Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@NintendoByNature It’s not as deep as something like Bayonetta or Astral Chain, but it’s just a hilarious and fun beat-em-up. It’s probably one of the most violent games I’ve ever played, but it pulls it off because everything is so stylized.

@Ninfan I played it on WiiU. It's a cool game but imo was let down by the controls. This new version maybe fixes that since it isn't wiimote bond anymore. I tried playing on the gamepad last time and it never terrific l recognized shapes z and i wasn't keen on shape drawing as a gameplay mechanic, though it's classic Kamiya trademark design.

@NEStalgia i just looked at it ( wonderful 101 ) again on you-tube does it play a bit like pikmin ?

What is VC

I already loved Osaka. I come here probably once a month and just enjoy the shopping crowds of happy people piles of nerds like myself game, and so much more. But as if that wasn't good enough they made everything better by opening a new Gundam cafe. This city has everything!

And yes, maid cafes are real and I have been to them. So are owl cafes, cat, bunny, hamster and puppy cafes. Shops selling anything you could want. Restaurants offering nearly anything you could crave. Amazing bars! Parks, aquariums, zoos, movie theaters, concert halls... so much karaoke that my hotel room has a machine installed! Street performances everywhere doing everything you expect and a dozen things you don't. Porn shops next to the maid cafes because what is self respect? And even on a regular day, like 30% of people are playing Pokemon Go. And music playing everywhere! There's never a dull moment here!

God I want to live here! But i do think the crowds would wear on me after a while.

@Heavyarms55 Are things really dear in japan

@Heavyarms55 Sounds like a wonderful place. I find a lot of cities to be overly similar, but there are some that have a really special vibe and energy to them. Osaka looks crazy congested but an advantage to that could be every area having a lot of interesting things to see and eat. Would like to go one day.

@Ninfan what do you mean?

@nottelevision the congestion isn't as bad as photos make it seem. There are a few areas during rush hours but on average it's not bad. Busy yeah but nothing crazy.

@Tyranexx understood. I hope your friend gets better.

@NotTelevision maybe ill grab it then

@NintendoByNature - I forgot to mention how funny it was to read that you would just go into homes as a kid and just have a look around. I always wanted to do that, and there’s little NBN just walking right in as he pleases. My mom has told me I used to sit outside on the porch and invite people walking by into my house. She said I would tell them that “my mom loves to talk”, and wanted them to come in for a chat. Not sure if I thought I was doing something nice for her, or just trolling her.

@Ninfan - Juuust in case someone hasn’t played one or both of those games and for the sake of clarity, Wonderful 101 and Viewtiful Joe are absolutely nothing alike aside from a similar art style. There’s no way you played both games and came to that conclusion.

@bimmy-lee bahah, that actually sounds just as funny, if not funnier. Random guy walking by "come on in, my mom's making pigs in a blanket. You'll absolutely love it! Don't worry ill explain the details once you walk into this random house I live in." I'd watch a YouTube clip of that.

I did something similar, but ended up just leaving with a neighbor we really didn't know. She was walking a dog, and I really liked how cool it looked. I was maybe 4 or 5. I said "Hey, can i take a walk with you and your dog?" She replied, "if your mom says its ok." So I waltzed into the house and asked my mom, who said no since we didn't know them that well. I came out and said to the lady. "She said Yes, let's roll on out!" 2 hours later, cops were called, And my neighbors ended up having a little search party for me. We got back and the lady got yelled at by my mom for not asking the parent herself. I of course got yelled at too, and learned a valuable lesson that day. No dog is worth lying for 😉

@Tyranexx Stunt training at my age? Nah, I should probably stay away from injuring myself on purpose, seeing as I'm already getting more than my share doing it by accident...

@bimmy-lee Yup, every damn move I make, hurts. But after a week, you kinda get used to it, and you're able to bear the pain better. Well, either that, or you're simply more mentally prepared for the pain spikes or something.

There's not going to be any B&C this weekend. Going to my sister's place tonight, because she and my brother in law are having a dual birthday party. (that's a thing over here nowadays. Share birthdays, so you don't have to go some place twice or more) My sister's actual birthday is on the tenth, and my brother in law's was in January, but we've got so many birthdays in these two months, that we often switch the dates on which they are celebrated. And of course always in the weekends, because understandably, nobody wants to have a party on a week day.

Anyway, there'll be enough beer and food, and people over there, to keep my mind off of it. Then again: we as a family like to tell funny stories and laugh a lot during parties, so that could become somewhat of an issue tonight. I'd better tighten up that brace a bit more than usual...

On a side note: Ninfan hasn't played both games. He played Viewtiful Joe, but only watched a couple of videos from The Wonderful 101, so you're absolutely right. No way that the two compare, other than being made by some of the same people, so all they share is some of the same quirkiness, which is so specific to PlatinumGames, even when they were still working under the Clover Studios label (which is when they made Viewtiful Joe).

@NEStalgia It's okay, my friend. Laugh away. Unlike some uber-sensitive individual on here, I can actually take a joke. I'd be laughing too if I were you, and it was a really stupid accident. Even my old man said that this could have only happened to one person, especially with it being the exact same rib and all...

@NintendoByNature Thanks. Just a couple more weeks, and I'll be fine again. Just gotta weather the storm a bit, but I'll manage, much like you with trying not to succumb to the Baby Shark onslaught...

P.S.

You should absolutely get MadWorld for that price. It's an hilariously over the top game, and the all black & white graphics with subtly colored accents/highlights here and there, give the whole of it a really cool, artful vibe. It's a living comic strip, basically.

@Ninfan Watching videos of it and deciding based upon that is hardly fair to the game. It has a specific "feel" when you play it, that makes all the things you do/must do in the game click in that specific, unique PlatinumGames way, and that doesn't really come across at all when watching gameplay videos of it.

And it most certainly isn't a copy of Viewtiful Joe, nor did it try to be one. There's none of the things in it that made Viewtiful Joe the game that it was, so that's complete nonsense. Oh, and it doesn't play as Pikmin either. I can understand people might get that impression from the videos, because you're gathering up people to form a group, but The Wonderful 101 is an action adventure game, whereas Pikmin is an RTS (Real Time Strategy) game. They share certain elements of each other, but they're completely different besides that. One difference is that in The Wonderful 101 you're actually part of the group you're controlling, whereas in Pikmin, you're outside of that group, managing them to do things, so that's already a difference, albeit a minor one.

P.S.

VC is Virtual Console...
And you should probably replace "dear" with expensive, the next time you want to use that word. Nobody says dear to something that costs a lot of money. At least not anybody on here, so that's either local dialect or really old English. Most people would probably interpret "dear" as "darling", so that might make you understand understand why using that word in this context raises some eyebrows here or there...

@kkslider5552000 As a fellow Wii appreciator, I'm very much looking forward to your Wii essay, so be sure to put a link to it in the Chit-Chat thread when you've written it.

@ThanosReXXX all that means is that in the recovering weeks, the more alcohol you should consume to dampen the pain. A rum n coke aught to do you good 😉. Unless it's against Drs orders of course. Good to know about Madworld. It's now in the Amazon cart. If my wife doesn't get the hint, I'll grab it soon.

@Ninfan I can see how one might get some Pikmin vibes from it. There's some common essence to it, but it doesn't really play similarly otherwise. Pikmin controls directly, 101 controls more indirectly with gestures (think Okami, also made by Kamiya.). Pikmin is a map control strategic game. 101 is forward progression action with zones like DMC and Bayonetta.

Speaking of dmc. Only a couple more weeks til 3 hits switch 😋. I'm pretty stoked.

@NintendoByNature - Oh man, a call to the cops & a neighborhood search party is epic! And the whole time you were just hanging out with a lady and her dog. I’d be scared to death to take the neighbor kid along for a walk in 2020. Seems like there’s a 33.3% chance it ends with me getting tased just because, and there’s an Apple news headline being written while I’m still in the ground wondering what just happened.

@ThanosReXXX - Well, let’s make sure you don’t get an extra vigorous hug from a relative. Keep your arms down low if anyone does come in for a hug. Be the underarm hugger at all costs. Can’t let anyone get in there tight on the torso and squeeze. I’m at the point with Viewtiful Joe that I open the eShop every Thursday hoping some indie has ripped it off and published something just like it. Like NES, I had issues with some of the inputs in 101. I hope we get a bevy of control options for the Switch.

@NintendoByNature Nah, not against doctor's orders. Didn't even go there this time, because there's so little they can do about rib injuries anyway. I'll have my fair share of beer tonight, and next week, it's back to Bacardi & Coke again.

@bimmy-lee Good tip. I'll try to keep that in mind, although with the brace on, it isn't all that bad.

As for Wonderful 101: I can agree to some extent with you and NES concerning the controls, and on the Wii U it didn't always work as it should, but it was still an enjoyable game regardless.

@Heavyarms55 Cool. Maybe I’ll fly in there next time go back to the US. Stayed in Tokyo for about 3 days a couple years ago, but that’s all. The amount of luggage I had prevented me from venturing to other cities.

@ThanosReXXX Agree with you about needing to play a game like that to judge it properly, especially some of Platinum’s stuff. The Wonderful 101 looks like pure chaos in the gameplay footage I saw, but I’m sure it feels like a legible combat system when you are playing it.