Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Tyranexx
While I usually would agree with you about skipping January and February, I want them to go as slowly as possible next year. I have to repeat my final university exams in March (they work a bit different from the UK and US). There are four exams, I failed two in August but approved two... And due to my internship, I haven't had much time to study, so I'm really worried I may fail again, and won't be able to graduate until 2018.

Miiverse got hacked, I don't even know why I go on there. The New Super Luigi U Community's banner became Robbie Rotten for a little while. A person also wanted someone to make a discord so I did and the spamming got terrible. I left to eat something and when I came back I had over 600 notifications.

Club badges are to your right, next to the ginger ale and aspirin.

Man, Club Nintendo had so much great (and rare and Japan exclusive) stuff, such as that one Classic Controller that was actually a replica of the SNES controller. Also all the soundtracks and golden controllers.

@Luna_110: Totally understandable. Good luck on your exams! ^_^

I promise that this will be the next Fire Emblem that I play. XD I already have the physical cartridge, but this is great for those who don't and want to play the game.

Also, beware if you watch the video linked in my signature; wow is that song catchy. O.o

I hated shadow dragon. It almost made me skip awakening, good thing I didn't. I really don't get Nintendos deal they have a lot of NES and Gameboy titles to put on 3ds VC but they only seem interested in SNES VC (don't get me started on the debate of whether or not the old 3ds can handle it). Fair is fair they put out the worst Castlevania handheld but not the best (Legends) , double dragon 1 and 2 but not 3, where the NES RPGs dragon warrior, final fantasy, star tropics?

Yeah, Shadow Dragon was a terrible remake of a dated game. I honestly prefered fumbling around with the Famicom original in Japanese that sitting through a snorefest with gameplay that clearly wasn't balanced for all the modernized gameplay systems they shoehorned into it.

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Also, I saw a locked thread that I misread as: "mind = blown @ the arrogance of man", and assumed it was a philosophical analyzation of the human condition, and I had a handful of quotes on the level of "what is a man, but a dirty pile of secrets?!"...but no, it was just a gossip column. :/ And a sports one at that. When was the last time we even had a sports thread?

@CanisWolfred
See we can agree on some things

...wait, who are you? People have changed their usernames around here too often...

@CanisWolfred
The whole SNES VC on older 3ds thing (I'm not changing my opinion)
And does no one (besides Ralizah) recognize my avatar?!

I don't really know what it might be from at all.

About that locked thread... I'm not even sure what it was about. I watched the video, and it was just some sport person saying he had to he responsible because he is gonna be a father soon.

@Meowpheel
Manpukamaru from Valkyrie Drive!

.................I got nothin'. I know I've talked in circles about it with 4 different people even before it was actually a thing, but all of their names escape me...

Also, I kind of had your avatar ad-blocked already. I'm guessing I didn't appreciate it- oh wait, that was my patented ignoring system! That's why I don't recognize ya! Yeah...

Oh wait, now I remember who you are!...so, that wasn't part of my igoring system, which I honestly haven't used since 2013, I just didn't like your avatar. And we're pretty much never in the same topic. Seriously, I'm finding "new" members every week because of that last part. Sorry about the mix up, I wasn't sure if an old troll came back.

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Some random troll on here put me in an angry Yukari mood. lol

What about the two GBA Fire Emblem games on the Wii U VC? Are those better? O.o The only FE I've played so far (other than trying out a couple of chapters of Shadow Dragon when I first got it) is Awakening.

Yes. While I haven't played FE 4 & 5 (and Fates), Shadow Dragon is by far the worst in the series that I've ever experienced. Everything is a step up from that, and the GBA games are honestly up there with Awakening as the best in the series, IMO. Granted, I'd also include 6 with that statement, but that game is JPN-only, so hey.

Because it's a strategy game that, in practice, is more like a puzzle game (like every singleplayer strategy game, honestly, because there's only so many ways a dev could expect you to progress through a single level) - except now it has new mechanics that were never accounted for, without any noticeable changes to the level design outside of a boring 3-chapter prologue that emphasises the other pitfall: it was originally an RPG from the 8-Bit era, and therefore all the shoehorned drama and characters in the first half never really reach the heights of the latest games, and there's lots of mook characters who I can't even be called characters, they're so generic and have hardly any dialogue. Also, losing characters doesn't seem to have as much of an impact. I dunno if any of the other FE games do this and I just never noticed, but in both the Famicom version, and the DS remake, whenever I lost some non-essential troops, by the next chapter I had more mooks to make up for the ones I lost. At least it was a little less stressful knowing that these pawns are literally worthless, but it kind of came at the sacrifice of the emotional impact usually associated with death in the series. And not in the awesome way Awakening does it, where everyone gets back up afterwords and just walks off death.

I'll likely still play Shadow Dragon as I already have the game, though whether or not I finish the storyline depends on my overall enjoyment level. I can kind of see where you're coming from about it being slightly more like a puzzle game, in any case. I played enough before to get that impression; I was testing it out to make sure it worked as it's a used cartridge.

Looks like I know which order I'll be playing the Golden Sun series in.

@Tyranexx Well, the puzzle bit was more of a general statement, it's not really a knock against the game, it just comes with the territory. The only part I'm fussed about has to do with the fact that the pieces don't exactly work the same way that they did when they designed the old levels, so it feels more wonky than it should. Like...imagine that you have a jigsaw puzzle, and you're trying to put it all together, and all the pieces fit like they should, but the box shows these blue pieces, despite the fact that they changed blue to green in the HD Remake, yet they still use the old reference picture. So now you're all discombobulated, and you got this green cat and I mean...who ever heard of a green cat?! Hey look guys, it's St. Patrick the P****!!! Yeah....that...crap, I shouldn'ta wrote that considering what I just spent the last hour doing...

Really, I just finished eating dinner at 1 AM. That's one long-@$$ meal. And now I want green eggs and ham...or maybe mint ice cream...I know it sounds weird, but it tastes really good...