Nintendo DS Help

laststraw41

Hey I've been lurking (so to speak) here for a while.. never registered on the forums though, so here goes my first post, I did a search for this too and nothing turned up so without further introduction..

I'm thinking about buying myself a Nintendo DS and I'll have enough money to buy 1 game with it, maybe 2, and I'm not sure where to start, so I'm looking for recommendations.. Keep in mind that I'll be playing FF6 Advance at the same time.

Thanks in advance!

AHH!

It'd help to know what kind of games you like.

I'd say Warioware though

Quintile

I vote for Elite Beat Agents!

If you want a good list of DS games that this place suggests, check out this: http://padsgames.pbwiki.com/

supabeast

New Super Mario Bros is amazing if you dig old-school platformers.

Neaden

New Super Mario Bros: Great old school mario game, if you liked those, you'll love this. Also has some very fun minigames you can 1 cart if you have friends with DS's
Elite Beat Agent: Rhythm game and one of my favourite games on the DS period. Very fast and at times very frusterating, but a lot of fun.
Phoenix Wright1 and 2: Both very fun old schoolish adventure games where you play the title character, a lawyer, who must search for evidence and go to court to defend his clients. Not for everyone but the writing and puzzles make these games very fun. Hotel Dusk is a more serious adventure game you might want to look at, but I haven't played it.
Brain Age: I like this one better then Big Brain Academy. I'm not sure if it'll actually make you smarter, but its fun and has a bunch of soduku if you're into that.
MarioKart Double Dash: This game is pretty fun if you play it with some friends, not so much if you play it alone.
ClubHouse Games: I don't own this one but one of my friends does and loves it. It's a whole bunch of minigames essentially, so good for wasting small amounts of time.

powersurge

If I had to pick just one it would be Castlevania Portrait of Ruin I think.

Pheezer

I would say New Super Mario Bros. is pretty fucking good and strongly recommend it, but I'm also going to suggest a title you'll find in the deal bin, or very cheap and used: Battles of Prince of Persia. You should be able to get it on the cheap, and if you like turn based strategy, it's fucking rad. It's so long and so fun and there's card collecting and deck building and it's like Fire Emblem only you change armies a lot and no one gains experience or levels or anything.

But deck building! Turn based strategy! You control it with the touch screen! It's a long game! Cheap!

Anonymous Robot

powersurge wrote: »

If I had to pick just one it would be Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow I think.

Fixed

BTP

Neaden wrote: »

MarioKart DS: This game is pretty fun if you play it with some friends, not so much if you play it alone.

Fixed. And it's still plenty fun with single player. Unlockable characters and karts, mission mode, battle mode vs. 7 CPU. NWC. There's a lot to the game!

ClubHouse Games: I don't own this one but one of my friends does and loves it. It's a whole bunch of minigames essentially, so good for wasting small amounts of time.

Since when did Chess and Bowling become mini-games?

Clubhouse Games is 42 games in one. Many of them are card games like Texas Hold Em and Crazy 8's and Old Maid and such, but there's also Chees, Checkers, Battleship, Backgammon, Bowling, Darts, Billiards, Mahjongg. Let's just put it this way, you'll like the majority of them. Three different modes to get the most out of the game and it also has NWC with color Pictochat with those in your friends list. Even if you get tired of the game after a while, you'll be glad you have it for those times when you have a few minutes to spare in an otherwise boring situation.

Anonymous Robot

BTP wrote: »

Neaden wrote: »

MarioKart DS: This game is pretty fun if you play it with some friends, not so much if you play it alone.

Fixed. And it's still plenty fun with single player. Unlockable characters and karts, mission mode, battle mode vs. 7 CPU. NWC. There's a lot to the game!

ClubHouse Games: I don't own this one but one of my friends does and loves it. It's a whole bunch of minigames essentially, so good for wasting small amounts of time.

Since when did Chess and Bowling become mini-games?

Clubhouse Games is 42 games in one. Many of them are card games like Texas Hold Em and Crazy 8's and Old Maid and such, but there's also Chees, Checkers, Battleship, Backgammon, Bowling, Darts, Billiards, Mahjongg. Let's just put it this way, you'll like the majority of them. Three different modes to get the most out of the game and it also has NWC with color Pictochat with those in your friends list. Even if you get tired of the game after a while, you'll be glad you have it for those times when you have a few minutes to spare in an otherwise boring situation.

Wow, I never realized how awesome Clubhouse Games is. Does it teach you to play the games, though? I don't know the rules for many card games.

Brodo Faggins

Wait, is Mahjongg actually in Clubhouse? All I've seen so far is Mahjongg solitaire, and that's not even remotely close.

Fawful

Advance Wars Dual Strike is the best game ever. Other must-have DS games are Ace Attorney 1 & 2, Mario & Luigi Partners in Time, Meteos, both Kirby games, Yoshi Touch & Go (it's this generation's Tetris in terms of addictiveness), Trace Memory and Hotel Dusk, Wario Ware Touched!, and of course New Super Mario Bros.

Manic205

Don't go rushing into something just because it's trendy. If you can't think of a few games to buy on a system that's been out as long as the DS, maybe you don't need to thrown down this sort of cash after all.

Metroid Pinball rocks pretty hard though.

Viscountalpha

Manic205 wrote: »

Don't go rushing into something just because it's trendy. If you can't think of a few games to buy on a system that's been out as long as the DS, maybe you don't need to thrown down this sort of cash after all.

Metroid Pinball rocks pretty hard though.

I'd have to agree. It feels really good for a digital pinball table.

BTP

Anonymous Robot wrote: »

BTP wrote: »

Neaden wrote: »

MarioKart DS: This game is pretty fun if you play it with some friends, not so much if you play it alone.

Fixed. And it's still plenty fun with single player. Unlockable characters and karts, mission mode, battle mode vs. 7 CPU. NWC. There's a lot to the game!

ClubHouse Games: I don't own this one but one of my friends does and loves it. It's a whole bunch of minigames essentially, so good for wasting small amounts of time.

Since when did Chess and Bowling become mini-games?

Clubhouse Games is 42 games in one. Many of them are card games like Texas Hold Em and Crazy 8's and Old Maid and such, but there's also Chees, Checkers, Battleship, Backgammon, Bowling, Darts, Billiards, Mahjongg. Let's just put it this way, you'll like the majority of them. Three different modes to get the most out of the game and it also has NWC with color Pictochat with those in your friends list. Even if you get tired of the game after a while, you'll be glad you have it for those times when you have a few minutes to spare in an otherwise boring situation.

Wow, I never realized how awesome Clubhouse Games is. Does it teach you to play the games, though? I don't know the rules for many card games.

It has rules for every game.

And yes, Mahjongg Solitaire sounds much more accurate.

For everything you need to know about the game, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubhouse_Games

theparttime

BTP wrote: »

Anonymous Robot wrote: »

BTP wrote: »

Neaden wrote: »

MarioKart DS: This game is pretty fun if you play it with some friends, not so much if you play it alone.

Fixed. And it's still plenty fun with single player. Unlockable characters and karts, mission mode, battle mode vs. 7 CPU. NWC. There's a lot to the game!

ClubHouse Games: I don't own this one but one of my friends does and loves it. It's a whole bunch of minigames essentially, so good for wasting small amounts of time.

Since when did Chess and Bowling become mini-games?

Clubhouse Games is 42 games in one. Many of them are card games like Texas Hold Em and Crazy 8's and Old Maid and such, but there's also Chees, Checkers, Battleship, Backgammon, Bowling, Darts, Billiards, Mahjongg. Let's just put it this way, you'll like the majority of them. Three different modes to get the most out of the game and it also has NWC with color Pictochat with those in your friends list. Even if you get tired of the game after a while, you'll be glad you have it for those times when you have a few minutes to spare in an otherwise boring situation.

Wow, I never realized how awesome Clubhouse Games is. Does it teach you to play the games, though? I don't know the rules for many card games.

It has rules for every game.

And yes, Mahjongg Solitaire sounds much more accurate.

For everything you need to know about the game, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubhouse_Games

the game teaches insanely well. very very descriptive. i dunno why they had to change the name of the games tho. if you can get a friend to play with you its tons of fun. and fun solo too.

Dublo7

Hotel Dusk
Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow
Elite Beat Agents
Advanced Wars Dual Strike.

Either of those games will give you a cracker of a time.

tony_important

Yoshi's Island DS (AWESOME, I can't believe this got left out)
New Super Mario Bros. (Super fun, good luck getting all of the star coins. I've been trying.)
Elite Beat Agents (More addictive than crack.)
Advance Wars: Dual Strike (it's pretty fun, very strategy based)

Dublo7

Also, get Ouendan if you can.
I haven't played it as much as I have with EBA yet, but it's very funny.

Brodo Faggins

Lunar Knights is a fantastic isometric adventure game.

ZackSchilling

Clubhouse games taught me how to play dominoes for real (you know, not standing them up half an inch apart and knocking them over in a chain). I learned the game in about 5 minutes. Fun-wise it sucks compared to knocking them over, but I learned how to play.

LewieP

Quintile wrote: »

I vote for Elite Beat Agents!

If you want a good list of DS games that this place suggests, check out this: http://padsgames.pbwiki.com/

just wondering, how do I got about recomending games with that?

Anonymous Robot

Brodo Faggins wrote: »

Lunar Knights is a fantastic isometric adventure game.

I don't know about you, but I found it impossible to play on the DS Lite D-Pad. I could do it on the Phat, but note the Lite.

Silvanos

Quintile wrote: »

I vote for Elite Beat Agents!

If you want a good list of DS games that this place suggests, check out this: http://padsgames.pbwiki.com/

Except no one ever updates that thing.

Jensen

Mario Kart
Tetris DS
Trauma Center

Captain K

You might find this thread useful.

In fact, I'm gonna lock this one because the one I linked is so much better. You know, one thread per topic and all that.