The free roam changes are exciting and very much needed! I’m still hoping for the ability to login with two NNIDs when playing local online multiplayer, we’d bring it out so much more if they did.

Me too! It’s too bad we need to wait a few weeks to get him, but I’m stoked that your first copy is free. I never pulled DHIL so it’ll be nice to actually use DH in the game.

Finally pulled her at 78 pity garunteed, invested 40 after not getting Hysilens. Spent the night grinding gear and materials, just about ready to start the new story!

Pretty bummed about Evernight’s LC options, although not surprised since she is Rememberance. I have a garuntee on LC so I’m probably going to pull for it and start saving for Cyrene.

I take it there must be an Enchantments in Western Australia for the confusion? My apologies!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enchantments

Up Aasgard! We had a core permit so we stayed a night at Colchuck, two at Perfection, one at Snow, then finished our hike down. Weather cooperated for the most part, rained on us for a couple of hours our first at Perfection but was dry the rest of the time.

Did you make the trek recently?

That’s…actually correct and I didn’t realize it! I’ve thought the goat on the left was mid-jump but you’re right, zooming in makes it pretty clear the rocks are there. My wife and I have loved that picture since we snapped it, but I’m going to blame it on hiking exhaustion mixed with seeing what we wanted to see.

Hope the picture is cool regardless, but you’re totally right. Here’s another picture we took as a consolation prize - and the goat is definitely jumping in this one!

Good eye! We were backpacking up there end of July, my phone says it was taken July 31st.

It’s probably going to be a bit - there are 7 chapters planned with 1-4 out now and 5 coming out next year. I don’t think anything has been announced for chapters 6 and 7, but I’d think end of 2027-mid 2028 would make sense for it to be complete.

That being said, I haven’t jumped into Deltarune yet for similar reasons, but I’ve heard each episode tends to have a ‘Conclusion’ instead of cliffhangers and players have felt satisfied waiting for the next part. I’ll probably pick it up in the next year to see how it is.

No new releases from Naughty Dog partnered with big IPs like God of War and Horizon releasing early in the PS5’s lifecycle with no news from those studios is really making it feel stagnant from a first party perspective. When you list out the releases, the slate doesn’t look too bad; we have a new Spider-Man, Astro Bot and Helldivers were excellent surprises, and Ghost of Yotei is right around the corner. The issue for me is after Yotei releases, there isn’t anything we are aware of that I can think of off the top of my head that’s coming soon, except maybe Wolverine.

Intergalactic is obviously exciting, but there’s no way that game is coming before 2027 (if not 2028 or beyond). Guerrilla is surely making a new Horizon game which COULD make next year, but we’ll see. The PS5 release schedule has just felt pretty slow since 2022, and beyond 3rd party support, it doesn’t feel like there is anything huge coming to give it momentum.

Pretty cool idea to get people interested who haven’t played before, or recapture previous player’s excitement to hopefully sway them to Deltarune!

Definitely a bummer to lose a service that just rewarded customers for buying Nintendo games, but I buy so few games anymore that they were rarely adding up to substantial amounts.

Still, from being a loyal Club Nintendo member to having earned a couple of full-priced games in the eShop thanks to Gold Points, I’m hoping they have a new loyalty program up their sleeves even if it doesn’t make much sense for them to anymore.

It was okay. Pretty clear the heavy hitting studios are still toiling away on their projects after the launch games. I’m happy with my PS5 but still kinda waiting for the generation to feel like it has “arrived” instead of an optional upgrade from the PS4.

Oddly enough it feels like that game won’t even be made by Sony studios and it’ll just be GTA6.

Not sure if you’d consider them ‘retro’, but the Professor Layton ports are all excellent! I think each game is about $10 and the first 3 from the Nintendo DS are available. Works perfectly as they were designed for touch screens. Highly recommend!

I feel like Sony isn’t exactly coasting but kind of stuck right now instead. They have gained a reputation of fantastic story games that often set the standard for what games should look like visually. This results in longer development times and fewer games being released.

Combine that with the multiple live service game cancellations (Last of Us online, Concord, other reported games never announced), their release schedule looks very slow and right now Xbox studios looks like they’ll release more titles this year than Sony’s internal studios. Nintendo probably will too despite few announcements for this year as we’ll likely get a flood of them after the full unveiling of Switch 2 in April.

I realized the same thing!

Just finished the first season yesterday - the pacing was phenomenal and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Probably taking a short break to let it breathe before jumping in to season 2.

Stunning intro! And like another commenter said, I somehow never watched it either. Thanks for posting it!

Huge coffee fan here and I’ve never tried decaf. Never really considered the benefit of decaf but I could see an evening or late night coffee could be a treat with little to no concern of staying up too late because of it. Not sure I’ll spring to buy some, but I wouldn’t hesitate to give it a shot if offered.

I’m excited for this game but hate the attitude Level-5 has with the Switch version despite it starting on Nintendo platforms. Price went up to fund the multiplat release and no physical release.

I think I’m going to play through the first one on 3DS again and wait for a price drop, but I’m looking forward to seeing how people like it!

And now they aren’t ruling out the possibility of surgery for Davis. It’s insane how poorly this entire trade went for the Mavs in every way imaginable…and even unimaginable.

I’ve been jumping back into the second Pokemon Scarlet DLC! Trying to take on the E4 at Blueberry Academy and finding it extremely difficult despite playing Pokemon since Blue version came out. I’m accustomed to single battles and the double battles have caught me entirely off guard - I need to go back to the drawing board and focus my team around different mechanics!

Or just grind EXP candies and brute force it. We’ll see!