Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Heavyarms55 They've actually been rereleasing a few previous Harry Potter sets with updated pieces. Trying not to dig back into some of the old ones lol.

A coworker of mine is a huge Star Wars fan and has spent several thousand on some of the more impressive sets. He does plan his purchases and has limits though. Especially since he now has a dog to spoil. XD

@Tyranexx @App I really liked building the ships. I had most of the classic fighters, the X, A, Y and B-Wing rebel fighters. I built my own E-wing based on the fighter from the expanded universe (what Disney stupidly removed from the canon) and 4 different TIE fighters, the original, Vader's TIE Advanced, the Interceptor and the TIE defender, to my knowledge, the only EU ship to get a set. I used to set up hangar bays with repair areas full of droids and ladders and mechanics running around. I also spent a lot of time trying to build my own fighter designs. I also had the Attack of the Clones Jedi starfighter, the LAAT Republic Gunship, and the AT-TE which sadly I destroyed and never rebuilt...

I would spend hours building and rebuilding my own command base. One of my favorite pieces of Star Wars are the X-wing books by Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston. In one of them Rogue Squadron lives up to their name and goes rogue when the New Republic wont sanction their mission - all 12 pilots repaint their X-wings in unique colors. I always wanted to build 12 X-wings based on that book but I never had enough of the right parts in the needed colors...

I built my own Lego Jedi order and custom made mini-figures for a whole bunch of Jedi from the games and books.

Outside of Star Wars Lego, I was a fan of the old ninja sets they had at one point. I had a cool set on a custom board, that was two castles with a bridge going over a river. That board I reused over and over building all kinds of things. I used to love getting different kinds of boards and different colors. I remember building a city at one point, complete with a main street and cars. Of course I wanted to add a military base too, but I didn't have the room. lol

Ahh good times!

And yeah, I think I remember the globe thing. In a lot of ways, Lego is like Nintendo - there are so many things they could do, that people would eat up, and they don't do it. I always wanted to be able to buy specific blocks in the colors I wanted. Or to be able to order specific mini-figures. A few times I rebought the same small sets, just because they had more stormtoopers or battle droids. I really enjoyed making my own figures by mixing and matching figures with different arms, legs, heads and accessories.

Speaking of that, it's kind of why I don't like the new Lego-Nintendo stuff because they don't use the classic style mini figures, meaning I couldn't easily mix them into my existing collection.

Today I got my latest purchases.

Some retro, some modern retro and a modern game

I was pleasantly surprised that Ion Fury got a booklet and stickers inside and it is not a limited game.

And Lego Harry Potter Remastered collection for the Switch is bound to arrive tomorrow!

On top of all I am eyeing a copy from play-asia of Final Fantasy X-X2 Japanese version as it has both games on the cart and it will play in English text and voiceovers from the start!

@Zuljaras Could you let me know how LEGO Harry Potter is? I'd love to get it but I don't want to waste my money.

@App What do you mean? Good in terms of FPS and graphics?

If not it is a Lego game and it is made to be fun no serious.

I am getting it because I am a huge fan of Harry Potter and to see it from a funny/whimsical perspective is actually fun.

This would be my third Lego game - the other 2 are Lego City Undercover (Lego GTA) and Lego Worlds (Lego Minecraft).

@Zuljaras Sorry for not being clear. I mean, is it a good LEGO game? Is it long? would it be worth the money?

@App Well as far as I know from watching reviews and clips it contains all years in Hogwarts from 1 to 7.

Both games are on the cartridge and there are tons of collectables. After you go through story mode you can do a level select and explore freely.

It is actually quite nice for the fans.

I have a few Lego games, on the Switch in particular, it's Worlds and Jurassic World (I love that it contains all three original Jurassic Park movies.)

With Lego Worlds I always recommend turning off automatic save backups. Even on a new file it's gigabytes worth of save data!

@Eel You mean that you should just save manually when you want so you don't get those fat GBs taken?

@Zuljaras Yeah, I'm sure it's not like this everywhere, but at my house, uploading completely overtakes the bandwith until it's done uploading, so the result is snail-pace internet for anything else (if we do get internet at all!)

And when it gets into HD youtube video amounts of data, that could be hours.

I also disabled automatic backups for Minecraft for the same reason, although that one isn't quite as immediately space hungry as Lego Worlds.

@Eel Ahhhh you meant the cloud saves? I thought that it makes EXTRA GB on the SD card or the internal memory!

Oh well if you have the game there's nothing you can do about the space it takes on your SD card, besides deleting it of course.

Yes, I meant the cloud saves.

@Heavyarms55 Wow, sounds like you REALLY put a lot of work into all that, especially the Star Wars set pieces. I would have loved to see everything set up! Though I'm not sure if I would have appreciated it as much back then as I didn't know much about Star Wars and hadn't really seen the movies (IIRC you and I are roughly the same age); I'm a more recent fan thanks to TFA drawing me in. I definitely like the franchise but have a LOT of catching up to do lol. I need more time or less interests. XD

Heck, I probably would have liked the ninja stuff more as that would have been a bit closer to history and fantasy. I liked both since I was a kid, whereas I didn't get into science fiction much until late high school/early college.

While the Lego Mario stuff honestly looks cool, I also found the lack of normal sized figures a bit off-putting. The Lego NES set almost roped me in until I saw the price. I didn't want to spend that much on something that would only collect dust.

I am starting to think Pokemon Go is bugged for me. Like, every 10km egg I have had for weeks has been Feebas. I am so confused.

@Tyranexx Yeah I suspected we were around the same age. You definitely tend to get my references.

And I don't blame you on Star Wars. It's a gargantuan franchise. Only surpassed in pure amount of content by like, the collective DC or Marvel universes. You can dig into it for years and still be missing huge chunks.

Where's that Cloudpunk review? Patiently waiting

Ghost of a Tale has my interest, too. I wonder how it performs on the switch.

They're ripping off your painting @Zuljaras 😠😠😠(🤪)

@Heavyarms55 Feebas are ridiculously common in 10k eggs. I have a ton of candy from them and have hatched two shinies. There was a point in time where I was hurting to obtain a Milotic for research purposes, but I needn't have fretted it seems....

Oh boy. The DC and Marvel universes. I love aspects of both and slightly prefer the former. Until I started digging into the comics more I didn't know some characters even existed; most of my exposure started with the various animated shows and a few books back in the day. A few examples I missed back then were Hawk and Dove, Swamp Thing, Emma Frost, Vision, Deathstroke (though I knew him as Slade), and...Well, I could list these for awhile lol. I've usually been the most invested with the X-Men on one side and Batman and the Bat Family's Rogues Gallery on the other. So many interesting story arcs, one-shots, retcons....I suppose it's to be expected with how long these universes (and Star Wars) have been going.

@WoomyNNYes Haha, who could have thought that my generic forest could look like other creepy forests

Btw here is update of the Halloween Scarecrow I am currently doing.

@Zuljaras That looks awesome so far. Great job

What websites do you guys use for non-Nintendo news? I've finally decided to stop visiting IGN, though I might hit up their video reviews every now and again. Most of the Nintendo stuff they cover typically shows up here, so I'm good on that front.

I mostly stick with Nintendo systems due to time and franchise preference, but I do like to know about what else is out there.

I usually use Destructoid.