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@banishedsoul1: I very much agree. I felt $30 was the perfect price. Though with consoles games being $10 more than they used to, it only makes sense that these would cost $10 more.

@FluxWaveZ: Yeah, I've found that if I ever take my handheld with me, it's in a backpack or bag of some sort. I did read that the resolution looks kind of weird, but is overall not a huge issue. And that the 3D apparently works better for some people, since it's just bigger, and the shaders or whatever are farther apart. I don't know, that might just be someone talking out of their ass, but since I know absolutely nothing about how 3D really works, it sounds legit to me.

As a person who recently purchased a 3DS, I am not at all upset by the announcement of the larger screened system. I'm actually pretty excited for it. Several people I talked to about the XL, were already calling it stupid for being a huge version of a portable system, but the way I look at it, is that it's like TransFARing. In that I can put Animal crossing in on my XL, but then put it in my smaller 3DS when I have to leave. That of course would be the ideal situation, but I never find myself in a situation where I need portable games to be portable. Especially on the 3DS. Usually when playing a "Portable" game, I'm just watching TV, or waiting for everyone I'm with to get ready to leave. I never actually end up playing any games when I'm out of the house. It's too much of a hassle to carry even the smallest systems.The idea of having a bigger screen, with the circle-pad being further away from the L-Button, sound amazing. Playing through Mario and Zelda on the regular 3DS was fine, but when sitting on my couch, it felt a little too small for me.

I'm probably going to get a 3DS XL along with New Super Mario Bros 2. And I plan on keeping my old 3DS, I'll probably let a cheap friend borrow it. But yeah, what do you think about the XL? Is it cool? Is it just a stupid thing that makes the Circle-pad pro useless? Or is it both?

@OwnlyUzinWonHan: Oh, somebody else uses this avatar? If so, I'll probably change it, just to avoid seeing the same avatar all over the place.

I finished Ocarina of Time. Still a pretty good game. Doesn't hold up as well as I'd hoped, and it definitely doesn't hold up nearly as well as Majora's Mask. I played through MM last year with a friend, and found that the game got better with time. As an adult I was able to appreciate the difficulty of the dungeons and time limit much more than I was able to as a kid. I still loved the game when it first came out, but I found a lot of it confusing, and too difficult to keep track of. I found that everything in the game worked together to make the game better as a whole. It had little to no fluff, and still has the best story in any Zelda game.

If you hated Majora's Mask when it first came out, give it another shot, it might surprise you.

Let's think it about like we were Link, when you were ten, if you saw a bad-ass sword in the middle of the room, you would definitely take it. You wouldn't think twice about Gannon or the fate of the world, after you went into a Volcano and a giant fish monster, you'd probably just assume that sword was your reward. And then after that he gets told about Gannon.

But yes, it's a Nintendo game, and it's still a really fun game regardless of the story.

It was also made less time consuming, due to having more slots on your touchscreen for items, so you could have all the items you need to use at the ready, instead of having to go into the menu to change out the iron boots with whatever else you might need.

Thanks to all, even the people who didn't like it.

I've been playing through Ocarina of Time 3D, and it is not nearly as challenging as I remember. The water temple was not really that hard, and people keep acting like it's the hardest thing ever. I know it's one of those things now, that people think makes them legit hardcore gamers. But the temple itself isn't that hard. I was thinking that they might have made it easier for the 3DS, so I went back and played it on the virtual console, and it was the same,.

Why do people feel the need to associate themselves with videogames, even when they don't actually play games? I just don't understand why people think it makes them cool to have at one point played games. My sister is a good example, she bought herself a Resident Evil shirt, even though she has never even played one of the games. Which isn't really a bad thing, I just don't see the point in pretending to be into something you're obviously not.

Another point, is that people I know who don't play games, call themselves "gamers" and complain about how Gamestop give "us gamers" a bad name. I don't think there needs to be labels like gamer, or anything like that, what does it even mean? Someone who plays games? My eleven months old nephew has held my fightstick during a Street Fighter match, is he a gamer baby?

Which brings me to another annoyance: Why do people give their babies things that represent their own interests? Babies aren't a goddamn billboard, give them clothes. I don't need to see a fucking NES controller on your baby, that doesn't make me think you're a hardcore gamer, that just makes me think you're an idiot. Children's clothes are getting increasingly inappropriate, not just with of overt sexuality, but with the branding. I see friends buying Star Wars baby clothes for three to four times as much as a normal shirt, all because they think it makes their baby cool. Guess what, your baby isn't a goddamn star wars fan, he/she doesn't even know what it is, stop spending fifteen bucks on absolutely nothing!

I guess I'll cut my Zelda thoughts off there.

Jaime Kennedy 2.0.