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Every time I put on the helmet, magic happens.

@LifeGirl @LifeGirl

What!? That is satire... right?

It is a win. Whatever they change it into won't be as well thought out as Sony First Party Intellectual Property.

I had fun with it. Nothing mindblowing, but worthy of anyone's time.

It could be VERY promising if a sequel ups the ante considerably!

Common sense prevails in the vote.

At some point in time I have to try this game. Maybe after I finally finish the game of the year-winner BG3.

We all trust Larian.

They have the people in creative fields and aren't skimping.

So long and thanks for all the fish..

Can't wait to try this as part of my subscription!

I also just managed to roll credits on an amazing VR experience in the Star Wars: Tales of the Galaxy.

PS Plus has been really killing it since I joined during Days of Play for a real great price.

Let me spoil you the story of The Man Who Erased his name. There's this overused character who goes Deep undercover or forgets who his is, and he's protecting this girl who sort of betrays him. And he fights men in diapers that are chasing off seagulls. The actual end.

Thanks for the video!

It really showcases the game well, and most people should know if it is for them.

I would like a fresh dose of bungie-lore. I just need to assemble a crew👍

I would have included GTA 6 but the management managed to tank their reputation completely. I was already suspicious of what they might put into the game in terms of predatory practices and their pricing scheme.

As is, there are so many great games already to choose from that making the list is really tricky. I had to go with Wolverine as it will be a childhood dream come true. Then, Blood of Dawn walker and 007 from Danish IO Interactive. The rest were difficult to choose from.

I am looking forward to hearing what it does on PS5 (Pro).

Also, you wrote about this just last week - there's no mention of this a year ago or I just completely overlooked it.

The trailer for Divinity is probably showing off the spiritual successor to The Witcher 3 or should I say a strong rival.

Think about it: CDPR created an RPG that fully rivals GTA's open world. Now Larian is competing with CDPR that's also competing with GTA.

Now, my hype level for GTA has plummeted after their corporate structure completely ***** up and pushed beyond greed into avarice which is a deadly sin. They need a giant slap to learn their lesson. The bigger the slap, the bigger the lesson.

I can't play much, but I really need to find out if the VR Star Wars game has more to offer before it is ranked away from me!

Of course, I'm playing KCD2 again. I have to get into it again in terms of mechanics, but it should be fine👍

Also, I've started up Pacific Drive which is a cozy little game that doesn't rock my world, but it scratches that base building itch that Fallout 4 created. I might play more of it.

I finished Forspoken without finding/seeking out a single side quest and only 1 (one) magic dungeon. It was like playing a game that were finished 2/3. The narrative was... one large bait-and-switch. The reviews that deemed it a middling experience weren't robbing the game, and the ones that liked it probably didn't have the Ubisoft open world-fatigue.

A congratulations to the game and fans is in order!

All those awards to just 1 game soured my viewing a bit. The comic reliefs of the show carried me through - the dog mup echoed people's thoughts about the show in a fun meta way.

For one, I wanted other games to win. For two, it was basically the same speech from the same person over and over. Three, an indie game it is not!
I skipped everything and saw the entire stream in about 20 minutes the morning after.

I finished the game twice and stopped somewhere in the first third of a third playthrough as a Nomad. I eventually plan on finishing the game a third time and find/do the small things that I haven't done yet.

It is an outstanding game on many parameters and my scoring is of course taking into account the whole, fixed package on offer.

@Americansamurai1

PS Plus Extra/Premium is the best deal in gaming, in my opinion.

There's a clear difference in trying to dispell the illusions of raving adults and 'defending a multi billion company'.

We already have a dozen or more users who cannot help themselves but be overly critical about everything and they feel compelled to share their views (without any flavour but 'vitriol' to their comment.)

As usual, the update is quite good in my opinion. There's 2+ titles I'm interested in.

But I will mainly be playing KCD 2 to round off the year in exceptional quality and style👌

Let's say your review of PSVR 2-version is under way and you happen upon a technical flaw.

Are you then going to DEDUCT a point from the score when the game arguably gets better with the inclusion of VR like you did with Resident Evil 4 VR?

Perhaps it is a bit pedantic, especially if I've overlooked significant differences between the two cases.

If they had chosen to reveal it at the Game Awards, it would have been absolutely amazing and a memorable highlight.

Don't get me wrong: I'll gladly take a new Divinity and might even consider purchasing a revv up of DOS:2

And it is the games I look most forward to hearing about together with Wolverine.

I am somewhere in the middle of a Divinity 2-run, newly started and newly abandoned. If the rumour is true, I might upgrade if they provide a path for that.

HAVEN HAS USED AI!!!!

1. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 will be winning the categories in which it is nominated.

2. 2 or more PlayStation first party games will be shown off. If it goes really crazy, one of them hasn't been shown before.

3. The statue is revealed to be several games, one of them Diablo 4 as was already revealed.

4. XBOX announces a couple of ports to PS.

5. People in general will say the show was overall bad. They'll proudly parade their viewpoint around in the coming discourse.

Could this be a hybrid console like the Switch 2?

The PS5 Pro should be good for 7 more years unless they make modern games much more complicated than they are now.

Maybe Sony Playstation knows this and are pivoting to offering the same flexibility as the main competitor, Nintendo. Maybe the PS5 Pro is already powerful enough when optimized properly to be the most powerful console for years to come.

The Pro pricetag isn't bad if you trade in the original PS5 via a website for used things for sale.

The upgrade is enough to not want to go back once you pull the trigger. In two years time, it might be 'too late' to upgrade, but right now I'm half expecting it to be as good as a PS6.

Even if the PS6 punches above the PS5 Pro, it is a question of whether or not the improvements are enough to move consumers toward consumption.

@Frmknst

Good to hear about your controller's longevity.

I guess the battery life isn't terrible, but the point is it isn't its main feature.

I finished Banished: Ghosts of New Eden going for resurrection. I don't know how much fun I would get out of another run going for ascension, so it it shelved for now.

Forspoken is disappearing on Plus together with Star Wars, so I've started them up. Star Wars is really fun. Forspoken has a weird charm to it, and so I might finish the story but I hit a snag where it is difficult to progress.

Forspoken seems like a game that was finished 2/3 and then that two-thirds was polished a lot. The map is huge, as are the cities but it is also weirdly devoid of life and detail. The combat is fun, traversal is okay, but I keep trying to climb everywhere and it is clearly not what the game intended. The writing is fine - the criticism leveraged on this game's dialogue was unfair.

Alan Wake 2 trying to finish this game. A good get for PS Plus and inventive through and through.

By far, the biggest flaw in the PS5 ecosystem is the propensity for stick drift and lack of battery life in the Dualsense-controller.

Consumers are not protected against this and always end up coughing up 100 dollars or so for a replacement. I've had 2-3 controllers develop stick drift in this generation, and it is planned obsolescence which makes it come off as greedy. G.I.V.E. U.S. H.A.L.L.E.F.F.E.C.T.

I've not shopped at all - can't keep up with the entertainment I already have access to if I'm honest.

To an extent, the criticism I often levy at Microsoft for training their audience not to buy is exactly what happens to me when I subscribe to PS Plus.

I think if we look at the numbers of owned consoles and the amount of sales on huge, amazing games like KCD II and Ghost of Yotei, we can see the impact of online games, and free-to-play games as a service too.

That's a lot of reappropriated car chips

I can't believe you guys fell for the same trick in the space of mere months. Your articles about "mysterious updates teasing" has been wishful thinking at best.

It could just be a very good game - if it is I think it will survive even if it is a product with a dependence on capturing and sustaining your attention in an attention-based economy where they've already been labelled by a lot of the chronically online consumers.

You could say that Bungie has paid the wrong people if they wanted this to succeed no matter the quality of the game. Why? Because whoever they've paid for marketing and promotion haven't made sure that this game is viewed in a positive light.

It is not my month, but the last 5 consequtive months has brought me titles I wanted to at least try, so I shouldn't need anything to play - in fact I'm in a race against time to buck up and play some of the VR titles and Forspoken that is going the way of the dodo on PLUS this month.

Forspoken has a weird charm that I like, and it was, if you can believe it, Xena, The Warrior Princess, that brought this game to my attention.

This game is probably (one of) the best driving games/VR games ever made, and frankly the Spec III sounds like a massive update, and I might just get the Power Pack but why would I ever go for a 24-hour endurance run?

They would have to pay me a lot🤣

@Veritas7Ax

That's equal measures insane and impressive!

A good read, thank you!

JUST SAY 'PLATTED' - you're welcome😁.

Yeah, platinum is just a waste of time, If you ask me. I put 60 hours into Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and I just checked the list of trophies I still needed and they are all predatorily grindy in nature. Ain't nobody got time for dat.

The trophy list is probably good for making sure you experience EVERYTHING, and the plat isn't impossible if I chose to replay the game for a different ending. But I know now that it would have to be in at least a year's time.

Are there easy to follow guides for plats? Like, how to best go about it from A to Z?

I am playing The Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden as I have been doing for about two weeks, and the game's pace is now down to a grinding halt because I keep getting sidetracked by big and small Haunting Cases which are grrat, but the amount of it is a little overwhelming. It also stifles the pace of the game, and I didn't want to spoil myself in learning how much you have to do and whether it actually changes anything.

I am still enjoying it, but a 8/10 is a fair grade, and were it paced differently I think it would have remained a 9/10 for me.

@darylb24

An interesting viewpoint: how come you are so certain of this?

Also, do you think Switch 2 will outsell PlayStation if a new PlayStation handheld is announced?

At this point, the rumoured handheld seems to come a little too late - people who want portables surely has bought a Switch or PC handheld by now, or will be sticking with their Portal.

I have a bulletproof plan for Sony to conquer Japan: Release your handheld with the name Nimtendo Swich 3. They won't be able to help themselves!

At this point, your readership is desperate to find out how many 2K+ PC rigs have been sold in Japan, and why Sony isn't doing more to sell 2K+ PC rigs.

I'll leave you guys with a thought: I am so tired of the missing games and absent graphics on PS that I, Sir Tobywell Grimsworth, swear and do declare that forthwith, and with retroactive effect dating at least one console generation, I shall not own a PS6!

Survival On Mars is weird imo. I can't get access to it, but chances are I wouldn't play much of it anyways. Never made it far in that waterworld survival game (the famous one which sequel is mired in controversy) because I couldn't be bothered.

I am in a race against time to start up Star Wars and Arcade VR..... 1st world problems are real!

A lot goes into my evaluation:

1. My time with the hardware (PS5 +PS5 PRO, dualsense)
2. My time with the peripheral hardware (Portal + PSVR2)
3. First Party output, Second Party Output, Third Party Output.
4. Sony Playstation's strategizing and focus + results
5. PS Plus

As I have had the digital PS5 since launch and the PS5 Pro for a while, I can genuinely say that each machine has served my needs par excellence. I think that the visual output delivered by my Pro and new, vibrant LCD-Screen is the most 'bang for the buck' in modern gaming. 10/10

The portal and PSVR2 has provided me with gaming in niche ways, and become a trusty travel buddy. Immersing myself or lying in bed are great alternatives to comfortable couch-sitting. The technology is impressive and inviting. I have too much to play to say that I've used PSVR2 as much as I'd want, though. 9/10

The output by first party has largely been a little disappointing in terms of potential - that blind gold rush for live service titles is the source of much of my anger. Nevertheless, I have more games to play than I can find time for. My own strategy was to not rush through games (nor do I think I even can do that with how they're designed) has made sure I at ALL TIMES have had true next-gen experiences at the ready - so no show studios like Bend and Naughty Dog is almost a relief at this point. Second and third party support has been 10/10. We're living in a Golden Age of Gaming.10/10

In terms of Playstation's overall strategy, Jim Ryan's Playstation killed off the XBOX or left it for dead anyways. Besides being consumer-friendly in terms of pricing (new games are expensive but not if you count how much quality time you can get out of each dollar). The biggest upturn has been the quality of PS PLUS. This last year has seen Extra/Premium rise to become the best value-for-money service in my estimation. A huge point deducted for the blind goldrush for Live Service that killed off reputable studios and created infamous ones like Haven. 9/10

If I do the math, we arrive somewhere in the range of 9.5/10.

It is not fair to throw such quality games at us constantly.

I totally forgot about this game, but sci-fi RPG with McConaughey is certainly on my bingo card.

Well, that's my life ruined: The games selection is not to my taste

Usually, you hear this from the trolling PC/XBOX groupies that throw themselves at PushSquarians. It is me this month, but objectively it is great with a children's game and a cool "indie" platformer that was highly praised at launch.

Whilst Destiny (1!) has given me some of my best moments in gaming with raiding and given me a friend list worthy of the name, I cannot, as a solo player, get back into Destiny (2). It is way too much of the same gameplay loop...I tried to play some of the DLC but starting the right content/mission felt like finding the needle in the haystack, just as leveling and choosing good weapons/armor.

PS Plus Extra (Premium if you have the portal) is the best deal in gaming bar none.

I will add a VR game to my backlog just to seem like an active VR user.

My problem is that I try and keep up with the library of PS Plus Extra, so everything I own or will have access to with any tier of Plus automatically goes to the back of the to-play list. Actually, that does mean that I'll have to squeeze in some playtime with Synapse (or was it Star Wars...) before it goes away

Which is also why I shouldn't be subscribed ALL the time - I have a very, very good backlog and want to get back into KCD2 in time for the Game Awards, so I can really feel the pain of it being snubbed for Expedition 33.

@KundaliniRising333

If you haven't tried it, take the users' word for it, maybe?

If you can't afford the upgrade even by trading in, stop worrying about it.

Getting a PS5 Pro at a substantial discount has been absolutely wonderful and the best deal in gaming since napping a digital edition launch PS5.

It is giving me the best visual experiences I've ever had, and I finally understand the performance crowd's insistence on frames per second.

For those interested in an example with a newer game, this is my experience with it on PS5 Pro:

I am playing Vanisher's: Ghosts of New Eden and the game is nothing short of amazing. Running without technical issues, 60 frames and absolute gorgeous details. Looking at Red Mac Raith's beard and braided hair is such a stunning experience.

It provides you with big, beautiful vistas and impressively cavernous splendour underground. The American landscape bent, exaggerated and warped putting your SSD to the test. The map size continues to impress me, and how areas connect to each other. The story is also longer and more nuanced with haunting cases stretching over the length of the game almost.

I want to see Bungie doing well. As shooters go, Destiny 1+2 has taken a lot of my time. Destiny 1 was a revolution for many players, myself included, and the only game that grew my friends list with 100-ish people.

I think I signed up if they'll allow people from the EU on. And if it is good, I'll pitch it to my friends. We used to game online a lot on Siege and 3-4 other games.

CD Projekt Red makes excellent games and the Witcher 4 will with a very high chance be a masterpiece!