Only new release I've played this year and couldn't recommend it enough. Triple A quality throughout with no bloat or padding, great pacing, enough there without overstaying its welcome, really cannot fault it.

1 was fresh and original. 2 was the pinnacle. pre-sequel felt more like an enormous dlc, 3 was a swing and a miss. Wonderlands was a decent enough spin off, not played 4

Days gone was very good. Cannot help but feel a sequel at any point in the last few years would have done well for Sony.

No issues with the quality of the games. The issue is the repeated double dipping. Those paying for extra or above are being short changed regularly now.

How the hell did that not get flagged up in the many testing sessions they would have had? I genuinely cannot fathom how nobody would question it at all, as the minute somebody does question it, you realise of course it shouldn't be included.

The complete lack of urgency in removing it is such a "duck you" response too. Why are they waiting 2 weeks to remove it? You get that done as a matter of urgency if you have any genuine respect for the families of the victims you don't wait until a scheduled update.

The double dipping is becoming egregious now, it's every other month at this stage where something has either been on another tier or is returning. There isnt a shortage of games.

For that reason, dead island 2 is a total waste for me, but its a good game. Tomb raider, meh, not interested but its fine I suppose. Monster train 2 saves the month entirely for me. Played the first a few months back when it came to extra and enjoyed it. Looking forward to playing what is by all accounts a better sequel.

A none issue. Don't know why some keep their hard drive fully loaded with games. 95% of the time i'm playing 1 game at a time, occasionally 2. I can accept a 3rd, maybe even 4th if youre playing a multiplayer game or two regularly, not much cause to have much more than that downloaded at any one time though.

I'll typically have half a dozen other games downloaded as reminders to what I might play next as i'm awful for picking my next game but i can instantly get rid of any or all of them if I ever actually needed the space.

@Dalamar the word "criminal" in your statement is redundant.

You know when you see an otherwise good looking person covered in horrible tattoos? That's this controller.

Anybody with a functioning brain cell could see this. It was a time to enjoy the benefits of gamepass if you were able to whilst you could. All those that were constantly calling for Sony to do the same as them were literal morons.

This feels like selfishly keeping a beloved pet alive whilst its in clear pain and has a poor quality of life. Just put it out of its misery and let it go.

Zero love for EA but they did this to themselves and get no sympathy from me. Multiple failed games in succession. The team wasn't thr same as the one that last madr something good, they had more rope than most get and they hung themselves with it. But also, whilst we're here, screw EA.

@WhoderMan half the price for half the hardware. A switch 2 is comparable to a ps4 pro not a ps5 or potential ps6, so if you're doing a price comparison, do it with a ps4 pro. No idea how much theyre currently going for but i'd guess cheaper than a switch 2 or at worst, similar.

@WhoderMan switch 2 would be more comparable to a ps4 than a ps6 or whatever thr next Xbox is called. They also get you on games that never go on sale. And the prices will continue to rise. Its not the bargain you are suggesting.

@Ellie-Moo you can play 2 without having played 1 just fine in terms of the raw puzzle mechanics but it will give away the story of the first game of you play out of order. So if you care about that aspect, I'd recommend doing them in order.

Talos principle 2 is a fantastic game for anybody yet to play it.

Fm26 has had a very short stint. Had that downloaded for a while but not started.

monster boy i've almost played a handful of times, reckon i'll finally give that a go.

Rdr2, we'll see you again in January...

The important question is what are you getting for that amount of money. simple fact is there likely won't be any ps6 exclusives for a long time after its released.

So if every game is made to play on ps5, what's the point? Even if you've got a spare grand, you could just put that money into a bunch of games instead.

Its likely going to be a lot of money for small, incremental and largely unnecessary improvements, If consoles are going down the route of phones with small improvements then the spending habits will also follow suit.

Only a small bunch of people are buying the latest iPhone on release, every single time, most others stick with what they've got until they require a replacement and then they may opt for the latest model if they're able to financially. Suspect many will be fine with whatever they currently have for a fair while yet. There are still a bunch if ps4 games i'm yet to get through and enough ps5 titles to comfortably last many years even if they stopped releasing games tomorrow so there really is just no need.

I've maintained for ages that gta 6 will be massively overrated. But regardless, It could be a 5/10 and it will still win goty. Simply too big not to

Give us trophies capcom you lazy *****.

Decent enough month. Not much stands out for me personally, mafia and RCT3 the two titles i'll play.

Adding horizon back and not giving us the complete edition with the dlc feels particularly stingy from them. Tales of arise has already been on the service before too making it 2 re-additions this month, however, they are giving us the complete edition for that so there is something new there at least.

Can't wait for the months budget to be blown on bringing it back for another 3 months for the 62nd time in 6 months time. Almost a tradition at this point.

The one and only time i've ever enjoyed a timed trophy is that one at the end of the witness. That was genuinely fun. Typical speed running trophies are always dull

They didnt make it thinking it would sell millions and they didnt make it console exclusive expecting it to boost Xbox sales. It's pretty disingenuous to be going on about its sales when it's clearly part of a wider plan to re-establish Xbox as a viable console with worthwhile exclusives.

I don't think their plan will work, you can't just turn back time and become relevant again, they should push ahead with the obvious plan of being the biggest and best games publisher around but we have to at least let them see their new plan through before we start picking it apart.

Not bought a game since elden ring released, just no need anymore, ps+ across the 3 tiers provides me with more than I can ever play and the Fomo my younger self might have felt with new releases, I no longer care about. but this game has me on the edge of breaking. I'd be day 1 for an xcom 3, this being the closest thing we will likely ever get is seriously tempting me. Glad its doing relatively well for itself.

@Dexel I genuinely expect every review of any game to come from somebody who has completed the game, yes. I'm not saying 100% completion is a must, Optional stuff and filler in games can be skipped with no issue but you've got to get to the end otherwise it's not a complete review.

In my mind, a review is a summary of the entire offering, not part of it. Call it impressions or whatever if you don't finish it but want to comment on it.

Am I alone in finding it odd to review a game you didnt finish?

Seems like an obvious way to go out of business to me. Anybody thick enough to pay that deserves to be rinsed and if enough morons do it then you can't even blame the company for it.

Woooo. Let's all rush to add them to our library and never think if them again.

Yet Sony will continually partner with them dumping a load of cash on their doorstep to give us their yearly iteration of crap on ps+ for free knowingly that they will shut down servers shortly afterwards rendering their "play anytime as long as you're a ps+ member" promise a complete lie.

Got to question why they didnt put studios they've just closed on some of these projects, they'd have had tighter controls around budgets and quality doing it in-house.

Equivalent to buying some prime wagyu burgers and all the extras from the shops, getting home and binning them and ordering a McDonald's instead. Yes I'm hungry.

It feels like these hackers are targeting high profile accounts to deliberately draw attention to the piss poor protection, if they were doing it for personal gain, they'd surely avoid targeting anybody with a social media presence.

@Olmaz i'm with you on the principle, i've often said I don't want the huge blockbuster games and would prefer games i wouldnt ordinarily think of playing but in my eyes that's a different thing to annualised sport titles that are almost exclusively for fans of the sport only.

There is always hyperbole around the quality of ps+ games but this really is a crap selection. Its not even about the quality of the games, its the choice of games, extremely niche genres that are not even in the "I suppose I can try it" category. If you don't like F1 games you know its not even worth downloading it.

Further proof that a new system is far from required or wanted right now.

Does ng+ differ in any way other than being able to wear different costumes and the option of a harder difficulty? Not to sound ungrateful here but it seems rather pointless if that is all it is. I'd have thought it would maybe change up some of the objectives, move things around etc. Doesn't sound any different to chapter select with a new skin.

Anyway. Game was a banger.

One of the worst months in memory in my eyes. F1 is very niche, if youre into F1 you play it, if youre not, you likely don't, same with all sports games.

Hunt by all accounts is a very good game but again it's a niche genre and on top of that it's supposedly very unwelcoming to new players or casuals. And the third is just meh.

Having 2 very niche titles in 1 month means many are left with nothing to even try. The stupid staggered release for ps extra means i've got new games to add to the list this week anyway but a month to forget for sure. Been a lot of them lately.

Its a great feature that for many,nadds a lot at almost no additional cost. it's shocking it's taken microsoft this long to get in on it. Mythic is a terrible name though.

If it's even one tenth as good as deep rock galactic was, It'll be a banger.

They are huge percentage jumps but the numbers are still insignficant A 48% jump for RE2 which equates to just shy of 40k if those numbers are accurate (and they're highly dubious) is basically nothing. Even in the impossible scenario theyre all actual sales, the game is heavily discounted, so it's pocket change. Won't be unwelcome by any means, and strengthens the brand but it's always made out to be much more impactful and significant than it actually is.

Another month where the stuff i actually wanted to play comes out at the end of the month. Currently playing ballxpit which i waited a week longer to play, ragebound and dungeons are 2 games I also want to play and then the new essential games are out next week.

So instead of the old spaced out method of essential games, 2 weeks. Extra games, 2/3 weeks, essential games. I get essential games, 3/4 weeks, extra games, 1 week. Essential games. Who is this benefitting?

Increasingly obvious Sony made the right call. Paying crazy amounts of money to facilitate Kojima's unnecessary desire to fill his games with "A list" celebrities that add literally nothing to the game in this climate would be insane.

This is my first time learning of the games existence. Must be doing alright to survive for this long though.

Rogue prince of persia was a fine game. Brilliant first attempt that leaves a solid stepping stone for future titles in the genre. Together with the dead cells devs, castlevania seems like a sure fire masterpiece

The hand hold brigade strike again. Yet when they get what they want from the off, they then complain a game is too easy, Saros and wolverine being prime examples.

So Its ps stars but only when sony wants to give it to you. Better than nothing but worse than what we used to have so can't praise them for it.

State of decay 1/2 was probably the one xbox exclusive game I was genuinely interested in playing at a time where games like that weren't too common. Times have changed since then, there's plenty of similar games but will be keeping tabs on this.

This couldn't scream "we don't have a future" any louder.

Isn't he supposed to have heightened senses? Don't get these particular complaints.

@freddquadros like a dragon was on essential, it was the month we got Tony Hawk 1/2 too but silent hill 2 has never been on essential, only extra.