Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Just now i watched another random video games again from Youtube.
I found Chicken Little & Chicken Little: Ace in Action caught my curiosity.
I have never played those games before.
After i watched several minutes of gameplay, i quickly considered both of them (PS2 version) on my purchase list.
Looks similar as Ratchet & Clank games but by Disney.

@Tyranexx I did manage to finally find exactly one Froakie today actually. But it's actually almost as weak as it is possible to be. 11CP and the all the IVs are like 2 or 1.

I imagine it was dying being out in the desert like that.

@Tyranexx Well... expert... I wouldn't exactly call myself that, but thanks for the compliment.

As for the BotW horse catching game: I personally thought it was relatively easy to get a hang of, but I can imagine that locating them and finding out the finer details about it all will not always be as easy or obvious for everyone, so information like that might just come in handy.

Unless of course you're more of a "no thanks, I want to discover everything for myself" kinda person, which is also understandable, especially seeing as I also like to explore things by myself.

Long as the exploring doesn't turn you into the "I'm gonna wander around aimlessly until I grow tired of this game, because I've got no idea what I'm supposed to do or where the hell I'm supposed to go next" kinda type...
But all kidding aside, that's actually the beauty of this game, that you don't have to do anything specific or go anywhere. Well, at least not within a set time frame or along any kind of linear path.

At one point in time I simply spent entire gaming sessions hunting in the forest and/or gathering food, or gone fishing and I also sometimes just spent hours climbing and floating around with my improvised delta wing.

Oh, and of course, being a man, I also liked doing stuff like destroying areas of the world by cutting down trees or torching stuff. The latter is especially entertaining with tall grass in windy areas, which helps to fan and spread the flames.

Do it (time it) right, and you might even catch some enemies by surprise, or get some free roasted food in the process...

I was curious about Sly Cooper games that i oftenly saw from game shop.
Before that, i completely didn't react with that game like nothing really interesting judging from the cover.
But once i watched Sly Cooper PS3 from Youtube...

@Anti-Matter Well, it seems that somebody has FINALLY seen the light.

I mean: an Xbox 360, SSX, Sly Cooper.
Slow down, man. You're giving this old Titan a headache...

@ThanosReXXX
I got another good news.

I will consider also Xbox Classic USA (original, unmodded) on year 2021 from my local game shop, i want to buy both Chicken Little & Chicken Little: Ace in Action PS2 (as Ace in Action looks similar as Ratchet & Clank), DDR Ultramix 1& 2 + Ty Tasmanian Tiger XBOX for starter XBOX games.

I have watched so many 3D Action Adventure / Platformer games recently.

@Anti-Matter Haha, nice. Well, in that case, you might also want to check out this little hidden gem from the past:

@ThanosReXXX
Billy Hatcher was also my most wanted Gamecube game. 😀
But unfortunately the USA version was too expensive on Ebay. 😔
There were a lot of PAL version of Billy Hatcher but my Wii only play USA version. 😣
The other option was Japan version, with slightly cheaper price but it will be All Japanese texts and different packaging than USA / PAL version.

Sigh.

Foods items here in Mexico used to have extremely useful percentage values on the packaging, big and clear, that stated how much of everything the thing had in relation to a standard diet. So like, "a 100g portion of this includes: X% daily recommended sugar, Y% daily recommended sodium, Z calories, etc."

Now they removed that and replaced with plain stickers that say "excess sugar", "excess sodium", "excess calories", etc. They don't mention portion sizes or any actually useful information. That does nothing to help me plan my daily food intake.

Sometimes, in smaller packaging, they don't even have the words! Just one sticker that says "[number of] Seals".

I hope they change it sooner than later.

@Anti-Matter If you REALLY want to play that game, then you can simply buy a product from a company called Datel, who make all kinds of legal hardware and software that will allow you to play region free games on an unmodded console, so you don't have to hack it, it's just discs that will reboot your console in PAL, US NTSC or JAP NTSC mode.

If that interests you, then you will want to look for any one of these:

• https://www.codejunkies.com/Products/FREELOADER-for-GameCube-...
• https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p254617...
• https://us.amazon.com/GameCube-Free-Loader-Action-Replay-VERS...
• https://www.codejunkies.com/Products/SD-Media-Launcher__EF000...
• https://www.sekaimon.com/itemdetail/323676553641

Mind you: some of these links are only for informational purpose, so that you know what the boxes look like. Perhaps you can also find them on PlayAsia or in your local game shop. Be sure to get the NTSC version of any of these products and NOT the PAL version, because you'll want to have the one that converts an NTSC console to PAL, not the other way around, and the PAL discs won't work in your console either.

Now, once you own any of these, then you can buy any PAL GameCube game you like, because they will now all be playable on your NTSC console.

And the PAL version of Billy Hatcher & the Giant Egg is still widely available and MUCH cheaper:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/c/1040424216

@Eel Man, and I thought the American Nutrition Value was bad because it didn't show all the ingredients or you can barely tell the NV.

Yeah. At least they still have that nutrition information thing on the back of most packaging, but it’s not nearly as convenient as having the detailed info on the front.

In other news, yay Farming Simulator 20 was updated on iOS, they finally did something to improve performance and added the option of actually exiting the vehicles and walking around, oh-la-la~

Had some fun testing the game on both devices, since on my iPod it was bad last time I tried it. With this update it now runs fine on low settings. Since the iPod also has the tiniest battery ever, I tried comparing both devices I own...

On the iPad I got 1 hour on 10% of battery, on the iPod I got 20 minutes on 20% of battery. I then uninstalled it from the iPod again~

@Heavyarms55 Sounds similar stat-wise to the Froakie I found the other day; mine was 1/0/3, CP of 336. We'll, at least you found one! Now we just need to stockpile candy for when one worth evolving rolls along. XD

@ThanosReXXX I actually stumbled across a few horses during my play session yesterday. The poor things had been commandeered by some bokoblins, so I, shall we say, relieved them of their current masters. For good measure, I captured one and made it my noble steed. Nicknamed Rohan. XD Thanks for the links!

That is a nice thing about this game: I don't HAVE to do anything. I'm really enjoying it so far. I'd say my only (very) minor complaint are that I wish shrines had more to them. I've caused a little destruction: chopping down apple trees for their fruit (if I can't easily get it otherwise) and discovering some interesting ways to kill enemies. Then of course, there's hunting, cooking, dealing with merchants, exploring, dying spectacularly, dealing with a crazy lady obsessed with flowers....

I have created some fun dishes, but the most interesting ones so far...are the mistakes lol. Dubious food.

Okay so I want to show off possibly the nerdiest thing I have ever done. I call it my Pokemon Generations project. I managed to acquire a team of 6 shiny Pokemon in Pokemon Leaf Green. I am taking them through all subsequent generations. I intend to collect a bunch of cool ribbons on them. The various regional E4 ribbions, (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Kalos, Alola and Galar - I believe Unova lacks a ribbon, but I'm gonna beat their E4 anyway). But I'm also running through the Mt. Battle challenge in Pokemon Colosseum on Gamecube too! I also want to collect as many interesting side ribbons as I can. I know their are some funny ones, like the Footprint ribbon and some weird ones in gen 4 too. And I'm doing it all on mostly original hardware. My GBA is modded but still a GBA at its core.

If anyone knows any obscure things I could do to make this even cooler, please share!

@Tyranexx Actually fixed it! The kid caught a Froakie too, but fitting my hypothesis about dying frogs in the desert, his was also utter trash. So we tried trading, and we got Lucky Froakie with FAR better stats! Yay!

@Heavyarms55 Nice! Randomly triggered lucky trades are the best! Congrats!

On the ribbon challenge: that sounds delightfully fun, and very time-consuming too! I suppose now is as good a time as any to embark on that multi-game journey. What shiny Pokemon are you using?

@Tyranexx I am using an honesty imbalanced team. Lol. But it's Breloom, Vaporeon, Ninetails, Heracross, Aerodactyl, and Nidoqueen.

It is gonna take a while, but pandemic restrictions and no rush to get it done make that not so bad. And I am only replaying gen 3 and the GC game. I have finished saves of almost every other title. Platinum I think I am like halfway through or so, so I may need to finish that or I could use Diamond.

I have an ongoing ribbon challenge on hold myself. Training and using a pokemon to get as many ribbons as I can accomplish across all generations. I'm stuck in generation 3 for the time being though, since my one functional DS with a gba slot unfortunately died some months ago.

So far my Gardevoir only has all the ribbons from the gamecube games and about half of the ribbons from the main gen 3 games.

Also, did you guys have luck with the wooper event in Go? I managed to find one shiny.

@WaveWitch At this point, either wait for a price-cut or sale, get an Xbox Series S with Game Pass, or just wait for the inevitable PS5 Slim and Pro.

Recently, my gaming hype has switched into other console games as i have priority to build their games library (PS3, XBOX 360, PS2, PS4, PS1) due to join in their party very late.
I still like to play Nintendo Switch games but my mind right now is thinking about old 3rd party games that i have never played before. They stole my attention.

@Anti-Matter Oh that's cool, have you found any good 3D Platformers (that isn't Mario)