Social Swamp's Social Thread 3 - And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain...

[Deleted member]

Why are you guys talking about reptilians?

No really, why the reptilians?

 

[Aetheri]

Just out of curiosity...

apart from VGM and other soundtracks which I'm sure many peeps here are a fan of...what other music do you guys like listening to?

I'm more of a hard rock/metal kind of guy, but I can listen to other things if my ears don't bleed (which eliminates most mainstream music lol), I'm also a fan of some classic rock as well as a little bit of electronica...

Spoiler: some of my favourite bands/artists

Hard Rock/Metal
-Linkin Park
-KoRn
-Nine Inch Nails
-Disturbed
-Tool
-Metallica
-Alice In Chains
-Faith No More
-System of a Down
-Nightwish
-Epica
-Foo Fighters

Classic Rock
-Led Zeppelin
-AC/DC
-Queen
-Foreigner
-Eric Clapton
-Deep Purple
-The Who

Other stuff
-Gorillaz
-The Prodigy
-Daft Punk
-Blur

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Also this....

There was a problem fetching the tweet

I'm thinking it's Crash Bandicoot...

 

[Burruni]

​

Just out of curiosity...

apart from VGM and other soundtracks which I'm sure many peeps here are a fan of...what other music do you guys like listening to?

I'm more of a hard rock/metal kind of guy, but I can listen to other things if my ears don't bleed (which eliminates most mainstream music lol), I'm also a fan of some classic rock as well as a little bit of electronica...

Spoiler: some of my favourite bands/artists

Hard Rock/Metal
-Linkin Park
-KoRn
-Nine Inch Nails
-Disturbed
-Tool
-Metallica
-Alice In Chains
-Faith No More
-System of a Down
-Nightwish
-Epica
-Foo Fighters

Classic Rock
-Led Zeppelin
-AC/DC
-Queen
-Foreigner
-Eric Clapton
-Deep Purple
-The Who

Other stuff
-Gorillaz
-The Prodigy
-Daft Punk
-Blur

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Also this....

There was a problem fetching the tweet

I'm thinking it's Crash Bandicoot...

Please.
We know who it really is.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Just out of curiosity...

apart from VGM and other soundtracks which I'm sure many peeps here are a fan of...what other music do you guys like listening to?

I'm more of a hard rock/metal kind of guy, but I can listen to other things if my ears don't bleed (which eliminates most mainstream music lol), I'm also a fan of some classic rock as well as a little bit of electronica...

Spoiler: some of my favourite bands/artists

Hard Rock/Metal
-Linkin Park
-KoRn
-Nine Inch Nails
-Disturbed
-Tool
-Metallica
-Alice In Chains
-Faith No More
-System of a Down
-Nightwish
-Epica
-Foo Fighters

Classic Rock
-Led Zeppelin
-AC/DC
-Queen
-Foreigner
-Eric Clapton
-Deep Purple
-The Who

Other stuff
-Gorillaz
-The Prodigy
-Daft Punk
-Blur

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Also this....

There was a problem fetching the tweet

I'm thinking it's Crash Bandicoot...

I actually quite like most of those bands

Nightwish is a band I only recently heard of though, and I knew a girl that really liked it.

 

[CyberHyperPhoenix]

Also this....

There was a problem fetching the tweet

I'm thinking it's Crash Bandicoot...

...Ristar perhaps?

 

[Ura]

There was a problem fetching the tweet

I'm thinking it's Crash Bandicoot...

Here's really hoping it's Crash. He's my most wanted 3rd party character.

 

[Burruni]

IT'S 12:06 EST NINTENDO
LET ME DOWNLOAD REVELATIONS

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I'm getting a bonus on this upcoming paycheck, so I think I'm going to buy pokemon yellow on my 3DS so I can trade with my N3DS

 

[Burruni]

"I couldn't get into Birthright as much after Conquest because Hoshido felt a lot like an 'Awakening 2.0' for the good and bad that comes with that."
"I dunno I dun really see it."
"Well, part of it is just in that Birthright very much so plays to the kind of core story path for most FE games."
"How so?"
"Young royal prince mildly trained for combat -> family member is killed and/or country is overtaken by invading force -> young prince gathers an army of local previous allied and neutral countries to mount an invasion to kill the big bad invader, with a few turncoats of the "evil" nation -> someone serving the villain despite knowing that they're doing utter wrong through a sense of duty and tied to the protagonists' backstory that is one of the penultimate bosses -> there's a big dragon."
"....That can't really apply for much of the series."
"FE 1, 2, 3, 4 except there's no big dragon, 6, 7, 8 except the dragon is a demon king, kinda 9, 11, 12, and 13."

With this, my wait goes too tiresome and I wait for the morning to play the 3rd path.... and hopefully see some Gen 7 starters.

 

[Ura]

I actually had an idea for an FE game where instead of the main conflict being against nations and stuff it's the main protagonist's brother who is driven in to insanity and manipulates the nations of the world in to fighting against each other to reach his end goal of obliterating all life in the universe (very vague description lol but basically it would be a lot different from the typical FE plotline).

It's sort of a fanfic idea that's almost like Fire Emblem meets Final Fantasy that I have. Might consider writing it one day.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

I'm confused.

Is this a Caribbean guy trying to speak Engirsh?

 

[Ura]

I'm confused.

Is this a Caribbean guy trying to speak Engirsh?

Sounds like he could be Asian as well.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

Sounds like he could be Asian as well.

You don't say?

 

[PushDustIn]

I got a message today telling me about the live stream, linking to the MyNintendoNews post.

I know about the live stream, I wrote the original post MNN used. ;_;

...this is exactly why the "source" link is not enough credit.

I got MNN to at least add our Twitter link into the post, and within an hour we got 20+ followers.... Already up 70 followers total from a combination of that link and our tweet promoting the live stream translation (7 from that tweet).

 

[Ura]

You don't say?

Lol I thought it was a fandub of an Anime song.

 

[wildvine47]

Uh Push...

ポケモンのスマートフォン向けゲームアプリ最新作『ポケモンコマスター』発表！「ポケモンと人工知能（AI）」が開く、新たなポケモンの世界に注目だ！くわしくは、こちら！ https://t.co/afvroRkpEX #ポケモンコマスター pic.twitter.com/mTwYRQBbsB

— ポケモン公式 (@Pokemon_cojp) March 10, 2016

Can you translate this properly? I just saw it show up on twitter and all I'm getting out of twitter's translate function is something about announcing some new Pokemon app and something about AI in a new world?

 

[Radical Bones]

Uh Push...

ポケモンのスマートフォン向けゲームアプリ最新作『ポケモンコマスター』発表！「ポケモンと人工知能（AI）」が開く、新たなポケモンの世界に注目だ！くわしくは、こちら！ https://t.co/afvroRkpEX #ポケモンコマスター pic.twitter.com/mTwYRQBbsB

— ポケモン公式 (@Pokemon_cojp) March 10, 2016

Can you translate this properly? I just saw it show up on twitter and all I'm getting out of twitter's translate function is something about announcing some new Pokemon app and something about AI in a new world?

Serebii already has it up with a trailer. Pokemon Comaster or something.

Apparently it's a strategy game where you collect Pokemon.

Very unclear but looks okay.

2 mobile Pokemon games.

 

[PushDustIn]

Based on a quick reading of the website you use figures (doesn't look like amiibo) to play a board game with an AI. It's a free to play app but it has micro transactions.

 

[ChikoLad]

Maybe they will re-use the Pokemon Rumble figures since those were fairly compact.

 

[Deleted member]

"I couldn't get into Birthright as much after Conquest because Hoshido felt a lot like an 'Awakening 2.0' for the good and bad that comes with that."
"I dunno I dun really see it."
"Well, part of it is just in that Birthright very much so plays to the kind of core story path for most FE games."
"How so?"
"Young royal prince mildly trained for combat -> family member is killed and/or country is overtaken by invading force -> young prince gathers an army of local previous allied and neutral countries to mount an invasion to kill the big bad invader, with a few turncoats of the "evil" nation -> someone serving the villain despite knowing that they're doing utter wrong through a sense of duty and tied to the protagonists' backstory that is one of the penultimate bosses -> there's a big dragon."
"....That can't really apply for much of the series."
"FE 1, 2, 3, 4 except there's no big dragon, 6, 7, 8 except the dragon is a demon king, kinda 9, 11, 12, and 13."

With this, my wait goes too tiresome and I wait for the morning to play the 3rd path.... and hopefully see some Gen 7 starters.

Yeah, that's usually how FE games go, but I'd take any of that over the mess that is Conquest's plot
But FE7 is not like that, sure there are some dragons but there's no war involved, the whole game's plot(at least the part that isn't a tutorial) revolves around the Black Fang
As for that character achetype of "not really evil but must do what for his/her country", it's the Camus archetype but they aren't always the penultimate boss nor are they even related to the main characters most of the time

Spoiler

FE8 has Selena but she shows up midgame in Ephraim's route and the best connection she has to him is that they probably met once when the continent was still in peace
FE7 has no such character due to it not having a war setting(unless you count Eagler, but he was forced to)
The closest it gets are Uhai(that fights you from his loyalty to the BF), Lloyd and Linus who really just try to kill you out of revenge
FE13 has its Camus fought 11 chapters

Besides, Tropes Are Tools and all they have to do is make them work
I mean, it worked for the Tellius games

 

[Frostwraith]

I'm confused.

Is this a Caribbean guy trying to speak Engirsh?

Considering it's the OP song for a Japanese game, it's probably the typical broken English you hear a lot in anime and J-rock.

I can't listen to it right now, but considering the God Eater anime's OP song is almost entirely in English sung by a Japanese guy, I can easily imagine how it should sound.

I got a message today telling me about the live stream, linking to the MyNintendoNews post.

I know about the live stream, I wrote the original post MNN used. ;_;

...this is exactly why the "source" link is not enough credit.

I got MNN to at least add our Twitter link into the post, and within an hour we got 20+ followers.... Already up 70 followers total from a combination of that link and our tweet promoting the live stream translation (7 from that tweet).

I see MNN hasn't learned anything.

 

[ChikoLad]

So Nintendo's 3D Classics for 3DS might have died a little...

 

[Scamper52596]

Toon Zelda and Tetra are both in? Bet Scamper52596 would be happy to hear that.

Now where's my Ganon....

Gotta admit when I spotted that Tetra costume while they were showing off Mario Maker was probably my favorite moment in the Direct for me. Hopefully they'll go ahead and add Toon Zelda as her own Mystery Mushroom in a future update. They've already got the model done after all.

 

[Radical Bones]

Man I hope Parasect gets a Mega Evo in Gen 7.

One of my favourite Pokemon ever and with Spore could be so dangerous.

Even let the mushroom take over and give it Bug/Ghost typing.

 

[PushDustIn]

Stream starts in 30 mins. We'll be translating it on Twitter and make a recap as soon as the broadcast is over. Enjoy!

 

[ChikoLad]

Stream starts in 30 mins. We'll be translating it on Twitter and make a recap as soon as the broadcast is over. Enjoy!

Any word on how long it is?

If it's around an hour or less I can watch it before going back to work.

 

[Tom13]

It's March 10th, and no sign of Revelation, what time is it coming out?

 

[Curious Villager]

Gotta admit when I spotted that Tetra costume while they were showing off Mario Maker was probably my favorite moment in the Direct for me. Hopefully they'll go ahead and add Toon Zelda as her own Mystery Mushroom in a future update. They've already got the model done after all.

They probably will, like you said, they already got the sprite design done and they will probably do the same thing as they did with Zelda and Sheik (Where they will transform into each other for their appeal) I do like the Minish Cap reference with her carrying the Hero's shield and all.

Stream starts in 30 mins. We'll be translating it on Twitter and make a recap as soon as the broadcast is over. Enjoy!

Cool, can't wait to hear what Sakurai has to say in this broadcast. ^^

 

[ChikoLad]

If Sakurai became a YouTube/Twitch streamer, I'd totally watch.

His ability to mess around in games is A+.

EDIT: lol he wave-dashed up the stairs in Dragon Quest Builders.

EDIT2:

Q: You’ve talked before about how it’s important to keep in mind the silent majority. [PART 1] #SakuraiLive

— Source Gaming (@AllSourceGaming) March 10, 2016

A: It’s harder now, but in the past we held things like having elementary schoolers play our game during development. [PART 1] #SakuraiLive

— Source Gaming (@AllSourceGaming) March 10, 2016

I feel like this mentality would have been a factor in the inclusion of a number of Smash characters.

Spoiler

It's been one of my main theories as to why Rosalina is in the game.

She's easily one of the most beloved Nintendo characters at this point, but her fanbase has never been too vocal about it.

EDIT3:

He got a very cute and nice looking cake.

 

[Yomi's Biggest Fan]

Slime confirmed as a shoo-in?

 

[Burruni]

9:34 am EST
No sign of Revelations
Nintendo, I know I'm gonna have to play it twice because I'm not waiting another month for Anna to play it the first time.
But that doesn't make this better

 

[A Distant Demon]

Looking at SG's twitter it looks like smash barely came up at all. Not surprised.

Not surprised that KIU didnt come up either

 

[Con0rrrr]

9:34 am EST
No sign of Revelations
Nintendo, I know I'm gonna have to play it twice because I'm not waiting another month for Anna to play it the first time.
But that doesn't make this better

They ususally update Eshop at 1 EST for most releases. Unless it's a big new game.

 

[---]

"I couldn't get into Birthright as much after Conquest because Hoshido felt a lot like an 'Awakening 2.0' for the good and bad that comes with that."
"I dunno I dun really see it."
"Well, part of it is just in that Birthright very much so plays to the kind of core story path for most FE games."
"How so?"
"Young royal prince mildly trained for combat -> family member is killed and/or country is overtaken by invading force -> young prince gathers an army of local previous allied and neutral countries to mount an invasion to kill the big bad invader, with a few turncoats of the "evil" nation -> someone serving the villain despite knowing that they're doing utter wrong through a sense of duty and tied to the protagonists' backstory that is one of the penultimate bosses -> there's a big dragon."
"....That can't really apply for much of the series."
"FE 1, 2, 3, 4 except there's no big dragon, 6, 7, 8 except the dragon is a demon king, kinda 9, 11, 12, and 13."

With this, my wait goes too tiresome and I wait for the morning to play the 3rd path.... and hopefully see some Gen 7 starters.

Am only on Chapter 20 in Birthright, but so far the story feels like a repeat of FE3 just with an expanded prologue and less sub-ploting/foreshadowing to the real villain.

I don't have much of a issue with repeating stories just so long as they do something new with it, which I think they have bar FE6 (which has the most boring story in the series IMO). FE4's plot twist I think is a perfect example of using the trope right.

That said, FE is probably the least guilty of plot tropes ironically compared to every other Nintendo series bar Xenoblade/IDK it's easy to stereotype things. lol

 

[Burruni]

They ususally update Eshop at 1 EST for most releases. Unless it's a big new game.

THINGS I WAS UNAWARE OF

Am only on Chapter 20 in Birthright, but so far the story feels like a repeat of FE3 just with an expanded prologue and less sub-ploting/foreshadowing to the real villain.

I don't have much of a issue with repeating stories just so long as they do something new with it, which I think they have bar FE6 (which has the most boring story in the series IMO). FE4's plot twist I think is a perfect example of using the trope right.

That said, FE is probably the least guilty of plot tropes ironically compared to every other Nintendo series bar Xenoblade/IDK it's easy to stereotype things. lol

Yeah I was namely joking around with a friend when trying to explain why I enjoyed Conquest more than Birthright.
Using the same kind of skeleton for the story of course doesn't matter when you do things new with it; and Birthright and Awakening certainly stand different from eachother and the other games in the series.
Conquest was just more of a breath of fresh air in the variety in chapter design and writing as well as the fact that I straight up enjoyed more of Nohr's units' personalities.

 

[Yomi's Biggest Fan]

Last time I checked, didn't people enjoy Birthright's story more than Conquest's?

At least back when people found some severe flaws in the storytelling. Not that I disliked the story, but there are few parts I can easily do without.

 

[---]

Yeah I was namely joking around with a friend when trying to explain why I enjoyed Conquest more than Birthright.
Using the same kind of skeleton for the story of course doesn't matter when you do things new with it; and Birthright and Awakening certainly stand different from eachother and the other games in the series.
Conquest was just more of a breath of fresh air in the variety in chapter design and writing as well as the fact that I straight up enjoyed more of Nohr's units' personalities.

That's good to hear, though so far my impressions of the Nohr units from Birthright are less than stellar bar the men.

 

[Burruni]

Last time I checked, didn't people enjoy Birthright's story more than Conquest's?

At least back when people found some severe flaws in the storytelling. Not that I disliked the story, but there are few parts I can easily do without.

I think this is the case?
Maybe it is just in that I've played so much of the series that the changes both back to the harder and more varied objectives in missions alongside the different, but kinda rough story, was more enjoyable.
And I don't mean this just in the typical "lol casuals who only played Awakening cuz they can't handle a REAL game" mentality that's seen in the community far more than it should be. It's that going through even some of the games that predate official localization that a lot of the trends become more noticable.

While maybe not the best comparison, but I probably enjoyed Yokai Watch more than I arguably "should" have because of it just being something that shook up a fairly standard formula that Pokemon ran through even if that is a series I grew up and will continue to grow up with.

That's good to hear, though so far my impressions of the Nohr units from Birthright are less than stellar bar the men.

Maybe a sizable part of it just is that, past the Royal Brothers, the guys of Hoshido pretty much all fell very flat. Kaden being the best of the remaining 6 but the similarities to Keaton kinda washed out some of that originality.

That and that I have a tendency to enjoy the batcrap crazy kind of characters and Nohr gives a few that gladly will take that niche.

 

[PushDustIn]

Full recap can be read here guys. Now to go play Twilight Princess HD for a bit.

 

[BluePikmin11]

This is another masterpiece from GilvaSunner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGX09CgBXJw
@GoldenYuiitusin