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@FNL **sigh** ...

Wow, that looks friggin' awesome! Loved Interstate 76' when I was young, first thing I thought of when I saw this.

@Bass_X0 That is fantastic, lol. And good advice to others as well: when you post images make it relevant to the topic, and avoid GIFs at all costs.

"One sardine for 20 hours of labor."

Wow, the chick pays worse than Scrooge.

@audiobrainiac Your avatar is a Mii...

@JHDK "This is up there with the morons in China who protested because they didn't like the Pokemon translation."

Apparently you don't even understand what that was about. They're hardly morons, and Nintendo made a bad move.

@Solid_Stannis That is an axiom comment.

@Bunkerneath Don't even get me started on that, it's a completely different game. Westwood's Blade Runner was a product of it's time, thus an amazing, innovative game with a great story and great graphics.

Is the hardware still made in China?

@Bunkerneath Pretty darn gratuitous rip off if you ask me. I'd rather play the awesome old Westwood Studios game.

@PlywoodStick Conspiracy theories aren't so much about believing in lies, but making paranoid connections between various truths.

As for "complicated", I'll tell you a few things which really are: orchestration, civil engineering, heart surgery, architecture, illustration... none of these are conspiracies.

From China-bashing to environmentalism to Australia-deprecating to conspiracy theories, this comment section didn't disappoint.

For the people who think "oh, it's just FMV cutscenes, they really needed the PlayStation for THAT?"
Well... FF VII has around 400MB of nonduplicate data overall which isn't cutscenes. Small enough to fit on a single CD, but nowhere near small enough to fit on a N64 cartridge.

"If engagement with Pokémon Go could be sustained over the lifetime of its many users..."

A lifetime interest in Pokemon Go would hardly provide, much less justify a longer lifespan.

@AlexSora89 Metaphorical motion sickness?

This is one of the finest JRPGs I played. I was entranced playing it on the PS2.

@cheonsacz I just checked eBay [for IX], there are used copies for some very decent prices.

Day -1

@Gizmoguy92 please please please.

Oh, so he's no longer a dwarf in stride.

No, don't tell me.. YOU FORGOT SCRAM KITTY!!??!???
You put it in the 10 best eShop games list or something like that previously. Thanks for ruining my Christmas.

BTW you still put in loads of great games so Merry Christmas.

So Bowser's winning the sock race because he cut out the holes for his legs? Such a cheater.

Who ordered the whoop-ass fajitas?

@Megas What am I seeing here? A nice comment??? O_O

Screw that, I'm getting it for the WiiU or for nothing.

@Dakt Ace Attorney 6, Zero Time Dilemma and Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 as far as this list goes. Not bad.

@Cantisque [A-Train 3D is] £20 good (it is a full price retail game in Japan), but isn't for someone who dislikes strategic sims. It is very deep and complex, probably the best of it's kind released on the 3DS, which sadly lacks both SimCity and Civilization games the DS had, and it's RollerCoaster Tycoon is utter crap. If you're intrigued, go for it; but don't expect to immediately like it if you're new to the genre.

@Moon A-Train 3D is amazing, not sorry about paying full price.

Teslapunk looks awful.

"Please note that this competition is only open to residents of the UK."

"Sorry, you are unable to comment on this content because it is intended for a different region."

Okay, if you're gonna tempt people with prizes and then disappoint them and not even let them comment (I truly don't believe you'd get a single angry reply), you could at least be so kind, generosity of this truly generous person be damned, as to not display the article to non-UK readers in the first place or at least make the intended country limit less ambiguous in the title. Thank you.

@AfterAnAutopsy Lol, perfect pun.

@Tsuchinoko Hmmmm, can those be imported?

@ACK Excite Truck was the best launch title for the Wii, no matter how much Wii Sports and Twilight Princess will be better remembered.

Ah, Japan, we love you forever.

While it's not like there aren't more really good RPGs on the 3DS then you have time to play; everyone deserves a chance, and this is likely still a serious attempt at a small scale and ultra-low budget.

@neufel @Tsurii Yeah, at that price it can look pretty, but feel cheap. I wish it had a watch brand behind it.

@ReshiramZekrom Oh really? And do those pens and notebooks have little legs and walk around on their own? No? Then shuddup.

@ghostjoshu @Pahvi it's called top-down perspective.

@G-Boy "What?! 10 dollars?! No casual gamer would buy that! Nintendo clearly doesn't understand how the smart device market works."

It works like a parasite. Nintendo is doing it right, whether it hurts them or not.

Lovely!

@SH007ME Me too. (:
Although it's more like Naked Paper Skeletor.

"This rumour comes hours after retail giant Toys R Us posted a $329.99 price on its Canadian site. That translates to around $242 US dollars."

First I heard that Canadian prices can translate to US$.

@SH007ME Numbered? Hardly, the successor hasn't even been announced yet, and they'll give the Switch at least a year of being in the the spotlight before they do.

@SH007ME Wow, that's some extreme redecorating!

BTW, I'm not sure what you mean by "leftover stock". Are some colors really THAT unpopular?

I have the A-Train 3D. Superb game, was disappointed with the review here.

THE game(s) 3DS folders are made for.

@FinnTheWhovian I've read it, nice post.

Inti Creates can do no wrong, and Blaster Master is truly a terrific game. We need to see this in motion!

Let me guess, Construct2? No wonder there are issues all over the place.

Really nice banner picture BTW. I have the full image saved from a previous article if anyone wants a nice wallpaper:

I had known very little of this franchise, as most Europeans. But DQVIII was a revelation. It's use of assets may have been quite economic compared to the big hitters of the time, but boy did it not lack heart and beauty.

Ah, Daytona USA. Classic.

"Luigi, you are a genius! The new color swap for Nintendo..."

Seems Mario has no trouble typing properly.

The 3DS will get it's own successor in due time, I'm sure of it.

@NinjaWaddleDee I don't believe that for a second. The Switch takes absolutely no ideas from the 3DS sphere (except maybe well, the cartridges). In the end it's just a different take on the WiiU concept and looks laughably like it's early prototypes, in many ways devolving from the finished product.

And the "play your portables on your TV" and "play your console games on a portable" part? It's already been done to death, and has never been particularly well received. There really isn't much new here.
Portable and console gaming are two very different worlds, and being forced to make games that fit between the two very different approaches to development doesn't allow designers to play towards any of their strengths.
There's still a wide gap left for the next generation of true portables, a gap that neither smartphones nor the Switch will ever fill.

@ShikabaneHime13 Thanks for the support.