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his face is terrifying

not all free to play is soulless and evil. Plant vs. Zombies 2 is actually quite solid.

this game is so hard I love the NES era shoot em ups, but none of them (except maybe Life Force / Salamander) can match up to Zanac.

If you want an NES shmup, get Zanac. It's unbelievable.

It gives the the feeling it might be a decent enough Zelda clone for a few minutes... and then you notice the combat collision boxes, and the horribly-used warping, and the pacing of the first dungeon... And then you're glad you didn't pay for it yet. Cool constantly-animated visual style, but just doesn't work.

completely agree. I thought I liked this game, but I played it at my brother's a few months ago and it was horrid. At least Goldeneye had decent presentation value, even if it featured similarly crap-worthy controls. Turok is just plain ol' rough.

everyone should like this game cause it's wonderful

Seriously the most fun story-driven experience I've had on 3DS to date. Resident Evil Revelations is up there too but I found Castlevania more fun to play. Definitely not the prettiest game on the handheld but it earned style points for days.

it's a different beast. The challenge has always varied pretty considerably depending on game type as well.

These new games are games in name only. They're clever ways to allow people to engage with one another, while encouraging people to spend money on ways to improve or personalize their experience. Comparing them to Megaman is a waste of time... Idk, social games are precisely that - they're chat rooms w/ an assortment of tasks to complete and built-in "show off" trophycase-typed things. I think the issue people take is that they're called games, rather than entertainment products or something similar.

can't believe I've never owned one What a poor retro "collector" I am...

this is my review of Pilotwings, completely and totally.

"You can fly around for a little while, then turn it off."

Cool enough tech demo, but I could never figure out how anyone spent more than 15 minutes with this game. There's no game.

not gonna play spin the bottle with my family. Nice try.

X-Bone. <3

come outa nowhere and give us contra hard corps in 3d. 'twould be the greatest day of my life.

i still think microsoft is doing the best advertising for the wii u at the moment.

i knew 3 different people that owned one of these. Critical failure or not, clearly my peer group got the message.

no effort to tune up dodge mechanic = auto-pass. If the mechanic doesn't work, don't include it (and plan the game around the mechanic not existing). Dodge ruined the game for me - only made it about 40% of the way through.

that is a good point.

I always felt like this was my least favorite... But I'm replaying the All Stars version and I gotta admit, it's pretty legit. This was the only one I didn't own growing up, and it's rockin' my world right now.

Awe no phantasy star gaiden... Shining force is awesome though - one of if not the strongest games on the console

That's pretty brilliant

is it just me or is durango literally the worst name ever chosen for a console? It sucked enough as the name of a truck.... Now it's just sad.

whatever your feelings on kickstarter, shovel knight is gonna be incredible. Virt AND manami matsumae making an NES soundtrack in tandem!?!?!?!? /salivates

only thing i remember about amiga games was them having good music... There can't be much of a market for this....

@Optimist_Prime - fair enough - sounds to me like Nintendo won't line up a contact and he can't get the info he/his team need to start work on a Wii U port/project/what have you.

@Optimist_Prime - turn the entitlement down a touch

Ill second kinect being utter garbage. Don't compare anything to it, ever.

none of the NES ones are nearly as challenging as I remember... I didn't realize how insane the hard difficulty modes of megaman 9 and 10 are compared to...every other entry in the series.

1 has the most bizarre spikes in difficulty for sure, and is also one of the harder games to beat w/o using any robot master subweapons

that was the highlight of my day. Is it wong that I kind of masochistically want to play this now? I have to see this to believe it.

Finishing Dragon Quest 2, then moving on to Rudra's Treasure. Nintendo system RPG weekend

aaawesome

well that's awfully nice looking. That price point is pretty nice... Did they specify GBA only - no GB / GBC support?

pass on picdun.

Biggest waste of money on the 3DS so far... One of those games that looks amazing from screens / videos, and bores to tears in minutes.

this isn't a shoot em up... It's an arena shooter.

It looks OK...but I feel duped.

if you play it without using the charge-up, it's actually one of the hardest in the series. Also the first NES series game I played... Rented this shortly after getting Megaman X on SNES (which was my intro to the entire series).

I agree Urban - much better than 6. Not that 6 is terrible.... But 7 and 8 both did unique, awesome things with the series, and 9 and 10 were infinitely more solid classic-style MM games. I still play 10 often.

i miss this game.... Like all DQM / Pokemon games, the pacing mid-game killed me (collection games always do this, even the lauded DQ 5), but it's one of the best monster collectors around. Slick music as I recall as well.

good call w/ the goals - I will definitely grab this assuming the gameplay is up to snuff

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

this is one of the most insanely awesome uses of the fami / NES hardware ever. Shmupheads - play this one... It's insane. It'll have you convinced you're playing a TG 16 game - great Caravan shooter classic!

to be expected - 2 early-in-release pieces of hardware

this and the code to get directly to Tyson on punchout are 2 codes I'll never forget

love it

that was a pretty forthright interview by a PR guy. Well said too - the point about Fire Emblem's digital sales were really interesting to me.

1) Is the DLC what's driving users to purchase it digitally?
2) Is it just cause it's a huge game - and the core 3DS users, who are probably all connected, were interested enough to get it?
3) Is if the fact that the game is really long?

And on that topic, it gets me thinking about Etrian Odyssey IV digital. It's a really long game as well... BUT no DLC support.... BUUUUUT it had a crazy-limited physical release.

Oh adult world...what have you done to me?

@Philip_J_Reed best looking NES game ever. They're giving you real games now!?

@Moshugun - QA for one. And marketing / promo, and all the bells and whistles that go along with that.

@Toxor - why diss Bioshock?

i loved this game.

@JSuede - I think there are Etch-a-Sketches now that can play Fable

I just don't get the appeal...

It takes the fun of a dodge-and-counter encounter and MMOs the hell out of it... This type of mechanic works well as a boss encounter or highlight, but becomes a job when turned into an entire game. I tried the 3DS version - not for me. Too slow, too samey.

damn... this game's pretty fun

oh Nintendo.... Why must you be the last guy on the team? Literally every other device on the market w/ access to digital content gives permanent access to purchased content - normally on as many devices as can access it. In the 2 years I haven't bought any digital content from Nintendo, I've bought a cornucopia of Steam games, PSN games, iOS game / IAPs, and have said content on 3 or more devices. They're doing it cause the content is so legacy-style / exclusive that gamers will just suck it up and pay again. Gamers - please stop rebuying.

hey phil /wave

no mario or platformers on iphone pls--IP be damned, they're uncontrollable.

my Gyroman mix better make it