Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@nessisonett that looks insanely delicious. Without the pizza, this would resemble an extremely common dish in kuwait.
Real question is how do you eat it? I presume you start with the fries and work your way down?

@Yousef- Depends on the person, I’d eat the chips off the top because it gets covered in the pizza cheese and then you eat the pizza below it. Just be thankful it’s not a pizza crunch, that’s when the whole thing is deep fried again with batter surrounding it, which may prove fatal. James McAvoy did a thing recently where he compared Scottish and English food which was pretty funny!

@nessisonett the pizza you’re describing sounds vile and I don’t mean that as an insult, though it’s probably an insult for my arteries. Still, the chips look great. Also How was the curry sauce?
Also haven’t seen much of James in a while. Appreciate the share.

Does anyone else ever feel like, as they get older, if they have been playing for a long time, they are losing their energy for huge open world rpg type games? Or for games where the minutiae and admin for getting the platinum is OTT. I personally feel, after completing DeS and RotR back to back recently that throwing myself head-first into ER and playing it all the time is a bit much, when I, like so many of us, have other things to do outside of gaming, responsibilties and so forth.

So, yeah, do you, like myself, feel that there is a point when you will eventually stop gaming and do other things? I know some of you have already stated with regard to a similar post I made before that you don't see any end to gaming being a part of your life, outside of circumstances changing and response-times potentially slowing down and whatnot, and if you do decide to move on and either pick up a new hobby or interest or perhaps simply stick with your remaining hobbies and interests, what will you fill that former gaming time with?

I, myself, am interested in exploring Black and Abstract European artists a bit more, as I have always been interested in them ,but not devoted too much time to the study of them.

Idk I just feel like after you have completed a long/big game

• in my case the Souls games, which are big to me at this age, to be fair there is no way I could complete a game like The Witcher 3 again (I know ER is a big game too, but there are ways of streamlining the experience) in the time that I completed it - I literally had to play for about eight hours a day towards the end of my playtime, just to get through it in a few months,that it has taken something out of you, like a part of your natural core energy has been permanently expended on the effort you put into completing the game, and you can never get it back.

Maybe I should just break it down into playing sparingly, or try to relax more when I play, or play more chill games in general.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN it sounds (to me at least) you definitely need to cut down on the playing time and also start mixing up the type of games you play. Playing a game for '8hrs a day just to get through it' - who is putting this deadline on you? What's the rush?
I'm lucky if I can get 2 hrs a day of an evening to game, so a larger game can take weeks or months but I look forward to it every day as its what I do to relax. And it's always wise to play different types of games to keep things fresh, 3 big open worlders in a row doesn't sound fun.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN hey friend. Good to see you again. And pretty interesting convo piece you’re opening up with.

Yeah, I think you’re likely worn out from games. That’s completely normal. You don’t have to push yourself and play when you don’t feel like it. A lot of gaming exhaustion has an extremely simple solution I’ll lay out in a minute.

Basically this is all Normal and you don’t have to be so dedicative about it. In fact, it might make you go even slower. Think about spaced repetition, all of us see it as a learning technique, but it is something you can repurpose for your hobbies. Proper breaks without pressuring yourself is actually more likely to keep you engaged in your hobby rather than religious dedication to it.

Yeah, having other interests is not just healthy, but also expands your horizons and is frankly recommended. I also think you shouldn’t feel bad if your life doesn’t revolve around gaming. Fatigue can consume us and make us contemplate permanent solutions to temporary problems, it blinds us from the long term. It blinds us from the realization we all later have that we just needed a time-out to explore other stuff.

So I’m really happy that you, in a sense, have already subconsciously came to this conclusion but may not have realized it yet. I hope you enjoy your other hobbies! Gaming is gonna be here waiting for you whenever you need to return to it!

@Yousef- Our chip shop curry sauce is an interesting thing. There’s probably some sort of very long story involving Empire and the wave of immigration in the 50s. It’s actually very tasty but not really a curry sauce as you’d know it, sort of just a cornflour-thickened sauce with curry powder and assorted flavourings. We get a similar sauce in our Chinese takeaways too, it’s morphed into its own thing by now. I think that’s part of why I think our takeaway food is modern Britain at its best, we have Italian chip shops that serve curry sauces and kebabs, we have kebab shops that sell pizzas, we have Chinese takeaways that serve literally anything known to man 😂

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN After i've finished a big game, I always try something smaller and compeltly different. Since I've finished Shadow of the Erdtree, I've played Dave the Diver, Preodues, Classified France 1944 and Animal Well. So maybe try mix things up a bit more.

As someone who posts on all the sister sites, I have to say, the disparity between the Nintendo one versus the other two is hilarious. Pure Xbox has been full on 'hair on fire' mode for months. Push Square is edging closer to that lately with the dual flubs of the PS5 Pro announcement and Concord (with a day or two grace period due to Astro Bot). Meanwhile, being a transition year, pretty much nothing is really going on in Nintendo Land. There's a cute-looking new Zelda game coming out, but otherwise it's pretty placcid.

@Ralizah
The rage and tension from Pure XBOX and PushSquare were from the gamers who only play AAA games, but it didn't affect to me since I only play kids games on both Nintendo and PlayStation machines, have nothing interest to bother XBOX machine started from XBOX ONE and Series X.

Btw, how do I remove my game collection from Nintendolife or PushSquare?
I accidentally voted the game I dislike them.

@Ralizah I honestly think I was more optimistic during the Wii U days with Nintendo than I am with Sony and Microsoft just now. At least you knew Nintendo were talented and would bounce back, at their own pace. I only see it getting worse with these two, a certain lot will buy this console and Sony will see that as reason enough to continue down the path of burning absolutely any goodwill they still had.

@Anti-Matter if you go onto the game page for whichever game you want to remove there's an option for it there

@MatthewJP @Yousef- @JohnnyShoulder I'd like to start off first by saying I appreciate your mature, kind and honest words. I think I will vary gaming with other hobbies and interests as well as slowing down the pace of my gaming and perhaps mix my gameplay of ER with shorter games in the future. SH2 Remake is coming out soon as well. I had a dream last night about being able to play og RE3 on a Ps5, Idk if this is even possible, haha? But if it is then something like that or SH2 Remake could be a welcome change of pace.

Kind regards. And all the best, with your own gaming, alternative hobbies and quality of life.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN I usually game in chunks, usually 2 hours at a time but I'm not putting any limits or anything like that, just fitting it around with whatever I've got going on that day. I used to get a bit stressed out that I wasn'y getting enough gaming time, but I've chilled out about it these days, and enjoy the longer sessions when i can get them.

Good luck, and hope you get out of your gaming funk soon!

@Ralizah yeah there’s not a lot of positive to say. I glance on all three but push square is where I post the most due to ten years worth of familiarity where I basically know everyone here but never made an account till recently. The slippery slope Sony is going through is quite fascinating. It feels like Sony is doing a speedrun of their early ps3 run. It’s kinda bizarre to see all of this unfold. I think the biggest atrocity so far is the price discrepancy. Why make UK residents pay an extra 200 dollars? Is this some cruel trend I’m not aware of?

@nessisonett Huh, I knew the color looked different! I’ve had curry, but only a while ago when I made it and it was def a little darker. Fascinating story though, I would’ve never guessed. xD

@nessisonett I actually really liked the Wii U, but recognized the possibility that Nintendo might be forced to reckon with a substantially downgraded presence in the industry in the future. Thankfully, that didn't happen, and they're inarguably at the height of their success as a manufacturer.

Microsoft has been lost in the weeds since the late 360 era. But Phil Spencer has ruined the brand even more thoroughly than Mattrick did. I don't really see a path to recovery for the brand, and I don't think Microsoft does, either, which is why they're seemingly moving in the direction of being more of a multiplatform publisher going forward.

Sony... is in a weird place. The brand itself is still strong and trusted worldwide, but one gets the sense that the company leadership isn't really sure how it wants to grow the brand going forward. The everyman's Sony of the PS1/2/4 eras seems to be transitioning into more of a boutique luxury brand, like Apple. But they're not even fully committing to that. They're also really struggling to make their first-party development efforts work after training up an audience that seemingly only wants to be play blockbuster AAA titles, which is just not financially viable long-term given exploding development costs for big games now (not to mention how long they take to develop!).

These troubles all seemed really obvious to me given their trajectory as a brand since last generation, so none of this has shocked me. I'm just glad Nintendo is still a fairly traditional Japanese console brand and isn't losing itself in a swamp of American corporate greed like Sony and Microsoft are.

@Yousef- Sony seems to be playing it safe with their biggest market (North America) and is jacking up the price significantly on everyone else.

This is worse than the PS3 days for me, frankly, because at least they still invested in a greater diversity of first-party software and were doing cool stuff like releasing the PS Classics line. Also, consumers held them accountable for their poor choices through the power of the wallet. But the difference back then was that the Xbox brand was strong and resilient. I know: I was a Playstation gamer since PS1, but Sony's pricing options led me to going for the 360 instead. Without viable competition in the same space, Sony feels free to be as greedy as possible.

@Ralizah I liked my Wii U too, I only got my PS4 in 2017 so it was the way I played a lot of games. And you can’t say it was a boring box either, the Gamepad still hasn’t been matched in convenience for a lot of games. Even when Nintendo are in a rough patch, they still are consumer facing and are trying to push the boundaries. Sony at this point are perfectly happy for you to wait 6 years for a £70 game, while trying to flog you a more expensive way to play that game you bought the original console for. Smaller budgets, smaller and more efficient development times, smaller games. I’d be perfectly happy with that. Astro Bot didn’t exactly take an age to make.

@Th3solution Hey friend, hope you are well. I shared some impressions with you in the Elden Ring Hype Thread, but maybe you didn't get the tag? Hope all is well.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Ah yeah, buddy. Thanks for the tag. I’ve just been a little busy today but I’ll head over to yonder thread and check on your thoughts.