Just wanted to say that I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! Haven’t been doing much as of late. Drawing a lot, but I realized I haven’t really been active here as of late…already planning out my next drawing, hopefully I can finish it fast enough after using up so much pen on a redraw I posted yesterday.
I’m looking forward to tomorrow here cuz it’ll be the start of December! December is my favorite month of the year, and I’m really excited for Christmas and seeing Sonic 3. Probably my most anticipated movie of the year, and I’ll probably change my avatar in a few more days.
@Tyranexx Yeah, I have heard arcades have a lot of good games, I know they have Mario Kart arcade cabinets in places if I remember. My brother has gone to some arcade cabinets and he has always told me they are fun. I think that game places offer the best arcade cabinets compared to something like a car wash or something, since a car wash I went to in the past didn’t have a lot of arcade cabinets and the arcade machines were in a smaller area in the corner if I recall. I wanna say it maybe only had three or four cabinets. I can only remember Bubble Wobble being there, I can’t remember the other ones unfortunately.
I also am appreciating mobile gaming a lot, even though I only stick to a few games at the moment. I’d love to play and buy more games on my console; I’d like to find some games similar to Rare’s games, cuz I’m already running out of new games on my Xbox to play. I hear about Black Friday a lot (though I only got reminded of it recently through a Sonic Movie post on Instagram) but I don’t really buy stuff on Black Friday. I find that I’m really bad with saving money as well as spending it. For Halo Infinite, I was really rusty at it because, I’ll admit that I’ve actually never really played a Halo game before. I played some of the Master Chief Collection and Infinite before, but that was nearly two years ago and only for a few minutes. I’m far more skilled in playing shooter games like Splatoon and Overwatch since I played the heck out of those, plus I’m familiar with the controls, gameplay, and maps, though I haven’t played those in a while since the copies we have of 2 and 3 are somewhere else and I kept deleting Overwatch back and forth on my Xbox to clear space and don’t really have an interest in playing it despite the new heroes they released for it and how the newer heroes are already unlocked instead. I could maybe count some segments of Conker too, which I am also far more used to, but it’s not a shooter at all of course, and the remake had an emphasis on the shooter multiplayer mode that I kind of didn’t have fun playing at all. I’ll probably go back to playing some shooter games in a few more weeks.
I have been having a blast drawing. I’m slowly filling up my Daiso sketchbook with art I’m liking a ton. It’s mostly video game fanart, but for my next drawing I’ll be making something original. I’ve always liked drawing original characters because of the possibilities with their designs and appearances.
I don’t mind dubs and agree that they can be helpful for people and make it easier for them to understand some scenes and what’s going on. I don’t mind watching subbed versions of anime, but it can be difficult sometimes having to look at the subs at the bottom to understand what the characters are saying and then having to quickly dart your eyes back to the screen to see what’s happening before a scene ends. It would be nice if Crunchyroll had both the dubbed and subbed versions for the first seasons of some anime on the Free tier, but I don’t really mind it since I haven’t really used Crunchyroll as of late besides last month when I watched the first three episodes of DAN DA DAN. Good anime from what I saw, but thought some parts of the first episode made me uncomfortable. Crunchyroll is ok, but the constant ads are the worst part of it.
@Mariotag Oof, half of the development team got split when 06 was in the works? Gosh, that sucks a ton. I’m reading more and I found out that they initially intended to port 06 to the Wii but had issues with it and instead made Secret Rings in place of an 06 Wii port, and the fact that the 06 team was smaller afterward and then got pressured to release it in time for the holidays and having to skip important parts like bug testing was pretty disappointing to hear. I’ve heard a lot about game teams and developers having to rush stuff and the final product not releasing how they wanted it to. I didn’t know that you had to play through it about three times with different characters to fully complete it. However, I would love to play a remake of it if it did happen. Games that aren’t good quality are the ones that are the most deserving of remakes the most, or super old games that maybe don’t hold up well, or are good but could be enhanced and fixed more with a remake. I am surprised that some like Banjo-Kazooie haven’t gotten remakes.
I don’t really draw from the banners in Heroes anymore, but I am not surprised to hear some of the units offered through the newer banners are unbalanced and how they try to outdo each other every time. There have been times I was lucky to get maybe two or three heroes in a single banner session, but I never get that anymore when playing through the gacha, and I especially avoid grinding in the game now after those two experiences doing that.
That’s what annoys me with Twitter a lot, which is the fact you can’t really freely express an opinion without people getting angry and insulting you, even on topics that aren’t serious or big. But, that’s almost every social media app in general; they have some toxicity in some way or form, but I hear of some that are worse than others. The rules on Twitter just seem to have been forgotten, and it now sounds like some people on Twitter can post bad and hateful stuff and not get any consequences for it. I hear some people have gotten banned for not even posting anything offensive.
@Sunsy Yeah, I feel like the game maybe could have run better on other platforms. I heard about that infinite jump Knuckles glitch being the most notable part of the WiiU game and speed runners using that glitch to beat the game in a short period of time haha.
Yep, Playtonic has a lot of Rare developers working there. In fact, a lot of Rare employees started a ton of their own companies besides Playtonic, but the latter is the most notable alongside Free Radical Design (notable for making the TimeSplitters games). Rare had a lot of issues during the 2000s after being bought by a huge company and splitting off from Nintendo, and luckily it appears to have gotten better, but reports said that development on their next game, Everwild, wasn’t going well, and that sucks a ton, even though I don’t really play their newer 2010s games or Sea of Thieves.
I also saw you were talking a bit about DKR a bit! It is cool that they were intending to use the rest of the game’s cast for their own games, and some Rare employees have talked about them a bit, but the only one that they talked about the most was Timber’s game, and I think NL made an article on that a few years ago; in his game, he was supposed to be a time traveler, and the gameplay was supposed to be similar to Ocarina of Time. For some of the characters, Rare did comment on what they were doing after DKR (besides Banjo and Conker) of course, but I cannot remember most of it because it’s been a few years. I know that Rare said that Bumper was serving time in jail (I am not kidding when I say this) and Timber grew a beard I think? I need to reread that again because it’s been far too long since I found out that information.
I found Rock-a-Doodle more lighthearted than All Dogs Go to Heaven and NIMH, but there were a few parts of Rock-a-Doodle that were dark, like the antagonist being scary, having a threatening voice and presence toward the main characters and farm animals, and that part of the film where he and his men gather around the farm animals and sing as they prepare to eat them after the flashlight runs out of batteries, and you are right about the sun never going up and it being night all the time. I still haven’t gotten around to watching Anastasia… If you do want to watch it, Rock-a-Doodle is currently available on YouTube Movies as a “free with ads” movie. That’s where I watched it and Bluth’s other movies recently.
I have seen a lot of great art reels, plus some that have super helpful tips and tricks for art. I know the most popular art reels on Instagram are mainly ones that show someone drawing or someone showing their art setup. I only just post images too, but it seems like that reels are the only fast way to get popular, unless your lucky and the algorithm pushes your pictures a lot and a ton of people find it. I’ve heard a lot of artists expressing their disdain for reels a lot, and how they feel it’s the only way for them to stay relevant. Most of the time, I see reels get way more likes than photos on a person’s account. However, I’m not really bothered by how not many people like or see my posts, I was obsessed with trying to record reels and get attention, but the one now deleted reel I posted only managed to get a few views and likes (plus I kind of was embarrassed by the video I posted because of its bad quality and obvious cuts) and I realized that it wasn’t worth it to try and make reels while tiring myself out if my reels wouldn’t get noticed a ton. I’ll probably try reels again, but not anytime soon. I’m not bothered if I’m unpopular, if only a few people see my artwork, it’s fine and makes me content anyway
@Pastellioli Huh. Where did you see this stuff about Rare's intentions for their characters?
And yeah. The whole thing of playing through the game multiple times to finish it was a thing back then with Sonic. Imo, the worst offender in that category is either Shadow's game, or Heroes. Probably Heroes. Sonic 06, it's the same stages, but it didn't quite feel as tedious for me as Heroes.
I've gotten really rusty at FPS games over the years. Never was exceptional at Halo, but good enough to hold my own. I need to get back into it sometime.
Heroes banners have gotten insane. I honestly dunno how much longer the game is gonna keep going. My current guess is one more year for book 9. (9 worlds)
Social media places are indeed toxic. People, at some point, cease treating others decently online. Or get too heated with politics.
Twitter in particular is stupid with what they ban ppl for. I've not been suspended yet, and I'd hope to keep all my posts from there.
@Mariotag I watched a few videos on Rare on YouTube, and I unfortunately cannot remember what the names of the videos were or the channels, but I can recall that they were in these scrapped game videos and Rare employees were quoted in them. I feel like that it may have been DidYouKnowGaming? videos or DKR-themed videos but I can’t recall the exact video. I need to find the videos where I found it from. The thing about Bumper was in a Rare “Mini-Scribes” article where they answered fan questions: https://web.archive.org/web/20140210121309/http://rare.co.uk/...
There are a lot of cancelled games that Rare was planning to make, but there is sometimes few documentation on them. I think I could be mistaking that Pipsy game for an unrelated cancelled game Rare was making called “Astro Mouse,” but my mind is super fuzzy at the moment. I would not be surprised if I accidentally made a mistake, and if I did, I’ll feel super stupid about it…
I heard that Shadow spin-off did something like that too with playing it multiple times and everyone absolutely hated it, and I heard that whole “play the game multiple times to complete it” was in a few Sonic games. But, for Shadow’s game, I’ve seen a resurgence in popularity for that game and some people say they enjoyed it, plus some say that there is some kind of replay value to it. Speaking of that game, I recall seeing a lot of the more “edgy” elements in that, such as giving Shadow a motorcycle and firearms, and hearing people thinking that was corny back then and unfitting for his character, but just now a lot of people don’t think it was super awful and made him a cooler character, plus they are well-known elements of his character now. It’s interesting to see the reception toward games considered bad at first getting better over time, rarely do I see that happen for a lot of games.
Yeah, I’ve also gotten pretty bad at shooters. That experience with Halo Infinite was so embarrassing, I don’t want to play again for my brother lol. Got four kills but died fourteen times. I’m not used to playing Halo compared to other shooters like Splatoon and Overwatch, so that paired with the fact I was unfamiliar with Halo and haven’t touched a shooter game in a while just added to my bad performance when playing Halo.
I do wonder what the next book will look like. It’s December soon where I am, so they should reveal the next story very soon. I do wonder when or if that game will end…it’s very long-running, but I guess that some games all have to come to an end at some point.
It’s hard for some people to treat others with decency online. I see it way too much, usually in the comments of Instagram posts I get recommended. Twitter just sounds the worst, and it’s why I avoided downloading social media for quite a long time.
A random gamer that loves retro games, Rareware, Vocaloid, ballpoint pens, squirrels, and sleeping.
@Pastellioli Wait, are you on the US west coast? In my timezone, it was already December for you.
Also, your mind is super fuzzy, or super fluffy?
Anyways, all joking aside, my situation with FPS games atm is both burnout, and a lack of patience to play them. In terms of games I'll play, I have it the opposite of you. Even though I've got the first two splatoon games, I've barely been able to play online, if at all, because of bad internet. I hate AT&T. We pay like, $150 a month for a landline, and 3mbps DSL internet, which is rarely ever what we actually get. Anything modern barely works, if at all.
Interesting tidbits on Rareware games. I'd have genuinely loved it had they not been bought out by Microsoft. All those projects, canceled. They were an incredible studio. I'll have more to say after seeing the articles in question though...
I've done most of what can be done in the Shadow spinoff, minus all A ranks, and all possible storyline paths. It's weird as, while there are a number of stages, because of branching paths, you only ever play six in any given run. There were some incredible moments, alongside some really stupid objectives. At the end of each run, depending on paths taken, and your final choice, you could get one of ten endings. If you got them all, the stories somehow merged, and you could do the "last story", similar to other games at the time.
The next book has me anxious in anticipation.
Thankfully, twitter is not my first social media experience. I know now to keep my mouth shut about politics, mostly. That's where the worst of it is.
Dreamt last night that Miyamoto was holding me at gunpoint and ushering me onto the Donkey Kong minecart ride repeatedly saying "It's even fun for people who don't like rollercoasters" (which was a bit strange because I do quite like rollercoasters)
Needless to say I'll now be very paranoid if I ever go to Super Nintendo World!
@Mariotag Its been December now many hours ago. I think I do have the same timezone as you. It’s still the first day of December here. It is my favorite month of the year, since everyone is off of work and it’s Christmas later. There’s this feeling that December gives off that makes me feel happy…
I love shooter games, especially the Splatoon games, but it’s sometimes a gamble to play online since my internet is trash sometimes and disconnects me. One of the worst instances I had with 3 on the Switch was when I was playing a series of Ranked matches and my internet disconnected me twice in a row as I was playing. Luckily, I successfully completed the series, but I was close to losing, since in Series matches, you play five matches and need to avoid losing three, and disconnecting from matches is counted as a loss. Another time was when I was playing 2 and almost everyone in a Ranked match (except me, a teammate, and an enemy E-Liter) disconnected simultaneously, but I don’t know if that was my internet or the game’s servers just choosing to run terribly at that moment since I stayed connected to the match even after nearly the entire room disconnected. You can get banned from playing the game online for a few minutes if you disconnect a ton, even if it’s on accident, and unfortunately the game doesn’t have a way to tell if internet disconnects are intentional or not. A lot of people say the Splatoon games have always had issues with its online multiplayer, and I do agree, but it’s also a combination of my WiFi being bad sometimes, so it’s also on me. I didn’t have much issue with WiFi when I used to play Overwatch, but I remember that sometimes the game could kind of lag when I tried playing it last year, and it made matches very unfun to play. Last time I played Splatoon I want to say it was a year ago, same for Overwatch too, so I haven’t played either in a good while. Plus, I also don’t have time to play games online, so I always play them offline.
I went on a site called Unseen64 for a lot of info on Rare’s cancelled games, and it was so cool, though some of the articles on there may be lacking new information and updates on a few of the games on there since the site is run by a small group of people. Rare Replay has a few short documentary videos on a couple of those cancelled titles, but you have to play the games included and upgrade your stamp card to unlock them, though Rare has uploaded a few of those documentaries online. I find so many of the cancelled projects to be interesting. The one I am sad the most over getting cancelled was a Conker sequel; a fun fact on that one was that they actually finished writing the storyline from start to finish and were just about to begin developing it, but they cancelled it, mainly because Microsoft didn’t an interest in it, and I believe the director said he wasn’t interested in working on it. There was a now delisted game called Project Spark on the Xbox that had an episodic Conker DLC expansion that acted as a semi-sequel to Bad Fur Day, but it was cancelled very fast. I also thought the cancelled two-part Perfect Dark sequel was interesting to hear about too.
Rare was super creative and they had a ton of genuinely cool ideas I would have loved to see come into fruition. Though, for the game sequels, Rare usually doesn’t like giving their games follow-ups and tends to leave them as one and done things, so I’m sort of not surprised the planned sequels they had got cancelled, though that came more from Microsoft not really wanting them. I do wonder if Rare would have turned out differently had Nintendo actually purchased them instead of Microsoft, and if Rare didn’t cancel so many game projects that were being developed.
I did know the game had multiple endings, but didn’t know it had 10! So it sounds like the game was ok? I heard a lot of people say it was a bad game, at least back then. I may watch some gameplay videos on those, I haven’t heard of a game that does that. I am interested in playing some Sonic games very soon, I’ll start playing through the classic games, and I’ll probably check for some of the 3D games on the Xbox. I did want to buy a Sonic game a few months ago actually…
Yeah, I’ll be disappointed if they make the ninth book the last one, I’ll be sad to see all my progress go away, but let’s see what they’ll do soon.
Yeah, with some topics on Instagram I try to stay out of some, mainly because I really don’t want to argue with people about stuff. The only ones I comment on are gaming and art that I see on my recommended.
@Pastellioli Ah. Same as what I comment on with twitter.
I do not want to see my FEH characters vanish. I particularly like the designs for a number of them.
Classic Sonic games are generally short. When they moved to full 3d, I guess they tried to remedy that by making multiple character stories you had to play. Shadow was unique. You could definitely see a story arc of sorts for his character between SA2, and Sonic 06.
I really need to get back to Rare Replay. I would've loved to have seen Nintendo purchase them. Microsoft's been scummy about that lately. Rare had so much potential.
I saw Project Spark on my Xbone home page a few times. It's gone now? Shame. Woulda liked to try it.
There was a fanmade sequel to Conker that I played once. Based off A Link to the Past, it was simultaneously a followup to another fangame. I found it too hard to truly get everything though.
I've maybe had, at most, 12 matches across the two splatoon games. It was constantly laggy, and disconnecting was very frequent. Similar with Overwatch. But that one was more lag. I just never had any fun with either, as everything relies on top notch internet these days.
I'm glad you weren't upset by the "super fluffy" tease btw. I tend to like fluffy characters a fair bit.
Aldo, December is a nicer month when you have a working heater.
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