Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Anti-Matter that's not a good sign for a game in a good series.

@Kermit1
Yeah, that's why I changed my mind in getting Megaman games after my bad experience from Megaman Network Transmission.
I picked Megaman 11 PS4 because it has Newcomer difficulty so I can keep continue the games without worrying about Game Over since I have Unlimited lives in Newcomer mode. I finished Megaman 11 PS4 several months ago. It was fairly good game.
I wanna get Megaman Battle Network Legacy on Switch & PS4 since I have never played the GBA version.

Has anybody seen that Skittles lawsuit going on now? I have eaten a large number of Skittles in my lifetime and yesterday I had 4 mini packs of them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/well/eat/skittles-lawsuit-...

@Kermit1 Ha, a little odd. I mean they certainly aren’t healthy, but there are many products on the market that aren’t.

Just did a quick search and found this.

Titanium dioxide is an active ingredient in Skittles sold in the United States, but is banned elsewhere in the world.

The link is behind a paywall for me.

@NintendoByNature I’m sorry to hear that, That sucks, I hope it get there soon!

@exit that's all they're saying about the whole thing anyway. I did some searching and it's complicated lol.

Just a random thought, I'm starting to enjoy flight-based games. Playing Strike Commander for a month and a half, and I love it. It's part flight sim and part arcade. What I'm enjoying more than the game is completing my mission, then before landing, just flying and exploring around. It gives me that pilot feel, it's hard to explain, but it feels satisfying to play.

@Kermit1 I've heard of it, but didn't look into it. Really outside Pez and the occasional chocolate. I never been a big candy eater. I remember Halloween when I was a kid, most of that candy never got eaten. Shame to see what happened with Skittles since candy is suppose to be a treat.

I ended up playing so much of Xenoblade 3 that my family were beginning to worry I had suffered some kind of addiction! Luckily I’m “going cold turkey” by going off to the jungle for a week without my Switch, so that means I can reveal the truth… that I’m just a big Xenoblade fan!

@Snatcher you and me both. I'm cool with waiting though. I have the cowabunga collection to look forward to next month.

@Sunsy I had that similar feeling back when Sega became third-party, I was pretty happy to see that Sonic games were coming out on Nintendo consoles. Sonic's always seemed like a cool character to my younger self, even though I didn't have much exposure to Sonic back in the 90s. Though, I did watch a couple VHS tapes of Sonic SatAM, and played a tiny bit of Sonic Adventure at a Dreamcast kiosk. Those were before I even tried out the Genesis Sonic games, too. lol

Oh that's cool - no pun intended! Guess you pretty much had the entire movie memorized or something. I think some of my Disney movies have Fast Play too. Didn't know that certain DVDs stop after the second loop.

In case you haven't found that LGR video about Apple's DOS computer, here it is:

@Tyranexx Gotcha. I've played Smash with my younger bro quite a few times before, and with my fellow college friends. And with some here on the NL boards, as well. World of Light mainly consists of battles, just so you know. There aren't any "levels," so to speak.

Yeah I'm excited to give the wave 2 courses a try. Happy to see that some of my favorites made it in, too! At least Waluigi's got his own pinball table. lol

@TheJGG You're very welcome, just liked your next batch of pics.

Soul Hackers 2. I didn't bother to see the trailer and see how mediocre the game might be...

I still like that I bought it since I want to support the SMT franchise, but man, I really need to learn some restraint... I've never been the best at restraining myself when it comes to impulse-buying.

Thanks to a very late Christmas gift I was able to pick up sunbreak and shredders revenge.

If I have a pet peeve it's people who criticize something without even experiencing the majority of it first.

For example; saying a movie's bad after watching a trailer, or having an opinion on a book based on its cover. It's OK to say something doesn't strike your fancy after watching a trailer or reading the back of a book cover, that's perfectly fine. But claiming something is outright bad and having discussions about it without having experienced it fully (or for the vast majority of it) always comes off as petty to me.

Sorry for this, had to get it off my chest after coming across someone recently who acted this way.

@seaboyluca Was it me? lol You can say it if it's me. I'm used to people criticizing me and my point of view.

I didn't mean Soul Hackers 2 is literally gonna be bad obviously, because I think I was completely capable of refunding the game a week ago if I thought it's gonna suck. I just think that it gave me a bad impression, that's all, especially with how I feel about Persona games overtaking the market of SMT (and Soul Hackers 2 not only including Persona 5 skins, but also having a very Persona 5 vibe in terms of its presented storyline in the trailer). It's not an objective statement meant as a fact... but more as a remark of how I feel, my displeasure and cynicism voiced out loud.

Obviously, it could be good and I might still enjoy it, but I think first impressions count and mean a lot.

And it's not a completely baseless judgment either. Trailers, while not completely accurate, do technically show a portion of the game or movie. If we don't like certain gameplay elements shown in the trailer, wouldn't you say there's a chance, no matter how slim, that we might not like them in the actual game itself? Wouldn't that mean we're perfectly justified in at least voicing out how we don't like what we see, even if we will give the game itself a chance?

I don't think there's anything wrong with voicing your displeasure about a game trailer as long as you don't completely write off the game based on the trailer itself. For me, a bigger problem is relying on reviews to determine whether you will buy the game or not. I'm not super rich, so I'll admit that I do let reviews determine whether if I would buy a game or not because trying out every game, giving every game or movie a chance is obviously not gonna be an option for me. But I do think that reviews can be rigged, skewed, biased. IGN called SMT V "Persona without the heart," which is obviously a review written from someone who didn't know that the Persona games were spun off from the SMT mainline, not the other way around. So yeah, reviews aren't reliable, but it is a convenience if you need something to justify an expensive purchase.

@Maxenmus
No need to worry, it wasn't you.
I honestly didn't read your comments on Soul Hackers.
This chit-chat and the general Nintendo Switch threads I only read diagonally to see if someone's talking about topics that interest me. I only have so much time. 😘

@seaboyluca lol Got it. Don't mind my really lengthy ramble defending my viewpoint. I'm insecure and paranoid like that. It's an issue I'm still trying to manage.

I kinda do that too, reading diagonally to see if there are topics that interest me. There are quite a number of new topics that pop up every morning I wake up, so I just kinda skim through them all.

I'm hardly surprised Digimon Survive got a lot of negative backlash on its Steam discussion page. People there have hated visual novels since day 1, and this game being a visual novel probably attracted those vocal haters like flies. "This game is trash because it's a visual novel; how dare they charge so much money for a visual novel? They should just release it at $10 or even for free." Yeah, try buying visual novels for $10 in Japan. You know, the country where visual novels came from? Where a large majority of visual novels are still being produced to popular reception? They release those things at $80-$100 per game and their market still soared regardless of the exorbitant price. So clearly, there's a market for visual novels; you're just not part of that market.

I'm so glad I didn't buy this game on Steam and bought it on Switch instead. Why should I support a platform that hates a favorite medium of mine with such venom? Forget it. I'm browsing through the Steam discussion page, hoping to have a fun time discussing this game with Digimon fans, and I find myself getting dragged into toxic arguments about how terrible this game is compared to Xenoblade Chronicles 3. I don't care about XB3. I'm not there to talk about XB3. I'm there to talk about Digimon, and how the game has satisfied me as a fan. It doesn't make sense to compare a visual novel like Digimon Survive to a AAA RPG like XB3. It's like comparing Super Mario to Doom; apples and oranges, people.

Am I blind to the faults of the game? No. But that's not the argument being made here by those people. The argument is that because this is a visual novel, it's probably made with low effort and doesn't deserve such a high price. These are the kinds of people who have probably never read that many visual novels, let alone good ones, and are ignorant of the kind of effort it takes to write a full length visual novel that can last up to 50-100 hours, if not more, not to mention all the many CG art those artists had to draw. As someone who has played visual novels and deeply love the medium, I can see why the Japanese paid so much for those games. They're well-made, and they don't deserve the kind of insult these people hurl at them.

Also, it's just dumb IMO to go into a Digimon game made for fans of the Digimon anime and complain about tropes and storylines that were made for Digimon fans. It's like me whining about how Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures was a lousy platformer compared to Mario, or call out how Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is a lousy action game compared to Battlefield, or whining about how Shredder's Revenge isn't as good as other arcade games. Shredder's Revenge was clearly made for TMNT fans, just like how Digimon Survive was made for Digimon Adventure fans. It's so toxic to go trash something made for a fandom like that.

I was looking to have fun with this game, but maybe I should've been born in Japan where this game might've received a better reception instead of this... venom, and I could've discussed this with people who actually see the merits of this game instead of just blindly attacking it because it's a "visual novel."

@Kermit1
Yes, that game is hollow knight for me. It is an amazing game, but for me it is just to difficult and directionless. Luckily it is only 15$ so it wasn’t a huge blow.

I think Bandai really screwed up the marketing for Digimon Survive. So many comments on YouTube where people had to reply, "It's a visual novel, which is why there's not a lot of gameplay." "It's a visual novel." "It's a visual novel." Bandai's trailers clearly misinformed the audience, and as a Digimon fan who loves this game, I fear that this game will tank because Bandai literally set it up to fail. Not only misinforming the audience with poor marketing, but also releasing it alongside Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Does someone working on Bandai hate Digimon? Because it feels like that's the case.

I just tried XCOM for the first time. So far it's good, my kind of sci-fi stuff. Going to tag @Snatcher as he mentioned this one awhile back.

@MarioLover92 Yeah, I always had just as much exposure to Sonic thanks to my brother owning the Genesis and me having a Game Gear. I had a few VHS tapes of SatAM, IIRC I got it as a Valentine's Day gift along with a Sonic shirt from mom when I was a kid (which shows that tradition goes way back, never was big on candy).

My memory isn't the greatest, but I do have Get Back Up Again from Trolls memorized at least, love that song. Yeah, most Fast Play Disney DVDs usually do loop. All you do is just leave the movie to do its thing at the Fast Play screen, it will play some previews, then the movie, then a few extras, and loop. I just want to say some of the Sofia the First DVDs stop, which is odd because Disney Fast Play usually loops.

Cool, will give it a watch sometime. Thanks. I do remember my Mac (which looks similar to that one) had "PC Exchange" but all it did was load up Windows documents on Mac programs. Mine didn't have the DOS compatibility stuff. I think there was an emulator called Virtual PC for Mac, but you needed to have DOS software in order to use it. Been so long.

@seaboyluca You're not the only one. I remember seeing a video a few years back about a movie YouTuber talking about Universal movies skipping theaters, and he basically shugged off Trolls World Tour as "I heard it was bad, but I never seen it." Then he proceeded to rant about how theaters should be only for MCU stuff, Star Wars, and action blockbuster movies, but the family stuff, like Trolls, should be at home where the family could gather. Basically gatekeeping theaters.

Seeing Frozen II, Inside Out, Zootopia, and even Trolls World Tour (funnily enough since this is the movie that started this) are still some of the best theater experiences I've had. Theaters are for everyone, not just one kind of moviegoer or one kind of movie.

Now I'm just rambling on, back to judging stuff beforehand. Similarly, at an old gaming forum, I can't count how many times people told me I'm playing a bad game, only to not have an answer when confronted about actually playing it. It was tiring dealing with these people. Sometimes I wonder how they would react if MetaCritic or review scores weren't a thing.