Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@1UP_MARIO
I have experienced with old school 3D platformers during early 2000's era like Ratchet & Clank 1 on PS3 and it was really hard by given only 4 lives to survive, Kao the Kangaroo 2 on Gamecube as the game has really strict requirements in completing the challenge and precise timing. 😩
Old games tend to be really hard to beat than modern games.

@1UP_MARIO That's cool. It's easily my most nostalgic 3D Mario game, I played it a ton when I was a child. Though, my favorite ones are Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2.

Been eyeing the XM4s forever, but I finally bit. I've never had to do so much maintenance on a pair of cans like this. They sound arse out of the box, really flat, muddy, overly base heavy sound. Like someone is playing it through a speaker wrapped in a cloth bag. However, fiddling around with the EQ though and unlocking the LDAC settings in my phone, damn these sound so ***** good. Shame high bitrate LDAC stutters when you use your phone and when you have WiFi on, but since I mostly use Spotify I guess 990kbps isn't necessarily in the least, can run the next one down without any stuttering at all.

@tekoii Yeah, I saw some videos last night showing the lag the online play had. Doesn't surprise me given I had lag even with the NES games. Though the SNES stuff played fine, friend and I played Super Mario All-Stars no problem (honestly, it's really fun online).

I do find it amusing the few third party games I've played online with my friend on NSO (Puyo Puyo Champions and Team Sonic Racing come to mind), they play fine, no lag at all in my experience. While Smash lags (I can't be the only one confused how F2P Brawlhalla has better net play and doesn't need an NSO subscription).

Oh, Super Mario USA is actually the US Super Mario 2 in Japan, that's what Korone was playing. I think you're thinking of The Lost Levels. Yeah, that one was hard.

@MarioLover92 Oh wow, I'm actually surprised. I didn't know that Pokemon Pinball Ruby and Sapphire appeared on Wii U. Thanks, I'll try and grab it one day. That's cool your brother was a massive Pokemon fan.

This seems to be an unpopular opinion but I prefer Luigi's Mansion 2 over the first one. I have Luigi's Mansion 3 in my backlog but I was also gifted Dying Light so I haven't played it yet despite of having it right here with me. Let's see if I have a new favourite after I play 3.

@Ninjalaislit Not gonna lie I did feel a bit worried around the middle of the year when we got next to zero information on the state of PS5 releases, but that September PlayStation Showcase changed that thankfully, and there’s at least half a dozen more games I’m very excited to give a go now, ranging from GT7 to Horizon: Forbidden West, the next Marvel’s Spider-Man, and more. Shame of course they’re making these games PS4 compatible though. While I see the perks due to the microprocessor supply shortages it means these games can’t actually make full use of the PS5’s specs.

Microsoft specifically does need to wait, as you say, to enjoy the benefits of a Bethesda making games just for their system. Though Bethesda’s rep over the last three years has been shady at best so I hope this change of ownership actually forces them to up their game, for the sake of the entire Xbox brand as a whole. While one part of me is glad that one of the less acclaimed devs are being tapered off somewhere else they did make Skyrim and more, so that doesn’t erase their good deeds. I watched Internet Historian’s video on Fallout 76 and dear oh dear did that go wrong. I’ll link that in case you’re interested.

Well… we trusted Nintendo’s silence and we got absolutely rewarded in spades when E3 rolled around. I really hate it when stuff is leaked, because it ruins the potential of the surprise. HW: Age of Calamity was one game that wasn’t leaked before reveal and I was much more excited than for the 3D All Stars collection due to that. People seem to only remain docile with this approach with Nintendo though, Bayonetta 3 was only just revealed and the last four years people have been piling abuse after abuse and threat after threat on Hideki Kamiya. Obviously he didn’t help by saying some pretty silly things to media but I’m sure he’s forgiven now!

Believe it or not every single DLC thus far has been free. I bought the game just after the Pathfinder update in November 2016 and it was such a different game compared to… even a year later, let alone five. Their success was inspirational, and the lesson there is something everyone should take to heart; if you don’t succeed the first time don’t make silly excuses, just get back to work and fix it! Either way that was such a journey, one that one way or another is still going on.

Apologies for the later response, hope this makes up for it!

Started Uncharted 4 the other day, and so far its Beating all the other out of the water. Hope I like the end.

@MarioLover92 I'm glad your on the RPG side with me tho XD. Ah man Fire Emblem I'm sort of new to. I played Awakening and Valentia on 3DS, and loved them. Advance Wars is just a stone cold classic tactics game though, and it's seriously awesome we get that 2-pack remaster/remake. Ahh so you're a big platformer guy huh? I'd say I am too but more so for the 3D variety these days. I'm still waiting on that darn Odyssey 2, and of course Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Definite day one on that. ​

@Anti-Matter Nice! I haven't gotten to try that version of Tactics, I played FF Tactics Advance. I heard there are some pretty cool extras in the PSP version or something. Ah right, the Evoland series. That series is a pretty cool throw back with all those cameos !

@Sunsy Oh wow, theres even lag too? I thought it was mostly little graphical problems. Bah, all the more reason I'm waiting now. Wow, nice you got to play some classic stuff online! I haven't gotten that experience with the NSO yet. LOL. Yea, online play on the Switch is so weird like that. It's fine in some games, then just extremely variable in others. And AH! I thought that The Lost Levels and Super Mario USA were the same game and that Super Mario Bros 2 was just you know that game lol. Totally thought you were talking about lost levels. SMB2 gets a lot of flack but idk.. back in the day I liked it >< and it seems you do too ^^.

@Snatcher I loved Uncharted 4... 3 was fantastic too.

@roy130390 Ah man another one! Goodness me. LOL jkjkjk! Hop on to the Luigi's Mansion 3 ?train? Really loving it so far, so definitely gotta cast my vote!

@roy130390 3 was fine for me, Its actually a really good, game, But compared to 2, nah, Compared to one however, it looks fantastic!

Loving 4 so far by the way, Its slow but I love me a good story.

@Snatcher I did get the Uncharted trilogy for free last year thanks to Play at Home and man it's something else. The original was so ahead of it's time with the fluidity (but sometimes dull feeling) of the controls, the climbing mechanics and the graphics. I didn't finish it though, I got so terrified of the zombies in the German U-boat that I stopped and didn't look back...

Good luck on 4 though, I plan to get that in the future for sure. Maybe get them as a remaster on PS5.

I think there is only one RPG game in my PS3 games library (only FF XIII) as I'm not a fan of JRPG games on PS3 due too many adult titles. Despite i like Japanese things but not every Japanese things I like. Whenever i see something too anime and too adult, just Hell No for me.
My PS3 games library are 97% dominated by Western Cartoonish games, very opposite with my PS1 & PS2 games library (mostly Japanese games).

Made some photos of Sonic again. One of them is hilarious as he is yawning I hope they make you smile today!

@Zuljaras praying position. lol.

Actually those are his back legs He is napping. But to be honest he is fat enough to become a proper priest/monk

@TheJGG They had it for free on ps plus at one point so, I ended up with all the mainline games LOL.

@Zuljaras ah. ok.

its a new morning already.

14:23 Time for some MK fun!

@MarioLover92 love the galaxy games too, got them physically and on Wii u launch discount sale. Although I prefer 2 far far more.

Woohoo...!!
I finished the storyline of Evoland 2 PS4 1 hour ago. 😃
It was pretty good indie game that I have in physical release.
My impression after beating the game was 8/10. 👍
There was an interesting part that I really like to do during the journey to final boss, there was a Dance Dance Revolution mini game during battle against Magus. 😃

Can you imagine a DDR style battle against villain ? 😆
I know what should i do since DDR is my forte. 😁
But too bad, the multi genre mini games cannot be replayed. Once you finished those mini games section, it was over. Pretty linear... 😕
After credit roll, I saw my completion was 72%. Not bad but I still have some things to do to make it 100%.

Btw, this is my second Switch game case HORI 24 with my custom design.