Comments on: Help us join the Century of the Fruitbat! http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/23/help-us-join-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/ Feral Druids in World of Warcraft Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:36:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Spawnofmoose http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/23/help-us-join-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/comment-page-1/#comment-28046 Spawnofmoose Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:32:24 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/?p=2797#comment-28046 wish I could edit my previous post.

Like Tesh said, there are some GREAT GBA games, especially since you bought a Lite and not a PoS (no not Pit of Saron =p) DSi (wtf are people gonna do with a camera and smaller screen?). For BBB I HIGHLY HIGLY recommend the Golden Sun duo. I’m not a big RPG fan but these 2 games are soooooo good I have played through multiple times.

Golden Sun plays like a Final Fantasy and uses techniques similar to that of FF8 (GFs = more stats/abilities). Summons are amazing, puzzles are sometimes elaborate and the storyline is just wonderful.
When they released the sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, the kept everything the same just gave you the opposite characters and new summons. Also you can carry your previous save data over, so that way you can have your old characters too, with all their badassery =)

]]> By: Spawnofmoose http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/23/help-us-join-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/comment-page-1/#comment-28044 Spawnofmoose Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:23:48 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/?p=2797#comment-28044 On of the new pokemon games coming out (Soul Silver, Heart Gold) and both Zelda games (Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks)

I don’t know if you guys have played the new and improved Zelda on Wii (Zelda: Twilight Princess) but if you have, then you know how interactive it is. Swing at this, shoot at that. What they have done with the DS is also make it interactive. All movement is done via stylus and things like closing your DS to press pages together, blowing on the microphone to blow out candles. Pure genius and fun for all!

]]> By: mires http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/23/help-us-join-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/comment-page-1/#comment-27998 mires Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:18:40 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/?p=2797#comment-27998 I saw it once in the comments but i feel it needs to be reiterated- The Ace Attorney series of games (aka Phoenix Wright) are fantastic and come heartily recommended.

]]> By: Kauket http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/23/help-us-join-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/comment-page-1/#comment-27962 Kauket Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:09:17 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/?p=2797#comment-27962 I hope you are being taken by the hand and led gently into the new century, as opposed to being dragged kicking and screaming.

]]> By: Rahl http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/23/help-us-join-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/comment-page-1/#comment-27958 Rahl Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:59:38 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/?p=2797#comment-27958 If you have a Wii or GC there are button mashing RPGs (60 or so hrs long) in the form of the Tales of …… games.

Typical JRPG fare but button mashing combo generating fighting plus you can chose whether to go into combat or just avoid the mobs in the open field instead of the usual random battles.

DS:

Prof Layton – Great puzzles but no action
Scribblenauts – Great puzzles, innovative game, not that much action
Zelda Games – Usual zelda stuff. In other words great games. All stylus controlled rather than buttons.
GTA : One of my fave GTA games ever. Very reminiscent of the first 2 games.
Mario RPGs : Again very good games, not the most challenging but very fun!

]]> By: Sukugaru http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/23/help-us-join-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/comment-page-1/#comment-27929 Sukugaru Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:40:54 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/?p=2797#comment-27929 The Castlevania with uncontrollable party members might be Portrait of Ruin. It has both party members on screen at once, and you switch between them. It’s been a while since I’ve played it, but I seem to remember that the other party member runs along behind you and does very little on their own.

The other Castlevanias are all one character, or ‘one character of a party at a time’.

The most recent Castlevania, Order of Ecclesia, is brutally harder than previous entries in the series. I haven’t yet completed it, but this could be due to it coming out around the same time as Wrath of the Lich King. :)

If you can track it down, and like rhythm based music games, Elite Beat Agents is lots of fun. You tap and slide the stylus around the screen according to on-screen prompts, to the beat of the music.

Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword is an almost entirely stylus-driven version of Ninja Gaiden, on the DS, with slightly-less-ridiculous female character designs than you see in the XBox and Playstation 3 versions. Rather than being a button masher, it is a ‘screen scratcher’. I found it lots of fun.

]]> By: bigbearbutt http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/23/help-us-join-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/comment-page-1/#comment-27920 bigbearbutt Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:49:09 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/?p=2797#comment-27920 I was afraid I was going to crush the hopes of Pratchett fans, but the title leapt out at me like a cougar after Rick Springfield.

]]> By: Derek http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/23/help-us-join-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/comment-page-1/#comment-27916 Derek Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:19:50 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/?p=2797#comment-27916 Why am I not surprised that BBB is a Pratchett fan? As one myself this just makes sense to me.

]]> By: Erthshade http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/23/help-us-join-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/comment-page-1/#comment-27915 Erthshade Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:54:50 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/?p=2797#comment-27915 From experience I can recommend Puzzle Quest (though it has one annoying ‘feature’ in the DS version: the first board is always the same after startup), New Super Mario Bros (excellent oldschool platforming with some tricky coins), Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (I enjoy roguelikes, okay?), Sonic Rush (though the 7th chaos emerald stage will have you tearing your hair out), and Kirby Super Star Ultra. I have Scribblenauts, but keep getting frustrated by the lack of interaction in the ways I want it and NPCs doing weird things, as well as creatures you write in quite often turning right around and killing you — if I write in a bodyguard, I kinda expect it to guard me.

]]> By: Cassieann http://thebigbearbutt.com/2010/02/23/help-us-join-the-century-of-the-fruitbat/comment-page-1/#comment-27906 Cassieann Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:32:08 +0000 http://thebigbearbutt.com/?p=2797#comment-27906 Wow, thanks for all the suggestions! I’m looking through all of them and trying to decide what to buy first :-)

And just a clarification that it doesn’t have to be a button masher for me to play it. That statement was more about combat types of games where I don’t like turn-based or card type systems. I want to just have buttons and abilities to use easily, but it can be complex/require thought though (after all, I play WoW and have 4-80s, so I can do complex). :-)

So definitely keep the ideas coming! Or let us know about games that are coming out soon that we might not have heard about since we haven’t paid attention to DS stuff up to this point.

Thanks again!

Cassie

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