Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

So Nintendo life is just over 1.5 million members, really good @nintendolife
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@MarioVillager92 I remember those a lot alongside the music blocks. The costumes featuring cross-over characters was what made the game more memorable for me! The Shaun the Sheep one was cool since I watched a lot of ghe Shaun the Sheep show and film, so it kind of felt surreal seeing him as a costume, though I think Aardman created these Nintendo 3DS shorts with Shaun, so it makes sense why he’s there.

Those two were super fun to play shortly after they released. So strange to think they are almost a decade old now! I am hoping the next installments are on the same levels of fun as Ultimate and 3 and bring a lot of much needed improvements to some issues they have, like the online play because it was so awful trying to play Smash online, like I said. I actually skipped the final boss of Octo Expansion since I failed it the first time I played it, but I replayed that part a few times later and I got the hang of it, but Octo Expansion was a big challenge! It was hard to get all the mem cakes without skipping the levels, but I managed it somehow. The hardest ones were the 8 ball levels and ones where you had to carve a statue out of crates and destroying them. I never got burnt out on 3, also because I didn’t play enough of it compared to the previous two, but I understand feeling like that with some games.

No, the game was cancelled and I think they didn’t really finish developing it, but it reminded me of Resident Evil from how it looked and sounded since it was a survival horror game with grotesque looking enemies. Rare was very experimental with game genres back then, but a lot of the interesting games got cancelled. They have a fair amount of cancelled games that are interesting to read and hear about, but the Rare Revealed documentaries don’t cover all of them.

@Mariotag I still would have loved for it to have happened. Shame it won’t at this point since time has passed, and having a modern Conker game would be hard to do, when it comes to executing the comedy and making sure the comedy isn’t actually offending. But, if I’m being honest, some things should stay in the past since new games for old IPs aren’t always executed well, and the game isn’t relevant anymore. The whole point of Conker is being crude, and I don’t know if Rare or any other game studio would want to make a new game.

I have heard of Slayers I think. Licensing does suck at times especially since it’s hard to watch some stuff you want on a service you have, or if the thing is out of print. But when film series and shows are on multiple platforms and some platforms don’t have all the content on it, it stinks. The JoJo OVA I watched isn’t even on a streaming platform and it’s out-of-print, so I had to watch a YouTube video for it, and then Netflix has all seasons of the JoJo anime while Crunchyroll and the others don’t.

I think you’ll like Boom. Again, it’s not the strongest with action compared to most Sonic media and shows, but it’s comedy and writing is super solid and carries it.

I really want Xbox to succeed and do well and I think it would be so strange if it vanished one day, but there is a lot of stuff they need to improve so that it’ll be the go-to console again, like it was back during the 360 era, which was the most successful for the Xbox ever.

You should! I already watched a few already besides Roger Rabbit. I’m planning to get Disney+ again to expand my options, and I really want to watch the Chip ‘n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers movie again and a bit more Chip ‘n’ Dale content. That’s all I can think of everyday now haha, since the Rescue Rangers movie was intentionally supposed to be a spiritual successor to Roger Rabbit, and there something with classic animated characters interacting in a live action setting that I love a bunch.

I understand. Even though I had Game Pass for a while, I didn’t endlessly download games too. I only played a few that looked interesting and that’s it, but there’s a ton of others that play a ton of good games on there! But, I’m not interesting in getting Game Pass now. Maybe when some more time passes and if I’m in the mood to play more games on the Xbox, but I’ve been meaning to play Marvel Rivals on there soon since ive loved hero shooters for a while. I think I heard Nintendo dislikes discounting their own games for a while, and I wonder why. Is there a possible reason why they don’t do that?

@Pastellioli Fair enough. Modern Conker would be difficult. And ppl are very easily offended now. (Which I attribute to a certain taboo topic being very widespread now...)

Slayers was a fun ride. It apparently had some influence on the dub casting for the original Pokemon too.
And yeah. Licensing sucks. When I started watching Jojo, it was all on hulu. Then it was Crunchyroll only. Then Netflix only.

I might very well like Boom! Just need to find time to start.

Yeah. The 360 was absolutely a high tier console. I still have mine. I still remember the free monthly games. Hopefully they get their act together.

Huh. Well, Disney Plus is something I legitimately can't use, even if I'm a paying customer, soo, probably won't. Forget what this was in response to.

Nintendo is uhh. Well idk their reasons, but they used to do some stuff similar to that, at least with a selects line. I can't download much in general. Whether it's storage space, or internet, it's rather difficult. Never got really into Marvel.

Anyway, I'm guessing you've been busy? My birthday is this month, so I'm expecting to be getting a couple games.

@Sunsy I usually like watching the videos that analyze speedruns and explain how it works. The most memorable one was this viral video where a guy analyze a 5-minute Super Mario Bros. speedrun that was cheated and spliced, and combined footage from other speedruns together to make it look as if it was a legit one.

That’s a lot! I finished Boom, Underground, and AoStH, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of the Christmas special for AoStH. I maybe saw a few episodes of SatAM but I think my mind is a bit fuzzy on that one, but I for sure watched two of the three DIC Sonic shows.

Yeah, I usually like media that’s all fantasy and super colorful-looking, a ton of the N64 games appeal to me since most of them are like that. I’d love to see more retro stuff at GameStop, because I don’t really see any, but the retro stuff I see online on multiple stores is always expensive and hard to get cheap, especially if it’s a game that hasn’t been ported to modern consoles and is out-of-print. It’s why I always have to play retro games on modern hardware, but I don’t mind since it’s cheaper and the performance is better, but it’d be so unreal if I owned a cartridge of a Rare N64 game that I have on the Xbox. I miss the feeling of GameStop, but there isn’t a pain for me to be in one since I have a Series S (all-digital) and a ton of Nintendo 3DS and 2DS games are pricey with the eShop being gone.

I remember that. Wasn’t the differences between US and JP Sonic mainly from the way he was drawn? US Sonic looked cool and had some 90s edge to him while the JP one was softer-looking and cutesy while still looking cool.

I sometimes eat kettle corn too, it’s tasty, but plain popcorn or salty ones are good for me! I sometimes made a cinnamon sugar flavor at home and it was good, but movie popcorn is so dang good. That short was interesting! Thanks for sharing. There was this movie theater style popcorn I sometimes got with my family at a TJ Maxx, and they also used coconut oil in that, so that explains why movie popcorn is so good. Again, I only really eat food at theaters and I just watch movies at home without food, but nothing beats eating food while watching something! Speaking of movies, I’m watching a ton of free movies on YouTube Movies and it’s so fun. They have a pretty decent selection, but I’m excited to get Disney+ very soon to rewatch some movies I’m thinking of. I’m planning on rewatching the Rescue Rangers movie and I’m excited for that. Are there any movies you are interested in seeing? I don’t have much besides a few Disney and Aardman movies. Yeah, the renders were really well-done. In fact, I’d say all Sonic fan artists are really good! I followed a ton of them on Instagram after I saw Sonic 3, and ALL their talent shocks me. I wanna be able to draw like them…

You could do all sorts of random stuff in Infinity, it was so fun, but INteriors was the one I spent the most time in. I had a good bit of random worlds, some more fun and some really random and sometimes barren, but Disney Infinity is maybe the best sandbox game I’ve played. Shame it isn’t coming back. Coincidentally, I’m in a big Disney mood right now and I might want to play some Disney games on the Xbox later…

It’s ok! I don’t really have a need for more art supplies right now, and I’m fine not being at an art store right now. Art supplies can sometimes be hard to get, but it depends on the seller and item. Usually in-person art stores sell items more cheaper, but places like Amazon sell them at really high prices because of shipping unless you have Amazon Prime, though Amazon has a lot of cheaper and good-quality alternatives to expensive and high-end art brands. I tend to use ballpoint and gel pen in my art, but I’ve been wanting to use colored pencils more because I have way more colors in those, and I was a big colored pencil and marker user years ago. I have tried watercolor and paint, but I sucked at those a lot. I bought so many acrylic paints from Target this one time just to not do anything with them after I had a hard time painting and blending and donated them.

@Mariotag I really wouldn’t expect it to come back. I’d like it to, but I know it wouldn’t be as good as it was before. But, the humor I saw in the Project Spark Conker DLC, although lacking crude humor, I did like the jokes about modern video game practices like microtransactions and outdated video game tropes. I would maybe expect a modern Conker game to have humor that was more self-aware and critical and less crude.

Seeing shows jump around a lot on streaming services is annoying…if I do get around to watching the JoJo anime, I don’t know what I’ll do about watching the 5th season since Crunchyroll doesn’t have it. I really don’t want Netflix at all and I find the selection is kind of uninteresting besides a few titles. I’m sure I can buy individual episodes on the Xbox since I saw listings for Stone Ocean on there, but someone I talked to on NL said buying episodes on the Xbox gets pricey.

I hope you enjoy it when you get to it. It’s a really hilarious show and maybe one of the best Sonic shows in terms of jokes and comedy.

You were responding to the YouTube Movies thing…hopefully Disney+ is functional when I use it, since it’s always worked fine but I guess it has technical issues and normal issues that I haven't heard of before. I know at one point it had episodes in incorrect order, and they removed some shows and films from there for cost-cutting reasons and people were understandably mad about that since Disney+ doesn’t remove stuff like Netflix, but what they removed was a ton of original shows and films that I never watched or heard of.

Downloading games takes hours on my Xbox, even when I have free space. Whenever I downloaded Overwatch it took maybe a day to play, but I downloaded it at nighttime and it was done in the morning.

A bit, but I’ll still try to be faster with responding. Didn’t know it’s gonna be your birthday! Hope you have a good one, and happy early birthday! I wonder what games you’ll get.

Anyone here have a swollen switch battery, where its pushing up the bezel somewhat?

@Pastellioli Yeah, still sounds fun though tbh!

Yahhh. Netflix has gotten overly expensive too. Tbh, when it comes to streaming services I can't use, I do tend to sail the seven seas so to speak, but I prefer not to talk much about it. With games at least, I only do so either for user generated content, or games I have no other way of playing. (BSX being one major example of the latter) Basically, things impossible to play otherwise. If it does come down to it, and there's no other way to get Mother 3, I might buy an import copy before getting a translated version online. Just to say "I bought it", y'know?

Yeah. I'll try to enjoy t!

Ah yes. I do have some YT movies to watch. As for Disney Plus, it just never worked for me. Similar deal with Paramount Plus. Loading issues, glitches, lag, crashes, buffering... It didn't seem to matter what the internet speed was either, weirdly enough.

Downloading stuff on PSN and Xbox is a genuine nightmare for me, especially compared to switch.
I don't know what the contrast is, but rather than measuring in hours, a PSN game download for me, takes days. Switch is just, oh, I want this, I'll buy it. Hour and a half? Cool!

Ah alright! My bday isn't for a while though! Roughly a week before MH Wilds.

Lately I’ve been using Netflix more for the mobile games than for the shows…

2025 checkpoint (2/8/25):

Currently playing Mario and Luigi Brothership. I'm on Lottsacoins Island. Been enjoying it so far. I've also been playing Monster Hunter Rise, but I've taken a step back from that game. After I finish one of the two, I plan on going back and continuing Zelda Phantom Hourglass. I'm strangely committed to finishing that game.

2025 commitments:
Plan on moving out, like I said before. I also am going to play Metroid Prime 3 and Federation Force before 4. I'm also going to play Layton's Mystery Journey, especially if New World of Steam ACTUALLY comes out this year. I want to get a functional ps3 to play games like Armoured Core (ps1 and For Answer), the original Klonoa, the Mega Man Legend games, other games I might find. And I should probably play more of my Wii U backlog. Not a conquering "backlog" person, but I've got the GBA Klonoas, 4 Kirbys, 2 Zeldas (including Minish Cap, which I've heard is amazing), and more. I'll at least get to Prime 3 on Prime Trilogy.

2025 Hopes:
Want to see Prime 2 and 3 Remastered happen, and Layton and the New World of Steam to come out and be good.

Love y'all and God bless!

@konicstar Huh. Nice update! Good luck with moving out!
Dunno your prior experience with games. For Klonoa, I played the more recent collection. But I also have the pair of GBA games on Wii U eshop. Never played Prime 3? I still have the preview channel from when it first released!
Should mention about Minish Cap, it's pretty much the only LoZ game to have permanent missables that don't rely on online. Having said that, don't feel too pressured to go after all of them. Enjoy the game your first run for sure!
I've still gotta finish Federation Force, as well as Tri Force Heroes.. And I've got a ps3 which I intend to get more stuff for for similar reasons.
MH Rise is something I've still gotta play. Broship was impressive, if a bit linear, and with a slow start. Phantom Hourglass is neat btw! I only played my bro's copy, and only once. If not for the fact there aren't more than two saves, I'd play it again!

Haven't posted on here in while. The reason for that is because I moved to a small island, where we have been for a whole year without wi-fi. The result of this is that I get out the house slightly more, to the library, and youth clubs and the like. Still don't really have any friends though.

At the moment, I am on holiday, which means I don't have a data limit or a time limit on the wi-fi. I've been catching up on some anime that I can't get on blu-ray or DVD, and updating a bunch of games that need updates. Hopefully this time I remember to redownload the Mega Man legacy collections.

Anyway, it's been kind of rough at home, because we moved to a cold, damp house with asbestos and woodlice up the wazoo and no central heating. Everyone's been kind of miserable, tonnes of arguments. To avoid these arguments I've been hiding in my room lots. It's all quite miserable.

I've finished watching a couple of anime recently, Yu Yu Hakusho, which I've had for ages, and Revolutionary Girl Utena, which I got 2 weeks ago (I love the music, the lyrics are so stupid). I played a game called Sunless Sea at the end of last year, and was immediately thrust into the depths of an existential crisis from which I have not yet recovered, so that's also not good.

But still, it's nice to have central heating, wi-fi, and comfortable chairs.

I just tried to sigm into my nintendo account through web browser, and I am told I need to verify my email address linkefd with the account(it uses a verification code). I already verified this email when I first set up my nintendo account years ago. I can sign into my nintendo account via switch just fine. Is this a scam, have I been hacked?

@DannyBoi Probably not. It's not unusual for websites or other services to ask you to verify that it's you when you sign in on a new device, or one that you haven't used for a while. It's not so much to verify the email address, rather to verify that it's actually you using the different device by proving you have access to the email.

@Mariotag I think Netflix is the one that seems to be getting so many price hikes, kind of like Game Pass. I remember a few days or weeks ago Netflix increased the prices for their tiers. I thought it was great back then, but when the streaming wars began in 2019 and a bunch of licensed movies/shows from companies like Disney were removed, that’s when I started to lose interest. Most of what I watched on there was licensed content, and the only Netflix original show I watched in recent years was Arcane.

I see with the games. Similarly, I use an emulator, but only for N64 games that haven’t been re-released on modern platforms, but it’s been a while since. The only one I played was DKR, but I never finished it and the way the game played without a controller was frustrating. I was going to play DK64 at some point after replaying the Banjo and Conker games last year, but if I’m being honest I don’t have much interest in playing it, and I’m not into platformer games at the moment.

What movies do you want to watch? I’m already running out of YT films to watch but it’s also probably because I don’t watch a bunch of genres besides comedy and fantasy. YouTube movies has a good selection of well-known movies, hidden gems but also some mediocre and bad movies, but I think the good stuff outshines the bad. Though, there were a few animated movies I saw on YT recently that I thought weren’t good, mostly with the characters being poorly written or unlikable.

The only times I had trouble with Disney+ was the WiFi. The old internet was garbage…It’d disconnect whenever it felt like it and it would take minutes to get back on, but I think that was worse when I played online games since you can get penalized even if the disconnect is unintentional.

Switch was way faster with downloading games in my experience. Even when my Xbox had a lot of space, some games took too many hours to download, and it’s strange since the Switch I used had limited space. I don’t know if it has to do with the space of the games I download (usually I downloaded Overwatch 2, which is a hefty 70 GB) but since I’m mostly a solely Xbox user it’s pretty annoying.

I see! Well, I hope that when your birthday comes it’s a good one

Guess what?! I put in an adoption request for the Palia Fandom and it was approved!!

@Pastellioli Yup. Can relate. Didn't know there was another price hike. I do watch a bunch of stuff, but not as often on netflix..

For N64 emulation, I find a controller is essential. I do tend to play fan content for more than official content in that regard though. I'd recommend DK64 at some point, but only if you have a way to play it well. I personally use an Xbox One controller.

In terms of youtube movies, the American release of the Digimon movie, just to see it, Secret of Nimh, All Dogs go to Heaven, and I think Millenium Dragon or something.

Yeahh, in my experience, it was just buggy and messed up.
And yeah. Being penalized for disconnecting sucks! It's almost like the big companies don't care about anyone without access to top notch internet.

Switch is waaayyyyy faster than Xbox or PSN. Genshin decided to start an update yesterday, I took a single glance, and while the numbers were too blurry to fully make out, it looked like 70+ hours.... A basic update should never take that long. Switch meanwhile, I just leave it in the background for a couple hours tops, and it's done.

Yeah, I'm hoping my birthday will be good! I've sent some courtesy invites to ppl I know can't make it, just cause I want 'em to know that I would invite them were things more reasonable. Anyways, just a bit over a week left.

@Mariotag Netflix is the one I hear that has gotten so many price hikes constantly. It doesn’t sound worth the price anymore in my opinion, and the library seems to have gottes uninteresting besides a few movies and shows.

From what I’ve played in DKR, an actual controller is necessary. I hear there’s techniques for driving that can only be executed well if you have the controller. Maybe I’ll play DK64 at some point when I go back to platformers, but right now I’m into rhythm games and hero shooters.

I saw All Dogs Go to Heaven and Secret of NIMH. Both are fantastic! I was surprised by how YT offered a few anime movies for free and even some iconic ones, namely Hunter x Hunter and Ghost in the Shell films, but I didn’t see them, though I saw other anime movies. For that, I saw Paprika, The House of the Lost on the Cape and The Wonderland.

That sucks since I think Disney+ has a pretty good selection of Disney content, at least when I last used it. Again, the WiFi was the only actual issue I really had with it. I know they split the sub into tiers and introduced ads for the cheapest, so that’s great…it was a big risk playing games with that bad WiFi. 50/50 chance you’ll stay connected or disconnect, though some games did have bad online servers, like Overwatch when I last played it in December.

Took long to find matches (probably because Marvel Rivals was new and took half of Overwatch’s playerbase with them) and the servers disconnected me from matches. The heroes played badly with bad WiFi, because you could be shooting at an enemy but it takes seconds for the damage to register, or you get eliminated by opponents with better WiFi but it takes seconds for that to register on screen. The heroes lagged a lot and I’d describe the feel of the lag as being like they were being pushed around by an invisible force and couldn’t move properly. I didn’t have much fun with it when I replayed it because of that…

Yeah, I think the Xbox has worse download times compared to the Switch, but it’s only really for bigger games. But, I find game updates take longer for some reason than the actual game. The only games that download fast are my 360 games since those have low GB and some Xbone games, but it depends on the GB and games included.

Sounds exciting, I hope a lot of people go to your birthday! Birthdays are so exciting and one of the best things of the year.

@Pastellioli I like your new profile picture. Chip and Dale are adorable, haha! I used to watch Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers on Disney Channel when I was much younger as well.

I remember the crossover costumes in Super Mario Maker as well, especially the Hello Kitty one. My mom loves, loves, loves Hello Kitty, so it's a pretty memorable costume for me. I think there was a My Melody one too.

Actually it's just Mario Kart 8 that's a decade old. MK8's original Wii U release was in 2014, while New Horizons came out in 2020. NH is gonna be half a decade old this year... that's crazy! It took me many, many tries to finally beat the final boss in Octo Expansion. I don't think I finished every level in OE, I think I only left one level behind. The 8-ball levels were pretty hard for sure. I don't remember that OE had that box carving level, but I do remember there was one in Splatoon 3's base story mode.

Oh gotcha, no wonder I didn't hear about it until recently. I do know there's Grabbed by the Ghoulies, another game that Rare made. I wonder if that came before that survival horror game project? And while we're on the subject of that, Capcom was gonna make a horror game for the GBA that would make use of a special accessory, but they had trouble making it. They went on to make something totally different instead, which was the first Mega Man Battle Network game. Pretty interesting to see that MMBN essentially started development as a horror game, haha.

@Pastellioli Not just price hikes. With my parents separated, and me living at my dad's while my bro lives at my mom's, there was a fair bit of okay, one pays for this, the other pays for that. But uh. Netflix decided that wasn't acceptable. One account per location, or you get charged extra.

I'd say any given N64 game requires an actual controller. Too many buttons, as well as a need for an analogue stick. DKR is amazing, and imo, still holds up today as one of my two fave kart racers. DK64 was an incredible collectathon. Granted, it could use some QoL improvements, but regardless, there's much to like.

Yeah. I still haven't actually seen any movies on there. Digimon Adventure tri was on there at some point iirc.

The sub for Disney Plus was split into tiers too? Oml.... Yeah, they have lots of content.
Disconnections get to be too much at times.

Yup. I remember that kind of lag from the original Overwatch. Tbh, in spite of that, I should have played it more. The friends who wanted me to play it with them are now quite distant.

Yeah. Updates and full game downloads are a pain in general. Sony's PS is at least as bad as xbox.

Not likely for a bunch of ppl to come. Likely just family, and a couple friends, as usual. I just sent invites out to some friends I considered close enough, as well as one I want to try and mend things with after my disaster of a collection of social skills were on full display.