Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

After playing several hours of Sly 2 from PS3 version, it made me want to play Sly Cooper Thieves in Time PS3 so eagerly as it has very beautiful environment with HD cell shading style characters. 😲
But i have to wait until February 2021 as i will get XBOX 360 USA with the games ASAP on this late December 2020.

Anyway, i felt bad to see Bentley can't walk after his leg got crushed by giant statue at the end of Sly 2 storyline from Sly 3 opening scene. 😔
Even though they are thieves gang but i thought they were more like Robin Hood gang or good thieves.
The assignment of Sly as the thief with Inspector Carmelita Fox as the police remind me of Carmen San Diego.

Which do you think you'll play 1st, @Zuljaras....? They're all good games

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I broke my purchase record on this month by purchased 11 games in total (10 games last week, 1 game last Friday).
I have never purchased more than 6 games in a row before.

@BruceCM I will probably try Vampyr as I love vampire lore.

I also want to get Immortals, Pokemon SS + Expansion Pass but those have to wait.

@Anti-Matter Wow, those will take a while to finish.

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From 11 games i bought, 1 game is very short (Pocket Fighter), 1 game quickly unlocked 100% by having the next version game (DDR Hottest Party 3, quickly unlocked by having DDR 2010 Wii disc to unlock all things on DDR Hottest Party 3 save data), 2 games are still pending (XBOX 360 Kinect games as i don't have XBOX 360 machine yet), the other games are still in progress.

@Zuljaras Good to hear that you are ok now.

@Heavyarms55 Decent shinies! Shame that the Eevee doesn't have better stats, but maybe you can keep it for lucky trade fodder? Unless you want to keep it for some reason. I did get out for Cday for about an hour today, though the weather wasn't amazing. Most of the rain rolled through overnight, but it was misting a bit when I headed back to my car. Temps were in the lower 40s, but with cloud cover and 10-15 mph winds....Brrr. Ironically, I found all the Cday shinies except Gastly (I have plenty) and Piplup, who I was actually looking for lol. I did get a lucky trade out of the way, so now I'm the proud owner of a shiny Tauros. I don't know how many of those I've caught looking for one....

@Anti-Matter While I get some enjoyment from watching The Game Awards, the show increasingly seems like it's more flair and less substance. I'm mainly in it for the game announcements, but I was so unimpressed by it all this year (To be fair, this is a meh year for about everything) that I'll probably just catch any news after the fact next year.

@MarioLover92 I'll likely give some of the newer MM platformers a look eventually; I recognize it's a decent series, but to me, challenge =/= cheap enemy placement lol. From what little I do recall of the Mega Man Zero game I played, it was pretty difficult; I think my cousin let me play it just to see if I could get him past a certain point lol. I don't remember the results. I think I'd like the Legends series since they're more of an adventure game format. It wouldn't surprise me if there's still a ROM or build of Legends 3 floating around at Capcom somewhere....I'd love to play it, even if it's unfinished. It can't be any worse than E.T. on the Atari 2600. I have played that via emulator, if "played" is the right description....

@Zuljaras Glad that you and your family are back to 100%! And yes, while you don't need an excuse to buy games, I'd say surviving that mess qualifies.

@ThanosReXXX I'm not intentionally trying to make Dubious Food, it just seems to...happen on occasion. XD Mostly from the couple of times I've tried cooking monster parts to see if they'd help make something edible. They seem strictly for elixirs so far. Funny that you mention spicy food - I just found more peppers during my session earlier. I'm rotating between several games today, but I hope to fit in a healthy BotW session later this evening. I suspect I'll be spending a LOT of time with this game. Good thing it's winter!

Fishing, huh? I suppose there's a rod out there somewhere, and a few other unique/improvised ways to catch fish. Other than stealing them off enemies and being within grabbing range when in a body of water, no other fishing methods have directly presented themselves yet.

That's a pretty good game, overall, @Zuljaras ... Do let us know how you get on with it!

@Eel Ha, that's a funny cartoon. I'll be sure to check the channel now, to look at the rest of them. Cartoons made my a Dutch guy, posted by someone living halfway across the world. Waddaya know, huh?

@Zuljaras Ah, good to hear you've been able to pull through. In my family, there's a suspicion that some of us had it as well, but only ever mild complaints. My sister and her husband have actually been in quarantine, just to make sure they weren't going to infect anyone else.

@Tyranexx Oh, mind you, it was not me accusing you of intentionally making bad food, I just meant to say that whenever you make something from monster parts and that is the outcome, you might just as well chuck it, to make room for more useful stuff. Guess I should have been a bit more clear about that.

As for 10 ways to catch fish: you'll find out soon enough. You'll find out. I'll semi-point you in the right direction for two of them: something with a bow, and something with herding in shallow waters...

@ThanosReXXX Yes we all were under quarantine for 14 days.

I do not how the quarantine works in your country but here it is issued by the government and they even check if we are at home with inspections

I missed if that's in BotW, @Tyranexx .... But I ended up with 'dubious food' a few times in that game, so I guess so? Mostly when I was rather randomly mixing ingredients but that's half the fun of cooking!

@Zuljaras Yeah, same here. Although indirectly: it is issued by the government, but it's controlled by medical facilities/instances, such as your own doctor or the hospital where you got tested.

@Tyranexx Tauros is a great one! Very nice! I had pretty good results yesterday. I got the 3 I needed, Gastly, Rhyhorn and the one I wanted the most, Piplup. Also got a comical amount of shiny weedle to add to the silly amount I already had, and back to back shiny abra (again, didn't need them but still shiny!). No shiny seedot oddly enough, but that's fine because I have plenty.

Probably not gonna bother much with the event today though, I have the shinys featured today. Though I probably will throw an incense up while I watch my anime in a bit.

@ThanosReXXX No, I didn't take your comment on dubious food the wrong way. No worries. Though you can chuck food? I'm so used to keeping it around if needed that pitching it didn't occur to me. XD Some of the stamina-boosting food came in handy yesterday; I knew there was a shrine on top of one of the Dueling Peaks, then I discovered that it had a twin on the other. I glided over to the other and climbed up its stony face; I barely had enough stamina left, but I made it! The two shrines are linked and made for an interesting puzzle. A bit of a pain - especially with the trek for the first one (I ran into my first mobile Guardian....Thank goodness I was in a tree out of its view!) - but now I have two very useful, scenic warp points on my map. I've also located the elusive Hestu and retrieved his maracas.

On fishing: A bow and herding in shallow water huh? Might have to try that! I did stumble across another method (obvious in hindsight) by accident; I was trying to blow up a bomb-able area where I was sure there was a shrine (Turns out I was correct!) and apparently killed a fish in the process. Well, bombs ARE technically unlimited....

@BruceCM Mixing different ingredients when cooking is definitely half the fun! I've found some interesting recipe alterations already. I'm usually pretty good about stopping by a fire and cooking what I have...or stealing it from baddies. XD

@Heavyarms55 Thanks! That Tauros cost me my spare Tornadus, but I considered it a worthy trade. Funnily enough, I didn't find any shiny Weedle, but I found plenty during its actual Cday. Didn't need it. XD

Sounds like you definitely had better Cday results yesterday. I got out for about 90 minutes today too; I kept to my car for the first 1/3 of it; today was slightly cooler and just as dismal as yesterday, but no rain at least. I decided to use my last lucky egg to 1. Exchange gifts with a user as I knew we were close to best friend status and earn double XP, and 2. Finally evolve the Pokemon I was saving for such an occasion and add a few Dex entries in the process. That netted me 275K. I did find a few shinies today as well, most of which were Charmander and Electabuzz. Nothing I found worth keeping though. XD At least I got out for some (cool) exercise and had fun? I was surprisingly in a good mood despite it all.

@Tyranexx Yeah I definitely understand what you mean. I think a lot of old games, especially from the NES era, were pretty bad with enemy placement and respawning. You're gonna want to especially stay away from Mega Man X6...that game is hard for all the wrong reasons. You'll probably like the Mega Man Legends games more - hopefully those will come out for Switch in due time. It'd be cool to see a leaked build of MML3 sometime, kinda like what happened with Sonic Xtreme (that cancelled Sonic game for the Sega Saturn).

Sorry about my late reply. I had a pretty rough night yesterday. I had to redownload Animal Crossing since it crashed and it had corrupt data. Thankfully, redownloading it worked and my save is okay - so far, so good!

@MarioLover92 Oh yes, definitely. There's a reason why I haven't played a lot of platformers from the NES era and before that - the difficulty! XD Heck, even some 16-bit platformers that I've played are tough as nails IMO. The Lion King on the Sega Genesis instantly comes to mind there. Yep, I do hope the MML games get a new lease on life; people seem to love them, so I'm not against giving them a shot!

On the late reply: No problem at all! We all have business off the internet. Sorry to hear that Animal Crossing decided to crash and cause issues (and a mini heart attack). Glad that your save survived for sure! Redownloading a game is one thing, but losing a save you've spent dozens, if not hundreds of hours on.... /shudder

The steps I had to go to record footage from a PS3 were obnoxious. My gaming set up is now the type of chaotic field of wires I never, ever wanted.

I found a short docementary video about Keeping Arcade Live with Dance Dance Revolution from Youtube.

The things i still never understand from Konami's logic, why don't they port their newest DDR (DDR A20+) to consoles as Bandai Namco did by providing Taiko no Tatsujin for PS4 and Nintendo Switch ?

During PS3 / XBOX 360 / Wii era, the only worthy DDR for consoles are DDR Universe 1 - 3 for XBOX 360 as the games made by Hudson Soft with very professional manner in term of making the stepcharts and song choices. The things went wrong when Konami released DDR 2010 for PS3, XBOX 360 and PS3.
The songlist is awful, only Single play without Double play, No Edit Mode, DLC songs only for PS3 and XBOX 360 version and they are ALL old songs from DDR PS2 without new materials.
Very unprofessional.

I still felt disappointed for PS4 / XBOX ONE / Wii U / Switch era still NO really good rhythm games like DDR or Beatmania quality.
The rhythm games i found on PS4 and XBOX ONE are only Western rhythm game (Rockband and Just Dance) with very unappealing song list for me.
The rhythm games for Switch aren't really interesting as DDR despite there is Taiko no Tatsujin, Deemo, etc.

Judging from current situation, it motivated me to consider XBOX 360 and XBOX as i don't have DDR for those machines yet and at least those DDR games are my new games for me when there is no more newest DDR for consoles.
At least DDR Ultramix 1 - 4 and DDR UNIVERSE 1 - 3 can keep entertain me.

So, how's your BotW going now, @Tyranexx ....? Apart from trying to give Link food poisoning (lols), where have you got to & what else are you doing?