Topic: Your Latest PS4 Purchase

@Th3solution Nice! Be sure to post your impressions when you get to it. I forget: have you played the first game? VC4 is very accessible either way. I got one of my friends into it as his first Valkyria game, and he spent a good 100+ hours doing everything.

@Ralizah Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed the first Valkyria Chronicles on PS3 (I haven’t played the remaster on PS4. I assume they didn’t really add anything and the visual and art style is such that I doubt there’s a huge graphical upgrade from the original). I liked it so much I also played Valkyria Chronicles 2 on PSP, which was decent enough but somehow lacked the luster of the original. Of course we didn’t get VC3 in the West, and I avoided Valkyria Revolution at all costs, so I’m excited about VC4 and the fact it’s a return to form for the series. For sure I’ll be posting when I get to it. Which hopefully will be sooner rather than later. This week is busy, we’ll see.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah, I’ve had my eye on DOS2 for a while. The game has a remarkable critical reception. According to Wikipedia it was only GameSpot’s 11th perfect 10/10 score. I have held off because I wanted to see a price drop, and now we have that. Also the sheer length is scary to me. It’ll be relegated to the backlog but I’ll let you know when I get to it.

@Frigate Yeah, it’s strange that DOS and DOS2 are somewhat divisive regarding which is the better game experience. @kyleforrester is a big fan of the first but didn’t like DOS2. Most people online and reviewers have said the second game is better in nearly every way. One of main differences I’ve read has to do with the quality of the writing. I think both games have a fair degree of levity, but the first game has more of the humor I think. I read that the second game can be played on its own without knowledge or experience from the former, so I went with the consensus that seems to suggest DOS2 is better. What kept you from getting into it? Was it the story or was it the gameplay or technical performance?

@Frigate Ok, I got you. I’m pretty similar in my gameplay approach. The cream usually rises to the top eventually with whatever group of games I’m playing.

@Frigate Same here with how I play games, although I wouldn't say it is rare for me to zone in on one game, it sometimes just takes me a bit longer to get into it.

I played the first DOS briefly but iirc had just finished a long game so wasn't quite ready to get into it.

@RogerRoger Wasn't Second Son a free PS Plus game before? I know First Light was. The first InFAMOUS game was also given for free as a compensation due to PSN being hacked back in 2011 (not sure if this was the correct year).

@RogerRoger Ah, ok... I don't play a whole lot of PS Plus free games but I add them to my library anyways.

@RogerRoger I'm pretty much the same with PS+ games, only download stuff which I'm really interested in. I have enough games in the backlog without adding titles which I'm never going to play!

Bought quite a few games the past month. Aside from Dragon Quest Builders 2 and Bloodstained - which were launch day purchases - the others were all rather cheap so I think I've done pretty well. Deus Ex: Mankind Divide was £6, Assassin's Creed Odyssey £18 and Wolfenstein II £10. That's my PS4 gaming set until Christmas methinks.

@mookysam Wow. Never seen such a low price for AC Odyssey and Wolfenstein 2. Where did you get them? Or was it an ps store purchase?

@ZeroOverOne I got them from Base, which often has really good deals and (usually) quite competitive prices for new games. I much prefer using them to Amazon.

Bought Remnant: From The Ashes today. Absolutelly loving it. Simply, its just Dark Souls with guns over melee. On top of that, you can also finish the whole campaign with your homie because the game has a nit bad co-op (hello Dark Souls 3). The guns feel great. You feel every sibgle bullet fired from your gun. The game also gives you a choice to pick a melee weapon but I dont reccomend that. You will just spoil your own experience. And the best part of this game apart from amazing co-op (omg, imagine, finally we got a good co-op in a souls-like game) are bosses. They arent as hard as they are in Sekiro or Bloodborne but I assure you will brake some stuff while playing the game as the bosses have a HUGE amount of health. Reccomend playing on highest difficulty for a full experience. Also an amazing addition to the game was level creation. Its fully random made... yes u heard it right, there are over 2000 different kind of types of level making (sorry for my english as I am from a non english country). The game is brilliant for a newcomer to Souls like series. Also, it gives you a choice to pick from some characters that all have unique abilities. Overall me and my best friend enjoyes the game so much that we played for 11 hours straight. Reccomend it for all of those who arent scared for some of their stuff to be broken down after not being able to kill The Toxic flying cocroach-like creature because of which one i broke my finger for hitting the wall too hard)

Also want to add to my higher quote that I was wrong about compairing it to dark souls just bEcAuSe iTs hArD. Also the campfires give you a warm in your heart...
And sometimes the campfire will be right next to a boss. And, if you were raging because of all the losses you were taking after dying in Dark Souls, forget it. This game doesnt steal your stuff and your Nerves

Decided to get The Last Guardian & Star Wars Battlefront II (for the single player) in the sale before it ends.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Everytime I say something goo about a game I was imlressed you come and kill all the will to share my emotions. Thanks -_-

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy the last time was about Shadow Of War. But anyways thank you for apologizing. I really do like that.

@ZeroOverOne People are allowed to have their own opinions and those can be good or bad. It would be a pretty boring world if everyone agreed with each other all of the time! I don't see anything @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy has posted previously in response to you being particularly scathing or anything. Just her honest opinion on a couple of games which happen to be different to your views.

@RR529 The Last Guardian is a unique little experience and Trico is something completely different from any other game I've played.

The game is a little rough around the edges and it can be utterly frustrating when Trico can't seem to grasp what you want him to do but it is a special little game.

@Frigate It’s a series that sort of passed me by too which is weird because I lurved the Mass Effect games.

@Frigate @Thrillho DA: I is a really well done game, beautiful world, interesting characters, fun combat... but it’s really long. I lost interest eventually and never finished it. I’ve always told myself I’d go back and complete the main story, but I haven’t gathered the desire yet.