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I’ll wait until PS Stars comes back up. Maybe Black Friday?

I answered “I don’t enjoy difficult games,” but I have enjoyed some really. I just never give a game a chance if it’s described as “punishing” or something like that. If that’s the point of a game, I’m just not interested.

Ugh. Another franchise destroyed.

With all the publishers Microsoft purchased, this is the game I was most upset about losing on PlayStation.

I think it’s a great idea.

Excited about Tunic!

@BAMozzy Forbidden West has been in PS Plus Extra for quite some time.

Deliver Us the Moon was enjoyable, but the follow up featured boring gameplay, long unnecessary flashback sequences, and an unlikeable protagonist. I wouldn’t fund a third game, either.

Anyone else having trouble installing the firmware? It’s been almost an hour telling me it’s preparing to turn off the PS5 and warning me not to unplug it.

Edit: It wasn’t firmware related, just a coincidence. Support helped once I googled their number.

Thanks for announcing these departures each month. I always forget where to find the list of games leaving the service and when I do, it often hasn’t been updated since the last purge.

Looks good, especially since storage space and wishlist are the things I check most often that aren’t already quick to navigate to.

The explorer page is fine, it gives you announcements on games you’ve followed, but also just a lot of ads for PlayStation peripherals. If you don’t have it, you’re not missing much.

Looks like I’m playing Chicken Police, then.

I bounced off Haven since I didn’t understand the combat, finished Tchia and platinumed Ghostwire:Tokyo. Looking forward to seeing what’s being removed next so I can start playing that.

My Extra subscription expires in a few months, so I’m saving my purchased and Essential games for then.

@djlard Yeah, that really bothers me, too. If you hide the demo then you buy the full game later, it will also be hidden.

So I hide the demos I just didn’t like, and leave the ones that interest me as a reminder. It’s not ideal.

I didn’t think strategy games were for me, but I played the demo and really enjoyed it. The problem is, I have about four months left on my PS Plus Extra subscription and I’m going to concentrate on the games there so I’d just be buying this to throw on my backlog. I’ll definitely buy it when I’m back to purchasing games a la carte.

I enjoyed the demo, even though it was my first try at a game like this. It ramps up the complexity slowly. That said, I’m sure I could have set up my units more effectively because I couldn’t keep the difference between soldier, warrior and fighter straight.

So, my gaming plans have changed for the month. Just finished Infinite Wealth and won’t be getting that platinum for a while.

Going to try to see if I can finish Ghostwire: Tokyo, Haven, and Tchia in a month. I may spend a couple of hours trying to get the last trophy I need for the platinum for Outer Wilds. I’ve rage-quit and deleted it a couple of times over that.

If anyone hasn’t tried Outer Wilds, don’t let me dissuade you. It’s a unique game that’s well worth trying.

I don’t own any of these. I will add them all to my library, and I don’t think I will ever think of them again. If that’s not worth a “meh,” what is?

Why does anyone’s lack of interest in this month’s offering provoke anger from others? I’m glad you’re all excited to play these games. Actually, that’s not true—I don’t care that you’re excited. Why do you care that others aren’t?

I have the standard edition pre-ordered and thought about canceling and then realized that if I don’t have to play NG+ for a trophy, I’m not going to play it anyway. I’ll stick with standard, which I’m sure will be plenty to keep me busy.

I would never buy a premium edition at launch. If standard doesn’t have everything I want, I’ll wait for a sale on the edition I do want.

I agree that Thomas Was Alone and Hue are good puzzle platformers, and Tacoma is a fine story title. For myself, I’m going to try Lost Words.

Limited Run Games get no money from me.

I plan on playing all of these at some point, but so far have beaten Humanity (which was great!) and am playing Chants of Sennaar.

I’m having a hard time getting started in what I think is the final level so I took a break from it, but the quality of the puzzle design is astonishing. I can’t wait for my brain to recharge so I can head back in.

Chants of Sennaar, thanks to Simon Fitzgerald’s recommendation. It’s as brilliant as the demo promised, and well worth $20.

Also started a new playthrough of Sea of Stars, PS4 edition this time to see if I can get another platinum. I was just going to boot it up for a 50 coin reward in PS Stars, but decided to keep going.

They changed the noise you hear when your piece levels up in Wheels! It used to sound like a bell and now it’s a distinctly electronic beep. It’s a clockwork game in a fantasy world, why does it have to beep?

Played the demo for Chants of Sennaar and it seems brilliant. Will definitely buy it!

This looks like what I hoped Heaven’s Vault would be. I don’t think I’ll ever play that game, since it’s been on my wishlist for years and never gone on sale. $25 seemed steep to me, and now I’m just being stubborn about it.

I hadn’t heard of Chants of Sennaar! Downloading the demo now.

I’ve played all the mainline Yakuza games with subtitles, but I tried Yakuza: Like a Dragon and the Judgment games with English dubs and enjoyed them that way.

Then I tried the demo for Infinite Wealth and oh boy. Kiryu as a nasal-voiced whiner just doesn’t work. Back to subtitles, then.

More Pocket Circuit racing in Like a Dragon: Gaiden. Frustrating yet addictive.

@sonicmeerkat I can’t understand why—out of all the first party games put on PS Plus—Sony thinks Knack 2 is the one title people will pay for.

I have never experienced stick drift, so I suspect that people who say they have are lying. Either that, or they are smashing their controllers with hammers and then dunking them in the toilet. If you didn’t do stupid things like that, you wouldn’t have any problems.

Also, cars don’t break down all by themselves. As long as you put gas in the tank and don’t drive them into walls, they’ll keep going. My car has been running great for years and years so I don’t see why anyone else would have a problem.

Oh, and your cat died because you didn’t feed it. I feed my cat, and it’s still alive, unlike yours. You should be locked up, you monster.

This is troubling:

1. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition - 497 hours
2. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR - 278 hours
3. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim PS5 version- 183 hours

At least I’m trending down.

@Bunchesopuppies I’ve been advancing the main story just in hopes of finding another place to play Wheels! So far, I haven’t been able to play it for less than an hour at a time.

I was watching Netflix’s The Queen with my blind mother, using the descriptive audio feature, when out of the blue a sex scene began. Now, it’s always uncomfortable to have to sit through these with your mom, but I thought it wouldn’t be so awkward since she couldn’t see it.

That’s when the narrator started with the very detailed play-by-play of the events on the screen. So much worse than just watching in embarrassed silence. We never discussed it, but we never watched that show again. Couldn’t risk it.

That is bewildering. No way I’m smart enough for this game.

So glad I didn’t renew my Premium membership in November! I chose to let my subscription lapse and move to Extra, even though that would cost more than the discounted Premium price. Since my subscription lapsed yesterday I can get the level I want and save money, too!

I’ve played about ten hours of HFW, taking my time and doing a lot of side activities, and even though I’ve barely finished the Daunt, every trophy I have left to earn is rare. Fewer than half of all players have gotten more than a quarter of the way through the game. It’s surprising that they’ll gate the DLC behind finishing the game when so few people ever will.

@Ultrasmiles I initially started to download the demo to Life Is Strange 2 yesterday. When I realized my error, I searched for the game again and saw there were two entries and the full game was also able to be downloaded. Don’t know if that helps.

It looks like the PS5 upgrade is available only for PS Plus Premium subscribers, and only to stream. At least, I see no option to download it.

The game crashes constantly in shop menus.

I was looking forward to finally finishing this when the PS5 version gave me a reason to revisit it, but the game constantly crashes when I’m in any store. I’ve deleted it and will see if a patch is ever coming for that.

Jett: The Far Shore is on my wishlist so this is good news for me.

It says I played 0 hours on PSVR but I played VR games most Sundays this year.

Just got the Sam & Max remastered bundle but won’t get to play them for a while. I played them on PC and again on PS Now. I’ll get the next one too, if only to signal that there’s an audience for these kinds of game.

Thanks for this article. I didn’t choose PS Plus Premium, I was assigned that tier because I had a PS Now subscription. I would prefer to have PS Plus Extra because that combines what I liked about my PS Plus and PS Now subscriptions, but it seems I’m locked into this tier unless I want to pay more money to downgrade.

All I can do is wait 8 months for my subscription to lapse and then sign up for a year of PS Plus Extra for more money than an extra year of Premium would cost right now.

At least you saved me some time, because I’m sure I would have been trying to figure out where the downgrade option was hidden, thinking there must be a way to do this.

I don’t understand why some people are angry that you pointed this out. I’m grateful.

There’s an option somewhere in the PS5 settings to “avoid spoilers.” Does that not do anything? Never understood how it would know, anyway.

@WizzNL That did it! Since the PS5 was already on so I could change the privacy settings, I tried remote play with it still on, and nothing happened. But waking it up from rest caused it to register.

Thank you for helping me!

@WizzNL I use remote play almost every day for a lot longer than 5 minutes, but it never registers. I use an iPad or iPhone.

I tried Dreams, and I just got confused. I didn’t understand the interface or see how to find anything to play. I got a few hours into the tutorial and gave up.

Stalinists love a good purge.

Only King’s Quest Episodes 1 & 2 were on the list. (I was probably the only one who was going to rate the others anyway.)

Where are all my jumping games?

Great news if true! These games are gems.