Topic: PlayStation Plus | OT |

@ralphdibny If you have PS+ you can use the online store to add PS5 games to your library, even if you don’t have the console. Once you buy one, you can download the games to the console.

I did this with the PS4 while they were giving big name games away for the PS3.

@Ryall for sure, and I second the "free" it does wind me up that people and even Sony say they are free when they are part of the paid service. I thought that they were all you actually paid for during the PS3 era so I don't get why they are free now that ps plus applies to the online. Winds me up about Amazon claiming next day delivery being free once you've paid for prime too. I wish the advertising standards authority would step in on that one!

@Thrillho that's true, I did that for Vita games for ages and then I had a nice library for when I got a Vita late last year, though I mainly use it for remote play anyway!

@ralphdibny Well they are free, you are paying for the online service not the games. Whether you use the online service or not is not relevant to how Sony advertises them. I see the games as a bonus, why is why i rarely, if ever complain if the games do not appeal to me for any given month.

@JohnnyShoulder I see your point of view but I respectfully disagree. I believe the instant game collection was the main USP of the service before the PS4 came out and whether the focus shifted at that point or not, I feel that you pay for all features of the service.

But I also don't complain if the games are rubbish! It's actually a relief to not have to add more stuff to my backlog!

@ralphdibn
Fair enough, I did not have a ps3 last gen, so only ever known to pay for Xbox Live Gold or PS +. The other stuff like clouds saves and the games I've only see as free bonuses. I suppose I can appreciate how people can see it and class it as not being free, if the whole service was once.

@JohnnyShoulder good stuff, interestingly live gold was the opposite. you paid for online and they added in the games later! I generally take the view point that nothing in life is free even if it doesn't cost money. Like a free keyring picked up from a stall is usually an advert that you end up displaying on your keys. Or a bonus for ordering a game from a certain store, they might see it as a free bonus but the consumer may well be paying slightly more to buy from that store just to get it. It's not something I think a lot about unless somebody questions it, I think it's just my base viewpoint for how this portion of the world works.

@Arugula Knack 2.

@Arugula Considering the PS3 game last month was a PS4 remake of Shadow of the Colossus, I’d take something similar over a David Cage game.

They are decent games as far as I know, doubt I’ll download them since I am still playing quite a bit of Animal Crossing, otherwise I’d give the farming one a go. I’m more interested in a truck sim game, though.

Anyway, if people gave them a shot, they might be surprised. I’d rather have games like this that I don’t have than “good” games that I do.

I'll probably give one or both of them a look-in. To be honest, when I see a PS Plus announcement like that, I get just as excited about reading the comments section as I do about playing the actual games

@Arugula @kyleforrester87 @Gremio108 I'm looking forward to FS19 and Cities on PC is great. It will be interesting to see how the controls have been augmented on PS4.

Another important point I have read in the comments of the May games article. Both games are on PS Now. So if you subscribe to both services its a disappointmemt. I've got my sub to see how ps now plays (interested in a couple of easy ps3 plats if I'm being honest). But that's a big downside to the two services.

@Arugula Surely you plough in the farming sim and shovel in the city sim.

Cities was solid if nothing spectacular. Controls fine too I thought.

@JohnnyShoulder great! Will add it to my library knowing the controls are decent.

@Arugula they best not swap them out. I will send an official letter of complaint. Genuinely, they can't actively run Bait and Switch campaigns.

I’ve been on the brink of buying City Skylines for a while so I’m happy enough with it. Farming Sim is a really weird one but probably still worth a go.

I just keep wondering when they’re going to bring out some of the big names as we had some fantastic games for free on PS3 in the final months.

Since the PS5 is going to have backwards compatibility for PS4 games. I think the demand for PS4 games will still be there to be honest. Least until the game library for PS5 get larger and have the type of games people wants.

@Thrillho Yeah, I seem to recall the last year of PS3 we had Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Batman Arkham City, ... some really big time AAA games. As well as some indies and gems like Dragon’s Crown, Demon’s Souls, Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen, as well as some gems like Remember Me, Puppeteer, and Brothers. It seems like 3rd Party publishers don’t really put their games on Plus as much as before.

@Th3solution Borderlands 2, Spec Ops, XCOM as well!

@DreadfulParadox makes a good point though but surely some of the early big names could be on there?

I mean, games like God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn are on sale for next to nothing now but most people would moan they already have them.

You can’t win really.

So I see we are getting COD WW2 available from today, which I'm happy with as I've not played it. Think I've yet to finish BLOPS 3 which we had a a couple of years back.

@JohnnyShoulder I’m bummed that the game is apparently only the European theater. That’s only half the story of WW2. As far as I know the battles in the Pacific are not represented in this game. Although I’m not typically a fan of FPS, and especially military shooters (mostly because I’m terrible at them) I am curious to see how it feels to storm the beaches of Normandy, so I might give it a go just for the campaign.