Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@HobbitGamer Thanks! Must've missed that part. I was doing some random stuff during part of that segment. XD

@Heavyarms55 Not my responsibility! @Alexolney is an editor, I am not!

@Octane But you are a mod! You can tell the people who do things that us common folk want things! And I am sure it would be a good idea to have a nice page with a list of links to all the things they have already talked about! It'll generate ad revenue and stuff. Plus a title like "A complete list of Nintendo's E3 announcements" or something like that is sure to be a killer in the click department!

I am sure @Alexolney gets like 37,249 notifications a day. So he cannot read them all!

@Tyranexx Where did you find the Sword & Shield segment? I went to watch the videos and found the 4 hour "Day 1" segment, but it started with ACNH and missed that whole Bowser/Trinen intro to the floor and the Pokemon segment somehow!

RE: Fallout, I think that was me telling you about the older ones There's Interplay/Black Isle Fallout (the real ones) and then there's the survival-game Failout that Bethesda makes (a mockery of the original.) The originals are beautiful classics (if very rusty in gameplay.) 1 & 2 are "Real" Fallout. Some people like 3&4....I really don't. THey're ok, but they aren't Fallout. The humor, mood, and dark parody are all gone and replaced with pure survival horror.

What you might like, though, showed in the XBox show, was The Outer Worlds, and Wasteland 3. The Outer Worlds was billed as "from the original makers of Fallout" (beautifully timed after the FO76 disaster.) it's Obsidian, 1/2 of the old Interplay/Black Isle team (Feargus Urquhart runs the studio) and is an alien-world new IP that makes up "Fallout if we were still making it" kind of vibes.

Wasteland 3 is from inExile (Brian Fargo, the original founder of Interplay and original actual creator of Fallout's studio) - Fallout 1 was actually Wasteland 2 but he changed the universe a bit and made it into a new IP. So technically Fallout 2 was Wasteland 3....and thus in a sense Wasteland 3 is technically the real Fallout 4.....

Both studios are owned by Microsoft now, so I don't know what platforms it will be on. I'm guessing XBox, Switch, and PC if this E3 is anything to go by. Maybe no Switch for Outer Worlds, but Wasteland 2 is already on Switch, so there's that.... (albeit, the port isn't very good apparently.)

The first Watch_Dogs is definitely OK but I did hear the WiiU port wasn't so hot. But the game was just "ok". Worth playing for cheap but nothing amazingly memorable. 2 really redesigned it.

@NEStalgia Hey, don’t forget New Vegas! That one felt closer to the old days with Obsidian doing it.

@HobbitGamer Yeah, New Vegas is real since it's Obsidian. Bethesda oversight, but, yeah it had the old crew back and they made it to be "their" type of Fallout.

And now for something completely unrelated

His newer videos are really good

@Morpheel Huh? That's no Classic Mini at all...

Nintendo Treehouse, just moments ago:

Weird, that must be a secret level in Blast Corps, because I don’t remember it in the main campaign.

@bimmy-lee Eh?

@ThanosReXXX - It was a joke in reference to the video. I’m a slow and often distracted typist. You slipped in with your funny image before I finished. In Blast Corps, I don’t remember being able to control a giant, octopus like, death dealing N64.

@bimmy-lee Ah, okay. I kinda already figured it was some belated reaction to something else...

@ThanosReXXX - It wasn’t a very good joke anyways. I just did the internet thing of saying something even though I didn’t have much to say. Ah well, that only means I’m due for a real zinger.

@bimmy-lee Your jokes are bad and you should feel bad.jpg

@HobbitGamer - All right, that’s it, next time we Smash; I’m done pulling punches. I’ll break out my early access Banjo Kazooie and rip stuff up with my giant bear claws. My uncle works for Microsoft.

Actually... slinking away in shame.gif.

I’m officially in a slump. Bad joke, six baby oak trees I had inside died over the last few days, and I just froze three beers trying to get them cold in the freezer. It’s bad around here.

@bimmy-lee oh man, that’s a rough string indeed. Are they super dead though?

Yep, witnessed this live. I had actually stepped away from my desk for a few moments and came back to total silence on my headphones. I brought the stream back up and saw that message. I love weird "We're having issues" messages like that. XD They said that they'd lost power for a moment when they came back on air. I'm guessing a breaker was tripped somewhere. It went out when they were demoing New Super Lucky's Tale.

@NEStalgia I'm kind of late with this one, but here's yesterday's Pokemon segment if you haven't seen it:

I actually do think that you were the one to tell me the differences between "old" and "new" Fallout games. I think the survival horror aspect is what drives me away from the newer ones. It makes it feel too much like other similar games for my liking. I much prefer horror games where you're vulnerable and they make you think, not the ones where you're just blasting everything away with a big ol' gun.

I'll have to look more into The Outer Worlds and Wasteland 3. The former somewhat caught my interest, but I didn't look at it in-depth. I admittedly skipped the latter as I didn't think it would be suited to my tastes. Looks like I need to give it another look.

Barring a couple of "maybes", I think I'm finally done picking up physical Wii/Wii U games for the time being. It'll probably be mostly VC and a digital Wii entry or two at this point. I'm still toying with getting the original Xenoblade Chronicles off of the eshop since that's by far the cheapest option right now.