Bluemoon2008

No idea how any one could say it's a crap selection, say it's disappointing if the games aren't for you but they're objectively not crap.

Monster train is my most anticipated, looking forward to that and will probably play a good few others too, no complaints from me.

Lost crown was one of the best game ubisoft have made in years. May not have sold well but that can be due to many outside factors, they thoroughly deserved a second shot.

Really strong month in my eyes. Said after the initial leak we just need a couple of solid indies to back it up and looks like we got that, Monster train is right up my alley, i'll probably give squirrel with a gun a go too just for a few hours brainless fun inbetween meatier titles.

All you need is a social media account and the ability to knock up executive looking graphic and you can present pretty much anything as fact nowadays. It's essentially a complete guess based on a number of unproveable presumptions.

Happy with that even before finding out the others. I'm probably not going to bother playing horizon again, Just too many other games over replaying something i've played before with minor visual improvements but it's a staple that has to be in there and now the best version is.

Crew motorfest was inevitable, surprised it took this long, expecting that avatar and star wars game from ubisoft relatively soon too.

Fm26 I weined myself off the drug that is football manager years ago but happy to fall back in.

Couple of competent smaller indie titles to add to it and it'll be a very strong month.

I think they pretty much perfected the style of game with the original, there's nothing of note to improve on and so it's just more of the same, some will like that as it's a very good game but it's kind of boring now, should pass the reigns on to a subsidiary team who would have to go some way to mess it up and let them work on something more interesting.

Nonceblox. "They've rebadged it you fool."

Name me another line of work where overtime is treated like it's a crime. Sick of the dramatisation of "crunch" now, it's a common occurrence, don't go into that line of work if you aren't prepared for it.

Doctor's and nurses work marathon shifts all hours of the day and then sometimes still have to be on call during their time off. Retail staff are denied any time off around the Christmas period and are expected to be available to work any day except Christmas itself as it's their busiest time of the year. You can name dozens and dozens of other examples.

God forbid a business requires employees work longer hours for a relatovely brief period of time after typically 5 years of work leading to that point.

Does this mean Starfield is now out on ps5? Seen absolutely no marketing for it. Bethesda game having problems running cannot be news to anybody at this point. Give it a few years for them to make it playable by which time it'll be on ps+ and we can try it for free.

It's over for them if they do. Entire selling point of gamepass has been day 1 for all microsoft games, if they start adding exceptions it's no longer a viable selling point. Gamepass can still work anf work well without it but it will need a serious reworking of the entire service and ever increasing cost if they go ahead and remove their biggest USP.

I've been a subscriber to ps+ since psnow days, always maintained it was an excellent service despite the unending cries of how it doesnt stack up to gamepass. Always argued it's in a great spot and doesnt need to do anything that would make it more expensive. Glad Sony stuck to their guns in the midst of a lot of noise, we continue to get an excellent and affordable service that does something specific rather than trying to be everything.

Had this game downloaded sitting on my system via ps+ extra for ages but never got around to trying it despite hearing positive things. Nabbed it for free and so it can once again sit downloaded on my system where i'll likely continue to not get around to trying it.

To be honest, i'd rather they just left them alone through fear of them messing them up. Nothing wrong with the current system bar incredibly minor personal annoyances, just leave be.

If you want to do anything trophy related, make it mandatory for devs to fix broken trophies and release patches to unlock unattainable trophies when they decide to shutdown online servers.

All points to what i've been saying since the beginning, it'll be on ps+ very quickly. Needs the player boost to have any chance of sustaining it long term. They've just got to leave it long enough so as to not piss off all those day 1 adopters that paid full price for it. Wouldn't be surprised to see it around christmas time. Possibly even on ps+ extra first, then essential 6 months later for a double dipping.

Lords of the fallen is a good enough offering, can't complain about that. Tomb raider also fine, sword art is too niche for my liking but minor gripe. Won't go down as a great month but a perfectly acceptable one.

I don't typically play racing games, but I bought this and enjoyed it enough.

Wasn't it well documented that a primary reason for cancelation was they didnt want a prestigious team like naughty dog tied down to maintaining, updating and improving a GaaS title for the forseeable? Doesnt really matter how finished it was when that was their thinking.

Reasonable question would be why they couldnt have offloaded responsibility for ongoing support to one of Sonys many now shuttered studios once the game was finished.

Pachter has been making wildly inaccurate predictions for decades, this is just another. If wver there was a man to ignore on the future of gaming, it's him. As big of a con man as Trump.

First one wasn't very good. It had some good ideas but the core gameplay was quite poor, this looks like a substantial improvement in every way. Definitely worth keeping an eye on it.

Content with that, lords of the fallen i'll likely play, i hear its much better now than it was on release.

Might dip in to tomb raider at some point although its one of those where the idea of playing it again is probably more enjoyable than actually playing it, no interest in the other one.

Definitely feels like 3 ps+ extra titles rather than essential offerings this month.

You may aswell quite literally burn the money. In this current economical climate, it's a serious piss take to even be offering this nevermind the stupidity of somebody who would actually buy it.

Deleting something from my Playstation and freeing up space is a deeply pleasing feeling for some reason, especially for larger titles, so having to do that slightly more often isn't a problem in my eyes.

I said earlier that lord's of the fallen feels more like a ps+ extra game than essential. Well this second one is the very definition of a ps+ extra filler slot.

I like them being diverse with the genre's of games they add to the service even when it's games like this that i have less than no interest in but it is such an odd choice for essential.

There is no chance ps6 comes out in 2027. There is no need for it and no desire for it for numerous reasons.

If people are shelling out 500-1k on a console that will possibly be subsidized or have small margins at best, then they're not spending that money on games, 1st or 3rd party which net Sony bigger margins. It's more profitable for Sony not to bring out a new console and with competition basically eliminated where's the need coming from?

Hades 2 being very soon is the biggest story there. Still surprised they havent brought Hades to ps+ yet. Seemed like a banker to add the first ahead of the second, perhaps they sneak it in this month.

Expected this to drop on to extra rather than essential. Happy enough with that, one of the many "will definitely be on ps+" games on my list.

@Jay767 for now. Plenty of games have brought out paid expansions after initially planning only free updates. If the sales are poor and they have to bring it to ps+ early to bolster the numbers and keep the game afloat, they'll make sure there are more ways to generate revenue other than just cosmetics.

Numbers don't surprise me if thwyre accurate. Doesnt seem to be any real mainstream hype around it.

Looking at the game on the Playstation store on ps5 where it tells you how many of your friends have the game, i don't have a single person on my friends list who has it.

Now that alone doesnt tell you anything, far too many factors not considered for it to mean anything at all but then I look at how many of the same friends list have arc raiders, which is a very comparable game, and i see that 13 of my friends list have that game. Think it then becomes a little more telling even from a minute sample size.

It will be on ps+ to boost hands on the game just as soon as they have either/or a substantial paid expansion ready to go or a heavily stocked micro transaction market fully set up and tuned.

Feels like the guy was very naive. Going out of your way to do extra work that wasn't requested is your own choice and will almost always count for nothing within big businesses. Don't assume that makes you indispensable and don't go moaning about it when it's ignored. Always ***** losing a job but there's plenty in much worse situations. He'll have been well paid and the guy should have no problem finding something else if he is as good as he is claiming.

Played it enough to get the platinum naturally, never understood the level of hate it got, i enjoyed it more than most other battlefields and it kept me playing for longer than others.

A lot of potential in their portfolio but yet to have the breakout hit evidentally needed to keep them afloat. A lot of games that you feel a sequel could be that breakout they need of they add a bit more know how and financial backing. Would be a shame if they are no more.

Regardless of the game itself this is ultimately a good thing as we would all benefit from Sony backing a handful of these projects a year to fill gaps in thebrelease schedule. They need to know that smaller titles can prove to be worthwhile financially and not just something that a small hardcore audience crave.

Will almost certainly be more added within the week. With it being a 5 week gap between refreshes this month, you always get late additions to the leaving soon section.

@MasterChiefWiggum already is. it literally released into ps+ extra as well as gamepass.

Feels like a vast overreaction to me, looks absolutely fine and in no way would I describe it as bad.

i'm speaking as somebody who generally couldn't care less about graphics though and I feel like the overwhelming majority of people would align themselves more to my view than this articles view that reads like it's suggesting it looks like a 20 year old game.

Complete nothing story. Without checking, I'd wager the share price over the last few months has shot up on the back of hype, this is just the market settling. Was always going to go down when the game was released regardless of how it was received. Happens all the time and really isn't noteworthy at all. Frankly a bizarre thing to turn into a news piece.

I mean it's a game that's been out for 2 years vs a bunch of games not released. It has the massive benefit of pre-order wariness not applying to it so probably not all that surprising really

Feels like a good score to me. A game that had this much hype will always fail to live up to it, always, and so reviewers will naturally mark it down a bit with that in mind no matter how hard they try to be objective. With something that tries to do practically everything, there will always be aspects certain people don't click with which again will mark it down so it was never going to be getting into the 90's. The score seems to be in the expected ballpark and one that would indicate a good game, a disappointment would be something in the 50-60 range.

Dont get why any dev would refuse to supply console review codes if requested. It does nothing but set all the alarm bells off. if there's a problem. It's going to be known soon enough and you then develop a reputation as a dev not to be trusted which will do much more long term damage to the studio. if there is no problem, you've just created a whole sceptical cloud over your game for no reason. Where's the benefit?

Kiln will be on ps+ before the years end ahead of servers shutting by the end of 2027

Have to question why they didnt put it on to ps+ a while ago. Wouldn't have cost them anything to do it and perhaps could have given it some kind of bump in playerbase. Not suggesting it would have resulted in a different outcome but at least be seen to be trying.

If you've already waited 2-3 years for this, what's another 12-18 months before they bring it to ps+

Cue people telling us how meaningless trophies are and how those who like trophy hunting can't enjoy games without it.

No surprises here. At this point, it would only be news if they actually had trophy support on launch into the service.

No issue with this. Their right to ensure their release date is protected.

Should be clearly labelled though. In an ideal world, it would be something that was disabled after release but that isn't possible, perhaps a work around would be only copies manufactured for release would contain it and future copies shipped without it

Does anybody give a monkeys? This wont be a forza, not even a gears, it's in the same bracket as grounded and high-fi rush.

Overwatch died when Jeff left.

It's like the last however many years didnt happen. They've done exactly what they're asking for for many years and it hasn't proved successful enough to be worthwhile continuing. PC gamers had their chance to buying the games and show Sony its something to continue. Much like Xbox going multi-platform. Playstation gamers had their chance to show microsoft it was worth doing and they went out and bought forza in their millions to make sure it continues.

£1.66 a month should entitle me to at least 8 games a month.

Definitely a marketing issue, however, most of them are simply niche titles that are never going to get widespread mass appeal. Every company should obviously seek to boost revenue but If SEGA starts chasing that heavily and alter games to do so, they might do more harm than good.

Solid month. Not a banger month by any means but can't have any complaints with that. The one remaining non-leaked titles being blaspehmous 2 definitely raised the quality this month.

Personally, blasphemous 2 is the one that i'll probably download the day its added but might not get to just yet and then space marine 2, metal eden and persona are all titles i'm not going to download straight away but I could potentially see myself getting around to at some point, backlog depending.

Nothing killer, but decent filler.

Dont know why the skepticism is in two "headliners" hitting extra together. firstly, dragons dogma 2 isn't a headliner, it's very much a classic ps+ extra title, niche with a bit of a cult following.

Playstation also have a habit of doing multi-game deals with some devs/publishers that sees a few titles from one source come to the service together. The double whammy of Capcom games adds validity to the claims in my eyes if anything, it fits past behavior.