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Yeeeah I guess if the game play is too awful then even great grapics won't save it haha
I gotta admit I haven't played any of the games you mentioned, but I'll look into them maybe hehe Have you heard of Journey? I think it's a PS3 exclusive but could be wrong ... I played it at a friend's - or more like watched her play it lol it's really stunning! Beautiful soundtrack, too. It's quite short and there's no dialogue at all.. but really some experience :>

At the moment I live with flatmates in Italy. I haven't found a place to live yet for when I return to London in September. I hope I'll be able to get to share a flat with people again because a) I like living with others and b) it's usually a lot cheaper :P but well, I can't be too picky so I'll just see what I can find
What about you? You said you have a room mate?

Haha I guess Germans like their beer so they didn't want their youngsters to miss out :P I think they have similar laws in Belgium?

Hahaha well possibly! The Moon Cave can definitely get super confusing, at some point you have to return to places you've already been to because stuff changed or you gained new abilities ... I used to get lost n there but by now I've just played the game way too much so I know it quite well XD It's just so pretty ... I'm a sucker for good graphics so I often play games just because they look nice haha
But yeah, I've never really played the Wii version but I heard there's a few bugs in there, so maybe you did encounter a major one in your game!

Yes, I'm really glad I have several friends who are into games now :> especially Pokemon hehe
Sadly though I'm not living with those flatmates anymore :< I had to move out for my year abroad and then the landlord decided to sell the flat (I guess he wanted to take advantage of the high housing prices in London?)

Aaaah okay haha I'm glad you had fun!! x3 I heard that the 21st birthday is a pretty big thing over there. In Germany it's usually the 16th (legal drinking age for low percentage drinks like beer and wine) and 18th (legal age for ... everything lol becoming an adult yay)

It definitely is underrated!
And from what you tell me I'd say you were in the Moon Cave, which is Orochi's cave ... and that's only about 1/3 into the game hahaha Okami is a pretty long game (also you can't leave the Moon Cave unless you defeat the boss)

Aaah yes, mee too!! I absolutely love watching others play hahah it used to weird my friends out like "aren't you getting bored? you aren't even playing yourself" but I just find it really entertaining heh
I've always loved games, I got a GameBoy Colour with Pokemon Blue and Tetris for christmas when I was 5 or 6 and I've always made good use out of my Nintendo handhelds since then :> it's even more fun now that I have friends who are into games, too! In primary school I didn't have too many ... one of my friends had a Nintendo 64 but she didn't really play it all too much. I had one neighbour who was really into Pokemon as well ... but then his family moved to the US :<<

Oh, no need to apologise! Hope you had a nice trip and fun with your friends :>

Haha yeah, it can be quite hard! It was kinda funny during high school because I knew a great part of my vocabulary from the internet so I had only read but never actually heard those words. So sometimes I'd hear a word and get really excited like "oh so that's how it's pronounced!!" lol ... "weird" was one of those words.

Oooh really?? It doesn't haven often that I meet people who played Okami! It's not too well known it seems ... even though it even got the Game of the Year award from IGN I think? But it's really a pity you got stuck :< it must've been a bug because I've never had a problem like that ... I really like the dungeon design of the game! Do you remember which dungeon you got stuck in?

Oh yes I actually watched a friend/flatmate play The Stanley Parable for a bit and it did look like a really fun game! Amazing dialogue ... or well, narration I guess haha to be honest, the dialogue is probably what I enjoyed most about the Portal games hehe especially in the second one

Yeah I can understand that ... I don't think I would get into the KH games on my own, but having a friend to play them with adds more fun and makes them more interesting .. at least for me :>
what bothers me the most about the games are the boss fights I think. They are just so frustrating! It's not like I want it to be super easy, but in other games hard boss fights at least leave you feeling like "it's ok, I can do it!! If I die now I'll do better next time!" but KH bosses just leave you sitting there like ".... HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THAT"
Or idk, maybe I'm just too incompetent for Kingdom Hearts ... :P

I don't mean so much the sounds themselves but rather knowing HOW to pronounce words. Just look at these words: through - though - thought - tough. The spelling is near identical and yet you pronounce them so differently. How is a non-native supposed to know? That stuff can get quite confusing!
I imagine some German sounds can be hard for people who aren't used to them - but German spelling usually tells you how to pronounce a word (though the spelling system isn't perfect either and has its pitfalls). The language that's best at spelling=pronounciation I know is definitely Finnish! If you see a letter, you know exactly what sound it represents. Even when you mix vowels together (pieni, aina, yö) it's just the two separate sounds pronounced directly after each other. Need a long vowel? Easy, just double it (kuu, tänään). Same goes for consonants (kakku, pallo). It's amazing.
(Sorry for that. I love Finnish so I sometimes give random speeches no one asked for on it haha)


I see, that's cool! I don't play nearly as many games as I would like :< I've never really had enough money to afford many games or - more importantly - platforms to play them on. I've only ever had the Nintendo handhelds (sooo lots of Pokemon, the Ace Attorney series and other similar games). I also own a PS2 but not many games for it ... Okami is my absolute favourite! To be honest, it was almost worth getting a PS2 just to play it haha I just really wish I could play the HD version for PS3.
Never had a decent computer either ... to give you an idea, on my current laptop I have to set Minecraft graphics as low as possible in order to make it run decently lol
Luckily a majority of my friends play games so sometimes I can borrow their stuff haha a flatmate let me play the Portal series on his computer which I absolutely loved! And I played The Last of Us together with a friend when I visited her. That was loads of fun, too :>
Another friend of mine is a huge Kingdom Hearts fan and insists on me playing all the games, too, so right before I left for Italy, she gave me her PSP and some games to play while I'm here (she's such a sweetheart) .... I have to admit though, I haven't played them much since I got here. Kingdom Hearts boss fights frustrate me lol

Well, sadly there's poorly educated people everywhere. There's Germans who don't really have a grasp on the German language either. Also let me add another thing to the English-is-hard-list: Spelling and pronounciation. SO hard to wrap your head around for non-natives! haha
Private schools aren't really a thing in Germany, basically everyone attends public school, as far as I know.

Aaaah okay, I see! To be honest, though, move pool and base stats would be the main reason I'd use a pokedex app haha I'm not even that much into competitive battling but I still like looking up stuff like that (also sometimes for just normal playthroughs). So personally I would advice you to add that information, too ... but it's your project anyway, so you decide ;) the speaking part would definitely be a novelty!

Soooo different topic .. are there any other games you like playing?

yeah i think i posted in the claims a very long time ago.

Oooh I see! That's interesting... I don't know what people say in English speaking countries, but in countries like Germany, many people nowadays see decent English skills as necessity to finding a good job (I guess you guys don't have to worry about it anyway :P). So everyone is encouraged to learn it. I started studying English when I got into secondary school (around age 10) and from then on English is a mandatory subject at pretty much every school. I think nowadays children start English even earlier, in primary school (though obviously less seriously)
My school had a special bilingual branch you could follow. The first two years (age 10 to 12) you'd just have more English lessons than usual and then starting from then until graduation you'd have a selection of other subjects taught in English, including geography, history, and a bit of biology. I was in that branch and it was pretty cool! .... Except my first English teacher was a bit of a witch and made me cry once when I was around 11.... :<

Hmmm yeah I guess that's a problem. But then parents usually only want the best for their children .. it just sucks for their children when they don't learn about different perspectives etc.
It's really interesting though .. so you said you had other homeschooler friends. Do you have like homeschooler meetups and stuff?

And hahaha well I'm glad you're learning things and happy you joined PC :D I am too! I'm quite new on here, too ... seeing as there's active members who joined like almost 10 years ago ... I'm always quite impressed when I see their joining dates.

If there was an offline mode to the app, wouldn't it be huge because all of the information has to be saved onto the phone? I'm not good with estimating file sizes but wouldn't all those texts and images be quite a lot? Even with minimal information .... or idk, I guess it depends on what exactly you'd put in it haha
And wow, actually speaking out the text sounds amazing but really hard to do :0 Would definitely be super cool though :D
So what kind of information would you want? Dex entries, size, weight? Attack list for all generations? Base stats?

And about the data thing:
Most cafés and public spaces offer free wifi in all the countries I've lived in for a while. Finland (mostly Helsinki) was especially great. Helsinki had free wifi all throughout the city centre, even in open spaces. I haven't stayed in a hotel for ages but as far as I know, wifi is pretty much the norm.

Heh well you can impress your friends with your Japanese skills then ;)

Weeeell, I meant "easy" in a way that it's easy to practise. Like if I want to read or watch anything in English, a quick google search is gonna spit out a ton of choices. On the other hand, ever tried finding Finnish versions of films etc.? It's hell XD
(Btw this is actually why people from Nordic/Scandinavian countries tend to have really good English: They generally don't dub films over there, they keep the original (usually English) audio and add subtitles)
I guess whether a language is easy or hard to learn (in terms of grammar, vocabulary, etc.) depends a lot on your mother tongue. Being German, English is probably a lot easier for me than e.g. for someone with an Asian native language. Funnily enough I'd actually say English sentence structure is quite fixed and simple as compared to other languages? I think the tenses are probably the hardest grammar part to learn... and then all the irregularities concerning word forms and stuff.

Yeah I think the government wants to make sure parents don't teach their children some weird stuff? Haha well, it's Germany. Lots of regulations :P I heard/read that in some parts of the USA they teach creationism as the only truth (if that's wrong please excuse my ignorance) and I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be allowed in Germany either...
Home schooling seems to be most popular in the English speaking world apparently? This conversation made me curious so I googled it hehe Wikipedia says: "Countries with the most prevalent home education movements include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Some countries have highly regulated home education programs as an extension of the compulsory school system; others, such as Sweden and Germany have outlawed it entirely." Seems to be illegal in quite a number of European countries.
I remember learning about it in English class, though, and that e.g. in Australia it's just necessary because of how scarcely populated some areas are, so you can't expect every child to regularly attend a school that might be miles away.

Hehe well done you for making it through the course then!! It's a shame about your friends, though
And keep me updated about the Pokedex App :P I think I used to have a few on my phone ... but they're weren't really all that great and not even complete so I ended up uninstalling them to save the space

Well, I did look into Japanese a little, but it wasn't much and like I said, I've forgotten most of it haha never even got started on kanji so ... :P

And yes, I'm German! To be honest though, I think nowadays English is the easiest language to learn because there are just so many opportunities to practise it :> Like half the internet is in English and then there's all those films and shows you can watch .. so don't give me too much credit haha (so basically I got really good English grades in school because I spent too much time on the internet) plus I went to study in England so that really helped, too! I have a really weird accent now, though lol Native speakers can usually hear I'm not a native myself but I've managed to fool other non-natives so yay! That's more than I ever expected hahaha

Ooooh okay! I always forget about home schooling because it's not allowed in Germany. I guess the state just doesn't trust the competence of its citizens :P
Are you glad you were home schooled or would you have preferred to attend a "regular" school?

Ah wow that's really cool!! I don't know anything about programming (like I'm glad I know basic HTML lol) but I think it's awesome! I guess you have to work your way up from the bottom in most professions .. but it's great you're enjoying it, I think that's actually really important for being successful, or at least a great place to start :>

thanks it has mad skillz

bro there are active members who have been here for ten years. there are hella references on this place but you'll be dialed in soon :)

everyone loved your topic don't worry man

Yeeeah I remember that! I used to be able to read and write hiragana and some katakana but I've forgotten the great majority ... I'd like to pick up Japanese at some point again but at the moment I think it's better to just concentrate on my current courses haha studying 3 different languages at the same time would be harsh
I guess when it comes to learning kanji, it's just lots of studying heh ... do you like manga? You could try reading some Japanese originals to practise your reading skills! :> generally, it's the best to just combine languages with something you enjoy! Books, films, shows or games for example
I swear half of my English skills in secondary school came from reading fanfiction.... lol

Haha vikings did have some manly beards indeed :P

And yeah, school isn't fun when your friends aren't there :< I wish they taught us more about how to actually speak or write Latin ourselves rather than just translating texts ... I remember things got interesting when our teacher had us translate several poems by Martial which are all really quite obscene. Great for pubertal high school students, as you can imagine ...

So your profile says you're in college. What do you study, if you don't mind me asking? :)

Haha yeah, it does have accents over a few letters but nothing too crazy! I never studied French but I think it has like at least 3 different kind of accents/symbols they put on vowels? Italian spelling isn't that complicated luckily :)
That's really cool! I looked into Japanese a little bit when I was in secondary school but I hardly remember anything ... I have a few friends who study it at university, though! From what I hear from them it's really quite a handful so go you!! :D
And I totally agree, languages are really fun hehe I'm also studying Finnish as part of my degree which is ... different, but super interesting! My Finnish competence is a lot poorer than my Italian one though haha also you get a lot of stereotypical metal fans who got into Finnish through music which is quite funny. In my first year Finnish course I had a coursemate who was doing a degree called Viking Studies. Now if that isn't cool

... I actually quite enjoyed Latin back in school :P ... but it was really annoying when other (non-latin) classmates would go "Latin must be so easy. All you do is translate." IT'S NOT THAT EASY AT ALL

Hey!
Haha good guess, but not quite right :P I'm here because I study Italian so it's actually part of my degree to live abroad for a while to practise our language. I've been doing mainly language/linguistics based courses ... but I could imagine art courses here are great. Maybe I should've taken one hmmm

yeah that's my favorite age too

well i just dont want to teach like above 3rd grade

thank you. yeah the problem is sometimes they dont pay attention and they get into trouble lol

yeah i love being with them and helping them learn. they're so cute and funny.