Got my 3D Vision glasses charging. What games should I play?

My friends were ranting and raving about how awesome Avatar was in 3D - such that they had seen it multiple times - but when I went to see it... Well, setting aside that it's a mediocre action movie (Unobtanium? Seriously? Though it did have gorgeous backgrounds and settings - I felt like it would make an awesome setting for a video game), I forgot that I was wearing 3D glasses about 10 minutes in. The only time I remembered about the 3D was in the action scenes, in that the action scenes looked fuzzy and blurry in a way I wasn't accustomed to and I wondered if that was due to the 3D (I meant to watch the movie in 2D to compare, but never actually got around to doing so).

I think years of playing video games and first-person shooters have trained my eyes to automatically perceive 2D presentations of 3D worlds as 3D, such that I when actually watching 3D movies I quickly forget that I'm watching a 3D movie. The exceptions being movies that have things jump out at you - which I find annoying and just pulls me out of the movie - and Up - which used the 3D effect exclusively to go into the screen and add depth to everything and may be the best use of 3D in a movie I've ever seen. It's the only time that I felt 3D actually added to the visuals of a movie, but given how good Up is in general, I don't think the 3D effect makes it significantly better.

I tried the 3D effect with many games on my 3DS, but I almost always turned it off after a little bit because it either introduced blur or ghosting, or eye strain, or just didn't provide enough benefit to make up for the increased battery draw or the fact that I'd have to re-focus my eyes every time I looked away or moved the 3DS. Like in Bravely Default I thought the 3D effect was great in the towns and dungeons, but I felt it made the battles blurry and introduced some ghosting, such that I ultimately left it off. I think the only game where I kept 3D on for the whole game was Kirby Triple Deluxe, and that was because 3D was used with restraint to add depth to the levels and thus looked good with no issues. I think it's telling that my experience with a console with 3D in the name was such that I found the 3D to largely be a gimmick and turned it off after half an hour, but loved the console regardless for the great games it offered.

Anyway, I hope you have a much better time with your 3D adventure! :)

I haven't tried the other Batman games so I can't vouch for them being any good in 3D. Asylum was one that was heavily promoted with the 3D Vision glasses back in the day though and for good reason (I think it came with them at some point actually). It was the only game that I ever had zero issues throughout the game.

It just had something about it, not too many HUD elements (those are really annoying in 3D) and the fact that you always had the character of Batman in front of you at a comfortable distance meant your eyes didn't get tired either. It was just pleasant to play through. Something you sadly can't say about most 3D Vision titles, but you'll find that out soon enough I bet. :P

How well a game works in 3D or not varied quite a bit from title to title.