Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Pastellioli Ah. Same as what I comment on with twitter.
I do not want to see my FEH characters vanish. I particularly like the designs for a number of them.
Classic Sonic games are generally short. When they moved to full 3d, I guess they tried to remedy that by making multiple character stories you had to play. Shadow was unique. You could definitely see a story arc of sorts for his character between SA2, and Sonic 06.
I really need to get back to Rare Replay. I would've loved to have seen Nintendo purchase them. Microsoft's been scummy about that lately. Rare had so much potential.
I saw Project Spark on my Xbone home page a few times. It's gone now? Shame. Woulda liked to try it.
There was a fanmade sequel to Conker that I played once. Based off A Link to the Past, it was simultaneously a followup to another fangame. I found it too hard to truly get everything though.
I've maybe had, at most, 12 matches across the two splatoon games. It was constantly laggy, and disconnecting was very frequent. Similar with Overwatch. But that one was more lag. I just never had any fun with either, as everything relies on top notch internet these days.

I'm glad you weren't upset by the "super fluffy" tease btw. I tend to like fluffy characters a fair bit.
Aldo, December is a nicer month when you have a working heater.

@MarioAnt If nobody replies to your GameBoy repair question thread, you can maybe try asking NintendoLife staff via the Contact button in the banner below. (since NintendoLife is UK based)

I messaged you here in the Chit Chat thread because, I didn't want people to see my message and assume it was a solution.

Thank you. Really appreciate that 🙂

@Mariotag I could tell the “super fluffy” thing was a tease! It’s fine, I like humor and jokes.

Although I think FEH is okay, it does really well with its character designs and artwork, and I can actually recognize a few of the artists they got to illustrate for it. I like how it makes it kind of a huge artist collaboration, given they had more than one artist illustrate the characters.

I do think the short length of the classic games works a lot for me right now with my schedule. I’ll probably try and play the longer 3D games when I have more free time later in the month. I heard Sonic X Shadow Generations was good, I’ll maybe consider getting it later, I need to buy some new games since my game collection on the Xbox is looking kind of small and barren.

I love Rare Replay, it’s probably the best game compilation I’ve ever played and I wish other compilations put in a ton of charm and effort in its game selection and presentation. Though, I do think the 90s-00s games from the N64 and Xbox respectively are the best in there, some of the older games from the ZX Spectrum, SNES, and NES are badly designed in my opinion and didn’t age well.

I do wonder if Rare would have been thriving more if Microsoft hadn’t come in and purchased them. It would have been interesting to see Rare under Nintendo’s helm, and I feel like a few of Rare’s games were more suitable for Nintendo audiences, mainly the experimental games they released on Xbox and some of the tones and themes the games had.

Yes, although I didn’t play it because I got an Xbox years after it was delisted, I heard Project Spark was taken down and can’t be purchased. It can still be played, but only if you own it.

Is there a lot of Conker fangames? That one you were talking about sounds interesting. I’ve seen a ton of fan games for Banjo-Kazooie online, mainly from an N64 account I follow on Instagram. I don’t usually play fangames, but they definitely seem like fun experiences, especially for games that are niche and haven’t gotten continuations. It reminds me, I sometimes talk to a user named @Mana_Knight and he likes Conker a lot, and something cool he told me is that he voices him in fan animations. I haven’t seen any of the fan animations though, but I want to watch them very soon for fun. I really think fan media is cool, it really shows the passion and love people have for media that is forgotten or overlooked.

Agree, I think both can be really fun but also really laggy, and I think it’s a risk for me to play online because my internet can act trashy and slows down at times; there’s a chance I could stay connected, but also a tiny chance the internet will disconnect me and I need to find another match. I don’t like having my bad internet disconnect me from matches and having people think I am throwing matches back and forth and trying to ruin the experience for everyone else. In fact, in the 3rd Splatoon, if you or someone disconnects at the start of a match, whether intentionally or unintentionally, the game actually disconnects everyone else from the match because of the number of players being unbalanced (like a 3-player team against a 4-player team). The previous games have had issues with imbalanced teams from player disconnects and opposing teams having an advantage. It is good that they have been trying to combat that issue, but the internet in that game is still kind of bad. The lag during Overwatch matches was way worse though.

@Pastellioli Eh. 3mbps DSL internet with a landline for $150 a month. Still a massive ripoff. Can't play that much online.
Rare Replay under Nintendo would likely have added a few games. Starfox Adventures, DK64, the DKC trilogy, maybe Donkey Kong Land too. Having said that, I've barely touched Rare Replay. I feel like Rare under Nintendo could have thrived, as long as Miyamoto didn't do too many table flips.
I thought Project Spark was a free download?
FEH does indeed have some good art. Ratatoskr is adorable. The latest Nagi/Idunn is awesome, complete with draconic wings and tails in human form. Many other touches too. I got a chance to save a few character sprite designs from the game, but they weren't artwork.
Sonic games back then were usually short and sweet. But there are exceptions. The 3d games don't have many more stages, but the stages can be bigger, especially as of Heroes. Sonic 2 was weird, as it was virtually impossible to complete the special stages with the dynamic duo in particular. Sonic 3 was a part 1 of 2 game. Those two were longer, and could be harder.
I suppose I should clarify about the Conker fangame. It's actually a mod, to ALttP, meant to be played on emulator. I'm always a bit hesitant to talk about these fully openly.
Having said that, fangames can be quite good. For Zelda, there's Zelda Classic, which currently faces issues, and the ROTH trilogy.
The Sonic fangame community is thriving, but some fools in Russia decided to disrespect everything sacred about it by making Sonic Omens.
Mario has neat fangames too, but I'd advise being careful to make sure the games won't ruin your computer.

@Pastellioli That is so cool you remembered I said that. Bless you. Thank you. Haha. Yes! I love Conker too. It would be amazing to have a new game, but I can't see it happening before another Banjo Kazooie. Oddly, it is like Nintendo has done more with Banjo Kazooie this past decade than Microsoft did the decade prior, with his inclusion in Smash and putting the N64 games on NSO! Oh, well. I hope we do get another one some day.

"I do wonder if Rare would have been thriving more if Microsoft hadn’t come in and purchased them. It would have been interesting to see Rare under Nintendo’s helm, and I feel like a few of Rare’s games were more suitable for Nintendo audiences, mainly the experimental games they released on Xbox and some of the tones and themes the games had."

I feel this too. I do think some of their original xbox games would be better thought of had they been Gamecube titles. We will never know though.

Still, we are bound to get Diddy Kong Racing and CBFD at some point for NSO, maybe Pocket Tales too! So, there should be some Conker related gaming coming there at least, even if not new.

@Pastellioli Oh, and if you are interested in checking it out one day, you can find it by searching Youtube for 'New Splat World - Conker'. You should be able to find some. I was originally meant to do 1 episode as an opponent of Link in the main show, but the creater liked it so much he keeps coming back and got a few of his own spin-off shorts. I get to do a lot of improv with the character too, which is very fun for a character like Conker!

@Pastellioli I highly recommend Sonic X Shadow. I never had an Xbox or Playstation so missed it first time. Really fun. Sunk 30 hours in within 2 weeks. Only stopped as Brothership came out, but will be going back to it soon. I have not even touched the Shadow part of it yet! I consider it worth it even without having played that side yet!

@Mariotag That stinks. I wish that my internet wasn’t so bad sometimes, if it ran better than I would be more comfortable playing games like Splatoon and Overwatch but that, paired with the fact that those games sometimes have poor internet is why online gaming isn’t super fun for me right now. I remember every time I booted up Overwatch I’d always go to the training ground to test if the internet was running remotely well, and every time the game would lag so bad and I’d avoid playing a single match and instead went to play an offline game instead. Even when the internet was running fine on my other electronic devices and apps, it would lag a ton when I played Overwatch on the Xbox for some reason. Probably because too many devices could have been connected to the internet however. I did love Overwatch a ton way before it kind of went downhill with the sequel, but I’m not that interested in playing it again. I was considering downloading it again last month to try out a new hero named Juno cuz I heard she is super fun to play as (plus I like her character design and theming) but remembering that Overwatch is meant to be played online and how my internet runs bad occasionally, I just didn’t do it.

I have heard so many people wanting Rare Replay on the Switch or “Switch 2” with games that use Nintendo IP, and I think that would be cool, also given that I think a small bit of the games in Rare Replay aren’t good (though mostly talking about the Spectrum and NES games) but I think they said Rare Replay was a one and done thing unfortunately, plus I think that game is a bit too big for a possible Switch port…I wonder if Rare could have been managed better by Nintendo if they had purchased the studio and kept giving them an unlimited budget for their games. If they had done that, I feel like it could have convinced some employees to stay, since Nintendo was the one that provided them some assistance, and it kind of seems like Microsoft hasn’t really done that with Rare. They allow Rare to make whatever games they like instead of forcing or telling them to make a specific game (just like how Nintendo was with Rare) but I feel like that’s just it, and that Microsoft doesn’t really do much with them at all now. I recall reading that some older employees that left during the Microsoft era of Rare departed because the studio was not being managed well, and a few employees say Microsoft was the one that ruined the studio and tried to give it a more corporate structure, but I should add that some of those departures came from small layoffs in the late 2000s or early 2010s. It’s a shame that they seemed to be big and thriving back in the Nintendo days and now they don’t seem to get much attention anymore.

I looked for a bit and Project Spark had both a physical version with a disc and a digital version. I’d assume that it did cost money since it had a physical version, but I’ll have to look more.

I love the character designs for the original FEH characters, and I also agree that Ratatosk’s design is nice! Plus, I like squirrels a lot. I was quickly looking through my collection of heroes and some of the gacha banners for the newer heroes, and they got so many good artists to do work on the game. I like the way the artists drew the Three Houses characters a ton, and the artists they got to draw the Engage characters did a good job translating the bright color palettes in their own art styles. It makes me excited to see the new designs for the next book. Usually, they have Kozaki Yusuke illustrate and design the characters for the books, but they have gotten other artists to design characters for the storylines too.

Yes, I have had a feeling that some of the 3D Sonic games are longer and bigger than older entries. I heard Sonic 3 was really good, but I don’t think I’ve played it, or actually completed it? It’s super hard for me to remember because it was a long time ago, but I remember that 1 in 2 thing with it. It’s the one Classic game they haven’t ported to mobile devices, but I’d like to play it again. I was actually doing a playthrough of the mobile port of Sonic 2 and completed it with Sonic and Tails, and that port added Knuckles as a playable character, but I found it so hard to play as him (especially with the controls on a small screen), and I just gave up and deleted the game, but I think I shouldn’t have done that. I did redownload the game and intend to play it soon, so I’ll try this time instead.

I know of there being so many Sonic fan games and it having a huge selection of those. I still find it very cool that Sega supports fan games and appreciates them, and how they had fan game developers work on Sonic Mania. I think I have played some in the past, but what is Sonic Omens?

@Mana_Knight I can remember a ton of what you said cuz the thread where you mentioned that was one of the first NL threads I commented on! I remember my account was only a few days old and it was super fun chatting with everyone on there.

I really would love a new game that continued the story in Bad Fur Day. What makes that cancelled sequel sting a ton was the fact that it was cancelled after they finished writing the full storyline for it and were just about to start developing it. I read an Unseen64 article talking about some of the gameplay ideas and a video that discussed the sequel’s plot from start to finish, and it makes me so sad that it never got finished. I wish the game would get a new entry and not just a ton of merchandise and stuff. I do think that Microsoft has done less with Banjo compared to Nintendo, but also Rare in general. I also would love to see a new Banjo game too, but I’d assume one hasn’t been made yet because Microsoft hasn’t found a studio that wants to make a new game, same for Conker too.

A lot of their OG and a few of their 360 Xbox games were slated for GameCube before the Microsoft buyout, and seemed way more suitable for a Nintendo consoles in my opinion. I think Grabbed By the Ghoulies and the Viva Piñata games would have done the best especially on Nintendo platforms because of the audience and Rare having been closely associated with Nintendo, plus those two games would have been more tonally fitting in my opinion.

I already have Bad Fur Day on the Xbox, but I would still love to see them announce an NSO port on there, and it’s one of the few most wanted games people want on NSO. I just enjoy the comedic writing and bizarre story a ton, and it’s what made the game so memorable for me, so I think some Switch users would love it! It’s definitely one of Rare’s most craziest and wackiest games ever.

I’ll check that out soon! Can’t wait to hear your performance of him. I really love CBFD’s voice acting a bunch and it’s one of the game’s best aspects. The variety that the game’s three-person voice cast had is incredible.

I have actually played the original version, Sonic Generations and liked what I played years ago. I heard Sonic X Shadow Generations was good, so I’ll read up a bit more on it! I haven’t played a 3D Sonic game in a while. Last one I think I played was Sonic Forces, but I never completed it or put a lot of time in it.

@Mana_Knight What was Pocket Tales?
Also, have played the OG Generations. Besides Shadow, gotta wonder what I'm missing.
And, I feel like Rare would eventually have made more games with its original characters had Nintendo been their employer or whatever too.
Might be interesting to search yt for that series. No idea what to expect though.
Also, am at the end of Broship myself..

@Pastellioli I personally find that it's the higher tech devices that struggle more with bad internet. My ps5, and Xbox One suffer far more than my switch for download speeds for example. And I don't remember much of a struggle with Wii/DS at all.
Yeah, iirc, Rare Replay wasn't gonna come to Nintendo. Especially not now that we have switch online ports. And, in general, Microsoft doesn't seem to handle studios well at all. There was relatively recent outrage when they bought a few studios literally just to shut them down, and get rid of all the employees. The newer devs of Halo, one of Microsoft's biggest early series, has suffered similarly in terms of treatment to Rare. I do absolutely think Rare would still be thriving with plenty of its earlier employees if Nintendo had bought them.
Okay. Project Spark definitely interested me though. I wonder if even the disc version is no longer playable? I know PS4/5 has a creator type game called Dreams. Found it on sale, and just waiting to play fan projects.
Well, I'm not such a big fan of squirrels, but they have appeal, if Ratatoskr is anything to go by. Rather, I much prefer kitsune, and their shapeshifting transforming shenanigans. If there were any superpower I'd want, it'd be the ability to become anything at any time (with the ability to revert of course), never being trapped in a form, and being able to use that form's abilities. I don't pay as much attention to the details of the designs, but they are gorgeous. From early on, I liked the designs of most of the manaketes. I do feel like FEH butchered some of the character personalities though. (Notably Nowi) I'm more afraid the next book will be the last, given 9 worlds.
Sonic 3 was pretty polished. The first classic Sonic to have a level select iirc, plus the Sonic and Knuckles game as an addon. Notably, said addon worked with Sonic 1 and 2 as well, which would likely be where the mobile port of 2 got playable Knuckles from. I heard mobile 2 added a formerly scrapped stage? I can't handle playing traditional games on mobile, so I hope it gets ported.
There are a fair few good Sonic fangames, but Omens, no matter if good or bad, committed several taboos. Fangames are, under no circumstances, to EVER make money, yet the creators got funding from, I think Patreon. Also, they mistreated people a whole lot. And there was something about Maria?
Idk the full story, but ppl have claimed that game could cause Sega to take a very Nintendo approach to fangames.
Sonic Forces sucked. As for a Conker sequel, I'd have liked to have that waiting in the wings for when I finish the OG. I didn't know the OG only had 3 VAs!
I'm curious about this thread you mentioned tbh.
3D Sonic can be interesting, it can be good, or bad, and sometimes brutal. There were two major steps backward that development took for them along the way though. The first was making it so every enemy has a health bar. Fitting for Heroes, at least somewhat, but a pain for other games. The second was removing the variety of characters you could play as, which I really hope they remedy soon.

A very late Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. Very busy this week between a work related conference and other goings-on.

@Mariotag Ah. I figured going by your last post you were pretty much finished. No problem. Still seems like you have a bit to dig into then. Including some different modes.

I like arcade machines from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. I haven't really played any from an era before that, though I've seen some vintage pinball machines before. I'd love a shot at Mario Kart Arcade GP sometime just to try it out.

For reading, it's hard for me to explain it. It's like my brain went through a mental shift in my late high school years where I read to "absorb", which extends to casual reading as well. I was a voracious reader before that, though in hindsight spending a lot of time on the bus probably helped with the free time for it lol. I do still read, though typically before I go to bed. Which means it doesn't happen half the time since I fall asleep.

@Pastellioli I hope you had a great Thanksgiving! Seems like you're kept busy with your drawing, which is great! Looking forward to seeing/hearing about how that original character turns out. No issues with practicing by creating fanart either.

Dedicated arcades are definitely places to experience. But they are rater in this day and age since people can game in the comfort of their own homes. Or run those same arcade games via emulators, build a MAME cabinet, etc. I've actually never heard of car washes having arcade machines, at least they don't around here. Many are drive thru or self-service with no notable indoor areas outside of the car bays.

I only have a couple mobile games in my rotation right now, though I don't play for more than a few minutes at a time usually. I actually did venture out for a bit of shopping Sunday since I figured it wouldn't be as bad and did need a couple of things. It turns out I was mostly right, though traffic did get hairy at one point. I'll have to take your word for it in those shooters games. I know it's a really big genre, but they aren't really my cup of tea most of the time lol.

Same on subs and dubs when it comes to anime. Dubbed is easier on my brain - especially after a long work day like today - since I don't have to do quite as much mental work lol. I've heard Crunchyroll is a great service overall, but the different tiers and ads can definitely cause issues from what I've heard. Especially for those who can't afford or have to pick and choose what subscriptions they go with.

@Tyranexx Yeahhh. Multiple modes, multiple paths, multiple characters, multiple difficulties, all across three collections. I'll get to them eventually. Right now, I'm just enjoying the core experience.
I've only played a handful of arcade machines. I'm hoping to add MKA GP to that list before too incredibly long. But I do spend most of my time at home, and tis usually where I game. Most recently with Brothership.
Reading went through a sort of phase for me around that time too. I used to skim a lot, and read the essence of a book quickly. But at a certain point, it started getting harder and harder, until I was reading and rereading individual letters, trying to decipher their meanings. I got out of it eventually, but not before my patience was largely demolished.
I only recently added the Pokemon TCG recent release to my mobile game list. Still at starting stages. Am afraid of Fire Emblem Heroes ending and going away soon.
Original Characters can be neat. I'm curious how this one comes out, as well as what they are.
For me, sub vs dub is just a matter of familiarity at this point. Crunchyroll on the other hand, imo, was better off separate from Funimation.They don't dub nearly as much as Funi did. Their ads were always a problem for me. I find CR to effectively be non-functional. Constant lag, plus it crashes over things like rewinding, fast forwarding, and the aforementioned ads. Also that incident a decade ago where I tried to start a free trial to watch the at the time new Fairy Tail, only we had to pay for it twice because the trial in question being advertised did not exist.

@Mariotag Pocket Tales was a top down adventure Conker Game for Game boy Colour. Never played it myself, but I think @Pastellioli has. I would like to, and hope it comes to NSO!

Yes, Rare don't really have 'characters' any more, aside their legacy ones that they do next to nothing with.

Aside from Shadow, I would say the main thing they have 'added' is there are now 3 hidden Chao per level on top of the 5 red rings should you want an extra challenge. There is also obviously the benefit of it being polished/running better than the original. The Switch version is notoriously well handled too, with it running and reacting wonderfully to your button input.

However, they have also taken away bits of script in the cut scenes from what I hear, which has upset a few people. Amy is no longer really obsessed with Sonic and Knuckles no longer jokes that classic Sonic is fat. Things like that. Never played the original to know exactly what is missing though, but these are the ones I known.

I wanted to share my latest creation here as well! I am really glad how this turned out!

Paladin with Tier 2 armor from World of Warcraft!

@Mana_Knight Ahh. Nice on the additions to Generations. Not so nice on the removals.
Rare kinda doesn't do much that I've seen lately.
Huh. Pocket Tales was Conker? And it actually released? Is it basically Twelve Tales?
Idk what to expect by "adventure game" as a description.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! I'm in a great mood with Christmastime showing up. Been decorating the tree and everything, and I even got a new stocking. Also changed my Nintendo Life profile picture and banner to match the occasion. I also saw The Polar Express with my mom, and we both loved it! It's such a wonderful holiday movie. I highly recommend it to anyone.

Been busy as a bee lately, with stuff like my passion project and Christmas decorating. I don't think I commented on how my Thanksgiving was, it was also nice. Hope everyone's doing well.

@Eel Good to know on Hocus Pocus, thanks for your thoughts on the movie. Maybe I'll give it a shot at some point to see if I like it. It's a movie I've heard of back in the day, but just didn't have it.

@Pastellioli Oh gosh, they have those kind of usernames, huh? Yeah... if I were them, I would just play the song normally, haha. I remember seeing a few people not play well in Splatoon. If I recall correctly, in one of my sessions in Splatoon 3's Salmon Run, I was the second to last player who got bumped off the stage, and one more player was near me. And somehow, they've jumped off the stage themselves and we all lost! They probably didn't notice me needing help, but yeah... that was frustrating.

Ouch, that Tower Control disconnect must have stung hard. I actually did get a communication error during one of my Anarchy Series matches a while back, and the game gave me a loss with no medals. I do remember still getting more points than what I wagered though, thankfully. Sometimes if my connection starts to screw up, I would power cycle my router. It was definitely a miracle in that Grand Festival match, lol.

Yeah me too, Smash Bros. is much easier for me to get into. I'm decent at it myself, though it depends on the character I'm using. I'm pretty good with characters like Mario, Samus, Mega Man, and Banjo to name a few.

@Tyranexx Me too. Glad to see you liked Hocus Pocus, that's a movie I should check out at some point, I'm pretty curious about it despite my mom not liking one of the actresses in it. Gotcha, hopefully you'll be able to see The Nightmare Before Christmas this year. You're right, it is a good one to watch during that time frame, it does have both Halloween and Christmas in it after all, haha. Speaking of holiday-themed movies, I saw The Polar Express and I loved every second of it!

Gotcha, I did see you're almost done with Echoes of Wisdom. Best of luck on finishing it and The Missing Heir! I think I'm almost done with Brothership, as well. Wonder what I should play after it... been getting nostalgic for the Mega Man Battle Network series so maybe I'll play the MMBN Legacy Collection. Though I will say, I remember the first game being a bit... rough around the edges compared to most of its sequels. And there's a few games on my Christmas wish list too, not to mention the other games on my backlog.

Glad to see you loved the zip lining! Kind of unsure if I'd be willing to try it out, since I'm not too comfortable with heights. I guess I'll see what it's like if I do see it. Glad to hear the kitten is still doing good.

@Sunsy I did see Trolls and I enjoyed it. Went ahead and told you about it in the movie thread. I already love Poppy and how sweet and positive she is! I wanna see Band Together at some point, I'll let you know what I think when I see it. On a movie-related note, I also saw The Polar Express, which I also enjoyed.

That's cool you have that Trolls headband. Those all sound nice. The last time I dressed up for Halloween, it was a Luigi costume. I had a Mario costume on a few times in the past, too. But yeah, I haven't been dressing up in costumes in a long time, especially since trick-or-treaters just don't come around my area.

I remember seeing those Satellaview Mario games, I think I saw a video on one of them a long time ago. Been fascinated by Sega Channel as well, there's been new VHS rips of it put on YouTube which I've been seeing. As someone who was too young at the time and our family only having the SNES, it is cool to see how it worked. I do like how it gave you stuff like tips while your game downloads.

That's cool, yeah there's just something about having stuff like movies in the background while you're playing games. I do really like the Nintendo Music app too. I've been having the Toy Day theme from Animal Crossing: New Horizons playing in the background while decorating my Christmas tree and putting together my train set! I just wish that Nintendo Music didn't have that startup issue for me, where it would hang on the loading screen until I close the app and start it again. I think it's been happening less as time goes on, though. If it helps to know, I'm an Android user.

Nice, that's cool. Gosh, I just remembered something, I used to have a demo disc for my PS2 way back in the day! It came with a PlayStation magazine, I think it was called PlayStation Underground? It had stuff like game demos (for games like Maximo: Ghosts to Glory and Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder), trailers, and tip videos. I remember that some PS1 Crash games (like Crash Bandicoot: Warped) had demos for Spyro games, as well.

Oh that's cool, didn't know Wolfenstein came out before Doom. I don't think I've heard of the Blake Stone games, they do sound pretty cool. I think the closest thing I played was GoldenEye 007, I played a fair amount of it on NSO.

Nice, glad you got to try out the newest Mario Party! Jamboree is really good. Cool to see the demo let you try out Peach's minigame, as well. Good to hear you had a nice time out, sounds like you got a good haul. I got a couple new ornaments, including the Mario characters one from My Nintendo. Got myself a new stocking, too.

@Mariotag Yep. It was released before Conker became BFD Conker. 1999 I think. So, it probably is closer to the idea of what Twelve Tales was going to be. Before the booze took hold! Haha.
Plays a tiny bit like Link's Awakening in part I am told.

@Mariotag Yeah, I actually kind of think that my Switch had better internet than my Series S, and that is stronger than the Switch. The Switch still had issues with the internet and some games, but it didn’t really do that with Splatoon a lot, but only on occasions. I found that Smash had worse internet than Splatoon and it ruined a lot more matches; because, at any point of the match in Smash, if one player disconnects from trashy internet, it ends the entire match and the other players have to start over and find another match. I also thought the WiiU was better at staying connected to the internet, but who knows, maybe the internet here got worse over the years. I’m still stuck and contemplating whether I should redownload Overwatch 2 on the Xbox again. I really like the characters and gameplay, but it takes too long to download, had usually poor internet performance that prevented me from playing matches well and I think its battle pass is so annoying and unnecessary.

I think it was when Microsoft closed down a few ZeniMax studios, though I think the closure that upset people the most was Tango Gameworks, though another company came in and acquired the studio from Microsoft and revived it, which is very good to hear, though I still think what Microsoft did was terrible. They are really not good at managing studios at all. I never played a game from them, but hearing what they did to Lionhead Studios and just resorted to shutting them down when development on a Fable game wasn’t doing well was stupid. I am glad they didn’t shut Rare down, but they should be doing a better job managing them. I have a big issue with Microsoft purchasing more game studios, because I think they have a good amount of studios under their ownership and should be trying to manage the ones they have before making another significantly big purchase. I think their history of buying up multiple studios just to do almost nothing with them, poorly managing them, or just resorting to shutting them down is why it took them such a long time to purchase Activision Blizzard and why Microsoft was placed under a ton of scrutiny from the FTC and a lot of people. It feels like Rare has kind of been even more forgotten under Microsoft’s management compared to Rare’s reputation when they were a Nintendo-exclusive developer.

I will admit, I like the way squirrels look and some of their characteristics, and they definitely appeal to me (though I only started to like them more after playing Conker last year) but I kind of get slightly anxious when I see one staring at me and wondering if it’ll run toward me, since I have no idea where the squirrel has been.

I do think that shapeshifting characters in fictional media is really cool! I enjoy a lot of the units in FEH that can transform into creatures and animals and fight in those forms, and I find that the units that shapeshift are pretty strong. I have a ton of others, but the shapeshifting units I used the most in FEH were Ratatoskr and Nifl.

I do hope so. I think there are a few more Sonic games that haven’t received ports on modern consoles or phones. There was actually a prototype or pitch to port Sonic 3 to mobile a decade ago, but Sega didn’t greenlight the project, so the first and second games were the only ones to get mobile ports. I know there was that sequel to Sonic 3 that they released on consoles and mobile phones that was split into two parts and used the modern designs of the characters, but I heard it was not good at all and some thought it was cheap-looking. I am more interested in replaying Sonic 3, but they haven’t really released it in modern platforms yet.

Ooh, a fangame making money off of the IP sounds super bad. I am really against people making money off of characters and IP that they don’t own. It’s fine for people to make fan media and show off their love for the characters, but they shouldn’t make a profit off it. It reminds me of this video I watched discussing fan art, and I remember that the video mentioned Undertale. In that portion of the video, the person mentioned that people were selling fanart and merchandise of characters from Undertale without permission or an official license, and the creator had to change his rules and policy over fan works being sold without his permission. I also think some companies have stated that they like fan content, but want people to not sell it, and I agree with that. I think that people should only sell stuff that is original content, and not ones that are based on a pre-existing IP and characters that was made by someone else or a different company. People can really get in big trouble if they do that.

I only played a small portion of Sonic Forces, but I thought it was awful. My brother played the whole thing and he thought it was terrible. I heard a lot of people say Infinite was a super weak and poorly written villain, and I even remembered that they brought Chaos back just to do nothing with him for the whole game.

Gosh, I would have loved the sequel a ton. It would have been so fun finishing the original and then moving on to a sequel after that, but because it never was finished, I moved on to the remake for Bad Fur Day instead. Yep, the voice cast only had three people, consisting of the game director, as well as an animator and a developer who both worked at Rare at the time. The director voiced Conker and nearly all the male characters (plus two female characters), while the animator voiced most female characters and the developer voiced The Great Mighty Poo. They all did a really good job, especially with the American accents for some of the characters they voiced. Usually, with a game having a large cast of characters, you’d hire more than three people to do the voice acting. A lot of the developers at Rare were really great with voice acting in their games, though most of the time the developers voicing the characters were either not credited, or were credited, but didn’t have their roles specified. Though, as the years went on, they have revealed the voice actors and actresses who did the voices. I know that the Conker remake got a couple more voice actors/actresses for the multiplayer mode, but they unfortunately still haven’t specified the characters they voiced.

It was this thread:

https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/general_discussion/what_d...

This was one of the first threads I commented on when I made my account, and it was really nice to see everyone else’s responses. The thread topic really made me think a lot about the games I’ve played, since I usually take the games I play at face value, but I had to use the spoiler tag to cover up the Conker’s Bad Fur Day section of my reply (since it pertains to the ending and the final cutscene) so I would recommend skipping my replies to the thread until you complete the game. Unfortunately, no one has commented on that specific thread in months.

@Tyranexx My Thanksgiving was good, thank you! I hope yours was too. The next holiday I’m looking forward to is Christmas later this month. I’ve been waiting all year for that!

I actually finished that original drawing I was talking about! It was a drawing of a bunch of random animals, and I had fun making it. I still like making fanart of video game characters and imaging how they’d look in my style. I recently redrew a scene from Conker’s Bad Fur Day, but it took me way too long because I drew on big paper, plus I use ballpoint pen for my art instead of something faster like alcohol markers. I honestly wasn’t too proud of the final picture, but the failed first attempt looked stiffer and way worse than the second attempt. Usually, I try to keep the elements that make the characters recognizable, but also changing some stuff up to fit my style. I’m not good at doing recreations of pictures, usually I’ve found that they look less detailed and wonky. I’ve tried to redraw the Mona Lisa so many times in the past (at least four times) but it’s so hard to get it to look accurate because the painting is so detailed and beautiful. I’ve found that it’s the same with redrawing images of video game scenes too.

Oh, that’s where most arcade cabinets are located instead? Usually I found them inside of car washes and they had their own space dedicated to them. It was a nice way to wait, I think the inside of the car wash also sold packaged ice cream bars and snacks, and also had a television on the wall, though it’s been years since I last been there, so I can’t fully remember everything and there could be a chance they replaced some of it.

That’s understandable! I’m really not good at playing shooter games at the moment haha. I’m not into them a lot anymore now that I don’t really play my Xbox a ton and instead play mobile games because of my schedule. My game tastes have changed a lot over the years, now I really like rhythm games, platformers, and fighting games over shooter games right now. I played the heck out of shooter games back then, mainly thanks to Splatoon and Overwatch. I do want to get back into playing shooter games when I get the time to though.

Crunchyroll is nice and I have given some popular anime shows a try on there, but my main issue is with the ads with the Free tier. There are way too many that the app places before the start of an episodes and during episodes, and sometimes the ads don’t load fast and take forever, and it results in me having to leave the app and retry again. Usually, it’s one ad before the start of an episode, but then the next ads have more than one, such as “ad 1 of 5” and it made it so hard to watch some anime. It stinks cuz I think Crunchyroll has a good selection of anime. It’s a good mix of a ton of iconic and popular ones alongside niche ones and some anime films too.

@Mana_Knight I did try a bit of Conker’s Pocket Tales a few months ago after I completed my second playthrough of Bad Fur Day in August for a game club, but I didn’t think Pocket Tales was super fun or memorable like Bad Fur Day and I quickly dropped it, plus I was kind of confused while playing it. I could try it again, though, because I only played it for a day and stopped very quickly, plus I didn’t use a walkthrough. I think it’s interesting to see the game’s kiddy, Everyone-rated direction, given that was the direction Bad Fur Day was supposed to take at first before it was delayed and retooled into an Mature-rated game. I do wonder how Bad Fur Day would have been if it still was Twelve Tales and was kid-friendly. That game probably has one of the most interesting game development stories ever.