darconi said:
naznatips said:
Dolla Dolla said:
RolStoppable said:
leo-j said:
You know that japanese kids can bring a video game system to school? (this came from gameinformer) the one that they can bring is the ds. Thats why its selling outrageously like an ipod. |
I thought it's selling so well because of its games...
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Your crystal ball must be broken. They have a 2 for 1 sale at Spencer's. |
Haha awesome post Dolla! Seriously though I rarely use my PSP for actual purchased games. I have bought 5 games in almost 2 years of owning the system, and one of them I just bought a couple days ago (Jeanne D'Arc, which is awesome). It's not that it goes unused. I play old roms on it a lot, but on my DS I have bought almost 30 games (most recently Rune Factory and Heroes of Mana). darconi, don't count on a price cut anytime before 2008. Anyway, yeah I think the problem is that the PSP has very little remaining 3rd party support, and Sony's 1st party isn't good enough to push the platform alone. Take SE for example: They have 8 PSP games made/in production, but 6 of them are remakes of old games. They have 17 DS games made/in production, including the main game in their second largest franchise, and only 5 of those are remakes. It's pretty much the same accross all 3rd parties. There is the occaissional PSP game, but owning a PSP is like owning a Gamecube that plays old roms but doesn't have Nintendo games. You get the occaissional 3rd party gem, but overall support is very weak. |
Naz, what do you think of Rune Factory? Its on my list of highly want games and its tempting me to get the DS. How is the monster fighting portion integrated with the farming? |
I haven't played it enough to know what I think about it. I bought it on Tuesday with Metroid Prime 3, which has taken over all my time. However, I can tell you that from the hour I have put into it so far it is an incredibly gorgeous game, and they really streamlined some of the farming things to make them better. Now you can walk over the crops to water them easier, you can sell crops directly to vendors rather than wait till 6PM for pickups, and a few other things such as crop leveling, more tools/weapons, and faster farming have helped streamline the game.
The way monsters work is you can capture them and use them on your farm. For example one of the monsters gives milk. However, you can also take the monsters into the dungeons with you to act as combat support. I'm sorry I can't tell you more about it yet. I will post impressions whenever I have beaten MP3 and started on Rune Factory as my main game. I can already tell though that this is going to be one of my favorite HM games. Meanwhile, IGN has a great review of the game up: http://ds.ign.com/articles/813/813633p1.html
