Julius

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

Seems to be doing solid on Metacritic for now, 78 critic score and 90 user score. No big or even medium outlets from what I can see, but seems to be pretty well received. I do think Sony got things the wrong way around when it came to reviews and things like that, I think it would have made much more sense to give reviewers Demon's Souls a week earlier than they did, in addition to Miles Morales and the other games. What we've seen are reviews for Astro's Playroom, Miles, and Bugsnax come out, and then major outlets (perhaps rightly, from a business perspective) turning immediately then to Demon's Souls, as they only had a couple of days to review a 30+ hour RPG. Still think that was an odd choice.

Launch trailer: Looks like reviews have started going up too! Don't think I'll be getting to this for a few weeks, but hope everyone who checks out enjoys it! Really looking forward to reading through some impressions

So, Yodel is trending on Twitter in the UK now that a fair number of GAME and Very customers have cottoned on to the fact that has had me concerned for the last week I've made peace with it for the most part, though I'm still annoyed at GAME for their blunder. I didn't see any issues with Yodel when shipping the Series X | S for Very last week, so fingers crossed! Also seen a couple of Amazon UK orders ending up with Hermes? Hopefully those here who ordered with them ended up with Logistics! What's everyone's plans for launch day/weekend? What are you all planning to play? And do any of you have a priority list of games to install?

This is super cool! But the flex is unreal So much for the console war being over I guess Keep finding myself checking my emails every few minutes, despite knowing full well it'd be a surprise for the tracking info to be sent before this evening. But still, so close!

It might have almost no bugs when you first start, but they release new ones each month. You've just got to be patient.

Just woke up to my dispatch confirmation too, should apparently get an email or text with my 2 hour delivery window tomorrow! Next 36 hours are going to be crazy, hope everything goes smoothly for everyone! We're nearly there!

I mean, I wouldn't be against it! Incredibly charming, ridiculously rich and diverse OST which perfectly complements it's world and characters, an awesome gameplay loop...as someone who dropped the game after the first month and "only" put 50 hours in, or something like that, this game has undoubtedly been a massive part of gaming in 2020. I love that many are still enjoying the game too, and I live popping into the New Horizons thread, especially to see everyone's reactions to the new updates! Even if it doesn't win, I feel like it deserves special recognition; can we at least get it an award for being the Best Escape? I doubt I'll catch up on the one or two games I wanted to check out before the TGA's come around, but I do hope I'll catch up by the end of the year and be able to hash it out in my head. It's been such a strong year for games, another one of those years where we've ended up with an embarrassment of riches!

I'm not generally a fan of celebrity ads, but the Brie Larson ones put up today are a rare exception. The Animal Crossing one is especially wholesome! So...Samus when?

The Digital Foundry train never ends! Their review: Think this will be the last thing I check out about the game before I boot it up after Astro's and Miles Morales. Looks absolutely fantastic, music sounds great, I can honestly say that I've never been so excited to get my ass handed to me