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@Steel76
Free patch wasn’t an option. It is almost always a small fee to cover the costs for the people doing it, or it not getting made at all and those people working on something else that will pay out.

@carlos82
I think people get the subscription because they feel they, on average, get to play games a lot more cheaply than if they bought them individually* let’s not lie about that. So it’s no great surprise the value proposition may be different for games given on Plus. I’m not too mad about it, even though I fall in the camp of someone who would pay £10 for it but not full price, so I guess I should be upset, right?

*apart from those unfortunate multiplayer only types who get it for online functionality.

This actually looked really good. Apart from the gameplay. But if the story and world are great I can overlook tedious and mediocre combat.

A couple of interesting single player games I hadn’t heard of, so it was OK. Not much announced for VR, so could have been a lot better, but Sony aren’t great at marketing that.

If you say so. Just got cat quest 3, as I liked the first 2, and lost in random as it looks quite cool and is impulse buy price.

@springer17
Still £5 more than its previous best sale price, at £12.49 instead of £7.49. Guess they are counting on people having forgotten as it hasn’t been since Oct 2023 it’s been that price. Plus it’s so long since the last sale maybe they think people will just be grateful anyway.

Wow! 19 of the games on my wishlist are in the sale…at exactly the same prices they have been before. This constant flipping between normal and “non-sale” price is mightily annoying.

Couldn’t play the ps plus games j was playing due to fiddling the game share thing with my wife. Couldn’t play due to licensing. We also couldn’t change the settings as no online. Couldn’t play on each others due to no save transfer without online…could have played some of my few unsold disc games but didn’t want to.

Just didn’t game and started watching The Mentalist 🤷‍♂️ not a huge deal as it very rarely happens and it’s my own fault for trying to get to games for the price of one.

Hopefully it’ll be a few or low cost upgrade. The wig and I rally joy playing this game together

The main benefit of physical to me is that I’m not needlessly throwing away good money on more expensive and untradeable digital games. However, I’m in the U.K, where I can get a vast majority of the value back from CEX. I understand GameStop are a US retailer, and I’ve been told many times that they don’t give good value back. Perhaps if they did adverts like this wouldn’t be needed and people would simply want to buy from them.

@TommyNL
Just say why it went down, whether there were any bad actors, confirm people’s details are secure etc.

I don’t really care about the specific reasons either, but it’s a matter of general respect.

Beyond that though, their communication is generally pitiful. Even when not saying anything brings bad PR, or even just means an opportunity is lost to drum up a excitement.

It’s like they sacked all their coms and PR people to save money.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare
I’m sure a day outage every year or more may keep happening. Not too bothered by that level of (in)frequency, but do agree that Sony’s communication on this and all issues is terrible.

Tons of third party games are releasing constantly on PSV2, this writer, and indeed the whole of this site if the “releasing on PSVR2” article is any indication, just don’t pay attention.

It’s most amusing how they have time to report on games not coming to PSVR2, but no time to report on or even list / learn about the games that ARE coming!

Since when were paid for exclusives strange? Hopefully it’s just a timed exclusive and will release eventually.

The main reason i was inconvenienced is that the wife and I each have a PS5, and have set it so we can play each other’s games. I couldn’t play the PS Plus games I’d been playing nor any I bought myself. I could have just played on the PS5 in the living room, but I wouldn’t have been able to download my saves from the cloud due to the outage. Nor could I change the settings because of the outage.

I guess this is a niche case, and Sony shouldn’t be blamed for my fiddling their system.

5 days? Barely registers as anything to be honest, but not being able to game for a day is hardly horrendous torture anyway.

@FreasurePlanten
This must only be in certain regions. I’ve timed the same just in case it ever changes, but it’s always let me (UK) just extend whenever any sale is on. I usually renew during the Black Friday sales but don’t have to wait for mine to end (yet).

Not being a pc player I’ve not gotten used to the whole mouse and kepboard thing. I also don’t like long winded strategy game that require too much of my attention and energy. The last game I really played that required a mouse was honestly Mario Paint on the SNES. Now if a game was made that needed it I wouldn’t be opposed, but it doesn’t exactly appeal either.

If the game is fantastic fun I don’t mind spending upwards of 200hrs to finish, as I did with a couple of the Yakuza games.

For the very best games, like Yakuza 5, this might represent about 5 weeks.

Breakout is just not the same without paddles. Would be great if Sony would implement this in their next gen controller (they won’t of course)

There really should be a “console cross play only” option. No interest in risking PC cheaters and hackers in any game.

This looks like just my type of game. Something that would have been released back in the PS2 era.

Really, really don’t want to know how that poor dog helps him go to the bathroom though. Because I can only thing of one way 😣

Apparently the base PS5 has better performance than base Series X too, for anyone looking to decide but who doesn’t have Pro.

As long as the optional disc drive is in good supply and doesn’t increase the price of the complete unit beyond what is reasonable for a console, then fine. If Sony uses it to increase profit by adding an extra £100 to the standard console price (which I would consider to be around £600) then that’s pretty anti consumer in my opinion as people with big game collections are kind of forced to get it.

Anyway, way things are going I won’t be getting PS6 at launch, unlike every other PlayStation. Cross gen is just too long now and my back catalogue too large.

@Dimey
They have had an agenda against both games due to their opinions of those in charge. Not saying it’s necessarily worth more than a 3/5, but if you read some of their criticisms, across multiple opinion pieces of the first game, it really is clear they were always going to be on the extreme low side of the spectrum of review scores. But then, that’s Eurogamer for you.

@MARl0
Fair enough. Although for games like this, with the same characters and locations, i would recommend it. But if you want to skip straight to the sequel it shouldn’t be an issue.

@MARl0
You can normally get the complete edition for about £6. I did. You won’t regret it.

I would have considered the first one of the greatest games I’ve played in recent times, were it not for 2 big annoyances. The first being the missable nature of many time sensitive quests (BG3 was ruined for me for the same reason); the other being the inability for the combat system to fairly deal with more than 2 opponents at once (would be perfect in VR though)

Edit: Just thought of a third issue - tying the save system to a drink that gets you drunk, then having a trophy challenge tied to not getting drunk! Infuriating!

If these things are fixed in the sequel then this could well be my favourite RPG outside of the Yakuza series.

@Steeleye50
Yes, reading some dev commentary, they admit they missed the mark with combat in the first game and have apparently improved it for the sequel. It’s meant be much snappier and more responsive.

@Zeroo
Great to hear!

@Steeleye50
It really is the combat that will determine whether I get the game or not. I loved most elements of the first game but the combat was god-awful. I like the idea of more considered combat, but the execution, particularly when facing more than a couple of enemies at once, was the furthest thing away from realistic. I really hope they’ve worked on improving it.

Might try the original as it’s on ps plus (I’m guessing the sequel will be at some point too depending on what MS do with the Gamepass deal).

@breakneck
Combat is 2d sword/gun/grenade/dodgeroll -quite easy so far; explore a small future Tokyo type world, collect scraps to upgrade kit. There’s a good narrative with interesting characters and quests; a few minigames. It’s pixel art - which I usually hate but this is very attractive.

I’ve only played a few hours so likely more to it, but really enjoying it so far. Given it’s free on Extra i’d definitely give it a go.

Also, no missable trophy challenges and you can come back and complete everything after you’ve finished the main story. Which is all good.

If one essential game appeals that’s a good month, and I’m interested enough to give High on Life a go.

Used to like platformers like Pac-Man, but VR ruined all depthless platformers for me.

No interest in Payday.

Playing Anno Mutationem on Plus. Really enjoying it. Great atmosphere.

Also jumping into Star Wars Tales from the Galaxies Edge. Not the biggest Star Wars fan, but when you are actually inside the universe you can see what the big deal is.

@Fritz167
This article is just getting worse. Not content with ignoring loads of game releases, they are now actually removing games!

I prefer track racers, but I’ll probably get it on sale when it’s about £15

Will give high on life a go, no interest in the others. 1 in 3 isn’t bad.

This is by far the best game they made out of the top 3. Better story than Heavy Rain, better mechanics, and dr more focused than Detroit BH.

Well, that’s 8 games in my wishlist on sale…but all the same or more expensive as during other sales (where they were obviously still too expensive for me to consider them worthwhile).

What’s not to like!?

They can’t make a console with any unique features if they are releasing their games on all platforms.

That leaves giving the most flops, which they already have this gen, and nobody cared.

I do somewhat suspect they might try to lean into their cloud infrastructure and try to do what they failed at multiple times, and market the “power of the cloud” as giving them ultra powerful hardware. Again, didn’t work in the past, but what more can they do if they truly want my smart TV to be an Xbox?

It’s ironic that one of Sonys failures is not communicating enough with their fan base, and one of MS’ failures is communicating far too much. It forces PR approved comments that are just laughable.

A very rare day one game because the are so few the wife and I can play co-op. It Takes Two gave some of our best gaming memories.

Skys of Arcadia legends was my favourite GameCube game, and that’s saying something! Been hoping for this and lost odyssey for ages.

@McDosy
I figure he was talking about PSN. Although MS and Nintendo are the same, pretty much. Quite often there are very old games rolling for £50,60,70, which you can pick up for under a tenner physically (and then sell to get most of that back).

That’s the case in the U.K. anyway, not sure where you are so it could be different I guess.

It’s simply that people are willing to pay much more for the convenience of digital. Especially with gaming shops closing down all over the place. It’s a shame as it’ll kill the (second hand) budget market and prices will be able to rise more and more because eventually people will have no other choice but to buy digital.

Fully deserved

In VR it is absolutely a Nintendo beater. Best platformer of all time. Flat. Yeah. Not revolutionary enough to create the same sense of magic.

I remember when we used to get free in game items for having Saves for the other Yakuza games. That’s much better than forcing people to sign up for things like this.

Ok, guess it’s actual release date is later than I thought.

@ShadowofSparta
The problem is when people pick an arbitrary point in history in order to…serve propaganda purposes. How far do you go back in his case? A few weeks? October 7th? 7th century? Earliest recorded inhabitants of the area? I’m not stating a preference myself, just pointing out that “read a history book”, inevitably involves personal editing and choices when determining which ones describing which period…

Anyone can be a hero or a villain depending on where you decide to begin or end the narrative.

Ironically here, ai driven or stock images rarely receive significant human editing.

@PinderSchloss
Of all the possible criticisms in that travesty of a trailer, I didn’t see that coming. The faces are a bit uncanny valley I guess, but the character models were the only thing that looked remotely competent (probably because it wasn’t in game engine). What did you find so bad about them that they didn’t allow you to ground yourself in a sci fi game about dinosaurs?