Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Mana_Knight, congratulations on finding your game! I would be pretty distressed if one of mine went missing. As a matter of fact, for several years, mine and my family's games were all in the same cabinet under the TV until last month, when I brought mine up to my bedroom to keep them safe. Now all of my family members have to ask me before they use any of my physical games. Though it's not like they use them often anyway, it's mostly just my younger brother who plays a few of them every once in a while 🤣. I did this to make my physical Switch games last longer, especially after I've decided to start getting physical games again after only getting digital for almost two years.

@Mana_Knight That's awesome, I'm glad you found it! I would have been upset if I lost a Switch cartridge... those things are small. Similarly, a while back, I almost dropped one of my Switch carts on the floor, but it didn't since I saved it.

@MarioVillager92 Thank you and good catch! I love that they are tiny for storage purposes, but that is the downside of them. Can be lost or easily hoovered up!

Okay.
I have purchased the DLC of The Sims 4 PS4: Cottage Living, Home Decorator and Tiny Living + Bowling Alley.
My first impression with Cottage Living World , Henford was not really impressed with the country village looking as I'm not a fan of clashed color combination of country style house & furnitures. So, the things I did after I take a look the house design is demolize all those houses because it looked terrible for me.
I will rebuild the new country style house with my choice but I need to combine the venue idea with other expansion pack like Business and Hobbies as I can turn the lot into business community + For Rent I can turn into apartment & shop community.
Home Decorator didn't do much for me for the home decorator career as I prefer build very nice looking house from beginning rather than makeover the terrible looking house into gorgeous looking house via home decorator career. But the Home Decorator furnitures looked nice.
Tiny Living have new venue type, called Tiny Residential which have three different option to choose: 100 tiles, 64 tiles and 32 tiles. Micro house with 32 tiles maximum rule looked ridiculous as my smallest size house possible was from 6 x 6 tiles which have 36 tiles. I don't really need that Tiny house residential option as I can decide how small my house design is and I can combined with For Rent to make Community houses with different buildings in one big lot area.
I haven't try for Bowling Alley as I still have to think the good looking Bowling Alley venue that can be combined with Business & Hobbies.

@Mana_Knight No problem and thanks! My games can't get away that easily, lol. I have a tendency to put back my games in their cases when I'm done with them.

@ParrakerriRush Didn't see you asking but Sonic Adventure 2 is my favorite Sonic game, I love the fast levels with a focus on A-ranking, the darker story where Sonic gets captured by the ***** US military (that will never happen in Mario lmao), and the music of course. E: Sonic x Shadows Gens is also really really good actually, probably my favorite Sonic game since SA2. Original Gens was pretty good but I had the PS3 version which was borked.

@Fiergala Yeah, I love Sonic games. SA2 is a great choice, I like SA2, even though I haven't beat it yet! Sonic Heroes is my favourite. Even though I am born way after the GameCube Era, I love the team mechanic and I would to see it get a remake. Sonic music is always spot on and really good, which I found was really good in Generations and Mania.

@ParrakerriRush I found Sonic Heroes kinda mid when I played back in the day and preferred older 2D Sonic to it on the Sonic Mega Collection. Guess I was a little edgelord but I actually liked Shadow the Hedgehog a lot, it's really not bad outside of a few levels like The Doom which are legit terrible lol and has an awesome soundtrack even outside the 2000s butt rock (...which I enjoy...). What other E10+ platformer lets you literally blow Air Force One out of the sky. And some people complain about it for some reason but even at the time I really liked the branching paths system. They say it's tedious to unlock the true ending but I literally did it as a child without even knowing it existed so no idea what they're on about.
E: Also he straight up murders Eggman in some non-canon endings, like gunshot and fade to black, in retrospect that's both insane and hilarious

It's been awhile since I've been in this thread. Between life and games, quite a bit happened. I saw Smurfs (contrary to popular opinion, I loved the movie), got several new PC games because of sales that were happening, and been playing them (for those curious, I got the Pizza Connection games, Black Mesa, and the Heretic and Hexen Collection). It's a hot day, so I spent a good chunk of the afternoon in my room keeping cool playing Asphalt Legends Unite.

How's everyone been?

@Sunsy Hi there, it has been a while, I've been wondering about you lately. I hope you're doing well. I'm doing pretty good, quite a bit happened on my end as well... I recently got a Switch 2 with Mario Kart World bundled, and I'm enjoying the heck out of it. That's cool you got those PC games on sale, hope you're liking them, glad to see you loved the Smurfs movie. And yes, it's getting hot here as well. I'm eternally grateful for stuff like air conditioners and cold water during these times, lol.

@MarioVillager92 I'm doing well, glad you're doing good. Cool, enjoy it! I got to try Switch 2 last week, I went out for a day to myself, bought a Trolls book and Target had a playable Switch 2.

Yeah I have fun with business sim games like Rollercoaster Tycoon and Theme Hospital, so been loving the Pizza Connection games (Pizza Tycoon as it was called back in 1995). Heretic is cool too, it's basically Doom, with a fantasy theme. Smurfs was good, as someone who's been following the Smurfs since 2017, I have to say it exceeded my expectations.

Indeed. I've been getting up early just to get chores and errands done before it gets too hot. Also good since I could enjoy the rest of my day in my room playing games on Switch and PC, or putting on stuff on YouTube.

@Sunsy Thanks, I'm indeed enjoying it! The game is quite a bit better than I thought it would be, actually. My new profile picture is actually from a screenshot I took from one of my online races! I also played a couple GameCube games on NSO/Nintendo Classics and the Switch 2 edition of Breath of the Wild. I've not tried out GameChat yet, but I would like to sometime. That's cool, my Target had a playable Switch 2 kiosk as well. What are your thoughts from what you've played?

Nice, I think I played Rollercoaster Tycoon a few times? Been a while, I remember playing PC games like that at school years ago. I looked up Heretic, it does look like a cool game. That's awesome, I don't think I've seen too much of the Smurfs aside from the original cartoons.

That's good to get those done early, the heat gets ridiculous once we get past the morning and stuff. Summer is such a boiler of a season, haha. I already want fall to come.

@Jhena Calamity Fanon was more a weird joke from when Breath of the Wild released.
The idea that bad fanworks were "Calamity Fanon". So yeah.

Ah. I thought Mystic Quest was something different. Now we have like, 4 different names for the first game, excluding Sword of Mana.

@Mariotag
Yes, it can get really confusing with so many names. And Mystic Quest got two remakes, if I am correct. Sword of Mana and Adventures of Mana.

@Jhena video games music is great, it is still created with passion, something that modern slop music and movies cannot even hope to emulate.

Wild west was a dark realm indeed, much darker than any game would dare portray.

In my opinion, it is absolutely the same. In a video game you need to complete an objective to see the next part of the story. Shooting someone to activate a script is no different than turning a page, since you have no choice in the matter. If you want to see the next part of the story, you need to perform said action. There was a game where you had to drop a white phosphorus bomb on civilians. It's a horrible banned weapon. Many people feel strongly about it but what can you do? You either do it or... not complete the game. It is not your choice, so whatever.

As for humans acting according to animal nature, there is an interesting thing called the halo effect. Humans' reaction towards others is strictly dictated by whether they find others attractive. It is very strong and subconscious, but proven time and time again. And it comes from back when humans had to favor the healthiest, strongest units in the herd/tribe to survive

@Princess_Lilly
To be honest, after Mario Kart World and Bananza I lost my faith in modern media, even the music. Mario Kart World feels like more than 70% is just remixes of Nintendo's past glory and Bananza is too much modern nihilistic slop. There probably still exists great music, but right now, I do not even want to try new games. I am playing Final Fantasy IX now, no complaints there. It is just right.

It feels different to me and I do not feel responsible for the actions of book protagonists. But I do feel like my heart is telling me to stop reading, if it gets to dark, like it happened when I read War and Peace. What is similar is the feeling, that I should not engage with this kind of content.

I just try to stay away from this herd/tribe thing.

So are the writers and us as a "fanbase" just kind of ignoring "The Rizzler" has become one of the main faces of Nintendo marketing. Literally saw an article about poor Alison Brie having to play MKW with him, I'm sure that was her always her dream getting into acting. E: Also apparently for an R-rated movie where her and Dave Franco bang so... extra confusion now...

@Princess_Lilly
What is interesting though is that I do not remember feeling remorse, when I played games like Dino Crisis 2, Return to Na Pali, Heavy Metal @.#.!.$.$ 2 and stuff like that, when I was a kid. But I remember that I thought the violence in Dino Crisis 2 was fun and cool.

Created an Instagram account yesterday 😃! My account picture is the same as the one I use on this site. Added my Instagram username to my profile on this site as well. Haven't done much with it yet, but I'm definitely looking forward to my first social media. Also, I've already followed Nintendo Life on Instagram!

Cool glad you like it. For me, the Switch 2 was good. The demo I tried was Mario Kart World. I feel the game is good, just not worth the $80. Maybe if it was $60, I could see myself getting it. I'm not paying $80 for any game. Also I don't have a Switch 2, ultimately, it's the game key cards that ruined my excitement I had. I buy both physical and digital games, when I want physical, I want the game on the cart. If you look at my Switch, Wii U, Wii, 3DS, and other Nintendo systems, I have a lot of third party games, and that game key cards seem to be the route most third party games are going. Don't let that ruin your fun, if you're enjoying Switch 2, more power to you!

Yup, I like those kind of games, so the Pizza Connection games work well with me, especially since I like to cook, and enjoy pizza (yes, I have made fresh pizza before. ). Heretic is good, just fantasy Doom. I got into the Smurfs after seeing Smurfs: The Lost Village, loved the series since. I was actually playing Smurfs: Mission Vileaf on Switch before I saw the new movie in anticipation (the new movie seems to be a reboot, has nothing to do with The Lost Village).

Indeed, I had to go out the other day early to get milk. Usually I like to have chocolate milk for my classic game session every Saturday evening. Thankfully where I live, we're having a bit of a break, it was cool yesterday, and only going to be in the 70's today).