Not seeing the alleged goldmine here. Onimusha is somewhat interesting given it's the revival of an all but dead franchise.

Thanks for the online multiplayer ps+ game we get to keep for as long as our subscription remains active that now doesn't exist. Joins the dozens of others.

First thought is "yeah that sounds brilliant" but upon closer thought, what is the Lego bit actually adding to it? Feels like more of a dlc add-on to cities skylines than a standalone game. Very interested though.

It is taking a dump on loyalty however it's nothing unique to Sony. It's a common widespread consumer tactic across absolutely everything in life. Amy kind of subscription service, TV, internet etc you'll find the exact same new customers only offers to get you in.

Don't want to play with randomers, can't play solo and wouldn't be able to get a party together often enough to play darktide so that's an instant skip. No interest in the cartoon brawler. Grounded is supposed to be pretty decent so I may dip into that so long as everything is doable solo.

Not a great month, weakest in a while for me. Why the random change in announcement times? This is usually done Wednesday 4.30pm

Extra is phenomenal value, I get more than enough content to last the entire year without spending any more money on anything else for the price of 1 new release game a year. However, I'm not telling them that. These surveys are just data points to use to justify constant increases. "X% of people think ps+ extra is great value so let's increase the price, increase the revenue and we'll only take a x% dip in satisfaction and minimal cancellations." No thanks. Downplay your satisfaction and hope they don't see opportunity to rinse consumers.

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Whatever it is, they need a hit and even then they're not safe. Seems almost inevitable they'll be closed down after this next game unless it's an unprecedented success that demands a sequel.

Not supported on mobile. Crazy stuff.

Edit. It works on mobile if you use something other than chrome. Worked fine on brave.

If they aren't willing to Greenlight Destiny 3 and get rolling on it, they may aswell just close the whole thing down now and cut loses. Buying a studio for its 1 signficant IP and expertise and then not have them working on that 1 IP is disastrous and an ominous sign of a slow, bleak death for Bungie. Marathon isn't going to save them, that simply prolongs the inevitable ever so slightly.

Very early announcement. Wonder why.

I'll be honest, the trophy support or lack of it, influences my decision to play a game or not. It's not that i outright won't play anything without trophies, simply that it's just one way of narrowing down the abundance of choice we have.

I know this isn't always the case or even neccesarily often so but I look at it as this, if they aren't adding trophies, I treated it as unfinished and it suggests a lack of care and quality for the product as there really is no reason not to have them other than a minimal amount of time and cost implementing it.

Don't think it really matters. The crossover is miniscule. Pc gamers that care, most likely have a Playstation too, if they don't they're most improbably unlikely to consider it, can't see many console players making any purchasing decisions based on whether there are pc ports so it really just boils down to the sales numbers which are seemingly not high enough for it to be worthwhile.

@MrPeanutbutterz same here. I basically don't use premium, but it would actually cost me money to downgrade.

I'd love a sequel to precursor legacy in the same manor although it feels like astrobot has taken up that mantle now as somys collectathon mascot game, but Jak 2 and 3 weren't the direction I wanted. Still enjoyed them but wouldn't be excited by a new game in that mould. Give me a new resistance.

Sounds like i was bang on with my prediction of the combat being nothing but a simple button mash with flashy responses. Was never, ever going to be genuine arkham combat in a game that has to be accessible to kids.

Depressingly predictable. Hopefully they can add a Seperate list for single player stuff, otherwise it'll just be the same list of garbage every week. Needs filters if it's to be of any real use or interest.

Reminds me of a somehow worse version of a Netflix top 10 list where it's filled with reality tv garbage and kids shows.

It's a free mode that really should be a paid add on. Absolutely nothing to moan about, be grateful for the freebee. You also don't want sucker punch wasting time supporting that mode for however long and delaying working on whatever is next. Only the most braindead of the terminally thick could ever find anything to be angry about here.

Enjoyed infamous a lot, would love to see it return but I want a new game, zero interest in a re-release of an existing one.

A simple Meh sums it up perfectly. It's not a bad month, it's an acceptable, run of the mill month without anything genuinely exciting.

Rdr2 will no doubt be super popular but I am developing a genuine hatred now for the constant re-addition of Rockstar games between this and gta5 for 3-4 months. Can always tell where the budget for the month went when they're put back on, and they're just not what I have the service for. I'm probably the outlier in that though.

Antiquated in your opinion, big distinction. I don't feel like it's antiquated to insist on only offering full releases. It's a praiseworthy stance in my view. It's bad enough when the full release is a buggy unfinished mess without us getting stuff that isn't even remotely complete.

I'm perfectly fine waiting for a full release of anything, I wouldn't bother touching anything early access even if it was allowed on console.

@LifeGirl you can say the same about literally any Ubisoft game. They all come to ps+ via ubisoft+

Sick to the back teeth of them repeatedly re-adding gta/rdr for 3-4 months every year.

Outlaws was inevitable and a decent addition (Fully expect that ubisoft Avatar game to come in the next couple of months, if not June)

The rest feels like a lot of souls-like mediocrity at best, willing to give a few of them a go but not exactly setting the world alight.

Enough there to be content with this months offering but not a strong showing.

The madcatz edge without the cost savings. You're alright.

Repeatedly said in the build up to launch that I was fearful their desire to make it more accessible and tone down the difficulty would backfire and I think for a lot of people, that has proven to be the case. Housemarque is built on making challenging games, that has to be at the core of every housemarque game. I know there are modifiers, but that's just not the same thing as the base game, how housemarque intend for the majority of it's players to play the game being challenging.

Just hope they're allowed to go back to making whatever is next as difficult as they want, if they want to and Sony aren't forcing accessibility requirements onto them.

"We want games to be cheaper and quicker to make" "but we don't want you to use any new technology that would enable that to be possible"

Let them use AI if they want, it is their choice, if it's dogshit and AI is part of the reason why, then they'll pay the consequences.

Why? A remake isn't neccesary, just don't a sequel to it, or is it the fact that would involve some creativity that's the stumbling block.use the template to make new things not shine up something that already exists. Stinks of a lack of ability to choose a remake of something that doesn't need it over a new iteration.

@CielloArc why are you taking those views so seriously? They're two different persons opinion on the games in question. It's not a definitive evaluation. If you don't agree with it, one way or the other, you take note of the reviewer, recognise your opinions differ and use that to better inform yourself next time they post something, or you stop reading entirely that's how it works, and how it's always worked.

If you're looking for an opinion that falls slap bang in the middle of general consensus all the time, you're not looking for somebody's genuine views, you're looking for a metacritic algorithm.

People that review bomb deserve nothing. All they're doing is making reviews entirely redundant. There are ways to voice displeasure without the equivalent of throwing your toys out of the pram.

The impairment is just a contingency move from Sony whilst they've got the figures to do it. It doesn't neccesarily tell the whole story it just makes financial sense to use huge profits to preemptively write down a potential financial dead weight now so they are not losing multiple billions further down the line.

Leaks are purely so some no mark can gain some notoriety and profit from it themselves, they should be roundly rejected and shunned as part of the gaming world, they serve no positive purpose. Devs should be able to announce and release information on their ganes as they see fit without having to worry about leaks and forcing them to get ahead of it.

Erm, doesn't that description fit animal well to a tee? That was literally a metrodvania with puzzles instead of combat.

Is it a 9/10 in the same way an artful escape was? Because that game in my eyes was as tedious as it comes. Only a couple of hours long and still struggled to get through it.

Given we are unlikely to ever get an xcom 3, anything vaguely xcom-like will have my attention.

Never going to be a huge mega seller, don't need any analytical tools to tell you that. It was always going to be one for the catalogue to bolster the first party offerings rather than a headliner regardless of how good it is just through the type of game it is.

They've gone to the effort of making it more accessible but that's never going to translate into numbers quickly, that will take time if it works, also think there is a danger that might backfire on them as housemarque has a reputation built on tough challenging games.

Most of the world is skint, people are dumping £70 on a weekly basis anymore. For most they're far more selective on day 1 purchases. Waiting for sales are much more enticing and just using the value of ps+ if you're patient enough.

Keep hearing about them replicating the arkham combat but surely it's just a visual representation of it with extremely easy, button mashing controls rather than a genuine carbon copy complete with the arkham difficulty. A Lego game has to be easy, to suit it's predominantly child audience.

Who cares?

Don't get me wrong, the people who desire provocative sexual imagery from video games are complete oddballs that may very well find themselves on undesirable registers at some point in their lives, but those that complain about a decision to pander to that audience are somehow even worse.

What does it matter? The whole "the Armour doesn't protect anything" line is just ridiculous. It's a fantasy world. If it translates to more sales, it's a great decision.

Perverted weirdos vs the most insufferable people on the planet. Who'd want to be aligned to either side?

COD is as dated as the console at this point.

I don't see it. The parkour in the game can be good when in full flow but it's incredibly simple, you essentially just hold a button and point in a direction.

surely you'd need a much more complex system to get it to a point where it is even close to being something not incredibly simple, tedious and downright boring to fit into a fall guys style format.

It would be incredible to spend a decade making a live service game and not have at least a plan for multiple years worth of story. Not sure how this is even news, should just be a given.

Highguard had years worth of content planned too.

Marathons future will be shaped primarily by when it comes to ps+, it has to be whilst there is a lull in big releases to get people in and there needs to be some compelling content on the horizon to keep them invested in the following months. How successfully they navigate that will determine it's long term longevity.

Mostly happy instead of very happy because of Fifa. Has there ever been a more unpopular headline title?

Not arguing with it being goty or anything like that, but it being regarded as one of the most highly rated games ever and the most awarded is a bit over the top.

@Slayer25c why would they want to have anything else take up even a second of attention that could be on them? And from the other side of it, why would Sony or any 3rd parry partner want to put any other game in the same state of play as gta 6 where it'll get swamped? Makes no sense. Whenever Rockstar have something to say on gta 6 it'll be on their own terms independent of anything else.

@Slayer25c not a chance we see gta6 at any state of play or summer games fest, they'll have their own reveal whenever they want.

Nine sols and wuchang are excellent additions. As good of a time as any to bring in the tedious inevitable annual fifa game when its backed up by good titles.

Would make no sense to cancel it, most of the framework for a venom game is already there from previous marvel games, it's easy money. They'd be mad not to. Having said that. Wouldn't be overly bothered if it didn't release. Feels like the marvel movie fatigue is about to hit the marvel video game side too.

For those mentioning the legality of it and potential copyright infringement, I suspect it's simply not worth it to pursue it, probably cost more in legal fees, so long as its not damaging IP can't see anybody going after them, except maybe Nintendo.

My only concern was that in making it more accessible, they lose the challenge and difficulty that defines housemarque. If that isnt the case, it's a guaranteed banger.

If they were up for sale, weird that Sony doesnt buy them, surely you want that ps+ premium agreement secured long term.

Got to suspect they got a long term contract tied down with them before this, would be in everyone's interests to do so, Sony get what they want and Atari have a cast iron contract to safeguard their purchase.

They have to go all in one way or the other, if they want to bring back exclusivity, they've got to do it for absolutely everything and create the biggest reason possible for people to get an Xbox. doing that will mean them leaving some serious revenue on the table in missed potential sales though which is a serious gamble, they'll likely have to eat big losses for a while and therr is zero guarantee it'll work. Feels like a needless gamble for limited pay off at this point. If they half ass it and pick a couple of exclusives or they make them timed exclusives which i suspect they'll most likely decide on, that's not going to be anywhere near enough to get people back onto that system, people will just skip those games or wait, Xbox don't have system selling IP, their strength now is in quantity, make everything exclusive and that then becomes an enticing prospect for some.