aspro said:

YES!  Someone other than me!  Is it amazing?

*...and keep in mind that's a DSiXL and a DSi! Imagine the difference between that and the Lite!*

So far, I am impressed. My love for the DSi waned pretty quickly after having it for a little while. The top screen was very wobbly. The matte finish annoyed me. The battery power wasn't too good. It felt kinda... flimsy...

The DSiXL is MASSIVE! The screens are 93% bigger than the original Lite's. I LOVE the Pen Stylus. It is sooo much more comfortable than any stylus before it. The glossy top screen feels and looks nice. The matte, lower screen grips better and obviously doesn't get all smudged up from fingerprints.

You can literally sit the XL on a flat surface and play with it like a laptop if you wish. It's a little awkward pressing the buttons with it sitting like that, but any stylus only game (Infinite Space) is a HECK of lot easier to play like this!

The d-pad and buttons have the same tactile-feedback kinda 'click' that the DSi had. The shoulder buttons are a step above the rounded Lite's too and are less apt to break.

The screen is more observable of course, but you can also play it on a brighter level if you want, due to the more powerful battery life. The speakers are louder too, and (this may be just an audio illusion) it seems due to the wider body of the XL the sound is even more spacial and gives an illusion of 3D sound while playing.

The concern of the graphics being more jaggy and out of proportion due to the magnification is totally moot as any negative effects of the screen being bigger are outweighed by just being able to SEE more details more clearly, read text more easily and just enjoy a bigger, brighter screen.

We'll see if the wobbliness plagues this system too eventually, but other than that future concern, I have no regrets in getting this system at all at the moment. The only thing I feel though is: THIS should have been the DSi from the start. If Nintendo wanted to market a more functional, more 'adult' system after the Lite, they should've just jumped straight to this.

Ravenprose said:

Everyone here already knows that I'm not normal.

Don't worry. I think all of us here are in the same boat!

I mean, we argue, talk about, and live for games. Is that normal?

Ravenprose said:

According to MSNBC, Apple's iPad is the future of personal computers:

"Normal people don't like today's computers. Most loathe them because they can't fully understand their absurd complexity and arcane conventions. That's why the iPad will kill today's computers, just like the latter killed computers running with punchcards and command lines."

See normal people will "carry that thing around in public." Perhaps you are not normal?

The tech writer for the Chicago Sun Times called it "the best gaming platform there is, it is like having a portable Wii with you everywhere you go" just before discussing how he played scrabble on it.

Makes me sick.

SteelAttack said:

To you. I've played SMG, and it's the best platformer out there, nothing less, nothing more. I can understand how such a game can be the embodiment of gaming perfection to other people, but to me, it is solely a good game in a sea of other equally good games. There is a number of titles that I've had more fun this generation than with SMG, although I don't expect everyone to share my viewpoint.

If someone told me that there weren't going to be any more Mario games ever again, I wouldn't lift an eyebrow. If that somehow makes me less of a gamer, so be it. To me, they're not as enjoyable anymore, because my tastes in gaming nowadays are located elsewhere.

No, when I said it was the best game of the generation thus far, I wasn't talking about my own opinion of course, I was talking about Jim from Arkansas'.

SMG sucks IMO. Oh, and I love HL2 IMO. It's Jim that hates that.

>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<

SteelAttack said:

WTF I don't even know what are we talking about anymore. :lol

Here's the thing:

• SMG is a great platformer.
• SMG2 will surely be another great platformer.
• I haven't felt the need to actually finish SMG, and I wonder if I'll ever pick SMG2, since the genre doesn't mean to me what it once meant.
• All in all, I just don't care that much for Mario games anymore.

The only thing sure in this back-and-forth is that dvader is wrong. Whatever his opinions are.

Finally, something we can agree on.

phantom_leo said:

aspro said:

YES!  Someone other than me!  Is it amazing?

*...and keep in mind that's a DSiXL and a DSi! Imagine the difference between that and the Lite!*

So far, I am impressed. My love for the DSi waned pretty quickly after having it for a little while. The top screen was very wobbly. The matte finish annoyed me. The battery power wasn't too good. It felt kinda... flimsy...

The DSiXL is MASSIVE! The screens are 93% bigger than the original Lite's. I LOVE the Pen Stylus. It is sooo much more comfortable than any stylus before it. The glossy top screen feels and looks nice. The matte, lower screen grips better and obviously doesn't get all smudged up from fingerprints.

You can literally sit the XL on a flat surface and play with it like a laptop if you wish. It's a little awkward pressing the buttons with it sitting like that, but any stylus only game (Infinite Space) is a HECK of lot easier to play like this!

The d-pad and buttons have the same tactile-feedback kinda 'click' that the DSi had. The shoulder buttons are a step above the rounded Lite's too and are less apt to break.

The screen is more observable of course, but you can also play it on a brighter level if you want, due to the more powerful battery life. The speakers are louder too, and (this may be just an audio illusion) it seems due to the wider body of the XL the sound is even more spacial and gives an illusion of 3D sound while playing.

The concern of the graphics being more jaggy and out of proportion due to the magnification is totally moot as any negative effects of the screen being bigger are outweighed by just being able to SEE more details more clearly, read text more easily and just enjoy a bigger, brighter screen.

We'll see if the wobbliness plagues this system too eventually, but other than that future concern, I have no regrets in getting this system at all at the moment. The only thing I feel though is: THIS should have been the DSi from the start. If Nintendo wanted to market a more functional, more 'adult' system after the Lite, they should've just jumped straight to this.