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Oh, Forkspoken.. just terrible news. Moving on..

Gonna be some accountability inspections going around..

Yes. Beating that before Rockstar pulls it from the service.

Played through Stray on PS Extra. Good game, I'll gladly add it to my permanent PS Plus lib.

It's interesting how Xbox hire-ups always believe proper path forward is not the one they don't have hands dealt for. And it fundamentally switches with every new hand.. just a while back they were also claiming gaming should be accessible to everyone and GP was profitable (as a proof of economically stable affordable model), but here we are.

I absolutely agree with their take, and would even follow up by saying such platform specific hardware features integrated into core gameplay are the reason why Nintendo has been doing well for so long. Hopefully PS6 continues that trend instead of being a more powerful PC.

Sorry to be the bearer of gloom and doom, but I don't think this was done as a new user requested feature or something. Many EU countries have a legal regulation where lowest price in last 30 days HAS to be listed on any offering. So I think Sony is just covering all the basis.. still better then nothing (law does exist for a reason).

@Rich33 Xbox version could not be considered an improvement. And going by those release notes, this will most likely be just porting those changes to PS5. :/

It doesn't seem to be mentioned enough, but Mark Cerny is an absolute legend! I had to rewatch Xbox+AMD video just to refresh my memory and remove bias as much as possible, but damn.. this is how you present new technologies, not by dialing explosive music to 11 and introducing 9000 superlatives into conversation.

I already own AW2 and all DLC, but these are incredible value. Such an amazing game, and each DLC is a different spin on gameplay (when they could all easily be just extra few hours of same).

Might actually run through campaign over the weekend. I never actually pay for CoD but do engage when they get added into services. Unfortunately for Microsoft, I'm not the targeted audience (zero motivation to participate in online shooter).

Dark Pictures Anthology games are good fun, but there is still time to play through them. Episodes are rather short, and assuming you are not targeting ALL potential playthroughs, each can be beat in 7-10 hours.

Anticipation has been high.. and I got myself into a tricky situation where I can't purchase the game as I'm getting it as a birthday gift in a couple of months.
Stay vigilant!

I see Austin Evans, I skip.. (no doubt new revision is cheaper to make, I just can't stand his subjective opinions)

This program is an insult to intelligence. What were they thinking? Acting like buying a pin is some sort of invite only club with a queue..

Housemarque has earned enough of my trust to be hyped about what they do. I'll be tuning in to see what it's all about.
As for the rest, keeping my expectations low, so that everything else is a bonus.

As long as the price increase is limited to US, I'm perfectly fine with this. Apologies to those who are offended by that.

Power mode is not something I would really care about, but controller pairing with multiple devices has been a lifechanger. One of my favorite features, and I believe every new console should have it from the get go.

Wouldn't use one in FF7, but I've gone back to The Messenger lately.. sometimes I feel like I would greatly appreciate a mode like this (not really though)

@Ricky-Spanish if there was any, I honestly don't remember it. When I think back to Hellblade 2, only thing coming back is me walking SLOWLY next to people giving me exposition, and then me walking slightly faster without NPCs in generally straight direction.
And somewhere in there I believe the gun was jumped, as I enjoyed the first game significantly more (I remember most gameplay elements from H1, years ago)

@Nepp67 big difference between DS2 and Hellblade 2. One is a game, the other is a scripted tech demo that can be beaten by holding pressed forward.
Hats off for DS2 though, they really set a new visual benchmark.

@Ricky-Spanish assuming 600k estimate is somewhat correct, you can get a certain feeling (as number 1 and 4 combined) about how much you can expect from 2, 3, and 5.

For those that haven't played it, Psychonauts 2 is one of the best Xbox Studios games and among great 3D platformers in general.

EA UFC 5 was a huge disappointment for me when it got added. I expected something new, but it ended up being just a slightly worse previous entry.
Witcher: Wild hunt and Star Wars are a blast, everyone should try that out while they can. Don't really care about the rest..

Very good month. I do already own a couple of these, but there are still at least three I wanted to try out and Unicorn Overlord has been in my shopping cart for a while.. PS Plus had a few great months.

I've missed the price earlier.. wow! This 3-4 hours tech demo (probably on the same level of interactivity Witcher 4 demo would be if released publicly) costs more than let's say Expedition 33? What a world we live in..
MS really wants Ninja theory to fail

I'm just glad review score was fair. There were so many 8-9/10 when it first released, I was questioning if I actually downloaded the same "game" from Xbox store.
It truly looks good, but it fundamentally fails at being a video game.

@Rich33 I didn't mean anything bad by it
Soulslike are just typically too hard for me, and not exactly my thing as I like my gaming more casual.
Easier difficulty might actually do wonders here, as I'm intrigued by the world they created..

I've already downloaded, got angry with, and deleted Lies of P before. But I'll be doing it again, just to check if my emotions still get that high for gaming...

Out of all that data, my biggest surprise is how well MH Rise did. It's most successful in the franchise
I love that game (primarily played on Switch) and it's scaled down approach. Very nice to see the world agrees.

@UltimateOtaku91 4 difficulty options in a soulslike: hard, extra hard, nightmare, hell. Accessible!

Yeah, this will slap. Totally ok with Sucker Punch taking my money.

In a twist I didn't foresee, an excellent month of games. Cyberpunk has become an amazing game, and I'm interested in Banishers, Twisted metals, Tropico 6, Risk of rain 2,.. yeah, good list:)

@Danloaded same thing for me, it was a bit convoluted where I had to install a non default standard version, and a second game choice from a dropdown I don't know what the choices within it actually are.

I'll give Diablo 4 another try. I did play it when it originally hit GP and wasn't really fond of it. Over the years Diablo has just grown old on me.
But, I'm looking forward to King of Fighters (Jusant is another game that didn't stay installed for long on my machine).

Kind of always expected Like a Dragon series and Atlus titles could not have been as mainstream appealing as media made it out to be. Honestly, I can have fun with Like a Dragon game, but will almost always (except maybe Judgment subseries) wait for it to appear on a subscription. Atlus games I just don't understand the buzz of (and I see myself as an average consumer).

I might be the only one, but I really hope we don't move the way of branded PC boxes. Years ago I've stopped being a PC gamer due to all the issues and friction between me as a consumer and an operating game, and I don't wanna go back. Console experience is what has held me in the gaming market for this long (basically 30 years).

I love how I played first few hours of the first game, can watch this trailer and understand absolutely nothing. Nothing has been spoiled for me, because I didn't get anything.
Not sure if beautiful or just bizarre..

Khm, if you train your user base not to buy games (GP), they totally unexpectedly won't buy games! And will only play what they are provided through subscription service. Amazing how that works.

Definitely agree competition is pushing all market players to innovate. It is unfortunate Microsoft has decisively lost in traditional console space and is looking to exit. I believe we will all only lose due to that. However, it does need to be a competition, one can not support alternative just for the sake of it.

Additionally, Switch is not a direct competitor, and that will be reflected on prices and future Sony hardware

Ohhhh.. it takes an unplayable game for Sony to issues refund. How did they mess up this bad?
Interestingly, devs always seem to be sorry after the fact, once the sales don't pickup..

I would love this feature!! Ideally, same controller would work on PS5, PC, and Android without having to repair all the time.
DualSense is my preferred controller, and I still use some others simply because I'm too lazy to re-pair all the time and these ones were either around from old consoles or are 3rd party cheapos.

It seems like they felt they had to show this off in light of Marvel Tokon, but man it does not compare well.

Yeah, first game was dreadful. I'm ok skipping sequel..

Damn, this was a tough one to choose. There is like 1 game in that list I'm not interested in. Seems public agrees as votes are all over the place. Amusing to see, generally positively accepted show without clear favorites..

Absolute banger for me. It was one of those presentations that reminded me why I love gaming (and it's not live service or quadruple A corporate "products").

Recently I got into The sinking city Remastered. Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One was quite good, but I felt like earlier games were not that great..
Anyway, I decided to buy Sherlock Holmes: The Darkest Mysteries Bundle (Game) for €7,19. Is either of the games in the bundle any good?

@Nalim you sir are correct. For some reason I was under the impression only the rear HDMI port was 2.1 : facepalm:

@diegooliveirafhc indeed, when you actually succeed you don't hide behind number of people who have interacted with our games title screen.

@OldGamer999 well you say that...
I don't own a Sony TV and wouldn't be able to comment on them, but I do run LG C1 (which is not spring chicken anymore) and it only has a single HDMI 2.1 port and a different HDMI for eARC. Which luckily for me is enough, but not ideal.