Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

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I’m happy to report that my copy of NieR: Automata came in the mail this morning! I expected it to arrive around the 29-30 ballpark but I was very surprised to see it arrive just three days after it was delivered to the re-mailing service in the UK. I chose to get it physically delivered because not only could I not find the game at any shop here, but it was also exceptionally cheap. The Witcher 3 should also arrive in four to five days, so I’ll need to figure out storage and whatnot since I’ve had to delete many games since. I since played through an hour and a half of it and it loves to switch genres very fast. One minute it’s a shoot-em-up, next it’s a hack’n slash, the next it’s a platformer… usually it hurts the game but I’ve heard it helps in this case. 2B is awesome, so is 9S. More to come!

@Tyranexx I have no idea how to feel about Mario + Rabbids because I don’t even know if I liked Kingdom Battle or not. It’s a fairly challenging strategy game and it’s relatively faithful to the series… maybe I’ll give it a go when my backlog’s empty. It isn’t now, I’m getting ready for the next summer of gaming.

Funny story about the Square one, I fully intended to join you all in the chat but around 9pm (about an hour before the show started) I fell asleep on my couch, while the Xbox show was still going on. Apparently I was sleeping quite peacefully, and when I woke up the next morning I was described as angelic. But nonetheless I woke up at 11:30, and the show had ended. I went to the VOD on YouTube via my Switch, meaning there was little in the way of spoilers, and then flicked through it…

I feel like it was… a bit underwhelming. If I find myself busy this time next year I may as well rely on you to compile your thoughts though, because your impressions are nearly word for word identical to mine. Guardians of the Galaxy’s quite impressive, seems Square are bankrolling their stranglehold of the Marvel video game rights. This was the equivalent of Ubisoft showing off Rainbow Six Seige, but less offensive solely by virtue of GotG being a completely new game. I felt similarly about Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Collection, a seemingly easy port job and subsequent money has been highly questionably put aside. Makes me wonder if this’ll be shown in tomorrow’s Nintendo Direct. More food for thought.

But does it need to be explained? The absolute…. meme that was the Stranger in Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins trailer. I don’t think I’ve ever watched a trailer that’s made me laugh as hard as this has. Not even in a good way; the game looks absolutely atrocious from what I’ve seen. The main characters looks like they walked in and robbed their local Target, snorted two pounds of coke, and then lived out their drug-induced hallucinations in a dark alleyway, declaring a good eight times that they were gonna kill Chaos. “I’m excited to play as three protagonists I’ve already seen before; Lightning Prompto, Recoloured Gladio, and Edgelord Cor.” (quote by me) Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better I read the YouTube comments and I began laughing all over again. I can’t even think about this game without a persistent, almost delirious chuckle. And it’s just the cherry on top that the demo was broken. You could say it was a chaotic launch.

Glad you like the songs I added. Those were all made before the newer ones, so the difference in… general quality is noticeable. But the unintentional design is that as you go down it’ll get better. I’m also glad you didn’t hate the Xenoblade written demonstration. I added a bit more this morning, and I found a document online with all the spoken dialogue out there. I’ll just need to weave it together, make new dialogue and make it believable. I wrote down some good names for the seventeen in-game chapters a few months ago so I can certainly use those.

When I was younger I played too much Clash of Clans for my liking. At the time I was begging my parents for Gems, which obviously cost real money, and they thankfully never let up. Now I’m able to think for myself a bit more I completely reject and actively lambast the principles upon which mobile games are based on, though there’s some good ones out there. Stardew Valley was ported to mobile and if my fantastic console experience is anything to go by that’s one of the best mobile games of all time. Have you played Stardew?

Maybe it’s not out of the question to reserve one slot a week for a movie from your movie list? That way it at least guarantees you’ll be able to make progress at all… I’ve tried it and it works quite nicely; I finished watching the BBC television adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “The ABC Murders”, which was a deeply riveting case in of itself. I began the first part of “And Then There Were None”, considered to be Christie’s best work of all. I agree that Percy Jackson & The Olympians was badly executed, they were always locked in for mixed results because of the structure of the books. It didn’t help that they chose to age up the protagonists, so Percy and Annabeth are both sixteen instead of twelve. You lost the feeling of growing up with the characters, a feeling that Harry Potter encapsulates better than any other film series in history.

I share your feelings about Famicom Detective Club; getting it on discount is probably the only way I’d get it at the moment. Most of Nintendo’s first party games are like that, I want to get them but the pricing betrays the game’s age, not necessarily their quality. Such games include Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Pikmin 3 Deluxe, to some extent Hades, New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe and The World Ends With You: Final Remix. And it’s only two and a bit weeks to go until Doki Doki comes out so you’ll have plenty of time to get psyched for that one. You’re very welcome, even though I should have been more clear with my mentioning of questionable content. I doubt that even needed a spoiler tag because the publisher states this under legal obligation!

Today the unthinkable happened, we ran out of peanut butter. I certainly hope I can mosey over to the shop before it closes, because apart from that, salted butter and strawberry jam is all I trust to grace the serrated surfaces of a crispy piece of toast. It’s quite smooth on toast so it makes for a really nice combination when eating. I save pancakes and waffles for the weekend, and it’s usually a nice thing to look forward to. When I was stuck in England last year I did some video calls while preparing pancakes. Considering it was at 6:20am due to the time zone difference everyone appreciated it!

You have time, don’t you worry. I wouldn’t count on Final Fantasy VII Remake coming to Switch, like, ever, so next-gen hardware will do the trick. Thanks to the free upgrade from PS4 to PS5 versions of the game by virtue of having a disc PS5 and a physical copy of the game, I got Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS5) for free. I’d still need to buy the Yuffie story content if I wanted it, but having a native PS5 game is refreshing. 60fps, 4K, better lighting, a photo mode… it’s pretty good fun! The moment you join in will be very joyous!

No pressure whatsoever; we’re here for fun and games after all! And speaking of games, the Nintendo Direct’s coming! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on that and Capcom! In the meantime I’ll be getting my vaccine so I’ll prepare my couch, it’ll be very well used come Tuesday night…