Posted by Mental on May 09, 2008 at 10:26:34 EST in reply to ...So how long did you play it? (n/t) from NeoGutsman.
I guess it really does come down to a matter of taste, but I think I know what Guts is trying to say. It's a game I like to play alongside my other games. Turning it on for a while to earn some money, talk to some animals, check on the environment a little, and then turn it off again. Fun, short bursts of playtime. Awesome that way! Also, and this is more of a question than an accusation, don't you ever get tired of commercial games on flashcarts? The reason I stopped using my R4 for commercial games, is because I couldnt enjoy the games anymore. If one wasnt fun enough, I would just go to the next. I never gave a game the chance to get to the "fun" point. Now that Im buying them again, I actually bite through the sometimes boring start, and enjoy the next 20-30 hrs much more. Just my 2 cents.
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i've had this conversation with others before, and i agree. paying for and actually owning something is incentive to actually give the game a chance and, more often than not, actually see what it has to offer. i've burned a few ps2 games, ones that left great first impressions, but have never booted up more than 5 times max. (n/t) (twelvestep) (14:34:40 05/09/08 EST)
Yeah, that's how I've played Animal Crossing whenever I've tried it. Just short bursts. I never would have thought of playing it any other way, not so much because I'm playing on a flash cart, but because that's just how I've always played games since long before I ever had a flash cart or even a DS. I think you and I just play different types of games. The concept of putting 20-30 hours into a game, finishing it, then forgetting about it and moving on to another game has always been totally alien to me and my tastes in games. Every once in a very long while, a game like that catches my interest and I do it, but I could count the number of times in all my history of playing video games on one hand (actually, two). I just don't dig that mindset of gaming or the types of gameplay concepts that lend themselves to it. I guess I'm a bit of an anachronism because I still play games exactly the same way I did 25 years ago on the Atari 2600 and for the most part exactly the same type of games, too. My favorite games on the DS are things like Yoshi's Touch & Go, Geometry Wars, Metroid Prime Pinball and New Super Mario Bros. These are all games that are instantly fun and also infinitely fun. They play exactly the same after 20 minutes as they do after 20 hours or after 2000 hours. When you play games like that, you never know what game you'll want to play, so a flash cart is a necessary accessory for me if I want my DS to actually be portable. I think people who play games the way you do, more often than not pretty much know what game they'll want to play for the next day or two so that's not a problem for them. Plus, my preferences also lead me more towards homebrew and emulated games than the majority of the games coming out on the DS anyway, which are additional reasons for needing a flash card. I never would have bought a DS if there weren't flash cards available because the system would be nearly worthless to me without one. (n/t) (Sweater Fish Deluxe) (16:46:54 05/09/08 EST)
