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Playstation Plus discussion thread - Part deux

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,569 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,304 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    Word, turned on the console and the upgrade price dropped about a euro from what the app says. Going through the games, Premium has a long way to go before enticing me. Extra is excellent though, lot of games for me to get through.

    Now, i just wonder will we see the usual black friday discount for the different tiers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,837 ✭✭✭quokula


    Had a browse through the games this morning. It's a very impressive list, I was pleasantly surprised to see cult classics like Kurushi and Tokyo Jungle on there. There's also some older JRPGs in there like Wild Arms and Dark Chronicles that I remember really wanting to try back in the day and never got round to it, so it'd be nice to dive into some of them. Although to be honest the headline tickets like Demon's Souls, Tsushima and Returnal are probably going to keep me busy between them for a couple of months before I start diving into more niche stuff.

    Their browsing UI could do with a complete overhaul though as it's pretty hard to dig through the games and see what's there right now. A search by genre would be nice.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭sniper_samurai


    I hope so but the fact they've now hidden the ability to renew subscriptions to the manage subscriptions page instead of openly being on the store leaves me doubtful.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,513 ✭✭✭Damo 2k9


    12.77 to upgrade to premium for the next 46 days, I might do it just to see whether it is worth it in the long run.

    Can I downgrade to Extra then when renewal time comes and keep the games that I had been playing on premium?

    Jaysus, that sounds long winded!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,304 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    I have a reminder on my calendar to stop the auto renew and go with Extra a couple days before Premium expires so interested to see how the transition works. I'm guessing when premium expires, there will be a lock symbol over the game with the option to buy if you want. That's how games on PS Now looked for me if i played them during my ps now sub.

    But yeah, UI definitely needs an overhaul. I went through the list and then got a notification that my wishlist game The Artful Escape is part of Extra, completely missed that scrolling through originally.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,613 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Premium is very much not worth it right now.... The PS1 classics arent great.

    Also, not a huge fan of this game trial thing. PS Plus has a long way top go before its competition for Game Pass



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,377 ✭✭✭jj880


    Think I might wait until black Friday to see if any offers come up. If no offers I'll buy the upgrade until the end of my current ps plus sub to try it out (end of January) and play the main games I'm interested in over the winter.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Grumpypants


    This has made me realize I have bought way too many games over the years. I was scrolling and scrolling to find a game I didn't have/play.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,120 ✭✭✭KH25


    Quite happy with the selection on premium myself. There’s a good few games I’ve never played



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭.G.


    Despite trying all morning to give them my money to upgrade, Sony won't take it! Checkout via the website just sends me to ablank secure checkout page that never loads and on console it gives me "unknown error". 🤷‍♂️



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭.G.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭Heffoman


    Has anyone had any streaming issues with the PS3 selection so far?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Polar101


    I usually renew my PSPlus subscription around this time of the year, it's been 25% off for a good few years. I was thinking of upgrading to the Extra tier, but it's starting to look like Sony won't have any sort of introductory offers. Anyone have any ideas when a sale might happen?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Spiderman question. I thought the inclusion of Miles Morales was gonna be great, but I want to play the PS5 version of Spiderman first. But I'm not sure if I'm just being thick or not, but from what I can tell, the PS5 version of Spiderman is only available with the Ultimate Edition of Miles Morales, there's no PS4-Ps5 upgrade, and now the Ultimate Edition is missing from the store (on PS5 at least), and when in the PS App it's saying the Ultimate Edition is unavailable because I own Miles Morales (through Plus). So, looks like I can't even pay to play the PS5 version, or it is actually included somehow through all this confusing mess of a system they seem to have for this game!

    Further searches show that there's a menu in Miles Morales to pay more monies to get the PS5 version of the base game. Chape baxtards wouldn't give it to us!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,032 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    I think the fact it's only available through Miles Morales is the reason they didn't include it. Maybe they'll fix that when the PC version launches.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,608 ✭✭✭recyclops


    I will pay the 6 quid upgrade to give returnal a go but this will be the end of me once this run out, will need to be a fairly hefty discount before its valuable and even at that we know full well they will be not be offering GOW in the tiers so id rather just pay the cash for that instead.

    So on this turns out if have 62 days left so will prob finishing one maybe two games, looking at the library I havent played any of these so what would people recommend

    Returnal.

    Ghost of Tsushima.

    Death Stranding.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,032 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    I'll be curious to see what games get announced next week for the monthly Essential games. We've seen in the past they would give games that were in Now. So will we see an overlap? Or maybe there are games they purposefully held back from the initial release of the upper tiers just so they have them for the next number of months for Essential.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭.G.


    Having tried a few classics it'll be the Extra tier for me when premium runs out. I know they're old but trying to play them on a 4k TV isn't pretty!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    @recyclops Returnal is an amazing DualSense experience, highly recommend to at least play it. It's a long game though, but I think they've brought in saving so not sure. Still worth it to experience it, and I will be playing it again soon myself. Hard though. Long levels. Ghost of Tsushima I loved. Proper good samurai/ninja game. I'm looking forward to playing it again with the Japanese lip sync. Big game, open world, simply stunning at times. Great combat once you get the hang of it and upgrade a bit. Just an all around great game imo. And I did not like Walking Simulator Death Stranding.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭.G.


    So Death Stranding then 🤷‍♂️. Glad I didn't spend money on it. Played two hours. Love Kojima stuff, can see his classic influence everywhere but its still, absolutely sh!te to be honest

    I switched it off and loaded up metal gear solid V for classic Kojima that isn't crap.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,304 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    Death Stranding is love it or hate it alright. For anyone trying it out, i recommend getting through Chapter 2 quickly as in, ignore the point of no return message, you can come back to the area to clean up later. Moving on to chapter 3 gives you the main huge map you'll mostly be playing in and you get tools to make trekking and traversing much more enjoyable. Even then, no need to 5 star every base with deliveries as that can cause burnout. You can do the necessary deliveries to move the story along. Once I got to chapter 4, i was glued to the story until the end, just an incredible experience.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,050 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    I really enjoyed Death Stranding but I can see why others wouldn’t. It starts off as quite a slog but I found that with a few upgrades to gear, weapons, roads, etc the time put in really paid off. I’m not sure how much I was enjoying it around the 2 hour mark either to be honest. I must check how many hours I sunk into it. Probably 70+



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭Damien360


    I loved Death Stranding. I even loved the long treks and spent a lot of time just looking at the scenery. The beginning is a slog but once I was aware of that from players here, I stuck with it.

    If your a gamer that prefers single player offline with a small dash of random helpful social hints within a game, this is your type of game. If you a online social creature that wants action constantly, give this a miss.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭.G.


    I'll keep at it I reckon but in small doses. The story has me interested enough it's just all the walking and the trying to keep your balance mechanics and what not, incredibly boring so far and slightly annoying, I went in some water and fell over in a way humans shouldn't be falling over 😂. And I say that as someone who has hundreds of hours pumped into Euro truck simulator so I'm not always and all action hound!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Grumpypants


    You have to build every inch of every road or you are not a true porter 😂.


    It is a stunning game, the walking is an amazing mechanic. I don't know how he made just walking and carrying stuff so rewarding.


    Just at the right moment when it gets annoying he adds something to help improve things. Carry more, move faster, vehicles, roads, zip lines.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,528 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Started the Demons Souls remake. I suck at souls games but I’m liking this. It looks amazing too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,050 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    Ah yeah, upgrade your suit, vehicles & roads as soon as you can so. You might start to enjoy it a bit more then



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,304 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    Chad porters let the likes of Grumpy build the roads for you :D



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,461 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin


    PS+ Essential July 2022 lineup: Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (PS4/PS5), The Dark Pictures Man Of Medan (PS4), Arcadegeddon (PS4/PS5)


    Man of Medan is also available on Extra so thats a repeat



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