I'd have to go back to the original KH games, I never finished the first one. KI'd been recommended by pretty much everyone already, so that sounds like a solid buy :D same with Mario. I despise Adventure Time, though.

Oh, solid choice. I'd always been interested in the MH series but never had a system to play on.

Is there a video of the E3 reveal with crowd reaction? I missed that, and wanted to gauge how big they thought of it. I think the Halo 2 reveal back in the day is my high water mark.

Sounds about right.

How well does OoT translate to handheld? Also, is it a direct port or are there any changes to the game?

I dug the first Luigi's Mansion, and could see that translating well to handheld. SM3DL already sounds like a solid buy. NSMB2 is a pass, though; I'm not that interested in side-scroller Mario games anymore.

Is Awakening an OK starting point for a brand new player to the series? Literally all of my knowledge of Fire Emblem comes from SSBM :D

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Thanks for the responses, guys. So far, I've gathered the following:

Excellent!

Even remote rendering has been done, and for a while now, with OnLive (and Gaikai), and they weren't bad at all. But like you said, it is certainly more complex than regular development

Yeah, I was looking and definitely would be getting the XL.

Forgive my ignorance, but did I hear that Fire Emblem was a Japan-only release at one point?

Alright, so I'm strongly leaning towards buying a 3DS specifically for this game. Well, one of these, haven't decided X or Y. This would be the first time I buy a "console" for a single game, so I was wondering what you all would recommend to shore up the purchase?

If done properly, this will cost developers nothing extra, as they will basically be using MS servers instead of having to purchase and maintain their own. In fact, I imagine it would be cheaper, as MS is probably going to do whatever they can to get developers involved and on board.

The technology isn't there yet? There have been MMO's running for decades now, and they run on the same concept:

I don't know much, besides the general concept, about Defiance, but are people from all platforms playing on the same servers? Or are there separate servers for Xbox, PS3, and PC players, so they'd never mix?

I dig the recommends, if only because you can get a glance of how many there are right away, instead of looking at reply count (which may not be all to the OP).

Never stop posting these gifs.

And that's what you call burying the lede.