Topic: Your Latest PS4 Purchase

@jdv95 good to hear that the early impressions seem positive. I won't get around to playing it for a while anyway (at least a year probably) but it is something I plan on eventually playing through depending on reviews and user impressions.

Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD arrived earlier today. I won't start it until I've finished the various Persona spin-offs, but I'm pretty excited. It's also nice that we get the proper name, as the PS2 original was titled "Lucifer's Call" owing to a trademark issue.

I mean to be fair Lucifer's call is a pretty apt subtitle @mookysam (albeit increcibly on the nose)

... I actually saw someone playing the game early with the deluxe edition (via steam) and that you can play the original version of the game (The one without the fiend battles, the labyrinth of amala, Dante/Raidou and the true demon end) and I honestly can't see why they included it myself.

It's a nice little thing I guess... But the expanded version adds so much I just can't imagine EVER playing the base version of it!

I've been on a horror kick lately so decided to pick up Forbidden Siren and Corpse Killer - 25th Anniversary Edition on a whim from the current sales.

Last week I acquired Star Wars Squadrons... still haven't even unpacked it and I'm not sure when I will but it seemed like the right thing to do at €8

I really fancy another rpg in a similarish vein to Divinity: Original Sin II so I ended up buying a copy of Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Definitive Edition for only £12.

Heard it was a bit buggy at launch but looking around it seems to have been patched up quite a bit (Plus it's the studio's very first game and came out in 2020 of all things so I can't fault it too much on that front from the outside looking in at the moment).

Most likely I'll save it to the summer holidays so I'll have the time off from teaching to actually play it in a somewhat reasonable fashion... though my poor partner is gonna hate it if it sucks me in just as bad as Divinity did... 😅

@RogerRoger Nope, don't have the VR set (100% gonna get the new one when it's out though).

@Voltan Murphy’s Law strikes again if it turns out to be true that Squadrons is on PS Plus next month after all. The rest of us appreciate you for making your offering to the gaming gods on our behalf so we can get it for ‘free.’ 😜

@Th3solution I saw that and if it turns out to be true, I'll probably never even put the disc in my console 😂
At that price I'm not even mad though

@Voltan True — €8 is nothing. You can resell it on the secondhand market for that. At the local game store a used copy is going to $18.

Just picked up really mint condition death stranding DualShock 4 lovely bit of kit

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yes, it is an appropriate title. Those fiends almost drove me to madness! I remember/have occasional flashbacks of being ambushed on a highway by Hell Biker just after exiting a dungeon, and then struggling to beat him as it's quite early in the game. My memory is hazy, but I think I couldn't go back to grind. I'd like to play with Dante in the remaster, but am not paying what they're charging! Do you know if the remaster is otherwise the same as the original European release? I can't imagine playing without all the additions you mention, either.

Can't honestly recall Hell Biker being a problem myself aside from him increasing his turn count. Pretty sure he's on the way to a dungeon? From Ikebukuro to the prison if I recall correctly? 😄

I haven't got the SMT 3 remaster myself just yet but as far as I'm aware @mookysam you'll have the choice of new game (Which is the vanilla version of the game) or new game... Chronicle I think it's called?

And yeah for the Chronicle version of the game Raidou Kuzunoha (And Gouto the cat) is swapped in for Dante. Nothing else is changed I think beside that compared to the version we all know and love...

I just bought The Last of Us Part 2 from Argos (I haven't played either TLOU game before) and I got ID'd 😂

I am 31 and I look old, receding hairline, goatee beard and stubble but I am still mega flattered to get ID'd for it hahaha. I guess my beard was covered by my mask. I literally don't think I've ever been ID'd for a game before, even when I was a teenager buying restricted games. I remember one of my mates getting his sister to buy Vice City for him back then and finding it amusing because I'd never had to do that (then again, I don't think I bought Vice City when it came out)

@ralphdibny While I do believe TLOU2 is the better game, I'd suggest playing TLOU Remastered first! Pretty sure you can get it dirt cheap these days.

@Voltan I got that the other day too, don't worry. I wouldn't play a sequel without playing the first one! 90% of the time anyway lol

I just wanted to have the second one lined up for after I finished the first. Probably won't get around to either for some time anyway!

@ralphdibny Ah, alright! Amazing games, both of them

Omgosh I need to stop buying games, I just bought Mile Morales PS4 for £35 on Amazon.

This week I've also bought...
Blacksad Limited edition physical on Xbox £15 Amazon
Hitman definitive Xbox £10 the game collection
Hitman 2 Gold new and sealed xbox £18 eBay
Red Faction guerilla Xbox £5 - digital
Psychonauts VR PS4 -£8 digital

I think I am about to go back to Argos and buy Wolfenstein collection for £20 too, god help me 😭😂.

Edit: I've been trying to work out if Wolfenstein actually has all the games on disc in the UK, looks like it's got two games on disc and a dlc code for the other 2 games in the US and Europe and I guess we generally get similar releases to Europe but not always. Screw it, it's not worth another trip out today I think!

@Voltan just wanted to say thanks for the heads up on TLOU by the way, not sure if I was rude by not saying thanks in my original reply so thought I'd just drop a quick thanks for it!

Just picked up Crysis Remastered in the sale. I know it reviewed poorly at release but I always fancied playing the original Crysis and I think I remember Digital Foundry mentioning that it runs a lot better on PS5.

@ralphdibny I enjoyed Blacksad, but it’s a bit of a mess technically. I played it on a PS4 Slim, so it might fare better on a PS4 Pro or PS5.