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I haven't played Royal, but speaking as someone who really enjoyed playing Persona 5 for the first time last year, Royal definitely seems to be the way to go now if you are going to want more Persona. Other than the extra term (and more awesome music), the QoL improvements and other additions I've heard from podcast and video impressions makes me think that, if given the option to play the original version of the game or Royal right now, I would absolutely choose Royal. This video should hopefully shed some light on the differences, I watched it not long after Royal released it, and definitely makes it seems like this is the definitive version to get: I don't think you can go wrong with the base game, especially as it's part of the PS+ Collection, but, if you're likely to want more, it seems Royal is the way to go

Yep, that's the one

Just finished Chapter 12, really enjoyed it! Roll on Chapter 13!

That disgusting realisation looking through those that I probably put well over 500 hours in across FIFA games last gen is killing me. And nearly 200 hours into the emptiest Star Wars Battlefront game. EA owns my soul. On the upside, seeing Dragon Quest XI as my most played game outside of those was a bit of a relief

Not exactly Yakuza 7 related (sorry!), but seems relevant enough to include it here than make a dedicated thread: 15th Anniversary Stream for the series on December 8th at 20:00 JST (11:00 GMT). Exciting stuff! Wonder what they'll end up announcing: Yakuza 3 - 6 ports for PC? A Judgment sequel? And the time seems right for a Yakuza 8 announcement, right? Or maybe it'll something completely unexpected? Roll on the 8th!

Nice! Yeah, noticed that too about the trophy cards when my first trophy popped and I wanted to look it up, does look a bit odd, guess the cards are designed with the app in mind too (which makes sense). Really looking forward to giving this a go over the weekend, looks and sounds like such a good time!

Completely missed this gameplay trailer: Three weeks tomorrow! (unless it gets delayed again, but there's no way... right?) Oh, and Episode 5 of Night City Wire too:

Just had my first crash a couple of hours into Miles Morales: game froze while stealthing but would still let me turn the camera, sound cut out, game fully froze, and then light on the console went out and disconnected. Welp. Turned it back on, seems to be fine (nice to be able to hop back in super quickly, that's for sure!), but I felt around the console and it definitely felt warmer than it should be (not hot, by any means) in some places. Just a heads-up to you guys, would not be surprised if we saw another firmware update the other side of the weekend though. That was scary. EDIT: took Miles out not too long after so I can eat, and figured I might as well install Demon's Souls. That disc was pretty hot, wonder if it was something to do with the disc drive getting too warm? Hmm.

1000% where I'm at, and have been for the last few days they just randomly pop up every hour and then I burn right through them again! Despite all of the videos, got to say, I still ended up being surprised at the size of this thing. Monolith. Not that I don't love it, stands tall over its smaller brethren

Let the gaming begin!

Heck yeah, enjoy guys! I'll be joining you soon (maybe)

Local tracking is up, so not last in transit at least! Not dismissing that something could still go wrong though... guy's around the Ring Road right around the corner three times, but I'm another 20+ stops away, which is fine, as I'm working anyways! Projected to be delivered by 16:30, so I'm not expecting it until like 18:00 The terrible part is that I still haven't received an email from Yodel for tracking, so the decision to contact their chat to get it last night looks like it was a good one Enjoy those who have had it arrive, and hope delivery goes smoothly for those still waiting! Also... Absolutely insane. Got to imagine most of those are bots...right?

So, today's the day! Tracking info from Yodel last night has the console at my local depot a 20 minute drive away, so delivery today looks to be on - no sign of my window yet, though. Weirdly still haven't received the email from them for said tracking info, so I'm really glad that I contacted them to get this yesterday...but even then I couldn't manage much sleep last night and woke up a couple of hours ago, and wasn't able to get back to sleep! Feel like a kid on Christmas hope everything goes smoothly with everyone's deliveries, and for those looking to put an order in today! May your download times be short, your playing sessions long, and your first next gen experiences awesome

Haven't even managed to pass on the first code from GAME yet...and I already have another. Is this to make up for the delivery blunders or something?! Anyway, same as before, they're physical next-gen/current gen games with planned release of next gen upgrades, this time down to £40 from RRP. Let me know if any of you are interested. Still have no idea how long this lasts Games in this promotion are: - Cyberpunk 2077 (PS4/Xbox) - Watch Dogs Legion (PS4/PS5/Xbox) - Watch Dogs Legion: Resistance Edition (PS4/PS5/Xbox) I don't understand the logic behind a promotion where the standard and Resistance editions cost the same either, but here we are!

I'm not doing that with mine...yet. You know, just in case the next couple of days don't go, uhhhhhh, "ideally" once it's arrived though, looking forward to clearing it out at some point over the weekend and then setting it up to hand it off to my brother next week with the games he wants to borrow first installed End of an era, though! Just realised it's been almost 5 years to the day since I got my PS4 back in 2015, bundled with Battlefront. How time flies! The true next gen experience!

Yeah, so long as it doesn't come too late on Friday which I have booked off, it'll be fine. I actually reached out to Yodel's webchat just before they closed about half an hour ago and got my tracking number before they'd send the email (which I still haven't received), and my tracking is still saying that it should be arriving tomorrow, requires a signature, and that I should get a 2 hour delivery window at some point. So, fingers crossed! ...but yeah. Not going to be using GAME again after this, that's for sure! Yeah, yikes. How is it that two completely panned delivery couriers are not only doing well, but flourishing? Crazy. Sounds like a great plan! Yeah, I was thinking of getting a an external hard drive for transfer of my PS4 games, but after everything that happened last week, think I'll be leaving it for now! For me, I have a cheat sheet ready for whenever it turns up: WiFi password, games to install, order of priority to install them in, etc. Going to start with the larger digital games after I have Miles Morales and Demon's Souls installed I think, and some of the apps which might not already be on there too, like Funimation and Crunchyroll. Also have made sure today that my spare DualSense and headphones are fully charged, and I've got those, my pile of games to install, and my trusty package-opening Swiss Army Knife all on my living room table ready to go. Ideally the console would arrive during my shift tomorrow and I could spend my lunch setting it up and getting installs going, but I'll just be grateful if it arrives tomorrow at this point!

Physical by the looks of it

Just got to be positive. It will arrive tomorrow. I am speed. Best case? It turns up tomorrow, which would be the awesome and ideal scenario. Worst case? Guess I can watch some TV and finish catching up on my Gaming Diary, it should be here on Friday. We're in the middle of a pandemic. It sucks, but I can wait another day. (probably) That being said, if it doesn't arrive on Friday... Sounds like an awesome plan for the weekend! Fingers crossed there's no need for you to go to the lab on Friday and you can just inhale and exhale the fumes of next gen!

Crazy. Absolutely agree with you @Ganepark32, DOOM Eternal is lucky to be on that GOTY shortlist - I'm sure it was a great game, but it's almost already nullified by the fact that Demon's Souls would have been eligible, it just ended up in the hands of press so late on. Don't see it winning anything on the night The only award I actively care about is TLOU2 winning for Accessibility, I don't think anything else this year comes remotely close. GOTY is really hard for me, I think Animal Crossing: New Horizons is awesome and could deservedly win (I wouldn't question it), but at the same time, I do feel like its relevance here has more to do with how the year has unfolded with COVID more so than the qualities of the game itself. To be clear: not suggesting it shouldn't win or isn't deserving of its spot in that shortlist, just think more than any ever game, it has that "against" it in how critics and fans might has it out. I was hoping Ghost of Tsushima wouldn't be there simply because it would've put my three most likely to win down to two (VII Remake and The Last of Us Part II), but yeah, we've ended up with a shortlist where I've played 4 of the 6 GOTY nominees, and I think all would be deserving of the win. Only heard great things about Hades too, and still really want to check that out, because I have no doubt from what I've read here and heard elsewhere that it deserves to be there. Awesome year for games. That's the biggest takeaway for me. Well, that and Xenoblade once again getting snubbed in the music nominees (if I'm remembering right, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 didn't get nominated in 2017 either?).

GAME have sent me a code I won't use to reduce a next-gen game/game with a coming next-gen upgrade (from a limited list) to £30 from RRP, so if anyone is interested, let me know and I'll message you the code. Honestly have no idea how long it lasts. Games in the promotion are: - Control Ultimate Edition (PS4/Xbox) - Marvel's Avengers (PS4/Xbox) - Dirt 5 (PS5/Xbox) - Yakuza 7 (Xbox only) Didn't know whether to put this in the Xbox Series X or PS5 thread, hence the neutral ground instead

Also had the same email as @Ike yesterday from them about it arriving at the warehouse; from what I've read elsewhere, seems like Royal Mail and everyone else has been absolutely battered this last week or so, and probably will be into the weekend too. Noticed my delivery type has been changed from the usual free 24h Royal Mail to 2 - 4 day shipping, so have no idea when that's going to turn up.

Looks like a solid pair of updates! So much for not updating this game, knew they'd come around in some form But as for getting to this soon... glances at list of games releasing in the coming weeks ...I honestly don't know if I'll get to it before Christmas. Miles Morales and Astro's this weekend, Demon's Souls will probably take me up until the week before Cyberpunk (depending on when I finish that, could sneak it in there? But there's also Age of Calamity and 13 Sentinels I will want to get to), Cyberpunk will probably be two weeks minimum...and then I'm off for a week to cap off the year and hopefully catch up a bit Same thing happened with Ghost of Tsushima Legends, I adored that base game and want to check it out still, but it's nowhere near the top of priorities at the moment. At least I'll be able to play Squadrons with better performance on next gen when I do get to it!

GOTY shortlist: Vote here. So, uh, pretty good odds The Last of Us Part II will be coming away with a win somewhere, huh? The dramatic pause for effect at the end of the GOTY list of nominees was so unnecessary also, that domination in Best Performance by Sony was pretty insane! Had 13 Sentinels sitting on my shelf, looks like I should try getting to that soon too...I want to check that and Hades out before the end of the year (doubt I will by the time TGA's swing around), what a fantastic year for games!

Oh man, normally I'm a big fan of Suriel (former Game Informer guy, now MinnMax guy) but, his actual 6/10 review score aside (whatever, it's subjective, that's fine), one minute into this review it already seems like a rocky start. I don't know if it's on him or his editor, but opening up immediately with a description of the power fantasy of controlling the Divine Beasts is such an odd starting place for this review. Aaaaaaand I can already see him being swamped in the comments...

@Happenstance @V. Amoleo hopefully you guys hear something sooner rather than later! I don't normally receive my dispatch confirmation from Amazon until late in the evening/early hours of the morning, and don't think I've had anything arrive late from then when that's happened (in fact, weirdly, my earlier dispatch emails are the closer calls!). Fingers crossed for you both that you hear back soon and it all goes smoothly