Not typically into turned based rpgs but this does catch my eye. I think i've bought precisely 3 games this decade, I feed exclusively on ps+ services nowadays and my natural stance is now naturally, ill play that in 2 years time when it comes to subscription services but with the generous price I'm as tempted as I've been for a long time by this.
Nah you're alright. I'll perhaps contemplate it if there's nothing else to play when it inevitably comes to ps+ in some form but even then it's unlikely.
Enjoyed cult of the lamb and would like to see a sequel but im a bit surprised its their most profitable game. It wouldn't be close to number 1 for me if I'm ranking developer published games. Hotline Miami, olli,olli, my friend Pedro, talos principle, shadow warrior, inscryption and deaths door I think were all better.
The people on here voting are the most invested people of the player base so in that respect it's quite damning but also as the most hardcore, their tastes probably aren't in live service titles.
I wonder whether the same poll pre helldivers 2 release would have majorly different results.
The niche genre is certainly bungies biggest obstacle, the player base for that genre is tiny, if that's all they're going to be appealing too then they're in trouble, I suspect a lot of bungie fans will be willing to back the studios next game though.
Best thing they could do is offer a ps+ extended trial. Why not bring it to ps+ essential as a bonus title that month for say a week, long enough to get players invested but obviously not long enough to fully exhaust the contents, then give them a small ps+ discount if they choose to buy the game after the trial period.
seeing as they havent even announced the price yet they could even artificially inflated the cost so that the ps+ discount is the intended cost and not lose out whilst giving the illusion of a discount.
If anybody at Sony/bungie marketing need me, I'm here.
Another indication that the ps6 is way off yet in contrast to what many suggest.
Consoles have typically gotten cheaper as cost to make them goes down over time. the ps5 still going up in price despite well over a decade old technology now when factoring in when this console was designed, suggests any new console on the horizon would reach an astronomical cost. if a ps6 were to release in the near future into this kind of market, you're looking at 4 figures for a base model, that isn't going to work.
@DennisReynolds no, the audience they want is as many as possible. Infact they'll be banking on players who havent played extraction games to buy the next bungie game.
The extraction genre is a small niche genre, if the player base was purely extraction shooter fans, the game won't last long at all.
Why should bungie waste money and resources on modes that will quickly be dead? Says who? You've decided nobody wants a hypothetical mode for an unrelased game we've seen practically nothing of nevermind played. You have absolutely nothing to suggest that would be the case.
@DennisReynolds the game's only just been unveiled, nobody has bought the game yet. How can you say people who may be interested in an extraction shooter only want the classic extraction shooter? who is to say they wouldn't want that and more? It doesn't have to be just a simple copy and paste extraction shooter where they have to compete in an already flooded market for a limited number of players. To survive and prosper you need mass appeal.
@DennisReynolds why not? Why does it have to follow the exact same formula of other extraction shooters? No reason why you can't have variation. Even just implementing existing multi-player modes within the extraction genre already gives you multiple modes without putting any thought or effort into something unique. Classic mode and a down and out mode with no reviving, theres 2 straight away. That's just an example for the purposes of explaining the point though and i'd hope they'd put more thought into it than that.
The only legitimate argument against is it shrinks the player pool but if that's a concern for them at launch then that should activate much bigger alarm bells.
If you're going to charge it has to offer more than f2p games do. There needs to be multiple modes, multiple maps, any progression based system in it needs to be free of micotransactions. No problem with charging for it but just make sure you provide £40 worth of content that a f2p game lacks.
Doesn't appear to be anything unique about it at all. Bungie do excellent gunplay so I'm sure that will be top class as per usual and from a design aspect it looks kind of flashy and appealing but is that enough for it to succeed?
If this bombed, I wouldn't be remotely surprised. Is there a market for this? What's it doing that f2p titles aren't? I'd be very nervous if I was a bungie exec. They need to get the marketing spot on for this. I want to see bungie do well so hope it's a success but I'll be merely a passing interested party, no interest in playing this. They'd have to give it to me on ps+ to get me to even try it.
This tallies much more closely to my experience so far than the 9/10's others are giving it.
The RNG nature is a bit too random, it should be more weighted so that there's more chance of drafting a room that actually let's you progress rather than the constant dead ends options im faced with that end runs before theyve even started.
Forcing you into a draft once you've clicked on a door was a terrible idea, the worst in the game. If I've got 2 entry points to a square and the first way draws me no viable options to continue, I should be able to cancel work my way around to the other entrance and draft from that side too to see my options, doesnt make anything easier but gives the player more control and strategy in their planning.
this tiny change would massively improve the early frustration with this game and complete reliance on the luck of the draw.
When I get the runs that give me enough keys/gems and enough luck to reach the later ranks they're actually fun and you can feel satisfied that you've had an opportunity to progress even if you dint actually make any progress with anything. They're a complete contrast to drawing nothing but dead ends and not being able to go north when still rank 2/3 which so far is 80% of the runs.
Happy with the list. Looking forward to blue prince and been waiting for the inevitable hogwarts legacy. Plateup looks like an overcooked clone so that looks worth a play too. Got battlefield, and no interest in golf, no interest in lost records or the premium games.
My issue with this month is the massive reduction in quantity. With the ps extra/premium rebrand, the best thing about it over psnow was the increase in quantity, it meant there was nearly always something for everybody, we were getting 15-20 games over the 2 tiers, we're not even reaching double figures now and that's a big problem.
It's fine if you've not got the main titles and obviously this month with 2 day 1 releases theyve ensured this isnt the case but in future, if you happen to own the main games of the month with just 6 games on offer it's going to lead to months where lots of people have nothing of interest to try.
The titles don't all need to be stellar AAA titles but the numbers need to increase.
If you think there's been a fair bit of backlash and unhappiness with these potential new normal prices, Americans can expect at least a 20% bump in cost on top of that soon enough and very possibly, considerably more thanks to the clown show you americans voted to run your country.
All it will do is create a wider gap between the blockbuster system sellers making even more money and everything else struggling further. People aren't going to pay £80 for titles they aren't 100% convinced on. So that means fewer new IP and fewer new devs as reluctance to take a chance on something will intensify. For the likes of gta 6, cod etc, people will moan but they'll still pay it because they know what they're getting, that isn't going to be the case for everything else and so you'll get a lot more flops and more closures and lay offs.
They'll be a time where there can't be any new IP or new studio without the financial backing of a first party or a subscription service.
Hades 2 is one of the few games I'd have considered getting on release, with this news it helps to squash any hype around it as there's much less temptation to buy on release when the game has been out for a while elsewhere. Helps me not to give in and simply wait for it to be available either on a subscription service or for peanuts.
Nope. Not for me. Anything cross platform won't be worth playing on that system over a ps5/xbox/PC which automatically means it's purely about the exclusives.
None of Nintendo's exclusives appeal to me, they are all aimed at kids and play as such imo.
Not knocking it, it's a tactic that has proven to be incredibly beneficial to them I'm just not the target audience as an adult and never really understood how other adults have bought into it either but each to their own.
The only appeal I can potentially see is in the handheld space but that's a niche thing and there's plenty of other options now with ps portal or a steam deck amongst others if that's what you want.
I don't think it's done anything at all to entice non-switch owners over to Nintendo but the price point has probably turned the more casual Nintendo fan away. Will be interesting to see sales figures if availability isn't restrictive. It will still undoubtedly sell plenty but I can't see how it sells as well as the switch.
Sony regularly proclaim Nintendo aren't really in the same market as Playstation and not a direct competitor and thus they shouldn't be copying their practices either.
If they do all it's going to do is create an even bigger divide. The blockbuster tent pole games will continue to be bought in their millions regardless of price and the rest will suffer a decline in sales at full price as even more people wait for sales or for it to come to services instead.
That's how it's going already, a price bump will just accelerate it. I've bought precisely 3 games this decade, nioh 2. Gow ragnorak and elden ring and I haven't once been short on something to play because of the services. there's really no need for me to buy anything anymore with Playstation premium. Especially not at full price.
Nothing but complete guess work no doubt wrapped in some technical jargon to add legitimacy to what is essentially plucking a number from their arse. Microsoft won't release actual figures to ever prove/disprove them so they're free to just make these claims with no foundation. No idea why this has even been given the time of day.
Pricing them at their rrp is pointless, you'd have to be incredibly stupid to be paying full rrp on games multiple years old, all will have been available for less than half the prices being used.
Don't think this year has been particularly notable so far, it's been very average I'd say.
However, the value is absolutely undoubted. I'm on premium, play pretty much daily and haven't bought a game in about 4 years as I've never been short of stuff to play.
It's alright, I had robocop down to come to the service so happy with that but it feels like an extra game rather than an essential game which tend to be bigger titles.
Texas chainsaw massacre I have zero interest in, it's just another in the massive bloated list of multi-player only games given away on essential that will probably either go ftp or completely close servers soon enough.
Digimon I hear is a good game, but not really for me.
Feels like a test. Obviously the risk here is brand/IP damage and that's why they've given license to IP they were never liked to ever revive themselves and if successes can be made with those they may be willing to license out some of their more appealing dormant IP.
The dream would be to get dormant IP like Jak and daxter, Sly, resistance and killzone from sony's flagship studios.
For the good of the world, I really hope close tabs are being kept on the person who conceived this idea. As odd as it is, it's even more peculiar to imagine having thought this up and acted upon it.
No platinum will always turn away a section of potential buyers. However small, there will be some people that will not buy because of this, whether that's the sole reason or just the tipping point. There's nobody that is going to be put off because of a platinum and nobody will be more inclined to buy it because there isn't a platinum so what's the thought process behind it? You're restricting your potential audience for no reason.
To me, the lack of a platinum in any game nowadays starts alarm bells ringing, it suggests a lack of care and effort has been put into it, now it might not be the case but that's the impression I get
Selling early access to a game that's already available is not getting anywhere close to the scrutiny it warrants. Gamers get outraged very easily over the smallest of things yet this practice, something genuinely worthy of such outrage, is going largely under the radar.
I'll hold off for 18 months and play it st no additional cost when it inevitably comes to ps+ in some form.
Shorter games are absolutely fine if they're also fantastic games. If this was a mediocre 12 hour game, there would have been issues and the length would have gone against it. Great games will invariably do well regardless of length.
I'd take a smaller god of war side project Inbetween the next mainline game. I think a 2d combat focused metroidvania that's closer in it's roots to the original gow Greece games could be brilliant.
I've long since championed for other Sony studios to be working on smaller titles from existing IP, smaller titles to fill gaps that take maybe 2 years to do rather than the new standard 5 year cycle that they could even use to bolster the ps+ extra lineups as day 1 offerings would fit perfectly
This might be the biggest month of loss in terms of quality that Ps+ has seen to date. Glad I've done most of them, will make sure I do deliver us mars.
Already platnumed, slay the spire, miasma chronicles, animal well, tales of kenzera and kena.
I'd recommend every single one of them but seen as it's probably the most unknown I'll champions miasma chronicles. Anybody who likes xcom should make sure they play this, made by thr same guys that did mutant year zero.
Not sure you can call it a scam as that would imply some people may have had different impressions of what the "game" would be. Anybody with a modicum of interest in gaming knew beyond any doubt that this "game" was always going to be a complete farce as it proved to be.
Prince of Persia and arcade paradise make it an acceptable month in my eyes but the month undoubtedly feels very light. Feels very much like a big title was pulled from the lineup last minute and wasn't replaced.
Literally never heard of it until this moment. The industry isn't in a tough spot right now it simply isn't an industry where mundane copycats offering nothing unique that require unprecedented success to survive can exist.
@BolkaRover the classics refresh literally the same frequency as extra and essential. I.E once a month. If you're suggesting not enough is added. You pay about an additional £1.50 a month for the premium.
I'm very happy with prince of persia. arcade paradise I've heard good things about too, so those two are just about sufficient offerings for me.
however, it does feel like a big title is missing this month, almost like something was pulled from the lineup last minute and not replaced.
Old armoured core games coming to the service makes sense with sony's investment into fromsoft, expect we'll see the new armoured core on there too in the coming months.
Unbeatable value for a game with a large online aspect that seemingly is flooded with micro transactions and whose servers will be shut down in as little as 18 months rendering it all unplayable if the past is anything to go by. Seems like it's anything but unbeatable value to me.
Hard to blame the publishers anymore when the audience have shown they're willing to continuously buy their product regardless.
Oh no!! I have to make a free account for something that takes seconds before playing. However will i cope? It's a complete non-issue just as it was when psn required it for PC players only for them to ***** the bed and cry about it.
@breakneck could be a whole range of things but I don't think it will be a licensing issue as they've got licenses for all those sports games too that are on there.
@breakneck yep loads actually having just looked at what they've published.
Multiple WRC ganes have been on. More than 1 of the tour de France games have been on. Pretty sure we've had a cricket, rugby and handball game on there before, werewolf the apocalypse was on ps now. rogue lords (which is excellent btw and well worth a play if you enjoy slay the spire) and roguebook are both currently on extra, bloodbowl, overpass, AO tennis, steel rising, the Styx games, bee simulator.
The more i read the list of what they've published, its becoming very evident that pretty much the entirety of their back catalgoue is or has been on ps+ in some form. I didn't realise they were such a big contributor when I made that prediction to be honest, only strengthens my view considerably
First Styx game was genuinely fantastic. Didn't know it was the same guys that did werewolf: the apocalypse-eaethblood, which was essentially a ps2 filler title released 20 years too late.
Rogue city is definitely coming to ps+ in some capacity very soon. It's a prime extra/premium contender before this announcement, it's surely a certainty now.
take the ps+ windfall on rogue city and promote the new dlc to the massive new audience. Payday.
Whilst I don't put too much weight into metacritic scores it's impressive l, fair play to Sega. It wasn't all that long ago that segas future existence was in question. Long may it continue.
Sounds to me an awfully lot like the devs aren't very good at their job. The hundreds of other games on the system, a lot of which being bigger and more complex than this and working fine would suggest the tools aren't the problem the people operating them are.
Shame as I absolutely loved the first cities skylines on ps4 and would be well up for a working and good ps5 sequel. Doesn't look like that's coming though.
A game that didn't need to exist. If they were unable to secure funding, it's logical to assume they didn't have any ideas worth backing. No company has a right to exist.
There are too many game companies popping up with a run of the mill idea, having an unfeasibly large budget for it that's entirely reliant on it being a major, unprecedented success to survive long enough to get a second game out. Too easy for chancers to create a company in an attempt hit big and sell up knowing that it's far likelier to fail.
The constant over dramatisation of lay offs in the industry has been tedious to read for a while now.
The people that lost their job have done so because their job was no longer required, nobody is going to pay people to do nothing in any industry.
If you work in a factory producing one thing with staff that has skills tailored to producing that one thing and that company suddenly ceases producing that product, there's no use for those employed specifically to produce that product anymore so of course they're going to lay them off. What's a person employed to make background art for a now cancelled game going to do everyday?
1+2 remake was brilliant. Had the perfect mix of feeling modern and inflicting nostalgia, it's how I think 1+2 played rather than how it actually played. Also a bloody hard platinum which I enjoyed. Don't have the same nostalgia for 3+4, I'm sure I probably played them but I don't remember anything of them and nothing in the trailer rang any bells. Will be something I'll play once it inevitably comes to ps+
As with all games now, I'll play it when it comes to ps+ and if it doesnt, ill play whatever does instead.
extremely rare I buy games now, I basically play daily and yet I've bought just 3 games this decade. Once you get passed the initial sense of being left behind as each new big thing comes out and you build up a backlog of games you've not yet played, there's really no need to ever purchase anything else other than my ps+ subscription.
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Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (PS5) - Daring, Quirky RPG Is an Absolute Must-Play
Not typically into turned based rpgs but this does catch my eye. I think i've bought precisely 3 games this decade, I feed exclusively on ps+ services nowadays and my natural stance is now naturally, ill play that in 2 years time when it comes to subscription services but with the generous price I'm as tempted as I've been for a long time by this.
Re: Oblivion Remastered Out Now on PS5, Price and Download Size Revealed
Nah you're alright. I'll perhaps contemplate it if there's nothing else to play when it inevitably comes to ps+ in some form but even then it's unlikely.
Re: Devolver Will Be 'Leaning Further into' Its Existing IPs as Best-Selling Games Revealed
Enjoyed cult of the lamb and would like to see a sequel but im a bit surprised its their most profitable game. It wouldn't be close to number 1 for me if I'm ranking developer published games. Hotline Miami, olli,olli, my friend Pedro, talos principle, shadow warrior, inscryption and deaths door I think were all better.
I trust devolver to continue making good choices.
Re: PS5 Fans Give Bungie's Marathon the Cold Shoulder, 34% Say You'd Have to Pay Them to Play
The people on here voting are the most invested people of the player base so in that respect it's quite damning but also as the most hardcore, their tastes probably aren't in live service titles.
I wonder whether the same poll pre helldivers 2 release would have majorly different results.
The niche genre is certainly bungies biggest obstacle, the player base for that genre is tiny, if that's all they're going to be appealing too then they're in trouble, I suspect a lot of bungie fans will be willing to back the studios next game though.
Best thing they could do is offer a ps+ extended trial. Why not bring it to ps+ essential as a bonus title that month for say a week, long enough to get players invested but obviously not long enough to fully exhaust the contents, then give them a small ps+ discount if they choose to buy the game after the trial period.
seeing as they havent even announced the price yet they could even artificially inflated the cost so that the ps+ discount is the intended cost and not lose out whilst giving the illusion of a discount.
If anybody at Sony/bungie marketing need me, I'm here.
Re: PS5 Price Increases Announced by Sony, Affect UK, Europe, and More
Another indication that the ps6 is way off yet in contrast to what many suggest.
Consoles have typically gotten cheaper as cost to make them goes down over time. the ps5 still going up in price despite well over a decade old technology now when factoring in when this console was designed, suggests any new console on the horizon would reach an astronomical cost. if a ps6 were to release in the near future into this kind of market, you're looking at 4 figures for a base model, that isn't going to work.
Re: Marathon a 'Premium', Paid for Game on PS5, But It's Not $70
@DennisReynolds no, the audience they want is as many as possible. Infact they'll be banking on players who havent played extraction games to buy the next bungie game.
The extraction genre is a small niche genre, if the player base was purely extraction shooter fans, the game won't last long at all.
Why should bungie waste money and resources on modes that will quickly be dead? Says who? You've decided nobody wants a hypothetical mode for an unrelased game we've seen practically nothing of nevermind played. You have absolutely nothing to suggest that would be the case.
Re: Marathon a 'Premium', Paid for Game on PS5, But It's Not $70
@DennisReynolds the game's only just been unveiled, nobody has bought the game yet. How can you say people who may be interested in an extraction shooter only want the classic extraction shooter? who is to say they wouldn't want that and more? It doesn't have to be just a simple copy and paste extraction shooter where they have to compete in an already flooded market for a limited number of players. To survive and prosper you need mass appeal.
Re: Marathon a 'Premium', Paid for Game on PS5, But It's Not $70
@DennisReynolds why not? Why does it have to follow the exact same formula of other extraction shooters? No reason why you can't have variation. Even just implementing existing multi-player modes within the extraction genre already gives you multiple modes without putting any thought or effort into something unique. Classic mode and a down and out mode with no reviving, theres 2 straight away. That's just an example for the purposes of explaining the point though and i'd hope they'd put more thought into it than that.
The only legitimate argument against is it shrinks the player pool but if that's a concern for them at launch then that should activate much bigger alarm bells.
Re: Marathon a 'Premium', Paid for Game on PS5, But It's Not $70
If you're going to charge it has to offer more than f2p games do. There needs to be multiple modes, multiple maps, any progression based system in it needs to be free of micotransactions. No problem with charging for it but just make sure you provide £40 worth of content that a f2p game lacks.
Re: Bungie's New PS5 Shooter Marathon Grabs September Release Date
Doesn't appear to be anything unique about it at all. Bungie do excellent gunplay so I'm sure that will be top class as per usual and from a design aspect it looks kind of flashy and appealing but is that enough for it to succeed?
If this bombed, I wouldn't be remotely surprised. Is there a market for this? What's it doing that f2p titles aren't? I'd be very nervous if I was a bungie exec. They need to get the marketing spot on for this. I want to see bungie do well so hope it's a success but I'll be merely a passing interested party, no interest in playing this. They'd have to give it to me on ps+ to get me to even try it.
Re: Mini Review: Blue Prince (PS5) - A Deceptively Deep Puzzler That Delights and Confounds
This tallies much more closely to my experience so far than the 9/10's others are giving it.
The RNG nature is a bit too random, it should be more weighted so that there's more chance of drafting a room that actually let's you progress rather than the constant dead ends options im faced with that end runs before theyve even started.
Forcing you into a draft once you've clicked on a door was a terrible idea, the worst in the game. If I've got 2 entry points to a square and the first way draws me no viable options to continue, I should be able to cancel work my way around to the other entrance and draft from that side too to see my options, doesnt make anything easier but gives the player more control and strategy in their planning.
this tiny change would massively improve the early frustration with this game and complete reliance on the luck of the draw.
When I get the runs that give me enough keys/gems and enough luck to reach the later ranks they're actually fun and you can feel satisfied that you've had an opportunity to progress even if you dint actually make any progress with anything. They're a complete contrast to drawing nothing but dead ends and not being able to go north when still rank 2/3 which so far is 80% of the runs.
Re: 8 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for April 2025 Announced
Happy with the list. Looking forward to blue prince and been waiting for the inevitable hogwarts legacy. Plateup looks like an overcooked clone so that looks worth a play too. Got battlefield, and no interest in golf, no interest in lost records or the premium games.
My issue with this month is the massive reduction in quantity. With the ps extra/premium rebrand, the best thing about it over psnow was the increase in quantity, it meant there was nearly always something for everybody, we were getting 15-20 games over the 2 tiers, we're not even reaching double figures now and that's a big problem.
It's fine if you've not got the main titles and obviously this month with 2 day 1 releases theyve ensured this isnt the case but in future, if you happen to own the main games of the month with just 6 games on offer it's going to lead to months where lots of people have nothing of interest to try.
The titles don't all need to be stellar AAA titles but the numbers need to increase.
Re: Bungie's Marathon PS5 Game Taking Over PlayStation Social Media Pages
There's been a press event with people getting hands on access with the game, expect a full previewing next week.
Re: Almost All PS5 Fans Are Against $80 Games
If you think there's been a fair bit of backlash and unhappiness with these potential new normal prices, Americans can expect at least a 20% bump in cost on top of that soon enough and very possibly, considerably more thanks to the clown show you americans voted to run your country.
Re: Talking Point: What Are Your Thoughts on Potential $80 PS5 Games?
All it will do is create a wider gap between the blockbuster system sellers making even more money and everything else struggling further. People aren't going to pay £80 for titles they aren't 100% convinced on. So that means fewer new IP and fewer new devs as reluctance to take a chance on something will intensify. For the likes of gta 6, cod etc, people will moan but they'll still pay it because they know what they're getting, that isn't going to be the case for everything else and so you'll get a lot more flops and more closures and lay offs.
They'll be a time where there can't be any new IP or new studio without the financial backing of a first party or a subscription service.
Re: Switch 2 Coughs Up for Timed Hades 2 Console Exclusivity, Coming to PS5 Later
Hades 2 is one of the few games I'd have considered getting on release, with this news it helps to squash any hype around it as there's much less temptation to buy on release when the game has been out for a while elsewhere. Helps me not to give in and simply wait for it to be available either on a subscription service or for peanuts.
Re: Poll: PS5 Fans, Are You Sold on the Nintendo Switch 2?
Nope. Not for me. Anything cross platform won't be worth playing on that system over a ps5/xbox/PC which automatically means it's purely about the exclusives.
None of Nintendo's exclusives appeal to me, they are all aimed at kids and play as such imo.
Not knocking it, it's a tactic that has proven to be incredibly beneficial to them I'm just not the target audience as an adult and never really understood how other adults have bought into it either but each to their own.
The only appeal I can potentially see is in the handheld space but that's a niche thing and there's plenty of other options now with ps portal or a steam deck amongst others if that's what you want.
I don't think it's done anything at all to entice non-switch owners over to Nintendo but the price point has probably turned the more casual Nintendo fan away. Will be interesting to see sales figures if availability isn't restrictive. It will still undoubtedly sell plenty but I can't see how it sells as well as the switch.
Re: Hollow Knight: Silksong Relegated to a Switch 2 Sizzle Reel
The game cannot possibly live up to the hype at this point.
Re: Nintendo Is Raising the Price of Games with Switch 2
Sony regularly proclaim Nintendo aren't really in the same market as Playstation and not a direct competitor and thus they shouldn't be copying their practices either.
If they do all it's going to do is create an even bigger divide. The blockbuster tent pole games will continue to be bought in their millions regardless of price and the rest will suffer a decline in sales at full price as even more people wait for sales or for it to come to services instead.
That's how it's going already, a price bump will just accelerate it. I've bought precisely 3 games this decade, nioh 2. Gow ragnorak and elden ring and I haven't once been short on something to play because of the services. there's really no need for me to buy anything anymore with Playstation premium. Especially not at full price.
Re: Analyst Firm Predicts Some Pretty Unimpressive Sales Numbers for Xbox Ports on PS5
Nothing but complete guess work no doubt wrapped in some technical jargon to add legitimacy to what is essentially plucking a number from their arse. Microsoft won't release actual figures to ever prove/disprove them so they're free to just make these claims with no foundation. No idea why this has even been given the time of day.
Re: PS Plus Essential Is Quietly Having a Great Year on PS5, PS4
Pricing them at their rrp is pointless, you'd have to be incredibly stupid to be paying full rrp on games multiple years old, all will have been available for less than half the prices being used.
Don't think this year has been particularly notable so far, it's been very average I'd say.
However, the value is absolutely undoubted. I'm on premium, play pretty much daily and haven't bought a game in about 4 years as I've never been short of stuff to play.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for April 2025?
It's alright, I had robocop down to come to the service so happy with that but it feels like an extra game rather than an essential game which tend to be bigger titles.
Texas chainsaw massacre I have zero interest in, it's just another in the massive bloated list of multi-player only games given away on essential that will probably either go ftp or completely close servers soon enough.
Digimon I hear is a good game, but not really for me.
Re: Reaction: Sony's Licensing Strategy May Be the Best Route to Reviving Some of PlayStation's Lost Classics
Feels like a test. Obviously the risk here is brand/IP damage and that's why they've given license to IP they were never liked to ever revive themselves and if successes can be made with those they may be willing to license out some of their more appealing dormant IP.
The dream would be to get dormant IP like Jak and daxter, Sly, resistance and killzone from sony's flagship studios.
Re: One of the Strangest Games Ever Made Appears to Be Coming to PS5, PS4
For the good of the world, I really hope close tabs are being kept on the person who conceived this idea. As odd as it is, it's even more peculiar to imagine having thought this up and acted upon it.
Re: No Platinum Trophy in Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Remaster's Meagre PS5 Trophy List
No platinum will always turn away a section of potential buyers. However small, there will be some people that will not buy because of this, whether that's the sole reason or just the tipping point. There's nobody that is going to be put off because of a platinum and nobody will be more inclined to buy it because there isn't a platinum so what's the thought process behind it? You're restricting your potential audience for no reason.
To me, the lack of a platinum in any game nowadays starts alarm bells ringing, it suggests a lack of care and effort has been put into it, now it might not be the case but that's the impression I get
Re: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Officially Out for PS5 on 17th April
Selling early access to a game that's already available is not getting anywhere close to the scrutiny it warrants. Gamers get outraged very easily over the smallest of things yet this practice, something genuinely worthy of such outrage, is going largely under the radar.
I'll hold off for 18 months and play it st no additional cost when it inevitably comes to ps+ in some form.
Re: Astro Bot's Big Success the Result of Keeping Scope Small and Simple, Says Director
Shorter games are absolutely fine if they're also fantastic games. If this was a mediocre 12 hour game, there would have been issues and the length would have gone against it. Great games will invariably do well regardless of length.
Re: Rumour: New God of War PS5 Game Returns to Greece This Year
I'd take a smaller god of war side project Inbetween the next mainline game. I think a 2d combat focused metroidvania that's closer in it's roots to the original gow Greece games could be brilliant.
I've long since championed for other Sony studios to be working on smaller titles from existing IP, smaller titles to fill gaps that take maybe 2 years to do rather than the new standard 5 year cycle that they could even use to bolster the ps+ extra lineups as day 1 offerings would fit perfectly
Re: Another 8 Great PS5, PS4 Games Will Leave PS Plus Extra in April
This might be the biggest month of loss in terms of quality that Ps+ has seen to date. Glad I've done most of them, will make sure I do deliver us mars.
Already platnumed, slay the spire, miasma chronicles, animal well, tales of kenzera and kena.
I'd recommend every single one of them but seen as it's probably the most unknown I'll champions miasma chronicles. Anybody who likes xcom should make sure they play this, made by thr same guys that did mutant year zero.
Re: The Day Before Dev Reportedly Sues Website for Calling Game a 'Scam'
Not sure you can call it a scam as that would imply some people may have had different impressions of what the "game" would be. Anybody with a modicum of interest in gaming knew beyond any doubt that this "game" was always going to be a complete farce as it proved to be.
Re: Star Wars Goes Tactical for New PS5 Game Reveal from Former XCOM Staff
I have zero interest in star wars but I love xcom, so i will take anything even remotely similar to xcom as we wait an eternity in hope for xcom 3
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for March 2025?
Prince of Persia and arcade paradise make it an acceptable month in my eyes but the month undoubtedly feels very light. Feels very much like a big title was pulled from the lineup last minute and wasn't replaced.
Re: After Gobbling Two Publishers, Now Xbox Has Been Sniffing Around Ubisoft's IP
Rayman has to be the most desirable IP that could realistically be up for grab.
Re: Another PS5 Live Service Title Does a Concord, Game and Dev to Close Two Weeks After PS5 Launch
Literally never heard of it until this moment. The industry isn't in a tough spot right now it simply isn't an industry where mundane copycats offering nothing unique that require unprecedented success to survive can exist.
Re: 12 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for March 2025 Announced
@BolkaRover the classics refresh literally the same frequency as extra and essential. I.E once a month. If you're suggesting not enough is added. You pay about an additional £1.50 a month for the premium.
Re: 12 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for March 2025 Announced
I'm very happy with prince of persia. arcade paradise I've heard good things about too, so those two are just about sufficient offerings for me.
however, it does feel like a big title is missing this month, almost like something was pulled from the lineup last minute and not replaced.
Old armoured core games coming to the service makes sense with sony's investment into fromsoft, expect we'll see the new armoured core on there too in the coming months.
Re: WWE 2K25 (PS5) - Unbeatable Value from 2K’s Dominant Wrestling Series
Unbeatable value for a game with a large online aspect that seemingly is flooded with micro transactions and whose servers will be shut down in as little as 18 months rendering it all unplayable if the past is anything to go by. Seems like it's anything but unbeatable value to me.
Hard to blame the publishers anymore when the audience have shown they're willing to continuously buy their product regardless.
Re: Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5, Raising Preservation Problems
Oh no!! I have to make a free account for something that takes seconds before playing. However will i cope? It's a complete non-issue just as it was when psn required it for PC players only for them to ***** the bed and cry about it.
Re: RoboCop Returns in Unfinished Business, a Standalone Rogue City Expansion for PS5
@breakneck could be a whole range of things but I don't think it will be a licensing issue as they've got licenses for all those sports games too that are on there.
Re: Preview: Atomfall Proves a Must-Play Mystery on PS5, PS4
Everything about this is looking promising.
Re: RoboCop Returns in Unfinished Business, a Standalone Rogue City Expansion for PS5
@breakneck yep loads actually having just looked at what they've published.
Multiple WRC ganes have been on. More than 1 of the tour de France games have been on. Pretty sure we've had a cricket, rugby and handball game on there before, werewolf the apocalypse was on ps now. rogue lords (which is excellent btw and well worth a play if you enjoy slay the spire) and roguebook are both currently on extra, bloodbowl, overpass, AO tennis, steel rising, the Styx games, bee simulator.
The more i read the list of what they've published, its becoming very evident that pretty much the entirety of their back catalgoue is or has been on ps+ in some form. I didn't realise they were such a big contributor when I made that prediction to be honest, only strengthens my view considerably
Re: Styx Returns for a Third Stealth Game on PS5, Blades of Greed Out This Year
First Styx game was genuinely fantastic. Didn't know it was the same guys that did werewolf: the apocalypse-eaethblood, which was essentially a ps2 filler title released 20 years too late.
Re: RoboCop Returns in Unfinished Business, a Standalone Rogue City Expansion for PS5
Rogue city is definitely coming to ps+ in some capacity very soon. It's a prime extra/premium contender before this announcement, it's surely a certainty now.
take the ps+ windfall on rogue city and promote the new dlc to the massive new audience. Payday.
Re: SEGA Dethrones Capcom, Crowned Metacritic's Highest-Rated Publisher of 2024
Whilst I don't put too much weight into metacritic scores it's impressive l, fair play to Sega. It wasn't all that long ago that segas future existence was in question. Long may it continue.
Re: Cities: Skylines 2 PS5 Still Under Construction, Structural Issues Still Need Fixing
Sounds to me an awfully lot like the devs aren't very good at their job. The hundreds of other games on the system, a lot of which being bigger and more complex than this and working fine would suggest the tools aren't the problem the people operating them are.
Shame as I absolutely loved the first cities skylines on ps4 and would be well up for a working and good ps5 sequel. Doesn't look like that's coming though.
Re: Until Dawn Remake Dev 'Effectively' Closed, Says New Report
A game that didn't need to exist. If they were unable to secure funding, it's logical to assume they didn't have any ideas worth backing. No company has a right to exist.
There are too many game companies popping up with a run of the mill idea, having an unfeasibly large budget for it that's entirely reliant on it being a major, unprecedented success to survive long enough to get a second game out. Too easy for chancers to create a company in an attempt hit big and sell up knowing that it's far likelier to fail.
Re: PlayStation Struck by More Layoffs in the Aftermath of Multiple Cancelled PS5 Games
The constant over dramatisation of lay offs in the industry has been tedious to read for a while now.
The people that lost their job have done so because their job was no longer required, nobody is going to pay people to do nothing in any industry.
If you work in a factory producing one thing with staff that has skills tailored to producing that one thing and that company suddenly ceases producing that product, there's no use for those employed specifically to produce that product anymore so of course they're going to lay them off. What's a person employed to make background art for a now cancelled game going to do everyday?
Re: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 Is Finally Official, Ollies onto PS5, PS4 This Summer
1+2 remake was brilliant. Had the perfect mix of feeling modern and inflicting nostalgia, it's how I think 1+2 played rather than how it actually played. Also a bloody hard platinum which I enjoyed. Don't have the same nostalgia for 3+4, I'm sure I probably played them but I don't remember anything of them and nothing in the trailer rang any bells. Will be something I'll play once it inevitably comes to ps+
Re: Talking Point: Is Forza Horizon 5's PS5 Price Point Too High?
As with all games now, I'll play it when it comes to ps+ and if it doesnt, ill play whatever does instead.
extremely rare I buy games now, I basically play daily and yet I've bought just 3 games this decade. Once you get passed the initial sense of being left behind as each new big thing comes out and you build up a backlog of games you've not yet played, there's really no need to ever purchase anything else other than my ps+ subscription.
Re: Capcom's Crappy Microtransactions Are Back in Monster Hunter Wilds, Including Paid Character Edits
This is a preferable thing. I'd much, much rather a game charge for completely pointless and optional cosmetic stuff and deliver free gameplay dlc.