Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Sunsy Glad you had a decent Christmas! Sounds like it was low-key, which is honestly how I'd like to spend mine. I usually have a lot of family stuff the day of though and am not home at all that day. Christmas Eve has become a little more chill in recent years though. It used to be almost as bad.

Another not very prone to dysentery in an old historical sim game lol. Glad you're having fun with that Trolls game, same with Sonic Superstars.

@MarioLover92 Glad you're having a great time with Super Mario RPG! As for your next drawing....Maybe something with a New Year's or winter theme?

Something going wrong when programming is an inevitability. We just get better at avoiding those problems lol. If someone says they've never made a mistake, either they're lying or have followed a risk-free recreation guide in steps. Whether or not you grew up with easy access to a certain technology does factor in. I'm pretty adept at PCs and smartphones, less so with tablets....They're basically larger phones or less adept PCs. I'd rather have one or the other instead of some awkward in-between. A phone satisfies all my tablet needs. More intense stuff out of email checking and web surfing requires a halfway decent machine anyway.

Disney properties can be very impactful. I recommend watching The Rescuers Down Under when you get the chance, in fact that's the first of the two I watched. I recommend the live 101 Dalmatians movie too. I might factor in Mary Poppins at some point, though I admit the visuals weirded me out a bit as a kid lol. By then I was used to stuff being worked all live action or cartoony, nothing really in-between.

I sorta hope Super Mario RPG is a way Nintendo is using to vet interest in more traditional RPGs for Mario again...though I'll admit this is wishful thinking. I hope AlphaDream's former employees found good job positions at least. Their closure is still sad, though not very unexpected. The worst part with that soft lock was I couldn't discover what was up for a little while since I was on a plane without wifi at the time (unless I paid). Thankfully I resolved the issue on my own but reloading from the last save point.

I agree Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will be hard to top, both from my own impressions and other feedback online. I would like a bona fide adventure or story mode in the next game, something that motivates me to keep going. I think that's why Dragon Quest Builders 2 has clicked much more for me than Minecraft ever did since it has a story to push the player along. I'd settle for a mission mode as long as they're interesting.

Holy cow! I learned to ride my niece's hoverboard yesterday.😆 Its a Christmas miracle!😆 -Hilarious

@MarioLover92 yeah, Christmas was great. The presents were spot on and we watched some movies, along with MArio Movie (by my initiative) and I had a fantastic time!

@Moffo I think the Pigeotto just works for the social protection services and they relegated the custody over your Magikarp, it's happy in another place and grateful that you took care of it until now.

Guys isn't PS5 a scam? I just realized, they have like 3 exclusives worth playing? Ratchet, Wipeout Omega Collection and 1 more game that I can't remember now so Im making a free slot. Also, expensive gamepass with no games to play. It's really weird.

I just realized that it's just a Genshin console

@Princess_Lilly Sakurai (yes, the Smash Bros. guy) once talked about games being expensive.

@NeonPizza I've yet to play DKC Returns myself (got it in the backlog ready to go for next year) but I doubt that the mandatory waggle will be much of an issue for me personally as I quite literally grew up on games that forced me to play in unconventional ways between the Wii and DS/3DS. If anything, I find an average, modern-day controller like those for the Switch/PS4/Xbox One to be a bit more awkward to use due to the pure childhood muscle memory I developed in my early years XD

I can definitely see why it'd be a deal-breaker though and wholly understand why you weren't able to click with DKCR as a result 👍

@IceDomino yeah, they are getting more and more expensive, more money for less value. That's a big issue in itself. I got the best gamepass for PS5 before it became ludicrously expensive and I decided I need to play some more games for it. There were many games I wanted to try and I endedn up leaving them because they were not up to my standard. The PS+ is... empty, honestly. Just came back from 1h trial session of I am Setsuna and I think I dozed off somewhere along the way because the story was apparently written by a chat gpt. Echochrome is the only bad game of Japan Studio (it's annoying that it doesn't work well). Omega Quintet is as bad as a western AAA.

You could write character bios along with backstory’s with the characters you draw!

@Princess_Lilly Wait, I am Setsuna was written by AI? They're doing that already?
Also, yeah, haven't bothered even trying to get a PS5 because pretty much its whole library is also on PS4 and I'm not really that interested in most Sony games. Kinda interested in getting a Steam Deck when I have more disposable income though.

Someone asked me why Zelda still isn’t a queen yet.

I simply said “I dunno”.

Celebrating the end of 2023 the best way we know how, riding the world’s fastest rollercoaster!

Three days ago we rode the world’s longest zip line too… charging into the New Year!!

@TeaCatherine no, sorry, that was an overexaggeration. It's just that Setsuna is very mediocre when it comes to writing and gameplay, and its tropes are just a copy of FFX (and apparently DQ4. Don't know about that but I had a feeling it's a FFX ripoff before I read that it copies both games so Im gonna assume it's true).

Steam Deck sounds great, there are lots of very nice games on steam. What would you want to play on it?

@Princess_Lilly Eh, not sure. Yakuza probably, Half-Life, some indies probably. If I had time I could come up with a massive list. Ah, right I thought I would have heard more about it if they had used an AI, but it does sound like a Square Enix thing to do to be honest.

12 hours left here!

Is it me, or do people always ask for a sequel to a movie they like, but then years pass and when one IS announced, those same people are like "No, we don't want a sequel, it was fine on its own"?

@TeaCatherine ah, what a good list. Short, sure, but I have to approve any attempt at tackling Half Life games for the first time. It's a completely unique experience. I would avoid any spoilers until you have the chance to get it. Yakuza is a really good game as well. I'd recommend both, but for Half Life, wouldn't normal computer actually be better, with mouse support?

I can recommend some PC classics for you if you want to. Civilization 2 and Myst would be a good beginning, Tropico 2 is also a pretty nice game. The Sims 1 and 2, Industry Giant 2 and Morrowind are other nobrainers

yeah, Square Enix fell harder than a cartoon piano.

that's not a bad idea, but I need to get back to drawing, the pressure is kinda offputting. Every time I draw something I limit myself to the basics and then I am dissatisfied that I didn't even try to draw anything more complicated, and I couldn't think of how to execute it. I think I need more practice, but I can't practice at peace knowing I'm not good at drawing. Vicious circle, I know. But in 2024, everything will change, because of course it will!

no doubt about it. This time for sure.

I would like to share the first meme of the year with you all. Happy New Year, may all of wishes come true.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!

It's not quite midnight where I'm at just yet, but it is very close as of this post. So, Happy New Year to everyone at Nintendo Life from yours truly! Let's-a make 2024 a good year!

Yeah perhaps, I think I'm leaning toward a winter themed drawing. Perhaps I could draw Rosalina next! Been wanting to draw her for a good while, and there is a Mario Kart course called Rosalina's Ice World. Been taking a break from drawing after I made the Merry Mountain one.

Indeed, it gets better the more we progress in our programming project, too, I think. I experimented by making a choice-based text adventure game with C++, though if I recall correctly, my code wasn't the most efficient out there, lol. Though I did use functions in my code. I'm decent with using smartphones as well. Yeah, I personally don't need a tablet either, my phone does the job just fine.

All righty, I'll be sure to watch those... I still remember that you like Mulan as well, I still have yet to rewatch that! Oh gotcha, that is certainly understandable, I think Mary Poppins was one of the first movies to combine live-action with animation. Similarly, when I was a kid, I used to think that Who Framed Roger Rabbit looked a bit weird with how it does the same thing, except for the entire film.

Ah yeah for sure, I'd imagine that Super Mario RPG sold pretty well on the Switch, given how people were passionate for the game, and I'm sure it rose in popularity when it got rereleased on the Wii Virtual Console. Heck, the VC was when I played the game for the first time! I wouldn't be surprised if Paper Mario: TTYD sells well on the Switch, either... given its cult status. I do hope everyone at AlphaDream found good jobs as well.

Absolutely, I think it'd be more interesting than just doing the Grand Prix cups one by one. Been wanting an adventure mode for Mario Kart for quite some time now... I'd be fine with the regular Grand Prix mode, but an adventure mode is what I'd really like for the next game. I wonder how Nintendo would pull it off.

@Princess_Lilly That's awesome to hear, glad you had a great Christmas. I'm happy with everything I got, too!

Happy New Year all!!