3DS Catch-all

I may check it out (after clearing my backlog)

Blind_Evil wrote:
El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:
hbi2k wrote:
El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:

I never played Super Paper Mario. As someone who never played any Mario RPGs is it worth tracking down?

I'd track down a copy of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door first. Twice as fun at half the price.

Is it anything like the GBa ones? I got quickly frustrated by the difficulty in Superstar Saga, and never got very far in it.

The writing and humor are of the same vein, but the gameplay is not. I did not like the puzzling part of the GBA/DS games, but loved both Paper Mario games.

I would feel lame if I didn't mention that Mario RPG for SNES should also be checked out. You can get it on VC or via filthy piracy.

Yeah, the Paper Mario games are pretty different. In the Mario and Luigi games for GBA and DS you could theoretically dodge EVERY attack and never take any damage, so the combat is more skill-based and the timing requirements of the little in-battle minigames are more stringent to keep players from being able to abuse them to become invincible. In Mario RPG and the Paper Mario games, there's more of a balance between being able to excel at the in-battle minigames to gain bonuses, and using more standard JRPG tactics to turn the turn-based battles your way. It's about half and half.

Also, the character customization elements of Thousand Year Door are pretty deep while still being intuitive. By about midgame you have this huge menu of badges that give Mario passive bonuses or active skills that you can equip and de-equip at will, meaning that you can essentially respec him on the fly to be a tank, a fighter, a magic-user, or whatever else you think you'll need in the next battle. It's a lot of fun.

Mario RPG was a fine game for its time, but considering how many extra features the Paper Mario games built on it and considering that a used copy of TTYD can be had for about the same ($10) price as you'd pay for Mario RPG on the VC, I'd still recommend TTYD first.

Wait, what was this thread about? 3DS? Yeah, that should be cool too. (-:

According to kotaku even the Japanese think it's overpriced! Especially Considering it's launching at roughly the same price as the NES (with inflation)
http://kotaku.com/5661539/does-japan...

El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:

According to kotaku even the Japanese think it's overpriced! Especially Considering it's launching at roughly the same price as the NES (with inflation)
http://kotaku.com/5661539/does-japan...

Not quite what went down. Only 20% thought that it was too expensive. The question being whether they thought it was expensive or cheap. To be fair, it's not cheap so the only obvious answer is that it's expensive... NOT that it's overpriced. Unless you think a fifth of respondents is the majority - otherwise there'll always be people who think it's overpriced, even if it was at $60.

Oh, well Nearly everyone described as expensive, which is similar..

Ugh. Either that's a bad translation, or a really bad poll.

I'm leaning towards the later, because there were 3 different "Expensive" options(too expensive, expensive, slightly expensive), versus 1 reasonable and 2 inexpensive options. So on a pure bell curve, the poll is biased towards the expensive side as it is. The results actually appear to support this bias more than a 5 response poll would.

Just a reminder, Nintendo is holding their big US 3DS event tomorrow. Presumably they will finally nail down a release date, price, and launch lineup.

$250. That is all.

Anyone else about to watch this? http://live.nintendo3ds.nintendo-europe.com/

My last minute prediction: $279.99 with Pilot Wings as a pack in.

Edit: I guess they are having 2 events at the same time? Anyone have the NA stream link?

I can't get the European stream to connect, but yeah there's a 9am even in NY also. Dunno about a stream there.

All I could get from the twitterz is this link but it's terrible: http://www.gamespot.com/shows/today-on-the-spot/

ign's live blog. No real news yet. They did show Pilotwings, and said Ocarina of Time and Kid Icarus are playable at the event.

EDIT: One piece of news:

Want to know about Friend Codes? They're back, but there's just one code per system -- not separate codes for each individual game.
BNice wrote:

All I could get from the twitterz is this link but it's terrible: http://www.gamespot.com/shows/today-on-the-spot/

Better than reading a liveblog in my opinion.

garion333 wrote:
BNice wrote:

All I could get from the twitterz is this link but it's terrible: http://www.gamespot.com/shows/today-on-the-spot/

Better than reading a liveblog in my opinion.

Unless you can't watch video where you are.

I hate Miis.

But nice to see GB and GBA games will be downloadable.

garion333 wrote:

$250. That is all.

I win.

garion333 wrote:
garion333 wrote:

$250. That is all.

I win.

Honestly, $300 would have been overpirced in the US. I've been thinking $250 since page one of this thread.

$249.99! March 37th!

Xbox live experience with no friend code bologna!

Awesome! Pre-ordered a couple weeks ago. And it'll be here sooner than I expected.

BNice wrote:

$249.99! March 37th!

Xbox live experience with no friend code bologna!

Holy crap, Nintendo added 6 days to March!

Well, end of March (27th) and 30 titles planned to be released between then and E3 (which is just 7th) sounds good. That's ~10 weeks, so 3 games/week average.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

Holy crap, Nintendo added 6 days to March!

The 3D is so amazing that it does that!

So that gives me 19 days to get through Dragon Age 2. I guess I could take a week off sometime around then..

Blind_Evil wrote:

So that gives me 19 days to get through Dragon Age 2. I guess I could take a week off sometime around then..

What game at 3DS launch will you be playing to the exclusion of anything not 3D? I haven't actually heard what the US line-up will be.

mrtomaytohead wrote:
Blind_Evil wrote:

So that gives me 19 days to get through Dragon Age 2. I guess I could take a week off sometime around then..

What game at 3DS launch will you be playing to the exclusion of anything not 3D? I haven't actually heard what the US line-up will be.

Pokemon Black and/or White <,<

...

What? I've sold my DS and won't be able to play it until I get the new system. I only sold because I was under the impression 3DS would be out in early March, not late. Oh well, the price was right.

Edit: Okay, nevermind, I'm out. Europe gets it two days earlier? What kind of world do we live in?

Blind_Evil wrote:

What? I've sold my DS and won't be able to play it until I get the new system. I only sold because I was under the impression 3DS would be out in early March, not late. Oh well, the price was right.

Edit: Okay, nevermind, I'm out. Europe gets it two days earlier? What kind of world do we live in?

You're not going to buy a 3DS just because it comes out 2 days earlier in another territory?

I kid.

It is super bizarre, though.

That magic price point where it isn't so high that I can just say know but not so low that I instantly say yes. Darn.

Here's the US launch lineup, according to Destructiod.

Pilotwings Resort
Nintendogs + Cats
Steeldiver
Dead or Alive
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D
Madden NFL
Super Street Fighter IV 3D
Asphalt 3D
Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3D
Ridge Racer 3D
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars

http://www.destructoid.com/3ds-north...

Resident Evil is the only one that sticks out for me, though I have no idea what Steel Diver is all about.

I've heard good things about Steeldiver on a couple podcasts (8-4 and Giant Bomb IIRC).

Pilotwings and Resident Evil are probably my launch options.

Steel Diver is a sub game.

Nothing in that lineup shots "buy!" for me except my interest in Pilotwings.