Super Princess Peach also showed up today, and so far (through the first four stages of the first world) it's pretty good - I mean, I'm obviously not far in at all, but the physics all feel right, the graphics are SNEStastic, and the screentouching, though pretty transparently gimmicky, doesn't feel tacked on. A big reason for why I'm such a slavish DS fanboy is that it brought 2D platformers back to a state of prominence, and so far - though, again, that doesn't count for much yet - SPP feels like it'll fit in that line real nice-like. Of course, once NSMB comes out, it's a one-horse race, but hey.

I also picked up a copy of Drill Dozer for GBA over the weekend and it's a pretty good side-scroller too - very Treasure-y, which is only a good thing in my book. Now I just need to find the last store on earth selling River City Ransom EX and I'll be set until Brain Training eats my life next month.

Oh, and if I have to be the only person in this thread cheerleading for True Swing Golf, so be it - that game is turning out to be quite the little time-suck. Controls are very much inspired by Hot Shot Golf, which means it's way more of a skills test than a timing-learning exercise (not that Mario Golf doesn't tower like a colossus, of course, but still).

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:03 (twenty years ago)

Zelda DS

Oh my.

(I'm going to be using my trip to America as an excuse to pick up Tetris DS, hurrah!)

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:22 (twenty years ago)

james i will definitely pick up true swing golf at some point, i'm a total ho for golf games.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

tetris DS is just fantastic.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Sunday, 16 April 2006 10:52 (twenty years ago)

I tried that Metroid mode for a while and it kind of blew my mind, a true puzzler-shmup hybrid.
The Zelda mission mode was not as rewarding as I had hoped.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 17 April 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

yeah the metroid mode is amazing. I've played push mode the most though, I think.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:05 (twenty years ago)

Zelda DS has me deciding its time I bought my own DS and stopped hogging Nick's.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 05:16 (twenty years ago)

Also, how long before I break down and start upping my cerebral circulation with Brain Age once a night

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Wow @ Tetris DS. I've had a few games online and am rubbish - does anyone want a game?

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

The most potentially entertaining screenshot I have ever seen
-- TOMBOT, December 29th, 2005 1:04 PM. (link)
please tell me what that is.
-- s1ocki, December 29th, 2005 1:07 PM. (slutsky) (link)
never mind i figured it out

-- s1ocki, December 29th, 2005 1:10 PM. (slutsky) (link)

DRAGON QUEST HEROES: ROCKET SLIME

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I think I'll pick up Tetris DS today!

I don't understand what's going on in Rocket Slime, but it looks like it must be fun.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

i think i'll pick up brain age today

i know if i buy tetris i'll never play it

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

cuz it's still... tetris! and i got bored of tetris like 15 years ago!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Oh and http://mario.nintendo.com/

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

I'd like more DS Lite, less not DS Lite pls.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

This feels more like SMB1 than SMB3 or SMW.

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Brain Age is ok in a something-you-pick-up-for-15mins-every-now-and-then way. wish there was some way to stop the Dr spouting his boring "tips" all the bloody time.

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

KATAMARI VS. RAMPAGE

― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

This feels more like SMB1 than SMB3 or SMW.

OTM

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 09:59 (twenty years ago)

So, what sorts of scores are you people getting on Tetris in standard old Marathon mode?

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

This feels more like SMB1 than SMB3 or SMW.

Ooh, now I'm interested.

I've asked colette to bring Brain Age, Tetris DS and Metroid Hunters home from the US for me! So I'll be up for online tetris, eventually. Woo!

The fact nobody here seems to be talking about metriod at all still worries me a bit though, cos it implies it's neither great nor awful, but just boring (which is worse than either).

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

The fact nobody here seems to be talking about metriod at all still worries me a bit though, cos it implies it's neither great nor awful, but just boring (which is worse than either).

I played a few multiplayer games and hated it. But I am a huge snob when it comes to FPS games, so take that as you will.

So, what sorts of scores are you people getting on Tetris in standard old Marathon mode?

I got it yesterday and played a game this morning. I think I got ~115k and level 12.

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

209k, 194 lines.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Thursday, 27 April 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

I think I am 'in the groove'.

OTOH I racked up 800-something lines on my tetris keyring on a boring car ride once, I'll never get back to that level again.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Thursday, 27 April 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Brain Age is a legit killer app. I'm pretty sure five minutes alone with it sold one of my friends on getting a DS completely - it really is simplicity defined. The handwriting recognition's screwed me a few times (although I write like I'm in the throes of a constant seizure, so for once it may only be %99.999999999 the game's fault) and the little drawing pre-warmup is kind of a pain in the ass, but this game's already working itself into my daily routine way more easily than Animal Crossing.

I've actually bought a whole bunch of DS games recently:

- Metroid Prime Pinball (I mean, it's just pinball, but it's a pretty good pinball game so far - I will be incredibly nerdy and admit to buying it mostly because I wanted the rumble pak, but the game's been getting some regular play whenever I want to play something and not care about beating it.)

- Tetris DS (obviously incredibly classic, although I barely play it and have only ever gotten annihilated on WiFi)

- Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time (meanwhile, THIS has been absolutely monopolizing my DS time since buying it. I usually hate RPGs, but the action elements in the game just rock bells, and the puzzle design has made me say "Wow, that's cool" out loud in an empty room more than once already. I should point out that I'm still really early into the game and I can already see the four-person controls being a pain in my uncoordinated ass all the way to the end [although before going on my DS spree I'd been playing 2D GBA platform games for a while, so it's not like I haven't been hurling my DS around the room anyway], but it's already a sure thing that I go out and buy the GBA Mario RPG as soon as I finish this one up.

Can't wait for New SMB (dur), but Magnetica may turn out to be a dark horse.

Also: anyone got Ouendan? I'm curious about that game, but all the reviews I read make it sound like the main selling point is All The Zaniness, which is nice but if I'm going to spend $60 on a game I'm more interested in whether or not it's fun to actually do the stuff that makes up the game.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 27 April 2006 06:25 (twenty years ago)

ok, i was in GAEM last night and i noticed that they had Nintendo BSs second hand for like 60 quid. seemed pretty bargainous. i am notorious with handhelds though. first one i ever bought was a fucking Gamegear and tbh it was gash. so i decided i would become the firt sperson in the world to part-ex a GG for a GB.
i had a pretty good relationship with my gameboy, so when the GBA came out, i blagged one for christmas that year. i didn't really use it much, i can't really put my finger on why. later that year, i bought a new car, and traded in my old car to be CRUSHED into a CUEB. a few weeks later i realised i'd left my GBA in the glovebox. aces.
so, given the above facts, SHOULD I GET A BS? i don't really travel much but the idea of gaming while i'm waiting for stuff seems fucking aces. tbh i should read this thread, but it's long and i am lazy, so sell it to me in TEN POSTS. go go gadget marketing.

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 27 April 2006 07:22 (twenty years ago)

oh and like get all basic on me, tell me the obvious stuff. i am an old man now, pretend you're convincing your dad to buy you one or something.

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 27 April 2006 07:24 (twenty years ago)

Hang on, I never even thought of part-ex-ing a GG for a DS...

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 27 April 2006 07:37 (twenty years ago)

noes, this was for a regular GB.

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 27 April 2006 07:43 (twenty years ago)

melton mowbray says:
I posted on the nintendo ds thread "so, what sorts of scores are people getting on tetris"
melton mowbray says:
when what I really wanted to say is "LOL I JUST GOT A MILLION POINTS!!!"
teh_kit! says:
hehe
melton mowbray says:
but now everyone's like "oh, a hundred thousand or so"
melton mowbray says:
I don't want to post it
teh_kit! says:
hang on a sec
teh_kit! says:
i have a solution

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:55 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHAH WTF!

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Worst solution ever.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

A million!?

People I'm not going to play Tetris DS against:
melton mowbray

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

800 lines? One million points?!?! Who are you ppl?!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

OK, I haven't really played Tetris since the NES, so someone help me out here:

1) Since when are you allowed to stall a piece by rotating it indefinitely? This seems to remove a lot of the challenge - if things get too fast you can just stall it, look at the buffer (5 or 6 pieces long now??) and plan your next few moves. I don't remember being able to do this.

2) Since when do you get the ghost indicator showing exactly where your piece will fit if you drop it? Again, I thought lining up the pieces was part of the challenge of the game.

Have these things been a part of the game for a while now or what?

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I think the stalling thing's great. It was sort of shite on the Gameboy version, where it'd reach a certain speed where the game would become unplayable so hi-scores would end. It's nice to potentially be able to go on forever with only sanity, concentration and battery life as limiting factors. I was arguing to a friend last night that this had always been in Tetris, regardless of the fact that I knew it was new. I just wanted to see if he'd believe me I guess.

The ghost thing can be turned off, and I don't know if I should! Do you get more points for playing without it, or is it purely aesthetic?

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

tetris HAX edition?

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Completely. The one thing I don't like, which is completely contradicting the above post, is that a quick game of Tetris has suddenly become an all-day event.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I like ability to keep up with the speed to be the limiting factor! But I can get used to this I guess.

I don't see anything in the instructions about getting more points for turning the ghost off. There should be though!

Let's play sometime this weekend.

xxpost

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

so tempted to get DS now

but you guys have totally put me off tetris.
GAME OF SKILL PLZ

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

http://patrick.uh-hosting.co.uk/i/tetris999.jpg

I suppose this is what happens when gods play games designed for mortals :) (the line counter is stuck on 999!)

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 28 April 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.CC/0210020

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 28 April 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

This could potentially go on forever. The levels aren't maxed out and neither is the score, so I guess I can't call it quits until I hit level 999 and score 99999999. Assuming the score multiplier's still going up, even though the game can't get any faster, the score thing's more likely to happen first and I might quit then (as it doesn't save your best level). Chances are I'll die first though anyway.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

"My doctor says I have the wrists of a 40 year old"

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 29 April 2006 00:00 (twenty years ago)

i bought a BS yesterday.

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Saturday, 29 April 2006 07:57 (twenty years ago)

Wahey! What game(s) did you get?

In "the endless game of Tetris DS" news, I'm on 7 million now, only just under 3 million to go!

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 29 April 2006 12:26 (twenty years ago)

Fuck it, the score doesn't max out at 9,999,999, it's 99,999,999, and I'm gagging to play Animal Crossing too much to sit through any more hours of this. Here's just before I hit UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP:

http://patrick.uh-hosting.co.uk/i/tetris999-2.jpg

It didn't count towards my "Tetris points" (probably for good reason, it was pretty easy to stay alive) and no one's impressed. Wasted hours :)

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 29 April 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

But hey, check out my snot encrusted DS screen! That'll be getting a clean later.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 29 April 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Jesus Christ. At what point does it start changing from Mario to Ice Climber on you?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Saturday, 29 April 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh, only somewhere between level 11-20! It cycles through all Nintendo's main 8-bit games.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

these changes to basic tetris are very alarming. wtf! is it even fun any more now that it's totally easy?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

VERY. The multiplayer with Mario Kart power-ups is perfect, and you can play with ten people using one cart!

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 29 April 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

i got teh Animal Crossing. we should visit each other and stuff!

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

finally cracked 200 and unlocked endless mode. MOWBRAY, UR GOING DOWN SON

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Yes, come visit!

Dammit though, three times now my DS has unexpectedly turned off in the middle of an AC session, and three times I have been harrangued by Mr Resetti, and I am starting to get sick of it.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

Brain Age now pwning everybody else in the Amazon.com video game top sellers! That was fast.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

MOWBRAY, UR GOING DOWN SON

oh, teh hubris!

current best: 1,178,121 points; 537 lines. won't be maxing it out any time soon tho!

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Saturday, 3 June 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

weirdly i think the game i've played most overall is Bust-A-Move DS, the pulling back on the rubber band & then release of the marbles is insanely addictive - it makes the original point & shoot seem so clumsy. now if they introduced some physics into the firing ....

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

So do I have to buy that $40 USB dingus if I want to do any wifi stuff?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Not if you have wifi in your house - you can use most wifi routers. See the http://www.nintendowifi.com page for the list of routers that definitely work. Or, you can hang out in a McDonald's that has it.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

yea, you can get a wifi router for cheaper than that ^_^

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have wifi.

yea, you can get a wifi router for cheaper than that ^_^

Yet.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

That said, I found hooking up to my dsl with the nintendo wifi wayyyy easier than trying to get it to "see" my wifi router, I think the IP table setup I have wasn't playing ball or something (and I tried giving the DS its own IP and everything). Just plugging in the wifi dongle and connecting - much easier.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

So should I, hand-held gamer virgin (aside from some sexxxing w/ green-screen GameBoy Tetris), buy one of these things? Plz to give me a better sales pitch than the "you should because it's the best thing ever!" jive my roomy's girl is laying down. Or, if you're going to lay down said jive, do it w/ pictures.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Girls shouldn't use computers. Laura H tried to turn off the security for our AP to hook up the ds and ended up turning off WiFi. HOORAY!

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.guywinters.com/rachel/gross.jpg

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

weirdly i think the game i've played most overall is Bust-A-Move DS

i just got this yesterday, it's fun

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

my ds just sits gathering dust. it makes me sad.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

ysi?

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

I am looking forward to an 8 hour flight tomorrow 'cause I get to play tons of Mario and Tetris. Also Meteos and Mario Kart, courtesy of a co-worker (Meteos is cool but hasn't really convinced me yet, and I haven't even tried MK).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

woohoo!

where you going?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Switzerland & Italy, for this

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

wow, sweet. have 1 amazing time!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

bought a ds lite yesterday and rediscovered how crap i am at mario. still having a blast with it, tho.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

are you allowed to play DS on planes?
they always say NO WIRELESS DEVICES and stuff.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

I was wondering about that! Can you turn off the wifi, or does it not matter if you're just playing an offline game mode?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

As long as you don't do DS to DS or Wifi mode on anything or have tag or bark mode turned on, your DS is okay on a plane. Some airlines might not trust you though.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

I used DS-to-DS on a plane and it was enjoyable!

― carrey the cable guy (account), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

KOOPAS ON A PLANE

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

I thought they had changed some of those wireless rules recently [turns out they don't interfere with anything?]; and I thought [in the past] they only mattered during landing and take-off anyways.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

regardless, if he's not playing ds-to-ds or wifi the wifi shouldn't even be on.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

So anyway, doesn't anybody want to play metroid with me? Or even tetris? I'm finding them both a bit lonely cos I've only got strangers to play against.

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

The FCC is considering changes to allow in-air wireless. But the FAA is planning on continuing its ban for awhile. The FAA also doesn't want passengers distracted at take-off and landing, because that's when problems are most likely to occur. So paying attention could possibly (theoretically) increase survival. There is some interference with nav equipment from cell phones on small planes - I've seen it personally when flying with my brother-in-law - but there are undoubtedly ways to shield it too.

oh xxxpost and all that.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Why not disable the wireless for 5 minutes after and before the plane is on the ground? It seems a pretty flimsy excuse

― Will M. (Will M.), Friday, 23 June 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

The FAA has problems with folks "playing with power"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

b/c i'll kill the motherfucker yakking on his cell phone when i'm trying to read

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 23 June 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Yeah, I've got the swap magic slide tool. It's awkward, and it is hellish when you come through to find your friends trying to load a new game, jabbing randomly at the innards of the ps2 with the slider.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Friday, 23 June 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

i wish there were more games where you hold yr ds like a book.

― Dxy (Danny), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

BOOK WARS DS

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmm. Just to explain my last post there, I was trying to post on a thread to which that was actually relevant. When it didn't appear in that thread I assumed I'd been poxy fule'd.

Anyway, back to the DS! On the final chapter of Trauma Center, but haven't played it for a while as the gf has been hogging the DS to play Pheonix Wright. :(

Also, I had the chance to play an import of Tenchu. I didn't have a clue what was going on as it was in japanese, and I couldn't get on top of buildings to run around. Hope they havent' completely removed that from the game... Other than that it was pretty good fun.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, Tenchu! Is it still v. bloody? I'm yet to play a really violent game on the DS, though I did peer over a friend's shoulder while he was playing the Resident Evil port.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, it's not gory at all, from the 15mins I played anyway. No death moves or anything. You still kill people in one hit if get catch them unawares, but no closeups of throat slitting, stomach stabbing gore I'm afraid, you just swing your sword at them and they fall over if they didn't see you. I was hoping for some top-screen action on death moves while action continues on the bottom screen or something. No such luck.

I like the idea of Resident Evil on the DS, if it's not really difficult to control or anything. I assume it's still gory...?

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

NINTENDO SOTORE HERE I COME.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

AHEM, STORE.

do they have any fancy lites for sale there?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

they do! i didn't notice how they were priced though.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

ooh!

DESCRIBE PLZ.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

It seems like there haven't been any cool games for awhile, but I am looking forward to new Castlevania and Lego Star Warz.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

star fox looks kinda fun.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

slocki: i forget... i just glanced and none of them really appealed to me. there was a pink one, a plaid one, a pokemon one etc.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

but yeah the store totally rules. i played mario 2 for a really long time on a gba

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

i'm just looking for an excuse to buy a lite but i don't really want a white one

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

It seems like there haven't been any cool games for awhile, but I am looking forward to new Castlevania and Lego Star Warz.

http://nintendods.gaming-universe.de/screens/Boxart_JP_Mario_Hoops.jpg

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

aw yeah sweet

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

YES. THAT. PLUS THE YOSHINATOR. AND THE FINAL FANTANATOR. AND THE ZELDANATOR.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

PLUS THE YOSHINATOR.

Did y'all hear that this is going to be wifi-enabled? The blue dot's shown up on the box art and everything.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

yes!!

i don't know what that's going to mean for us though.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

NINTENDO STORE = FUN.

bought: electroplankton, trauma center.

almost bought: ds lite, till i realized it's pretty much the same price in canada, & i was worried about it cracking and not being able to get warranty action.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 August 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

So, are those plastic stick-on screen protectors really worth it? I've put some on mine and the lower screen one is all crazed and scratched up now, but does it extend the life of the glass screen?

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

you seem like the best-suited here to answer that question!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know enough about how the screen works - if it's a pressure thing, then the plastic probably doesn't help.

How do you like Electroplankton? My current favorites are the little guppy guys that jump on the leaves.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

i love the guys who repeat back what you say to them in their funny voices. i could spout nonsense at those guys all day.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

did i mention they had STARFOX there? i almost bought it but then i realized i don't really like those types of games.

i almost bought mario & luigi & now i realize i shoulda cuz it was cheaper there than here

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

S1ocks where the heck are you and will you be in Mtl when I am there?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 05:12 (nineteen years ago)

1) Mtl
2) WHen you there

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Sep 13-17, something like that. The ILE thread sank already!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

i might be in TO then!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

TWO DAYS UNTIL MARIO HOOPS BITCHES

I really don't know why I'm so excited about this game but I really, really am. I can easily see the control scheme turning out to be infuriating^1000000000, but given my unabiding love for all the other Mario Sports games I've played, I've got no hope of waiting to find out.

I'll probably also end up picking up the new Mega Man and Cooking Mama at some point, hopefully soon. I'm kinda intrigued by Contact, but it kinda sounds like Animal Crossing and that game and me had the most forceful (if undramatic) separation ever.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 11 September 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

Where is meester meltang these days? I havent seen him on here in a while, did he get one life or something?

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 11 September 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

:( I can't believe all these accusations are flying about so soon! I didn't get a life at all, I just got Xbox Live. My DS has been neglected, I'll have to give it a Phoenix Wright sized treat perhaps if nothing's coming out in the near future.

Trayce, you have Xbox 360 don't you? Do you have Xbox Live?

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, mister Puppy got one 360 a few weeks back! We're hanging out for Dead Rising, and I love the Live Arcade stuff like Hexic and Frogger, because I am oldskool and a girl.

(In fact the other day the lad actually said "I'm so happy you're always playing games now - maybe one day you'll stop playing girly ones like the Sims, even!" WTF NICK!)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, we should add eachother for multiplayer hiscore wang showdowns. Is there a thread for this sort of thing?

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Until they port Chrono Trigger, the DS is a bitch. /Dr Chang-voice.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

HOW DO I BEAT TRAUMA CENTER LEVEL WITH THE ANEURYSMS

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you have a few thousand films to watch?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 14 September 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck I forgot all about Trauma Centre! I should go see if I can buy it. I've started to fade off of Nanimal Xing, now that I've more or less paid off the house and filled it with things I'm like "now what do I do?"

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 14 September 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

You buy all your friends systems and carts and go visiting.

That and harvest moon are the only reasons I even CARE about that system.

They needs to makes either a CT port or a damned GOOD version of a SNES emu.
CT would may NEVER run well because of the way the DS runs sound.
The SPC chip does fancy stuff and internal synthesis.
The GBA and,(based on available specs) the DS, runs samples off the cart.
SNOOZE.

I'm annoyed.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Thursday, 14 September 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

does it involve drawing the pentagram s1ockster?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 September 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

s1ocki - Took me AGES to get past that level. In the end I used the healing touch when it goes crazy, and worked on two aneurisms at once (i.e. get them both to the point of extraction before picking them out and all that rubbish). Then I had just enouch of my healing touch time left to get another one out. Leaving (I think) only 2 left to deal with at normal speed. My gf managed it on her second attempt. :(

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Thursday, 14 September 2006 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

my BS is broked!
the touchscreen has gone all wobbly and thinks i'm touching summat else. i emailed teh nintendos, and they said they'd repair it, but i had to send them proof of purchase. wtf tbh?
just repair it! i didn't keep the receipt ffs. it's not like i have 50 damaged Nintendos from the day i ramraided Toys R Us.
i'm gonna have to dig out old bank statements. grrr@nintendo tbh. grrr grrr grrr.

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Really? You should just be able to give them the serial # that's on the back, or at least that's what I had to do after mine got fried.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

really? hmmm
i'll email them and ask if that's enough. thanks.

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

" my BS is broked!
the touchscreen has gone all wobbly and thinks i'm touching summat else. i emailed teh nintendos, and they said they'd repair it, but i had to send them proof of purchase. wtf tbh?
just repair it! i didn't keep the receipt ffs. it's not like i have 50 damaged Nintendos from the day i ramraided Toys R Us.
i'm gonna have to dig out old bank statements. grrr@nintendo tbh. grrr grrr grrr."
This looks like this to me:
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VSXWIVR 9EPRBP9HZS4W0 09S8 809EHS0 808793&cnnqwcen)ry#c*n#r)(wen)r)(nx#cym(*c)nn)ync)nx(mxz#(*&@ncxo

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Friday, 15 September 2006 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

lolol, that's told me. i won't sleep for a week now.

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Friday, 15 September 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

That wasn't eglish either.
"That's told me"?
Do you TALK like this?

If not, you're a poseur, if so, I pity your parents.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

In an effort to get us back on track, I'd just like to point out that Mario Hoops is WILDLY disappointing, although I haven't really had a chance to get comfortable with the controls yet. Also Mega Man ZX is pretty fun so far but GODDAMN does it make you wade through some plot (seriously, who the fuck cares about the plot of a Mega Man game?). I haven't even gotten a chance to start playing around with Cooking Mama yet - I was just in GameStop and figured "eh, what the hell, twenty bucks", so my expectations aren't too high. But oh well - guess you can't win 'em all.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

what the hell are you people talking about (besides james)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'd wager Greg does say "that's told me" in speech. How could you put it another way?

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 16 September 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

(sry 2 derail again)

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 16 September 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

"That's telling me"
"You've told me"
"That IS TOLD me" isn't close.
Mixed tenses and slang combined to make gibberish.

Before that it was total gibberish.
I mean, it wasn't even 'correct' in netizen speech.
Non-standard spellings for Net Gibberish?
I mean COME ON...

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Back on topic, I find it humourous that It can run quake at playable speeds and doom fully, but not a (yet) fully compatible SNES emu...

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

i was going to GCSE Psych right over this, but yes, i do indeed say "that's told me". i also say "what the fuck", "to be honest", "you're a big noob", "BS", "broked", and, if im really drunk, occasionally a "lol" slips out. basically, i do pretty much talk like this.
but "what the fuck" do you care how i talk and write? i'm sure you can find something better to worry about, if you try really, really hard.
if you honestly can't understand my posts, i'm very sorry, i'll try to be more coherent. but if you're just being pedantic for the sake of it, maybe you should just try to ignore everything i post. tbh.

my parents couldn't give a shit how i talk, or what i post on internet message boards about video games (btw).

i hope i've justified myself, and we can put this to bed. k thx.

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Saturday, 16 September 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

i also say "please to (verb)" these days.
SLANG - it shall destroy the planet if we don't stamp it out, no?

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Saturday, 16 September 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

also, "that's" = "that has".

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Saturday, 16 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Non-standard conjunctions, now...

I care how you talk because language is a virus and I care about the human race.

Please tell me you're under 17 so anyone WITH a brain doesn't listen to you.

I like ILX because if people like you ARE on here they seem to stay on 1 pwn whatever. I can't be arsed to type like a moron for you.

Could you like....GO THERE and...NOT COME BACK?
That would make my life more pleasant.

I like to be able to read thread without encountering the unintenlligible sputterings of a mongoloid.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

If you kids don't stop right now, I'm taking your nintendo away and then NOBODY gets to play with it. Do you understand me?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

the internet is serious business.

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Saturday, 16 September 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really see how you can appreciate a DS and not appreciate a turn of phrase like "that's told me".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

unintenlligible
unintenlligible
unintenlligible
unintenlligible
unintenlligible
unintenlligible
unintenlligible
unintenlligible
unintenlligible

fanny

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

so....
that dragon quest slime game looks pretty good.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 17 September 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

GZeus, go over to ILM, you're enough of a wanker.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 September 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sadly, I think I am most looking forward to Clubhouse Games for the forseeable future.

xpost

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Sunday, 17 September 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

Is GZeus Dante?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 17 September 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

GZeus, go over to ILM, you're enough of a wanker.

lolol
that's told him.

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Sunday, 17 September 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer ILE.

I'm a wanker for wanting to be able to read what's typed...suuuure.
It's not the 'person' who's pounding on the keyboard like caffinated water-baby...

I thought ILX was better than the other scenester boards, but i guess you do jusdge people based on their post count, even if it's not listed.

Personally, I prefer to jusdge things based on content.
Styx released alot of albums, but that doesn't make anything they have to say matter or anything less that worthless tripe.

So, in short; The DS is better than the PSP, but still not good enough for me YET, you're all immature(which is fine if you're 18 or under) and the previous poster is the internet equivalent of Styx.

Even shorter; Good lord, grow up.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

it's nothing to do with post count. i think people are taking exception to your unprovoked, personal attacks on other posters.

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Sunday, 17 September 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Styx released alot of albums, but that doesn't make anything they have to say matter or anything less that worthless tripe.

Read that aloud to yourself a few times GZeus then come back with an apology for the grammar pedant bollocks. Oh, and look up "alot" while you're at it. And "jusdge".

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 17 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

And "unintenlligible". But, see, I'm actually fluent in English, so a few slight deviations in the spelling or grammar I'm used to doesn't make something "unintenlligible" to me.

Anyway, so did everyone decide that Trauma Center is worth it, even though it's probably impossible for me to find now?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 17 September 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

U GUYZ, i figured it out. he speaks "eglish", so he's obv. gonna be confused by english slang.

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Sunday, 17 September 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

GZeus got sonned by kit after a grammar beef.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 17 September 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

grammar beef is the most dangerous type of beef.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 17 September 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

His first post here about how nintendo should fix his DS because he says so wasn't 'slight deviations' which I am prone to do.
I'm dysgraphic and TRY to fix the many typos I make almost every time I type at all.
I don't always catch them all.

However, those are accidental. Typos.

'teh kit blah blah' does this intentionally and makes no effort to correct it!
That's ludicrous, self-centered, (ironically)elitist, and immature.

The fact that none of you made the disctinction between the two proves my point.

My first comment was me saying "I have no idea what you said" in different words.
I re-re-re-read it and figured out that you want Nintendo to repair your DS under warrantee with no proof of purchase or reciept.(I'd gleaned something to that effect the first time)
Are you a little rich boy who's never had to work for yourself?
Virtually no business can afford to do that sort of thing often.
If you used the attitude expressed here with them, I'd bet you're NOT gonna get it fixed for free.

The attitude you showed didn't exactly make me want to explain to you why basic business sense prevents a company from fixing things for free because someone who possesses it tells them to.
That desire alone made me WANT to smack you, not that I would. I'm not violent unless I absolutely need to be(honsety).
I'm in business for myself, and have been for 2 years.
"Could you just lower that?" gets old.
NO. I NEED TO EAT, TOO!
nintendo's not THAT hard up, and I'm sure they currently have a healthy profit margin currently.
The issue is, if they DID just start fixing everything because people told them to, they WOULD be hard up.

SO, they MIGHT fix it if you're polite, but they sure don't have to, and you'd have no right to be angry with anyone but yourself if they don't.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Sunday, 17 September 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

ANY FUCKING WAY

Anyway, so did everyone decide that Trauma Center is worth it, even though it's probably impossible for me to find now?

Had it. Sold it. Don't miss it. You might want to pick up a copy of Cooking Mama first - it's the same basic kind of touchscreen gaming, only WAY lower-pressure and only costs $20 instead of however much the ebay gougers are charging these days.

if we're talking OOP DS games, though, I have to report that Phoenix Wright is OUTSTANDING.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Sunday, 17 September 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

trauma center got re-pressed. you can pick it up at bestbuy for like $30
same with phoenix wright, if i remember correctly.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Sunday, 17 September 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Gadzooks, I should think I would like to make a monetary exchange to obtain a copy of Trauma Centre.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 September 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Both of them are fun, but occasionally frustrating and the replay value is unfortunately nil.
And storyline, while pleasantly goofy, is occasionally batty to the point of unintelligible.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

I just found out that Micro Machines is out for the DS! Now that sounds like something I could enjoy.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

i was never expecting it to be repaired for free.

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Monday, 18 September 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

IGN has successfully made me want Rocket Slime - I am profoundly not one of those people who goes fannying about for RPGs, but they're making it sound like the heir to Mario & Luigi, which may well be my favorite game on this system.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

do you go fannying about, period?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I really just wanted to use the phrase "fannying about" (although my RPG ennui is genuine)

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Trauma Center has given me the habit of dynamically posing while shouting "Let's begin the operation!" to my dog.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm fully stoked for ROCKET SLIME!!!! which! I! am! buying!!! this! week! excitedly!!!!!

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

i really need to get off my arse and get my BS fixed.

― teh cap'n kittenbeard is gonna grab yr booty lol (g-kit), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

rocket slime is fun as...i dunno...watching the flavour of love reunion. it's like a link to the past mixed with brave fencer musashi and advance wars. total mindfuck of a game.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

GOT A DS LITE

GOT ROCKET SLIME

GONNA PARTY ALL NIGHT

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

christopher costello's link + advance wars comparison totally sent me over the top.

BY THE WAY

at local video game store, new copy of phoenix wright = $80!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I so called it on rocket slime before it was even called rocket slime

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

i remember!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

The most potentially entertaining screenshot I have ever seen

-- TOMBOT, December 29th, 2005 1:04 PM. (link)

please tell me what that is.

-- s1ocki, December 29th, 2005 1:07 PM. (slutsky) (link)

never mind i figured it out

-- s1ocki, December 29th, 2005 1:10 PM. (slutsky) (link)

DRAGON QUEST HEROES: ROCKET SLIME

-- TOMBOT (tombo...), April 25th, 2006 2:20 PM. (TOMBOT)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Chou Shoushu Mecha MG

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/aigj/movie/index.html

control giant transforming robots

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 22 September 2006 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

final fantasy xii: revenant wings trailer
http://www.cubed3.com/news/6009/1/FFXII_Revenant_Wings_Trailer

why can't every ds game have fmv's like that?

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 22 September 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

i am lovin' trauma center right now.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I've started on BrainTraining. And I have the brain of a 47 year old at the moment, hahahah WTF. Thats what you get for years of booze and lazy jobs, kids. Be warned.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 September 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) I assume that means you got past the aneurism level then?

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Thursday, 28 September 2006 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - OR WAS IT etc

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 September 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

i trained my brane down to 20yrs. then my BS broke, so i expect i'm semi-retarded again by now.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 28 September 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

craig: yeah, and then it's all gravy. love the bomb-defusing level!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the bomb disposal level took me by surprise, but it was so good! I love how wierd the game gets after that tho, although it does get a bit preachy.

Just tried Pokemon Diamond. It may be in Japanese, but it's nice lookin, and you kinda know what you're doing when it comes to Pokemon without paying attention to the dialogue.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Thursday, 28 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

now i'm on the level where you have to cure 5 guys in like 10 minutes. HARD.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 September 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

argh, i'm going on holiday soon, so if anyone can give me recommendations for AWESOME BS/GBA games that mainly use D-Pad, hat would be awesome. minor touch screen stuff is ok, as long as it doesn't require any degree of accuracy, since my touchydetector has gone all bandy.

RPGs are first choice, but anything goes.

cheers in advance.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 September 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

ROCKET SLIME

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 September 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Am I wrong for anticipating Clubhouse Games as all-consumingly as I do?

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Dude I just got the Flabbott in Rocket Slime and he keeps blessing my tank so I can shoot mirror shields with a vengeance while he wears a little pope hat with the Future Days cover on it! This game is WTFUN.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 29 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

My copy also came with a keychain of two slimes supporting a scared platypus. Awesome!

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 29 September 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

ABBOTT LIKES FLABBOTT.

yeah that guy is pretty much always on my "team"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 September 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Dude I just got the Flabbott in Rocket Slime and he keeps blessing my tank so I can shoot mirror shields with a vengeance while he wears a little pope hat with the Future Days cover on it!

I don't have any idea what you are talking about here, but I NEED this game now.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Friday, 29 September 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Any offhand description of what's going on in that game sounds that fucked, ie I just got a recipe for bastard swords.

http://gbamedia.gamespy.com/gba/image/article/706/706445/dragon-quest-heroes-rocket-slime-20060509044911981.jpg

First Church of Future Days, run by nun Mother Glooperior

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 29 September 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

So I didn't know this thread existed!

Hello! I am ALSO stuck on the effing Aneurism level on Trauma Centre, to the point where I will start hacking into the cart with a screwdriver to get past it (that's how it works, right)? I've tried it a ZILLION times and noes. When I fail I also have to leave it a week before attempting it again as I get too cross. Once I tried it for HALF AN HOUR. Up until then it was the best game ever... sigh.

So what is this Rocket Slime? I want PW2, Cooking Mama, Contact and is Mario & Luigi: Partners in KRYME, I mean, TIME, any good? My friend sa it is but *whisper it* when we were picking games in the playground I picked Sonic over Mario and have never really dug the dungareed idiot.

Apart from Paper Mario for the GC but that's going OT I spose!

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

i agree with nickalicious

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

bhumibol:

here's how you beat the aneurysm level: when it goes all nutty, inject & cut but DON'T remove the aneurysms till they're all treated. once they've been injected & cutted they won't pop so you can get 'em all at once.

the game gets awesome again after that!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

is Mario & Luigi: Partners in KRYME, I mean, TIME, any good?

I LOVED THIS GAME, probably my favorite on the platform actually. I'm actually having a hard time getting into the first one due to no rumble pak support, though - that thing made a world of difference when it came to timing my attacks.

Also if you liked Sonic, the Sonic game for DS is mighty fun 2D action action action. The last boss is DS-hurlingly hard, though.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

i still haven't cracked mario & luigi yet! i'm saving it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

i love trauma center so much.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I like to ensure that I neglect all of my games equally, so I play one for a couple of weeks, start playing something else, then eventually come back to it if I ever remember it. Hence getting back to M&L:PiT after such a long time.

I stopped Trama Centre at Chapter 5 Episode 3. I'll get back into it soon, cos it was such good fun. I have a habit of stopping games before I finish them...

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Awright... my copies of Harvest Moon and Trauma Centre have arrived from the online order peeps!

Poor Animal Crossing... getting so neglected... the weeds. The sadness! The chirping of crickets...

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 8 October 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

HELLO - help me out here, chaps. a band i just interviewed talked about a game on nintendo ds where you can draw pictures and send them to each other via bluetooth - Picture Chat, is it? can someone tell me if this exists, and what it's called? thank you!

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it's build into yr DS. Pictochat, i believe.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

thanks kit!

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

I upgraded to BS Lite today, partly due to my old phatty being neglected as I can't play it on the train very easily, and partly to stop me spending so much on xbox360 games.

I also finally picked up copies of Dr Kawashima's How Slow is Yr Brain and New Super Mario Brothers. Both ace! Hopefully I'll be contributing to this thread a lot more now I'm using the DS again :)

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I CANT WORK HARVEST MOON OUT. Why is it so confusing. I think it assumes one has played a Harvest Moon game before? I don't have any idea what I am doing. I'm randomly planting a few crops, and the days pass so fast I cant get anything done.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

When I played the Harvest Moon game on the GC, it was like that too. I had to start over three times before I was able to figure the system out. And even then I seemed to do really badly. Once I had a kid, though, it just all got kinda boring.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 12 October 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be amazed if I ever get to the wooing a chick point at this rate :(

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 12 October 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

i think i may just buy a BS lite, too. clearly i am not motivated enough to even attempt to get BS Phat repaired, because a) i am a lazy twat and b) i clearly deserve some kind of self-imposed penance for daring to question Nintendo's repair policy.
if i spend on a BS Lite, everyone is happy. including my brother, who i'll give my broken BS to. for Christmas. boxed as new. bcuz i'm a cunt.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 12 October 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

Give your brother the broken DS, and buy him a replacement touch screen from HERE. It'll give him something to do on Christmas day if no-one gets him any games for the DS!

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Thursday, 12 October 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

I got a DS lite! hooray!

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

FUCKING TRAUMA CENTRE ANEURISM LEVEL *smashes DS*

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

PLEASE TELL ME YOU ALL HAVE CLUBHOUSE GAMES

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

i was thinking about getting that. but i'm not sure if i want to pay $20 for checkers.

aaaanyway, the release date for contact got pushed back to next week.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

No, because I've never worked out that wifi thing.

I beat Castlevania and it was awesome. What next??!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

(wait until new Castlevania DS game comes out, I guess)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

i beat partners in time. it was super-fun. jordan i think you'd like it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Has anybody tried out the DS web browser? Is it any good?

― treefell (treefell), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

One question. Is the multiplayer thing free to use?

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

try the internet pages. they might have something about it on the nintendo one

― SOME LOW END BRO (TOMBOT), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

God people are friendly and helpful on here.....

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

ds and wii multiplayer are both free to use.
just started playing Contact. its a bit odd.
any rpg fans getting/anticipating Children of Mana or Magical Starsign?

― zappi (joni), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you zappi that's exactly what I wanted to know. I might get a DS now.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

i got Clubhouse Games at an airport for like £17 last week. pretty good value, but i wouldn't pay more than that. nice to have Chess on the DS, Darts & Bowling pass the time if you're hanging around someplace, card games are still card games. the only infuriating thing is that you can't play ANY of the games in a 'hot-seat' stylee, passing the DS to yr pal and back. which is rubbish.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

sony kills lik-sang http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3901
:(((((

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that deserves its own thread.

― SOME LOW END BRO (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Yoshi's Island DS, should I get it?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

i'm gonna

who got it?

who got FFIII?

who got ELITE BEAT AGENTS?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Who got Blue Rescue Team?

ALL THESE QUESTIONS AND MORE, ANSWERED AFTER CHRISTMAS.

― DOCTOR METH KING (TOMBOT), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

who got ELITE BEAT AGENTS?

Me (I also preordered the new Castlevania from Gamestop.com - ridiculous-looking bundletry ahoy!)

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Me (I also preordered the new Castlevania from Gamestop.com - ridiculous-looking bundletry ahoy!)

i forgot there was a new one coming! that bundle does look pretty ridiculous

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm excited about new Castlevania. What's in the bundle, like t-shirts n whips n shit?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Order Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for the Nintendo DS and receive a Castlevania 20th Anniversary Gift Pack FREE! The gift pack will ship with your order. See stores for details. Offer good while supplies last!

* Art Book: This 48 page book details the artwork of every game in the Castlevania series and features an embossed cover.
* 20th Anniversary Soundtrack CD: Spanning 20 years of music that has defined the Castlevania series, this soundtrack contains songs from nearly every Castlevania game ever made, including four never before released tracks from Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.
* Stylus and DS Game Case: Extendable stylus and transparent game case are both emblazoned with the Castlevania logo.
* Timeline Poster: Detailing key events and characters in the history of Castlevania, this fold-out poster features a timeline on the front and a Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin poster on the back.

I freely admit that the extendable stylus is by far the biggest selling point.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

No way, the soundtrack is the only thing that interests me there.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

yoshi's island is awesome
elite beat agents is awesomer
ff3 is ok

phoenix wright 2 might be the best ds game i have ever played

― webber (webber), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

phoenix wright 2 might be the best ds game i have ever played

Woo! I've just about finished the first one (am pretty sure I'm near the end of the big old case after the credits roll) and it's the best DS game I've ever played! The second is even better?

Does it have all the silly minigames from the last case of the first one? Because I quite enjoy them :)

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Should I buy Yoshi's Island DS or the O.G. Yoshi's Island that's on GBA? I never played it on SNES.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Woo! I've just about finished the first one (am pretty sure I'm near the end of the big old case after the credits roll) and it's the best DS game I've ever played! The second is even better?

better in the sense that it spends less time explaining how to play the game, so there's more nutmeat. the game i find more challenging, but also more intuitive (the sequence of people you have to talk to or the evidence you have to present is always logical, which it didn't necessarily seem to be in the first game).
it's mostly more of the same (which is a good thing), but they have added more courtroom elements into the investigation parts of the game (you have to press witnesses and confront them with evidence or they wont talk to you), which is good if you found those parts slightly boring.

yoshi's island i can't say as i haven't played either the gba or the snes version but i can say it is a very very fun game (i'm betting it is at least better than the gba version, the dual screen seems to add a lot)

― webber (webber), Thursday, 23 November 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

EXTENDABLE STYLUS????????

― adam (adam), Thursday, 23 November 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

was that a boner joke adam?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 23 November 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

I haven't played DS (or anything else) for months and months. Has anything REALLY AWESOME and unmissable come out?

― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

PUZZLE QUEST!

― Z S, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

48h until pokemon

― Will M., Friday, 20 April 2007 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

i mean 24!

― Will M., Friday, 20 April 2007 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Shameless self promotion: I put up my first blog post at TabQWER and it's a Search/Destroy for upcoming DS games. Worth a look if you have a DS and like to use it.

― Will M., Friday, 4 May 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Dr Kawashima's fucking with me. He keeps pretending not to understand my accent and I end up going "black... black...BLACK...[b]IT'S FUCKING BLACK YOU CUNT! BBBLLLAAAACCCCCKKKK!!!!" until he tells me my BRANE is 85 :(

― onimo, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

I always just told the guy "I can't speak." He hated the way my canadian ass said "blue"

― Will M., Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

I've only just got a copy of Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! and you are ALL CORRECT it is absolutely the best game ever. Unfortunately, playing it on fiddly morning rush hour commute involving three underground railway lines is a pain. Also, I cannot be held responsible if someone jogs my elbow when I'm getting a perfect combo and I will have to kill them. I've also got Elite Beat Agents on it's way!

I've also got Puzzle Quest but whilst I'm obsessed with Pokemon Ranger (another new one which I have already racked up 9 hours on, with Pokemon Pearl coming in the same package with EBA), I might not start it for a while.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

Has anyone played what seems to be the classical music version? Hearts!

http://global.yesasia.com/en/mc/-/CmsCreative3-589@224/en/PrdDept.aspx/code-w/section-games/pid-1004662289/

― Sarah, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, here is a reason to sort out my supercard on this here mac thing.

― melton mowbray, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I take it all back. O!T!O! is actually the WORST GAME EVER because I just CANNOT get past the Salaryman vs EVIL MOUSE level on normal - argh argh argh argh trauma.

Although, I did cry at the level with the Angel and the spilt tea and the motorbike. ACTUALLY CRY. It's hard to see the screen through blurry eyes which you can't rub! *sniffs* oh man I'm about to get set off again...

― Sarah, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Heh, I had REAL WET EYES after one of the EBA levels too, although I don't want to spoil it for you so I won't say which one.

― JimD, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

I finally beat the Salaryman level last night! Thank goodness! I'm now at the final level on normal and then I gather it unlocks EVEN HARDER modes, awesome. Not sure if any new songs though.

My favourite things so far:
- the scornful cat becoming the lucky cat in the ramen store!
- every single thing about the horsey level!
- the smiling policeman faces when they do a good job!
- the little boy owning up to breaking the window and getting rewarded for telling the truth! awwwwwww yay for telling the truth!
- lucky katsudon in the ronin level!

― Sarah, Thursday, 10 May 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

I've unlocked the hard level. I think I can do the last song with my eyes shut now...

― Sarah, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

1) Has anyone played that Konami collection w/Contra included?

2) Does The Code work?

― Jordan, Monday, 14 May 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Note to Touch Golf programmers, making impossible putts is not the same as programming a realistic learning curve.

― onimo, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

Note to Etrian Odyssey programmers, thanks!

What's Touch Golf? Is it good aside from this one thing?

― Will M., Tuesday, 5 June 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Touch Golf is a fun golf game with loads of courses and a rookie > pro > master progression tournament structure. I was doing fine up to Master level but now I'm being presented with putts where the guide line shows my ball finishing up behind me and the only way to get it nearer the hole is to chip it from on the green and hope it doesn't roll too far backwards or lands straight in the hole. This has only happened on 2 holes so far so I'm hopeful octuple bogeys won't be a regular score.

Apart from that quibble it's a good concept. You use the stylus to drag your club back and forward at pace and you can push/pull your shot depending on how straight your delivery is. It's a good use of the feel aspect of using a stylus.

― onimo, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

IGN says it's also known as True Swing Golf.

http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/682/682315/true-swing-golf-20060119044013359.jpg

― onimo, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone playing Cooking Mama? Will it really teach me how to cook stuff?

― onimo, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone playing Cooking Mama? Will it really teach me how to cook stuff?

As well as Touch Golf will get you down to a handicap of 4, I'm sure.

― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

True Swing is fucking fantastic albeit irritating as fuck to play on the bus.

It's been a long time since I preordered a game, but I put five on Sim City DS (also for RE4Wii) today.

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 05:47 (eighteen years ago)

Shit I haven't even mentioned my current obsessions on the DS here!

1) Picross DS: This annihilates every other puzzle game on the system and that's saying something because there are many and many are good.
2) New York Times Crosswords: I have never really done crosswords in my life, because I have been waiting for this game. I hate having to erase crap, and if you get stuck on one word you're fucked-- this game gives you infinite erases (while newsprint gives you maybe one before you burn a hole in it) and, if you're really stuck, you can ask for a hint. I don't know if these crosswords are 'good' by crossword standards (they are mostly by Will Shortz, which i think makes them good) but wow. This game is KEY.
3) Etrian Odyssey: Not actualy sure why I'm playing it. I have 3 hours of bussing/subways a day, which might explain it. It's the only way I can justify all of the getting creamed on the third level of an 'old-school' RPG. But it's actually pretty fun. You have to, like, try.

― Will M., Wednesday, 6 June 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

I want Puzzle Planet League rather desperately - but I'm not exactly sure why. How many puzzle games does one person need?

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

all of them?

― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Not too fond of Gunpey, actually...

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

picross is great.

― s1ocki, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:29 (eighteen years ago)

I second Gunpey being mediocre.

― Will M., Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

i second picross being great.

― s1ocki, Friday, 8 June 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

Cooking mama sucked for the wii, might be better for the ds.
I REALLY WANT the guitar simulator game; I'm so into that kinda crazy shit.

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 8 June 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

Cooking mama sucked for the wii, might be better for the ds.

Aw, really? I had high hopes for that :( The DS one was fantastic.

― melton mowbray, Friday, 8 June 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

Agreed! And I thought it was a good guide to simple J-cooking, I'm definitely going to try some things :)

― Sarah, Friday, 8 June 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

1) Has anyone played that Konami collection w/Contra included?

2) Does The Code work?

These questions still stand.

― Jordan, Friday, 8 June 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

1) yes. very well put together collection.
2) no :(

― zappi, Friday, 8 June 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Picross doesn't come out here until the end of the month. I watched a video that looked interesting, but was confused about what you actually do. Can someone here explain the game?

― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 8 June 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

apparently you figure out the pattern in which blocks must be filled in to form simple pictures from numbers on the side. I'm taking a pass on it since Will sold me on the NYT Crossword game instead and uh SimCity is coming.

Also, I'm kinda really excited for My Word Coach.

― jamescobo, Friday, 8 June 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

oh - is Planet Puzzle League something I should investigate if I already have a copy of Meteos and don't play it too much (or alternately, already have a copy of Puzzle Quest and play it near-constantly)?

― jamescobo, Friday, 8 June 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

If you ever played Tetris Attack or Pokemon Puzzle League, it's the same as Planet PL.

I still like Picross more. And NYT Crosswords. PPL feels too... ehh.

Speaking of more puzzle games... Super Collapse 3 drops on the 26th. It's not a bad game (played it for mac months ago). Might be worth a look.

I have a friend who was a puzzle game FIEND and his fave of all time is the puzzle-league games. So there's that. I think he even coded a clone for his GBA (dude was CRAAZY)

― Will M., Friday, 8 June 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

2) no :(

Oh. That makes Contra...much harder.

― Jordan, Friday, 8 June 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

What I like about this new version of Puzzle Planet is how clean it is, how it works with the stylus (smooth and really quick), how it seems like a simple game, too simple maybe, but the more you play it, the more challenge you can find (figuring out how to recognize and pull off combos especially). The online play also works really well - coming up against players in garbage attack who could kick my ass pretty much with ease made me realize I still had a lot to learn if I wanted to compete

― Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

Just bought The NYT Crossword and Age of Empires... did we ever discuss AoE for DS?

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 03:01 (eighteen years ago)

i think we did at some point. it's pretty good but no advance wars.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

just got the NYT Crossword game in the mail yesterday and I'm loving it so far. The handwriting recognition isn't exactly the best thing ever, but then again neither is my handwriting. I also have that Konami collection on order since I figure it'd be a good thing to have access to when I just want to shoot at some stuff while I'm on the bus. (also w/r/t the lack of The Code for Contra, isn't this the collection with all the faux DIP switches you can set? I would think those would be there so that cheaters like me could set the game to have 30 lives automatically, or even infinite lives.)

also, for those of you with easy access to import games (or flash cards, I guess) - have any of you played that Draglade rhythm/fighting game? I am very very very much not about some anime, but that sounds like a potentially fun hybrid assuming it's not oppressively Kanji-intensive. I'm also really tempted by Nodama Cantabile - I like the idea of a low-impact Ouendan/EBA-type game.

basically I'm just looking for something to waste money on in between SimCity and Taiko Drum Master.

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, SimCity comes out in like 6 days! NYT won't last you that long?! ;)

I am pretty hyped for Hoshigami Remix, though. I own the original PS1 game (!) and it is alright, but definitely needed tweaks-- sounds just like the tweaks they are, in fact, giving it.

― Will M., Wednesday, 13 June 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

6 days? Sheesh. Sim City needs to WAIT, I'm nowhere near done with pokemon yet, and I'm still hammering picross too.

Ooh, and for other flash card users, I found a lovely bit of homebrew the other day. It's a conversion of Amplitude, and it works really nicely. It's <a href="http://amplituds.drunkencoders.com/";>here</a>.

― JimD, Thursday, 14 June 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

oops!

I meant here. :-)

― JimD, Thursday, 14 June 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

All of the SimCity DS reviews I've read have called it rather mediocre.

― Will M., Friday, 15 June 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

(also w/r/t the lack of The Code for Contra, isn't this the collection with all the faux DIP switches you can set? I would think those would be there so that cheaters like me could set the game to have 30 lives automatically, or even infinite lives.)

yeh you'd think so, but the dip switches only allow you to set up to a maximum of 7 lives - you can always hit continue i suppose...
i really hope other publishers have a good look at how this package has been put together though, the amount of customisation while staying true to the original games is refreshing

― zappi, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

okay, the presntation of the Konami collection is INSANE. Super-easy to maneuver around in, totally not

btw, I picked up one of these a while back and they are unbelievably crucial:

http://image1.play-asia.com/640/4u/pa.87042.1.jpg

best part of the design: those two little dots on the clip were built to fit snugly into the microphone.

― jamescobo, Sunday, 17 June 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

"microphone", CHRIST I am retarded. I mean the holes where the wrist strap's supposed to go through on top.

― jamescobo, Monday, 18 June 2007 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

Heh, I had REAL WET EYES after one of the EBA levels too, although I don't want to spoil it for you so I won't say which one.

-- JimD, Wednesday, May 9, 2007 3:31 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

I've just reached this level *sniff*. I failed because I couldn't see the screen properly.

― V, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

aw. :-)

― JimD, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

there's a very real chance that that level is my favorite single level of any game since Mario hopped out of Kuraibo's Shoe.

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

I mean it was fun as hell to beat up colossi and everything, but I was like missing beats due to cheering out loud at that level which apparently must not be named.

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

SimCity DS: good but flawed. Be prepared to accidentally place tiles and bulldoze stuff for a while; also be prepared to spend a lot of time bumbling around the interface (accurately described by some reviewer as being too small for the DS' screen). Sad to say, but it doesn't look to be a very effective game for the bus, although it looks to be absolutely the greatest game ever for plane rides. I mean, flawed or not, I still had one of those look-up-and-it's-two-and-a-half-hours-later moments with it.

― jamescobo, Thursday, 21 June 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

how come nobody has mentioned chocobo tales, yet?
i returned pokemon and got it, and couldn't be happier.

http://loading.se/images/38/63/ub_18840a5765bd2414fca76effa0e702f1.jpg

― funny farm, Friday, 22 June 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

how can you return pokemon?

― Dy, Friday, 22 June 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

like this...

me: i'd like to exchange these pokemans
employee: can i has receipt?
me: yes *hands receipt to employee*
employee: ok, pick out something else.

that was entertaining, eh?

― funny farm, Friday, 22 June 2007 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

have not played my ds since getting thru the first quarter(or so) of Hotel Dusk

― kingfish, Friday, 22 June 2007 06:20 (eighteen years ago)

I've been mainly playing puzzle games like picross and sudoku. I'm currently waiting for my Japanese import Slitherlink to arrive.

― treefell, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:00 (eighteen years ago)

anyone try that puzzle quest game?

― funny farm, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

never heard of it

― antexit, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

i should have seen that was coming. xposts.

I have started playing brain training again for the sudoku.

― Dy, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

never heard of it

-- antexit, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:42

Set in the Warlords universe, Puzzle Quest challenges gamers to create, develop and customise the ultimate hero to save the land of Etheria from the evil Lord Bane. In order to advance, players will battle in turn-based, head-to-head “match-three” style puzzle games in one of three distinct gameplay modes: Single-player will allow gamers to battle against the computer AI as they embark on over 150 challenging quests, Instant Action will allow gamers to jump in and immediately play continuous battles to level-up characters without participating in quests, and Multiplayer will allow games to battle live opponents via wireless connectivity on both the PSP system and Nintendo DS handheld system. Victory will advance the player’s hero, magical arsenal, creature companions and more—ultimately rewarding gamers at nearly every turn and providing endless hours of replayablity.

― funny farm, Friday, 22 June 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

we have a thread on it, too

― kingfish, Saturday, 23 June 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

I got the NYT Crossword Puzzle game, it's pretty sweet. The interface took some getting used to (it was hard to get around at first and it threw me that you can only see one clue at a time), but it works pretty well.

I wish you could turn off the grading. Instead of feeling good when I finish a puzzle, I get a D- for taking too long and using hints (sometimes accidentally!) and feel sad. :(

― Jordan, Monday, 6 August 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

haha!

it makes me wish the screen was bigger. kinda cramped.

― s1ocki, Monday, 6 August 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah. Actually I wish they would show lists of clues up top instead of the zoom-in on the selected clue, or at least have some options for the top display?

― Jordan, Monday, 6 August 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

someone's already mentioned on this thread that the next advance wars DS is in development, right?

― czn, Monday, 6 August 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

There will be ANOTHER surgery game in a week or two here by a different company than Trauma Center, called LifeSigns: Surgical Unit. Though I have NO IDEA what surgical maneuver this is:

http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/554/554928/kenshuui-tendou-dokuta-20041007105017519.jpg

― Abbott, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Wrong side for the appendix, I think. Possible kidney trouble?

― onimo, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

The crotch creases popping out of her pants make this look like a, errr, different kind of game. See also: the name. Lifesigns, sure, but in USA, Surgical Unit, and in UK, Hospital Affairs-- both can be subtly interpreted as a bit saucy, surely? I saw some other screens and there are little scared girls strapped to spinal boards and stuff. I am thinknig this is not for the same crowd as TC. But I seem to be the only person to draw thes conclusins (at least that I've read) so maybe I'm mental.

― Will M., Thursday, 9 August 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

What are some good wifi internet games that I can play besides Mario Kart? I just want something entertaining I can play against my brother (a couple states away) during our lunch breaks.

― petey_carnum, Friday, 24 August 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Animal Crossing - you could rampage his village, steal away all his neighbors, pick all his fruit, and buy all the cool stuff up at Tom Nook's.

― Jaq, Friday, 24 August 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Clubhouse Games.

Also, i'm selling a lot of my DS/GBA games. You guys should buy them.

― kingfish, Friday, 24 August 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

metroid prime hunters? still haven't played it but i heard it's aiight

― Will M., Friday, 24 August 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

I'm selling off my DS and the rest of my games

Lots of castlevania!

― kingfish, Saturday, 1 September 2007 07:11 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

Looked for Contra IV the other night, didn't see it. Reviews make it sound super hard (no save points or game saving), but unlocking og Contras might be worth it.

― Jordan, Friday, 16 November 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

The thing that makes me wary about this game isn't so much the difficulty, but the gap between the screens. I think the gap would drive me insane. But it's still in my maybe list.

Can it do 2-player over wifi or just if your pal is in the same room, or whatever?

― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 16 November 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

How do you think they should improve the DS next time out?

I for one wouldn't be miffed if they dropped the GBA slot in order to make it thinner. I hate that the carts poke out the bottom of the DS and so I always carry the GB Micro for AW/AW2 others. The risk of alienating people who have bought GBA games for play on a DS would be minimal - presumably they'd all already have a Phat or Lite.

A bigger screen would be nice too but don't know how they'd go about this in terms of aspect ratios. The console itself would have to be less wide and taller - edging closer to the design of the SP. Though do you then compromise on comfort?

― czn, Friday, 18 January 2008 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

Something slightly thicker than a DS cart made out of aluminium (and so strong) would be amazing!

Like the MacBook Air but already small and so useful.

― czn, Friday, 18 January 2008 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Adding extra screen space where the "blind zone" is (between the current screens) would be good. I doubt previously released games could use it though. Also, multi-touch.

― abanana, Friday, 18 January 2008 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I love that I can play the GBA games on the DS. I think a lot of people traded in their incarnations of GBA to get a DS. I never had a GBA so it was like "SWEET! Two systems in one!" I am okay with 0.5 CM of cartridge coming our of the bottom.

― Abbott, Saturday, 19 January 2008 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the gba slot is awesome, allowing you to play a thousand more games, but usually the zeldas/metroids/castlevanias that came out. It's worth it just for those 8-9 games.

― kingfish, Saturday, 19 January 2008 08:31 (eighteen years ago)

My DS Lite doesn't have a GBA slot I think. DS games fit perfectly in there.

I suppose if I changed it, I would make the screens bigger and the DS twice as powerful as a psp.

― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 19 January 2008 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

DS Lite does have a GBA slot, at the bottom. You have to take its plastic protecting thing out (so does does not get in there when not playing GBA).

If there was no GBA, we would not be able to retrieve old leveled up Pokemans from GBA cartridges of previous games in Diamond & Pearl. Perhaps this is only a concern for yrs truly, however.

I can't say I think everything should be as tiny & thin as possible (both technology and wimmin).

― Abbott, Saturday, 19 January 2008 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

agreed.

I'm actually kinda glad that DS and PSP have no other competition right now. Give technology some time before the ultimate handheld system comes out. And hopefully, it will also have a longer charge.

― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 20 January 2008 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

i gave my GBA SP to a friend when i got my DS. can't remember the last time i've played my DS, though. :(

― Jordan, Monday, 21 January 2008 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

OMG SLITHERLINK

― jamescobo, Thursday, 7 February 2008 06:51 (eighteen years ago)

what?

― Will M., Thursday, 7 February 2008 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I've been playing Yoshi's Island DS. Very fun game with great graphics. I think they reworked the original a lot to add new content.
I've been skeptical about getting Advance Wars games since there always seems to be a problem according to user reviews.

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 7 February 2008 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

what?

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74357

IT IS AMAZING. The DS interface was basically made for this game.

― jamescobo, Thursday, 7 February 2008 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

PEGGLE DS

― jamescobo, Thursday, 7 February 2008 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

But the question is, do I really WANT to play Peggle on the DS? Seems like everything would be so.. small.

― Nhex, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

(that's what she said!)

― jamescobo, Friday, 8 February 2008 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

Nhex, I have played Peggle on the iPod for maybe 15 hours. It's great, the smallness doesn't much matter for your enjoyment. (That's what she said).

But it's not coming out on DS, Popcap sez.

― antexit, Friday, 8 February 2008 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

All they said is that it's not announced but they are looking for new ways to release it and that they aren't working on it. I bet it still happens anyway, it makes too much sense.

I tried this Slither Link game, and I must say it is pretty addictive, although I find more than other puzzle games that it is counter-intuitive with my mind, which is to say that I haven't learned the tricks yet.

― Will M., Friday, 8 February 2008 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

slitherlink rocks; one question for those who speak japanese though: how do I zoom in?

― Thomas, Friday, 8 February 2008 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

realise you can't zoom now. I just have to stop being such a co-ord.

Anyone else have any obsure japanese-only nuggets to recommend?

― Thomas, Sunday, 10 February 2008 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

I have Nurikabe on order - comes highly recommended by the same folx who told me to get Slitherlink.

― jamescobo, Monday, 11 February 2008 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone playing Professor Layton yet? I intend to do so later this evening. It looks awesome.

― Will M., Monday, 11 February 2008 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Okay Professor Layton is AWESOME.

― Will M., Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

^^^^^^ THIS

― zappi, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

Nurikabe: also pure crack. These Hudson Puzzle Series games may almost maybe kinda actually be worth buying on faith.

― jamescobo, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

damn i need to find my ds

― s1ocki, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm thirding Layton. So much fun and the girl likes it too!

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 17 February 2008 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

Do UK ilxors know that you can play online DS via Nintendo WiFi connection over any of the hundreds of The Cloud WiFi hotspots? Played me some Advance Wars when I was hanging out in McDonald's the other day.

― czn, Sunday, 17 February 2008 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

traded in my ps2 yesterday and got a DS, legend of zelda, new super mario bros, and prof. layton

― n/a, Friday, 2 May 2008 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

hooray me

― n/a, Friday, 2 May 2008 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

YES

― jamescobo, Friday, 2 May 2008 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

I have run out of games to play on my DS and so turn myself to the minds of ilg to help me pick a new game. I guess i'd like to play a rpg, to see what it's like and stuff. Keeping in mind that the nearest i've been to a rpg was Mario & luigi partners in time, what should i get? Zelda? A FF of some sort (i dont even know if there are any out on DS)? Something else?

― Jibe, Monday, 5 May 2008 07:43 (seventeen years ago)

zelda is way more fun than any of the DS FFs.

― Thomas, Monday, 5 May 2008 10:46 (seventeen years ago)

Zelda is pretty good, but I got tired of it around two-thirds of the way

have you looked into The World Ends With You? it's more or less an RPG, except with a crazy battle system and the most insane ability customization scheme I've seen in a minute and some of the most stylized visuals I've seen in a game since Jet Grind Radio. the only caveat is that the learning curve is steeper than a shitting bitch, especially w/r/t the battle system (which encourages you to use both the stylus and regular controls SIMULTANEOUSLY)

― jamescobo, Monday, 5 May 2008 15:17 (seventeen years ago)

Penny Arcade is totally freaking out about World Ends.

― forksclovetofu, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

the simultaneous battle controls are incredibly hard tho!!

the stylised visuals are great and I like some of the concepts but HOT DAMN stylus combat AND dpad/buttons combat on TWO screens at ONE time... I mean, REALLY??

― czn, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

the top screen fighter does auto-fight if you're not keeping up with the dance-dance-like button presses but it somehow feels... not very satisfying always relying on that : /

― czn, Monday, 5 May 2008 20:45 (seventeen years ago)

Penny Arcade is totally freaking out about World Ends.
Two news entries on the same game! For PA, that is remarkable.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 07:52 (seventeen years ago)

steeper than a shitting bitch

Best five word phrase I've read in weeks.

Have TWEWY sitting unplayed, waiting for me. Would probably recommed Pokemon Pearl to Jibe, tbh.

Anyone else playing Space Invaders Extreme? It's fantastic fun! Space Invaders in a Rez style, with a complex and addictive combo system, and fun weapon power ups. Bizarrely addictive. Recommend.

― JimD, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ok, i've played a bit of TWEWY ... and it's weird. I'm not really enjoying it when i'm playing, yet i often come back to it. Also the characters are really really annoying, fuck a silent neku who hates everyone.

***MILD SPOILERS AHEAD***

Have finished with the first week. New dude Joshua looks just about as annoying as neku so far. And the story is still not very interesting.

***MILD SPOILERS***

On another note, have started playing Nanostray 2... is that game really hard or is it me that's just a useless player?

― Jibe, Thursday, 22 May 2008 10:16 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Oh by the way

― jamescobo, Thursday, 26 June 2008 05:46 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-49-en-15-korg+ds+10-70-2nlo.html is the one I'm really looking forward to. Also Soul Bubbles looks very promising... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Onq9EiMKrg

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 26 June 2008 05:49 (seventeen years ago)

i finally got one of these but i dunno. i was really keen on the wii and the ds in principle - new paradigms and shit, y'know - but i've disappointed myself by spending ages trying to beat the ultra-hard x missions on trauma center, when that sort of masochistic anti-pleasure is exactly the kind of thing that made me stop playing videogames /:

― thomp, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

I am so excited about rhythm tengoku DS

: DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

― czn, Saturday, 28 June 2008 22:44 (seventeen years ago)

only 1 mth to go

― czn, Saturday, 28 June 2008 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

Oh god, not Trauma Center. That's a pretty cool game at first, but the difficulty curve is awful, I gave up on it sometime during the final chapters. Despite the stylus control it really doesn't embody the great accessible stuff on the DS (stuff like Phoenix Wright, Mario Kart, EBA, etc.) and ends up as a noble experiment. I know, I'm saying this despite it being successful enough to get franchised out for 3 sequels - but it is actually too hardcore.

I hope Rhythm Tengoku comes out here, though it probably won't. At least Korg will eventually.

― Nhex, Saturday, 28 June 2008 23:50 (seventeen years ago)

I wanna talk about Etrian Odyssey II, but I wanna play it for another few days first.

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 29 June 2008 06:49 (seventeen years ago)

the only thing that I am worried about w/r/t Rhythm Tengoku DS is that it turns out like Wario Ware DS did, ie the game balance is all thrown off since the "just what the hell am I supposed to do this time" dynamic is hell of different with a stylus than with a single button (or even a motion sensor)

not that I won't buy it anyway, of course; the original was one of my favorite GBA games full-stop

― jamescobo, Sunday, 29 June 2008 07:23 (seventeen years ago)

ha a friend of mine is sending me phoenix wright (which i played the first case on and rather liked) and super mario ds. does the latter have a world map and multiple routes hidden exits etc like mario 3/world? if so = psyched

i actually finished trauma center proper in a day, there's just the unlockable missions which have NO ACTUAL BENEFIT TO COMPLETING that i feel i have to do to squeeze out every last drop of value from this game left.

is EBA elite beat agents? i played the japanese version of that, shit was hilarious

― thomp, Sunday, 29 June 2008 09:42 (seventeen years ago)

also i found a YS REAL TIME STRATEGY game in some second hand store the other day, i couldn't quite bring myself to buy it tho

― thomp, Sunday, 29 June 2008 09:43 (seventeen years ago)

New SMB does indeed have some "secret" exits but nowhere near on the level of the two games you mention, iirc.

I AM PLAYING FINAL FANTASY TACTICS A2: GRIMOIRE OF THE RIFT BTW EVERYONE, IT IS... BETTER THAN FFTA THE ORIGINAL AND I AM QUITE LIKING IT.

― Will M., Sunday, 29 June 2008 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

i wish new super mario had been... uh... deeper.

― s1ocki, Sunday, 29 June 2008 21:12 (seventeen years ago)

Absolutely loving the world ends with you but i tend to just keep hitting one direction on the d-pad over and over to fight on the top screen. It ruins the fun but i kill things really quickly.

I am really disliking FFTA2, i loved the GBA and PS1 but this just seems so artificially long, battles take me about a half hour when i just wanna kill them in a couple of hits.

― Dy, Sunday, 29 June 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)

world ends with you looks charmingly hardcore whilst also looking like it might appeal to my love of hitting lots of buttons really quickly, i think i might get that when next i have a train journey or something

― thomp, Sunday, 29 June 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

Dy, I am killing things right quick... the game take a WHILE to spin up though, when you still have no jobs it is way lame. By the time you an get a sniper/assassin and a fusilier and a fighter and stuff, it gets quick again. ALTHOUGH WARNING the hunter job is suxors now. I don't know why. :(

I'll have a Ninja soon... yay!

― Will M., Monday, 30 June 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

I'm recommending Etrian now; it's addictive.

― forksclovetofu, Monday, 30 June 2008 17:11 (seventeen years ago)

oh and re: World Ends w/ You, less button-mashing more stylus-mashing (can i coin this term right now please?)

And for FFTA2... i definitely like it more than FFTA, although maybe i'm biased against that one because it was such a letdown vs. FFT. i like FFT more than FFTA2 tho, this race shit is dumb and eschews depth for complexity. also, still hate learning skills from weapons.

― Will M., Monday, 30 June 2008 17:23 (seventeen years ago)

I actually liked FFTA a good deal despite it obviously having a much weaker story than FFT - I thought the relative streamlining was good for the series (didn't really enjoy building the Calculators and other crazy grinding towards the end, around when I gave up on it) and the Laws thing was... okay, not terrible, though. Admittedly though, I slogged through the last 20 or hours of FFTA just to beat it... easier to do on a portable system. So how is FFTA 2 better/worse than FFTA 1, exactly?

(between FFTA 2, Etrian II, and World Ends With You out now, damn I need to get some money! not to mention Space Invaders and Arkanoid too)

― Nhex, Monday, 30 June 2008 20:54 (seventeen years ago)

See I really hated the way they did laws, and I prefer the toned-down law system in this one. I'm not sure what you mean by "streamlining" the series though? Either way I can't speak on the story becuase I've been mostly bumming around in A2 so far, which is more fun in this one than the preivous ones (lots of different ways to waste your time, I find)

― Will M., Monday, 30 June 2008 21:14 (seventeen years ago)

haven't played my ds in soooooooo long

― s1ocki, Monday, 30 June 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

Back to the bit about New Super Mario: it's not 'deep', but then, aside from Super Mario World, which of the SMB platforms really are?

I am kind of aching for more ghost houses and Forest of Illusion type levels, though. And the tiny mushroom can fuck right off. Give me back the fucking raccoon tail!

On the other hand, some of these minigames are... addicting.

― salsa shark, Monday, 30 June 2008 23:00 (seventeen years ago)

I prefer the law system in A2 too, more carrot, less stick. I just can't seem to get stuck into the game though.

― Chess, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

I can't remember the exact specifics, but I remember feeling like FFTA had a lot less mucking about with Job changes, equipment changes, grinding, etc. than the original FFT because there were less things you had to do to maintain your gazillion characters, or random encounters, etc. Same with the battles themselves. Of course some of this was due to moving from Playstation 1 to GBA, too.

New Super Mario Bros. is sort of like between SMB3 and SMW. If Super Mario World never happened and this is actually Super Mario Bros. 4, that sounds about right - it has some of the SMW additions but lacks many of them too. I think Nintendo actually looked at SMW and decided a point where Mario stopped being super-accessible in 2D (too many hidden/alternate paths and stage types? too long? too many button actions?). Still, it's a fun title that is all nostalgic and fun nonetheless, even if by cranky gamer standards it's cut down some.

― Nhex, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 14:36 (seventeen years ago)

On the other hand, some of these minigames are... addicting.

I just got stuck playing the stupid 'Wanted' minigame to just past level 500. I don't even know why... I was already bored and hoping I'd lose by the time I got to the mid-100s.

...I think tomorrow's a good day for a trip to CEX for a new game.

― salsa shark, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

More Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (DS) discussion can be found in the Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (DS)thread.

― Z S, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 22:30 (seventeen years ago)

Chrono Trigger remake/port coming to DS!
http://na.square-enix.com/ctds/

― zappi, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 09:07 (seventeen years ago)

^YES!

― czn, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 09:23 (seventeen years ago)

This was my fave game ever for a long, long time... maybe it still is. I gotta play this to find out.

― Will M., Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:20 (seventeen years ago)

having never played it, only heard the ridic praise lavished on it... so stoked

― s1ocki, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

haven't played my ds in soooooooo long

^^^

― Jordan, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

(will play chrono trigger remake for sure, though)

― Jordan, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 16:33 (seventeen years ago)

I'm enjoying Soul Bubbles so far. Really REALLY good use of the touch screen. It's sort of similar to Loco Roco, but instead of tilting the world to get your guy to move through it, you are blowing bubbles through the maze (thankfully not actually blowing, just drawing where you want your character to blow). You also draw bubbles, cut your bubbles into smaller bubbles to get through smaller spaces, and rejoin bubbles together, while collecting various kinds of stuff and avoiding enemies. It's actually a very relaxing game and levels are small (so far) so an easy game to pick up when you just have a little time and don't want to play anything too stressful. Only available from Toys R Us in the US for some reason...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03f1nwksD5c&feature=related

― Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

Jeff otm. It really is a good little game. Very relaxing at that. I really love the sounds of the game, even in the menus.

― Jibe, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 09:08 (seventeen years ago)

ok i'm really really excited about this :

"Retro Game Challenge

An original game based on the popular Japanese GAME CENTER CX TV series, Retro Game Challenge reinvents how classic games are played. Featuring a story-driven progression, players complete short challenges in a wide-variety of fictional retro-games. Specific challenges in shooting, racing, action and even an epic role-playing game are integrated into the story, while the in-game magazines offer cheat codes as well as fake 80’s news stories paying tribute to the rich history of the gaming industry. Released to raving reviews as Game Center CX: Arino’s Challenge in Japan, the game received a Gold Award from Famitsu with a 33/40 review score. Retro Game Challenge is scheduled for release Winter 2008."

if you haven't seen Game Center CX there are fansubbed episodes here http://tvnihon.com/tracker/browse.php?cat=79

― zappi, Friday, 11 July 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

oh yeh and "KORG DS-10 is scheduled for release Fall 2008."

― zappi, Friday, 11 July 2008 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

more rhythm tengoku DS details:
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168646

― czn, Friday, 11 July 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

The reason is that I haven't been posting (or leaving the house et. al) is thee man & I got homebrew cards & 4 gig microSDs as wedding gifts so it's been all Etrian Oddyssey & Bust-a-Move and everything in the entire world non-stop since then. It is like our friends didn't want us to have sex.

― Abbott, Sunday, 13 July 2008 22:49 (seventeen years ago)

Rhythm Tengoku is being localised as Rhythm Heaven. hooray!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62XRwGKtlHc

― zappi, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

is anyone going to play that FFIV/II remake?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

xpost preorder canceled! (just as well since I picked up two other rhythm games during Play Asia's sale anyway)

― jamescobo, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

which ones?

― czn, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

the first Ouendan (I jumped into the series w/ EBA) and the breathtakingly fey classical music one

oh! also! my Space Invaders paddle arrived yesterday! it's awesome! so is that game! loud noises!

― jamescobo, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 20:42 (seventeen years ago)

i haven't played my DS in like 8 months.

DS owners:

what do i need to catch up on? last game i was into was like... picross. what's come out since then?

― s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 12:30 (seventeen years ago)

Ninja Gaiden, Professor Layton, Soul Bubbles.

Those three games were quite enjoyable (OK, I still haven't finished Soul Bubbles but it's always a pleasure playing it). Probably other stuff too, but those three are almost the only three games I've played recently. Oh yeah, also the World Ends with You. most people seem to enjoy it quite a bit, even though personally, I gave up on it rather quickly. But it is one of the few DS games that can last you a long time.

― Jibe, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:17 (seventeen years ago)

Did you play New York Times Crosswords?!

― Will M., Friday, 18 July 2008 14:29 (seventeen years ago)

yes!

i kept dying tho :(

― s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

lol

― Jordan, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

i got a little frustrated nyt xwords and bought a book of them instead.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:17 (seventeen years ago)

did anyone play through dementium?

― czn, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

I just started a 'glob' ('blog') ('Bob Loblaws' Law Blog' except not at all) about DS games I have played:

http://iplaytheds.blogspot.com/

Be the first visitor not from my IP!

― Abbott, Sunday, 20 July 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

SHAMELESS BUTTPLUG I KNOW

― Abbott, Sunday, 20 July 2008 01:50 (seventeen years ago)

nice!

whoa i just started the new advance wars... it's basically set in the world of 'the road' huh??

― s1ocki, Sunday, 20 July 2008 02:30 (seventeen years ago)

good bloggery there abbott, keep it up.

― s1ocki, Sunday, 20 July 2008 04:32 (seventeen years ago)

nice, abbott, did you know you can play earthbound on the DS if you have an R4?!!!!

― czn, Sunday, 20 July 2008 08:14 (seventeen years ago)

ah I see you already have one of those flashcart things for the DS!!! awesome, you can play earthbound/snes ROMs on the go!!!

― czn, Sunday, 20 July 2008 08:20 (seventeen years ago)

tho my emulator is a bit funky.

― s1ocki, Sunday, 20 July 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, it fr some reason earthbound of all things was the only ROM that worked 99.9% for me

― czn, Sunday, 20 July 2008 14:13 (seventeen years ago)

i've been playing Earthbound via PC emulation for the very first time, and loving every second of it. that Moonside bit was so so good. now i understand all the internet fanboys whining :/

― zappi, Sunday, 20 July 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

whining? about what?

― Abbott, Sunday, 20 July 2008 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

Abbott I was gonna leave a comment on your blogz saying I was reading it and paying attention. But instead I'll just say it here, I guess.

― Z S, Sunday, 20 July 2008 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

czn: which emulator - apparently there are 3, which works best for earthbound?

― Thomas, Sunday, 20 July 2008 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

whining? oh you know - mother & mother 3 not getting an english translation, earthbound not being on virtual console or released at all in europe, no mother 4 (which seemed just a bit more likely after brawl).

xxpost

― zappi, Sunday, 20 July 2008 20:54 (seventeen years ago)

You can get an English NES rom of Mother...it's called 'Mother 0' (zero).

― Abbott, Sunday, 20 July 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

Here we go:

http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/goku141/DLEB0.html

― Abbott, Sunday, 20 July 2008 22:16 (seventeen years ago)

I would totally not mind if the book of short stories written by Itoi & Murakami got an English translation.

― Abbott, Sunday, 20 July 2008 22:17 (seventeen years ago)

didn't murakami write a poem or sometihng that was in earthbound?!

― Will M., Monday, 21 July 2008 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, a weird short story. Or prose poem.

― Abbott, Monday, 21 July 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

Didn't you have to save up a ridiculous amount of money to buy that house in the middle of the game, and you couldn't even get in at the end of the game when you actually HAD all that money?

― Nhex, Monday, 21 July 2008 06:35 (seventeen years ago)

www.glitchds.com

― Creeztophair, Thursday, 24 July 2008 07:02 (seventeen years ago)

rhythm tengoku DS is OUT OUT OUT

― webinar, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

Hey i have a question for homebrewers:

If i wanted to get my hands on an R4 or other flashcart style thing, like, immediately... where could i go? I sort of want it for tomorrow and therefore can't wait for a website to deliver it to me.

Anyone know who might stock such things IRL?

― Slumpman, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

are you yankee or britishes or neither?

― webinar, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)

I'm Sheffield UK. I found one online that is "next day delivery" but i bet it's not really. I tried calling a couple of those little shops that unlock mobile phones but they didn't seem to know what i was talking about.

― Slumpman, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

have you checked craigslist? not sure how popular it is there but they exist daily for me in mtl.

― Will M., Wednesday, 30 July 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

I read yesterday in the newspaper that whoever made My Weight Loss Coach are also making a game based on Allen Carr's Quit Smoking books!

― Finefinemusic, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 17:07 (seventeen years ago)

Comes out in October.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

abbott the quit smoking thing is like made for you!!

― s1ocki, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:13 (seventeen years ago)

how do i shot DS homebrew?????

― Jordan, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

anyone got a town to visit in animal crossing?

― webinar, Saturday, 2 August 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)

My man wants WFC hookup Animal Crossing visitation rights, webinar. email him at theviceroy at gmail dot com.

slocki, I know!!!!! I hope it helps a lot of people like me.

― Abbott, Sunday, 3 August 2008 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

i look forward to your blog entry about it!

― s1ocki, Sunday, 3 August 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I can't believe Ketsui Death Label is coming out on the DS... it looks insane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBmdhTjEYBs&feature=related

will import
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-49-en-70-2rh8.html

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 18:27 (seventeen years ago)

also did anybody else pick up Bangai-o Spirits?

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 18:30 (seventeen years ago)

I did and it is fucking nuts

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

plug plug I have updated my blog a few times plug plug

― Abbott, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

who's plug plug

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

I RSS that shit

― cozwn, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

no adwords for you

zing

― cozwn, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

I'm still no wiser about what a eukaryote is : (

― cozwn, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

Living things are now divided into two higher domains called 'eukaryotes' and 'prokaryotes.' The difference in classification is eukaryotic cells (and eukaryotic single-cell organisms) have a nucleus, whereas prokaryotes do not.

Prokaryotes comprise the majority of life on earth (if you're counting individual numbers of organisms; eukaryotes have a wider variety of species but fewer total organisms). This is because the majority prokaryotes are bacteria. Prokaryotes can live in every environment, including inhospitable fields of acid and the superhot sulfurous waters of Yellowstone National Park, which also accounts for how widespread they are in quantity. Prokaryotes were the first life on earth, needing only a few amino acids to survive. Cyanobacteria, some of the first prokaryotes, are what created oxygen in the earth's atmosphere and allowed other life to adapt and develop.

Eukaryotes, then, are everything 'higher' than bacteria, from pine trees to parrots to protozoa. In sum, prokaryotes ('lower than the eukaryote') are wicked dumb, hence Tombot's barbed indictment of the Professional Games Blogger.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

what is the deal with n+? everyone seems to love it but it looks very uh plain? not that i care as long as it's fun

― metametadata (n/a), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

one person's plain is the next person's streamlined, clean, platforming perfection.

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 22:05 (seventeen years ago)

The ds version is the least perfect version of N+, but it's still fun & eventually extremely challenging / frustrating.

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

playing n+ on the 360 is like grabbing onto a sine wave with your bare hands and manipulating it into every sound you ever wanted to hear. wtf am i even saying why am i hitting submit po

― Everyone is a Jedi (Will M.), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

haha!

― zappi, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 23:04 (seventeen years ago)

Is Melton still posting? I haven';t seen him lately

― Brotherhood of Stealing Shit to Sell to Trader Caravans (kingfish), Thursday, 13 November 2008 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

My copy of Ketsui Death Label arrived today from Hong Kong. Probably the most absurd use of the DS yet. Crazier than Bangai-O maybe. I'm loving it.

http://www.arika.co.jp/product/ketsui_hp/game/game.html

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 13 November 2008 05:01 (seventeen years ago)

Absurd how? It just looks like a hard-as-shit shmup, as far as I can gather?

― JimD, Thursday, 13 November 2008 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

Not that hard actually (as every time you fail a level, you get an extra life for your next try).

It's absurd in the sense that the idea of a boss rush, bullet hell shmup on the tiny screen of the DS is absurd. Maybe crazy would be a better word? It actually runs really smooth however. It's an amazingly well designed game and sort of a miracle that it even exists.

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 13 November 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

The Korg is fun! Stupid fun!

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 13 November 2008 19:53 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

― czn (cozwn), Saturday, 6 December 2008 11:51 (seventeen years ago)

also old but good, our very own s1ocki :DDDDDDDD

― czn (cozwn), Saturday, 6 December 2008 11:52 (seventeen years ago)

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old men shouldn't be playing games old man..

― czn (cozwn), Saturday, 6 December 2008 11:54 (seventeen years ago)

i'm getting obsessive with new castlevania ds ecclesseccatessen.

― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 6 December 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

haha old men.

castlevania delicatessen?

― s1ocki, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)

just got chrono trigger :D

― s1ocki, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)

http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Castlevania:_Order_of_Ecclesia

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 7 December 2008 06:28 (seventeen years ago)

i will sample the first 35 seconds of slocki's review for a bangin' indie electro-influenced techno track

― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

i bought advance wars: dual strike yesterday

― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

please do that

the first thing

― s1ocki, Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

get it?

― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

because it sounds like you're talking about your penis

― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

GET IT?

― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:33 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/12/gamesetinterview_korg_ds_t.php

― Nhex, Friday, 12 December 2008 01:34 (seventeen years ago)

new mario and luigi RPG sounds interesting:

"Apparently the Mushroom Kingdom is being racked by a mysterious disease called the Metarolly Syndrome (like metabolic syndrome, except it makes you really fat and rolly). Princess Peach calls the Mario brothers to do something about it. Just then Koopa shows up to capture her and accidentally swallows the Mario brothers when trying to deal with them.

The game is played as Mario & Luigi on the bottom screen INSIDE Koopa's body and as Koopa in the top screen. As Koopa, you use his firebreathing and tremendous strength, as well his command over the classic Mario enemies to wreck havoc over the Mushroom Kingdom.

And as Mario & Luigi, you have to escape from Koopa's body, sometimes affecting his ability or behavior to do things (like pumping his muscles so he gets stronger) and sometimes his behavior affecting the contents of the rooms you explore in his body (like drinking water)."

― czn (cozwn), Friday, 12 December 2008 10:38 (seventeen years ago)

That sounds awesome.

― circa1916, Friday, 12 December 2008 10:56 (seventeen years ago)

I don't get whose side M&L are on in that scenario. Koopa wants to wreak havoc, so M&L pump his muscles up to make him stronger? Surely that's only going to help him fuck shit up?

― JimD, Friday, 12 December 2008 11:51 (seventeen years ago)

welp, sounds like game of the year 2009's already wrapped up.

Koopa wants to wreak havoc, so M&L pump his muscles up to make him stronger? Surely that's only going to help him fuck shit up?

what if they're, like, giving him cramps or something? or they fight against his immune system or something? (or would that make this AIDS: The Game?)

― jamescobo, Friday, 12 December 2008 21:49 (seventeen years ago)

it's a game of questionable morality and tough decisions

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Friday, 12 December 2008 21:55 (seventeen years ago)

I beat 200 lines on Tetris DS today (and could have kept going) and now I feel like I have nothing to live for.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Saturday, 13 December 2008 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

bummed I can't read japanese cos it looks like ketsui death label includes some developer's commentary in the "special" section

― cozwn, Monday, 15 December 2008 23:04 (seventeen years ago)

There's a ton of it too!

― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 15 December 2008 23:08 (seventeen years ago)

the DS has some great games out/on the horizon

japanese DS RPGs tht look interesting:

inazuma eleven
valkyrie profile
avalon code
wind of nostalgeo
world destruction
knights in the nightmare
away: shuffle dungeon (might actually be out in US? there's a US rom around anyways)
sigma harmonics
glorious light of heracles: proof of soul

other games tht look great but yet to try:
dragon quest IV
fire emblem: dragon shadow
theresia...
chrono trigger DS
summon night: twin edge

― cozwn, Thursday, 18 December 2008 01:16 (seventeen years ago)

valkyrie profile confirmed for spring 09 in the US as "covenant of the plume"

― cozwn, Thursday, 18 December 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)

the DSi online store has opened in Japan, and one of the downloads is a free app called Moving Memo Pad. it works like a flipbook, where you can create animations (drawing & taking photos) & then export to animated gif or upload to a dedicated site - check out what people have made already!
http://ugomemo.hatena.ne.jp/

― zappi, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 11:35 (seventeen years ago)

WIN

― cozwn, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 12:50 (seventeen years ago)

I am playing this RPG by id called Orcs and Elves that has like Wolfenstein 3D-level graphics and it is making me fucking GLEEFUL. Etrian Odyssey 2 is freaking impossible.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Saturday, 27 December 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

I can't find a rom of Dragon Quest 4 that actually lets me save the game. :(

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Saturday, 27 December 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

EtrianO2 is awesome if you can get in the swing of it. It's very hardcore tho.

― plastic toy shark (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 December 2008 21:37 (seventeen years ago)

I am on level 23 and it's slow-going. I mean I love it, but it's like...fuck. Did you beat it?

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Saturday, 27 December 2008 22:10 (seventeen years ago)

aw - perhaps you should go buy the game instead of stealing it abbott????

― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 28 December 2008 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

That wld defs be the plan if I had a spare $35.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 29 December 2008 20:10 (seventeen years ago)

I got DQ4 for xmas and played it so intently in the airport that my vision started to go wonky

― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 December 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

oh and I got a DS too so I can be posting to this thread.
where are good sites for DS news/reviews

― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 December 2008 22:14 (seventeen years ago)

the only place I actively check for ds reviews is Eurogamer since they're the only ones who dig up quiet, monumentally obscure Japanese puzzle games like Slitherlink and Nurikabe

― jamescobo, Monday, 29 December 2008 22:29 (seventeen years ago)

so i spent the morning trying to finish professor layton <3 that game but i'm still stuck on a few of the puzzles

abbott: in EO2 have you been doing the quests? some of the rewards/skills are necessary for the later boss battles

― Lamp, Thursday, 1 January 2009 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

co-sign the layton <3; just picked it up recently, quite early on into it but it's really great

there's a thread kicking around on ILG

― cozwn, Thursday, 1 January 2009 21:06 (seventeen years ago)

have we had a NINTENDO DS ESSENTIALS list thread or is it just this one

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 January 2009 21:36 (seventeen years ago)

think it's just this one tomboto

― cozwn, Thursday, 1 January 2009 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

we should have a nintendo ds essentials thread because this one is too long and old

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 January 2009 22:05 (seventeen years ago)

all my nieces and nephews got ds' for christmas.
it was kinda fun to watch them pictochat messages to eachother. mostly drawings of poop, or telling eachother they smell.

― Creeztophair, Thursday, 1 January 2009 22:07 (seventeen years ago)

Welcome to the DS! There's a crazy amount of good games for it. I'd consider Elite Beat Agents, Phoenix Wright and Mario Kart pretty essential. You might as well get New Super Mario Bros. too.

As far as sites one I've liked a lot recently is Tiny Cartridge. For typical news I generally keep up with Wired (good) and DS Fanboy (just okay, but they seem to try to find news, at least).

― Nhex, Friday, 2 January 2009 09:32 (seventeen years ago)

i got the korg thing, it's ok

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 2 January 2009 13:08 (seventeen years ago)

It's SHOOTING WATCH for the DS.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 2 January 2009 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

top scorer is "WHYTPRIDE" o_O

― cozwn, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

I know :( wtf

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 2 January 2009 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

Best Nintendo DS game of 2008

― Nhex, Monday, 5 January 2009 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

anyone played Moon?

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Monday, 26 January 2009 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

i've mooned people

― s1ocki, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

i bought the dementium game that i think is by the same production company as moon ... it sucks

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 January 2009 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

yeah same designers

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 January 2009 19:13 (seventeen years ago)

i've never heard of moon. can someone tell me why every retail outlet in the uk seems to be charging about £60 for professor layton, a game which is like a year old already?

― thomp, Monday, 26 January 2009 23:08 (seventeen years ago)

And the voice actors are Americans with British accents! You should be paying LESS for the insult of it.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Thursday, 29 January 2009 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

Have you actually managed to find Professor Layton at any retail outlet that isn't on the internet? As far as I know it's now been discontinued in both North America and Europe. I don't know if this is completely true or if so why, but my brother had a very hard time finding a copy for me for an xmas gift (in Canada) because it wasn't available anywhere. It only came out in the UK at the end of November, but I tried looking for it not too long after that and couldn't get it anywhere and nobody at the shops knew when/if it would be back in stock (although Tottenham Court Road Zavvi had a display/play copy out for some reason, despite not having it in stock to purchase?!)

― salsa shark, Friday, 30 January 2009 22:32 (seventeen years ago)

Still on the shelves here in the USA - I just bought it tonight.

― Jeff LeVine, Saturday, 31 January 2009 06:12 (seventeen years ago)

ah okay! Maybe there was just a big rush on it during xmas. I still haven't seen any in the UK though aside from Zavvi's demo copy. Note to Thomp: maybe order it from North America?

― salsa shark, Saturday, 31 January 2009 12:10 (seventeen years ago)

i saw it before christmas, £60 with no copies in zavvi and something ridiculous (seriously, like £115) in cex. since i made that last post amazon uk and play seem to both have it back in stock at £25, though i just picked up another phoenix wright so i am thinking it can wait, for now.

― thomp, Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:47 (seventeen years ago)

February '09 games of interest (US):
My World, My Way
Legacy of Ys Books I and II
Retro Game Challenge
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride
Avalon Code
Blue Dragon Plus
Puzzle Quest Galactrix

I'm really thinking about going for Retro Game Challenge - can anyone recommend it? Is it actually a good game, or just a mildly fun nostalgia project (in which case I will probably wait for a price drop or skip it).

― Nhex, Sunday, 1 February 2009 09:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8980870&publicUserId=5379721

The idea that there's a Ninja Gaiden-style platformer TRILOGY that evolves reflecting the actual progression of NES titles over the decade is incredibly cool. Here's the full 1up review.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 17:35 (seventeen years ago)

one of my e-bros on another board reviews games for a living. he usually hates everything since he's so burnt out on games, but he swears Retro Game Challenge is a hell of a lot of fun.

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 17:51 (seventeen years ago)

I preordered retro game challenge and genesis ultimate collection on amazon. I'm such a retro whore.
I'll get the new Puzzle quest for xbox, cuz if i get it for DS, my girlfriend WILL NOT LET ME PLAY.
corollary: should i buy her her own ds for valentine's day, y or n?

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 18:42 (seventeen years ago)

i am excited for retro game challenge

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 18:45 (seventeen years ago)

I do want Retro Game Challenge but I'm'a gamefly it first. too many DS games coming out in the next few months!

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

corollary: should i buy her her own ds for valentine's day, y or n?

ROMANCE DS lol it has to be better than a cookbook fyi i was told yesterday u do not buy your sig other a cookbook for v-day apparently it carries unfortunate connotations

― it amuses and intrigues throughout (Lamp), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

I thought it carried recipes.

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

no im pretty sure i was told it was unfortunate connotations idk i dont own one u see

back on topic to say that a DS cooking game feels like an underexploited niche

― Lamp, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.familyvideo.com/catalog/images/games/68/2578168.jpg

I own this, btw

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

(and it's awesome)

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

honestly and this is true i was thinking there HAD 2 be a game like that and that i would own and play it despite basically never cooking food myself

― Lamp, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

oh so basically forks what all these posts of mine are trying to say is:

NITNENDO DS + DS COOKING GAME = BEST V_DAY PRESENT EVER

― Lamp, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:12 (seventeen years ago)

Get her the DS, of course (and a copy of Elite Beat Agents)!

― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

it's not actually a game - it's more of an instructional cooking program. it guides you through each step, shows you how/what to do (and has explanations on pretty much everything, which is a godsend for cooking artards like myself who could fuck up opening a can of soup), and even helps plan your grocery lists. but there's no achievements or anything (YOU HAVE UNLOCKED: PORK CHOPS). it just helps you cook.

(awesome feature, though: you can use voice controls in case your hands are all messy!)

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:21 (seventeen years ago)

We already "own" the cooking game; she turned her nose up at it.
And she doesn't like EBA, though I think it's awesome.
She likes insane obsessive matching games, like puzzle quest and tetris.
She's spent probably 50 hours this month playing Zoo Keeper.
Trying to move her toward Revenant Wings; she thought FFXII was cool and says she can "connect with the characters easier"
i kinda want a DS Lite and am tired of her monopolizing the machine, but I will need to get a new R4, dilemma dilemma

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:23 (seventeen years ago)

Do you guys even know Zoo Keeper? Basically jacked up Bejeweled.
It's okay but I don't quite get the obsession.

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

when does this hetero games challenge game come out

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

RGC came out yesterday! I'm fighting the urge to run out and get it right now.

forks: Yeah, Zoo Keeper is okay and kind of cute but I wouldn't put in the same league as Puzzle Quest. How about Planet Puzzle League or Picross, though that's much slower? Another possibility, if you can hold off for around 6 months, you can just get yourself a DSi when they come out. (downside: you will probably need to get one of those new flash carts that are compatible with it)

― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I'm definitely getting her picross toot sweet. Thanks for reminding me.
What's the upside of the DSi anyway? Minutely larger screen? Camera? I can do fine with my clamshell.

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 20:43 (seventeen years ago)

Main draw is the DSiWare stuff. I think it might be time for me to upgrade from my original DS at that point, but if it does come out at $180 as rumored I may still skip it.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 21:14 (seventeen years ago)

Knights in the Nightmare announced for June. Still looks kind of incomprehensible!

― Nhex, Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:20 (seventeen years ago)

omg retro games guys
i was grinning so broadly on the train

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 February 2009 03:02 (seventeen years ago)

just thinking about it?

― s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

No, playing it! So awesome, gotta start a new thread.

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

just got it — will be my reward for getting my work done today !!

― s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:38 (seventeen years ago)

it will bring tears to your virtual eyes.

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:51 (seventeen years ago)

is there any way to shut young Arino up while you are playing? i love the retro music but am getting really annoyed with his "do0d!!!" interjections.

― zappi, Thursday, 12 February 2009 18:11 (seventeen years ago)

Really? I love that, it's like having your own virtual dumb-bro in game!

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 February 2009 18:14 (seventeen years ago)

kinda got annoying quickly for me. rest of the game is 10/10 so far though, the magazines are excellent!

― zappi, Thursday, 12 February 2009 18:21 (seventeen years ago)

I'm real real tempted to change my name to "Dan Sock".

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 February 2009 18:27 (seventeen years ago)

one can only hope retro game challenge will hit the dodgy hong kong ebay seller market soon

has anyone here had much luck with the DS wi-fi? i've never been able to make it recognise any network i've been around, which bums me out a bit, cuz doesn't one of the bomberman games support like 32 players or something

― thomp, Thursday, 12 February 2009 19:23 (seventeen years ago)

Me either, tho my husband's DS picks it up just fine everywhere.

― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:09 (seventeen years ago)

Guys, did you know that DS picked up THE JUMBLES?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/617diHTJi7L._SL500_AA280_.jpg

― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

is that like the DTs

― s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:09 (seventeen years ago)

More like the Lockhorns.

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:42 (seventeen years ago)

omg retro games guys
i was grinning so broadly on the train

^^^THIS

― Nhex, Friday, 13 February 2009 05:03 (seventeen years ago)

OMG Retro Games Challenge for the DS OMG

― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 February 2009 14:08 (seventeen years ago)

you know, as much as I ordinarily hate pick-commands-from-a-menu RPGs, I have to say that My World, My Way looks pretty entertaining

― jamescobo, Friday, 13 February 2009 17:03 (seventeen years ago)

just got big bang mini and am already pretty addicted, plus only $20 new ... worth picking up

skipped retro games challenge cuz i never had nintendo as a kid, probably wouldn't get it

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 13 February 2009 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

You've probably already heard, but DSi announced for US, April 5th at $170.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2009/02/nintendo-dsi-in.html

Just as exciting (or more) - Rhythm Heaven coming out the same day!

― Nhex, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

eh, i'll stick with the ds lite. i'd rather have a GBA slot than a stupid camera.

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 22:55 (seventeen years ago)

you should think of both cameras as extra input devices for gameplay, not as multimedia extensions. whether nintendo supports them with interesting enough software is another matter, although the dsiware wario game looks like an good start. my phatty is getting a bit long in the tooth....

― zappi, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:21 (seventeen years ago)

yeah - passing for now - still perfectly happy with the lite & would miss the gba slot. If the new DSi ends up with some interesting software and /or amazing download library will consider picking one up then. The slightly bigger screen is the only thing that makes it interesting so far. Looking forward to Rhythm Heaven though

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:30 (seventeen years ago)

lol, i JUST bought a ds lite yesterday. Not feeling the dsi at all.

― Also, the game will have toilets. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 February 2009 00:08 (seventeen years ago)

the dodgy hong kong ebay games market turns out to be, well, dodgy. all the instruction manuals look like this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3576/3292748411_2ae925f242_o.jpg

i found myself finishing this in under 72 hours, so it's probably best i didn't pay eight hundred pounds for it. i can see why people thought it was awesome. two things really bugged me tho, the horrible sentimental creepiness of the ending, and the way that some puzzles were OH HAHA I SEE YOU NOTICED THE AMBIGUITY IN THE QUESTION AND DIDN'T JUST ASSUME THE OBVIOUS and some were just ambiguously phrased and you were meant to assume the obvious, this was annoying

― thomp, Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

Why buy from the dodgy HK market at all? If the money's not going through legit channels you might as well get a flash card.

(I wasn't a huge fan of those kinds of puzzles either)

― Nhex, Thursday, 19 February 2009 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

i ordered a bunch of games without realising they'd turn out like that. (all except izuna 2! apparently it's not worth anyone's while to make pirate copies of izuna 2.) i probably wouldn't do it again.

another annoying thing about layton: hunt-the-pixel has not been fun in any game, anywhere, ever.

― thomp, Thursday, 19 February 2009 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

obv your forgetting the dope mission in vice city were u have to hunt down and kill a theiving stripper named pixel

― Lamp, Thursday, 19 February 2009 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

lol

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 19 February 2009 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

hunt-the-pixel has not been fun in any game, anywhere, ever.

The weird thing is, while the traditional inventory puzzle/character and plot-driven has largely died out, these pixel hunt games are a huge subset of casual gaming. There's a like a billion of them cranked out a year on Best Buy shelves and various online portal sites - clearly people are still buying them, which I'm always surprised by. Even Nintendo is pushing Mystery Case Files pretty hard with television commercials!

― Nhex, Thursday, 19 February 2009 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

Plot-driven adventure game, oops.

― Nhex, Thursday, 19 February 2009 22:13 (seventeen years ago)

I enjoy it. It's like finding all your lost bobby pins and coins before you vacuum.

― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 19 February 2009 23:23 (seventeen years ago)

I am a person of dull pleasures.

― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 19 February 2009 23:23 (seventeen years ago)

March 2009 titles of interest:

Peggle: Dual Shot
Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled (Western-developed Chrono Trigger-esque RPG that has been in the works forever!)
Avalon Code
Pokemon Platinum
Suikoden Tierkreis
GTA: Chinatown Wars
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure
Trackmania DS
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
Tokyo Beatdown

...damn, did I miss anything? I really need to snag an R4 one of these days, don't I...

― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:51 (seventeen years ago)

Peggle and Trackmania are both must gets

― gooder dan a mug, lol (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 04:12 (seventeen years ago)

I got a copy of Hotel Dusk and sat through the intro and walked around the lobby and there were like two dozen hotspots I could interact with TO NO BENEFIT AT ALL ("It's a television. It looks like isn't on right now") and I got angry and turned it off.

― thomp, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 07:53 (seventeen years ago)

I also found a cheap copy of the GBA Wario Ware title and played thro that in basically one train journey.

― thomp, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 07:55 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I didn't like the red herrings in Hotel Dusk either. The story eventually becomes decent, but the game's not worth it.

Has anyone played PQ: Galactrix? I didn't understand what was going on in the PC demo, but I love the original PQ.

― abanana, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 13:39 (seventeen years ago)

Galactrix has a ton of flaws and I'm not positive I like it. I've got at least four hours logged though.

― gooder dan a mug, lol (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 14:01 (seventeen years ago)

Oh I didn't mind Hotel Dusk, except for one particular puzzle that was typical of adventure games requiring you to combine obscure item #1 with obscure item #2 to make obscure item #3. Other than that, I didn't find it overly challenging, although the storyline was good enough that I played through it (even though it's a bit predictable). Main character's a cock and the game basically has zero replay value, though.

― salsa shark, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 14:03 (seventeen years ago)

id really like someone to get a copy of henry hatsworth and tell me if its good. ive got that black sigil game coming in the mail its supposed to have a really inventive/engaging battle system

― calling u stanton to stanton (Lamp), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 17:42 (seventeen years ago)

i threw a pear in my coat pocket on the way out the door and it was the pocket with the ds and the pear was crushed by the machine and my ds is now covered and smeared in smashed pear. I think it'll be fine but i really wanted that pear and I just bought this ds and i'm pissed.

― gooder dan a mug, lol (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

id really like someone to get a copy of henry hatsworth and tell me if its good.

+1. this game is either gonna be really great or really retarded

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 20:55 (seventeen years ago)

so Peggle DS is kind of startlingly ass-ugly even by DS standards, but since it controls so beautifully and it's PEGGLE I cannot in good conscience give it anything less than an A++++++++++++++++++++

― jamescobo, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 08:51 (seventeen years ago)

is there a 'stuff you are really, really tired of in games' type thread? 'cause i am playing order of ecclesia finally and the whole YOU HAVE THREE HUNDRED ABILITIES TO FIND AND COLLECT AND OTHER THAN YOUR STRONGEST ATTACK AND THE DOUBLE JUMP YOU WILL USE EACH OF THEM PRECISELY TWICE logic of it is deeply infuriating. possibly because i only played portrait of ruin like three months ago, but, still.

― thomp, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:25 (seventeen years ago)

its about the journey not the useless equipment you find once u get there bro

― Lamp, Wednesday, 11 March 2009 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

bizarre football game from EA, as far as i can tell its a sort of football manager/pokemon mashup?
http://www.footballacademy.ea.com/
this could sell millions in the UK.
oh and good timing with that endorsement lol

― zappi, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

i don't buy games that often but i might go get GTA and henry hatsworth tomorrow, both look fun

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 March 2009 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

wtf no uk release for retro games challenge? time to go the revolution cartridge route i fear :/

admittedly this kind of makes perfect sense, given how the DS has zero adult market here and the NES didn't catch on to anywhere near the same extent, & so the whole retro target market thing wouldn't really happen. it'sstillreallyannoying

ecclesia: was annoying me less, for a while, and now is annoying me more, again. (nowhere near as unfair as angry internet people had made it sound, though.) (i mean, what is with the 'i had to try this boss SIX TIMES!!!' people? IT IS 2009 AND YOU ARE PLAYING A 2D PLATFORMER, YOU AREN'T EXACTLY NOT INVITING THE DEVELOPER TO TYPECAST YOU IN THIS FASHION)

― thomp, Monday, 16 March 2009 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

henry hatsworth is very good. I love the intermission/"world of chocolate" music that plays during the bonus sections.

― abanana, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:58 (seventeen years ago)

I need a new game for my DS. Should I get:

a) Bangaio Spirits
b) Civ Revolution
c) Puzzle Quest Galactrix

Thoughts on all three much appreciated. Tah.

― ears are wounds, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

i'm pretty absorbed in chinatown wars right now but i'll get henry hatsworth when i get bored of that

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

- haven't played civ.
- I thought pqgalactrix was badly badly flawed: major motion detection problems, crazy load times, uninteresting story, badly organized flow and no real incentive to play. That said, I still play it occasionally and the gf begrudgingly finished it but seems angry it took so much of her time. We both loved the first puzzle quest.
- Bangaio is a weird mix of bullet hell laser dodging and puzzle solving; I found it difficult to the point of being opaque, but if you have more patience than I do, you might be able to mine gold from it.

― WOOKIE JOHNSON (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

I couldn't even beat the final tutorial level of Bangai-O! The levels are super tiny, frantic and fast. In concept it's neat, in practice, I just was never able to get into it. I have Civ Rev too but have so far only played one game. Although it's a simplified version of Civ, it's still a pretty complicated game, and the games are really long - especially for a portable. Probably would be good for a long plane flight type experience though.

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

trailer for new Zelda DS game here http://www.zelda.com/universe/game/spirittracks/index.jsp

― zappi, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

a) Bangaio Spirits
hard, puzzle elements really pointless and the game distracts you from itself all the time.
b) Civ Revolution
kind of ugly on the ds and obv it can be a chore even in its stripped down form but its still a a great game
c) Puzzle Quest Galactrix
the name is stupid but i havent played it

― Lamp, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

Interesting (if I guess, inevitable?) news that there will be new DSi-specific carts. Like with the Game Boy Color, they will be backwards compatible with old DSes but have DSi-exclusive features.

― Nhex, Thursday, 26 March 2009 03:38 (seventeen years ago)

link has a tornado now and he rides a train instead of a boat. this series has expanded so much over the years. if I didn't love the original SNES zelda so much I would be pretty disappointed with the new trailer.

I need a new game for my DS as well... what do we have coming out this year?

I should just go ahead and buy the remaining phoenix wright games. always entertaining <3

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 26 March 2009 03:49 (seventeen years ago)

I need a new game for my DS as well... what do we have coming out this year?

Rhythm Heaven (localized Rhythm Tengoku DS) comes out in two weeks, so get that. also I fully expect Mario & Luigi 3 to be my GotY whenever it comes out, so get that too.

― jamescobo, Thursday, 26 March 2009 04:37 (seventeen years ago)

a) Bangaio Spirits
b) Civ Revolution
c) Puzzle Quest Galactrix

don't get any of these; spend your money on Slitherlink and Nurikabe instead.

― jamescobo, Thursday, 26 March 2009 04:44 (seventeen years ago)

fully expect Mario & Luigi 3 to be my GotY whenever it comes out

O_o < WUT

― Lamp, Thursday, 26 March 2009 04:52 (seventeen years ago)

well the first two games are two of my favorite games ever (like up there with Sid Meier's Pirates and Mario 3 and stuff like that), and this one has you getting eaten by Bowser and then battling his immune system to escape from his guts while he rampages across the Mushroom Kingdom (or actions to that effect). I expect it to be delirious brilliance all around, although it's too bad that 3 (almost assuredly) won't include Rumble Pak support this time around.

― jamescobo, Thursday, 26 March 2009 05:17 (seventeen years ago)

just started playing Space Invaders Extreme and it's CUH RAAAAAZY

― continuous flow crustastunna (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 March 2009 05:50 (seventeen years ago)

I really hope they at least let you move with the dpad in the new zelda

looks gorgeous again

― lo (cozwn), Thursday, 26 March 2009 08:47 (seventeen years ago)

doubt it, looks heavily based on Phantom Hourglass, will probably play the same.
hilarious fanboy meltdowns on gaf about it though. its just a game!

― zappi, Thursday, 26 March 2009 09:41 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, I think you're right. doesn't bother me all that much, it's just the ph stylus controls were a little unresponsive at times

― lo (cozwn), Thursday, 26 March 2009 09:51 (seventeen years ago)

don't get any of these; spend your money on Slitherlink and Nurikabe instead.

I'm not big into logic puzzlers to be honest.

It is a shame that the Puzzle Quest sequel sounds like it has been such a letdown. I really, really enjoyed the first one.

I had a feeling that Bangai-O Spirits would be too difficult for my tastes but it sounds so awesome on paper.

Looks like Civ it is. Or maybe I will hold out for Mario & Luigi. Also is the Chrono Trigger port any good?

― ears are wounds, Thursday, 26 March 2009 11:00 (seventeen years ago)

just started playing Space Invaders Extreme and it's CUH RAAAAAZY

^ haha me too, this arrived yesterday and it is fantastic

it's actually slightly LESS cuh-raaaazy than i expected, it's all kind of ... subtle. well, not subtle, just it's all carried out with a sort of faith in its basic aesthetics. it's prog space invaders but it's, like, fragile rather than close to the edge space invaders.

― thomp, Thursday, 26 March 2009 11:58 (seventeen years ago)

it's not really stressful; I guess the cockeyed approach is what i'm finding cuh-raaazy, not that it's wacky or oh-so-nutty. It's very close to a DS version of Rez, so i guess that's cuh-raaazy

― continuous flow crustastunna (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 March 2009 13:58 (seventeen years ago)

I'm not big into logic puzzlers to be honest.

neither am I tbqh; the pleasure to be found in both Slitherlink and Nurikabe comes from the interface being implemented so well. you just feel so empoweringly "in control" of your own progress as a player the whole time; it's intuitive in the same way SMB1's physics were. yes I'm drunk.

also the Chrono Trigger port is v. great. new non-objectionable content + subtle additions like the auto-completing map + it doesn't force you to use stylus controls ftw.

― jamescobo, Friday, 27 March 2009 07:58 (seventeen years ago)

anyone have an m3ds playing gta hem hem

― lo (cozwn), Thursday, 2 April 2009 01:56 (seventeen years ago)

I'm about ready to buy it.

― Wookie Johnson Strikes Back (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 April 2009 03:21 (seventeen years ago)

so i guess the new robot taisen is an rpg?

― Lamp, Thursday, 2 April 2009 21:31 (seventeen years ago)

Notable releases for April 2009 (Not as crazy as the last two months):

4/05 Rhythm Heaven (that's today!) (and the DSi, of course)
4/14 The Dark Spire
4/28 Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier
4/28 Puzzle Kingdoms

Black Sigil got delayed again to May. Weird that we're getting another Puzzle Quest sequel so soon, and much less-hyped.

― Nhex, Sunday, 5 April 2009 11:07 (seventeen years ago)

this one has you getting eaten by Bowser and then battling his immune system to escape from his guts while he rampages across the Mushroom Kingdom

Whatever game designers thought up that plot, high five. That's awesome!

― it's going to be very hot, it's going to be very uncomfortable (Z S), Sunday, 5 April 2009 16:36 (seventeen years ago)

Rhythm Heaven is fun but slight.

― Wookie Johnson Strikes Back (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 April 2009 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

around here we're still playing rittai picross (gf has 275 levels logged?!?!), 7 Wonders of the World (Bejeweled clone with some nice flourishes) and I'm still soldiering through Mother 3. Just beat the trippy mushroom stage (you look in the mailbox. it is full of screams. and the sound of you crying.) and beat the barrier triplets. I think i'm getting close to the ending; I may try and beat it tonight so that I can tackle something new. It's been a great experience though.

― Wookie Johnson Strikes Back (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 April 2009 17:24 (seventeen years ago)

so I FINALLY got a job on Friday, and to celebrate me not hanging myself in despair during the last few months I decided to get myself a DSi as a present. join me, won't you, in sperging out/rationalizing this ridiculous purchase.

* BUTTONS AND DPAD IMPROVED IMMEASURABLY. buttons seemed to be kind of an afterthought all around on the dsl; people's shoulder buttons kept getting all fucked up and the dpad was never comfortable to use for long periods of time since you had to lean down on it and the buttons were oddly rounded and etc. well, on the DSI the dpad is clicky & responsive, the buttons are a lot flatter, and the shoulder buttons are designed in a way that they shouldn't get all gunked up as easily (although unfortunately now I can't use my beloved super-dorky Hori pen attachment thing which clips into the DSL's lanyard holes. AT WHAT PRICE PROGRESS etc). GBA micro's buttons & ESPECIALLY dpad are still better, though.

* screens are better. not original-ds-to-Lite levels of better, but you can definitely appreciate the difference.

* matte finish is nice. mine's blue; I usually abhor "personalized" game stuff but it really does look (and feel) nice thanks to the finish.

* new emphasis on network integration. after watching the R4 et al cut into their bottom line you may bet your sweet bippy that Nintendo's going to be doing everything they can to drive their users onto this firmware-upgradeable platform; obviously it's a bit spare at the moment (I haven't even spent the 1000 dsi points you get for taking the thing online, although I'll probably end up caving on that Art Style game), but given the necessity of N's situation I'm guessing interesting stuff starts showing up sooner rather than later for once. plus "complaining about the lack of sharing between Wii and DSi VCs" is the new "complaining about the lack of storage space on the Wii" and who doesn't enjoy getting in on the ground floor of some internet bitching?

* new dashboard layout. it's unexpectedly nice to not be turning my ds off and on all the time now. hell, you can even hot-swap cartridges from the dash! oh god I've wasted my life.

* photo shit is hilariously pointless; I am not a subway pervert so YMMV but I just don't see much appeal here beyond the initial fucking-around period. also I can't wait to see how quick the lens on the outside camera gets scratched.

* WPA2!!!!! sure you can't use it to play any of your old games over wifi or anything but at least it can connect to the internet and download shit!!!!!!

so there you go. also I got Rhythm Heaven but I'm waiting until my screen protectors show up before I play anything really touchscreen-intensive.

― jamescobo, Sunday, 5 April 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

those blue DSis are too dope

tokyo beat down is out too isn't it?

― lo (cozwn), Sunday, 5 April 2009 23:11 (seventeen years ago)

I'm w/jamescobo man of style on the new luigi & mario RPG too fwiw, potential goty

― lo (cozwn), Sunday, 5 April 2009 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

looks neat, but i simply can't give up on homebrew/R4 action now that i've tasted forbidden fruit

― i'm warning you with peace and love but i have too much to do (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 April 2009 23:19 (seventeen years ago)

* new dashboard layout. it's unexpectedly nice to not be turning my ds off and on all the time now. hell, you can even hot-swap cartridges from the dash! oh god I've wasted my life.

Hahaha--sigh.

― Nhex, Sunday, 5 April 2009 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

otm

― lo (cozwn), Monday, 6 April 2009 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

I have this one:
http://www.viewpoints.com/images/review/2008/182/9/1214835920-5475_full.jpg
it came with a small scratch on the bottom right corner of the bottom screen. I never sent it in for repairs but as far as DS goes I got one with grunge colors and a triforce! hurrah

― CaptainLorax, Monday, 6 April 2009 04:21 (seventeen years ago)

there are chew marks on the end of my stylus :(

― CaptainLorax, Monday, 6 April 2009 04:22 (seventeen years ago)

tokyo beat down is out too isn't it?

it is but I hear that it's poopsome. I think between my ps2 and gba libraries I should be more or less set for brawlers for a while, though.

― jamescobo, Monday, 6 April 2009 18:30 (seventeen years ago)

ayo cozwn (or anyone) do u have vids/scoop on the level 5/studio ghibli ds rpg? its supposed to have a confirmed brit release date?

other than mario + luigi rpg sequel anything that ppl are recommending?

― Vormärz Heart, Our Youth is Broken (Lamp), Monday, 6 April 2009 19:00 (seventeen years ago)

Man that ghibli/5 Ninokuni game is gonna be a MUST for me and gal; can't imagine WHEN it's gonna come out tho.

― i'm warning you with peace and love but i have too much to do (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 April 2009 19:19 (seventeen years ago)

lamp the portion of my brain occupied w.gaming pretty much only hymns to the rhythm of sfiv right now

no scoop from me L:(

― lo (cozwn), Monday, 6 April 2009 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

i hit the wall w/SFIV and have kind of given up plus my thumbs kept getting blisters now i tell ppl im the marat safin of SFIV

― Vormärz Heart, Our Youth is Broken (Lamp), Monday, 6 April 2009 19:41 (seventeen years ago)

other than mario + luigi rpg sequel anything that ppl are recommending?

there's not really anything right now; I think the next game coming out that I gots ta buy will be Fight Night Round 4, and that's in like July.

― jamescobo, Monday, 6 April 2009 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

I think u should get trackmasters; it's like an infinite loop of super mario kart jacked up speed.
I have lots and lots to try but must finish Mother 3 first. Just started the final chapter!

― i'm warning you with peace and love but i have too much to do (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 April 2009 20:43 (seventeen years ago)

get hype

― lo (cozwn), Sunday, 12 April 2009 10:14 (seventeen years ago)

Seriously. Rittai Picross has OWNED my girl for about a month now.

― If God Loves Me, Why Can't I Get My Locker Open? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 April 2009 16:57 (seventeen years ago)

That really looks pretty fun! I never picked up the first Picross, I'll probably get that one.

― Nhex, Sunday, 12 April 2009 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

Akanke no tendo!@

― Latham Green, Sunday, 12 April 2009 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

hatsworth is lots of fun! rittai picross is hype

tokyo beat down is... horrible

― lo (cozwn), Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:56 (seventeen years ago)

Just finished Mother 3. I'd really like to talk about the ending with someone. If I start a thread, would anybody join me?

― If God Loves Me, Why Can't I Get My Locker Open? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 April 2009 04:51 (seventeen years ago)

I think there's already a Mother 3 thread somewhere, probably the best place to discuss it.

― CraigG, Monday, 13 April 2009 08:51 (seventeen years ago)

speaking of Mother 3, does anyone know where I could buy a GBA flash cart? I'm dying to play it on my micro but I can't find a flash cart to save my life.

― jamescobo, Monday, 13 April 2009 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

dunno dude, I found mine via google : /

the ds is on fire lately: hatsworth, gta, r.picross. daaaamn

― lo (cozwn), Monday, 13 April 2009 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

AND RHYTHM HEAVEN

― jamescobo, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

and probably heaps others I've not mentioned

black sigil? valkyrie profile, fire emblem, chrono trigger, peggle, galactrix

still w/mario & luigi 3, new zelda, knights in the nightmare etc to come

― lo (cozwn), Monday, 13 April 2009 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

thinking of getting one: does the dsi make total sense to get now rather than dsl?

― Euler, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

Unless you already have a library of GBA games or a non-compatible flash cart, can't think of a reason not go with DSi at this point (besides the $40 price difference, but that really isn't a good reason).

― Nhex, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:00 (seventeen years ago)

is homebrew ("homebrew") compatible on dsi yet?

― stimulus package (cozwn), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:01 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, there have been appropriate flash carts have been available for a while - the thing I'm not sure about is if the old ones will work with the DSis, or if a firmware upgrade makes them work, but many of those carts now have special DSi-compatible versions to buy.

― Nhex, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

as a DSi owner I actually think you can hold off on it for a good 6 months or a year unless you're attracted to (1) the web browsing capabilities, (2) the cameras for some reason, or (3) you just like the way it looks/feels. games have to support encryption schemes like the newly-added WPAs from the cartridge, so you won't be able to play any of yr old games online even if you can connect to the internet. of course, all of the above can be ignored if DSiWare starts kicking much ass in the near future.

― jamescobo, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

games have to support encryption schemes like the newly-added WPAs from the cartridge, so you won't be able to play any of yr old games online even if you can connect to the internet.

I did watch a youtube with someone playing Mario Kart via Download Link between a dsl and a dsi, so I gather this is possible. Are you saying that to bump this up and play over the internet may not be possible?

― Euler, Monday, 13 April 2009 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

RE: "homebrew", I think we can assume that Nintendo will be releasing firmware updates any time you connect to the web to put the kibosh on this as quickly as they can figure out how to shut that action down.

― If God Loves Me, Why Can't I Get My Locker Open? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 April 2009 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

yeah - you can play multiplayer w/ other DSeseseses locally, but not over the internet.

― jamescobo, Monday, 13 April 2009 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

in gta you whistle into the mic to hail a taxi which I think is simultaneously awesome and lame

― stimulus package (cozwn), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

ok so I'm getting a DSi, and I want to ask on this thread for DS RPG suggestions, based on the following exchange on another thread:

Only having a 360 is a big drawback if you want to play RPGs.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:31 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol thats exactly why i bought a DS
― Lamp, Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:33 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

I haven't played any Nintendo-machine RPGs since Golden Sun 2 on GBA maybe six years ago. I'd love to hear any suggestions: should I get a Dragon Quest, or a Final Fantasy, or something else I haven't heard of? Let me know.

― Euler, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 18:06 (seventeen years ago)

fire emblem: sacred stones (GBA) is great (there is now 1x fire emblem DS but it is really ugly so i have not been able to bring myself to play it just yet)

the world ends with you is sort of half-great, depends how much you like the whole TOKYO COOL KIDS aesthetic

shiren the wanderer is absolutely fantastic as long as you like simple roguelikes and don't mind playing basically a gussied-up SNES game on yr shiny new DS.

― thomp, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 18:27 (seventeen years ago)

peek through this

I found TWEWY to be fantastic and am sort of a nut who put like 150 hours into it, lots of great game design in it. I also loved the Shibuya atmosphere and aesthetic, since I was a Jet Set Radio fan. Über recommend!

Kind of obvious, but it's hard to go wrong with Zelda, same with Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. If you're looking for something unique, very quirky world at the expense of frustrating game design, there's Contact... maybe if you can get it at a steep discount.

Phoenix Wright is not an RPG, but a great adventure series if you're into remotely into the genre.

RPGs are just the tip of the iceberg though, there's already a million great recs in this thread...

― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:07 (seventeen years ago)

yeah this thread is gold for me, I'll be picking up a bunch of them; but I wondered if there were some DUH YOU MUST PLAY THIS rpgs on the DS. I'm intrigued by The World Ends With You; I loved the look and feel of Jet Grind Radio on the Dreamcast.

― Euler, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

like this is kinda embarrassing but I've never heard of Chrono Trigger except on ILG, is this a DUH rpg? or is the adoration on here ironic?

― Euler, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:11 (seventeen years ago)

sorta duh, really.

― forksc-murdertofu (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

It minimizes the irritations of an RPG and maximizes the good qualities. It's the best possible game they could've made within the genre.

― Brilli.am/writes (Will M.), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:23 (seventeen years ago)

super DUH man, genuinely beloved classic

― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:28 (seventeen years ago)

yeah I mean it looks great for me, I missed an entire era of rpgs from about 1992 until pretty recently and if this is a pinnacle of what I missed then bring it on.

― Euler, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:34 (seventeen years ago)

Chrono Trigger : JRPGs :: Sunrise : German silent films. you come away from the experience almost insulted by how clumsy and rigid everything else in the genre looks by comparison.

beyond that, nthing the love for The World Ends With You. also Rocket Slime is motherfucking tremendous and is at least arguably a RPG.

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:39 (seventeen years ago)

the new valkyrie profile looks dope but I've not played it yet

add me to the chorus of love for twewy; replayed it after my initial misgivings and fell for it completely

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 20:59 (seventeen years ago)

and then of course there is Guadia Quest

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:01 (seventeen years ago)

yeah I have my eyes on Retro Game Challenge

is there a thread about the rush of getting a new platform for gaming and realizing all the games/series/*types* of games you suddenly have open to you?

― Euler, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:03 (seventeen years ago)

I think you're in it.

― forksc-murdertofu (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:21 (seventeen years ago)

the ds is 2gd really

essential:
ouendan
ouendan 2
mario kart ds
twewy
both advance wars
phoenix wright series
new super mario bros
animal crossing
elite beat agents
space invaders extreme
zelda
rhythm heaven
chrono trigger
dragon quest iv
castlevania: OoE
kirby canvas curse (<--- dope sleeper hit)
professor layton
gta
henry hatsworth
picross
rittai picross
ELEKTROPLANKTON

def worth a look tho ymmv:
hotel dusk
mario & luigi
bangai-o spirits
yoshi's island ds
fire emblem
soul bubbles
super princess peach (looool)
final fantasy tactics A2
mario & donkey kong 2 (<----this game is a dope little puzzler, not talked about much but it's fun; difficult too)
dementium: the ward
final fantasies

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:32 (seventeen years ago)

^^^^w/out going off the beaten path btw

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:33 (seventeen years ago)

cut & paste from above re:2009 DS RPGs

japanese DS RPGs tht look interesting:

inazuma eleven
valkyrie profile
avalon code
wind of nostalgeo
world destruction
knights in the nightmare
away: shuffle dungeon
sigma harmonics
glorious light of heracles: proof of soul
theresia...
summon night: twin edge

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:36 (seventeen years ago)

see also my posts from this thread below

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:38 (seventeen years ago)

put taiko no tatsujin DS in the essentials column

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:39 (seventeen years ago)

sorry to your wallet btw

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Yi1PcAy-8l4/Sd7bO8ULumI/AAAAAAAABlA/PG0fPBsTwC4/s400/gt4773.png

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 22:49 (seventeen years ago)

Great list! it coincides a fair bit with what I'd been thinking. Lots of these aren't new so they can be had for relatively little cash, an advantage of waiting so long to get on the DS bus. I'm looking to get a year's worth of games (moving overseas soon for a stint) and I think that stash will do me right for that long.

― Euler, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:02 (seventeen years ago)

i'm going to go ahead and be the devil on your shoulder and suggest that not having a flash card to go with your ds is just breathing through one nostril

― forksc-murdertofu (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:06 (seventeen years ago)

glorious light of heracles: proof of soul

i wish to know more about this product or service

― thomp, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:08 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.wiiwii.tv/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/heracles.jpg

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:11 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/04/08/is-glory-of-hercules-nintendos-next-ds-rpg/

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:13 (seventeen years ago)

put taiko no tatsujin DS in the essentials column

really? I like it okay, but the Ouendan/EBA games just beat it with a sack full of cats. also I rarely play it; I leave it at home since I'm wary of taking the sticks on the road/looking like an utter tool on the bus, and then when I'm actually at home I wind up playing something better.

essentials I would add:
- Slitherlink & Nurikabe (v. possibly the most time-annihilating puzzle games I've played since Tetris; also excellent [if understated] uses of the stylus as an input)
- Rocket Slime (see my pimping above)
- True Swing Golf (only DS sports game worth buying imo, and yes I have the Tecmo Bowl remaster)
- Clubhouse Games (seems like such a feeble purchase but this has probably gotten more idle playtime than anything else I own for the system)

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:33 (seventeen years ago)

ok put it in the ymmv column; it's an essential for me tho, love tht game

― the most naturally gifted poster of his generation (cozwn), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:43 (seventeen years ago)

euler two games that i think u'd really vibe: dragon quest V and magical starsign was a pretty dope old school rpg w/ a decent multiplayer component u might dig that. other games that no one has mentioned:

etrian odyssey
drone tactics !!!
ffIII
lunar knights
trauma center 2
suikoden tierkreis

― Lamp, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:53 (seventeen years ago)

haha i just realized how many games that makes it! my top ten must have ds games then:

01 new super mario bros.
02 dragon quest v
03 drone tactics
04 castlevania: dawn of sorrow
05 osu! tatakae! ouendan!
06 etrian odyssey
07 phoenix wright
08 chrono trigger ds
09 suikoden
10 prof layton and the curious village

― Lamp, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:58 (seventeen years ago)

It is going to be a great year! These are some fab suggestions.

I'm getting a DSi, so I'm not sure I can roll the flash card way; but I'm not in principle averse to it if I can.

I looked at Slitherlink and it looks awesome but maybe Japan-only? or is this something I have to roll homebrew as it were to get?

― Euler, Thursday, 16 April 2009 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

The japan only collection is the real stone cold reason why flashcards are a must.

― forksc-murdertofu (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 April 2009 01:55 (seventeen years ago)

playing through dragon quest iv right now and loving it. the dq games are like comfort food for me. supposedly, dq v is even better but I haven't played yet.

on the other hand, I liked rocket slime... even loved it for a bit... but I got bored and never finished it. the difficulty was so slight that I just lost interest.

― original bgm, Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

Just started playing the new remake of the PC Broken Sword point-n-click adventure on the DS... seems kinda fun initially. Art by Dave Gibbons!

― The brash tweedy impertinence of Detective Freamon (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 April 2009 20:29 (seventeen years ago)

somehow landed a copy of Pic Pic (a personal white whale ever since I read this) on eBay last night!

― jamescobo, Saturday, 18 April 2009 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

I played Rhythm Tengoku last night. That game is a riot.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Saturday, 18 April 2009 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

fire emblem DS is ... competent. and barely that. i am glad i did not spend thirty pounds on it.

― thomp, Monday, 20 April 2009 22:44 (seventeen years ago)

pic pic is fucking rad

― defensive of decent LOLs (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 April 2009 22:47 (seventeen years ago)

basic game design flaws #38: do not make the same button 'confirm' and 'cancel' dependent on context

― thomp, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 22:45 (seventeen years ago)

Can anyone recommend DS games for a six-year-old girl? No crappy TV/movie characters necessary. She likes most non-narrative type games like Cooking Mama, Nintendogs and Electroplankton.

― antexit, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

Animal Crossing, Rhythm Heaven, maybe Gardening Mama. there are loads of games aimed at girls like Pop Cutie! Street Fashion (72 on metacritic) but who knows if they are any good

― zappi, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

Still hooked on pic pic; just started dicking around with an old game called Zendoku which is competitive puzzle fighting sudoku. Problem is that it's either way too easy or downright impossible. I'm on the final stages and the bosses are bruce lee and chuck norris. Bruce is kinda unbeatable.

― Long, helmet-defying hair (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 17:48 (seventeen years ago)

GOD DAMMIT APPARENTLY THE COPY OF PIC PIC I WON IS ONLY IN FRENCH

*instantly becomes hopelessly addicted to Drawing anyway*

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 03:30 (seventeen years ago)

can't see how it would affect it, honestly.

― Long, helmet-defying hair (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 04:47 (seventeen years ago)

I think it just means I have to go around screaming SACRE BLEU, THEES GEME EES OSS-UME

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 05:06 (seventeen years ago)

I SURRENDER (to the majesty of Drawing)

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 05:06 (seventeen years ago)

heh, yeah. it's very addictive. the LAST game of that set is a goddamn nightmare though; I played two matches through and it took me an hour. Those are the easiest ones in the game!

― Long, helmet-defying hair (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 05:56 (seventeen years ago)

so this is a non-game question but: do any of you bring your DS on trips in a case, or do you just stash it in a pack that you're using for other things? If a case, do you have suggestions for nice ones? The ones I can find online look pretty cheap and bulky and not my sort of thing.

― Euler, Friday, 1 May 2009 01:28 (seventeen years ago)

no case for the DS, stylus and games and all in a ziplock bag. just how i roll.

― Nhex, Friday, 1 May 2009 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

I have one of these for games:

http://www.penguinunited.com/product_info.php?products_id=61&osCsid=sbj8in5fkdq95bsh15ga06j3e4

― jamescobo, Friday, 1 May 2009 03:02 (seventeen years ago)

ok a 24 game holder sounds good; I can do w/o case for the machine + charger, but for the games it would be nice to have something like this

― Euler, Friday, 1 May 2009 03:27 (seventeen years ago)

Alright, with the Big Word Game, one of the subgames is GUESS WHICH WORD THE DS IS THINKING OF.
Seriously.

― Long, helmet-defying hair (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 May 2009 05:19 (seventeen years ago)

got Robocod and New Zealand story. sweet.

although robocod is different to the old amiga version, the maps are completely different. so all my knowledge was useless.

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Sunday, 3 May 2009 12:30 (seventeen years ago)

antexit your little girl needs the extremely addictive, gentle, bizarre and multifaceted world of Animal Crossing. Just anticipate hearing a lot about which bugs/fish/fruit/furniture/letters she had that day, every day.

― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Sunday, 3 May 2009 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

So sad Square Enix has gotten hip to flash carts. :(

― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 17:19 (sixteen years ago)

er, meaning what?

― dick having, you know (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 04:49 (sixteen years ago)

this Robocod is fun but nowhere near as good as the amiga version. what's with the over-complicated noisy background graphics?

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 09:00 (sixteen years ago)

ok someone explain pic pic

― Qrottytzoppe (Will M.), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 22:51 (sixteen years ago)

do you know from picross?

― I’ve seen a lot in my days as an mp3 blogger (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 May 2009 06:31 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, is it jsut the sequel to thatÉ

― Qrottytzoppe (Will M.), Thursday, 7 May 2009 15:51 (sixteen years ago)

not exactly, it's sort of a refining and extension of the ideas behind picross. if picross is cocaine, pic pic is crack.

― I’ve seen a lot in my days as an mp3 blogger (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 May 2009 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

i wonder why that didn't get an American release? god knows we get tons of shovelware brain teaser games

― Nhex, Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:15 (sixteen years ago)

Is Pic Pic the same as this? (link has a demo)
http://krispixton.com/PathPix/download.htm

― abanana, Thursday, 7 May 2009 18:32 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, that's pretty much it. you want to play it on DS due to the stylus interface, though; it's unbelievably natural-feeling.

― jamescobo, Thursday, 7 May 2009 19:35 (sixteen years ago)

also I've never really gotten into Picross but Pic Pic (or at least Drawing - two other slightly-less-gobsmackingly great games come on the cart too) is eating my life. right now Chinatown Wars, The Show '09, and motherfuckin' Mother 3 are sitting on the shelf unplayed because I can't resist eking out another picture of a dog jumping over a pumpkin or something similarly asinine

― jamescobo, Thursday, 7 May 2009 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

bought my girlfriend a DSI for her birthday and we're already addicted and we've only got layton and the brain training thing. are there any major pros / cons with the DSI compared to the previous ones? im new to the whole handheld gaming thing and want to make sure i didn't get stung (should i take out the 2 yr £15 warranty or is it a jip? are they sturdy or do the screens tend to break?)

just read through the entire thread btw, big thanks to everyone who listed their favourite games, great point to start from!

― NI, Thursday, 7 May 2009 23:03 (sixteen years ago)

ds remake of zelda four swords w/online connectivity pls nintendo kthxhi

― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 7 May 2009 23:46 (sixteen years ago)

ds remake of zelda four swords w/online connectivity pls nintendo kthxhi

my DSiware wish list is basically that and a similarly-retooled Pac Man Vs. the rest of the store could be 100% alarm clock apps as long as those two are available and I would spend all my free time shouting down anyone who would complain.

― jamescobo, Friday, 8 May 2009 01:31 (sixteen years ago)

i wonder why that didn't get an American release? god knows we get tons of shovelware brain teaser games

the problem is that when we do get stuff like this, publishers still find a way to fuck it up somehow (q.v. the Slitherlink/Nurikabe/three other games-in one, a surely-unbeatable idea in theory inconceivably rendered into unadulterated 50-ugly-shitty-puzzles-per-game bullroar by Agtec. [thank God they managed not to fuck up Fire Pro Returns, I guess.])

― jamescobo, Friday, 8 May 2009 02:04 (sixteen years ago)

omg Pac Mac Vs. is awesome, perfect idea for a DS multiplayer title

― Nhex, Friday, 8 May 2009 02:52 (sixteen years ago)

@NI: I think the only two 'cons' I'm aware of on the DSI are that it doesn't have a Gameboy Advance slot, and the battery life is a little less than the DS Lite. Neither are biggies, really, unless you really wanted to run through the Gameboy Advance back catalogue (and there are a lot of goodies in there), or picture yourself on a long haul flight refusing to do anything but play the DS in the near future.

As for the warranty, £15 doesn't sound like a lot but I never buy warranties for anything. Bought my DS (phat) probably close to 4 years ago and the screens are still fine. Only problem I had was I dropped it a couple of months ago and the hinge cracked so I had to replace the case, but after 4 years and a lot of drops that's not such a big deal (and cost less that £15 to fix).

― CraigG, Friday, 8 May 2009 11:50 (sixteen years ago)

unless you really wanted to run through the Gameboy Advance back catalogue (and there are a lot of goodies in there)

this is a massive massive massive understatement; IMO the only system in history with a deeper catalogue of titles is the SNES. of course true ballers play them shits on a micro sonnnnnnnnnn~

― jamescobo, Friday, 8 May 2009 16:59 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for replying craig. would an acekard 2i + GBA roms fix that though? (i dont know if there are any/many GBA roms out there)

― NI, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

depends on what you mean by "out there"; I've seen several 'compete GBA release list' torrents floating around that seem easy enough to come by.

― I’ve seen a lot in my days as an mp3 blogger (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

To be fair, I think most of the essential GBA titles have analogues or sequels on the DS at this point... I don't know if there are more than 10 games that are really essential playing today. I mean there's always those arguments (possibly true) that you'd want to go to the originals for Warioware and Rhythm Heaven but a lot of classic titles like the Castlevanias and Advance Wars have been superceded.

― Nhex, Friday, 8 May 2009 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

ja but the two gba advance wars are so much >>>>> than the two ds advance wars it kinda defeats yr argument

― zinguist (cozwn), Friday, 8 May 2009 20:56 (sixteen years ago)

so is this rhythm paradise/heaven/tengoku game worth spending £25 on or should i wait and see if it goes down at all?

― thomp, Sunday, 10 May 2009 12:10 (sixteen years ago)

'My World, My Way' is one of the funnest RPGs I've played in a long time.

― test drives at ur own risk i cant go with you too many bees (Abbott), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 18:06 (sixteen years ago)

xpost - yikes, that's like $45 or $50?!??! definitely wait until it goes down to maybe 15 GBP, although it really is a big-ass bunch of fun.

― jamescobo, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 18:56 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Another vote for My World My Way; it's everything Atlus does right with a healthy dollop of humor.
How's the big word game sitting with you?

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 16:22 (sixteen years ago)

how about this wario world DIY thing they're cluckin' about?

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 16:33 (sixteen years ago)

big ol' do want right chear, although I plan on playing other ppls' games more than making my own.

― passed on the lead in "all i can do is crossups cuz ihave no skills" (jamescobo), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 16:51 (sixteen years ago)

got harry hatsworth yesterday, shit is pretty hard

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 16:52 (sixteen years ago)

new golden sun :D :D :D

― Lamp, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 16:55 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaAV8FEwFcc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4qLHU10PEc

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 16:56 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO8YclthSIM

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 16:56 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7lMor5nj8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m68x7emf2L4

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 16:57 (sixteen years ago)

u missed the glory of heracles

― Lamp, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 17:01 (sixteen years ago)

And Fossil hunter.
we r clearly hanging in the same circles.

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 17:07 (sixteen years ago)

love the Starfy series, although my favorite is the last one on the GBA

― passed on the lead in "all i can do is crossups cuz ihave no skills" (jamescobo), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 17:07 (sixteen years ago)

disappointed that Golden Sun is in that old N64-era 3D

― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

incidentally, long as we're discussing Atlus, this is good for lulz:
http://www.atlus.com/atlusoweenieentries6.php

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

persona dude/vt cosplayer, you're doing it wrong
http://www.atlus.com/aowentry/e5.jpg

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 17:14 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.atlus.com/aowentry/le8.jpg

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

he was my favorite (xpost)

disappointed that Golden Sun is in that old N64-era 3D

makes perfect sense for a series thats predicated on the pull of nostalgia!!! so fukken into this man destroying pyramids and shit

― Lamp, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

Zelda aside, is there really nostalgia for that era?

― Nhex, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 19:46 (sixteen years ago)

it exists for individual titles (GoldenEye, Smash Bros, No Mercy) but on the whole no.

― passed on the lead in "all i can do is crossups cuz ihave no skills" (jamescobo), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

no mercy HD for xbla pls

― cozwn, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 20:42 (sixteen years ago)

POKEMON SNAP

― Aieritating vowele syndroume (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

love that game.

i have nostalgia for the n64 ear all eighteen months of it. fuck u h8rs

― Lamp, Thursday, 4 June 2009 05:45 (sixteen years ago)

n64 ear was a vanguard in the motion sensitive physical interactive video game movement rip ahead of its time

― Lamp, Thursday, 4 June 2009 05:48 (sixteen years ago)

is this a man y/n

http://www.atlus.com/aowentry/le17.jpg

― thomp, Thursday, 4 June 2009 06:24 (sixteen years ago)

idk what does your dick say?

― lance kerrigan, LEGO detective (Lamp), Thursday, 4 June 2009 06:49 (sixteen years ago)

idk what does your ear say?

― passed on the lead in "all i can do is crossups cuz ihave no skills" (jamescobo), Thursday, 4 June 2009 07:35 (sixteen years ago)

also feeling very confident in M&L3 having watched that trailer

― passed on the lead in "all i can do is crossups cuz ihave no skills" (jamescobo), Thursday, 4 June 2009 07:36 (sixteen years ago)

apparently scribblenauts has keyboard cat?

― cozwn, Thursday, 4 June 2009 12:06 (sixteen years ago)

if you know anyone who will get to try scribblenauts get them to try "arpeggiator"

― Aieritating vowele syndroume (Will M.), Thursday, 4 June 2009 13:06 (sixteen years ago)

also has LOL WUT and other internet memes

― zappi, Thursday, 4 June 2009 13:08 (sixteen years ago)

they should make a web app where people can type in things and see if they're in the game

and whatever they dont' have that's most popular should be added to the game

(unless it's "moot")

― Aieritating vowele syndroume (Will M.), Thursday, 4 June 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)

my world starting to get a little repetitive, which is like calling drum and bass repetitive, but still.
I'm about 5 hrs in and i think it's a 20 hr game. May soldier on. Abbott? Is it worth it?

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:55 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.ds-scene.net/?s=viewtopic&nid=7782
^^^may drop my world as soon as i can find ^^^

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 June 2009 19:13 (sixteen years ago)

damn, that looks good

― Nhex, Thursday, 4 June 2009 19:33 (sixteen years ago)

it's available via the usual sources now. will report back.

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 June 2009 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

wow knights in the nightmare is complicated as fuck, I have no idea whatsoever what I'm doing yet.

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 05:40 (sixteen years ago)

my god, the opening tutorials take about fifteen minutes and there's, say, nine of them... from there, there's another 25... and then another 25 after that! And I tried without taking the tutorial but it's utterly opaque! This game requires about an hour and a half of training before you can pick it up!

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 05:56 (sixteen years ago)

yuck. I don't like the sound of that at all.

― original bgm, Friday, 5 June 2009 20:23 (sixteen years ago)

^ want :(

― thomp, Friday, 5 June 2009 20:25 (sixteen years ago)

I mean, I want a copy of Knights in the Knightmare. I am not replying to the post asking whether I would smash the trans cosplayer up there, although I hope that that person is, somehow, happy in their life

― thomp, Friday, 5 June 2009 20:26 (sixteen years ago)

I finally got past the first board, but this is like learning to wipe your ass with your feet

― This Ace of Base is driving me crazy (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

it is really NOT a subway game; there's no stopping a game in motion as yet and it took about 40 minutes to get past that first stage.
Maybe i'm just really bad at it?

― This Ace of Base is driving me crazy (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

forks did u buy the game? its supposed to come with a bunch of cool extras and word on those?

― Lamp, Friday, 5 June 2009 22:59 (sixteen years ago)

define buy

― This Ace of Base is driving me crazy (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 June 2009 03:58 (sixteen years ago)

Atlus has gone special package crazy this year with a lot of their DS releases... this one also comes with a soundtrack CD and artbook.

― Nhex, Saturday, 6 June 2009 04:10 (sixteen years ago)

it's understandable when the majority of ds owners can't define buy

― cozwn, Saturday, 6 June 2009 04:19 (sixteen years ago)

i gotta say, I'm not really enjoying it at all. more like a chore. again, it could just be that I suck at this game; I'd love to hear a second opinion.

― This Ace of Base is driving me crazy (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 June 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)

apparently it has 142 tutorials?

― cozwn, Saturday, 6 June 2009 15:55 (sixteen years ago)

that seems about right.

― This Ace of Base is driving me crazy (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 June 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)

forks I gave up on My World My Way about 10 hours in...I was still digging it, I just hit a brick wall & there weren't any walkthroughs online...maybe there are now.

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Sunday, 7 June 2009 18:54 (sixteen years ago)

"Guess the word the game is thinking of"on the big word game is so fucking awesome! I use it to get to sleep every night.

― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Sunday, 7 June 2009 18:56 (sixteen years ago)

anyone playing Black Sigil? I am giving it a fair shake for nostalgia's sake despite the so-far-very-shitty battle mechanics. SO SLOW. at least there are speed sliders which i turned up to max.

― Aieritating vowele syndroume (Will M.), Monday, 15 June 2009 17:11 (sixteen years ago)

so if I were to buy Pic Pic in France (and it were to be localized into French, as I'm assuming; tell me if that's wrong), would it be tricky to play if my French is ok but not great? Like is this game pretty word-independent? The reviews here and elsewhere make this sound like just my kind of thing, but I can't find it in the US for reasonable prices and I'll be in France very soon where it seems to be available for 15 euros.

― Euler, Monday, 15 June 2009 20:52 (sixteen years ago)

you dont' need to read a thing to play pic pic

― (pronounced /ˈfɑrv/sklOf/tO/fewˈ/) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 June 2009 20:53 (sixteen years ago)

awesome, I am there

― Euler, Monday, 15 June 2009 20:54 (sixteen years ago)

le grand pic pic

― Lamp, Monday, 15 June 2009 21:05 (sixteen years ago)

I'm playing it in French and the LANGUAGE isn't the reason I am failing miserably at even getting the first puzzle of the third type. It's because it's hard!

― Aieritating vowele syndroume (Will M.), Monday, 15 June 2009 21:05 (sixteen years ago)

Those are goddamned tough; like a half hour a puzzle.

― (pronounced /ˈfɑrv/sklOf/tO/fewˈ/) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 June 2009 21:05 (sixteen years ago)

that sounds so awesome

― Euler, Monday, 15 June 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

I haven't been able to even find Pic Pic on a US site for sale! But I'll just keep putting off buying that flash card even longer regardless.

― Nhex, Monday, 15 June 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

are the weekly puzzles for prof layton any cop? are they STILL weekly, like over a year after it was released?

by connecting my DSi to the internet to get hold of these, does it automatically upgrade firmware or can i prevent it from doing this?

― NI, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 15:41 (sixteen years ago)

This site has all of the weekly puzzles with pictures and solutions:
http://professorlaytonwalkthrough.blogspot.com/

― abanana, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 17:58 (sixteen years ago)

This Black Sigil review, ouch.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 04:14 (sixteen years ago)

damn.

― recurrently posting, in an irregular series (Lamp), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 05:20 (sixteen years ago)

I recently purchased one of these:

http://www.cyclopsds.com/

And it has completely changed my DS habits, cos now I can play whatever I want without thinking about it, these things are awesome.

Currently back into Animal Xing for some reason, and dabbling about with Lost in Blue, Phantom Hourglass and load of puzzle games. Yay for long tram trips.

― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Thursday, 18 June 2009 03:35 (sixteen years ago)

i ended up getting a launch copy of knights in the nightmare simply because i figure if it sucks i can just resell it for $$$ i also have a copy of black sigil lol

― margot channing tierkreis (Lamp), Thursday, 18 June 2009 04:14 (sixteen years ago)

you try black sigil? I'm a little curious about that one but figure I'll prob get burned in the end. :-/

― original bgm, Thursday, 18 June 2009 14:27 (sixteen years ago)

So my DS appears busted; simply won't turn off. I'm under warranty, so I guess I'll find out what Nintendo's customer service is like. Anybody dealt with them on this before?

― (pronounced /ˈfɑrv/sklOf/tO/fewˈ/) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 June 2009 14:49 (sixteen years ago)

o no are you unable to stop playing it?!

― s1ocki, Saturday, 20 June 2009 16:07 (sixteen years ago)

yes, typing with toes as we speak

― (pronounced /ˈfɑrv/sklOf/tO/fewˈ/) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 June 2009 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

ok, this is weird, suddenly working again.

― (pronounced /ˈfɑrv/sklOf/tO/fewˈ/) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 June 2009 17:04 (sixteen years ago)

What's a game that will make a 12 hour plane ride go away?

― I hurt your arm and now I want to dress your arm, please (dyao), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 06:01 (sixteen years ago)

a bottle of ambien?

― Ms. _°¯°_°¯°_°¯°_°¯°_°¯°_°¯°_°¯°_°¯°_°¯°_₧ (Lamp), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 06:02 (sixteen years ago)

whatever happened to melton mowbray, anyway?

― kingfish, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 06:52 (sixteen years ago)

he sold all his games didn't he?

― cozwn, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 07:27 (sixteen years ago)

any of youse played Avalon Code? voice acting seems dreadful but the game itself looks interesting.. ?

― salsa shark, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 07:32 (sixteen years ago)

Can I load that into my R4? xxxp

― I hurt your arm and now I want to dress your arm, please (dyao), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 14:01 (sixteen years ago)

Phoenix Wright wld be a good plane game.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 19:08 (sixteen years ago)

Partners in Time erased both sides of the California-to-North Carolina commute for me once (and there was still plenty left to play when I got back, too).

― passed on the lead in "all i can do is crossups cuz ihave no skills" (jamescobo), Thursday, 2 July 2009 16:36 (sixteen years ago)

new shin megami tensei ds game is also fun

― cozwn, Thursday, 2 July 2009 17:39 (sixteen years ago)

Will give all these a look. Thanks guys!

― I hurt your arm and now I want to dress your arm, please (dyao), Friday, 3 July 2009 15:29 (sixteen years ago)

thinking abt restarting kitn on normal now I have the hang of it

I know john gave up on it but has anyone else here gave it a try? goty contender imo

― cozwn, Monday, 6 July 2009 23:09 (sixteen years ago)

cripes, yall are making me question my bonafides
it just seemed more work than fun to me but perhaps i m not good
kinda considering going back, but was about to start the overlauded world ends with you and see what that got me

― an average room of dentists (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 03:15 (sixteen years ago)

u won't like it, sugar

― cozwn, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 07:23 (sixteen years ago)

that devil survivor game is sucking up my brain right now. love it... but... so hard.

― ㇱ (Will M.), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:57 (sixteen years ago)

oh look, another game with no uk release ¬_¬

― thomp, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:08 (sixteen years ago)

the shovelware-to-actual-games ratio for the ds in england is kind of horrible

― thomp, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:08 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.play.com/Games/DS/4-/6072242/Grand-Theft-Auto-Chinatown-Wars/Product.html

― racially dubious goals panel (MPx4A), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:39 (sixteen years ago)

yes but also

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uPTcHTBnL._SS500_.jpg

― thomp, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:52 (sixteen years ago)

r4.co.cough.uk

― cozwn, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:57 (sixteen years ago)

I know john gave up on it but has anyone else here gave it a try? goty contender imo

i have it but i cant get into it - for such a busy game doesnt feel like theres all that much depth tbh and the interface is killen me biggest complaint is that its really faceless - a little like ogre battle - and the lack of continuity makes me disinterested in developing my knights. or playing. or watching the admittedly pretty cutscenes.

might cum back 2 it once im done with blazblue (so never?)

― i, yobot (Lamp), Thursday, 9 July 2009 01:11 (sixteen years ago)

mentally gaybashin u right now, as cankles might say

― •F•U•I•U•D• (cozwn), Thursday, 9 July 2009 10:30 (sixteen years ago)

anyway u r wrong and u r a grotesquely ugly freak. u know there is depth cos there is lots of text on the screen at one time innit. ok joeks aside, I think the game is plenty deep, at basics in the earliest levels it's analyse enemy attack pattern and deploy relevant knight w/relevant equipment. this becomes a lot more deeper an that as you progress and, e.g., have to deploy duellists to make up ground in one turn, then switch them out for something more effective, manage all ur weapons, strenghening and breaking, transoul knights, keep track of vit. all the meanwhile while actually enact ur strategy in-game u are also actually playing a bullet-hell shmup contiguously. faceless iunno, obv: the story is quite touching ;_; imo but w/so many expendable knights I can kinda see wht ur saying. game's not about the knights tho, it's abt the wisp

― •F•U•I•U•D• (cozwn), Thursday, 9 July 2009 11:07 (sixteen years ago)

all the meanwhile while actually enact yeah I said it

― •F•U•I•U•D• (cozwn), Thursday, 9 July 2009 11:19 (sixteen years ago)

i just dont see the strategy sure its busy and u have to do stuff but its so stupidly forced and constrained - the patterns of movement and attack for units make no real sense i mean sure chess but chess is a) from 1 million years ago and dinosaurs obv dont think that logically and b) who plays chess and the scenes (so far) play really similarly get items get knights advance fog bang.

the shmup aspect is tedious but that could change if i get good at it. i probably will end up trying it again since ebay for lmtd isnt that great

― ♥/b ~~~ :O + x_X + :-@ + ;_; + :-/ + (~,~) + (:| = :^) (Lamp), Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:37 (sixteen years ago)

well I like it so sb

― •F•U•I•U•D• (cozwn), Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

british u gay

now im @ 42 thanks

― ♥/b ~~~ :O + x_X + :-@ + ;_; + :-/ + (~,~) + (:| = :^) (Lamp), Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:45 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

DS Upcoming Titles of Interest... RETURNS

Today: Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
9/14 Scribblenauts
9/14 Mario and Luigi 3: Bowser's Inside Story
9/28 Kingdom Hearts 258/2 Days
9/29 Hero's Saga: Laevatein Tactics (???)
9/29 The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road (!!!)

― Nhex, Monday, 24 August 2009 11:25 (sixteen years ago)

Warlords on the Atari games classic pack is tremendous fun.

just ordered super mario bros 3, advance version. because i can.

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Monday, 24 August 2009 15:00 (sixteen years ago)

Working my way through the 3rd Phoenix Wright game (Trails and Tribulations). Such a great series and continuing storyline. The 3rd game you get more of Mia Fey, Larry Butz and Pearls which is cool. This game also doesn't have any extremely annoying witnesses or prosecutors like some of the previous games. Old Bag and Whip Lady for example... she never stopped whipping me. And more Edgey is cool too. I'm gonna have to get the last game that's out (which doesnt focus on Phoenix anymore) but a different apprentice attorney.

I'm way into this

― CaptainLorax, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

my jpnese friend sez

For games waiting for localization that are already good and coming your way:

Dragon Quest IX
3D Picross
Wario Ware: Do It Yourself
Style Savvy ( you think it's a girly, throwaway, shallow game and you're wrong, wrong, wrong)
Space Invaders Extreme 2
Sloane and McHale's Mysterious Story
Chibi Robo DS 2
Puyo Puyo 7
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
Infinite Space
Inazuma Eleven
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Miles Edgeworth
Legendary Starfy
Atelier Annie
Nostalgia
Sands of Destruction
RIZ-ZOAWD

And maybe if things go well, maybe we'll see:

Besieged Castle - a really interesting strategy game (pure strategy, like Advance Wars) released in April

Hayarigami 1 and 2 - a pair of horror adventure titles about urban legends and whether they are the culprit for bizarre crimes, previously on PS2 and PSP, but the DS actually has a market that might buy it and can maybe support a translation

Go with the A Train - a long running train/city sim with a lot of polish and depth

Blood of Bahamut - visually stunning Square Enix RPG about fighting huge behemoths.

Tingle's Colorful Balloon Trip of Love - the first one came out in Europe right?

For games that haven't been released yet:

The Another World (Ninokuni)
Final Fantasy Gaiden: 4 Warriors of Light
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Rune Factory 3
Blue Dragon: Otherwordly Giants
Scribblenauts
Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver
Saga 2
Professor Layton 4
Inazuma Eleven 2
Luminous Arc 3: Eyes
Umihara Kawase Shun
Wizardy: Links of Life
Summon Night X: Tear's Crown
Yggdra Union: Holy Sword, Courageous Tale
Golden Sun DS
Rockman.exe Operate Shooting Star

― cozwn, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:27 (sixteen years ago)

any hard news on Umihara Kawase Shun? I remember it got announced, but that's all I've heard (six months ago?). A bug fixed psp version was supposed to make it over to the US, but nothing seemed to happen with that after all (probably somebody decided it wasn't worth the trouble trying to fix?).

― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:35 (sixteen years ago)

would import!

― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:36 (sixteen years ago)

Nevermind - answered my own question. Play Asia has it scheduled for Oct. 29th
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-49-en-15-Umihara+Kawase+-70-377a.html

― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:41 (sixteen years ago)

apparently Wario Ware DIY bricked huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge in Glorious Nippon :( people on Malstrom's forums are speculating over whether they'll even bother to bring it over.

in the meantime, Flipnote Studios owns a considerable amount.

― "I have seen bloodstains on the Pac Man joystick" (jamescobo), Monday, 24 August 2009 19:05 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, do want but I don't have a DSi : /

― cozwn, Monday, 24 August 2009 19:12 (sixteen years ago)

really looking forward to yggdra union cos I'm perverted like that

― cozwn, Monday, 24 August 2009 19:12 (sixteen years ago)

I'm way into this

Wow, really? I was into this game for a while but in the end gave up because the jokes are brain numbingly repetitive. Also french restaurant owner is o_0.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 24 August 2009 19:34 (sixteen years ago)

Jeff, you might as well import it - though you never know if it'll come in, it's pretty unlikely as you say (PSP US version is on "permanent hold") and that game doesn't really need any translation...

What the heck is Nostalgia, exactly? I saw that on a coming release list... I might pick up Space Invaders Extreme 2 and/or 3D Picross since I never got the first titles.

Daniel: I feel like the extra long, super dramatic, final case of these games always makes the whole thing worth it... but I'm kind of a blind fan to this franchise honestly, stomaching the terrible puns and character cliches is part of the job!

I recently got a hold of all three Castlevania titles, so I plan to have some good times tearing through those soon. Been holding off on these for years! :D

― Nhex, Monday, 24 August 2009 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

dawn of sorrow and order of ecclesia are both great; I never played through portrait of ruin because general opinion seems to be it's not so good

― cozwn, Monday, 24 August 2009 19:57 (sixteen years ago)

"Nostalgia is a role-playing game set in a steampunk world."

― cozwn, Monday, 24 August 2009 19:57 (sixteen years ago)

http://uk.gamespot.com/ds/action/nostalgianokaze/news.html?sid=6211120&om_act=convert&om_clk=newsfeatures&tag=newsfeatures;title;1&mode=previews

― cozwn, Monday, 24 August 2009 19:58 (sixteen years ago)

PoR is buggy as hell but it's my favorite of the three by a very small margin.

― abanana, Monday, 24 August 2009 20:11 (sixteen years ago)

ooh, Nostalgia looks like it's trying to rip off Skies of Arcadia - neato!

― Nhex, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 08:36 (sixteen years ago)

3D PICROSS!? Yay. That could be a brain melter.

― JimD, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:10 (sixteen years ago)

it's brilliant

the japanese rom is out if ur tht way inclined

― cozwn, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:12 (sixteen years ago)

I am that way inclined. Will search.

― JimD, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/08/25/fantasy_life_preview/

"Professor Layton developer and publisher Level-5 announced today at its Level-5 Vision press conference in Tokyo the all new Fantasy Life. Described as a "slow life RPG," the DS title is being developed by Mother 3 developer Brownie Brown and will feature music from Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu."

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 17:45 (sixteen years ago)

HELLO

― sample rants or ?BURNS?. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 19:01 (sixteen years ago)

tbh Brownie Brown has made far more flops since then

― Nhex, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 19:36 (sixteen years ago)

Civilization: Revolution is only $12 at Best Buy right now. Been hearing a lot of hype on this board for it, worth it I guess?

― Nhex, Thursday, 27 August 2009 00:40 (sixteen years ago)

I like it lots but the UI pretty cramped. Otherwise it's the full game (minus the not-very-useful Civilopedia). I miss the achievements of the 360 version but o/w I've enjoyed the DS version lots.

― my dixie wrecked (Euler), Thursday, 27 August 2009 06:28 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_XEk4rPjb4

New DSi ware in Japan. If this comes to the US, I will have to spring for a DSi. If it doesn't come to the US, is there any way (legal or not) to get/play japanese DSi ware content on a US DS or DSi?

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/dsiware/k59j/index.html

― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 28 August 2009 14:28 (sixteen years ago)

i actually think portrait of ruin is the best of the three DS castlevanias

― thomp, Friday, 28 August 2009 14:57 (sixteen years ago)

the double character system is the best thought through, best controlled of the gimmicks, and apart from that they're basically all the same game after all. also, best bonus modes; least annoying plot sections (little dawn of sorrow spoiler for you HE'S ALUCARD OKAY); least annoying gratuitous touchscreen-isms

― thomp, Friday, 28 August 2009 15:01 (sixteen years ago)

I'm way into this

-CapL

Wow, really? I was into this game for a while but in the end gave up because the jokes are brain numbingly repetitive. Also french restaurant owner is o_0.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, August 24, 2009 7:34 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

I like the characters and drama. The last two turnabouts (after the french restaurant one) are pretty good. I spoke too soon on whip lady but she's not as bad as I remembered. I've never played Professor Layton but I imagine that Phoenix Wright takes almost the same amount of thinking. Every once in a while I don't know what to do.

― CaptainLorax, Monday, 31 August 2009 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

what happens if u connect to nintendo wifi using a rom?

― cozwn (webinar), Monday, 31 August 2009 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

Assuming you mean 'does it work', yes. I've played ROMs online and it worked fine.

― CraigG, Monday, 31 August 2009 16:28 (sixteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qQ6uwCGDL._SL500_.jpg

― capn save a noob (cozwn), Monday, 7 September 2009 15:22 (sixteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GnLwC9XlNfo/SqSBMANKcEI/AAAAAAAAIv8/YC4jFwebXuE/s1600/4153.png

― god bless this -ation (Abbott), Monday, 7 September 2009 19:45 (sixteen years ago)

not found

― kingfish, Monday, 7 September 2009 20:32 (sixteen years ago)

K I'M READY FOR THIS GAME NOW

― "I have seen bloodstains on the Pac Man joystick" (jamescobo), Saturday, 12 September 2009 05:22 (sixteen years ago)

I am pretty sure Etrian Odyssey is not beatable. Can anyone disprove me?

― O time thy pyramids (Abbott), Monday, 14 September 2009 22:43 (sixteen years ago)

it's good tho

hyped for the etrian odyssey engine SMT DS game

― hipster on a fixie - I know I know, it's serious (cozwn), Monday, 14 September 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/shantae_dance1.gif Shantae game coming to Dsiware! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v509/jobhosle/shantae_dance4.gif

― zappi, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 19:48 (sixteen years ago)

^ day one

― "I have seen bloodstains on the Pac Man joystick" (jamescobo), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 03:35 (sixteen years ago)

So any good lists of must-play DS games? (Especially import games?)

― Mordy, Monday, 21 September 2009 20:26 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=222049

― cozwn, Monday, 21 September 2009 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

wow cheers.

lol wtf great giana sisters ?

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 00:43 (sixteen years ago)

great list. thanks!

― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:04 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah - when you browse through that thread, you can't help but be shook by the insane, endless DS library

― Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:33 (sixteen years ago)

shook ds ones

― as the hart pants after the water brooks even so my blashphemous soul (Lamp), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 04:04 (sixteen years ago)

guys,
Ripening Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love
amazing

have any of you played any of the Tingle games?

― salsa shark, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 11:14 (sixteen years ago)

DSi question: I noticed there's some region locking on it. If I got one in the future, would it prevent me from playing JP DS carts like Ouendan, or does that only apply to DSIware?

― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 20:38 (sixteen years ago)

I also noticed looking at some DS game auctions on eBay that some only say compatible w/DS and DSLite, making me wonder if it's because of region locking or (also likely) that they're bootlegs that don't work on the DSi.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 20:39 (sixteen years ago)

the latter seems more likely, based on where i saw that sort of warning start to show up. for your region locking question, surely you can try an import cart in someone else's? or at a store?

― thomp, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 20:48 (sixteen years ago)

Has anyone here heard anything about Puzzler World? It's out October 1, and has Link-A-Pix as in Pic Pic. I'm presently crazy into Picross and then will move onto Pic Pic (which I finally bought in France). It's nuts that Pic Pic didn't get a US release but evidently Puzzler World is coming out worldwide.

― Soul Finger! (Euler), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 21:02 (sixteen years ago)

the locking is only for internet based stuff I think - cartridges should be OK. This from Wikipedia:

Nintendo has reported that the DSi uses region locking for DSi-specific software, since the handheld provides Internet services tailored individually for each region, and uses rating-based parental controls which differ by country. However, elements such as Internet browsing, photo sharing, and Nintendo DS cartridge software are region-free

― Bill E, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

Nhex - my understanding is that the upcoming DSi specific cartridge releases and all DSi ware are region locked. All old DS games and standard DS game releases are region free.

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 21:51 (sixteen years ago)

ah, ok, thanks. So Ouendan 1 and 2 would be cool, but upcoming Korg DS-10+ probably not. (I'm still suspicious of those eBay auctions, tho - damn those pricey imports!)

― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 22:07 (sixteen years ago)

Puzzler World looks like a natural around the house.

― bring back all banned legends (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

i got rhythm paradise (/heaven/tengoku) this weekend. i just played it for two hours and now i keep interrupting my typing to tap rhythmically on my laptop's touchpad

― thomp, Monday, 28 September 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)

tap tap
flick

― thomp, Monday, 28 September 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)

can i use my dsi to read pdfs, doc files and saved webpages? i've got an acekard 2i card if that helps. i want to be able to read magazine pdfs and other such things while on the cross trainer at the gym. i figure the dsi screen might be a bit small but it's a worth a try, is it possible?

― NI, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:29 (sixteen years ago)

DS can't read pdfs.

― ice cube treyz (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:36 (sixteen years ago)

even w/homebrew?

― cozwn, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:42 (sixteen years ago)

Given how my DSi struggles with loading webpages (even ILX), I'm not sure it has the processing power to handle a PDF.

― Euler, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:43 (sixteen years ago)

what about simple text or doc files? im thinking i could just c&p all the text into .txt

― NI, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:45 (sixteen years ago)

it can handle .jpgs, maybe you can print pdfs to jpg then read from there?

― cozwn, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:48 (sixteen years ago)

most of the pdfs i planned to use are a4/magazine size, im not sure this would transfer well to the little dsi screen - it'd either shrink it to be unreadable or i'd have to fiddle about scrolling to different parts of the screen every 50 words or so. i think a text file viewer is probably the best option

― NI, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:56 (sixteen years ago)

so I flew home for my 10-yr high school reunion this weekend and got in a lot of quality time with Bowser's Inside Story and unsurprisingly it's my GOTY so far. it's very stage-managed insofar as that it's really hard to get lost (which I personally appreciate like crazy) and I do kind of miss PiT's second-screen map, but between Bowser and Fawful there's allllllll kinds of fun to be had here.

― "I have seen bloodstains on the Pac Man joystick" (jamescobo), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:06 (sixteen years ago)

im siked for it

― babbies forming babbies (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:07 (sixteen years ago)

between Bowser and Fawful ALONE, that is. the rest of the game is exactly as fun as the previous iterations would lead you to believe.

― "I have seen bloodstains on the Pac Man joystick" (jamescobo), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

I haven't touched a DS since a brief Scribblenauts flurry a couple of weeks ago. I should try Bowser's Inside Story.

― zing me to sleep (onimo), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:28 (sixteen years ago)

am considering buying bowser and kingdom hearts, but don't know if i have time to play

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 18:31 (sixteen years ago)

Been super addicted to Civilization Revolution. Only thing I dislike is that other countries are way too quick to start a war -- even one they can't win -- and continue to fight until you've taken their capital (or something equally valuable). It's cool that they are really aggressive, and makes for serious strategy sometimes, but they are also kinda dumb, and I notice they never attack each other, only me.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 19:34 (sixteen years ago)

They do fight each other sometimes, but the games are so quick that typically there's not much time where you're not the biggest threat. The AI is very dumb, but at least on the top two levels they have such unfair advantages that it can be a challenge. They tend to sue for peace much too soon for my liking; I prefer to stay in democracy and get the big science bonus while having only one buffed army taking out enemy cities slowly; but in democracy when they sue for peace, the war is over.

― Euler, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 19:47 (sixteen years ago)

I need to get better at building armies. It's supposed to be like 3 stacked artilleries, 3 stacked defensive units, and a ship?

― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)

and a puppy

― babbies forming babbies (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:18 (sixteen years ago)

I just go with three stacked knights (mid game) or tanks (late game), buff them up through combat experience (blitz, infiltration chiefly) and then rip. As long as you have a tech edge this works without needing naval support or artillery. My wife, though, goes the artillery route. There are many routes to crushing your enemies' skulls.

― Euler, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)

rhythm paradise was kind of awesome and then kind of not awesome but now it seems to be kind of awesome again

― thomp, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:48 (sixteen years ago)

What level are you playing on Euler? I've worked my way up to the 3rd or 4th. Also, what civs have you had success with? Am I wrong in feeling that the English are totally worthless? (And Mongolians seem ridiculously good in the early game. Also, love the Aztecs in the early game.)

― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:50 (sixteen years ago)

Am I wrong in feeling that the English are totally worthless?

generally the answer to this question is no

― thomp, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:51 (sixteen years ago)

Rocket Slime is SO AWESOME guys; loads of fun even though it's the sort of thing where you will never ever lose.

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:53 (sixteen years ago)

Specifically in Civ: Rev tho? XP

― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 20:55 (sixteen years ago)

haha the English are ok! They have added naval support which makes for a cool strat. I play typically at 3rd (if I want easy) or 4th (if I want a decent challenge) but I've won on the 5th too. The Aztecs are great throughout the game for their insta-healing after battles. If I'm not feeling as aggro then the Romans or Japanese are tops; Romans get 1/2 price wonders and roads, and the Japanese get an extra food on ocean squares. Maybe the Romans get another boost too, I can't remember. But those are my three main standbys. The Egyptians are cool too b/c they get an extra food on desert. I don't really love the Mongolians b/c after the early game their special city thing is a wash, but they're ok.

― Euler, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 21:06 (sixteen years ago)

Rocket Slime is SO AWESOME guys; loads of fun even though it's the sort of thing where you will never ever lose.

At first I thought the map areas were easy and the tank battles were harder. When I figured out that you can ignore your tank and just keep killing the enemy when they come outside their tank's door, that challenge disappeared too.

― abanana, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 21:48 (sixteen years ago)

still, really fun for a week.

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 21:49 (sixteen years ago)

i had fun with that game

― babbies forming babbies (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 22:24 (sixteen years ago)

mordy - the english are only useful for rush/early expansion players imo due to archers + early knights - most of the bonuses the english get are slightly inferior versions of bonuses other civs get or play less efficiently theyre not as useless as the french tho ldo

best civ (for my playstyle) is the greeks - but i also tend towards the chinese (expand then tech then dominate). if your having problems w/ aggressive/expansionist civs maybe try the russians for early map edge and turtling abilities. they make a good tricky/defensive civ

― лампа (Lamp), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 22:56 (sixteen years ago)

i want civ for iphone ON IPHONE

― babbies forming babbies (s1ocki), Tuesday, 6 October 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

o shit it exist @_@

― lil' kim jong-il (s1ocki), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 00:03 (sixteen years ago)

super old news, but damn Dawn of Sorrow is good stuff

― Nhex, Friday, 9 October 2009 07:03 (sixteen years ago)

super old news, but damn Retro Game Challenge is great stuff

― JimD, Friday, 9 October 2009 13:55 (sixteen years ago)

Pic Pic so dope, Drawing/Dessin/link-a-pix/whateverthefuck so satisfying when you pack the links all together and when you're like "this cannot possibly work! it's topologically impossible" and then AHA EUREKA you got it.

― Euler, Sunday, 11 October 2009 08:56 (sixteen years ago)

only just realised original game boy games don't fit in the DS! damn

― thomp, Sunday, 11 October 2009 12:22 (sixteen years ago)

Finished Rocket Slime, or at least the tank battles/100 slime collection/hero challenge elements, for the u r super player ending. Fun game but finding those last two slimes pissed me off.

― "Keep Tweeting", Raged Roger The Kindly Hippopotamus. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 11 October 2009 12:34 (sixteen years ago)

thats what she said

― lil' kim jong-il (s1ocki), Sunday, 11 October 2009 16:15 (sixteen years ago)

(about your nuts)

― lil' kim jong-il (s1ocki), Sunday, 11 October 2009 16:15 (sixteen years ago)

Even with the parenthetical, I'm pretty sure that makes no sense.

― "Keep Tweeting", Raged Roger The Kindly Hippopotamus. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 11 October 2009 16:58 (sixteen years ago)

how many ppl here feel really bad if they don't complete every aspect of every bonus of a game

― thomp, Sunday, 11 October 2009 18:59 (sixteen years ago)

on my Advance Wars game I try to get a 'S' on every level. (I messed up once and didn't have a save file I could go back to) so I don't think I can have a perfect record. on the zelda ds game I was trying to collect everything but I eventually beat it. the dragon warrior ds game I was trying to collect all the monsters and then realized that was absolutely pointless. on Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (360) game I have to get the trophy and not just the jiggy. achievements on xbox360 mean nothing to me but I have gone for one of them in the past just because it looked like fun (the send a gnome on a spaceship one for orange box)

― I'm the best maaaayne, I did it (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 11 October 2009 19:15 (sixteen years ago)

only just realised original game boy games don't fit in the DS! damn

u can emul8 pokemon red bro - not the same i no but u can still collect em all

― history maybe (Lamp), Monday, 12 October 2009 04:38 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

is it just me or is the whole DS XL thing just kinda silly?

― Nhex, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

Oh - I didn't know this was confirmed as real!
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/10/29/dsi_ll_hardware_pics/

I actually really like the idea of a bigger DS as I'm old and going blind. Would play it more! Is this coming to the US?

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:36 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, I quite like it. I never got round to upgrading my original fat silver DS, might do with this though.

― JimD, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

when does it get phone service?

― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:38 (sixteen years ago)

Q1 2010 to the US, too. I don't know, it just seems goofy to me to go bigger and more expensive with the DS.

― Nhex, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

again, i really think their next step is to make these things e-text readers/iphone monsters. bigger screen would make sense then.

― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:42 (sixteen years ago)

an extra sku to appeal to the elderly seems a pretty smart business decision. its also produced some excellent messageboard whining from manbabies who think that everything is made for them. lol.

― zappi, Thursday, 29 October 2009 21:47 (sixteen years ago)

ha! :) I agree w/nhex but also zappi, it does seem like a goofy decision but one that is definitely understandable.

― coz (webinar), Thursday, 29 October 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)

they cd've included electronic ink, if at all possible, and made this thing properly adult

― coz (webinar), Thursday, 29 October 2009 22:15 (sixteen years ago)

same ppl moaning all over the internet abt increased pixellation are the same ppl upgrading their TV every week

― coz (webinar), Thursday, 29 October 2009 22:21 (sixteen years ago)

actually kinda really want one of these
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/193/dsill.jpg

― coz (webinar), Thursday, 29 October 2009 22:26 (sixteen years ago)

so how are they justifying the price increase? "There's more of it"?

― okamadablobisney (jamescobo), Thursday, 29 October 2009 22:42 (sixteen years ago)

i really need to get back on chinatown wars, stopped coz i couldn't be arsed finding any coke for my next mission.

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Thursday, 29 October 2009 22:55 (sixteen years ago)

price increase does seem fair, it is significantly larger. but it's getting so much thicker and bigger, you might as well put the GBA slot back on!

personally i still have an OG blue DS, but i don't know if i should try to upgrade to one of the above systems in the next year, or just wait for whatever next generation portable will come out by Nintendo (by 2011?). definitely eyeing Black Friday for all sorts of things.

― Nhex, Friday, 30 October 2009 02:58 (sixteen years ago)

get back to chinatown wars, ste!

― Nhex, Friday, 30 October 2009 02:58 (sixteen years ago)

The articles I read suggested that Nintendo's DS profits are way down due to the iPod touch/iPhone, and that the price increase is a stab at getting their margins up again.

I wonder how big the USA/European market is for games as big as DS games, that is games that cost, say, $40. Here's what I mean by that. The DS has massive platformers like Yoshi and obv SMB. And those are top brands. But how many players would choose a smaller (and accordingly cheaper) game if they could? On the iPhone you can get e.g. Rolando which I've not played but which seems to be popular; and it costs $10. And then take puzzlers: many DS puzzlers are high class and huge, and provide ridiculous value given how long you can play them without repetition (e.g. Picross, Pic Pic); but how many players get that value by playing through? Maybe they'd rather have 1/5 that content, or even 1/10 or 1/20th, and pay $3?

Basically I'm just wondering about the future of "big" mobile games. One test will be when Chinatown Wars comes out on iPhone; I bet Rockstar will charge $20 for it, which is what I paid for it on DS (new but on sale).

― Euler, Friday, 30 October 2009 06:08 (sixteen years ago)

piracy must be about 90% on the ds

― coz (webinar), Friday, 30 October 2009 09:41 (sixteen years ago)

i don't know about that - i mean like the Wii, the majority of owners are not hardcore and wouldn't know where to get a flash card for this, even though it is so easy

also, i'm sure that the iPod/iPhone has cut into the DS market somewhat, but how can anyone prove exactly how much it affected it? people are buying the Apple stuff for an iPod, wifi internet device, phone -- not necessarily competing with the DS. Personally I think it's that DSiWare wasn't a huge draw, and even though the DSi still did pretty well it's not an immense change from the Lite for most people. (btw, it is DSiWare that was supposed to compete with those super-cheapo iPhone games)

this reminds me, i do really want to get Space Invaders Extreme 2

― Nhex, Friday, 30 October 2009 12:07 (sixteen years ago)

I think even soccer moms pirate on the DS, I'm sure I read some ridiculous story somewhere replete w/incredible anecdotes abt 40yr old women pimping the R4, in the USA and asia

― coz (webinar), Friday, 30 October 2009 12:13 (sixteen years ago)

A problem with DSiWare vs App Store is illustrated as follows. Peggle for DS retails for $20, and isn't available as DSiWare anyway. Peggle for iPhone has been $5 since release. From what I can tell of the DSiWare store, Peggle would be way more advanced compared to what else is available there, and so wouldn't be a candidate for it. And I don't see Nintendo bothering to license non-digitally-distributed games for $5.

Also the DSi store is hard to navigate, and I hate stores with prices in "points" (that's looking at you too MS).

― Euler, Friday, 30 October 2009 12:47 (sixteen years ago)

xp really - they're all walking into chinatown or ordering from xtremetechbombz.net for their DSTTs

― Nhex, Friday, 30 October 2009 12:47 (sixteen years ago)

I'm sure I read it; there's a lot of business in pre-loaded R4s too, sold as 100DS game carts

― coz (webinar), Friday, 30 October 2009 12:56 (sixteen years ago)

From what I've read recently, the piracy rate on iPhone apps and games is also incredibly high.

Piracy on DS is so easy, I've talked to a few moms before who didn't even seem to realize they were stealing games by downloading them - just thought it was a feature of the DS (friend / relative gives them card and or ds and tells them you can just download any game you want onto this). They don't really care either way. Money is tight if you're raising a couple of kids! That said, five years into the ds lifespan, games still must be selling okay enough, because there are still a ton coming out & if it was impossible to make a profit, people would have stopped making games.

― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 30 October 2009 15:26 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, there was a thing on some random internet I read the other day saying a rally game on the iPhone has seen 95% piracy rates, which is a pretty spectacular number. I (anecdotally) don't see the iPhone having much of an effect on DS sales, just because 1) the DS has a HUGE library, and 2) that huge library is full length games. Half the stuff on the App Store is a demo for it's full length counterpart (hopefully this will stop soon now they have in-app purchasing), and even the full length counterpart isn't even going to scratch the type of 30+ hours I spent on Mario and Luigi Partners in Time, etc.

I disagree with the folks releasing Space Ace on the iPhone, in that I don't think most people are willing to sit and download a 100+Mb game for the iPhone, thereby limiting the amount of content you can feasibly put in an iphone game. I guess for things like Peggle though, it's back to the N64 days; cartidges be an expensive way to distribute games. Hard to imagine the publishers being able to match the $5 iPhone price on DS. Maybe all the shovelware minigames will fuck off to the iPhone leaving the DS to have less Poniez, etc, games.

― CraigG, Friday, 30 October 2009 15:51 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah---my only concern is the biggest market for the DS in NA/Europe has been for games that the buyers would have happily settled for cheaper, smaller versions of, and that will now be available as such on the iPhone. But then it's not clear to me that those buyers are subsidizing Square Enix e.g. so I suppose it doesn't matter too much if the DS game library's growth rate slows somewhat.

― Euler, Friday, 30 October 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)

not exactly "Slowing": http://www.ds-scene.net/
Roughly five releases daily international.

― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 October 2009 17:07 (sixteen years ago)

I hope so! I just got a DSi earlier this year...although the back catalog is so good I could be happy with these alone for years.

― Euler, Friday, 30 October 2009 19:24 (sixteen years ago)

if I had any sense, I would just curl up with that back catalog and just stop buying systems altogether.
DS is the video game gateway drug.

― I AM NOT ONE TO PURSUE GAME, MY FRIEND - NO, INDEED. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 October 2009 20:06 (sixteen years ago)

looking for a random/cheap DS RPG recommendation -- what say you, ILG posters?

― Nhex, Friday, 6 November 2009 06:12 (sixteen years ago)

etrian odyssey ii

― you get ribbons when you're in 4H (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 November 2009 06:43 (sixteen years ago)

dragon quest 4 is prob pretty cheap by now. (haven't played dq5 yet.)

― original bgm, Friday, 6 November 2009 07:05 (sixteen years ago)

My copy of Dragon Quest V cost £14.60 including shipping when I got it a few months ago.

― salsa shark, Friday, 6 November 2009 12:18 (sixteen years ago)

I should really get around to playing dq5. had a blast with dq4 and the consensus seems to be that dq5 is even better.

the brand new one that still hasn't been translated looks really great too.

― original bgm, Friday, 6 November 2009 16:37 (sixteen years ago)

I played DQ4 a bit as a lad, definitely want to revisit that and finally play DQ5 (which unfortunately is full price and rising, due to the lower print runs, at least in the US). Etrian i'm afraid might be too hardcore for me, but at least the price is about right, now.

― Nhex, Friday, 6 November 2009 18:49 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, it's solid. the localization goes a little crazy with wacky regional dialects... but I got used to it.

of the ones I've played, I prefer DQ3 and DQ8... but they're all pretty fun. rpg comfort food.

― original bgm, Friday, 6 November 2009 18:56 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

anyone played... uh... style savvy?

― coz (webinar), Saturday, 21 November 2009 18:33 (sixteen years ago)

looooooooool

― Lamp, Saturday, 21 November 2009 18:37 (sixteen years ago)

~this~ guy

― coz (webinar), Saturday, 21 November 2009 18:38 (sixteen years ago)

u r a lady

― The Enemy (jamescobo), Sunday, 22 November 2009 03:11 (sixteen years ago)

a stylish lady

― The Enemy (jamescobo), Sunday, 22 November 2009 03:11 (sixteen years ago)

Presuming it's the same thing as Style Boutique/Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode, I bought it in Japan for my girlfriend. She was mainly interested in the Lolita stuff (er, we're talking the fashion of that name here, not anything else). She didn't get far with it in the end but that have been the semi-language barrier there more than anything. I will try playing it myself and report back if you like?

― if, Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:37 (sixteen years ago)

it's OK ;_;

I just saw some people mention it on a Serious Gaming Site and thought it might've been a Serious Game ;_;

― coz (webinar), Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)

DS LL sold 104k in two days in japan

o_O

― coz (webinar), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

2001.03.21 (Game Boy Advance) - 611,504
2004.11.21 (Nintendo DS) - 441,485
2007.09.20 (PSP-2000) - 263,538
2008.11.01 (Nintendo DSi) - 170,779
2004.12.12 (PSP-1000) - 166,074
1998.10.21 (Game Boy Color) - 155,774
2008.10.16 (PSP-3000) - 155,720
2005.09.13 (Game Boy Micro) - 148,117
2000.12.09 (WonderSwan Color) - 145,975
2003.02.14 (Game Boy Advance SP) - 117,859
2009.11.21 (Nintendo DSi LL) - 103,524
1999.03.04 (WonderSwan) - 102,655
2006.03.02 (Nintendo DS Lite) - 67,653
2002.07.12 (SwanCrystal) - 30,692
2009.11.01 (PSP Go) - 28,275
1998.10.28 (Neo Geo Pocket) - 21,471
1999.03.19 (Neo Geo Pocket Color) - 18,809

― coz (webinar), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 18:14 (sixteen years ago)

poor neo geo pocket color. didn't realize that even the various wonderswan incarnations all trounced it.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:40 (sixteen years ago)

Wasn't there a post somewhere where someone listed the essential games for the DS? My thread searching skills are letting me down.

― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Friday, 27 November 2009 22:40 (sixteen years ago)

I'm particularly looking for Japanese DS games that weren't released here or weren't big sellers here.

― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Friday, 27 November 2009 22:41 (sixteen years ago)

You're probably thinking of the link to the gaf thread?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=222049

― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 27 November 2009 23:06 (sixteen years ago)

Bowsers Inside Story is the best ds game I've played in a long time, much better than partners in time.

― toastmodernist, Monday, 30 November 2009 22:22 (sixteen years ago)

Hai dere, i'm inside Bowser's stomach.

― toastmodernist, Monday, 30 November 2009 22:22 (sixteen years ago)

Just polished off Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice - God I love these games. The last case always rules! I would be so entertained every single time Gavin did the guitar solo animation. So psyched for Edgeworth, though slightly disappointed that it's going to be a prequel.

― Nhex, Thursday, 3 December 2009 05:06 (sixteen years ago)

That game was amazing. On the knitting supersite Ravelry some fan has posted a pattern for Phoenix's "PaPa" hat o_O

http://images4-cache.ravelry.com/uploads/TrenchKamen/8692454/IMG_0270_medium.JPG

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Thursday, 3 December 2009 05:12 (sixteen years ago)

omg! and the button!

― Nhex, Thursday, 3 December 2009 05:25 (sixteen years ago)

czn if u still post 2 ilx: how far did u get in knights in the nightmare thinking abt starting that up again

― Lamp, Thursday, 3 December 2009 05:28 (sixteen years ago)

Finally got 3D Picross, and am spending most of next week on trains travelling up and down the country. PERFECT.

― JimD, Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:04 (sixteen years ago)

speaking of Picross, I splurged on a copy of Illust Logic + Colorful Logic last week and am hoping against hope that it comes in in time for my trip home for Christmas

also hearing amazing things about that new Might & Magic game; foax are saying it's an even better Puzzle Quest

― the thrill of raising one of these stupid things (jamescobo), Saturday, 5 December 2009 18:41 (sixteen years ago)

I just finished the last extra level bit on Picross and I'm not that into the untimed ones so it might be time to get hold of Picross 3D.

― SBanned of Brothers (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 December 2009 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

also hearing amazing things about that new Might & Magic game; foax are saying it's an even better Puzzle Quest

five or so hours into this and I'm pretty much willing to agree with said foax; the puzzling is integrated into the RPG mold so neatly that the game almost feels like more of a strategy RPG than a puzzle/RPG hybrid. reminds me a lot of that (awesome) Rocket Slime game from a few years back.

― the thrill of raising one of these stupid things (jamescobo), Monday, 7 December 2009 03:57 (sixteen years ago)

it's on sale at best buy this week for $20, weirdly. i've got some credit to burn so i might pick that up w/zelda tomorrow

― Nhex, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 03:40 (sixteen years ago)

I am having a lot of fun playing "Bowser's Inside Story," like, too much fun. But I hate when a game throws in something needlessly difficult as an aside that you have to do before you can proceed. Here I am talking about the carrot-eating stylus minigame, which is just pissing me off.

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 20:43 (sixteen years ago)

I am artfully ignoring ur qn l4mp bcs the answer is I gave up v.early into the game despite loving it in theory

― cozwn, Thursday, 10 December 2009 21:17 (sixteen years ago)

its okay bro lets play mw2 instead

― Lamp, Friday, 11 December 2009 05:01 (sixteen years ago)

I agree about the stupid carrot eating mini-game in Bowser's Inside Story, it was pretty out of place in the game too. Likewise all the stupid blowing-into-the-microphone crap. I mostly play my DS on my lunchbreak at work, and on the train when I'm going somewhere. When I reach a point that involves making a public spectacle of myself, I just turn it off and try to remember to do it when I'm at home. Annoying when I forget, turn on my DS next time I'm on lunch/a train, and find it's at the bit where I have to blow on my DS.

I have Zelda Spirit Tracks waiting to get played, but I'm trying to make myself finish Bowser's Inside Story first, because on Partners In Time I got distracted by another game about 20hours in and never finished it.

― CraigG, Friday, 11 December 2009 10:03 (sixteen years ago)

have heard that zelda game has even more stupid blowing-into-the-microphone crap

― zappi, Friday, 11 December 2009 15:16 (sixteen years ago)

do you mean the one that just came out? (I had heard the earlier one on DS did as well.)

― original bgm, Friday, 11 December 2009 15:22 (sixteen years ago)

yeah but there's more blowing off the bat in this one. it feels like they made it more sensitive though, or maybe i didn't try blowing into the mic from farther away last time, because it seems a little easier

zelda's pretty good as usual, but it is very very similar to the first DS one

i will give it this, though - i love the personality of the new princess (and the general, more plucky attitude of her in all the wind waker games, i guess)

― Nhex, Friday, 11 December 2009 16:25 (sixteen years ago)

never played the first and am on the fence about checking this one out.

I like zelda and all but wind waker was the last one I played. at this point, the series feels like it encapsulates a lot of what I don't like about the way nintendo's design philosophy has evolved over the years. (waaaaay too much hand-holding, boring tutorials, lots of sequels with minor refinements, lots of fan service and nostalgia but little innovation, etc.)

― original bgm, Friday, 11 December 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

but really, it could just be that I'm a little bored with the formula.

― original bgm, Friday, 11 December 2009 16:44 (sixteen years ago)

pumped about this new Zelda (which will arrive by post in a couple of weeks) b/c haven't played one since A Link To The Past (I think---maybe I didn't even play that one, can't remember for sure)...even if I have to give the game a bj or two.

― Euler, Friday, 11 December 2009 16:46 (sixteen years ago)

henry hatsworth is great - love the way things shift up a gear from 'woah woah this is a bit crazy' in the normal (very good) platform game to 'SHIIIT BZZZTT' in the (also very good) tetris-alike other game. been playing it all night and can't put it down. it's a headfuck though, on the difficult side and colourful/manic/bleepy to the extreme. at the moment my head feels like it's jammed full of popping candy

― NI, Wednesday, 16 December 2009 23:56 (sixteen years ago)

Has anyone here heard anything about Puzzler World? It's out October 1, and has Link-A-Pix as in Pic Pic. I'm presently crazy into Picross and then will move onto Pic Pic (which I finally bought in France). It's nuts that Pic Pic didn't get a US release but evidently Puzzler World is coming out worldwide.
― Soul Finger! (Euler), Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:02 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark

this is out now btw. only had it for a few hours but it's pretty great so far; handwriting recognition is a bit shit (although admittedly I do have the handwriting of an epileptic third grader) and it's kind of weird playing Pic Pic sideways, but it's like they took the daily-play-encouraging mechanics from Big Word Puzzle Book and added a whole bunch of new gametypes, one of which just happens to be arguably the best puzzle game available on the platform (or at the very least tied w/ Slitherlink and Nurikabe).

still no sign of my copy of Illust Logic though, and my flight home is on Monday. le sigh.

― Don't Be Nervous Talking 2 Lamp (jamescobo), Saturday, 19 December 2009 06:10 (sixteen years ago)

oh man I can't wait; still playing through Picross (free mode now and the puzzles are starting to get more tricky) and then I'll be getting the new Zelda next week, but Puzzler World is high on my list next.

― Euler, Saturday, 19 December 2009 07:35 (sixteen years ago)

i don't know how i'm saying this with a straight face but - zelda is surprisingly winning me over

― Nhex, Saturday, 19 December 2009 09:38 (sixteen years ago)

Is there something supposed to be wrong with the new Zelda? I've not played a Zelda game since SNES days but I know the series has had a lot happen since then, and I'm pretty psyched to see what the deal is.

― Euler, Saturday, 19 December 2009 09:41 (sixteen years ago)

No, nothing's supposed to be wrong with it, just my attitude. Since the game was announced I figured it would just be another enjoyable Zelda game - nothing really groundbreaking. And yet I got totally sucked into it, far more than I predicted from the opening hours. I'm towards the end and I now see how the new changes trickled in wonderfully. I thought by now I'd have my fill of riding this train around, but actually I like it more at this point!

― Nhex, Saturday, 19 December 2009 10:09 (sixteen years ago)

I was so excited to play new Zelda, and then I found a copy of Rocket Slime and I completely forgot I had other games I wanted to play. I don't think I'll get around to new Zelda until Rocket Slime is played through... at least once...

― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Saturday, 26 December 2009 07:57 (sixteen years ago)

I JUST CAN'T GET OVER HOW CUTE EVERYTHING IS

― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Saturday, 26 December 2009 07:58 (sixteen years ago)

gonna start the new Zelda tonight!

I think I still have some of the "free" DSi points my DSi came with. Has anyone here actually bought any DSiWare games; or alternately, does anyone here have a view on whether any of them are worth picking up?

― Euler, Saturday, 26 December 2009 16:17 (sixteen years ago)

the only ones I have are Mighty Flip Champs and Flipnote Studio, both of which own

― Don't Be Nervous Talking 2 Lamp (jamescobo), Saturday, 26 December 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

Rocket slime is hella fun but it is so remedial...want a tougher grown up version to play someday.

james do you not have any interest in box life(?), I heard it was good too

― cozwn, Sunday, 27 December 2009 00:17 (sixteen years ago)

http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/996/996819/art-style-boxlife-20090622054842137_640w.jpg

― cozwn, Sunday, 27 December 2009 00:17 (sixteen years ago)

That makes me wish I has a DSi.

― I X Love (Abbott), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 01:15 (sixteen years ago)

any views on any of the Asterix games available? I can't seem to find any reviews of them...gonna keep looking but if any of you have played or heard about whether any of these games are decent, please let me know.

― Euler, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 07:56 (sixteen years ago)

really enjoying polarium advance /no cobo

― cozwn, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 11:02 (sixteen years ago)

Zelda is great so far no matter how much I kick ass at it. Also train is better than boat.

― Spiffy Spaceman (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

I'm loving Spirit Tracks. As someone else said on ILG (maybe this thread): playing the flute feels magical.

― Euler, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:47 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I'm playing Spirit Tracks now. Sometimes I think it's fun, other times I am annoyed beyond belief at it. I am especially angry at it right now, after some very aggravating attempts to buy a shield, which involved trying to get Beedle's stupid balloon down, trying to board it while being shot at by pirates, having the balloon float away, then dying. And repeating the process. I'm so tearing up my Beedle membership card.

Maybe I am just really bad at this particular game but I find a lot of it frustratingly hard. And usually not frustrating in the good way, like a puzzle that makes you feel like you've accomplished something when you solve it (ie that puzzle where you and Phantom Zelda have to corner the little badguy with the key). Just frustrating.

― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

And c'mon I'm just starting the Ocean Temple (third? temple) and I only have 6 heart pieces. Where are the others, or has this game gone really conservative with heart pieces? Why haven't I been prompted to do any side quests yet? I want to drive people around and find treasures and upgrade my train so it doesn't get destroyed by pirates so easily when I'm trying to buy another shield because a LikeLike ate my last one!

― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:53 (sixteen years ago)

there are regular shops that sells shields, and if you do the stamp quest you can get a special one that can't get stolen.

― abanana, Thursday, 21 January 2010 05:44 (sixteen years ago)

I'm guessing there's probably a message upthread answering my question but thread is huge and I dunno what to search for if I open it, so here's my question : what good games came out in 09 that I should look out for? All I have is scribblenauts (and I suck, I'm stuck on a level in the 2nd world :s).

― Jibe, Thursday, 21 January 2010 13:07 (sixteen years ago)

jibe, I don't know specifically about 09 - other than knights in the nightmare, which is an acquired taste for those who like the other 'department heaven' games yggdra union and riviera, and might & magic - but this neogaf thread is really the goto for DS recommendations

they have one for the gba too

― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:20 (sixteen years ago)

mario & luigi: inside bowser's tummy is also good

― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:20 (sixteen years ago)

lol coz @ linking that gaf thread if this thread is too long ;-)

haha also did u ever pick kitn back up - it never really got better for me

― Lamp, Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:42 (sixteen years ago)

no but I go round saying I loved it on several internet message boards :)

― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

Dragon Quest V, Henry Hatsworth and Retro Game Challenge are the ones I'm voting for in the poll.

― abanana, Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:47 (sixteen years ago)

no but I go round saying I loved it on several internet message boards :)

did not no u were atlus street teaming hi5 bro

speaking of games i love on internet msg boards: hotel dusk is p dope (not 09 but new 2 me or shld i say LTTP)

― Lamp, Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:49 (sixteen years ago)

Loved RGC but it's sooooo a specific niche taste (gonna be near the top of my P&C too). Loved GTA Chinatown Wars too. I'm trying to get to Might and Magic by the end of the week (just for the poll lol) and of course, Zelda is great. And it felt like there were a billion Atlus/JRPGs that came out that I didn't touch (looks guiltily at my sealed clearance-price Dark Spire) - some critics have been repping for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, seems generally underlooked for some reason (though one or two dudes here did rep for it I believe).

― Nhex, Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:32 (sixteen years ago)

dragon quest v was probably my fave as well. pretty hard not to like that one if you're into jrpgs.

― original bgm, Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:42 (sixteen years ago)

The recent ports of the Umihara Kawase games to the DS are excellent. If you've never played the SNES or PSX Umihara games this is a great way to check them out (albeit expensive, as the cart is out in Japan only, so far as I know). The game makes me really eager for the DSi XL release stateside though.

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:43 (sixteen years ago)

!!!! had no idea that it had a DS port! emulated the SNES game and loved it. how expensive is it?

― zappi, Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:51 (sixteen years ago)

US$ 52.90 from http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-49-en-15-umihara+kawase-70-377a.html
$53.90 from http://www.ncsxshop.com/cgi-bin/shop/NTR-P-CUHJ.html

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

hmmmmmm tempted, playasia have decent international shipping.

― zappi, Thursday, 21 January 2010 18:05 (sixteen years ago)

prices like that are why i'm so glad i just joined the dark side

― Nhex, Thursday, 21 January 2010 18:10 (sixteen years ago)

you should see how much the original SNES game goes for :(

― zappi, Thursday, 21 January 2010 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

http://tinycartridge.com/post/229000293/umihara-kawase-ds-reels-in-pirates

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 21 January 2010 18:46 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, i've been meaning to play that one. supposedly the physics have been cleaned-up. (lots of people seemed to write off the PSP version for that reason.)

still regret passing on the PSX version when I saw it once. :-/

― original bgm, Thursday, 21 January 2010 18:47 (sixteen years ago)

As far as I can tell, the DS ports are perfect - apparently the original main designer/programmer oversaw the job

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 21 January 2010 19:10 (sixteen years ago)

good to know. used to play this on the ZSNES emulator a bunch back in tha day. super relaxing game.

― original bgm, Thursday, 21 January 2010 19:19 (sixteen years ago)

ha thx for that info jeff

― Nhex, Thursday, 21 January 2010 19:29 (sixteen years ago)

Bowser's Inside Story has a great translation. Fawfulcopters!

― abanana, Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:35 (sixteen years ago)

The fact that Clash of Heroes hasn't been mentioned yet is a low down dirty shame. What an awesome DS game. GET IT!

― The controls are janky (Will M.), Saturday, 30 January 2010 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

Made my P&C! I think I've given myself minor carpal tunnel by playing it so much (though all the Zelda beforehand didn't help).

― Nhex, Sunday, 31 January 2010 01:09 (sixteen years ago)

i gave gf style savvy for the ds and she has played it for about seven hours virtually nonstop today. she is playing it now. created a monster.

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 31 January 2010 05:30 (sixteen years ago)

man, she's still playing. and stole my ds lite, because "you can see the colors better"!

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 31 January 2010 22:45 (sixteen years ago)

ur girlfriend is a fancy lady

― cozen, Sunday, 31 January 2010 22:54 (sixteen years ago)

s'true!

― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 31 January 2010 23:15 (sixteen years ago)

The fact that Clash of Heroes hasn't been mentioned yet is a low down dirty shame. What an awesome DS game. GET IT!

started playing this this weekend, loving it

― peter in montreal, Monday, 1 February 2010 17:05 (sixteen years ago)

I picked this up right before going home for Christmas break and it helped me avoid my family almost entirely, so A++++ would buy again. it's like Critter Crunch RPG.

― /no cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 1 February 2010 20:23 (sixteen years ago)

I got addicted to Style Savvy. ;_;

It is just the right amount of dumb to be a good wind-down-to-sleep-for-ten-minutes game.

― vacation to outer darkness (Abbott), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 04:30 (sixteen years ago)

It is bad, I saw someone wearing a coat the other day and my mind classified it as 'probably an AZ-USA brand,' ie a fictional brand from Style Savvy. Oh man, I felt silly.

― vacation to outer darkness (Abbott), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 04:31 (sixteen years ago)

hee hee.
the girl is telling me most of the "fictional" brands are based on actual designers.

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 05:37 (sixteen years ago)

Thinking about comfort levels... would you guys consider the DS Lite or DSi to be more comfortable to hold than the original DS? I'm guessing the XL won't be a step forward in this direction.

― Nhex, Thursday, 4 February 2010 05:16 (sixteen years ago)

DSi has better buttons, a better d-pad (still can't hold a candle to the d-pad on the micro or the Classic Controller but it's easily the best d-pad on a DS to date), and a matte finish; idk if that necessarily makes it more comfortable to use, but it definitely makes it more satisfying to use. also comes w/ a better stylus and is lighter than the OG.

― /no cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 4 February 2010 05:44 (sixteen years ago)

though if you don't have access to a GBA then picking the DSi over the DS can only be described as the wrong move, ergonomics be damned.

― /no cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 4 February 2010 05:50 (sixteen years ago)

On the other hand, you need a DSi to access some of the cool looking downloadable games and stuff.

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 4 February 2010 06:27 (sixteen years ago)

I have an OG DS and a GBA SP that I haven't touched in years... I've definitely noticed that my left (stylus + holding the DS) hand is cramping up a lot now, so this may be the thing that makes me finally upgrade. (Of course, the rumors are already out that the DS successor will be announced at GDC...) Damn tho, DSi is $170 :( I definitely appreciate the feedback and would like to hear any more on the subject.

― Nhex, Thursday, 4 February 2010 06:45 (sixteen years ago)

I just remembered the screen is a little bigger on the DSi too (a quarter of an inch, I think). Even that little bit seems like it would help, but I'm still holding out for the DSi XL.

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 4 February 2010 06:51 (sixteen years ago)

R4 has issues with DSi too, which is worth taking into account if you're that way inclined.

― JimD, Thursday, 4 February 2010 07:28 (sixteen years ago)

there are DSi-specific stealin' cards now

nhex, if you have a GBA (and don't have any DS accessories which use slot-2 like the Space Invaders paddle or the Guitar Hero doohickey) then I say go for the DSi; best DS screen + best DS form factor (- heavy weight of the LL) + access to the DSi Store (not amazing now but Flipnote Studios, Mighty Flip Champs, and Trajectile are all excellent and Gameloft is starting to port over their ON IPHONE titles too) justifies the extra price imo.

also if you're concerned about ergonomics, the best thing you can do is to pick up one of those pen-shaped styli (or stylus holders).

― /no cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 4 February 2010 17:38 (sixteen years ago)

DSi is region locked, right? (no japanese imports)

― original bgm, Thursday, 4 February 2010 17:40 (sixteen years ago)

DSi=enhanced games are region locked (not many of those kicking about) as is the DSi store; normal DS games are region free and will play on DSi

DSi is also the best bit of industrial design nintendo's ever put its name to; apple-like in its beauty

― cozen, Thursday, 4 February 2010 17:47 (sixteen years ago)

I'm actually using a pen stylus right now, but it totally sucks. Really bad grip, too solid and hard, though still more comfortable to use than the tiny default stylus... need to find a better one.

― Nhex, Thursday, 4 February 2010 19:59 (sixteen years ago)

DSi=enhanced games are region locked (not many of those kicking about) as is the DSi store; normal DS games are region free and will play on DSi

oh, cool. I have two japanese ds games so I was wondering.

was tempted to pick one up because the left shoulder button on my ds has not been working so well. looked up how much nintendo would charge to fix it - freakin $80! but then I checked out how much a dsi goes for and was like, "no thanks. I'll wait."

happily, the shoulder button has been less finicky lately.

― original bgm, Friday, 5 February 2010 17:39 (sixteen years ago)

blow in the trigger like a nes cartridge. might work.

― abanana, Friday, 5 February 2010 17:59 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, was doing that for a while with middling results. then one day it just worked again. hope it keeps working!

― original bgm, Monday, 8 February 2010 18:24 (sixteen years ago)

So this may be old news here but my kids were playing Mario & Sonic at the Olympics, using Download Play (e.g. serving from one cassette to multiple DSs). One of the kids playing had a French DS lite (since we live in France) but my kids' are USA DS lites. And while the game was in English for my kids, as usual, it was in French on the French system! They were all playing in the same room so they could hear the same announcements from different DSs in different languages...all being served by one DS. I'm impressed!

― Euler, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 15:50 (sixteen years ago)

Ha, cool!

― Nhex, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 15:51 (sixteen years ago)

So have we talked about infinite space yet?
http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9003374&publicUserId=5725436
out end of march; looks like a doozy

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 18 February 2010 02:17 (sixteen years ago)

aye

― dnw (cozen), Thursday, 18 February 2010 08:12 (sixteen years ago)

There was a burst of interest when it was announced originally... then it came out in Japan, and there was a lack of it. Think it looks cool, but afraid it's gonna end up being a dog.

― Nhex, Thursday, 18 February 2010 08:17 (sixteen years ago)

Oh man, it kind of cracks me up that Bookworm DS seems not to have updated any of the sound. The little worm guy says "Level up!" in the same crunchy robo-voice that starts "The Adventures of Bayou Billy."

― Dark Notion (Abbott), Saturday, 20 February 2010 19:08 (sixteen years ago)

oh man i only just found out that my ds lite won't play gameboy or gameboy color cartridges. that sucks.

― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 21 February 2010 01:42 (sixteen years ago)

Gave Rittai Picross a spin. Shocked how unpolished and generally unsatisfying it was, especially when I took to the original Picross like a duck to water. There were some cool things about it (like the crushing sounds of breaking blocks) but overall it did not feel like a Nintendo product at all. The UI seemed really crass, compared to the slickness of Picross DS... I mean, what was up with that freakish Clippy-esque mascot? The mildue-orange color scheme reminded me of shovelware games. I hope Nintendo spent all this time between localizations to polish it up for European and US release.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 04:39 (sixteen years ago)

haha, spin

― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:18 (sixteen years ago)

DSi XL finally releases in the US March 28th for $189

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:30 (sixteen years ago)

what's the consensus on tht one? I think they look rad personally but don't know if I'd buy one; I'm still unconvinced by the DSi, as a purchase, nevermind the XL

― a passing heavy daftie (cozen), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:37 (sixteen years ago)

the consensus is that it's just a bigass DSi that comes with a pen stylus. DSi store is gradually becoming worth it, though.

― /no cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:40 (sixteen years ago)

don't have a dsi but this game looks cool:

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3177682

screens givin me me a big nes bionic commando vibe.

― original bgm, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:46 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know what the consensus is (though recently it has been outselling all other DS models in Japan), but I'm very hyped for the XL - I really want that bigger screen & will finally tackle my DS backlog. Though, I'm an oldy. Also looking forward to checking out some of those DSi download games, particularly the ArtStyle ones and the ones from Q-Games (the PixelJunk guys).

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:59 (sixteen years ago)

HOT video of the dotstream update...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz6tXzWugPg

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 25 February 2010 01:47 (sixteen years ago)

think its a wiiware game? so hyped tho.

― zappi, Thursday, 25 February 2010 01:49 (sixteen years ago)

it's DSi ware

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 25 February 2010 01:50 (sixteen years ago)

R U SURE?

― zappi, Thursday, 25 February 2010 01:53 (sixteen years ago)

oop - my bad - it's apparently wiiware!
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/KUiXqEUMk394XPQHwOgSCesqY4qrOEv1

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 25 February 2010 01:54 (sixteen years ago)

good, now i don't have to buy a DSi (yet)

― zappi, Thursday, 25 February 2010 01:57 (sixteen years ago)

I guess I can't disagree with anything Nhex has said about Rittai Picross - the presentation probably is pretty shocking. But I've honestly never noticed, cos the quality of the puzzles is so high. Presentation just isn't the point with a game like that, you know? Pic Pic looks awful too.

― JimD, Thursday, 25 February 2010 11:37 (sixteen years ago)

haha i just bought a used zelda game cart. loaded it up, and the saved game already there was just called "CUNT"

― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 25 February 2010 12:49 (sixteen years ago)

so apparently WarioWare DIY doesn't allow you to use button inputs or dragging in the editor. also it doesn't use the camera or the mic.

in other words PASS.

― /no cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 26 February 2010 06:13 (sixteen years ago)

etrian odyssey II is such a rad fukken game.

― von Neu! man universe (Lamp), Friday, 26 February 2010 06:21 (sixteen years ago)

just a tht 2 share w/ u ilg

― von Neu! man universe (Lamp), Friday, 26 February 2010 06:22 (sixteen years ago)

You are very correct.
Also, I am about halfway (?) through SMT: DS; it's a winner

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 26 February 2010 06:51 (sixteen years ago)

first 3D headtracking game for DSi coming out in Japan - impressive!
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/dsiware/krgj/index.html

― zappi, Friday, 26 February 2010 14:05 (sixteen years ago)

Er, is that the right link? It just looks like some jack and the beanstalk thing?

― JimD, Friday, 26 February 2010 14:21 (sixteen years ago)

oh wait I just watched the video WOW

― JimD, Friday, 26 February 2010 14:23 (sixteen years ago)

I loved etrian odyssey and played it all the way up to the last (absolutely grueling) dungeon. really enjoyed it overall but I haven't had the heart to take up part 2 yet. eo1 ate up so many hrs of my life already.

― original bgm, Friday, 26 February 2010 15:37 (sixteen years ago)

music ruled in that game too

― original bgm, Friday, 26 February 2010 15:38 (sixteen years ago)

Etrian Odyssey 2 is fucking boss but it was too difficult for me...just keep dying over & over in (iirc) level 24.

― A Memorable Fancy (Abbott), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

I didn't do all the side quests so maybe I missed out on some key not-dying prize by ignoring those.

― A Memorable Fancy (Abbott), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

Dragon Quest 5 is another one I'm having difficulty finishing up, not bcz it's hard, but bcz it's had like 5 things I thought would be the ending by now. It started to wear on me.

― A Memorable Fancy (Abbott), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:22 (sixteen years ago)

yah abbott u really have no choice but to fuck w/the quests. also party composition/character build can make such a huge difference in this game - its really the heart of it - that unless youre certain of your skills u really need to eliminate any lower teir classes from ur line-up. @ the higher stratum binds end up being really useful iirc basic for mitigating the crazy dmg output of some enemies

― von Neu! man universe (Lamp), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:29 (sixteen years ago)

I saw a DSi on the subway the other day and it looked boss. screens are really fuckin big, would love to play chinatown wars on it.

― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:33 (sixteen years ago)

omg that perspective shift camera thing on the dsi
next level baby

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:40 (sixteen years ago)

Dragon Quest 5 is another one I'm having difficulty finishing up, not bcz it's hard, but bcz it's had like 5 things I thought would be the ending by now. It started to wear on me.

hah, I know what you mean. I am right at the end of this one myself. (I know because I had no clue where I was supposed to go and cheated and looked at an faq.)

but honestly, I'm enjoying it so much that I'm kinda bummed that I'm almost done. same thing with dq8 which probably took me about 5 years to finish! these games are just really pleasant and relaxing and I go through them at a pretty glacial pace.

also, going from playing etrian odyessy 1 endlessly during my commute to various dq games (1, 4, 5) has made me a little worried that my rpg skillz are no longer up having to put much thought into classes, stats, etc. plus the general stress of dying and losing an hour's worth of playtime!! (def happened a few times in eo1 and supposedly eo2 is even tougher.)

― original bgm, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:58 (sixteen years ago)

kinda nervous about the 'social' element in dq9. but I guess people are into it in japan and I am genuinely curious about how it will be re-tooled for the US...

― original bgm, Friday, 26 February 2010 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

that perspective shift camera video has made me think maybe a DSi IS something I need

― Hideous Lamp (cozen), Friday, 26 February 2010 17:04 (sixteen years ago)

Hopefully it gets used in more games - looks very cool

― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 26 February 2010 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

if it works as good as it looks

― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 26 February 2010 17:09 (sixteen years ago)

Avatar DSi

― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Friday, 26 February 2010 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

RIP johnny chung lee ;_;

― Hideous Lamp (cozen), Friday, 26 February 2010 17:14 (sixteen years ago)

would not be surprised if the next DS has that headtracking stuff as standard

― zappi, Friday, 26 February 2010 18:20 (sixteen years ago)

yo zap - it's standard in the DSi (they just use the camera face recognition software to track the location of the DSi in relation to your eyes, right?)

― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 26 February 2010 18:27 (sixteen years ago)

i meant that 1st party games would use it as standard as the 'hook' for the next console - a mario platformer with 2d play but 3d backgrounds etc

― zappi, Friday, 26 February 2010 18:36 (sixteen years ago)

― Hideous Lamp (cozen), Friday, 26 February 2010 18:36 (sixteen years ago)

that perspective shift demo is insanity, can't wait to see how they use it in Big Word Puzzle Book 2

― /no cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 26 February 2010 22:28 (sixteen years ago)

yes cobo

― Hideous Lamp (cozen), Friday, 26 February 2010 22:38 (sixteen years ago)

whoa to that perspective dsi video

― Nhex, Friday, 26 February 2010 23:52 (sixteen years ago)

Yep, just watched it. mindblowing.

― bracken free ditch (Ste), Saturday, 27 February 2010 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

Seems more and more like DS2 is coming soon...
http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/03/12/nintendo-ds-successor-already-being-developed-for.aspx

― Jeff LeVine, Saturday, 13 March 2010 00:19 (sixteen years ago)

Normally I could give a flip abt ending a sentence w/a preposition but that headline is just a mindfuck.

― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Saturday, 13 March 2010 00:24 (sixteen years ago)

Writing the release is difficult to?

― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 13 March 2010 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

If it has two screens formatted differently than the current DS, I guess it won't be backwards-compatible with current DS games that use action across two screens like Yoshi's Island or Contra 4...

― Jeff LeVine, Saturday, 13 March 2010 00:43 (sixteen years ago)

this Alice in Wonderland game - it might be ... good? really like the art style, & reviews seem to be favorable so far. hmmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7pOqWBf0Yg#t=0m20s

― aztec gamera (zappi), Saturday, 13 March 2010 00:53 (sixteen years ago)

looks worth a spin.

― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 13 March 2010 05:59 (sixteen years ago)

3d picross out in Europe now, btw.

― JimD, Saturday, 13 March 2010 08:36 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

So I bought a DSi XL today and so far I'm REALLY glad. I never had a DSi (just a lite), so the added functionality is pretty cool w/ integrated browser, store, flip note studio etc. But the key thing is obviously the extra size - it's great & really easy on the eyes & feels less like a kid's toy and more like a functional device. The screens are really BIG, about twice the size of my lite (bigger than two psp screens!) and they're also very bright and the wider viewing angle is very noticeable as you no longer have to worry what angle you're looking at the screens from. The sound is also clearer and louder. Basically the is the DS I always wanted.

― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 28 March 2010 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

feels less like a kid's toy

Just spent an hour playing Super Princess Peach!

― Jeff LeVine, Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:17 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.gameguru.in/img/smt-strange-journey-ss-01.jpg

― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:39 (sixteen years ago)

a specific question - do you end up playing with it more on a surface like a tabletop, or is it able to rest comfortably in your hands? really wondering about that because even holding the original DS for a short amount of time kills my hands nowadays

― Nhex, Sunday, 28 March 2010 22:54 (sixteen years ago)

Probably depends on the game - for something that uses the buttons and dpad (and shoulder buttons) I don't think you could use it sitting on a table comfortably - for something that only uses the stylus (like the flipnote program), it's great on a table. My early impressions are that the bigger size makes it a little more comfortable to hold w/ normal man sized hands. With a regular DS I feel like I have to cramp up my hands a bit more to rest my index fingers on the shoulder buttons, but the XL feels like I can hold it in a more relaxed, natural grip. However, it's a little heavier, so it kind of evens out, maybe. The buttons and d-pad are still a little small & flat, and after an hour of platforming I did have a bit of nintendo thumb.

― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 29 March 2010 00:24 (sixteen years ago)

man, am tempted to get one and chinatown wars. bet my flash cart won't work on it anymore :[

― it is just like an unknown puzzle till the end of the world (dyao), Monday, 29 March 2010 00:30 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for the input jeff - i have a similar issue with my fingers and the shoulder buttons, and my ring/pinky fingers are curve somewhat awkwardly in my grip. not sure if a bigger or smaller DS will help tbh

if your flash cart works on a current DSi (1.4 update), it should be OK with the DSi XLs, from what I understand (yay for me)

― Nhex, Monday, 29 March 2010 01:59 (sixteen years ago)

smt strange journey is ~amazing~ dont think they couldve made this game any more alienating & uncomfortable to norms if they had d.w. griffith direct the cut scenes

― Lamp, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 05:54 (sixteen years ago)

just finished crazy machines and having big withdrawal symptoms. can anyone suggest something similar? tried picpic but i'm not so keen.

― NI, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 08:45 (sixteen years ago)

tried picpic but i'm not so keen.

shameful

― Contemplative Punk (jamescobo), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:39 (sixteen years ago)

I can't get enough of PicPic lately, esp. Magipic; I mean Drawing is the obvious standout but the Minesweeper-like delights of Magipic are doing it for me right now.

― offshore "drilling" for (Euler), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 07:24 (sixteen years ago)

Man I have been seriously working through Drawing and Magipic, those games are hurtfully addictive, I think I may need an intervention.

― Top Geir (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 07:58 (sixteen years ago)

xp to Nhex - I have an R4, not sure if it works on a DSi or not

― armando white (dyao), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 08:00 (sixteen years ago)

need a special DSi R4i card I'm afraid

― Top Geir (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 08:04 (sixteen years ago)

'Tis true. On the bright side, newer flash carts are like crazy good now compared to the old ones - nicer interface, Wifi loader updates, etc. The Supercard DSTWO comes out in a month or so and supposedly it can do SNES/GBA emulation, I'd wait to see how that pans out (unless you don't care about that, then just get a nice cheaper card now).

― Nhex, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 09:46 (sixteen years ago)

smt strange journey is ~amazing~ dont think they couldve made this game any more alienating & uncomfortable to norms if they had d.w. griffith direct the cut scenes

I'm pretty early into this one (just got to the second floor of the first dungeon) but I'm loving this so far. the story is working for me on a level I never really expected - prob one of the most atmospheric games I've played.

― original bgm, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 14:23 (sixteen years ago)

Is it as painfully hard as SMT Devil Survivor? I only got so far on it before I was like, "Sorry, Tokyo, these demons are too strong for me. You're on your own."

― Ponies are horse children (Abbott), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

Still playing Devil Survivor! My hero just made level 52. I think I'm in the home stretch, but it's hard to tell. Just beat Jezebel?

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 18:15 (sixteen years ago)

lol strange journey is a couple orders of magnitude harder than devil survivor. otoh if u pussy out then all of humanity spends eternity bound in demonic slavery so i mean the choice is yours

@ alan - in some ways imo "atmospheric" is just code for sub-nes-to-iphone-port graphics but in other ways hell yes this is a game that can give u nightmares.

― f a ole schwarzwelt (Lamp), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 19:39 (sixteen years ago)

haha.

shit is atmospheric if I think, "whoa, this sounds like a ligeti choral piece" while playing, imo.

― original bgm, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 19:58 (sixteen years ago)

glad they got that together; the music in devil survivor is so bad i always play it turned off.

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 19:59 (sixteen years ago)

well, it's not exactly on that level. but it's def inspired and I can't say I've ever played a game weith as much gregorian chanting. that has to count for something.

― original bgm, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:01 (sixteen years ago)

etrian odyssey has cooler tunes, tho. and difficulty-wise, strange journey seems less punishing than etrian odyssey at least. (as most games are.)

― original bgm, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:04 (sixteen years ago)

ive died more in strange journey than i ever did in etrian odyssey. the big difference is that strange journey is a lot more opaque and random/inconsistent so its harder to plan. its also more ruthless abt exploiting weaknesses u cant avoid whereas EO was a lot easier to overcome with pary/stat mgmt which i have 2 say im p disgustingly gr8 at

― f a ole schwarzwelt (Lamp), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

could just be that I'm still early into the game. aside from the first boss, I haven't died much yet.

― original bgm, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

I dunno, the FOEs roaming around and the possibility of squaring off against a boss you weren't ready for made EO a pretty tense experience for me! I was always pretty scared about losing 45mins worth of exp + items whenever I played and it happened enough that it was always in the back of my mind.

tho I did get to the point where I could just plow through w/no worries towards the end.

― original bgm, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:13 (sixteen years ago)

yeah in strange journey each of the dungeons get harder - its really good trick since a lot of times rpgs fail that kind of progression so the toughest dungeons end up being the early ones - & the game is a lot more ruthless abt exploiting your armor

im really vibing the ex missions atm theyre a lot better integrated into the game & more challenging than e.g. stephanie's quests in persona

― f a ole schwarzwelt (Lamp), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

its really good trick since a lot of times rpgs fail that kind of progression so the toughest dungeons end up being the early ones

yeah, this is a good point. w/most jrpgs I only feel challenged at all during are the first one or two dungeons + the one at the end. plus, I tend to get pretty into exploring places methodically, so I rack up exp by getting into more fights than most and end up with a hugely strong party.

it's kind of crazy how many tutorials strange journey throws at you. I understand the need but does this let up?

― original bgm, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

haha not really - each dungeon so far has added a stupid new f(n)

― f a ole schwarzwelt (Lamp), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:43 (sixteen years ago)

lolz oh well

― original bgm, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:48 (sixteen years ago)

Daigasso! Band Brothers is getting an EU release!!!!
renamed Jam With The Band, 21st May.
only 5 years late, lol.

― aztec gamera (zappi), Thursday, 8 April 2010 16:09 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Just beat Henry Hatsworth! Woo!

― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 02:43 (sixteen years ago)

http://morlyssiafantages.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/screen-shot-2009-12-26-at-10-15-26-am.png?w=386&h=300

― Walter Melon (Abbott), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:21 (sixteen years ago)

So after you beat it on normal mode, you play it on Gentleman mode, which is super difficult.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 06:50 (sixteen years ago)

Gentleman mode!!

― Walter Melon (Abbott), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 16:48 (sixteen years ago)

So far on Gentleman mode I have the gentleman's hat, the gentleman's wallet, and the gentleman's pantaloons.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 17:21 (sixteen years ago)

As someone who couldn't even make it past the first few stages in Hatsworth, I'm impressed (I need to try it again when I'm feeling more concentrate-y).

I'm nearly finished Bowser's Inside Story but I'm worried that I'll end up doing what I do with every RPG: become intimiated by potentially hard final boss battles, put the game on the shelf, and forget about it for a few months. Hopefully the fact this game doesn't involve any grinding means that won't happen this time, though. Plus, the encounters with Fawful are part of what makes this game worth playing.

― salsa shark, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:14 (sixteen years ago)

i'm playing inside story right now too. It's fun, but slooooooooow. The writing is grand, but it feels painfully paced and occasionally draggy. Worth the time, but it takes me out of really engaging with it.

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

That was my problem with it too -- it's not a game that's just comfortable to pick up for twenty minutes, jump in, and then jump out.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

Oh I don't find it too slow, I feel like it's prompted me along quite well, and I've played it in spurts (ie on the bus, during breaks at work). I was actually worried that it was rushing me towards the end rather than offering me a chance to explore the undiscovered bits of the map and find more attack pieces, etc. I don't have much left to play in the storyline at this point so I'm purposefully dragging it out by doing boring stuff like collecting beans and listening to the old hippie koopa ramble about stuff.

Also Starlow needs to stfu. Most annoying cute character ever?

― salsa shark, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 22:13 (sixteen years ago)

The pretty rad train sim, Densha de Go, is coming to DS July 22nd...
official site http://www.square-enix.co.jp/densya/

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/04/28/square_enix_densha_de_go/

― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 16:11 (sixteen years ago)

Ha, fantastic! <3 densha.

― JimD, Wednesday, 28 April 2010 18:50 (sixteen years ago)

big congrats on completing henry hatsworth. such a difficult game but so much fun, it saw me through the dark depths of christmas tv & family get-togethers. got mad stuck on one level and never stuck with it but i think i'll pick it up again soon

― NI, Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:09 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

just got a DS again... what've I missed since the inside bowser RPG?

― stofu (cozen), Sunday, 20 June 2010 20:38 (fifteen years ago)

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes was pretty great. I haven't played these, but these came out in the last 8 months or so and are supposed to be good or interesting: Edgeworth Investigations, Infinite Space, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, Warioware DIY, Picross 3D, Megaman Zero Collection. Dragon Quest 9 comes out next month!

― Nhex, Sunday, 20 June 2010 23:37 (fifteen years ago)

Woah - Nintendo say 3DS not suitable for children under 7

Surely that's a pretty huge chunk of the market chopped off right there?

"We have the same type of messaging for the Virtual Boy, as an example".

ALARM BELLS

― JimD, Monday, 21 June 2010 15:46 (fifteen years ago)

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes is a points combat based RPG or something else? Am looking for a good RPG for gf but she hates the turn based stuff

― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Monday, 21 June 2010 15:48 (fifteen years ago)

I say I hate the turn-based stuff too, but if it has lots of cute monsters I'll probably play it (and then lose enthusiasm 5-10 hours away from the final boss battle).

― salsa shark, Monday, 21 June 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

It's really more like Puzzle Quest, primarily a match-3 type puzzle game with RPG elements.

― Nhex, Monday, 21 June 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)

Hmm that may be a purchase so, cheers.

― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 08:42 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqCQCg95_2I

― Nhex, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)

Just watching that makes me feel like I'm starting to get old. All the kids will be playing five screen twitch shmups without blinking and I'll be saying "remember qix? THAT was a game"

― i'm gonna need a +1 so me & a friend can kick you in the balls (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 July 2010 15:46 (fifteen years ago)

what always breaks my head in the games that use both screens in that way (one of the early Sonic ones comes to mind) is that they act like the screens are positioned continuously when things move between them, when in fact there's the gap of DS casing. So it's like, oh man. Am I alone in this? I am guessing yes.

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 30 July 2010 10:26 (fifteen years ago)

nah, that's exactly what I was thinking when I watched that trailer. that dead space was the source of many frustrating deaths in contra 4.

― original bgm, Friday, 30 July 2010 11:35 (fifteen years ago)

I saw Henry Hatsworth used for only fifteen bucks so I bought it (after reading this thread). The game didn't include a box or manual so I was actually thinking I had bought a Professor Layton game. To my surprise I got a challenging platformer/puzzle game. It's pretty fun so far and I like the humorous characters/bosses and I wish there was more of that humor because it is marvelous. Puzzle Quest has better puzzles but this one is okay; it can get tedious having to do the puzzle part over and over but the way they combine it with the platformer aspect is ingenious.

― @( * O * )@ (CaptainLorax), Monday, 2 August 2010 04:46 (fifteen years ago)

xxxp, what bugs me about Sonic is the gap of what you can't see coming ahead of you. It actually might have been worse on the DS sonic (but I don't remember).

― @( * O * )@ (CaptainLorax), Monday, 2 August 2010 04:48 (fifteen years ago)

oh man, i made it half-way thru hatsworth on Gentleman Mode before I ditched it, but such a great game

― Mordy, Monday, 2 August 2010 05:12 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/22/nicalis-confirms-cave-story-dsiware-european-release-for-wiiwar/

FUCK YEAH

― Ride decided to give birth to a giant poop log & disguise it as a CD (jamescobo), Saturday, 25 September 2010 08:13 (fifteen years ago)

oh and Shantae on October 4th

finally, DSi BITCHES

― Ride decided to give birth to a giant poop log & disguise it as a CD (jamescobo), Saturday, 25 September 2010 10:17 (fifteen years ago)

been enjoying the new Layton; it's somewhat smoother to play

― Muscus ex Craneo Humano (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 September 2010 16:17 (fifteen years ago)

I've been playing a bunch of box life this week - highly recommend this game if you have a dsi (I think it's only 500 points, yeah?). Very nice puzzle game with a unique mechanic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZcIpcH3HkU

― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 8 October 2010 23:20 (fifteen years ago)

there is only one DSi game these days (at least until Cave Story comes out) and it is called SHANTAE

― Ride decided to give birth to a giant poop log & disguise it as a CD (jamescobo), Saturday, 9 October 2010 02:41 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

I am so cranky at "Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs" (iirc) – these games are meant to be soothing "draw circles until you're tired" pre-bed fodder. But this one has you doing so much running to people I can't even remember who/where they are. It's maddening! "Hey, tell Rafe about the bridge!" Spend 20 minutes walking *everywhere* until a cutscene shows up. "Thanks for showing up! Could you pass this message about the tower to Kyle?" Arrgh which fucking NPC was Kyle? Fuck this.

― Flavors: Onions and other flavors (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 05:41 (fifteen years ago)

abbott, my girl uses nyt crosswords and i use picross for the same purpose.

― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 15:31 (fifteen years ago)

Ha I was doing NYT xwords lastnight and in the back of my mind I was grumbling at Pokemon the whole time. Other wind-down-to-sleep games I like: Big Word Puzzle Book, Hearts on Clubhouse Games.

― Flavors: Onions and other flavors (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 15:32 (fifteen years ago)

My in-bed-but-pre-lights-off game is VOLTORB FLIP (in Pokemon SoulSilver). It doesn't wind me down *at all* and I go to sleep jittery with little voltorbs dancing behind my eyes, and that pounding, pounding Game Corner music! Oh! What a fool.

The highest level I got to was L9 and then I had to turn the thing off...

― superpitching, Thursday, 11 November 2010 17:50 (fifteen years ago)

back to playing DS after a long time off - loving the second Layton game (What is the mystery of that DIABOLICAL BOX??) and kind of enjoying Rock Band 3 (it's basically Frequency)

― Nhex, Thursday, 11 November 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

There is a game called "Marie-Antoinette and the American War of Independence - Episode 1: The Brotherhood of the Wolf".

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Friday, 31 December 2010 23:15 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH5IMzHhAxM&feature=player_embedded

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Friday, 31 December 2010 23:15 (fifteen years ago)

that's some title they've got going there. looks more interesting than other games riding Laytons coattails tho.
this guy even stole his hat!
http://cdn.medialib.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/screens/screenshot_34210.jpg

― zappi, Friday, 31 December 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)

LE PACTE DES LOUPS!

― Nhex, Saturday, 1 January 2011 02:49 (fifteen years ago)

Ghost Trick is out today! Very excited, will be using an amazon voucher tonight methinks.

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/nds/ghost_trick_phantom_detective_18194.html

― superpitching, Friday, 14 January 2011 12:02 (fifteen years ago)

Ghost Trick is so great, and exciting, and clever! I loved the Phx Wright games, and they really excelled them here.

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:49 (fifteen years ago)

my r4 card corrupted and i haven't played my ds in like a year :'(

― Mordy, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:50 (fifteen years ago)

Ghost Trick *looks* fantastic, too. I'd seen screen shots of the animated scenes – figures with no outlines – and worried they'd look bad, or hard to tell what was happening. But it looks so vibrant!

xp oh no Mordy!

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:51 (fifteen years ago)

They don't cost too much, have you thought about just buying another?

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:52 (fifteen years ago)

i've thought about it but i never get around to doing it

― Mordy, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:53 (fifteen years ago)

yah, they are super cheap for the new ones that play whatever
http://www.5thdimensionstore.com/products_view.php?category=1

― From the novel "Spinster Dinner" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:54 (fifteen years ago)

Mordy, it is an investment worth making! Ghost Trick is so good. Also IIRC you never ended up playing the Miles Edgeworth game. Missing you, my friend!

I also like this new Harvest Moon puzzle game, "Frantic Farming," but that's more something to wind myself down from the day rather than OMG PLAY NOW MORDECHA1.

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:55 (fifteen years ago)

Ha I said "missing you" when I meant "missing out." But, I appreciate your friendship.

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:56 (fifteen years ago)

Did anyone every play Warioware DIY? Is it worth checking out>?

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 04:57 (fifteen years ago)

So Abbottt, which of these DS cartridges should I get? I got the R4 last time but now I'm thinking one of the others might be better?

P.S. I treasure our friendship too!!! :P

― Mordy, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 12:29 (fifteen years ago)

has anyone played that 999 game? always been kinda interested by that Chunsoft visual novel thing, and internet nerdz have been hyping this one.

― zappi, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 12:35 (fifteen years ago)

Mordy, I have en Edge card...I got it as a wedding gift. Hasn't given me any trouble in the past 2.5 years. So, having never tried the others, I don't really know what to say about the ones on that page.

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 15:32 (fifteen years ago)

i think acekard gets the job done too

― From the novel "Spinster Dinner" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:36 (fifteen years ago)

be prepared for this to take forever to ship though

― From the novel "Spinster Dinner" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:36 (fifteen years ago)

acekard 2i is great. you might want to look into the newer Supercard TWO if you want to try GBA emulation, but i don't know how good supposedly is or isn't

― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 18:42 (fifteen years ago)

My old R4 card has broken and I need a new one for at the very least, DIZZY EGG on the spectrum emulator. Anyone know anywhere reliable to order one from?? I am perhaps being a bit cautious here when I see the payment options are paypal (if it's dodgy then that's another hoop to jump through wrt credit card protection innit). In the UK. Feel free to send me a direct message if you prefer!

― superpitching, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

look about twelve posts up

― thank you based jättegod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

Yes I saw that, but it's not in the UK which put me off.

― superpitching, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

ah, sorry to be snotty; didn't realize.

― thank you based jättegod (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:16 (fifteen years ago)

$250

― FART MAGNET STUDIOS IS SCREWING US AGAIN!!!1!1!!!1!! (jamescobo), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:36 (fifteen years ago)

fuck it, preordered. YES COBO (also I get to write it off).

I plan on haXor1ng it as soon as I possibly can and in those cases it's always best to have first-revision hardware. more importantly, PAPER MARIO 3DS.

― FART MAGNET STUDIOS IS SCREWING US AGAIN!!!1!1!!!1!! (jamescobo), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:09 (fifteen years ago)

you mean to be on the 3ds thread i think

― thank you based jättegod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:11 (fifteen years ago)

In answer to question a while back, I have been playing 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors a lot. It's quite addictive. Some of the prose is a bit overwrought but the dialogue/story is otherwise enjoyable the point&click/logic puzzles are for the most part very good and the branching story and replaying for different endings (fastforwarding through the bits you already did) is well handled.
In many ways it's like Ace Attorney in character designs and tone although (slightly) less zany and with (slight) added horror elements.

Am also enjoying Ghost Trick so far! These are the first two games to get me playing the DS for any length of time for about 6 months.

― if, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:39 (fifteen years ago)

Superpitching, I've finally upgraded from my original japanese FAT ds to a dsi, so needed to get a new R4 too. Ordered from here this week - http://www.r4flash.co.uk/ - hasn't arrived yet but they seem ok. I'll report back when I actually get it.

(Also - suspect they're not really in the UK, all these places are probably hong kong really, but hey).

― JimD, Thursday, 20 January 2011 11:08 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, probably not UK; didn't The Law decide these things are illegal in the uk? I know MrM0dCh1ps stopped selling them when his site reopened a while after he was forced to shut it down.

― CraigG, Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:19 (fifteen years ago)

The site I got mine from is now closed (play4games.co.uk iirc) - they were good as well, sent the cards & chips out with half a dozen games pre-loaded for demonstration purposes.

― onimo, Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:31 (fifteen years ago)

Yes, the sellers I used too were gone when I looked it up. Thanks Jim! I'll try them when I'm back home.

― superpitching, Thursday, 20 January 2011 15:52 (fifteen years ago)

ive ordered a couple things from realhotstuff.com including a cylods flashkart and even though their name suggests otherwise, they were fast and professional

― "crut" copy (diamonddave85), Thursday, 20 January 2011 17:11 (fifteen years ago)

L@@Ks like they ship to uk and accept paypal too

― "crut" copy (diamonddave85), Thursday, 20 January 2011 17:13 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

sweet layout (from the tiny cartridge ppl)
http://dsdates.com/

― Nhex, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 22:37 (fifteen years ago)

Oh wow, you know that awful looking Michael Jackson game? Tried it just for the lolz and it turns out it's actually a re-skinned Elite Beat Agents and is thus GREAT.

― JimD, Saturday, 12 February 2011 23:12 (fifteen years ago)

speaking of which i bought EBA the other day for £3! DS games are so cheap now.

― zappi, Saturday, 12 February 2011 23:22 (fifteen years ago)

I wish! Having not resorted to cards, I've been looking for reasonably priced copies of Infinite Space & Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor...meaning, reasonably priced now that they're not new.

― Euler, Saturday, 12 February 2011 23:57 (fifteen years ago)

I mean, whatever Nintendo wants to say about how they need to keep game prices up compared with the App Store, it's a tough road, when I can get hours & hours of fun out of 99 cent games like Trainyard. I mean I love the living shit out of Pic PIc but still.

― Euler, Saturday, 12 February 2011 23:58 (fifteen years ago)

250+ hrs into dragon quest ix and i'm still grinding

― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Sunday, 13 February 2011 05:03 (fifteen years ago)

finally ordered a new r4!

― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 18:00 (fifteen years ago)

has anyone played that 999 game? always been kinda interested by that Chunsoft visual novel thing, and internet nerdz have been hyping this one.
― zappi, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 12:35 (1 month ago)

It's, uh, errr.. eehmm... eh.

Maybe something was lost in translation, but the 'story' parts of the game aren't very well-written. If you were reading this as an actual novel, without the game aspect (of which there is very little to begin with), it would read like a poorly-written choose your own adventure sort of thing. I guess if you're more forgiving than I am or don't read actual novels this won't matter. The dialogue is passable in parts (it starts out pretty badly, though). The whole thing doesn't actually need the vast majority of the 'novel' bit, it could just be carried through dialogue alone, and it would make this far easier to sit through. The puzzles, when you actually get to do them, are fine, and most of them make sense, unlike some of the stupider 'Crimson Room' style ones (I seem to recall a puzzle in one of those online flash games where you had to move a drawer or something in and out a few times to make a key drop -- like, who would actually think to do that?!)

I think Hotel Dusk was better as far as the 'visual novel' stuff goes. 999 is really difficult to stick with, esp when you factor in the likelihood of having to play it multiple times to get a not-shit ending.

So yeah, after a first playthrough of this I can't say I agree with much of the hype...

― salsa shark, Sunday, 20 February 2011 12:55 (fifteen years ago)

awww, that was what i was fearing - when people on gaf etc start going on about something being well written i wonder if they've actually read a book in their lives :/

― zappi, Sunday, 20 February 2011 14:49 (fifteen years ago)

Not going to defend the non-dialogue writing which is quite offputting in parts, but you can skip through massive chunks of it after the first go, so repeat playthroughs aren't nearly as annoying as you'd imagine. I really enjoyed it and don't think it's so much a question of having lower standards for writing in games as the music, art and (even limited) interactivity doing enough of the work in the experience that it's actually a bit less important. I never got anywhere with Hotel Dusk though!

Think that 'interactive comic' would probably be a better name and aspiration for this kind of game than visual novel.

― if, Sunday, 20 February 2011 15:25 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, I played through a second time and skipped over everything I could, but I'm not doing it again :(
Parts of the storyline seem interesting enough, I just figure at this point I'd rather spoil the whole thing for myself by reading about it or watching youtube vids than trying to keep playing the game. Of the two strands I played, one was pretty liberal with offering speculation/hints about the 'Nonary' game, while the other was completely void of any info — it just plodded along to another frustrating dead end (lol).

I guess on the plus side I can re-sell it and get most of my ££ back.

― salsa shark, Sunday, 20 February 2011 18:58 (fifteen years ago)

Sigh! After attempting several fixes, I think my magic cart is just a bust :( Ordered another one... back to the waiting game and x-ing fingers etc.

There are good deals at HMV's closing sales right now for the DS (which is a shock surprise to everyone I imagine), but Elite Beat Agents for £3 (as I think mentioned upthread) is just barking! Will be heading back for some Scribblenauts and maybe a copy of pokemon platinum, if I manage to get there before the weekend... (CELEBI EVENT YEAH)!

― superpitching, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 13:02 (fifteen years ago)

Oh yeah! I forgot about that Celebi thing. It's only at Hamley's this weekend, isn't it? Which HMVs are having sales, is there a list somewhere? I have no idea which ones are set to close and which aren't.
Don't forget to dl your Suicune mystery gift if you can..!

― salsa shark, Thursday, 24 February 2011 12:50 (fifteen years ago)

It's at Oxford St Game this w/e, it was at Hamleys last week (unless I've fvcked this up massively)! Far more pant-wettingly exciting is that Masuda and Sugimori will be at the Black/White launch! I am REALLY finding this hard to cope with! :)

The HMV at Bond St has loads of (not necessarily *good* - if they're closing out though it's worth keeping an eye out) stuff on mega sale, didn't spot much last time I was in the Ox St one but that was a while ago.

― superpitching, Thursday, 24 February 2011 15:39 (fifteen years ago)

i don't really understand 80% of the words in either of the last two posts

― Mordy, Thursday, 24 February 2011 16:41 (fifteen years ago)

"Oh yeah! I forgot about the Pokemon event this weekend in which I can receive the Pokemon Celebi. It's only at Hamley's, the large toy retailer in London, throughout this weekend, isn't it? .... Don't forget to use the 'mystery gift' option in Pokemon Pearl/Diamond/etc to receive the rare Pokemon Suicune!"

"It's at the video game retailer GAME on Oxford Street this weekend. It was at Hamley's last week. Far more pant-wettingly exciting is that two of Pokemon's developers will be at the launch of the new Pokemon games!"

I don't think I'm fangirl enough to do the B/W launch thing. But I just checked and it looks like this weekend is def the Hamley's one for Celebi:

London Hamleys
188-196 Regent Street, , London, , W1B 5BT 26/02/2011 - 27/02/2011

― salsa shark, Friday, 25 February 2011 11:55 (fifteen years ago)

In non-Pokemon news, I have started playing Ghost Trick. So far, I love the retro-ish character designs and the way they move/interact with objects. And the doggie character/scene was so well-observed! Loved him.

The minimal colours in the junkyard remind me a lot of the 90s Dick Tracy film, but it looks like other parts of the game are brighter and more varied in colour.

― salsa shark, Friday, 25 February 2011 12:00 (fifteen years ago)

Yes that lil Pom was cracking me up!

― wizards of wonder are the keepers of knowledge (Abbbottt), Friday, 25 February 2011 14:33 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

RFI: radiant historia

also anyone (czn?) wanna do a nintendo ds rpgs POX ca 2k11 for me? wonder if theres anything ive been sleeping on...

― «( «_«)» zzzz «(«_« )» (Lamp), Sunday, 13 March 2011 02:27 (fifteen years ago)

heard good things about that one

― Nhex, Sunday, 13 March 2011 03:15 (fifteen years ago)

I'm waiting on getting that one (on import from US) at the moment. Also cursing that I missed the few days window in which Inazuma Eleven was available though some sites at its planned UK release date before they decided to put it off to some undetermined later date.

― if, Sunday, 13 March 2011 11:18 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50LUXgjnx9o

― cozen, Sunday, 13 March 2011 11:50 (fifteen years ago)

i've been playing 4 Heroes Of Light and been kind of enjoying it. it's very much a simplified oldschool RPG, like a cross between FF4 and Mystic Quest. gets quite difficult too cos you have a very limited inventory, can see this being maddening for a lot of people though. art style is really nice.

― zappi, Sunday, 13 March 2011 13:33 (fifteen years ago)

this should likely be in the psp thread, but i'm back on the original final fantasy tactics for the handheld
which is kinda why i haven't done c+p really

― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

I am excited for Okamiden!

― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:06 (fifteen years ago)

Re some of my posts above: fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinally!!

So, currently playing:
Pokémon White - I got my Victini! Can I show off here that I got my cover signed by the designers? It was pretty awesome!
Ghost Trick - er I got stuck and have stalled on this a bit. Desperate for POMERANIAN AND FRIENDS on 3ds innit.
Okamiden - just got this on Friday and by the hokey, it is the cutest and best thing eeeeeever. Just beat the first boss, and there are puppy hugs!! *wail*
Taiko no Tatsujin 3 - no major changes in gameplay to report. No Arashi (boo!), but it has Ponyo music and Totoro music. And AKB48.

Also want to get 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (nine words too many etc etc). But it is proving hard to locate, and I have lots to get on with.

Finally - good job I have pre-ordered a 3DS as the hinge on my DS Lite has become loose and the top screen flops about a bit. Chiz! Tis alright for the timebeing though, thank goodness.

― superpitching, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

I think I have pokémon burnout. Esp after the silver/gold remakes which were just exhausting. Trying p hard to get stoked on playing Black & kinda failing. I started on the first gym last night (~lol~ that its leader just has 'opposite of your gym' pokémon – is it just me or is the first gym always the easiest anyway, even with rival u fucked type matching?). I like that it is a lady professor with muscly calves! I also like that there was no stupid pretext to getting your starter pokémon. I just don't know if I can handle 100+ hours of more of the same.

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:29 (fifteen years ago)

'opposite of your gym' pokémon = opposite type of your starter pokémon
also even more lol that someone just hands you a good pokémon type to beat the gym leader's

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:30 (fifteen years ago)

Yes, that was really random. But I like the elemental monkeys! I am still lacking the grass one though, will go back and catch one later when I can be bothered.

The second gym is actually difficult! The first gym is pretty much your equivalent of going to the soft play area and your mum letting you sit on the little rocking horsey for the first time.

I thought I might actually have a bit of burnout too, but it's actually proved the opposite! I heart all the pokémons and the Hikers are even more jolly than they usually are! And I love the different feelings of all the towns... and the heartbreaker... Charles! He is so great and I'm sure directly out of a French movie from the 60s.

The musicals are also hilarious fun, if you like dressing up pokémon in hula skirts/top hats/canes etc, which it appears is something that I do like - who knew?

― superpitching, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:45 (fifteen years ago)

I'm gonna give Black a try when my new R4 thingie shows up.

― Mordy, Monday, 21 March 2011 16:47 (fifteen years ago)

My mind was so blown when it opened with a cutscene! That is almost unheard of in pokémon games.

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:48 (fifteen years ago)

i was sad 2 hear that team rockert doesnt show up in black & white - theyre the best part of pokemon

― nu rave electro banger coked out art school college party (Lamp), Monday, 21 March 2011 16:48 (fifteen years ago)

The new pokemons aren't working with R4s yet btw. Waiting for firmware upgrades. (This is why I'm not playing it yet).

― JimD, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 00:20 (fifteen years ago)

Oh wait, I'm wrong, the firmware's out now. So I guess I'll make a start tomorrow.

― JimD, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 00:25 (fifteen years ago)

The Edge card releases a firmware update basically as soon as a new pokemans comes out.

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 02:04 (fifteen years ago)

I don't have an R4 thingie at all, I feel alone in the world (of ILG) Am I truly missing out?

― salsa shark, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 10:01 (fifteen years ago)

idk it sometimes makes me feel like a sneaky creep
other times it is awesome

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 13:15 (fifteen years ago)

I've played a lot more games not available in my territory - it's really good for stuff like music games that only got a release in the JPN etc. And there's some excellent homebrew stuff out there, and emulators - my spectrum emulator and associated spectrum games take up no space on the memory card at all but give super large amounts of entertainment (esp Dizzy Egg).

― superpitching, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:34 (fifteen years ago)

It's totally worth it, if only for region blocked stuff

― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 16:13 (fifteen years ago)

??? don't think DS games are region locked?

― zappi, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 16:17 (fifteen years ago)

aren't japanese DS games region free? I have a few imports that play just fine.

hah, xpost

― original bgm, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 16:18 (fifteen years ago)

er, i guess i mean "skirting the ridiculous fees associated with importing games"

― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 16:21 (fifteen years ago)

which isn't ethically justifiable but you know, arrrrr matey

― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 16:21 (fifteen years ago)

yarrrrrrrrrrr!

― zappi, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 16:49 (fifteen years ago)

As far as I know all DS games/consoles are region-free.

R4 peeps, does the 'ethical justifiability' come into play much for you? Seems like there's a bit of bad feeling around pirating games, but in some ways it's not much different than buying a game secondhand, is it?

On a kind of related note, I've always found it weird that places like HMV, Game, EB Games, etc can sell secondhand games alongside new ones, but mainstream music/DVD retailers have never done the same with CDs/DVDs. I know a lot of people in the video game industry are really strongly against secondhand game sales but is there any particular reason why this practice is common with games but not with other forms of media? Anyway, off-topic. I'm just in a bit of a gaming drought while I wait for my copies of Pokemon and Okamiden to arrive from the colonies.

― salsa shark, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 21:32 (fifteen years ago)

Ok, I got my r4 today. What ten games since I stopped playing (like late 2009 I guess) should I play?

― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:00 (fifteen years ago)

PICROSS 3D if you have not already

― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

and pic pic

― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

DQ9 is the big one, but IMO the best games released in that timeframe are Cave Story and Shantae on DSiWare

― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:06 (fifteen years ago)

xpost +1 to Pic Pic of course, also insert my usual spiel about Slitherlink and Nurikabe here

― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:06 (fifteen years ago)

oh and then that Ivy the Kiwi game was OK I guess; also Okamiden and new Pokemans just came out too

― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

you can't really get roms for DSIware though, right? I mean tell me how to play cave story on an r4 if you can cuz i'd really like to!

― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

yes Pic Pic & Picross & Picross 3D justify late capitalism by themselves imo

― Euler, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

xp idk if it's possible; somehow I managed to make it through the DS' entire lifecycle without ever picking up a card. you should be able to buy it off the DSiWare store once you get yr 3DS though.

― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 23:27 (fifteen years ago)

i think internet slang for the 3DS should be DDD

i cant ethically justify r4 i just want to play games w/o paying for them. i dont have an r4 atm fwiw

i think with games a) most ppl 'grew up' renting games & are comfortable w/ only playing them in bursts b) theres still some feeling that once youve beaten a game youre 'finished' w/ it c) games cost a lot more than cds or dvds d) games culture obsesses over the 'new'

― r u levelled up? (Lamp), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 23:33 (fifteen years ago)

Mordy since you loved Phx Wright, you have to try Ghost Trick!
I do buy games I like & want to support (also Pokemon gold bcz you can't get a pokewalker on mediafire, genius move on nintendo's part imo)

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 23:35 (fifteen years ago)

Also I got my Edge card as a wedding gift! Do you have to have ethical scruples if the best man buys it for you?

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 23:36 (fifteen years ago)

abbs, i can't find the pokemon black rom on the webz. :(

― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

i buy more games than i steal tbh

― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

i buy all my 360 games (tons), iphone + macbook games (a bunch), and even some of my DS games. so i'm really not gonna make myself feel guilty re this

― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 00:55 (fifteen years ago)

ah, wasn't trying to make anyone feel guilty, sorry!

DQ9 is the big one
yeesss!!

you have to try Ghost Trick!
yeesss!!

― salsa shark, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 11:47 (fifteen years ago)

uhm that shouldve been quotes not bold, brain not functioning today sry

― salsa shark, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 11:47 (fifteen years ago)

I think I'm going to pick up Monster's Tale; it's the new one from the Henry Hatsworth folks and apparently combines platforming with breeding Pokemans-like critters somehow

― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:54 (fifteen years ago)

thinking baout it DS is the only platform I /R4/ games for (besides on emulatorz obv which is always a sub-optimal experience anyway)... god knows I spend enough on PC, 360, PS3 (though not so much these past 6 months). not that that ethically justifies it any obv

― nultimate fighting champ (cozen), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 20:23 (fifteen years ago)

did heroes of might and magic ever come out on XBLA yet? and how was the HD port of BG&E? I'm totally out the loop : / when does LA noire drop? how about that crysis 2 huh. still not peeped a 3DS either but gonna wait for the revision before dropping ¥¥¥ on that

― nultimate fighting champ (cozen), Wednesday, 23 March 2011 20:25 (fifteen years ago)

FYI for anyone else who slept on Radiant Historia until it went out of print: Atlus is doing another run in mid-April, albeit w/o the soundtrack CD. everything I've heard about this game has been glowing (starting with NO RANDOM ENCOUNTERS) so I went ahead and put in an order with Amazon.

― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Friday, 25 March 2011 16:55 (fifteen years ago)

huh. didn't this come out like a month ago? did atlus print a very small amount or was it a big hit or something?

no random encounters!

― original bgm, Friday, 25 March 2011 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, the initial print run was something like 30k; it's sold out everywhere and ebaying for like $50

― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Friday, 25 March 2011 17:29 (fifteen years ago)

im glad i bought a copy a few weeks ago but i still havent had much of a chance to play it

also glad atlus has another title doing well (at least by their standards)

― i always think about you (Lamp), Friday, 25 March 2011 18:01 (fifteen years ago)

ah, thanx. xpost.

will definitely be playing it in the near future. I mean, I really should because it sounds good and I actually own it (picked it up bc of the staff's pedigree - persona, megami tensei, etrian odyssey, etc.). just haven't really been playing videogames lately.

― original bgm, Friday, 25 March 2011 18:09 (fifteen years ago)

I *love* Atlus RPGS but they're also way too difficult for me.

― Looking Man (Abbbottt), Friday, 25 March 2011 18:27 (fifteen years ago)

amazon's still selling it new for $35 (.com and .ca)

― three megabytes of hot RAM (abanana), Friday, 25 March 2011 23:56 (fifteen years ago)

those ship in 2-4 weeks, i.e. they'll be part of the 2nd print run in April

― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Saturday, 26 March 2011 23:22 (fifteen years ago)

This is a complete long shot, but I'm looking around to try and get my DS Lite hinge fixed - has anyone had one fixed before or done it themselves (I think I'm a bit too scared to try and recase it msyelf).

I'm also wondering if putting it in some sort of other case (like this one? http://uk.gear.ign.com/articles/790/790110p1.html) might help the top screen from just flopping back. I dunno...

― superpitching, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 11:55 (fifteen years ago)

I replaced the case on mine (DS Phat). It wasn't that terrifying. My only complaint is that the case I bought was a not-great-fitting knock off, so it needed filed in a couple of places, and is a slightly different silver from the rest of it. But really, with the right screwdrivers it's a pretty quick and easy job. It does look like that NERF case has a hinge itself, so it might do the job...

― CraigG, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:09 (fifteen years ago)

the Thor tie-in game sounds pretty great; also the Captain America DS game (and the Green Lantern 3DS tie-in game, for that matter) are being developed by Griptonite Games, the folks behind an awesome Spider-Man DS game and a REALLY great (like would have been in my top 3 for 2008 if we repolled rn) Spyro the Dragon on the GBA. games like these are why the end of a console's lifetime are so much fun.

in other news my copy of Radiant Historia should be showing up soon! can't believe the 2nd printing sold out on Amazon already; folx be talkin about this one.

― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Friday, 8 April 2011 07:04 (fifteen years ago)

Thanks Craig! I'll see if I can spot any of these nerfy doodads in a shop first. I am notoriously un-DIY-ish (it makes me feel like a bad feminist when I go "oh no! screwdrivers! fear!" but oh well, up the patriarchy I spose) but I might see if my DIY-fan friend can assist if it looks like a new case is the only way to go.

― superpitching, Friday, 8 April 2011 10:18 (fifteen years ago)

Radiant Historia is $27.99 today:

http://www.amazon.com/Radiant-Historia-Nintendo-DS/dp/B004CVWETI/ref=br_lf_m_1000208101_1_2_img?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=videogames&pf_rd_p=1293441982&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1000208101&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0C8KBG802557XCRW2X40

and a bunch of other Atlus stuff is on sale too (Persona 4 for $20! Demon's Souls for $15! P3Portable for $28! etc.)

― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Monday, 18 April 2011 17:57 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I have finally started playing Okamiden (I've been hugely anticipating this since the first mumblings of it). So far it's definitely lived up to expectations, I'm kind of loving the shit out of it.

The only thing that is sort of a downer is that a game like this deserves a big screen and after playing the Wii version the DS one sometimes feels really restricted. It's too pretty to be confined to a DS screen. Guess it's kind of a tradeoff between huge stunning visuals or near-faultless drawing mechanism.

― salsa shark, Sunday, 15 May 2011 13:36 (fourteen years ago)

i heard it had really bad framerate issues?
finished off DQIV this weekend, was a fun oldschool romp with a really difficult final boss. now to track down a copy of DQV....

― zappi, Sunday, 15 May 2011 14:03 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah when there's too much on screen it can get laggy. I've had this happen more during open world stuff rather than during boss/enemy fights (so far, anyway). At this point it's not a dealbreaker for me but if it seeps noticeably into boss fights it might become an issue. Supposedly the framerate thing is way less of a problem on 3DS.

DQV is great with another really difficult final boss. I got that far but didn't have the stamina/desire to properly finish the game. Too hard for me :(

― salsa shark, Monday, 16 May 2011 13:24 (fourteen years ago)

DQV was fabulous. I hadn't played a DQ since Dragon Warrior on the NES; I've been trying to find my way back into non-open-world RPGs cos I like the stories. I bought DQIV & DQIX but life is complicated & I haven't gotten to them yet.

― Euler, Monday, 16 May 2011 14:00 (fourteen years ago)

dqv has the best story of the zenithia trilogy & probably all of them except viii imo.

― Lamp, Monday, 16 May 2011 14:54 (fourteen years ago)

it was a very nice story; I'm a sucker for stories where you follow characters through life. I played through Tales of Vesperia recently on the 360 & wished that they'd followed through on the lives of the characters further: don't stop with adolescence!

though it's true that if I wanted to read books like this I'd probably be stuck in the young adult section...at least this way I have the excuse of enjoying the hack and slash in addition to worrying about who my hero is going to marry.

― Euler, Monday, 16 May 2011 15:23 (fourteen years ago)

because I love picking through the licensed crap that comes out towards the end of a console's lifecycle I rented Batman: The Brave and the Bold (by WayForward, same folks who did Shantae and Contra 4) from GameFly and it's pretty good! really really short though; you could definitely beat it in an afternoon. as mentioned upthread I hear the DS iteration of the licensed Thor games (also by WayForward) is the same kind of fun so I'll check that one out too.

― you penis-curling she-devils (jamescobo), Monday, 16 May 2011 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

WayForward did the Wii version of A Boy and His Blob too I think, which was super, from what I played of it before giving up at the ridiculously hard boss in world 3 (no, I do not get on well with difficult bosses). I forgot about that Batman game! I did mean to buy it ages ago and then it slipped off my radar.

― salsa shark, Monday, 16 May 2011 19:10 (fourteen years ago)

I probably wouldn't spend more than like $10 on it, but it's pretty fun to burn through. you do get to play as a bunch of other random superheroes as support characters which helps keep the gameplay fresh (oddly enough Aquaman is not only not completely useless but is actually the most powerful guy in the game).

― you penis-curling she-devils (jamescobo), Monday, 16 May 2011 21:01 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

just noticed that Professor Layton and the Last Specter is getting a western release this year!
no word if the bonus RPG is included though.

― zappi, Friday, 10 June 2011 08:20 (fourteen years ago)

i will riot if it is not

― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:12 (fourteen years ago)

if it's in there i will actually buy it

― Nhex, Friday, 10 June 2011 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

i just got the final ending of 999. the plot is kind of a combination of the movie Cube and fleep only crazier. the final ending is one of those "just when you thought you had it figured out..." rugpulls that actually works quite well.

― adam aquaman (abanana), Monday, 13 June 2011 06:56 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

love love love the art style in ghost trick. pixel art and unshaded polygons (inspired by another world?) are too great things that go together quite well. the game's pretty good too.
http://i53.tinypic.com/np06ll.gif

― little mushroom person (abanana), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 00:55 (fourteen years ago)

nine months pass...

sooo apparently the jrpg nerd at GAME had traded in all of his stuff; today i bought etrian odyssey, dragon quest iv, and infinite space. probably i will also go back and get disgaea. there is also a copy of rhapsody but that might be a bridge too far.

― thomp, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:29 (fourteen years ago)

rhapsody is p terrible although i did make like $25 by reselling my ps copy on ebay before the ds remake came out

― Lamp, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:46 (fourteen years ago)

in part i bought all of these because the GAME pricing policies have them at like a third of second hand value anywhere else

― thomp, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:51 (fourteen years ago)

i also caved and ordered a copy of strange journey new from play-asia, because it's apparently more economical to import an american game via hong kong than to buy a european copy. i feel like i've crossed some important nerd threshold tho

― thomp, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:52 (fourteen years ago)

ha, i just got Strange Journey in the post today from US. also have Retro Game Challenge on the way, <3 you ebay

― zappi, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:22 (fourteen years ago)

one of the FAQs for etrian odyssey basically says the best way to play the game is to follow this one guy's spoiler about the most efficient team build & then use a set of maps to go through it quickly

― thomp, Thursday, 26 April 2012 08:27 (fourteen years ago)

team building strategy and sp allocation is one of the best things to fuck around w/in etrian odyssey. dont read that dudes guide imo

― Lamp, Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:46 (fourteen years ago)

the maps and quest faqs are probably p helpful tho

― Lamp, Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:46 (fourteen years ago)

i am progressing through it very slowly. i like how the quests give you reasons to go around and grind that have a little more to them than just watching a bar go up, though admittedly it's just based on watching a series of bars go up, some of which are in your head

― thomp, Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:18 (fourteen years ago)

deep thoughts

― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:24 (fourteen years ago)

xpost
it does speed up after the first few tortuous hours. just started 3rd strata, have a big axe.

― zappi, Thursday, 26 April 2012 18:27 (fourteen years ago)

the fourth floor with all the wolves chasing you was pretty neat. i am a little short of anything interesting to do other than grind for fenrir rn tho

i don't know when i last seriously played a dungeon crawl of this sort. shining in the darkness, i think.

― thomp, Saturday, 28 April 2012 10:46 (fourteen years ago)

It's super important to do all those quests.

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Saturday, 28 April 2012 13:53 (fourteen years ago)

... it is? i've been ignoring them for the most part.

― zappi, Saturday, 28 April 2012 14:49 (fourteen years ago)

I didn't do them and later on I was BONED. BONED I say.

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Saturday, 28 April 2012 15:16 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

infinite space is pretty dumb

― thomp, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:46 (thirteen years ago)

http://darkzero.co.uk/asset/2010/04/screenshot_nds_infinite_space020.jpg

the most important bit of this screenshot is the ten or so pixels down from the top

this is the relative position of 'your fleet' and 'the enemy fleet', which exist as points in a line. e.g. space combat is quite literally one-dimensional

ships in the 'rear' of the fleet are impossible to hit. you don't get closer to ships in the 'rear' of the fleet by closing in on the fleet. they are somehow occluded by the ships in the 'front' of the fleet.

each time you fire there is a twenty second cutscene

apparently this takes about eighty hours to play

― thomp, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:55 (thirteen years ago)

yeh the battle system is awful, i gave up after a few hours. so much potential too.

― zappi, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:40 (thirteen years ago)

if it helps i looked at the gamefaqs boards and found out the plot involves yr teenage anime dude learning he actually has godlike powers and has to save the universe

there are like 80 pages of threads, is that normal

― thomp, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 16:03 (thirteen years ago)

what is normal?

― Lamp, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 16:15 (thirteen years ago)

did you finish etrian odyssey btw? i feel like i know a lot of things about that game that are really jumbled and useless and specific like i have spent a lot of time thinking very carefully about allocating skill points in the most efficient manner possible but cannot remember what if any story that game had

― Lamp, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 16:17 (thirteen years ago)

it turns out fantasyland is actually ... postapocalyptic japan

i decided to put it down while i finished my thesis. made some notes on what different parties i wanted to level up when i went back to it, which is probably going to be soon. going to attempt a dragon quest next. lol summer

― thomp, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 16:21 (thirteen years ago)

man every so often i get a game like etrian odyssey or demon's souls and i tell myself i'm the kind of dude that plays and enjoys that kind of stuff and i get real gung ho about the whole idea of brutal grinding and instakills and then i just go back to playing whatever mindless shooter is shiny that week. this is the shit video gaming teaches you about yourself or at least me about myself.

― adam, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 19:48 (thirteen years ago)

epic mickey 3ds screenshots: whoa. snes nostalgia. think i'll be getting a 3DS now.

― abanana, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 01:35 (thirteen years ago)

etrian odyssey isn't that hardcore tbh. maybe that crpg blog is making me think that. but it's no wizardry iv, sort of thing.

finished it. started dragon quest iv. accidentally ended the prologue by talking to my father and considering whether to restart because i wasn't done ransacking every pot and barrel in town yet. ahhhhhh rpgs

― thomp, Friday, 22 June 2012 12:02 (thirteen years ago)

personmandudguy
Posted 5/4/2012 10:56:52 PM

Can anyone confirm that I don't have a PAL copy of the game.

Both the box and game cart have an ESRB sticker, but the characters were adding unnecessary Us to words. I thought that was bad enough, but then I got to chapter 1 and everyone started speaking Scots. I have no idea what's going on.

nfrazee28
Posted 5/5/2012 5:08:16 AM

You do not have a PAL copy of the game. The written English is all with the British spelling variations, and they've added several different accents to the different areas in the chapters. Scot in ch 1, Russian in ch 2, and French in ch 4. The choices are either to hate all that and have it be a dealbreaker and put the game down or ignore it and play through it.

personmandudguy
Posted 5/5/2012 8:28:07 AM

Thanks for the warning.

I opened the NES version and apparently there's a normal translation, so I guess I'll go with that. I mean I already bought this but I can't deal with it. I would rather play it in Japanese, which I cannot read at all, than try and decipher this stuff. It is seriously aggravating. No joke.

― thomp, Sunday, 24 June 2012 14:31 (thirteen years ago)

dqiv:
— the whole 'chapters' gimmick is so silly. they come off more like parodies of jrpg quests in all their tedium than anything else. the first one you get told to go to town #2 and seriously the first npc you talk to says 'well done in coming to town #2! maybe there's something you missed in town #1!' only he says it in scots (see above.)
— the localization on this game is amazing. (though i should probably finding amusement in fake russian word order grow out of? nyet?)
— when the guy in chapter four turns evil he starts being french. yes
— in that chapter your quest is 'let us avenge our father's death!', only you're informed about that with one line of narration and also you can learn about it by talking to town npcs. hrm.
— like two-thirds of my amusement at this game comes from little bonus things that are based on the assumption that the player* is bored with jrpg convention at the same time as they're indulging in it, i guess. i put a group of enemies to sleep and the next turn one of them started 'thrashing around violently' which dealt damage. heh.
— chapter two your quest is 'i want to go and defeat some things and become stronger!'
— chapter three your quest is 'i want to go and defeat some things and amass gp!' -- has anyone tried to sequence-break this bit? can you avoid opening your shop? there's one town where there's an armor shortage and they offer to buy anything for like RND(0.8-2.0)x its value so you could just trade your way through there and avoid going on the dungeon quest bit -- thing is when that occurred to me my next thought was 'that sounds like a thing someone on the internet has already done'

* how annoying is the wanky gamescrit thing of referring to the player as 'the player'? i can't decide

― thomp, Sunday, 24 June 2012 14:42 (thirteen years ago)

the chapters thing was like totally mindblowing back in '92 dawg

― Nhex, Sunday, 24 June 2012 15:37 (thirteen years ago)

i just found a town where everyone's a northerner! and then one where everyone's from cornwall!

― thomp, Sunday, 24 June 2012 23:15 (thirteen years ago)

i finished IV. i feel quite gratified that i did it in 20 hours and at several levels less than the faqs seem to suggest, sukk it u nerds i am the best at videogames

slightly frustrating that the last boss is (i think? didn't check all of them tbf) the only one in the game that you can swap your team in and out for, which was like hey tactical complexity check you out, and so on. interesting to think how much less finessed the combat here feels than in etrian odyssey, even though at any combat round you have pretty much just as many options. like one thing that made a big difference was that in etrian i was v aware of the fact that combat abilities had associated speeds, i think they did here but i never actually had to think about it? huh. i mean obv comparing a twenty year old rpg with nerfed difficulty to a five year old rpg that's deliberately difficult doesn't really count

the postgame save doesn't seem to have worked, can't decide whether to bother with it all or move on to strange journey. this is my ds rpg blog now. hullo.

― thomp, Friday, 29 June 2012 12:05 (thirteen years ago)

hullo. i started Strange Journey but stalled out at about 12 hours. need some encouragement from someone who has finished it that things pick up, cos its really repetitive with very few rewards.

― zappi, Friday, 29 June 2012 12:11 (thirteen years ago)

i think the repetitiveness is its own reward. i liked 'strange journey' a lot but its not really an exciting game even for a jrpg but i found it tense and atmospheric?

― Lamp, Friday, 29 June 2012 16:47 (thirteen years ago)

fkn mudo casters

― thomp, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 10:05 (thirteen years ago)

if you play strange journey to the end, don't go for the neutral ending, its boss is way too hard. but if you aren't enjoying it 12 hours in, I doubt you will enjoy the rest.

― abanana, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 17:48 (thirteen years ago)

This is the truth.

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 21:30 (thirteen years ago)

pfff, i just cracked open GOD HAND so i don't know what you suckas are talkin about

― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 23:54 (thirteen years ago)

anyone who doesn't enjoy God Hand must be defenestrated

― With enduring faith, W. Cunt. (jamescobo), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 01:31 (thirteen years ago)

oh i love the hell out of it so far, but yeah, it seems like it's gonna be kinda tough

― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 02:22 (thirteen years ago)

anyone who doesn't enjoy God Hand must be defenestrated

yeah, pretty much

― original bgm, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 04:45 (thirteen years ago)

I'm not the one giving my kids shots at the public schools thinking its the LAW. I'm not the one thinking 100 different kinds of metals they call "fluoride" is safe and healthy for your kids to drink and brush their teeth with. I'm not the one going out to public stores buying apsertame candy bars to feed my face with. I dont go to the super market every week to buy food because I'm too lazy to live like a real human and grow my own food like all humans should. I'm not the one that believes fiat currency is real money and my paper with a 100 written on has more value than physical currency.

In short, I live in the real world. You are the one that gets off debating video games. Proof? read your above post or you've would have never bothered to post here. You got highly offended i would mock a video game, but if i went and told you theirs cancers viruses in the vaccines, you would laugh and wouldn't care like some TV head that doesn't live in the real world. Big difference between you and I.

"Someone expresses emotion when posting on a gameboard about that particular game? How odd a human is able to show emotion past all the BPA/fluoride/mercury/GMO in their system. I dont think his doctor gave him enough "prescription drugs" which kill more people a year than any "illegal" drug, DOCTOR loveandhate needs those drugs he/she displays human traits which could be affiliated with being a human, STEP up the death panels! Sorry pal eugenics wont effect me like it clearly has yourself. Sorry to disappoint you that I"m not a zombie, my brain is not in a near dream-like/trance state from the flickers rates caused by the television. I still have a mind of my own not conditioned by the TV, scary huh? By the way your response is null and void, as you are blocked as of now. Go away obama supporter.

Anyways MONEY is a problem for a CASUAL gamer that doesn't spend life living in the matrix. One doesn't know about all the infamous money making techniques. NO way in hell can one afford anything in this game for a good portion of the game without overgrinding and thus becoming overpowered and making the game easy for having to grind for cash. I've made it to the 3rd world and yet to buy any Applications because of how tight the cash flow is.
---
"These fluoride heads obsess only on game related issues"

― thomp, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:06 (thirteen years ago)

kinda thinkin about maybe picking up a 3ds? maybe to play the final fantasy rhythm game? and... what else?

― adam, Friday, 6 July 2012 16:14 (thirteen years ago)

if you like Fire Emblem style games then get Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, which you can pick up really really cheap. the story is ridiculous but the gameplay is really solid, designed by Julian Gollop of X-Com fame. The Resident Evil game is good too.

― zappi, Friday, 6 July 2012 16:17 (thirteen years ago)

i kinda hate the 3ds. it's all corners and awkward and doesn't work for any playtime longer than 15 minutes

― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 July 2012 16:30 (thirteen years ago)

it'll take an iteration maybe? i don't know. the original ds is sort of hideous and so i never got around to it until i got the ds lite, which is my favourite piece of hardware nintendo have done really

― thomp, Friday, 6 July 2012 16:33 (thirteen years ago)

adam - I'd definitely wait another month (or so) on that 3DS and pick up the revised XL version - will be a much better device. Best games I think are the Nintendo ones... Mario Kart, 3D Mario platformer and the upcoming NSMB 2. Downloadable port of VVVVVV is also excellent.

― JCL, Friday, 6 July 2012 16:33 (thirteen years ago)

waiting is a good idea. maybe by then i won't want to play the final fantasy rhythm game. i would have to go to a gamestop in another state just to make sure no one i know would see me buying that game. couldn't even order it from the internet, there would be a paper trail.

yeah the og ds was awful, i still have and love my ds lite tho it doesn't get much use these days except for further screwing around w/ dq9.

― adam, Friday, 6 July 2012 16:53 (thirteen years ago)

pushmo!

― killer camel beej (cozen), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:21 (thirteen years ago)

i'll rep for the original DS - better speakers and non-smushy d-pad

― Nhex, Friday, 6 July 2012 22:43 (thirteen years ago)

just got a dsi xl bc & gave my daughter my old dsi; thought about 3ds or 3ds xl but the battery life is still gonna chupa & the dsi xl gets like 12+ hours, which matters a lot to me on a mobile device

― Euler, Friday, 6 July 2012 22:53 (thirteen years ago)

ok so the final fantasy rhythm game yall

it's pretty fun. it is straight up dripping with completely opaque systems and machinations and i have no idea why anything is happening but lots of stuff keeps happening.

― adam, Sunday, 8 July 2012 23:45 (thirteen years ago)

my nephew got 3ds with ocarina of time for his birthday and several weeks on still hadn't managed to get the sword and shield and talk to the deku tree. there is no hope for him.

― thomp, Monday, 9 July 2012 08:09 (thirteen years ago)

Aw, bless. I still don't think that little hole you have to crawl through in Kakariko is a) well enough sign posted, or b) visible enough (at least, not in the N64 version). I remember it taking me a good 15 minutes longer than it should have the 2nd time I played through Ocarina, back in the day, to figure out where the hell I was supposed to go.

― CraigG, Monday, 9 July 2012 13:11 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIi44sSQCDs

― slam dunk, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 20:52 (twelve years ago)

i gotta find that movie

― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 22:21 (twelve years ago)

miike, right?

― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 May 2013 06:03 (twelve years ago)

yup

― Nhex, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 06:41 (twelve years ago)

can anyone tell me about the game 'lionel trains: on track'

― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Friday, 24 May 2013 12:03 (twelve years ago)

1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars stuck at the station, October 2, 2007
By musicteacher (USA) - See all my reviews
= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Lionel Trains: On Track (Video Game)
I cant get into this game. I think it is missing an understandable tutorial. I hate reading directions to games- so therefore I dont play it.

― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Friday, 24 May 2013 12:06 (twelve years ago)

wow i bet that guy's a great teacher

― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Friday, 24 May 2013 12:06 (twelve years ago)

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