Topic: Your Latest PS4 Purchase

Digital all the way for me, apart from my yearly game of PES.

As for the latest game I purchased - Dreams early access. Haven't really gotten into it yet, but may do. One day! I also purchased Agents of Mayhem for £3.99 which is OK, certainly for that kind of outlay.

Aside from the Wii U, which I won't buy digital games for unless they're cheap downloadable games or VC titles, and 3DS, which I'm (very) slowly building a complete physical library for, I'm majority digital on all of my systems. I mean, I'll still nab physical copies of PS4 games if they're significantly cheaper than the digital alternative, but Sony's sales are so good and so frequent that it's rarely an issue.

It doesn't bother me at all on PS4, as games all have to install to the hard drive and often require large patches and updates to run properly, so it's often difficult to consider physical games for the system to be anything other than elaborate installer discs. I do wish I had invested more in physical PS Vita games, though, considering hard expensive its memory is, and how valuable a lot of those cards are becoming.

I do like having phsyical copies of games, however I can't deny that on Playstation and Vita, I have more digital than physical games. Essentially, if I get a game at launch, physical makes more sense to me as the price is often less and is equally as convenient. However, the digital sales are just cheaper. I have like 2 physical games for my XB1 and the rest are digital.

I try and go digital on Nintendo consoles though if I can because they tend to be harder to find and also retain some value.

@Th3solution I used to trade a lot more at the beginning of this gen when money was a bit more tight for me. But the last couple of years or so I've got more disposable income to play around with, so haven't needed to trade stuff in. I currently have about 60 quid of CEX credit and a bunch of games I could trade in. I think it had been well over a year since I've traded something in.

@Th3solution @themcnoisy Lays year I didn’t play a notable release that came out in 2018 until a month or two after Red Dead came out and I played that (Before I played some Attack on Titan 2 ). I was playing catch-up from my two-year hiatus game (was on a two-year mission). On the flip side, 2019 has been excel for me and new releases. I’ve only beaten KH3, but I’ve gotten and played Resi 2, Sekiro, and DMC5.

@Th3solution I have never traded a game in so have quite a few games lying around!

@Jaz007 I've got DMC 5. Unsure what the fuss is about tbh.

@themcnoisy You mean you don’t like it? I was just saying I didn’t get a current game for ages last year as you said now you “dodnt feel like a fraud.” I’m not sure which one you mean.

@Jaz007 I was replying to you having DMC. I am not enjoying it so far, fingers crossed it gets better over the next Week. I am really enjoying the Show 18 and begrudgingly put DMC 5 on for just over an hour and its very cliché for a game - the doors closing with demon jam until you kill 8 enemies, needing a spore (key) to get passed a vine (door), demons have attacked Earth etc. To be honest its all too over the top, I have become very fatigued by the bombast already within the confines of very limiting play areas with the cliché mechanics - by all means give us some crazy action but its just too crazy to take seriously within the limtiing boundaries of the gameplay.

That said it seems to be more about perfecting your attacks like a fighting game, so if I approach it like that and aim to perfect my combos I should have more fun.

Which should I buy? ALL on sale for $15. Res 7, assassin's creed syndicate, or far cry 5? I'm leaning towards Resident Evil 7.

Bought Valley for PS4. Just couldn't say no after watching the footage and reviews. But I have to say, the game should be at least $15. $20 is way too much, especially since it has been out since 2016.

@Elodin FarCry 5 to play now in the coming summer months, Resi Evil 7 to play in the dark winter nights.

@themcnoisy Does it still rate you after every combo? I've always hated that about the series.

@JohnnyShoulder Yup. I get a lot of D's.

@themcnoisy I think you need to look at the game differently. It’s like fighting game in that it’s about combos and such. The point is the fights. They make you fight them in an arena because stylish figthing is the point. Not a variety of objectives. It’s about that with characters doing ridiculous but awesome things, while still being a good character driven story. Demons invading is the basis of DMC. There’s an interesting story and context behind it though.
If anything I’d say it’s not rediculous enough with cutscene and what happens in them. The gold standard for an awesome cutscene is still the opening of DMC3.
Skip to 3:25 if you want to see when the series really took off. The best cutscene I’ve seen in a DMC game.

@Elodin What one did you buy in the end?

@Jaz007 Roger that. I will start perfecting my combos.

For some stupid reason I got the Dark Souls remaster. I still have to finish Sekiro so I dont know how that is going to work out. I even watched a video and thought "do I really want to open this can of worms?"

I'll see how it goes lol. At least in Dark Souls you can grind your way to victory...kinda.

@themcnoisy The DMC and Bayonetta games always seem like they should be fun but I never enjoy them. I loved Transformers and Vanquish though so it's not exactly that brand of game play I'm against.

I dunno.

@kyleforrester87 Vanquish was brilliant! As was Transformers (if we're talking about Devastation).

I was quite hopeful that Platinum's Turtles game would've been great - but it actually looked pretty cumbersome compared to their previous games.

@KALofKRYPTON Yeah Devastation (although Fall of Cybertron was also pretty great and I even have a soft spot for Rise of the Dark Spark). Vanquish was the nuts, busting out your sniper rifle in midair slowmo, blasting a robots head off.