The official I Love Games NINTENDO DS thread!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

now I have more than one I'm puzzled

YEAH.

well I never

PLZ TELL ME YOU'RE NOT JOKING.

i just realised.

PANG! DS

make it happen.

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.

: )

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?

I'm a play-asia next time

off to nintendogs for me!!

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!

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

deep thoughts

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it does speed up after the first few tortuous hours. just started 3rd strata, have a big axe.

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.

It's super important to do all those quests.

... it is? i've been ignoring them for the most part.

I didn't do them and later on I was BONED. BONED I say.

infinite space is pretty dumb

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

yeh the battle system is awful, i gave up after a few hours. so much potential too.

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

what is normal?

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

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

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.

epic mickey 3ds screenshots: whoa. snes nostalgia. think i'll be getting a 3DS now.

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

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.

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

the chapters thing was like totally mindblowing back in '92 dawg

i just found a town where everyone's a northerner! and then one where everyone's from cornwall!

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.

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.

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?

fkn mudo casters

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.

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.

This is the truth.

pfff, i just cracked open GOD HAND so i don't know what you suckas are talkin about

anyone who doesn't enjoy God Hand must be defenestrated

oh i love the hell out of it so far, but yeah, it seems like it's gonna be kinda tough

anyone who doesn't enjoy God Hand must be defenestrated

yeah, pretty much

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.
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"These fluoride heads obsess only on game related issues"

kinda thinkin about maybe picking up a 3ds? maybe to play the final fantasy rhythm game? and... what else?

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.

i kinda hate the 3ds. it's all corners and awkward and doesn't work for any playtime longer than 15 minutes

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

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.

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.

pushmo!

i'll rep for the original DS - better speakers and non-smushy d-pad

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

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.

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIi44sSQCDs

i gotta find that movie

miike, right?

yup

can anyone tell me about the game 'lionel trains: on track'

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
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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.

wow i bet that guy's a great teacher