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Yeah, we’d never claimed on it before. New TV has arrived anyway. Was half the price of the old one and paid outright, trying to wean myself off finance with the mortgage coming into play within the next few months.

A moving casualty, genuinely don’t know how it happened. Moved it from the lounge to the kitchen so it was out the way. Nipped to B&Q, came back and it had a crack in it. Claimed it on the house insurance, which luckily ran out 2 days after it happened. Given me the full purchase amount back (well it’s processing but shortly will have it in my account hopefully) -£250 excess. Still paying the fucker off on finance too so first thing I will do is pay that off once the money filters through. Ordered a replacement today, hopefully that’ll be here at some point this week.

Struggling with this to be honest, put 10 hours in at the start of the month and haven’t touched it since. Just hasn’t grabbed me really which is a shame, need to play more I know but the amount of things to do just puts me off nowadays unfortunately.

Great casting all round, chuffed with that.

Sounds like Microsoft is going third party now Acti-Blizzard is on board. It’s the sensible play at this point, consoles cost shit loads to manufacture and the Xbox isn’t that popular (no hate but it’s true). Game Pass being blocked on PS means if they want a larger audience for their games and the place where the majority of current-gen gamers are then putting them on PS will bring in a lot of cash. Especially in Xbox’s seemingly all digital future.

January has long been and gone. @HandsomeDead scored 20 points for Tekken 8, 4 points for Another Code: Recollection (which lost @mmmark 4 points) and 15 points for Under Night in Birth II. @mfnick scored 20 points for Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and 17 points for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Leigh takes an early lead with 39 points, closely followed by Nick on 37 points. Everyone else has yet to score. As for February releases: @Nag has Granblue Fantasy Relink on February 1st, Helldivers 2 on February 8th and Pacific Drive on February 22nd. @Nabby9 has Ultros on February 13th, Mario vs Donkey Kong Remake on February 16th and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on February 29th. I have Persona 3 Reload on February 2nd and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake on February 28th. @radiofloyd has The Thaumaturge on February 20th

That trailer was absolutely fucking phenomenal. I never finished the original and never fully got on with it but am definitely up for trying the sequel.

Never played much of Generations so well up for this.

Loved the latest trailer, only wish it got a release date! Always thought it would have an OTS camera so not too arsed about that.

Looks fucking fantastic, day 1 for me this.

I could not personally bear to play this dubbed, but I’m subs over dubs in general really. Hearing the performance that Kiryu’s long time JP voice actor gives in Gaiden, particularly towards the end of that game and then thinking about Yong Yea the gamer gater doing them makes me shudder in all honesty. I’m about 5-6 hours in and haven’t long got to the destination seen in the trailers. It’s been very cutscene heavy as Andy has said and even though you can explore Yokohama in the early chapters, there isn’t really anything of note to do aside from the usual mini games and eateries, no real side stuff that isn’t tied to the main storyline. So yeah, so far so good, the first chapter feels like an epilogue really, showing where all the party from LaD 7 are now then the following chapters this game and the mysteries behind it start in earnest. Not been let off the leash in Hawaii yet but very different vibes to Yokohama so far as expected really. Ichiban & co are as likeable as ever, love spending time with them.

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That category should’ve had a joint winner, only just realised after I checked my notes lol. Have updated it.

January

GAME OF THE YEAR 2023 RESULTS GOTY 2023 - MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN 2 (PS5) JOINT 2ND - LIKE A DRAGON GAIDEN: THE MAN WHO ERASED HIS NAME (PS5, PC) & ALAN WAKE II (PS5, XBOX SERIES S|X, PC) JOINT 3RD - PIKMIN 4 (SWITCH) & CYBERPUNK 2077: PHANTOM LIBERTY (PS5, XBOX SERIES S|X, PC) BEST GAME OF 2023 NOT RELEASED IN 2023 JOINT 1ST - POKÉMON SCARLET/VIOLET (SWITCH) & MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS (PS5, XBOX SERIES S|X, PC) MOST ANTICIPATED 2024 GAME 1ST - FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (PS5, PC) 2ND - DRAGON’S DOGMA 2 (PS5, XBOX SERIES S|X, PC) 3RD - METROID PRIME 4 (SWITCH) Thank you for everybody that voted, really appreciate it! See you all this time next year 😘😘😘