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@Titntin I completely agree with you.

FromSoft clearly doesn't completely understand open world yet, so they fell into some pitfalls that other companies fell in the past. But the game's highs are so high that we're able to look past the flaws.

The timing is a shame. I had a blast with Zero Dawn and I'm sure Forbidden West is another amazing game, let's hope it has long legs.

They released Horizon at a really bad time.
I'm one of the many people that put buying the game on hold because Elden Ring was released.

Loved the game and went for the Platinum Trophy!

This game is waaay to good for a free one.

Can't wait to see what they develop next!

Now has been consistently better than plus for over a year. I hope it translates into the new service and we get better games overall.

Before they knew what they had, they patented it, packaged and slapped it on a lunch box.

And now, now they want to sell it.

Meh. But I guess I can't complain, because if I do I'll be called entitled for demanding from a service that I pay.

So instead, I'm grateful that the great almighty Sony has granted me these wonderful gifts from the goddess herself.

Square Enix really outdoes itself in half-assing, why not include the original? Why bother?

@Titntin Thanks for the info! It's much clearer than anything I've read elsewhere!

So to keep Plus and Now which I have, I'm gonna end up paying the same amount I paid before without anything new? Did I get this right?

I'm genuinely asking, I didn't quite get the difference.

To anyone saying we're entitled. We pay for the service. So we're definitely entitled to receive quality products. I's not a charity it's a service.

@Titntin Didn't know that.
Thanks for the info!

The Xbox is looking more and more attractive. With enough money and time I might cave in and switch teams.

And here I thought you were looking forward to Sony's live service games.

Does it feature GTA 6?

@Uncharted2007 I'm not a fan of punishment. I like the challenge the games provide and I have fun whilst playing them.

Sony is becoming Microsoft's biggest ally with these offers.

Is Microsoft paying Sony to be crappy?

No Man's Sky went from a disaster to the gift that keeps on giving.

What a comeback! Dare I say grander than Kim Kardashian's

"it will sit neatly alongside Alicia Vikander’s Tomb Raider"
So, nobody is going to remember this movie existed in two months?

Aren't you the one who wrote the article about giving Activision a bit of credit and thanking Bobby Kotick?

Yeah, your hot takes are always on point.

So, a bad month for Plus and Now.

Sony's answer to Microsoft is being even worse than before? Yeah, that's gonna go well with everyone.

I have ME Legendary Edition, so it's a hard pass for me.

Considering literally every video game adaptation ranges from mediocre to downright horrible, I don't understand why some people think the comments here are negative. Everyone's being realistic, this movie more likely than not will be extremely forgettable.

Ooh, no! Anyway....

Pretty good month!
Considering how superior PS Now is to Plus nowadays, it's good to see that Sony didn't forget that we pay for Plus too.

I think Sony is generally very quick to adapt to the changes of the market. Even their "failed console" the PS3 ended up selling more than the Xbox 360 at the end of it's generation because they saw the criticisms of the consumers and adapted to it.

The PS5 even though had a strong start had a rocky beginning content wise, I think they're clever enough to identify what's popular and change their focus so the PS5 remains competitive against Nintendo and Microsoft.

@Bismarck True with the wall of text, So I'll keep it short. Yes a good chunk of the story makes sense and it is overall better than TLOU, but the ending spoiled most of the experience to me. But I can see from your point of view where you consider TLOU 2 to have superior storytelling.

@Bismarck I think it's superior when it comes to gameplay, story wise I disagree. It's true that it has surprises but I don't think they add to the story, they mostly appear just to be shocking.
I don't think being more unpredictable makes a story better. A good example is The Last Jedi, a film full of twists that don't feel earned. But let me be clear that I don't think TLOU 2 has a plot as bad as the Last Jedi, I just felt like it was trying too hard to shock.

The Last of Us II is the proof of how far behind Hollywood the video game industry is when it comes to writing. If it was released as a movie it would be subpar at best, with several contrived plot points yet some people think it's a masterpiece in storytelling. Also the gameplay is absolutely nothing to write home about.

Neil Druckmann is not very likable in interviews too, but at least no accusations about anything horrible being done by him.

I'm not a fan of him or his writing but it could be worse.

@Constable_What I really hope you're right. And hopefully before he does anything too drastic.

@vapidwolf That's the thing. In the end I don't know if what they're doing is right or not. On one hand they exposed a horrible human being, on the other, because of the way they did it there aren't going to be any legal consequences for his actions.

The bad thing is that I think this guy can't be arrested because of the way this group did this.
Sony did the right thing but it revolts me the fact that is dude is going to get away with whatever the hell perverted stuff he's doing.

Shell out $70? Cries in £

Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Wait, let me catch my breath....

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Sure

How pathetic is it that a 10 year old game that has been released several times is still full of bugs?

@auditor01 Apparently the US is the only country in the world.

Here in the UK it went up from £50 to to £70. That's a 40% increase and to make it worse it's equivalent to 94 US dollars.

Some games age like wine.

Skyrim aged like milk.

That's way more important than bug fixes.

I'm glad Rockstar is focused on what's important.

PS5 showed again why it's never good to be an early adopter on a new console. First year PS5 owners are basically beta testing it.

Yes the ultimate open world. Hundreds of quests that have bugs making it impossible to complete, every dungeon looks the same, same 10 voice actors for every person in the kingdom, weak main story, repetitive quests, boring quests, the world looks drab and lifeless.

It is without a question the game where people are the blindest about its faults. It's a mediocre game wrapped in a pretty bow of production value.

"69 per cent of players chose to save the council in Mass Effect"

Nice

No, I mean Bethesda. They had these horrible practices way before Microsoft bought them. If Microsoft is going to enable them or not is something we're going to see over the next years, but I agree that this "Anniversary Edition" is not a good sign of things to come.

Bethesda is now definitely on the top 5 greediest video game developers.
£48 for what's barely an upgrade on one of the buggiest triple A games of its generation.
And my money is on them not fixing most of these bugs (which are so hard to fix that modders have done it years ago)

It looks horrible, but on the other the side it can't be worse than the last game.

It's gonna be bland and boring. The worst kind of bad movie.

Not a very strong month for PS Now in my opinion but I'm not gonna complain because most months have been amazing this year. It's like Now is the opposite of Plus.

@MetalGear_Yoshi Wiser words could not have been said.

I don't have VR and I already have Kingdoms of Amalur. A good month for some, unfortunately not for me.

@dark_knightmare2 I have. Even though I don't think they're great characters they're definitely above average for Ubisoft standards.
It's just that Ubisoft is the perfect developer to make fun of.