It's an all in one portable tank! Retail downloads (owns a 32 gig SD card), awsome eShop exclusives, full backwards compatibility, awsome Virtual Console Support, top quality games (sometimes higher than consoles), and the graphics have proved the self to be beyond passable (although I would like to see more effort go into games other than Mario)
Its sad that PC gaming isn't a more acsessible form of gaming. Lest Microsoft would be dead by now. After all, they have next to 0 exclusives. The PS4 probably won't have that many significant exclusives either. I wonder how a battle between Nintendo and valve would work....
This doesn't make me want to buy the famicom. It makes me want to attach a cassette player to my wii u. As well as a VCR and a movie player for movie disks. And a toaster. Because why the hell not.
@Intrepid after playing sacred stones shadow dragon was just a rockfall for me. Things I didn't like about it; no class exclusivity, you can change your units class at any time really. No support, i.e. no charming dialog. Boring characters, and I know it's the first game but they could have done more with this to make it more playable.
@Noire This game is actually amazing if you play it twice. Because ya know, on your second attempt you aren't playing like a fool and that "ammo system" doesn't even exist anymore because you know all the tricks to keeping your ammo full. And the dark world was a great addition that added much more challenge.
Terrible game. Nintendo messed up everything I liked about the rest of the prime series. Too bad Retro didnt make this or else it would have been good.
I'm going to have to settle for a 9/10 for this. I think you're nostalgia shades are really too thick. This game is amazing but it has some design flaws that Fusion didn't have. This game is better than fusion but fusion simply had better design. There were some moments in this game where I just had to shake my head in digust after finding something that was a bit too cripticly hidden.
While most of these people on Miiverse crying for help are belligerent n00bs, I must admit Super Metroid is flat out CRPTIC at times. I do sequence break btw. Most of their problems can be solved by looking at the map, revisiting areas, or experimenting. I had gotten the Wii U version of this game simply to use the analog control pad (makes all the difference for side scrollers) and I like it much better than the Wii VC. I don't even bother with the first Metroid because 1. it feels heartless and you never get a feeling of accomplishment, 2. LOTS OF THINGS LOOK THE SAME, 3. feels a little cheap, 4. same problem I have with the first two Zelda's, you shouldn't have to subscribe to Nintendo power to beat the game, that's cripticness at its greediest. Although I did enjoy Zelda 1 much more. 5. IT HAS A REPLACEMENT: Zero Mission. Original Metroid rendered obsolete.
Does anyone notice something... peculiar about that logo? The fact that it is colored in with space doesn't help either. Virtual cookies to whoever guesses where the a similar logo can be seen in gaming.
@3Dash I can't finish many RPGs for the life of me. Examples: Okami LoZ Twilight Princess Pokemon Black 2 Fire Emblem Series Paper Mario Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time Metroid Prime Series Any Zenonia game (because they bore me to death)
@StarDust that's debatable but they don't have to say it was for the Virtual Boy. They could easily sneak this game through many people as new by adding colors and fixing everything to make it playable. It would probably sell more as a new game too.
"Oh yay, another gray/brown shooter/boring indie game." Sure Sony has exclusives, but they can't man up to the plate to make any first party games of their own. They make me sick.
@SilentHunter382 owch... I can take a PC version (Nintendo could quite easily make their own PC market if they wanted to, meaning it would still be exclusive) but the Xbox and PlayStation... That's hard for me to swallow.
THE PUNNNZZZZ!!! THEY NEVER ENNNDDD.... Seriously between Nintendo Life's quirky writers and Animal Crossing New Leaf I'm going to have to baptize my eyes by the end of this year.
@SilentHunter382 let me answer your question with a a question. Was Eternal Darkness released on PC? Was eternal darkness a first party game? Why should its succsor not be exclusive?
@NINTENBOY those are some sick spears right there bro. But seriously, this guy is just totally biased. He sees something he think he doesn't like, it's dead. Well guess what. World dont work that way. You think your the s**t just from your one little game? Go ta hell. We don't need assware devs like this guy.
@Rei7 yep. I'm sooo willing to drop 600+ dollars on a console that litterally provides nothing more than better graphics. Yeah I sooo phsyced... How shallow do you think gamers are?!
@Rei7 OHOHOHO! No. The coffin has been made and the nails are being put in place. The Vita got DESTROYED by Nitendo. And with Pokemon X and Y coming along with animal crossing and more in the future that peice of garbage is getting BURIED.
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Re: Microsoft: If You're Backwards Compatible, You're Really Backwards
@6ch6ris6 I never had a gamecube so I took advantage to buy gamecube games like Wind Waker and play them on my Wii!
Re: Tomodachi Collection Famitsu Article Falls Foul Of Unfortunate Timing
News. On NINTENDOLIFE people. This is not NBC of Japan Nintendolife admins!
Re: Nintendo UK Wants To Know Why You Love Your 3DS
It's an all in one portable tank! Retail downloads (owns a 32 gig SD card), awsome eShop exclusives, full backwards compatibility, awsome Virtual Console Support, top quality games (sometimes higher than consoles), and the graphics have proved the self to be beyond passable (although I would like to see more effort go into games other than Mario)
Re: Consumers Go Crazy For Wii U Following Xbox One Reveal
Its sad that PC gaming isn't a more acsessible form of gaming. Lest Microsoft would be dead by now. After all, they have next to 0 exclusives. The PS4 probably won't have that many significant exclusives either. I wonder how a battle between Nintendo and valve would work....
Re: This Custom Twin Famicom Is The Stuff Hardware Dreams Are Made Of
This doesn't make me want to buy the famicom. It makes me want to attach a cassette player to my wii u. As well as a VCR and a movie player for movie disks. And a toaster. Because why the hell not.
Re: SEGA Teases Sonic Lost World Characters
It's going to be a strategy game. Yaaaaay... Hexagons.
Re: Fire Emblem: Awakening Could Have Been The Swansong For The Series
@Intrepid after playing sacred stones shadow dragon was just a rockfall for me. Things I didn't like about it; no class exclusivity, you can change your units class at any time really. No support, i.e. no charming dialog. Boring characters, and I know it's the first game but they could have done more with this to make it more playable.
Re: Fire Emblem: Awakening Could Have Been The Swansong For The Series
@Intrepid shadow dragon is terrible. You stepped in the series at the wrong time. Sacred Stones however was amazing.
Re: Weirdness: Theories on the Inside of a Poké Ball
@FFL2and3rocks A soy sauce pond of course.
Re: New Wii U System Update Goes Live
Enhanced software sompatibility. Can I play Sin and Punishment again now? Please?
Re: Nintendo Launches Kickstarter Parody "Crowdfarter" To Promote Game & Wario
@WiiURockz Corporal Corporate disagrees. Making money from ripping off people is very fun.
Re: Review: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GameCube)
@Noire This game is actually amazing if you play it twice. Because ya know, on your second attempt you aren't playing like a fool and that "ammo system" doesn't even exist anymore because you know all the tricks to keeping your ammo full. And the dark world was a great addition that added much more challenge.
Re: Review: Metroid Prime (GameCube)
@citizenerased Echoes is another 10/10 for me with corruption getting an 8.7/10 for its low difficulty. Echoes just had the best design out of all.
Re: Nintendo Launches Kickstarter Parody "Crowdfarter" To Promote Game & Wario
FINALLY Nintendo gives their IPs voice acting! Been waiting for this. Next up, Mario.
Re: Nintendo Launches Kickstarter Parody "Crowdfarter" To Promote Game & Wario
FINALLY Nintendo gives their IPs voice acting! Been waiting for this. Next up, Mario.
Re: Review: Metroid Prime: Hunters (DS)
Terrible game. Nintendo messed up everything I liked about the rest of the prime series. Too bad Retro didnt make this or else it would have been good.
Re: Nintendo Confirms Smash Bros., 3D Mario and Mario Kart for E3 Nintendo Direct
@SuperMinusWorld what I want is Metroid Prime 4 dammit.
Re: The Wonderful 101 Launch Dates Revealed
@3dbrains it has to do with another Nintendo franchise that centers around animals in space.
Re: Review: Super Metroid (Wii U eShop / Super Nintendo)
I'm going to have to settle for a 9/10 for this. I think you're nostalgia shades are really too thick. This game is amazing but it has some design flaws that Fusion didn't have. This game is better than fusion but fusion simply had better design. There were some moments in this game where I just had to shake my head in digust after finding something that was a bit too cripticly hidden.
Re: Review: Super Metroid (Wii U eShop / Super Nintendo)
@TysonOfTime Dont get hunters. It will ruin you.
Re: Miiverse: Super Metroid - Too Taxing For Today's Gamers?
While most of these people on Miiverse crying for help are belligerent n00bs, I must admit Super Metroid is flat out CRPTIC at times. I do sequence break btw. Most of their problems can be solved by looking at the map, revisiting areas, or experimenting. I had gotten the Wii U version of this game simply to use the analog control pad (makes all the difference for side scrollers) and I like it much better than the Wii VC. I don't even bother with the first Metroid because 1. it feels heartless and you never get a feeling of accomplishment, 2. LOTS OF THINGS LOOK THE SAME, 3. feels a little cheap, 4. same problem I have with the first two Zelda's, you shouldn't have to subscribe to Nintendo power to beat the game, that's cripticness at its greediest. Although I did enjoy Zelda 1 much more. 5. IT HAS A REPLACEMENT: Zero Mission. Original Metroid rendered obsolete.
Re: The Wonderful 101 Launch Dates Revealed
Does anyone notice something... peculiar about that logo? The fact that it is colored in with space doesn't help either. Virtual cookies to whoever guesses where the a similar logo can be seen in gaming.
Re: Nintendo Confirms Smash Bros., 3D Mario and Mario Kart for E3 Nintendo Direct
SSBU W00T!
Seriously want that. Its a must have, if only because SSBB is dead. ene
Re: Nintendo Confirms Smash Bros., 3D Mario and Mario Kart for E3 Nintendo Direct
Too much Mario. Where is the Zelda U announcement?
Re: Project X Zone
@WhoBeThat when a bunch of companies get together to make one game, it usually doesn't end well. Look at Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Re: Review: Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS)
@3Dash I can't finish many RPGs for the life of me. Examples:
Okami
LoZ Twilight Princess
Pokemon Black 2
Fire Emblem Series
Paper Mario
Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
Metroid Prime Series
Any Zenonia game (because they bore me to death)
Re: Rumour: The Recent Wii U System Update Has Boosted Clock Speeds
Nintendo: "Gotta go fast! ...Whoops, too fast. '^ ^ "
Re: SEGA Planning Seven Releases for Wii U in the Coming Year
@Nintenjoe64 doesn't mean crap.
Re: Weirdness: Just How Much Cash Do You Need To Buy The Legend Of Zelda's Hyrule Castle?
Never really liked hyrule castle anyway. How much is the clock tower in termina
Re: This Famicom GamePad Skin is a Thing of Beauty
@klautrec don't do it. You'll smudge the screen with your skin oils.
Re: Review: Puddle (Wii U eShop)
@Flowerlark get a Wii U. Only get the deluxe package
Re: Klei Entertainment Would Like To Bring Don't Starve To 3DS
So I'm going to "lake control" of someone. How exactly should I go about doing that? (Oooooh eeeedddiitoooor!!)
Re: Talking Point: DLC's Increasingly Important Role for Nintendo
@GameLord08 DLC for pokemon would UNBALENCE the game. It become pay to win.
Re: Review: Virtual Boy Wario Land (Virtual Boy)
@StarDust that's debatable but they don't have to say it was for the Virtual Boy. They could easily sneak this game through many people as new by adding colors and fixing everything to make it playable. It would probably sell more as a new game too.
Re: Sony Trolls Nintendo Ahead of PlayStation 4 Announcement
You've taken your jab. Knock it off — TBD
Re: Sony Trolls Nintendo Ahead of PlayStation 4 Announcement
"Oh yay, another gray/brown shooter/boring indie game."
Sure Sony has exclusives, but they can't man up to the plate to make any first party games of their own. They make me sick.
Re: Review: Virtual Boy Wario Land (Virtual Boy)
@StarDust ...your excused until Nintendo comes out with a different version for it on the shop. You must buy it then.
Re: Review: Virtual Boy Wario Land (Virtual Boy)
They should revamp this as a 3DS eShop title. So easy!
Re: Club Nintendo Refunds Coins To Wii U Owners Who Picked Up Super Metroid
@Idiot-Pill /applause
Re: Precursor And Nintendo In "Constant" Contact Regarding Eternal Darkness Successor
@SilentHunter382 owch... I can take a PC version (Nintendo could quite easily make their own PC market if they wanted to, meaning it would still be exclusive) but the Xbox and PlayStation... That's hard for me to swallow.
Re: First Generation Pokémon Visualised By 151 Artists For Charity
That Magnemite gives me the idea for a Zero 3. Absurd art FTW!
Re: First Generation Pokémon Visualised By 151 Artists For Charity
THE PUNNNZZZZ!!! THEY NEVER ENNNDDD.... Seriously between Nintendo Life's quirky writers and Animal Crossing New Leaf I'm going to have to baptize my eyes by the end of this year.
Re: Precursor And Nintendo In "Constant" Contact Regarding Eternal Darkness Successor
@SilentHunter382 let me answer your question with a a question. Was Eternal Darkness released on PC? Was eternal darkness a first party game? Why should its succsor not be exclusive?
Re: Profile: Kazumi Totaka - The Man Behind Animal Crossing's K.K. Slider
@HeatBombastic I AM GOING TO BLOW YOUR EARDRUMS OUT!
-KK Slider
Re: Precursor And Nintendo In "Constant" Contact Regarding Eternal Darkness Successor
@SilentHunter382 p-PC? No...
Re: Fez For Wii U Is Highly Unlikely Unless Nintendo Pays For It
@NINTENBOY those are some sick spears right there bro. But seriously, this guy is just totally biased. He sees something he think he doesn't like, it's dead. Well guess what. World dont work that way. You think your the s**t just from your one little game? Go ta hell. We don't need assware devs like this guy.
Re: CNN Money: Nintendo Is "Tone Deaf" To Industry Trends And Has "Lost Touch With Reality"
@Rei7 yep. I'm sooo willing to drop 600+ dollars on a console that litterally provides nothing more than better graphics. Yeah I sooo phsyced...
How shallow do you think gamers are?!
Re: CNN Money: Nintendo Is "Tone Deaf" To Industry Trends And Has "Lost Touch With Reality"
@Rei7 OHOHOHO! No. The coffin has been made and the nails are being put in place. The Vita got DESTROYED by Nitendo. And with Pokemon X and Y coming along with animal crossing and more in the future that peice of garbage is getting BURIED.
Re: CNN Money: Nintendo Is "Tone Deaf" To Industry Trends And Has "Lost Touch With Reality"
@Metal_Sonic excuse me? My scout detectafier detects a MORON.
Re: CNN Money: Nintendo Is "Tone Deaf" To Industry Trends And Has "Lost Touch With Reality"
@Neram exactly. Just look at the other companies. Sony is a giant copycat!
Wii = PS Move
DS touchscreen technology = all PSP variants