Social NintenZone Social 6.0 - L'Arachel Edition, Apparently?

[MasterofMonster]

People told me Crash Bandicoot were hard games. I am fine with that. I can handle most hard games, from bloodborne to horribly hard platformers, etc.

I can handle difficulty-hard. But, turns out, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is broken hard. As in, the games are borderline broken and 90% of all deaths are horribly cheap. :/ I am still enjoying it (tho I skipped the rest of Crash one after I saw there is ANOTHER damn Rope Bridge level), and while Crash 2 is better so far, it is still near-impossible to see where you are at all times. Crash is the slipperiest mascot I have controlled, and because of how his lanky body does a twist in the air, it is even harder to know where to land, especially during a LOT of moments when his shadow is not really visible.

I get that these are faithful remakes of a aged trilogy, and since I did not grow up with Crash, I try to not give it TOO much flak, but man, nearly every level has broken hitboxes and impossible angles and cameras. :/

Crash 2 is still better so far, but those polar bear levels...

 

[praline]

I spy with my little eye a wild praline!

Hello PJ!

 

[Dr. Jojo Phantasma]

Hello PJ!

How are you doing this morn?

 

[Starlight_Lily]

Another night, another battle with the feeling that I haven't made enough forward progress.

How're things going for everyone else?

I know that feeling.

Anyway, hey redfeatherraven , I will catch you one of these days, that's right I didn't forget.

Throws Luxury ball

 

[praline]

How are you doing this morn?

I’m ok, my back hurts a bit but otherwise I’m good. How about you?

 

[Aurane]

How are you doing this morn?

Misread that as "How are you doing this mom?" and I was full of concern.

 

[Dr. Jojo Phantasma]

I’m ok, my back hurts a bit but otherwise I’m good. How about you?

Oh wow, my back is a little sore as well, but yeah I'm good today too. Some P5 playing today?

 

[praline]

Oh wow, my back is a little sore as well, but yeah I'm good today too. Some P5 playing today?

Maybe. I don’t know.

Misread that as "How are you doing this mom?" and I was full of concern.

The answer is “with relative ease”

 

[ChikoLad]

People told me Crash Bandicoot were hard games. I am fine with that. I can handle most hard games, from bloodborne to horribly hard platformers, etc.

I can handle difficulty-hard. But, turns out, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is broken hard. As in, the games are borderline broken and 90% of all deaths are horribly cheap. :/ I am still enjoying it (tho I skipped the rest of Crash one after I saw there is ANOTHER damn Rope Bridge level), and while Crash 2 is better so far, it is still near-impossible to see where you are at all times. Crash is the slipperiest mascot I have controlled, and because of how his lanky body does a twist in the air, it is even harder to know where to land, especially during a LOT of moments when his shadow is not really visible.

I get that these are faithful remakes of a aged trilogy, and since I did not grow up with Crash, I try to not give it TOO much flak, but man, nearly every level has broken hitboxes and impossible angles and cameras. :/

Crash 2 is still better so far, but those polar bear levels...

I wouldn't go so far as to say "it's broken 90% of the time". I also definitely wouldn't say Crash is slippery. The entire reason why the games are appealing is because Crash is so tight and responsive and the level design is built around that.

However, N. Sane Trilogy does have some instances of broken level design, but that actually WASN'T the case in the originals. The problem is that all three original games had different physics, but N. Sane Trilogy uses Crash 3's physics for all three games. Crash 2 is actually effected the most by this, because Crash was a little faster in the air in Crash 2 compared to Crash 1 and Crash 3, and as a result, gaps were often larger in Crash 2. But because Crash 2 now has Crash 3's physics, some of these jumps are a lot more difficult to make, if not flat out impossible to make by normal means in the remake.

Additionally, Crash now uses a pill-shaped hitbox in the N. Sane Trilogy, but in the original games, Crash had a cuboid shaped hitbox. This change has resulted in those sloppy "I barely made the jump but then I slip off anyway" moments that actually never happened in the original games.

Broken jumps like this in Crash 2 can still be cleared, but you need to use the "Slide-Jump-Spin" technique. Which I'm pretty sure was a bug in the original Crash 2, but they kept it for N. Sane Trilogy so speedruns would work like before.

 

[Z25]

Paging Opossum

 

[praline]

It’s raininnnnnnnng!

 

[Aurane]

The answer is “with relative ease”

Does she make crushing rocks seem like such a breeze?

 

[praline]

**** me... why did I rage quit out of Persona 5?

Now I’m 3 days back...

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

It’s raininnnnnnnng!

I bless the rain up in Caaaaanadaaaaa

 

[Schnee117]

Sterling went to the Stormtrooper school of shooting

 

[Dr. Jojo Phantasma]

**** me... why did I rage quit out of Persona 5?

Now I’m 3 days back...

Oh don't worry, you'll be able to succeed I am sure. Also, I know you're pretty packed for the month and probably the next, but sometime in the future, I want to try and get you to download the DMC games from PSN so you can play them and then be as excited as I am for DMC5. :D

 

[DarkAuraful]

**** me... why did I rage quit out of Persona 5?

Now I’m 3 days back...

Kamoshida goin' down today or what?

 

[praline]

Kamoshida goin' down today or what?

I’m like less than halfway through his castle. Good thing I have 2 weeks to go before expulsion.

 

[Dr. Jojo Phantasma]

I’m like less than halfway through his castle. Good thing I have 2 weeks to go before expulsion.

Yeah, the deadlines are pretty reasonable, you can at least reach the end at some palaces in just two days.

 

[praline]

Yeah, the deadlines are pretty reasonable, you can at least reach the end at some palaces in just two days.

I did notice that some people beat the castle already at this day.

 

[Androobie]

I’m 100% sure none of you care, but MatPat finally got laid.

 

[MasterofMonster]

I wouldn't go so far as to say "it's broken 90% of the time". I also definitely wouldn't say Crash is slippery. The entire reason why the games are appealing is because Crash is so tight and responsive and the level design is built around that.

However, N. Sane Trilogy does have some instances of broken level design, but that actually WASN'T the case in the originals. The problem is that all three original games had different physics, but N. Sane Trilogy uses Crash 3's physics for all three games. Crash 2 is actually effected the most by this, because Crash was a little faster in the air in Crash 2 compared to Crash 1 and Crash 3, and as a result, gaps were often larger in Crash 2. But because Crash 2 now has Crash 3's physics, some of these jumps are a lot more difficult to make, if not flat out impossible to make by normal means in the remake.

Additionally, Crash now uses a pill-shaped hitbox in the N. Sane Trilogy, but in the original games, Crash had a cuboid shaped hitbox. This change has resulted in those sloppy "I barely made the jump but then I slip off anyway" moments that actually never happened in the original games.

Broken jumps like this in Crash 2 can still be cleared, but you need to use the "Slide-Jump-Spin" technique. Which I'm pretty sure was a bug in the original Crash 2, but they kept it for N. Sane Trilogy so speedruns would work like before.

I do not mean to hate on the game of course, and I mostly say things like that because of a fair amount of frustrating-as-all-hell parts that feels SO unfair. It would all be much better if the camera wasn't so terrible.

I do know that the games shares the movement sorta from the third game, tho having not played the originals, I do not really know how different it is. And it is not just hitboxes and such specifically that are tedious, but so many things in the game(s) feels so... poorly designed. Like, the porcipines (probably spelled wrong) in Crash 2, they have spikes on the back so I figured I had to slide-kick them, but that did not work. So many enemies feels way too hard to figure out unless you die to them. Same with many hazards.

I am still having fun, I am making steady progress in Crash 2, but it is by far the most frustrating platformer(s) I have played, heh. Crash 2 feels much fairer than the first game, and from what I have been told, Crash 3 is the best, so I hope to be able to beat the games while feeling good about it. I just... really do not like the controlls.

... the ice physics is the worst, tho. The ice physics and the bees. Thank goodness I realised you can spin the bees.

EDIT: Apologies for the rambling, just struggled sooo much with that Rope Bridge level and is has carried over to the second game.

 

[praline]

Man how come they go to school 6 of 7 days??

 

[ChikoLad]

I do not mean to hate on the game of course, and I mostly say things like that because of a fair amount of frustrating-as-all-hell parts that feels SO unfair. It would all be much better if the camera wasn't so terrible.

I do know that the games shares the movement sorta from the third game, tho having not played the originals, I do not really know how different it is. And it is not just hitboxes and such specifically that are tedious, but so many things in the game(s) feels so... poorly designed. Like, the porcipines (probably spelled wrong) in Crash 2, they have spikes on the back so I figured I had to slide-kick them, but that did not work. So many enemies feels way too hard to figure out unless you die to them. Same with many hazards.

I am still having fun, I am making steady progress in Crash 2, but it is by far the most frustrating platformer(s) I have played, heh. Crash 2 feels much fairer than the first game, and from what I have been told, Crash 3 is the best, so I hope to be able to beat the games while feeling good about it. I just... really do not like the controlls.

... the ice physics is the worst, tho. The ice physics and the bees. Thank goodness I realised you can spin the bees.

EDIT: Apologies for the rambling, just struggled sooo much with that Rope Bridge level and is has carried over to the second game.

The ice physics are another thing that got botched in the remake. They weren't that bad in the originals.

 

[MasterofMonster]

The ice physics are another thing that got botched in the remake. They weren't that bad in the originals.

Oooh, that sucks. Ice is always hard in platformers, but I cannot deal with it in this game. It just works weirdly.

As much as I complain, tho, I am happy Crash came back into the spotlight. And soon Spyro, tho never played those either. I just hope Banjo will get the same remake treatment. Not played it either (I missed way too much back then), but I wanna play through all of these classics eventually.

Anyways, thank you for the info. ^^

 

[Schnee117]

It's coming home

Would rather face Russia but I see Croatia winning with their excellent midfield and I expect they'd tear us apart.
First semis in a long time is amazing though.

 

[mario123007]

Belgium beat Brazil

Me: "That sucks, now all American teams are out"

Actually me: "My **** out"

I don't watch World Cup ever since German was eliminated...

If you ask me are there any team that I don't want them to win... I have to say it's France and Sweden, don't ask me why...

So the localized name of the game is going to be Kill la Kill Fates? :V

It could happen but... it is not on Switch though... yet.

And check this out:

Spoiler: Xenoblade 2 chapter 6 spoiler

I'm pretty sure you know which anime is this meme based on lol

Kill la Kill looks ugly even if you make a 4K game about it.

Your standard on ugly is pretty weird lol.
Kill La Kill will look more horrible if it's on 4K lol.

 

[Wario Bros.]

There's this indie game being developed called Pizza Tower, seems like a huge homage to Wario Land. Better yet the animation is like an early Cartoon Network show. Very expressive.

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I hope this project goes well because it seems like something that's up my alley.

This is definitely is going to stay on my radar.

why wasn't i tagged for this?

Wario Bros. You wanted to learn about that anime NES Classic right? This popped up in my subbox lol

I did mention it here and it does look pretty interesting from what is shown here. But I currently have no plans to pick it up as I bet I'll be hellah rare.

I still need to get around to modding my SNES one.

 

[ChikoLad]

There's only 5 days left on the Sonic Toaster crowdfunding campaign and we need less than 150 more backers to meet the target to get it made. Also, while the SEGA Shop normally is a US based store, they are allowing shipping to many territories for the toaster.

Do it for Alex. This is his parting gift.

https://shop.sega.com/products/soni...A180612&utm_medium=email&utm_source=marketing

 

[Natz~]

whelp guys
The Stoopid Unikorn praline redfeatherraven @ShinyLegendary @Shishœ Starlight_Lily Coricus redfeatherraven

got a bit of a dilemma here to make and i want opinoins of the others in this game :V

Spoiler: nintenzone Rimworld colony 2 proposed raid

apparently one of the chieftain of one of the tribes around here that were friendly with wants us to go on a raid to this outpost over here, its a small outpost so its nowhere near a base and its about a 2 day trip there, and 2 day trip back...but i don't know what to expect here :V there could be siege weaponry or motors or just some really big and powerful stuff here

we also don't have any form of protection, just some base guns to fulfill a battalion, i don't know their numbers or even anything like that, if we do happen to succeed in raiding the place down we can take literally anything they have here for ourselves, and the tribe will pay us over 2000 bucks

clear example of risk vs reward, if we try to raid we can try to escape and fall back on so were not stuck there, but it'll be a warzone :V people can very easily die

i wanna ask ya players what ya think here since it is your pawns, ya guys think its worth the risk or should we just tell the tribe we can't do ****? we got about 15 days for a final answer (or really 13 cause it will take 2 to get there and stuff)

 

[Deleted member]

whelp guys
The Stoopid Unikorn praline redfeatherraven @ShinyLegendary @Shishœ Starlight_Lily Coricus redfeatherraven

got a bit of a dilemma here to make and i want opinoins of the others in this game :V

Spoiler: nintenzone Rimworld colony 2 proposed raid

View attachment 151965
apparently one of the chieftain of one of the tribes around here that were friendly with wants us to go on a raid to this outpost over here, its a small outpost so its nowhere near a base and its about a 2 day trip there, and 2 day trip back...but i don't know what to expect here :V there could be siege weaponry or motors or just some really big and powerful stuff here

we also don't have any form of protection, just some base guns to fulfill a battalion, i don't know their numbers or even anything like that, if we do happen to succeed in raiding the place down we can take literally anything they have here for ourselves, and the tribe will pay us over 2000 bucks

clear example of risk vs reward, if we try to raid we can try to escape and fall back on so were not stuck there, but it'll be a warzone :V people can very easily die

i wanna ask ya players what ya think here since it is your pawns, ya guys think its worth the risk or should we just tell the tribe we can't do ****? we got about 15 days for a final answer (or really 13 cause it will take 2 to get there and stuff)

I vote for raid and pillaging

 

[praline]

whelp guys
The Stoopid Unikorn praline redfeatherraven @ShinyLegendary @Shishœ Starlight_Lily Coricus redfeatherraven

got a bit of a dilemma here to make and i want opinoins of the others in this game :V

Spoiler: nintenzone Rimworld colony 2 proposed raid

View attachment 151965
apparently one of the chieftain of one of the tribes around here that were friendly with wants us to go on a raid to this outpost over here, its a small outpost so its nowhere near a base and its about a 2 day trip there, and 2 day trip back...but i don't know what to expect here :V there could be siege weaponry or motors or just some really big and powerful stuff here

we also don't have any form of protection, just some base guns to fulfill a battalion, i don't know their numbers or even anything like that, if we do happen to succeed in raiding the place down we can take literally anything they have here for ourselves, and the tribe will pay us over 2000 bucks

clear example of risk vs reward, if we try to raid we can try to escape and fall back on so were not stuck there, but it'll be a warzone :V people can very easily die

i wanna ask ya players what ya think here since it is your pawns, ya guys think its worth the risk or should we just tell the tribe we can't do ****? we got about 15 days for a final answer (or really 13 cause it will take 2 to get there and stuff)

Pillage!

 

[Yellowlord]

whelp guys
The Stoopid Unikorn praline redfeatherraven @ShinyLegendary @Shishœ Starlight_Lily Coricus redfeatherraven

got a bit of a dilemma here to make and i want opinoins of the others in this game :V

Spoiler: nintenzone Rimworld colony 2 proposed raid

View attachment 151965
apparently one of the chieftain of one of the tribes around here that were friendly with wants us to go on a raid to this outpost over here, its a small outpost so its nowhere near a base and its about a 2 day trip there, and 2 day trip back...but i don't know what to expect here :V there could be siege weaponry or motors or just some really big and powerful stuff here

we also don't have any form of protection, just some base guns to fulfill a battalion, i don't know their numbers or even anything like that, if we do happen to succeed in raiding the place down we can take literally anything they have here for ourselves, and the tribe will pay us over 2000 bucks

clear example of risk vs reward, if we try to raid we can try to escape and fall back on so were not stuck there, but it'll be a warzone :V people can very easily die

i wanna ask ya players what ya think here since it is your pawns, ya guys think its worth the risk or should we just tell the tribe we can't do ****? we got about 15 days for a final answer (or really 13 cause it will take 2 to get there and stuff)

It's risky, that's for sure, but I'd say we should risk it and go for it.

 

[mario123007]

It’s raininnnnnnnng!

It has been raining here for days, and there's a typhoon coming...

And more World Cup anime fanarts

dabajoujisan recent release new World Cup girls fanart, some makes total sense and some doesn't.

So...
Russia girl's face reminds me of the female main character from Gold Kamuy, and 2014 Russia girl is older... so Russia secretly Benjamin Button?

Asuka representing Germany, duh.
2018 Japan girl look better than 2014's.
Saudia Arabia isn't a girl with Burka... what a surprise, but Iran girl not in Burka, I'm not surprised. (PS. 2014 Iran girl looked stereotypical in a bad way...)
I'm guessing the age of girls determines the country's football power, like Panama, Russia,Morocco and Tunisa are little girls...

Brigitte in Sweden football outfit, obviously. And I can imagine Reinhardt is at the corner depressing as frick.

Ruby supporting Russia, I don't see the connection lol. Is it because Russia's uniform is red? Well... this means that Ruby should wear Belgium, Korea, and Spain's uniform as well lol.

 

[Deleted member]

It is okay if people are ignoring me, I will accept that as my punishment.

I am really feeling myself lately. How is everyone doing?

 

[Natz~]

It is okay if people are ignoring me, I will accept that as my punishment.

I am really feeling myself lately. How is everyone doing?

....why would people be ignoring you for what now?

 

[Deleted member]

....why would people be ignoring you for what now?

I'm not among those who are currently ignoring him, but those who do are ignoring him because he did something dumb again.

 

[praline]

Only babies ignore people.

 

[Natz~]

I'm not among those who are currently ignoring him, but those who do are ignoring him because he did something dumb again.

my question is what did he do thats dumb?

i haven' seen anything recently and i've been here frequently

 

[redfeatherraven]

whelp guys
The Stoopid Unikorn praline redfeatherraven @ShinyLegendary @Shishœ Starlight_Lily Coricus redfeatherraven

got a bit of a dilemma here to make and i want opinoins of the others in this game :V

Spoiler: nintenzone Rimworld colony 2 proposed raid

View attachment 151965
apparently one of the chieftain of one of the tribes around here that were friendly with wants us to go on a raid to this outpost over here, its a small outpost so its nowhere near a base and its about a 2 day trip there, and 2 day trip back...but i don't know what to expect here :V there could be siege weaponry or motors or just some really big and powerful stuff here

we also don't have any form of protection, just some base guns to fulfill a battalion, i don't know their numbers or even anything like that, if we do happen to succeed in raiding the place down we can take literally anything they have here for ourselves, and the tribe will pay us over 2000 bucks

clear example of risk vs reward, if we try to raid we can try to escape and fall back on so were not stuck there, but it'll be a warzone :V people can very easily die

i wanna ask ya players what ya think here since it is your pawns, ya guys think its worth the risk or should we just tell the tribe we can't do ****? we got about 15 days for a final answer (or really 13 cause it will take 2 to get there and stuff)

Two questions.

One, who would go out with the raiding party?

Two, if you tag me twice do I get two votes?