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Meanwhile PS Plus Premium cant even get PS2 versions of Ratchet and Clank and God of War on its service years later

There is some hidden locations without the sign.

For example the Tree at Home there is a grave. Apparently that counts but cant confirm that one. As I had the trophy by then.

The Hot Spring North East of the Home, the hill looking at Mountain Yotei if you Bow there.

There is two more by Amber Respite Shrine the sphere statue directly before the sign counts and then there is another at Ohara Plains Burial where bow at a shrine. This is right next to Amber Respite Shrine.

Then another in Tokachi Range during the Faithful Leap Shrine early on there is plank you run across and you can drop down to the left for another small alter to bow at.

Unless the loss in console sales are going to pc this gen is tracking for less consoles sold than the previous and these regular increases won't help.
Not great if your primary target is a console gamers for your game and the audience is shrinking.

@PuppetMaster this was the old ps2 emulator they are using a different process now. Stuff like licensing etc will delay it but we are three years in now to Premium and ten years since then. There should be better progress.

There has been very few PS2 games in particular. In the first year there wasnt a single new PS2 game added.
It was the old PS2 to PS4 games at launch of Premium as they called them with no PS5 version.
Off top of my head I dont think Ubisoft have emulated any of their classic games.

I dont know the ins and outs of it all but I feel it would be a very small team to bring the game over. Its not like remasters or building new game. Stuff like Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Rayman etc would surely interest people. Especially for publisher who has struggled for years it just looks like easy opportunity dont taken.

I dont understand why games like Splinter Cell PS2 Trilogy hasn't been ported to PS Plus Premium. Throw in Prince of Persia as well.
I wish more publishers including Sony would add more. It's just so slow at growing then there will be a mini cluster of games and then it drops off again

You can sync a lot of hours into Stardew Valley if the game clicks with you.

I might try Psychonauts 2

They keep managing to alienate me more from cod. It used to be day one purchase every year for me I dont think ill buy another at this rate

I didn't like the knife battles and felt there was too many of them and it spoilt some of the momentum.

But decent story, nice setting and some great va.

Wished it was little longer story wise or that free roam had some more activities.

7/ 10 for me

Hoping and expecting it gets delayed personally, I won't have much time to play the current week its out.

Entirely selfish reason but means dont have to avoid spoilers

I'm enjoying playing solo so far but going to need to find a regular casual group play with if I buy it I think
I dont play many multiplayers these days and bf feels odd solo.

I'm hoping BF does well I used to love playing both COD and BF but I feel completely alienated from COD these days and I skipped the latest BF after not enjoying the beta

I got my physical pre order for £28 which i felt was good price for going in blind. Hopefully not disappointed

Don't forget about Returnal!

Classics have been great edition for me personally. It self funds my gaming now because I creat videos for the classics.
Id really love to see some PS3 games downloadable in future

I've been subscribed for the full 15 years and was really good for me at launch. I stacked up seeing things coming and got Premium matched due to Now sub so been very fortunate with my choices.

I can't claim and haven't played/claimed any version before in UK

On the 5th anniversary you could claim a little custom frame for free. Im sure i still have mine somewhere but they don't do stuff like that anymore. Its celebrations just buy more stuff for slightly cheaper😅

@get2sammyb some premium users subscribe for cloud games for the Portal.

I'm just left disappointed by the classic options. We had good period in 2024 but it's really dropped off

I'm attending one in couple weeks.I've just checked and my original seat has been cancelled and that section of the arena isn't open (was about half way back) and I've been moved to infront of stage near enough. Didn't even know i'd been moved ha

I'd be disappointed if they drop the classic games from PS4. I like to replay some of them twice and get the double platinum. Like the recent TimeSplitters, Sly Cooper games etc.

I think the appeal for digital games is so many people don't want wait for the games deliveries day one as there is little options now for going to store and no midnight launches for years.

For me personally physical is far more better. I save so much money as they're cheaper to buy which I don't understand. Shouldn't a digital game be cheaper? Why do they cost more to buy

TimeSplitters Future Perfect is the best PS2 game emulated so far. In terms of how it plays. Hope more games and emulated to it level (or better)

Had the odd bugs glitches and crashes with most others but TS FP I didn't have single issue

I would expect a PlayStation Experience return in December personally. Why do big showcase in September when 3 months later it's 30 years of PlayStation?

Hopefully I'm not disappointed

It's a shame this is how the rest had to get the Platinum. I really enjoyed the game and made friends with few people from Europe and USA playing Concord and chatting in game. Not seen that for ages in multiplayer as most people stick to party chats these days.

I was fourntante to get the Platinum without boosting a couple hours before the announcement was made about closure. If I didn't have 3 days off work I'd have had no chance. It was a very grindy Platinum and this boosting method would have driven me insane with boredom.

I got the Platinum for the game today and I did enjoy my time mostly.

It's pretty crazy situation though. I'll happily take my refund

As someone who used to play nothing but multiplayers and in recent years predominantly played single player games. I'm having a lot of fun playing Concord. It reminds me of older shooter where gameplay was only way to progress.

I despise games where you have to pay money to level up quicker, subscribe to season passes and all that nonsense. It's main reason I stopped playing multiplayers so much because they're all like this now but this one is refreshing change.

At same time in needs more content. Considering number of years it was apparently in development I feel it was missed opportunity to not have pve content as well.

I can see the game joining PS Plus Extra in October, I think then more will try the game and enjoy it.

I feel like I'm missing something i can't find link to download and I'm ps plus member

Has Push Square reached out to PlayStation about the lack of PS2 games added to Premium?

I would love to know whats up with it because were closing in on 2 years of Premium and so far zero PS2 games have been added. This game will be the PSP version as well.

They just threw those limited PS2 to PS4 games in at launch from years ago , didnt even give them a PS5 version like all other classics and left it at that.

I honestly feel like Timesplitters is cursed franchise. Whoever seems to own it goes through financial trouble and a game never gets released.

I hope Embracer Group get blocked from buying anyone again. They had a lot of good studios and people but what have they got to show for it?

Hope all those who lost their job land on their feet soon and those who are still there find a better company to work for.

It fills me with great confidence that Bungie are reviewing other PlayStation Studio games as experts when they seem to be in their own mess. /S

How layoffs have been handled as well is really poor.

Also part of retention issues will be due to many good games released recently. Destiny 2 is old

I can't see this option on PS5

Wish they would fix the cloud save error message I've been getting for over 2 years.
Everytime I log into my main account.

I really hope this doesn't affect Free Radical and the TimeSplitters project.

It's awful going through the consultations. Hope those affected land on their feet quickly.

@Bionic-Spencer go to the ps blog. There is a venom statue pre orders on 16th

@twitchtvpat they haven't added any PS2 games at all. All the launch PS2 Plus games were already available on PS4 years ago.
All emulated PS1 and PSP games get a PS4 and PS5 version with the bonus features, rewind etc. PS2 should be getting the same.

There shouldn't be a requirement for Sony to have an incentive to deliver something they promised and haven't met expectation on for paying subscribers. They need to address the issues and deliver. Which Sony usually do bit its been radio silent for a year so far.

Pretty poor that two of the very limited PS2 games we have are now leaving and still no new PS2 games added.

When are Sony going to come clean about the blatantly obvious PS2 emulation issues they are facing?

Highly recommend both Red Faction games if you never played them

I don't think Premium is on a role if anything it's in need a revamp.
Not single PS2 game has been added since launch. Its nearly a year later. Looks like their is an issue emulating PS2 games and the games are sparse in terms of classics added. Did we even get any classic games emulated this month? Adding PS4 games feels like cop out for me. Considering the library of PS1, 2, 3 and PSP games we could play and sometimes these remasteres end up in Extra instead of Premium.
Extra is a brilliant tier for the price and games you get it's unmatched.
Subscriptions we're always going drop post lockdown covid and low PS5 stock. Now stock is up subs have increased!

WILL THIS SAGA EVER END?

@GodofCapcom yes 2021 they had it right for me with state of plays and the September showcase. Hopefully this year is shaping up to be similar

@Atreus97 I'm focusing on 20 PlayStation studios where over half have not made any new game announcement or update in the past 2/3 years.
The only ones we know of are Spider-Man, Wolverine and Factions. It makes people more naggy than normal for updates and frustrated more since it's coming up to 20 months since last major update on what PlayStation studios are working on.

I personally prefer this to few years ago where we had the same games at all the showcases on repeat until the released. But feel like an update is overdue now. Which we hopefully get in next couple months

@Atreus97 this time last year PlayStation had just released 3 new games on PS4, PS5

Big difference to this year. Wouldn't say anyone was frustrated last year.

I only blame Sony for this. Whatever their marketing strategy for games is at the moment is leaving people frustrated.

Hopefully all is fixed in a couple months because it feels like Sony has a mixture of at least ten games to announce / dates to reveal for games

It's amazing it took Sony nearly 12 months to add this feature. Dark Mirror was rated for PS4 and PS5 in April 2022.
Hope to see this option with Battlefront 2 and Resistance Retrubtion when they add them to the service

@get2sammyb far from over. This is the flood gates opening. This is going to be the next few years of gaming news.
More studios and publishers been bought more people speculating who next

@themightyant I prefer open critic as well. I also like that they clearly show who they consider a top critic. Might not agree with them all but is very transparent, at least.

@themightyant I won't comment on the ABK anymore. Not worth it ha.

Removing the two MLB games would roughly put Sony up to about 86.5 using Metacritic method. Minor difference. I dont like how much impact 4 reviews for GT7 on PS4 and 7 on Horizon PS4 have on the score. I think the limit of 4 reviews to score a game is far too low. It should be at least 20 for me. Considering some games get over 100, 4 is far too low. I guess part of that is small indies.
Critics should also be reviewing these version way more still. But that's another topic.

That's why I wouldn't average an average as it could be easily manipulated. Not saying it is, but the possibility is there if biased critics (either positive or negative towards a publisher) put 2 and 2 together.

Sony would be 88 roughly if did an average of every review received.

I'll stop going on now though. I've had my pedantic moment for the day lol

@themightyant I only talk about the average because there is no mention of the actual points in the article. I think there is very little focus on that part, and most only look at the average review score for the year.
You are right though, that there are bonus points for the great games, and they should be too! It does impact if people look at it from a point's perspective. I'm just pedantic over it, Sony would still be the second-best ever score pointwise, but they could have celebrated setting a new average record. Instead, we get a rather negative tone celebration post from Metacritic.

No list of games but it's easy to work out as there are 15 titles with scores and 10 distinct ones. Averaging the average scores of the below games comes out at 85.6

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales PC
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered PC
Sackboy: A Big Adventure PC
God Of War PC
Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Collection PC
Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Collection PS5
Mlb The Show 22 PS5
Horizon Forbidden West PS4
Horizon Forbidden West PS5
Gran Turismo 7 PS5
Gran Turismo 7 PS4
The Last Of Us Part I PS5
God Of War: Ragnarok PS5
Mlb The Show 22 Xbox
Mlb The Show 22 Nintendo

@themightyant That's how the scores are calculated for the individual games.
The calculation behind that should be used for the publisher as well. Taking all individual scores with the critic's weighting applied to them under a publisher. Combining the scores and dividing by the total scores to get the average.

And making sure all the games were published by the publisher. Which they haven't done. They've included the version of MLB Sony didn't publish, regardless of opinion of average vs an average of averages. They've still done it wrong.

@ThomasHL I do get your point, but for example an average of average increased Xbox score last year. Only marginal, like 0.3 difference. So you could argue that's biased because some low-reviewed games increased scores (Psychonauts on Xbox One)

It's labelled as Average Metascore. So that's what should be calculated for me. An average and an average of an average are two different things. I know I'm been pedantic but this is what I do every day with my work ha.

This would mean something if Metacritic did averages correctly.
They're doing an average of an average instead of adding all publisher's reviews and dividing by the total review to calculate an actual average.
It also looks like they're adding games not published by Sony.
It says 15 titles 10 distinct, but I cant figure it out. Unless they are including MLB on other platforms, which Sony doesn't publish. Not doing a great job for site who's entire purpose is to average scores

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales PC
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered PC
Sackboy: A Big Adventure PC
God Of War PC
Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Collection PC
Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Collection PS5
Mlb The Show 22 PS5
Horizon Forbidden West PS4
Horizon Forbidden West PS5
Gran Turismo 7 PS5
Gran Turismo 7 PS4
The Last Of Us Part I PS5
God Of War: Ragnarok PS5
Mlb The Show 22 Xbox
Mlb The Show 22 Nintendo

The last of us part 1 is coming to PC. It was announced just no date