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Button-mashing DS game for boyfriend?
Trowizilla
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So my boyfriend has decided he wants a DS game to play while he's waiting around to pick me up for work. However, his taste in videogames is... rather limited.
Things the game can not have:
Lots of precision jumping. He played God of War and gets frustrated with the platforming aspects.
Obviously turn-based combat. He's fine with disguised turn-based, like in City of Heroes, but nothing with menus for combat.
High difficulty level. Think super, super-casual gamer here. If he gets frustrated, he just quits, and then we're out the price of a game.
Too long an opening sequence. He just quits.
Things that would be good:
Long/Lots of replay value.
Simple combat, but lots of it.
Not too much reading.
Not too cutesy, although exceptions can be made.
Games that he really likes:
Dynasty Warriors
Games he enjoys before getting irritated with them:
City of Heroes
God of War
Kingdom Hearts
Guitar Hero
Katamari Damacy
Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap
If anyone has suggestions for a game that would suit him, I'd love to hear him. Also appreciated would be suggestions for "gateway" videogames that might help him branch out into other genres.
TL;DR - Suggestions for DS games for my patience- and taste-challenged significant other.
Things the game can not have:
Lots of precision jumping. He played God of War and gets frustrated with the platforming aspects.
Obviously turn-based combat. He's fine with disguised turn-based, like in City of Heroes, but nothing with menus for combat.
High difficulty level. Think super, super-casual gamer here. If he gets frustrated, he just quits, and then we're out the price of a game.
Too long an opening sequence. He just quits.
Things that would be good:
Long/Lots of replay value.
Simple combat, but lots of it.
Not too much reading.
Not too cutesy, although exceptions can be made.
Games that he really likes:
Dynasty Warriors
Games he enjoys before getting irritated with them:
City of Heroes
God of War
Kingdom Hearts
Guitar Hero
Katamari Damacy
Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap
If anyone has suggestions for a game that would suit him, I'd love to hear him. Also appreciated would be suggestions for "gateway" videogames that might help him branch out into other genres.
TL;DR - Suggestions for DS games for my patience- and taste-challenged significant other.
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The World Ends With You
I'd recommend FFTA2 if he is into mission based RPG tactics games.
I'm just gonna say 'The World Ends With You' will tickle his fancy. It's pretty intense though and reeks with style, like Kingdom Hearts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmLdyyFKjxQ
Also 'Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow' was pretty good imo. It requires alot of platforming and navigation though. It may be harder to find, but the sequal is pretty good I hear. It's chock full of baddie killin' though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S2obmC4VyY
Those are all turn-based, right? He won't play those.
Can anyone vouch for this game?
Geometry Wars is also good for short sessions. And both games include explosions.
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Not TWEWY.
Any of the Castlevania DS titles
Mario Kart DS
...and as a dark horse.... the first thing I thought of when I saw button-mashing in the title was
Guy wants twitch game, he also wants a quick game to play while waiting for girlfriend to get out of work. It's a short game, so he can beat it repeatedly, attempting to beat his highscore. Bam! Self competition and that addictive nugget that makes a game addictive. Second, it's a conversation topic that can lead to discussion.
Boy: I beat my high score.
Girl: That's great.
Boy: Right.
Girl: It's good to achieve new things.
Boy: It is.
See, right there, positive energy, all because of this man, this BOSTON RED SOX fan, who deserves some sort of award, I am here to provide it.
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Despite the menus and the turn-taking, I found the Pokemon games were pretty good gateway games, the earlier ones especially. My own personal gateway game was .hack//INFECTION, which is a mock-MMO for the PS2. Lots of button-mashing there, though again with the menu system.
How do you think he'd feel about a Nintendog? It's good if you're going to be playing most days (the game keeps track of time), and despite the fact that it sounds cheesy as hell, it's actually somewhat relaxing to sit and play with a little DS puppy.
Honestly, if I were you I'd probably sit him down with a copy of Tetris and tell him to go to town.
I'm not a heavy gamer, so I can't make a lot of suggestions, but Lego Star Wars fits most of the requirements. Some of the jumping and shooting can get fiddly because the 'camera' angle changes occasionally, but it's got lots of basic combat (Jundland Wastes in Episode IV has literally endless combat with Tusken Raiders), you can skip the opening sequences and it's easy.
Because it's Lego, it's slightly cutesy, especially when you get the Emperor using Force Lightning. But that's on the sort of "cool" side of cutesy.
You have to replay each chapter at least once - I've been playing one or two chapters a day for the past two weeks and I'm still not through it. You have to collect the studs, the minikits and the red bricks to get everything done and to get this done, you have to replay some of the chapters a couple of times (and/or read walkthroughs).
It's basically a fun game you have to go through a few times where you can't really die. And you get to build things with Lego.
I hear that Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Batman (to be released in September, IIRC) have very similar gameplay styles, so they might be worth looking at.
Metroid is a title I want to throw out, you can get the old metroid and metroid fusion for gamboy advanced, they arent to hard to find used. I don't recall them being super platform based, but Im good at platform games so my judgment maybe clouded.
What about something super long lasting like Harvest Moon or Animal Crossing?
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Ultimate Mortal Kombat for the DS is a spectacular port and great for quick pick up and play action too.
Gunstar Super Heroes.
It's lots of fun, easy to control, has two different characters you can go through with, and it's hella fast paced action.
Watch some of this video and see what a cool seizure it makes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DClg7Wr4IhA&feature=related
It's actually a GBA game, but it plays in the DS.
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Yeah, I was about to say the same thing.
Why hasn't anyone recommended Phantom Hourglass yet?
Sonic Rush is a good recommendation - the gameplay is very fast-paced without a lot of the more complex platforming aspects of earlier Sonic games...it's mostly just about blazing through everything as quickly as possible.
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword also seems like another good recommendation, though I've not played it and am unsure where it's at as far as platforming/difficulty go.
Also, Space Invaders and/or Geometry Wars may just be the perfect game(s) for your guy. They're very easy to pick up and play and loads of fun.
And you need the GBA Gunstar Heroes. Because it's Gunstar Heroes.
I won't debate that Rocket Slime is a wonderful game, but while the text can be safely ignored, there's also a decent amount of it and a fairly lengthy opening sequence.
He wants lots of replay value, simple combat (and lots of it), not much reading and nothing too cutesy -- all of which apply here. I still think he might like it.
because he didn't really get into Minish Cap?
Well, the only thing we know for sure that the bf likes is Dynasty Warriors, which is basically a game about cutting through throngs of enemies like butter and doing the occasional badass super move. I'm pretty sure there's not anything like a portable Dynasty Warriors for the DS.
But if what appeals to him about that game is the simple but fluid combat (and not say, the Three Kingdoms setting, or the minor RPG elements) then I would still recommend PH. The stylus based combat is intuitive and I got a Dynasty Warrior-ish vibe from time to time when I was slashing away at monsters.
Although I will admit that the game is heavy on puzzles and questing for this or that and not so much on combat, so if he really despises that aspect of the Zelda games then I guess PH won't be that much different.
Actually...there was a Dynasty Warriors made for the GBA which you can get on amazon no problem.
http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-73571-Dynasty-Warriors-Advance/dp/B0009XEC2A/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1217418689&sr=8-21
It's only 6 bucks before shipping too. Now I'm totally unsure of its quality but hey, it hits the nail right on the head. You may also want to try looking into some of the regular beat 'em ups on the DS and GBA since I know they're out there but I'll be damned if I can think of any off the top of my head right now.
I've also heard good things about Contra...4? The DS one.
Touch the Dead sounds perfect for him except for the difficulty level. That may wait until he gets used to the DS a little more and stops flailing at the touch screen.
Lego Star Wars is an excellent idea and I'll be on the lookout for it. Lego Batman would be even better; the boy loves Batman more than he loves me.
He's actually kind of interested in getting a proper Pokemon game, mostly because I keep squealing about the awesomeness of my Infernape. He'll need his own, though; no way am I erasing one of my saves.
A lot of the remakes of older games are too hard for him, sadly. Plus, they nearly always have tons of jumping.
Ninja Gaiden sounds interesting, as long as the difficulty isn't too high.
Sonic Rush is a good idea.
Lots of suggestions for Dawn of Souls. My only worries are that it might be too difficult and that he might balk at the gothic-ish style of it. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there are no punk-themed games about killing Dracula, so he may have to just suck it up.
Thanks for the ideas, everyone! I've got enough to keep him entertained for awhile, yay.
Not only does it have endless dialogue and awful character designs, but it's terrible dialogue that makes you want to claw your eyes out (or just rapid tap the screen until the words go away)
I suggest geometry wars