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I've pretty much stopped buying games. So now almost every month has something good for me.

Something for everyone in there. Good times to be a gamer.

A month where I'll download and try all of them! Most interested in Nobody.

Neato, is what I say, Push Square, neato indeed!

I liked it. Downloaded Fortnite just to play it. The controls feels great. Good arcadey fun. Needs more substance to it, hopefully over time. But for a free game, I'm impressed.

Odd location for a Death Stranding documentary.

Visions of Mana was my #1 recently revealed game. Looks and sounds beautiful. Hopefully the rest of it falls in to place well.

I suppose people being upset that digital rental games are not given to you permanently is going to be an eternal feature of the internet. Sigh. Take your time travel machine to 1995, rent 10 games for a month, see what that costs you, double the dollars. JFC.

I tuned in during the Alan Wake 2 dance number..... decided to just look up trailers later.

@sonicmeerkat lol. But seriously we need better consumer protection laws in general, and in the digital landscape in particular. A small segment of the population sticking with physical media isn't going to shift anything. All these companies need a big kick in the butt or the TOS will always be draconian.

@j2c indeed. The titles available through premium were not as good as through free services like Tubi, youtube, Freevee, etc.

I skipped the PSP and Vita and feel like I didn't miss anything important. I don't buy Playstation products for weaker versions of existing properties.

I'm quite happy about Klonoa, and interested in Teardown, Eiyuden, and Superliminal. Even at full retail of Premium, that's $14 for 4 games. $3.50 to rent a game for many months seems good to me. I always compare things to 90s prices and selection, so I guess I'm not in the right demographic to be upset about this.

Dang, people are pretty unhappy with it. There's a number ofthings I'm glad to try. I seem to be in the minority in liking the selection.

Hell Pie. It controls pretty darn well. Not perfect, but well. The humor is laughably terrible but I enjoy bad taste B movies now and then so this is a decent choice for the Halloween season.

The only genuine preservation of games as an art form is done by pirates. Honestly, you can barely consider them pirates. In times past, artworks would have been part of the "public domain" way sooner than they are now. But companies get to change the laws for their own benefit, because that's how it goes.

At the end of the day, "preservation" of games by companies themselves will inherently only be done to be able to illegitimately re-sell them to you over and over for eternity.

I'm fine with capitalism. You invest the money into a project, hopefully you make a profit. But it shouldn't extend forever, or you go back to feudalism.

Hmm, Hell Pie is down to $10. I just might.

Is this Europe only? Can't find the spot to switch to the USA store.

Well that's just sad. I enjoyed all the Tomb Raider reboot games. I preferred them to all previous TR games. But I bought them used so I guess I'm part of the problem.

Nier and Cloudpunk for me. If there's at least 2 I was interested in, I say it's a worthwhile month.

My first smartphone and only iphone was the 5. I was impressed with the graphics it could do. I quickly became disillusioned with any sort of gaming on a phone. The mobile market got so full of trash and scams it'd be a hard sell to pull in actual gamers. Plus with the default controls being touch screen, it limits what is convenient to play on it.

I expected more indies. FF7 was neat, though.

Hey, a number of games I'd like to try, but not really buy! Perfect!

@rachetmarvel the massive library, options, and emulation on PC are all pretty attractive. But man, I've had sooo many bad experiences with Windows and pc hardware finnicky nonsense over the years I just can't take it. At this point, price is irrelevant. I just don't want random BS problems interrupting my limited leisure time.

@Cashews anytime I play a Switch at someone's house, I'm like, yeah... I don't need one of these. Half the good exclusives I already had on Wii U, the other half I'll wait and play on Switch2. For everything other than Mario / Zelda / Pikmin, it's just a worse version of what I already have.

Nah I tried DOS2 and I don't have anywhere near the amount of time and patience to even begin a game of this style.

No panic buying for me. By the time my Premium sub runs out next year Switch 2 may be out, then I'd probably spend a year catching up on the Switch exclusives I missed out on. If not, I'll get Extra when it's on sale. Work on my backlog if there's a gap in between.

Played a bit of the first and fourth one. These are beautiful games that I seem to enjoy the beginning of, but never feel compelled to get far into. If part 5 shows up on ps plus, I bet I'll play the first few areas and enjoy it.

There's a very niche market for this thing. Mainly for couch gaming if you want to be in the same room as people who are using the main TV for something else. A lot of PS5 owners probably have an old PS4, which you can use to stream PS5 in another room easy enough. I you have an old 1080p / 60 hz TV on hand, there you go.

Looks ok, since it's free I may try it. Genshin became repetitive quickly so I dropped off. It was nowhere near as interesting as BOTW or Fenyx.

I'm partially interested, but I'll wait for it to show up on ps plus. I assume it's really difficult. Probably get permanently stuck on the 2nd boss type of situation. So it would just frustrate me to spend money on it.

Aw dang. I woulda loved it.

Microsoft could buy Rockstar and merge them with Activision. And then make GTA 6 a MMO with a $15.99 monthly fee for access. Lol. The original RDR was the only Rockstar game I enjoyed and I fell off there so it doesn't really matter to me.

Death's Door and Sea of Stars in the same month. Each of those will keep me busy for a long time. Plus lots of others I'd like to just goof around with for a bit.

Wild at Heart. Been getting my use out of PS+. By the time I'm done with that, Sea of Stars will be here.

The best boost Dreams could have gotten was if it had been a free giveaway early in the pandemic. Like in that "play at home" initiative, except many months earlier.

Aren't rouge-anythings inherently super repetitive? Every one I've played certainly was.

Death's Door is one I've been curious about but I've been burned by enough overly difficult indie games there was no way I was going to buy it. This is what ps plus is for.

Dang, but I'm glad I had the first game and the DLC. Fun stuff. And I agree, the combat was better than BOTW, even though the exploration wasn't.

@SoulChimera oh chill out.

The reboot trend has overstayed its welcome. In both movies and games. Sega's timing and business sense is impeccable as always.

Spongebob and Ascent for me. Already have It Takes Two and Undertale. I say it's a pretty good month, depending on what you already have. I've got tons to play from previous months though, they could have nothing for 3 months and I'd be busy.

I'll be trying this one. Hopefully there's adjustable difficulty.

Playstation Plus Premium comment time! Will it be good? Let's find out!

I didn't have ps+ when spongebob was on there, so I'll give it a go now.

The problem is they're trying to "compete" through monopolistic behavior, as Nintendo did in the 80s. Instead of just making must play exclusives. Hopefully they get reigned in as well. They're all *****, we just need the authorities to be a decent referee.

@JustPlainLoco glad to hear you're helping out. Priorities. I hope the headaches go away. I get migraines occasionally and it makes for a miserable waste of a day.

I've been curious about a few of these, but not enough that I'm wanting to pay directly for them. Perfect situation! Wild at Heart is my #1, I'll also try Redout 2 to see if it's less annoying than the first one. Also curious about Inscryption.

@Rob_230 I really don't get the hate for Shadow. I liked the tombs in Rise better, and Shadow was better visually. But there's both so similar it's weird how Shadow gets singled out.

@Tomato_Goose I didn't mean Hades itself, that has a lot of character in other aspects of its design. I meant procedurally generated levels in general.