BowserBasher

Just watched this this evening and I get how you meant what you said there now. we've gone from Iron Man (clearly set in our reality and following what we know, to Eternals which you kinda have to let your imagination take some control and not get wound up in it not being a grounded in our reality film. I don't know if some of these would have been attempted early on in the MCU as well. though they are standalone films in a sense, I don't know if the risks would have been made to make them if the MCU weren't so heavily established. As for the film, I enjoyed it. Didn't know anything about it so went in blind with nothing to go on. Had heard that it wasn't getting great reviews but I've never really taken any note of them in the first place. May have been a tad overlong but it didn't feel like it was too bad time wise. As stated it is very much a different feel than many of the current Marvel films, there's a few lines that tie it to the others but again, you could easily watch this without knowing too much about the universe. Looks like there will be more and I'll be looking forward to seeing where things are taken.

I now have all of the first wave. Managed to get Boos Haunted Yard and the Fortress for next to retail price. Was going to get them from Lego store just after the new year but they have stopped selling them on there. Have been lucky to find them elsewhere. So I have some of the second wave to get and the new Luigis Mansion ones. I may not have room to set them up at the moment but I want to keep on top of them so I don't end up having to pay too much.

I think I remember doing this a lot more than I do now. I think the most I ever used a guide on was Links Awakening on the GB (and this was in magazine form, no mainstream internet back then) I actually remember getting to the start of one dungeon and that was as far as the magazine did the guide that month, so it was figure it out myself or wait a month. Nowadays I try not to use them, as I really do enjoy that moment of figuring out the puzzle or how to beat the boss that it brings. The last time I had to look something up was when I recently played through Bowser's Fury. Usually when the Giga Bowser appears you can just avoid him and he will go away. At a certain point he won't and I had been running around avoiding him for about 10 minutes and needed to see if I had done something wrong. Other than that I can't think of when I have had to resort to one mid game. I'll look things up later to see if there are other ways to do something or an easier means, but I try not to. The only time I may do it is if I'm stuck on a part and have been for a few hours and see no solution or where to go. there comes a cut off point in it being a test to find out what to do, and it becoming unenjoyable.

Yeah, pretty sure it was Hero now. It was the only time I remember getting him and I don't recall getting Shulk.

Ah yes, Mario Kart: Breath of the ....... petrol fumes coming out of the exhaust.

You may be right actually, (do you have that match saved @Glen-i?) I was thinking I had selected "jump" with Shulk, but it was probably Hero's jump thing. Stupid match never gave me Kamikaze at all, that's no way to play as Hero. Anyway, here's a video from me. Lots of multiple Smash attacks going on in this one.

Ah yes, stupid Shulk (waits for @Glen-i to respond) I've just never got the hang of those Monado powers, but tat's why I enjoy the random picking, you never know who you will get.

Good to hear, I know nothing about it, been hearing a lot of bad reviews, but will watch It and see for myself. Iron Man was 2008 so 14 years. That's insane in itself. But yeah it is amazing how far visual and special effects have come along in that time. I mean Lord of the Rings was 2000 and that had some amazing work in it. Can it go further, I don't know, I think it'll just be refinements. It's when we get realistic and not able to tell the difference in CGI created humans that will be the real moment.

Well that was a night of many self destructs 😆 Seemed to be a lot more than usual and one game there were it was won with all the other falling off the stage. Always a blast, some really close games as always and some not so.

interesting read. I like some of those ideas, I do wonder about the costumes/variations though. I doubt I play as more than half the characters in MK so adding a bunch of costumes may seem overkill. Though I haven't played Tour lately so no idea on what they are. Maybe they aren't the usual reskinned characters and might be fun.

Just a short 2 minute one from last weeks games. Didn't get a lot of replays but these two matches had to be done. One for the ending to the match high atop Hyrule, and the other just for the sheer amount of hammer hits I got in.

And with that all Cat Shines Get! I can say that in the end I have really enjoyed Bower's Fury. For what it was it was the right sized game. Can Nintendo make a full open world Mario game? We will see. The last few Shines were possibly the ones most people I'm guessing have the most issues with. The Cat's that you need to reunite with their mothers. The Cat Shards on Meow Meow Mountain (that last one behind them walls was the final Shine in the game for me) and the final Lucky Island one that is closest to where Bowser spawns each time. I did it by jumping off the long pier and using the helicopter box to fly over to it. Other than those, I really didn't have many issues finding shards nor getting shines. A fun little game that was pretty much a free add on to the already great Mario 3D World. Oh and I don't know if they took ideas from Breath of the Wild in how to approach Shines but I'm sure this is not the intended way to do this one. I just don't know how you'd get up the rotating platforms.

Ah yes, they got that port of a remake of a port of an old game of a port of a remake (too much? lol) For such a huge franchise I really thought Zelda would get more. that's what it was that I couldn't place. Shame as that looked awesome but who knows if that may still play a part in it.

Poor Zelda and Link got nothing. Game is looking good though, Ive never been much into the Kirby games but I'll be picking this up for sure,

Forget MK9 or X we getting Mario Kart XXX

Yeah, that's the one I was on about and it's actually really good. Had another play around with it and wanted to try something a bit more "made by me" than copying. So came up with this. I know there's lots of micro Titanics but I thought it may be a nice easy one to do. I think it turned out quite nice.

Happy Birthday us! I joined in October of 2006, so 15+ years, I can't remember what brought me here or how I found it but it's been fun. I don't post a lot in many of the forums so I seems to be upping that a bit. But because of this site I have made some good gaming friends and get to enjoy some great nights of gaming with a bunch of you.

As always great games last night guys. Some real close ones and lots of laughs. I totally meant to win in that match where I was Alex (or Steve) with what ever move I pulled of at the end there, was not a lucky win at all, 😆

Yup, I believe that Bricklink is like the official reseller site of Lego, or rather market place.

Yes, it did seem to just fly by. Not sure what it was but one minute it was Easter, then it was Christmas. Personally for me, 2021 ended on a high. 2020 ended with me in a relationship, but because of all the Covid stuff we hadn't even had a chance to meet up. 2021 was making it harder when Boris started locking it all down at the start again. Middle of the year we were getting a bit fed up and some miscommunication made us both think the other didn't want to continue. But we finally managed to meet up in October and managed to talk about what we wanted and where we wanted things to go. We are now happily together and enjoying as much time as we can get together. Other than that my 2021 was fairly run of the mill. Work, play and sleep. But I expect it was similar for many people, as much as we thought it was all going to go back to normal it seemed that things just carried on as 2020 part 2.

Does anyone have any experience with the Lego Studio program? The one that lets you create things in 3D. I've been meaning to look at it and just recently downloaded it and had a play around. It seems a bit daunting at first, but it doesn't seem like it could be too hard to use once you play around with it. I'm not up to creating something new from scratch but wanted to try something more than putting a few bricks together to make a wall 😆 So I took my Lord of the Rings set, Riddles in the Dark, and tried to recreate it. You can import sets and the pieces are all laid out so I used that to have a play around. I think I did well that really is a render from the program after I built it up in there. I can see having a bit of fun with it when I really get used to it.

I know next to nothing of this really but it was one I was interested in when I saw the first trailer for it. I've gone and preordered it from the Nintendo store as I wanted to. From what I've read on these last few pages, if it plays like people are suggesting, then I may like it more than others. I like the collecting aspect of the games more that the constant battles. I like them, but when the games have a huge following and you need the best mon with the best move, and everyone has that one only, I just don't find that appealing. So if it's more about collecting to complete a dex then I may like this. I see Pokemon Go comparisons and well I still enjoy that game, but again I enjoy the collecting part. I do the occasional gym battle to get in and get some coins, but I just can't be bothered with the Rocket battles of PVP stuff. So this Pokémon game may be what brings me back into it.

Oooh I like that as a gimmick for courses. Imagine racing through/around Hyrule and Hyrule castle and then a portal or something appears at the beginning of lap three and the final lap is maybe set in the past or future. (I'm thinking OoT 7 year span) or something like Mario courses set in normal times and then a future like time similar to the level in Smash which is all old and worn away.

Definitely don't see 9 (or 10) being released on the Switch. But I do think we will definitely get a new one on the next console. I know people say Tour is classed as 9 but then what would that make Home Circuit? maybe that was the Switch entry. As for what they can do with it, I don't mind the style of the games, so just polish the graphics with the new one. Add an adventure mode, this is a must, Mario Kart needs a great single player game its becoming pretty much a multiplayer game now. Add in all previous tracks from all games and all characters we've had, plus some new ones, lets expand the roster to include some more non Mario universe characters, AC, Link and Squids have shown that they can fit in the game and not look out of place. Thenonly gimmick I can potentially see being added is something similar to Diddy Kong Racing with the planes and hovercrafts, but then I don't see Nintendo doing that, they should just make a new Diddy Kong Racing for that. But I do see a possibility of some kind of flying mechanism (not just gliding). Other than that, I think I've mentioned this to @Glen-i during our MK nights before. Just give us Mario Kart Ultimate. All previous characters/trracks along with some new ones in one big hurrah of a game. Knowing Nintendo they have probably been trying to come up with an idea for a new game but haven't been able to find that new gimmick to make it work. Maybe they have something up their sleeves and will surprise us all when they announce it.

No new games for me for a while, but I've been going back to some I never got completed. Last game was Luigi's Mansion towards the end of October last year and I decided to finally go back and try Bowser's Fury again. I think I maybe played about a couple hours when I first had this. I was spending more time with the main 3D World and then never went back to finish it off later. Well with all the spare time over the New Year I decided to go back to it. I hadn't really played much but from what I did at the time, I wasn't feeling it that much so wasn't really holding up much hope. But that all changed within the hour of playing again. At first I was still unsure, not having a direction to really go in, but I soon started to feel at home again. I think you just need to go in and play it like any other Mario game but the world is all there at once. The game still played the same, get a shine, go get another, but without the constant returning to a hub. So it did feel a lot more natural. Soon found myself running around the game just doing what came to me, From the slightly longer shines to the one that was found accidentally. I don't think I need to put this in spoiler tags, So I got to 47 shines and Bowser appeared again, I did my usual of just avoiding him and waiting for him to give up, but it seemed to go on and on, so as much as I waited I got annoyed and had to do a quick search to see if this was normal or I had missed something. Nope, he does that. You need to get to 50 shines, well you gotta put up with fireballs reigning down and Bowsers fire breath. Luckily I had three easy to get "Break the Fury Rock" shines that I decided to go after. Did these with ease and onto the boss fight. I did enjoy the boss fights and they weren't at all that hard. And the final final fight was just a bit of fun really. No trouble with it in the slightest. I have to say that I think a full Mario game like this could work if they made the world just right. It works in Breath of the Wild cause the world can be huge and it fits. Would something similar work for Mario? I like how the game is set in this smallish sea with the islands representing the normal worlds in previous games. It works for the scale of the game, which we all know was a test or made as an experiment. Could it be widened or made that much bigger to fit a full game. Bowser's Fury is no more than a 10 hour game to beat the boss (if that). I do hope we see something like this again though. It's a refreshing take on the series. I wouldn't even mind if it was just a added on game to any new Mario. the small world seems to fit what they were trying to go for.