Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Delibheel I wouldn't know, seeing as I'm not exactly part of the knitting in-crowd...

I keep seeing that "Is Nintendo becoming the new Sega?" thread and keep reading Sega as SaGa.

...I probably need help. Or sleep. Or, according to my stomach atm, food.

Even to a point of sometimes being so weirdly unsettling, that they'd probably scare the bejezus out of most of us, when we would encounter them in some dark, deserted alley...

@Joeynator3000 No one can compunete with Chuggaconroy in the bad pun department!

@ThanosReXXX ... but they’re our friends! Look at that happy face!

@ReaderRagfihs You uncultured swine! Chuggaconroy it the Penultimate of Nintendo Lets Players!

everybody knows the ultimate nintendo lets player is pro pewgrumplier the finishist.

@ReaderRagfihs @1UP_MARIO @Daloblast Results are coming soon. Stay tuned.

@ReaderRagfihs That's fine. I was just being sarcastic with a comedic over reaction. Or at least I hoped it was funny. Lol

Books have to simmer after cooking 😂

So hyped up for Pokemon Sword and Shield that, for the first time since September I broke out my 3DS and tried to get a Wi-fi battle. While chatting on Discord someone challenged me and I got all excited because I figured anyone still playing would have a real team...

Then I proceeded to slaughter what was probably some poor 7-year old with my team of perfectly bred, EV trained Pokemon. The poor guy got a critical hit on my Gliscor that did less than the Poison Heal ability heals with his Gumshoos.

On another note, wow, I am spoiled by my Switch, the 3DS is so tiny and everything so low res. XD but WOW, look at all these themes and folders on the home menu! What a great idea!

I know absolutely zero.zero about pokemon, but man I am really looking forward to that movie coming out!

@JackEatsSparrows Ah, the robot from the Alien movies...
Well, at least they were played by actual humans. Nowhere NEAR as appalling as the molten plastic faces of those early CGI characters...

@Anti-Matter THAT is supposed to be funny? I don't know if that's a personal choice or if it is actually recognized as being funny for the country in general, but I find it to be a rather silly and childish kind of humor/comedy. Which to me would mean that Indonesians don't really having any decent sense of humor at all. If it's personal, it would certainly explain a lot, and would be quite fitting for your overall profile...

I like my comedy to be a little more thoughtful and to have some substance. The commercials also pointing out social and/or economical issues are the best, in my opinion. But also the ones that give a voice and an image to the fears and doubts of the general public, such as about automation, and the ever growing role that it's starting to get, also in people's houses.

As far as that specific topic is concerned, this is a truly brilliant commercial:

@ReaderRagfihs I primarily used them to store demos and videos in. Those stupid, "you can try them only an x number of times" demos, which became useless bits of one's and zero's after the counter reached it's limit...

Well, to be fair 240p was already kinda low for 2011 too.

@ReaderRagfihs Yeah, I never understood that weird concept for demos. I'd call it archaic, or Nintendo being behind the times once again, but that's not really what it is. I honestly don't know of any other platform ever having done that to such an extent, besides timed betas and such, but other demos of games are pretty much playable forever.

And what I also like about demos is that sometimes, they're quite unique, ultimately. Mainly because the final game can potentially look and play quite differently, so it's more or less a snapshot of a development cycle.

Those play-limited demos always reminded me of the old Shareware for Hexen, Duke, and Doom. Well, except you could crack those.

The demo for fitness boxing is limited by user, so you could just create a new switch profile and use it indefinitely if you so wish.

@JackEatsSparrows Yeah, that too. You could even upload a patch to a certain Xbox 360 demo, forgot which game it was, but that effectively stopped the clock, which would normally only allow you to play the game for 30 minutes.

@ReaderRagfihs Yeah, I know those. Download the whole game with all but the most basic functionalities and one or two levels openly accessible, and if you buy a key, you can unlock everything. But that too is way different from the weird way that Nintendo went about it on the 3DS.

As for Fitness Boxing: they should have just limited the amount of things you can do, instead of limiting the amount of times you can play the game. That way, people who are interested, would still need to buy the full game, to get the complete experience. And they would be positively triggered, instead of negatively. For me, such measures are actually a counter-incentive, so I will NOT be buying such games.

@Delibheel I wouldn't want to go through the hassle of having to pollute my Switch with dozens of fake "other me" profiles, just to be able to circumvent some idiotic measure implemented in a demo. Nintendo just needs to get with the times already. There's plenty of other ways to limit the demo in such a way that it might still trigger people to want to buy the complete product, instead of going about it in this annoying fashion...

@ReaderRagfihs That actually sounds more along the line of a timed demo for me, since you'd hardly ever be able to finish a game in a set amount of time, such as in games like Zelda, so in that case, it wouldn't matter if everything is accessible, because the game has so much content, an hour of free play time would never suffice.

But I know that's kind of an exaggerated example, but even other game genres generally offer well over an hour of gaming time, unless it's walking simulators like Drowning. Played the demo on Switch. What a disappointment that was. It wasn't even something you actually play, you just walk along a fixed path and text appears, telling you a sad story, and that's about it.

I'm glad there actually was a demo, because I sure as hell would have been angry if I had to pay for this first before finding out that this really wasn't much of a game, if at all. More like a lightly interactive story-telling.