Archangel3371 said:

Finished Metal Gear Solid 4 tonight. Holy shit what an incredibly powerful ending. The last boss fight was also very cool how they did it. I most certainly agree with all the praise and the reviews this game received, definitely a 10/10 game for me. Kojima and team did a fantastic job on this game, huge props to them. I can't wait to pick up God of War 3, Uncharted 2, and Demon's Souls next.

Yup, a masterpiece.

I do agree with Foolz as well, the ending, specifically the Big Boss stuff was kind of crazy and too much.

SteelAttack said:

At least I'm playing now. Any useful advice? 

 Yeah, take out the disc and put RE4 back in. 

Archangel3371 said:

Finished Metal Gear Solid 4 tonight. 

 Do you just play games 24hrs a day? How can you complete games so quickly?

phantom_leo said:

Archangel3371 said:

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.

Awesome impressions. I want one.

It seems Nintendo made a very, very, very smart move with the DSiXL. They corrected what I considered to be a design flaw of the DSi.

If any of you remember, I was pretty miserable when I gave up my Lite for a DSi for one very specific reason. I like to leave my system plugged in, on my bedside table so I can lay in bed at night and game a little bit before I go to sleep. The Lite works off of the adapter power when plugged in. I could feasibly play it any time I wanted, then unplug it and it would be fully charged and ready to go. The DSi did away with that. If you played while it was plugged in, it would still work off the battery power and be depleted if you played in this way. That may not seem like a big deal to some, but I tend to leave home for a few days at a time, often having to travel for several hours by plane, train and automobile. I need my portable to always be ready and waiting. When I discovered this flaw in the DSi, it stopped me from having my relaxing gaming moments at night. It forced me to give up my DSi for a Lite again after a while.

I knew I had to have an XL when I saw the beautiful screens, but one of my concerns was if it had the same kind of charging 'issues' the DSi had...

IT DOES NOT! I think Nintendo realized A LOT of people play their portables at home. DSiXL makes an excellent little table-top system as well as being perfectly portable. You CAN plug it in and the battery WILL NOT deplete as you play! That makes me VERY happy!

As a side note, it sits besides my Mac Book on my table. It looks like my Mac had a little Bronze offspring! Awww...! It's so cute! Yes it is! Oh yes it is!

Update: Alrighty! Scratch that. I was wrong. I was playing the XL in bed last night, and the charging indicator suddenly illuminated. Dammit!

Not thrilled with idea of having to manage when I have to charge my system now --BUT-- the positive side of all this:  It would take minutes of play before the DSi would show signs of charging when plugged in. It took HOURS of play before the DSiXL did! If that is any indication of the difference in battery life between the two of them, I am still impressed!

phantom_leo said:

...and, with all the game in the world... with the magnitude of games coming in April (Monster Hunter and SSFIV)... I find myself secretly anticipating this little one almost more than the others:

Having reviewed the Japanese game, it's totally worth it. Easily one of the best puzzle games I've played in a long time.

phantom_leo said:

Yay!

 yep, same here with over a dozen new games which are all kinds of awesome, i found myself playing : 

for the whole of last week.  you just cannot beat a good picross

gamingeek said:

SteelAttack said:

At least I'm playing now. Any useful advice?

Yeah, take out the disc and put RE4 back in.

WTF why would I do that? I can't play with someone in RE4. I found out yesterday, even though at first I was hesitant of even renting RE5, that just the co-op aspect alone pushes RE5 far above 4 in my book. I might even buy it after the games I had last night.

8-Bit Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Game: Act 1 Video

Well Nintendo is just lazy in my book.  I sent my DSi to them last week to be repaired.  They sent it back today and turns out they didn't fix it. They just replaced it with a new one.

This actually works out well for me since the screen was scratched to hell, but now I have to go redownload everything.

robio said:

Well Nintendo is just lazy in my book.  I sent my DSi to them last week to be repaired.  They sent it back today and turns out they didn't fix it. They just replaced it with a new one.

This actually works out well for me since the screen was scratched to hell, but now I have to go redownload everything.

I am going to post this in the latest GGD thread about how crappy Nintendo is.