Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Grumblevolcano
Umm.... The other one was from golden axe.
Two tracks that really bothering me.

@Anti-Matter Adder's Lair (the Golden Axe track) appears 4 times in the story mode, 2 are compulsory for progress, 1 is a side route where you can unlock a character and 1 is compulsory to progress in post-credits (the first level after the credits).

@Anti-Matter Yup, it's been years since I've done the single player career mode, but @Grumblevolcano is covering the tracks better than I could. Usually with this, as well as any racing game, I just like to pop it in and play some tracks or time trial.

That is understandable, I get it, you usually don't like M-rated games (I'm use to calling it M-rated, I'm from the US).

That is entirely up to you if you can build up the courage to overcome it. Two tracks, but it's not the only thing in the game. Remember, it's rated E10+, which means it's going to be watered down from the M-rated original. Personally, I just see it like a haunted house themed track. Again, it's up to you 100%, if you don't feel comfortable trying, then that's up to you too.

As for me, honestly, I really don't like scary things. Not just with games, but with live action movies. Honestly, my idea of Halloween is just specials and stories involving my favorite characters. Then (again, M-rated game, I know you don't like them, but bare with me with this story) I tried House of the Dead 2 in the arcade, and I liked it enough to get it on Dreamcast. It reminded me of a badly acted horror movie. I enjoyed it and it didn't scare me. If I never tried it, I wouldn't have known I like it or be ok with its content. Sometimes, it's just worth trying something.

Similarly, if I had the mindset of "I'm too mature to enjoy childish things," I don't think I would like stuff like Trolls and My Little Pony. I've seen some who have this mindset, and think to myself "they're missing out on something good." Sometimes, the best thing to do is try and see for yourself if you like or tolerate something.

Also, this is where rental stores could come in handy if they still existed. Rent the game and if you like it and are ok with its content, then buy it.

Apologies if this is a long post, really wanted to get my thoughts down.

@Anti-Matter Everyone has a limit on what content they find ok, Some don't care, some do.

You mentioned how people compared Lego city to another M rated game I will not name for you, and how I see it, its if that said M rated game, wasn't M rated, and didn't have all said content, if that makes you feel any better about it.

About the tracks in sonic racing, I also think its something your ok with or not, but how I see it, its not as if your playing the game, even tho the stage is from a M rated game, and luckily its a racing game and you will have stages you like or dislike for reasons, so if you really want too, you can just get through the stages really quick and never touch them again, because you wont have too.

Thats what I do with stages I don't like, though I understand its different for you. Even with all I said I think @Sunsy says it best, and you should listen too there advice over mine.

sorry if this whole thing I wrote is hard to understand, I just hope I helped in anyway to your guys convo.

You also bring up a good point, liking something and how people can handle said content will be different for everyone. Me personally, realistic horror stuff makes me uneasy and may give me nightmares (which I do get from time to time, I still will sleep with a plushie, even as an adult), so I don't watch it. When Halloween comes around, I stick to Halloween episodes of cartoons, and more family friendly movies like Hocus Pocus.

Also, I don't even play the single player career mode anymore, I just go to quick race and race tracks I like. Same with Team Sonic Racing, I just play tracks I like without bothering with the story mode.

@Sunsy Definitely, I like scary stuff but I can only handle so much before I mess myself up, plus I can’t be thinking about it all the time, I love it, and can handle it as long as I’m careful.

But I notice how other people just ooze is scary stuff, and I love it and admire them for that, there limit is way higher then mine. It’s cool you can still Enjoy Scary stuff in your own way.

I haven’t played sonic team racing in a bit though, I don’t enjoy the story mode and just doing one big race is enough for me.

Dang it sega just remaster remake or make a sequel to sonic racing transformed, come on there was literally no reason to change the formula.

@Snatcher @Sunsy
Thanks, guys.
I will think carefully about Sonic Racing Transformed. Need some deliberation again and observation from YouTube.
It was one game that made me freak out for the trivial things.

@Snatcher Indeed. Yeah, while it's not scary to the point of nightmares scary, I do like some of the character themed Halloween stuff I like. I have a friend who loves horror stuff, cool for him. While I don't, I did show him the My Little Pony episode 28 Pranks Later, he loved it as it was really well written and captured horror tropes.

Also, I do like playing Left 4 Dead. Zombies yes, but it's not as scary for me. I also enjoyed the movie Shaun of the Dead when I saw it a long time ago, it was more comedy than horror for me. Those would be some of the few horror things I do enjoy.

Yeah, I didn't care for story mode in Team Sonic Racing, that drifting around the posts race. I do love how the day one patch unlocked every track for quick race mode, and I play it that way as well as with friends online. Because of that patch, every track was unlocked in quick race mode when I bought the PC version on sale.

@Anti-Matter You're welcome, when in doubt, research it out. Woo! That rhymed!

Crazy weekend. Responses only for now. More info when it isn't late and I'm (hopefully) somewhat caught up on sleep.

@MarioLover92 The problem with me drawing from memory is everything looks MUCH better in my head. I sometimes struggle with getting a dersilvrifut (if I care enough). It would've been neat to see the jug project results.

On my weekend: thanks! Good day for the most part, with a nuance I'll go into next time I post...

@tekoii X is very hard IMO...until you earn more upgrades. Then it becomes relatively easy until the difficulty spike in the final boss stage. X.X I'd love to see a new Battle Network game, in fact I think there was a fan project for a seventh game. Not sure if that's still in the works though.

@Tasuki Good on you for having a summary if the breaks become long. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of industry do you work in? Hopefully the schedule shift is a temporary one.

@Sunsy Ah OK. I tried looking for a Disney art book on Amazon earlier and I couldn't really find what I wanted. Hopefully, next time I shop and when I look it up again, I'll have better results. A lot of Disney movies have some really nice artwork, painted backgrounds and all that, and the animation looks silky-smooth - really impressive stuff. Ah...just a sample huh? So it's not the full version of that unreleased Trolls book? It is cool that you have that, at least!

Yeah I agree for sure, it's interesting to see all this cut content, so we could see what the game might have been like had certain objects made the final cut.

I think it is gonna be the Sega CD original, the trailer that Sega had showed Sonic CD with the Japanese soundtrack. IIRC, the Windows 95 version had the US soundtrack across all regions. Yeah totally, the Game Gear Micro is indeed pretty cute. They had like 4 games for each variant of it, didn't they? I had something similar, which was the Game Boy Micro - not to be confused with the GGM. Kinda wish I had the Famicom variant though.

@Tyranexx I think we can relate when it comes to that...the vision in my head would look a heck of a lot better than my attempt if I draw by memory, lol. You're very welcome! Sounds like it was a pretty good day overall.

@Tyranexx I work in retail so my schedule is never the same which makes scheduling D&D games difficult at times.

Made a new logo this morning, since I can't find any good fonts that fit into a circle. What do you think?

Logo for....? If those are meant to be letters, I can't work out which but it doesn't particularly look like anything else to me, sorry

@Snatcher Looking back, Team Sonic Racing honestly feels like a way to rescue tracks from Sonic & SEGA All Stars Racing (the one before Transformed) without having to deal with Jet Set Radio Future licensing issues. Transformed got Egg Hangar and Team Sonic Racing got all the other Sonic tracks except Ocean Ruin.

@BruceCM It's a logo I made for... me. I didn't like my old one so... tried to make something simple. With any luck you can find the letters!

@MarioLover92 Definitely, especially the classics since those were all done by hand too. Would be cool to look at a Disney art book. Yeah only a sample, they were going to release a book, but for some unknown reason it was cancelled. So those who picked up the Target day one edition of Trolls World Tour have the little bit of the book, and it shows early concepts and ideas for the movie. It's sad it never fully came out, so this little sample is more special. There's still quite a bit to look at in it too.

Yeah, it's fun reading about and watching stuff on cut content. It makes you wonder how some of these concepts would have been like in-game.

Really cool, it would be nice to play the original Sonic CD on Sega CD. Yeah, I think it was multiple models with four games each. I never had one, but I do remember seeing Game Boy Micros in stores during the GBA heyday. That thing was really compact and small. Surprised Nintendo didn't experiment with faceplates on DS more, since it seemed cool to customize your handheld.

I played Horse Club Adventures on PS4.
Girlie girlie horse riding game. ☺

So, it's like your new name, @TheJGG ....? Then, years down the line, you can be 'formerly known as ' ?

@Grumblevolcano I never thought of that, and it makes sense ngl!

@Sunsy Yep. At least before computers and CGI became more widespread, of course. Gotta respect what all the Disney animators did to bring all those classics to life! Ah, I see...it's too bad that the full version didn't come out, but it is definitely better than nothing.

Yeah absolutely, just curious, you just played the other versions of Sonic CD? I honestly would have loved to see Nintendo use faceplates for their handhelds more often, too. Really wish they had faceplates for all versions of the New 3DS, not just the regular-sized one like what we've seen. I could have had Nintendo-made Mario faceplates for my New 3DS XL by now!