well, that is what I get for being an early adopter. lol. my biggest complaint about the ds is the screen size. But I bought a DS at launch, and a DS Lite eventually, and a DSi at launch... I think I'll have to stop right there. I will wait for the DS2 or whatever.. three versions of the same hardware is about as far as I can go. (of course I said I wouldn't buy a DSi either, and I did...) #dsixl
Maybe when my current DS Lite breaks down I'll pick up an XL. I always dig me a bigger screen. Kinda like that fat pen, too. Might be easier to write with. Also, we're going to need some better colors. Dark Brown and Wine Red? I'm wondering how white "Natural White" might be. I'm tellin' ya, Nintendo's been crazy on the color names since the Game Boy Advance.
Wait, why say that the screen is 93% bigger than a Lite? Shouldn't we be comparing it to the DSi?
Alright, I like Nintendo, and I love my DS. But this business practice of theirs, where they release "revised" versions of their products like...6 months after the original (or "original") came out is really ridiculous. And it's a huge slap in the face to consumers.
Surely these requests for a larger screen were floating around well before the DSi came out. #top
To be fair, it was Sony and Microsoft first who introduced the endless amount of SKU's for the same product.
Xbox 360 Pro
Xbox 360 Arcade
Xbox 360 Elite
Xbox 360 Limited Editions (RE5, Call of Duty, Halo, etc.)
Playstation 3 20GB-120Gb
Playstation 3 Slim 120Gb - 250Gb
PSP
PSP2000
PSP3000
PSP Go
If anything, Nintendo is just joining the party of this trend I really am not a fan of, get it right the first time and stop pissing off the loyal customers. #dsixl
@urbanGECKO: I can do even more betterer than that! How about the Atari 2600 heavy sixer, four switch with wood grain, four switch in all black, 2600jr, Coleco Gemini, 2600 Rev 2, Rev 2 in all black, Sears Video Arcade, 2800.... #dsixl
I skipped out on the DSi, but the screen on my Lite is growing ever weirder.
Honestly, it looks like something organic is growing under the screen. At first, I thought it was just under the screen protector, so I took that off.
Alas, it's under both screens and just looks terrible. I have no idea what it is, and nothing else I've ever had, DS Phat, PSP, mp3 players, phones, etc. have ever exhibited the same symptoms.
So yeah, I'll probably be picking this up. Lime green or white, please. #dsixl
@Mr. F: Yes, and no. Haha. I thought maybe the same thing, but it lives in my backpack with all my other devices, and they're all fine, so shrug.
Here's what happened. I was playing Phantom Hourglass, and closed it into standby one night and put it in my backpack.
Then I got out my PSP and started playing FF Tactics.
4 months later when I finished Tactics (sadly literally) , I pulled out the DS to finish Phantom Hourglass, plugged it in and turned it on and BLECH, icky screen junk.
@doubtful: Rhainor is probably correct. Maybe a rainy day got some water in the system? Or maybe the PSP has a frequency that it emits with the sole purpose of destroying Nintendo machines? #dsixl
While I probably won't get it right away, I'm glad that they went bigger with this iteration.
I tried playing my roommate's DS lite while still in college. I swear I could hear my hands crying. Stuck with my DS phat ever since. Though, once enough games come out that are DSi only I will definitely pick up an XL over a normal one. #dsixl
@UltimateRuiner: I don't really mind about it cause I'm not getting it. Why are people angry about Nintendo releasing it when its got no new features except being bigger. That thing won't fit in your pocket! #dsixl
@excel_excel: I'm probably the only one that will like the pixelated graphics, which brings back good memories of me playing PC games in 320x240 res. AA can GTFO, long live jaggies! #dsixl
@excel_excel: Because people get angry at Nintendo no matter what they do. If they release a XL DSi, they're all "WHERE ARE THE GAMES?" If they release good new games, they're all, "GIVE US MORE GAMES LIKE THIS, DAMMIT!"
The internet & blogging just cast gamers in the most impatient, unforgiving light I've ever seen in my long history of gaming.
nintendo is really pushing the piss off factor with this garbage. next year, look out for the 10" triple screen TSI:LL with dual microphones you can listen to yourself blowing Nintendo's balls in stereo. seriously, they need to focus on making some GAMES. you know, GAMES?! #dsixl
I'll still buy it though.. when i dl'd it i spent about 2,5 hours with it and i didn't even start the game at that point yet. Seriously, an engineer, riding a griffin armed with a stapler is more than enough incentive for me.
Plus, it's a freakin chickmagnet.. i showed it to some girl, summoned a unicorn and a pony and she then and there, sat on my lap, and started conjuring up cutesy stuff. #dsixl
@captain zach america: not to mention you figure out quickly that everything can be solved with a pterodactyl and a tether and that any kind of imagination hurts your score because it almost always doesn't work. #dsixl
@D-K, a burning sensation: Scribblenauts should really just be renamed "if you don't type 'Wings' on every level you're an idiot". It is kinda cool to toss a toaster into a pool to kill one of those prehistoric shark megalo-whatever things, but the novelty wears off in like ten minutes. #dsixl
@ryoshi: alligator, whaler, poison, neptune, send in a ninja?
Ok, listen up: Scribblenauts is about creativity and interaction. That's it. No scores, ollars, stage time or whathaveyou, this is not a competitive game, it's laughing at what you made happen with the tools you were presented.
When littlebigplanet was released you had 500.000.000 different tools to make a level. Then came about 500.000.000 posts asking: "Where's the water"
If you feel that the game itself is hindering you in getting a good score at it, you fall in the catagory of those questioners. This is not the game for you. #dsixl
@Jonn: Spoiled manchild? How do you figure i'm a spoiled manchild?
I downloaded it so i wouldn't have to pay €220/$325, for a DS and Scribblenauts and end up not liking it.
I did like it, so i'll buy a DS next week, with the game.
I'm fairly curious about your explanation though.. #dsixl
@D-K, a burning sensation: Yeah, in an ideal game that would be true, and that's the way Scribblenauts was presented - but it's not true. Let's take that early flower gathering puzzle, for example. You've got a bee there - use a Beekeeper? Hell no, the bee will DESTROY him, even with bug spray. Use a fishing rod on the piranha? Good job, but he doesn't die when he's left out of the water, so unless you glitch him into a wall where he falls off the screen (not difficult) you're going to have to deal with him again later when you deliver the flower anyways. Then that last flower, well, good luck trying to climb up that steep wall above the lake - the controls are so bad that it's impossible to position anything to climb on without accidentally knocking it all into the water, so you're going to need to summon wings or a helicopter or a pterodactyl or a ufo to fly up there and get it anyways.
Don't give me this "you're just not creative enough" crap, the game's interactions aren't nearly extensive enough for 99% of nonconventional solutions to work - and even if they were, you still can't tell me that a good 75% of the puzzles aren't just "come up with something that lets you fly". #dsixl
@ryoshi: Used a flamethrower on the bee, a dolphin for the fish, and a hoverboard+escalator to get on the mountain.
All puzzles are do-able some just take time. Invest some time and you'll amaze yourself. If not, then you're not creative. Same thing with LBP, people went on forums saying it wouldn't work or wasn't intuitive.. this is just a way of not qaccepting that you're not that creative.
I have a way with words, synonyms and so on, therefore i can think of lots of objects to aid me in my quest. If you end up using a chopper half of the time then you're just saying to yourself: i want to beat this level, i want to be done with it. This is not the proper mindset for the game.
This rings true for any game, go in with the wrong mindset and you'll end up not-entertained. Another recent example was Brütal Legend.. #dsixl
@D-K, a burning sensation: That's great and all, but you say you've only played for 2,5 hours. The game is MUCH longer than that, and there is literally no way to creatively beat every level in a unique and entertaining way. Especially since, as I mentioned, a lot of the items just plain don't work the way they should.
I'd really appreciate it if you wouldn't say that I'm not creative, as well - I'm an artist, a composer and a writer, that's a pretty baseless assumption. The game just doesn't engender any creativity, between the horrible controls and the weak interaction system. #dsixl
@ryoshi: Being creative within confines is true art to me. I said i fiddled around with the start screen for 2.5 hours, i've sunk in about 18 hours in the actual game.
I'm not saying you're not creative, i said "Invest some time and you'll amaze yourself. If not, then you're not creative" I meant that if you don't invest time, you're not gonna be creative about it. I'm not assuming anything.
In the end it's up for interpretation, so let's not make this a thing. #dsixl
I'm still not seeing why anyone but an older person would get this. The size takes it out of the realm of actual portability and I haven't heard of anything saying they're actually upping screen resolution so I can only imagine it'll look more pixelated than the current DSi, which can already be a little annoying at times. #dsixl
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Wait, why say that the screen is 93% bigger than a Lite? Shouldn't we be comparing it to the DSi?
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Surely these requests for a larger screen were floating around well before the DSi came out. #top
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Yeah, but I'm not tech-whorish enough to bother with Apple. I don't have, nor do I ever plan to have, and Apple product. #top
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[kotaku.com] #dsixl
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Xbox 360 Pro
Xbox 360 Arcade
Xbox 360 Elite
Xbox 360 Limited Editions (RE5, Call of Duty, Halo, etc.)
Playstation 3 20GB-120Gb
Playstation 3 Slim 120Gb - 250Gb
PSP
PSP2000
PSP3000
PSP Go
If anything, Nintendo is just joining the party of this trend I really am not a fan of, get it right the first time and stop pissing off the loyal customers. #dsixl
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Honestly, it looks like something organic is growing under the screen. At first, I thought it was just under the screen protector, so I took that off.
Alas, it's under both screens and just looks terrible. I have no idea what it is, and nothing else I've ever had, DS Phat, PSP, mp3 players, phones, etc. have ever exhibited the same symptoms.
So yeah, I'll probably be picking this up. Lime green or white, please. #dsixl
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Here's what happened. I was playing Phantom Hourglass, and closed it into standby one night and put it in my backpack.
Then I got out my PSP and started playing FF Tactics.
4 months later when I finished Tactics (sadly literally) , I pulled out the DS to finish Phantom Hourglass, plugged it in and turned it on and BLECH, icky screen junk.
Took off the protectors and still there.
Then I cried for a good hour or so. #dsixl
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I tried playing my roommate's DS lite while still in college. I swear I could hear my hands crying. Stuck with my DS phat ever since. Though, once enough games come out that are DSi only I will definitely pick up an XL over a normal one. #dsixl
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I don't think they'd discontinue the old DSi already. Not unless they upped the resolution on the XL. #dsixl
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Seriously, this is CLEARLY aimed at an older demographic. Come on man, did you see the available colours?!
As for myself, I'll stick with my "old" DS Lite though. #dsixl
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The internet & blogging just cast gamers in the most impatient, unforgiving light I've ever seen in my long history of gaming.
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No way i'm playing scribblenauts, the level-5/ghibli game and Golden Sun on this tiny piece of eye-strain.
*points at neighboor's kid's DS*
Now.. any other colors than grandpa red?
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the controls are so horrid that it gets boring within an hour or two. #dsixl
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Yes, the controls are bad.
I'll still buy it though.. when i dl'd it i spent about 2,5 hours with it and i didn't even start the game at that point yet. Seriously, an engineer, riding a griffin armed with a stapler is more than enough incentive for me.
Plus, it's a freakin chickmagnet.. i showed it to some girl, summoned a unicorn and a pony and she then and there, sat on my lap, and started conjuring up cutesy stuff. #dsixl
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OK no offense, maybe it's just me, but you play your DS in front of girls? #dsixl
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Seriously, you better pack some chicks, or you risk a fine. #dsixl
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Ok, listen up: Scribblenauts is about creativity and interaction. That's it. No scores, ollars, stage time or whathaveyou, this is not a competitive game, it's laughing at what you made happen with the tools you were presented.
When littlebigplanet was released you had 500.000.000 different tools to make a level. Then came about 500.000.000 posts asking: "Where's the water"
If you feel that the game itself is hindering you in getting a good score at it, you fall in the catagory of those questioners. This is not the game for you. #dsixl
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What's it like being a spoiled manchild? #dsixl
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I downloaded it so i wouldn't have to pay €220/$325, for a DS and Scribblenauts and end up not liking it.
I did like it, so i'll buy a DS next week, with the game.
I'm fairly curious about your explanation though.. #dsixl
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Don't give me this "you're just not creative enough" crap, the game's interactions aren't nearly extensive enough for 99% of nonconventional solutions to work - and even if they were, you still can't tell me that a good 75% of the puzzles aren't just "come up with something that lets you fly". #dsixl
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All puzzles are do-able some just take time. Invest some time and you'll amaze yourself. If not, then you're not creative. Same thing with LBP, people went on forums saying it wouldn't work or wasn't intuitive.. this is just a way of not qaccepting that you're not that creative.
I have a way with words, synonyms and so on, therefore i can think of lots of objects to aid me in my quest. If you end up using a chopper half of the time then you're just saying to yourself: i want to beat this level, i want to be done with it. This is not the proper mindset for the game.
This rings true for any game, go in with the wrong mindset and you'll end up not-entertained. Another recent example was Brütal Legend.. #dsixl
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I'd really appreciate it if you wouldn't say that I'm not creative, as well - I'm an artist, a composer and a writer, that's a pretty baseless assumption. The game just doesn't engender any creativity, between the horrible controls and the weak interaction system. #dsixl
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I'm not saying you're not creative, i said "Invest some time and you'll amaze yourself. If not, then you're not creative" I meant that if you don't invest time, you're not gonna be creative about it. I'm not assuming anything.
In the end it's up for interpretation, so let's not make this a thing. #dsixl
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Good times. #dsixl
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Get pants with bigger pockets ;) #dsixl
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