Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@tekoii Best of luck! If I do get back to Rocket League, I hope I can up my game a bit with aerials and stuff like that. Maybe I'm not as bad as I think. I do tend to be hard on myself at times.

Cool video, btw - I've never played Skies of Arcadia, but I would love to give it a shot sometime. I heard it's an awesome RPG.

@Sunsy That's awesome to hear. Similarly, I do have art books of games like Super Mario Odyssey and Cuphead. Love reading through those and seeing all that cool concept art and stuff like that. Cuphead in particular has a really awesome art style that very much looks like classic Disney and Fleischer cartoons. Gorgeous-looking game...but it's tough as nails! I wonder if there's any Disney art books or something, one that shows off concept art for their movies and cartoons from back in the day.

Oh that's a cool secret you found. I've finished SMB3 many times before, but it feels like there's always one more area that I didn't know about, lol. Oh you know what, gruz made a video showing off the "lost levels" of the game. Here it is:

Ah yeah, totally. Lost Levels' title screen music sounds all peaceful and everything...but the game itself is anything but.

I definitely like that they're gonna be having Sega CD games in it too. They've really only rereleased their Genesis games, and that's kinda it. So I'm definitely interested. They probably would, I think they'd make one that looks like the model 2 Sega CD. I've heard of the Game Gear Micro, though I'm not sure I'd get down with playing something as small as it is. Goodness, this thing's tiny! Then again, I didn't play too much of the Dreamcast VMU. But that's cool you would have liked it.

@Anti-Matter
Thanks! Ahh I understand, we all have different tastes. Oh I see, but you should still play with us if you get the chance. Oh yea, Epic Chef does look interesting.

Hmm... I'd say some games like Dust Force DX, Super Smash Flash 2, Stepmania, One Finger Death Punch 1+2, Psycho Waluigi (fan game), Poof and the Cursed Kitty, Cave Story, Bleed 1 + 2, Aces Wild Manic Brawling Action, Blocksum (did a stream on this, fun free game on pc), Legend of Legaia, Legend of Dragoon.

Idk, I feel like I just like a lot of Nintendo games, Smash, Kart, Marios, Luigis, Star Fox, DK, Xenoblade, Pokemons, Kirby, F-Zero. The new stuff looks cool too, like Splatoon and Arms, just don't have them.

@MarioLover92 Thanks! Yea for sure, just have fun with it, it comes through as you get experience! Thanks man, appreciate the compliment! Oh man, this is why we need it for modern platforms. Arcadia has it's following but more people need to experience this game. If you do find a way to play it give it a shot, there's a lot to love!

@Sunsy Ahh for sure, I'm sure there is a bit of everyone on every side of the fan-base lol. But for me, I loved Sonic Adventure 2 Battle growing up. Chao are the BEST. It'd be nice if we at least got ports of SA and SA2 to Switch, I'd buy them again! Alright, maybe we can get a game going at some point.

@tekoii
Well, we still have same interest in Stepmania, the ultimate DDR maker on PC. 😆
Currently DDR A3 got some new songs but since Yasuhiro Taguchi (TAG) left from Konami last year, the DDR songlist became disappointing. Just imagine DDR now have no Naoki Maeda, no Junko Karashima (no TERRA also), no Yasuhiro Taguchi, the songlist quality became awful with music style like from Dance Rush by Konami also (the music style that mostly I hate from 2020's era).

Do you like farming sim games like Story of Seasons?
Because I have decided to pick all the Story of Seasons games (+ Harvest moon One World) on PS4 to make it more thematic (farming games on PlayStation machines) as I already have Epic Chef and Kitaria Fables in same category (farming aspect).
Story of Seasons Pioneer of Olive Town New Edition (with all DLC in disc + fixed bugs) will be released on PS4 in July 2022 (Japan version first) and I really hope the PS4 version is way much better than Switch version with no more issues again.

@tekoii You're welcome on both. Yeah it's good to learn tips by hearing about them, but experience is what's truly important. Because you're literally applying what you've learned by actually playing. Same thing with anything else in life! I think Skies of Arcadia only came out on Dreamcast and GameCube? I do remember hearing about the GC version on a Nintendo Power issue.

@MarioLover92 goodmorning. got some churchbell in Animal Crossing.

@Anti-Matter Congrats man! I think the most time I personally put into the Yo Kai Watch games myself was about 120 hours into Bony Spirits (really, REALLY good btw, even if I lament the fact I never got around to playing Psychic Spectres).

Also, seeing your current party reminded me of just how damn good the Yo Kai designs were in each entry. One of my personal favourites from playing Bony Spirits was definitely Slicenrice and Flamurice, I was used them on my team when I played through it for the first time and they were just so cool.

@Fizza
Eh, the pictures are not visible here.

@Anti-Matter Sorry, just fixed that. The wiki's being a bit of a pain right now.

Yokai watch are great games, it would just be nice if they ported them over too the us, but they never do, which sucks because blasters was amazing spin off series to boot, and despite yokai watch getting compared to Pokémon a lot, it was a nice change of pace, and this comes from someone who didn’t even play the 3ds game.

Just watching it, from the characters, who some are based off of real yokai, the anime was also a treat in my opinion.

Just wish they would bring them over to us.

@Fizza
My favorite Yokai from each series:
YW1 = Reuknight

YW2 = Sergeant Burly

YW3 = Slugger 😍

Oh, I have Bony Spirits too. I think I still have to find more Yokai in Bony Spirits as I have to put either Casanuva or Smoohpie in my team to get higher chance befriending other Yokai after battle. Currently I put Frostail in my team, still working on getting Sergeant Burly in Bony Spirits. The Wicked Yokai looked creepy somehow as they cannot be equipped by accessories but I can get them easily from Yokai Watch 3 after finishing their quest.

@Snatcher
If you have a chance to get 3DS machine before the eshop get closed, better you pick Yokai Watch 3 as the game has the most Yokai from YW1 and YW2 as well. I like the Merican Yokai design more than the Japanese Yokai design.

@Anti-Matter That depends, do you need the shoulder buttons to play the game? If so I would need to get a new 3ds but the Eshop is closing so no point in doing that Lmao.

@Sunsy
So, I want to ask again about Sonic Racing Transformed. Sorry.
Can I avoid the specific tracks if I want to finish the storyline?
Is there any other way to unlock the tracks ?
Like do I really have to play on the places I really hate?
It will give me really serious anxiety and anger.
Here is the video of every tracks on Sonic Racing Transformed.

@reporterdavid Mornin' - that's cool! I got the wedding bells a while back, too.

Well... it happened! One of my covers got demonetised (I don't even monetise them anyway)!

@Anti-Matter There's some tracks you can't avoid because there's only 1 path on the world map. You can also unlock tracks by playing Grand Prix mode but both outcomes involve having to play Graveyard Gig (I don't know whether there's other tracks you hate but earlier in this thread made it obvious you hate that one).

@MarioLover92 Cool, didn't know they did similar books for video games. I knew they did some for animated works. Don't know if I ever seen a Disney one. I also got a sample of the now unreleased The Art of Trolls World Tour that came with my Blu-Ray/DVD copy of the movie. Sad they never released it since the book did show some concepts and early art from the movie.

Ooh, I think I might have seen this before, maybe I'll rewatch later. Similar to the animation books, it's nice to see stuff scrapped from game or hidden away. Cut content is always interesting. Yeah, it was kind of cool finding a stray 1-up brick in the spiral tower.

Yeah, also, I wonder if there would be a Sonic re-release on it given Origins is coming out. It would be nice to see if they preserve the original Sonic CD from Sega CD. IIRC, the Gems Collection version is the Windows 95 port. Alrighty, seriously the Game Gear mini is kind of cute though, even if it's an interesting collector's piece. Yeah, I played VMU quite a bit because of the Chao from the Sonic games.

@tekoii Definitely, fanbases can be something at times. BTW, I tried searching on both Switch and PC, and this is the only "tekoii" I can find. I don't think this icon is Maeve.

If this is you, I'll send you a request, I'll also remove this image afterwards. Just want confirmation before I send a request.

@Anti-Matter As @Grumblevolcano mentions, you have to play the track in single player career mode, there's no way around it. Assuming the same, it's the Graveyard Gig track.

Alternatively, you can unlock tracks by playing online (I did this on the Steam version), again, the track can still get voted in (online races will let players pick between two randomly chosen tracks), and you may have to race it.

@Sunsy
Oh, gosh....
Like do I really have to do that?
I found the game (Sonic Racing Transformed) PS3 version from my local online shopping website and I really have mixed feeling to consider the game.
Basically, I want to consider that game since there are a lot of SEGA characters I still neutral with them but the only things that made me really felt uncomfortable were the two tracks from other SEGA games that you know I will never like them. If I have to drive through those two places, it will really pushing my anxiety and my comfort zone and possibly will trigger my anger. But, if I decided to being stoic for a moment and pretend they don't affect my emotional feelings, I might able to pass through that two tracks but I will never ever want to play on those two tracks anymore after clearing those tracks.

Something similar case when I have LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER after I approved that game by one condition, I will not do the car theft in the game mission as I knew LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER was based on the adult game I really hate most after hearing from some peoples opinion. I remembered I was upset to hear that like how could Nintendo approved that idea for Tt Fusion in making timed exclusive LEGO game on Wii U but after some though deliberation, I ultimately approved LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER with one condition I have mentioned above.

What do you think?
Should I build my confidence and stoic to able pass through those two tracks ?

Btw, have you ever feeling really uncomfortable to play certain games that you want to play but still on the fence due to find really uncomfortable contents inside?

@Grumblevolcano
I'm glad that you know my likeness and dislikeness in video games.
I need more deliberation and some discussion with other user who have some experiences with Sonic Racing games.

Damn looking back at the track list, it's a painful reminder of games I'll likely never get to play because the only SEGA hardware era SEGA seems to care about is Mega Drive (Mega Drive Mini 2 is further evidence of this). Back when the game first came out I especially wanted to check out Skies of Arcadia but the prices were extremely expensive, I'd imagine prices are even more expensive now.

@Anti-Matter Well in the story mode Graveyard Gig appears 3 times, 1 is compulsory for progress, 1 is a side route where you can unlock a character and 1 is post-credits in such a way you'd only play if you wanted to 100% complete the game. It would help knowing what the other track is given Graveyard Gig is the only track based on a M rated franchise.