Nintendo Downloads - October 2012

Neo Child said:
okay, I know I'm just saying I thought it'd be actually hard where I die a few times. that's what I mean, the hard pack is built for good players I imagine to test their skills but doesn't do much of that.
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Relative to you, there isn't very many "good players" on the globe at all. Relative to the average person that plays NSMB (which is a lot), then the pack is difficult.

If you knew that difficulty was subjective you wouldn't be whining about how your god-like skills aren't being given any challenges.

EDIT: To corroborate my point, note that the OT for NSMB2 is full of people remarking on the notable difficulty of the hard DLC pack.
 
Stumpokapow said:
The bizarre thing is that Crosswords DS, which came out before the mobile revolution, cost $20. So not only are they unaware of how value has changed, they actually think essentially the same product is worth more now.
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That's what confounds me about Nintendo. They created a "cheap" line of games on the DS (Touch Generation) to attract non-gamers with. 19.99 was the pricepoint. Since then Apple/Android have blown everyone out of the water, and Nintendo's answer to that is to raise the price of their games without doing anything to increase the game's value. And based on that "I'm not a gamer" ad campaign, they're targeting the same people that bought it the first time. Those people are long gone, and they're not coming back for bad 30 dollar crossword puzzles.
 
hardcastlemccormick said:
Relative to you, there isn't very many "good players" on the globe at all. Relative to the average person that plays NSMB (which is a lot), then the pack is difficult.

If you knew that difficulty was subjective you wouldn't be whining about how your god-like skills aren't being given any challenges.
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smb3 kicks my ass, I'm just hoping bigger levels come out

but yeh I pretty much do have godlike skills in mario games
 
I wonder when we'll be getting those retail games on the eShop? Stuff like Mario Kart 7, Mario Tennis and Mario 3D Land would benefit from always being on my system.

Hopefully more is added--I'd like Tetris Axis, Dead or Alive, Bit Trip Saga, Theaterhythm, Rhythm Thief and a few others to be there permanently.
 
Neo Child said:
smb3 kicks my ass, I'm just hoping bigger levels come out

but yeh I pretty much do have godlike skills in mario games
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I have to build up my platforming skills for every game individually, so I get what you mean SMB3 being harder.

Colonel Mustard said:
I wonder when we'll be getting those retail games on the eShop? Stuff like Mario Kart 7, Mario Tennis and Mario 3D Land would benefit from always being on my system.

Hopefully more is added--I'd like Tetris Axis, Dead or Alive, Bit Trip Saga, Theaterhythm, Rhythm Thief and a few others to be there permanently.
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I'm surprised that NOA hasn't announced another Nintendo Direct. But Japan and probably Europe are getting announcements, so maybe NOA's just going to do it without any fanfare.

But yeah, first they need to get the first party games up, then an account system so it's not pointless to buy them all, and then get the third party stuff. It's a long road ahead.
 
The eShop is now down for maintenance in NA, and I assume the same for EU and JP. Down for 12 hours, I believe.

Here's hoping for GBA games, hehe
 
Drago said:
The eShop is now down for maintenance in NA, and I assume the same for EU and JP. Down for 12 hours, I believe.

Here's hoping for GBA games, hehe
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I don't mean to be rude to you or anyone else, but how can anyone possibly believe that the eShop having maintenence will add GBA games, older retail games, or any other kinds of game. It wouldn't. It would just appear on the eShop like new content does every week. If the eShop had to go down to add GBA games, then it would go down every week to add new games.

Seriously...I shake my head everytime I see GBA games or anything new to go with maintenence. Thats not how it works lol.

Sorry for rant.

Anywayz: the only thing maintence means is either;

A: Actual maintenece. But it being twelve hours points to this not being the case.

B: A new reconstruction of the eShop itself. This is likely. This happened all the way to the redisigned Wii Shop in the Wii 3.0 update and happened a few months ago with the slightly redisigned eShop that added two rows of icons.

So maintenece is a change in the eShop itself. So its either:

A: Another redisign. But again, being twelve hours seems like overkill for another redisign. Tho I can't remember the time of the minor redisign of the eShop ealier, I think it was much shorter. (May be wrong.)

B: Accounts. Please this please.

C: Web store. But I question if the eShop would have to be down for this since its gonna use a seperate interface on a completely different device. It probably would need to go down this but I dunno.

D: Something else.

Its gotta be something for it to go down for twelve hours. I eagerly await it.
 
WiiRevolution1 said:
I don't mean to be rude to you or anyone else, but how can anyone possibly believe that the eShop having maintenence will add GBA games, older retail games, or any other kinds of game. It wouldn't. It would just appear on the eShop like new content does every week. If the eShop had to go down to add GBA games, then it would go down every week to add new games.

Seriously...I shake my head everytime I see GBA games or anything new to go with maintenence. Thats not how it works lol.

Sorry for rant.
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To be fair though, if they are introducing GBA games it's not crazy to think that there might be an eShop redesign to go along with it too, since GBA games and older retail games are both pretty major additions. So I don't think that because there is maintenance it means that those things are less likely to happen (at least in this specific case).
 
Man, I just want GBA games. Any excuse to make me believe it will happen ;p

Honestly, a good redesign would be fine by me. I just want something good to come out of a 12-hour worldwide maintenance session. :<
 
WiiRevolution1 said:
Seriously...I shake my head everytime I see GBA games or anything new to go with maintenence. Thats not how it works lol.
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You have absolutely no idea how Nintendo set up the eShop server. They might have done something incredibly stupid that required fixing if a new type of category needed to be added. We don't know and never will know.
 
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Colonel Mustard said:
Guys! Night Sky is FINALLY coming October 25! $9.99.



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Do want, so hard. For all we whine about the VC on the eShop, damn there is some really good original/not so original content up there. Stuff like this, The Denpa Men, Mutant Mudds, Mighty Switch Force, Pushmo, its all soo very awesome.
 
Worthintendo said:
Do want, so hard. For all we whine about the VC on the eShop, damn there is some really good original/not so original content up there. Stuff like this, The Denpa Men, Mutant Mudds, Mighty Switch Force, Pushmo, its all soo very awesome.
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I agree on the eShop original point. I forgot how much I love 'pick up and play' style games. Even the stuff that doesn't get much love from GAF has gotten quite a bit of play-time from me. Art of Balance: Touch, Bomb Monkey, Dillon's Rolling Western, Fractured Soul, Ketzal's Corridors and Rising Board have been some of my favorite eShop games. Each have at least 7 or so hours in them for me and all together cost about a much as a retail title.

Count me as one who is actually pretty satisfied with the eShop. It could be better, the VC output could be VASTLY better but I'm pretty happy as it is.
 
Stumpokapow said:
The bizarre thing is that Crosswords DS, which came out before the mobile revolution, cost $20. So not only are they unaware of how value has changed, they actually think essentially the same product is worth more now.
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They're operating on a model that makes SOME sense, if you assume everything else stayed at the status quo: budget handheld prices are $10 less than regular releases, always. Problem is the gulf between budgets has grown, even on handhelds (or so I'd assume, certainly Mario Kart 7 looks MUCH nicer than MK DS), and as you mentioned we had iOS and Android drastically reshape the casual market. At the very least they should've stuck with $20 for Crosswords Plus, but by sticking to this blanket policy I think they have two hopes for this to do well, at retail anyway: either retailers frequently discount it on their own to $20, or somehow the average consumer really doesn't care about the fact it's at least 6 times more (at a conservative estimate) as an equally good or better Crosswords app on a mobile device.

I suppose it's possible the overlap with the Nintendo casual market and the Smartphone/tablet casual market actually isn't as extreme as you'd think, but with $200 tablets that overlap's bound to just keep increasing even if many older people probably don't want smartphones that much.
 
Colonel Mustard said:
I agree on the eShop original point. I forgot how much I love 'pick up and play' style games. Even the stuff that doesn't get much love from GAF has gotten quite a bit of play-time from me. Art of Balance: Touch, Bomb Monkey, Dillon's Rolling Western, Fractured Soul, Ketzal's Corridors and Rising Board have been some of my favorite eShop games. Each have at least 7 or so hours in them for me and all together cost about a much as a retail title.

Count me as one who is actually pretty satisfied with the eShop. It could be better, the VC output could be VASTLY better but I'm pretty happy as it is.
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Honestly the only big change I would like to see (barring more VC games) would be to have an accounts based system so its easier to manage if I loose my system. I have a US 3DS and am in Australia, if I loose my 3DS I'm screwed and all my games that I've downloaded are gone. I doubt I would be able to arrange for them to be set up on a new system. With an accounts based system I wouldn't have that worry.

You know I think I've bought all eShop original titles that have come out barring those from Nikoli, Light Gun games and other random stuff like that Birdmania one. And with the exception of the UFO ones I don't think I really regret any purchases I've made.

I do wish I was better at Art of Balance though, can't get past the second or third level and just feel soo stupid
 
Worthintendo said:
You know I think I've bought all eShop original titles that have come out barring those from Nikoli, Light Gun games and other random stuff like that Birdmania one. And with the exception of the UFO ones I don't think I really regret any purchases I've made.

I do wish I was better at Art of Balance though, can't get past the second or third level and just feel soo stupid
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I may have bought Mad Dog McCree while drunk.
 
NA press release is up--Cave Story, Style Savvy demo, Dr. Mario on the VC, other stuff we already knew about (Art Academy/Crosswords Plus, Pokemon Dream Radar on the 7th).
 
@MUWANdo said:
NA press release is up--Cave Story, Style Savvy demo, Dr. Mario on the VC, other stuff we already knew about (Art Academy/Crosswords Plus, Pokemon Dream Radar on the 7th).
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...wait what ? DO want in euope too.... yeah come at me.
 
Traded in NSMB2 yesterday for an eShop card. My body is ready to buy Cave Story for the third or fourth time with no regrets
 
When you've chosen to download something were there always recommendations ("people who downloaded this also downloaded...")?
 
Cave Story and NSMB2 DLC for me this week.

I have yet to play Cave Story, actually. So glad I held off the DSiWare and retail versions, as this looks like the definite one.

BowieZ said:
When you've chosen to download something were there always recommendations ("people who downloaded this also downloaded...")?
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Not always, but they were definitely there before the last downtime.
 
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