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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 618

SBBuds

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: Marathon's Slick Sci-Fi Visuals Will Look Particularly Crisp on PS5 Pro

SBBuds

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

SBBuds

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?

SBBuds

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: ARC Raiders Battles Sports Games for PS5 Download Dominance in December

SBBuds

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

SBBuds

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: Game of the Year: #6 - ARC Raiders

SBBuds

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: 9 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for November 2025 Announced

SBBuds

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

SBBuds

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: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give ARC Raiders?

SBBuds

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: Some PS5 Owners Might Be Paying More Than Others on PS Store

SBBuds

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: Arc Raiders to Be Packed Full of More Content Before the Year Is Over

SBBuds

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?

SBBuds

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: ARC Raiders (PS5) - A Triumph in Multiplayer Immersion

SBBuds

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'

SBBuds

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: October 2025 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Available to Download Now

SBBuds

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: 8+ New PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Confirmed for October 2025 on PS5, PS4

SBBuds

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: Poll: Are You Playing Battlefield 6?

SBBuds

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: Aug 2025 USA Sales: Massive Month for Single Player Games, PS5 Can't Catch Switch 2

SBBuds

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

SBBuds

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...