Topic: Your Latest PS4 Purchase

@Lavalera I’ve played Yakuza Kiwami (still have to go back and finish off the plat as it goes) and really liked it. And very serendipitous that about Dragon Quest being mentioned so much in Y: LaD.

Star Ocean: The Last Hope Remaster & Quake Remastered for just under a tenner.

Never played Quake before and I've only seen snippets of gameplay here and there over the years but I'm quite interested in giving it a shot.

As for Star Ocean: The Last Hope.. I've never played it back when it released on PS3 and I've never actually seen footage of it either.

I have played Til The End Of Time before (The 3rd Star Ocean game) and from what I understand LH has the same combat system as it (which I really quite liked) so I'm very interested in giving this a go.

I'm actually quite liking the look of the newest Star Ocean that's coming out in a couple of months too (The Divine force) and with LH being only £6 I couldn't help but buy it yesterday 😄

I ordered XIII the other day, off of the back of the article about the impressive PS5 optimisation. Well, it was under a fiver on Amazon and I thought nothing about it since… well, great way to start a weekend, it just turned up and it’s a spanking-looking steelbook! Absolute result 🥳

Just ordered Little Nightmares II and The Outer Worlds. I've had these games on my PS4 wishlist for a long time now and I decided to finally buy them today when I saw that they were €15 each. I liked the first Little Nightmares even though it could feel absolutely frustrating to play sometimes, and Obsidian makes great WRPGs, so I think I can expect good things from Outer Worlds.

@LtSarge Outer Worlds is good fun. I found it had some limitations in weapon choices and enemy types but I enjoyed the story and particularly liked the companions and their stories.

Not an overly long game either which is sometimes a bonus!

You’ve got quite a good backlog building up

@Thrillho Yeah it's nice that the game isn't too long. Definitely going to give it a go whenever I'm in the mood for a relatively short RPG experience.

Indeed! But I feel like I'd rather have too many games to choose from than too few. I constantly have trouble deciding what to play, not because there are too many options but because I never truly know what I'm in the mood to play until I give it a try. So it's nice to start up a bunch of games and see which ones stick. Like right now, I'm rotating between Team Sonic Racing, Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance and Lego Batman. Basically more gameplay-centric titles, and it's a good mix of fun games.

I have been eyeing up a physical PS4 copy of Deadpool for a while now… but it’s always so gosh-darned expensive due to the ‘low-ish’ number produced. Well I just pulled the trigger as the fact that it is absent from the little Marvel section of my game collection (Wolverine, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor: God of Thunder, Captain America: Super Soldier, Spider-man, Spider-man: Miles Morales, Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers) has been nagging away at me for a few months now. And £36 isn’t ‘that’ expensive I suppose.

@Bentleyma Sounds really promising then! Looking forward to giving it a go.

On a side note, it's a shame that The Outer Worlds DLC never get a steep discount. They've gone on sale so many times and it's always like 10% off or something. I've hold out on a GOTY/Complete edition but at this point I doubt they'll release one, so I decided to just go ahead and buy the base game.

@LtSarge The Outer Worlds: Board-Approved Bundle has the game plus the expansion pass with the two story based dlc's. It was only a digital release as far as I can see though.

Yakuza: Like A Dragon

Got the "Day Icchi" Steelbook Edition brand new for only £13

Yeah I've only played Zero & Kiwami so far of the Yakuza series (Loving Zero, finding Kiwami rather average at best)... So I figured I'd jump ahead and try out something completely different with it's turn based combat rather then going onto Kiwami 2 and have even more brawling.

Should have it tomorrow... Not that I'll have much time to play it as my summer break is coming to a close and it's back to teaching

I’ve been keeping an eye out for a good price on a physical copy of Remnant from the Ashes for ages… and managed to get a copy for £13 today.

Castle Crashers - been on my wishlist for a while and hit the sale big today. I’m not ‘really’ a side-scrolling beat ‘em up kinda guy (well anymore anyway… my 12 year old self would beg to differ) but I heard so many great things about this one.

I know there are one or two co-op trophies so if anyone is interested in teaming up, drop me a message 👍

@HallowMoonshadow I’d be interested to hear how you get on with it!

I really enjoyed it but found it had a reeeaaally long opening section until you had some freedom (not the worst thing in the world as there is a lot of groundwork for the story). The turn based combat was fun but early fights are really tough and then by mid game they’re mostly an annoyance as you one hit everyone (until the monster difficulty spike mid game).

But definitely enough of a change that you might enjoy it over the older games. Judgment is also excellent in that regards but much more like the traditional Yakuza combat.

I'm debating on whether to purchase the PlayStation Plus Essential membership for a month or three to play COD: Modern Warfare Remastered's multiplayer. I think I'm going to get bored with it real fast, especially if the lobby is inactive and there's no mode to play against bots. I'm tending to avoid the membership now because COD is the only reason that I want PS Plus for right now.

I upgraded to Extra, it was £11 for the remaining 129days so gonna get a couple of plats I missed boxed off(Spider-man, Miles, GotG) ones where I'm a few trophies shy and then possibly try returnal. Play a few other little ones that have had me interested like Stray and Deliver us the Moon before Ragnarok if all goes to plan.

Oh I'll be sure to go back to Yakuza Kiwami 2 and Kiryu's saga @Thrillho. I just fancied a change of pace especially after getting a bit tired of the combat in Kiwami.

I did end up watching the opening of Like A Dragon in both English and Japanese (stopping after the first fight of the game with the guy selling "Uncensored" videos).

Gotta say the English dub was pretty decent.

I'm also surprised I actually noticed that Ichiban is voiced by Nishikiyama's VA in Japanese. I'm used to recoginising an English VA... But I've not listened to a whole lot of JP audio before so it was kinda surreal.

I bought the new Ninja Turtles Cowabunga collection from Walmart earlier today while i was out and about.

Thought I got the Playstation 4 version but the worker that was around the videogame and electronics aisle he grabbed the wrong version which is the Playstation 5 and I dont have a Playstation 5.

oh well.

i could if i wanted to but its not that big of a deal even though a waste o 40 bucks for the wrong version.

Thats why I dont like it when the new games are still in the locked glass cabinets then you have to go hunt down some worker thats sort of working at the electronis counter in the electronics aisle area.

guess Ill have to buy the game again but buy it off of the Walmart website and get the Playstation 4 version of Turtles Cowabunger

@XandertheWise You should be able to return it to Walmart as long as you haven't opened it. If you did open it the game already you can just take it to Gamestop and trade it in. You won't get the full amount back but some is better then nothing..

no.

Ill just stick with buying the right copy the Playstation 4 version of the Turtles game from walmart onlilne.

i cant stand some of the workers that are wandering off when theyre suppose to be useful in the electronics aisle especially at the checkout counter in the electronics aisle.

There are times where I wish the new games werent in the glass cabinets.