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Video Games => Video Game Chat => Topic started by: Mario Maniac on July 02, 2008, 03:29:41 PM
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I've had my PSP for about 2 weeks now. At first I was really enjoying it, but when I walked into GameStop to check out the game selection, I realized it is severely limited compared to the DS. Also, most PSP games are simply dumbed-down PS2 ports.
So now I have decided to trade in my PSP for a new DS Lite.
I already have an idea of the games I want:
New SMB
Super Mario 64 DS
Metroid Prime Hunters
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Mario Kart DS
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
A few GBA games, including:
All the Super Mario Advance games
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Zero Mission
Zelda: A Link to the Past
Any other suggesstions?
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Star Fox Command
Kirby Squeak Squad
Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
These are just a few good titles.
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Kirby: Canvas Curse
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, sequels, and (haven't played it yet but) Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
WarioWare: Touched!
Elite Beat Agents, if you like rhythm games
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Thanks. It seems Nintendo has a lot more "pick up and play" titles for the DS. The reason I bought a PSP was to experience console-style games on a handheld, but handhelds aren't meant for that. That is why I want a DS now.
Does the DS have any EA Sports games? Games like NBA Live or Tiger Woods?
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Wait, I thought you wanted to play good games.
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Thats too bad that you traded in your PSP. There are alot of good PSP games out there. Here are a few:
Ape Escape
Ape Escape Acadamy
Medievil: Ressurection
Wipeout Pure
Daxter
Star Wars BattleFront 2
Star Wars Lethal Alliance
Now I'm not saying the DS is bad. But there are alot of cool games for the PSP. And also the DS lite is really cheap and breaks easily. I'm speaking from experience.
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Kirby: Squeak Squad
I don't have but I would like to have it... some day.
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If you like turn-based strategy, go with Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (GBA) and Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (DS).
Also I would heavily suggest NOT getting any sports games.
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You should definitely buy Meteos, the two games bobman37 suggested (and, if you can find it, Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis), and SPAC3 INVADERS EXTR3ME. You might also enjoy Mario Hoops 3 on 3, Namco Museum (or Namco Museum DS, since it has Pac-Man VS and some awesome games the GBA version is lacking), Arcade Advanced (a Konami collection for the GBA containing Frogger, Rush 'n' Attack, Gyruss, Scramble, Time Pilot, and Yie Ar Kung Fu; a larger collection also exists for the DS, and contains some of the aforementioned games, plus Twinbee, Gradius, Contra, and a few others), the Mega Man Zero and ZX games (avoid all other Mega Man games on the GBA and the DS, unless you want to spend a bit of money on one of the versions of Mega Man Battle Network 3, which was the only really good game in that series), Astro Boy: Omega Factor, and Gunstar Super Heroes.
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And also the DS lite is really cheap and breaks easily. I'm speaking from experience.
I agree with that statement. The DS phat is very sturdy and lasts a long time.
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Pretty much the only thing you've got to worry about is scratching the touch screen if you're an abusive psycho.
I'd suggest the following:
Geometry Wars Galaxies
The World Ends With You
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Tetris DS
Contra 4
FFTA2 (I have yet to play it, but it looks positively radicalawesome)
Touch the Dead (it's actually surprisingly good, but an acquired taste; rent it maybe)
Resident Evil: Deadly Silence
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Well, you could look at Nintendo Power's Best of the Best
1. Elite Beat Agents
2. New Super Mario Bros.
3. Mario Kart DS
4. The World Ends With You
5. Tetris DS
6. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
7. Contra 4
8. Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
9. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice For All
10. Sonic Rush Adventure
11. Trauma Center: Under the Knife
12. Professor Layton
13. Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
14. Advance Wars: Dual Strike
15. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
16. Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword
17. WarioWare: Touched
18. Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
19. Animal Crossing: World World
20. Cooking Mama
They put Advance Wars: Dual Strike, but the more recent Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is a superior game. They must be suckers for the old universe and nearly-game-breaking Dual Strikes.
Kirby Canvas Curse and Elite Beat Agents are really the two best games on DS out there if you want to see the DS do what no other platform can.
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GBA games:
Namco Museum.
WarioWare: Mega Microgame$.
WarioWare: Twisted.
DS games:
Tetris DS.
If you like multiplayer shooters, Metroid Prime Hunters.
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To be honest, Dual Strike did have a lot more features than Days of Ruin, but that's about it's only advantage it has, as DoR does have the better storyline, characters, music, balance, and best of all, online play.
Also, no one has suggested Izuna, so I'll be the first. it's what you'd call a "hardcore" game, and the sequel is due out this month. Amazon has the superior pre order poster btw.
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Kirby: Squeak Squad is fun, both easy and challenging, and has great replay value.
Diamond/Pearl are both massive games with lots of Pokemon to catch.
As for the GBA, I would recommend Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.
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I can't believe I forgot to mention The World Ends With You or the Castlevania games. Also, if you're willing to spend money on imports, there are some very good Japan-only titles - the Ouendan games (though LD already suggested the US version) and Jump Superstars/Ultimate Stars (like Smash Bros. on the DS, except with Shonen Jump characters instead of video game characters) come to mind.
I tried Izuna and didn't like it as much as the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games (especially Explorers) or the Japan-only Dungeon of Windaria. As much as I like those games, I do wish companies would just stop releasing Roguelikes on the DS altogether (same goes for real-time strategy games - I can't believe I ever thought Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings was good).
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories is sort of an acquired taste, which is why I avoided mentioning it.
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Well, now that you mention it, it does rather take some getting used to, doesn't it?
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Diamond/Pearl are both massive games with lots of Pokemon to catch.
Robots, too. Get Diamond or Pearl if you like fighting robots.
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I'll have to third The World Ends With You. Amazing game. Also, Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure are pretty good, if you ignore the story segments.
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Kirby Canvas Curse and Elite Beat Agents are really the two best games on DS out there if you want to see the DS do what no other platform can.
You could feasibly do any DS game on PC. Although, yes, I see your point.
Besides, portable EBA is better than non-portable.
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Canvas Curse would feel okay on PC, but EBA wouldn't.
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I'd recommend these games:
Mario and Luigi Partners in Time
Yoshi's Island DS
Kirby Squeak Squad
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
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Many people here have said Squeak Squad. Don't let them fool you. Canvas Curse is 17x the game Squeak Squad is.
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If you want a game that relies entirely on the touchscreen and does it extremely well, get Canvas Curse. If you want classic Kirby gameplay and don't mind if a game is really easy, get Squeak Squad. I'm inclined to agree with LD here and say that Canvas Curse is easily the better game - even though I've only played through the first world in CC and got 100% in SS.
Since no one else has suggested it yet, I'll mention Clubhouse Games.
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I just want to suggest another GBA game: Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits. It's an excellent compilation.
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To clarify, the cartridge contains Defender, Joust, Sinistar, and Robotron 2084. How much you enjoy the cartridge basically depends on how much you enjoy shmups, jousting, and weirdly-controlled robot-exploding (the arcade game used two sticks, making it difficult to port to a system with only four face buttons, counting select and start - I haven't played it in a while, but I believe it either uses the shoulder buttons to spin the gun or just fires in whatever direction you're moving, both options being kind of hard to control; however, if Geometry Wars: Galaxies is any indication, a DS version would most likely play very well).
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Canvas Curse is 17x the game Squeak Squad is.
Any game that has an unsavable Time Trial mode for the whole game is not worth $30.
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Canvas Curse would feel okay on PC, but EBA wouldn't.
Unless this thing takes off (http://gear.ign.com/articles/885/885835p1.html), which doesn't seem likely.
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ShadowBrian: Most games don't have Time Trials at all. Are you saying an added mode makes the game worse?
penguinwizard: EBA wouldn't feel good with a Wii Remote either.
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I've actually heard good things about Ninja Gaiden DS, and I'm surprised more people haven't mentioned Tetris DS
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More people haven't mentioned Tetris DS because it's rather expensive, even used (at least, that's part of why I didn't suggest it, since I had to pay $26 for the game), and because it's too easy because of infinite rotation.
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ShadowBrain: Most games don't have Time Trials at all. Are you saying an added mode makes the game worse?
No, I'm that you can't save on the Time Trial mode, which means that even Nintendo/HAL realizes the game is incredibly easy/short (don't get me wrong, though--it was still a pretty fun game).
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You can't save in SMB3, and I would never dream of calling that one's world 8 easy (actually, most of the levels of world 6 and beyond are no cakewalk).
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Unless you're a six-year-old girl (points shamefully to CT).
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You can't save in SMB3, and I would never dream of calling that one's world 8 easy (actually, most of the levels of world 6 and beyond are no cakewalk).
Yes, but you can save in Squeak Squad... just not on Time Trial mode (which raises the question... why do they let you save in the first place if they expect you to beat it in one sitting come the unlocking of TT mode?).
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Well, if you saved during a Time Trial session, then it wouldn't be a time trial. But if you're saying it doesn't save your best times in Time Trial mode, that's sad. Unless the time trial is to see how fast you can get through the entire game.
You should be able to save in SMB3. Super Mario All-Stars let you save after every world. SMB3's not easy.
I look back at Mario Kart 64's time trial mode and wonder a few things. One, why did it take up almost all of my controller pak just to save a replay? Two, why couldn't you save if you crashed into something? Did it stop you from saving if you paused the game? The games I've seen since then make me wonder whether it was inefficient at saving replays or whether kart-driving and its tracks inherently take up more memory than, say, World Driver Championship.
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You should be able to save in SMB3. Super Mario All-Stars let you save after every world. SMB3's not easy.
If you get Super Mario Advance 4, you can save even more than in the SNES version, and it's a little easier.