The Nintendo 3DS

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25596

Not preorderified as card won't go through!

:'(

Whyyyyyyyyyy?!?!

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:32

There's a Nintendo Direct 3DS reveal today at 3pm but there's a Spanish site that sells games which may have stole their thunder.

http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/major ... n-xtralife

They've got Majora's Mask listed for a November release date. This has cheered me up loads. It's no secret that I loved Ocarina of Time on the 3DS so I'm really looking forward to this.

Also.. it means that my N64 copy of Majora's mask can stay sealed.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4674

Tempted to buy one just so I can finish majora's mask as I never quite got round to it - I was pretty much in the last dungeon I believe.

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

Link to the Past sequel, anyone?

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Apr 17, 2013 15:59

I just watched the Nintendo Direct presentation.. There's certainly some brilliant games coming out for the 3DS.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14492

Animal crossing branded 3DSXL :

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/0 ... n_the_west

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25596

What are you doing to me, Nintendo?!

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Get that Animal Cross 3DS XL & New Leaf for £129.99 here.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

LewieP wrote:

Get that Animal Cross 3DS XL & New Leaf for £129.99 here.

£119.99 surely?

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

You know, despite my love of Animal Crossing, I can't say that special edition set above is doing anything for me. Also you don't get a physical copy of the game which I wouldn't like.

I've decided I am going to treat myself to a larger 3DS in time for Animal Crossing, and in fact recently traded in my regular one as I literally never use it. So this would be a good time to inform the two lovely people in this thread who I recently traded friend code thingies with, that I shall be buzzing you with a new code when I get the new 3DS. So stand by!

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Bamba wrote:

LewieP wrote:

Get that Animal Cross 3DS XL & New Leaf for £129.99 here.

£119.99 surely?

Yeah, I saw the coupon after posting here and edited it in.

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 15:53

Nintendo are doing a "buy 3 get 1 free" promotion from now until June.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013- ... other-free

Eurogamer wrote:

UPDATE: Nintendo UK has told Eurogamer that to qualify for the promotion all you have to do is register the appropriate games by 30th June 2013. It doesn't matter when they were registered as long as it's before this date.

ORIGINAL STORY: If you register three of eight Nintendo 3DS games you'll get another free.

That's a new and decent-looking Nintendo promotion called So Many Games! that begins tomorrow, 23rd April 2013, and should help ease the strain on wallets for those enjoying the current boon in quality titles for the handheld.

The eight games included are:

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Nintendo 3DS version)
Luigi's Mansion 2
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Register any three with Club Nintendo by 30th June 2013 and you will get a free download code for any one of the remaining five titles. Alternatively, you can select one you've already registered for the promotion to gift to a friend.

The small print: the request of the download code must be completed by 31st July 2013. The code expires on 31st December 2013. There's more on the promotion's official website.

This is good news for me as I was planning on buying Donkey Kong and Fire Emblem anyway.. and it would be nice to get Animal Crossing for free.

Bluecup · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 925

As I'm getting Luigi's Mansion and Animal Crossing for the other half anyway, really I can sort of kinda at a stretch look at this as a bogof and justify getting Lego City to play though and sell and get the free game to keep. But undecided between Fire Emblem and Donkey Kong.

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

I would certainly buy a 3DS if the games weren't so expensive. I wonder if there is anyone in the same situation as i and if nintendo is aware of that untapped audience.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14492

RuySan wrote:

I would certainly buy a 3DS if the games weren't so expensive. I wonder if there is anyone in the same situation as i and if nintendo is aware of that untapped audience.

I just bought one simply because the number of games on and coming to the system looks like its enough to make it worthwhile for me I've already got a short list of stuff i'm interested in but if any other owners want to add other suggestions ?

Also Nintendo stuff typically holds its value which means although its expensive to buy you do get a chunk of that back when you sell (if you dont want to keep the games forever)

For giving that up I think they should have a big discount if you wanted to buy things via the e-shop but they are very much like Microsoft were and everything has its same full price point from what it was released

markh · **Joined:** 13th Oct, 2008 **Posts:** 903

Lovefilm has a decent selection of 3DS games as an alternative if the game prices put you off?

Bluecup · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 925

How much is too much? Or are you suggesting Nintendo should release a flash cart?

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Apr 25, 2013 14:15

I bought a DS, got animal crossing, advance wars and that was it. Oh, and a game involving squares. it wasn't great, in my mind.

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

Bluecup wrote:

How much is too much? Or are you suggesting Nintendo should release a flash cart?

I never pay full price for the games. I just don't have the means to (long story short, even though i'm an engineer, i live in Portugal). Fortunately PC games devalue very fast and steam sales help. Nintendo games prices never ever go down. And altough i could pay 35£ for a game like Fire Emblem, it would be hard to pay that for an arcade-like game.

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

Agent Starling wrote:

I've decided I am going to treat myself to a larger 3DS in time for Animal Crossing...

3DS XL: ordered.

Bring on the Animal Crossing... :luv:

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

To my shame, I must admit I've never played any of the Advance Wars games, and really want to rectify that. I reckon a good place to start would be the Dual Strike one.

At this point I'm happy for anyone to talk about the Advance Wars games in general, and confirm how awesome they are.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14492

Agent Starling wrote:

To my shame, I must admit I've never played any of the Advance Wars games, and really want to rectify that. I reckon a good place to start would be the Dual Strike one.

At this point I'm happy for anyone to talk about the Advance Wars games in general, and confirm how awesome they are.

They are amazing , the Dual Strike one is not quite as good as the first two for the GBA which i'm sure you can get on the same card (although its probably out of print) - i didnt really like the last one which totally did away with all the previous story and characters (Days of Ruin)

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

You know, I do have the original GBA game kicking around at the back of a cupboard somewhere, I just never got around to trying it for some daft reason. Still I don't think the GBA carts work on the 3DS? Oh well, my own lazy fault for not playing it at the time!

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

The Fire Emblem series comes recommended if you like Advance Wars. Fire Emblem basically is Advance Wars in the style of a JRPG, or a JRPG in the style of Advance Wars. If that kind of thing appeals to you somehow.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25596

Animal Crossing 3DS is on pre-order.

Amazing times.

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

Anonymous X wrote:

The Fire Emblem series comes recommended if you like Advance Wars. Fire Emblem basically is Advance Wars in the style of a JRPG, or a JRPG in the style of Advance Wars. If that kind of thing appeals to you somehow.

Yeah, I have my eye on that one and I know it's been getting amazing reviews.

There seem to be a lot of quality games out for the 3DS in the last couple of months - I also quite fancy that new Lego one.

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

Mimi wrote:

Animal Crossing 3DS is on pre-order.

Amazing times.

Stand by to swap apples & oranges and perhaps mystery gifts! :munkeh:

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Apr 29, 2013 17:41

Agent Starling wrote:

To my shame, I must admit I've never played any of the Advance Wars games, and really want to rectify that. I reckon a good place to start would be the Dual Strike one.

At this point I'm happy for anyone to talk about the Advance Wars games in general, and confirm how awesome they are.

http://www.space-cows.co.uk

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

Ha! Yeah I will have a better look at that (thanks), and remember you talking about it way back when.

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

Ooh, the XL is rather lovely and shiny, and I do feel the much larger screen sizes will bring a better experience all round.

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

It's great, isn't it? Definitely a real improvement over the basic model.

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

Yep. If the screens were only marginally bigger it would be pointless, but to be fair they have sized them right up. Of course it could be argued they should have done this from the start, but that's another debate!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14492

Super Mario 3Dland is absolutely amazing !

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu May 16, 2013 10:17

You are correct sir! It was a pleasure to play from start to finish.

Bluecup · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 925

Lego City 3ds was fun while it lasted with a few interesting moments. But it wasn't as funny as the Wii U game and I didn't fancy exploring much because of the draw distance and limited controls.

Luigi's mansion is now on it's way, been wanting to play it for ages.

I think I've played and completed more games on the 3ds than the ds.

Also Mario 3dland was great. An actual fresh take on a Mario platformer!

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Due to my double vision I've lost stereoscopic vision in real life, but after an article in kotaku of all places, I thought I would try a 3DS - and bloody hell it only works!

So, just cracked and bought a 3DS XL. Figured it combines finally replacing my DS and allows me to play the new fire emblem (along with Super Mario 3D Land and Monster Hunter).

Tempted by that 3 for 4 dealio too....

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Consult this post for three of those games where you get a free game for cheap, or other games cheap individually here.

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

The Legend of Zelda games Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages will be available on the eShop's Virtual Console range later today! Priced a fiver each, I think.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

I'm fucking loving the 3DS. First Impressions:

PicrossE! My attempts to find a half decent iOS version came up naught. So it's bloody wonderful to get 150 Nintendo Quality Puzzles for £4. I shall be purchasing the sequel immediately afterwards. Then the gameboy picross. Heaven sent.

Monster Hunter I'm only 10 or so hours into a clearly very long game, but it seems really rather good indeed.

Very, very tempted by Fire Emblem, Luigi and Donkey Kong - so tempted by the 4 for 3 deal - but The Wedding (TM) is stealing all money.
And most importantly:

Graphixz and Whizz (nb. I don't have stereoscopic vision in real life) The screen resolution isn't great, but bloody hell I can see in 3D. Not for very long at once, but to get the sense of depth back is insane. It's like a super power. It also lead to me noticing stereoscopic vision in John Lewis of all places. I haven't quite worked out what that means.

Overall: If you have double vision then playing with a 3DS is an essential purchase. I can't believe I've only just realised this. I imagine the tech will die out after the 3DS, so I can imagine a rather depressing future of buying up aging 3DS consoles to keep getting this window back in depth.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

You must get Mario 3D Land. It's one of the best Marios.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

From the bit I once played in a shop it felt, slow and tepid. But your recommendation is enough. It's on the list.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14362

I've always wanted to play Monster Hunter. It sounds like the kind of rubbish I'd like if I could get into it but I hear the PSP version is the ultimate hardcore version so I might seek that out.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Saturnalian wrote:

I've always wanted to play Monster Hunter. It sounds like the kind of rubbish I'd like if I could get into it but I hear the PSP version is the ultimate hardcore version so I might seek that out.

Pretty sure that was the case until the 3DS and Wii U version came out. Everyone I know that plays it is all over those version atm.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

That was the impression I got as well. Interestingly, whilst the 3DS version doesn't have online multiplayer it is otherwise feature complete with the Wii U version to the extent that you can transfer your save between the two. Also the 3DS is currently the exclusive platform for MH4 and will have online.

The animation in the game is fantastic, with the creatures having no health bars and their status purely being determined from the changing of their gait, increased amount of slobbering and lolling tongues, attacks failing, stumbling, or body parts getting crushed, cut off or scrappy. Imagine the Sif fight from Dark Souls but constantly.

(On the negative side, there is a long, boring tutorial.)

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14492

Mario 3D land is the game so far thats really wowed me on the system but its almost an embarrassment of riches for the 3DS right now with more on the way

Luigi's Mansion
Monster Hunter
Castlevania
Fire Emblem
Donkey Kong Country returns
Animal Crossing
New Zelda LTTP

Competent games I've played so far :

Professor Layton and the Miracle mask - its just an updated Professor Layton but i've always enjoyed them
Street Fighter IV - a good implementation of the game but the controls are not quite up to a real joypad or joystick (still fun)
Mario Kart - its a good Mario Kart but does not stand out that much to me (although i've not put much time into it yet)
Tetris 3D - its a solid implementation of the game but nothing special (argos outlet shop on ebay are selling it for £7)

Steel Diver is the only thing that i've picked up that's felt slightly disappointing but i understood that its more like a tech demo for the system and it was only £5

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

NSMB2 is competent too, but unless you're well into the NSMB games, it's not essential. The Wii U one is way better.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14492

LewieP wrote:

NSMB2 is competent too, but unless you're well into the NSMB games, it's not essential. The Wii U one is way better.

Today the German versions of it and Monster Hunter arrived (from that cheap deal you posted for Amazon.DE) i've put them both in to make sure they come up in English but i've not played either yet.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Play Monster Hunter. Then we can muddle through together!

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

Don't make me buy a 3DS. Please don't make me buy a 3DS.

I am going to buy one, aren't I?

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