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Dropping loads of the negative effects from mods is handy but an odd one.

I'm glad there's an "on call" option for clan and friends only. I'll be more likely to jump in and help out knowing it's one of you lot.

BL2 was one of the best PS+ freebies at the end of the PS3 lifecycle. I played plenty of the DLC and got through to Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode.

Tales From the Borderlands was a brilliant Telltale game. The Pre-Sequel was good but not BL2 levels.

@Nightcrawler71 Exactly what I was going to ask.

Will power up the PS4 when I get home to have half a chance of playing it tonight!

@KingdomHeartsFan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bab5zqXionA (NSFW unless you're in Japan)

@KingdomHeartsFan I mean, it’s certainly no less weird than a turn based rock-paper-scissor game featuring women dressed as insects..

I'm plodding through this solo at the moment and having fun despite a number of flaws.

The cover system is great unless you happen to have taken position next to a spot which ends up being a spawn point and you get wiped out.

I agree about co-op scaling too. Someone from the Push Square clan jumped into my game (I didn't know they could do that?) and they were 10 levels above me. I was done for from that point as my weapons were next to useless.

It is a shame about the story too as the first one was minimal but I still found it interesting enough. In this, I have no idea who anyone is or what is actually going on in the mission but it's fun enough to get away with it.

@madcow78 Kiwami 2 25% off on PSN store at the moment.

@themcnoisy Only on PS3.

@madcow78 Having just finished Kiwami, I can even hear the noise that goes with “Kiryu-chan!”

@WanderingBullet The new specialisations unlock on completion of the main story I thought. Always a bit rubbish to be able to pay and bypass that.

@BranJ0 Definitely play two first! Infinite is great and the DLC is also really good for that game but it works better playing through sequentially.

I don't normally comment on these articles but having seen the image, I had to mention I'm playing through Yakuza Kiwami at the moment.

MAJIMA EVERYWHERE!!

I've liked the look of Biomutant since I first saw it but the long periods of radio silence worry me slightly.

Always leave them wanting more; I’m happy they didn’t do anything more.

A fantastic game and one of the best open worlds in any game. I've said before that I've never spent so long in a game world doing so little but still enjoying it so much.

The story is a bit off in places and I wish we knew a bit more about Dutch than we got but Arthur really is a great (anti)hero.

EDIT: and what a great character Sadie is! If they do go for single player DLC (I wish), then focussing on her would be great.

“it forces you to care about every single one of them”

Except for Reverend Swanson who is just sort of there. And then isn’t.

The latter days of the PS3 era were fantastic for me as I got the Tomb Raider reboot, Bioshock Infinite, XCOM, and Borderlands 2 on PS+ and loved every one of them. There’s been a few good months on the PS4 but nothing to match that run.

EDIT: and Dragon’s Dogma too! That’s one I certainly wouldn’t have picked up otherwise.

@BearsEatBeets Click on the link to the thread at the bottom of the article. A pretty convincing win for God of War!

Excellent news. Word up boy!

@ApostateMage Indeed. Borderlands meets Fallout by the team who did FO:NV (and the original games)? Count me in!

@MistressTonberry Don’t worry, @KratosMD loves any kind of poll.

JC3 was worth the money as a PS+ freebie but was repetitive and had a highly forgettable story and main cast. It was admittedly good fun but not enough to make me fork out for this one.

Still going with SP for now, especially while it’s still beta and they’ve not said whether progress will definitely carry over.

@ApostateMage I liked kotaku saying you earn cash at RDR2 era rates but items are valued at 2018 costs.

@ShogunRok I was stung with The Wolf Among Us which had a ridiculous wait between episodes one and two.

I bought a couple of Telltale games after that but often got the discount early bird price but waited until all episodes were out.

Like you say, it felt fresh with TWD, especially with some developer vids released between episodes where they claimed to have altered writing based on what the majority of people were doing, but people seem to have lost faith with it now.

UK: 12 month PS+ at 20% off on the PSN Store
https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/IP9102-NPIA90006_01-PSPLUSSUB12M20S0

Weirdly, the same pack plus DOOM VFR is the exact same price.

Am very tempted as I always said I'd go for it if it dropped below £200.

The Witcher DLC is the only one I've really gone back for as the base game was so great. Plus, they'd made loads of incremental changes to the base game as well by the time I came back.

In most cases I never play such DLC as I've normally moved on from the game. I picked up the HZD DLC but couldn't get to grips with the controls going back and obviously went back at an end-game level.

I never bought FF15 because they'd announced so much extra content and now probably won't ever get round to it.

@Boxmonkey With the final episode due Q3 2201!

At least all this means I might finally pick the game up at some point as I’ve held off from buying an “incomplete” version of the game up until now.

@Quintumply I have put a huge amount of time into it and still haven't got beyond chapter 2!

I’m probably similar to the majority of replies here in that I use them occasionally.

Currently, I’m playing Yakuza 0 and have a couple of guides for things like locations of the real estate property, and sometimes for where new substories have appeared.

I’ve used one video to show me how to get easy strikes when bowling because screw having to get three in a row otherwise. Similarly, I used some vids to help me with HZD hunting challenges, and for hoovering up God of War collectibles (trying to locate items via text is rather hard)

I think the main game series I’ve used them for are Dark Souls/Bloodborne but only to make sure I’ve not missed any secret items.

The thing that near enough ruined Rapture for me was the terrible autosave the game had. The pace is incredibly slow and the game only saves itself at specific points with no manual save.

Most of my gaming is done in the evening and I had a few sessions with the game where my options were to keep going for an unknown amount of time to hit a save point or lose everything I’d done.

@Lekzie1 Wasn't the game a PS+ title at some point too? If so, I guess plenty of people would have downloaded it as a freebie and then not played it as much as those who paid for it. Maybe.

@LaNooch1978 Oh god, I'd managed to forget about the courtroom level. That was not a fun sequence.

@ellsworth004 Seems about right, although the UK seems to get stung sometimes. Still seems a great price though.

A cursory look on the US store (as best as I can) and I can’t see it there yet.

@AFCC £9.27 for PS+ or £11.59 without.

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/EP1805-CUSA13285_00-HOLLOWEUPREORDER

I'm working but hope to get a bit of time with Surviving Mars. I've got a sustainable colony and everything!

@JoeBlogs @Knuckles-Fajita I think my mum once had a go at Crash Bandicoot but couldn't make it past the first hole in the ground..

@Knuckles-Fajita Playing with your mum?

I was even cooler and used to play the original game every week with my friend.. after recorder lessons

Due out this year and still no hands-on anywhere?

I've liked the look of the game so far and the artwork looks fun too so hoping for good things.

Excellent. Loved the first game.. and got it as a PS+ freebie.

Any news on whether there are the challenge rooms like before? Those were solid but it felt so good to complete them.

I only played JC3 as a PS+ freebie and found it a bit dull. I forget what the main story was even about and had no interest in the characters. While the gameplay was fun at times, it was massively repetitive, and I found it so frustrating that the challenges didn’t have a QuickStart option but you had to watch a loading screen every time you wanted to try again..

@wiiware I can normally get to the bridge boss and defeat him no problems but then get beaten every time in the Stilt Village.

Assassin's Blade, Frost Blast, Wolf Trap, Sinew Slicer is my ideal build so far.

+1 for the Stick it to the Man love

That said, this review could easily have been written for that game as it had the same pluses and negatives as this game seems to. May well pick it up at some point.

You forgot VR missions so this list is null and void.

Snake Eater is still top for me. I loved the changes they made, although the lack of mini-map and sight cones took some getting used to. MGS a very close second and is a game I completed so many times.

Peace Walker was great fun on the PSP and I actually really liked the art style. So many features were used later on in TPP as well, including the beloved fulton system.

MGS4 is a weird one as I don't remember a lot of it at all. I played 1-3 so many times but that game only once and don't have anywhere near as fond memories of it, even if the ending is all worth it.

@zeppray Good luck! I'm struggling to get another game going now. God knows how some of these streamers make it look so easy..

@zeppray I assume you mean Surviving Mars? These were incredibly useful guides:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/surviving-mars-a-primer.1083069/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SurvivingMars/comments/8zpi79/what_am_i_doing_wrong_80_work_slots_but_60/

Key points;
-Exporting rare metals is priority one
-Stick to living quarters as apartments are resource heavy
-Use outsourcing of tech early on to get a good head start
-Self sufficiency for polymers etc is key. Polymers as the easiest I found as fuel and water you often have in abundance early on.

@vgamerist Fun game but the combat was pretty repetitive. Thankfully they sorted that out for But Whole but both games don’t get the love they should (imo)

Still going with Surviving Mars. Got my best colony going with 250 colonists now and just coming up to Sol 100 for the first time.