Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Well, you can do everything else before beating the main boss in BotW, @BabyYoshi12 .... & it does all serve some sort of purpose towards that end, as well Perhaps if you play it, you'll see what everyone's going on about better

@BabyYoshi12 There's also the Champions Ballad dlc added a good chunk of game after beating gannon. Finding & completing all shrines was still fun - I beat the BOTW story without finding/finishing all the 120 shrines. Fighting guardians to get large ancient cores was fun for a long time. If you buy the DLC, finding the DLC gear was fun. You can also build a house after gannon.

@BabyYoshi12 I didn't need to watch the video, because I was already familiar with the fact that you can replay the game multiple times towards multiple ends. I also own Odyssey, because it is a flagship title, so you might already have guessed that I did...

Either way: my point stands. In all those ways offered of replaying the game, it still remains a fact that if you've finished collecting all there is to collect, which I previously referred to as the collect-a-thon, to already indicate that there is indeed a LOT to do and collect in the game, then there just isn't anything useful or fun left to do. Well, unless of course you enjoy running around in worlds/levels that you've already completed multiple times over, that is...

In that respect, both BotW AND Animal Crossing New Horizons have tons upon tons more replay value, because the gameplay is theoretically never-ending.

@Anti-Matter I wasn't really asking for any explanation about your feelings on The Sims, I just wanted to make you understand that you should have a more realistic expectation about it.

But if you do make me a text wall, then mind your spacing, my friend. Mind your spacing. Opening up your text wall with spaces makes it SO much easier to read...

@ThanosReXXX No, that’s not the point. Watch the video, it’s very different. There’s four endings within one play through. There’s 999 moons, that’s a lot. There’s not infinite shrines in BotW, at one point you’ll have done it all.
@BruceCM Same with Odyssey. It doesn’t force you to move to the next kingdom. You can stay and collect all the moons if you want to. Or you can come back and do it later. I will play it, I don’t really know why we’re talking about BotW, I was just saying Odyssey is open-world. 🤪
@1UP_MARIO There’s no ‘infinity’ in either. 999 moons, 120 shrines. Since the shrines are bigger, it’s about even.
At the end of the day, they’re both huge, if you played and enjoyed them both, why does it matter which one is better? I’m just saying, Odyssey is huge too.

Heh, once you've played BotW, come back & give us your thoughts ....

@BabyYoshi12 okay

Both those games might be some of the best, but nothing beats summer in mara😉

i think the bugsnax walrus may have eaten the pikmins, that's why pikmin 4 hasn't been released

I was all grumpy this morning when I woke up because I am never really a fan of working on a Saturday... even when I technically was told I could have blown it off. But it seems fate wanted to reward me for being slightly less lazy today. While having my morning news, I saw the new Pokemon VGC rules - and most importantly the news that the DLC came with an update that lets us "legalize" Pokemon from previous games to VGC/tournament play! This is a change I have been BEGGING for since XY! But it doesn't stop there, the DLC adds a way to reset effort values of Pokemon, meaning you can retrain old Pokemon however you like, apparently as often as you like! Add these things to the already existing hyper training feature and it means all my old random shiny Pokemon are now fair game!

And if that wasn't enough, while I was drinking my morning coffee and listening to the update news: I hatched a Shiny 5IV perfect Magnemite in a beast ball!

Maybe I should volunteer to work on Saturdays more often?

Oh, and after work, I'm doing the Pokemon Go community day, and then getting sushi for dinner!

@WoomyNNYes I never got the impression the dlc added much at all. Don't tell me it was actually big dlc and nintendo under hyped it??

@Heavyarms55 oh yes that new npc and the entire isle of armor are amazing for actually training and making any random Pokémon you catch or transfer usable. Like, I think the only thing it doesn’t make easier is finding bottle caps.

@Eel It might be a coincidence, but I've gotten several from raids on the isle of armor. And the new "restricted sparring" mode is good for farming BP to buy the caps if you really need them.

I'm just so darn happy that we can use our older Pokemon in VGC now. And thanks to the new NPCs I've got a bunch of older shinys that I can make or remake viable. My beloved Mythica, my Shiny Milotic that I bred back in XY actually has a twin sibling that I hatched in the same hunt that has sat, depressed and alone, in my PC for years. Now I can bring it out, and make it into a VGC mon! I've got various others too, Durant, Slowbrow, Ludicolo, a ton of Let's Go shinys, and now I can actually make good use of them all! Waking up to that news put me in such a good mood!

And then hatching a shiny magnemite while learning all that above news? I really couldn't ask for a better start to my day! I'm on break at work right now, then I have 2 more classes to corrupt... I mean teach, and then I'm bugging out! Gonna head into town and do the community day for Pokemon Go, grab an early sushi dinner, hit the grocery store and come home. And probably play more Pokemon. XD

@NEStalgia I thought BOTW dlc was a must have. I don't want to over sell it, or spoil anything, though. I had no regrets buying it. Chamions Ballad took me 6-8 hours to complete. It's kinda like a challenge mode & offers adds some new shrines.

@Heavyarms55
Question.
I still cannot find Raid Battle with Special Pokemon inside.
All the red light i found at Open World area was just random Raid battle.
How do i find Special Raid battle spot ?
Do i need internet connection ?

@NEStalgia Whether Isle of Armor is good or not depends on what you play Pokemon for. If you play for story, Isle of Armor will be disappointing as it only has a few hours of story, if you play for competitive/VGC it's fantastic because of the reasons @Heavyarms55 gives, if you play for exploration it's good because there's plenty to explore, etc.

@Anti-Matter to find Zeraora in raids, you must have at least three badges, and use the “get latest wild area news” option in the Mystery Gift menu.

Well, it’s 7 PM here, but I’m going to bed now. I’ll probably be here a lot earlier than normal tomorrow. Good night!

@Grumblevolcano @NEStalgia I don't know if I would quite word it that way. I'd more say "whether the Isle of Armor is good for you depends on what your looking for." But maybe that's just semantics.

Overall, I agree with the general idea. If you only play Pokemon for a single player adventure, Isle of Armor likely isn't for you. This is a DLC geared mostly for collectors and multiplayer content. However - that's what it was intended to be. Crown Tundra is supposed to be the more heavily story based single player experience.

@Anti-Matter What @Eel said is accurate. You do need internet to get the "update". In quotes because you don't have to download anything, just connect so the game knows to do the event.

Man, I wish I could catch Zeraora since I'm too lazy too link pokemon home to my switch 🙄