Arc mostly, 401 hours topside but time played is something silly like 700 hours 😉 last I looked which was today, love it. On the last boss of Mandragora, need to grind some levels to beat that, very tough boss and just started Absolum, not a bad game. Dashings of Bf6 to mix things up but i really cant seem to click with it. All on PS.
Probably won't play any of them but if i was going to I'd play subnaughtica, that's my kind of genre. Have plenty to play with games I've recently bought. Meh to ok from me.
Bought this a few months back but really couldn't get into it. it feels like a game that is impossible to play without using a guide so not my cup of tea at all. Oops nvm, thought it was KCD2 which is what I bought, can KCD2 be played without a guide? I hate using guides.
Bought this game yesterday but also bought Terminator enchanced (£10 bargain) and The Forest as I have a week off work. Will get round to it at some point but I still can't put Arc raiders down for long at all. 80% through Mandragora so I'm a busy gamer 😎 love it.
I was interested in this game until I found out it doesn't have dedicated solo servers. You will still come up against squads even when queing solo. They have a 'Rook', a solo class but that's very limiting if you prefer solo. I'll wait and see if they do anything about this but I think they are ignoring a huge chunk of a community, the most played on Arc is solos so they are kinda shooting themselves in the foot with this one. I'll keep an eye on it but will not be jumping in at launch.
I'm defo interested, hadn't heard much about it, i'll bang it on the wishlist and check it out in the near future. I don't really want to start another RPG until i'm done with Mandragora Whispers of the Witch Tree (great game) which i'm not sure I will actually complete yet tbh. Kinda hard and I don't use guides but this sounds like a great game.
Nothing for me, might try Darkest Dungeon, can't stand Yakuza games and went off Resi games a long time ago. Will probably browse, check out then not bother with the others, they don't sound like my cup of tea at all. Premium still just a joke, good job it's cheap, I don't play old games, nostalgia just doesn't appeal to me at all. Played it a long time ago, loved it, don't want to revisit and ruin my memory of the game.
Great game, it's smashing records on Steam, I think it's the only game that has retained its initial player base so long after release almost beating its peak amount of players online at the same time so long after release in the last few days. That's two months after release. It recently bested the amount of players logging on over a 24 hour period with an amazing 3.2 million players in 24 hours across all platforms, with PS making up a quarter of those numbers, slightly ahead of Xbox! Love it, things are indeed looking good for Embark and well deserved.
Right now on PS timetracker there are 2 SP games in the top 20 most played, Cyberpunk at 17 and Yotei at 19. They do play other games just not for as long.
Doesn't surprise me at all, MP games are infinite and SP games have a short life span. If it wasn't these titles it would be a different MP game. My youngest is always on Minecraft, pretty much every night but on PC. Pretty sure 6 to 10 are the same, probably more. I regularly keep an eye on PS gametracker and the most played games are always MP with dashings of SP as they come out then inevitably die off.
I dont really care who makes it, Ai or humans, couldn't care less, if it's a good game i'll play it but if it's slop I won't. I think he might be out of touch, the last thing you should do is ask the internet to stop doing something.
Arc ofc, the REAL GOTY Bought Dragons Dogma 2 in the sale to try and scratch my SP itch but I don't think it's going to drag me away from Arc tbh, can't stop playing that gem.
Should be top of the tree, best game and the most fun i've had for generations on console. Sets the bar higher than it's ever been before. Amazing, puts every other game to shame, especially other MP games.
Arc ofc and I took advantage of the award sales and snagged KCD2 at a very reasonable 50% discount, liked what i've played so far but Arc keeps me from really getting into it, enjoy your weekend
@BamBamBaklava89 Love it m8, absolutely love it, no need to feel bad for me though but thanks for the thought 170 hours topside! With stash combined i'm only about 300k short of 5 mill, should smash that easy today. Actually more like 200k!
Arc should win, it's the best game I've ever played. Not surprised it won't though. Also people should stop bitching 5 mill is easy, I have 3.7 mill in coin already, no problem 😊. Let's face it, these awards are a joke and always have been.
Only killing floor 3 for me, the rest are very meh, Neon White i've tried on GP and wasn't for me at all. Better than last months offering though so kinda happy.
Love the optimism , terrible month though, nothing remotely interests me here, I have loads to play though so I don't care. Still have a couple of games from last months offering to try and V Rising is awsome so plenty to fall back on if for whatever reason I was to get bored (which I doubt very much).
Just means that they will run alongside the PS5 as they annoyingly (for me at least) keep making the games playable on the previous gen. I'd prefer them to drop last gen games a year or so into the new gen. An unpopular opinion here I imagine but as a whole I think it is the most popular as everyone I ever play with or talk to in real life agrees that PS4 support should of stopped a long time ago. Same with Xbox.
GOTY for me, loving it. Even has people scared that it will win goty awards Not that it means much anyway but it would be nice that a MP game wins it as they are the most popular games.
Lol at the people that are complaining about D-bags ambushing them, it's literally the point of the game The map design, extraction mechanic right down to the safe pockets show this game is clearly designed to encourage such behaviour. I do it and have been victim to it many times, just dust yourself off and go again.
9/10 for me and for all you topsiders a lil advice, turn crossplay OFF. If PC meddle with the settings they can remove shrubbery so they can see you in the bushes because shrubbery = bushes and you'll never know
Lol, picking on the little people again. never mind the elite jetting off here there and everywhere, scam. Remember not to use your fans in the summer so the elite can carry on regardless and squeeze in another jet set holiday or fly to their important business meetings..
Pretty sure the 'just for you' deals on Xbox are for the people that subscribe to Ultimate or own the game already and it's the DLC, i've had a few but not bought them. The supermarkets in the UK also adjust their prices depending on the average local wage so the prices vary depending on where you live, the distance between stores can be as little as two miles. A Tesco near us is more expensive than the Tesco two miles away. Sucks but that's life. Could be the same thinking behind this.
Crossplay off since day 1 and i'm finding bots unless I play in the evening but when it starts to hit 12am the bots start showing up. Sucks, I won't play against PC or bots so meh, the game is dying for me.
Good stuff, still preferring solo atm and abusing don't shoot, I shoot 99% of the time, it just screams 'I have loot I don't want to lose'!! I don't always win though, i'm 50/50 with the PvP thereabouts..Should defo not go PvE, it would split the playerbase and potentially ruin the game in my opinion. Suppose I will team up to kill the Queen or something, I have plaenty of friends to play it with that prefer teaming up. Can only play for an hour or two before switching games, plenty to play though so np. Great support, long may it continue.
I've stayed away and can genuinely say I have never TocTok'd at all, my kids do but whatever, give it 12 months and some other internet thing will be the next big err, thing? Anyway i'd say this comparison is daft, other platforms and real life are the main comp and real life should be as well. Family, gym and work for me, in that order as well.
Arc Raiders, V Rising and splatters of BF6. Rising and Ark are great and BF6 to scratch that itch. Dropped B4 for now after that terrible Halloween 'event'?!?!? Wtf was that all about lol.
Amazing game, love it. There is solo, I play solo it's how I prefer to learn to play these games, I will jump in with friends as they are constantly bugging me to play but if you queue solo you only come up against other solo players. PvP is amazing and if you say don't shoot to me you're going down suckers. I've not once come up against any teams, solo is definitely there, love it. Dying is part of the fun I'd recommend solo to learn the mechanics and then play with friends once you have the game down. Game queues are short and you'll be back in the thick of it within two minutes. Go freeload so you don't lose any of your own gear so dying is risk free. 9/10, good score.
Good, always hated exclusives. PSs are all SP story games anyway, 90% of the games I play are multiplat. We should be able to choose where we play our games. I'll buy both or go PC, the services they provide should be the deciding factor and that's why I still and always will have an Xbox, unless I go PC then I won't own a console at all, no point.
Downloaded V Rising and Wizard, rest don't interest me much. Rising looks awsome and Wizard is £2.99 lol with PS+. Don't know when i'll get round to playing them though, lots to play, NG4, BF6, B4, OW2 in a week and I have my eye on Duckside that's in preview, like rust but with ducks..Happy days and this list alone justifies having both consoles for me, never mind what's in the future Still itching to get back on iGirl as well, just not enough damn time in a day.
V rising and Wizard with a gun for me when I get round to them, still heavily invested in B4 and BF6 is awsome. I simply can't agree that PS offers the best service when Xbox are putting 6+ day one launch games each month for the next twelve months onto GP. Absolutely baffles me that people cling to that opinion never mind write it.
Yup and playing both campaign and MP, MP is the main appeal though, servers working fine for me but I only played a couple of hours yesterday. Pretty good MP, campaign is ok, bit buggy tbh, in the first mission I had to restart a checkpoint because my guy wouldn't lean out of the helicopter but the restart sorted it out.
Lets get this into some sort of perspective. This gen has been available to play for years before the S2, people have been playing PS5 and SX a lot longer now. If all three had launched at the same time and there was no availability problems, do you really think the S2 would win? The S2 would be long past getting dusty by now, most people wouldn't even know where their controllers were anymore and it would be an 'oh yeah I forgot about that, lets have a go, not been on the Switch for ages' console.
Maybe how MS are managing to give us six or more day one additions over the next 12 months, guaranteed payout over running the will people buy it lottery? I buy about six big games a year but I buy several £20ish games as well. I play my games 99% blind so if I like a game it will take my much more time to finish. With GP on Xbox it's more than enough. I can only think of five this year tbh including my B4 pre order, still plenty of time. All on PS might I add, just thought i'd edit that in, I don't buy Xbox, fallen out with them even though I stick up for them...
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 618
Arc mostly, 401 hours topside but time played is something silly like 700 hours 😉 last I looked which was today, love it. On the last boss of Mandragora, need to grind some levels to beat that, very tough boss and just started Absolum, not a bad game. Dashings of Bf6 to mix things up but i really cant seem to click with it. All on PS.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for February 2026?
Probably won't play any of them but if i was going to I'd play subnaughtica, that's my kind of genre. Have plenty to play with games I've recently bought. Meh to ok from me.
Re: New Kingdom Come: Deliverance PS5 Version Seems Real in PS Store Leak
Bought this a few months back but really couldn't get into it. it feels like a game that is impossible to play without using a guide so not my cup of tea at all. Oops nvm, thought it was KCD2 which is what I bought, can KCD2 be played without a guide? I hate using guides.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for February 2026 Announced
Not to bad but I probably won'tr bother with them.
Re: Hands On: Highguard Is Real and Potentially Great on PS5
Pfft I couldn't care less how much time they have spent on the game, the F2P market needs to die, I hope it bombs hard.
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Highguard?
F2P.....thanks but no thanks.
Re: Awesome Beat-'Em-Up Absolum Slaps February Release Date on Huge PS5 Patch
Bought this game yesterday but also bought Terminator enchanced (£10 bargain) and The Forest as I have a week off work. Will get round to it at some point but I still can't put Arc raiders down for long at all. 80% through Mandragora so I'm a busy gamer 😎 love it.
Re: Marathon's Slick Sci-Fi Visuals Will Look Particularly Crisp on PS5 Pro
I was interested in this game until I found out it doesn't have dedicated solo servers. You will still come up against squads even when queing solo. They have a 'Rook', a solo class but that's very limiting if you prefer solo. I'll wait and see if they do anything about this but I think they are ignoring a huge chunk of a community, the most played on Arc is solos so they are kinda shooting themselves in the foot with this one. I'll keep an eye on it but will not be jumping in at launch.
Re: Skyrim-Like RPG Tainted Grail Proves a Huge Success
I'm defo interested, hadn't heard much about it, i'll bang it on the wishlist and check it out in the near future. I don't really want to start another RPG until i'm done with Mandragora Whispers of the Witch Tree (great game) which i'm not sure I will actually complete yet tbh. Kinda hard and I don't use guides but this sounds like a great game.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for January 2026?
Nothing for me, might try Darkest Dungeon, can't stand Yakuza games and went off Resi games a long time ago. Will probably browse, check out then not bother with the others, they don't sound like my cup of tea at all. Premium still just a joke, good job it's cheap, I don't play old games, nostalgia just doesn't appeal to me at all. Played it a long time ago, loved it, don't want to revisit and ruin my memory of the game.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for January 2026?
Might try nfs, played core keeper on xbox not bad but Mocky isn't for me, they're ok.
Re: ARC Raiders Battles Sports Games for PS5 Download Dominance in December
Great game, it's smashing records on Steam, I think it's the only game that has retained its initial player base so long after release almost beating its peak amount of players online at the same time so long after release in the last few days. That's two months after release. It recently bested the amount of players logging on over a 24 hour period with an amazing 3.2 million players in 24 hours across all platforms, with PS making up a quarter of those numbers, slightly ahead of Xbox! Love it, things are indeed looking good for Embark and well deserved.
Re: You'll Never Guess the Most Played PS5, PS4 Games of 2025 in the US
Right now on PS timetracker there are 2 SP games in the top 20 most played, Cyberpunk at 17 and Yotei at 19. They do play other games just not for as long.
Re: You'll Never Guess the Most Played PS5, PS4 Games of 2025 in the US
Doesn't surprise me at all, MP games are infinite and SP games have a short life span. If it wasn't these titles it would be a different MP game. My youngest is always on Minecraft, pretty much every night but on PC. Pretty sure 6 to 10 are the same, probably more. I regularly keep an eye on PS gametracker and the most played games are always MP with dashings of SP as they come out then inevitably die off.
Re: Microsoft CEO Really Wants You to Stop Calling Generative AI 'Slop'
Can Ai really be as bad as a bunch of shareholders talking slop? Guess we will find out sooner or later, just more slop.
Re: Microsoft CEO Really Wants You to Stop Calling Generative AI 'Slop'
I dont really care who makes it, Ai or humans, couldn't care less, if it's a good game i'll play it but if it's slop I won't. I think he might be out of touch, the last thing you should do is ask the internet to stop doing something.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 614
Arc ofc, the REAL GOTY Bought Dragons Dogma 2 in the sale to try and scratch my SP itch but I don't think it's going to drag me away from Arc tbh, can't stop playing that gem.
Re: Game of the Year: #6 - ARC Raiders
Should be top of the tree, best game and the most fun i've had for generations on console. Sets the bar higher than it's ever been before. Amazing, puts every other game to shame, especially other MP games.
Re: The Game Awards Keeps On Getting More and More Popular
It's obvious why, because of the reveals, not the awards.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 611
Arc ofc and I took advantage of the award sales and snagged KCD2 at a very reasonable 50% discount, liked what i've played so far but Arc keeps me from really getting into it, enjoy your weekend
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for December 2025?
Meh they're ok from me, probably won't play any of them though tbh.
Re: Feature: Predict The Game Awards 2025 with Our 20 Question Quiz
@BamBamBaklava89 Love it m8, absolutely love it, no need to feel bad for me though but thanks for the thought 170 hours topside! With stash combined i'm only about 300k short of 5 mill, should smash that easy today. Actually more like 200k!
Re: Feature: Predict The Game Awards 2025 with Our 20 Question Quiz
Arc should win, it's the best game I've ever played. Not surprised it won't though. Also people should stop bitching 5 mill is easy, I have 3.7 mill in coin already, no problem 😊. Let's face it, these awards are a joke and always have been.
Re: Rumour: Mystery Game Awards Reveal May Be a New Divinity RPG, as Original Sin 2 PS5 Port Leaks
Gotta do something to try and boost the interest in these awards, sounds suss to me.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for December 2025 Announced
Only killing floor 3 for me, the rest are very meh, Neon White i've tried on GP and wasn't for me at all. Better than last months offering though so kinda happy.
Re: Talking Point: The Game Awards 2025 Nominations Announced - Who Are Your Winners?
Arc, E33 was good but Arc, not that it matters I hate these awards.
Re: 9 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for November 2025 Announced
Love the optimism , terrible month though, nothing remotely interests me here, I have loads to play though so I don't care. Still have a couple of games from last months offering to try and V Rising is awsome so plenty to fall back on if for whatever reason I was to get bored (which I doubt very much).
Re: PS5 'In the Middle' of Its Lifecycle, Claims Sony
Just means that they will run alongside the PS5 as they annoyingly (for me at least) keep making the games playable on the previous gen. I'd prefer them to drop last gen games a year or so into the new gen. An unpopular opinion here I imagine but as a whole I think it is the most popular as everyone I ever play with or talk to in real life agrees that PS4 support should of stopped a long time ago. Same with Xbox.
Re: ARC Raiders Is a Confirmed Live Service Hit as Sales Top 4 Million, Player Count Rockets
GOTY for me, loving it. Even has people scared that it will win goty awards Not that it means much anyway but it would be nice that a MP game wins it as they are the most popular games.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give ARC Raiders?
Lol at the people that are complaining about D-bags ambushing them, it's literally the point of the game The map design, extraction mechanic right down to the safe pockets show this game is clearly designed to encourage such behaviour. I do it and have been victim to it many times, just dust yourself off and go again.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give ARC Raiders?
9/10 for me and for all you topsiders a lil advice, turn crossplay OFF. If PC meddle with the settings they can remove shrubbery so they can see you in the bushes because shrubbery = bushes and you'll never know
Re: Study Claims Physical PS5 Games Are 100 Times Worse for the Planet Than Digital Downloads
Lol, picking on the little people again. never mind the elite jetting off here there and everywhere, scam. Remember not to use your fans in the summer so the elite can carry on regardless and squeeze in another jet set holiday or fly to their important business meetings..
Re: Some PS5 Owners Might Be Paying More Than Others on PS Store
Pretty sure the 'just for you' deals on Xbox are for the people that subscribe to Ultimate or own the game already and it's the DLC, i've had a few but not bought them. The supermarkets in the UK also adjust their prices depending on the average local wage so the prices vary depending on where you live, the distance between stores can be as little as two miles. A Tesco near us is more expensive than the Tesco two miles away. Sucks but that's life. Could be the same thinking behind this.
Re: PC Players or Bots? Battlefield 6 PS5 Players Frustrated by Crossplay Situation
Crossplay off since day 1 and i'm finding bots unless I play in the evening but when it starts to hit 12am the bots start showing up. Sucks, I won't play against PC or bots so meh, the game is dying for me.
Re: Don't Forget to Grab These PS Plus Essential Games Before They're Gone
Grabbed them, always do, will probably never play them but the option is nice.
Re: Arc Raiders to Be Packed Full of More Content Before the Year Is Over
Good stuff, still preferring solo atm and abusing don't shoot, I shoot 99% of the time, it just screams 'I have loot I don't want to lose'!! I don't always win though, i'm 50/50 with the PvP thereabouts..Should defo not go PvE, it would split the playerbase and potentially ruin the game in my opinion. Suppose I will team up to kill the Queen or something, I have plaenty of friends to play it with that prefer teaming up. Can only play for an hour or two before switching games, plenty to play though so np. Great support, long may it continue.
Re: Talking Point: Is PS5 Really in Competition with TikTok?
I've stayed away and can genuinely say I have never TocTok'd at all, my kids do but whatever, give it 12 months and some other internet thing will be the next big err, thing? Anyway i'd say this comparison is daft, other platforms and real life are the main comp and real life should be as well. Family, gym and work for me, in that order as well.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 605
Arc Raiders, V Rising and splatters of BF6. Rising and Ark are great and BF6 to scratch that itch. Dropped B4 for now after that terrible Halloween 'event'?!?!? Wtf was that all about lol.
Re: ARC Raiders (PS5) - A Triumph in Multiplayer Immersion
Amazing game, love it. There is solo, I play solo it's how I prefer to learn to play these games, I will jump in with friends as they are constantly bugging me to play but if you queue solo you only come up against other solo players. PvP is amazing and if you say don't shoot to me you're going down suckers. I've not once come up against any teams, solo is definitely there, love it. Dying is part of the fun I'd recommend solo to learn the mechanics and then play with friends once you have the game down. Game queues are short and you'll be back in the thick of it within two minutes. Go freeload so you don't lose any of your own gear so dying is risk free. 9/10, good score.
Re: Xbox Boss Believes Sony's Strategy of Console Exclusives Is 'Antiquated'
Good, always hated exclusives. PSs are all SP story games anyway, 90% of the games I play are multiplat. We should be able to choose where we play our games. I'll buy both or go PC, the services they provide should be the deciding factor and that's why I still and always will have an Xbox, unless I go PC then I won't own a console at all, no point.
Re: Surprise Days Gone Remastered Update Takes Advantage of New PS5 Feature
Yeah i'll never use this, waste of time. Great selling point. Lower framerate and visuals, umm...no thanks.
Re: October 2025 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Available to Download Now
Downloaded V Rising and Wizard, rest don't interest me much. Rising looks awsome and Wizard is £2.99 lol with PS+. Don't know when i'll get round to playing them though, lots to play, NG4, BF6, B4, OW2 in a week and I have my eye on Duckside that's in preview, like rust but with ducks..Happy days and this list alone justifies having both consoles for me, never mind what's in the future Still itching to get back on iGirl as well, just not enough damn time in a day.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for October 2025?
Average month, V sync and Wizard for me. Medium sucks yet again.
Re: 8+ New PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Confirmed for October 2025 on PS5, PS4
V rising and Wizard with a gun for me when I get round to them, still heavily invested in B4 and BF6 is awsome. I simply can't agree that PS offers the best service when Xbox are putting 6+ day one launch games each month for the next twelve months onto GP. Absolutely baffles me that people cling to that opinion never mind write it.
Re: Mini Review: Ball X Pit (PS5) - A Fiendishly Compelling Mix of Vampire Survivors and Breakout
Yeah I have my eye on it as well, looks ok, even better that it's on GP.
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Battlefield 6?
Yup and playing both campaign and MP, MP is the main appeal though, servers working fine for me but I only played a couple of hours yesterday. Pretty good MP, campaign is ok, bit buggy tbh, in the first mission I had to restart a checkpoint because my guy wouldn't lean out of the helicopter but the restart sorted it out.
Re: Battlefield 6 Players Who Party Up with PS Plus Subscribers Will Get an XP Boost
I'm in, operation firestorm!! Scorched earth, took 2 minutes. Crossplay off.
Re: Battlefield 6 Players Who Party Up with PS Plus Subscribers Will Get an XP Boost
Currently 175k in the queue at launch time UK xD Maybe they are adding servers as we speak, going down quickish. 90k now.
Re: Aug 2025 USA Sales: Massive Month for Single Player Games, PS5 Can't Catch Switch 2
Lets get this into some sort of perspective. This gen has been available to play for years before the S2, people have been playing PS5 and SX a lot longer now. If all three had launched at the same time and there was no availability problems, do you really think the S2 would win? The S2 would be long past getting dusty by now, most people wouldn't even know where their controllers were anymore and it would be an 'oh yeah I forgot about that, lets have a go, not been on the Switch for ages' console.
Re: People Don't Buy Anywhere Near As Many Games As You Think
Maybe how MS are managing to give us six or more day one additions over the next 12 months, guaranteed payout over running the will people buy it lottery? I buy about six big games a year but I buy several £20ish games as well. I play my games 99% blind so if I like a game it will take my much more time to finish. With GP on Xbox it's more than enough. I can only think of five this year tbh including my B4 pre order, still plenty of time. All on PS might I add, just thought i'd edit that in, I don't buy Xbox, fallen out with them even though I stick up for them...