10th January 2007, 7:28 PM
Quote:Original DS?! ORIGINAL?! Eh, okay. At least one of those games is online. Too bad Prime Hunters is not exactly the best of games
Actually, Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin is online too. It's pretty much just a 2-player boss challenge thing, but it IS online...
As for why it's an original...
Used original DS at EB/Gamestop: $90
Used DS Lite at EB/Gamestop: $120
Used DS at local store (almost always just original models; original and lite would both be the same price, but that'd require actually finding a used Lite there, which I don't think I've ever seen...): $100
New DS Lite: $130
... so of course I got the cheapest option available. :)
Quote:And you should have gotten Contact, Magical Starsign, or Children of Mana instead of Lunar Dragon Song [which is not a very good game].
I got Castlevania and Guilty Gear new with the DS yesterday, then today I got Touch Detective new and then the other three used -- it's buy two, get one free, so I had a limited selection... at $25 there was Metroid Hunters, Yoshi Touch n Go, and Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime, and at $15 there was The Rub Rabbits, the first one in that series (XX/XY whatever), Lunar, and that's about it...
One store does have some good prices though -- $2 to $6 below list price for a lot of new games... so (listing games I'm interested in getting)
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - $30.90
Touch Detective, Megaman ZX, Summon Night 1 or 2 (GBA; I have the first one, but not the second) - $26.33
Children of Mana, Magical Starsign - $28.60
Mazes of Fate (GBA) - $27.something
I could have gotten two of those games or one and three used ones, and I chose the option that got me more games... and I was tempted by Children of Mana, Megaman ZX, and Magical Starsign, but I stuck with Touch Detective.
... and besides, though I know it's probably not that good, I loved Lunar on Sega CD and liked Lunar Legends on GBA enough to actually finish it, so...
Quote:Why didn't you buy Mario Kart??
I'm sure I'll get it eventually, but it's $35 here in town and was $30 used at the mall, but I didn't get it. (I didn't own any Mario Kart games until last year, you know... Super Mario Kart last year (which is good, but somewhat overrated), then Mario Kart 64 (great game) this year, and that's what I have...) If there was a good DS futuristic racing game I'd almost certainly have gotten it though... F-Zero, classic-style Rush, Wipeout (I know, PSP), Extreme-G, whatever...
Quote:Sony has alienated a lot of gamers with their decisions of late, Nintendo has something new and fresh to offer, and X-Box is just doing what it did last gen.
The current favorite is the Wii. Nintendo can (nay, must) keep this up and prove that their system, while graphically inferior, offers something better than its competitors.
Oh, and nobody is buying a system that costs $599 US Dollars as an impulse buy.
Yeah, that's definitely true. PS3's biggest problem is definitely the price, though its lacking game selection isn't helping things... the Wii's Q1 lineup is pretty bad, but PS3? I don't think it's got much either, and its launch lineup is so much worse...
X360s are selling, though, and they are not cheap to say the least (and have a horrible reliability record), so people WILL buy expensive systems if they think it's worth it... PS3 is just too expensive, and hasn't proven itsself worth it. You know you've got a problem when game store employees even have bad things to say about Sony... :)