Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Eel You gave me an idea for a birthday present for a crafty friend.

@HobbitGamer they also sell fairy lights where the battery box is shaped like a wine bottle cork, so you can get one of those and use a nice wine bottle to make a cooler looking one.

@NintendoByNature Pretty decent list (although personally, I'm not really partial to Just Dance games), but a modest one as well. Is that all you have left or all you ever bought? Either way, I've watched all the videos, and far as I can tell, nearly all of my own recommendations are in there, so that leaves me with having to rummage through my Wii's hard drive to see what else I've got on there that wasn't mentioned in those videos. And I don't know if you got one of the original Wii's, which would mean that we could also add the GameCube library to the mix.

@bimmy-lee Nail on the head there, because that's exactly what it is: putting you in the leading role of your own screwball comedy, with a little adult entertainment added into the mix. Your soon to be best friend in the game is pretty much a carbon copy of the Stiffler character from the American Pie movies.

But that's not a bad thing, because the comedy is actually funny and compared to many of its 18+ peers, this game is actually surprisingly engaging and deep, and dare I say it, even moving at some points. And it has quite a few mini games that actually challenge your brain, because seeing as it takes place in high school, you actually need to follow classes every in-game day, so you could do far worse than playing this one, especially at that price.

I've now finished it, but I haven't 100-percented it, because the game constantly offers up multiple choices and branching paths, so at the very least, you could play through it three times, to see what else will happen if you make other choices. And this is season 1, the developer is already hard at work to create a season 2 DLC pack, which should be available later this year, to continue the story from where it's left off at the end of season 1.

@ThanosReXXX yep that's all I bought, aside from a handful of vc titles which i transferred to Wii u. I got quite the collection of GameCube titles along with my GameCube still functioning great. I'll need to get that list over to you as well one day. But that's burried in my closest and possibly some in the garage too.

@NintendoByNature Unless your GameCube collection is 200+ titles, mine is bigger than yours, and I'll probably own most of what you also have, save for the wrestling titles, seeing as I was never all that interested in those.

@bimmy-lee Forgot to add that what also attracted me to the game, besides the obvious, is that since I left the States when I was so young, I never got to live the college years, something which they don't really have a similar replacement for over here. I mean, they do have student campuses in some areas, but it's nothing like the American system, so perhaps weirdly, I'm always attracted to topics like that in all kinds of media, whether that be movies, books or games. It's a bit like trying to fill the gaps of what would have been my American life had I stayed, if that makes any sense.

@ThanosReXXX Lord! 200 titles! Yea im not close to That, maybe 30 titles on my end. I was also 14-15 yr old when i bought it. Not much money to spend during those days lol.

@NintendoByNature Haha, well I actually don't have 200 titles yet, but almost: 198, so that's why I said you needed to have 200 or more to have a larger collection. And I can relate to not having that much money.
I had the same problem during the Commodore Amiga days, when all I had was the allowance/pocket money that my parents gave me, but by the time I had my GameCube, I was already working, but still living with my parents, so I had all the money I needed to dedicate to gaming and other hobbies.

@ThanosReXXX yea It feels good to finally be able to buy your own stuff. The cube was the first console I ever purchased on my own. So it holds a special place for me. The switch for sure is my largest collection even though it's the newest console I own. Most of that is due to digital purchases though which are smaller in dollar amounts. I haven't counted it yet, but if i had to guess I have to be close to 75. That'll be my next project 😉. Checking to see how many physical and digital switch games I own. Question is, do you count collections as 1 Game, or the amount in the collection?

I used to have a pretty varied collection across 2600, NES, SNES, Genesis+32x+CD, Saturn, Dreamcast,N64. But it started to feel overwhelming and hoarding habits run in my family (that’s how they found granny). So I consolidated down to just two active consoles. And it’s alright. Can’t miss what I wasn’t using anyway. Plus since I can remember things well, I typically don’t replay many things.

@NintendoByNature Collections as one game? I'm not sure I'm following that train of thought, but I'd say no:
a game is a game, and a collection is multiple games, so I'd never call that just one game, regardless of whether it's a physical copy or not. My Switch game library now counts 59 full games (of which only 6 physical) and a whopping 106 demos. I always get enthusiastic with new consoles and download everything under the sun that's free, so most of my consoles are full of demos, some of which I've never even played, but I still download them just in case, you know, I might want to play them, or rather: finally get the time to play them...

@HobbitGamer I've stored some of my consoles and handhelds in the back room, but most are still connected in the living room. I've got a small SD flat screen TV on the side, with the GameCube and Dreamcast connected, and to my main TV, I've got the Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One S and Switch all still connected. I like choices, and if there's one thing I hate, is having to dig stuff up out of a closet or a basement, whenever I feel like playing a game on any of these systems, so I keep them hooked up, so that they're ready to go whenever I feel like using them.

@ThanosReXXX what I mean is a collection of games, sold as 1 sku. For example, the most recent collection I bought was megaman z/x collection. 6 games on 1 cart. Does that bring my total amount up 6? Or just 1? Does that make sense?

@NintendoByNature Ah, okay. Those kinds of collections. I was kind of wondering, since we were already talking about collections in the first place, but yeah, those I'd count as 1, seeing as they come on 1 cartridge or disc, or when digital as a single product, but other than that, I count all others separately.

@ThanosReXXX yea sorry I flipped the script and the didn't tell ya 😉

@NintendoByNature Yup, you've upended the tea table Miyamoto style, and now I have to make yet another comic to process my feelings with...

For a moment there I thought your avatar was a purple gorilla with yellow hair and a very small forehead.

@ThanosReXXX that's me alright. At least make me look cool in the comic if I make the cut 😛

@Eel Yup, that's definitely what I was going for. Lucky you...

@NintendoByNature Well, sorry to disappoint you, but like the previous comic, there'd only be me in there.
It was more of a monologue thing.

@ThanosReXXX Ah, that’s a nice setup. Just a selector and away ya go!