Gaming Nintendo 3DS vs PS Vita thread.

What about this?

Use the weapon box to your advantage as well - just before he attacks open the box - his attack will miss everytime - bit cheap but it works.

If you can get him to miss every time can't you go at him with the knife after you used the little ammo that you have? It might take a while but it might work :p
 
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If you can get him to miss every time can't you go at him with the knife after you used the little ammo that you have? It might take a while but it might work :p

I will keep trying because there's nothing else to do. Knife won't work though, it's not really possible to hit his sensitive point with it. If I am careful with weapon and have an accuracy of nearly 100% it might be possible to deal with him without any additional ammo. Maybe someday.
 
I haven't faced the last boss yet, but how the hell did you manage to end up with no ammo? Even on the harder difficulties ammo isn't that rare! You got Stevie wonder aiming for you? ;)

But in all seriousness if you need accuracy, gyroscope aiming is the way to go. Takes some getting used to, but is brilliant.
 
I haven't faced the last boss yet, but how the hell did you manage to end up with no ammo? Even on the harder difficulties ammo isn't that rare! You got Stevie wonder aiming for you? ;)

But in all seriousness if you need accuracy, gyroscope aiming is the way to go. Takes some getting used to, but is brilliant.

I lost plenty of ammo just before I got there, normally I didn't even fight half of those monsters. As for the last boss, accuracy doesn't even play a part there, just concentration.

I beat it eventually, about two hours and seven or eight attempts just today plus all the tries yesterday. Patience and focus were key. Game finished, now I have to sell it so I have money for one extra game at Vita's launch. :)

I will have to give MGS some more tries. I had high expectations for this game and they've not been met yet. Hopefully this demo is some weird beta version and full game will be much, much better.
 
Yep, if you registered two selected games onto your Club Nintendo account between 1st November and 31st January. There was/(is?) a box on the Club Nintendo page to put your email in so you can receive the code.
 
I remember they said they would send the codes in January but I can't remember seeing a date you had to do it by.

Have you checked your Club Nintendo account for any messages?

1. Two games from the list below must be purchased and registered in Club Nintendo between 01/11/2011 and 23:59 CET on 31/01/2012.
2. When two eligible games have been registered, a message will appear in your Club Nintendo account. You will be asked to confirm an email address to which we will send the Download Code for the title.
3. A special Nintendo 3DS Download Code will be emailed to this address early next year to allow you to download 3D Classics: Kid Icarus for free.
4. From the 5th of January 2012, you can use the code to download the title from Nintendo eShop. Simply follow the instructions we send in the email.
5. Only one 3D Classics: Kid Icarus download will be available per Club Nintendo account.
6. You can only register a game once. Two registrations of the same title will count only once in this promotion.
 
Apparently the box/banner only appears every now and then, so maybe it might just appear randomly? :lol:

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Didn't get email for free Kid Icarus - 3DS Message Board for 3DS - GameFAQs

The actual site only says that the game regisrations are over, not that you can't get the email anymore. It is over a month later though so I guess it could be just assumed that it is finished :p
 
I've been playing Stardust since the Amiga days, I can assure you that it's nowhere near boring, it's an old-school arcade classic made by a rock-solid developer.

You've never played the PS3 version? Maybe you don't have the skill? Because it gets totally insane at times.

Super Stardust HD:



Just not my type of game, I can't remember an arcade game like this one that I'd have enjoyed. I will buy it because I have a discount for Vita but I'm not particularly excited.

Anyway, will a 4GB card suffice? I won't download games, I will buy physical copies so I can sell them later. I don't want to pay £50 for a 16GB, £15 for a 4GB seems reasonable.
 
I've played a few mins of the MGS demo and it must be an early build. The graphics are pretty good (the backdrops are nice), but the animations are laughable! No support for the pad pro yet either.

Hopefully there's been plenty of polishing since :)
 
I'm not sure if it's a port or a grounds up remake (there are a number of additions to the gameplay and 3ds specific features apparently).

The jungle setting looks good and it certainly works well with the 3D (half reasonable grass would automatically though), but the character himself seems awkward and out of place, the animations are primative and then you see the alligators which are nothing short of hilarious! Considering what Capcom pulled off with RE, this has a lot of catching up to do.
 
I've played a few mins of the MGS demo and it must be an early build. The graphics are pretty good (the backdrops are nice), but the animations are laughable! No support for the pad pro yet either.

Hopefully there's been plenty of polishing since :)

You really think the graphics are good? They're a level below Resident Evil for me. It looks like a PSP game.
 
I'm not sure if it's a port or a grounds up remake (there are a number of additions to the gameplay and 3ds specific features apparently).

The jungle setting looks good and it certainly works well with the 3D (half reasonable grass would automatically though), but the character himself seems awkward and out of place, the animations are primative and then you see the alligators which are nothing short of hilarious! Considering what Capcom pulled off with RE, this has a lot of catching up to do.

Well it will be interesting, because VITA is planned to get the HD collection, which includes the remastered Snake Eater.

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They better get that out quickly.

Anyway, what Vita titles will be released in the first half of the year apart from the launch titles? There will be LittleBigPlanet a month after release and Resistance in May. Anything else?
 
Three big titles or three titles in total? I am not particularly interested in another Madden or MLB but Killzone, Assasasin's Creed and Call of Duty would be mint.

Anyway, three days to go before I get this thing. :devil:
 
Well as I said the backdrops look nice, but the actors are ropey as hell. Hopefully the finished version looks a lot better, though it'll probably be behind RE still.

Although I've always preferred the Splinter Cell series by far, it's nice they've picked an MGS with actual gameplay and not an interactive film ;)
 
Well as I said the backdrops look nice, but the actors are ropey as hell. Hopefully the finished version looks a lot better, though it'll probably be behind RE still.

Although I've always preferred the Splinter Cell series by far, it's nice they've picked an MGS with actual gameplay and not an interactive film ;)

If you believe EDGE then apparently it does;

“Packed with detail, both in terms of it’s environments and mechanics, this is a game that pays back investment in spades. MGS3 is a moden classic – the tighest, smartest and most emotional journey in the series – and even the HD update doesn’t look as good as this portable treatment.”
EDGE: Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D looks better than the HD version | Nintendo Everything
 
Might be shipping ye old 3ds out on ebay soon. Don't think I'm made up for this portable gaming. The mario novelty's worn off.
 

I don't believe edge. Though that's primarily because they are monumental bellends.

As for this game, from what I've seen in the demo the jungle is very nicely done. However the animations, character models and game mechanics are all pretty poor (aiming mode is particularily crude, unless snake is suddenly a floating vampire), but I expect them all to be fixed and some of the gameplay additions sound like nice enhancements too, so let's hope.

In the form we've seen though, it's behind Splinter Cell 3D, let alone the brilliant RE.
 
I don't believe edge. Though that's primarily because they are monumental bellends.

As for this game, from what I've seen in the demo the jungle is very nicely done. However the animations, character models and game mechanics are all pretty poor (aiming mode is particularily crude, unless snake is suddenly a floating vampire), but I expect them all to be fixed and some of the gameplay additions sound like nice enhancements too, so let's hope.

In the form we've seen though, it's behind Splinter Cell 3D, let alone the brilliant RE.

Why would they release a poor demo three weeks ahead of releasing the full game? It seems like a very bad marketing.
 
3DS breaks Japanese record (5mill now sold)

3DS has just broken the record for the fastest selling console ever in Japan by selling 5 million units in just 51 weeks. Vita has an uphill struggle to say the least.

Weaste, we're all thinking of you. First Goggs and now this. Comfort him Lambs.
 
Why would they release a poor demo three weeks ahead of releasing the full game? It seems like a very bad marketing.

It happens more often than you think. Demos are usually made ages before they are released for various reasons.

I can'gt remember what the original was like though, as I never paid much attention to the series. Did snake move like an old gay and float when aiming in that? It could just be a port of the original animations.

Like I say though, the jungle itself looks very nice on the 3DS screen. Though 3D is always going to make grass shading look soooo much better anyway.
 
3DS has just broken the record for the fastest selling console ever in Japan by selling 5 million units in just 51 weeks. Vita has an uphill struggle to say the least.

Weaste, we're all thinking of you. First Goggs and now this. Comfort him Lambs.

VITA doesn't need to do 3DS numbers, as PSP didn't need to do DS numbers. What's all this fascination with numbers?

DS has done something around 33 million compared to PSP at 19 million. 19 million is a respectable figure.

As for Goggs, he's talking bullshit in the main, as you can see from his OP in the thread in question.
 
To put those figures into perspective, the PS3 has only sold 7.4 m units in its life time in Japan:eek:

And? To put it into perspective, the juggernaut Wii has sold 12m LTD in its lifetime in Japan, and is now a dead platform. PS3 will probably at the end of the day surpass Wii in sales, but get nowhere near the 22m the PS2 did. If nothing else it shows the total shift in Japan away from the home console to the hand-held, something that hasn't happened in the West as of yet, and with the love affair for COD and full on multi-player games is unlikely to do so.

Last week PS2 outsold XB360 in Japan. So?
 
Numbers only matter when you're the one in front, right?

I'm sure they matter to Sony and their investors, since market share is king in their world.

Not at all, but it's all relative isn't it? I'm quite sure that Sony are very happy with a profitable PSP selling 19m units and still going.

Your point only has value when you take a platform that was totally dominant like the PS2 was, demolishing everything in its class - Gamecube, Dreamcast, and XBox. NDS never did that to PSP, that did something similar to Nintendo as Microsoft have done to Sony, although not quite to the 50/50 degree. 35% market share for PSP as a first entry into the hand.held market is not something to sniff at is it?
 
And? To put it into perspective, the juggernaut Wii has sold 12m LTD in its lifetime in Japan, and is now a dead platform. PS3 will probably at the end of the day surpass Wii in sales, but get nowhere near the 22m the PS2 did. If nothing else it shows the total shift in Japan away from the home console to the hand-held, something that hasn't happened in the West as of yet, and with the love affair for COD and full on multi-player games is unlikely to do so.

Last week PS2 outsold XB360 in Japan. So?

You get really defensive over this stuff don't you? It blurs your mind at times, causing you to overlook the simple point being made somehow.

He was just putting into perspective how impressive those numbers are, with another machine people might attribute with success. It wasn't a pissing competition.