Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Eel
I usually try to do it around noon, but lately I have been getting started late. Most of it is my fault for slacking off instead of getting my school done. I will admit, midnight is an oddly peaceful time to get a workout in.

@Kermit1Pineapple
Based off @Snatcher reaction, I’m not sure if I even want to know what a wembler is.

So, I want to ask about appropriate JRPG games that might be suitable for me with these description.

1. MUST be rated E10+ / Teen / CERO B / PEGI 12.
2. No Blood mentioned in ESRB including impaling or any kind of sadistic violences. Mild blood is still allowed.
3. No swearing (Coarse language). I will ban the games instantly once I heard a swearing word even just only one word. Mild language is still allowed.
4. No sexy female characters with big boobs and minimalist outfits. I don't like hentai looking female characters.
5. At least there are three male characters I can take control as primary characters with optional outfits = six pack, like on Tales games / Atelier games. This is the reason I want to ask this question.
6. No Fire Emblem, No Xenoblade, No Zelda, No Star Ocean, No Tales, No Atelier (I heard we cannot even change the displayed active character walking on the screen from Atelier games), No FF XV, definitely No rated M JRPG games. I DON'T CARE.
7. Available on PS4 / PS5 with not too big GB size.

In other words, I want to find rated Teen JRPG with mild contents and still able to have six pack male characters (in swimsuit).

Any suggestion ?
Please don't give me suggestion from popular games. I have no interest with a lot of popular stuffs that doesn't even match with my personality.
Mention to me the underrated / unpopular / never heard before titles.

@Anti-Matter I mean, Pokémon are really the only one that fits, oh and Ni no kuni, if I see anything else I will let you know, oh tem tem is another one. Oh you did say also dudes in swimsuits but, sadly most jrpgs don’t cater that well, I mean some do but you can’t have it without the restrictions you listed.

Then again I’m not a heavy jrpg guy, so maybe There are some, and I just don’t know lol.

@Snatcher
Pokemon and Ni no Kuni games are already on my list but they are not kind of JRPG with six pack dudes swarming around.

Not interested with Online only game from Tem Tem.

@Anti-Matter I doubt it meets the male 6-pack criteria (does anything?), but Cris Tales maybe covers most of the other things you're looking for.

@dmcc0
Eh, not kind of game I'm looking for after I quickly watched Cris Tales gameplay from YouTube.
Too 2D style and no six pack dudes as part of the ally.

@Anti-Matter I kinda doubt you will find a game with six pack dudes that not spicy or violent or even mature in some way.

@TeaCatherine Good morning, and probably good afternoon for you.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko Good morning to you. It's my youngest sister's birthday today (not scooby-doo) and she decided to watch an anime called Black Butler on the TV to celebrate.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko Watched anything good recently?

@TeaCatherine Yeah. Yesterday I satrted "Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out" and I love it. This show is really cute, minus the fanservice. And it has way more story progression than Takagi-san, which I am thankful for. I feel bad for Sakurai sometimes though, Uzaki says some things out of context in public. Like one time, they were at the batting cages, and she hurt her back, and the nest day they're in the courtyard at college, and Uzaki said, quote on quote, "My back still hurts from what we did last night!" just out of context, in front of a ton of people who already fear Sakurai. I highly recommend Uzaki, it's cute, just uncomfortable at times (For me anyways, I don't like that kind of stuff). Uzaki is really cute, and she even gets thrown out a door in one episode.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko You say that like being thrown through a door is the most important thing ever. Also, thanks a lot to my little sister, she almost gave me a heart attack (I stress out a ton when people watch anime on the TV whilst my parents are in the house.)

@TeaCatherine Yeah, I've been having to use to the TV lately, and I get terrified when even the slightest bit of fanservice comes on. She actually doesn't question it (Maybe cause I'm a girl, I don't really know why she doesn't question it.) but I still get worried. And I watch Uzaki back in my brother's room on his PC, cause I am NOT watching that one the TV. I'll take my chances with Komi Can't Communicate, but that's it. I've learned to be less stressed with it, but I'm still careful with what I watch. And being thrown out the door is important, there's really funny smear frames in that scene. But yeah, I get the heartattack thing. Fanservice happens around my brother? Calm. Something that's barely even fanservice happens in front of my mom, who's not even paying attention to the TV? Panic.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko Yup, that's exactly it, but with me it's not just fanservice, it's also violence and the slightest hint of gay characters. Also, the sister who watches the most violent anime in this house is the youngest at 13 (and that's only 'cuz it's her birthday today)

@TeaCatherine My mom lets me watch violent anime, I literally rewatched Demon Slayer in front of her. I also tried rewatching Re:Zero in front of my mom, but Crunchyroll has too many aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaads, and AdBlock isn't on TV. Mine is just fanservice, I don't mind the gay characters. I'm more worried about my mom asking me if I'm gay when fanservice shows up.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko I'm fine with most of those things if I'm watching on my laptop, apart from absurdly large cleavage. Basically, I'm just a bit of a coward when it comes to letting my parents know what I like. So, when I was asking for stuff for Christmas, I didn't let myself ask for anything particularly bad. I'm kind of relying on my brother and sisters for any anime I want.

Well then, earlier today I bought Apollo Justice. I'll be taking a break to play that. Sayonara for now.

@Anti-Matter usually, games with swarms of shirtless six pack dudes fall into the mature content category, so you’ll have to learn to accept other mature content if you want to get titillation out of your games.

Happy 70th birthday, Shigeru Miyamoto! If it weren't for his endeavors over at Nintendo, I probably would have been a little different from what I am today. After all, he's the creator of Mario, Zelda, and many other games, and you all likely know how much Mario means to me - thanks for everything, Miyamoto-san!

@Sunsy Thank you! Yeah, I had to get that ornament set because of how cute it is, with the gingerbread theme! <3 There's even a cupcake as the steam stack, as well. We do have quite a few other Disney/train ornaments, and we have a full-on Mickey Mouse train set that I intend to use for around the tree, too. That's awesome you ordered the Raccoon Mario ornament. Oh that reminds me, I'm thinking of having a new stocking for myself too, one that's custom-made. I thought about it some months ago.

Yeah, Nintendo gave players a free glove for those control stick spinning minigames. Many players would get blisters from those minigames, so that's why they gave the gloves away. Ah yeah, those minigames won't be too kind to the joy-cons... my newest pair, which are the red ones, haven't drifted yet from my experience. Though I only used them for handheld mode, Captain Toad, and Super Mario Galaxy via 3D All-Stars. My original gray joy-cons have drifted, at least when I play docked, so I haven't used them for a long time. Especially since I got pro controllers, which feel so much better in comparison anyway, for the vast majority of Switch games at least. I should get my gray ones fixed at some point.

Oh that sounds great, yeah I did hear that GOG is pretty much DRM-free so I'd like to make an account at some point. That's cool, you've been into PC games for a lot longer than I have! I've played a fair amount of the Half-Life games (specifically 1 and 2), and I did finish the first Portal some years ago. I think I got a healthy amount of progress in Portal 2, though I likely got stuck in one of the later levels. Back in 2002-2004, I was quite big into stuff like Sonic and Crash Bandicoot, especially the former. I had so much Sonic games and other stuff when I was a kid, and I still have most of them now.

That's cool, I didn't play any of the Shin Megami Tensei games, but I did play a bit of Persona 4 Golden. I should play more of that at some point, though I did see that it's a pretty long game. That's the case with a lot of RPGs, which is part of the reason why I didn't finish most of the ones I play, lol. Gotcha, I haven't bought any Switch games yet, and I'm hoping to get the ones I want on Christmas. For now, I wanna buy stuff from the 3DS/Wii U eShops.

I agree for sure, and that sounds like a cool book you have. My college had a whole book on animated movies in the library, and that was a fun read. I remember it had reviews on many different movies, and screenshots as well. There was also a book about the Radio Shack Color Computer, which I've never even heard of until it caught my eye at the library.

@Tyranexx Thank you, and anytime! Yeah, I got them pretty early on, and I'm excited to get Mickey and co on our tree once it's past Thanksgiving. I thought about having a new, custom-made stocking for myself some months ago, too.

I'm pretty much the same way, if I get really stuck, I'll use a guide or a walkthrough of some kind. I should get back to Majora's Mask at some point, and try to find my way around before consulting a guide. I've done that with a lot of Zelda games actually. I do try to figure things out on my own, but in Ocarina of Time for example, I've gotten stuck a number of times so I had to look up the parts I was stuck at. Gotcha, I'm not the biggest completionist either, though I do tend to 100% Mario platformers. (Though, if I were to replay Super Mario Sunshine, I don't think I'd fully complete it again... that one's real difficult to 100%.)

@blindsquarel Wemble is a term coined in the show Fraggle Rock, the character Wembley always has a hard time making decisions and they call it Wembling or Wemble when he can't make up his mind.

Wembley is pretty much me.