I've been disappointed for months on end. Not necessarily because there haven't been good games on PS+, but because I had already bought the good ones by the time they went free.
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Playstation Plus Thread 2: How do I hold all these games?
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I've been disappointed for months on end. Not necessarily because there haven't been good games on PS+, but because I had already bought the good ones by the time they went free.
Pestilence11
Member
Colony Wars and Vigilante 8 remakes is my guess.
I'd love to see a remake of 2nd Offense. That's the only one I played, but I remember loving it. Plus I need something to scratch that Twisted Metal itch.
Morning Star
Member
I'm not expecting much for the PS4. I just hope the PS Vita and PS3 get something as good as they have been getting over the last couple of months.
Y0j1mb0
Member
That would be awesome... which is why it wont happen.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
I wouldn't mind if it was White Night, although I'll be buying if it isn't.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Yeah, by now the suspense has become greater than any realistic payoff.
Love this quote.
C'mon guys, not nearly enough photoshop on the last page
I think we'll get an announcement tomorrow. Not too worried about it, still occupied with Feb's plus games.
Love this quote.
C'mon guys, not nearly enough photoshop on the last page
I think we'll get an announcement tomorrow. Not too worried about it, still occupied with Feb's plus games.
I still haven't finished Contrast. And it was the weekend, you guys were really expecting any news?
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
Did anyone bother to finish Contrast?
EDIT: Trying this again:
For one, I was simply arguing against the claim that indies have niche appeal, which is ridiculous. But now you've shown up with even more insane generalizations about indie games - throwing them under the bus indeed, now they're all of a sudden less deep, shorter, worse games. Uh, huh? Awhat? Where the fuck did that come from?
Again, great if you tend to like games with higher production value. But indie games aren't a genre or a classification system outside of that. So I'm not following you on this whole "indie games are less deep, less variety, shorter" train you've got going there, because I disagree with you wholeheartedly and I think it's a terrible way to communicate which games we like or dislike.
Doomburrito7
Banned
I think that's like the only PS4 PS+ game I never even opened....
Gambit 1138
Banned
It's gonna be Driveclub and some pixel art indie game that people will be tired of in 15 minutesI just know it
I'll take driveclub full edition!
I meant more that, other than resogun and dead nation which I platinumed, I don't think I've completed/opened any other plus game since launch. I still havent touched Stick It To The Man, Doki Doki, Trine, etc.
matrixman92
Member
I got all the trophies in it....
I did. Great game, but quite a few bugs. Was shorter than I expected, if I remember it correctly.
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
Aha! We found one!
Gasp! Another!
Just making a joke as to the reception of Contrast.
But I agree. I haven't completed many of my PS Plus games. I'd like to, but the pile continues to accumulate. I hold back buying retail games because there's so much good PS Plus stuff to play on PS4.
I did. I enjoyed it too.
Lee Chaolan
Member
You never even took the plastic wrap off? ;o
I dunno, not too worried even if it's delayed a week. offerings have been real good lately. Still need to start Yakuza 4 xD
RedAssedApe
Banned
you guys are so impatient lol
On PC? I'm logged in right now (EU/Sweden).
Yep. I wouldn't care if they didn't announce the PS+ games until the blog post showing that they were up each month.
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Helldiver's OT is almost done. Do I put it up sometime tomorrow orrrr Tuesday?
SevenToSix
Neo Member
I finished it. Got all the trophies too. Enjoyed it.
Machinehead
Member
I finished Contrast and liked it. The controls drove me mad sometimes and killed and desire for a second play through, but it was mostly enjoyable. I'm excited for what the developers can make with more time and more money.
I can agree with mostly everything you said, but I'd be hard pressed to find examples that support the bolded part. There's a lot more depth in something like Rogue Legacy than, say, Call of Duty in single player. Games with high production values have become, more and more, similar in gameplay, with half a dozen different types of gameplay that are repeated through the industry. If you've played, again, CoD, you can play most of the big budget FPSs on the market, as they feel quite similar, with similar level structure, storytelling, controls, even gun handling and enemy AI.
The market isn't going to spend money in something that is unproven, and even less limit their market with complicated systems that most people won't get. This is the reality of capitalism. So it is up to small companies to bring innovation and gameplay depth. And indie games have those in spades sometimes.
I miss big budget games sometimes, but I only have to play them for a few minutes to start missing all the brain work Fez demands, the planning Don't Starve requires, or the fear of the unknown Rogue Legacy gives.
I can agree with mostly everything you said, but I'd be hard pressed to find examples that support the bolded part. There's a lot more depth in something like Rogue Legacy than, say, Call of Duty in single player. Games with high production values have become, more and more, similar in gameplay, with half a dozen different types of gameplay that are repeated through the industry. If you've played, again, CoD, you can play most of the big budget FPSs on the market, as they feel quite similar, with similar level structure, storytelling, controls, even gun handling and enemy AI.
The market isn't going to spend money in something that is unproven, and even less limit their market with complicated systems that most people won't get. This is the reality of capitalism. So it is up to small companies to bring innovation and gameplay depth. And indie games have those in spades sometimes.
I miss big budget games sometimes, but I only have to play them for a few minutes to start missing all the brain work Fez demands, the planning Don't Starve requires, or the fear of the unknown Rogue Legacy gives.
VanCityGamer
Member
It's not ridiculous at all to conclude that many indie games have niche appeal. Just consider sales if nothing else. 99% of them are not even close to the big AAA games. Hence, mass market appeal v. niche appeal. That's not an opinion - it's a fact.
'Worse' is subjective. There's a handful of indie games I've enjoyed. But yeah - in my opinion, indie games are generally worse than AAA games...based on what I'm looking for (and the mass market seems to as well). But there's lots of people on this forum who seem to enjoy more indie games than AAA games. And that's great!
Shorter? A lot of the time yes. There are of course exceptions, but indie games are by and large shorter than their AAA counterparts. Less deep? Often, I'd say yes. But that one's a bit more subjective.
We all speak in opinions. But there are facts too (sales, length). And as stated, their different approach to graphics, stories, and gameplay often don't appeal to me. I would like more AAA games to come to PS Plus because I enjoy a much higher percentage of them than indie games, and they last me longer. The happy medium which will likely arrive not too far into the future is one AAA game and one indie game per month on PS4.
GreyOcelot
Member
That's the thing though, if they did that every month i don't think anyone would care. It's the expectation that's been set by sony based on prior months that we would have found out mid to late last week
Ninja Scooter
Member
Sony is going to stealth release Lasf Guardian tomorrow and make free on PS Plus. Makes the most sense.
Gambit 1138
Banned
Time for class action lawsuit and to demand refunds
MikeE21286
Member
Driveclub full edition would be the perfect make good for the fiasco that was ps+ Driveclub.
They should totally do it.
They should totally do it.
VanCityGamer
Member
Yeah, that's a valid opinion. My perception of depth and variety might be impacted a bit by the fact that I don't get far enough into the indie games that I don't like. And that I don't like the mechanics in the indie games a lot of the time, so it effects my opinion of them; making them seem bland and same-y because I don't like them.
Good to see you agree with most of everything else I said, though. Production values and length are the biggest distinctions for me. And there's a much higher percentage of time I don't like the gameplay in indies than in AAA games. My taste is more in line with the mass market.
Dragonslayer_023
Banned
Maybe we'll get a stealth release of VVVVVV as one of the Vita titles. What ever happened to that anyway? The trophies went up on the server months ago. Crimsonland strikes me as a likely candidate too, the PS3 version launches tomorrow so it'll be on all three systems.
They really should. I'm never gonna get the game unless heavily discounted anyway, so this would make a nice PS+ game.
That and as you said, it would pretty much make up for the PS+ version event.
I did, thought it was pretty shit. Still got all the trophies, though.
All those bronze trophies. And the studio charged $15 for it without Plus right? lol
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
firebranded
Member
If they are going to do it, it will be at e3 considering that's when it was announced before the Launch date.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Sales is one of the dumber ways to quantify the "appeal" of a game. Of course 99% of them aren't close to AAA titles...that's why they're not AAA. They're made by small development teams with smaller development budgets and most importantly smaller marketing budgets. Yeah, of course a game like Don't Starve isn't going to make $1 billion like Destiny. But it also didn't have a $5+ million marketing budget. That doesn't mean Don't Starve is a niche game.
Which indie games offered on PS+ have had niche appeal?
No, but ask again in two minutes. You never know, right?