StarTopic Nintendo General Discussion |ST27 December 2023| Have a Cuppa with Your Fami

[DecoReturns]

What if I don't like math?

The West has the film for you

 

[Mr_No_U]

I know people don't like the idea of uniforms but hear me out

 

[theguy]

would it be okay if i ask you to

 

[Aurc]

This is super funny because I never watched/read DBZ but I played a shit ton of Budokai Tenkaichi 3 when I was a kid and I'm pretty excited for Sparking ZERO

Tenkaichi 3 was legit amazing, and its robust roster was a contributing factor. The game allowed you to play as Frieza goon #246 who only ever appeared in a single frame of the anime. Wicked cool novelty for lorehead fans!

 

[Mr_No_U]

Vintage Modern Non-gamer

 

[EvilChameleon]

OHTANI GOING TO THE DODGERS OVER THE JAYS IS STINKY

 

[HockeyBird]

There were a lot of anime fans at the showing for The Boy and the Heron and I'm not sure if I feel safe around them anymore. Right as the movie was starting, one woman took out her phone and took a picture of her popcorn bag with the flash on! Truly degenerate behavior. Maybe Miyazaki was right.

 

[EvilChameleon]

I know it's such a basic phrase, but I have gotten so much use out of "it's chill" ever since hearing it for the first time in 2005 from Chandra in Perfect Dark Zero.

 

[Plum]

What if I don't like math?

Don't worry, you should be OK.

You only have to worry if you have two DVD rips of Godzilla -1 and then try to put them into the same folder.

If you do that, the copies will combine and you'll end up with the Godzilla 1 from 1954.

 

[MissingNo.]

Are they called the Dodgers because they play dodgy Baseball?

 

[EvilChameleon]

Are they called the Dodgers because they play dodgy Baseball?

So the name goes back to when they were the Brooklyn Dodgers, and kids there would make a game out of dodging the trolley cars that ran on the streets.

 

[MissingNo.]

So the name goes back to when they were the Brooklyn Dodgers, and kids there would make a game out of dodging the trolley cars that ran on the streets.

That's an interesting tidbit, I was imagining a team that infamously uses shady, grey-area tactics to get an upper hand on the competition, and has the audacity of being proud enough of it to put it in their name.

 

[HockeyBird]

I can hit ball with stick. Give me money.

 

[Amadeus]

Tenkaichi 3 was legit amazing, and its robust roster was a contributing factor. The game allowed you to play as Frieza goon #246 who only ever appeared in a single frame of the anime. Wicked cool novelty for lorehead fans!

I hope we also have an incredible roster with Sparking Zero, with all the new Dragon Ball Z arcs they could definitely add a lot more characters than what we got in the past. But knowing Bandai we'll get a ton of DLCs.

 

[EvilChameleon]

I can hit ball with stick. Give me money.

$350M is the best I can do.

 

[MissingNo.]

$350M is the best I can do.

I can also hit ball with stick. Hire me and we'll split these $350M evenly.

 

[EvilChameleon]

I can also hit ball with stick. Hire me and we'll split these $350M evenly.

Well I need someone who can throw ball with hand. Can you do that?

 

[MissingNo.]

Well I need someone who can throw ball with hand. Can you do that?

No can do, my best offer is to shoot ball with foot.

 

[EvilChameleon]

No can do, my best offer is to shoot ball with foot.

Shoot ball with foot, hmm...

 

[Lugia667]

goddamit, the discord phone update is dogshit. Who makes this stuff?

 

[xghost777]

Ah, there's nothing like posting something truly awful before you go to bed and waking up to the fallout.

FWIW ngpdrew, your joke made me at least laugh haha.

My comment was then me genuinely wondering what was going on with them since I’ve haven’t really heard much of anything about or from them since their last game in 2019.

 

[ShadowFox08]

my predictions for next year games:

-MP4
-Pokemon Gen 5 remakes, with Black and White Kyreum releasing on Pokemon Go
-Another 1st party game. Potentially Mario 3D

Has Nintendo ever released a 3D Mario and Pokemon game within 2 months of each other? I can't see them doing that

Question is when would Switch 2 release. Announcement would be as early as next month, and release would be q2 at the earliest, but Q3-Q4 would be most likely window.

 

[Suswave]

okay

not to be old on main

but I keep seeing this thing on cars that has big Twitch emote vibes

I don’t know what the fuck it is, and this is a bad drawing of it on my phone:

can someone explain this to me?

 

[Mandos]

Tenkaichi 3 was legit amazing, and its robust roster was a contributing factor. The game allowed you to play as Frieza goon #246 who only ever appeared in a single frame of the anime. Wicked cool novelty for lorehead fans!

Hopefully we get Tao Pai Pai, Arale and Young Chichi back

 

[theguy]

squid game the challenge was fun

 

[EvilChameleon]

okay

not to be old on main

but I keep seeing this thing on cars that has big Twitch emote vibes

I don’t know what the fuck it is, and this is a bad drawing of it on my phone:

can someone explain this to me?

The face of Jack Skellington?

 

[Suswave]

The face of Jack Skellington?

I… don’t think so…

 

[ngpdrew]

FWIW ngpdrew, your joke made me at least laugh haha.

My comment was then me genuinely wondering what was going on with them since I’ve haven’t really heard much of anything about or from them since their last game in 2019.

Yeah, I really wonder what the story is there. Were they nonchalantly folded into the teams working on HD-2D games? It's a mystery!

I don’t know what the fuck it is, and this is a bad drawing of it on my phone:

can someone explain this to me?

Looks like a Silksong spoiler to me. It's out there!

 

[EvilChameleon]

It could also be a white Scrub Daddy.

 

[chocolate_supra]

4 year degree, 12 years experience in the field.

Oh dang, I was wildly underqualified when I did my ST earlier this year

Fake it till you make it I guess, damn

One thing I've sort of been thinking after The Game Awards, and especially after focusing on the event itself whilst running my Betting Special, is how... little actual gameplay is focused on in, really, all gaming awards shows. In the TGAs, there's awards for every aspect a game could have... except gameplay.

No 'Best Mechanic', or 'Best Game Feel', or 'Best Level Design' awards, but we do have Best Narrative, Music, Art, Acting, and so on. It does sorta make one feel as if gaming itself is still kind of scared of treating itself like, well, gaming. Not to say those don't deserve it, of course, but the situation we have now is like if The Oscars didn't have awards for 'Best Cinematography', 'Best Editing' and 'Best Production Design.'

I mean, I love Alan Wake 2 and it's my #2 this year, but as a game you play with your hands it is not that great at all... yet it won 3 awards, and received the second-highest No. of nominations. All whilst games which introduced incredible new mechanics, had top-tier game feel, or crafted brilliant worlds to play in got nothing.

Honestly it's no wonder that gaming discourse is so fucked up when the only time we can celebrate games beyond 'Best Game' and 'Best Genre Game' is in aspects of gaming that are shared with film and TV.

Oh I was making a lil stink about this in the TGA thread the other night. Totally agree with you. Geoff seems to be trying so hard to mimic the film awards categories, assumedly to try and prove games are just as worthy of praise as movies, or he's so convinced that cinematic-style games are the way to go that he's trying to steer the industry harder in that direction. Like, better make your game look more like a movie if you wanna win one of my awards! or something. Maybe both. I dunno, I'm bitter. LOL

the situation we have now is like if The Oscars didn't have awards for 'Best Cinematography', 'Best Editing' and 'Best Production Design.'

I mean.. we came close to that a few years ago due to people complaining the Oscars are out of touch and overly long. They introduced a plan to remove a lot of the technical awards from the broadcast and add some categories for "popular film" because of complaints like "nobody even watches the movies that get nominated" and "why aren't Marvel movies ever nominated" and stuff like that.

Thankfully the plan did not go over well and they backpedaled.

What if I don't like math?

Just take a calculator to the theater

okay

not to be old on main

but I keep seeing this thing on cars that has big Twitch emote vibes

I don’t know what the fuck it is, and this is a bad drawing of it on my phone:

can someone explain this to me?

 

[Pineapple Pizza]

That gosh darn Woodpecker trial in Aggelos. I just cannot get past the pogo challenge. I've tried several controllers, and I've got a very sore thumb. Giving up for now and will attempt it again tomorrow evening... Maybe. Been a really good game but some challenges toward the end have spoiled it a little. Not sure the controls are tight enough to justify demanding such precise movement. The almost controller-throwing inducement of rage is quite nostalgic though.

 

[ngpdrew]

It could also be a white Scrub Daddy.

Is this a safe space to say that I hate the name Scrub Daddy?

 

[chocolate_supra]

Is this a safe space to say that I hate the name Scrub Daddy?

It's a really unfortunate name for what is actually a damn cute product

 

[ngpdrew]

It's a really unfortunate name for what is actually a damn cute product

Cleaning my sink shouldn’t feel so lewd.

 

[ngpdrew]

Oh if it's better for your schedule you take it!

Oh, and do I need to make this official somehow? Is there a beacon I should light? My bic is out.

 

[Mr_No_U]

hygienic hyenas

 

[ermitron2]

That gosh darn Woodpecker trial in Aggelos. I just cannot get past the pogo challenge. I've tried several controllers, and I've got a very sore thumb. Giving up for now and will attempt it again tomorrow evening... Maybe. Been a really good game but some challenges toward the end have spoiled it a little. Not sure the controls are tight enough to justify demanding such precise movement. The almost controller-throwing inducement of rage is quite nostalgic though.

Its the one in the room where you need to kill all the enemies? I still remember it took me like 30 minutes to get it

 

[EvilChameleon]

Is this a safe space to say that I hate the name Scrub Daddy?

It's a really unfortunate name for what is actually a damn cute product

 

[ngpdrew]

what the fuck

 

[EvilChameleon]

what the fuck

Let Scrub Mommy into your heart. Or kitchen.

 

[chocolate_supra]

Is there a beacon I should light?

 

[ngpdrew]

Let Scrub Mommy into your heart. Or kitchen.

How is it different? Is it like Ms. Pac-Man? Does Scrub Mommy have a turbo button?

 

[Pineapple Pizza]

Its the one in the room where you need to kill all the enemies? I still remember it took me like 30 minutes to get it

The very same! Shamefully I've spent a lot longer than that trying to beat it. At least an hour! I'd already been playing for some hours, so it is frustrating to hit a wall. I've looked at some videos online so I know what to do, it's just executing it!

 

[chocolate_supra]

So I was considering giving up on Yellowjackets because it's getting suuuuper damn gross and disturbing but then I heard my boi's voice and I am rehooked

Edit: goddammit, more eww

Edit edit: un-goddammit he's teaming up with Christina Ricci this is gonna be fantastic oh my gahd

 

[MSnap]

I just watched the animated Dark Knight Returns movie and that was easily the most intense Batman movie I’ve seen so far (which is all the live action movies, except the Adam West one, and a handful of the animated ones)

 

[Mandos]

Well this freakin sucks. Fighting the boss of chronos island in sonic frontiers. Near the end. And it throws a freakin button mashing qte at me. Come on games I thought we were past making these mandatory. I can’t button mash to save my life it literally wears out my thumb in seconds. There’s no override and due to their dumb licensing almost no Xbox controller this Gen has a dang turbo button. Well this is a sucky wall for me. If anybody had warned me of this I would’ve gotten it on switch, my main controller for that has turbo!

Edit: So for some context, I have an issue where I get muscle fatigue easy. Especially when I put focus on a certain area. So I can’t do button presses in quick succession for very long. It’s been a long term wall for me in fighting games as well because it limits my ability to execute combos(same for brawlers/beatemups)

 

[Suswave]

Oh dang, I was wildly underqualified when I did my ST earlier this year

Fake it till you make it I guess, damn


Oh I was making a lil stink about this in the TGA thread the other night. Totally agree with you. Geoff seems to be trying so hard to mimic the film awards categories, assumedly to try and prove games are just as worthy of praise as movies, or he's so convinced that cinematic-style games are the way to go that he's trying to steer the industry harder in that direction. Like, better make your game look more like a movie if you wanna win one of my awards! or something. Maybe both. I dunno, I'm bitter. LOL


I mean.. we came close to that a few years ago due to people complaining the Oscars are out of touch and overly long. They introduced a plan to remove a lot of the technical awards from the broadcast and add some categories for "popular film" because of complaints like "nobody even watches the movies that get nominated" and "why aren't Marvel movies ever nominated" and stuff like that.

Thankfully the plan did not go over well and they backpedaled.


Just take a calculator to the theater

definitely not!

it’s like… exactly what I drew more or less, not approximate

nobody can tell me what this damn thing is!!

 

[EvilChameleon]

Maybe it was Strong Sad’s face.

 

[Imitatio]

Fake it till you make it I guess, damn

And then keep faking it
#TallaricoStyle

 

[chocolate_supra]

The main character does something to himself and you're not sure why and when it's brought up again near the end, it just seems like it doesn't fit. The movie isn't going to explain how its world functions.

Okay so as soon as this happened in the movie I thought about you saying this so I wanted to go ahead and share my thoughts about it

Spoiler: literally all of Boy and the Heron

So when he beaned himself with the rock, he was coming home from school pretty roughed up, and after the whole situation with his dad and his aunt and the move and everyone just sorta expecting him to take it all in stride and accept it, I felt like he was trying to make himself look like he got beat worse than he did so his dad would pay attention and take pity. And it sorta works to a degree but his dad instead focuses more on wanting retribution than whether or not his kid is okay. And after all that he still just leaves his son in the care of someone else and leaves. Goes to show the state the kid is in plus the obliviousness of his dad.

Then as we know the scar eventually comes up later where it's said to be a symbol of his "malice." This is during a pivotal conversation where he decides not to be the caretaker of a potentially perfect world and to instead return to the real world and be with the people he knows. The scar is a symbol that persists through the movie, and it's showing his humanity: his pain, his anger, his struggle to get others to see him, and he points it out when deciding to face his own reality.

This also forces (or inspires, or something) the younger version of his mother to return to her own time so she can grow up and live her life, even knowing she'll eventually die, because she must face real life just as her son is deciding to.

I think the short of it is that it shows his growth from attention-seeking and walled-off, to taking responsibility for his own life and his own emotions. And then the final scene shows he seems to be much more comfortable with his new family (as weird as it is that his new mom is his aunt (which may not have been so weird back then, I dunno))

Anyway all of this is meant to be taken with a healthy dose of maybe