Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Good for you guys, that you loved the Direct.

I did not see even one game I wanted.

I was hopeful for Half-Life when I saw Portal but nothing followed. Also good for Xenoblade but I am yet to get into the series:)

But that is a good thing in a way. Less money spent on games!

Waking up after that Direct feels like waking up after an incredible dream. Except the dream is real. I'm so glad I can share people's enthusiasm here, and to those who didn't get stuff they wanted, that's a shame. I feel like my wallet is going to be very light come the end of this year, because of just how many games are coming out that I'm interested in, ranging from games I've heard are good, and are worth a shot, to games I will unconditionally buy Day 1.

• Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. Give it to me! I love the direction Koei Tecmo/Omega Force/Team Ninja is going with these projects, taking a licensed property and commit art fraud levels of copying to the point the games are criminally faithful to their source material. Age of Calamity for Zelda, and Persona 5 Strikers are both fantastic games and this seems to be next!
• No Man's Sky. I have it on PS5 so I'm not gonna get it again but I really hope people take the chance to play this game because it has come such a long way since it launched in 2016.
• Chrono Cross. For sure a neat addition, even if the game has aged pretty badly, as do most PS1 games of the time. Square have a knack for these relatively hands-off remasters of late-90s JPRGs, and they could get a bit more love IMO. They clearly put minimal effort in. First Romancing SaGa, then SaGa Frontier, then Legend of Mana, and now this. I wanna see what makes the game so good though.
• Nintendo Switch Sports. It looks awesome, a certain buy. Looks a little light on sports compared to Wii Sports Resort but we shall see.
• Live A Live. Looks right up my alley, and looks like it had more effort put in than Chrono Cross, so sign me up! Price is a bit steep but let's see that stop me, and many JRPG nerds out there. I read Toby Fox's tweet about how significant this was, and it has Yoko Shimomura music so what more convincing do I need?
• Mario Strikers: Battle League. Interesting but probably not for me. I can sense a certain Mario Fan is gonna get it Day 1, and I really hope you like it!
• Splatoon 3. Don't care, it looks too same-y to the other Splatoon games.
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Went from a consideration to a must-buy. Nintendo have absolutely bankrolled the open-world formula after ignoring it for decades, so I cannot wait to get stuck in.
• Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp. Seems the delay helped polish the game, so I can't wait to play this one, since I didn't end up sucking at Fire Emblem as much as I thought I would.
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe extra tracks: Jeez they went all in, didn't they. The value of this pack is insane, you're paying half the price of the full game for essentially the same amount of content. I'm definitely buying this.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3... GIVE. IT. TO. ME.

@TheJGG This sums up my thoughts so well! great start of the year for the big N.

@Zuljaras
You and me both

That's presumably her hair she's swinging on, @MarioLover92 .... Looking forward to your football game?

Dang, where is @tekoii? I wanted to hear his thoughts on the direct lol

@Vortexeo IKR? They would have freaked over Xenoblade three.

So I have almost gotten through spring in stardew vally, and I have one thing to say....Damn why didn't I get this game sooner, Its a really good farming sim, not that I played any, But its so good, the characters, the art, the events, and this is the first season like dang!

All right, I'm gonna have to blow off steam for a bit. So, I was off to the eShop to preorder the Mario Kart DLC, and I just got one of those random friend requests when I turned on my Switch today. Without any notifications from Nintendo Life whatsoever. Those requests annoy me quite a lot, quite frankly. Especially since I clearly said in my signature to let me know when they send me a request, not to mention there's no way to message your friends on the Switch itself. So, I removed my friend code from my NL profile and signature. Sorry, nothing personal against anyone, including those who sent me the requests - but I had to do it.

@Sunsy I haven't played too much of the first Klonoa, but from what I've played it's quite a good platformer. It kind of reminds me of Yoshi's Island and Kirby 64 in a way, since you can do flutter jumps and it's in 2.5D.

On the MK8D DLC, absolutely! Nintendo has generally been pretty good with their DLC, and this one's no exception. I love that Coconut Mall's making a return! I went ahead and preordered the DLC just now, too. Now I just have to wait until March 18! I think we can play the new courses online on the 22nd - would be cool for the two of us to play on them online together. What tracks would you like to see make a return?

Nice, and that's cool. Cool to find that shirt in your drawer, did it just happen to be missing? I used to have a Sonic shirt, which was classic-styled, but I somehow lost it many years ago.

Yeah, they made Skyward Sword with Wii Motion Plus in mind. I had Twilight Princess for the Wii, and I now have it on Wii U. I haven't finished TP yet, but I have finished Wind Waker HD.

@TheJGG @BruceCM Yeah it looks pretty cool, this would actually be the first Mario Strikers game I play. I'm more excited for Mario Kart though!

It certainly seemed it appeal to you, @MarioLover92 .... I didn't think I needed to check about your kart dlc, lol Keep rehearsing for your film, too

@Snatcher
You can try another farming sim + RPG style game Kitaria Fables, a Rune Factory style game with cute anthropomorphic animals as the character. Also, that game made from my country Indonesia. 🇮🇩

@MarioLover92 I know, someone has been sending me friend request without telling me, I mean come on guys, its right there, just ask me my god.

@Anti-Matter I think stardew vally is going to be the only other farming sim I play, because its much more then just a farming sim, like, idk how to say it, its not there as a farming sim like that, it has a story, it has characters, you do more then just farm, there is charm, style, music, Its all there, I never played Harvest moon, but I might give those games a shot now that I have played this,

And stardew has all that content, and its only 15$ like what? Its such a good price, I kinda feel like i'm stealing.

Again thanks for the offer, but it doesn't really look interesting to me, but i'm sure its a good game, and I might give it a try later down the line, but thats a fat maybe.

@MarioLover92 That's good to hear, it sounds like my kind of platformer. Now I remember trying it at a store's PS2 display once, memory just came to mind.

My friend and I are both happy for the return of Coconut Mall, we loved playing that course on Wii and 7. I may wait until on or after my birthday, it's literally in early April. I'm hoping to see some of the Mario Kart Tour courses, I don't play the game, so I never had a chance to experience them. Most of the mobile stuff is either Sonic or cartoon based games with me. Hoping for Delfino Square to make a return, always loved that DS track.

Not lost, it was literally in my draw. I remember getting it when Disney had a Zazzle shop, basically you can order a Disney shirt in any style you wanted. I remember getting a Rapunzel shirt this way because I was watching Tangled, and an Anna and Elsa shirt this way (funnily enough, I'm wearing it right now). Aww, sorry to hear you lost that classic Sonic shirt.

Amazingly, I haven't played those two Zelda games, even though I have both a GameCube and a Wii U.

All the Piczle games are on sale on the eShop, so I went ahead and added Piczle Cross Adventure, and Piczle Colors to the pile of games on my Switch.

Yay for picross.

@Sunsy
Speaking about Mario Kart games, I still surprised to realize almost nobody here have ever mentioned other kart racing games for comparison of their features with the features from Mario Kart games as I found the gamers who really devoted with Mario Kart games are likely only know about every single of Mario Kart games but not really open to other kart racing games by 3rd party developers such as Crash Tag Racing or Skylanders Superchargers or Team Sonic Racing, etc or even from PlayStation (Modnation Racers).

I have posted some thought about the features for next Mario Kart games that borrowed from other racing games but I saw almost nobody shown an interest to discuss about improved features for Mario Kart games such from Track editor + Detailed character customization + detailed vehicles customization (I still found nobody ever really want to hope this feature for next Mario Kart games). All I found just the discussion about the old tracks from older Mario Kart games that will be implemented for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. They didn't even think about how to make their own tracks or how to customize the racer looking or how to customize their vehicles from body to tires. Looks like all the efforts from 3rd party kart racing games with their unique features didn't even impressed the Mario Kart fans. They still stuck on all the things from Mario Kart without being open to other kart racing games with their uniqueness.

I felt sad to see that treatment like I really want to discuss the other features from 3rd party kart racing games but almost everybody here have no interest to discuss about 3rd party games that sometimes I think some of 3rd party games are better than Nintendo games. The other thing that made me sad when Chocobo GP get announced, some of peoples were really indifferent with that game and called Chocobo GP as Mario Kart rip off or cash grab. It just hurt my feeling as some of Mario Kart fans are fanatic with their believe and berate the other kart racing games as Mario Kart rip off. They are not really open to other similar games while I have open to other kart racing games such as Cars 2, Cars 3, Team Sonic Racing, F1 Race Stars, Modnation Racers, Skylanders Superchargers and I found the games are still entertaining with their way, at the same time I got some new experiences from those games. What do you think ? Do you have some experiences from other kart racing games that you like to see on next Mario Kart games ?

@Anti-Matter Its not that they don't want to talk about it, put you normally post about during a already active convo about mario kart.

Crash team racing is the bomb, that and a few select other kart racers make it on my list of good kart racers that aren't mario kart.

@Snatcher
Speaking about Harvest Moon or now it called Story of Seasons, that game was very popular in my country Indonesia since from PS1 era and I have ever played Harvest Moon Back to Nature on PS1 during early year 2000 and my siblings and my cousins were also like to play that game. I grew up by Harvest Moon Back to Nature PS1 so I quickly adapted the gameplay from other Harvest Moon games on Wii and Gamecube as my first Harvest Moon games on Nintendo machines. Short story, I felt disappointed with current Story of Seasons games on 3DS as I do not like with current character design that don't look really appealing for me added with the stiff body gestures on 3DS version. The remake of Friends of Mineral Town was pretty good in graphic and fps but the character design was drastically changed until I didn't really recognized the characters I knew them from Back to Nature. I still on the fence with Pioneer of Olive Town as the incomplete game and some bugs founded from the game put me in nervous. I really hope Pioneer of Olive Town will get PS4 release and hopefully the games has been fixed from all the issues and the lack contents.

@Snatcher
Oh, speaking about CTR, what are the unique features from CTR that Mario Kart still don't have yet ?
On my game purchase list, I have agenda to consider CTR PS4 version (Sorry, not the Switch version) but I must know if the game is still easy enough to get 1st place with all the drama and traps on the tracks.

@Anti-Matter From what I played during the trail, what your going to have to learn is drifting, its much different from mario kart, and if you don't learn how your going to get ruined.

As for traps, nothing that different.

@Snatcher
Oh, gosh.
Drifting galore from CTR.
So I want to know the button schemes for Accelerate, Brake, Drifting, Use item from CTR as I admit Mario Kart games have the best button schemes with A button to accelerate, R button to drift, L button to use item, hold L button to use the shell as the shield from back attack.

@Anti-Matter I sadly don't remember, but I think it was about the same from mario kart.