GNamer + August: Shopping Battle

Retail Games of August

4th
LawBreakers PS4 (LimitedRun)
Velocity 2X: Critical Mass Edition PS4

8th
ARK: Survival Evolved PS4, ONE, PC

11th
Sudden Strike 4 PS4, PC

15th
Cities Skylines PS4
Sonic Mania Collectors Edition (Digital Game Code) PS4, ONE, Switch
Troll and I Switch
Undertale PS4, VITA (Fan Gamer)

18th
Agents of Mayhem PS4, ONE

22nd
The Escapists 2 PS4, ONE

23rd
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy PS4

25th
F1 2017 PS4, ONE, PC
Madden NFL 18 PS4, ONE
Minecraft Story Mode: The Complete Adventure Switch
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy PSN
Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash PS4
Shoppe Keep PS4
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School PS4

28th
Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun PS4, ONE

29th
Dead Alliance PS4, ONE
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Switch
Pillars of Eternity PS4, ONE
Yakuza Kiwami PS4

30th
Everybody's Golf  PS4

31st
Gravel PS4, ONE, PC

My Thoughts: The month doesn't get going till the 23rd with the Uncharted spin-off which has gone from a couple hour DLC to 10hr £30 game which is fine with me as more Uncharted is never a bad thing.

The 25th has the most releases of a single day and I do like the look of the story mode in Madden which is being touted as Telltale like and you never actually play football but not paying £40+ for it but this is the first Madden I may pick up on PS4 at some-point due to that mode. Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash I'll end up reviewing as that's what I do. White Day is a weird one a remaster of a cult classic Korean survival horror game does sound right up my street.

Rounding out the month we have Mario + Rabbids which look like it be great, Pillars of Eternity is a game I've heard great things about but not sure it be a game I'd really play. Yakuza Kiwami, I've got on order but still yet to play Zero   then I think is the big PS4 exclusive of the month Everybody's Golf.

I'm getting for certain Uncharted, Mario + Rabbids and Everybody's Golf with Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash as maybe as I'll end up getting a code, White Day as I like that sort of Survival Horror and Yakuza as I'll forget I've got a preorder and won't cancel it before it comes out.

Best of the Rest

1st
CastleStorm VR PSN
Dino Frontier PSN
HORI Nintendo Switch Real Arcade Pro V Hayabusa Fight Stick
The Long Dark PSN
Patapon Remastered PSN

2nd
Tacoma XBL

3rd
Use Your Words eShop

4th
Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets Cinema

7th
Ghost in the Shell 4K, 3D, Blu-Ray, DVD

8th
Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series Episode One: The Enigma PSN, XBL, PC
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice PSN
LawBreakers PSN
Masquerada: Songs and Shadows PSN, XBL
Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 PSN, XBL
Rei-Jin-G-Lu-P eShop JPN

11th
Atomic Blonde Cinema

15th
Nidhogg 2 PSN
Soldam: Drop, Connect, Erase Switch USA Import
Sonic Mania eShop, PSN, XBL
Observer PSN
Undertale PSN

16th
Matterfall PSN

18th
The Dark Tower Cinema
Marvel’s The Defenders Netflix

19th
NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III

20th
WWE SummerSlam

23rd
ChromaGun PSN

25th
Death Note Netflix
Monster Hunter XX Switch Japanese Import
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm PSN
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 PSN
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 PSN
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy PSN
One Piece: Unlimited World Red - Deluxe Edition PSN

28th
Batman and Harley Quinn Blu-Ray, DVD

29th
Absolver PSN
Hello Neighbour XBL
Terminator 2: Judgement Day Cinema
Windjammers PSN
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen PSN

31st
Armed Blue Gunvolt Pack AKA Azure Striker Gunvolt Pack Switch Japanese Import, eShop
Last Day of June PSN
Life is Strange: Before the Storm PSN, XBL
Redout PSN
Yoru no Nai Kuni 2: Shingetsu no Hanayome AKA Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon Switch Japanese Import

My thoughts: I plan to download Hellblade as Ninja Theory make good games, Sonic Mania on Switch, Last Day of June and Life is Strange. With The Long Dark, Matterfall, Absolver and Undertale, Batman (I think I'll wait for all the season to be out) being maybes and if I had a Xbox and could wait for them to come to PS4 or Switch then Tacoma and Hello Neighbour would have peaked my interest.  

Valerian when comes to our homes, Atomic Blonde maybe in the Cinema as I'm hearing it's like John Wick but better, The Dark Tower is a maybe as I don't know much about it but it has my mate Mr Elba in it, if I could get to a cinema on the 20th anniversary of Judgement Day (The date in the film) then I would but I think I'll wait for the 4K version instead of 3D.

On that TV it is all of the Game of Thrones which ends in August, Defenders and Death Note on Netflix, all the Wrestling including the start of the Mae Young Classic on the Network.

Also importing a physical version of Monster Hunter XX on Switch.

What about you guys?

After your usual lengthy and detailed post, mas, it feels like a shame that all I'm interested in is Sonic Mania. I am super interested in it, to be fair.

Mario and his Rabbids are odds on to be picked up. That'll do me though, no time for anything else.

I'll be trading in my (definitely a bit faulty now, but still perfectly serviceable) PS4, alongside an old 3ds and several games to finance a PS4 Slim, and Splatwoots come August, and I'm going to be far too hooked on the latter to bother with much else.

Sonic Mania for sure for me, probably on Switch rather than PS4. Unchrted Lost Legacy and Mario and Rabbids are on the list but not definite day 1 purchases I'd say.

Mario + Rabbids is a day one or thereabouts, nothing else of any interest at all (maybe some films I didn't spot on my skim).

Mario + Rabbids I'll definitely pick up and no doubt enjoy, but I'm not absolutely jonesing for it or anything. Similarly, I'm still not sure I'll bother with Sonic Mania. The Defenders and Death Note will help to justify my continued Netflix subscription, and will probably launch just as Game of Thrones is winding down, which I like.

Of course, there are two things I'm very excited about. Monster Hunter Double Cross will move my monster hunting action to the Switch at long last, and give me the kick up the arse I need to return to taking my Japanese study seriously. Then on August 29th, twenty years after Judgement day was supposed to have come, I can finally see my favourite film of all time on a cinema screen. I've got goosebumps at the thought . . .

Not many games that interest me there tbh, the two that do are Shadow tactics & Mario + Rabbids but since both are in the same genre I really don't need to be buying two strategy games that close together especially when I have XCOM 2 still left unplayed on my shelf.

Also no surprise that my day one buy will be MHXX on switch.

Everybody's Golf is tempting. With Life is Strange, is it episodic or simply a one-off? That's a must buy/play but I'd prefer to play them in one go.

gjones wrote:

Everybody's Golf is tempting. With Life is Strange, is it episodic or simply a one-off? That's a must buy/play but I'd prefer to play them in one go.

It is 3 episodes but the deluxe version comes with a bonus 4th where you play as Max.

Will definitely be checking out Mario and his Rabbid mates, and I'll need to get around making a Japanese eShop account for no real reason next month...

JayMoyles wrote:

Will definitely be checking out Mario and his Rabbid mates, and I'll need to get around making a Japanese eShop account for no real reason next month...

I'm sure Rei-Jin-G-Lu-P will be worth it

I'm waiting for its Western release named Rei-Jin-Ultimate-Lu-P.

This thread sends me Rei-Jin.

It's driving me Lu-P.

Rei Jin Lu P Nuts Are We - Him and Us and You and Me

There's actually quite a lot coming out in August! What's going on this year.

Both Hellblade and Uncharted LL are marked down in my diary as "other people might like this". And I'm almost tempted to get Cities Skylines on PS4, as it'll be able to run it better than my PC; however, controlling the game without a mouse would be a nightmare. Plus I'd have to start Gintendon again... all of that puts Mario and the Rabbids in 4th place. Wowsers.

Already preordered MHXX so it may only be that as September is going to be a tad expensive for may reasons

I'd probably be buying Super Rabbid Brothers if I'd bought the switch instead of the PS4 a few months back. But I didn't so there.



Might check out Death Note Netflix if they bother to put it up on time here in Aus.

Jimbob wrote:

There's actually quite a lot coming out in August! What's going on this year.

I think post Aug 23rd Uncharted Lost legacy is the hey it's fall / Q4, I know it isn't but I would think more trade done in September and more important then December for getting your game out.

For the year, I said last year that 2017 was looking great for games and I think it is because we're 4 years into a gen meaning multiplatform games are decent, Sony's first party have turned up along with second party deals and Nintendo had to bring it after the Wii U which they have.

Athrun888 wrote:

I'd probably be buying Super Rabbid Brothers if I'd bought the switch instead of the PS4 a few months back.  But I didn't so there.

Worthy of a , that one.

Jimbob wrote:

Rei Jin Lu P Nuts Are We - Him and Us and You and Me

Admins., you know what I'm going to say.

Balladeer wrote:

Jimbob wrote:

Rei Jin Lu P Nuts Are We - Him and Us and You and Me

Admins., you know what I'm going to say.

*runs post through Balla-Predict-O-Meter*

Erm... "Music Week 114 - Meteos. Also, the 3DS needs to die."...?

Close! The correct answer was, 'We have a new tagline.' Did it forget to carry the one?

It's on the fritz, I'll get the plumbers round to have a look at it.

I'll say - it usually gives a tagline suggestion too.