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Sweet, interested in the game so a demo is perfect!

Loved Hogwarts Legacy, so hoping for more games like it. Would be cool to dona game in another school perhaps, dunno how they keep Hogwarts fresh in a new game.

Avatar - Frontiers of Pandora - I’ve finished and platinumed the game. Such a rich and beautiful world, I’ll be returning to it now and then to just enjoy it. As for story, that was ok but nothing special. The platinum required the usual ubi collectibles but it wasnt too bad. All in all I really enjoyed the game 🙂

Elden Ring I’ve finally played it, got it for the son as a christmas present 😁 after two-three hours I concluded that while more to my liking than previous Souls-games its not for me. The kid loves it though, and I’ve watched him play a lot. He and some of his friends play and help each other and are having a blast so thats awesome. I can totally see the quality and greatness of the game, so well deserved top spots last year.

Final Fantasy XVI A game I’ve been looking forward to and damn, it starts off super strong. Such epic fights and some great cutscenes, good and engaging story so far and it looks really good. Cant wait to play more 😀

Its an amazing game 🤓 not my number one but top 5 which I guess is the case for a pretty big majority of players here and therefore its the winner.

Thanks for the entertaining comments 😂 if Starfield is nr 1 over on PureXbox you know Spider-Man 2 has to be nr 1 here. We need balance in the universe 😂

I havent played BG 3 yet for more than an hour of the trial but that was very good so looking forward to playing it sooner or later!

More Avatar for me, nearing the end of the story but I dont want to be done just yet so Im doing sidequests and exploring. Damn they’ve created a fantastic world for us, cant get enough of it 🤩

Ooh, thats a great selection! Ty Sony!

Merry christmas everyone! Better late than never 🙂

Avatar - Frontiers of Pandora - Im really enjoying the game. Like a lot. Its not perfect,but the world they've created is so amazing and so fun and magical to explore it makes up for a few shortcomings regarding some quests and other minor things imo 🙂

On the Series S I've been enjoying some short sessions of Dying Light, which I picked up in the sale for the son. Still a great game, he loves it too so Im hoping for some co-op sessions over christmas 😀

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora – since last week I´ve mainly been playing Avatar and I must say I really like it. First off, it looks amazing. There have been some jaw dropping wow moments so far, like the first time you exit the tunnel and step out in the jungle, the first time its night (memerizing), first time getting on your Ikran… its just a very good looking game and running through the dense jungle makes for great immersion imo. As far as the gameplay goes, hunting, fishing and gathering fruits and resources feels like a natural part of the life on Pandora where as in the Far Cry games it can feel a little wierd and out of place and plastered on. Its also cool imo that the pollution and damage the facilities and factories does to the nature is very obvious and it feels really good to blow them up and see the jungle return to normal. The gun/bowplay could be a little bit sharper but its ok. The story is also ok, but the star of the game imo is Pandora itself. Cant wait to play more 😊

@K1LLEGAL its probably because there are more and better games on Playstation in peoples opinion and even if GamePass is great there have been very few great games in recent years that cant be played on Playstation as well.

Exclusivity is not fun but part of the game. However, this gives me a reason to play on my Series S, its not getting much love these days.

@Kraven the platinum was easy and pretty straightforward. An ejoyable game and platinum trophy 🙂

@KingPev lol it must feel like an eternity to christmas 😂

AC Mirage - done and platinumed! It really grew on me, liked the story and the gameplay. Nice to get a smaller more focused AC again, as I've said before. Also nice to not have any present day sections for a change. I hope they stick to games like this or for example Unity for future AC games and make the big and bloated games like Valhalla apart from the AC universe as those games would be great as RPGs by themselves and I felt like the AC part of them was more or less just smeared on.

Cyberpunk 2077 - I had to try the latest update 🙂 took the metro to my apartment for a date with Panam ❤️ Just very cool additions which adds a lot to the immersion of the game.

Journey to foundation - despite it being a port which doesnt fully utilise the power of the PSVR 2 (it doesnt look as good and sharp as other games for example) I like the story and the gameplay is good enough if not great. There are better games for the PSVR 2 though, but its a pretty decent game!

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora - I couldnt help myself 😂 Ever since watching the first movie I've wanted a game that lets you explore Pandora and even though I've only played for an hour so far I almost got blown away by how great it looks. Just wonderful! And I havent even played it at night time so looking forward to that. It really is a far cry game though so if you dont like those games chances are you wont really enjoy this one. I've got a feeling I'll love it though. More to follow next week 😀

Yeah, I’ve played about an hour and really like it so far and I feel like I’ll really enjoy the whole game. Pandora looks so awesome already. And Im not tired of the ubi formula and I like the far cry games still but I guess Im in the minority here given the comments 😅

Sounds great, have it on my to-play-list and it just moved up a couple of placings

Cant wait to get home and have a date with Panam in my apartment <3

Nice to see Hogwarts Legacy on so many peoples list. Its an awesome game and its on my list too.

AC Mirage – still going strong, still like that its back to the old formula. A bit closer to the end of the story but I’ve gotten caught up in a lot of side content, which I love doing, but I´m aiming to have the game platinumed sometime next week.

PSVR 2 Kayak – so they added a christmas theme to the Kings Canyon track and its pretty nice. Check it out if you have the game!

PSVR 2 Journey to Foundation – I picked it up in the sale but just barely started playing it. It seems decent enough, not as good looking as some other games perhaps but I plan to play more after finishing AC Mirage so maybe a fuller report next week 😊

Also want to play Remnant 2 on Gamepass, but not sure I´ll have the time for it.

@PixelDragon Always nice when a game clicks. Thought it would for me but no… Im going to try Forspoken someday, it should be pretty much what I like in a game but we’ll see. Waiting for it to be ”free” on plus 🤓

@PixelDragon how do you like Gotham Knights? I really want to like it, but after trying twice I gave up after a couple of hours both times. Maybe Im not doing it any favours comparing it to the Arkham games, or playing it solo…

Trine 5 – finished and platinumed. I liked it a lot, it looks great, fun puzzles, nice variation to the different levels and its couch co-op if you want to.

AC Mirage – nice to play a smaller and more focused AC again, after the great but big installments we´ve had. Baghdad makes for a nice setting, really interesting historically and I´ve read many of the games codex entries. It looks good enough but not great, its a cross-gen game after all. Gameplay and mechanics are good but not great due to some jankiness and some very minor bugs and getting stuck on things, Ubi should improve these imo. The story is entertaining enough, laid out over different cases to solve. I´ve about halfway through I think and so far its good. I think I liked AC Unity and Syndicate a bit more but we´ll see in the end. Either way nice to have a real AC game again, and hoping Ubi can make the big games a new IP instead and not call them AC.

Very happy for the great sales number for Sony but also worried Xbox is doing so poorly. Competition is good for gamers. Also worried what crazy moves Microsoft will pull to try and take a bigger market share, by that I mean what will they buy and make Xbox/gamepass exclusive.

Picking up Final fantasy 16 and AC Mirage, maybe something for the PSVR 2 as well. And renewing ps plus for a year

As a parent with limited access to a TV at times this would be awesome as I could be near the family but play on this instead of watching an episode of Bluey for the 100th time. I´ve used remote play on the computer etc but I this would probably work better. And I dont want another time consuming wonderful apparatus like the Steam Deck so this would be perfect. (I do, I just dont dare to get myself one because that would f my life up for real )

Hoping for a big sale on FF XVI, and/or a sale on Balders Gate 3 🤓

Dead Space remake - made some progress since last week, Im about half way now. Really like this remake, keeps a lot of the good stuff from the original but adds enought new things to keep it fresh. Impressed by myself that I havent died yet. From a heartattack in real life, that is. Ive managed to die a couple of times in the game despite playing on easy. Not impressive that:)

Jusant - small bits here and there, but mostly on the backburner.

Trine 5 - picked this up since I´ve liked the previous games and this is more of that in a good way. I like the puzzles and finding all the hidden treasures is really fun.

PSVR 2 - aside from VR games I started Spider-Man 2 with the PSVR 2 on and swung and glideflew (is that even a word?) my way around New York. That was pretty incedible. Jumping straight down from a tall building is not for the faint of heart If you have PSVR 2 and Spider-Man, try it

@Mauzuri you’re not exactly giving good reasons to dump Playstation 😂 but hey, its your choice, hope you enjoy it. Still dont get these types if comments though, just stop playing on your playstation and sell it. Hoping to get more people to abandon what you consider the worst console with posts like that? Just seems like a childish fanboy comment to me.

Spider-Man 2 - finished and platinumed it earlier in the week. Amazing game, amazing developer and amazing Spider-Men 🙂

Dead Space - great remake. Playing on easy though, makes it less scary otherwise I would probably have a heartattack 😅

Jusant - nice and relaxing. Playing shorter sessions, which makes it last longer and not get repetetive

Call of the sea - finished this yesterday. Nice puzzler with a story and a setting that I liked. Some puzzles were hard though. (Could just be that Im not that smart though 😆)

Im interested in the game but will wait for a deep sale or for it to be on a game service. So many games right now Im sure I want to play so I’ll happily wait games like this out!

@PixelDragon Booted again? 😂 ah well at least theres this place 🙂

Looking forward to this. Not pre-ordering but if it reviews ok I’ll probably get it at relsease!

Played the open beta and had fun, very cool destruction to buildings in the game. Thinking back I seem to recall the voices being a bit meh. This would explain it. Shame they didnt use real voice actors.

No, it wont. I’ll wait for it to be on GamePass.

Spider-Man 2 - Wow! This game is so much fun to play. The story, the humor, the details are really good. Swinging is superfast, gliding is a superb addition and the slingshots are great. The graphics are super. Is it more of the same? Basically yes, but its such an upgrade I dont mind having already played two Spidey games in New York.

Playing this game just puts a smile on my face 😁

Some minor bugs but nothing loading the most recent checkpoint didnt fix and one game crash, but from the menu. It feels a little less stable and polished than previous Insomniac games, but still in a better place than most games released.

Sidenote, the game is awesome

Sounds great! Really liked the first one so I´ll be playing this, but it´ll have to wait for a while. So many games, so little time...

@Mikey856 its a pretty nice and easy platinum. Would recommend reading whats missable though 😅

@Mikey856 that I did, almost missed one collectible near the end though.

Cyberpunk 2077 – finished Phantom Liberty. Loved it, love the game. Really liked one of the new endings, the one where in the end V is a face in the crowd. Will return for more Cyberpunk in the future, feels like its be a game I´ll return to every now and then. If just to give Panam a hug or two 😊

The Callisto protocol – so gave this a shot, thinking I´d drop it quick but I actually enjoy it quite a bit even if its far from a perfect game. I like the story, the gameplay, the setting. I also like that for a horror game its not scary. I mean not scary at all. You can tell when all the jump scares are coming so its no surprise and the rest isnt scary. Which is good, if it was I wouldnt be able to play it. Im such a wuss these days 😊

Warhammer Darktide – been having some fun with this. It def needs a patch or two, and a better structure for missions imo, but its old school fun and the Warhammer setting is pretty cool.

Cocoon – really good game. Clever puzzles, boss fights can be a bit meh but other than that its great.

Red Matter – although I havent started playing yet I loved Red Matter 2 so this should be great. If you have a PSVR 2 you should play these two games 😊

But mostly I´m waiting for Spider-Man 2. Even pre-ordered, turns out I had a bunch of points in Playstation Stars so got it practically for free. Thats great! Not as generous as Microsofts reward program but hey, its something!

Still all in on Cyberpunk 2077, near the end of Phantom Liberty. ***** me this is a good game now, especially with the 2.0 update. CDPR manages to create a world that looks great and creates an awesome illusion of a living and detailed world if you dont look to deep, butwhere the game truly shines imo is the storytelling and interactions with some of the characters and all the feelings it evokes and some of the choices one must make. And the small things, like getting texts from Panam just checking in, phone calls from someone you did a gig for a while back etc etc. Also, the story in Phantom Menace is great so far.

Cyberpunk is very high on my list of favorite games now. I know I’ve said that a lot but in case someone missed it 😀

Too many games right now, will play this later though. Looking forward to it!

Looking forward to this, might not be a day 1 for me but I’ll be getting it sooner rather than later

Cyberpunk 2077 - I’ve gone all in on this game. I absolutely love it 😁 the changes to skills and cyberware and how easy it is to respec makes it really fun to play around and explore different builds. Im currently playing as a cyberware ninja, its awesome. Just made it to Dogtown, seems really promising.

Also, Panam 😍

Starfield – I´ve finished the game since last week. Its good, very good at times, the main story is pretty cool but some of the side quests are better. Also the best NG+ setting I´ve seen. But I also feel very done with the game and dont think I´ll be playing it again, at least for a few years. Its very hard to not think about what this game could have been with a better engine, less loading screens, less fast traveling (no its not totally optional to skip) less menus, etc etc. But it is what it is.

Joe Wander – picked this up in the sale as a palette cleanser and its a pretty fun platformer. Controls are a bit lacking sometimes but the puzzling is fun and the settings are great.

Cyberpunk 2077 – I´ve been looking forward to update 2.0 and started a new game last night. I’ve only played for like an hour so cant say much yet but it feels like the stability and performance are much improved, and from what I’ve read about the gameplay tweaks this is going to be great. I mean I already loved the game before so this might end up high on my top list of best games ever.

I´ve been playing it just a little on Gamepass, Souls-games are not my kind of games but I really like the setting of this game so might give it a fair chance when I dont have any other main game going.

Nice! Really looking forward to this, seems like its going to be epic!

nice review! Having played the trial this is def a game I’ll be playing at some point

Sounds great, cant wait to start a new game