XanderTigerclaw

nice, “the new animated background is linked to the current season and time of year” … sooooo will it currently (and correctly) be “spring” themed here in Australia? 😼

or, like PS Plus Premium, will we just not get it at all… 🥲

Just saw the opening concert for “Death Stranding: Stands of Harmony” in Sydney last night, so I’ll absolutely be continuing my journey in DS2 📦🧡😺

Not a game that interested me in the slightest, but damn that Ben Starr is a good egg for agreeing to do this 😹🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

So still not available in Australia (and I guess other similar areas) where we have the hamstrung “Deluxe” tier instead of “Premium”…?? Sony WHYYYYYYY 😾

Was listening to the Silent Hill 2 Remake soundtrack just as I read this. 😿

@Slideaway1983 I scrolled down to add a comment saying exactly that — thanks for 🅱️eating me to it! 😹

More importantly - is that VA in this clip Jane Perry (aka Returnal’s Selene Vassos)???

I am entirely both unsurprised and completely amused by this article 😹

poll is missing the “Premium isn’t even available in my region” option 😾

hey you know where you won’t find this bundle no matter how good/bad of a deal you feel it is? THAT’S RIGHT — AUSTRALIA, WHERE THE PREMIUM TIER DOESN’T EVEN EXIST (come ON guys it’s 2025 already) 😾

For anyone in the US who freaks out at the recent “omg $80+ for a game” convo… down under we’ve been enduring that for some time now.

Assuming the quoted $70 and $80 prices are USD, the Aussie exchange rate on that right now is roughly $108 and $124 respectively… however these editions are listed as $125 and $140 on the AU PS Store (that’s 16% and 12% increases there, or basically the magic USD80 and 90 numbers).

GoY is only one recent example of this; I could easily trawl the PS Store for stacks of (especially AAA title) examples where this pricing discrepancy is in place. Meanwhile, AUD125+ is not (and hasn’t for some time been) uncommon for a “deluxe edition” here, and often for the “standard edition” too.

Why these considerable markups for literally the same digital product just downloaded to a different locale?? 👀😕

LITTLE KITTY BIG CITY 😺🐾🏙️

Count me in. (Maybe with only one eye open though.) 👀🙀

“PlayStation players in Australia are especially unlucky right now”

Yeah, us down here in the colonies, we’re getting kinda familiar with being screwed over by Sony (PS Plus Deluxe anyone?)…

Me, I’m just thrilled I can finally get an even more bargain price on such sleeper hits as “Feed My Raptor”, “The Perplexing Orb: Bounce Challenge”, “Waifu Impact 2”, “Bug-o-Buster”, “Santa’s Spot it”, “Slicy Flips”, “Poopy Time”, “Monkey Kong in New-York”, or (and I am not making this up either) “YEAH! YOU WANT ‘THOSE GAMES,’ RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET’S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM! 1+2” 🤪

(dear god.)

I’m one of those who invested heavily in Death Stranding and was in no way disappointed, found a depth to it that once I clicked with it just impacted me so deeply. The sold vs played argument doesn’t concern me, except to say I hope that most of the millions who did try it out also managed to discover and appreciate the emotional punches it held, all the beauty to be found in the mundane and arcane and insane. Really looking forward to the sequel.

Sweet Jeebus. fans self

From memory, our censors also banned the original version of Silent Hill: Homecoming due at least to 2 specific cutscenes (iirc one involving a power drill and the other a certain “Great Knife”). Great to see nothing here has really changed much in the (checks notes) almost 17 years since… 🙄

You had me at “Jeff Minter”. 😸

I’ve never understood all the online vitriol against Part II… personally I found it compelling, emotional, true to the characters’ motivations, a top-notch work of pacing and action, and a very “just” ending (albeit painful to experience as the player) for the lead characters, who were all flawed in their own ways.

And besides the game itself, being “anti strong women” — physically, emotionally, however you read that really — is surely a patently ridiculous notion when you look at either history or storytelling right through societies (not just the “Western” ones either) as a whole. This isn’t an “agenda” thing, it’s just how the character was defined. Would the “offended” people have been happier had Abby been male? Why would that have made their drive and determination for blind revenge more believable or palatable?? To my mind, it’s quite the opposite — there’s more impact in Abby “becoming” the Abby, in Ellie “becoming” the Ellie, that we see by the final act of Part II because of how hardened they have become through their experiences (see also, arguably, Lara Croft across the Tomb Raider “reboot” trilogy from 2013–2018).

tl;dr loved Part I, loved Part II, and with the right story I’d love a Part III should it ever materialise.

Now if only they’d give us Premium here in Australia instead of the hampered non-streaming “Deluxe” tier… 😫

Got an “Upgrade to Deluxe and save 35%” offer here today (Australia). Trying to stack a new year on top of my Extra subscription is still full price though.

If we actually had Premium here, not just the hamstrung Deluxe tier, I’d probably consider it. Come on, Sony… 😕

And I wonder what percentage of the 1,500 are shovelware?…

*filters to Full Game, sorts by Price Low to High

… oh wow. yep. 😝

*cries in Australian 🥲

“You can still Kill the Justice League”

Lol no thanks 😝

(I did redeem Stanley, which I’ll get around to one day I’m sure!)

I’m probably in the weird minority here but I really enjoyed BTS (the game not the band). Agree the pacing was off at times, but found it highly creative (in the “David Cage way”), and the story and gameplay really kept my interest.

Looks incredible — and sounds incredible too, at least in this early demo. I feel like I need to watch this a few times to take it all in! 😸

“We know from data that there are a lot of people that only play Call of Duty”

… I cannot even imagine a more unfulfilling gaming life experience than missing out on literally any other genre for the sake of solely existing in some generic ‘Murrica propaganda shooter series. 😅

(apologies to any “COD-only” players out there, but… jeez, try anything else sometime, wow) ✨

7 episodes constitutes a season now?? Remember when a TV series used to be 20+ eps? Lord, “24” sure couldn’t be made anymore now (and even its final seasons were “cut down” to 12 episodes)… 🤪

Stanley ftw, the other two I won’t even be pressing the “Add to Library” button 😅

I’m perfectly fine that January gives us The Stanley Parable as the only PS Plus Extra game 😼

@Gaia093 “Dead Service 47 and Car Thing 12” made me snort my breakfast out my nose 😹😹😹😹😹

Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2

Easy. 😸

@get2sammyb certainly seems like it — looking forward to learning more about this one as time goes on!

And for anyone who thinks product placement in futuristic settings never works, I direct you back to Blade Runner and respectfully suggest you reserve your judgement. 😼

@Aelynn awwww really wish it had co-op play!! 😹

I dunno, unless my top game this year was “502 Bad Gateway” the site /might/ still be having some intermittent dramas… 👀🤪

Figured it would only be a matter of time before Forspoken reached Plus in some form, keen to give it a crack!

And I’ll very likely be FISTing through the new year holiday.

Errrrmmmm… no, wait -

My first PlayStation was a PS2 Satin Silver, and my first PlayStation game was the exquisitely terrifying Silent Hill 3.

Fast forward 20 years and here I am in front of my PS5, finding myself summoning up the courage to finish my first playthrough of the exquisitely terrifying Silent Hill 2 Remake.

Some things never change… and I couldn’t be happier. Long Live Play, indeed. 😸🎮🌟

“What is [ Game / Soundtrack / Art Direction / DualSense Use / Story ] of the Year and why are they all Silent Hill 2” 👀🙀

Seriously, mfw James’ radio starts screaming at me FROM THE THING I’M HOLDING IN MY HANDS and I just Do Not Want to go through the next doorway… 🥲

Having seen this in action just makes me even more frustrated that we don’t have access to Premium here in Australia. 😫

(probably an obligatory comment on this kind of article but yeah)

@Yusuo lol yeah I got it, all good 😸

@Yusuo are… are you okay 👀😅

Sooooo once again I guess Australia misses out since we aren’t on the “countries where PS Plus Premium is” list, still slumming it here with the inferior “Deluxe” option… 😾

@pyrrhic_victory on so, so many levels I for one am forever grateful I’m not in the U.S.(A.) 😅

That out of the way… not to be too pedantic (I hope?!): on scrubbing the video a few times I noticed the panel actually says “03 12 20:24”, so maybe if we do get an announcement on 3 Dec it’ll be held at 8:24pm (UTC…?)?… conspiracy theorists GOGOGO!! 🤪

I do think it amusing that Apple Silicon platforms (Mac, iPad, iPhone) even got this before Microsoft’s (Windows and Xbox)… but honestly the more people who get to experience this for themselves, on their device of choice, the better imo. 😺

Note to self, never read the comments on posts like this… 😅

All I want is that if they (aka Bethesda) ever make The Evil Within 3, it’s available on PlayStation…

article subtitle: “Last but not least”

me: ~laughs in Australian~ 😅

An easy 9… 1 point off for a couple of technical/visual glitches like clipping that I’ve encountered running in Performance mode - that aside this remake is absolutely incredible, both familiar and fresh, and as someone who was a multiple repeat player of the original (and for whom the entire series holds a special place in my cold black heart) I couldn’t be more thrilled - and terrified - with what Bloober has created here; it’s absolutely brilliant to be back in town.

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