I finished XIII, which was a nice 14hr distraction from Skull and Bones, which has 380 hrs on my clock now. Need for Speed Hot Pursuit is now the pallette cleanser between plundering, whilst waiting for GTA6

I've been playing XIII, and it's been very nice, but I'm still also playing Skull and Bones. I think the only game that may break that addiction will be GTA6

It's almost 6 years since the original was released, so my wish would be for a sequel quite soon. Between that and The Witcher, I vote Cyberpunk.

It's late on Friday, what's happening? Anyway, inevitably I will be playing Skull and Bones. Even after nine months solid.

I think i'm buying the black one.

I'll give it a go, but it will need to be after GTA6

My question is, can I have GTA6, GT7 and Skull & Bones on my tiny 500gb drive at the same time? If not, I have a problem. 3 playable games is already not enough, this console generation absolutely sucks if 3 games is the variety we have to endure. Stick a disk in, load it up. Work out how to do it quicker Sony, if you haven't already.

Skull and Bones, sorry.

Skull and Bones started a new season. Oh dear. Looks like 350 hours might become 400.

I'm afraid that with GT7 taking up 150gb on my PS5 now, and with GTA6 coming and probably needing 200gb, the former may get relegated to elephant graveyard that is my external 4tb harddrive. This the real problem of discs vs downloads, there's not enough memory to have a nice suite of games, and no medium where you can upload huge games quickly. It's worse than the "bad" old days, in 1984, of waiting 10 mins for a tape to load up Elite.

I have been having a little break from Skull and Bones, so will probably continue with Timesplitters Future Perfect. I never clocked that Timesplitters came from the old Rare / GoldenEye team, so I am having some great nostalgic fun 🙂

I took a break from Skull and Bones to play FIA European Truck Racing Championship yesterday, but today, I might go wild, boot up Mindseye and see what the bizarre football game is all about

At the risk of being boring, Skull and Bones. I have to play with the volume down now, and ear plugs in, to stop my ears ringing. I have pre-ordered GTA6, so the clock is ticking to November to get Skull and Bones out of my system.

Skull and Bones.

The games I have put the most hours into in the last 18 months are Avatar, Far Cry Primal, and Skull & Bones (plus the long Balatro addiction and the constant pull back in GT7). I think Ubisoft do a lot of things right, and if they are cutting back deadwood to be leaner and more profitable, and, most importantly, survive to make more games, then great. That's capitalism, and without it, there would be no games to play at all.

220 hours, and I am still only playing Skull and Bones. I think it's addictive.

It's the TT races this week, and next, so my gaming has slowed down, but there's only one game that is demanding my attention. I shall continue to work my way through this season's Skull and Bones challenges, I'm not ready to stop yet.

Just back from a week's holiday, so I'm catching up on Skull and Bones, 200 hours now, and with Season 3 a couple of weeks old, the race is one to get myself upgraded again, obtain a galleon and try out more weapons.

I've played through at least 3 times, maybe 4, at this stage I would actually be more interested in a Caribbean expansion to Skull and Bones, and maybe some land pirating. I love Black Flag, but I've done it to death.

My PSVR2 has arrived and been set up, I want to continue with Skull and Bones, but I think I'll also see how it plays with GT7

RDR2 is showing as £14.99, RDR is £24.99. I would've bought RDR for £14.99 for a bit of nostalgia. Atomfall is almost at a tempting price.

I am still hooked on Skull and Bones, I built a ship to complete the Kraken challenge last weekend, and triumphantly beat it, with some anonymous fellow pirates on Tuesday. I have manufactories passively farming pieces of 8 for me, and am working my way through upgrading the Helm tree. After 175 hours it is still pure fun, even grinding the mega fortress. I shall continue plundering for the foreseeable future. I have a PSVR2 arriving this week, so we'll see how that goes when it arrives, it might just be an occasional distraction.

@Balosi it was an enjoyable game for three weeks or so, very linear, but certainly playable. I was looking forward to the future developments, and I do hope they still come, it doesn't deserve the vitriol fired at it.

My only platinum is still MindsEye, I am content with that.

Problems with the broadband means I've been playing Graveyard Keeper. Mindless tasks, mildly amusing, until I can get back to constantly online Skull and Bones. Hopefully Sunday, normal service will resume.

I upgraded my Brigantine in Skull and Bones to level 16 with some targeted gameplay strategy courtesy of Google AI's excellent answers to my questions last weekend. So today, I will do something similar and work on automating my manufactory production to passively farm pieces of eight, and plunder a specific mega fortress in World Tier 2, so I can upgrade the corvette and frigate I have. 150hrs spent in the game since Christmas, and the PS app tells me I am at 25% completion, which backs up my feeling that I am only just starting to really get going.

I've taken the plunge and moved up a world tier in Skull and Bones. This meant that before I knew it I had to choose which faction to fight for, the choice (spoiler alert) is the Dutch or the French. As a Brit, that choice was easy, and therefore I am fighting for a future of coffee shops, bicycles and tulips. I was already enjoying the game massively, but now there's a whole new level of intensity, just floating out of port with the sole aim of blowing up French ships and stealing their war assets. I started playing Skull and Bones in December, and I can easily see myself continuing until GTA6 comes out, and I am slowly convincing other gamers, who enjoy a more arcady experience, that it's really worth trying. The game play may be simple, but it's so intense, and the whole world lets your mind run riot. After some full on battles, you just want to sail through calm waters to an island where you know you can dig up a treasure chest. I might not even bother with the GT7 weekly races this weekend.

I was away for a week, so what with the holiday prep and travel from and to a difficult location, I've not gamed for 2 weeks, so it's back to Skull and Bones today for instant arcadey gratification 🙂

I will continue with Skull and Bones, 105 hours and still loving it. Being ranked around 9900 in the weekly leaderboard, it would appear, in the true sense of the word "objectively", that I am not the only one. Whatever floats yer boat, happy gaming everyone 🙂

I'm 105hrs into Skull and Bones, it's excellent. It would be cool to have some kind of crossover with Blag Flag, with the opportunity to explore the Africa and Asia maps on land eventually

I shall be exclusively plundering in Skull and Bones.

I would rather see some more new games on PS5, it feels like it's barely started, and maybe that's because of the pandemic supply problems, but I think mostly because it takes so long, with many hundreds of people, to develop the great games. If we wait to 2030, then maybe we get GTA7 on a PS6, and don't have to wait until the PS8. With streaming apps on Smart TV's, consoles have lost their cd/dvd dual purpose rationale, so it really is just about the games, and chopping / changing machines every few years doesn't give developers a fair chance to get to grips with the hardware, so we are left with mediocre games that never use the machine's full potential, which renders any improvement over the last gen pointless.

I did the weekly races on GT7 last night, it has dragged me in again after the Christmas update and gifts. The rest of the weekend free time will be Skull and Bones.

When the credits roll on a Ubisoft game, it can take 15 or 20 minutes to go through the hundreds of names involved in it's creation. I am sure that losing a couple of probably disgruntled and unmotivated employees won't harm either Ubisoft or the ex-employees at all. Change is good, who the hell cares if someone moves on after 24 years, everybody needs a change after that long.

Skull and Bones! Somehow, just playing one day each weekend, and a snatched hour here and there during the weeks in January, and getting the weekly races in GT7 done, I've racked up 60 hours of pirating, and I feel like I've only just begun. I normally hate cut scenes, but I like the sweary ones in Skull and Bones, even if they do only point you towards another boat or boats you have to sink, or a settlement to plunder. The gameplay is simple, but it's great fun, and when you find yourself trying to take down a high level bounty and put out a call for help, actual people turn up, you can also see on the map how many people are joining in other attacks, and fast travel straight over to them.
Your cannons don't hurt your fellow bounty hunters, or players you meet on the seas, unless you specifically choose a mission or PVP mode where they do damage to fellow players, so it means that, unlike GTA online, you don't get idiot kids running around blowing you up when you are minding your own business.
I've been a gamer since having Space Invaders on a Compukit UK101 my dad built in 1980, and this is genuinely the first time I have enjoyed any game that has online interaction with other players.
For all the knocks Ubisoft get, they know how to entertain me.

I've reached Kingpin in Skull and Bones, so I shall be doing more plundering and treasure hunting

I'm just getting started in Skull and Bones, so I think I can wait, or actually I'm not sure I will need to play Black Flag a third time. I think I have Freedom Cry in a backlog somewhere if it feel a real need, but Skull and Bones offers me plenty of plundering. For me Ubisoft do the best games for pure entertainment, consistently and prolifically. Rockstar are great, but one game every 8 years isn't enough

I did have to do a double take, as I could have sworn it was already on PS5, turns out that was Forza 5. Anyway, I like Gran Turismo, i liked Project Cars, I like the Grid games, even dipped my toes into NFS when they were PS Essentials. I'm not sure I can be at all bothered with Forza, or anything Microsoft.

I will have an epic session on Skull and Bones. It is basically Elite or Elite Dangerous with sailing boats, but I've loved Elite for 40 years, plus a good pirate yarn, so there's not a lot wrong with Skull and Bones for me. It's broken my Balatro obsession 🙂

I'll be plundering my way through Skull and Bones today, after I only managed a sneaky 45 mins on GT7 yesterday.

I am looking forward to many hours of plundering, pillaging and smuggling in Skull and Bones. I am afraid that 6 hours of cutscenes and wobbly slow walking in Death Stranding was plenty enough for me. I'll not be going back. However, I do now have a pirate ship that fires torpedoes, after a similar amount of time. Happy New Year 😀

And the best game in all of the list, in my opinion, was Balatro. It's now my go to game if I have an hour to spare, 100+ hours played and definitely worth the Essential subscription by itself. I wouldn't have played it if it wasn't on the monthly list

That's made up my mind to buy Atomfall (at a suitable sale price), and I have the first Death Stranding lined up for my first open world game of 2026, so hopefully that will inspire me to get the 2nd game.....however after putting around 40 hours in the first Kingdom Come and not getting the hang of sword play and shooting arrows, I'm afraid it doesn't matter how pretty the second game is, I can't see myself ever playing it... abandoning the first game for Far Cry Primal was my best gaming decision of the year, much more accessible and fun 🙂

Been playing Stray, in between Balatro and finishing Far Cry Primal. Also bought Skull and Bones for £4.99 in the sale, that's lined up for new year, Untitled Goose Game for £7.50, I think...60odd GB vs 850odd MB, crazy price for Skull and Bones, and presumably the Goose Game justifies it's relatively pricey price.

It's been a few weeks, but I am still finishing up Far Cry Primal, one boss camp to go, and also, the inevitable, Balatro, where I conquered the Painted and Anaglyph decks this week, so it's the Plasma deck today. I might have been late to the party, because I only got it with the Essential monthly games, but Balatro is by far my 2025 game of the year, seemingly so simple but endlessly playable.

I'm still playing Far Cry Primal at the weekends, but during the week it's still Balatro, 90 hours spent so far, l think that's a successful PS Essential download

I've been away, but did manage to get some bargains in the latest sale, Timesplitters 1&2, Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry, and Sleeping Dogs. They will need to wait though as I crack on with Far Cry Primal, and the inevitable Balatro. I did finish a run last night that I started a week and a half ago, and managed to open another deck, that will therefore require some playing.

I will be following the hilarious google ai instructions for Far Cry Primal to ride a young mammoth, and I shall also play Balatro. I cracked the red stake this week, it took four weeks of trying, and the joy was immense.

Its more Far Cry Primal for me, I have my tamed Sabre Tooth now, I unlocked the riding ability as the last thing I did on Sunday, so today I will aim to impale the baddies onto trees, as I was informed I could 😀 I will, of course, also play Balatro.

Just give me Days Gone 2, I'd be happy with that.