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I haven't been hooked on a game for a long time.  MarioKart DS's done did it.  This is easily the best MarioKart game of them all, and the online play and other features (missions, alternate battle type, etc) really make a DS purchase worth while!  Hell, the wife and I enjoyed the game so much I went out and bought another DS and another copy of MKDS!

However, I am getting sick of being beaten by a bunch of 8 year olds online :)

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i've been hearing nothing but good things about this game....it looks like i might have to pick it up sometime, but first, i have the goals of saving up for an X360 and completing my 32x collection in mind

I learned through wifi that there are a lot of good people out there at this game, and I am not one of them. Needless though, this game is addicting, though I think Meteos may be up there in terms of addicting nature. I would agree though -- this game is by far the best Mario Kart to date. Hell, even our leader went out and bought a DS for this game (but moreso Castlevania).

Yeah...this game is really awesome, although I suck big time at it.  I think all those 8-year-olds are hacking.  n00bs...  |D

- Zac

I agree, I played someone from Mexico and he was Godlike. I have never seen someone use the powerslide much like he did. He was powersliding so fast that it almost looked as though he was indeed cheating. But c'mon, are we really able to hack a DS right now?

I love this game.

Although the people online seem like total dweebs.  Every single time I win a race, they disconnect.

Gotta agree with everything being said here.  Until now, I have never liked a Mario Kart game.  They always seemed to have good potential, but drab tracks and were horribly overbalanced.  This one is much much better in both respects, has better replay value, and of course the wifi online play is great.  Some people online are indeed really good, but then others kind of suck (but they always disconnect like yap mentioned).  

I'm glad I bought a DS last Friday, and I'm glad this was the first game I got for it.  I haven't been excited about a system since Dreamcast nor addicted to a game since Aria of Sorrow.  I can't wait to get my hands on Dawn of Sorrow, Age of Empires, and hopefully some more wifi enabled games.

Nep: don't forget to pick up Advance Wars DS or Meteos if you happen to find them cheap.  Very good games too.

I still want to get Phoenix Wright and Trauma center.

The DS is my favorite console right now, and not just because of Mario Kart DS.

Does Advance Wars have a wifi mode?  Actually, this is sort of off topic, but what other wifi games will there be for DS in the upcoming months?  Anyone know of a list?

Advance Wars has Wifi in that you can play with 8 locally linked DS's, but no Wifi internet.  

The only Internet DS games released are Tony Hawk: American Sk8land and Mario Kart DS.  Animal Crossing is the next game to allow you to play over the internet, I think it's released first week in December, then Metroid Prime Hunters which is out later next year.

Age of Empires had better have wifi internet.  I would be most unhappy if it doesn't.

Holy hell, this is amazing.

Article: http://ds.ign.com/articles/668/668709p1.html

I am actually probably going to get this game and a DS for Xmas from one parent.
I am asking the other parent for a PSP and Infected.

BTW i thought these where prety impressive stats too.
Though this is moreso because it is for one game in a much shorter amount of time. AND it is a handheld console.

I think those Xbox Live stats, while a little impressive, are pretty misleading.  For example, you know as well as I do that people like Laurel have been counted three times (and sometimes more) under that "2 million people" that have signed up.  Anyone who gets a free trial account would show up there, and LOTS of Live players do this.  This then also skews the friend list connections a lot, since the same people link to their friends and their other accounts twice.  Then again, who cares about the number of friend list connections?  What really matters is how many people have played and how many are playing right now - and by that I mean people, not accounts.  Microsoft has been very disappointed with their Xbox Live subscription sales.  Great online gaming service?  Yes.  MUCH better than what is out there for PS2 or GameCube no doubt...  but still not close to what they hoped for, especially considering those stats have had four years to compile.

Take World of Warcraft, for example.  The game has been out for only a fraction of the time Xbox Live has been, yet it has gained over 3 million users and has certainly compiled FAR more hours of game time.

Did anyone see this?  From http://www.spong.com :



That's pretty huge.  I'm wondering how the PSP can possibly play catch-up to the threat of big-selling DS games that are now on the market.

Yeah I saw that on GAF I think.  Pretty crazy.  Maybe I should play the original Animal Crossing to see if the DS one would be worth picking up.

I haven't played any of the Animal Crossings, nor am I that interested in this reincarnation.  

I just averaged out those times and if i did it right it comes out to between 27-28 days played per person.
Comparitively ot that much over the course or 4+ years.
But big numbers mesmerize me ;)

In anycase how does the online aspect of this game work?
How do you connect to other people and such?

I had Animal Crossing, and it was really weird to enjoy performing Mundane tasks, but it was a whole lot of fun. I would most liken the point of the game to living your life, and making a name for yourself.  It encourages a whole lot of collecting, and that leads to some very nice houses and very snazzy Museum collections. It also had a bunch of NES games you could unlock, and that made the replay value even higher. Unfortunately though, it has been hinted that Wild World would not have NES games.

As for the online portion of it, it's almost like it is quazi-online. Sure you can use the Nintendo Wifi Connection, but word has it that you can only connect to friends, and only 4 people can live in the same town. That's kind of disappointing, as I was hoping it would be a truly Wild World with everybody being able to interact with everyone.

I'll be picking this game up, but on the list of Big Ticket Holiday DS games this is only #4 on my list. MarioKart, Sonic, and Mario & Luigi are all higher on my list. Snowboard Kids DS would be up there too, as the original kicked so much ass, but it got some poor reviews.

Looks like there is another wifi internet game: Burnout Legends

Article: http://www.n-sider.com/newsview.php?type=story&storyid=1561

I'm not sure that N-Sider article is correct.

Yeah, I went and looked around after I read it, but couldn't find anything to confirm it.  I noticed another article on that site that listed games that were to have wifi, and several of them are out already with no wifi internet.  That was the first, and will probably be the last time I visit that site.

I read somewhere that Nintendo Power lists that game as being able to play 2 player with 1 cartridge or up to 5 players locally with 5 cartridges, but didn't mention any internet play.

And the Nintendowifi page doesn't list it.