The wfi on the Wii sucks, so no big loss there, but damn, keep the DS games up and running.
Bad #20: A danger of backlogging modern games
On 02/28/2014 at 09:26 PM by daftman See More From This User » |
Linked to Article Series: Blog a Day (BaD) 2014
News broke this week that Nintendo will shut down its Wi-Fi Connection for the Wii and DS on May 20. That means no more online Animal Crossing or Mario Kart or Smash Bros. There's a full list here of affected games. It's not the lack of online play that bothers me. I didn't play online much anyway. No, it's the disappearance of the additional downloadable content that bothers me. Take the Professor Layton series, for instance. I haven't played any of those games—heck, I don't even own any of them—but I want to, and while I'm sure the main games offer more than enough puzzles to keep anyone busy, all those games offer downloadable puzzles. Gobs of them, I hear. They'll all be gone. Same thing with the two Picross games for DS, another couple I've always wanted but never gotten around to buying. What about all the extra content for Dragon Quest IX? I actually own that game, thanks to my wife getting it a couple years ago. Should I drop everything and try to play through that? I can't decide.
Maybe yes? I don't know.
One of the problems with backlogging games today is that if you wait long enough, you might not be able to get the whole experience. Unlike games from 20+ years ago, games today aren't necessarily a complete package, or as complete as they could be. And while that danger probably won't do too much to deter me from buying these more recent games, it still sucks when it comes back to bite me. I don't have time to play all the cool games as they come out but I don't want to give up playing them either, so I guess I'll just have to make do with experience I get. Still, I do hope I get to play those Professor Layton games eventually, extra puzzles or no.
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