Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ShieldHero Ooooh that sounds pretty fun! Hope you had a great time.
I have been playing some Tears of The Kingdom as well as Fortnite so its been pretty chill

@ShieldHero ooh I love walking tacos! They are best with Fritos, specifically IMO
@ThatZeldaNerd I just downloaded Fortnite and on my second time playing I got Victory Royale! Pretty fun game, but I wish it had a tutorial because I still don't know how most of the controls work...!

@CaleBoi25 Whoa nice!! Honestly the controls are tricky at first but you'll get the hang of it for sure! I saw that you were online yesterday we should totally run some duos if your up for it sometime

@CaleBoi25, does Victory Royale mean you won? If so, that's impressive for a 100-player game! My best placement in Tetris 99 is 18th.

@ThatZeldaNerd Yeah we def should!
@ShieldHero Yep! I still can't believe it, especially since the only other free for all I play is Tetris 99 (best is 16th place)

@MarioVillager92 I did get a few internet warnings in 3, but there were a few times in 2 where I got banned from playing online for only a few minutes because of poor internet, not rage quitting. You get warned about it and a message along the lines of “make sure your internet isn’t busted before playing” shows up when you go in the lobby, but if you disconnect more than once, either intentionally or unintentionally, you get the ban hammer and can’t play for a few minutes. It is nice the later games had more bans and warnings because of how frequent disconnects were in the first game (which was the worst out of the three when it came to punishing players that intentionally disconnect), but I think 3 took more actions against player disconnects besides banning, like how the game instantly ends a match if one or more disconnect a few seconds after it starts.

That’s good! I’m still struggling a bit with what to make, I’ll admit that poses are what mainly contribute to my art block but I still have a lot of ideas I want to get down on paper.

When I rinsed my brushes, the paint still stuck to the brush. The paints were from Winsor and Newton, which is a high-quality art brand, so I’d assume the materials used in making the paint were really good quality and expensive if they didn’t come off my brushes entirely. Though after that happened I realized oil painting wasn’t for me. Yeah, watercolor paper is what you should definitely use since the texture and thickness is usually good, but I have used thinner watercolor paper in the past and the paper sometimes buckles or bends. I remember having Strathmore watercolor paper, which did handle the watercolor well, but all the sheets looked kinda bendy after I was finished, and if there’s one thing that bothers me about a drawing, it’s damaged or marked paper that ruins my art, though I maybe used too much water.

What I remember doing with the printer paper painting was I inked the art using an ultra fine liner from the dollar store. The pen worked well with my markers and pencils so I assumed it worked with all materials, but what I didn’t know was that the liner is not waterproof, so once water went on the lines, the painting became a muddy and smudgy mess and ruined the color of the paints. Though, I was less experienced in drawing when that happened. Now I test if a certain material is compatible with another, which is very important when using wet art material. Better to find out early instead of taking a risk with a drawing you’re making!

I’m very used to simplified controls in fighting games thanks to Smash, I find all the different moves and inputs in traditional fighting games hard to get used to. Yep, I used to love Overwatch a lot, especially at its peak back in 2016-2019, but dropped it in favor of Splatoon and the Switch after that, but chose to give OW another shot again after I got an Xbox. I had to start over, but I didn’t really mind it. While the first times I played it I had a ton of fun and got all my skills back, I found the game was harder to play (and enjoy) when I redownloaded it in December, though, I’d imagine the game changed a bit since the time I was gone, from updates, slight modifications, and new heroes. Last time I played it was in November 2023, and it wasn’t until December of last year I went back to it. I think I did 20 something matches but only managed to with 3 of them, super frustrating, especially with the terrible matchmaking and game servers being so bad at staying connected. I don’t really play Splatoon anymore but it can also be a somewhat frustrating game if you’re not winning all the time, the games have gotten like that for me too at points.

Yes, if I remember it does, but I think I mostly focused on LBP3’s story mode instead. I usually suck at building and creating stuff in games that center on creativity, but I like games that allow their players to make whatever the heck they want.

I only got into their games back in 2021 thanks to NSO having the original DKC SNES trilogy. Played that through June-July and had a blast, but playing Banjo is what made me like them even more.

Yeah, but there were reports over the years saying the game was plagued with development issues…first, the game was in experimental prototyping for some time around 2014, they announced it with a trailer in 2019, and went dead silent. From 2021-2024 came reports that development was plagued with issues and rebooted. Eventually, it was reported development was going better (with some of the game being playable), but ultimately got canned when Microsoft laid off several of their employees, with the game director and producer being part of those layoffs. There were conflicting reports before the cancellation saying it was an adventure God game with survival elements and little to no combat, but then a life sim game similar to Viva Piñata? Reports also said the developers themselves didn’t know what the game was supposed to be about, which all hint that they never settled on a genre or gameplay for it after revealing it. I was optimistic about it despite the issues it had being developed, but it shows Microsoft shouldn’t have their studios announce games so early before their finished. It felt kinda weird seeing Rare have a small 40th anniversary celebration lately as if nothing happened, since they just lost their last few veteran employees a month ago, the game they worked a decade on went nowhere, and the fact no one knows what they’ll make next after all their work ultimately went in the trash.

I’m still trying to do my best to avoid watching or seeing stuff for Bananza, but it’s so hard because some Nintendo-themed accounts I follow are already posting stuff related to later parts of the game…I ended up getting recommended a screenshot of a tweet with a very, VERY spoiler-y scene from a later part of the game, so unfortunately I’ll be less surprised when it happens. But, again, I should be glad that it’s only one part. But from now on, I’ll probably avoiding reading and watching stuff about games and shows I, for sure, want to play and watch. They have been oddly unpredictable with their Directs all year this time, huh? Something funny I kind of realized was they had Directs a month after the time they usually are supposed to be doing one. They have February Directs, but instead had one in March, then they skipped June but had a Partner Direct a few weeks ago in July. I’m wondering if they’ll skip September, given that’s what they did last year, but I think it’ll be super strange if they didn’t have one last Direct for the year, or something related to Mario.

@eel

I'm sorry can you send that email again please?

@JaxonH done. Try to check the junk folder if it doesn’t show up in main.

It does discuss money so your email may think it’s spam.

Just a reminder we all need to practice. Go check on your friends. This life is hard.

js let them know that you appreciate them <3

@ShieldHero moving our conversation here so we stay on topic 😛 arceus is great, i would say the best pokemon adventure on switch! whats all in your forwardlog (love that name) just curious?

@OctolingKing13, oh my gosh, my forwardlog... I have a list of games I want to play / purchase on GAMEYE, which is an app on the Google Play Store where you can easily track your games collection. A question mark means I might possibly skip it and swap it out for another one, some of the ones that currently don't have question marks might get question marks in the future. Here's the forwardlog as of right now:

Pokémon Legends Z-A
Pokémon Champions
Pokémon Shining Pearl
Pokémon Legends Arceus
Pokémon Let's Go Eevee?
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury?
Paper Mario the Thousand-Year Door
Minecraft
Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Xenoblade Chronicles X?
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2 Sisters Generation
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3 V Generation
Super Neptunia RPG?
Megadimension Neptunia VII?
Hollow Knight?
Persona 5 Royal
Persona 3 Portable
Persona 4 Golden
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream?
Dragon Quest I + II HD-2D Remake?
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time?

If I get a Switch 2:
Switch 2 Editions of Botw and Totk (not going to reply either Botw or Totk anytime soon, but will many years from now)
Switch 2 Edition of Z-A
Mario Kart World?
Kirby and the Forgotten Land Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World?
Kirby Air Riders?

@ShieldHero thats quitee the forwardlog you have there! a nice diverse list of titles, and a lot thatll take you forever haha! paper mario the thousand year door is one of the most utterly charming and brilliant games ever made in my opinion. i also need to play the rest of the xenoblade series, was blown away by 3. and dont put that question mark by mario kart world, its a stellar entry (im biased because im still in the honeymoon phase with it). love the list! 😸
also have you NEVER played minecraft??!!!

@OctolingKing13, I have played Minecraft: one hour of creative mode on a friend's PS4. Most of the hour was spent building massive chains of TNT, hitting one of them, and watching them all explode at once 🤣. I do want to play the game at some point, at least by the end of 2027. Maybe next year if I find the time for it, Minecraft is a big game after all, I want to have a decent gap in my gaming schedule first before starting.

@ShieldHero this is shocking you NEED to get addicted to minecraft now. seriously during the pandemic minecraft was literally life for me. great comfort game you play in between breaks for sure. youll love it!

Since this thread is just for talking about anything, I thought I might as well rant about one of the few things I dislike about the original Nintendo Switch: the play activity log's limit of only showing your 20 most recent games played. I know it's mostly likely never an issue for the average player who doesn't play many games because of how often they play stuff like Fortnite, but for a diehard Nintendo fan like me who plays a ton of offline games, it's kind of disappointing. Just this morning, I started Dragon Quest XI, which is the twenty-first game I've played on the Switch. The game on the bottom of the list, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, is no longer present there. I knew it was coming well over a year ago, and I'm surprised it took me this long, but it still just doesn't feel right to me. At least I record the playtime of all of my games on Google Keep Notes and Gameye, so I still know how much time I played it, and it's still present on the all software list, but it is still disappointing 😞. Have any of you experienced this yet, and if so, what was your reaction to it?

@ShieldHero i agree with you, i like people to see the time and commitment i put into games and such, because 1. i like my work to be shown (😿) and 2. friends can see all the games you have and 3. if youre called a fake nintendo fan. i wish they would adapt a playtime system like playstations!

@ShieldHero
PS5 displayed your gameplay hours more accurately than Switch 1 despite only in hours without the specific minutes like 3DS / Wii U.
Switch 1 just only displayed gameplay hours in multiple of 5 hours after more than 5 hours while PS5 displayed the number every 1 hour.

I would be happy if they just added a way to choose a favorite game. I mean, if we're "wishlisting," I'd love themes, Nintendo Music as a Switch app, and a way to pick a little status (EG "Hello" or "I love Ninji" or what have you).

@CaleBoi25 ive never thought of statuses thats such a brilliant idea. nintendo please 🙏🏼

@CaleBoi25, status idea sounds brilliant, kind of sounds like the Splashtags in Splatoon 3 or titles in ACNH 😊.