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@thefourfoldroot1 lol don't get me started on Yakuza platinums. The only Yakuza plat I have is Y6 Song of Life, not necessarily because it's easier but because it took out over 75% of the boring grind after story completion. It's the only one thing I really hate with Yakuza games, the grind is so boring and takes out all the fun by the end. So now I'll just get 60 to 80% of all the trophies and be done with it. Didn't mind Dead Souls at the time but needs a proper smoother remaster for modern consoles as its a bit on the clunky side these days

@Powerplay94 didn't quite know what to expect from judgement, with it being more detective investigation but actually ended up being a breath of fresh air for me and the series as a whole while still retaining some of the super weird its known for

@UltimateOtaku91 Xbox been throwing around the money these past few years for GamePass and RGG wanted in on that money. When so much money is being offered to RGG, all the previous amount of work done with Sony then becomes sort of irrelevant to them now. RGG will just be glad to have their game on more consoles and will now have chunky amount of cash from Xbox for GamePass. All RGG see is more popular game series and more money

Have officially burned out on Yakuza games after almost 18 years of enjoying them all. Really enjoyed Ishin but that's where the burn out started. Still one of my fav game series of all time and will eventually be getting these new Like a Dragon games but not on release like before, need a break from it first. It's good the series is getting bigger and more mainstream these days and with the many new fans on Xbox. Does make me laugh though when some Xbox gamers acting like it's their series made just for them because of GamePass, while many PS gamers have been enjoying the series for 15 years previously. Why not put it on Nintendo now with some multiple collections as well for them to catch up a little, which I'm pretty sure many Nintendo fans will appreciate

Anime looks good. Fond memories of all 4 Onimusha games on the PS2. Still waiting for that Onimusha 5 announcement alongside a 1 to 4 remastered collection

Those fatalities are always fun to watch but its the only thing it offers, constantly doing fatalities over and over again. Online fighting get my a** handed to me no thanks. The career stories get repetitive in fighting games super quick. Remember trying SF5 on Plus and it was the same thing repeating itself again and again. SF6 does look like it's added a little more though

Wonder how much Gotham Knights cost GamePass with the game being a year old now and how much it would have cost Sony for PS Plus. Possibly cost way more than Saints Row hence why Sony went with Saints Row instead. This also could mean PS Plus will be getting Gotham Knights later next year when it gets a little cheaper for PS Plus?. Love to see both set of numbers for Sea of Stars given how both were day one on both, possibly cost PS Plus more than GamePass?. How much was Wu Long Lies of P day ones and all the others. How much is it costing Microsoft for Ark 2 exclusivity and for it to be day one. Could be a lot closer than we think or one could have to be paying way more than the other. Need more details but we ain't ever meant to know these things to begin with so I'll take whatever we get

@HwuaiLiang puzzled me too that has. Maybe phone don't do it and needs laptop or PC for it, but phone should be able to do it also? I dunno

We are crap so let's buy them all mentality

@LifeGirl and now there's recent rumours of Xbox copying PS to have their own version of a platinum trophy

Can keep it lol. Never played those boring Rimsky Mirrow elder games whatever theyre called anyways. No loss to me whatsoever

Peaks my interests but no rush for this. Grab it around this time next year with a chunky sale and tons of updates

This the first time that this game now genuinely feels like the best time to jump back in. Will be hoping to finally jump back in later this year at some point, maybe very early next year. Quite a few many backlog to do for now and MGS collection and Spiderman2 round the corner plus Hogwarts Legacy still sealed for December. Might get my moneys worth from Cyberpunk2077 now. Better late, than never at all, even though it should have been heavily delayed, especially on PS4 and ONE or completely skipping last gen

An absolute noob with zero gaming experience with this type of game but also have massive fomo too given all the high praise and positivity its been deservedly getting. Thought it was just PC where these games were huge with the console side being far more niche. Hoping many other development teams take note

@Sakai think the last bland open world Ubisoft I played was FC6. If Ubisofts open worlds was as much fun as Insomniacs Spiderman and Miles Morales then not only would it lose some its not so good reputation its known for, it would also more than triple their game sales. Although I suppose Spiderman is such a huge name anyway and if Ubisoft did their usual bland open world version of a Spiderman game it would sell a bit more than they're used to because the Spiderman name alone

@Cashews lol looks good to me and looks more fun than Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild and GTA5 combined, that's all that matters to me. I don't really care what anybody else thinks to be perfectly honest, hence why I said what I said. Its a really good put together preview even if it didn't need to mention Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild or GTA5 but I also get why it does, for context and comparison of other open worlds

@Sequel took me a good 10 seconds working out what you meant

Spiderman 2 looks a lot more fun than Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild and GTA5 combined. I understand that may ruffle some feathers but I don't care, just saying how it is for me personally. Respectfully disagreeing with me is obviously all good. Each to their own and all that jazz

MGS5 The Phantom Pain is my most played at almost 500 hours I think in 2015. Did a lot of messing about with many npc in MGS5 and attempted the plat at some point. Yh I don't really do any live service games possibly why no thousands of hours. Thought this was where PS Stars was gonna end up eventually

It was a good smaller type SoP, and I'm not even an FF gamer. Far better improvement than the last PS bigger Showcase. Wasn't expecting to see more new Spiderman 2 stuff tonight, it looked so damn sexy and smooth

The game looks so sexy and smooth with smooth quick swap between Peter and Miles super fast. October 20th can't come soon enough

Oh bloody hell not some more. Seems to be a year of developers losing their jobs, wonder whose next. Regardless if a game is not so good or received poorly, its never good when loads are losing their jobs

@Andee yup it certainly would. Those RE tank controls are engraved into my brain from teenage years, so easy for me to pick up and play it. Imagine some brand new speedrun trophies too for all 3

MGS master collection vol.1. Original Tomb Raider trilogy remastered collection. Meanwhile Capcom releases the same Street Fighter 2 every few years for the past 30+ years while completely ignoring their original Resident Evil 90s trilogy. Specifically mean original remastered collection not Capcoms remakes, two completely different things

@Cashews I'd really like to own a Switch. It's mostly down to money and time though. I agree having them all is always best but that's simply not an option for so many. So concentrating time and money on one makes a lot of sense for a lot of gamers. I do hate some opinions trying to come across as if they have a far better more valid opinion than others because they own them all kinda mentality, not all that own them all are like that but I hate the ones that do. I'd like to have them all tbh

@Grumblevolcano At some point there has to be on off year or 18 months of not much going on. Games get pushed back or heavily delayed all the time like TLoU multiplayer for example. There's been reports of games taking a lot longer than previous gen too. Still far more excited for what's to come on PS5 than I am on other consoles. Never played Skyrim, just never interested me over the years so naturally something like Starfield doesn't interest me in the slightest, same with any Fallout game has never been to my tastes either. Even when looking at whats to come for Xbox in the future doesn't excite me much at all tbh. Do like all sorts of racing games so naturally Forza peaks my interests, but is that really worth splashing out 500 for a Series X and a few months GamePass, not really. Do miss a Zelda adventure and a new fun Mario platformer from time to time. On the other hand PS have so many games, like a lot of sequels I can't wait to play and new unannounced IP from quite a few PS studios I really adore. Even the PS4 had an of off year or almost a couple years with not much going on but then hit the ground running from 2017 HZD onwards. Previous PS Showcase was a let down, there's no denying that but it ain't all doom and gloom like some like to paint it. Can't just click your fingers and expect a game to magically get announced when they can take up to 4 or maybe 6 years to make, sometimes longer. So yh sometimes there's gonna be remasters, remakes and the many great 3rd party games that we rely on to fill the gaps inbetween

@UltimateOtaku91 and then there's the day one 3rd party on GamePass Wu Long and Lies of P for example. Be really fascinating to see how much they end up costing Microsoft for these biggish 3rd party day ones, cant be cheap and in the long run will get super expensive. Sony having more subs and more consoles in homes, means they'll have to pay more than what Microsoft currently does for the exact same game day one on Plus if they went the similar route. Its things some gamers don't think about or simply don't care about and that's obviously fine because why would you care when your gaming, couple trillion vs many a billions and all that jazz

I'd love to see Nintendo go all out and be a fully updated home console instead of already being 3 or 5 years behind on every new console launch. I'm not having any of that argument about oh Nintendo don't need to be updated with the latest and greatest. Why not Nintendo having a proper full 4K 60fps rays HDR home console no gimmicks and a brand new top tier dedicated handheld as well for the massive handheld crowd. No need for any Nintendo gamers to worry about parity in many massive 3rd party games this way. Also Nintys 1st party will look the best it's ever looked and silky smooth. Throw in their own version of trophies as well why not

Nintendo Switch I'd hazard a guess would take less time to develop their 1st party games in comparison to the latest PS5 and Series X 1st party releases, hence why the Switch has been more consistent over the last few years on their 1st party side. Weird to think if Microsoft wasn't able to spend 7.5 billion for Starfield and Bethesda, all they'd have this year would be yet another Forza game

@MasterChiefWiggum would be nice

Lol just knew some in the comments section will be going nutcases over this announcement, especially when the focus of this SoP will be indies and 3rd party only

Just finished my first playthrough of Shredders Revenge with Donatello from Extra on PS5, enjoyed it very much. And then afterwards came here for the news to read people acting as if Sony has just murdered their family pet or something. Like what did you expect, we all knew before this SoP announcement that there's not much 1st party over the next 6 months or more besides Spidey2

This SoP was not in anyway a reaction to Nintendos current Direct announcement, so stupid if you think that it was

Would I like a bit more 1st party from PS, yh of course I would, but over 90% of all the games I play on PlayStation are 3rd party games with quite a few indies too

Carrying on with the never ending backlog it is then, which does include many Plus games from previous months as well at least. Other than Unpacking the rest are all meh whatever. Better Plus months will come

My personal top 10 would be filled full of PS1 titles and a couple N64 titles with TLoU PS3 topping the lot. I'd personally have original RE2, MGS1 and Super Mario 64 far higher up. Super Mario Galaxy was fun but no way is it better than SM64. The top two here ain't for me but understandable why they're here at the top considering so many adore them both, I get it

Beep is staying on, be so weird without it. Still no way of buying avatars on PS5 and still no PS Stars on our PS5. Was looking to buy a new avatar (MGS1 Foxhound avatar) on my PS5 last week for almost 10 mins before a quick Google search realising there is no way of buying new avatars on PS5. Good job still have my PS4 kicking around

@Templedoom something like used CeX games can also be good for buying a game used that you don't want to support like the recent no effort port of RDR1. I get what you saying though and you aint wrong. When a new game is good and lots of effort has gone into it there's so many that will day one it still or eventually get it new digitally or physically a few months later

Hogwarts is £46.99 in Argos

Giving Unpacking a go, the rest not for me tbh. Hoping in the other unannounced games theres 1 or 2 more to my tastes, if there is some more that is

@MoorePs5 comment 44 lol

Be adding to Hogwarts Legacy PS5 sales today from Argos. Then probably save it for December

@koffing yup rumours are tumours. Apparently the Switch 2 was shown behind closed doors to devs at last months Gamescom, running a better upscaled version of Zelda BOTW

@koffing if the rumours are to be true about the Switch 2 being almost on par with the latest consoles, then I'd hazard a guess it will be having HDR?. Not sure how that would work docked or in handheld though

Has HDR been a very underrated feature in video games, in 4K movies as well, I think it has. I remember getting my first 4K tv around 2018 I think it was (bought a bigger and better tv since then 2.1) and then experiencing my first game in HDR on a base PS4. Everything just popped so much better and the colors were on another level, even on the base PS4 at the time. In most reviews it's all about pixels and fps with HDR rarely ever getting a mention. Maybe I'm missing something as to why or it's simply not as important as more pixels, I dunno, I really like the HDR in gaming and 4K movies

Some seem to forget or dont realise HZD 2017 is Guerillas first attempt at open world and I thought it was top tier. For a first attempt at open world Guerilla did it better than many that have been doing open worlds for 20+ years. Sequel HFW obviously looks better plays better and I didn't mind the story at all but wanted a little more from the final mission. Loved HFW gameplay enemy variation. HFW is just pure quality overall. Burning Shores story expansion was fantastic too. Also Decima engine. Adore the world of Horizon and really looking forward to what's next in this world. Never once got bored of main Aloy and I think she's absolutely beautiful and not fat in anyway

Does make you wonder what yourself was doing at 13. Picking my nose while playing PS1 and getting lots of detentions and expelled from school

Lack of communication yh I agree with that considering theirs zero about 1st party in 2024 after Spidey2. One things for sure though, they ain't sitting on their backsides with all their ovens off. A rumoured SoP this year that hits the spot will go a long way, has to be slightly above decent at the very least with a peep at a 1st party for next year? I dunno lol. So many PS 1st party studios tight lipped for a long time now. Thank god for Insomniac games. Rise of Ronin, StellaBlade and SH2 ain't to far away

Still playing Grid Legends from previous months ago Essential. An F1 car in snow conditions is ridiculous and all the real world famous tracks are in reverse half the time which genuinely irritates but I'm enjoying it enough to have plat almost done and all expansions cheaply grabbed, before moving onto the next Plus game

If they can get the very tricky PS3 classics working I'll be very happy as nearly all PS3 games come with trophies anyway. Be happy with PS2 classics too but they'll very rarely come with trophy support unless it's 1st party

Mystic rumours of PS2 classics and Juff Grubb SoP rumours, both of these the following day after the PS Plus price increase. Somethings potentially going on. I just hope it's good news at the end of it all so it can justify the price increase somehow

Does PlayStation have to spend more money per game to be on PS Plus than Xbox does for GamePass because PS has almost double the install base and more Plus Subs. Pretty sure I read about it last year but I can't remember where, should possibly be somewhere on the internet about it unless I've got it mixed up with something else. Not specifically talking about Xbox GamePass 3rd party day ones like Wu Long or Lies of P, those will naturally be very expensive to be day one, I mean the ones that come to subscriptions about a year after release. It will be really interesting to know how much both PS and Xbox have had to pay for Sea of Stars given how it's day one on both, unfortunately we'll most likely never know

Yh it's a bad Essential month overall but only because I've already played Saints Row. The price increase has made this Essential month far worse. Fortunately my 12 month £99.99 Premium renewed only a week ago. YES I WILL DEFINITELY BE RENEWING MY 12 month £120 Premium on August 2024 because there's still so many games that are on Extra or will be coming to Extra that I simply haven't played yet. The amount of money I will be saving yearly by relying on Extra to play many games is still very huge when comparing to buying the games separately new, used, physically or digital. Should go without saying, a game like Spiderman 2 is a day one for me regardless of its £69.99 price tag and will be worth every penny

I've quickly gone through the comments and I haven't noticed anyone say Premium has gone up less than £2 a month which is essentially what this is but all of this looks way worse when you read £20 quid extra a year. Not in anyway trying to defend a payrise for the sub I'm not stupid enough to do that but it does sound a little better when you say to yourself it's gone up just under £2 a month. Either way it sucks, unless they've got some good quality to add to the sub soon like managing to get PS3 and PS2 classics on Premium and Extra