Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Tasuki Really? Congrats!
says the person who joined two weeks ago

@Pastellioli Heh. Something we share.

Yeah. The pace is absolutely in favor of the other games. What frustrates me though, is it's quite nail biting in comparison, with enemies each stage being roughly ten levels higher than my best on each occasion. I want to get S ranks, but can't backtrack to a previous chapter after powering up.

I'd heard it was gonna be a sequel at some point, notably hearing Ike mentioned. My problem wasn't simply the lack of characters though. In HW, they fit almost seamlessly, despite being from vastly different eras, and in later releases, other timelines entirely. In FEW, they're sorta just...there? It isn't like you go to Ylisse and meet the Shepards combating a new threat or anything. The hidden character would be Anna. If you really have at the adventure map replacements, you get equipment, alt outfits, and eventually, special Anna battles will show up, with insane level recommendations and restrictions. Winning one gets you Anna.

Yeah. Like anything, digital has upsides, downsides, and if left unchecked, a natural extreme it will eventually reach. The friend who had been hacked, then banned actually got his account back this past week, but it's a few months too late. On a related note, Switch 2 keycards are basically just Sony/Microsoft "physical"...

The confusion really is nuts. I'm relieved the accessories were the only things priced up..but as you said, it makes you feel a certain way when you know they chose the pricing themselves, and just went in greed. They even went as far as to shift the blame. I have like, two games planned, and istg if they cancel mine cause of low stock, there will be words with Walmart corporate. An agreement hopefully. I'm concerned they'll raise the prices of the online subscription too.

Well, for my friend, it was PS5... He got some saves back, but not the one we were playing multiplayer on. PS3, it was just a disclaimer.

Nintendo is not good with online play. At all. Smash is a big deal on that front too. And yeah. I've craved ppl to play with. I need to shake the rust off, and relearn how to read others. I also just straight up want more modes. Sakurai, where's my boss mode already?? And why did you remove event match?!

Internet activity is internet activity. For me, I tend to get awful reactions. That one thing nagging on my mind must be asked about. And if someone's ghosting or ignoring me? That's like, the ultimate trigger for toxicity for me.

@Mariotag I get it, it is frustrating when you do start a battle but then realize the enemies are significantly higher leveled, so then you have to go back and do smaller things to get your units levels high. I did have to do that a couple of times, but me focusing solely on leveling up Shez and only four other units was a poor decision in the long run since most of my units fainted in the final battle. I even did something similar to that in the first FE Warriors game…

It was interesting hearing what they planned for Three Hopes, but I can barely remember what happened in FE Warriors, probably because of that point you mentioned with how the characters seemed to be there and didn’t fit seamlessly. I can only remember one level, which was from FE Fates and I’m pretty sure the Ryoma guy was fighting Xander and you had to help Ryoma in time or else you failed the level. Three Hopes I remember way more, probably because it’s characters come from the same timeline and setting. I didn’t have any idea it was Anna! That is interesting to hear.

Good he got his account back. DRM is all lover the place it seems. I’ve never really had a bad DRM experience but it just sounds like it’s usually poorly managed by companies. Microsoft especially, from the 15-year-old XBLA account getting permabanned after getting hacked to games allegedly disappearing from people’s libraries at one point and not finding them in the store. I still like the Xbox, but those are some really bad issues.

I only really want Bananza and maybe MKW, but that’s really it. I know for sure the Switch 2 will have great games but it’s crazy how much confusion and miscommunication came from the reveal and stuff, on top of misinformation from people regarding some of the game prices. It’s maybe the first time I have seen a lot of miscommunication after a Direct. Oh, I am absolutely hoping online sub prices dont go up, or if they do they won’t do it significantly, but I feel like that might be the case, especially since the Switch 2 is introducing GameCube games and even adding some features like rewind and button mapping to N64 games.

Smash and Splatoon are maybe the worst when it comes to online play. Splatoon’s servers occasionally have communication errors that can occur out of nowhere and mess with how you play. When the game starts lagging, almost all players on your end simultaneously disconnect, shots dont register, and it kind of feels like your player character is being pushed around by some invisible force when you try to move, or your character stands and freezes in place. It was the worst with the first Splatoon and the sequel, and I’m pretty sure dataminers found out a few years ago Splatoon 2’s wifi apparently ran on an old Windows computer from the 90s! 3 had better internet connection, albeit with some small issues. Smash though? Far worse than that. If one player lags, everyone else lags and the match ends when one player disconnects instead of letting the match go on. And even when I had good internet I still encountered lag. It was my first time playing Smash online last year and it unfortunately was a bad experience, so I’m not doing that again if I pick it back up again. It especially sucks since I wanted to play with actual people and not CPUs. I still managed to win matches as my DLC mains, but the WiFi was so horrendous, more often than not.

I get how you feel about getting ignored…I do kind of feel disappointed when it happens on here, especially when I respond to someone on here. I kind of get worried I annoyed them or made them angry somehow, and I find it’s been harder to start conversations with others on here for some reason…not saying people are obliged to reply to me, but I have been a little disappointed that I can’t seem to get any conversations going.

@Sunsy those are all great!

I don't remember much about Shaun of the dead but I remember it was awesome

School Life - I have 1st and 3rd manga, and yeah the 1st booklet's plot twist was great

As for The House of the dead - which one is your favorite? Mine has to be the 2nd one with the best dubbing ever. We must prevent confusion in the city!

@Pastellioli does Smash Ulti have the same annoying thing as Smash4 where half of the games it's just a horrible slideshow moving 1 slide per 30 seconds?

@Princess_Lilly I never played Smash 4 online, but with Ultimate it does lose a lot of frames per second when the WiFi is bad, and it definitely feels like a slideshow when the game is lagging since the screen just freezes constantly while slightly moving. It’s the worst online play I’ve experienced for a Switch game…

@Hawkes142 It sounds like the online play in Ultimate is a downgrade? That sounds bad…I really wonder why the wifi in Ultimate got worse compared to the performance in 4.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/04/russia-looks-to-sei...

Thoughts?

@Pastellioli so yeah, it's literally the same. Kinda weird that nobody mentions what a mess it is.

Since we're in the topic of online multi, Does anyone know the game Obakeidoro (bail or jail)?

These past few weeks had a lot of great YouTube videos from the lovely Alex, Zion and Felix.

I got used to watching their discussions everyday. If you’re reading this, we miss you, lovely people!

@Princess_Lilly The only prominent criticism I saw with Ultimate was the game having poor online play, and I definitely agree with that after experiencing it…it’s so weird they didn’t try to fix the internet even after all those updates, but also disappointing. It’s baffling that one player disconnecting ends the entire match, even if the rest of the players have a good connection.

What is obakeidoro?

@Sunsy You're very welcome. Trolls Fun Fair Surprise does sound like it's a fun watch, I'll be sure to see it sometime. Lol, you and me both, I'm the same way with my current profile picture! I've been thinking mine would be good for spring as well, since it's me wearing my floral train conductor outfit in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. You can see flowers over there too, and even one on my hat. Poppy and I would be best friends, haha! Thanks for the heads up on Trolls Band Together.

I don't think I've played Sega Superstars Tennis, I think I've seen some footage of it and it does look like a good game for sure. I've also played Mario Power Tennis for the GameCube, that one is also a good game. Still have my GameCube copy. Actually I still have a lot of the GameCube games I've had since my childhood. Been a long time since I played them... hopefully they all still work. That's cool, I do like having background noise as well, especially while I'm sleeping. Been a while since I had ambiance on... I've been getting stressed for a fair while, but I'm getting in a better mood so I wanna put some YouTube ambiance on tonight.

Yeah definitely, there would also be a ton of internet traffic, so updating/downloading during launch or the holidays would be problematic. Me too, my family and I would play a ton of bowling on Wii Sports back in the day... I even liked Mario Party 8. Loved Super Mario Galaxy as well, got that for Christmas all those years back, and it's still one of my favorite Mario games. Aw, sorry to hear about your elderly neighbor, may she rest in peace.

Yeah, I've heard that too... and I'm the same way as well. Yeah exactly, plus the game is a $20 increase from what we've been used to on the Switch. Ah yeah, I did hear about the next Grand Theft Auto game potentially being $100... that is ridiculous! It does make me glad I'm not into GTA at all, lol. I can't blame you on the game key cards, and I did hear that Sonic X Shadow Generations for the Switch 2 comes in one. I saw a video from Good Vibes Gaming saying that Sega isn't doing any upgrade packs for their Switch 1 games, you'd have to buy the Switch 2 versions at full price, and since they're game key cards, you'd have to wait for them to download after taking them home. That's just silly, and yeah... it isn't very consumer-friendly. Would've been so much better if they were... you know... actual game cards with the full games stuffed inside.

Oh that's cool. We did have a custom-built PC as well, about a decade and a half ago I wanna say, though I don't think it was built for gaming. Just for regular family use. It bit the dust a few years ago, however. That's cool you're saving up for your next laptop, I have a newer PC of my own now, which is built for games, and it's been serving me well.

I've actually looked up a video of the Kirby Air Ride LAN gameplay and saw it, which is right here.

OK, I'll go ahead and quote my post from the movie thread...

And nice, those Disney Doorables sound cute. Cool you got Lady out of that. She's a good girl for sure, haha.

@Princess_Lilly

It’s okay. But it should be done earlier.

@Pastellioli it sounds like a horrible mess. Good thing I never tried it so it didn't ruin my image of the game. I did try to play online in Smash 4 though and I still think it's a perfect game despite its non working online so I guess it doesn't matter all that much (I mean I even got a disconnect penalty but that was because of a ragequit, I was a different person back then lol).

Obakeidoro, or jail or bail, is kinda like tag and hide and seek. One player plays as a monster, 3 others as humans, and humans have to hold out for a couple of minutes before the monster catches them. They can also bail their teammates out of the cage. Its fun

@Pastellioli Yeah. There's no way to backtrack and get your level up either. That's a Fire Emblem thing though, soooo, yeah. You've always had to pick units you want to invest in, and leave others behind.

Yeah, the OG FE Warriors did not have a cohesive tie to the OG titles like HW did. I remember the Fates chapters. The point of those was mediating the two sides, sorta similar to the original game, but without a jerk possessed king to get in your way. And with the hatred between the two sides drastically toned down.

Yeah, since your reply, my friend has been rebanned. Reasons unknown, Sony's just being a jerk at this point. He has to start his games all over again, yet again.

Same two games here. Lots of confusion everywhere, and uncertainty. I couldn't help but notice, Nintendo already had their pricing decided, but chose to cite the tariffs anyway. A scum move imo, but one everyone finds popular. And NSO going up really would just be free money for them.

Yeah. That's why I never got into Splatoon. It was next to impossible to have a single, simple match.
Smash actually functioned better for me, but still relatively close. I wanna play with others, but it's near impossible.

Yeah. I actually got chewed out a couple nights ago for my reactions to issues with communication. DMs with friends are stacking up high. Nobody wants to communicate using anything other than silence, the caveat being, that's what I'm worst with. Basically, I can sense something's wrong, and my typical reaction is to fly into an anxious panic that escalates the longer it goes. Many people write me off out of convenience, and as someone who started being socially aware only around when he was an adult, I get heavily punished for each mistake I make. It's unbearable, and I'd love it if others understood.

@Princess_Lilly It really sucked when I found Ultimate’s online was messy, mainly since I wanted to try playing with other players for the first time in a while, but it especially stunk a whole lot finding out that the matches end if one player has bad internet connection, and it’s maybe the first time I’ve heard of a game doing that when one player has awful connection. Yeah, after that experience online I’m pretty much not going to attempt online Smash again…I still think Ultimate is good but the online play is not it.

Haven’t heard of that! That sounds interesting.

@Mariotag Definitely, I don’t recall which units I focused on in FE Warriors, but I remember I focused on Shez, Hilda, Claude, Byleth and another character alongside those four. But, I should have tried to level the rest of the characters up, though I find it hard to make sure all units are all at the same level as each other because of the requirements to get them to higher levels. It’s also like that in Heroes. I have more characters that are at their max level, but my team focuses on Dimitri, Yuri, Fjorm, and I’m sure Ratatoskr or Nifl, albeit it’s been a while since I had Nifl on my main team.

Honestly, the characters they selected for FE Warriors kind of seemed really unrelated to each other and also, if it makes sense, kind of from different time periods, though I think it’s mainly from the Fates characters being themed after feudal Japan and the rest being more European medieval themed. The only characters I think had more of a relation to each other was Marth and some of the Awakening characters, mainly because Marth is an ancestor of Lucina and Chrom and in Warriors, I remember Lucina is introduced masquerading as Marth like she does in Awakening. I don’t know, a lot of the characters they chose for FE Warriors kind of didn’t mesh with each other in my opinion, and sorta seemed like random picks, alongside the exclusion of certain characters as well.

That’s strange. It honestly seems like Sony is doing it on purpose…what’s with companies being so bad at DRM management?

It’s strange that communication has been so bad that it’s causing so much confusion over the console. I’m already seeing plenty of confusion with the game key card releases on here, and it’s the most confusion I’ve seen for a console lately.

Honestly, Splatoon has had an issue with online play ever since the first game, where it was especially prominent there, though it was one of Nintendo’s first attempts at an online shooter. One common issue was people playing Ranked and their teammates disconnecting, and your rank would go down anyway while the disconnecting player got no consequences. Luckily they were aware of the issue and dealt with it in the second and third game, where your rank would stay the same despite a player or two disconnecting, and similarly in 3, if a player on any side disconnects the second the match starts, the match ends in a draw because of the teams being imbalanced. I do like how they dealt with disconnecting players later on, though the online play in 2 was still off and still kind of was in 3. I still recall playing a Ranked match in 2 and everyone (save for me, a teammate and a single enemy) disconnected simultaneously, and it was clearly a WiFi issue with the game’s servers. It’s strange I found Smash was the one that had worse internet compared to Splatoon…probably because Smash’s performance becomes a slideshow when the online gets laggy, where in Splatoon you can kind of move around even when it lags.

Sorry about that. I hope you have been doing fine. I do also get a bit worried and anxious if I sense something is wrong with someone, or maybe if I did something wrong and I think it’ll have a bad affect on something that’s bound to happen later on. I can’t take my mind off of bad stuff that’s going to possibly happen, such as someone going to chew me out later on for something I did that might have bothered them. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s unintentionally upsetting someone and getting them angry.

@Pastellioli In response to your comment about Smash online, yeah. I was actually removed from the list of ppl a certain prior friend would play with cause he knows my internet sucks. And it isn't the only thing the game did that bothered me. Cause Events and Adventure mode were merged to create an unholy mess. All-Star Mode became a multi-man, understandably. I just had less I could do.

I was already spoiled on your spoiler previously. It's similar to most mainline FE games. Your resources are limited, and no matter what, you progress. In spite of what FE Engage apparently expected you to pull off, you cannot actually keep all your units high enough to participate. FEH differs in that you can actually grind characters up, and with powerscaling, are continuously rewarded for doing so.

OG FE Warriors actually had the story's main FE characters pulled from the same timeline.
FE Fates had too much stuck in its DLC, but one such aspect is that Three of the Nohr retainers are actually child units directly from Awakening, albeit with different identities, and powers granted to them by the good half of Anankos, the main antagonist. They traveled dimensions to fulfill his wish of watching over Corrin. And they got Lillth to help, as Corrin's half sister. The characters were kinda random, yeah. They didn't really add much besides, oh, a new story arc. There were other DLC characters from other timelines though. Lyn, and, I think Celica? The antagonists never being playable was bizarre.

Sony sucks at this point, along with DRM. I've actually decided to email them to find out what to tell my friend, seeing as with a bit of research, I actually know more about his ban reason than he was told. (It's called a chargeback. You buy something, but the payment is cancelled. So you owe them a debt and can't use anything until it's repaid in full. Except, he was hacked, and the hacker bought the stuff. Can't refund it cause digital, so it's his problem...)

I was confused on Keycard releases too. I thought at least some of the game was there, but no...

I never got into Splatoon partly cause of that. And a disconnect could result in a ban, which is further incentive for me not to try.

I effectively started being able to notice stuff outside my perspective more broadly, sometime between 17 years old, and 21 years old. And my first experiences with ppl not explicitly family, or agreeable, were on skype, and 2015 miiverse. Naturally, with roughly 11 years of experience, I struggle greatly.
I don't notice signs I'm bothering others most of the time. But when I notice, I fly into an anxious panic that steadily grows. For me, communicating with words instead of silence feels like the best way. But others don't do that. I'm struggling with older friends who just don't respond no matter what, or who react in more extreme ways. it keeps me anxious, on edge, and distrusting. I do not know how to recognize what's going on in time, or what I need to do. One friend in particular, went from us making plans to get together that didn't work out, to me being ghosted for almost four months. When he finally started responding again, elsewhere of course, I saw he made a pubic comment about feeling lonely, and wanting to go to a con, so I replied saying we could get together and was promptly blocked. All I found out afterwards from a mutual friend was that I "creeped him out". Does not make sense, and I've been trying to find answers with this being 16 months in.

Anyway, bunch of the way through non-updated OG Dark Souls. My first encounter with curse status. Yay.

Finally, the light is turned back.

@DipperMisterioPines welcome back to civilization!

@AnVold Stone age in Spain and Portugal is over. Really?

@DipperMisterioPines sure, because the light that dispels the darkness has returned.