Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@D-Star92 Late reply, two weeks late! Sorry for that.

Acecraft has easy controls, all you really need to do is move your finger on the screen to control the character, and the character also automatically shoots while you’re controlling them. It’s easy and simple to learn, but I haven’t played it a lot recently, playing rhythm games a lot right now! Though, there are a few games I liked playing and dropped because I lost interest or was too hard but need to get back into. I was emulating a few of the PaRappa games and enjoying those (despite how much I suck at rhythm games with button controls) but I dropped it at Um Jammer Lammy, but I intend on picking it back up at some point. And then there’s an HTF mobile game I liked but I found the micro-transactions, upgrade requirements and bosses got gradually annoying so I gave up on it for now. What bugs me is how the game keeps matching me up with players who completed the game and have fully upgraded vehicles and slingshots, and then they make diamonds so hard to get without spending money…

Yes, but I still have issues with making marks on paper and controlling pencil pressure. I’m not the best with light sketching, but it’s the best way to go if you’re doing lineart. Yeah, I know some people who outline last, but it can be tricky since sometimes the pencil lines are covered by color.

It’s been a while since I last saw a video including the NY Nintendo store (I think it was in a 2019 video where customers were reacting to the June Direct) because I didn’t know they had a TV people could use to play games there! It sounds like it’s only one TV, and do people have to take turns doing it? I’m wondering how they manage one large gaming TV there if they have a lot of customers.

I don’t hate RPGs, but they are a bit hard for me since they require strategy (like in Fire Emblem) and thinking about what might happen next. Oh well, but it stinks because I heard it was the best out of the mainline 3DS games, but they overcharge for physical copies because someone told me it was a limited release? Might have no choice but to emulate it instead at some point.

A shame but oh well…you should try PD! I only played the Xbox port, but it was a fun experience last year, though it’s possible the controls on there might be a bit more rough since it’s an emulation of the original N64 version instead. Though, I actually had more fun playing PD’s prequel aand thought the gameplay on that one was better.

@Mariotag Late response! Sorry.

Sideways is easier for me, thank gosh almost all rhythm games on phone require being sideways. It’s so hard trying to play console games with touch controls or buttons on screen. It’s ridiculously hard and kind of shows how better the original controls on console are.

That sounds awful. Sorry with what went down and how you’re feeling.

Geez, you need to do all that to get to the ending? Sounds difficult, usually when a game offers more content, achievements or a special ending when you almost get 100% or do extra difficult challenges, i tend to not bother doing so. I do feel like achievement hunting in some games sometimes but rarely.

@Pastellioli I'm just used to gachas on mobile at this point lol. Controllers were designed for games.

Yea. I'm upset with both him and myself for our respective reactions, but don't feel I have the right to be upset at him.

It's funny cause I'm actually up to where I just need to practice the last boss of the gauntlet, and find that winning key. But yikes it's so much harder than everything before. If you wanna see, look up Absolute Radiance. I've not seen a vid of it yet. My furthest is phase 4 of 6.

I was wondering where you went! It's okay, DW.

@sunsy check out the 10:05 mark in this video, I think you'll appreciate it haha!

@CaleBoi25 I lol'd. Now there's a blooper that flew under my radar.

Serious note, I'm glad AMC reversed that decision, I saw Trolls Band Together at my local AMC. I did see Trolls World Tour with a friend at a local theater that wasn't AMC after the pandemic ended.

Thanks!

Mario games, even a few of the spin off games I have played, are fantastic games thought up and developed. There are different entertaining values to like about the games, rather that be the titles’ creativity, thrill with boldness and/or suspense, and whatever else I can’t think of at the moment.

Some weeks ago I picked up my copy of Super Mario 3D Land and started playing through some levels. I later decided to play through the levels at a faster pace, in a more speedrun style, and doing so I think I played the game the best way I could have enjoyed it. The game itself had a game design that had joy that made me happy interacting with it and playing the game. Which would be another thing I love about this series and also makes me excitingly happy, and means something to me, which I don’t know why as a matter of fact.

Perhaps it's like the reason people watched movies in certain time periods where they weren’t always feeling the best of moods. I actually feel that way about songs that came out prior to 70s (though don’t get me wrong, 70s and others still had songs that were like this). I’m thinking about songs that came out in the 30s and 40s that were focused on being nothing but joy in their score, lyrics and vocals, released in both time periods we obviously all know weren’t good to live through, and thus why so many people listened to them.

But I think with Mario those games, the happy nature of those games I mentioned, uplift my spirits, and in addition, make me think how much we have to be grateful for in life, that reminds us how much of a blessing life is to live through, actually. I also find that that personality the series carries somehow gives me optimism to face whatever challenges await me, whatever they may be, in the unforeseeable future.

I do hope Nintendo continues to make Mario games with that recipe in mind going forward, and I’m sure they will. If not, at the very least, I hope it inspires other developers, indie or not indie, to want to make games with that purpose, so that we’ll always have games like that in the future.

Happy Halloween Chit Chat thread! I had a quiet one today, I had on Trolls hair part of the day because Halloween, and had a bit of candy I was saving for the day.

Also, played a bit of Modern Combat Blackout and planning to read a Trolls Halloween book I have.

Hope everyone has had a good Halloween, or day.

@Sunsy
Happy Halloween over there.
It's 1 November 2025 here in Indonesia.
Btw, you can check out my short comic of ACNH on ACNH thread.
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@Sunsy Thanks! I hope you had a good Halloween too. Tonight, I played a couple games... Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Halloween event, and Luigi's Mansion. I went ahead and finished area 2 in the latter game, as well. Earlier, I played and finished Super Castlevania IV in preparation for Halloween, too.

And not related to games, but tonight I also saw Lonesome Ghosts on Disney+ (it's a classic Mickey Mouse short), and it was fun to watch. I hope you're doing well.

@Pastellioli

Are you okay these days? Just a spot of concern checking if you're stressed or something.

@Pastellioli You're good, hope you are well. My reply is late too, but I've still had my notification. Just so you know, I might be slow in replying in this thread.

Aha gotcha, that does sound like it's intuitive with how your character shoots automatically. Kinda like how in Super Mario Run, Mario runs on his own while you'd control the jumping. I remember PaRappa the Rapper, I think one of my uncles had it for the PlayStation way back in the day. I've not played it, but I did see a playthrough of it on YouTube a little while back. I remember that PaRappa was a pretty big mascot for the PlayStation in the late 90s alongside Crash and Spyro.

Gotcha I see, I think I'm pretty OK with controlling the pencil pressure... though I think part of it might have to do with how I've been drawing pictures since I was little. I guess it came naturally. But I do know it does ultimately take practice, like everything else in life. Though I'd often have erased pencil marks when I draw, lol.

Yes, people would take turns while playing on Nintendo NY's big screen. When I was there, Mario Kart 8 was playable on that. That was the Wii U original, since I visited Nintendo NY before the Switch came out.

Yeah, RPGs are not my forte. I mentioned before that they get long and complex. I've played a good amount of the Xenoblade games, but I've gotten stuck in them a number of times. I got close to finishing Xenoblade 2, but I ultimately dropped it because of a brutally difficult boss fight. I did not know what exactly to equip, either. I might come back to the first game, but I think I would have to enable easy mode. Just because I'm not good at RPGs and I don't want to get frustrated. Ah yeah, that reminds me. I finished Mario & Luigi: Brothership last year, and while I did like it at first, I thought that game was a bit of a disappointment. Mainly because of how it just dragged on and on, so I got burnt out on it like halfway through.

I'll give Perfect Dark a shot sometime. Thanks for the heads up on the controls. I did have to change them on Luigi's Mansion a bit, particularly the up and down controls for the Poltergust 3000 and flashlight.

@ShieldHero I think I saw one of your other posts, how are you liking the PS4? My first non-Nintendo console was a Sony one too, except that was a PS2 and I enjoyed it. Though I kind of wish I had a Dreamcast back in the day before its early discontinuation... sorry, Sega.

@Mariotag Yes, I’m fine! Just haven’t been using NL a lot lately and busy playing lots of games, sorry.

@D-Star92 Hello! Yes, the controls in Acecraft are simple and they do remind me a bit of Super Mario Run’s controls now that you mentioned it. It did take me a while to play PaRappa, but I found the first game pretty fun but also extremely hilarious and charming, but I did suck at playing it a bit and struggled a lot in the last level. I’ll have to get back to playing the games because I was playing the Lammy spin-off last month and got onto the 5th level (which I think is 1-2 levels away from finishing the game) but dropped it, because I’ve been playing my Vocaloid rhythm game haha.

Yeah, was trying to draw last night but I realized my pencil pressure is pretty bad lol, gonna have to practice that at some point, especially since hard pencil pressure can damage good paper. I have drawn for a while but I’ve always have had poor control over pencil pressure, but maybe it’s because of the lead size or how I always covered the rough sketch with markers and pencils and didn’t have to worry too much about the visibility of the graphite. I already feel like choosing a different art style using lots of color and outlines, so the pencil lines can’t be visible when I outline and color it.

The original version of Mario Kart? That was a decade ago, time flies! I haven’t visited Nintendo NY but i can’t imagine how fun it is buying merchandise and playing games there with others.

I usually prefer shorter games that I can complete in maybe a few days or ones that don’t have completion times because I also don’t have time for longer games, realistically it would take me months to complete a long one probably. Ah, I see, so the Xenoblade games are fun but sometimes a bit long and difficult to play? Didn’t know since I haven’t played the series before. I’m also not good at knowing what to use or equip in some games, kind of reminds me of when I used to play Genshin Impact, not an RPG but it’s a big game and I didn’t know what characters or weapons to use until I realized later that I needed a bunch of other stronger characters and items from the gacha, which was annoying, because I only got one character out of it. I’m surprised you didn’t like Brothership a lot, it seemed like something you’d like! But I have heard people who play RPGs say that it sometimes feels like they drag on.

To add to my gacha annoyances, I kind of can’t stand mobile games that require you to use the gacha mechanics a ton or buy microtransactions to get items or characters so you can better at the game instead of being on equal footing with paying players as a no paying player. I used to play a HTF mobile game called Deadeye Derby that was pretty fun and addictive for a few months, but I got increasingly ticked off at how the game kept matching me up with players who finished the game and got all the slingshot and vehicle upgrades (the stronger ones likely through microtransactions), and I found it super stupid how the game makes you pay a high amount of diamonds for the remaining 2-3 vehicle upgrades, as it requires either a lot of grinding or paying money to get it. The game does not have a level system or matchmaking system that pairs you with players that have similar upgrades as you or are on the same level, so I’d get paired up with players stronger than me and it would be unfun. Dropped it at the third boss because it is almost near impossible to beat him with my upgrades, and after seeing footage of the final boss rapidly shooting with a slingshot and having a bunch of gimmicks…yeah, I don’t think I’ll play the game again for a while.

You’re welcome, I really enjoyed PD last year, but I do know how weird the controls could be on the original N64 controls. I remember playing the Zero prequel and the game controls were already set to the original PD controls, so it felt weird to control and I had to change to the modern control scheme.

@Pastellioli Ahh alright.

Well, I did have a whole reply for ya.

To me, NL is something I check daily, so I don't fall too far behind.

But I game often too. Finishing Sonic Frontiers lately, alongside Bravely Default. Actually finally finished OG Hollow Knight.

I keep accidentally unfolowing this thread lol, whoops-a-daisy...

A random thought that I had, has anyone used watercolor before? I've been thinking of trying it out sometime, I like how watercolor pictures look and I'm thinking of getting a set for it.

@Pastellioli That game does look challenging for me as well, from the gameplay I've seen of it. I think the closest game I played to it was Rhythm Heaven for the Wii and 3DS. It's been ages since I last played them though.

Yeah definitely, the paper would just rip where you're drawing if you draw too hard. Having a different art style isn't a bad idea I think. We all draw differently after all.

Time indeed does fly. And now a decade later, we have Mario Kart World! If you enjoy Nintendo's games, Nintendo NY is definitely worth visiting, likewise with the newly-opened San Francisco one. Wouldn't mind visiting the SF one as well, if I do get a chance to visit the area of course. I'd like to visit Super Nintendo World one day too, though that would depend on how much I can handle its rides. I unfortunately had a traumatic experience from going on a roller coaster when I was little... and to this day, I'm still scared of them.

Yeah, as I get older, I've been preferring games that are shorter as well, or at least games that have fairly good pacing. I do like the exploration and battles of the Xenoblade games, though yeah, they can be real tough at points. Yeah, I wanted to like Brothership, but I just didn't like it as much as I wanted to... and I'm a huge Mario fan. Most of the Mario games that I've played, I do love or at least like.

Ah really... that sounds like it's one of those pay-to-win games. I can't stand when they do stuff like that. It's just so greedy. I also don't like when they make games that you'd buy, then finding out that it has microtransactions. Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled is a good example of that. I think it's a good game for sure, but putting microtransactions into the game after launch was such a terrible move. I don't like being negative, but it's just something I can't be positive about. What a greedy move that they made! All right... I'm gonna have to stop before I have a meltdown.

I'll let you know what I think of Perfect Dark when I do try it out. Does it control similarly to GoldenEye? Because I did play that on Nintendo Classics a while back. I would imagine so since both games were developed by Rare themselves.

@D-Star92 I'm busy right now, but just wanted to reply to let you know I love watercolor! Ping me later as a reminder to give you some info lol

@D-Star92 I use watercolor but rarely, here are some results of mine. Not the best but somehow ok I need to practice. To be honest Gouache and Alcohol markers are easier than watercolor

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@CaleBoi25 Oh I'm glad to hear you love it! Can it be combined with my drawing pencils? Like if I could do the line drawings, then use watercolor to color my drawings in.

@Zuljaras Nice watercolor pieces, thank you for showing us. Yeah, the little I've tried of watercolor, I did struggle a bit. Thanks for telling me about the easier alternatives, too.