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“ Just to be clear, this is not an MMO, and is not to be confused with Black Desert, as it so often is.”

Thank you! I’d been skipping news about the game that’s been littering my PS Store sale page for years. I didn’t know why everyone was so excited about a new update, and didn’t care to know.

Sony knows exactly what games I like to play yet the store only recommends genres I have no interest in. “Recommended For You” might just as well read, “Profitable For Us.”

@wilky2988 Not having the ratings in the app is ridiculous.

To rate games on the console you need to own it (or have it through PS Plus) and it may need to be currently installed. If you click on the three dots below the game’s tile, you’ll see a few options including follow and rate the game. I got into the habit of unfollowing and rating games after I finish them, before deleting them.

@homelesscretin The camera placed so close to Senua really makes you feel vulnerable to off-screen enemies. You need to really rely on the voices, and with headphones on and the whispered warnings right in your ears the immersion is perfect.

And the game’s a visual feast on the base PS4. I can’t wait to play the new version

The combat in Little Nightmares 2 was my least favorite part of the game. It was so frustrating to me. I hope it’s improved in this game, or really minimized. Stealth + puzzles + atmosphere + stellar art design + intriguing story - combat = must-play.

The only game I’ll be trying is Lies of P. I played Bloodborne for a couple of hours years ago and since then I’ve avoided all souls-like games. (Unless SW Jedi Fallen Order counts, but that wasn’t too hard.) I also avoid any games that promote themselves as brutally hard, hardcore, or punishing. I know my limitations.

I’ll try it on easy, though.

I really enjoyed the first two, but tried a couple of times to play 3, and just didn’t like it. I’ll wait for reviews, and maybe a deep sale.

My interest was piqued by the trailer, and I’ll be keeping my eye on it. Nice to see an interview here; hearing directly from the developers gives insights that no trailer can convey.

@rusty82 See, Sony? The program works perfectly!

@LifeGirl When I upgraded to PS Premium for a year, I was interested in the game trials. I got so aggravated at a game that popped a trophy early, before I’d decided whether or not I wanted to play it, that I never played a trial again.

No one is taking this game away from anyone who bought it, they are not going to offer it for sale any more. There’s a difference.

@Nakatomi_Uk That one is acting weird. Try clicking the dots and view product then click the dots again and select version, and one of the versions can be added. I think that’s what I had to do.

I only watch YouTube on PS5. It allows me to play at 1.25x speed, which the app on my TV doesn’t allow. I rarely use it for other streaming services, because the PS5 input is optimized for gaming, not the settings I prefer for movies.

It must be because I have a Sony Bravia TV, but my TV’s remote works just fine with all of my PS5 apps. (Also browsing the PS5 store, or whatever. Anything that doesn’t require the shoulder buttons works fine.)

I really wanted to play this on PSVR, because I’d enjoyed the developers other games and it seemed right up my alley. But I believe it required Move controllers, and mine never worked properly. My hands would be zooming off in all different directions, no matter what room lighting I’d use. Buying games that required them was just throwing money away.

Would definitely buy this on PSVR2.

I just moved down to Essential from Premium and it’s been liberating. I no longer feel the pressure to play all the games that are leaving the service every month, instead of the games I’d actually want to play.

As someone who has only played Fall Guys online, I could easily do without PS Plus at all, but I still have a hefty amount of unplayed monthly games. I’ll assess their value plus whatever they add in the next year when it comes time to renew, but I don’t think I’d ever upgrade again.

If you want to know how I’d improve the service, I’d want fewer online multiplayer monthly games in essential, especially annualized microtransaction-filled sports titles. Fewer mid-level AAA games, and more lesser-known indie games.

Until the paragraph starting, “For those who aren’t familiar…” I understood nothing. I think I understand enough now, but it seems more like a style of game suited to a mobile device.

Artists study anatomy. Nothing to melt down over.

I’d been reading the game’s name as Digimon/Story Time/Stranger, but now I realize it’s Digimon Story/Time Stranger.

This changes everything.

Nice to hear there’s a free upgrade for the original game. I think I bought that at $30 when it came out, so the next game is 67% more? From the reviews, I can’t see it being worth that much. I’ll play the original again and wait for a deep sale.

So funny to see The Last Guardian pop up, because I thought about going for the platinum this week, using a walkthrough for the collectibles. I spent about a half hour trying to get that animal to move near the fifth barrel I needed and deleted the game.

I really loved that game but wow, it’s frustrating.

@MrPeanutbutterz Abject is used as a negative intensifier, but it doesn’t mean failure, “abject failure” means extreme failure.

I enjoyed Digimon Survive well enough. I’m new to turn-based combat having first tried it in Sea of Stars. Turns out I enjoyed it, so I played Jeanne D’Arc and liked it even more. I’ll be looking out for this, but probably not until after I try Clair Obscur.

When I bought a PSVR2 on sale a year ago, I was swayed by VR games coming to PS Plus Premium, and the hope that Firmament would be ported over.

I dropped to Essential two weeks ago, but this news makes my day. Cyan’s been having financial problems recently, so I may make this a rare “Day One” buy.

@__Seraph I don’t see the word “territories” in the article. Has it been edited? It says “hundreds of countries” in the subhead, and “hundreds of locations” in the article. The first is impossible, the second is vague.

It seems like double counting to include a country and each of its territories separately.

@SeaDaVie That helps. I don’t use Steam so I’m not familiar with their systems. I just knew that PSN had to be available in more than 20 countries.

Can a researcher use his or her Steam account from their home country while they’re stationed in Antarctica? If so, is this a problem?

Can anyone explain to me how PSN is not available in “hundreds of locations,” given that there are fewer than 200 countries on earth? Are you counting each town in each affected country? Every uninhabited island?

I’m not bringing this up to defend Sony or distract from the topic at hand, but I can never get an answer to this question.

The full retail price of the games PlayStation adds to these services only matters if you were planning to buy them anyway. If you’re not happy with getting it, it doesn’t matter what it costs.

This is good news for me. If the share of PS Plus subscribers on higher tiers is increasing despite price increases and the slow reduction in quality month after month, then PlayStation has no incentive to improve the service.

And I won’t be tempted to second guess my choice to downgrade to Essential.

I played Spiritfarer when it was on Extra last year and it was the most moving game I’ve ever played. When it left the service I had to buy it so I’d always have it and as a thank you to the developers.

I’ll be looking forward to seeing what they do next.I only hope the combat isn’t too difficult for me to get to experience the story. My reaction time is getting ridiculously slow as I age.

Has anyone else had a problem buying Myst? I own it on Vita, so the PS store says that version conflicts with the PS4/5 version. I’m locked out of buying it.

Edit: Now, I can get Myst for free. I don’t know if it took a couple of days to fix it in the system, or if it’s because in the meantime I left PS Plus Premium, but nice that I don’t have to buy it again. I’ll get Riven, though.

It looks like since I own Myst on Vita, I’m not allowed to add the PS4/PS5 version to my library.

Edit: Now, I can get Myst for free. I don’t know if it took a couple of days to fix it in the system, or if it’s because in the meantime I left PS Plus Premium, but nice that I don’t have to buy it again. I’ll get Riven, though.

This was the one game I was disappointed to lose to Xbox. (Well, Elder Scrolls VI, but that was/is a long time away.

I’ve read the reviews and believe them, but I’ll still play it. Not at full price, but I’ll play it.

All these articles citing various statistics reminds me of ‘p-hacking.’ Unethical scientists (or scientists who don’t understand statistical methods) can just dive into collected data and find correspondences that they can announce as “statistically significant,” although they’re nothing of the kind.

Like those results, these announcements are meaningless and should be ignored. If a paid, online multiplayer game fudges its numbers, that’s a problem. The sales of a single player game shouldn’t matter to anyone who isn’t profiting from those sales. If you want to buy it, great. It shouldn’t matter how many other people feel the same way. Ignore the hype and think for yourself.

Assuming—reasonably, I think—that Sony will do nothing to make it easier for us to avoid these games, does anybody have a method for minimizing their impact on your browsing experience?

I sort games by title, because I got used to the PS4 store crashing and I’d at least be able to find where I left off. I think this helps avoid some shovelware just because it’s easy to skip past all the “Jumping” titles, for example.

If anyone has anything better, I’d love to hear it. (I’m terrible at detecting AI art, so what may be obvious to you won’t be to me.)

I tried the last Syberia game while while my PS subscription is still active, and it’s beautiful. The puzzles are a little too easy. And the trophies are bugged to hell. 50/50 chance of actually popping. So I deleted it halfway through.

@Jayslow I liked it too, but even better would have been asking which premium game we were most looking forward to playing.

Surely, everybody could tell anybody what they do or don’t like about the service, without getting angry at each other?

Some people like focusing on one or two games at a time and are satisfied with having enough games to keep them busy, while others who like to play a little bit of a lot of games don’t like the gradual reduction of options and see the service as losing value while the price keeps rising. And then again, maybe the whole idea of a subscription service repels you because you want to maximize the money the developer makes or because you think the model is designed to nudge people into the mindset that games aren’t things you own.

They’re all completely valid opinions. Obviously, only the first one is correct, but I can understand why everyone else is wrong.

@LieutenantFatman That’s a huge help! Thanks for going to the trouble to do that, I appreciate your kindness.

@LieutenantFatman Thanks for the warning! Sorry to pester you, but if the games description says it entitles you to download it to your vita is that not enough? Should I visit the store on my Vita before I buy? Or is there a third-party site that lists problems?

I wonder if this is why a couple months ago one of the essential titles was a Digimon game that some sites said had been cross-play on Vita, but after I claimed it I couldn’t find it on my Vita. I’d assumed that those sites were just mistaken.

I subscribed to Premium last year on sale. I did that because they were also heavily discounting PSVR2 and promised they’d be releasing games in that format on that tier.

They did, for a while. Then, slowly stopped. Months went by with no VR. Then one, then nothing. Now they’re removing quite a few of them this month.

To be honest, my PSVR2 is pretty much just gathering dust. I think I want to use it, but it seems I don’t. Just like I think I want to play retro games, but then I don’t.

I cancelled my subscription last month, and if there’s a good sale on Extra I’ll think about it, or just drop down to Essential and finally get to work on my backlog. Unless I don’t.

@RudeAnimat0r I got very envious that your library lends video games, then I checked my local library’s site and so do they! Now, I just have to get there when they’re open to see what they have.

@LieutenantFatman You sparked my interest, so I just checked out PS Deals and I see a lot available for the Vita. I hadn’t thought about buying anything for it in a long time. I think I’ll get back to it soon.

I’m not entirely sure since I didn’t play Twin Breaker on PS5, but I believe the trophy list for the PS5 is significantly harder than for the PS4. Just something to check out if you’re a trophy hunter and don’t want to have a rough time.

@LieutenantFatman it was cross-buy with the Vita when I bought it, and looks like it still is, with a new PS5 version, so three ways to play.

Bigger, higher quality games made more quickly. It sounds so simple when you say it. Hard to believe no one’s thought of this before!

I didn’t vote, because I’m effectively all-digital, but not out of any principle. It’s cheaper. Once in a blue moon, I can buy a physical version at a good price, and I always check to see if that’s the case before finishing a digital transaction. But it’s very unusual.

But for people who just want to have a physical copy of their games, I get the outrage. I still buy DVDs and Blu-rays of my favorite shows and movies because I don’t want to figure out which service is streaming them, or find that they’ve been altered and can’t be accessed in the form I grew to love them.

It stinks.

Just a warning to anyone thinking of purchasing this on PS5: there is a game-breaking bug that will make progress impossible at some point deep into your game. The game will tell you it is saving your progress, and will appear to be saving your progress as long as you don’t force close the game or restart your console.

Once you do, or the game crashes, you’ll find out how long it’s been since your game actually saved. For me it was about 15 in-game days lost, multiple permanent upgrades that took planning, luck, and multiple runs to unlock all gone, and some ultra rare trophies lost. Yes, they’re on PSN but you need to have them counted in-game for a chance at the platinum.

Just beware, you can’t see this coming. The only way to prevent it is to turn off cloud backups, save and quit after every run, noting the Day #, exit out and force close the game. Then restart and see if the Day # next to the continue option is one higher. If it is, you can manually back up your save. If it isn’t the bug has struck.

Edit to add that it’s not a matter of replaying those days, that would be bad enough. The game won’t save anything after the last time it made a good save so if the game crashes or the power goes out you’ve wasted your time again. Not worth it.

It was a great game, too.

Second edit: as of May 22, 2025 it appears to be fixed. I’ve tested it, and as far as I can tell, the game is saving now. I lost so much progress I don’t think I want to play it anymore, but don’t let that stop you from trying it.

I didn’t love the first game, didn’t play the second game, and don’t plan to watch the show. I’ve never visited Rotten Tomatoes.

Everyone should feel free to voice their opinions, whether it’s about The Last of Us or Hogwarts Legacy. No political “side” is immune to idiocy. And associating all criticism with the worst elements of the side that you despise is immature, reductive, divisive, and exactly the behavior most people claim to be above.

What’s the matter with the world today? All of us. Hate begets hate. Period.

I find information like this interesting, so I’m looking forward to trying it out.

I’m NOT looking forward to being told how many screenshots I’ve taken in Blue Prince. How am I supposed to know what I’ll need to know later on, or how easy it will be to access? I have to screenshot EVERYTHING or I’ll miss something.

So what I really need are folders in the screenshot page, so I can organize them by room, puzzle, document type, etc.

Oh! And a full text editor so I can add circles and arrows and a paragraph on each one to explain what it is and provide context and hyperlinks to other screenshots.

That would be great.

I’ll be playing it a year or more after launch, when the price drops to something reasonable. However long that is doesn’t matter, since I seem to have been born without the FOMO gene, or maybe it’s just that I’m 2-3 times the age of most gamers.

The comments aren’t jam-packed with, “this is why you buy physical?” Bravo!