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@ShogunRok I was stung with The Wolf Among Us which had a ridiculous wait between episodes one and two.

I bought a couple of Telltale games after that but often got the discount early bird price but waited until all episodes were out.

Like you say, it felt fresh with TWD, especially with some developer vids released between episodes where they claimed to have altered writing based on what the majority of people were doing, but people seem to have lost faith with it now.

UK: 12 month PS+ at 20% off on the PSN Store
https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/IP9102-NPIA90006_01-PSPLUSSUB12M20S0

Weirdly, the same pack plus DOOM VFR is the exact same price.

Am very tempted as I always said I'd go for it if it dropped below £200.

The Witcher DLC is the only one I've really gone back for as the base game was so great. Plus, they'd made loads of incremental changes to the base game as well by the time I came back.

In most cases I never play such DLC as I've normally moved on from the game. I picked up the HZD DLC but couldn't get to grips with the controls going back and obviously went back at an end-game level.

I never bought FF15 because they'd announced so much extra content and now probably won't ever get round to it.

@Boxmonkey With the final episode due Q3 2201!

At least all this means I might finally pick the game up at some point as I’ve held off from buying an “incomplete” version of the game up until now.

@Quintumply I have put a huge amount of time into it and still haven't got beyond chapter 2!

I’m probably similar to the majority of replies here in that I use them occasionally.

Currently, I’m playing Yakuza 0 and have a couple of guides for things like locations of the real estate property, and sometimes for where new substories have appeared.

I’ve used one video to show me how to get easy strikes when bowling because screw having to get three in a row otherwise. Similarly, I used some vids to help me with HZD hunting challenges, and for hoovering up God of War collectibles (trying to locate items via text is rather hard)

I think the main game series I’ve used them for are Dark Souls/Bloodborne but only to make sure I’ve not missed any secret items.

The thing that near enough ruined Rapture for me was the terrible autosave the game had. The pace is incredibly slow and the game only saves itself at specific points with no manual save.

Most of my gaming is done in the evening and I had a few sessions with the game where my options were to keep going for an unknown amount of time to hit a save point or lose everything I’d done.

@Lekzie1 Wasn't the game a PS+ title at some point too? If so, I guess plenty of people would have downloaded it as a freebie and then not played it as much as those who paid for it. Maybe.

@LaNooch1978 Oh god, I'd managed to forget about the courtroom level. That was not a fun sequence.

@ellsworth004 Seems about right, although the UK seems to get stung sometimes. Still seems a great price though.

A cursory look on the US store (as best as I can) and I can’t see it there yet.

@AFCC £9.27 for PS+ or £11.59 without.

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/EP1805-CUSA13285_00-HOLLOWEUPREORDER

I'm working but hope to get a bit of time with Surviving Mars. I've got a sustainable colony and everything!

@JoeBlogs @Knuckles-Fajita I think my mum once had a go at Crash Bandicoot but couldn't make it past the first hole in the ground..

@Knuckles-Fajita Playing with your mum?

I was even cooler and used to play the original game every week with my friend.. after recorder lessons

Due out this year and still no hands-on anywhere?

I've liked the look of the game so far and the artwork looks fun too so hoping for good things.

Excellent. Loved the first game.. and got it as a PS+ freebie.

Any news on whether there are the challenge rooms like before? Those were solid but it felt so good to complete them.

I only played JC3 as a PS+ freebie and found it a bit dull. I forget what the main story was even about and had no interest in the characters. While the gameplay was fun at times, it was massively repetitive, and I found it so frustrating that the challenges didn’t have a QuickStart option but you had to watch a loading screen every time you wanted to try again..

@wiiware I can normally get to the bridge boss and defeat him no problems but then get beaten every time in the Stilt Village.

Assassin's Blade, Frost Blast, Wolf Trap, Sinew Slicer is my ideal build so far.

+1 for the Stick it to the Man love

That said, this review could easily have been written for that game as it had the same pluses and negatives as this game seems to. May well pick it up at some point.

You forgot VR missions so this list is null and void.

Snake Eater is still top for me. I loved the changes they made, although the lack of mini-map and sight cones took some getting used to. MGS a very close second and is a game I completed so many times.

Peace Walker was great fun on the PSP and I actually really liked the art style. So many features were used later on in TPP as well, including the beloved fulton system.

MGS4 is a weird one as I don't remember a lot of it at all. I played 1-3 so many times but that game only once and don't have anywhere near as fond memories of it, even if the ending is all worth it.

@zeppray Good luck! I'm struggling to get another game going now. God knows how some of these streamers make it look so easy..

@zeppray I assume you mean Surviving Mars? These were incredibly useful guides:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/surviving-mars-a-primer.1083069/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SurvivingMars/comments/8zpi79/what_am_i_doing_wrong_80_work_slots_but_60/

Key points;
-Exporting rare metals is priority one
-Stick to living quarters as apartments are resource heavy
-Use outsourcing of tech early on to get a good head start
-Self sufficiency for polymers etc is key. Polymers as the easiest I found as fuel and water you often have in abundance early on.

@vgamerist Fun game but the combat was pretty repetitive. Thankfully they sorted that out for But Whole but both games don’t get the love they should (imo)

Still going with Surviving Mars. Got my best colony going with 250 colonists now and just coming up to Sol 100 for the first time.

The only downer I've heard so far was the boss fight shown at E3 was a bit underwhelming. I've still got everything crossed for a great game though.

New games I always buy on disc but, like mentioned in the article, I'm buying much more in the PS Store when the sales are on these days.

The added bonus of downloaded games is that I don't get kicked from the game when my console occasionally does the random disc eject thing..

XCOM2 fully deserves top spot and the different the War of the Chosen DLC makes is amazing; it's more like XCOM2.5 after playing it.

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Tropico though. I've played it through twice with some of the DLC as well but I don't think it's actually that good a game. I do like that it's more mission based than games like City Skylines though.

I'm currently playing Surviving Mars though which probably warrants a place on this list. I'm just terrible at it.

@Fight_Teza_Fight ha, ditto. I played it to death and while I appreciate the continued work they've done since launch, it's not a game that makes me want to dip back in for the new monsters or events.

@crimsontadpoles Get rid of all the games you’ve yet to play and just get The Witcher. You won’t regret it and will probably be set for the next 3 months as well.

I never got the hang of it when they used it in Killzone; it felt really sluggish and just not right.

Excellent news. Loved the first game.

@Jake3103 didn't shopto have a big breach of credit card data a few years ago too? A lot of people used them on a forum I use until that happened.

A quick google suggests that was nine years ago..

I have never played Diablo. True fact.

I also only played the Borderlands Pre-Sequel earlier this year and remembered how much I love that series (Telltale game included). I still have BL2 to play on this gen but know how much I'll get sucked back in when I do..

@AFCC Yeah, the Collection has the DLC for each game. The first two are just battle arenas from what I remember but Infinite's (Burial at Sea) is story related and well worth playing.

@AFCC I was the same having only played Infinite after it was a PS+ game on the PS3. I'd only ever played the demo for Bioshock 1 and it didn't grab me. But I really enjoyed playing the whole series and the DLC for Infinite is great too.

As for myself, it's a game from my PS4 PS+ collection at the moment in Rayman Legends which is good fun. Loving the music levels at the end of each world!

I'm glad it had the vague storyline in it by the time I played through and thought it was a solid game. Not sure I'd go back to it again though.

I thought the game was well worth the £10 I spent on it in a PSN sale a year or so ago

Just so long as it doesn't mean they rest on their laurels and continue pushing themselves.

Until Dawn is great. Probably the best game I've picked up through PS+ on this generation.