Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Aww thanks Sun! I was disappointed to find none of the NLife team was a Past supporter like I am though...!

Oh, gosh...
I found from Wikipedia if on 17 September 2024, it will be 40th anniversary of Transformers. 😯
I didn't realize if Transformers franchise is already as old as my age.
Transformers One that have been aired in Indonesia since last Wednesday was a special celebration of Transformers G1.

@Pastellioli Oh cool, I didn't know that there was a Pokemon Rumble game on mobile. Now that I think about it, wasn't there a Rumble game for Wii U that used figures? It was kind of like a very early version of what would become amiibos.

Arighty, I haven't seen too many of them. Most of the Disney movies I watched as a kid has been the main Disney movies, like Pinocchio, 101 Dalmations, Beauty and the Beast... now that I think about it, I might have seen the Beauty and the Beast Christmas movie once. I like Christmas movies, so maybe that's why I watched it.

Yeah it's like the standard for what was seen as too much changed over time. Playing a classic Mortal Kombat game and one of the modern ones (I have XL on PC, and 11 on Switch), it's like a day and night difference.

Wow, just saw the video you shared. Shame it got cut, seemed like a fun easter egg for the game. I could see it being cut in the Xbox one, only because Microsoft doesn't own Pokemon. It's cool to see what could have been. I love looking at cut gaming content.

@CaleBoi25 You're welcome.

@Sunsy Yes, I think there was a Rumble game they released on the WiiU, but I don’t know if any figures were used in it since I never played it. I did like the mobile app even though it was very short-lived. I have played a lot of Nintendo-related mobile games and did like them, but a lot of them were shut down. I loved Miitomo a lot especially, but they ended that one off fairly quickly, and them ending services for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp was a bit of a shocker for me even though I deleted the game off my phone years ago, but it is nice they are leaving servers up offline for people. That’s an approach I do like seeing when games close so that they aren’t gone forever. The only time I saw an online game do that was Club Penguin Island, though that’s a game a lot of people actually never liked in the first place. The only Nintendo mobile app I have is Fire Emblem Heroes and that one I made a lot of progress on, hence why I have not deleted it off my phone but I haven’t touched it in a while. I’ll probably go back to it at one point. It’s an okay to decent game, but dang I love the artwork and character designs a lot.

Yeah, although the game was pretty much not cut significantly, the Pokémon reference and at least two other jokes were cut per request. One of the other jokes actually does have the original scene in-tact via beta footage, but it’s very unnerving and gory from what I saw in a video, and learning about what it was referencing in the context of the level it was used in (which was in a War-themed level) I can pretty much understand why they were told to cut that. The Pokémon reference was interesting, but I guess that Nintendo didn’t want a kid-friendly character being reference in a game that wasn’t so kid-friendly and just told them to remove it. Unsurprising Nintendo didn’t want any characters associated with their brand to appear in there.

I also love looking at cut game content too and cancelled games. I love watching videos on random cancelled games, and I especially love Unseen64 for that specifically, though the site sometimes does have errors and some articles haven’t been updated in years with new info since the site is run by a small group of people. But, I still find it to be one of my favorite sites to see cancelled gaming content alongside random YouTube videos. Again, one of the issues is that it doesn’t have some extra info on cancelled games thanks to some articles not being updated in years, but I had learned about the existence of a ton of Rare games I hadn’t known existed and were being made at one point. Some cancelled games are documented on less than others, and some more than others, so Unseen64 is probably my go-to site for finding out more about cancelled niche games.

Good morning.
Today is 40th anniversary of Transformers G1. 😊
The first episode of Transformers G1 was aired on 17 September 1984.
That was around one month before I was born in October 1984.
I have ever watched Transformers G1 when I was kindergarten student but I didn't remember anything until I can watch again the G1 series on YouTube.

Oh, wild. Gavin Lane wrote an article for IGN. This isn't a complaint. Just a surprise. Good for him. Also, I don't think it means he's leaving NL.(see edit below) https://www.ign.com/articles/ps5-pros-pricing-backlash-warnin...

EDIT: the article opening says "This is the first in a guest column series from Nintendo Life, the world’s most-visited independent Nintendo website". So, that confirms he's not leaving NL<3

@Pastellioli Makes sense that they took down the online servers for Conker ages ago. Sadly that's par for the course for a lot of online stuff since servers take manpower and maintenance...plus there's the whole "Does anyone even play this game?" argument. Probably so, but the number is so small they likely don't see the point. Sounds like the bots were poorly optimized too.

I am glad you were able to play with your friend online, even if it wasn't the game you initially wanted to play. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge must be a pretty fun game! I'm not huge into beat-em-ups but have played one of the TMNT arcade versions before and enjoyed it (on someone's MAME cabinet). Sounds like it's more fun with others than alone. I like TMNT, wouldn't call myself a big fan or anything, but I've seen some of the shows (Mostly the original and the same Nickelodeon show you mentioned).

@jedgamesguy Exactly; there's very little incentive to invest in Sony when pretty much any game I'm interested in ends up on PC. I can patiently wait out timed exclusivity lol.

Steam, GOG, etc. can run some great sales. Out of that list, I'll definitely jump on the Spider-Man games and maybe Ghosts of Tsushima when I do have a better PC...and a smaller backlog.

@Sunsy Actually, a drive-in theater during Covid makes sense. There would be very little outside human interaction, and everyone's germs would mostly be stuck in their own vehicles lol. That makes me wonder how a drive-in theater about half an hour away did....

On Inside Out 2, The part with Disgust riding the broccoli was hilarious! I've wondered what the emotions inside of each emotion's head would look like too...But then it would expand into an infinite amount of mental multiverses then lol.

@Tyranexx The remake did do better than the original commercially and I think the multiplayer did get on an official top 10 list for most played Xbox Live games back in 2007, but the game still did poorly sales-wise, and Conker is not a game series I would consider popular or well-known. Its only really well-known by a few people, mostly people who played it back in the day or people that are super into Rare’s catalog like me, and the series only had three games and quickly went away!

I really agree that the bots were bad. Sorry if I go on a rant, I just realized after typing this in that it’s super long. In the multiplayer you can either play in a squirrel militia or teddy bear militia, and there is this short campaign that I spent so much time trying to complete on the squirrel team and we kept losing the first part of the campaign. In that one, the squirrels are tasked with getting into the teddy bears’ base by damaging and breaking through about three sets of barricades set up in the base, and then after making their way into the base, the squirrels have to be repeatedly shooting at the legs of the teddy bears’ leader in order to win.

However, this has to be done in 10 minutes, and that short time frame paired with the fact that the teddy bears already have access to a wide range of turrets and can snipe from afar, alongside my teammates all being controlled by bots really didn’t help and made the whole thing frustrating. I got to the end at least once as the squirrels and we couldn’t win from how much time was spent trying to break open the barricades, but for some really weird reason when I swapped to the teddy bears we won and it was seemingly effortless. It just really annoys me that the teddy bears seemed to have an advantage over the squirrels. In fact, I completed the full campaign as the teddy bears because the squirrels lost in every single part of the campaign. The next task following the barricade one was a capture the flag game, which wasn’t hard, but super annoying, but the last part of the campaign was super SUPER annoying out of the three; there are about four power switches that your team needs to take control of in order to win, but two of the switches are put into the enemy base, which results in a lot of annoying back and forth and frequently riding cable carts to both bases to deal with anyone taking control of the switches. Your team could immediately get control of all four switches and then a few seconds later some bot regains control to one and a lot of progress is undone.

It’s safe to say that I really didn’t enjoy the multiplayer a lot even though that’s the entire selling point of the remake. The bots are bad, the objectives in the games aren’t fun and come off as really annoying, and there’s kind of an imbalance between the squirrels and teddy bears from what I saw when playing, and I can tell clearly the multiplayer was always intended to be played with other people and not alone with bots. I think them going the grittier route for the multiplayer strips a lot of Conker’s charm and goofiness away. Some people who played the multiplayer back when servers were still up mentioned there being a lot of glitches some players exploited to win, so yeah, that tells me the online shooter the remake had wasn’t balanced well and wasn’t super amazing.

Shredder’s Revenge was such a blast, but I’d highly recommend playing with more than one person for it, cuz the game is pretty hard and more time-consuming when you play alone. I have played a lot of beat em’ ups in the past (notable ones for me being Pokemon Rumble World, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game and Battletoads) so I really liked Shredder’s Revenge. I had played it a year ago with my siblings, but we never finished it, so it felt great coming back to it and finishing it once and for all. Super fantastic and I kind of can’t stop thinking about it.

Super bored! How’s everyone doing today?

I just changed my avatar to a Splatoon character, but I’ll probably revert to my original GIF avatar later. One of the best video games of all time in my opinion, but I had a hard time picking a nice picture for an avatar. The image is super small so I couldn’t fix a bit of the cropping. I finished a drawing yesterday, pretty excited to share it soon.

Finishing up some work for the night. Felt a bit hungry so I ate a microwaveable dinner consisting of a big piece of fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and it was alright.

The fried chicken was disappointing. It tasted and felt way more like a big chicken nugget and wasn’t crunchy, and the skin at the bottom was too soggy, likely from the gravy I’m assuming. It wasn’t like the type that is a drumstick breaded and fried and is super crunchy when you bite into it. But it’s a microwaveable dinner, it’s supposed to be cheap and fast and isn’t like a super fancy and avant-garde dinner you eat at a restaurant. However, the potatoes were really good, creamy, and high quality, that was the good part of the meal.

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Updated my iPad to os18. Big mistake, it’s so glitchy.

Sigh.

@Eel When will you ever learn, Eel!! -jk😉

I hate it when new updates suck. I'm worried when we're old, we won't have mental capacity to keep up with UI changes that come with updates.

@Eel I do have an iPhone and luckily none of the updates have been super glitchy or bad. It sucks what happened with your iPad. Given how I act with malfunctioning technology, I’d get really REALLY angry if my iPhone became super glitchy after an update.

I had a borrowed Chromebook that would malfunction but I don’t know why. For some reason, the computer would slow down for a few seconds and then it disconnected from the internet, and there would be no way to connect back to it normally and it’d require me to shut the computer off just to reconnect, but the same thing would happen anyway. Luckily had it replaced, but malfunctioning and glitchy technology is such a pain. If my phone started to do something like that, my day would be instantly ruined.

Thankfully the glitches so far are only related to the customization options for the Home Screen, so it’s pretty avoidable… but hopefully they’ll fix those soon…

yeah iOS 18 feels a little more rough compared to the previous builds. I'm no techie but it just feels more experimental and early than other versions.

@jedgamesguy absolutely needed some extra time in the oven, it’s a bit shocking to be honest.

Something as simple as attempting to drag multiple apps to a different Home Screen page (not even a new feature!) causes the apps to completely disappear, and my iPad even completely froze while attempting to resize a widget.

@Eel welcome to the “iOS updates are bad” club

@Pastellioli I forgot to write it in the comment above but cute pfp you got there

@Yousef- Thank you I have a lot of fun changing my avatar a bunch.