Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@SlamDunk22 Ooh, I want the Agent 1 & 2 amiibo! Those are on the list after Big Man and Young Link (why is he so expensive?! 😭😭😭)

@caleboi25 Which of your amiibo is your favorite? My favorite of mine is probably the Marie one.

Have a good day everyone.

@SlamDunk22 I think Lucas is my fave. He has such a good pose! I do like Isabelle's fit though! @reporterdavid Thanks, I will. You do the same!!

@Pastellioli Okay, so, first, Perfect Dark is getting a reboot? Since when?
Also, as someone who's played FEH since close to launch, I have to say, yeah, the gacha mechanics are insufferable. They did bring in QoL improvements, such as automatically getting a 5 star after 40 pulls, but it's ultimately unfair. This isn't specifically because of the pull rate, but also because of power creep. Emblem Ike was just earlier this year, and he is so incredibly far outclassed by multiple units since then.
I do like a lot of the FE characters, including FEH exclusive ones though. So it's nice to see them.

@Tyranexx Never heard of Chaos Wars, what's that? Indeed. I actually look forward to unlocking the garlic just to take advantage of it.

@Mariotag If you wish to mess with Rise of Lyric's glitches, just don't download the update (usually indicated by the 1.1.0 on the game launch screen). I like the game, I like exploring through the world the game had most. Never had an Xbox 360 or PS3, so Sonic 06 is one Sonic game I haven't played. Same could be said about Unleashed since I had the Wii version.

Just remember, the Sonic Boom games are different than the usual Sonic games. Rise of Lyric is more of a platformer with combat in it, rather than a "run through the level as quickly as I can" kind of deal.

@Pastellioli Understandable, I too like platformers like that. I was actually playing Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric yesterday come to think of it (glad Nintendo Life didn't leave me alone remembering this game 10 years later). Fired up the old Wii U. Those kind of 3D platformers aren't too common anymore. The only one coming to mind is Yooka Laylee, but I haven't played it. I've heard of Blinx, but never played it, even though my brother had an Xbox. Astro Bot looks good, I keep seeing good things said about it. I don't have a PC. Now thinking about it, a great platformer, at least IMO, is New Super Lucky's Tale. I have it on Switch, and had a lot of fun playing it.

Wow, I didn't know Rare wasn't developing the new Perfect Dark. That surprises me given it was always their series.

Thank you. YouTube's "free with ads" movies always surprises me. Last night I notice they had the Jimmy Neutron movie, given how well known that movie was, I would have thought it was only going to be on paid services or even a digital rental (no worries here, I have the DVD of it). Don Bluth's movies were good from what I remember, I really liked All Dogs Go To Heaven. I also remember Rock-A-Doodle, but it's been so long since I've seen that one. Last time I saw it, I was a kid. I've heard of Barnyard, but it's a movie I never seen, glad you like it though. I agree, I'll put YouTube on in the evenings. Sometimes to watch gaming related videos, but also, I like having on livestreams on while I'm doing other things in my room like playing a PC game.

I agree, I think if Twitter had rules in place, it would be better because people wouldn't be able to behave badly without being punished for it. Remember, years ago, if someone got banned from Twitter, it usually was for good reason. Instagram is much much better. It's not constant threads of people arguing and fighting, and the algorithm feels more fine tuned to your interests rather than stuff you wouldn't want to see.

@Mariotag They announced a reboot back in 2020 at the Game Awards but they didn’t show any other trailers or gameplay until a few months ago during an Xbox showcase. All the game really got for a few years were reports on the game having a poor development cycle, but I think that it was now reported that development on the game is going smoothly now.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YnnsUnEITWA&pp=ygUTcGVyZmVj...

I am excited for it despite how much it looks very different from the original games. Rare isn’t developing it, and it’s instead being worked on by The Initiative (a new first-party “AAAA” Xbox studio) and Crystal Dynamics (the developers of the Tomb Raider and Legacy of Kain games).

I do think Heroes is a fine game, but if the mechanics with the gacha were not kind of poor I would maybe like it more. I didn’t know that they did change some parts of the gacha after launch, cuz I’ve only been playing it since 2022. I do like it when they do that “Choose Your Legends” or “Choose Your Heroes” thing every year and let you pick a 5-star character you want for free. I really like the characters in the game though, paired with the character designs and artwork for them. I have maybe around more than 300 unique heroes, there’s about 1100 of them in the game now though.

@Sunsy I never played the Boom games in full, I remember playing the demo for the Wii U game, but not getting far in it. All I could recall was the game being poor and buggy upon release, but I am glad to hear that there are people who look for the good qualities in it, especially how NL wrote an article going over the good, the bad, and the ugly for the Boom games. I think the show they had for it was amazing, the comedy was so top notch and wild! I have heard of Yooka-Laylee and I am considering playing the remake they are making for it. I heard that game was okay, but it was apparently super outdated with its gameplay and level design, so if the remake does fix issues with that, I’ll probably get it, cuz it sounded like the game is aiming to fix problems the original had. I have heard of Super Lucky’s Tale, it’s on Xbox Game Pass but I’ve canceled my sub multiple times. I should have tried it out when I got the chance.

Yeah, Rare hasn’t been developing any games using their old IP from the NES or N64 days, and some Rare employees have acknowledged that the studio has moved on to making new games. However, Microsoft has been making efforts to revive some of their old IPs and getting different game studios to make the games. However, I think there were reboots of Battletoads and Killer Instinct a few years ago that Rare didn’t develop, but they had some small involvement in them.

YouTube’s free movie selection is pretty good, it has some iconic films paired with some hidden gems and more unknown stuff. I’ve been using it a lot lately and I really liked what I watched on there. I watched a few anime movies on there too. I did kind of like Barnyard a bit, it’s really well-known online though more in memes; I’ve seen the film used a lot in a ton of jokes and memes, and even though the film isn’t that amazing, I kind of like the silly and dumb vibes it gives off, and I actually watched it twice last week when I was bored lol. It was the best way to end off the night. I also watched Rock-a-Doodle again lately, but it was okay from what I saw, I liked it way more as a kid unsurprisingly. The best out of all the animated movies I saw lately was Secret of NIMH and All Dogs Go to Heaven. Beautiful themes and stories in those, absolutely love Don Bluth’s films.

Yeah, I just like Instagram more and I’ll stick to it forever. I do think Instagram’s rules are way better, and there is less chaos and madness going on there compared to Twitter. With Instagram’s focus on images rather than interacting, messaging and forums, it does cause less people to argue and insult each other. I also like Instagram way more because of the art, since the site is photo-centric.

@Pastellioli Huh. I only played Perfect Dark on N64. And I was late to it at that.
I hope it comes to platforms other than Xbox.
I still have my CYL Tiki as part of my Aether Raids team. Yes, she's outdated, but Tiki is among my fave characters in the franchise, plus she's iconic.
The gacha is stupid. At this point, the only gacha game I've played where the game wasn't shallow, or the gacha mechanic wasn't too powercrept was Dragalia. Which is now gone.
@Sunsy I'm okay with the update, and heck, not having to speedrun each stage makes it better for me imo. Classic Sonic games were platformers themselves. In the cases of the 3d games, there was exploration too. Sonic Unleashed is one I got the Xbox version of. I hear Wii version has far more Werehog stages, and a dumbed down final boss.
Sonic 06 was kinda weird. The kiss scene is easily the most hated thing. I found getting good ranks much easier than in other games. The silver medals were a pain, the overworld lifeless. If they could just fix these issues, it'd be great.

I had salmon for the first time a few days ago.

Now, I’m not the kind of person that will just eat a cold pink blob of mushy (raw?) fish…. I’m Mexican, if I’m eating fish, it’s gotta be covered in batter and deep-fried or drowned in garlic and butter.

But I paid for a very expensive dish that I wasn’t informed would include a lot of it. So I was a brave trouper and ate it as if I knew about good food.

@CaleBoi25 thank you, bless you all!!!

Mexico sounds like a hotter version of Scotland. We deep-fry almost anything including Mars Bars (also known as a Milky Way in the US/Can I believe) and pizzas.

@dmcc0 batter and oil constitute like 30% to 40% of our cuisine 😎👍

@Mariotag I was also late to playing the Perfect Dark games, I only started playing the first game and its Xbox prequel back in June of this year. The trailer they showed for the reboot interested me and I decided to try the original games for fun.

The game is still planned as an Xbox exclusive, but I think that Microsoft said they were going to take a multiplatform approach for a few of their exclusives, which they did for Sea of Thieves, Hi-Fi Rush, Grounded, and Pentiment earlier this year, but they haven’t said anything on their other exclusives releasing on other platforms. There have been multiple “rumors” that have been saying that Microsoft has been considering ports for a few of their exclusives, and I recall the Perfect Dark reboot being included in those rumors, but since they are rumors, I take them with a grain of salt.

My favorite characters in Heroes tend to be characters from Three Houses. I especially love using Dimitri since he’s the strongest out of all the heroes I have, and Yuri is very helpful with attacking and then quickly getting away from trouble. I really don’t use the gacha in the game at all. There is another game I play that’s a rhythm game, and that one has gacha elements, but I also don’t even really try to use that at all.

I have heard of Dragalia Lost and got ads for it when I played other games on my phone, but I never played it or downloaded it. It did look interesting, plus I loved the art style the game had, I can actually recognize the guy who did the character designs. Was it a fun game? I never really saw the gameplay.

EDIT: Okay, about the Xbox port thing, Phil Spencer (CEO of Microsoft’s gaming division) recently said there were apparently no red lines for Microsoft’s games or game series’ getting possible PS5 ports. He didn’t confirm or announce any Microsoft games or series coming to other consoles in that statement, I should add, but I thought that I’d include this since I just found out.

@Eel I love salmon a lot, any type of seafood really. I really just eat hot salmon with some salt, pepper, butter, and maybe some lemon or lime on top, tastes like lemon pepper chicken a bit. It tastes really good like that but I haven’t tried deep fried or battered salmon.

To be fair I haven’t either

It isn’t a common ingredient in my area.

@Pastellioli Tbh, I got confused by the grainy graphics in OG Perfect Dark a lot. It made the game much harder.
As for FEH, yeah, 3 Houses was around when the game went bad. Sure, they introduced QoL stuff, but then locked some of it behind a paywall. Characters like Edelgard, and the recent Felix are so overpowered. Felix only being current, while Edelgard has been a constant ever since her fell unit pretty much introduced powercreep.

Dragalia Lost was impressive, in the relatively little of it I played. I did barely get to chapter 2 of the story though. There were a few event units I'd wanted to try out but never did (Tiki), and the gameplay actually had substance. By the end though, they increased the device specs required to play, or even update, and my 2017 tablet was no longer able to run it. A switch port would be lovely tbh.

Just did a 4th animation project.. yeah! its amazingly funny but its also quite learnable.

@Mariotag I was slightly confused when I did play the first Perfect Dark on the Xbox despite the clearer graphics. It was the controls that confused me a bit (if I recall the controls on the Xbox were originally mapped to fit the original N64 control scheme) but I fixed it and got the hang of it later on. I liked the prequel a lot despite the slightly mediocre reception it got compared to the OG and how people think it doesn’t feel or look like Perfect Dark. I found the controls and shooting there was better executed and smoother.

The paywall stuff I experienced a few times when playing the game was annoying, especially with how I had to buy the subscription service just to choose a character I wanted once. I grinded for orbs a ton by playing chapters of the story mode and drew from the gacha multiple times until reaching about 40 or 50 pulls and the game allowed me to choose a character I wanted (that being a Three Houses duo unit) but they said that I needed to get the FEH sub in order to choose the character, and I can’t tell you how annoyed I got when the game pulled that on me. I wasted so many orbs that day, and I pretty much don’t bother with the gacha anymore and play with the units I already have. It’s strange, cuz before that, I also did the same thing for another gacha banner and they let me choose a character I wanted for free after hitting 40-50 pulls without the paywall stuff.

Sounds interesting, I do recall hearing that Dragalia had crossover events that included characters from other games, I think I recall seeing Mega Man and Joker from Persona in there alongside some of the Fire Emblem characters. I do want to see some of the gameplay in videos, I am reading a bit about it and it sounded fun. I can imagine how much bigger the game got and how it had to be updated multiple times. I’m now regretting not trying it! I like giving some different mobile games a go.

There are some other games I play that increase the space and specs needed over time. The rhythm game I play always needs to be updated multiple times and the updates take longer to install, since it has a lot of data and content in it (like the voice lines, the 3D models used in gameplay, the episodes for the stories, and the music). The game still runs on my device, buts it’s gotten so much bigger compared to how much smaller it was when I downloaded it a few years ago. FEH also needs to be updated every single time I go back to playing it after a really long break, though the updates go swiftly and are small ones. I also played another game called Genshin Impact at one point, but deleted it because the specs were way too big and ate up my phone space.

@Mariotag I can do that if I ever do get to NNK on the DS. I'm guessing it doesn't function as intended on other platforms? I am sorry to read that you deal with several issues that keep your finances limited, but it seems you are getting along alright. Personally, I'm not a fan of driving and wish there were more viable options for public transportation where I live that aren't very limited or expensive. But I do admit driving comes with its own freedoms too.

I've heard those complaints regarding the map in Ender Lilies, which is one of the reasons why I don't have the game yet since I'm on the fence about that aspect. I like Metroidvanias but have limited gaming time - especially lately - so I have to pick and choose. I do like Echoes of Wisdom, in fact I'd probably have finished the game by now if RL didn't keep interfering. I've owned the game since launch. I have been playing the game, but only in short bursts.

@Pastellioli Plush crane games still exist, but they are harder to find these days. Smaller/cheaper merch like ducks and gacha stuff is more prominent where I am...and I work for an amusement operator even. XD I used to love them, but now I'd rather just pay for an item I want out of one up front.

Sonic Dash was a nice distraction, especially since Windows Phone didn't have much when it came to popular mobile games. I could play Angry Birds, but not much else. I still owned one when Pokemon Go became all the rage and wanted to join in on the action badly. Not an issue now that I have Android. As for Fire Emblem Heroes, the meh writing is also why I dropped the game since the plot wasn't going anywhere meaningful in my opinion. And yeah, it also became too grindy for my liking. Which is a good way to make me drop a game. I'm glad you enjoy rhythm games! Experience has taught me that they aren't my thing lol. At least if demos I've tried of Harmoknight and Cadence of Hyrule are any indication.

I deal with anxiety, and me wanting to not use things to keep them pristine is part of that. But yeah, I realized things are meant to be used. I'm still careful of course, but I still use them. And accidents can and will happen. Maybe not to everything, but we are all human and make mistakes. Some situations are also out of our control. It is very impressive how long some hardware and software can last, videogames and otherwise. At least the quality stuff and the conditions said stuff are kept in.

@Sunsy I've not played Chaos Wars, but it's a PS2 era Idea Factory tactical RPG infamous for the bad English VA work. Its reception is mixed, but the English voicework had almost no budget...and it definitely shows.

The comments under this example video had me rolling.

Monsters in Vampire Survivors must REALLY hate spaghetti. XD

@Pastellioli So you used to play Genshin too? I positively dread each new update, as it always takes like, 2 and a half days...

Perfect Dark is absolutely something to revisit.
I've somehow managed to not have to sub in FEH thus far. The older banners don't require the sub for a free pull, while it's typically the new ones that require it. (There's an icon on the corner of the banners with special features like that)

Dragalia had some nice crossovers, I particularly like Tiki, as she's the OG FE dragon.