Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@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 😊.

@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.