Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Speaking of, I started playing Star Wars Dark Forces again last night, just was in the mood for it. Indeed.

Interesting, years ago, the only Dollar General was way out of town, and I was only able to go to one as mom had an appointment in that town, all I remember getting was a My Little Pony coloring book, was interesting as I never saw that particular book elsewhere. Now I think there's one like 15-20 minutes away on the main road where I live.

Kinda, it's the button remap feature on the Switch settings. This is the video I saw on remapping GoldenEye's controls...

Indeed, Yoshi's Story was such a fun game.

I remember having a hard time with Minus World. Silly kid self did not know Super Mario All-Stars had it fixed, so I wasted time trying to do it. Back when the Internet wasn't widely available and magazines were all I had to go by. First time I pulled it off was on NSO's NES app.

Yeah, they wanted in on the April Fools fun back then, the site clearly dated it 1999, back when the site had small articles and review-like features (anyone else miss when official console game sites had more than just basic info to look at?).

No problem.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Is your switch’s fan overheating? If it is, there are only two things I could recommend:

1. Clean the fan. It may be obstructed, hence why it’s making noises like that. I believe this could be done with a Qtip, but I’m not entirely sure.

2. Or just stop playing for a while. It’s not ideal, but maybe your Switch just needs a break to cool down.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I can only imagine what would happen to my V1 Switch I used to share with my brother if I tried playing XC3 on it. I honestly think it would explode.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Oh by the way, approximately what level should you be near the start of chapter 6?

@SlashFuture Oh wow, it actually was. I found an article, but I can’t really link it here.

I wonder if any information that was stored on that balloon was sent to a cloud or something. They shot it down over the Atlantic, so its voyage was done anyway.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Don’t forget Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White
And Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Knight
And Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie
And Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie
Robocop, The Terminator, Captain Kirk, and Darth Vader
Lo-pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger
Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan
Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika With the Spanish Inquisition, it would truly be the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.

@Kermit1 AAAAAAAAAHHH-

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I was kind of in a battle. Just checked and oops, "rec lv48" somehow I got to 80.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Let’s be honest, once Waluigi gets involved, it’s all over.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShik Soulhacker murder spree and quests, plus I kept fighting things higher leveled than me and winning.

@SlashFuture @EaglyTheKawaiiShika @ChaoticKirby No one suspected the luftballoons, yes now there are two...

I couldn't resist the meme... Gotta go lol

@MarioLover92 Figured I'd briefly mention that I finally booted up my backlogged copy of Super Mario 3D All-Stars and have started playing through Super Mario 64 again. Won't be 100%ing it or anything, but it's nice to revisit it despite me not thinking it has aged the best in some areas. I only first played it on the Wii U VC a few years ago.

@SlashFuture I used to play harder modes in games and still do on rare occasion. It's mainly a time thing anymore. The tradeoff of being an adult is that while I can now afford games, I don't have nearly the amount of time to play them that I'd like thanks to work, occasional volunteer obligations, house/property upkeep, paying bills, adulting in general....

@WaffleBoat In that case, I likely will pick up Hollow Knight on sale at some point and at least try it out. If it were the only game I had to play, I'd certainly spend time grinding and trying to "get gud". However, impressions I've heard/read seem to indicate that it'll at least tread my line between "challenging, but worth it" and "Good grief this game with cheap enemy/hazard placement wants me to pull my hair out and send my controller flying". Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope definitely touched that line. Most of the stages were fine and felt fair, but I nearly dropped the game during Tinker Knight's stage. The game is nice enough to allow you to pick up your lost loot if you die, which is all well and good unless the last death happened to be over an impossible to navigate pit....

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I should clarify that Darm Tower is the same each time when scaling it in Ys Origin, but the gameplay and ways to tackle it vary per character. Not to mention some plot beats and bosses change a bit, especially with the third/canon route. I did the first two routes back to back, took a short break from the game, then went back and tackled route 3.

For my next long JRPG, I'm leaning towards Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past on 3DS. I've been itching to play another DQ game. While I also have XI S on Switch backlogged - which is supposedly better - I'd kinda like to clear out more of my hibernating 3DS JRPGs. 3DS was my de facto RPG machine until I finally picked up a Switch. Now they regularly trade places for that title. XD

@Sunsy I've seen memes about Dollar General that basically suggest that it's the new McDonald's or Subway in the retail space; they're just about everywhere lol. I've occasionally found interesting nuggets in them, heck I even bought a replacement "dumb" phone (old Motorola) from them that served me well over two years before I got my first proper job and, eventually, a smart phone in my early 20s.

@SlashFuture Granted, I don't dumb down settings to where I can faceroll through things lol. It's more of "Hey, is this a reasonable difficulty? Am I extending my playthrough by opting for a harder option?" Questions like that.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Sorry, what do you mean by a paladin type defender?
Edit: Yeah, it's a shame about the tension.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Probably to some extent, I was thinking about doing something like that. Why on earth did they make it so that you can't level down at rest spots?

I played Pokemon Violet for 2 hours and I saw ridiculous awful 3D rendering from far distance, it was like early PS3 games. All the people movement looked 5 fps from far distance but became 30 fps when get very close to you. Even with the patches last time, the graphic level on Pokemon Scarlet / Violet was still disgusting, I thought Pokemon Sword / Shield have waaaaay.... better 3D rendering.
Don't you think so ?

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I had heard that, I'm just confused why they didn't just stick with how it was in DE.