Sorry sorry my bad. idk why I said RTS... :/ I really liked the subtle 3D on it, and it was the best launch title after SFIV. I enjoyed it quite a lot
Yeah, it's not a bad game, but I kind soured on it a bit after a mission that could only be beaten by exploiting your enemies' Haunted House level AI. It does have some of the best 3D of any game I've played on the platform and it's definitely fun (more than you can say about Samurai Warriors and Lego Star Wars).
Haven't got there yet (Just got the 3DS a few days ago). I enjoy these types of games with long levels, this game is just above Tactical Warrior in terms of my top favorites though. btw, wanna trade friendcodes?
Finally got around to adding music onto it, and I have to say I'm having waaaaaay too much fun with the pitch changer.
So I bought a 3DS, on Weds. Tuesday I checked Walmart.com, and was on "preorder" for 169, in store was 249. I was going to purchase and price check when it dropped down. I wanted the ambassador deal. So Weds, I walk into Walmart and they have the 3DS on rollback for 169 :0) Got the lower price and ambassador deal! Still haven't purchased a game yet. I paid off and preordered StarFox 3D though excited for Sept. 9 (US) - (...haven't been so excited about a game release since, well, Mass Effect 2 or Resident Evil 4/5...) Now I'm thinking, should I get Street Fighter 4, Zelda or Lego Pirates? The only thing beneficial for iOS games, are the lower prices in games - but I find quite often, production values' lacking... I could see the 3DS catching on serious fire, in this economy, by reducing all 3DS game pricing to 29.99. Period. I think 39.00 is a little high. Especially as console games are 60, portables should be about 1/2 (30). I have a feeling Vita games will be 49.99 or even 59.99...
Unless you're really into fighting games, I would go for Zelda. Lego Pirates is supposed to be okay, but Lego Star Wars left such a bad taste in my mouth that it soured me to the whole franchise (even though I really enjoyed Lego Harry Potter on iOS).
Dropping another $10 would lesson 3rd party support, which is already weak to begin with. I truly believe that lack of 3rd party support is the biggest reason why the 3DS is taking a bath to begin with. You can't ask Capcom to continue to support your system while demanding a price drop on their end. Nintendo could drop first-party pricing, but eventually you reach a point of diminishing returns. Most console hardware developers sell the systems themselves at a loss in hopes that they will recoop those loses with increased software sales. Sony is selling the Vita so cheaply that they are going to lose money on each unit sold. You cannot undersell both the software and the hardware, or else you are going to go out of business.
Guys the ambassador program games are out on the e-shop (the NES ones). I'm downloading them now. Unfortunately, you have to download each one separately which is a pain. Someone has to teach nintendo about user experience.
Knew about this for awhile You have to go to settings --> your downloads--> then redownload ane titles
I was so mad I missed the window for the ambassador program. I heard about it forgot and when I remembered, it was too late to register. Now I'll actually have to BUY those old games. But on another day...I'm too busy watching Netflix on my 3DS to care. Seriously what a GREAT idea, now I have something I can watch movies from in bed. I still have my other old DS too for my GBA games. However, most of my portable gaming I do on my iPod since I usually have it with me more often than not.
If you kept you receipt (like I did, put it in the 3DS box and put the 3DS box away) you can send the reciept to Nintendo and they will enroll you into the program: http://www.nintendolife.com/forums/3ds/additional_na_methods_for_ambassadorship The address and information is in the link Btw I AM IN LOVE with Resident Evil Mercenaries 3D (over 14 hours in it so far) RE is my all-time favorite series and this is a fun, skill based addition to my small 3DS library. I've got Zelda, Pilot Wings and RE: M3D - picking up Star Fox next week, preordered Kid Icarus and Mario 3D Land. Between these titles, Batman Arkham City and ES V: Skyrim on 360 gaming is awesome this fall.
Those stupid free games aren't going to make up for the 3DS redesign that will render the original 3DS borderline obsolete like 6 months after I bought it for $250. The new lite will probably have a much improved battery, might possible scrap the 3D entirely, and come with two analog sticks instead of one. Nintendo is having trouble gaining 3rd party support and the extra analog stick would put them in allignment with the PS-Vita, thus opening up the door for cross-platform support. 3rd Party developers would find it much easier to develop a game for the 3DS and the Vita at the same time, if both systems supported a duel analog design. People are already calling it the 3DS lite, but, in reality, it's more like the PS-Vita lite to me. Why would I buy a Vita lite when I could just buy a Vita instead? Anyway, Prepare to fork over another $170, because your current 3DS is about to be sent out to pasture. But we got free GBA games out of the deal, so "yah us!" On a postive note, Driver Renegade is looking I think better then I originally thought it would. Not a masterpiece, perhaps, but certainly entertaining. I'll pick that up. Perhaps Star Fox, but I'm on the fence. After Starfox, I won't even consider anything else until Need For Speed: The Run, in November. A fair warning though. Ubisoft inexplicably released the entire storyline to the Story mode in Driver Renegade via a series of web-episodes. Luckily, I did not watch them. Don't watch them if you're planning to purchase the game. Talk about the ultimate spoiler.
Rumor is a an attacheable analog stick attachment will be sold for it. likely using streetpass or infared to read the signals. Also don't be mad because you bought it early. It was your decesion so deal with it. Also They'll most likely offer a trade in deal where you trade in the 3ds and get the newer one MUCH MUCH cheaper
That's IF they have a newer one. It's going to be at least a while before it's out since the 3DS was just released, they barely have any third party games for it, and there's supposedly a LOT of 3DS's in stock (and backstock) at retailers.
Nope, nintendo said that the GBA ones will be out later this year. They haven't announced the whole 10 GBA games. They still have 5 more to announce. But I hope to hell one of them is Minish Cap. If they have that, then I don't care what else they put out for free. I'm going to be happy with Minish Cap.
Nintendo is not going to rerelease another Nintendo 3DS. Not this soon, late next Year at the earliest. Especially not with hardware to fragment a user base (second slide pad). Even the DSi didn't revise hardware. Sure it added cameras and an shop but core functionality to play games never changed. This isn't an iOS device, obsolete after a yr. These are meant to be playable for 5, not one. Theyre launching the flame red in the US on the 9th, alongside Star Fox 3D (which has a better remake aesthetic than OoT), they as a company aren't dumb enough to launch new hardware, maybe a purple one soon though. Nintendo has a streaming 3DS conference on the 13th. I too, am excited for the Vita, and will get it down the road. In fact I was dead set on getting one, and settled for the 170 DS instead (was going to fully pay off a Vita and preorder when I changed my mind). The Vita has a lot of unknowns: memory format and is any card included, software pricing, OLED tech (apparently blue diodes die after 7000 hrs) and battery life. The 3DS is great, could it be exceptional? Sure. Nintendo has never lost in the handheld space when out spec'd. Never. They didn't lose to NeoGeo, Gamegear or PSP which were all dubbed the death knell to Nintendo's inferior portable. It's games, with their charm and expertise as the most renowned first party consumers desire. they left the door open for 3rd parties at launch apparently and they weren't delivering any games and so the system didn't sell. A catch 22. It's going to start beefing up soon enough. It was actually not owning a handheld since the GBA Sp and playing iOS games that determined my 3DS decision. iOS drove me to handhelds, with all the casual cut the rope types and physics games crap - and a lack of polished modern production and no buttons, too. If iOS had great games, where devs could make money and charge a decent price, the market might look better. I'm no longer blinded by the iOS light. I'm not a Nintendo fanboy, but I think they'll still be the lead handheld in that 2 horse race. They're just getting started.
