Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Pastellioli Yeah, that deal was absolutely a steal. The deals they have now don't come close. And considering that used games tend to just be like, up to ten dollars less than new there, yeah.
I used to get games from older gens for fairly cheap, but I honestly have no idea how to fairly compare that to now.

Yeah, I'm not an amiibo collector either. Not huge on figurines or merchandise.

Your talk of a gamepass club reminds me of the old tournaments that happened here 2014-2015. It definitely felt like a club. But ultimately, the people hosting it ended up disbanding it, cause the company they worked for, while not involved in the group, treated them poorly. So the entire staff quit their jobs practically all at once, and moved away.

I'm gonna have to correct you on this next one. Funimation and Crunchyroll were both bought out by Sony. Sony decided, after a few years of letting Funimation handle dubs exclusively, and Crunchyroll handle the subs, that the two should be merged. The licenses Funimation had weren't all carried over. Crunchyroll doesn't appear to stream the movies as far as I can tell, but they do promote and sponsor theater releases iirc. My troubles with Disney Plus were not really disconnect errors. More loading, and glitches.

Sonic 06 being remade is an interesting thought. There's a lot they could smooth out, and change. The story, particularly the final story, ended up causing much controversy on top of not actually adding much to the overarching series. Storywise, you could quite literally say it never happened, and not be completely wrong. Heroes ultimately contributed something that's been frustrating to the franchise since, namely normal enemies with HP bars. It being remade to just be less tedious would be massive. The Adventure games, while popular and iconic, do have major flaws. In SA1, of the I think 6 characters you could do stories for, at least two had somewhat unfun gameplay unless you were willing to be persistent. SA2, in spite of being lauded as one of the best, only had two of the six characters being like, especially good to play as. Each good side character had a dark counterpart, so Knuckles's proven frustrating emerald hunting from SA1 was not only frustrating in SA2, but also transferred to Rouge. Tails and Eggman had a sort of shoot 'em up style of gameplay, which while not terrible, could be a pain at times.

Yeah, Event Matches were a highlight of Melee for me for the longest time. I feel that spirits don't live up to that in the slightest. It is neat that more characters get represented somehow at least though.
I was more referencing the increase in both numbers, and diversity of characters and stages. There are some stages left out from Ultimate, but not too many.

Yeah, sleep issues are a major problem. Tbh, I'm up way too late typing this. I might actually get a normal number of hours in sleep tonight! (For some stupid reason, when I can sleep, I sleep 12+)

Yeah, that sounds like it was a fun theater for Sonic 2! My personal big memory of a theater was when I saw a screening for the entire Batman Dark Knight trilogy when the last movie came out. Ppl in the theater cheered when The Joker showed up. There was occasional small talk, and it was lively. Plus it had intermissions. As for how I've been feeling, I think when watching the third movie, I was experiencing depression. It isn't always an obvious you feel sad. At times, it can just be there without you knowing it, affecting your mood, thoughts, and emotions, draining the life out of everything. It's subtle, but truly bothersome. As for what kept me up that night, I'll just keep it to dark thoughts regarding events from back in April, that coincided far too well with my life offline, and ended up causing much grief.

My family is split fairly effectively into two factions. So there's two different celebrations to go to. Unfortunately, again, depression. Hope yours goes well!
Also, to comment on your other reply, 360 copies of 06 still exist too. But now you can only get the dlc on ps3. Nintendo systems actually did not offer backward compatibility outside the handheld lines until the Wii. Which, I think I mentioned this before, was also when Nintendo dropped support for anything prior to Gamecube.

@Anti-Matter Which Ratchet and Clank games would you recommend starting with? I got a few collections digitally on my ps3. Avoiding God of War because gore and investment though.

@Mariotag
I would say these recommended Ratchet & Clank PS3 games.
1. A Crack In Time
2. Tools of Destruction
3. HD Trilogy (Up Your Arsenal, Going Commando)

Merrrrrrrrrry Christmas everyone!! I love yall (in a platonic, not-creepy way lol)

Phew....
My calendar 2025 is almost finished.
My head felt quite dizzy, my body felt tired. 🥴
I only have 1 more design that I still stuck on the background design idea and it must be finished tomorrow.
Gotta sleep...!

I just wanted to drop by to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I hope you're all having a wonderful day. 🚂🎄🎁 May as well tag @Pastellioli, @Tyranexx, and @Sunsy here, thanks for being my pals!

Just stopping by to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! Hope everyone is having a good holiday today. Mine was mostly spent watching Christmas movies with mom.

@MarioVillager92 Thanks! Same to you too!

Don't worry @Tyranexx, @Pastellioli, @MarioVillager92, and @MarioTag, I still have your replies. Just been enjoying the holiday season and gaming lately. Hoping to get to them by the weekend.

@Anti-Matter Starting with A Crack In Time?

@Mariotag The prices for used games now (at least at GameStop) do seem inexpensive, but the prices for pre-owned games that are on now discontinued consoles are so pricey, even ones that are only a decade old. The prices for retro games though are way more ridiculous compared to those though, sucks it makes playing some super old games really hard since people slap expensive price tags on them compared to the original price when they were still being sold. I find that retro games are priced really high compared to the retro console the game released on.

I do like seeing people’s amiibo and figurine collections (I saw some cool ones show up on Instagram and even Reddit) but I’m not that big on merchandise and figurines. Not saying they are bad or trying to insinuate anything, but I wouldn’t have the time or space to buy any. I’d maybe buy one or two figurines but that would be it, though it would never be Funko pops. However, I’m far more interested in plushies.

I see. Game clubs do seem fun but I feel like they are better executed in person rather than online, and if everyone is cooperative and friendly with each other and can manage it well. I wouldn’t say the Game Pass club was badly treated or that anyone was rude, everyone was nice and treated each other well, but the small amount of participating members and the fact that the club wasn’t super active besides the leader of the club and others made the experience kind of not fun like I hoped. It really makes me disappointed I completed one game in the club during a month where the most active members were busy or chose to not participate…Stinks that they were treated poorly and that they had to stop those kinds of tournaments. Game clubs and tournaments seem a bit non-existent now unfortunately besides the occasional Smash tournaments I hear about.

Gotcha, thanks for the correction! I didn’t know Crunchyroll supported theater releases given I don’t hear anything about that. I didn’t really know that Disney+ was glitchy or loaded long sometimes. A random question, do some devices run Disney+ more glitchier than others?

I see. I have played the Adventure games, but I don’t recall some of the gameplay flaws because it’s been so long! However, I think the last time I played Adventure 2 a few years ago on the PS4 I did think the gameplay was slightly off and flawed, and I didn’t really like the emerald hunting segments and I found it was time-consuming and sorta annoying. There are plenty of old games I like that have flaws with the gameplay, so I do think those issues could be fixed a lot with a remake. I still do wonder if that Heroes remake is real, and I’d definitely think 06 could be fixed a lot with a remake. I actually think that would be cool to see despite how hated 06 is.

Yeah, I do think Spirits do a good job at referencing more characters beyond fighters like in Event Matches, but Spirit battles don’t really feel super special. I do think the large amount of characters they got for the Spirits are cool, but only if the fights for them were more fair, had variety and were more fun. If they were less tedious, I think I would have found the World of Light mode more fun despite the lack of fighter interactions and cutscenes and the cool map acting like a board game.

It was a great experience when I saw it. Also, update, I just saw Sonic 3 and it was so darn good and fun! Definitely an improvement over the previous two. I thought that it was way more interesting, had a good balance of humor and action and seriousness, and I thought the humor was better this time. The post-credit scenes REALLY shocked me, so I’m excited to see what they’ll do for 4. Super popular movies like the Dark Knight must have a lot of fun audience experiences and reactions, especially in theaters. I can’t recall any other similar experiences I had like that besides Sonic 2 though…However, I do remember I saw these clips online showing audience reactions in a theater to scenes from Avengers: Endgame a few years ago and the audience went crazy so much. I’d love if I could have more theater experiences like that often, but the feeling of sitting down in a huge theatre room and watching a movie on the big screen with loud sound makes me happy already, even if the theater isn’t full. Well, I hope you are ok now, that feeling is really bad.

Thank you again! I still hope your holidays went well, if you already celebrated them.

Oh yeah, I do know physical 360 copies of 06 exist, but the digital version (which would be easier to get now I assume) is delisted. I wonder how much physical 360 copies of 06 go since it was delisted, but I think I read that in some countries it was put back up on the Microsoft Store only two years ago, but I never saw a listing of it when I searched up Sonic games a few months ago.

@MarioVillager92 Late reply, but you are welcome! Hoping you are having a good holiday!

@Sunsy Merry Christmas! Hope you are having a good time gaming

@Anti-Matter I want to say happy holidays if you are celebrating and hoping that you are having a good day too

that’s interesting that PS3 copies of 06 are easier to get and play, while they delisted 06 on the 360 and made it harder to get. I am surprised they only delisted it from the Xbox instead of both since I think at one point they delisted a lot of Sonic games on the Xbox 360 that got bad reviews and were critically panned.

Ah, I see you mentioned Skylanders! I actually had one of the games on the WiiU with a few figurines and the stand, but I didn’t complete it and I don’t have it anymore, though I thought it was fun when I played it. Though, I similarly had Disney Infinity and had way more figures for that, I played all three versions (1.0., 2.0., 3.0.) on the WiiU. I haven’t really played the Ratchet and Clank games besides a bit of the first one on the PS4, but my dad used to play, I think the remake they released back in 2016 and I saw him play some of it once. He played way more Ratchet and Clank games than me.

I unfortunately don’t have a PS3, but I would love to get another PlayStation console again at one point for some of the games on there. Since Ratchet and Clank is a platformer and I love those a lot, I would like to try them out a bit. We had a PS4 but we traded it in and wiped the data off it, including the profile data and game data. My brother played it way more than me though, but there were so many games on there that I remember playing. I loved LittleBigPlanet so much and got close to finishing the third game with my siblings but we never beat the game.

@Mariotag
A Crack in Time is a part of Trilogy of Ratchet & Clank Future PS3.
The first game is Tools of Destruction, then followed by very short sequel Quest for Booty as gap filler then closed by A Crack in Time.
I personally thought A Crack in Time is the best from the Trilogy of Ratchet & Clank Future.
Tools of Destruction was great also, with a lot of weapons variety to choose.
Quest for Booty was actually pretty good but too short and too linear.
All-4-One, Q-Force are the worst spinoff in my opinion.
Into the Nexus was quite good but the planets to visit just only four.
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart on PS5 is a sequel of Into The Nexus that also explained the same Raritanium upgrade system in Rift Apart and have more planets to visit.

@Pastellioli
Well, I was lucky to able getting PS3 in December 2019 from my game shop seller.
He have an used PS3 Slim White color 320 GB and I asked if it was on sale.
He offered me with quite cheap price, 2 Million Rupiah or around US$ 120.
I started by 2 PS3 games when I got PS3 machine and quickly growing more than 70 PS3 games after 5 years I owned PS3.
Well, the other PS3 games I can considered are the unpopular / niche games for everyone like UDraw, PS3 Move games, Skylanders, cartoon franchise games, sometimes some random games I bought in a whim (as long still appropriate for kids) since the price were really cheap but the gameplay quality also questionable / mediocre.

I also have PSP with 10 PSP games so far as I don't really have bigger hype on PSP when my PSP IC charger part was broken until it got repaired two months ago and it made the battery life got improved. I think I will add some cute PSP games in next year after 2 years I got hiatus from PSP.
Oh, I played Pop'n Music games, Air de Puzzle, Hannah Montana, Secret Agent Clank, Minna no Tennis on PSP.
I only looking for kids games on PSP, with at least decent gameplay and basic genre I can choose such as puzzle games, Rhythm games, quirky games, life simulation games, platformer games, racing games, etc.
Still I prefer 3DS & NDS over than PSP in term of their game library. More diversity and kids games on 3DS & NDS than on PSP. But again, still I prefer 3rd party games even on 3DS and NDS than 1st party Nintendo games.
Even I have certain 1st party Nintendo games, the only Nintendo game I have the highest hype is ACNH. I don't really have much hype with 1st party Nintendo games as I already got impressed more by 3rd party games I played and it set the bar really really high so everything that below my expectation bar, I will show less enthusiasm with the games.

Runs in
Throws this into the forum

Have a good night everyone.

@Pastellioli Yeah, was just at a retro game store. Skies of Arcadia on Gamecube is $170. Pokemon Emerald, without box or inserts, I couldn't tel if it was $700, or $900. So yes, I completely get it.

I'm not much of one for merch either. The house I'm in has wayyyy too much stuff like that. Amiibo and plushies have fun uses though.

Yeah, I definitely miss the local tournaments and events. Even ones just one area away. And, I used to consider Gamestop to be a job to go for, given how much I like gaming, but apparently, they're treated awfully, on top of my current circumstances not allowing much of a chance for a job.

Yeah, some devices work better than others, I believe. Was trying to get Hulu to work on ps5, which, btw, is now a Disney sub service, and I quickly fell from being able to consistently being able to use hulu the moment Disney took over. An app that used to work flawlessly became one riddled with lag, errors, and crashes, and as of about a week or so ago, will not load videos on ps5 at all anymore. The smart TV at my mom's house still runs hulu well, but the Xbox One I have at home somehow refuses to play vocal audio for Dragonball Super outside the intro and potentally, the outro. Ads are also affected. But curiously, it's just DBS. Browser on my laptop works fine so far.

Yeah, Adventure, and its sequel were plagued with some awkward playstyles. But there were also really likable parts too. The fact that after Sonic 06, we ceased being able to play as the likes of Blaze or Cream, and Silver never really got his own story, kinda hit hard. To fix it, they might at least make the emerald hunting stages more lenient. Heroes would be cool to have on modern platforms, but idk how significant it would be. Sonic 06 however, a lot of the hate came from the glitches, which I didn't run into much issue with, and the final story. Namely a certain scene that had a LOT of ppl up in arms. Fix those two issues, and hopefully make the ending have a bit more positive impact, and you've got a hit that might actually inspire them to bring other characters back. Oh, and maybe a less bland hub world?

Yeah, the spirits being implemented as they were ended up being nice references. Nothing more really. They should absolutely have done things differently. The only big plus I can see with the spirits is how it ties into the story. In prior games, the fighters were dolls, trophies, and eventually amiibo. Now it's implied that the spirits for everything in the universe have been scattered and corrupted, and that is a nice touch for what Sakurai probably thought to be his last entry.

Tbh, I want to see Sonic 3 again. My mood was so dead, it was like I didn't experience the movie at all, and instead was just spoiled on it. And yeah, Dark Knight Trilogy was quite an event. Never got into the MCU tbh. But I am curious about the Spiderman trilogy, and the remaining Avengers movies.

Tbh, I suspect physical copies for 06 on either console are reasonably priced. I doubt they'd be back in either digital storefront, especially with the 360 one down now.

As for how my holidays went... Well, at first, it was decent. But then I realized something that has me especially messed up, and is probably too heavy a topic to talk about here.

@Anti-Matter Huh. I didn't know there was a future trilogy? I got those as individual games. I do have a game on my ps5, from my ps4, simply titled Ratchet and Clank. Do not know where that fits in. Will need a way to reference this information.

@Pastellioli Yeahh, the prices are outrageous. Unfortunately, many of those games can't reasonably get rereleases or remakes (licensing and stuff), and in some cases in which they do, those re-edtions simply are a massive downgrade from the original. (Tales of Symphonia. It's speculated that they lost the original master or whatever, as, while I don't know about the PS2 Japan only release, each consecutive release has been worse than the previous.)

I would probably enjoy a Tails plush. I have a friend who would like a Remilia plush. But in general, I don't go for that stuff... I do like my Charizard and Midna amiibo though. They are too expensive. It baffles my mind sometimes at how some things can be priced. For example, purchasing a brand new full length AAA video game is basically the same price as a lower end artist commission on Twitter.

Honestly, yeah. Gamestop is a go=to for me. The only local one I have ever been to at least. I hear there's another store somewhere though... But the way they're treated? Honestly, I used to promote the employees treating me whenever I had the chance to fill out a survey. A no hassle experience, clear cut, no confusion. I have only ever had one time in more than a decade when me or my dad got the impression someone there was trying to con me.

Eh, I wouldn't say streaming apps in general have issues on console. But apparently, the ps5 hulu app is such a massive downgrade to the point it's unusable. Especially now that it's part of Disney, which btw, I find it amusing seeing all the articles of Disney basically going to war with Paramount because Sonic 3 outsold their beloved Mufasa on opening weekend. Disney Plus, I never dared try at home because of our internet. But at my mom's place, it was unusable. Coulda been platform specific though. Crunchyroll suffers terribly from our poor internet, but it is sometimes usable. Funimation was the same as CR when it was around. Paramount Plus gave me, and my sister trouble in general, but we have the common link of AT&T as an ISP. Meanwhile, amusingly, on top of remaining on my smart TV for longer, Netflix generally has never given me issue except when there's some major thing going on.

Remakes generally don't rewrite the story, unless you count how Sonic X restructured everything to both be fluid in an anime, and fit the new characters in. Sonic 06 desperately needs it though. Especially with that ending, and the romance plot that ended up uhh.... Well, to call it controversial would maybe be putting it lightly. Yes, 06 ended up convincing Sega not to include different characters in their games outside the tried and tested classic characters. Where we once had multiple stories with a variety of characters old and new, as well as Cream as a 5th classic mainstay, now we just have Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and now sometimes Classic Sonic, and Amy. Though I do have high hopes for Trip and Sage.

Honestly, yeah. I feel that's what the spirits were meant to represent. Like, "okay, we have the largest playable roster ever. But we want to include more characters to represent."
But WoL, and the spirits in general were executed particularly poorly. It'd have been nice if they were more distinct. And actually, while it would have required more, I'd have liked some added stuational conditions, like, "Beat Samurai Goroh in a race to the finish". The spirits are basically Ultimate's representation of the gaming multiverse, so seeing them done injustice like this is quite upsetting.

The MCU (Which lest we forget, stands for Marvel Capcom Universe. Always the first thing that comes to mind.) definitely has flaws in how massive and interconnected it is. I want to watch Spiderman's trilogy. But to see that, I apparently have to watch the Avengers movies, as well as Doctor Strange. And each movie is like, 3 hours long. Sonic's movies have been a joy. I'm really upset that I wasn't able to feel much during the screening. Probably can't go back for another viewing though. Honestly, one thing fans wanted from the movie, given it's basically the movie interpretation of SA2, was to have that meme fandub represented in some way.

Yeah. The 360 marketplace is down. A shame, but at the same time, my console is at maximum capacity. I cannot fit anything further on it at all whatsoever. Sonic 06 has been stated to work better on 360 btw. Am curious how backward compatibility progresses too. Hopefully, Windows 11 won't screw over all my games. I want all my Touhous, not to mention everything else, to still function.

Honestly, it's something that just isn't suited to public discussion. If there were a message function, could use that. It's going to change my life drastically. I need to pull out of a lot of issues within a short amount of time, but don't see a way to do it. And thanks.

@Sunsy
Quick question about sonic 3 movie you have watched because I still have dislikeness about that movie.
And when I tried forcing myself to watch the trailer, I quickly stopped watching after 20 seconds as I suddenly felt that probably I got the flashback experience from 1st sonic movie that I considered inappropriate from my perspective. You know, the outrageous and the rebellion way in the scene that from "cool" people's will consider as cool actions but for me that have dislikeness with SEGA edginess, the rebellion way just turned me off.
Because you have watched the whole movie of sonic 3, was there any scene that I still considered as "inappropriate" even in kids movie?
I have ever watched kids movies that have the scene that I considered inappropriate from my perspective (the wild robot for example) and I felt really offended by the specific scenes & dialogues and it made me wanted to stop watching the movie before even finished.
Btw, you can tell directly what was happened from sonic 3 movie, I don't mind at all with spoiler since I read the text first without watching the scenes so it will save my brain from watching the "inappropriate" scenes.
Oh, also.
I never like the people who voiced shadow in sonic 3 movie, both in his movie roles and his real life.
I turned off by sonic 3 movie because of him.

I've decided to take a long-term break from the forums, so I'm retiring from this thread. I've had a lot going on IRL for awhile and seriously need to rebalance a few things in my personal life; this is a personal decision and has nothing to do with any user or experience. I've enjoyed chatting with you all, but it's getting harder for me to find the time to fit in these long posts lol. I'll still comment under the occasional article and lurk around.

@MarioVillager92 Merry (late) Christmas to you! I hope you've had a great Christmas season - with plenty of trains.

@Sunsy I hope you had a great Christmas! Mune was ok. Haven't really felt the holidays this year tbh.

Open Office is functional and another good Microsoft Office alternative. But it isn't perfect.

That meatball recipe I mentioned gets broken out for reunions since they're large meatballs in a 9x13 pan. The sauce uses brown sugar, a lot of ketchup, some mustard, and a little chili powder. The meatballs are mostly the meat and oats with an egg and a couple othwr ingredients

@Pastellioli The N64 content is the sole reason I'd even consider the NSO expansion pack since I have little interest in Genesis games and have access to most of the GBA games I'd be interested in elsewhere. Nintendo needs to add more for it to be worth my while. I still have the standard sub and get some use out of it. Though I do feel like I'm coerced into it if I want a legal way for game backups since I don't NEED the other services. Backups wouldn't be such a big deal if my free time was infinite. I HATE losing save data for a game I've spent dozens to hundreds of hours on. I could be convinced with NSO ex+ if they add GameCube games.

I hope you have/had fun with Nuts and Bolts this time around. I understand the preference for many to not use guides, but IMO there really isn't anything wrong with them if someone needs a helping hand. Either because a game has archaic design and is too cryptic, or because it does a poor job of explaining its mechanics.

@Mariotag Cell reception is a bit better there this time of year since most of the trees dropped their leaves, though it still depends on the weather. Still, it isn't reliable and cell data plans can run high.

I think the Pokemon anime switched networks early in the Battle Frontier arc IIRC. I do remember Ash's VA switch bugged me the most. I did catch a few episodes after during the Diamond/Pearl Arc when I was at an aunt's, but this wasn't often or consistent. I finally quit watching completely when I realized how formulaic the episodes became. Though I'm told there were some improvements later.

I think I fully 100%ed Chamber of Secrets on PC; that's how much I enjoyed and replayed the game lol. But yeah, Goblet of Fire was meh. I think the drop in game quality was around the time EA started developing HP in-house and not just publishing. The first three games no matter what form I played them in ranged from good to great. Both The PC and DS versions of GoF were mid.

I think the Trails In The Sky games are only available digitally on PC. Though I'm told they were on PSP, that isn't what I'd call a modern platform. Most of the other arcs are available on other platforms - usually PC and PS - and Switch TECHNICALLY has them all except Cold Steel I/II never left Japan on the system.

Seems like I'm missing some good games in the KH series, though I don't think it's worth the investment for me at this time. Unless there's a full reboot or something similar.