Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@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!

I think I have reached my maximum target for PS3 games.
I have decided to pick until 80 PS3 games after deliberating their game's potential and my investment for certain games with genre I have never played before. There were some verdicts I take:

I will not pick any baseball games except Little League 2010 as I have ever played the 2009 version on Wii and it was the only baseball game that fit enough, easy enough and cartoonish enough for my taste. The PS3 version just only one game (2010 version) and basically the game is HD version of 2009 version and still keep the 60 fps. Beautiful.

I will not pick any LEGO games on PS3 as I don't like and will never like Western franchises like Star Wars, Marvel, Harry Potter, Hobbits, etc, even I have sold my LEGO Jurassic PS4.

I have registered both Sonic Racing PS3 games (Transformed and SEGA ALL Stars) with one condition, finish the story as fast as possible and never pick the forbidden tracks anymore. It was very hard decision.

I have registered Wonderbook games (using Wonderbook + Move to play), only two games I will pick (Diggs Nightcrawlers and Walking with Dinosaurs) as I don't like something witchy from J.K.Rowling or Harry Potter things.

I picked Invizimals as the hidden gem from Sony on PS3 and i replaced Rapala Pro Bass Fishing with Invizimals as I don't really think I can invest on fishing games with very low potential than Invizimals with higher potential from 3D platformer games.

I picked some quirky games like Kung Fu Rider (surprisingly hilarious), Sorcery (Move+ Navigator), PlayStaion Move Heroes, De Blob 2, UDraw (Instant Artist & Pictionary) to increase my maximum target.

Well, now I think I can focus on adding more PS4 games until reaching 80 games.

Why do people make weird images of Diddy Kong 😭

Why do you find them 🤔

So I've been playing A LOT of Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and, after beating the 4th Gym and getting the Lavender Town story done, I've come to a realisation of sorts: the start of the game absolutely betrays the rest.

I'm very much the kind of person to overlook some of Pokemon's more glaring flaws (graphics who?) but even I have to say the run up from the start of the game up until beating Lt Surge in Vermillon is.... kind of boring? It's still fun don't get me wrong: you can get all three Kanto starters, the designs of the cities are beautiful, Mt Moon is an excellent cave when Zubats aren't after you every 5 minutes and the music (especially in Cerulean) is absolutely breathtaking. However, the variety of Pokemon isn't great unless you want to spend around about half an hour grinding for special spawns, the trainers usually carry very similar Pokemon, you don't have access to any Secret Techniques and it's extremely linear (up, right and down with a tiny bit of deviation up to go talk to Bill). The fact that the path past Pewter and Mt Moon is one way until you grab the Cut Technique on the SS Anne is also needlessly dickish (I missed the Moon Stone I was going to use to evolve my Nidorino that way so I had to go back afterwards to grab it. Now I did find a shiny Geodude on that trek back but that's besides the point....).

HOWEVER.

The minute you beat Surge and get past Diglett's Cave, EVERYTHING opens up. Story progression is still linear, but that doesn't stop you from basically going as far as you want away from it to see what's around the areas (you can get as far as bloody CELADON and even be able to access the Department Store there to get a bunch of great items and TM's). Because of this, the variety of Pokemon you can get SKYROCKETS. Machop, Cubone, Growlithe, Porygon, Jigglypuff, Rhyhorn, Hitmonchan/lee, Farfetch'd, Scyther, Pinsir, the list goes on and on. Also, after getting Surge completed, you're basically free to get every other Secret Technique. The only requirements are beating the Team Rocket Hideout (Fly) and beating the Lavender Town story/getting the Poke Flute (Surf AND Strength). And once you get Surf, every Water encounter opens up to you! I swear, I haven't had this much fun exploring in a Pokemon game since Legends Arceus came out, it's that good.

If you dropped Let's Go before getting past Surge, I highly implore you to pick it up again and at least beat Erika since I feel like your opinion on it may change quite a bit afterwards (at least I hope!).

@Fizza
I'm glad I have found and beat Erika after getting lost at Lavender Town and had no idea where should go to continue the storyline of Let's Go Pikachu.
Currently I was in mission at Saffron City.

@Anti-Matter Do you have the Poke Flute? If so, go to the left of Celadon and use the Poke Flute to wake up Snorlax. Once you get that out of the way, you're free to go down past Pokemon Road then turn right to go to Fuchsia City where the next gym (Koga) is located. If you've already beaten him, Sabrina should be in Saffron though you may or may not have to take care of Silph Co stuff beforehand. If you ever don't know, I'm pretty sure if you interact with Pikachu/Eevee, there'll be a thing at the bottom of the screen showing you what to do. Hope this helps!

@Fizza
I think I have woken up Snorlax.
My current position was at Saffron City with bunch of Team Rocket grunts over there.

@Anti-Matter I'd say check if you can get into the Silph Co building and if you can and there's a bunch of Team Rocket grunts in there, that's where you need to go.

I love the fact STEPS singers were "dancing" on Dance Dance Revolution X2 Arcade machine from their video clip of this song. 🤯🥰
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT !
DDR X2 was the best DDR Arcade I have ever played in my life. 😄
Too bad, TimeZone in my hometown have removed DDR X2 Arcade from local game Arcade since April 2019 🥺😤
Damn, TimeZone had ruined my dream !

I've just had my first time digging a grave!

We had to put down my grandmother's dog because it was on its last legs and it had no quality of life anymore

But it had a happy life. It is rare to see a husky live for 15 years!

Anyway I was not attached to the dog but it was a unique experience

@Zuljaras Aww...really sorry to hear about the dog. May it rest in peace.

@MarioLover92 Don't be! I am sorry for the pets that had to be put down in the prime of their lives because of diseases or accidents

This dog had the perfect life! It even had personal meals prepared through all of its life! Many walks and its own children couple of times

@Zuljaras That's wonderful that it had a great life, at least then. Yeah, it would be especially tough to deal with if your pets happen to be severely injured/sick.