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Dang, I just bought Disco Elysium: The Final Cut on sale bout a month ago. Oh well, still a great month.

Can’t wait to see where they go from Returnal.

So ready for this. I just platinum’d Miles Morales yesterday. It’s going to feel familiar but at the same time I’m interested to see all the refinements and improvements.

Well deserved retirement, Jim. Kind of exciting to see who the permanent replacement is after Totoki fulfills his temporary duties.

Nice, The Callisto Protocol is definitely one I planned to get to at some point.

I played Elden Ring for over 400 hours this year. So nah…all due respect to the game but I think I’d be disappointed by comparison.

Been playing Miles Morales the last few days, 7 hours in and I’m 48% done with the main story. Been doing a lot of side content around the city as well.

Feels like a perfect little appetizer while I wait for the main course in October!

100% playing 13 Sentinels, Odin Sphere, and Nier Replicant from this list.

Excellent month with those 3 alone.

Going to be starting Miles Morales tonight in anticipation of Spider-Man 2!

Psh, more like wall of unimaginable pride. Amirite?

Destiny 2 - 946 hours
The Binding of Isaac - 759 hours
Crypt of the Necrodancer - 456 hours

Release date today hopefully!

So basically Vanillaware’s take on Fire Emblem? I’m in!

That’s what I’m talking about. Very pleased with Nier Replicant and 13 Sentinels!

I’m playing a mixture of Gran Turismo 7 and The Evil Within, and I always set aside some time for Crypt of the Necrodancer.

Happy gaming everyone.

Wow, would you look at that…

goes back to watching anime at 36

Can’t wait to get lost in this one! The true rpg of the year.

Definitely not the greatest essential month, but I’m still holding out hope that the Extra and Premium addition announcements later this month will turn the month around.

@SgtTruth

But didn’t Rockstar only publish the remastered trilogy? I believed they outsourced the development to Grove Street Games, and that’s why it was such a mess.

Wow that’s really low effort. I already have the Legacy collection on PS3.

So basically the only noteworthy change is they just added trophy support to the MGS port that was in the collection before? It’s sad that I’ll probably get it for that reason alone, but it sure does come off as barebones and lazy.

No incentive to play a straight port again. I got full trophy completion for RDR and all its DLC in 2020 on the PS3, right when Covid lockdown started.

I’ll remember this game with fond memories because it was the game I binged while wondering if the world was coming to an end.

A fantastic game, but I have no reason to revisit it again if this port offers nothing new.

Record sales going into a discount, followed up closely by Spider-Man 2. This shizz bout to snowball.

Hell nah. I don’t change for no one. I go mad hard.

Spider-Man 2 and Helldivers 2 in the same month, gonna be a fun October.

Pretty happy about the month with Dreams and Death’s Door.

I started Twisted Metal when it came to the PS+ classic collection and so far have beaten the game with about half the roster. I gotta beat the game with the other half of cars to get the platinum.

Other that, continuing my journey in Elden Ring about 290 hours in now, and always getting at least a few rounds in of Crypt of the Necrodancer daily.

Happy gaming everyone.

Pretty awesome to see Twisted Metal get a resurgence between this show, the classics added to ps+ recently, and the new title supposedly in the works.

I wasn’t feeling the short clip I saw from the show, but the generally positive reviews has me more curious to check it out.

5x the length of previous games, or in other words, still 4x smaller than Elden Ring.

Let’s go! Beat the game with all characters, that should be a fun nostalgia trip. I’m bout to melt fools with Thumper.

I cannot wait to try Marathon and see what Bungie has been working on.

Can’t wait to play 1 & 2 again. I Must’ve been a kid last time I played either.

We swimming in classics. Great announcements today.

Anyone who hasn't played It Takes Two yet, it's absolutely one of the best games of its year.

I'm excited to try The Ascent and Undertale personally. Heard really good things about both. I ain't even mad at Spongebob!

Twisted Metal 1 and 2 with trophy support I'd like to assume??

I'm very pleased this month personally.

Oh heck yes, I’m loving these classic trilogy collections. Keep em coming!

@Darude84 Im not staying in an area just to grind rune levels, I just take a really long time to explore places when I want to be thorough. The sheer size of the world in Elden Ring is quite impressive, I gotta say.

I thought Horizon: Forbidden West had a large map but it feels small now in comparison to Elden Ring.

My vigor does feel like it’s starting to get high at 60 though, so I can survive most attacks. So I just decided a while back to not use any summons to help me during boss fights, to keep the challenge up. Miss my little jellyfish though. That was my favorite one.

Elden Ring. 240 hours in, haven’t beaten it yet and no sign of stopping anytime soon. I’m exploring every square inch of this world.

A little Crypt of the Necrodancer on the side.

Happing gaming everyone.

There’s no way I can pass up this collection with MGS getting trophies for the first time.

Looking forward to Walan Make.

I’m a fan of the Killzone series, but never have played this one. I’m looking forward to changing that, and hopefully with a shiny new platinum.

Honestly don’t see how this show was any better than Sony’s. Nothing shown was on the level of Dragon’s Dogma 2 unless you’re a huge FF fan.

I see both shows as equal in terms of quality games. The Sony show just had way more hype around it so it gave a worse impression.

@BAMozzy Right, but can’t the same be said for the Spider-Man 2 video as well as all the other games that were at the showcase? They were all linked on various websites, and none of them did anywhere close to the viewership numbers that Marathon and Spider-Man 2 got.

That was precisely my point that a new Bungie release is a very big deal. I think it’s impressive that a reboot of a very old game from Bungie is doing Spider-Man 2 engagement numbers.

But you’re right about the size of the Youtube account not mattering much if all the websites linked it.

It’s impressive for sure, Spider-Man 2 is going to do huge numbers.

But what’s way more impressive and downright shocking to me is that the youtube channel for Marathon has a measly 20k subscribers and almost 19 million views for the Marathon trailer. Look into it if anyone is curious.

It’s got the numbers of Spider-Man 2’s Marvel and PlayStation account views combined on a tiny youtube channel. That’s more impressive to me since it’s not a household name like Spider-Man.

Surprisingly no mention of Marathon? It’s arguably the biggest winner of the show, with more views on Youtube than even Spider-Man 2.

This was probably the best announcement of the show for me. Can’t wait to revisit these classics, and trophy support for Metal Gear Solid for the first time I believe.

There was no need to call this a showcase.

They should have just made this a 1-hour State of Play based on indies, third-parties, and VR titles.

Then they could have done a separate 15-20 minute State of Play for Spider-Man 2 and it would have been pretty much the same thing.

When you call your event a PlayStation Showcase, you’re setting expectations for first-party studios to show up in a big way.

What a bummer.

I’m finally going to play Spider-Man by way of the remastered version for PS5. Downloading it as we speak. Never played this before, but with the PlayStation showcase right around the corner and Spider-Man 2 practically a lock to show up, I figured now’s a good time to catch up with the series.

Happy gaming everyone.

Descenders is a PS+ essential title right now. Claim it and it never goes away.

There’s Shadow of the Colossus and then there’s everything else.

@NEStalgia

I’d be curious to know your opinion on the sequel whenever you get around to playing it. Especially if you enjoyed Zero Dawn. It’s not a flawless sequel by any means, but I think it definitely improves on Zero Dawn in many ways, while also having issues of its own.

@MFTWrecks

Do you have certain machines that you have this issue with? I can’t say I shared this same issue or feeling when I was playing the game. And to my eyes, I don’t really see how what you’re describing is a change from Zero Dawn.

In Zero Dawn you also have to shoot off pieces of armor at times in order to expose parts of the machine that can lead to bigger amounts of damage.

For example in both Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, Snapmaws ( the crocodiles) have two elemental canisters on their heads near the shoulders that will explode if hit with a fire arrow. But in order to expose the elemental canister you sometimes have to remove the piece of armor covering them. Similarly in both games, one of the weak points of a Thunderjaw is that orange spot behind the shoulders. If you shoot in that spot it does like triple your normal damage, but before it can be exposed you have to shoot off a piece of armor to get to it.

It’s about learning how the machines differentiate from one another and exploiting their weak points. But I don’t really see how that mechanic changed much from Zero Dawn. There’s just a much greater variety of machines in Forbidden West that you have to figure out.

I personally appreciated the fact that every machine has a unique design to its parts. They all have different detachable sections that can remove some of their attacks in battle and do decent damage. And they pretty much all have elemental weaknesses you can take advantage of as well.

I never felt like I was just chipping away at armor pieces and doing barely any damage, even on my Ultra Hard playthrough.

@MFTWrecks I don’t really get your complaint about the armor pieces on machines. You can highlight every removable piece on a machine with your focus, and even tag the parts if you want to keep them highlighted during the whole combat encounters.

So whether or not you hit the detachable parts, or miss and instead hit their armor, comes down to your ability with aiming.

There’s a ton of different playstyles in Forbidden West depending on how you want to play. I always go for melee up close with a long range bow for sniping. My wife in contrast loves to set traps and tripwires to take things down.

The skill trees in Forbidden West open up the possibilities for a bunch of different styles to approach combat situations.