People may be seeing a trend with the threads I'm doing here... hopefully people find them fun and interesting at least. So, now the 3DS:
1. Portability
Like the Vita, the 3DS is a portable system which is a big draw but for slightly different reasons I feel. The 3DS is purposely pushing itself on the portability front with the Streetpass mini-games and intergration into other games which is actually shockingly fun and engaging. A friend and I have been known to drive around the town looking for new areas we can wander about to get more streetpass hits. It's given the 3DS something different. A gimmick maybe, but one I do enjoy.
2. Backwards Compatibility
Yep, much like the Wii U, this is a massive thing for me. Backwards compatibility means we have an almost endless selection of DS games to pick through and it means the system had an instant library, they're dirt cheap too. It also means there's no need to carry around a DS any more. If only Nintendo released GBA games on the 3DS virtual console, it'd be perfect.
3. Home Of Platformers
If you like platformers, you're in the right place. Mario, Donkey Kong, Rayman, Sonic... they're all here and they're all really good quality. They play beautifully on the 3DS, the screen feel the right size, the D-pad is decent quality, and the circle pad is comfortable for 3D movement. This is, in my opinion, one of the most natural places to play a platformer now and it's nice to see one of my favourite genres getting a revival.
4. Virtual Console
If you're a retro gamer, the fact that you can play so many old NES, Gameboy and Mega Drive games is great. Personally I'm hoping for more; SNES, Master System, TurboGrafx-16, and Gameboy Advance all need to be brought over to the 3DS store because these games so perfectly lend themselves to portability nowadays. They can be somewhat pricey admittedly and you could just stick a load of ROMs on an emulator and play them on your phone; the thing is, unless you own a Sony Xperia Play, (and I'm the only person in the fucking world to own one of them), your phone doesn't have physical controls and that's something that makes the 3DS really shine when it comes to replaying these old games.
5. RPG Heaven
Last gen was honestly rather disappointing for me for RPGs. Sure they happened but they never seemed to have the quality and range of the generations before... now though we have the 3DS and it's got RPGs coming out of the woodwork. There's Pokémon and Zelda for the traditional Nintendo fan but then there's also Fire Emblem: Awakening, Bravely Default, Tales Of The Abyss, Shin Megami Tensei 4 and more; and there's the many DS RPGs including Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest 9, Final Fantasy 4, Lufia: Curse Of The Sinestrals and so many more I could be here all day. This is my number one reason to own a 3DS. Sure, Nintendo First Party is good and all, but this device will always be my RPG machine.
So, that's another system done. My top 5 reasons to own a 3DS. Any opinions, discussion etc. is welcome.
