| endimion said: so I'm an old gamer or at least poster on than website... Been here for more than a decade or close to it... I usually don't post outside the MS forum since I'm an XBox owner through and through and I'm more than happy with it... now I've got a 3DS and I love the little bugger... But I got a few games and I'm not enjoying them... Got and fire emblem fates (and yes I stupidly bought all three campaigns) playing birthright at the moment... Not only the game play is bland but I think even as a teenager I would have found the story and moreover the characters interactions to be craptasticaly cheesy and boaring and phony... Well sucks big time... I'm at chapter 17 and I'm pretty sure I won't play the other two stories....
I also got myself monster hunter and to be fair I'm still doing all those endless tutorials... While the gameplay is alright it still looks repetitive and the depth of the story looks rather short... so tell me where is that 3DS magic beside mario and co and Zelda games??? All those JRPGs??? Anything as good as lost odyssey??? I really want to enjoy it ?? |
The 2 games you got are some of the biggest commitments a 3DS owner can make of their time.
I'd invite you to take up more casual, pick-up and play experiences for your 3DS. Stuff you don't play for story, but for the sheer joy of wasting 5-30 minutes when your waiting in line somewhere, while your wife/gf watches something stupid on TV, and other random downtime.
The 2 games I most highly recommend on 3DS would be A Link Between Worlds and Super Mario 3D Land. Common answers - but they're paced beautifully well for either casual or long-form play. If you don't plan to get the Switch soon, I'd recommend also getting Smash too. Smash is so easy to pick up, but is so satisfyingly deep too. MK7 gets a similar recommendation.
If you like retro games, the Sega 3D classics are great too. Especially Streets of Rage 2.
I can't be as helpful for your RPG needs though. But I have little doubt you'll like Xenoblade - but again that game is also a big commitment. SMTIV, Bravely Default/Second, and Dragon Quest are the marquee turn-based RPGS outside of Pokemon.
If you want a great game that's shorter with a solid story - you really need to look at Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. If you never tried them, you owe it to yourself to see what the hype is about.
I realize this is a very 1st party centric list - but honestly you seldom go terribly wrong with Nintendo 1st party on a long term basis.
I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016
