Playstation Plus discussion thread - Part deux

Jaysus. Paid 70 euro for sackboy from Currys. Damn you Santa! 😅

That price was at launch as I wanted junior to have some physical games to open for Christmas. Sackboy is similar to astro in gameplay but the co-op is excellent. Soundtrack is top drawer too. Enemies dancing along to Uptown Funk before attacking you. Great addition to ps plus.

For what its worth, Sackboy has a load of free add-ons, looks to be a load of costumes. Havent played the game so not sure what they add, but probably just visual content.

48 costumes. I counted !

I apparently played the demo of it as I had a bit unlocked already. Quickly remembered its a very... easy game. Bored already. Heard Meet Your Maker is janky, so gonna give Tails of Iron a go.

I cant remember whats required to unlock the speedruns but some of them are very tough to get the gold times. On some levels you need someone to join in for co-op but its worth doing. They are great. Especially if you have a younger player in the family.

Tried all 3 yesterday evening, Sackboy is okay but yeah probably easy and just a good game to play for a bit, the other two are shite 🤣

-- beaten to it

Doom eternal, sweet.

Thats actually a pretty significant list, I def won't get the few I had earmarked done by the time they leave, bit of a shame there really but considering my backlog, it may not be a bad thing to cull some items from it

Nearly tempted to try Balan Wonderworld out of morbid curiosity.

Humanity day one release on Plus for premium/extra subs

https://blog.playstation.com/2023/04/20/humanity-available-day-1-as-a-playstation-plus-game-catalog-title-out-may-16/

Sweet. I would never have bought it, so no harm giving it a go at least. But, having followed the link and watched the video, which the article has a section right after entitled "What did I just watch?", well, it interests me more now. And hearing it being compared to Kurushi ("Intelligence Cube" for the dumbed down 'Mericans, oh the irony), makes me even more excite. And PSVR2 compatible. They're winning me over before it's even out!

Riders Republic seems like a good game. At least, the few races I've tried were somewhat fun. But, let me play the f^%ing game! Unskippable "Unlocked" screens, cutscenes for everything, at one point so many new events were unlocked I was just being zoomed around the map view automatically without being able to skip for about 90 seconds. All this stuff I've unlocked to take part in but I've still no clue what the hell is going on. It's so erratic, and in-your-face, characters I just want to kick in the teeth spouting rad dude BS I haven't seen since the 90s. The game could badly do with a simple list of next events. It's extremely off-putting. So much that in the 56 minutes since I've turned it on, I've "played" about 15 minutes. And that's without trying to customise anything!

It annoyed me so much that I just turned it off and I don't think I'll go back. Shame, as there does appear to be a good game under day, was getting some slight SSX Tricky vibes from the snowboarding/skiing. Just... the live service aspect of it is horrendous. There should be an option to just pick Solo and nothing else shows. Hundreds these icons on the map then of "players", yet there were only 3 of us in the Mass Event. And my level 14 lost to a level 4576, with my DH bike being 150 and his being 900, where the bike/method of transport you have affects stats. Fair... A prime example of a potentially great game ruined by ADHD and live service.

Give us a damn SSX Tricky remaster already! It'll print money!