Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@MarioVillager92 Yeah, the disconnects are also one of the reasons why I don’t really play the game online alongside how I don’t really have any time to play games online. I like all the songs in the game even though I may play some songs more than others, so I would play any song that the game would pick in co-op. Yeah, sometimes players have ridiculous reasons for disconnecting and throwing matches. There are these types of trolls that people encounter while playing Colorful Stage and they throw matches if the game doesn’t pick a song with a specific difficulty level, and if the game or players select and vote for a song that has a lower difficulty level than that, the person intentionally ruins the match for the other players they are with by not playing once the song starts or disbanding the second a song they don’t want to play is selected. I never encountered those types, but they seem very frustrating, and they literally have their names as something like “Lvl 31+ or I throw”, they must be the worst kinds of players to encounter on there. The bar thing that happened when I would play was annoying, but luckily I haven’t had that happen to me recently while playing. It really just shows up when I flick the screen while playing.

I never really encountered players in Splatoon who threw matches, maybe a few times, but I can’t remember a specific situation for it. The connection is unstable message is so frustrating, I remember at one point my internet was so bad and would disconnect at the worst times so it was kind of a gamble to play Splatoon online. I remember playing 3 a few years ago during Anarchy/Ranked Battles, I was doing Tower Control, and we were winning but the internet disconnected me. I connected the Switch back to the internet, started a new Tower Control match, only for my internet to disconnect only a few seconds in. I luckily won the remaining series of battles despite losing 2 of 3, but it was so upsetting that my internet did that because I got worried it would give people the idea that I threw the match out of frustration, and it’s sometimes hard to tell if a player disconnecting was on purpose or on accident. That Grand Festival thing sounds like a miracle, it reminds me of what happened in that Splatoon 2 match I mentioned where I got that connection unstable message and stayed while almost all of the players got disconnected.

I am really bad at traditional fighting games lol. I’m used to the ones with simplified controls and have platformer elements, like Smash Bros., so I would always go for a fighting game like that. I don’t really play any anime games since I’ve never watched the anime or read the manga most of those games were based on. Again, JoJo was the only anime fighting game that I have played in recent times, but I’ve only watched the first season of the anime as well as an original video animation for it, so I don’t know a majority of the characters in that game.

Today is 20 November 2024.
There is a special DDR 3rd Mix song with title 20, November DDR version as the birthday of the composer of that song Reo Nagumo (DJ nagureo).

@Pastellioli Yeahh, all social media is kinda toxic. For Twitter, I've continued to hope. The whole AI thing, has really messed stuff up though. I've never really used Insta that much myself.
FEH units started getting broken with the release of 3 Houses. They decided to make those units a decent bit stronger than existing ones, and snowball effect.
Yooka Laylee had these expansive worlds where lots of stuff was hidden, it was easy to get lost, and to top it off, you could toggle aspects of the world. For example, the first main area had a weather mechanic that restricted access to certain areas and events.

@Mariotag Ew, toxic mist. That isn't a mechanic I miss in games without it lol. Still, Ender Lilies is maybe an eventual purchase.

I'd call the Famicom Detective Club games more akin to adventure games, similar to how the investigation sections run in Ace Attorney. But it is a decent amount of reading like VNs. Though the FDC games are fairly short compared to some of those.

It does seem you've had some bad luck with Pokemon Go. The best I can suggest is playing on level paved areas and keeping track of your surroundings. I am no stranger to self injury, though thankfully my last ankle roll was mild. I do want to put in more time to Echoes of Wisdom when I get the chance. Definitely this week sometime once I wrap up some Xmas shopping and other errands. FE Engage will be a good time in the gameplay department I'm sure, but I will admit I'm not expecting much on the story front. "Oh Divine One, please sign my rear!" had me laughing. XD

I need to grab the Castlevania Dominus Collection sometime too.

@Pastellioli Walmart did occasionally have kiddie rides WAY back in the day lol. I loved riding on that stuff. Yeah, entertainment machines still exist in some places, but it really depends on where you are. The advent of smart phones has made some physical cabinets less relevant for young kids when it comes to entertainment too.

I think Fire Emblem Engage's gameplay will save it for me, at least from non spoilers I've read. It sounds like Fire Emblem Heroes does have some merit past what little I've played, but I think I'm happy just leaving the game on the table for now. I have more than enough going on lately anyway. I've barely had any free time to game and haven't been doing much of it over the past month at all.

Yep to all that on rhythm games. On Chaos Wars: I know little about the game, but from what I understand it's supposed to be some kind of RPG mashup involving characters from different franchises (I think). But yeah, the VAs sounding completely uninterested in what's happening to them is hilarious! XD Supposedly the game isn't bad gameplay-wise, but the game has unfortunately went down in history for its bad voice acting. Some people play it with the Japanese VA work since that's apparently much more tolerable.

@MarioVillager92 I'm glad that burn is healing well and doesn't hurt anymore! I actually liked Hocus Pocus despite the film's age and never having watched it before. Now I hope to watch its recent sequel eventually. I love The Nightmare Before Christmas, though I admit I haven't watched that one this year yet despite owning the DVD. At least it's a good fit anytime from October through December!

I've actually barely touched Echoes of Wisdom due to how busy I've been lately. However, my schedule is (slightly) more normal this week, so I should fit in some gaming now and then. I've almost finished with Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir - I'm on the last chapter - so I'll probably take a short break from that series and mostly focus on Zelda before starting The Girl Who Stands Behind. Sorry you had to drop Banjo-Tooie, though I fully understand your described frustrations and think I'll also give the game a miss. I'm glad you're enjoying the new Mario & Luigi in the meantime.

Yep, fast spinning rides definitely mess with my equilibrium. Heights conversely don't bother me as long as I have something securing me from falling to the ground. I did try zip lining for the first time on my vacation this year and LOVED IT! The kitten is still doing good last I checked. ^⁠_⁠^

@Tyranexx Yeahhh, toxic gas kinda annoys me. I dunno if I could get into the FDC games.
My Pokemon Go experiences haven't exactly been excellent. It was more my messed up shoes than uneven ground.
I'm relatively close to finishing the Dominus Collection.
I never really heard of Walmart rides.
The new Mario and Luigi is growing on me.
Good luck with gaming progress!

@Mariotag I am disappointed to hear about how Twitter/X has kind of went on a downward spiral in terms of quality and the set of rules and etiquette there, which I think definitely didn’t help with the behavior of some users on there.
Instagram is kind of better with its userbase (though I won’t deny that it’s negative and toxic at times), but the AI stuff going on with that app and some of the other social media sites really bothers me, there was this thing going on with Instagram artists on there since at one point Meta announced that they were training AI on all posts on there, including artwork, and did so without giving the artists credit or getting permission, and some people did not have the option to opt their posts out of AI training. I remember trying to post an artwork there and the site for some reason was marking it as an AI post and it annoyed me so much I kept having to delete the post repeatedly just to get that stupid AI marker out. The AI thing affects digital artists the most, and I’ve unfortunately seen them get accused of using AI in their art and then the artists having to provide proof even though they clearly show that no AI was used in the pictures.

I see, I do actually have some Three Houses units that are really strong and sometimes overpowered, one example coming to my mind being a Choose Your Legends variant of Dimitri, and although I use Yuri a lot too, he is weaker than Dimitri and can be defeated more easily, though that mainly comes from his class and the powers and abilities he has being smaller and weaker than the ones I have Dimitri.

It sounds like Yooka-Laylee kind of did the big level design from Tooie from your description. I think I wouldn’t have much fun playing Laylee since I think that Tooie’s gigantic level design is kind of a detriment to the game a little bit (mainly because progression feels slower from the big worlds and you can get kind of lost in there) and I wouldn’t have much fun if I played Laylee and possibly had to experience something similar to that. Apparently, I heard Laylee repeated this game show segment at least three times instead of once (from what I heard, please correct me if I’m wrong) and if I am being honest, I’m not a huge fan of the game show levels the Banjo games had even though the idea of the game having a trivia segment just before the final battle is interesting and hilarious, and from what I heard from others, it sort of sounds like Laylee did some things wrong and maybe worse than it’s spiritual successors. I do hope the remake fixes that stuff and hopefully reduces the amount of game shows in it.

@Tyranexx I really like the small gaming areas some places used to have, it just seemed like a nice, comfortable space to relax and have some fun time while you wait for something, and it is sad to hear that arcade cabinets and game spaces have been getting less and less popular. I mostly prefer to play games on console or phone and it’s been years since I last used an arcade cabinet, but I like it when there is a lot of options and ways for people to play games, even if one way to play games is more popular than the other.

It’s fine not playing Heroes, I think its a okay mobile game and is definitely not the worst, but it’s not a game I’d play on a daily basis compared to other mobile games on my phone. Though, when I first started playing Heroes I played it a lot, but not anymore though. Not having a lot of free time to play stinks, I didn’t know that you haven’t really been playing games at all! I’m kind of like that recently, I haven’t picked up my playthrough of Yo-kai Watch 2 since early October or touched the Switch or Xbox in a bit and just been sticking to small game sessions on my phone, cuz I think that fits my schedule more right now. I am hopeful that I’ll have more time to game later in the month and in December, since that’s around Christmas and December is the time most people are off of work and relax for a bit. I think I’ll have way more gaming time next month, and I’ll likely play Yo-kai Watch again and Rare Replay on the Xbox, I have a few games that I want to play again and some games I want to complete, but one of them is definitely not Conker’s Bad Fur Day.

I also don’t really know about Chaos Wars too, it’s interesting that the voice acting completely overshadowed the actual quality of the game and even made the game way more memorable, though in a more hilarious and “so bad it’s good” way. I can remember reading a bit on the English Wikipedia about the game and tried to read a lot summary of it, but the summary wasn’t completed and was a bit more of a premise of the game.

Leaked 2nd trailer of Snow White 2025 Disney live action movie.
It doesn't look that bad, it looks quite nice from my opinion so far.
I saw some new scenes that didn't exist on cartoon version, some story development.
I felt bad for the drama behind the scenes but at least give this movie some credit, despite of using CGI for the seven dwarfs.

@Pastellioli Interesting. So it wasn't just Twitter that forced AI training?
As for my experience with Twitter, it was always toxic imo. Granted, I didn't start till like, 2016 or 2017, (or even later) but I don't recall it ever being truly sane.
Tbh, I dunno the full degree of what's going on with Twitter. My understanding is that when Musk bought the platform, not only was he ripped off, but the original owners hired ppl, and put them under contract specifically to get in Musk's way. That doesn't excuse these new changes though...
Yeah, Yooka Laylee has trivia segments inbetween stages, as you travel the all too easy to get lost in main map. The all too easy to get lost in part is apparently being fixed for the rerelease though. And to be precise, you actually start each stage/area at maybe half its actual size. You pay collectibles to "upgrade" the stage in order to see its full size. Some sections are honestly a bit more difficult than they should be.
FEH units are just flat out broken these days. Like, reduce damage by insert percentage here, stackable, increase damage by idek what, allow character to move again and take action again twice, then retreat a number of spaces, etc.

@Mariotag yes, AI is becoming very common on Meta’s platforms (Instagram and Facebook) and several social media apps. Instagram also has an AI chat too, though I don’t use it at all, though chatting with AI has become popular because of the comedic moments that have come out of it. I don’t think AI is entirely bad and has its benefits, but I hate it when apps train AI off of data and images without telling its users about it or giving them options to opt out. It feels malicious in my opinion.

I have heard of Twitter being toxic for a long time despite not using it, but a lot of people say Twitter wasn’t really like that during its early days, also probably because it likely didn’t have a ton of users back then, and it sounded like they tried to keep the platform in order and tried to make it a good experience for everyone, but way before 2022 I heard and saw people who acted toxic and awful toward others, which kind of gave me a reason to not register on the app. I only used the web version of Twitter before they said that you have to make an account to view accounts and posts on the app.

Cool, I didn’t know the remake was fixing the “easy to get lost” issue with the original. I think it could be a good remake from what I am hearing, but I also didn’t know you needed to use collectibles to expand the worlds. I think remakes are also a good opportunity to fix games that have significant flaws, or for games that are extremely bad, though I should add that I am not saying Laylee is a bad game since I’ve also not played it yet, moreso talking about games that are plain bad and critically panned.

Are there other units besides Felix and some of the Three Houses that are known for being broken or are considered broken? I haven’t drawn from any of the newer banners, and I’m assuming a lot of the older units are more balanced or weaker.

@Pastellioli
A lot of AI pictures are terrible in my opinion.
Not just only copycat the art style but I oftenly found the AI made the characters or the objects looked disproportionated (the hands, the fingers, the body size, the pose, etc).

@Anti-Matter Yeah my issue with AI generated images is that they often look super lifeless and off, like sometimes the art style doesn’t fit or looks incongruous. The hands often look the worst when an AI generates it I feel. I used to gush about AI art generators being amazing and I even used a few as inspiration for my artwork at one point, but knowing that the art copies actual artists’ work and doesn’t credit them, I feel very dirty over using the AI images instead of looking for artists’ work as inspiration.

@Pastellioli I have a couple of AI made videos I like. The First Horror Movie Made Completely By Bots, and that one AI made Batman comic. So yes, there is some good to it..
Also, speaking of Meta, they're changing their ToS for, I think next month?
I saw in there "you give meta a license to use anything you post, but retain ownership of it".
It is genuinely scummy they're doing this with AI. Pokemon Go being revealed to be training AI is another example.
As for Twitter, I wasn't there in the early days. But I do remember a whole lot of toxicity regarding politics, which now includes Musk himself. I remember this video that was posted shortly after Twitter started randomly banning accounts for "promoting violence" (A friend had his account down, no reason given, and the only thing that comes to mind is he complained about censorship), the video was basically saying to doubt everyone and everything, because anyone could be part of this "new army". Those ppl somehow got off scot free.
Honestly, most of the units since 3 Houses first came out have been powercrept in some way. At first it was Fallen Edelgard with the ability to reduce damage taken, ability to move again after KOing someone, on top of, I think moving more spaces than the typical armored unit? And every other banner, they try to outdo their current best.
Yes. Remakes should fix the bad games. (Ahem. Sonic 06. Actually my first Sonic game tbh.)

@Mariotag Yeah, point & click and investigation games aren't for everyone I'll admit. In this case I like a good mystery even if I've been able to see a couple of the twists coming from far off. The original FDC pair are from the late 80s after all, so the genre has advanced quite a bit since then.

I do like playing Pokemon Go, but I do think I'll take a short break soon along with an exercise break. I have a LOT going on in the beginning of December lol.

How's the Castlevania Dominus Collection going? On my own games: thanks, they're going well when I can play them. I should be able to game more next week since I have some time off and most of my Christmas shopping already handled.

@Pastellioli Those game spaces do still exist in some areas, though for various reasons they are less common than in the 80s and 90s. I think a lot of it is the maintenance, rental fees and whatnot - states, counties, communities, etc. can impose fees in certain amusement devices, at least in my state they do - lack of profit, and other factors. I prefer console gaming overall but do like the rare arcade cabinet romp. Mostly pinball machines, certain racing sims, and Guitar Hero cabinets.

FE Heroes isn't a terrible game, just not one I want to put time into. I have barely gamed lately since I have a lot going on IRL that makes me either too busy or too tired to game. I did have a break night this week from it all, but I was visiting with a friend and got home mondo late lol. I don't recommend an early morning bedtime on a work night. I've fit in a couple Switch sessions but have mostly been playing a few minutes of Pokemon Go and Pokemon TCG Pocket here and there. I should have more time next week overall since I have some time off work and have more than half of my Christmas shopping done. I should have some time this evening to game if I get some errands and chores out of the way.

Chaos Wars has certainly went down in voice acting infamy lol. It's cringe just above Typing of the Dead in my book lol. I've tried to locate a decent summary of the game but also haven't had much luck.

@Tyranexx Hmm. Well, mysteries are interesting, but I fear, with my attempts on Ace Attorney, and how often I get stumped, just randomly pick something, and reload if it goes wrong.. I don't think I'm exactly good at solving them.
Huh. An exercise break? I have the opposite problem of not enough. Pokemon Go has demonstrated itself to me to just be another gacha game.
Dominus Collection is going relatively decently. I feel a bit of my pride as a gamer has been ruined, on account of having had to ask advice, even help way too often in Portrait and Dawn. I've only got Dawn of Sorrow left to finish, and I'm only playing it while in voice calls with a specific friend. Pretty much at endgame with only a couple bosses left, and uh, still only using equipment either found in the map, dropped by enemies, or sold in the shop.
Interestingly, while I'm not super into arcade games or machines, there are a couple I have interest in. After maybe a decade and a half, I finally know the location of a Mario Kart Arcade GP cabinet I can reach. And I used to like this one called Arctic Thunder, not as much because of the game, as because the machine blew sweet cold air at the player as they played. Back then, I would get even more overheated than I do now, so it was very welcome.

I was a little bit skeptical before I watched Wicked at cinema due to long movie length and Arianna Grande inside the movie but after I watched the movie for almost 160 minutes, I have some curiosity to want to watch again Wicked on the next week after I compare with Moana 2 on this week. I didn't expect the duet of Defying Gravity by Arianna Grande and especially by Cynthia Erivo (I have no idea who was she) was pretty good after I listened again their song on YouTube.
I didn't see stupid movie agenda like Barbie 2023 movie, I saw High School Musical of Wizard of Oz.
But Arianna Grande was portraying as super popular girl as Glinda, kinda remind me of typical blonde girl stereotype. 😆

Had a really busy week this past week, had appointment, even did some errands and spent a day away from home for good day. Ended up buying myself some Trolls Mineez, a Super Mario Advent Calendar, and finally found a Trolls blind box that @eel found months ago IIRC (I got Viva out of mine). Even had a power outage because of a storm, ended up playing SNES on Switch Onli.. I mean "Offline" and Jagged Alliance on my laptop (love GOG games don't require Internet). Did make time to see a movie, Spellbound on Netflix.

Pretty much ready for Thanksgiving, so apologies for some late replies...

I've heard of it, surprisingly I don't think I have tried it.

Me too. I usually make it whenever I have extra bread and make Italian food for dinner. Here's the clip I was talking about, it hardly has any emotion in it, lol.

Yeah, the big difference between Fire and Ice and Shattered Crystal is the lack of forced objectives. In Shattered Crystal, IIRC you had to meet certain requirements in order to make it to new levels, whereas Fire and Ice played more like a tradtional Sonic game where you move on to the next level. I remember Sega took the feedback and improved Fire and Ice, even delayed the game for a bit too. They did a 3DS sequel because it did better than the Wii U one. I remember seeing that mentioned somewhere about the game, not to mention I remember seeing stuff when Sonic Boom was called Sonic Synergy. Enjoy it if you do get Game Pass back, both Super Lucky's Tale and New Super Lucky Tales are good platformers.

Didn't know that. Basically a case where new guys were brought in, and the original people left to pursue other things they wanted to do. I knew Rare exists because Sea of Thieves exists, but didn't know they haven't touch a game series they made in a long time. Also the other day, I got reminded they made Viva Pinata, a game I kind of forgot existed, mostly because I didn't have an Xbox 360.

Yeah, I remember watching it a few years ago with my friend at his house, and with all this Wicked talk, I remembered it and was surprised it was on YouTube so I watched it again. Glad you like Barnyard. Yeah, I remember as a kid, All Dogs Go To Heaven was about a girl and her two dogs. When I was much older, I never realized how dark it was with the themes the movie had, and Charlie using the girl, Carface is a literal Scarface reference. I had no idea Don Bluth did Anastasia too, nor was it on YouTube's free with ads movies.

Indeed, it's always the case with larger accounts. Smaller accounts tend to be friendlier, not to mention easier for the account holder to delete and remove toxic comments too.

@MarioVillager92 You're welcome, just thought I'd give a heads up since the first Trolls movie is being removed (however, Trolls Band Together is still going to be there ).

Sounds nice and like something I would do. I once wore a Trolls headband on my birthday, lol. I have a headband with Poppy's hair, which I wore on my birthday and to Trolls Band Together when it was in theaters (I took it off during the movie so others can see). I don't fully dress up, usually my "costume" (if you can call it that) is just something on my head and a related shirt. This past Halloween it was a Poppy wig and a Poppy shirt. Past years it was a Smurfs hat and a Smurfs shirt. I even had a Mario hat, but I didn't have a shirt at the time. I also had mouse ears and wore Mickey shirt one Halloween a long time ago.

Yeah, Satellaview is just an interesting piece of Nintendo and online gaming history. That would be awesome, these were games offered via satelliate broadcast at certain times of day. Who knows how much of it was lost due to time. They even had Satellaview Mario games that looked like Super Mario All-Stars.

Sounds nice. I do that a lot when I'm playing PC games, I'll have something on, whether it's a YouTube video or livestream or a movie, and do stuff on my PC or play something. I was actually using the Nintendo Music app yesterday while I was doing the dishes. Really like the app, the download feature is great for walks. I have a limited data plan so I can actually use that.

My brother had Crash 2, and the PlayStation he had came with a demo of Croc. I have Croc on Game Boy Color. I played a bit of Ghostly Adventures as I got it super cheap on Wii U, never finished the game. I remember liking the bit I did play.

You're welcome again. Hope you enjoy the movie if you do watch it.

Wolfenstein 3D came out before Doom, so it's basically the granddaddy of the FPS genre. Set in WWII, it did a war themed shooter well before it became trendy to do so too. While not by id, I love the Blake Stone series of games, it uses the Wolfenstein engine to basically make a James Bond-like game set in space. It's really cool. Yeah, that's how Cartoon Network did shows back then, I did love Snorks. It was basically like underwater Smurfs. Thankfully I have the DVD sets if I ever want to watch the show nowadays.

Cool, I did try the new Mario Party recently. Took a trip to Target the other day and got to try the game on the Switch demo unit there. I think I did the Peach shopping mini-game because of course I did. I did have a nice time out. I bought some Trolls stuff and got myself a Mario Advent Calendar from Five Below. I do enjoy the mini-games option a lot, makes for a fun quick way to play the game.

@Sunsy Ye, I've not played P-06 either. I'm hoping the OG gets an official remake, not necessarily because I want to play it again, but because, by virtue of the game that caused them to basically drop the vast majority of the playable cast becoming good, they might start including more characters again.

On to other things you replied to, I only knew a little of that about Rareware. Iirc, there was some plan for every Diddy Kong Racing character to get their own game. But only a handful did. Starfox Adventures in its extremely early stages was apparently supposed to be Timber the Tiger's.

What's the difference between Super Lucky's Tale, and New Super Lucky's Tale?

I'm definitely interested in seeing some of the movies mentioned. Dunno where I'd find them though.

I've played a couple of the BS-X games.. But only a couple.

The new Mario Party is great!

@Sunsy ah you got a fuzz ball keychain mystery box? Cool! What did you think of it?

Mine spent a good while hanging on my backpack though now that I think about it haven’t seen it in a bit.

@Mariotag I hope so too, while it is one of the most hated games, I would like to see how it would have turned out if it didn't have glitches, problems, etc, or just see how it would have went if the game did do well.

I didn't even know that, I knew about Conker (both adult and Pocket Tales versions) and Banjo. It kind of makes me wonder what kind of game Pipsy would have had since Pipsy was my main in Diddy Kong Racing.

The difference between Super Lucky's Tale and New Super Lucky's Tale is New plays a bit more like a 3D platformer with full camera control, while Super Lucky's Tale felt like an overhead 3D platformer. I like both, I would say New is a better version of the game.

Trolls and Trolls Band Together is on Netflix (the original Trolls is leaving December 6th), All Dogs Go to Heaven and Legends of Oz are both on YouTube, their "free with ads" movies. If that's any help.

Cool, Satellaview has always just been an interesting topic. I like Nintendo, and enjoy online games on both Switch and PC, so it's always been something I loved reading and watching videos, and learning about.

Cool, I'm glad I got to try it the other day too.

@Eel Yup, that one. Finally found it at my local store, and I like it. She's cute, and feels really well made. My Viva actually has a butterfly theme going too. Here's what she looks like.

@Sunsy oh cool I think that might actually be be a new series of the pom poms, because the proportions look different (that one looks more like the models from the movie).

Of all the characters, I feel like the pom pom hair suits her the best.