Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Apportal Pretty good and arguably fun question. The answer for me personally, would be a list too long to mention, which varies from simply not being good enough at a game to overcome a certain level or end boss, no matter how hard I try or how many times I played, to complete rage quitting and throwing (and subsequently damaging/destroying) controllers back in my younger days. So, there's just too many titles, and my memory is a bit foggy as to what I did with what game. All I remember is that I broke the most controllers on the N64.

I'll leave the mentioning of specific titles to the other Chit-Chatters...

@Zuljaras Aha. Well, even though I have played some of those games, it has been quite a while, as in back in the days of Windows 98, so it figures that I either wouldn't know or have forgotten. I was thinking about games that I myself played much more recently, and even now, forcing myself to think back, I can't come up with any valid example of "booz in a game"...

@BabyYoshi12 Ah, okay. I meant toes stepped on in relation to your supposed age/state of being. Either way, I'm afraid we're back at square one then, because equating all alcohol to some kind of fizzy drink still makes no sense. Safe for a type called Lambrusco, wine does not fizz, nor do any of the stronger spirits or liqueurs.

Unless my understanding of "fizz" and what you mean by it differs drastically...
(for clarity's sake: I interpret it as a carbonated drink)

@reporterdavid Do you live in south america? that's the only eshop I've heard anything about it closing.

@Apportal Megaton Rainfall controls made me say F this. They really irked me. Deleted the game. Not saying it's terrible, but but for me, i struggled to adapt.

@Eel I heard 42 country's.... https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&am...

Anguilla, Antigua/Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent/Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Mexico and Brazil are unaffected due to the fact that full eShops are available in these countries.

@reporterdavid "42 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean"

I'm sure if they planned to close any eshop in Europe, they'd say so.

I knew that, I just wondered if it was for Europe as well. But it isn't ... yet...

I wouldn't worry about it happening any time soon, unless your country has a limited eshop.

I know. But I had plans to buy a secondhand 3DS these days, thats why.

@ThanosReXXX Well, carbonated drinks make up the majority of fizzy drinks imo, but anything that fizzes up your mouth also is. I don’t know, it’s hard to explain, but it’s a feeling.

@BabyYoshi12 Oh, don't get me wrong: I got the trouble with carbonated drinks alright, I'm just saying that where alcohol is concerned, there's very few carbonated drinks out there, safe for beer, bubbly wine, champagne and cider. Most other alcoholic beverages do not contain bubbles.

So, that's where my confusion about this comes from: how can something "fizz", if it isn't carbonated? That is also why I mentioned us perhaps each having a different understanding of the term fizzy. If you mean a strong taste or tang, or whatever you want to call it, then I think I got it.

Either way, I wouldn't hold it against anyone if they do or don't drink alcohol. As I mentioned earlier to @Zuljaras, each of us should enjoy whatever it is that we enjoy, and if alcohol isn't for you, for whatever reason, then that's perfectly fine.

@reporterdavid Luckily, the enjoyment of having and using a 3DS doesn't depend on there being an eShop or not. There's hundreds of cartridges that you can still buy for it, so the potential closure of the eShop isn't going to disadvantage you all that much.

The 3DS eShop ending is still a dreary sign for Switch though. Digital works because with Playstation, Steam, MS Store, etc, you know your purchases are likely to carry forward and continue being available more or less indefinitely as long as the company is still running. Nintendo right now seems to be alone in treating this as 1995 where the platform is EOL and the digital store just vanishes. That's a monumental strike against digital content on a Nintendo platform and another "Nintendo doesn't get online" meme.

Though perhaps with Switch they will change that old mentality. Not least of which because I can't imagine the next console won't be backward compatible with Switch, and Nintendo always makes their hardware at least one generation backward compatible, even physically, (Wii to WiiU, DS to 3DS, GCN to Wii, GBA to DS, GB/GBC to GBA.) Switch was just an odd transformation from old architectures to ARM and physical incompatibility.

@ThanosReXXX Depends on the game. A lot of 3DS games are rising in price pretty dramatically as of late.

I doubt 3DS eshop support will end any time in the next decade in Nintendo's biggest markets, though. The fact that you can apparently still redownload your Wii Shop purchases is telling.

Sometimes I wonder if there's high quality versions of PS1-era CGI cutscenes, or the companies just lost them on their old workstations? Or maybe they were originally rendered in 240p (probably not).

No relation to the first part of the post, what do you guys think about Brave Fencer Musashi?

I've been catching up on comics and reading Dune all summer in the downtime I've had in between prepping for uni

Nick Spencer saved Spider-Man HARD

@Ralizah @ThanosReXXX well lets wait to see whats going to happen.

@Ralizah That's why I said that it won't matter all that much. Obviously, there will always be the odd exception or two, but in general, being able to use or enjoy the 3DS definitely doesn't hinge on there being an eShop or not, since cartridges will always be available in some shape or form.

And any eShop specific services or games are only an added bonus on top of that.

@reporterdavid I'd say that sounds like a pretty decent plan. No need to worry about things that aren't happening yet.

About 3DS eshop games, i have Japanese 3DS XL and last time i saw from Japanese eshop, even there were some eshop games has been deleted like 3 years ago. Those games have retail as well but how long did they appeared on eshop, it was very surprising. There were some of 1 - 2 years old eshop games, after that they had been removed. Probably the games didn't sell well on eshop.

Okay, this is kinda off topic but since we're talking about 3DS, I want first party 3DS games on my switch so I can play them on my television.