Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@NintendoByNature Oh no, what happened to it?

Does anyone feel regret after buying stuff even though you like what you bought?

I regret my purchase of Megaman Network Transmission Gamecube.
It was really damn hard game like I got Game Over all the time from the 1st boss.
I was thinking that game was unplayable.

@Snatcher the Limited Run Games Screwjob happened!

@Anti-Matter did you ever beat it? Everything I've heard about that game is mixed.

@Kermit1
Not even the first boss.
I have tried so many times but I always got Game Over even from the first boss battle.
How could I finish the game if I couldn't even beat the first boss?

@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.