Topic: What Kind of Games should the 3DS have?

[Kytim89]

With the advent of the new Nintendo handheld on the horizon and the fact that it will play games in 3D, I can not help but think of all the cool games that will release for the system. In doing so, I have compiled a list of release titles and eventual release games for the system.
 
No More Heroes 3DS
MadWorld 3DS
Mass Effect 3DS
Super Smash Brothers Rumble 3DS
Punch-out 3DS
New Super Mario Brothers 2 in 3D
Super Mario Galaxy 3DS
Dead Space 3DS
Dante's Inferno 3DS
Final Fantasy 5-9 in 3D
Fear Effect 1 and 2 3DS
Red Steel 3DS
Conduit 3DS
DS Sports
DS Fit
DS Music
 

[Mop it up]

The system needs games that can actually benefit from being in 3D and not just having it tacked-on or halfhearted as a gimmick. I'm not sure if any of the games you mentioned are a good fit.

No More Heroes 3DS
MadWorld 3DS
Mass Effect 3DS
Dead Space 3DS
Dante's Inferno 3DS
Fear Effect 1 and 2 3DS

These types of games tend to be poor on handhelds, they perform much better on television systems. I've never played any of them though, so I don't know if being in 3D would enhance the experience.

Super Smash Brothers Rumble 3DS
New Super Mario Brothers 2 in 3D

These games have 2D movement so I can't see them benefiting form 3D. They would be like Wario Land and Mario Clash on Virtual Boy where they could have easily appeared on any other system, and the 3D aspect was nothing more than a cheap gimmick.

Punch-out 3DS

Now this one could be interesting. It'd be nerve-wracking if your opponent's punches jumped right out at you.

Red Steel 3DS
Conduit 3DS

Shooters might work too, especially if they use a first-person perspective. Imagine bullets whizzing by or explosions coming right at you.

DS Sports
DS Fit
DS Music

Any music game would be pointless on 3DS since it's all about sound. Similarly, I don't see the point of a fitness game either. Wii Sports is all about the control, so unless the 3DS has something to introduce in terms of control, it wouldn't be very interesting.

[nickmitch]

What she said. You can't just tack on "3DS" to any random game title and have a hit.

Anyway, I'd hope for a Wario Ware game at launch. Wario Ware was a good launch title for DS and an ok one for Wii. It'll definitely help people see the benefits of the 3DS control scheme and show off possibilities.

[Spinnzilla]

Sim City 3DS would be the ****. 
 
Also pokemon. Could you imagine flamethrowers and hydro pumps coming at you? 

[BlackNMild2k1]

I was planning on not responding to this thread for reasons I need not share, but I'll just add
Descent 3DS especially if we get some sort of 3 dimensional spacial stylus tracking.

[Stratos]

I was planning on not responding to this thread for reasons I need not share, but I'll just add
Descent 3DS especially if we get some sort of 3 dimensional spacial stylus tracking.

Do. Want. I loved the old ones. The first was a classic for me. The count down timer as I tried to escape the level was always pretty tense.

F-Zero could be interesting with 3D.

[Kytim89]

What I wanted is for those games to take advantage of what ever hard ware upgrade that Nintendo put in the next system.

[Shorty McNostril]

I wouldn't get my hopes up on stuff jumping out of the screen if I were you.  I think you will be disappointed.  I have a niggling feeling it will be depth only.  But I sooooooooooooo hope I am wrong.

[Kytim89]

So you guys would mot be interested in playing No More Heroes on a handheld with force feedback, rumble and 3D screens? It seems like it would be an awesome experience if it were to happen.

[GearBoxClock]

No More Heroes just doesn't seem like it would work on a handheld, but thats just me

[nickmitch]

No More Heroes just doesn't seem like it would work on a handheld, but thats just me

No, I don't think it would work either. I'm not the biggest fan of bringing console titles down to handhelds. While the DS and 3DS would add something you couldn't get on a console, the end product would still be watered down in some other ways. This doesn't really apply to 2D games, like Metroid.

Back to the question at hand: Metroid.

[Stratos]

I think NMH could work really well on the DS. Make it a side-scrolling 2D brawler/beat-em-up like River City Ransom or similar to GTA Chinatown Wars with those 8-bit mini games injected into the mix could be rather fun.

[Kytim89]

I think NMH could work really well on the DS. Make it a side-scrolling 2D brawler/beat-em-up like River City Ransom or similar to GTA Chinatown Wars with those 8-bit mini games injected into the mix could be rather fun.

If the 3DS has PSP style graphics then I would want NMH to be done with the kind of graphics that a PSP game currently has at its disposal. Basically I just want to take a NMH game on the go and who would not want that to happen?
 
As for such games as Mass Effect and Dead Space for the 3DS, same principle as NHM. Mix in what ever motion controls and force feed/rumble and these games would be a winner. Imagine playing a Dead Space DS game where a necromorph jumps out at you and it looks like the image is coming out of the screen and you have to swipe it with a stylus to break it loose from attacking your character.
 
What are the chances of a Mass Effect game making it to a Nintendo console? Probably slim, but Bioware has stated in the past that they are interested in developing for the DS(Sonic Chronics). Perhaps it could happen after all.

[Stratos]

I don't think I'd be comfortable playing a game like NMH on the go. I'd get to many angry parents attacking me when Travis yells "**** heads!!" I prefer to play those things at home.

[Kytim89]

I don't think I'd be comfortable playing a game like NMH on the go. I'd get to many angry parents attacking me when Travis yells "**** heads!!" I prefer to play those things at home.

Dude, wear head phones. If I were in that situation, I would just tell the mom to mind her own **** buisness.

[Stratos]

I watched a mom call the cops on a 13 year old because the teen wouldn't stop using profanity in front of her young child at work. Plus I'm not rude like that. I also hate using headphones when I game.

I'll just play it at home like I do with most of my DS games. I find I rarely play 'on the go'. It's more convenient to play from bed when it's cold or before I go to sleep.

[KDR_11k]

The obvious choice is Star Fox, after all you move into the depth of the screen.

[NWR_insanolord]

I think the genre that would benefit the most from the 3D would be puzzle games. I'd love to be able to play Picross 3D with the effects of the 3DS screen.

[Stratos]

Tetrisphere 3DS would be awesome.

[SixthAngel]

I had an idea for a game a few days ago.

Enemies are far away and slowly move towards the screen and you have to shoot them before they reach the screen.  When the reach the screen part they start to break the "screen" and if you don't stob them in time they pop out at you and you lose.  I think it would combine the depth and pop of 3d well.

[Kytim89]

I find the games on my lisy to be intriging to have on a handheld. A 3D handheld starfox game would be pretty good. However, I do not care that much about puzzle, but I do care about action-adventure games on the device.

[nickmitch]

Tetrisphere 3DS would be awesome.

This.

I'd like to see what Nintendo could do to modernize some Virtual Boy games. You know, add color, graphics, take out the eye bleeding part, etc.

[Stratos]

Mario Clash was pretty good in and of itself.

They could revive the dead Super Mario Virtual Boy game and incorporate depth into the actual gameplay.

[Spak-Spang]

I want Nintendo 3DS, to be like the Nintendo DS and Wii are currently. 

Capable to do all games, and functionally doing all kinds of games.  I want to be a haven for new ideas, old ideas, classic 2D, Puzzle and modern 3D games. 

I don't want variety and fun ideas for most...I don't care about individual titles like saying I want No More Heroes or what not.  Those will come.  What I want is to make sure the ideas and variety that has always been available on the DS remains.

[Ian Sane]

I want new games that are good that I feel I couldn't have been played on the DS.  It doesn't have to have 3D visuals.  It can just be a game that makes enough use of the additional horsepower that the DS couldn't have had it.  This assuming the 3DS will be a big step up and not just "two DS's duct taped together".

If I'm playing a game where it's like a DS game only with 3D visuals that add nothing to the game and lose their novelty value quickly then I'm going to be disappointing.  I do not want the portable equivalent of waggle.  I'm very skeptical of what additional value 3D adds to games.  It sounds very superfiscial in theory so Nintendo is going to have to really prove the concept to me.

Though since the hardware is likely going to be something similar to what previous consoles were capable of I will look at it from the point of view of a portable.  If it has Gamecube graphics then I could say "well this could have been a Gamecube game" but I think the ability to have such a game on a portable is justification enough.  I will compare it to other portables, not all other videogames.  It just wouldn't be fair otherwise.