GameDadGrant

There are so many different ways to play Street Fighter II on this system. You should get arcade sticks for Switch!

Never. Buy. A Playstation. At. Launch. People don't learn, apparently.

Oh snap! Though last I checked pre-orders for that were not available yet. Has that changed?

Congrats! Consider these pick-ups: Mario x Rabbids: Kingdom Battle Octopath Traveler Astral Chain ULTRA Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers Monster Hunter Generations ULTIMATE Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity MARVEL: Ultimate Alliance 3 and consider pre-ordering: Bayonetta 3 No More Heroes 3 Monster Hunter Rise Bravely Default II

Hey. HEY. I'm not that old. I'm not sure what you're talking about when you brought up console games, but totally agree with you on both Advance Wars and F-Zero. Especially the latter. Is it nuts we've had more from the Excitebike/Truck/Bots franchise than we have from F-Zero in the past decade or so? I think the answer is YES. Hmm. I don't care for the 2DS screens - I feel they are lower quality than the 3D ones. Which...I suppose shouldn't matter *too* much since the 3DS family of systems weren't exactly powerhouses when it came to graphics in the first place. But I still prefer the stereoscopic 3D effect. I thought it was cool and a fairly unique visual trick that no one else was really doing at the time. I was sold when it looked like Fox McCloud's Arwing was literally flying out of the screen and the nose of the ship was about to poke me in the eye, LOL. But...that's just me. I suppose it was a different experience for other people, like yourself. By the way, you know you could turn off the 3D effect with the 3D models of the system, right? You didn't really have to wait until the 2DS to come out.

Nobody: Absolutely no one: Not a single soul: Me: "Did someone want to talk about the Nintendo 3DS? Let's talk about the Nintendo 3DS! Alright!" So. It's 2020. Nintendo has officially discontinued their stereoscopic 3D handheld system, the fairly successful Nintendo 3DS. I really dug this portable, and it had a pretty good run! Sold around 75 MILLION units over its lifetime, had a ton of great hardware revisions, and most importantly, tons of great SOFTWARE. Both games and applications, but I wanna talk about games. And while the 3DS library has many, many great games on it, I feel like it was missing a small handful of titles that would have made it feel really complete. (I mean, it IS complete already, but these would have been nice feathers in the 3DS's proverbial cap) What games are those, you ask? Here's my list of games I feel the Nintendo 3DS SHOULD HAVE had (and almost did!): 5.) Advance Wars I think this goes without saying, but let's talk about the elephant in the room. The 3DS needed an new entry in the Advance Wars series. It seemed Nintendo was pretty much laser-focused on making sure Intelligent Systems made the Fire Emblem franchise as successful as possible last generation. And while that worked (definitely worked!)...what cost did it take to make that happen? Apparently, the silence (or death?!) of the Advance Wars games. Which is a shame, because the series was such a great fit for the handheld platform. It worked fantastically on the original DS (twice!) but apparently it was not in the cards for the 3DS. And unfortunately, no third party or indie developer would make an Advance Wars-style game until Wargroove, which came out after the 3DS was really a "thing" anymore. It's a bummer, but at least 3DS is backwards compatible with Dual Strike and Days of Ruin. By the way, if you guys get the chance, check out Intelligent System's other turn-based strategy game, Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. - it's actually pretty good! 4.) Assassin's Creed Yeah, this would have been a fun handheld game! And for anyone out there that thinks, "Well, the 3DS is kind of a kid's system, would an M-rated game like this really work on this?" First of all, shut up. And second? There were already TWO Assassin's Creed games on the 3DS's predecessor! And don't tell me it wouldn't have been COOL AS HELL to climb up a big building or tower and look down on the city in MIND-BOGGLING STEREOSCOPIC 3D! The sense of height and scale would have been incredible, I think. Funny enough, Ubisoft was actually developing a game in this series for the 3DS (called Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy), but apparently the size/scale of the game got "too big" for the handheld, and eventually a lot of the ideas got reshaped and then used in Assassin's Creed: Revelations. So...I guess the silver lining here is, we may not have gotten the game on 3DS, but at least a version of the game did come out (on consoles) so it's not like we missed out on the game entirely. Glass half full! 3.) Call of Duty It's really odd how few FPS games actually came out on 3DS. The stereoscopic 3D seems like it would have been a shoo-in for the system, but...apparently NOT! Which is really a missed opportunity for Activision. A 3DS-specific Call of Duty game would have been an ENORMOUS fish in an incredibly small pond. And again, anyone saying a game like this wouldn't "fit" on 3DS...first of all, look at all the CoD games on the original DS, and also, look at all the other M-rated games on 3DS like Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon (though that last one might be T...but whatever). Really strange this never happened, and I'm still a bit baffled as to why. 2.) F-Zero Of course, of course. We're all waiting for the next entry in the F-Zero series. It kind of goes without saying, but I figured I'd say it anyway. This should have happened. Either a port of F-Zero GX, or (preferrably, IMO) a remake of the N64 game, F-Zero X. That game needs a face-lift, and the 3DS would have been a PERFECT spot for that to happen. I'm not entirely sure what developer GREZZO was doing between the release of Ocarina of Time 3D and Majora's Mask 3D, but is it too wild of an idea that they could have spent some time doing a remake of ONE more N64 game for the 3DS? Or maybe Monster Games? Or heck, let Shin'en make it. They clearly WANT to make an F-Zero game, and they clearly had a firm grasp of the 3DS architecture. Ah well, another missed opportunity, IMO. 1.) Grand Theft Auto Alright, if any of the previous suggestions didn't cause too many "pah! how outlandish!" remarks, this one might. It may seem like the most controversial, but when you think about it? It's not, really. The Grand Theft Auto series doesn't *seem* like it has much history with Nintendo, but that's usually because people only think of Nintendo CONSOLES. But on handhelds? The truth is, Grand Theft Auto has a LONG history with Nintendo. The series had appeared on EVERY. SINGLE. NINTENDO. HANDHELD. As far back as the original Game Boy, all the way up to the original Nintendo DS. The 3DS had the horsepower to make a game like this (open-world, free-roaming games like LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins and DRIVER: Renegade are proof of that) and it wouldn't have been too out of place for Rockstar to release this. So why didn't it happen? My thoughts are multifold. A: The company just pretty much gave up on handheld systems. I mean, they didn't even bother to put a GTA on the Playstation Vita. B: Rockstar had basically put the GTA series on hold during this era. Think about it; a new GTA hasn't been made since Grand Theft Auto V - TWO generations ago! (yeah, two generations, the new Xbox and Playstations are out now, it counts!) And finally, C: By the time Rockstar got around to making a portable game in the series, they put it on the always-online mobile platform where...I guess they felt they could make more money. Which probably is true, if I'm being honest with myself. Still, would've been cool to see an entry of this series on 3DS. SO! Those are my thoughts. What are yours? And thanks for indulging me and letting me talk/vent about the 3DS...a system that may be in the back of everyone's mind at this point. But hopefully not forgotten. Cheers, everyone!

*Looks up from playing Switch* ”...TV?”

Pretty sure I want, even though it's so weird.

Interesting that the Switch is getting these “Cloud Edition” versions of games. I haven’t tried it, but have a buddy that has and...it actually works pretty decently!?! Not sure how I feel about a game or two that I can’t play *anywhere* on my portable, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

I’m on board. Seems I’m buying more DLC for games lately than new games anymore. (Smash Ultimate, MK11, Pokémon), etc.

I mean...cool? I guess? I dunno, maybe I’ll just play Shadow Dragon on DS instead.

I've had to send in four pairs of JoyCon to Nintendo for repairs. Had the Switch since launch. It's an issue. Thankfully, I've had zero problems with my Switch Lite. Though I probably just jinxed myself typing that, lol.

I honestly can't remember if I've played this before or not. A lot of the Need for Speed games kinda blur together for me. It *is* kinda interesting this is coming to Switch, too. EA has been pretty lukewarm on the system, so this was a surprise. I guess Burnout Paradise: Remastered sold well enough on Switch for EA to have another go with Nintendo.

From what I’ve seen, the initial reaction was “WHAT?! YUCK!” But then later most people warmed up to the character and the unorthodox moveset. Especially after Sakurai‘ s tutorial video.

Yeah I feel as if Nintendo’s E3 was simply spread across 2020. Lots of pretty decent stuff was announced (and some released) this year. Heck, IGN didn’t even mention some stuff, like Bravely Default II for example. Still bummed there wasn’t an E3 this year...but in terms of getting news and having games to play? Things actually weren’t bad at all.

Well, technically it plays three games: Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros. 2 and Ball. What is more baffling is that it won’t feature the *actual* Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.. Seems like a huge missed opportunity. Oh well still buying it.

This is the Ori game that the guy that made AM2R worked on, I think?

Same

Update on Bayonetta 3, kthxbye.

Wow, a lot of PS4 love around these parts! Me? Just waiting for Crown Tundra. Then 2020 will be complete.

Interesting... ...still buying, of course.

Maybe want.

*cries in dual screens*

This is all cool stuff (I’m on board with @chakoo - definitely getting the Game & Watch!) but Nintendo can get bent on this whole “limited time release then these games are going into the ‘Disney Vault’ for an unspecified amount of time!” garbage. Galaxy 2 being dropped 6 months ago was a joke, btw. Twitter is a funny place!

@chakoo The music in the DS remake of the second game is excellent! Yeah, shame they didn’t come out here in North America. Wait, right? Or did they release them in the West? And I just missed that news somehow?