Official Nintendo 3DS, 3DS XL, 2DS, "New" 3DS, & "New" 2DS XL Thread.

[Tain]

Cave Story wasn't good enough to play twice, imo.

[YellerDog]

What a terrible sentiment.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

You know what I discovered that made me cry?
Street Pass/step counter doesn't seem to work if you close the system while playing a DS game. I made sure to take it with me the other day when I went on my weekly pillage of Upstate New York.
When I got home and finally got to a save point in the game I was playing, I hit the Home button only to find I had racked up no play coins! BOO TO THAT SHIT NINTENDO!
ALSO BOO TO PORTABLE GAMES THAT DON'T ALLOW YOU TO SAVE ANYWHERE OR SUSPEND PLAY!

[Yoshi]

Cave Story wasn't good enough to play twice, imo.

Or to buy for $40 when the real version was free.

[Tain]

Less ugly, too!

[Hero]

Footage of Cave Story 3D in motion:

http://www.gamespot.com/3ds/action/c...-3d-daily-demo

Woof.

It's strange to see a game that isn't even that old remade so soon. Stranger still that, given how popular it is for how it plays, the only real "value" they could add was making it 3D...which isn't that much of a value.

It's seeing the stuff like this that makes me worry about 2D games for the 3DS. I'm sure we'll see 2D gameplay stick around, but its like all the stuff coming out now pushes 3D because of the 3D screen, when there's no real gameplay value in that, and only further robs the diversity of gameplay visuals (hand drawn vs polys, etc) that the DS has embraced.

I know we're supposed to get some 2D hand-drawn stuff with 3D effects or whatever, but all I keep seeing at this point in time is 3D with 3D for the sake of 3D and nothing else. What else could explain a developer's apparent need to take a good game that did what it did really well (Cave Story) and fuss it up?

[Yoshi]

It's strange to see a game that isn't even that old remade so soon.

It came out in 2004.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

It's seeing the stuff like this that makes me worry about 2D games for the DS. I'm sure we'll see 2D gameplay stick around, but its like all the stuff coming out now pushes touch controls because of the touch screen, when there's no real gameplay value in that, and only further robs the diversity of gameplay visuals (hand drawn vs polys, etc) that the GBA has embraced.

Ok, it sort of falls apart at the end, but I think the similarity in theme between 3DS launch and DS launch is uncanny.

[FirstBlood]

And it was freeware that looked like a Genesis/SNES game. It's not even remotely surprising that when a company showed interest in bringing it to a larger audience they went with 3D.

[Hero]

It came out in 2004.

Yeah, that's still relatively new and to most customers (lol PC doesn't count!) it's even newer.