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5026-4591-4942

The thing with Nintendo is that they focus on making gameplay different, rather than updating graphics, as evidenced by the assloads of peripherals. It flops a lot, but the rare occasions it does work (motion control [to an extent] touch screen games, etc) the other 2 companies develop their own version.

They also know what they're doing with traditional gameplay. I don't think they've ever produced a game that wasn't at least excellent, and certainly never one that was outright terrible (Wii Music doesn't exactly count??????)

I think the bottom-line is that any first-party, wholly-Nintendo produced game has matched, and more often than not, bested the highest quality games to be cranked out by third-party Sony and Microsoft developers.

The games produced by smaller developers for Nintendo tend to lose the charm the company injects into each of the first-party games it makes. I'm looking at you, atrocious Legend of Zelda CD-I games.

How long has it been since I checked the 3DS thread? What have I missed...
OH MY GOD THE GBA GAMES ARE OUT!
OH GOD IT HAS SUPER CIRCUIT AND MINISH CAP!
AND F-ZERO! I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THERE WAS AN F-ZERO FOR GBA!
And to think I was about to ask what games you guys would recommend I buy with my 2300 points. Ah, I guess I will ask that anyway.

I just can't get used to driving in F-Zero Maximum Velocity or Mario Kart Super Circuit.

Shantae's risky revenge, cave story, or dark void 0.

I have all of those if you count Cave Story 3D in place of Cave Story.

I just don't like Nintendo because it's the same characters with the same stories and the same basic plots. Could care less about graphics. For me it's always been Story > Gameplay > Graphics. And, again, for me Nintendo falls far short on the very first criteria compared to what's available on Xbox/PS3.

The gameplay is good, and I can see why the games sell so well. I just stated the reasons I personally dislike Nintendo games.

People have different opinions. I personally prefer Nintendo, but I wouldn't mind having a PS3 since I did have a PS2 and enjoy Sony's games, and I only owned an X-Box with four games (which were fun!) since I got it from relatives who upgraded to a PS3. The games are fun from all three companies, but I just prefer Nintendo due to having amazing portable gaming compared to the rest, IMO.

Anyway, does anybody know of any good 3DS games coming out soon? I only seem to be interested in the games which are far from being released.

Get Luigi's Mansion 2 whenever it comes out. I sooo want to play it.

I guess I'll have to get Super Mario 3D Land in January. I don't really care for Mario Kart.

Yeah, I don't get the big deal with Mario Kart 7. I'm sure it's a great game, but the serious basically never changes aside from tricks in the Wii version. Did they add that to 7?

Otherwise, I'd just play Mario Kart DS since it apparently supports the circle pad somehow anyway ????

Well, you can do tricks in Mario Kart 7 like the Wii version, and you can also play online. Also, the customizable karts make it fun and 4 new cups, having a total of 16 new tracks. There also are some different playable characters to drive as. That's probably all the main differences compared to Mario Kart DS.

The circle pad works the same way as the touch pad (cross looking thing), but easier to move and change direction since it is an analog stick.

You may have forgotten about the hang-gliders and underwater bits, which as far as I can tell are the biggest differences.
Also the item diversity makes a huge difference- and there's no finnicky Item stat and Snaking is nerfed to hell.

Also they killed the fake item, boo, and MKWii's 3 new items.