Three First Party 3DS Games that are Guranteed to Rock [e3 2010]

e3ssentials is GGG’s way of hand-picking some coolness at e3 this year, so you don’t have to wade through the boring stuff.

Animal Crossing

Admittedly I didn’t play Animal Crossing for the Wii, and I understand the game goes through very minimal changes in it’s updates, but with the 3DS and it’s new openness to online connectivity and sleeping ad-hoc easy connectivity between other 3DS systems - well you can only imagine the coolness Animal Crossing will bring.

Mario Kart

Mario Kart DS is my second favorite Mario Kart game next to Mario Kart Wii which I thought was incredible. The Wii version of Mario Kart followed up the last DS version, so I think it’s safe to assume that Mario Kart 3DS will be absolutely the most perfect iteration of Mario Kart to date when it drops.

Paper Mario

While the Mario & Luigi series is a fantastic portable RPG, and I hope more sequels come to the DS, the Paper Mario series started up the RPG engine again after Square and Nintendo broke up. The game is absolutely fantastic and hasn’t had a new true RPG flavor since the Thousand Year Door on the GameCube.

To think that you’ll be able to carry a new Paper Mario game in your pocket is pretty cool!

I also won’t neglect the fact that the 3D effects on the 3DS probably will do wonders and seems to fit perfectly with the pop-up book style of Paper Mario

- Kyle

The God Damn 3DS

Eric Caoili’s Tiny Cartridge summaries of almost everything you’d like to know about the 3DS are the best on the internet.

You can check out the two 3DS posts, here, and here.

- Kyle

Simple Question Tuesday: 3DS

I’m excited about the 3DS!
Kyle is excited about the 3DS!
Reggie is even MORE excited about the 3DS!
Everyone is excited about the 3DS!

Let’s keep the excitement rolling! Have a look!

And now to channel all of this Nintenergy into something productive.

Behold:

Simple Question Tuesday
3DS edition

SQT:
What was the last system that you were super excited for?

A:
For me, it was back in 1996 when the N64 was announced. All I wanted was a new Final Fantasy, with a new story, and AMAZING graphics. What I got was something else.

This was very upsetting to me, because at that time in my life games were JRPGs or they were trash. My excitement was great, but my disappointment was far worse. When I finally got my hands on what the N64 had to offer in way of RPGs, I remember feeling betrayed and upset that Nintendo would do something like this to me.

All I wanted was this:

What I got was this:

Oh Nintendo, you killed my dreams with Quest 64. But I’m grateful that you are making it up to me with the 3DS.

What about you?

And yes, I think I did just use the word nintenergy. Please don’t hate me too much.

- Aaron M.