I dunno about you guys, but when I play online my friends and I play in a party and mute outsiders these days. Don’t notice the toxicity that way and you just play.
Dave the Diver broke my game time tracker. I still can’t believe how much time I’ve invested into that game. Was not expecting that one to make it to my lifetime top 10 most played PS games.
This is all music to my ears. It sounds like it might be the exact type of game I’ve been hoping for. It’s a really refreshing setting too with an already solid story for the lore, so that helps as well. I’m genuinely interested to see more somehow. I hope we get a demo.
@ShogunRok That’s really insightful toward how the gameplay is. Hmmm… I do wish this one had a trial or demo… I suppose I’ll have the review to look forward to as I ponder my purchases.
Real question: if you can’t stand survival game mechanics, is this still worth picking up? The reviews look great and I’m interested in the setting, but it’s happened a couple times where survival mechanics put me off a game fast. Palworld, Rust, even Pacific Drive, I couldn’t do it.
@Th3solution @Specky Yeah, I was sort of seeing it as a demo service to games to an extent. I still contemplate purchasing Stray though. When my son is old enough for that one without needing me to play it (which he’s getting there), I’ll get it for him. You know, I do think AstroBot was sort of a passion project too. The types of games I miss from Sony are ironically the ones that I feel would fit the service to a T. Sony used to give away games like Flower and I feel like that’s the perfect type of thing to put on Plus. Give it some low stakes Sony efforts that wouldn’t sell otherwise and release them Day 1. Stuff like Bound, Tren, etc. I miss passion project Sony for sure. It’s what kept me in the Sony ecosystem in the PS3 era. Despite its success for most, the PS2 era put me off games for a bit and I took a few years off “new” gaming and went retro for maybe 3-4 years. It was the passion projects that got me back in. I’m likely a minority in that, but the unique games keep me as invested as the AAAs.
Yeah, no, it’s not a knee jerk. In fact, I’ll probably download RDR2 and play it for a good hour or two before my sub expires. Love the game, so I feel like this isn’t actually a bad month, aside from trading Final Fantasy games off the service (wouldn’t be surprised to see them pop up on Gamepass, given the timing, too). It’s just expensive and I’m sort of tired of paying for things just to have them. And, yes, time is also an issue. I don’t have the luxury of time to play as much as I’d like, but even so, I felt like I was in a gaming slump in March and April and weirdly enough, I think it was because I didn’t purchase anything! I was playing Dave the Diver on the sub, but it feels different to play on a sub a bit. I dunno. There’s got to be some psychology to that. It’s something I’m feeling in general with subs. I’ve started buying movies again and all that jazz. Just a tone shift in my own way of existing perhaps, exemplified by an attempt at valuing my time more maybe.
But realistically, if they made a showcase and said “Parappa 3 will be on PS+ Day 1, didn’t know we were making that, did you?” I’m resubbing for the year. Lol
@Specky @Th3solution I would maybe agree with you that the value is still there if I used Black Friday deals, but I’ll see if I feel that way without it for a little bit. I mean, I may get the cheapest version of Plus, now that I think about it, simply because I’ll need to play online for Erdtree, so hopefully there’s a summer sale before that comes out. But part of the value proposition is how good the games have been too. Realistically, I have to sit down and think about which PS+ games I actually played, and then I sort of realize that they’ve mostly been games that came and went without much impact. Stray, Dave the Diver, and Animal Well are the three I can say I’ve really enjoyed. Put those ones all together and that’s certainly less than a year’s subscription. It’s the same issue as Gamepass otherwise where I feel like it might save money sometimes from preventing me from buying games sometimes. I think about Tchia, for instance. I’d have certainly bought that one, based on my excitement for the game and the reviews. An hour or two into it though, I really disliked the game, so thanks PS+, you saved me $30-40 on a game I probably would’ve preordered or bought day 1 and wouldn’t have seen red flags ahead of time. I dunno. I buy new games regularly and the subs haven’t slowed that down so much.
I dunno if I’d say Returnal’s the only good game Sony’s made this generation. I generally disagree with the remake, remaster, sequel, and live service strategy they’re starting, but we’ve had a couple gems and Sony did have a lot of good third party deals. People can say what they will about Forspoken, but that game was also a breath of fresh air for instance.
Honestly, unless we get a big shake-up with a Sony showcase that makes the value for PS+ be worth the price hike, my yearly sub expires in a month and I’m letting it lapse. I loved having Dave the Diver, Tales of Kanzera, and Animal Well on the service, but honestly, I would have saved money by buying the games rather than having a premium sub service.
At the end of the day, I realized that before Dave the Diver, the last game I played on the service was Sea of Stars. Thats half a year. For $160 or whatever a year, that just doesn’t make sense financially for me. I found out I’ve played 5-6 games a year on Plus, so that price hike makes it more expensive than buying the games. Cautionary tale of the sub service, I suppose.
Should be completing Dave the Diver this weekend, so that’s the big thing.
Once I do that, Indika is the next “big” game for me, though I’m going to see if the wife wants to play that one with me. We’ve still got Banishers and Road 96 in that backlog though…
Outside that, depending on how long it takes to finish Dave the Diver and what time I have to game, I may do a bit of Animal Well too, which is fantastic, or try to play Prey one more time. I’ve tried to play the game maybe four times now and I want to give it one more shot for the folks at Arkane Austin.
And honestly, working through these games will be my gaming time til Erdtree unless we get some surprises at the Summer Showcases coming up in a few weeks. Yeah, knock out six games in a month, I’ve got this… Lol.
Hope it’s Bioshock. Can’t stand Borderlands, Mafia’s ok, but Bioshock vs Judas is exactly what the industry needs right now. Let’s see how much of Bioshock is Ken Levine in a literal sense.
The game is pretty fun, but, at the end of the day, trying to “get the band together,” so to speak, is harder now than it used to be, and it doesn’t help that there’s too many live service options now. As a result, The Finals was tried, enjoyed, and moved on with after maybe three or four sessions onto the next one, which I think was Foamstars, and then Helldivers, and now waiting for probably XDefiant, but that one had a similar thing to games like Splitgate and Overwatch 2 before it. The whole live service thing peaked about a year after the release of Warzone and has been on a very steady decline since then. I think most gamers have their “one” live service game, ala Destiny 2, Warzone, Apex, Fortnite, GTA, the various survival games, etc. and it’s become near impossible to crack that at this point. I mean, my wife will go into phases of religiously playing Splatoon, for instance. She tried Foamstars, and said, “Nope, Splatoon only,” and that was that. I think that’s emblematic for that side of gaming. For me, I know I’m long gone from having that “one,” given that Halo Infinite and Overwatch 2 didn’t stick the landing, and Destiny 2 and Warzone got too meta for fun. I’m the rare instance of someone that’s looking for a live service game to play casually, but the way live service games are set up now sort of… actively push me away in their grindy gatcha mentality, and yet also push my friends away because they can’t sustain a player count for long. I miss the good old days of leveling up in Halo where it was simple and fun and didn’t need skins of Goku and Peter Griffin and Ariana Grande.
I know it’s easy to be cynical about Ubisoft games, but this looks like it’ll be ambitious in the right way so far. This and the leaked info about Hexe (and the fact that Valhalla and Mirage were relatively solid) leaves me feeling optimistic about this one.
For a CGI trailer, that was pretty cool looking. I’ll likely preorder this one, just waiting to see what other games are announced in showcase season before I start making plans. AC has a chance to shine if the release slate is relatively quiet for the second half of the year.
The way to increase my engagement is continually releasing solid experiences. My Rebirth playtime exceeded anything I did on PS last year (though TotK will be unlikely to be topped) and Dave the Diver is getting close (two hours now from tying) to FF16, last year’s #1 on PS for me. However, I’d say my playtime is down overall this year. It might be my lightest year since 2016 for overall playtime and that’s directly because games right now aren’t as much of to my preference this year. Give me the cliche third person, story driven character games and I’m more invested.
@Nepp67 My friend group never coalesced on this one. We all tried it, but never at the same time and only one person that I know got really into it. Playing with randoms, I thought it was sort of boring. I’ve put in maybe a half dozen hours or so now, but it still hasn’t clicked with me. And I’m honestly sort of scratching my head how the game’s been as well received as it has been. I mean, Dragon’s Dogma and Like a Dragon don’t click with me either, but I get it. Helldivers is sort of mystifying to me though, especially when people tend to rip live service games apart.
Now, granted, I’m pretty removed from multiplayer experiences. I’ll play a fighting game when people are over or Mario Party, whatever, but I haven’t actively played anything online on a regular basis since I think 2021. Could be part of it, but, given that it’s got the most GotY buzz of any game right now, I feel like I really want to understand, you know?
I can be honest and say that, as my sub is about to expire, I was planning to continue with it, given how good May was… til I saw the price increase! I forgot how much higher it was! I think I might just buy the games. Lol
Hopefully it’s more interesting to me personally than Helldivers, which frankly baffles me in its popularity. Seems like a slightly above average live service game to me, sort of grindy, and all that, but hey I can’t stand Apex or Fortnite, so maybe I’m just the wrong demographic for it. But I’ve sort of questioned my sanity seeing Helldivers blow up, having played a decent amount of hours and feeling very… just ok… with it.
I expect we’ll see more about Fairgames soon too, as I got a survey in my email about it last week.
I picked it up, but I really don’t get the hype with it. The game is fine, but I don’t see what others see with it, I suppose. I bought into it because of the hype, but I sort of think you need to be playing this with other people that buy into the game’s ethos in order to really enjoy this one. For me, it definitely seems like a F2P title with slightly better production values…
Don’t care about old games leaving. With Dave the Diver, Animal Well, and Tales of Kenzara all launching day 1, that’s a bigger hook for me. New games=saving money=finally worthwhile. This is the best month we’ve had for Plus in ages. Sub services are a waste without new quality games. Cancelled my Gamepass sub for exactly this reason. PS+ might’ve saved my sub with this month for me.
I’m excited for whatever it is because, whenever Horizon gets slated for release, that means there’s something better launching right alongside it. I jest, of course.
Hopefully, in seriousness, this is the first leak of whatever PS Showcase is (fingers crossed) around the bend.
Getting close to finishing Dave the Diver now and I’ve tapped the surface of Crow Country and Animal Well, so I’ll be playing the three of these games for sure in some capacity today after work and after I mow the grass and not on Mother’s Day. And you never know… Banishers might finally get played some. We shall see!
Does anyone realistically have time to play both a Yakuza and Persona game the same year? They’re both so massive that I struggle to play both series and yet I try time and time and time… and time… again.
Given the Mana series’s history with me, I’d like to say I’m excited to buy this, but I’m more excited to read the reviews and make a judgement after that as to whether I purchase or not.
I sort of felt like Dragon’s Dogma 2 was just slightly above average, honestly. The more I played it, the less I liked it and the more routine it felt, but hey I’m not a Monster Hunter guy either for the same reason! Outside Exoprimal, it’s the first big Capcom game that didn’t knock my socks off in a while.
I’d rather they felt this way about Megaman. I miss that little guy.
@AverageGamer @TJ81 Whoa, I had no idea about what @Konks said. I’ll bet that factors more into its evergreen status than I ever would have realized. I can see that being a factor just as much as the whole “coming of age” theory on it. I mean, I’ve seen people buy “Fortnite in a case,” as silly as that is
@AverageGamer I get that every year new people are born, but also every year new games are made too. Super Mario Bros wasn’t charting in the top 10 during the N64/PS1 era, you know? It’s just strange how the games of 10-ish years ago are just as pervasive in gaming culture as current games. There’s never been another era in gaming like that.
Every time I see the sales charts, I wonder who is still buying GTA5. I don’t know anyone that’s bought GTA5 this generation. Hasn’t everyone owned this game for over a decade by now? Never even heard of Sker Ritual either…
Also, really surprised Sea of Thieves sold as well as it did. Its a shame Hi-Fi Rush didn’t get that kind of support from the community.
Eiyuden’s added totals are within a thousand copies of Stellar Blade. Not a bad debut for a project like this! Neither game clicked with me, but I’m really happy to Eiyuden, as a final passion project for its creator, having the success it’s getting. Love when the creatives and auteurs of the industry are enabled to succeed.
@Quintumply oh man, perfect length. A lot of quality titles already this month on the shorter side and I am there for them all. Looking forward to playing something other than Dave the Diver for a bit!
@twitchtvpat Of course it can be improved, but do we really need games to be remade every two generations? Where’s the creativity and innovation in that?
@twitchtvpat I’m not saying they can’t improve the gameplay, just saying that the original is still a very playable game that really doesn’t need a remake. It’s not necessary. It’s in a similar… ahem… boat… as TLOU Pt 1.
@twitchtvpat Yeah, I’d say so. I mean, do studios remake movies that are only 11 years old? Give a game three generations, I say, even if I think this whole culture of remakes takes away from new content being made.
@gbanas92 Love it. I’m excited for this and Indika. I really enjoy when I can blast through a solid game in a few days like I did as a kid. Appreciate the review. It sold me on this one!
I’m hoping this is a little bit of a leaner Atlus experience. I always struggle to stick to their games because they’re so lengthy, but I’m honestly looking forward to this one.
Well, considering the first is second only to Dead Cells in the genre, I expect it to be excellent. The only thing I’m concerned about with it is that it’ll feel like more of the same thing rather than something new. I’m not really a roguelike guy, but I can certainly praise a masterwork like Hades. It’s just a shame we don’t get console-based early access.
It’s an incredible ending. I loved every minute of it and man were those visuals sumptuous. That’s the best looking cinematic I’ve ever seen in a game perhaps. I thought the whole thing was excellent. I can’t wait to see what’s next!
@KundaliniRising333 Story, characters, visuals, combat, etc. 16 is a better game in practically every way, outside traversal for me, unless you’d rather have agency of making “your own character.” I’d give Dragon’s Dogma 2 maybe a 7 or 8/10 personally. The game feels dated and grindy to me. It’s certainly a niche game. You’ll love it or hate it, most likely. For me, I just sort of got bored with it after about 3 or 4 weeks playing it. 16, however, I was sad to see it be finished. I loved my time with it. Sure, there’s some padding, but overall, it’s such a resonant story with excellent characters and incredible boss fights. Seriously, the boss battles are stunning in a way that I don’t know what could top them.
As for Ronin, that one reminded me of Ubisoft meets Nioh, which, I mean, that’s sort of what was promised with this one the whole time, wasn’t it? That one didn’t hit for me either, but I wasn’t really surprised about that, as I’ve never really liked anything Team Ninja’s made. Glad I just tried that one and didn’t buy it.
Also, take my opinion with a grain of salt, I’m heavily biased toward Final Fantasy. I would say that, outside the Kojima-verse, it’s my favorite series. I will be critical of the series when I feel it deserves it (FF2, 3, and 13, I’m looking at you!), but I typically love the series. And, yes, I loved 15 too.
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Re: Helldivers 2 Dev Says It's Seen 'Horrifying' Toxicity from Some of the Community
I dunno about you guys, but when I play online my friends and I play in a party and mute outsiders these days. Don’t notice the toxicity that way and you just play.
Re: Sony Seems to Have Broken the PS5's Game Time Tracker, Again
Dave the Diver broke my game time tracker. I still can’t believe how much time I’ve invested into that game. Was not expecting that one to make it to my lifetime top 10 most played PS games.
Re: Sony's Big Days of Play Promo Begins Next Week, Leaker Claims
Can’t wait for the same two sales we always get rotated to us, but mashed together. However, if I re-up my PS+, I’m waiting for this.
Re: Death Stranding 2 Enters 'Adjustment Phase', Filming and Recording Complete
Death Stranding 2 > GTA 6
Re: Leaker Claims Black Myth: Wukong Features 160 Enemy Types, 80 Bosses
This is all music to my ears. It sounds like it might be the exact type of game I’ve been hoping for. It’s a really refreshing setting too with an already solid story for the lore, so that helps as well. I’m genuinely interested to see more somehow. I hope we get a demo.
Re: PS5 Action RPG V Rising Snags June Release Date Alongside PS Plus Discount
@ShogunRok That’s really insightful toward how the gameplay is. Hmmm… I do wish this one had a trial or demo… I suppose I’ll have the review to look forward to as I ponder my purchases.
Re: Rumour: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Drops in October for PS5
Sounds like we’ll be able to preorder imminently, huh? My bet is a reveal at Summer Games Fest.
Re: PS5 Action RPG V Rising Snags June Release Date Alongside PS Plus Discount
Real question: if you can’t stand survival game mechanics, is this still worth picking up? The reviews look great and I’m interested in the setting, but it’s happened a couple times where survival mechanics put me off a game fast. Palworld, Rust, even Pacific Drive, I couldn’t do it.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for May 2024?
@Th3solution @Specky Yeah, I was sort of seeing it as a demo service to games to an extent. I still contemplate purchasing Stray though. When my son is old enough for that one without needing me to play it (which he’s getting there), I’ll get it for him. You know, I do think AstroBot was sort of a passion project too. The types of games I miss from Sony are ironically the ones that I feel would fit the service to a T. Sony used to give away games like Flower and I feel like that’s the perfect type of thing to put on Plus. Give it some low stakes Sony efforts that wouldn’t sell otherwise and release them Day 1. Stuff like Bound, Tren, etc. I miss passion project Sony for sure. It’s what kept me in the Sony ecosystem in the PS3 era. Despite its success for most, the PS2 era put me off games for a bit and I took a few years off “new” gaming and went retro for maybe 3-4 years. It was the passion projects that got me back in. I’m likely a minority in that, but the unique games keep me as invested as the AAAs.
Yeah, no, it’s not a knee jerk. In fact, I’ll probably download RDR2 and play it for a good hour or two before my sub expires. Love the game, so I feel like this isn’t actually a bad month, aside from trading Final Fantasy games off the service (wouldn’t be surprised to see them pop up on Gamepass, given the timing, too). It’s just expensive and I’m sort of tired of paying for things just to have them. And, yes, time is also an issue. I don’t have the luxury of time to play as much as I’d like, but even so, I felt like I was in a gaming slump in March and April and weirdly enough, I think it was because I didn’t purchase anything! I was playing Dave the Diver on the sub, but it feels different to play on a sub a bit. I dunno. There’s got to be some psychology to that. It’s something I’m feeling in general with subs. I’ve started buying movies again and all that jazz. Just a tone shift in my own way of existing perhaps, exemplified by an attempt at valuing my time more maybe.
But realistically, if they made a showcase and said “Parappa 3 will be on PS+ Day 1, didn’t know we were making that, did you?” I’m resubbing for the year. Lol
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for May 2024?
@Specky @Th3solution I would maybe agree with you that the value is still there if I used Black Friday deals, but I’ll see if I feel that way without it for a little bit. I mean, I may get the cheapest version of Plus, now that I think about it, simply because I’ll need to play online for Erdtree, so hopefully there’s a summer sale before that comes out. But part of the value proposition is how good the games have been too. Realistically, I have to sit down and think about which PS+ games I actually played, and then I sort of realize that they’ve mostly been games that came and went without much impact. Stray, Dave the Diver, and Animal Well are the three I can say I’ve really enjoyed. Put those ones all together and that’s certainly less than a year’s subscription. It’s the same issue as Gamepass otherwise where I feel like it might save money sometimes from preventing me from buying games sometimes. I think about Tchia, for instance. I’d have certainly bought that one, based on my excitement for the game and the reviews. An hour or two into it though, I really disliked the game, so thanks PS+, you saved me $30-40 on a game I probably would’ve preordered or bought day 1 and wouldn’t have seen red flags ahead of time. I dunno. I buy new games regularly and the subs haven’t slowed that down so much.
I dunno if I’d say Returnal’s the only good game Sony’s made this generation. I generally disagree with the remake, remaster, sequel, and live service strategy they’re starting, but we’ve had a couple gems and Sony did have a lot of good third party deals. People can say what they will about Forspoken, but that game was also a breath of fresh air for instance.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for May 2024?
Honestly, unless we get a big shake-up with a Sony showcase that makes the value for PS+ be worth the price hike, my yearly sub expires in a month and I’m letting it lapse. I loved having Dave the Diver, Tales of Kanzera, and Animal Well on the service, but honestly, I would have saved money by buying the games rather than having a premium sub service.
At the end of the day, I realized that before Dave the Diver, the last game I played on the service was Sea of Stars. Thats half a year. For $160 or whatever a year, that just doesn’t make sense financially for me. I found out I’ve played 5-6 games a year on Plus, so that price hike makes it more expensive than buying the games. Cautionary tale of the sub service, I suppose.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 529
Should be completing Dave the Diver this weekend, so that’s the big thing.
Once I do that, Indika is the next “big” game for me, though I’m going to see if the wife wants to play that one with me. We’ve still got Banishers and Road 96 in that backlog though…
Outside that, depending on how long it takes to finish Dave the Diver and what time I have to game, I may do a bit of Animal Well too, which is fantastic, or try to play Prey one more time. I’ve tried to play the game maybe four times now and I want to give it one more shot for the folks at Arkane Austin.
And honestly, working through these games will be my gaming time til Erdtree unless we get some surprises at the Summer Showcases coming up in a few weeks. Yeah, knock out six games in a month, I’ve got this… Lol.
Re: Summer Game Fest Hosts New Game Reveal from One of 2K's 'Biggest and Most Beloved Franchises'
Hope it’s Bioshock. Can’t stand Borderlands, Mafia’s ok, but Bioshock vs Judas is exactly what the industry needs right now. Let’s see how much of Bioshock is Ken Levine in a literal sense.
Re: Indika (PS5) - A Bleak, Beautiful, Bewildering Rumination on Faith and Free Will
Cannot wait to play through this this weekend!
Re: Rumour: LEGO Horizon Adventures Is Reportedly Real, a 'Realistic' Horizon Game But with LEGO
There had to be a first Horizon game I didn’t buy eventually.
Re: Publisher Nexon Investigating Cause of The Finals' 'Lower-Than-Expected' Performance
The game is pretty fun, but, at the end of the day, trying to “get the band together,” so to speak, is harder now than it used to be, and it doesn’t help that there’s too many live service options now. As a result, The Finals was tried, enjoyed, and moved on with after maybe three or four sessions onto the next one, which I think was Foamstars, and then Helldivers, and now waiting for probably XDefiant, but that one had a similar thing to games like Splitgate and Overwatch 2 before it. The whole live service thing peaked about a year after the release of Warzone and has been on a very steady decline since then. I think most gamers have their “one” live service game, ala Destiny 2, Warzone, Apex, Fortnite, GTA, the various survival games, etc. and it’s become near impossible to crack that at this point. I mean, my wife will go into phases of religiously playing Splatoon, for instance. She tried Foamstars, and said, “Nope, Splatoon only,” and that was that. I think that’s emblematic for that side of gaming. For me, I know I’m long gone from having that “one,” given that Halo Infinite and Overwatch 2 didn’t stick the landing, and Destiny 2 and Warzone got too meta for fun. I’m the rare instance of someone that’s looking for a live service game to play casually, but the way live service games are set up now sort of… actively push me away in their grindy gatcha mentality, and yet also push my friends away because they can’t sustain a player count for long. I miss the good old days of leveling up in Halo where it was simple and fun and didn’t need skins of Goku and Peter Griffin and Ariana Grande.
Re: Seasons in Assassin's Creed Shadows Change Gameplay, Setting
I know it’s easy to be cynical about Ubisoft games, but this looks like it’ll be ambitious in the right way so far. This and the leaked info about Hexe (and the fact that Valhalla and Mirage were relatively solid) leaves me feeling optimistic about this one.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Dated for 15th November in First Trailer
For a CGI trailer, that was pretty cool looking. I’ll likely preorder this one, just waiting to see what other games are announced in showcase season before I start making plans. AC has a chance to shine if the release slate is relatively quiet for the second half of the year.
Re: Sony Increasingly Focused on PS5 Playtime Alongside Hardware Sales
The way to increase my engagement is continually releasing solid experiences. My Rebirth playtime exceeded anything I did on PS last year (though TotK will be unlikely to be topped) and Dave the Diver is getting close (two hours now from tying) to FF16, last year’s #1 on PS for me. However, I’d say my playtime is down overall this year. It might be my lightest year since 2016 for overall playtime and that’s directly because games right now aren’t as much of to my preference this year. Give me the cliche third person, story driven character games and I’m more invested.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Indie Hit Sea of Stars Breaks into a Top 10 Full of Juggernauts
What the? The Sims for Rent? And the PS+ game of the Month in first place. Yeah, that makes sense. Good for Sea of Stars though!
These sales charts are crazy.
Re: PS5, PC Live Service Concord Will Launch in 2024
@Nepp67 My friend group never coalesced on this one. We all tried it, but never at the same time and only one person that I know got really into it. Playing with randoms, I thought it was sort of boring. I’ve put in maybe a half dozen hours or so now, but it still hasn’t clicked with me. And I’m honestly sort of scratching my head how the game’s been as well received as it has been. I mean, Dragon’s Dogma and Like a Dragon don’t click with me either, but I get it. Helldivers is sort of mystifying to me though, especially when people tend to rip live service games apart.
Now, granted, I’m pretty removed from multiplayer experiences. I’ll play a fighting game when people are over or Mario Party, whatever, but I haven’t actively played anything online on a regular basis since I think 2021. Could be part of it, but, given that it’s got the most GotY buzz of any game right now, I feel like I really want to understand, you know?
Re: Sony Attracting More PSN Users Year-on-Year Despite Quarterly Dip
I can be honest and say that, as my sub is about to expire, I was planning to continue with it, given how good May was… til I saw the price increase! I forgot how much higher it was! I think I might just buy the games. Lol
Re: PS5, PC Live Service Concord Will Launch in 2024
Hopefully it’s more interesting to me personally than Helldivers, which frankly baffles me in its popularity. Seems like a slightly above average live service game to me, sort of grindy, and all that, but hey I can’t stand Apex or Fortnite, so maybe I’m just the wrong demographic for it. But I’ve sort of questioned my sanity seeing Helldivers blow up, having played a decent amount of hours and feeling very… just ok… with it.
I expect we’ll see more about Fairgames soon too, as I got a survey in my email about it last week.
Re: Helldivers 2 on PS5, PC Is Sony's Fastest Selling Game of All Time
I picked it up, but I really don’t get the hype with it. The game is fine, but I don’t see what others see with it, I suppose. I bought into it because of the hype, but I sort of think you need to be playing this with other people that buy into the game’s ethos in order to really enjoy this one. For me, it definitely seems like a F2P title with slightly better production values…
Re: Braid, Anniversary Edition (PS5) - A Gorgeous Revisit of an Indie Classic
If this is the same game as the original, it should have a 10/10 slapped on it.
Re: Religious Indie Game INDIKA Handed Final PS5 Release Date of 17th May
FINALLY! Ready to purchase noooooow! Lets goooooo!
I’m excited about this weird little gem, if you can’t tell.
Re: Next Week's Huge PS Plus Purge Now Extended to 35 PS5, PS4 Games
Don’t care about old games leaving. With Dave the Diver, Animal Well, and Tales of Kenzara all launching day 1, that’s a bigger hook for me. New games=saving money=finally worthwhile. This is the best month we’ve had for Plus in ages. Sub services are a waste without new quality games. Cancelled my Gamepass sub for exactly this reason. PS+ might’ve saved my sub with this month for me.
Re: Rumour: Is LEGO Horizon Aloy's Next Big PS5 Adventure?
I’m excited for whatever it is because, whenever Horizon gets slated for release, that means there’s something better launching right alongside it. I jest, of course.
Hopefully, in seriousness, this is the first leak of whatever PS Showcase is (fingers crossed) around the bend.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 528
Getting close to finishing Dave the Diver now and I’ve tapped the surface of Crow Country and Animal Well, so I’ll be playing the three of these games for sure in some capacity today after work and after I mow the grass and not on Mother’s Day. And you never know… Banishers might finally get played some. We shall see!
Re: Rumour: SEGA Wants Persona to Be an Annual Franchise Alongside Like a Dragon, Sonic
Does anyone realistically have time to play both a Yakuza and Persona game the same year? They’re both so massive that I struggle to play both series and yet I try time and time and time… and time… again.
Re: Visions of Mana Release Date Likely Incoming as Action RPG Gets Age Rated
Given the Mana series’s history with me, I’d like to say I’m excited to buy this, but I’m more excited to read the reviews and make a judgement after that as to whether I purchase or not.
Re: Capcom Now Considers Dragon's Dogma a 'Key Brand' Following Substantial Sales
I sort of felt like Dragon’s Dogma 2 was just slightly above average, honestly. The more I played it, the less I liked it and the more routine it felt, but hey I’m not a Monster Hunter guy either for the same reason! Outside Exoprimal, it’s the first big Capcom game that didn’t knock my socks off in a while.
I’d rather they felt this way about Megaman. I miss that little guy.
Re: PS Store Sales Charts: Stellar Blade Loses Out to Sea of Thieves in Europe, Helldivers 2 Is Still King in US
@AverageGamer @TJ81 Whoa, I had no idea about what @Konks said. I’ll bet that factors more into its evergreen status than I ever would have realized. I can see that being a factor just as much as the whole “coming of age” theory on it. I mean, I’ve seen people buy “Fortnite in a case,” as silly as that is
Re: PS Store Sales Charts: Stellar Blade Loses Out to Sea of Thieves in Europe, Helldivers 2 Is Still King in US
@AverageGamer I get that every year new people are born, but also every year new games are made too. Super Mario Bros wasn’t charting in the top 10 during the N64/PS1 era, you know? It’s just strange how the games of 10-ish years ago are just as pervasive in gaming culture as current games. There’s never been another era in gaming like that.
Re: PS Store Sales Charts: Stellar Blade Loses Out to Sea of Thieves in Europe, Helldivers 2 Is Still King in US
Jeez, Europe, GTA5 in second? Really?
Every time I see the sales charts, I wonder who is still buying GTA5. I don’t know anyone that’s bought GTA5 this generation. Hasn’t everyone owned this game for over a decade by now? Never even heard of Sker Ritual either…
Also, really surprised Sea of Thieves sold as well as it did. Its a shame Hi-Fi Rush didn’t get that kind of support from the community.
Re: Japan Sales Charts: Stellar Blade Has a Slightly Disappointing PS5 Debut, Eiyuden Chronicle Sells Best on Switch
Eiyuden’s added totals are within a thousand copies of Stellar Blade. Not a bad debut for a project like this! Neither game clicked with me, but I’m really happy to Eiyuden, as a final passion project for its creator, having the success it’s getting. Love when the creatives and auteurs of the industry are enabled to succeed.
Re: Mini Review: Animal Well (PS5) - Mysterious Metroidvania a Pure Puzzle Box on PS Plus
@Quintumply oh man, perfect length. A lot of quality titles already this month on the shorter side and I am there for them all. Looking forward to playing something other than Dave the Diver for a bit!
Re: Mini Review: Animal Well (PS5) - Mysterious Metroidvania a Pure Puzzle Box on PS Plus
@Quintumply How long is this one? Trying to decide between starting this or Crow Country first
Re: Rumour: Ubisoft Is Going All-In on Assassin's Creed with Black Flag Remake, Another Remake, Co-op Multiplayer Games, and More
@twitchtvpat Of course it can be improved, but do we really need games to be remade every two generations? Where’s the creativity and innovation in that?
Re: Rumour: Ubisoft Is Going All-In on Assassin's Creed with Black Flag Remake, Another Remake, Co-op Multiplayer Games, and More
@twitchtvpat I’m not saying they can’t improve the gameplay, just saying that the original is still a very playable game that really doesn’t need a remake. It’s not necessary. It’s in a similar… ahem… boat… as TLOU Pt 1.
Re: Rumour: Ubisoft Is Going All-In on Assassin's Creed with Black Flag Remake, Another Remake, Co-op Multiplayer Games, and More
@twitchtvpat Yeah, I’d say so. I mean, do studios remake movies that are only 11 years old? Give a game three generations, I say, even if I think this whole culture of remakes takes away from new content being made.
Re: There's a 'Real Hunger' for AI to Make Game Dev More Efficient, Says EA Boss
I wonder if AI would be a more efficient shareholder or executive…
Re: Rumour: Ubisoft Is Going All-In on Assassin's Creed with Black Flag Remake, Another Remake, Co-op Multiplayer Games, and More
Black Flag seems too new for a remake, honestly. But whatever. I’m ok with a focus on AC. It’s a reliable 7/10-8/10 tier franchise, if nothing else.
Re: Mini Review: Crow Country (PS5) - Brilliant Retro Horror Wears Its Influences on Its Sleeve
@gbanas92 Love it. I’m excited for this and Indika. I really enjoy when I can blast through a solid game in a few days like I did as a kid. Appreciate the review. It sold me on this one!
Re: Mini Review: Crow Country (PS5) - Brilliant Retro Horror Wears Its Influences on Its Sleeve
@gbanas92 What’s the estimated length on this one? I’m definitely intrigued with this one.
Re: Metaphor: ReFantazio Might Be the Most Stylish Atlus Game Ever, Going By New Screenshots
I’m hoping this is a little bit of a leaner Atlus experience. I always struggle to stick to their games because they’re so lengthy, but I’m honestly looking forward to this one.
Re: Hades 2 in Early Access Has Critics Raving, Big Jump Over First Game
Well, considering the first is second only to Dead Cells in the genre, I expect it to be excellent. The only thing I’m concerned about with it is that it’ll feel like more of the same thing rather than something new. I’m not really a roguelike guy, but I can certainly praise a masterwork like Hades. It’s just a shame we don’t get console-based early access.
Re: Poll: What Do You Think of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Ending?
It’s an incredible ending. I loved every minute of it and man were those visuals sumptuous. That’s the best looking cinematic I’ve ever seen in a game perhaps. I thought the whole thing was excellent. I can’t wait to see what’s next!
Re: New PS5, PS4 Games This Week (6th May to 12th May)
Man, I hope we find out when Indika really does come to PS5 soon… Was really looking forward to that one this coming week
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 527
@KundaliniRising333 Story, characters, visuals, combat, etc. 16 is a better game in practically every way, outside traversal for me, unless you’d rather have agency of making “your own character.” I’d give Dragon’s Dogma 2 maybe a 7 or 8/10 personally. The game feels dated and grindy to me. It’s certainly a niche game. You’ll love it or hate it, most likely. For me, I just sort of got bored with it after about 3 or 4 weeks playing it. 16, however, I was sad to see it be finished. I loved my time with it. Sure, there’s some padding, but overall, it’s such a resonant story with excellent characters and incredible boss fights. Seriously, the boss battles are stunning in a way that I don’t know what could top them.
As for Ronin, that one reminded me of Ubisoft meets Nioh, which, I mean, that’s sort of what was promised with this one the whole time, wasn’t it? That one didn’t hit for me either, but I wasn’t really surprised about that, as I’ve never really liked anything Team Ninja’s made. Glad I just tried that one and didn’t buy it.
Also, take my opinion with a grain of salt, I’m heavily biased toward Final Fantasy. I would say that, outside the Kojima-verse, it’s my favorite series. I will be critical of the series when I feel it deserves it (FF2, 3, and 13, I’m looking at you!), but I typically love the series. And, yes, I loved 15 too.