Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ShieldHero I've always thought it was a bit strange to just show the last 20 games you've played, as well as your play time being in 5-hour increments if you put enough time in. I'm not upset about that personally, I just think it's kind of odd. I do understand that it is a step backwards from how the 3DS did it though.

@CaleBoi25 Honestly, I'd love that "favorite game" feature. Maybe even have a top 3 favorite games list or something.

About favorite games: I don't know if anyone else does this, but on my Switch, I have a folder where I list all of my games in the order that I like them the most, with 10/10s first, then slowly going down, every single one of them. I also have folders for my homemade game of the year award, every franchise with more than two games, casual games, turn-based RPGs, the few Nintendo-published free-to-play games that I have (specifically NES Nintendo Classics, Tetris 99, and Pokémon HOME), and an "other" folder that currently only has Among Us and Pocoyo Party. I'm obsessed with the folders feature. I'm weird that way.

98 more days to go WICKED: FOR GOOD.
Can't wait to see Elphaba will be melted by bucket of water thrown by female child (Dorothy), Nessarose will become pancake after Dorothy's house landed on her, the catfight of Glinda vs Elphaba, the romantic scene of Fiyero & Elphaba

@ShieldHero I make folder but never use them lol, anytime I turn on my system I already know what I want to play! I have F2Ps, Paid Digital Games, Physical Games, Single Player Games, CoOp Games, Multiplayer Games, NSO Games, and Party Games, to name a few haha!

@Pastellioli Quite the hiatus! Yeah, I had trouble with CD for a while myself regardless of controls. Could maybe do better now. Sonic 2 meanwhile, special stages are a pain as far as I remember.

AI is a disaster on many fronts. I think they only use it to save money, and further train said tech. Information is a big thing on the market in this age of information. Started going to the public eye with googling stuff and youtube searches, now it's a problem out of control, corrupt as can be.

Maybe I'll see him at Pokemon Legends Z-A launch? Still worried though. What if he's moving away in part to avoid me? I no longer have any possible way to reach him.
In my case, I used to be confident. But then I joined miiverse, got involved in social interaction, got attachments to ppl, and was invited to a forum of teenagers. Fell apart in a major, lasting way both online and off.

Following up from prior, yeah. The whole thing gave me a bunch of paranoia. I have this video I used as a meme to describe silent cues, and how I see them. Could link it if allowed? But basically, the more ppl rejected me anytime I let my guard down, the worse it got. I never know if a single slip-up will cost me all of it.

Yeah, I decided to restart my file. Couldn't figure out jack.

@ShieldHero Hmm. I more group them by type of game on switch game types?
Example, "Massive Hecking RPGs".

Cause of course.

@Pastellioli Gotcha, I've gotten lucky in Splatoon 3 in that regard. My worst case scenario in that game was just getting disconnected, and that's it.

I should draw more poses as well. I do like drawing anything that is cheerful and gets me in a good mood, so I will admit I can be a little picky in that regard. I just love positivity in general. If you're interested to know, I'm thinking of drawing Kirby sometime. I also made a drawing of Mario and Peach in Merry Mountain back in 2023.

Gotcha, I see... I do remember rubbing the excess paint off with my thumb, but if I recall correctly, a bit of the paint still remained. Yeah, I did want to like oil painting, but it's just a bit too messy for my liking. Aha, thanks for telling me about the Strathmore watercolor paper. I think I'd prefer thicker paper myself and to be careful with how much water I use... when I try doing watercolor I'll be sure to note my experiences here.

Ah thanks for telling me... yeah, not all papers were created equal, lol. It helps to experiment outside of your main piece as well. I use a sketchbook, and if I'm unsure about how something would turn out, I'd dedicate an entire page to toying around to see what works and what doesn't. I'd sometimes use printer paper when making marker drawings, but only when I was a kid. I loved using those Crayola markers when I was little.

They probably did make quite a bit of changes to Overwatch during that time frame, yeah. I know that happens with Splatoon, where they'd change how much damage weapons do and how the stages are made to give a few examples. Ouch, just three wins you're saying? Some of my recent experiences with Splatoon had me have at least a bit more losses than wins. Not sure if it's just me, my teammates, or probably how the stages were made. I've especially had miserable luck in the stage Barnacle & Dime. I've had a much, much worse time playing Rocket League, however. On a somewhat related note, I have no interest in Fortnite and I'd probably get frustrated playing that anyway.

Gotcha that's cool. On a related note, most of my time in Super Mario Maker 1 and 2 were playing others' levels, though I have made some levels too. I might come back to SMM2, I've seen a few active people in the level sharing thread. Ah gotcha, you're a newer Rare fan, that's cool. Did you play any of their older games before they made the DKC series? I played a couple of them, I played Jetpac (via Donkey Kong 64) and RC Pro Am (via NES - Nintendo Classics).

That is pretty depressing to hear... announcing games super early sounds like a bad habit on Microsoft's part. Same with those awful, awful layoffs. I feel sorry for those veteran Rare members. As I mentioned before, I hope they're doing all right. It just makes me wish they'd stay with Nintendo instead more.

Ouch, sorry to hear about that one later part of the game. Yeah, places like YouTube and Twitter can have quite a few spoilers for recently-released stuff. I'm purposely not looking at Bananza videos since I want to play it for myself. Yeah... a lot of us thought we were gonna have one for February, but not this year, lol. They did have a Direct in June, but it was exclusively on Bananza. I'd be surprised if they don't have at least a regular Direct on September.

@Anti-Matter im very excited for wicked:for good as well!! its gonna be a lot of sobbing lol. the trailer looks astounding!! although the ai poster controversy is disappointing.

@OctolingKing13
AI Poster of Wicked: For Good?
What it looks like?
Because there was official poster of Wicked: For Good by Universal.

@Anti-Matter the two character posters for Glinda and Elphaba unfortunately were found to have generative ai in them, you can tell by the blurred faces, the copy-and-pasted monkeys, weirdly textured flowers, and a strange error with the wheel. hopefully theyll learn from the backlash (although minor 😔)
heres an article containing pictures of the posters: https://www.creativebloq.com/design/poster-design/wicked-for-...

@OctolingKing13
Yikes!
I knew those two posters of Elphaba and Glinda looked hideous.
Btw, this is the official poster of Wicked: For Good.

Official Dorothy Barbie doll by Mattel from Wicked: For Good.
Surprisingly, we will see the Dorothy face in Wicked: For Good and we will see the part from Wizard of Oz which Dorothy will splash bucket of water (or gallons of water since the first movie shown a lot of water puddle and after burnt floor) to Elphaba and watching Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba screaming in agony while melting... melting.... and the thing happened at the end of movie based on Wicked Broadway version.

Also, who will play as Dorothy in Wicked: For Good?

@MarioVillager92 Yep, some of the punishments in 3 for disconnecting are a bit more severe, but it’s nice they started taking action against a problem that was present ever since the series started.

Yeah, that’s my issue, but it’s also because I’m indecisive with choosing poses, especially ones that fit the character I’m drawing. If I’m drawing fanart of a character, I want to try and get the look or pose of the character close enough to their original design or their personality, or when choosing a pose, I try finding one that would fit how they act.

Oil painting looks fun but the issue for me is how slow drying it is compared to acrylic, the oil paint just seems to smudge a lot when I tried adding colors and shading. Ultimately got no paintings done with oils, but oh well. Yeah, it’s best that you get thick watercolor paper that can handle water well, I think thinner watercolor paper is better suited for minimal watercolor and water if it buckled heavily after I used so much water.

I’m used to finished drawings so I usually don’t do sketches or test pages in my sketchbook, but I think it’s not helping at all…I’ve had that sketchbook since May and I only got three drawings done with it…before ultimately ripping the drawings out because I didn’t like them at all. I usually test things out on a scrap of printer paper, which helps a lot.

I remember when OW2 was announced and how many changes it went through when being developed, but they seem to be bringing back a ton of removed features and aspects from the first game, so it’s looking more like OW1 now, which kind of makes me question if OW1 needed a sequel in the first place. Yep, I lost that many matches that day. Sucked a lot, especially when everyone tried their best to win. I used to win matches back and forth when I first played OW2 in 2023…oh, so Splatoon has some newer stages that are frustrating? I remember hating a few stages in the first and second game, but especially ones that had a ton of water in them. I think it was Mahi-Mahi Resort, and then Saltspray Rig in the first game, because both bases have these long pathways on the side that are close to each other, and it made a great spot for the enemy team to snipe and somewhat puppy guard my team’s base, though I like most stages in the games.

I miss Mario Maker, I only had the first one on the Wii U but it was so fun! Though only when I played other people’s levels, mine sucked lol. Yeah, while I first started with their DKC games, I tried a handful of their other NES and SNES games on Rare Replay, as well as Spectrum ZX games their predecessor Ultimate Play The Game made. But I find most of the older games play terribly and badly explained, especially the Spectrum games, but I thought Jetpac was the best out of the Spectrum games in terms of the controls and the goal, and I did complete a few of those. The worst one in that collection is Underwurlde. Tried it out for a few seconds and immediately quit the moment I felt the janky controls and movement.

It is, I was actually interested in seeing how Rare’s next game was going to turn out in spite of the long development cycle and lack of updates. But the one cancellation that stung the worst for me was them cancelling a reboot of Perfect Dark, especially because it was a revival of an old Rare IP I actually had interest in. When they first showed off the reveal trailer last year, I liked it so much it convinced me to play the original Rare games, and now it looks like it was all for nothing. I wonder what Rare’s going to do nowadays…

Microsoft has a bad history of how they manage studios, which is something I heard of before I got a Series S, but most people said the bad management was especially prevalent with Rare, starting with the 360 era. It’s especially crazy that they have 20+ studios under their helm, but it sometimes feels like they don’t get a lot of games released because of the long development time, lack of updates on already announced titles, and then multiple game cancellations as of late, but also sometimes resorting to shutting down a studio if something doesn’t pan out. There were at least 4 known games that got cancelled, but they said a ton of unannounced games were also canned too! The long development cycle for triple-A games now probably plays a role into that too.

Yeah, and I got another glimpse at the final boss! I mean I’ll still be excited for it but the spoilers will definitely lessen my excitement now that I’ve been partially spoiled. It’s really hard to avoid spoilers for a game that’s been out and is one a ton of people already completed. I also thought they’d have February, but I guess with the release of a new console, it made them want to change up their calendar for Directs this time. I’m just really wondering if they’ll end up skipping September and possibly have an October Direct, or if that July Partner Showcase was all they had for this year, but that’d be strange…don’t they have a few more first party games that have yet to get updates, like Metroid Prime 4? I swear I haven’t heard anything about that game in months.

OK, guys, I need to know. I want to get into the Xenoblade series, and I really want to try 3, but I don't want to do that until I play 1, 2, and Torna. So, should I start there, or can I safely begin with X? Because that is the other one I really want to try, but I'm not sure if it's a standalone.

@Anti-Matter i do love the outfits for the offical poster

@CaleBoi25, from what I've heard online, the Definitive Edition of X added a new final chapter that connects X to the rest of the series, but I'm not sure in what way since I've never played it myself. As for the other games, all 3 of them have a few small references to the other games, but not super major stuff from what I hear, since every game has a different protagonist, they can basically be played in any order in that regard. However, I have heard that 3's DLC has characters from the first two games so I suggest you play the first two games before playing that if you want to know what is really going on. I actually also want to get into Xenoblade in the future as well if I like the action RPG gameplay of Pokémon Legends Z-A!

@Mariotag Honestly the controls for a lot of the classic Sonic games on the phone are hard for me, and it just seems like using an actual controller would be easier, though I’m proud of myself for completing CD twice on mobile given the later bosses were hard with the touchscreen controls.

Yeah, and it’s so malicious especially when hearing about company layoffs and them using and promoting AI afterward. Microsoft actually laid off employees last month and reports said AI was replacing a majority of the jobs leftover, and then someone working there made an absolutely tone deaf comment saying something like “AI can help you get unstuck faster, calmer, and with more clarity”…in the faces of the 9,000 employees they fired and when AI is what everyone is afraid will eventually render them obsolete. Again, AI can have good uses but in that case it is not, and it can be abused and do jobs poorly. The issue with the verification system they implemented into YouTube is the fact they’ll rely on an AI to do the checking instead of an actual person who’d probably have better judgement and assumptions based on the content, but I think it still would be bad even if there was a real person checking the account information because they still wouldn’t have a real way of actually checking if the person is older or not. The verification system is so dumb and it’s a guessing game for the AI, which apparently already guessed a bunch of user ages incorrectly and intrudes on personal information and privacy.

That’d be good if you could see him there and get the chance to talk, but I’m still sorry about what happened.

I kind of was a bit overconfident and prideful back then, and maybe overstated myself too, but now I lost a lot of that and grown way more negative and less positive. I mean I do think being overly prideful is bad and it led to me always thinking I was in the right, but I think I’m also way too unhappy at this point and always lean towards negativity. I just think that if I have any sort of positive opinion on myself, I’m lying and it’s wrong.

Any sort of slip-up I make makes me feel terrible, even if minor and if it doesn’t upset anyone a lot. I just feel embarrassed, but I also can get paranoid about messing up a ton too, especially if it’s maybe something harder I need to do. Sorry about what happened, paranoia is an awful feeling and really makes you worried about the possibilities.

I see! Are you going to play with a playthrough or no? I used a playthrough as I played to help me. Usually I’m bad at playing and learning a game without a guide.

Be careful out there everyone, hurricane Erin is here and it’s likely not gonna be pretty.

@Pastellioli Yeah, in that respect, it looks like they're figuring it out. Just purely going by my experience.

Oh gotcha, yeah, I'm basically the same way. I want to pick the right poses for whatever character I'm drawing. For the Merry Mountain drawing I mentioned earlier, I had Mario and Peach waving hello. That was me drawing from still life - I have figures for both characters and I'd adjust their arms so it looks like they're waving hi.

Ah I see, I'd have the paints smudge on me as well, lol. Since it was a class I took, I kept chugging along and got my painting projects done. And I did good in them. Sorry you couldn't get yours done though.

Ah OK, that's good the printer paper works for you testing things out. My sketchbook has both finished pieces of mine, and me toying around. I experiment in my sketchbook since I'd deal with the same type of paper, and my sketchbook lasts quite a long time. In other words, I won't have to get another sketchbook anytime soon.

That sounds kind of like how Super Mario Galaxy 2 came to be, where the guys at Nintendo had so much ideas, that they couldn't implement them into a single game. Ouch, sorry to hear on Overwatch. That sounds like my experience with Rocket League, where I'd keep losing. While playing, I'd also get bumped around a lot, I'd keep missing the ball or hitting it at a bad angle, or even get blown up for seemingly no reason. It's cool that people like RL, it just isn't for me. Yeah, I've seen that Splatoon 3 has gotten criticism for its stage design, but surprisingly, the only frustrating stage for me was the previously mentioned Barnacle & Dime.

Yeah, Super Mario Maker is a pretty good game. Some of the user-made levels aren't super great, but I think there are some great ones out there, too. The most recent time I played SMM2 was playing peoples' Super Worlds, but it's been ages since I last played that game. Ah yeah, I did get some decent mileage from SMM1 before the Wii U's online shut down as well. That's cool. I thought Jetpac was a surprisingly good game considering how old it is and it's on a system I've never even heard of before as a kid. I actually have a Retro Gamer magazine that has a whole section on the ZX Spectrum. I did hear it was a popular computer in the UK. (So that's why I've never heard of it as a kid...!)

Oh no... don't you hate when games you're looking forward to get cancelled? Not a Rare game, but I still remember when Mega Man Legends 3 got cancelled... even the prototype demo got cancelled! As somebody who is a Mega Man fan, I was looking forward to playing it... but it just didn't happen. I wonder if Capcom would ever revisit it sometime, but outside of the Legacy Collections and Mega Man 11, they haven't been doing much with Mega Man nowadays.

Yeah... didn't Microsoft shut down the studio that made Hi-Fi Rush? Or am I misremembering? That's a game I want to play sometime. I think I saw there's that Indiana Jones game that was Xbox-exclusive that's making it to Switch 2, so I think there's hope that Hi-Fi Rush will make it as well.

Oh no, that sucks! I'm sorry to hear! Yeah, it is difficult to avoid spoilers for recently-released games, especially on places like YouTube. I'm planning on getting Donkey Kong Bananza this week, but I won't say a word about it when I play it. Because I care. Yeah, I'm also wondering about Metroid Prime 4... I think we'd find out its release date on the next Nintendo Direct, but it's just an educated guess. We now know when Kirby Air Riders is coming out at least, it'll be out on November 20th.

Also, Pastellioli, please don't be too negative. About you saying that any positive thought about yourself being "wrong," it sounds like you've been being hard on yourself - it won't do any good. I've been practicing self-love and it's been helping me a lot mentally... so I'd say it's worth trying to take the time to love yourself. I'm not saying to be overconfident or anything like that, but being overly negative isn't good either. So definitely give yourself time to cheer up. I'm writing this to help you out, because once again, I care. Remember to give yourself the gift of being joyfully you. I hope this advice helps you be on the right track, as well as others who read this and are going through something similar.

It's pretty hard to find conversations now a days.