I am sick to death of Nintendo's attitude towards wifi gaming.
For those of you who are fucking blind, the Pokemon series is over a decade old. Yet after about 3-5 Stadium Games, we get Pokemon Battle Revolution with almost completely unfiltered internet play. You are as likely to run into an actual trainer as you are to find a unicorn. In the meantime, enjoy ubers, ubers and hacked ubers.
Now, that's just some low-grade pokemon shit. Let's talk about Advance Wars.
When the first AW came out on DS, the wasted potential was palpable. There was a fine, musty scent of failure about the product, of dreams never realized. We finally had the best roster of COs and a semblance of fucking balance between them, as the tag system brought low-graders like Adder into a usable stance, and downgraded monsters like Hawke to having an actual god damn weakness. But no Wifi. No god damn Wifi.
Days of Ruin comes out. New setting, new COs, blah blah blah.
Trimmed usable COs to 11. Fine. This isn't counting the 12th impossibly broken Final Boss CO, who THANK GOD can't be used in random wifi bouts, but CAN be used in friend on friend, if you want to end that friendship, at least.
So they dropped the CO roster significantly, but I guess we can forgive that for all of the new, actual good and proper CO power usage gameplay rules.
So, we go to random wifis. Imagine. Any time I want, I can fight somebody at Advance Wars.
You cannot set any of the map choices or settings. Hate Fog of war? Wanted to fight a guy without weather? Did you want a map that wasn't loaded against a player by giving one person 10 starting buildings and another four? Too fucking bad.
And hey, did you want to just play with your friends? Hope you like 1v1 duels, or multiplayer rumbles with... Computer AI. Because only 2 people can connect at a time if they've bothered to exchange fucking friend codes.
This is just too much, Nintendo. You can't even be arsed to regulate your games, either by the potential of the players(Pokemon) or the potential of the system(Advance Wars) to ruin balance.
And of course, I'll still play it forever and eat it up because the only alternative to Days of Ruin is to play Advance Wars by fucking e-mail.