Bluemoon2008

You mean to tell me internet fans cannot be trusted to offer a fair, balanced opinion on something? I'm stunned!

(I also voted the exact same biased way by voting for blue prince in every single category possible)

The games industry has to the the only industry on the planet that has re-named overtime and attached this horrific stigma to it. God forbid employees behind schedule in their wom are expected to work harder/longer to catch up.

I would absolutely love for the serial complainers of "crunch" to go work for a short period in an industry whereby you're expected to keep to on quota/schedule and you dont go home until you're on quota/schedule. They'd get laughed put the building for complaining about it.

In my head indie means relatively small budget, small team releasing a game priced no more than £30

Think they've released too many games in a short period. Oversaturation is the danger here, especially when the vast majority of the titles are 80% the same game as is.

@spcspc it was a simple play on his surname being the same as an infamous sucker punch character.

(And yes, so was that)

Surprised to see the picture of Bentley and him not be in a wheelchair.

I intended to play Ishin but skipped it because I couldnt be bothered with the reported serious grind, I've had this one on the "to play list" too, hearing its comfortably the shortest yakuza game to date, I think i'll knock this one out

Unlike seemingly everybody else here, I do care about trophies. It's not that I outright wont play a game without trophies, it's more a case of there are always so many other games to play that it's easy to ignore the ones that don't have them.

I treat it as an easy way of reducing choice when deciding what to play next. I also think if they can't be arsed to include trophies or they have broken trophies that they refuse to fix, it suggests to me the Devs aren't that bothered about their own game making it easy to dismiss.

Should have remodeled the game to prioritise cosmetic microtransactions, potentially make meaty future content paid content but release it day and date on one of the ps+ tiers. You'll guarantee a big initial audience that way and then it's down to the quality of the game to keep people playing and get them to spend.

Besides, we all know it will be on ps+ in some form within 18 months regardless of how well it does anyway.

At least he owned it and didnt do a mindseye and blame it's failure on anything but themselves.

Not into Warhammer but loved rome: total war back in the day so im definitely down for finally getting a total war game on Playstation. As long as i don't need prior warhammer knowledge I'll be all over this.

From a personal point of view, most the big games were not to my taste, nothing for me really stood out but I can view it objectively too and it was undeniably a fantastic show.

They had multiple, heavy hitters throughout, some we knew existed, some we didn't. Show was long but that is just because they had so much stuff, they never lingered on anything, it was tight and well put together. I gave it a very good as the games werent to my tastes but in reality it was fantastic and i don't think they could have done any better.

I don't know what those people voting it lower could possibly have wanted.

They had some big, big reveals and the show was generally very well paced and spread out but ending on this was the one monumental disaster. They easily had a dozen reveals that would have been a better fit as the last reveal.

They really should be moving where they host this every year to better accommodate the different time zones and not be north american centric.

E33 will sweep up the awards. It's French based, It's likely going to be around 5am when they win goty. There will be people involved and families and friends of them that wont be able to watch live. Infact, looking at the nominees, by my count, there is only 1 north American dev up for Goty, 2 European. 2 Japanese and an Australian so 85% of the goty nominees are based somewhere where the awards are in a horrendous time slot.

Makes you question exactly how many shameless sponsors he needs include when he's making that much money just from charging for the content we are all there to see in the first place.

Qwark is a phenomenal character, brilliantly voiced. A sad loss.

Happy with mirage, wo long and planet coaster 2. More than enough to satisfy me and make it a good strong month.

Adding Lego horizon after offering it on essential is fine if it feels like an extra addition, It doesnt really feel like that here though looking at the numbers. Using skate story too as a title for this month when its a last month title adds to the feeling like they are just looking to artificially boost numbers this month.

@Deadlyblack they didnt actually say or even suggest they were unaware of it, obviously they'll be fully aware of it. they just didn't attribute value to that part of the business when deciding how much to offer for the entire business. Netflix are interested in the IP, the back catalogue, and most importantly, the production capabilities, something that Netflix are struggling with, anything else isn't part of what interests them in the deal.

Netflix has repeatedly made expensive moves to try and get into the gaming side so its odd that they are so dismissive of it when it's exactly what they have been wanting in that department.

The comments sound like they're more than happy to keep the gaming division alive so long as it's a self-running money spinner, the second there's an issue or a financial failure, they'll probably close the whole thing down without hesitation. Certainly not an encouraging thing to hear for those working in that department.

2 games i had in my "inevitably coming to ps+" list. Very happy with those 2 alone, but if the filler titles are as good as last months it will be a banger of a month.

Feels like a barbecues version this year. Previous years had much more interesting stats.

Only seems to be time played, games played and trophies. Time played is always heavily skewed for me anyway, I have a not great habit of just always leaving it on, paused or otherwise for convenience so that is never anywhere close to accurate and number of platinums and games with the most time spent are stats very easily available to me on ps5 already.

Yep. Got this too. I'm 2 for 2 so far. Deciding to have the music be the timer in that final challenge was a stroke of genius. It's one of the most memorable bits of audio in any game, ever in my opinion.

Last challenge is tough but isn't as difficult as is often made out. I found that people who looked up answers or used guides for parts of the game really struggled with the last challenge because they hadn't built up the knowledge of how to do the puzzles. Those that didnt rely on having the solutions given to them I found didnt tend to struggle all that much in the final challenge.

Never happening but i'd love a sequel.

The phrase "all style, no substance" will undoubtedly be used to describe this game upon release.

I read "online coop game" I see the screenshots and my mind instantly dismisses it as "oh another one of those games that i'll never touch"

Probably unfair to do so but thats just how my brain operates.

DoA, ps+ game within a year of release by which time they've already given up and are there to just milk the last bit of money from it that they can. lay offs to follow and the game shutting down 12-18 months later.

Never heard of it, doubt i'll ever hear of it again.

Eye toy was a certified banger of a peripheral though. "When I'm cleanin' winda's"

Sounds more like the game was a success despite the hindrance of an episodic release schedule because it was a very good game

The Styx games are under the radar, great games, hopefully this can step up another level. That release date feels a bit iffy though. feels like that time of the year is always heavily bloated with releases and this is the type of game that could very easily get lost and forgotten amongst the crowd. They would benefit from releasing amongst a slow release window.

Uncharted drakes fortune was my introduction to trophies and my very first platinum. I immediately saw the appeal but I was more than fine not bothering with trophies for a lot of games, If I was in the mood and into the game i could get a particularly hard platinum but then leave an easy one on 1% if i couldn't be bothered.

It changed for me around lockdown, I had psnow, access to a bunch of games at once and decided I'd platinum everything I played and I've stuck to it ever since with just a few exceptions. I probably had just over 100 platinums before lockdown, I'm now approaching 400.

Looks fromsoft-ey but most likely a fallout TV show reference.

Very definition if a "meh, they're fine" month. The two extra games were certainly needed. Would be the weakest month by a clear distance without them extra games.

Lego Horizon will no doubt tempt me even though I know it'll end up being tedious and grindy, neon white has interested me for a while so happy to get that. The others are not for me, don't need more multiplayer games I'm never going to play.

Appreciate the bumper haul, I definitely think it needed it though because if you pick any 3 of those games for a standard month, It's looking very weak.

This month's smaller, indies titles on extra are some of the best we've had, it's a decent headliner or 2 away (I.E not another re-addition of gta 5) from being an all time banger month.

Surviving mars and arcade paradise are well worth playing, i's recommend them both.

Sonic and forspoken are both perfectly fine games.

Can't wait for gta to come back on to the service in about 6 months...

It's a mostly happy month, the filler comtent is strong it just lacks 1 or 2 headliners because they decided to give us GTA 5 once again. (I'd say who the hell hasn't got gta v that wants to play it, but it'll probably inexplicably be the most downloaded game of the month) premium is fine.

Guess we also know the first game leaving extra in February then too.

Hope it's technically part of November's additions. Don't want another Rockstar game eating all the budget for another month

As usual when we get a Rockstar re-addition, it shows in the rest of the monthly additions where the majority of the budget went.

I can see why many could be throughly underwhelmed by that but from my perspective, it's alright. I'll play pacific drive and talos principle 2.

Thank goodness you're here is absolutely fantastic if you've not played it, but I've gone through it multiple times and you can get through it within a few hours. Not really my thing but i may get round to still wakes the deep.

Those are all great supporting titles, just a shame the headliner is an absolute stinker.

I'm content with it but I wouldnt say its an objectively strong month and I don't feel like we've had one of those for a long time.

Best thing of the SoP

Looks like a ps2 big head cheat mode.

1 of the 2 genuinely interesting things from the entire show.

A 40 minute show for something that could and should have been a few blog posts.

The internet takes these quotes too literally. It's like they've never had a real life conversation sometimes. I take that to simply mean, the ps5 has plenty of life in it yet and isn't entering the end years, not neccesarily that we are precisely halfway through its intended life cycle.

40 minute run time, how many of those minutes will be dedicated to same looking anime style f2p games? I'm going 15-20 minutes.

Not played it but pleasing to hear. Proof that you can do a relatively bigger title on a smaller scale, sell it for less than full price and still make money.

Shows to me that all these titles that have bigger sales numbers and still dont turn a profit are doing it wrong and it's nothing but poor budgeting. Not everything needs to aim to be the biggest and best, there's room for all types.

Already being profitable is a good sign as it means they can green light the next game either in the series or something else from the same device team and they'll not have to worry about trying to recoup costs so they can bring it to the subscription services earlier which will earn them more money for doing so and will be pure profit.

The thing is, from the limited information they reveal, the data seems to show that its always one of the most popular titles every time its added.

Who these people are that have a ps+ extra subscription that want to play gta v that don't already own it or havent already played it via the numerous times its been on the service, i've no idea, i don't think i'd be able to find a single person fitting that criteria but they apparently exist in large quantities.

My personal opinion is it's a dreadful use of ps extra funding, it's exactly what I dont want to see from the service, if I was asked what don't you want to see on the service, my first answer would be the constant reintroduction of Rockstar games for limited periods, closely followed by double dipping across the tiers but I must be in the minority here.

Sadly, when a Rockstar game comes to the service, the rest of the titles that month usually noticeably suffer as clearly the budget has gone on that one game so brace yourself for a lacklustre month.

The numbers mean very little. The idea they offer definitive proof is ridiculous.

They could offer up an extremely short, very old title thats already been on ps+ in some form and is available for peanuts that happens to have a very high metacritic score. that high score doesn't mean in critcisms for it being extremely short, very old and a repeat title arent all valid. If they followed up that month with a game thats a meaty length, 6 months old, never been on the service and is still full price but it has a metacritic rating slightly below the previous offering, does that make the following month worse? Because the data would say so...

For the record, I dont think essential is getting worse. I think November is the weakest month of the year but overall it's been a very strong year. Unlike this article and way of thinking, which is very backwards.

I think its actually the worst month of the year, by some distance.

Stray has been on ps+ extra but its also a small, short indie title, it's not a headline worthy title at all. I also happen to think its a distinctly average game.

WRC is too niche to be on here imo much like all the other sports titles and racing games we get. It might be the best rally game ever made but unless you're into racing games, you'll probably never even try it.

T.A.B.S I have no interest in myself but I think thats fine as the third offering.

I dont play multiplayer games anymore, I sub to ps+ for the games and make use of the cloud saving. Buying a game and not having access to all its features without also paying for a subscription is farcical but there are running costs that need to be covered, we won't just get something for free.

if they drop the ps+ requirement, you'll probably see games jump in price ro compensate instead so I'm perfectly fine with them covering costs through a required ps+ sub.

They're very generous with their definition of "cult favourites" never heard of 'em.

It's the equivalent of £1.66 a month for premium, 1 title a month is more than justified for that price. If they start bringing more titles per month, regularly, it will have to be reflected in the price.

Inevitable it will be on ps+ relatively soon. At least if they're still patching and fixing it, it might not be a broken mess when they give it to us.

Crap month. Stray is not a bad game but it is not headline offering and we shouldnt be getting it anyway after its prior appearance on extra.