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Rayne
14-11-2008, 20:27
Lol, I've been playing Phoenix Wright and really enjoying, so I ask you fair people, what are the top 20 games for the ds? Not Catz not DolphinZ, but the real reasons to owning one?

Reknoc
14-11-2008, 20:47
Quite a hard one that will take some editing hmm...

1) New Super Mario Bros.
2) Dragon Quest
3) Phoenix Wright
4) Jump Ultimate Stars
5) Bleach DS
6) Elite Beat Agents
7) Metroid Prime Hunters
8) Dementium the ward
9) Orcs & Elves
10) Final Fantasy
11) Mario Kart DS
12) Star Fox Command
13) Kirby
14) Ninja Gaiden
15) Castlevania
16) Level 5
17) Intelligence Systems
18) Naruto (:O)
19) Zelda
20) Sonic

Kaito-kun
14-11-2008, 20:50
Quite a hard one that will take some editing hmm...

1) New Super Mario Bros.
2) Dragon Quest
3) Phoenix Wright
4) Jump Ultimate Stars
5) Bleach DS
6) Elite Beat Agents
7) Metroid Prime Hunters
8) Dementium the ward
9) Orcs & Elves
10) Final Fantasy
11) Mario Kart DS
12) Star Fox Command
13) Kirby
14) Ninja Gaiden
15) Castlevania
16) Professor Layton
17) Actually all Level 5 games, they should probably be higher
18) Naruto (:O)
19) Zelda
20) Sonic
*Pokes Reknoc* You forgot Advance Wars Dual Strike.

Reknoc
14-11-2008, 20:54
*Pokes Reknoc* You forgot Advance Wars Dual Strike.

I didn't I heard alot of bad things about it and skipped it but Days of Ruin is good!

Amended.

Kaito-kun
14-11-2008, 20:58
I heard alot of bad things about Days of Ruin and skipped it but Dual Strike is good!

Fixed. ^_^

Rayne
14-11-2008, 23:24
Fixed. ^_^

Very funny >,> anyway, interesting choices reknoc

Killer French Bread
14-11-2008, 23:28
Mr Driller is probably the game I've played the most for the DS. I got this game called Freshly Picked which is alright too.

Omega
24-11-2008, 19:53
You guys forgot to mention Brain Age 2

JoeMusashi
09-12-2008, 19:19
Oh man Dragon Quest IX is all I need to make me own a DS. =)

Reknoc
09-12-2008, 19:22
Oh man Dragon Quest IX is all I need to make me own a DS. =)

It's also coming to the Wii apparently, though I'd rather have it on DS.

Sherlock
09-12-2008, 19:33
Unfortunately I don't have many DS games so I have to put the games themselves. Meh.

1) New Super Mario Bros.
2) Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
3) Phoenix Wright
4) Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
5) Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
6) Elite Beat Agents
7) Metroid Prime Hunters
8) Meteos
9) Super Mario 64 DS
10) Electroplankton
11) Mario Kart DS
12) Sonic Rush
13) Kirby: Squeak Squad
14) Kirby Superstar Ultra
15) Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribunals
16) Phoenix Wright: Justice for All
17) Apollo Justice
18) WarioWare: Touched
19) Super Princess Peach
20) Megaman ZX

JoeMusashi
09-12-2008, 19:34
It's also coming to the Wii apparently, though I'd rather have it on DS.

Seriously? I haven't read this...nooo I don't have a Wii :(

Reknoc
09-12-2008, 19:40
Seriously? I haven't read this...nooo I don't have a Wii :(

Well it's still coming to DS, I just read somewhere it's making it's way to the Wii like that Crystal Chronicles game.

Dave
10-12-2008, 04:30
I think you're ignoring The World Ends With You, because it uses the DS capabilities at 100%!

Sherlock
10-12-2008, 08:54
I think you're ignoring The World Ends With You, because it uses the DS capabilities at 100%!

I never played it, so...

Reknoc
10-12-2008, 19:15
I think you're ignoring The World Ends With You, because it uses the DS capabilities at 100%!

Nope I don't class any game that's constantly TL;DR as a top 20 game ever, decent music though.

7Force
10-12-2008, 22:04
In no real order

1. New Super Mario Bros.
2. Zoo Keeper
3. Elite Beat Agents
4. Metroid Prime Hunters
5. Meteos
6. Mario Kart DS
7. Sonic Rush/Sonic Rush Adventure
8. WarioWare: Touched
9. Jump Ultimate Stars
10. Bleach DS
11. Dementium the ward
12. Mario Kart DS
13. Star Fox Command
14. Ninja Gaiden
15. Zelda
16. Taiko no Tatsujin DS
17. Space Invaders Extreme
18. Tetris DS
19. Ouendan 2
20. Electroplankton

SegaMark
10-12-2008, 22:26
1. My Pet Rescue Centre
2. Dogz
3. Bunnyz
4. Catz
5. Dolphinz
6. Imagine Vet Doctor
7. Imagine Girl Band
8. Imagine Babies
9. My Pet Hotel
10. Imagine Wedding Planner
11. Horse Life
12. Pippa Funnel
13. What's Cooking Jamie Oliver?
14. Hells Kitchen
15. Mary Kings Riding School
16. My Animal Centre in Australia
17. My Baby Girl
18. My Baby Boy
19. My Best Friends Cats and Dogs
20. My Horse and Me

Nintendo DS, a dream console for anyone who loves shovelware! Can't beleive Nintendo allow companies to tarnish their systems with such tripe, thank god for my PSP. :P

Rayne
10-12-2008, 22:35
I laughed, sad that those 20 are only like .01% of the shovelware avaliable

Sherlock
10-12-2008, 23:09
Though that (shovelware) is not the only stuff available for the DS. :P

Rayne
10-12-2008, 23:47
Though that (shovelware) is not the only stuff available for the DS. :P

That's true :P I'll take a wild stab in the dark and say you're a Castlevania fan? What are the DS versions like? :) SOTN is probably the onle one I've finished, and it was just fantastic

Dr Shaneman
11-12-2008, 00:12
There's a lot of ecchi stuff on DS (I'm looking at you 7Force, if I think it I know you do as well)

Tails_1986
11-12-2008, 00:29
The Ds suffers from the same problem as the PS2. It enjoys from a worldwide success, so every monkey tries to make a half-cooked game to join the bandwagon. Sad, but true.

Dr Shaneman
11-12-2008, 00:31
Well, Marks list makes a valid point. It's also for celebrities to appear in half-assed games >_<.

Rayne
11-12-2008, 01:24
Well, Marks list makes a valid point. It's also for celebrities to appear in half-assed games >_<.

Celebrities are sort of okay...

I mean, say Gears 3 comes along and Keanu Reeves stands there "Massive aliens are invading earth, and its up to you to blow shit up, go"

:D that'd be awesome

But some halfwit tennis player...or...hell I honestly don't know any of the Nintendo celebrities except Star Trek dude.

Dr Shaneman
11-12-2008, 02:16
Celebrities are sort of okay...

I mean, say Gears 3 comes along and Keanu Reeves stands there "Massive aliens are invading earth, and its up to you to blow shit up, go"

:D that'd be awesome

But some halfwit tennis player...or...hell I honestly don't know any of the Nintendo celebrities except Star Trek dude.
I mean all those cooking games.

Sherlock
11-12-2008, 08:17
I'll take a wild stab in the dark and say you're a Castlevania fan? What are the DS versions like? :) SOTN is probably the onle one I've finished, and it was just fantastic

No shit, Sherlock (zOMG pun!). :P

Yes, I love Castlevania. Castlevania > All. :D

The DS versions are pretty cool. They all have the same style SotN has, too (Castleroid/Metroidvania - meaning that you're exploring Dracula's Castle without being really bound to go through levels). There's Dawn of Sorrow, the sequel to Aria of Sorrow, which is quite good. Then there's Portrait of Ruin, imo a really good game, it just has a little bit of a silly story. But the team mechanic is quite interesting and Charlotte's spells are friggin awesome. And of course there's Order of Ecclesia, which takes a step in a completely new direction with making it more RPG-like. You have to go through various areas fulfilling quests before you can go to Dracula's Castle.

Killer French Bread
11-12-2008, 15:52
I haven't played the new Castlevania game, but the old one is an essential purchase because you can use a copy of Don Quixote as a weapon. It's almost as cool as a Killer French Bread. Almost.

Sherlock
11-12-2008, 16:32
That's Portrait of Ruin. Charlotte, the mage, uses books summoning spirits out of it.

Don Quixote is one of them, among others - coming directly from literature would be Tristan & Isolde and the Book of Death.

Reknoc
11-12-2008, 19:28
Nintendo DS, a dream console for anyone who loves shovelware! Can't beleive Nintendo allow companies to tarnish their systems with such tripe, thank god for my PSP. :P

I to like consoles with very few games.

Celebrities are sort of okay...

I mean, say Gears 3 comes along and Keanu Reeves stands there "Massive aliens are invading earth, and its up to you to blow shit up, go"

:D that'd be awesome




Holy hell that would be boring, would the advert have Wooden Reeves or Terrible Southen Accent Reeves?

Picard in the adverts is awesome though.

Edit: Portrait of Ruin is pretty decent if you like you ears attacked with the constant sound of "Jonathan!" "Charlotte!".

Sherlock
11-12-2008, 23:00
@Reknoc:
If you turn the games voice on Japanese, they sound so much more cooler. I dunno. Having them shout "Jonasann!" and "Charuotto!" (yes, that's in bold) and having Charlotte shouting her spell names in horrible Engrish makes up a lot.

BornToEnd
28-02-2009, 21:47
I cannot give a full 20 reasons but I can give you 5:

1- An M3 Cart
2- MegaDrive emulator
3- NES emulator
4- SNES emulator
5- GameBoy Colour emulator


Yea I know, I'm a bad, bad man..... Going straight to pirate hell.

Not all bad at least I've got some decent games to play on the way.

Mena
21-03-2009, 00:24
Are people forgetting the various colours and aspects of having it as a fashion accessory?

Dr Shaneman
21-03-2009, 00:36
Yes because since when is the DS fashion?

Reknoc
21-03-2009, 00:38
Yes because since when is the DS fashion?

Since they pasted bus stops with images of Girls Aloud playing Nintendogs. That or I missed Gok Wang saying that a DS would look fabulous no matter what you wear or not wear I dunno.

Gavvie
21-03-2009, 00:38
Since when Nintendo decided that just having silver as an option was no good, and starting whoring colours out here, there and everywhere.

Microsoft and Sony are guilty of it too, only MS tend to only release special coloured Xboxes as limited editions, Elite aside.

Rayne
21-03-2009, 00:39
Mena, that's what iPods are for :P the DS doesn't quite work.

Edit: I'd say MS are innocent, Sony do it with the PSP and tell you what...they look effing sweet, I want a red one XD

Reknoc
21-03-2009, 00:40
Mena, that's what iPods are for :P the DS doesn't quite work.

I'd say DS's work better, no one gets their Ipod out, they set songs on and shove it in their pocket quickly so no one knows they have one so they can't get mugged.

Mena
21-03-2009, 00:54
Lol, didn't think I'd start a debate.

From a fairly shallow girls' point of view, I was begging Gav's ears off two years ago because I wanted a pretty pink one. It was something to play Yoshi on, but I wanted it to look good at the same time. iPods don't quite do the same job because they tend to stay in peoples pockets no matter how nifty they look, but it's not exactly convenient playing your DS out of your pocket when you're on the train :P

Dr Shaneman
21-03-2009, 00:56
But people may say "look at that DS nerd".

Reknoc
21-03-2009, 00:57
But people may say "look at that DS nerd".

You're kidding right? Nobody says that because just about everyone has a DS.

Rayne
21-03-2009, 00:59
You're kidding right? Nobody says that because just about everyone has a DS.

No one admits to it though.

7 year olds play the DS on the bus or train, I've never, ever seen anyone over the age of ten actually take it out in public :P anyone other than your sterotypical nerd anyway (no offense to anyone here of course, that's just what I see)

Video games are still geeky, super expensive, over-priced and pretty sexy MP3's are seen as cool, even cooler because you quickly flash them then put them away.

Mena
21-03-2009, 01:00
But people may say "look at that DS nerd".

Then I will hold my head up high! :biggrin:

Acting shifty whilst using public transport is not ideal, so it'd be the lesser of two evils.

Dr Shaneman
21-03-2009, 01:00
You're kidding right? Nobody says that because just about everyone has a DS.
Not in Cornwall.

Gavvie
21-03-2009, 01:03
I'm always playing my DS on the train, assuming I've got it charged it up. It's a better way to spend an hour than listening to music off my iPod, but then that might be because I always tend to keep skipping tracks I don't want to listen to XD

Rayne
21-03-2009, 01:05
I'm always playing my DS on the train, assuming I've got it charged it up. It's a better way to spend an hour than listening to music off my iPod, but then that might be because I always tend to keep skipping tracks I don't want to listen to XD

Well to be blunt, I drive XD so playing a DS whilst doing that would be fairly difficult.

Reknoc
21-03-2009, 01:07
I've seen plenty of older people play the DS on the bus, most of them women though.

I even saw someone play a PSP once! A rare find.

Gavvie
21-03-2009, 01:09
I've taken my PSP with me to see Mena once, I believe. Might've even been twice, I can't really remember all too well.

Reknoc
21-03-2009, 01:10
I've taken my PSP with me to see Mena once, I believe. Might've even been twice, I can't really remember all too well.

I played mine on the bus once, but it was rather embarresing cause I knew all the person next to me, infront of me, and probably behind me would hear was KRSHHKRZZZKRSSSHHH

Kool Chao
21-03-2009, 15:15
I remember I took my GBA out once on the train. Apart from that, I'm always listening to my iPod. I've seen quite a few people playing their PSP on the train, but no DS players yet. Well, I must say my train rides are no longer than 30 mins.

Dr Shaneman
21-03-2009, 15:19
I use my DS on long train journeys or long road trips if someone else is driving. It also helps me get to sleep at night sometimes though if I don't feel very tired.

Mena
21-03-2009, 16:48
^ I tried that once when I couldn't sleep, it kept me awake for hours :P

LeeMan00
21-03-2009, 17:31
I probably won't get one. Not enough reason to. I don't care to play most of those games, then again I haven't played a gameboy since Pokemon Silver.

7Force
21-03-2009, 23:02
But people may say "look at that DS nerd".
Hell no I play my DS nearly every day on the bus home from work or when I go up london to the troc. I also sometimes leave my DS at home and play my PSP insted.

Dr Shaneman
22-03-2009, 13:33
Hell no I play my DS nearly every day on the bus home from work or when I go up london to the troc. I also sometimes leave my DS at home and play my PSP insted.
Like I said, no one plays games in Cornwall >_<.

7Force
22-03-2009, 14:20
Like I said, no one plays games in Cornwall >_<.

I take it they still live in the stone age there then?

Dr Shaneman
22-03-2009, 15:18
I take it they still live in the stone age there then?
No they're just boring really. Quite hard to make any friends around here.

MrEthernex
09-04-2009, 21:14
Quite hard to make any friends around here.Well, you always have us here at RadioSEGA :P

Anyway, I use mine to pass the time like on car trips or train. Although I haven't played DS games in a while (been messing around with DSiWare), I plan to get back into playing. Hope to get Platinum soon. Now that will give me something to do.

7Force
09-04-2009, 23:17
Well, you always have us here at RadioSEGA :P

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Group hugXD