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@DennisReynolds To add on to that. I believe news outlets, including PushSquare, reported on the Capcom Leak with a timetable of games releases, and that hack also contained employee information. Funny how there was no qualms with that despite being just as morally questionable. I am not sure what makes Insomniac so special.

That said, I hope the devs are supported here. They didn't deserve this.

Finished LaD Gaiden last night. Still playing to 100%, but that ending ruined me. Kiryu deserves the world. Probably will be my GOTY at this rate.

5. Lost Judgment - 82 Hrs
4. Hades - 102 Hrs
3. Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 108 Hrs
2. Two Point Campus - 116 Hrs

1. Bloody Skyrim - 139 Hrs

All together: 547 Hrs.

Compared to total time across all games of 621 Hrs.

To my credit, at least 4 of the top 5 were games I hadn't played through before. Guess I am a slow burn.

I am fairly sure there is already a 2007 live-action film for Yakuza based off the first game.

A persona film might be interesting, but I am sceptical.

Doesn't sound like Kiryu to me, but to be fair, when I get around to playing this, I was gonna play in Japanese like usual anyway.

Yeah, you need a lot longer than 95 seconds to fully understand just who Kiryu is. I would still encourage people who started with 7 to play through 0-6, even if the combat is different from the turn-based they are used to.

I play the games in Japanese anyway. Hearing English coming from these characters doesn't sound right after having played the entire series in Japanese as the only option.

That said, I will probably wait for a sale for this. I still haven't finished 7 (not gelling with the combat), so probably wouldn't be getting 8 at launch anyway, and there is no physical version (in the West without importing), so it is low down on my priority list, even if I am very interested in the story.

@TripleKing333 *In the west.

I know about playasia but shouldn't really need to import.

As long as the whole game is on the discs, patched, and with all DLC, this is a good thing. I can only hope companies continue to support physical... looking at you SEGA, you should be putting Gaiden on a disc!

I don't assume much will change for the next year, but will be interesting to see what happens next.

This has been enlightening. It's no wonder people are happy with games becoming digital only when you have people who are even more happy for whole aspects of games, whether voice acting, art, or even coding to be handled by AI. There is no respect for any original creative passion.

I do hope that everything goes well for the voice actors and they need not proceed with a strike, but in this world, I fully expect it to happen sooner rather than later.

I must confess, as someone who has never subscribed to PS+, this has been very interesting to see the reactions to this. I feel like these price hikes were always inevitable, and to think if online wasn't part of the equation, perhaps the situation would be very different.

I certainly hope people who genuinely do not like the price hike actually follow through with letting subscriptions lapse. It never should have got to this point in the first place with people paying an additional fee to play online.

If it's happening, I would certainly be interested. Would probably be the first thing from PS Productions that I would watch. A remake of the second game would be good as the PS4 remake was my first experience with MediEvil.

@Cashews Hope you have fun when you get to it. It is a strange game, but one that I would definitely love a sequel to. The DLC practices were very scummy. I heard that it was spun as the game not performing very well so they wanted to give a definitive ending, but this is also the same company that had the whole Disc Locked Content debacle with Street Fighter X Tekken, so...

@Cashews I am aware. I was being overly snarky in my comment just now. =)

My comment was more in response to the idea that Sony only raised the price of the PS5 from £450 to £480 to be in line with inflation. I suppose we could argue that perhaps the cost of components has indeed gone down hence the sudden firesale of PS5s but given the rumours of the new SKU, I am doubtful that is the full explanation.

@marty8370 My mistake, I wasn't aware inflation is now negative, hence the sale. I look forward to my food bill going down as well now.

It's amazing what a price cut can do. I am still baffled Sony even raised the prices in the first place.

This is a bit better. Just a pity that it has come at the worst possible time for me, so probably won't be able to take advantage of this... oh well.

That's a bit better. Though not quite at the sweet spot for me yet, but good if finally heading in that direction.

I thought this was coming. Went in to Tesco shortly after TOTK came out and noticed they hadn't stocked the game at all. Took a look at the other games there and noticed that they were missing some other recent releases.

I very much despise the way everything is going.

Still waiting for that price drop in UK. £450 didn't look appealing to me, let alone the £480 it costs at present.

Does seem bizarre to have a price-drop now, but I won't complain.

Gaming looks more and more miserable every day. At this rate, I might not ever get into next gen.

Ahhh, I wanted P5 Tacos...

In all seriousness, all over P3 Reload. P5T, not so much, not a fan of that genre, so I might end up watching a playthrough.

Whoops, looks like Atlus social media was eating a sandwich. Definitely real, just saw the trailer.

I think the listing also made mention about two fighting styles; Yakuza and Agent. Yakuza is traditional Kiryu, whilst Agent involves gadgets and speed? Either way, I am excited to hear more.

Nome of the above. FF and Diablo are not my cup of tea, and whilst I like Street Fighter, I suck at fighting games so I would rather wait until the end of its life to pick it up with as much content as possible.

Persona 5 Tacos - Joker has moved on from curry and now sells tacos in Hawaii.

All hail the mighty Cloud^TM lest it rain down upon your misery.

I don't know, I always find it funny that it is referred to as "The".

I wonder if this will crash and burn like Stadia did.

Persona 5 Tussle - new fighting game.

I can't say I am surprised that in a race to the bottom to churn out never ending sequels that studios would value writers less and less. That said, I still think there are a lot of good games out out there with decent stories so perhaps it is not a universal experience.

Also, I saw some comments above mention Yakuza which have brilliant stories, but at the same time, the first thing that popped into my head is rubber bullets.

I still remember the days of Street Fighter X Tekken with Disc Locked Content. Good times. But yeah, I typically wait for fighting games and DLC to become dirt-cheap now before I ever play them.

I mean, I guess it is technically better than what you can get on the market at present, but with regards to the original RRP (£450) it's hardly setting the world on fire.

I'll keep on waiting.

The short hair for Cammy threw me off (not bad though). But otherwise, great design. Zangief looks like he got wider if that makes sense. Lily looks pretty fun to play.

Joined abour half-way through so missed the VR2 content. I basically saw a couple of fantasy type games (cool I guess) and the SF6 and RE4 trailers. Capcom definitely the MVP here.

I don't know if I am struggling to pay attention, but there was so much stuff on screen with Suicide Squad, I found it difficult to follow and get interested. There was a lot of visual flair, but the gameplay is definitely not for me.

Whilst I do intend on getting the platinums for the Yakuza games eventually, I have only managed to platinum Kiwami 2 so far. Yakuza 0 still has a few, but they are mostly missable ones which I can get when I repeat the playthough on Legend. The issue I am having is finishing off the completion list in Yakuza 0, specifically the batting minigame with earning 5 million yen. I will get it eventually...

There's like 4 games on PS5 out at the moment only that haven't been announced to go to PC. One of them is a remake. There are only three more with firm release dates so far, two of which are VR, and require a peripheral more expensive than the console you need to use it.

There is still no incentive to upgrade beyond perhaps some marginal improvements to your existing PS4 games.

Not got anything, but to be fair, I buy a lot of physical; if these codes are driven by data, perhaps they know it is a losing battle with me so not bothering. A pity really, there are a few indie games I wouldn't mind getting.

@NEStalgia Who knows at this point? Maybe there will be no price cut at all this gen. If so, I can't see myself getting one until the end of the generation or even at all if that is the case, but never say never I guess. Like I said though, I can wait.

@Ralizah No, I don't expect the price to drop anytime soon. Can't have Sony on the breadline now. As I said, I can just play the games on PS4.

I am aware of the concept of supply and demand. My original comment was a throw away; not meant to be a comment on cost-of-living and the cost of products in relation to or on market demand. I am aware it will not benefit Sony to drop the price; people will justify it somehow; people always do, and that is fine. Nonetheless, dropping the price is the next thing we can optimistically expect.

@Atreus97 No, I don't expect the price to drop anytime soon. Can't have Sony on the breadline now. As I said, I can just play the games on PS4.

Maybe now they can start looking at lowering the price? Darn thing is more expensive now than it was at launch. I would ideally like one for the new Yakuza games, but if need be, will just play on PS4 instead.

Brought both on Switch. I already played through P4G on my Vita, and I did own P3P but couldn't get into it for whatever reason. After playing P3P for 6 hours, happy to say I am gelling with it a lot better this time. I will probably buy on PS4 eventually in a sale or whatever so i can do trophy playthroughs.

Still looking forward to playing this, but with the DLC announcement, waiting until the PS5 is cheaper to buy with a complete edition. Good to hear it doing well though, first was pretty good; also, Faro is a ****.

Not played any of the games on the list so...

I was waiting for this prior to buying the game since I brought the first one as the complete edition. Now, the game goes on the backburner for another few years until the PS5 gets cheaper. Hopefully any bugs will be polished out by then.

Never really paid attention to Stars, so I saw free currency in the article, got excited... then realised that unless you have PS Plus, your rewards are limited to digital collectables with the exception of one campaign that gives you a whole 50 points. Feels designed for those who embrace the digital future.

Reading these comments, I really feel like copy pasting my comment from the PS5 Price Rise article. Cool if you willing to throw that much money away I guess.

Not a Dragon Ball fan, but this is very kind.

I wonder what other games this could potentially be put in parallel too which may have been charged at full price...

Hmmm... looks at Sony

As stated before, lessons were not learned. This is the equivalent of an NPC continuing to do a walk animation whilst hitting a tree. Just blissful ignorance.

This is your daily reminder from Sony that your PS5 is a paperweight. Thank you for your purchase of our very large paperweight. Signed, Jim Ryan.