You say you perfer turn-based games with extra awesomeness and use Final Fantasy 4 as an expample? Were we both playing the same game, or was it no. 3 you were meaning to type? Don't get me wrong, it is a good game, I'm just talking in tems of mechaincs, here.

As for my recommendations for your tastes, go and download Zenonia from the eShop. It's not the best paced game you can get, but in the short time I've been able to play it for, it really splits you down the middle in a good way (don't ask me what I mean, I'm not really sure either).

If you asked me, two come to mind. One is Professor Layton and the Lost Future, but I still liked that one. What holds it back next to its frankly spectacular predecessors is the big third-act twist that was implausable even for this series. The other is Kriby Power Paintbrush, which was not only perhpas the dullest-looking Nintendo game ever, but played like reversing a golf cart across an ice skating rink.

This is what they said at TGS:http://www.technobuffalo.com/gaming/portable/sony-reveals-hardware-specs-and-3-5-hour-battery-life/(But I didn't have a REL tag in the link, why won't this blasted editor let me post links in the way it tells me to?)

The 3-5hr quote is just for playing games offline. And it takes nearly that long to charge it back up again.

But really, who didn't see this coming? Even with the bulk of the Vita, the kind of power you need for a quad-core CPU just isn't covered well enough by our current batteries. I guess I'll be buying the PS Vita S when that comes out, then.

No it isn't. That game wasn't anything like Pokemon Stadium.rubber-chicken

It's called Pokemon Battle Revolution.

Ever heard of this little thing called Monster Hunter? Anyway that is interesting, I figured they would jump to the 3DS, but their pulling their very own Twilight Princess. This will get at least one more surge of Wii sales next year and will help the Wii U. Sepewrath

What intrigues me is how all these seperate races all fit together. I know Yuji Horii can handle tabboos, but on this scale he's certainly challenging himself.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/se-event Live Stream starts Monday Sep 5th at 2PM local time

Well, it looks like that game Yuji Horii said he was making three years ago is finally in a ready enough state for him to say "I'm almost there, guys". Well, I suppose this company just has a habit of talking about games several years before they're even close to release.

Speaking as someone who's played the last one, I have no doubt that Level 5 would likely grace the project again, unless they've suddenly decided that making games that people will actually buy is the wrong direction for them ;cough;WKC2. The real question is which console are they planning it for now. It would make sense for the rest of us for development to jump ship to Wii U, but then I'm reminded how many games have sufferedfrom jumping platforms mid-development.

Everyone seems to be clambouring over each other to thank Nintendo for giving them the 20 free games because they bought a 3DS before the price cut.

I haven't been able to afford a 3DS and won't have any disposable money until just after the price drop, so I won't get them free. But that's okay, I'll just have to buy them mysel... Oh wait, "They will be exclusive to those part of the Nintendo 3DSAmbassador Programme, and there are currently*no plans to sell them in the future to other consumers."

So basically, Nintendo are pulling a Nintendo Of America on all of us who would have bought a 3DS earlier but just couldn't. It's not like they're limited to how many copies they can print, either. Since it's all digital, they can easily put these GBA games online for the rest of us to buy when we want, but they still won't. I thought the whole point of the Virtual Console was so that we could buy these old games without having to resort to priacy to play them without the original hardware, but now they're forcing potentially paying customers to do exactly that.

Does no one else feel shunned?

*I know they said 'currently' but the NES games on offer are going to be on sale.

One of the many complaints I've read about the 3DS is that all of it's big games are just remakes, and that the occasional new and interesting release always fails to impress. I know there are other problems that get more attention but this is the one that sticks in my mind, because ten years ago Nintendo did pretty much the same thing and didn't get nearly the same complaints about it.

Remember the Game Boy Advance? What were your favourite games for it? Mario 3, Link to the Past, Nightmare in Dreamland, FF6, Street Fighter 2 revival, Wolf 3D even? Noticing a pattern, are we? Yes, they are all remakes. Sure, you'd get the occasional Wario Ware or Golden Sun, but apart from that and all the film/cartoon lisences and the knock-off side-scrollers named after home console titles that were clearly just a shallow cash-grab, there was nothing. Nothing but games from years previous, with even the Mario Kart offering just being the original with some new tracks. And yet the GBA is never derided for this, but indeed held up as being one of the best systems Nintendo ever made, with even some people(who I'll never properly understand, but that's just me) holding it higher than even the original DS.

People have said that they've held off buying a 3DS until some games that aren't remakes come out. I don't really remember if people did the same for GBA, but no one ever looks back and bad mouths it for that reason. Maybe it's just because we're coming off the back of a system that had such an original line-up and the GBA didn't really have to live up to the same standard as the 3DS, maybe people have got it into their heads that handhelds aren't an ideal platform for remakes, maybe the various hardware complaints people seem to have with the 3DS are sitting in people's minds when they look at the games on the store shelf, I don't know. I just don't understand the apparent double-standards at play.

I understand all the other complaints fine, it's just the whole remakes thing that gets to me.

Why does everyone seem to hold up Lost Future as the best when that was the one that gave us a gaping plothole right near the end in regards to the big reveal on the thrid-act bad guy, on top of being completely ridiculous? Pandora's Box not only didn't have any gaping plotholes, certainly nothing that stood out within context, but was much more believable and tragic. Though Curious Village was the only one I ever got stuck on.