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Title: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: dsgirl on April 18, 2006, 06:53:31 PM: We've had online, mario kart, metroid, castlevania, advance wars, and now a fourth coming zelda, most of the major franchises have appeared, but is the best still to come? I think we've already seen it, but that by no means their is no hope in the future, there will be plenty of ground breaking titles, but WFC is what has really defined the DS.
Discuss people.

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Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Kairon on April 18, 2006, 06:56:30 PM: Pokémon.

~Carminé M. Réd
Kairon@aol.com
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Mario on April 18, 2006, 06:58:35 PM: It has only just begun.

I'm waiting for the next wave of "good" wifi titles. Tetris and Metroid are just sparkling innovation filler games, I want me some Mario Basketball! Pokemon too, that's going to be absolutely massive.
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: 18 Days on April 18, 2006, 07:12:00 PM: New Mario Bros isn't even out yet and you think the best has happend? Girl what's wrong with you! DS is all about new franchises like Nintendogs and I imagine more new franchises to rope in more of us females.
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Renny on April 18, 2006, 07:42:12 PM: I'm still waiting for my hentai games, dammit. Come on Ubi, publish that chit.
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Kairon on April 18, 2006, 07:44:37 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: Renny
I'm still waiting for my hentai games, dammit. Come on Ubi, publish that chit.

QFT. We need some DS Hentai games. I keep hearing of such games on the PSP in Japan, but never about any such DS games...

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: IceCold on April 18, 2006, 08:38:38 PM: I'm a mark for Mario platformers, especially 2D ones, so with NSMB not yet out, Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell..
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: mantidor on April 18, 2006, 08:40:54 PM: theres also this fantastic Zelda game to be released delayed this fall.
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: TrueNerd on April 18, 2006, 09:24:21 PM: Metroid Dread dude. But yeah, New SMB and Phantom Hourglass look to be freaking awesome. Phantom Hourglass especially. And even Pokemon Ranger looks interesting. I'll wait on the reviews, but it's the first Pokemon game to even interest me since Red/Blue.
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Miyamoto Osaki on April 19, 2006, 03:18:35 AM: Im waiting for Childeren Of Mana (yep, i'm one of the many fans of the 'secret of mana' series)
and will there be a english version of Ys? if there is, i want it!!!
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: stevey on April 19, 2006, 04:38:19 AM: "most of the major franchises have appeared, but is the best still to come? I think we've already seen it, "

Their still mario, zelda, and 2d metroid still coming out and will be better than the game out now and e3 is in about 20 day and that will bring new game announcements.

"QFT. We need some DS Hentai games. I keep hearing of such games on the PSP in Japan, but never about any such DS games..."

Wasn't the download game that bricks ds's a hentai game...
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Edfishy on April 19, 2006, 04:51:01 AM: Hm. Let's not forget Star Fox and F-Zero. However, I would wish that Nintendo would not develop either of those games. Hand Star Fox over to Namco, who did an astounding job with Star Fox Assault, and hand F-Zero over to Namco/Sega, who did an astounding job with F-Zero GX.
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Mario on April 19, 2006, 04:59:45 AM: As long as the same people do the music for it who did the GBA ones. F-Zero WiFi would be hot...
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: TMW on April 19, 2006, 05:36:10 AM: Erm...whut?

Starfox Assault was passable, but it was nowhere near as good as Starfox 64, and the land based missions could have used alot more tweaking.
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But...Really, the DS has been out for a little over a year and you're already talking about the "best of" games? Remember, RE4 didn't come out until the 4th year of the GC's lifecycle, and its largley considered one of the best Gamecube games ever.

There have been a ton of good games already for the DS, and as more developers come on board and more third parties get the hand of dev'ing on a DS, I think we're going to be getting alot more.
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: couchmonkey on April 19, 2006, 05:55:12 AM: Besides RE4, more evidence that many of the best games come late in a system's life:

PS2: Kingdom Hearts 2 and Shadow of the Collosus
GBA: Drill Dozer, LOZ: The Minish Cap, and Gunstar Super Heroes
N64: Perfect Dark, Paper Mario, LOZ: Majora's Mask, Conker's Bad Fur Day (yeah, I said it)
SNES: Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, SMW2: Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country 2
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 19, 2006, 06:07:52 AM: New Super Mario Brothers
Contact
Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Children of Mana
Pokemon Pearl/Diamond
Pokemon Ranger
Project Hacker
Mario Basket
Thief Wario
Tales of Tempest
Metroid Dread

And this is only stuff we KNOW about...

(Edit: And couchmonkey, I sure hope for your sake that you just "forgot" about Mother 3...)
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: hudsonhawk on April 19, 2006, 06:18:30 AM: The platform doesn't even have a good RPG yet. I think it's safe to say that there is still good stuff to come.
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: 18 Days on April 19, 2006, 08:09:54 AM: Although now that I think about it. Nintendo is probably only 3 years away from announcing the successor to DS.
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: KDR_11k on April 19, 2006, 08:26:34 AM: (-1, Flamebait)

Who the hell thinks the DS is going downwards? There's tons of games still coming. Companies like Square-Enix haven't even released their first DS game yet.

The platform doesn't even have a good RPG yet. I think it's safe to say that there is still good stuff to come.

Quite a few people who have played Mario & Luigi now want to feed you to a grue.
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: ThePerm on April 19, 2006, 08:30:23 AM: metroid dread is cancelled
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: MysticGohan on April 19, 2006, 08:35:20 AM: No it's not! it's in hiding until E3 :p Bad Perm Bad!
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 19, 2006, 08:41:45 AM: "The platform doesn't even have a good RPG yet. I think it's safe to say that there is still good stuff to come."

*punch to the gob*

"Companies like Square-Enix haven't even released their first DS game yet."

Egg Monster Heroes and Children of Mana... (I just now remembered Slime Mori 2...)

"metroid dread is cancelled"

No...
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: animecyberrat on April 19, 2006, 08:47:52 AM: ev eryone keeps forgetting Mario Party Online and Mario Sports titles Onlne. Althoui i dread the sport titles I expect they will sell systems as will mario party if its protable and online its a winner garunteed.
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: hudsonhawk on April 19, 2006, 08:53:13 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: KDR_11k

Quite a few people who have played Mario & Luigi now want to feed you to a grue.

As much as I appreciate the Zork reference, I have to say that I find M&L to be pretty weak. I'm about halfway through it and it's boring me to tears. I feel like I'm doing the same thing over and over and over again. Sure the writing is good cheeky fun, but the gameplay and design just aren't there. There's no sense of character progression, the levels are completely linear "find the switch to continue" fare, and the combat is incredibly repetitive.

A lot of people whose taste I respect really loved this game. Maybe I just don't get it, but I've found it to be the most disappointing game for the DS so far.
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Bill Aurion on April 19, 2006, 09:15:07 AM: I found M&L2 to be way better than M&L, which already was a fantastic game...

*insert massive sad frown here*
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: ShyGuy on April 19, 2006, 10:40:53 AM: Mario and Luigi Partners in Time iz teh awesomez! Vendetta!
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Edfishy on April 19, 2006, 04:25:13 PM: TMW:
Erm...whut?

Starfox Assault was passable, but it was nowhere near as good as Starfox 64, and the land based missions could have used alot more tweaking.

Well of course Star Fox 64 is better, it's a classic. But for this being Namco's first rendition of Star Fox, I felt they got most of the angles down pat. With the criticism from 'Assault, I'm sure their next version would be gold.

Besides which, I feel Nintendo should stop re-developing their classics and just let third parties handle it(With supervision of course). It's quite a waste of talent, and they know the games will sell by name anyway.
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: dsgirl on April 19, 2006, 04:29:03 PM: lol....how about a naruto on ds

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Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Kairon on April 19, 2006, 04:34:07 PM: Just get Capcom to pump out Phoenix Wright Sequel after Phoenix Wright sequel and I'll be set.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: 18 Days on April 19, 2006, 10:10:29 PM: I have just been told exclusive insider NDA protected infomation regarding E3 and I can confirm that new DS games will be announced.
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: soracloudtidus on April 20, 2006, 08:09:40 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: 18 Days
I have just been told exclusive insider NDA protected infomation regarding E3 and I can confirm that new DS games will be announced.

I could have told you that without the insider info
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Rhoq on April 20, 2006, 08:14:16 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: Kairon
Just get Capcom to pump out Phoenix Wright Sequel after Phoenix Wright sequel and I'll be set.

I agree. Hopefully we'll hear something at E3. I would love to see a sequel before the end of the year.
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Garnee on April 22, 2006, 07:28:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: IceCold
I'm a mark for Mario platformers, especially 2D ones, so with NSMB not yet out, Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell..

NSMB? N***a stole my bike?
Title: RE:Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: Crimm on April 29, 2006, 04:19:25 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: Renny
I'm still waiting for my hentai games, dammit. Come on Ubi, publish that chit.

There was a game being developed that had this weird pet thing that supposedly taught girls to "care" for themselves by petting an animal like creature. If that found a publisher I'd die from laughter.
Title: RE: Has the best of the DS come and gone
Post by: KDR_11k on April 29, 2006, 10:00:54 PM: Lapis? That was an entry for a competition to design a game about sex.