DrKarl

@Windy There are a ton of unknowns regarding Kickstarter at the moment. The general consensus is that backing a project is a gamble. I have seen some projects get VERY ugly.

I consider myself to have been lucky so far. I Kickstarted Diamond Trust of London, and it was as smooth of an experience as I could have ever hoped to have.

The worst I have experienced has been a long delay with Ogre Designers Edition from Steve Jackson games. I'm used to massive delays with boardgames though, so I can wait that one out.

I'm still waiting for Wasteland 2, Double Fine Adventure, SpaceVenture & Torrent. They are all currently on track, but that could change. Also, they could suck as games too! I hope not.

This Kickstarter stuff is getting increasingly ridiculous.

Depending on the success of the current Kickstarter, they may begin working on a future title, and we should support the current one if we like the future one? Really?

"Be sure to pledge your support and show the developer that there's an audience for this kind of thing on Nintendo systems, and you could be playing Blossom Tales in the near future."

Is Nintendolife endorsing this company or something? This doesn't sound like a very objective thing to say...

The eShop was down for me earlier this morning, but it went up again. I was able to grab the game and the 60 coin survey.

Thanks for the heads up!

I'd rather see the Virtual Arcade version of Ghosts'n Goblins. I prefer it to the NES version.

"no big titles are scheduled for release before "Pikmin 3" in July because we decided to take time to add the final touches to ensure that consumers fully feel that they are valuable titles."

This is the right attitude for a game developer to have, and I greatly appreciate it.

I'm really looking forward to these tables. Zen 2 is a great game, and these will make it greater.

@gsnap I'm just expressing my opinion man.

@gsnap I have been following this title on this site for some time. To me, this SCREAMS public paid beta test. The "common sticking point" referenced in the article was known about way before release. They had already delayed the game due to it. They knew the problem existed and shipped it anyway. Why not these days, hey? I mean, no need to put out quality work now when you can just patch it later and have people pay to find the bugs for you.

Back in my day, game developers paid testers to play the game and find bugs and other areas needing improvement.

These days gamers pay developers in order to Beta test the game.

I liked it the old way...

@Ralizah In previous Fire Emblem games there was a fixed economy. With the DLC, the same maps can be played again and again to generate items and currency. To me, this breaks the economy. Since you have to pay extra money to get the content, Nintendo has now embraced the model of "pay more money to make the game easier."

I also have a larger concern about Nintendo and DLC that is not specific to Fire Emblem. Some may argue that the DLC is optional. While that is true, it brings up another break in Nintendo's long established formula. For decades it has been the case that when you buy a Nintendo game, you bought the complete package. No patches, no changes, no additions. Each game was a complete self contained world. Fire Emblem's use of DLC has not made me confident that this change in formula is good for gamers.

Of course your mileage may vary, but that is how I feel.

Does anyone have details on the DLC? The Fire Emblem DLC was a huge turnoff to me, and has thus far kept me from really digging into the game.

Also, $50 is extremely expensive for a portable game!!!

I wasn't expecting to see Kirby's Dream Course in the first batch. It looks like that will be my first upgraded Wii VC title. I hope the upgrade will be worth the $1.50.

This creation is a folk art masterpiece.

I have Kickstarter fatigue. It it makes it to a Nintendo platform, and gets good to great reviews, I will check it out.

"Of course, these polls are far from substantial or definitive proof of much beyond the feelings of the Nintendo Life community."

You don't say?

Or maybe O♭ next?

"There was a Japanese printing of Advanced D&D but not basic D&D, which is what we were working with."

D&D Basic was available in Japan at the time, wasn't it?

See here:
http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/foreign/forscans/basic1japan.jpg

And here:
http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/foreign/forscans/basicjapan.jpg

I'm all over this one.

I wonder how well the game play will hold up after all of these years? Will you be able to just keep popping in credit after credit, or will it restrict the number available per play?

The Wii U has no killer app. Things won't begin to look better until it gets one.

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

Hopefully Zen will be released next week. I need to warm up my pinball skills before the Midwest Gaming Classic next weekend!

Going to be honest here, considering yesterdays article regarding scores.

Scrolled to numerical score --> Saw the 6 --> Won't read the article.

@Tomatoboxer Yeah, I know. George Lucas has proven this time and again.

Laziness was brought up to criticize the bug in Runner 2 that should have been caught before it ever shipped.

Self described geniuses, hey? That's the best kind of genius!

@LeVideoGamer

I don't understand what you are trying to say exactly. Regarding your point about Runner 2: If that is true regarding it working fine on development kits, than that furthers my argument.

Had the game been burned to disk or an eprom(cartridge era), it could have easily been tested on a non dev machine. Why doesn't Nintendo have a similar model in place for testing eShop content. Couldn't they use the download code system to get eShop titles onto a non dev machine for quality control? All I see is laziness due to the ability to "patch it later"

They should have never shipped the game in the first place if they weren't satisfied with its quality.

Console game development appears to be just as crappy as PC gaming now. The game is not ready yet? SHIP IT!!!! We'll just patch it later. Let those suckers, errr customers pay to be our beta testers. Brilliant!

I'll be checking out the Mystery Dungeon demo. I really liked Shiren on the DS.

I would buy it. eShop would work too.

@klautrec That's not how I am parsing it. I read his statement as:

They are adding in support as a side feature to some titles. Only if there is enough installed base, would they consider adding it as a main feature.

While the former may be interesting and fun, the latter is what I want to see.

"...environment where everybody or a large majority of people would have two GamePads, that might be a time where we look at how we can leverage a system of that nature."

So, Nintendo won't develop a game until enough people purchase two gamepads? Why would anyone be compelled to purchase a second pad if no games support it? This is chicken and the egg...

I think the notion of Cevat Yerli having any relevance has to go away.

@ThomasBW84 You are rationalizing regarding Fire Emblem.

Had the DLC in Fire Emblem simply been extra maps, with no carryover into the main story, Nintendo would have been treading a safer path. However, they chose not to go that route. It sours the experience for me.

Being able to play a DLC map over and over for bullion? Really Nintendo?

I'll wait for the reviews.

I'll pick up 1943 and Gun.Smoke for sure. I wonder why they didn't bring out 1942 first? That game is a stone cold classic.

Like many here, I have been waiting on this one for years. Despite the mixed reviews from the other systems, I will still be getting this.

If Moke Moke has downloadable play such that only one purchase is needed I will probably give it a try. Without strong reviews, I don't think it is worth an $8 gamble for 4 players.

@DAaaMan64
The controls on the Anthology are absolutely terrible in my opinion. It supports Gamecube controllers, but only with the analog stick. I love Metal Slug, but find this disc unplayable.

What control setup do you use?

I was looking forward to Zen Pinball this weekend. Maybe next?

The system is too expensive, and lacks a killer App.

Nintendoland, while great an all, isn't it. Neither is NSMBWU. Pikmin 3 may to the trick. Only time will tell.

Another vote from me for bringing this to North America. All eShop Picross games will be purchased x2 for my household, as there are two of us here who can't get enough.

"There's no denying that most of us have checked into therapy to overcome our coin collecting addiction in New Super Mario Bros. 2"

What? I can handle the puns on this website, but hyperbole like this is getting a bit ridiculous. Some of these articles seem to read like Nintendo marketing...

I still need to get around to playing Deus Ex. System Shock was pretty cool, but I had too little patience in those days. Wow! His history is amazing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Spector#Video_games

I never knew that he was involved in all of these titles. Many of these are considered the best RPG's ever made. Best of luck to Mr. Spector and all of the employees.

More Tingle!
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You know you love him!

Looking at the history of Avalanche Software, I don't see a history of solid gaming titles. Is everyone just really optimistic? All I can see is a major ca$hgrab situation. Label me cynical...

@Philip_J_Reed I now much better understand where you are coming from. Thank you for expanding on your critique.

I disagree as well after my completion of my first run of three characters.

Regarding this:
"In the classic days of graphical adventures it might have seemed tedious to try out every item in your inventory on an obstacle in the hopes that something would eventually work. Here it's even worse, as you need to bring every one of those items individually to the obstacle, and that's nothing but padding."

It is only when one is most desperate that these tactics are required to solve a segment in many adventure games. In my experience, employing that tactic has never been a satisfying way to solve a puzzle. Though it may have been more necessary to resort to it back in the Infocom/Sierra era, I feel that it has been rarely needed in this era.

I enjoy the adventure genre of games in an "online" and "offline" way. If I am not making headway in a puzzle or am otherwise stuck, I will often shut down the game and do something else. However, I will still be turning over the puzzle in my mind and thinking about it, playing the game out in my mind from time to time. Item by item, clue by clue, looking for the "bigger picture" or logical connections needed to solve it. In this way I savor the challenges that the puzzles provide, and feel satisfied when the thought about "guess" proves successful.

Does the author of this review not enjoy the logical thinking needed to solve these puzzles? Why does he feel the need resort to a "brute force" method of problem solving instead of sitting back and THINKING?

"supposed to complete dungeons in a certain order, or that you're supposed to play by yourself."

4 swords online?

"I’m not saying he wants to censor this, I think he should sensitize people that they should protect their children family by family from these kinds of electronic child molesters."

I agree 100% with this statement. Why are some of you outraged? What is so outrageous?

It is not the governments place to censor. Obama should strongly remind parents that they must be cognizant of the content consumed by their children. That's all that Mr. Nader is saying in these quotes...

In my three hours of play with the Wii U version, I experienced some frame rate chop. It only occurs during area transitions, but it is quite noticeable. It has no negative affect on game play, but does make it very clear that you are going across an area transition, breaking immersion.

Is it worth picking up the Nyko guns just for House of the Dead?

http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Shot-Wii-Colors-Vary-Nintendo/dp/B000X2RKOO

I could only play that game for 30 minutes before my hand cramped up. I have to admit that I didn't get the hype for the game back then, but my throbbing & twisted hand may have biased my opinion.