Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Fizza excuse me what RE4R?!

Time to go to YouTube

@MarioLover92 Thanks, I still enjoy picture books based on characters I like. Even though that particular book reuses scenes and renders from the Trolls movies, some of the more original Trolls books have original stories and artwork that's even beautiful at times. So I still like reading them. Though, thinking about it, and Nintendo related, I had a picture book as a kid of the Super Mario Bros movie, lol. Similar to that Trolls book in the pic, it just reused scenes from the movie.

Definitely, I'd say the spiral tower is also one of my favorite castles in the series. Sometimes, I like using the P-wing to explore outside the tower to see where the bricks lead to. I love World 4 as well, all the big blocks, pipes, enemies, it's a lot of fun. Also, love the map music to World 4, as well as World 5's land area. Indeed. One nostalgic memory, snow day stuck at home, I just played a bunch of World 6 levels. I also remember playing World 5-3 one Christmas season, I think when I got my Mario and Yoshi ornament it put me in the mood for Mario.

Yeah. If it weren't for knowing where those warp whistles are, I can imagine how long it can take. I like to think warp zones, warp whistles, and in Sonic case, level select were just ways developers helped players who wanted to play, but had to turn off their system. Like a secret way to continue the levels. Yup, and all four Mario games had four save slots each.

State of Play happened… I’m a little glad I didn’t stay up to see it since I needed the sleep more than the FF16 news, as much as I love what I’ve seen so far. They’ve taken a new direction for this game, more single player, just one party member, and it feels really Westernised in that way. The appeal of JRPGs (which most FF games are textbook examples of) is that you come together with five to seven people to form a party, then you all go and kill God together. Seems Clive’s gonna do that all by himself…

I'd be more excited for that if it was coming to Steam.... But I'll probably grab Spiderman, eventually, on sale, when that does

I really hope the Wii U Zelda remakes get ported to switch. My game pad won’t connect to the console, unless the console is literally on my lap, making it a pain to play the console. Meaning playing on the tv is out of the question entirely.

@Sunsy Nice. Always good to see great artwork in general! I have a lot of gaming-related books, and whenever possible, I do like looking at pictures while I read them. Same with pretty much any other book that I read! I rented a book from my college's library that was about animated movies and cartoons, and there were a pretty good amount of screenshots to go alongside the reviews and stuff. That also reminds me, when I was a tot, I used to have a book that was themed around Mario. I can't remember if it was a picture book or a coloring book, it might have been either or. I do know that it was based on the original Mario games themselves.

The spiral tower's a cool level for sure, I do like how a couple parts of the level take place outside. That's a cool memory for sure - again, no pun intended, lol. SMB3's just a pure masterpiece, plain and simple - love how varied these levels are and the amount of power-ups you can play around with is staggering.

Yeah, I would think that the warp whistles also made for a makeshift save feature, and I would imagine that a lot of people had Nintendo Power back in the day, so it wasn't all bad. Yeah I loved that All-Stars had a save feature for all four games! It was especially useful in Lost Levels. Thank goodness you could save on any level. It was that, and my perseverance, that helped me finish the game.

@Tyranexx So my D&D game is now on hiatus due to my work schedule changing, this was my one fear of starting up a D&D game. Hopefully I can work something out and can play at least once a month.

Hello to any Monster Hunter fans here, could anyone tell me what the first song from the Tetris 99 MHR theme is?

@Fizza Found it, it’s the Shrine Ruins Theme, took me a 2nd because I had remember where in the game I heard it.

Edit: it’s name is shrine ruins theme.

@Marioman2022 were you going to friend me or was that someone else

I'm glad it's finally the weekend. It'll be fun, though very busy. I'm heading to a theme park with my siblings tomorrow, and Sunday will be a mix of out of town visitors and maybe some D&D. I doubt I'll fit much into the video game department (outside of a few minutes of Pokemon Go now and again) Saturday and Sunday, but I'm off Monday for 1. a recovery day, and 2. I need to burn some personal time before I lose it. Normally I can accumulate it, but I've maxed out the allowed amount.

On a less positive note, my maintenance insomnia seems to have returned over the last few days. I'm happy my bro is driving first thing in the morning since I can't guarantee what shape I'll be in by then. REALLY hoping I can catch more Zs tonight.

@MarioLover92 I have touched stingrays in aquariums, but typically their stingers are filed or maintained in some way, plus they're used to human interaction lol.

Observation is definitely key when drawing RL objects, or even when trying to recreate something from memory. With a physical subject, the artist may notice something others don't. That's sorta why I like art studies done by students in classes using the same object(s). Everyone sees and experiences the world in a different way. I also struggle with drawing anything small. XD Though it isn't something that comes up often.

@Tasuki That's a bummer. Work schedule changes are why we've had to cancel on more than one occasion as well. Hopefully your group works something out. At the very least, I hope one or more group members were taking notes in case the hiatus becomes quite long.

So I was wondering if people still talk about Boxing or Kickboxing sport openly in public, having some enthusiasts with those sports despite the more popular sports overshadowed Boxing / Kickboxing.

@Eel I've been addicted to Mario Maker 2 for the last few days there and saw you had your Maker ID in your profile so decided to check out your levels (very good btw, makes me want to make more myself) and noticed something hilarious: I've somehow already played one of your levels! Slightly Perilous Pit is what it's called and it must've come up during the Endless Challenge or something because wow is that a coincidence. I may as well add my Maker ID to my profile in case anyone is interested (I only have 2 levels currently but I plan to make more in the future!).

@Fizza oh haha thanks for checking them out! That level was actually the first one I created to test the game with. It’s cool to think that other people may still be playing them out there.

Small world lol.

I haven’t played Mario maker in a bit, I fell as though a lot of my levels fall flat, and the online sucks for multiplayer which sucks because I love that mode!

I think I will post one of my levels at least because I think it’s actually ok, but has a big skip flaw, that I think I should fix but whatever, post it and them put my Mario maker ID.

Btw you said more levels, meaning you have made some yourself yes?

@Snatcher Only two currently: my first ever one (a really basic Wiggler level that I hold an immense amount of affection for) and a tribute level in the style of Ninjajajamaru-kun (an underrated Japanese NES game on NSO that I really enjoyed). I have this really good idea for an Airship level, I just need to find the right mid-section since the beginning and end are already done. I'm thinking something along the lines of Monty Moles and Bullet Bills.

@Sunsy will like to hear this. It's been 62 years since Sega was founded! Also, the Mega Drive Mini 2 has been announced and it looks like it'll have Mega CD (Sega CD) games as well. Honestly, I'd already love to have it, since I do like Sega games.

@Tyranexx That's cool. I do remember you could swim with them in that aquarium that I mentioned earlier.

I haven't done drawing from memory, that sounds like something I should try out sometime after I get enough practice. It is good to break out of your comfort zone, after all. I agree for sure, everyone has their own level of interpretation on what they're drawing and things like that. That was one of my drawing projects, everyone would all draw a jug and a cover, including me. Every other project, we would just draw our own subjects/objects. Yeah, I haven't really had to draw anything small either.

By the way, have a fun and wonderful weekend!

@Fizza Ah man, I should get back to Super Mario Maker 2. I wanna try to find the time to make my own Super World at some point.

@Fizza haha I see you liked my Catperture Labs level! Did you get stuck in Test 10? I accidentally made that one way harder than it had any right to be 😅 you can break the level there.

@Eel Bloody hell man, I am absolutely useless when it comes to making levels compared to you, each one is just so well designed! I particularly liked the ending sequence with lava and Charvarghs, that was genius.

@Fizza You should do the idea, I think any idea can work as long as you figure out how to execute it! I'm rooting for you!

Also making levels inspired off of other games you love, I never thought of that, I was basing all my stuff off of other mario levels, my door has been opened.