Playstation Plus Discussion Thread - FAQ in first post

I don't think it's fair to call Towerfall, Don't Starve, Stick it to the Man or Pixeljunk Shooter 'terrible'. They might not be to your individual tastes, but they are all well made and interesting games that very much succeed at what they set out to do. Again, you don't have to like them (there's a few that haven't suited my tastes), but it's doing them a disservice to dismiss them as merely terrible. Even Contrast had a lot of good ideas. Mercenary Kings is the only game I felt was poorly designed, although I have to confess I only spent an hour or two but the opening didn't encourage me at all to continue.

It's been said before, but we have to be realistic about what games Sony are in a position to offer. Oddworld is a big release from an established franchise, so it would be incredibly surprising if it was given away free on launch. Transistor was the work of a small independent team, and even Child of Light was something of a commercial gamble from Ubisoft. Games have to make money, and to Sony's credit they've obviously 'sponsored' quite a few new releases to make sure the Plus schedule isn't completely barren (some would have been commercially successful already on other formats - in fact, Resogun is I think the only one that hadn't had some previous incarnation or launch on another platform). These types of games will show up, but no developer or indeed Sony is going to encourage Plus to grow so big that they can't actually sell software in the first place.

On this month's lot, I have to say I'm very intrigued by Metrico - had passed me by up until now, but it looks like a completely unique and experimental effort. Those descriptions can also apply to Proteus, which is a really intriguing and worthwhile experience. Given a playthrough only lasts an hour or so though, it might be the first title to actually warrant the 'there's only an hour of content there' complaint though