Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Ryu_Niiyama I downloaded the recent high res image of the sun from European Space Agency Solor Orbiter. Its cool, impressive. It's fine. Until I noticed a screaming skeleton soul in the image. Lol.😆 if anyone plays rocket league, the screaming skull happens to look like the Hellfire goal explosion. Which is funny.

Link to the official site & image https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/03/The_Sun_in_...

I cropped the area of interest, from the upper left portion of the sun.

That's just Apollo, practicing.

@Eel I discovered it last night on my own, when I zoomed in. I honestly started wondering if the photo is legit. 😆 I can't believe the internet isn't talking about it.

Wow, that's pretty cool, @WoomyNNYes ... It'll probably inspire some of our artists

I am proud to show you guys the finished Death from Castlevania Portrait of Ruin! I hope you like him!

@Zuljaras Those eyes stare into my soul.... it's perfect!

Yeah, looks just right, @Zuljaras .... I liked that game a lot! You going to do Jonathan & Charlotte sometime, they'd be great?

@Fizza Happy 30th anniversary to Kirby! Although the Kirby series is as old as me now, I didn't get to play the games until I was 10. Technically my first true exposure to Kirby was with the original Super Smash Bros., but the first Kirby game I've played was Kirby 64. Loved playing it as a kid, and I still have my N64 copy. I was quite into Kirby back in the day, loved playing all the games back then. Yeah you should give Kirby 64 a shot when it comes out on NSO+EP, it's a nice, feel-good game that I'd recommend to anyone.

@blindsquarel Oh gotcha. The GameFAQs boards tend to be like that a lot of the time from what I've seen.

@Sunsy Ah yeah I've heard of the Need for Speed games, not sure if I've ever played them though. But I have played a couple of the Burnout games on the PS2, those were a fun time for sure. I still have my copy of Burnout 3: Takedown. I have Gran Turismo 3 as well, which is also for the PS2. I should play more of that, I do like racing games quite a bit. It's more of a realistic racing game, as opposed to stuff like F-Zero, but it's still a pretty decent game for what it is.

Oh people are still playing Medal of Honor online huh? I recall seeing that people still play Counter-Strike, and that game came out years ago I believe. 1998, I think? Somewhere around that time.

Yeah I agree, time trials are a great way to learn how the tracks are laid out. I actually went ahead and did time trials for all of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's courses, as of now anyway. Though in 150cc. I did a few 200cc time trials however.

I love being able to listen to my favorite music right from my device too. They especially come in handy when my internet somehow screws up, as well. That's cool you found those two soundtracks on vinyl. I've seen that vinyl records have been having a renaissance since the mid-2010s or so. Vinyls are cool for sure, but I've always been more of a CD guy, though that may have to do with the generation I grew up in, lol.

@WoomyNNYes What does it say about me that I see Ganon in that picture?

Love the full image though. Thanks for the ping!

@Ryu_Niiyama I see Ganon too, huh that's cool.

If one of you, or a reader of this thread, sent me a friend request on Switch, please tell me. I don't accept requests unless someone fesses up.

@MarioLover92 Gotcha. So playing as Mega Man in MM&B is like choosing super ultra hard mode, while playing as Bass still sounds like it's fun but difficult. Personally, I'd choose the latter, though mainly because I slightly prefer Bass/Forte's edginess in the overall canon. Though most of that is influenced by my love/preference for the Battle Network games.

@BruceCM I believe I'll look into some videos/footage of the remakes soon. I appreciate the suggestion.

@Fizza Happy birthday to Kirby! I used to ignore the series entirely until I tried Kirby Superstar on my SNES Classic a couple of years ago. I fell in love and have been gradually trying to dive into some of the better main series entries since. I just played the first two Kirby's Dream Land titles on the 3DS VC recently.

@Zuljaras Wonderful depiction of Death from PoR!

@TheJGG First of all, I LOVE that adaptation of Dancing Mad. It definitely captures the epicness and insanity of that boss fight IMO. I don't have many Final Fantasy reference points yet since I've only played VI as of this writing, but that was a standout moment in a game with many that stick with you.

I'm definitely excited to play XC3. Possibly not day one, but very close to when it launches. I was debating about a "long" summer JRPG anyway, though more out of the turn-based backlog bunch. This will still scratch that itch nicely. I'm happy the game was revealed partway through my playthrough of 2 so that I could grasp some of the trailer references.

I've noticed you playing XC:DE again! I never delved into Casual Mode, though I nearly took advantage of it during a particularly rough boss sequence. I persevered, but I'm not afraid to activate it again in a future playthrough or return to my existing file to mop up more post-game if needed.

I'd love to dive into the Persona series - WHY there isn't a proper entry on Switch yet is beyond me - but the general series runtime gives me pause. I've heard Persona 5 factors among the longest of the long. Not that I should complain too much; I do have Dragon Quest VII on 3DS backlogged, after all!

@Fizza @Link-Hero @BruceCM @Tyranexx Good morning and thank you all for the kind words!

Cool, I did like the opportunity to play those with the recent collection, @Tyranexx ... Sort of games I had heard quite a bit about over the years! As far as I remember, the reviews were mostly positive with a few little gripes & warning people they were basically faithful to the originals, lol
So, who or what next, then, @Zuljaras?

@BruceCM Yes! I will make a really ambitious sculpture of Castlevania 1 (NES).

It will be a tower and on top will be Simon Belmont crackling his whip.

Below in a spiral pattern I will put ALL 15 normal enemies from the game.

It will be a sculpture in smaller scale in terms of individual pieces but it will be a little taller than Death for sure!

Here is the design plan

Oh, OK, that does sound ambitious, @Zuljaras .... I'm sure it'll be great, though!

@Zuljaras I can’t wait to see it brought to life!

Bug fables is not a game people talk about a lot and I don’t know why, this game is indeed going to be up there with my other top indies, I’m three hours in and I spent an hour just talking to everybody lol.

The paper Mario feel is there, and it’s the gameplay you know and love as well.

Today I learned that Switch has an option for inverting colors on system wide level and I have no idea what the use case would be.

@Zuljaras Whoa cool

@Late Maybe for colorblind people or partially colorblind.

@Zuljaras I guess. There's a grayscale option too. That I can see be useful. Inverted colors just seems strange but if it can help somebody, that's great.