Topic: Your Latest PS4 Purchase

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.

@XandertheWise Simple solution, don't shop at Walmart. They are so ridiculous with locking things up. One time I literally waited 30 minutes for an employee to unlock a glass case for deodorant. They never came so I ended up walking out and going somewhere else. If it's in a locked case at Walmart I won't buy it from them.

Well I dont mean to be rude to anyone here that happens to work in the electronics area at Walmart or not but let me ask you something.

Do you people working at Walmart in the games and electronics area have to act like youre stupid and clueless to not know the difference between Playstation 4 and Playstation 5 games?

the Nintendo Switch games cabinet at the Walmart store i dont have problemes with when getting a new game out since theyre Nintendo Switch games, but come on you Walmart workers. Use your damn brain next time when you unlock the damn Playstation game cabinet. Its not that damn hard to tell the difference between a game thats for the Playstation 4 and Playstation 5.

Next time give me the damn keys so Ill unlock the game cabinet myself and Ill get the right version of the game out of the frikkin Playstation glass game cabinet.

Jeez louise

@XandertheWise You know it's the person who makes the purchase responsibility too to make sure they are getting the right product before handing over their money. What kind of idiot doesn't make sure that what their paying for isn't what they want and on top of that doesn't check it till they get home??
Obviously it must be hard to tell PS4 games and PS5 games apart if they couldn't tell till they got home.

I mean it's just as much as their responsibility because it's their money.

well its mostly the worker's responsibility and for them to use their damn brain to know the difference between Playstation 4 and Playstation 5 game cases.

Like I said, give me the damn key to open the damn cabinet so I can get the game out myself.

But whatever

@XandertheWise But if it's your purchase wouldn't you want to make sure it's what you wanted before you hand over your money??

I mean maybe the employee doesn't know the difference between a PS4 and a PS5 game. They might not be a gamer. I mean look how many people got mixed up with the Wii U name a few years ago. It's an honest mistake. Only you the consumer knows for 100% what you want to get and you should have made sure you got what you asked for before you left the store instead of insulting the worker for a simple mistake.

@XandertheWise
Regardless of blame you should definitely return it to the store, explain the mistake and get a replacement. I can't understand why you wouldn't do that.

@HallowMoonshadow I briefly tried the English dub with Judgment and gave up quickly as it had the normal problems I have with JRPG voice acting with everything being so Americanised and melodramatic. It also feels wrong to me having played the seven main games with the Japanese voice acting.

I didn’t know about that for Ichiban’s VA though!

I said Im going to buy the Playstation 4 version of the Turtles Cowabunga from Walmart onine even though shipping is involved

stupid workers at the Walmart store they need to know the difference between a Playstation 4 game and a Playstation 5 game. Plain and simple. Period.

@XandertheWise When i worked at walmart several years ago , it was guys/girls my age that worked in electronics ; you probably had some older uninformed employees working over there that know nothing about games .

the same walmart i worked at - i went back one day during the beginning of the covid era to get a ps4 controller , and this old lady gave me a torn box and the controller inside was ***** up and used . it was no young or tech savvy people working the area .