PigSpeakers
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Gonna play this with my brother and sister tonight! Kind of wish we could play with my other brother, but he's in another state.
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Zelda: Four Swords (3DS/DSi) |OT| Multi-player Zelda now with single-player, too!
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jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
BocoDragon said:
heh, easier than trying to round up four people with Game Boy Advances who had link cables to play FSA... amirite?
Allan Holdsworth
Member
TSA said:
Wut? You need a certain amount of rupees (forgot) for the Hero keys. No way you'd get them in the first try.
Roto13 said:
There's something called Sleep Mode. Close the 3/DS.
PataHikari
Banned
Vanille said:
Online on NSMBWii would literally be the worst thing ever.
balladofwindfishes
Member
I kind of like single player.
It's more of a puzzle game rather than a traditional Zelda game. You have to look at obstacles and approach them differently than you would in a regular Zelda.
It's more of a puzzle game rather than a traditional Zelda game. You have to look at obstacles and approach them differently than you would in a regular Zelda.
But the 3DS has no games, stop lying!!!Roto13 said:
Nah, all I'm saying is that maybe it was a design choice more than Grezzo per se. Plus most dungeons (well so far) are 10-20 minutes; unless one decides to go around looking for everything.
Technically there's nothing to defend. They don't need to add online to every game, just like every game doesn't need online. That it might make some games "better" for multiplayer, yeah. But is not a requirement.Vanille said:
Some just want online to play the game once online and never touch it again. Same way they want more classic GB games to buy and play for a few seconds and forget they even own it.
As said, maybe it was technical limitations, maybe problems, maybe lazyness or maybe they just didn't wanted.
Chet Rippo
Member
It's great, not as great as FSA, but still great. The LttP retro level was amazing!
You need to play this game with someone else at least once. It's so much better that way. The same goes for FSA.
You need to play this game with someone else at least once. It's so much better that way. The same goes for FSA.
MatthewB92
Member
Got all 3 silver keys. Fun little game. Would be better if I had someone to play it with lol.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Tell me about it. I bought FSA when it was released in 2004. It NEVER happened that I met another person with a GBA.jstevenson said:
panama chief
Member
Christ. did i really just cut grass for 10 minutes? single player is shit. at least the first forest is.
I figured the SP wouldn't be so great unless the levels were redesigned to support it, but this level of dissatisfaction is surprising even me.
I'm solidly of the mind that it would have been best to leave the game MP-only. The SPization detracts from the game instead of adding to it.
I'm solidly of the mind that it would have been best to leave the game MP-only. The SPization detracts from the game instead of adding to it.
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
zigg said:
I want to be able to play the game when I want to play the game. I want to think "oh I want to play that level again" and be able to do it. I want to be able to meander around at my own pace any time I want. I want to be able to access the content of the game on my own terms, in whatever capacity I want.
I do not care how much "worse" the single player is than the multiplayer. The single player could be an irredeemable and unplayable turd, DON'T CARE. I want ACCESS to the CONTENT by MYSELF.
I played through the entirety of Four Swords Adventures, New Super Mario Bros Wii, and 99% of the original FFCC with other people. Then I played them all over again in single player. I am thrilled that the original Four Swords finally gives me the ability to play it in whatever way I want, and frankly I literally do not care about the quality of the mode. As long as it can "be played," I'm happy.
The memory isn't the issue. Most DSiWare games hardly take advantage of the extra RAM or CPU speed, due to the graphics hardware being the same. The Pop Island games are good examples: they are full 3D games with lots of shit going on, run at smooth 60fps and support download and play, which means they don't go beyond vanilla DS hardware.Nuclear Muffin said:
The issue is the effort required versus the results Nintendo wants. The game would have to be structured around download-and-play: all data used in a dungeon would need to fit into RAM all at once since downloading that data via DnP is orders of magnitude slower than loading from the DSi/3DS internal memory, forbidding any data from being loaded mid-level or streamed.
Also, this game being free (even during limited time) is obviously intended to increase DSi and 3DS value and encourage people to visit the DSi Shop and the eShop. This makes the effort required to support vanilla DS units (which were discontinued) not seem worth it, from a commercial standpoint.
The lack of online can be explained the same way: it would require far too much effort. You cannot take GBA codebase and "add online" that easily. An online mode for a game of this type is serious work and the game would need to be programmed around the netcode, which would act as the foundation of everything.
I also don't think Nintendo's internal devs have the know-how to make a game like this online without going through a large amount of hurdles. They might have people working on this kind of stuff at R&D, but I don't think it will show up as a freebie/cheap "rearrangement" of a GBA game.
PataHikari
Banned
Man God said:
Not the lag, the sheer amount of anonymous dicking over.
PigSpeakers
Member
For some reason when I was playing multi with my siblings, we kept on getting disconnected, or annoying lag. Do we just need to sit closer together? The wireless bars that are shown on the touch screen are showing full, so I dunno what the deal is.
AbsoluteZero
Banned
Now if I just had people to play with.
MatthewB92
Member
Hylian7 said:
Press Y again sets the bomb off.
BTW the lttp level was fun!
Azure Dream
Member
Man God said:
That's right, those stages carefully designed to optimally handle four players at once would just be ruined.
MatthewB92
Member
Read my editHylian7 said:
you were faster then me MatthewB92
Member
Hey I didn't find it out until I got to him lol.Hylian7 said:
I just have to say that McDonalds has by far the worst (at least for the 3DS) Internet connection. I got like 3 errors in a row before it connected to the eshop. Then I didn't have enough space so I had to delete a game. Done, reconnect. Nope, takes another three try's. When I finally start downloading the game it gives me an error part way through downloading it. At that point I just waited till I got home.
