I haven’t paid for Apple Music in over two years. There’s just an endless supply of free trials to use seemingly. I assume it’ll run out at some point!
@Th3solution we have prime and netflix, decided not to renew PS+ after it ran out last week. My wife tends to use Prime more than me and I am watching mostly Anime/animated stuff on netflix. Books are my main source of entertainment this year. My wife pays for Prime and I pay for Netflix!
@Th3solution I think for me it would be Netflix and YouTube Premium. The former as I've got an almost an endless amount of content to get through. The latter is because I can't be doing with adverts in the middle of watching stuff on YouTube and you YT music with, so I don't have sub to any other music service.
I could probably cancel PS Plus Extra, as I could buy games that I wanted to play. But that would probably ending up being more expensive in the long run.
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PS+ Essential: useful for free games, cloud storage, occasional discounts. I only renew in sales.
Netflix: regular usage and probably still the best streaming service for overall content.
Wife pays for;
Amazon Prime: almost never use the TV service but she purchases every sodding thing off Amazon so uses the free delivery (I haven’t used the website in a few years now)
Disney+ : semi-regular streaming use. Will get more use as our daughter gets older no doubt.
I don’t use any music streaming services and am sure I have made my feelings known about them in the past. BBC iplayer and whatever 4od/All4 etc is called now both get regular use and are amazing for “free” services.
@nessisonett I definitely need to take advantage of the 6 months free Apple Music on PS5. I’m always paranoid I’ll forget to cancel in time before I start getting charged but I’ll set a calendar reminder.
@JohnnyShoulder@Thrillho My Netflix usage has waned and in the last couple years and honestly might be my least used TV streaming service. But everytime I think I don’t need it I see something I really want to watch. Just got an email that the Mario Movie drops on it tomorrow, and I haven’t seen that yet.
Edit: Not to mention, I learned this week from one of these PS articles that I can play Kentucky Route Zero and Oxenfree 2 through my Netflix account! I’m not a fan of playing games on my phone but those are games I’ve been curious to play and I might do it, despite missing out on the trophies by doing it this way.
@Th3solution I only stay subscribed to the services I feel I am using enough. I cancel them if I don't. Otherwise I think it is a waste of money.
I had Apple TV+ free for 6 months but I cancelled at the end. I do plan to subscribe again at some point, as there were a few series I really enjoyed. Can't say the same for Disney+. I've not had any inclination to go back since the end of The Mandalorian season 2.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Welp GOTY poll is live.
My first one here. Hope it goes as expected 🤞.
Hope some of the regulars can help me out if things get out of hand😂.
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@AgentCooper So you won't be getting Avatar then?
Perhaps try something a bit more deep, have you tried any of the Mimimi games (Shadow tactics, Desperados 3).
Also did you get your Far Cry 6 coop trophy with the Colonel? If not send me a message on PSN and I will download it so you can be done with FC6 once and for all.
@AgentCooper I’ve found myself struggling to figure out what to play since finishing Jedi Survivor.
Game club was perfectly timed to get me to play Disco Elysium again. DREDGE then filled a nice gap of a fairly chilled, short game, and Like A Dragon Gaiden (etc etc) wasn’t immediately on my to-play list but I couldn’t resist jumping back into the franchise.
I’ve just started up Baldur’s Gate as I feel I should give another 2023 game to play but it took me a good hour of scrolling through my wish list and the PSN store before deciding to go for that.
@AgentCooper Relatable, buddy. It’s probably a combination of a game disappointing you (FC6) and a game being so transcendent for you that other games feel empty (DE).
I definitely have felt many occurrences of the latter. Sometimes a game just clicks and feels so refreshing and engaging, and then when it ends it’s like all other games feel anti-climactic.
In these instances I’ve typically found success with smaller games, indies, and games that are so far removed from the usual fodder that it makes it harder for my subconscious mind to compare it to the epic game I just finished. But yeah, even then, sometimes it just doesn’t pan out.
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@Jimmer-jammer Hey man. My album well has kind of run dry. I feel like I have done enough for the time being. I kind of oscillate between different things I want to do. As a similar polymathematical type of individual I'm sure you know the feeling. Anyway, I feel like I have had enough of being a "creative", in this particular way, for the time being or maybe I just feel like I have run out of energy after this one. It could be that guitar is something I return to one day, but for the time being, it feels like that path is closed off for me and I should focus on gaming. Anyway. here is the small fruit of my labours, one song of two that I recorded for the jazz/hip hop album/ep that I was quite pleased with. It's only about two minutes long so I hope you can take the time to listen to and tell me what you think. As I say, I may return to guitar. I just don't know when.
I only really went back to recording recently because I felt like games aren't really that an emotional experience for the most part compared to other art forms, at least in terms of the hardcore RPGs that I tend to play anyway, I was looking for something deeper, more emotional, so I went back to music.
But now, after recording a couple of songs (the guitar was too loud in the mix on the first one, so I scrapped it) and putting my all into this brief two minute piece that I am sharing with you now, I feel like I have to now, conversely, return to gaming and just chilling out, now that my creative energies feel more or less spent for the time being. Any words of wisdom along with your critique of the music would be greatly appreciated.
P.S Sorry if this is a bit much for this type of forum.
Hope you enjoy.
Edit: I did finish that whole album of Free Jazz guitar music recently, so maybe that's why I'm feeling a little burned out as well.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@Jimmer-jammer Thanks man, I really appreciate those comments and compliments, I'm glad you liked the song. Especially what you said about fearless earnestness, I was partially inspired by Sonny Sharrock for that solo, and he put something about fearless playing in his mantra, so I'm glad that came off well. Maybe I will return to guitar one day, who knows? . Anyway, how is your own music/film work going?
Hopefully you will like the free jazz album as well, it's obviously somewhat less accessible, though, but I'm stlll quite proud of it.
Appreciate the chats we have on here too. Nice one.👍
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
If there was to be a subtitle (or a subtitle of a subtitle…) for God of War Ragnarok that I would have completely avoided it would have been “Valhalla”. Is it me or does that seem like a dry choice? The Norse mythos oversaturation is bad enough and so to reuse Assassin’s Creed’s nomenclature seems just… creatively devoid. But turnabout is fair play since Ubisoft writers did the same thing with the AC Valhalla DLC entitled “Dawn of Ragnarok” 🤷🏻♂️
(I realize Ragnarok and Valhalla are central concepts in the Norse Universe, but it just struck me as an odd choice)
Likewise for Monster Hunter and the word “Wild.” A Monster Hunter clone recently came out called Wild Hearts (already a bland title), and somehow the MH team feels like the best name for their follow up game is… MH Wild. 😅
I guess it’s okay. Obviously I’m no expert. Call of Duty has been recycling the word “Warfare” in all their games for years and perhaps the blurring of which game is which helps them all sell so well. 😜
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@Kidfried I wonder the same. Perhaps it depends on the studio and publisher. For example, something tells me that Kojima has full control over what he titles his games because he tries to make them clever. Another example would be the Ratchet & Clank games where the double meaning of the subtitles is too clever to have been done by a boardroom of marketing strategists. 😅
But there is probably sales data to say that certain familiar words trigger interest in the lay community, like those you mention. Odyssey, Legend, Saga, Legacy, Fantasy, etc. Whereas us enthusiasts who play a lot of games are more confused by similar sounding titles.
For example, another one that took me by surprise recently was how they went with “Immortals of Aveum” when we recently had “Immortals Fenyx Rising”. Neither was a huge game but having Immortals as the first word makes it awkward when you shorten it. Like if someone says, “I played Immortals all weekend and it was awesome”. …which game? 😅
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