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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3538684 I think I may of overdid it a bit. Edit: Woops; edited in the block requirement. ThisIsACoolGuy fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Mar 16, 2013 |
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So I acknowledge the thread title, but how is the build quality of the XL? I've never had any sort of hardware breaking issues of anything Nintendo handheld related up until now, with my launch 3DS. In 2 years of average use the R shoulder button has given out, the d-pad has cracked and broken down to a rough, sharp edged painful to use mess and as of half an hour ago, the rubber covering of the circle pad has given up on life and lifted off the handheld itself. I'm looking to upgrade to an XL eventually, but I sort of hope the it lasts somewhat longer in comparison.
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Mar 16, 2013 11:00
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I've only had it a short while, but so far it seems really sturdy and durable. I'm pretty satisfied with it.
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Mar 16, 2013 15:36
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Should I get Fire Emblem or Etrian Oddysey IV? Let's say I can only get one.
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Mar 16, 2013 15:47
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Pottsdam posted:Should I get Fire Emblem or Etrian Oddysey IV? Let's say I can only get one. Do you like sRPGs or dungeon crawlers more? Both of them are fantastic games.
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Mar 16, 2013 15:49
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Wow, Mirror of Fate is not very good, based on the demo anyway. That's too bad, I was looking forward to a new Castlevania game. I guess I'll just try the 360 one instead.
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Mar 16, 2013 15:51
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Pottsdam posted:Should I get Fire Emblem or Etrian Oddysey IV? Let's say I can only get one. Both are fantastic. Dungeon crawler with little story vs SRPG where there's a story, but the support conversations are really the highlight of the writing. RBA Starblade posted:Wow, Mirror of Fate is not very good, based on the demo anyway. That's too bad, I was looking forward to a new Castlevania game. I guess I'll just try the 360 one instead. Get the ps3 copy if that's an option, the frame rate in both can be pretty bad at times, but the ps3 is the better of the 2 versions. Norns fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Mar 16, 2013 |
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Mar 16, 2013 15:53
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Norns posted:Both are fantastic. Dungeon crawler with little story vs SRPG where there's a story, but the support conversations are really the highlight of the writing.
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Mar 16, 2013 15:56
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Pottsdam posted:Should I get Fire Emblem or Etrian Oddysey IV? Let's say I can only get one. They're both so good that this is strictly a preference issue, basically. If you like SRPGs, get Fire Emblem, if you like Wizardry/JRPGs, get EO4. Better is to get both and not eat for a while.
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Mar 16, 2013 15:57
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I'm going to a nerd convention tomorrow, educate me on street pass. Do I just turn it on and let the good times roll? Do I need to have a specific cart in the slot depending on what I want?
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Mar 16, 2013 16:46
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Bean posted:I'm going to a nerd convention tomorrow, educate me on street pass. Do I just turn it on and let the good times roll? Do I need to have a specific cart in the slot depending on what I want? Nope, you'll get StreetPasses for any game you've played recently, and you don't have to have a game running to get StreetPasses.
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Mar 16, 2013 16:52
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punchdaily posted:My fiancee dragged me to a furry convention and I got 35 in less than an hour. Sounds like a keeper!! Pottsdam posted:I have nothing against dungeon crawlers, but I loved Ghost Recon and I want some more of that so Fire Emblem it is! You made a good choice. Ghost Recon wasn't bad but man you are in for a treat with Fire Emblem, it's an upgrade in every way. I don't know how experienced you are with SRPGs but FE:A is great because you can choose both the difficulty and if you want permadeath or not. So you could be playing on the hardest difficulty but not have characters die forever when you lose them, or play on Easy but still lose a dude if you manage to get them killed. It's pretty great all around. PaletteSwappedNinja posted:The European version of Luigi's Mansion 2 has a glow-in-the-dark cover, neat: Booooo! Why don't we in the US get this?
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Mar 16, 2013 16:57
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Bean posted:I'm going to a nerd convention tomorrow, educate me on street pass. Do I just turn it on and let the good times roll? Do I need to have a specific cart in the slot depending on what I want? Just make sure you don't have the system running a DS game or a piece of DSiWare when trying to use StreetPass. When it has old software like that running it won't do the necessary wireless communication in the background while the system is asleep. You can confirm which titles are using StreetPass by going into System Settings and checking StreetPass Management. The biggest one to have enabled is StreetPass Mii Plaza, of course, so if that one doesn't appear then re-open it before you go and make sure you enable it again.
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Mar 16, 2013 17:44
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Bean posted:I'm going to a nerd convention tomorrow, educate me on street pass. Do I just turn it on and let the good times roll? Do I need to have a specific cart in the slot depending on what I want? Streetpass works in Sleep Mode; just leave the system on but closed all day.
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Mar 16, 2013 17:45
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Keep in mind it can only hold a certain amount of passes at a time, so periodically use them for puzzle pieces or a few rounds of Find Mii. If you're running into tons of people you can easily clear a few puzzles and earn a few hats really quickly.
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Mar 16, 2013 18:07
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Speaking of Streetpass, has anyone who enabled that thing on Nintendo 3DS Sound app got any hits? I got my only one a week ago, and I've had it enabled for months now. (Not that a lot of Streetpassing seem to happen in here parts, but anyway.)
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Mar 16, 2013 18:53
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Rexroom posted:Speaking of Streetpass, has anyone who enabled that thing on Nintendo 3DS Sound app got any hits? I got my only one a week ago, and I've had it enabled for months now. (Not that a lot of Streetpassing seem to happen in here parts, but anyway.)
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Mar 16, 2013 19:04
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Booooo! Why don't we in the US get this? I'm kinda glad, because it's so awesome I would buy a physical copy just for a glow in the dark box rather than sticking to digital for all my purchases like I said.
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Mar 16, 2013 19:34
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Wait, can you use the 3ds as an mp3 player? How do I do that?
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Mar 16, 2013 19:37
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Pope Guilty posted:Wait, can you use the 3ds as an mp3 player? How do I do that? Put your songs on the SD card through a computer (I put them in a folder labeled "Music", but it can be anywhere) and open up the Sounds application. It'll continue playing when the 3DS is closed and you have headphones in.
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Mar 16, 2013 19:42
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Strange Quark posted:Put your songs on the SD card through a computer (I put them in a folder labeled "Music", but it can be anywhere) and open up the Sounds application. It'll continue playing when the 3DS is closed and you have headphones in. This thing just gets better and better! Shame I can't read ebooks/pdfs on it- my other handheld device is the Android equivalent of an iPod Touch and that's the one function I can't get on the 3DS. e: I got Starfox 64 3D and it rules hard. I used to be so goddamned good at the original and my skills have seriously degraded over the last decade. Also the interface for Starfox 64 3D has a clock and a battery meter at the bottom of the bottom screen, and now I'm convinced that this should be mandatory for all titles. Pope Guilty fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Mar 16, 2013 |
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Mar 16, 2013 19:43
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The battery meter doesn't seem too important to me. Kid Icarus: Uprising constantly has one at the top right of the top screen, but leaving it there all the time just seemed unnecessary. Couldn't the game just notify me when the battery is low? I'm not complaining much since it is only a few pixels at most, but in my opinion its inclusion is just a little odd. Now, a clock... gently caress that, I don't need to be reminded of how much time I'm wasting being a useless piece of poo poo who plays video games 
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Mar 16, 2013 19:56
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RBA Starblade posted:Wow, Mirror of Fate is not very good, based on the demo anyway. That's too bad, I was looking forward to a new Castlevania game. I guess I'll just try the 360 one instead. I'm actually enjoying this a lot more than I thought I would. You can write it off as me trying to justify buying a poorly rated game the week it came out without looking at any reviews, but I still feel the game has its merits. The game starts out extremely slow but once you get the combat cross upgrade to climb certain segments of the map and get to play as Alucard I thought it got a lot better. I don't know why anyone expected a full-blown SotN-esque Castlevania game. It's clearly a game from the Lords of Shadow series, and Igarashi's isn't even attached to the project. I can see why people were disappointed, but it plays like a strange hybrid between the NES Castlevania/Super Castlevania but with the exploration elements of Symphony and I'm perfectly okay with that. I also really liked Lord of Shadow so maybe I'm just a terrible Castlevania fan who doesn't know what good is supposed to be. Edit: Didn't read the discussion two pages back. Apparently I'm not the only one enjoying this game. I would say if you're curious at all, pick it up if you can find it cheap.
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Mar 16, 2013 20:01
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Strange Quark posted:Put your songs on the SD card through a computer (I put them in a folder labeled "Music", but it can be anywhere) and open up the Sounds application. It'll continue playing when the 3DS is closed and you have headphones in. The only problem is it'll just loop the same track if you have the 3DS closed.
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Mar 16, 2013 20:03
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yanthrax posted:I don't know why anyone expected a full-blown SotN-esque Castlevania game.
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Mar 16, 2013 20:05
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Caution Baby posted:I didn't expect one, I just think it's awful that Konami took one of their only consistently enjoyable series with very unique, singular gameplay features and a great aesthetic, and threw it out to have a completely amateur western developer make a 15 fps God of War clone in its stead. Does MercurySteam even count as a western developer? As far as I know, they were a developer located in Spain. People are going to complain either way. If you release another SotN-esque game someone else is just going to cry foul and say Konami isn't innovating enough and just making more of the same games. Don't get me wrong, I do love those games but I remember the consensus being that the DS titles got worse. I don't agree with this sentiment at all, seeing as I enjoyed Portrait of Ruin the most out of the three. I still don't think the demo does the game justice but anyone who already has a negative impression from the demo probably wouldn't be willing to give the full version a few more hours of their time. I do kind of agree with you regarding framerate. That, and the black load screens when switching between zones or using teleporters are really obnoxious. yanthrax fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Mar 16, 2013 |
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Mar 16, 2013 20:12
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Sire Oblivion posted:The only problem is it'll just loop the same track if you have the 3DS closed. I always have it set to shuffle and I've never had that problem. It won't shuffle right if you exit the application and continue where you left off though. It'll just play the tracks in sequential order.
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Mar 16, 2013 20:30
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Booooo! Why don't we in the US get this? Do you know for sure we don't? Also, MinionOfCthulhu posted:Booooo!
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Mar 16, 2013 21:09
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yanthrax posted:Does MercurySteam even count as a western developer? As far as I know, they were a developer located in Spain. Spain counts as the west, guy. Anything in Europe and the Americas is "western."
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Mar 17, 2013 07:06
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Crossposting from the game deals thread, but starting tomorrow (3/17), Best Buy is having a clearance sale on a bunch of games. Here are the DS and 3DS ones up for sale.
The only one I know to avoid is Rayman since the 3DS port is pretty eh compared to the other versions. The only ones I know are supposed to be okay are Adventure Time (even though it's like 4 hours long, $10 seems pretty decent for a game that length) and Kirby. Obeast fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Mar 17, 2013 |
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Mar 17, 2013 07:12
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fifty million edits and I didn't notice dude's post right above me, oops
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Mar 17, 2013 07:14
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:fifty million edits and I didn't notice dude's post right above me, oops Thanks for the direct link to Adventure Time, at least. 
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Mar 17, 2013 07:22
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Obeast posted:The only one I know to avoid is Rayman since the 3DS port is pretty eh compared to the other versions. Man really? I avoided the Steam sale on the PC version yesterday because I was incredibly underwhelmed by the 3DS demo. How hard could it have been to make all the versions equal?
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Mar 17, 2013 07:52
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With Luigi coming out soon I'm trying to decide which free game I want to get since I bought an XL recently and haven't registered it yet. Since I already own 3DLand, I have to decide if I want to get StarFox for ~nostalgia~, Art Academy for being a boss at art, or Professor Layton for something that resembles an actual game. Decisions decisions!
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Mar 17, 2013 08:01
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Starfox is really good! It got the same art treatment Ocarina of Time did and looks really nice. Also they added a bunch of features like being able to quit and then hop back into your game later between planets, and you only need 1 cart to play Battle with 4 local players.
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Mar 17, 2013 08:51
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kater posted:Man really? I avoided the Steam sale on the PC version yesterday because I was incredibly underwhelmed by the 3DS demo. How hard could it have been to make all the versions equal? The 3DS has a tiny resolution, there's absolutely no way it could display all that art at anything resembling its normal size.
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Mar 17, 2013 09:01
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The 3DS version is not representative of proper versions like the PS3/360/PC versions, it's a loving fantastic game and it's beautiful when you can actually show the art at full resolution. Plus you can actually see what you're doing. I was just playing around with the Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate demo and I was kinda surprised by how good it looks and how smooth it runs. How do things like Mirror of Fate happen when Capcom is able to get graphics like this out of the thing? I mean, look at Resident Evil Revelations for christ sake. Even though it has some frame rate drops it definitely looks way better than Mirror of Fate, by a long shot.
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Mar 17, 2013 09:57
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I imagine Mirror of Fate had a much smaller budget than those other games, but more than anything else they probably figured people wouldn't care. I mean, Lords of Shadow runs like crap too but it still managed to outsell every other Castlevania game somehow.
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Mar 17, 2013 10:35
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I wish more developers would try and get a high framerate in 3d..  Whenever I come across a 60fps 3d game it is always so much more pleasant to play and easier on the eyes.
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Mar 17, 2013 10:51
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kater posted:I avoided the Steam sale on the PC version yesterday You just did a grave mistake! That is the better version of all systems. Quidnose posted:I have to decide if I want to get StarFox for ~nostalgia~, Art Academy for being a boss at art, or Professor Layton for something that resembles an actual game. Starfox is so short I wouldn't pay full price for it, so this is a good opportunity to get on that ship (  ). On the other hand, Art Academy is the perfect title to be installed at all times in the system. I would buy Layton separately.
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