Nintendo Direct Coming Tomorrow, 12/5

Just saw this post pop up. Things that it could be. Announcements for upcoming titles- Very likely. After the last Nintendo Direct I believe I remember Reggie saying they would be talking about future unannounced titles before the end of the year. I am thinking these might be eShop titles since the eShop, Wii shop and DSiware shop are under maintenance today from 1pm-10pm today. Credit of this news goes to gonintendo .com http://www.gonintendo.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=100865 . I am also hoping TVii app will be released tomorrow for Wii U. It is one of the things I am most exciting for.

UPDATE- RUMOR

 - Again, all of this is 100% rumor. We'll know what's real and what's fake in less than 24 hours.

– Fire Emblem is projected to show up around January in the US with the Japanese Blue Special Edition to go on sale with it.

– Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon will come out in February. At the same time the Black 3DS XL will also come out and there will be a Black 3DS XL Dark Moon version with the game bundled in.

– Animal Crossing planned as a Spring/Summer Title between March and May.

– Most of the Nintendo 3DS and 3DS XL colors, including 3DS XL Purple, will be out in America by the end of 2013.

– A few eShop first party @ 3rd party Wii U titles will be announced for the launch window and a good mix of first and third party for spring which ends at the Nintendo E3 show for the rest of 2013.

– No idea if the Pokemon 3DS XL’s are coming, even though NoA wants them to for Mystery Dungeon that is all up to the Pokemon Company USA to decide.

- http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=192226


Visit http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/archive/12-05-2012/ tomorrow, December 5, at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET to watch the latest video segment.

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Check out New Super Mario Bros. 2 via Club Nintendo

Check out New Super Mario Bros. 2 via Club Nintendo

Borderlands

Last week my cousin and I started playing Borderlands again. He hasn't beat the game yet so I grabbed one of my low levels to join him on the adventure to open the vault. He is playing as a siren and I am playing as a hunter. We even had a buddy join in to pay for a couple of hours. We finished up the first area and went to the Dahl Headlands. Once again I am reminded that I should have never played the Berserker for my first play through. I am enjoying the hunter very much since I always let my co-op buddies have all the sniper rifles. I will have to say after playing with pistols they are very useful as well. After two night of playing we just have the boss fight and we are done in this area. The game is still fun even after playing it through twice and playing all the DLC to the finish except for Mad Moxxi and Claptrap Revolution. We are hoping to get the game finished up for him in time for Borderlands 2 but I honestly don't think that is possible with our limited playtime.

Club Nintendo - Order Complete

Club Nintendo - Order Complete

Nintendo Direct

Nintendo Direct

Wii, 3DS, and DS news tonight. Hopefully it will be new information and not left overs from E3. 9p PST and 12a EST.

Mario Kart Super Circuit- Post two week (and then some) wrap-up

Sorry everyone, got a little distracted and didn't get my post up after the two weeks. First off I didn't enjoy my playtime with this game. I also didn't play it for very log. I normally would not base a game's worth off of such little playtime but being a racing game it doesn't take long to see all it has to offer. Also on that not I am not new to Mario Kart but this made me feel like playing a game of PONG would bee too hard for me. It didn't control at all like I wanted to and I never could get the power slide (drift) to work. I had a hard time winner even on the 50cc cups. After a while of getting aggravated I decided that maybe it was my beloved Donkey Kong was causing me to not have any fun. I switched to Yoshi and the game was better but not anywhere near what I felt it should play like. It was fun to see some new courses and mark off that I have played/owned all of the home Mario Kart games. I hope you had a better time playing than I did. I got through Mushroom, Fire Flower, Lightning, and Star cups with the best rank I could get of C. Time didn't allow for me to try the Special Cup. So before I end this post I will say something I did like about it. I did enjoy the ability to recover from a banana peel or other slick hazard without spinning out. I would not mind seeing something like that return. So did you get a chance to play it recently or during the two week period? If so let us know how you felt about it and your playtime and how far you got.

The Activity Log has me for 53 minutes and played 5 times.

Two weeks with Mario Kart Super Circuit

Good evening folks. The next game will be Mario Kart Super Circuit. It won by a landslide in the vote. Who did vote for this anyways? This just goes to show you your vote really does count.

This game was released in the US on July 27th 2001. This game is based off Super Mario Kart. Super Mario Kart was a favorite of mine. I remember going 99-1 one night in battle mode against some friends in middle school. The feather power up is one I have missed in the other Mario Karts that came out after Super. I will be interested to see if it is in this one. Super Mario Kart was a game about racing skill. No blue shells here. If you wanted to take out the first place guy you had to do it yourself. I fired this game up in December 11 and played a round. I didn't really like it but I will give a few cups a try to see if it gets better and if the old feelings come back. So lets strap on our helmets and go swap some paint.  Game ends 4/15/12 1201a.

Two weeks with Metroid Fusion

Well hopefully a few of you snuck some extra time in since I didn't get a post up Sunday. I am going to try to be better for the next games. I want to hear from you guys so post a comment on your play through. What sector are you in? I want to know the time on the save file, on the start menu your energy, missile, p-bomb, beam, missile, bomb, suit, and misc field contents. What is your current objective? Did you enjoy the game, learn to love it, or hate every minute of it? Do you plan on continuing the game? I probably could have went at least one more sector in my playtime but 3D classic: Kid Icarus and Crush 3D stole my playtime. I'll update this post after a couple of you share your experiences. In the mean time here is a tease.

UPDATE

A couple days late with my update. I was trying to get this out before we started the next game. I enjoyed my time with Metroid Fusion. I really haven't ever played a Metroid game before. I can remember playing Super Metroid as a kid at Target. I have Metroid Prime for Gamecube but I just couldn't get used to the controls. At that time I was heavy into FPS on PC. A couple of years later I picked up Metroid Prime Trilogy for Wii but I only opened it to look at the game case and art book. It is waiting on my huge backlog. Then I picked up Metroid: Other M. I really enjoyed the time I put into it. It looked great and played great. I really didn't have an issue with the voice acting.  I plan on revisiting it and hopefully beating it some day soon. Anyways back to Fusion. First off like I believe Jerm said the graphics were good and I couldn't agree more. I would say this was modeled after the SNES graphics yet it doesn't feel to be 4 generations old when this game came out in 2002. I just pulled up a wiki on it and yes it does look like Super Metroid cause it was made by the same team that did it in 1992. You can read more about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Fusion . This makes me feel like I need to pick up Super Metroid on the Virtual Console. The activity log on the 3DS has me at 9 hours and 10 minutes. It also has me at 16 times played with an average of 34 minutes per play. I would say that number is probable closer to 8 times played since there were a few times I launched it and had to quit to do something else. The save file has me at 5:53 minutes and I am on the main deck. My current mission tells me to go to "Central Reactor core down. Engage auxiliary at target. Last time I played it I made it down to probably is the boss of this stage and died. I didn't seem to be hurting it and I died. It was late and I had to go to bed. The next time I had an opportunity to play I was helping out my wife play through the second sector. A couple days later the two weeks ended. I plan on going back and gutting that monster but it is time to stop the Metroid Fusion play through. I had a good time playing this game. The story line was ok and after playing Metroid other M some I enjoyed her talking about Adam. This game really encourages you to look for hidden rooms and power-ups.  My only hope is Nintendo does decided to update this games and give us more options like save states and the ability to pop back to the home screen for friends list and internet.  Another good feature would be button remapping. Even though the play time is over it isn't too late to post your impressions.   

I'm still around..... Let's play Metroid Fusion

Hey everybody. Been a while since I have posted. sorry about that. My wife and I are still working through Super Mario Bros All-stars and it is taking much longer than expected. We have also been playing Skylander: Spyro's Adventure, Mario Kart 7, and Super Mario 3D Land.
 
Right now my friends and I are working through some GBA games on our 3DS. We took a vote and Metroid Fusion won. We are taking two weeks to play through as much of the game as we have time for and then discuss it. I am currently on Sector 4 and fighting what I am guessing is the boss although it seems awful quick. The 3ds activity meter has me in for 3 hours and 17 minutes and the game's save file is 2 hours and 8 minutes. I have 4 energy tanks and I think 55 missiles. Let's not discuss too much details right now but I just want to get a feel for how far you have got. We can discuss more 3/24.