Dufniall

It's Valentine's Day, so maybe I should send a Luvdisc her way

Was just checking my Pokémon Go, unfortunately I don't have a Meltan (really thought I had one!). May ask for that on the GTS.

Let me know if you are ready for phone trading, I can do that all day. By the way, for phone trading I don't know if you have to both be on at the same time or that it is asynchronous like the GTS. Guess we'll find out.

You can! It's limited though to 1 GTS trade and 3 Wonder Box trades simultaneously. The premium plan can do more. Friend trades should work in the free plan as well.

Cool, you don't have Home installed yet, right? I have them in Home but I'll transfer them to Sword tonight. What times are you available this weekend? I can do tonight or Sunday whole day.

I booted up Let's Go yesterday, and I have available: 6x Alolan Diglett 4x regular Ponyta 3x Alolan Raichu 2x regular Mr. Mime (although that can be obtained in Sword/Shield) 1x Bulbasaur What I would like: Scorbunny Solosis Drampa Lotad Vullaby Galarian Corsola Lunatone Croagunk Sableye Spritzee Oranguru Eiscue Still have a long way to go in my Pokédex haha. I'll try to get some more 'mon over in the weekend from Let's Go (regular Weezing, Alolan Persian), so if you have any requests let me know.

I enjoyed my time with Dark Dawn, despite it not being as good as 1 and 2. Just as I enjoyed Metroid Prime Corruption, while it wasn't as good as 1 and 2. I see a trend here, with MP4 coming by power of logic this means GS4 is also coming. Hype!

I'm expecting a lot of Series X games for Microsoft, but also think they'll show another version of the console, probably the cheaper version. I'm curious to see if they can clearly communicate how they think the Xbox platform is going to work, with streaming and one or more consoles in the mix. Communication hasn't been their strongest point in the past. And talking about brands that don't communicate well: Yeah I think Nintendo showing more of BOTW2 is a given. Metroid Prime 4 is long overdue but I don't think it will be more than a teaser still. Would be nice to see some Bayonetta 3 and hopefully a release indication for that. Also there almost has to be something Mario in there (maybe a new Paper Mario although I think that is too small a franchise to be the main star game). And is it too early for Splatoon 3? As for those long-lost franchises I agree. We can sum up the wishlist again but I know better by now haha. All right, just one then: Golden Sun 3!

Yeah, this is going to be an interesting year. Sony is of course the big one staying home, and now this decision from Geoff. Maybe what he knows of the show is that they will host a commercial-filled awards show and he doesn't want to do 2 of those. Anyway, confirmed so far are: Xbox, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Bethesda, SEGA, Capcom, Square Enix, Take-Two, Bandai Namco, Warner Bros, Limited Run, Activision, Amazon games, Epic, THQ and XSEED, plus some smaller ones. Xbox will no doubt go all out, and I'm really curious what Nintendo will show. But my anticipation for E3 has been going down in the past few years, and will be just an interesting week, just as the weeks of PAX and Gamescom are interesting as well.

Oh god, that reminds me I have to reinstall Pokémon Go to transfer a Meltan to evolve it to transfer it to Sword... Will look tonight if I can come up with a list of what I'm missing!

I may be going back to Let's Go Pikachu to get some of the Alolan and original forms (like regular Ponyta and Alolan Raichu) if you are interested in these. I'm still working on filling my regular Sw/Sh dex so I could use some Shield exclusives or Gigantamax forms I missed.

With the launch of Pokémon Home we have a new way to trade with each other. So maybe it's an idea to share our Home friend codes here and put them in the opening post? Here's mine: HZAPCGAWTXCZ

Congrats @Ashley, hope you had a good one!

Oh no, I like the idea of doing it in a short amount of time. It's just that the time frame for this weekend doesn't work for me as the weekend is full.

Counter-counterpoint: you don't see Mr. G&W's eyepoint. He could well be looking up to Bayo's bum as well.

I'd argue that in that promotional picture Mr. Game & Watch and his pan are giving Villager a run for her money.

I would love to participate in this but that timeframe won't work for me, as my weekend is pretty filled up. Cool idea though!

In that case, I would be in for SMK as well, to get back to even numbers.

I think you have to wait for a year and then collect the seven Dragon Balls again.

If you liked Shovel of Hope, then just go ahead and skip Plague of Shadows and start Spectre of Torment or King of Cards. Plague of Shadows is easily the worst one of the four, and it's the only one I couldn't get through. But the other ones I loved, so it would be a shame to miss out on those.

Iconoclasts (Switch) Done! I’ve finished the game in a little under 11 hours, which is a perfectly acceptable time for the game to last. Don’t be fooled by that low score on Tweaks; I never crafted more of those as you only have 3 slots for them and I just crafted the ones I needed, and I didn’t know they would count towards completion. I have the materials to up that number quite a bit. Components is a bit low as well but I never went back to them as they don’t really give you anything extra. I wanted to backtrack to up the score but my savegame is before the final boss and I don’t think I can go back from there. All in all an enjoyable game. The length for me is perfect, and it plays well. The characters could have used even more fleshing out, despite the comments of too much dialogue in this game that you read. I got it for €10 in the sale and at that price it’s definitely worth it. Pokémon Sword (Switch) I already posted about this in the Pokémon Sword and Shield thread, but I finally became Galar champion. I have mixed feelings about the game, although they hang towards the positive. But like I said before in the other thread, I think I just outgrew the series a bit. Will go back to complete the Pokédex, and probably get the DLC but I’ll give it a little bit of a rest first. Okami HD (Switch) With both Iconoclasts and Pokémon finished I have room to start some new games on Switch. I picked up Okami HD on my holiday in Japan, and I decided it’s time to start this. The first hour was a bit difficult to get into. First of all it took about 20 minutes before I could take my first steps, and the controls felt a bit outdated. But after adjusting a couple of things (inverting camera and turn of rumble, that is insane when on!) and coming to peace that this is a 12 year old game I got into it. The game looks so charming, and it is great that it is set in Japan as well, as I saw all these traditional temples and houses on my holiday. It’s quite heavy on the dialogue, and that cricket is damn annoying. But I think I’m going to get a lot of enjoyment from this. For the second game to start I was thinking about starting Wargroove, but I think I will first finish off Valkyria Chronicles. It’s a game that I love playing but takes it’s time. I usually tackle a few chapters and then leave it for a couple of months. Time to push through. And postponing Wargroove means that I get to play it when the Double Trouble DLC is already out. I also made some good progress with Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PC), but I'll update on that when I'm a bit further on. Still enjoying it.

There's a lot of info popping up for Pokémon Home. Apparently there will be a free and a paid subscription, and it launches in February. I've never really looked into the whole Pokémon Bank/Pokémon Home stuff, so I'll let someone else do the summary https://home.pokemon.com/en-us/?cid=&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pokemonhome&utm_term=january28

It feels like it's been a while, but a new Grand Prix is starting soon. I don't think there's a theme to unlock, but you can win 999 gold coins again.

I'm well up for a remake of the original games. First of all there's the nostalgia feel. I had MK1 on the SNES, indeed tough as nails but so good. And I really like the old Fatality system over the new one they use.