Playstation Plus Discussion Thread - FAQ in first post

CastorTroy

I suppose a great thing about Plus is you get to try games you're unsure of and if you don't like them, well you never paid for it so no loss. Unless you dislike every single game Plus offers in which case you have spent the sub on games you don't like. Though if this occurs, I think you may need rethink your PS3 ownership.

June games being announced at noon today.

RedXIV

I've a hunch, just a hunch mind you, that demon souls and the ico and sotc hd collection will be today's offering

Beefy78

Plus is an amazing problem to have. There's so many games I've got that I've either not scratched the surface of or haven't put any time into after I've compelted because I've got so many Plus games to get through. Like I bought Tiger Woods 12 last year. I buy a Tiger Woods game once ever four years or so and play the arse out of it. This one I've played once, enjoyed but have never been able to justify going back to it with so many other games to play. I really liked Fall of Cybertron as well and would love to put loads of hours into the multiplayer but just don't have the time with so many other games to play.

CastorTroy

RedXIV wrote: »

I've a hunch, just a hunch mind you, that demon souls and the ico and sotc hd collection will be today's offering

Not a hope. There's absolutely no chance of either of those games being offered. Never!

:P

Zero-Cool

Just saw on the PS store that Grid 2 is the Coming Soon section for €49.99 including 3 preorder DLC packs. Great price for the PSN store as it is listed 55 euro on gamestop website which I take it excludes a few quid. If I new I would have my home Internet sorted by the 31st May, I would definitely go with this!

sin0city

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Is a game being too unique a bad thing? God, I wish that complaint was more common.

Catherine is tough but fair - everything in it is solvable with a bit of effort and understanding of the rules. A great sense of satisfaction when you actually make it to the door.

Plus, everytime you restart on a boss level you get to hear "it's the killer. Do not die" which is up there with gaming's finest sound bites.

Yeah, I'm just finished the 4th day. The first time I played I lost all my lives after two or three hours and and nearly didn't go back to it. But then I started again and it just clicked. I started to see how to apply the techniques.

It is hard though, even on normal but as mentioned above, there is a great sense of satisfaction when you complete a stage and the "it's the killer" line is class.

To be honest I find Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes a more enjoyable puzzle game but the story is why I keep going back to Catherine. I really want to see where it goes. And Vincent's friends are interesting and the dialogue with them is really good, especially with Orlando.

I've also realised that you can never really run out of lives (although it's worth seeing what happens when you do). As long as you can reach a pillow or a checkpoint on a stage before you lose them all you can then just restart from the beginning rather than from the checkpoint. That way you can build up a buffer of lives before restarting from the checkpoint and trying to finish the stage.

RedXIV wrote: »

I've a hunch, just a hunch mind you, that demon souls and the ico and sotc hd collection will be today's offering

Should be one other game though too, shouldn't there?

jaxdasher

Terraria is coming out today. Been waiting awhile. Hope we get discount.

Beefy78

Yeah you get two 'retries' every time you get a pillow so if I'm running out I just get a pillow, let myself die, get another pillow, let myself die and repeat until I'm back up to 10 retries.

sin0city

Seems like you get lives from doing well too though, or is it just the pillows?

Zero-Cool

PS3 Titles, available from the 29th May:
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning,
Demon's Souls
The ICO and Shadows of Colossus HD Collection.

PS Vita Titles, available from the 5th June:
Rayman Origins
Coconut Dodge HD

source - Playstation Access FB page

Josey Wales

June's IGC list is up:

Demons Souls
Ico / Shadow of the Colossus HD
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Rayman Origins (Vita)

Link

A great month. I've never played Ico or SotC. I've played and beaten Kingdoms of Amalur and it is really good. Very underrated. Rayman Origins is a good game too but I've never played the Vita version. Yet another reason for me to buy a Vita.

---EDIT---

Oops, beaten by sheehy83

tok9

Anyone know what Kindgoms of Amalur is like? Haven't played Coconut dodge either.

Anyone who hasn't played any of the other games is in for a treat. All brilliant games. I hope Rayman Legends is released on Vita.

sin0city

tok9 wrote: »

Anyone know what Kindgoms of Amalur is like? Haven't played Coconut dodge either.

Anyone who hasn't played any of the other games is in for a treat. All brilliant games. I hope Rayman Legends is released on Vita.

Amalur is good. Combat is the best part of it. NPCs are wooden and the game just wasn't that immersive...feels a bit soulless. Still worth playing. I'd advise not doing any / many side quests. I started doing them all and then found it a struggle to finish the main story.

Zero-Cool

tok9 wrote: »

Anyone know what Kindgoms of Amalur is like? Haven't played Coconut dodge either.

Anyone who hasn't played any of the other games is in for a treat. All brilliant games. I hope Rayman Legends is released on Vita.

I played the demo for KoA for the main reason of unlocking goodies in Mass Effect but wasn't really pushed by it. I never played ICO/SOTC but hear they are unmissable so will give them ago and as for Demon Souls, I got a lon of before so will definitely pick up where I left off [EMAIL="b@stard"]b@stard[/EMAIL] of a game!

CastorTroy

Bit of a medieval/fantasy type theme to the PS3 games this month

sin0city

CastorTroy wrote: »

Bit of a medieval/fantasy type theme to the PS3 games this month

I think they're acting on the poll on the blog.
Most sought after games were RPGs and there are two this month.

CastorTroy

Were PS2 games mentioned on the poll results? Can't check from work. Just thinking if they were then the HD release of Ico collection and the HD GoW previously could be in response to that

Zero-Cool

I definitely remember asking for PS1 & PS2 classics in PS+ purely to get Resident Evil 4 but never saw the results. Just did a search and found this.

Pic attached

http://www.flickr.com/photos/playstationblogeurope/8670854993/

sin0city

No, just genres.

sin0city

Snap.

Zero-Cool

sin0city wrote: »

Snap.

Yours looks much nicer though :pac:

CastorTroy

Don't know why I didn't vote, but I would go with Action/Adventure, platformers and puzzle. Wonder what falls under "Others". Maybe dance/singing/music games

sin0city

CastorTroy wrote: »

Don't know why I didn't vote, but I would go with Action/Adventure, platformers and puzzle. Wonder what falls under "Others". Maybe dance/singing/music games

Yeah, or maybe it does include votes for PS1/2 games. I think you could specifically ask for stuff too.

From the blog it looks like might be more games to follow too:

When will you post the yearly update games for june?

Posted on 15 May, 2013 at 1:41 pm by Chris Howe

Don’t fear we will let you know something soon

Zero-Cool

sin0city wrote: »

Don’t fear we will let you know something soon

Jaysus it's like the opposite of a Steam sale. No Sony No! I already have too many free games to play!

jaxdasher

It has to be a sony game. Id say one of the uncharted games.

CastorTroy

sheehy83 wrote: »

Jaysus it's like the opposite of a Steam sale. No Sony No! I already have too many free games to play!

Not quite the opposite. Just the same except "free" replaced with "really, really, ridiculously good looking cheap"

jaxdasher wrote: »

It has to be a sony game. Id say one of the uncharted games.

Sony games.

chopperbyrne

Could be Killzone 3.

CastorTroy

FYI
Velocity Ultra available for Vita now

Zero-Cool

possibillity of XCOM, Assassins Creed 3 or Uncharted 3 being added as PS+ games in the future.

All of this news comes from Chris Howe, PlayStation Store and PlayStation
Plus Content Manager at SCEE, who was asked if they could “shift some attention”
to other genres, such as strategy, with XCOM: Enemy Unknown mentioned
by the commenter. Coyly, Chris responded with “we may have something
planned………..,” so take that as you will.


Getting into more specifics, another commenter asked if there was a chance
that either Assassin’s Creed III or Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
would be on the Instant Game Collection within the next couple of months.
Chris replied by saying, “Quite possibly, I know one of them will for certain,
but I can’t say which.”

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2013/05/15/future-eu-playstation-plus-free-games-teased-possibilities-include-assassins-creed-3-uncharted-3-xcom-enemy-unknown/

RangeR

First party titles are a definite for PS+. It doesn't really cost Sony anything.