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@liljmoore With patience, you may get lucky. They had it on sale a while back, so it may pop up again. I would just stick to checking the eshop every Thursday to see if it does.

@midnafanboy If you haven't already, try rated battles. There's not quite as many there.

@Peach64 The only game I know that required 2 screens was The World Ends With You. It's pretty hard to replicate the battle system without one.

As long as the next console can connect to other sources via a receiver of some sort (along the lines of the Vita TV), that'd be awesome. Playing GBA games on the Wii U has me wanting a GBA Player type device.

Will be heading to the one in VA. Haven't had time to make a team yet. I'm looking towards streetpasses just as much as the battles.

@Raylax I'm in the same boat as you. Honestly, about half my playtime has been trading with wonder trade. Even when it's a weaker pokemon, it's usually from another language. I just give away hidden ability pokemon mostly.

@RainbowGazelle I envy you for having a 6th gen shiny. Got my first one 40 hours in. It was a Phanpy that I found in the friend safari. A day later, I nabbed a Horsea off of Wonder Trade.

@Pinkman Caught mine in a luxury ball. I think it's easy to catch because it's needed to progress the story. If you defeat or run away from it, it'll still be standing there to fight again.

@bluecat I'm in the exact same boat. Mine is still sitting in the box until I can decide what to do with it. Also... it's just magnificent in person.

Wanted to upgrade for a while now and this was just what I waited for. To all the people scared about losing portability, it's not as huge as it seems (at least not for me). It still fits in my pants pocket comfortably.

@mumof3kids82 It depends on the store. I got my blue one from Gamestop, and they only had six of each color. I got the 4th blue one they had.

@Romeo The same thing happened with Deoxys and his forms back in Gen 3. You couldn't have more than one form because they were exclusive to the game you had him on. They remedied that in Gen 4 and up though, so maybe that'll be the case here too.

Definitely a day one for me. Tried the demo to 4 and got that asap. I didn't like the drawing the map for the first cave or so, but I learned to love it in later dungeons. I liked making up backgrounds for my characters, but am really looking forward to the story mode this time around.

This is just too awesome. Froakie and Squirtle (my favorite gen 1 starter) for me it is. MegaBlastoise reminds me of a transformer for some reason. Love it!

@unrandomsam Been playing since I was 10. I'm 21 and still love it.
@crobatman Reminds me of the first time I went to the VGC (about 3 years ago). It was an eye opener to see all of the old and young alike. Good experience for sure.

Software and branding seem to be the issue. I had to explain multiple times to one of my friends that the WiiU was a brand new system. He thought that it was just the gamepad added to the Wii. I had to sit my White Wii next to my Deluxe WiiU before he got the difference. I imagine many consumers may be having that issue as well.

@Knuckles I don't believe Sonic Adventure 2 had one.
Casino levels are usually the best levels in terms of music and design for me (Except Carnival Night Zone, which stumped me to no end). My favorite one so far is the one in Sonic Rush.

Wonder Trade sounds like egg spin, but minus the eggs. As long as people don't consistently put shoddy pokemon up, it could be super useful.

@Andrewroxsox In menu heavy games, it helps. I'm currently playing through The Minish Cap, and the frequency of switching items is plenty. An inventory touch screen would remedy that (but it's a GBA game so that convenience wasn't available then).

@Marioman64 I take it your roommate hasn't heard about black and white 2 then. Shame.
As for DW, I'll have to trade people for the females I want.

The blue one MUST come overseas. I would definitely upgrade to an XL for that one.

@JayceJa That's not totally true. I can raise a team in about 2 hours, which isn't much (I don't breed for IVs though, so that kind of does play a role). Though there are sometimes I wish I could speed up an already quick process (if pokerus gave 4x EVs instead of 2x, that would change a lot).

@Raikoo Are you a Smogonite by any chance? Wish I could head to the Nationals, but it's not in my budget this year. Looking forward to the X/Y metagame next year though.

@Great_Gonzalez That's not totally true. They could be RNG'ed. I feel the ones on GTS are more likely to be hacked (for the sole reason that if you work for a shiny, you wouldn't give it up).

@SCAR392 That's pretty good. That makes 2 of us. Did you help him out any?

@Bulby I've personally been to 3 regionals in the last three years, and every single one had incidents where hacking was found. I don't know specifically if they were messy or clean hacks, but they were DQ'ed on spot. They had machines that looked like a prototype DS that they put your card in (not sure how online would be monitored). Then there are the people who get others to RNG for them, as most of my competitors have. As long as their stats and moves are legitimate, I mostly don't have a problem with it.

@Teaqq2 All the more reason I think.

She is more like G&W to me (in the sense that when I think 'Nintendo' he doesn't really come to mind). Having spent a great deal of time on Wii Fit, it made me oddly happy to see she made it in. Definitely going to be one of my mains.

@Caramel I looked at the pictures and instantly thought the same thing.

The beans not having distinct shapes kind of bugs me, but having it mobile and a puzzle mode seems pretty decent.

Off-Tv play, Asymmetrical multiplayer, and anticipated first party titles make the WiiU in my opinion. No other console allows me to play games without turning on my tv (maybe the Vita, but even that's not quite the same). Heck, I can multitask and watch tv while I play the game or browse the web. You can even control your tv with it (something I've wished many times over for my 360 to be capable of).

As for Times, if you can feasibly recreate Nintendoland attractions like Luigi's Mansion or Mario Chase without a gamepad, I'll be pretty mind blown. Even if most games regulate the touch screen to a map or inventory, that's fewer times that I have to pause to look at such things.

Most people I know aren't flocking to the system now simply because the games they want aren't on it yet. I'm one of the few who bought the system anyway because I already know games I want to play are going to be on it. Smash Bros was the selling point for me. Everything else is just icing on the cake really.

@Rumbler That means that they should have a swap for the Wii Fit trainer as well. They have a male version too.

I like this change more than I expected. I can only imagine people who don't battle competitively wouldn't like it. Dragons are pretty much steamrollers this gen. I'm more interested in thier resistances and immunities though.

The World Ends With You and the Zero Escape series do exist and are Nintendo exclusive (with the exception of Virtue's Last Reward). I don't quite remember their ratings, but they are borderline mature, as far as death goes anyway.

@Jaz007 This is very true. If you've ever played Future Soldier, your squadmates are so specific with their information, it's astounding. I may have to keep an eye on this title.

I only buy used games for out of print games or really hard gems that I missed out on (had a very hard time finding Rhythm Thief for months after it came out). This usually opens me up to newer games in the series, which I buy new because I liked the previous version (Borderlands, Zero Escape series, Tales of series, etc.). The only time I would consider selling a game is if I seriously disliked it, which is rare. I don't mind when people sell games, but wished it was handled better for the developers.

For the comments regarding lending vs. piracy, should people not play multiplayer games locally because their friends didn't pay? By that logic, it sounds like yard sales should be more frowned upon.

This is easily a good game for RPG lovers and at $30, it's a decent deal. I have it physically only because it came with a CD and art book (adding more space to an already crowded room). Personally, digital is the way to go with this game if you aren't switching between systems.

@Rensch Yep, it still is the closest thing to being a trainer. If you don't have Black/White 2, I'd recommend giving those a try to tide you over for X and Y. They are the only games that top the gen 2 remakes in my opinion. There is a lot more to do, plus you can challenge the gym leaders and champs from every region (which was one of the best selling points to me). I do miss walking with my pokémon though.

This should be interesting. I'm really curious about the mechanics about the new generation more than anything.

He is kind of right, at least about the Xbox anyway. Nobody I know (myself included) has used it at all. I do however use BC on my Wii U, Wii, 3DS, and DS Lite (for Pokémon related stuff). If the 3DS could only play 3d games, Zelda would have been the only playable title I had when I got my system which would have sucked. I think the 360 has a decent library of games that this wouldn't be an issue.
Even if people don't use it much, it would have been nice to have the option.

Hopefully we get another. I love this series quite a bit.

Looks pretty cool, but am I the only one who got an "always on" feeling from the features shown? I don't really mind it, but I imagine those who don't or can't use Internet will.

@WingedFish It's supposed to be an all-in-one entertainment system.