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@Pastellioli Ahh. Makes sense. If it had come out, I'd have gotten to it eventually. And alright. I'd kinda wondered what was going on.
Yeah, censorship sucks in general, but at times, it's understandable, even decent. Interesting about part 9 though...
Heh. Yup, I do like fantasy like that! Speaking of, have you ever watched an anime called Slayers? It was what I consider my first true anime I finished. Sadly, because licensing, it isn't currently available streaming. It has 5 seasons. The first 3 are 26 episodes each, The Slayers, Slayers Next, Slayers Try. Then years later, they had two 13 episode seasons, Slayers Revolution, and Slayers Revolution-R. There are prequel movies and OVAs too.
Ahh. I see. Makes sense. Only in this case, the movies themselves introduce the characters.
Boom is one I intend to watch eventually. And yeah. 4kids would occasionally do stuff like that. They made an extra arc for the Yugioh Duel Monsters anime as well, titled Capsule Monsters.
Yeah. Xbox needs to step it up! In the era of 360, they were go-to. Now, not so much.
Yup. Gotta watch some movies sometime..
Eh. In my case, that'd be a genuine boon. I can't just endlessly download games, especially on a higher level platform, making the gamepass style service unfeasible for me. But if they offered discounts... Well, I'd already be subbing for online play, so yeah. Sadly, Nintendo despises giving discounts for their games.
@Pastellioli They were a memorable part for sure. I remember playing a SMM1 level long ago where you'd be given a Mega Man costume. I love how each costume has their own level clear/life lost jingles too. I think I played a Mercedes-Benz level before the Wii U servers shut down, actually... I tried finishing as much event levels as I could, and I did finish most of them. I remember downloading them all at least. I wonder if the mystery costumes will make a comeback...? Though I'm not sure about the non-Nintendo characters like Sonic and Mega Man.
That's cool, the two Switch games I put the most time into were Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, with ACNH having the most play time. Dang... no wonder I had a difficult time with Agent 3. The final act of Octo Expansion was difficult in general, honestly. I do remember Splatoon 1 and 2's vanilla story modes being pretty easy too. They at least helped me understand what Splatoon is about at least. I still like Splatoon, even though I got burnt out from Splatoon 3. Haven't played any shooters for a while either.
Those spirit battles sound difficult. Thanks for the heads up on the unsettling content, I don't like horror elements so that survival horror game that Rare was making would scare me haha. I actually didn't know Rare was making such a game. Did that ever get released?
@MarioVillager92 Interesting. Though, I can absolutely say I've played a lot of SMM1. Iirc, you can save the princess as Bowser in the sorta story mode, and get special dialogue.
I'm unsure what switch game I've put the most time into. Possibly a Warriors game? And never got into Splatoon, partly cause internet sucks here, but am somewhat interested in the paid DLC...but can't really afford it. Like with the Pokemon DLC. Too expensive, never goes on sale ever.
@Mariotag I think I remember that, yeah. With Peach saying something different depending on what amiibo costume Mario is wearing. If you like Splatoon's story modes, the DLCs are worth picking up. They're basically new games in of themselves. Splatoon 2's Octo Expansion is generally regarded to be the best of Splatoon's single-player modes, and I did like it quite a lot overall. I also like Splatoon 3's Side Order, which plays just like a roguelike.
@MarioVillager92 Yeah. I'm just concerned about the price. In general, I couldn't play Splatoon because of poor internet. So I didn't bother getting 3.
I heard the re-releases for Sims 1 and Sims 2 weren't great. Apparently the Sims 2 one is missing an expansion, and on top of that they pretty much weren't modified to fix any of the glaring issues.
"It is fate. Many have tried, yet none have ever managed to escape it's flow."
I only got the first one. It plays very much the same as it did back in the day. There’s a bit of an overload of content though, with it throwing all the expansions at your face from the get go.
It did have a quirk where the neighborhood screen was super tiny on my original resolution, so I had to go down to 1024 by 768 in order to make that look nicer.
From what I hear though the game itself should do fine even when that screen looks small, but I didn’t even attempt to confirm that. For now I’ll just remember to switch resolutions before launching the game.
In terms of crashes or bugs, I did not find any in over two hours of gameplay.
Lately, been hooked to playing the classic Super Mario Bros. Long story short, I decided to charge up this...
I decided to charge up my old Super Mario Bros. Game and Watch, and been playing it any chance I get. Whenever I went to relax during the evening, I just booted this up played some Super Mario Bros or some Lost Levels (they are hard, I can't figure out how I played this on Super Mario All-Stars back then). Also, it's fun dropping in Koopa Troopas onto Mario on the clock screen, lol.
@Sunsy Wishing you a Happy New Year as well, and glad to hear you're doing OK. If I had to guess the Switch 2's price, I would think it would be about $400? Hopefully, it won't be more than that. I can't imagine it would be more than that since I would imagine the Switch 2's hardware being on par with that of the PS4. That sounds like a good plan. I might wait a fair while before I get one too. The new Mario Kart game looks pretty good, would love to learn more about it.
I'm liking Sonic X Shadow Generations. Both the Sonic and Shadow halves of it, been switching between the two as I play. Shadow Generations is super cool as well, haha. I keep forgetting that Chaos Control is a new mechanic that was added, so I've had a tendency to just play it like any other Sonic boost game, lol. Glad to hear you're loving it.
The Disney movies I got were 101 Dalmatians, Encanto, Frozen II, Lady and the Tramp, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, and Snow White. That last one I mentioned was a special print that was made for Disney's 100th anniversary as well. I also got The Great Mouse Detective (alongside the first Trolls movie!) when I was shopping at FYE. Going off on a tangent, I also got my mom Clueless as a Christmas gift, she likes that movie.
Oh thanks for telling me, I did play in F-Zero 99's Frozen World Tour earlier this month. Not sure if I'll play it again since I'm kind of busy with Sonic Generations and some real life stuff, but I'll see. That's cool you're liking those two games. Recently, I've finished Mega Man Battle Network 2. Maybe I'll move on to MMBN3 once I wrap up Generations. Going off on another tangent, I do like the Battle Network games quite a lot, actually. I played the games a lot on the GBA years ago, and I have the Legacy Collection on the Switch.
Good to hear you two liked Elf. It's been ages since I last saw Frosty the Snowman, I did like that holiday special when I was younger... it is a cute special for sure. I also had movie time on Christmas Eve, my family and I saw Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas.
That's really cool, I think I remember you telling me your arcade did that every Sunday. I don't think I came across one that had that kind of deal. Nice, that's cool you'd decorate pumpkins like that. Maybe I could do that next Halloween as a fun little thing.
That's pretty strange. You'd think the game would let you know what the music note does, alongside the other power-ups. That's cool, I've used the Nintendo Music app for multiple occasions myself. I like putting on Animal Crossing music when I do housework for example.
Gotcha, GameCube Galaxy does video reviews of GameCube games, I'd say he's worth checking out. I've never played Sonic and the Black Knight, I've heard from some folks saying it is quite a bit better. Colors is great for sure, next to Generations, it's my favorite "boost era" Sonic game.
I hope so, seeing consoles priced at $500-$700, I'm starting to feel like "why don't I just save up and get a gaming PC at that point," when I see high prices for consoles. This is coming from someone who does own a gaming laptop, albeit an older one from when Steam Deck wasn't a thing yet. Still performs well with most games I do play. I hope the Switch 2 price is something under $500. Given console scalpers and sold out systems usually happen, I'll probably have enough saved up by the time they'll be in stock at local stores (FWIW, I got my Wii U and Switch from the same Target store near where I live).
Nice, yeah it is easy to forget, I also forgot about the move that aims at targets. I was circuling the hub for a good 5 minutes figuring out where to go next, then hitting the switch with aim came to mind, lol. I did play Sonic Generations on both 3DS and PC, so Shadow Generations had me more excited. Though lately been playing classic Mario on my Game and Watch.
All good movies. Didn't know they made a special print of Snow White for Disney's 100th anniversary, I knew about some movies getting theatrical releases, but that was it. Speaking of Disney 100, I did see Wish a couple months ago on Disney+. Honestly, it wasn't as bad as most made it out to be, my only disappointment was I didn't get a new favorite Disney character out of the movie. If you like it, that's cool, I felt a bit disappointed with it. I always look forward having a new favorite Disney character from their movies.
You're welcome, I didn't play the event again. Probably because of the same reason, Shadow Generations and a few PC games I've been playing too. Sounds like you're having a good time with the Mega Man games.
Sounds like a nice Christmas Eve.
It's a fun thing to do. I like decorating pumpkins around Halloween, just a way to have fun with it without the horror aspect.
It is, it makes me wish there was a manual for it just so I could know what the power-ups do. Trolls Remix Rescue can be completed, and I did enjoy the game. Only real complaints being hard to figure out where to go next, some of it felt buggy (like trying to grab certain objects to swing from), and not knowing what power-ups. Still, I'm happy they did make a Trolls game since every Trolls game that was released to mobile is no longer playable. I ended up getting the game twice just to have it on PC too.
I should look into it, I've been watching Camp Xbox, who does classic Xbox games. Brought back some memories as my brother had Xbox, I had GameCube, he had Xbox, and we played both. Sonic and the Black Knight was a better game, the story was surprisingly good, had a great plot twist.
@Sunsy Starting with the easier reply first, and gonna give thoughts on some of what you said to others too. Nice to know you're okay! Hope you had a good new year so far!
Honestly, yeah. The rumors added life to games and TV series in a way that just doesn't happen so much today. Interestingly though, this topic reminds me of the popular indie game Tunic. Pretty much the epitome of a game where you absolutely must go in blind to get the true experience. Maybe asking help or looking something up would be appropriate for postgame though, or perhaps even endgame. Although I can appreciate the physical edition as a collector's item, ironically, by the very nature of the game, it's very much the only one where I consider digital to be more favorable for every relevant reason, barring DRM.
Sonic 4 prob will feature Sonic CD, or perhaps a somewhat trimmed down version of Sonic Heroes. Which btw, regarding spoilers, I noticed the spoiler tag does not spoiler a comment if you view it in your email notification.
Haven't played enough F-Zero 99 lately. And just started Sonic X Shadow Generations yesterday.
(Edit, forgot this doesn't use discord's system for spoilering stuff.)
Thanks, my new year has been alright. Nothing special so far. Hope the year has been good with you too.
They did. It's like the old playground and rumor mill stuff from those days just added to the mystery behind the games back then. Not to mention trying them out made for unique ways to play games too. I wonder how many actually attempted to try to find Luigi in Super Mario 64 using the steps that one finds online, only to find it didn't work and just made playing the game differently.
Didn't know that about Tunic. Normally, I think people would look up something on a game when they get stuck or need help.
Most likely it seems to be either those two games. The bigger question with Sonic CD will be if the movie incorporates time travel or not Also, seeing Metal reminds me, there was a Sonic the Hedgehog "movie" a long time ago, basically two OVAs. Just reminded me of it. That, I didn't know since I have e-mail notifications turned off. I usually just check using notifications here, in the corner of the page.
Cool, hope you're enjoying Sonic X Shadow Generations.
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@Sunsy The key element of succeeding In speedruns is memorizing everything and replaying the game a ton of times to get it right, and I think it’s cool speedrunners have a lot of time to do that and perfect their gaming skills.
I am not surprised they’d want to move on from the Boom games (given it was disliked a ton besides Fire & Ice and the TV show) but I think they’ll a writer on the show was asked about a third season and he said they were completely done with the show, but I think that answer came after clips from the show blew up online and became popular. Unlike Boom I actually never watched Sonic Prime, but I heard it was good, but I don’t have Netflix. The only Sonic shows I’ve watched was Sonic Boom, Sonic Underground, and AoStH, as well as the first episode of Sonic X. Boom was perfect when it came to its writing and comedy, and it is nice people still quote and remember the show despite it only lasting for two seasons and being from a decade ago.
I like fantasy the most compared to sci-fi, but I think I also like fantasy a lot more because they sometimes include animal characters and I like animals a lot. One that comes to my mind in terms of fantasy media that I like is Banjo-Kazooie. It kind of has fairy tale like vibes to it, plus the opening scene with Gruntilda talking to the pot about who is the most prettiest in the land and getting upset that it’s not her reminded me a lot of Snow White with the Evil Queen and the mirror, and the fictional creatures and animal characters really make the game wondrous and fantastical. I don’t mind sci-fi, but there’s something with fantasy that makes me like it way more. Maybe because it’s not really supposed to be set in an ordinary world compared to how sci-fi has a lot of elements common in real-life. That retro store sounds nice, I would like to have a retro store I could go to given I like older games and media a lot, but they aren’t super common and sometimes an extremely expensive hobby to get into, at least with game collecting. I haven’t gone to see if any GameStop stores have retro stuff in their stores. They did sometimes have older refurbished consoles for sale (which were behind the person working at the cash register) but it was consoles released from 2013-2014, if I recall there was a WiiU and PS4 there. Your game purchases sound good! I would absolutely love to own original N64 stuff and games. Although I am a fan of the N64, I actually don’t own the console and only have the games via ports on modern consoles.
The ad is so cutesy and I love how they made the characters look in 2D. It does show a big difference between Japanese and American game ads sometimes. Japanese ads are very notable for often being lighthearted but at times comedic and strange (in a good and hilarious way). Thanks for telling me the name. I remember it was a tank game, but that ad stuck out to me the most when I was watching that N64 commercials video.
im stuck between CD and Heroes as the game 4 will semi-adapt. I just wonder if they’ll try implementing the time-traveling concept if they did follow some of CD’s story, but I don’t know how well it would fit in the film if that is what they are going to take inspiration from, but I expect they won’t include some details and ideas from the game or be a direct adaptation of the story.Movie theater popcorn always tastes better than the popcorn I get from the store and eat at home lol, there is something with theater food that always tastes good. The flavor I like the most is butter and salt, and it reminds me of how Harkins has a stand of various flavoring powders you put into your popcorn for free, but they started to add fees for using the flavoring powders. Usually my popcorn will be halfway done before the film starts while I’m watching previews, ads, and small film trivia games they put in-between ads, but I’m also fine not eating anything during the movie. I don’t really eat food when I watch movies at home besides a few times when me and my family eats fast food, but it’s still very nice to experience. Yeah, I often see fanmade renders and artworks of other Sonic characters with movie-inspired designs a lot and thank goodness they aren’t spoilers. I often saw those circulating a ton before some of the Sonic films released, but usually those fanmade renders I saw on fake film trailer video thumbnails on YouTube or via these ads they place below a video I’m watching. I saw a couple of those for Sonic 3 about two years before it actually released and before anyone knew what the plot was going to be about.
Infinity’s focus on creativity and going crazy with what you make was awesome. I did like some of the worlds that were already pre-made in Disney Infinity. One aspect I remember the most from 2.0 and 3.0 was the INteriors, where you could make this gigantic apartment-like house with multiple rooms and decorating the insides with furniture, and I also remember the Hall of Heroes area that had statues of the characters you played as and owned and showcased the Power Discs. I had the most fun working on the INteriors and it’s making me miss Disney Infinity so much now. I only had the WiiU ports of the three games. Whenever I played it, I always focused on the Toybox aspect rather than the Playsets since just building stuff was super fun. I remember having this gigantic world in 3.0 that was a mishmash of a lot of different areas and worlds and it was so fun to pay in.
They are nice sketchbooks, but I’ve also used Artist Loft and Strathmore sketchbooks from Michaels too! I used to have a toned tan Strathmore sketchbook for graphite and colored pencils but I donated it since I didn’t have any use for it, while Artist Loft’s sketchbooks held up well against some of my wet art supplies like markers. Thinking about those two brands makes me miss Michaels a bit, I can just remember the aisles and all the cool items they had around the place, the one I remember the most was this section where they had alcohol markers, pencils, and pens, though the markers were all in a casing that couldn’t be opened without assistance, likely because some people tend to swatch markers a lot and sometimes damage them, and some of the markers in that casing were very expensive. It was really frustrating to sometimes go to the store and buy something from an open display only for the item to be damaged. I remember I got a blue marker once and when I was going to use it the pen had a really damaged tip.
This is why I'll either copy the post into notepad before submitting, or like I'm doing right now, typing my reply in notepad, saving it to PC, then copying and pasting it into the post.
Indeed. Playing Super Mario Bros lately, I kind of want to watch some speedruns of Mario games now.
I've only seen a few episodes of Sonic Prime, and should really watch it more. In terms of Sonic shows, I've seen Sonic Boom, some of Sonic Prime as mentioned, the entirety of SatAM and Adventures of Sonic, and a decent amount of Sonic X, seen only a few episodes of Sonic Underground on a DVD (I think it was the Sonic Christmas Blast DVD, had a few bonus episodes, my memory may be fuzzy on it).
Cool. For me, I just liked stuff like My Little Pony, Trolls, Smurfs, Sofia the First, they all fall under fantasy. I love the colorful worlds and characters that get introduced in them. It was, this was before the days when retro stuff went up in price. I miss the days where "used" game meant getting an older game for cheap. Sadly that store closed, I think it was called Play N Trade. GameStop did have some retro on their site. I think I bought another copy of Sonic Battle (wanted another copy for multiplayer), Puyo Pop, and Mario Kart Super Circuit that way. I haven't seen any retro games in their stores, but again, it's been years since I've been to a GameStop. Last time I set foot into one was 2019.
Indeed, you're welcome. As soon as you mentioned the bear, the memory of the commercial came to mind. I remember Sonic ads having a different take in Japan from what I've seen online. US Sonic ads were Sega being cool.
The time travel element keeps popping into my mind too. I think I saw a YouTube short awhile back on what makes theater popcorn better. Here's a link to the short if you're curious (linking because I do not know if YouTube shorts show up like videos do here). Usually for home, I just get lightly salted, my mother is alergic to butter, so she can't eat butter popcorn. Alrigty, usually at my local theater it's either popcorn or nachos (chips and cheese dip), at home sometimes it's dinner and a movie, or movie after dinner. Those renders were shared all over the net for years now, some of them are pretty good and do seem close to looking official too.
That was the way I played Infinity, just messing around in the toybox making a big explorable world from all the unlocked stuff and to explore around. Surprisingly, I don't think I ever messed around with the INteriors feature. I do have a few playsets, but the only ones I ever beat were the Monster's University one, and the Inside Out one. I also have the Toybox Speedway set, but didn't play it as much as I liked building my own race courses. I think I made a track inspired by Wreck-It Ralph.
Sorry to hear Michaels is no longer by you, from the way it sounds. I still have one near me, it's usually where I get my art supplies. Is it hard to get art supplies? Usually I just use pencil, marker, and colored pencils. I haven't tried using wet art supplies or paint for my art.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
@Eel
Oh, gosh...
Just now I heard there was a huge group of anger fan of The Sims 1 & 2 Legacy collection who asked EA for refund after those games keep crashing and getting in trouble.
CEO of EA can be sentenced to jail for selling a fraud product and charged for $40 for half baked games with error and crash on it.
CEO of EA should be punished for good to end this corruption in gaming industry.
@Anti-Matter the CEO of EA won't be going to prison for this. Otherwise so many CEOs would be thrown in jail for bad PC ports across the board.
The crashes are inherent to the games running on modern hardware. It's because EA did nothing to fix the issues the games had originally, and just chose to re-release them.
As for the missing expansion, I believe it was the IKEA one, and probably due to them not getting the licensing for IKEA. Still makes the game inferior.
"It is fate. Many have tried, yet none have ever managed to escape it's flow."
The crashes are inherent to the games running on modern hardware. It's because EA did nothing to fix the issues the games had originally, and just chose to re-release them.
To add to this, this is another reason why I like GOG. GOG actually puts effort into making classic games run on modern PCs. I have a few older EA games on GOG and they work fine.
I wouldn't be surprised if EA just put the game on Steam and called it a day. I also would not be surprised if the Sims community made fanmade fixes to get the games running on modern hardware.
EA was even like this with their Origin platform. Once bought a Need for Speed game from Origin, ended up refunding it because the game kept asking for a disc in the drive, even though it was digital. It was cleared all they did was copy the disc's content to the digital version without removing the disc check that the retail copy had.
The resident Trolls superfan! Saw Trolls Band Together via early access and absolutely loved it!
@Sunsy So, gotta start by saying, the Super Mario All-Stars version of Lost Levels is apparently slightly easier, with at least one notable fix, as well as lowered requirements for getting into at least one of the hidden worlds. (The OG required you to beat the game nine times before it would let you into, I think it was world 9, and even then, you would apparently only have one life the whole way through.)
Yeah. The rumors were interesting. I gather they were part of how Gamefreak got Pokemon to blow up in popularity initially. I personally tried the rumor from Melee for unlocking Sonic and Tails. Played Cruel Melee with my main till I got over 70 KOs, before giving up. 20 KOs doesn't unlock anything.
Yeah, am honestly intrigued by a possible movie 4. That OVA series is one I barely remember. And yeah. Finished Shadow Generations story already, and previously played Sonic Generations on ps3. So probably moving on.
The issues I have with gaming on PC would be update downloads (because poor internet, they never actually finish, ever.), and storage space.
Gog sounds nice. (Not Gogmazios. Not that one. But the one you mentioned.)
Yeah. Tunic had this clever idea of making how to play the game a progression unlockable you have to find. Including basic controls and mechanics and maps, it makes the game truly stand out as unique. Absolutely worth playing. Can't help but notice the playable character in 3 different Zelda somewhat inspired indies I either enjoy playing, or am looking forward to is a fox...
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