findhorn_elves
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Its a definit Buy for me what about you guys?
3DS thoughts and discussion buy or epic fail!
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Its a definit Buy for me what about you guys?I never play my ds and i play my psp een less so. Still I will buy it . I never actually finished Zelda OOT so an enhnaced 3d verison is pretty good. I'm gong to reserve 2 and hopefully sell one and get enough money to pay partial or fully for mine.
Wanted to also add that the only 3ds games i'm interested in are all old classics or new verisons of classic characters.
Wanted to also add that the only 3ds games i'm interested in are all old classics or new verisons of classic characters.
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Never bought a Nintendo product in my life ... I liked the DS a lot though, and almost got one, but all the stuff I liked about it turned out to be just short of the mark when trying them in real-life. I'm definitely intrigued by the 3DS, but will remain as skeptical as ever. I probably don't have a heart, but just about none of Nintendo's first party titles ever clicked with me except for the Tennis game in Wii Sports, and a bunch of stuff in Sports Resort (but I haven't had much chance to try). The only one that I haven't tried yet that might do it is Mario Galaxy 1 or 2, which I think I may like (though it would be the very first Mario platformer that I'd like). Perhaps they can put Galaxy 3 on the 3DS. The format of the game would be great for exploring all sorts of weird 3D based gameplay aspects and in general the whole setup of the game with all the planets and such could work great in 3D. I hear 2 has some wicked gravity elements that could benefit from 3D as well, so they could maybe port that one too.
If the 3DS remains void of competition in the foreseeable future and the launch price is sweet enough, I may go for it, depending on how full-scale 3D tvs look by that time, for which I will have been saving up. So I guess that if 3D tvs aren't to the standard I've set myself yet by then (I don't care about the glasses, but if it is clear that glassless TV will come soon enough at a good enough price, I may hold out - I doubt I'll be able to though, if GT5 does come out this year and 3D Nurburgring is going to be as cool as I'm hoping, because in that case I'll gladly drop 1000 euro on a 3D TV even if it is just for that! If taxes and insurance weren't so high on owning a car here, I'd have bought an old Alfa 155 or whatever together with a friend just for driving a few laps on the real Ring once a month ).
Anyway, definitely interested, as I always am in new technology and 3D is a big one for me, and if I didn't have such a troubled history with Nintendo it woudl probably be an instant-buy, just because ... (and again, it's probably me, I probably looked at most Nintendo products owning Atari and Commodore 8bit machines throughout my childhood not unlike hardcore PC fans look down on 360/PS3 versions of multi-platform games today, and Nintendo has a history of sucking a whole lot more and coming to market many years too late in Europe compared to the rest of the world, and then dominating the handheld marketplace with overpriced crap - at least that's how I saw the gameboy at the time, which only seemed to be able to play games that I'd already played to death on 8bit platforms years before)
I liked the DS a lot though, and almost got one, but all the stuff I liked about it turned out to be just short of the mark when trying them in real-life. I'm definitely intrigued by the 3DS, but will remain as skeptical as ever. I probably don't have a heart, but just about none of Nintendo's first party titles ever clicked with me except for the Tennis game in Wii Sports, and a bunch of stuff in Sports Resort (but I haven't had much chance to try). The only one that I haven't tried yet that might do it is Mario Galaxy 1 or 2, which I think I may like (though it would be the very first Mario platformer that I'd like). Perhaps they can put Galaxy 3 on the 3DS. The format of the game would be great for exploring all sorts of weird 3D based gameplay aspects and in general the whole setup of the game with all the planets and such could work great in 3D. I hear 2 has some wicked gravity elements that could benefit from 3D as well, so they could maybe port that one too.If the 3DS remains void of competition in the foreseeable future and the launch price is sweet enough, I may go for it, depending on how full-scale 3D tvs look by that time, for which I will have been saving up. So I guess that if 3D tvs aren't to the standard I've set myself yet by then (I don't care about the glasses, but if it is clear that glassless TV will come soon enough at a good enough price, I may hold out - I doubt I'll be able to though, if GT5 does come out this year and 3D Nurburgring is going to be as cool as I'm hoping, because in that case I'll gladly drop 1000 euro on a 3D TV even if it is just for that! If taxes and insurance weren't so high on owning a car here, I'd have bought an old Alfa 155 or whatever together with a friend just for driving a few laps on the real Ring once a month
).Anyway, definitely interested, as I always am in new technology and 3D is a big one for me, and if I didn't have such a troubled history with Nintendo it woudl probably be an instant-buy, just because ... (and again, it's probably me, I probably looked at most Nintendo products owning Atari and Commodore 8bit machines throughout my childhood not unlike hardcore PC fans look down on 360/PS3 versions of multi-platform games today, and Nintendo has a history of sucking a whole lot more and coming to market many years too late in Europe compared to the rest of the world, and then dominating the handheld marketplace with overpriced crap
- at least that's how I saw the gameboy at the time, which only seemed to be able to play games that I'd already played to death on 8bit platforms years before)The DS's third party lineup alone should be enough reason to get a DS. Most of my catalogue consists of 3rd party software titles (Shiren, Shin Megami Tensei, Retro Game Challenge, Knights in the Nightmare). I think the problem is the perception that all of Nintendo's hardware consists of nothing but first party support, which is a pretty biased perception if you ask me.Never bought a Nintendo product in my life ...
I coudn't see how the DS could be "short off the mark" while others seem to be okay considering its successful library (and since the 3DS is backwards compatible, I don't see why not).
Definitely interested. Score one for Nintendo. And the 3D camera sounds awesome.
It really seems to have it all. Enough power to make it the most powerful standard handheld anyway, plus a "gimmick" that's actually intriguing. And I'm a guy that's normally very skeptical/dismissive of Nintendo hardware (IE DS, Wii).
Not sure if I would actually buy one depending on the price, but I'm interested.
It really seems to have it all. Enough power to make it the most powerful standard handheld anyway, plus a "gimmick" that's actually intriguing. And I'm a guy that's normally very skeptical/dismissive of Nintendo hardware (IE DS, Wii).
Not sure if I would actually buy one depending on the price, but I'm interested.
RenegadeRocks
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I just want to see glassless 3D in motion ! Other than that I am least interested in anything Nintendo unless devs start making games for it like they make for PSs and Xboxs.
I am not much of a portable device fan, but I want to see glassless 3D in motion !
I am not much of a portable device fan, but I want to see glassless 3D in motion
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Glasses would never work with a portable - too much faff. The home use of glasses is far from ideal but there's no other technology for group-viewing 3D at the moment, and won't be for a long time. So either you say 3D isn't worth a damn as it doesn't bring any worthwhile to entertainment, in which case the CE people have wasted their time, or you see 3D as something worth having, in which case glasses are a requirement so you shouldn't insult them as being 'CE tards.'
As for 3DS, it has got me interested, but I guess only out of curiosity. 3D to me seems most important for FP/TP viewpoint games, like shooters and racers, which aren't the best titles for a handheld. For the things that DS is known for, 3D isn't a game-changer but a novelty. I personally wouldn't call that 'getting it right,' designing a 3D platform that isn't ideally suited for immersive 3D gaming.
You're assuming that people were protesting at the lack of having 3D in their home. The CE's rushed to market with a product. You don't think having 3D glasses bound to a specific manufacturer is retarded? I wouldn't be shocked if the same glasses don't work for the same manufacturer a few years from now as they start heading down the r&d path and discover better ways to implement it.
No CE wanted to get beat to the market with 3D, so they did whatever worked for them to get it out there. In the end, as with most CE decisions, the consumers get screwed. Then again, they have conditioned consumers to such over many decades so the responses are in line.
No CE wanted to get beat to the market with 3D, so they did whatever worked for them to get it out there. In the end, as with most CE decisions, the consumers get screwed. Then again, they have conditioned consumers to such over many decades so the responses are in line.
No more so than they were protesting not having 3D in their handhelds. What do you think 3D is going to bring to portable gaming that makes it worthwhile, but which has nothing to contribute to home-console gaming?
In that case you might want to take a few minutes to look at some of the third party games already announced. Such as Res Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Assassins Creed, Saints Row, Street Fighter, Ridge Racer, Ninja Gaiden, and so on.
3D is an improvement in all sorts of game genre's, for instance I can see platformers being improved with the added depth making jumping between platforms more accurate. Also its quite obvious that 3DS will be capable of much deeper/more immersive games then DS was known for.
Silent_Buddha
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Well, it's a bit hard to tell how games will benefit and what the total benefit will be. With something this radical (3D + much more power) I don't think we can use anything on the original DS to predict what will happen on the 3DS.
I'll be picking one up day one for sure, not only due to curiosity over 3D without glasses, but also since I've been tempted to pick up a DS for a while, but never had anything compelling enough to push me over the edge when I already had a portable device (PSP).
I just wish it had a bigger screen.
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SB
I don't disagree, but those same benefits would come to home consoles too. Rangers is saying that where 3D is a worthwhile addition to a handheld, they shouldn't have bothered with home displays until they have glasses-free tech, which would mean everything 3D about 3DS would be limited to it's 3.5" screen. surely you'd appreciate being able to take 3D photos with it and then view them on your 40" home TV?
Also I'm not convinced 3D will lead to deeper games. DS had some great titles because of the touch interface. 3D allows you to perceive depth which is nice, but perspective cameras means much of the gameplay for 3D has existed for decades. Paper Mario will look far cooler, but be no deeper.
I was expecting maybe a pressure sensitive pen interface so you could also control stuff in actual 3D ... 3D and 3D motion control is a much bigger win than 3D just by itself, although I personally do think it should be possible to do more with just 3D as well - it's so much easier to see when an object will hit something in 3D with a proper 3D display. Initial reports indicated that stuff like 3D platforming was much easier to do on the 3DS, and I believe that, just as it was immediately clear on which plane you were running with LittleBigPlanet. I think the significance of 3D is greatly underestimated by a lot of people right now. Stuff like judging when to swing on a pitched ball for instance would be much easier if you saw it coming at you in 3D, judging a shot in pool is going to be easier in 3D, etc. ... (I think I could go on for quite a long time)
How many TVs do you only watch from dead on straight within a distance interval of around 1 meter?
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