Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@DanijoEX-The-Kumiho Ah.
As someone once entranced by the idea of "they can become anyone and anything, even transforming others", I can only imagine. Though, the last part is probably a pipe dream from someone else's OC.
Why have a single superpower when you can get any one you desire through transformation?

@Pastellioli Yeah. Mythological creatures are awesome! ...for the most part. I would definitely not want a medusa to exist. Ever.

16?? I'm struggling at like, 4-5... Yeah. OG HW DLC was an earlier example of you getting this immense amount of extra content for $20, but it got so brutal... I never fully finished it. Can't recall if there were outfits prior to the DLC. Cia only came as part of the DLC though.

Yeahhh. Funnily enough, I mostly do digital art if I'm gonna try. I've had loads of anxiety with messy stuff. I'm not ready to try paint. But it's worth noting, Wii U Gamepad aside, a special case in its own right, I'm bad at digital art flat out.

The pricing is nuts. The only pricing I thought reasonable was the console itself. Sure, it's expensive. But it isn't like, ps3 launch day expensive. Or a ps5 pro. Closer to launch day ps5. Between that and ps4 launch day. The game prices are nuts for the most part, but I am pleased to see some games buck the insane new trend. Weird how games have cost between $50-$70 for like, the entirety of the console market up till now. Unaffected by inflation, they just were. Then Nintendo decided to price them up. It could be like N64, where cart manufacturing was just that much more expensive. But given their other choices, I'm going with sheer greed.
Yes, the tariffs are becoming a nightmare. I can understand why they're there at least, cause the US has been placed at a massive economic disadvantage, with everyone else doing manufacturing, and others taking advantage of the US. There's a chart I asked my dad to show me, which would depict the US tariffs, and what they're in response to.
Still, no question they harm the consumer. My hope is that as a result, Nintendo will find they cannot go too Wario with their prices, or ppl just won't buy. The new Wii U, by their own choice, again.

@Pastellioli Thanks! Will say, the biggest highlight while I was away, I went to a hockey game with my friend. He wanted to do it for his birthday and I went. Don't regret it, and it made me play Mario and Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on Wii U for the hockey event there.

I really hope that retailers follow suit and compete to help lower the prices of retail games. Really, the $80 price tag is putting me off (in addition to game-key cards). As someone who's also a PC gamer, I've gotten the best deals for games over the years. If prices are too high, I may just consider sticking to PC and older Nintendo consoles. I'll always have a PC for everyday things, but I also play games on it. Planning to play some Jagged Alliance tonight on it. Thanks for reminding me, I need to play more of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.

Yeah, not voice chat, video chat. The Wii U did video chat first, honestly it was a good app to use. My friend and I used it quite a bit.

I'd imagine that much, I do have the charging grip for the Joy-Cons ever since, well before I had my Switch. Toys R Us was going out of business, so I grabbed the charging grip for cheap before I had the system. I'd imagine they would work given a lot of third party controllers are officially licensed too.

While I don't know if I'll get one (again, $80 games are putting me off), that worries me a bit too. I noticed one of the games that didn't work was Asphalt Legends Unite. That's a game I like, play it on both Switch and PC. Who knows if other games have issues. I'd hate to be locked out of Trolls Remix Rescue in event it doesn't work. However, I still keep my older systems, so I could always play on there.

@Mariotag If you ever get it, enjoy it. I consider TMS to be a really underrated game. I agree with both.

@MarioVillager92 It goes well. Even though I was busy, my friend took me to a hockey game, which led me booting up my Wii U to play the hockey event in Mario & Sonic 2014. Sorry to hear about that. YouTube ambiance is the best, that sounds nostalgic. For me, I really like the sounds of planes and car rides. Sometimes I put them on as I fall asleep at night (I usually use a sleep timer to turn off the TV).

Honestly, the price of the games is putting me off. I'm afraid I might not be able to get a Switch 2, and stick to my Switch, older Nintendo consoles and PC, unless a price drop happens. Which I do have a lot to play across all of them. I did play my Wii U during the week. Yeah, game-key card is just a bad idea. I buy physical to have it on the cart. If I want digital, I'd just buy the download it. I've been doing both physical and digital across Wii to Switch. Also, that physical copy saves on system memory and SD card space.

That would be something I would love to see happen, the same situation with the 3DS. I remember that like it was yesterday. My friend is the only person who was an early adopter of the 3DS (or an "ambassador" as Nintendo puts it), and others I know got the 3DS later on after the price drop, myself included. I would love to see another 3DS situation happen that could force Nintendo to drop the price.

Just a general comment, not directed to anyone... I miss the old Nintendo, when they didn't do anti-consumer practices like game-key cards or $80 games. The scary part is, if $80 games are successful, you know other game companies are going to follow suit and increase their game prices.

@Sunsy I have it on Wii U, but know nothing about switch changes.

Also, game key cards are only some releases, thankfully.

yo wassup y’all

@Sunsy
Oh, about Switch 2 cartridge.
I got clarification again from other user which the cartridge will have game data inside the cartridge, even the 1st party games.
Only certain 3rd party games that usually the lazy developer games with code in box / partial download which using game-key cartridge.
It's safe to say we can have full games in Switch 2 cartridge.

@Mariotag Alright, cool you have the game on Wii U. Indeed, I'm glad it's not all games, still upsets me that such an option exists and you know companies are going to use that game-key option.

@Anti-Matter I'd figure that much. The fact the option to do such exists, you know third party developers are going to take advantage of them to save money. At that point, just make it a code in a box, gets rid of the extra step of inserting a game-key card to play the game since the game downloads from the eShop anyway. Or better yet, buy those digitally.

This is coming from someone who has physical games too.

@Sunsy Ooh, you went to a hockey game? Cool! It’s cool you played a Mario & Sonic game, because I also played the 2009 Winter Olympic Games one on the Wii, though that was the only Mario & Sonic game I played.

I hope so too, especially since retailers in other countries plan on selling some of the games cheaper. It’s just the price of the games that are somewhat off-putting, and I also heard others say Nintendo never discounts their own games? That is disappointing to hear, so people might have to rely on other game retailers for that since they tend to discount certain games or sell them pre-owned. I am fine maybe waiting a bit to get the Switch 2 since I have an Xbox, but I really don’t want to miss out on Bananza. Though, people are hoping that if they wait enough there will be another 3DS situation where they slash the price of the Switch 2 down significantly if it doesn’t sell a lot of units because of the price, though I do expect the Switch 2 to sell a lot of units once it releases, cuz I know there’s a lot of hardcore fans that are planning on getting it day one. Enjoy Age of Calamity when you get into it!

Whoops, I misread. Yeah, I wanted to do video chat on Wii U but it was discontinued by the time I wanted to, but I’m sure I tried doing it when Nintendo and everyone else had moved to the Switch, so it was to be expected. It is nice it’s coming back for Switch but it’s paid…

I don’t have a charging grip for the OG Joy-cons, but it’s no problem since they’ll charge alongside the Switch. The news about them not being chargeable with the Switch 2 didn’t bother me much though since Im sure a lot of people are going to hold onto their OG Switches when they get the 2.

I am glad that a lot of the backwards compatible games are playable but I know that they said certain games wouldn’t be playable (so far the only confirmed incompatible game was Nintendo Labo, but mainly because the Switch 2 doesn’t fit in the sets) its good they are trying to make the games with launch issues work on the newer hardware, though it’s still a bummer they might have to exclude certain games if they can’t fix the issues, but luckily from their report a majority of the partner games ran, though it’s subject to change since they said some of the launched games were still being tested.

@Sunsy Oh that's cool you got to see a hockey game, my dad is a big hockey fan. I have Mario Sports Mix and that has hockey in it, I remember it being fun. Been years since I last played it though. That's cool you like the YouTube ambiance videos too! The sounds of car rides is nice. I'm personally not too huge into plane sounds though, the sound of them taking off scares me, though that's just me. As a fan of trains, I love the sounds of old steam trains. The sound of the train chugging is actually really nice to sleep to and helps me feel like I'm on a huge railway journey.

Yeah, I'll very likely stick with my Switch for the time being. There's still quite a few games I should play more of on there, as well as the 3DS and Wii U. Plus a lot of those I know don't seem to be planning on getting a Switch 2 this early on - I'd want to play Mario Kart World with friends once I get that and a Switch 2. From what I've heard about the game key cards, they aren't a one-time use and you could move it between systems. They sound a little better than those download codes that were in some physical Switch 1 games, that would download like the rest of the game, but not by a lot. I'd imagine you'd still need to connect to the internet to download it and make sure the servers aren't discontinued.

Yeah definitely, that would be great. At least with the prices of some games. It's a console I'd love to have, I'd love to play its exclusives and the GameCube games online, but yeah... the games potentially asking for $80 is an issue, and I was expecting $70 games myself. Plus there's only three games on the GC app at launch, and some of the games I want on there - Mario Kart: Double Dash and Mario Party 4, 5, 6, and 7 for example - weren't announced yet. Would love to play those with friends online.

@Sunsy
So, what is your plan for Switch 1 and your other platform gaming when Switch 2 situation is not great?
I will get final upgrade by purchasing OLED edition since Switch 2 prospect doesn't look great at all with all the monetized and the scam.
There are still too many Switch 1 games I can get to build my Switch 1 games library and with addition of OLED edition, I can get into another 1000+ hours of ACNH on OLED machine, making 2nd island with different villagers, different island looking, different island terraforming. And since I still keep my Switch V1, I can play Local mode of ACNH and I will exchange items to build the item catalogue.
Also, I will take "Retro" Route by collecting the retro games, previous gen games that I still haven't have yet for my alternative worthy purchase.
Oh, of course I still stay on PS4, PS5 route for my 3rd party games.
I will wait and see the Switch 2 sales that will drop drastically and even worse than Wii U sales situation.

@Pastellioli (Apologies for the late reply.) Thank you. I'm feeling a little better. Been listening to some ambiance videos on YouTube and they've been helping me cheer up and have a good night's sleep. Got to listen to one that has 1950s oldies and it got me in a better mood. And yes, a little fun fact about me, I like old-timey stuff.

Ah gotcha, so looks like your only option is to start from scratch. I'm sorry to hear regardless. Yeah, I remember the Leaf Tickets since that was how the game was monetized. I don't think I completed a furniture set until Pocket Camp Complete. The Leaf Tokens in PCC are a lot more player-friendly, I find, since you could just get them by playing the game. Plus you'd just spend 25 of them (as opposed to 250 Leaf Tickets) to get the 5 fortune cookies, that is so much better! It's still left to luck on what items you'll get, but the new system here allows us to keep trying much more easily.

Yeah, the third-party characters would be neat for sure. As somebody who mostly plays Nintendo games, I am fine with that for sure. I'd imagine they would have to strike deals with Sega, Capcom, Square Enix, etc. to have non-Nintendo character icons.

Yeah, I should. I'll be sure to post my thoughts when I do. There's another game I remember that stars Donald Duck, called Quackshot, and that was also for the Genesis. I remember that one being fun. I wanna try out World of Illusion sometime, as well. That's cool, nothing wrong with typing a lot about what you've watched.

Oh gosh, the 2050s? That's quite a long time away from now, lol. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking that would happen, I don't want to time travel in New Horizons. Happy Home Paradise is fun for sure. To get the gist of it, you'd design vacation homes for folks, as well as other buildings. If you enjoy designing your home in Animal Crossing, I highly recommend it.

I remember hearing how it got reworked into Sabreman Stampede, then got cancelled. They did for sure. Speaking of which, although I never played it, I remember seeing Donkey Kong Barrel Blast for the Wii, which was also a racing game. I don't like being too critical, but that game just did not look good to me. I didn't like how you're essentially required to continually shake the Wii remote and nunchuk to play it. It's why I never got it and just waited for Mario Kart Wii instead, lol. On a somewhat related note, Donkey Kong Bananza looks great and I'd love to play it when I get a Switch 2 in the future. Kind of wondering about the next 3D Mario game, though.

@Pastellioli Yeah, it was cool to see hockey in person. Even though I was never a sports guy, I actually got into it thanks to my friend. Yeah, when I found out it had hockey, I wanted to check it out.

Nintendo does discount games, it's just a very, very rare occasion. For example, I remember they had sales for Mar10 Day. I remember finding Super Mario Party for $40 because of it. It's not often. The reason why I don't like $80 games, and don't want to pay for it is simply because it will encourage other publishers to make their game prices higher. I think I'll be fine waiting if I need to, PC has a lot to play, and I'm sure the Switch has more to it given it's popular.

Yeah, honestly, I miss it. Video chat on Wii U was pretty solid.

Indeed, whenever I get a new system, I always keep the old one. Let's say I got the Switch, and I needed to send it into Nintendo for repair, then I could at least play my Wii U while I wait for it to be repaired. It's always good to keep the old system. Looking how some games won't work on Switch 2, I think it's wise to keep the original one.

Yeah, it's a bummer that not all games will work. It makes me wonder if backwards compatability is emulation. Previous Nintendo consoles, backwards compatability seemed to be hardware based at least from what I observed with previous consoles. On the one hand, some games don't work. On the other, it may keep system costs down since they don't have to put extra hardware in.

@MarioVillager92 Yeah, it was cool and exciting to see in person, even got me checking out the sport. Which is strange since I never really was a sports person. I like it so far. Didn't know Mario Sports Mix had hockey in it. I remember I use to put a train one on, it was by RailCowGirl, I think that was the channel. Beautiful scenery in her videos. The plane ones are usually planes flying in the air, not the lift off part.

For me, I will probably wait for a price drop, or if they make a cheaper model like they did with Switch Lite, or hope for one for a birthday gift or Christmas gift. Even then, I'd probably use it more as an indie or classics machine. I really do not want to pay $80 for games, and encourage other publishers to make game prices higher. I've always been a Nintendo and PC guy, so I have PC games to play too. Though FWIW, I play more classic games and indies on PC than AAA games on it. Funny thing is, the AAA games I do have on PC, are older games, like Titanfall 2 for example.

GameCube online made me think, Mario Kart Double Dash had a LAN mode. I wonder if that app will emulate that option. This way people playing can have their own screen. Don't know what it is, I love the obscure bits of Nintendo history, lol. Yeah, I'd imagine they would drop games slowly like the other NSO apps. Which reminds me, I still need to play Donkey Kong 94, now that they added it to Switch Online. Last time I played it was on my 3DS.

@Anti-Matter Simple really, for Switch 2 wait for a price drop, or if they make a "Lite" system that's cheaper, or hope for one as a birthday or Christmas gift. Even then, I really do not want to pay $80 for games and will probably stick to more indie games than Nintendo ones. I didn't even want $70 games. Honestly, buying games at $80, only encourages other publishers to follow suit and make games more expensive. Nintendo opened the floodgates for companies like Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar to all charge more for games.

Right now my plan is Switch 1, it's popular so there will hopefully be more years out of it, and PC. Not too worried about game ownership on PC, because I buy games DRM-free from GOG. Basically, I download a game's offline installer, then back it up to either DVD-R or CD-R, thus giving me a physical copy that works without Internet. Even if GOG were to shut down, I can still play my PC games I bought. This store was where I bought Smurfs: Mission Vileaf from, and I have that game backed up to a DVD-R, playable offline.

@MarioVillager92 I never really listen to music or noises to go to bed, but the few times I have did feel nice. It’s good you’re feeling better now!

Wow, the tweaks to the currency sound way better and fun. I didn’t know they got rid of the Leaf Tickets and got tokens in instead, because all I remember them saying before the closing of the OG Pockey Camp was that you could no longer buy Leaf Tickets, which I assumed meant the Leaf Tickets were going to be earned in-game without real money. Yeah, the tickets were really frustrating and annoying for me when I used to play it. They were hard to get and required a lot to do almost everything, and it’s nice to hear that it’s way more easier to unlock furniture sets and things. I had a lot of incomplete sets though.

I really want them, but I don’t think that they’ll have third-party icons anytime soon. I am hoping they will eventually, but I understand why on the Switch they don’t allow you to use your own photos and you have to use the stuff they have already. I am fine with the DKC render I currently have, also because it’s from a game Rare developed, and I enjoy their old games a lot

I have heard of Donald Duck starring in quite a few games of his own, but I never played them at all, though I did watch a video about Crash Bandicoot clones (in terms of gameplay) and one of them was a game called Goin’ Quackers, which did seem fun, and I remember the guy in the video liked it. I’ve only really played the more modern Disney games, but I find a lot of Disney games are pretty good quality and fun!

The time was left like that for years and it ruined the game a lot lol. I did fix it eventually, though I don’t play ACNL anymore, also because I dont have a good 2DS charger. The one I had is busted unfortunately. But yeah, after seeing how much the town was altered from the year change, I just didn’t time travel in ACNH since that’s the intended way to play. I see, I did know it was about making houses. When I played ACNL I did like decorating my house a lot and obtaining furniture, so that sounds fun.

Rare had a plethora of cancelled games with interesting development cycles. It’s a shame that whenever they tried salvaging cancelled games it almost never worked and didn’t see the light of day, and DKR still doesn’t have a sequel unfortunately. I can remember some people think something similarly happened with a cancelled Conker sequel, but I don’t know if there’s any confirmation on it? What people thought happened with that was the environments and graphics for the sequel were salvaged and used for the remake instead, which people think was made as a replacement for the sequel. I also think people think that way is because Conker’s outfit in the remake was originally from the sequel, so it is very likely they salvaged it. Anyway, it’s a shame a lot of their interesting projects never came to be, but it also came from some of the developers not really wanting to make the games from a lack of interest, though it’s understandable.

And yes, I’m very excited about Bananza! I really cannot wait, though I’m hoping the game doesn’t get fully leaked just before release, since I’m likely not going to have a Switch 2 by the time it releases, and it seems almost every major Nintendo game gets leaked. But, I am also wondering what they are going to do for the next 3D Mario game. It was a bit surprising they never announced one during the Direct, but I would assume it’s in development, probably not ready to be revealed yet. I am kind of expecting rumors for the next game to pop up after a while, since Bananza and it being developed by the Odyssey team was heavily rumored for years and here it finally is revealed.

@Mariotag I am a fan of the ones that are more like animals, or just straight-up animals.

Yeah, if your at chapter 4-5, you have 10-11 chapters left. It’s a short but fun game. Yeah, I only got the outfit DLC, I never got the extra content and characters, though the newer playable characters looked really cool.

I never do digital art, because I suck at it and managing layers and blending. I actually got a drawing tablet and pen during Christmas years ago, it’s the type of tablet you connect to a computer and I used it 1-2 times and I still wasn’t good at using it. I still have it and I want to try digital stuff, but my art skills are so bad digitally. I downloaded Ibis Paint X so I could digital draw, but I don’t use it because I have to use my finger for all the drawing and can’t get fine details because I don’t have a digital pencil. It’s why I like doing traditional, but traditional is more stress and anger-inducing if it doesn’t go right.

I should add that I also really don’t like using paint. When I wanted to paint, it was usually like a fad for me after I see someone online paint a masterpiece. I think I can do it, butttt I can’t. Worst thing I did was waste a ton of bucks on a set of oil paints and not buying linseed oil to clean my brushes. Didn’t know oil paint was slow-drying and sticks to brushes, so I lost a ton of good brushes and never made a finished painting with them.

The game pricing was the greatest disappointment. Like others the high Switch 2 price was to be expected, but I really think the pricing on the games is not good since everyone is buying the Switch 2 for two things: to play exclusives that will be unplayable on the OG Switch, and have their games run better with the improved hardware and technology. I swear the $70 game pricing started two years ago and it’s very quickly getting to $80. I know inflation and all, but it absolutely sucks that now it’s gotten pricier quickly. I’m already hearing people say they aren’t getting it because of how high the game and console pricing is. I am hoping that they will eventually slash the Switch 2 and game prices down if they don’t sell well, like what happened with the 3DS and how it got a significant price change because they overpriced it at first. I do have a bad feeling the pricing will hurt sales maybe a bit, since a lot of people got turned off from the pricing, plus them excluding the pricing in the Direct and not telling anyone else it later makes me feel a certain way.

And I am also hoping there are more exclusives they’ll reveal soon, because while I do like the new Switch 2 exclusives they revealed, I feel like the only four new first-parties they showed off might not be enough, plus it’s unknown what they’ll be doing with the next 3D Mario game. It was a bit shocking to me they never revealed an exclusive Mario game for the Switch 2, but I’m assuming they probably have one in the works but aren’t ready to reveal it. Hopefully they have a June Direct around the release and show off significantly more Switch 2 exclusives.

Yeah, it's my birthday today. A friend gave me this game. I'm gonna tag @Anti-Matter for this one.

Also got some new Trolls Mineez. Seriously, glad I got this game. I like the first game, and this generation of My Little Pony was recently cancelled (I use to watch it on Netflix too) so I'm glad I got the second game before it gets hard to find.

@Sunsy
Happy birthday. 😀

@Anti-Matter Thank you!

@Sunsy Hooray for you! Happy birthday! 🎂 Enjoy your presents and I hope you're having a lovely day!

@MarioVillager92 Thank you! So far, it's nice and quiet. Just having some morning tea.

@Anti-Matter BTW, did you see the image I posted? It's a copy of My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery (hence why the tag). Didn't know if you saw it since sometimes you have trouble seeing pics I posted.

@Sunsy
That's strange.
I cannot see the image.
It said Untitled.