Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@Jimmer-jammer How are you? Did you "wrap" up shooting yet? How did that go? What music have you been listening to recently? Any updates on your SH2 Playthrough?

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Hey, man! I’m doing well, thanks. Yeah, we wrapped shooting (Canadian) thanksgiving weekend. It was exhausting but rewarding. Had a lot go wrong but a lot went right too, the team we had on this was just fantastic. Just got our rough cut assembled and I think we’ve got something, at the very least, interesting 😊

Silent Hill 2 is everything I could have hoped for. It seems I’m headed to the historical society now so I’m pretty curious to see what goes down there. There’s a touch more combat than I was expecting but it’s been handled well; simple, intense and brutal. Overall, the additional explorable areas, puzzles and added story beats have been pretty seamless and have supported the central narrative tastefully.

How are you? How has Elden Ring shaped up for you?

@Jimmer-jammer I'm good thanks. Glad to hear your SH2 Remake playthrough is going swimmingly. Sounds like it'll be a real treat by the time I dig into it. Elden Ring is a lot of fun, I'm still primarily farming at this stage, but I did make an earlier, very under-levelled, attempt at Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel, the enemies there were manageable with Vigor in the low teens and Str at 55 ,but the boss absolutely whooped me in a few seconds. Planning to go back there with Vigor at 60, it's at 23 now, and whoop the boss in return.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Very nice! You’ve presumably made it through Stormveil then? I got a pretty strong Souls vibe throughout that area that I thought you might have appreciated. Good luck with your farming!

@Jimmer-jammer No, I haven't actually made it through Stormveil yet, still farming in the early-game, but I wanted to get an item from the Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel boss that would help me upgrade the Greatsword I got from Caelid earlier - the enemies in Caelid are no joke earlier, but I still managed to snag the Greatsword from there when I was even more underlevelled before hightailing it out of there!

Did you play Alan Wake 2? That recently got a new DLC that might be a nice compliment to your SH2 playthrough if you haven't played it yet. Both are on my to-play list.

Edit: My apologies, I just remembered that you did play Alan Wake 2 and weren't entirely satisfied with it, so maybe the DLC wouldn't be such a good idea! But there is some 'Cronos'-type game currently in development by Bloober, so maybe that would be more your cup of tea when it comes out. 😃

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN I actually really enjoyed the first round of DLC for Alan Wake II, so I’ll likely pick up The Lake House. I didn’t hate the main game or anything, it’s excellent in many respects. I simply felt the game tried to do too many things that just got in the way of the fun, and the narrative felt completely pointless to me by the end of it. It left me feeling very conflicted throughout my playthrough and a little flabbergasted by its near universal acclaim as a masterpiece. I’d highly recommend a play through, just go in with tempered expectations.

Need some help pls. My irl friend is being abused.
He's a gamer, but i'm worried about him. She's repulsive imo.

@Jimmer-jammer Hi man, duly noted with regard to Alan Wake II, I plan to get the Deluxe Edition which includes the Expansion Pass, so maybe I will get a chance to play the DLCs sonner rather than later. Hope you enjoy The Lake House DLC.

I am looking forward to Stormveil now that you have 'bigged it up' for me .Also do you think you will plat SH2 Remake? Apparently it's fairly easy to do, following the correct steps for various endings etc. And getting that all-important timer-based trophy.

I plan to get plats for both ER and SH2R.🤞

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN I have some other games I’d like to get through before the end of the year, so I’ll put SH2 on ice after my first playthrough and likely plat it sometime next year, as it is one I’d like to do that for. Hope you enjoy Stormveil! Let us know how it goes!

@Jimmer-jammer I will indeed let you know . So what was your role in the movie you shot? acting? directing? production? Do you think you and your crew will take it to Cannes or anything like that? Hope it all works out for you!

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN I guess my creative partner and I are co-writer/directors, except we also produce, edit, build sets and props, costumes, music, sound…This was the first project we had a legitimate crew on, about 23 people! It was pretty cool, man. We’re going to submit it to TIFF and see what happens. Ya never know.

@Jimmer-jammer 🤞 Hope it works out for ya, bud.

@Th3solution As someone who juggles more than one game at one time, I am coming to you for a bit of advice as to what sort of game to play alongside Elden Ring as I want to vary my gaming somewhat, do you think SH2 Remake would be a good fit? i.e different enough as a Survival Horror rather than ER's RPG territory to make each game seem fresh when I alternated, I was also thinking about Dragon Age: The Veilguard, but that probably shares too much RPG DNA with ER.

How do you normally mix and match games to keep things interesting? How many is too many to play simultaneously?

I recently completed another ep, this is my fourth so far. And now, I think the next one will be more light-hearted and whimsical, with some sort of Elden Ring-related theme, as the previous four were quite dark and I want to depart from that sort of theme now.

Definitely see Art Ensemble of Chicago as a possible influence.

And I want to feature acoustic in addition to electric guitar on the record.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Oh yeah, buddy, I definitely try to adhere to your line of logic. I try to keep it to a maximum of 3 games simultaneously; Usually having just 2 games works better. I have done 4 or 5 but it almost always trims down naturally to the 2-3 games that are holding my interest the most.

But yes, I think anything that plays very differently and is in a different genre is going to work fine, but trying to play two fantasy action RPGs side-by-side would prove difficult and might run the risk of descending into tedium. So I think SH2 is probably a reasonable concurrent game for ER. I was actually seriously considering starting RE4 Remake this week to run alongside my final stretch of Dark Souls 2, so it would be a similar situation. But I already have Balatro running as my second game to play when I want a small break from DS or don’t have adequate time to commit to a session (I try to have my Souls sessions be at least an hour and give me plenty of time to make it to the next bonfire). Balatro works great because it’s very different and it can be easily played in small bursts, even for just 15 minutes (but I’ve also had 3 hour sessions with it too because it’s strangely addictive to me). I also have played other short, chill games alongside DS like narrative heavy games that have much lighter gameplay. So to me it needs to be different thematically and in gameplay, and also preferably a shorter story runtime. I want the second (or potentially third) game to be a fun change of pace in some way, and not have inputs that I could confuse with my main game. I don’t want something to distract or pull me away from the other game, necessarily. So I agree Veilguard would be best to postpone until you’re done with ER. But that’s my personal opinion, having not actually played either one. And some people can keep the different control schemes, storylines, and systems separate and organized in their head, but for me it works better if completely different.

Good evening.
Today is Halloween day. 🎃
I made a sequence of photoshoot about Halloween in ACNH.

Enter The Graveyard
One day on Halloween night, Raymond and Marshall were about to enter the graveyard forest.
They heard a rumour about the ghost appearance after 12 am.
Marshall was not happy with Raymond's idea to enter the graveyard forest.
But Raymond keep insist him to get into the forest.
What fate beholds them?

After they get inside the graveyard forest, they saw an intriguing looking tombstone.

Marshall was really scared to explore the graveyard forest. He called Raymond to get out of the place ASAP.

Suddenly...

The ghost appeared in front of them.
BOOO...!!!
They were shocked and scared to death.

Then they run away from graveyard forest and never return again.

THE END

Read this story while listening to this song.

@Th3solution Yeah I think that's some good advice, Sol. I actually think for me, though, having the control schemes set to more similar settings would result in less chance of me pressing the wrong button in either game, i.e having the attack buttons in both games set to R1/R2, and I think that would result in less confusion overall, as well as setting the heal button in SH2 to the same as ER, then you are used to using the same buttons for each game, but, because you're obviously not stupid, you still know you are playing a different game, ofc.

Edit: I probably will leave Veilguard alone until I'm done with ER. Thanks!

Ugh. America.

@JohnnyShoulder I concur.

@JohnnyShoulder @LN78 What is he offering to Americans that’s got them under the spell? Do they hate women that much? Ugh indeed!

So much to digest here, but I’ll keep it on a lighter gaming note— Maybe I should go ahead and buy a PS5 Pro now. Depending how fast it happens, import taxes on it (and everything else made overseas) are likely to skyrocket.