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Intelligent Systems was on fire in the 2000's.

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Lunar15

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I don't know about you guys, but Intelligent Systems practically defined the 2000's for me. Here's the breakdown, starting in 2000 in ending in 2010:

Pokemon Puzzle League (NST, but made Panel De Pon)
Paper Mario
Pokemon Puzzle Challenge
Cuibvore
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Advance Wars
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
Fire Emblem 6 (JP only)
Fire Emblem (7)
WarioWare: Mega Party Games
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
WarioWare: Touched
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
WarioWare: Twisted
Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Super Paper Mario
Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
WarioWare Snapped

(my favorites in bold!)

That's a solid list of games right there with a fairly high level of quality. There's some notable entries that were less than stellar, but they were pretty damn consistent. Some of them are all time favorites. They still make good games, but nothing even comes close to the amount of knockout hits they had during this era, for me at least.

I feel like the transition into the new decade was rough for them. Releases have been all over the place and some franchises are MIA for them. The franchises that have survived have been changed to the point that I'm personally no longer interested. STEAM's pretty great, but we all know that's probably not lighting the world on fire.

Anywho, anyone else have fond memories of IS during this era? Any other companies that practically define a generation for you?
 
You can also add Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Zero Mission to that list ^^

Edit: Or not. I could have sworn I once saw IS on the credits, but I guess my memory left me tonight. Sorry :p
 
I bought a GBA just for Advance Wars, and didn't end up getting anything else for it until much later. Now where's my damn AW 3DS?
 
Some great titles in there. Unfortunately, the last game from that list I played was probably Radiant Dawn, which I thought was really poor.
 
Fire Emblem (7) on the GBA will forever be the best blind purchase I've ever made and it became one of my favorite games of all time.
 
Phazon said:
You can also add Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Zero Mission to that list ^^
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IS programmed the original Metroid and Super Metroid, but had no involvement in any of the other ones.


Lunar15 said:
Not listed but just as important: Mewtroid
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also I'm a terrible person so I'd like to point out the warioware games are primarily developed by nintendo r&d1/spd1. The one WW game that was mostly made by IS is Snapped!, lol.

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TTYD is a p. wonderful game.
 
Didn't ever play Twisted because it wasn't released in Europe. Wish we'd got that instead of Yoshi's Universal Gravitation...
 
Pokemon Puzzle League is technically not Intelligent Systems. What they did was the N64 Panel de Pon whose engine was given to NST who turned it into Pokemon Puzzle League
 
Glowsquid said:
IS programmed the original Metroid and Super Metroid, but had no involvement in any of the other ones.

also I'm a terrible person so I'd like to point out the warioware games are primarily developed by nintendo r&d1/spd1. The one WW game that was mostly made by IS is Snapped!, lol.
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Actually, R&D1 primarily developed the first game, Mega Micro Games, the rest were IS + R&D1. Almost a half and half split, in terms of work.

As you can tell, R&D1 and IS worked together a lot.
 
It's a shame that the last great localized Fire Emblem was so long ago. And doubly so for the last amazing Paper Mario Game.
 
I'm a huge Fire Emblem fan and FE7 is my co-favorite game of all time, though OP also left out Binding Blade which was JP-only but came in 2002. I really should play Advance Wars and Paper Mario, both looked really cool to me as a kid but I never ended up getting either.
 
Bonen no Max'd said:
I'm a huge Fire Emblem fan and FE7 is my co-favorite game of all time, though OP also left out Binding Blade which was JP-only but came in 2002. I really should play Advance Wars and Paper Mario, both looked really cool to me as a kid but I never ended up getting either.
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Didn't include JP games, but yes Binding Blade is definitely a great game!

astrogamer said:
Pokemon Puzzle League is technically not Intelligent Systems. What they did was the N64 Panel de Pon whose engine was given to NST who turned it into Pokemon Puzzle League
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Ah, Wiki lists them as the developer along with NST on PPL, hence why I included it.
 
Lunar15 said:
Actually, R&D1 primarily developed the first game, Mega Micro Games, the rest were IS + R&D1. Almost a half and half split, in terms of work.

As you can tell, R&D1 and IS worked together a lot.
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i'm saying "primarily" since most of the series core team from game to game is on the spd1 side, and that spd1's other games (rhythm heaven, tomodachi life, kiki trick) are all very close in tone and gameplay to warioware. while IS's aren't, really.

but i realize arguing about ~who the ture creators of warioware ~ is pretty dumb and inconsiderate of the intent of this thread. in the end, they contributed to a really great set of game, and that's what matters.
 
Not much of a strategy guy so the FE/AW games never did a whole lot for me. I've tried over and over again but I just can't get into them. Huge fan of their WarioWare titles (Twisted is legit one of my all time favorite games) and the first three Paper Mario games though!

Gotta agree that the '10's haven't been too great for them. Only real modern standout title of theirs that I've played was Pushmo.
 
Lunar15 said:
Didn't include JP games, but yes Binding Blade is definitely a great game!
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I've been replaying most of the series this year and having now played pre-FE6 games I think Binding Blade is one of the most interesting games since it's IS trying to figure out what to make of Fire Emblem now that Kaga is gone and I really want to replay it in that context. It's especially interesting because it borrows a TON of elements from FE5 in really interesting ways while still feeling like a totally different kind of game, and it's even more interesting now that I've been replaying Path of Radiance and seeing a sort of attempt to return to Kaga's ideas, especially skills. It's too bad the maps are kind of lame in PoR though.

Also this thread reminded me that I really need to play AW so I'll go get on that in the near future.
 
of course they were! they released, like... 5 panel de pon games that decade (though i think both the console ones were NST joints but still)!

IS's magnum opus, panel de pon, will return and reclaim glory to their name. it must!!
 
Intelligent Systems is far and away my favourite developer. The amount of great games they made is just astonishing. Especially in that decade.
 
Ezalc said:
It's a shame that the last great localized Fire Emblem was so long ago. And doubly so for the last amazing Paper Mario Game.
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Awakening was only two years ago.

On the original topic, Intelligent Systems has and, as far as i'm concerned, continues to be one of the finest studios under the Big N.
 
Lunar15 said:
Great game, I just prefer 2 and DS.
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You also forgot FE6, OP. Man, this thread is terrible.
 
I forgot they made Super Circuit, the best Mario Kart game.

Advance Wars were also perfect games.


Edit: and Cubivore?! Wow those are all games I played a ton.
 
I also believed that IS had a hand in Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Zero Mission. Not sure how I came to that conclusion though, I rarely pay attention to game credit sequences.
 
R&D1/SPD1 (Sakamoto Team)
Wario Land 3
Wario Land 4
Metroid Fusion
Metroid: Zero Mission
Rhythm Tengoku
Rhythm Tengoku Gold
Rhythm Tengoku Fever
WarioWare: Micro Mega Games!
Tomodachi Collection

The true dons!
 
And here I was, awaiting pictures of a burning building. :(

That aside, they made an incredible amount of good games. While I didn't like all of them, the ones I liked were really good. Especially the Paper Mario and Fire Emblem games were gold.
 
Ezalc said:
As if it's anywhere near as good as PoR or RD. The map variety alone trumps it.
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Wait PoR's maps suffer from a lot of the same problems as Awakening's and aren't very deep. Awakening also has better balance and has actual challenge. FE9's story is definitely better and more cohesive but I think that tends to make people overlook the gameplay weaknesses of it.
 
I bought a DS for Advance Wars - Dual Strike.

So pissed that so far, there's no Advance Wars for 3DS.
 
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