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January:

Day of The Tentacle Remastered, PS4 (Cross buy on PS Vita)
This War of Mine: The Little Ones, PS4
Blazerush, PS3
The Swindle, PS3 (Cross Buy on PS4 and PS Vita)
Azkend 2, PS Vita
Titan Souls, PS Vita (Cross Buy on PS4)

Looks pretty good IMO. I think I might enjoy all of these games.

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Wow, that’s the best line-up since they gave away Galak-Z. I’m looking forward to trying DoTT for the first time, and This War of Mine. The fact that the PS4 also gets The Swindle and Titan Souls is a nice bonus, though I know nothing about them.

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The Swindle I remember putting on my Steam wishlist because I thought it looked cool, but I don’t recall the specifics of why for sure.

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So, I’m knew to the PS. Is the PS+ the multiplayer component that also comes with a free game each month?

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The Swindle is pretty great, it’s a rogue-like heist game. You’re taking a thief through an area to get as much loot as possible to avert a “doomsday” situation after a set period of time. If your thief dies or gets caught, you start over with a new one but time doesn’t reset. It can be pretty difficult, in that it’s easy to fall into a negative feedback loop that way. I play on Xbox but I imagine it’s pretty much exactly the same.

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Yep, it’s a great deal. If you get it before December ends then you can grab those free games also.

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http://www.thewolfhall.com/ps4/ps-plus-xbl-generated-3-billion-combined-subsrciption-revenue-2016/

Crazy.

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Feb:

LittleBigPlanet 3 // PS4
Not a Hero // PS4
Starwhal // PS3, cross buy with PS4
Anna — Extended Edition // PS3
Ninja Senki DX // PS Vita, cross buy with PS4
TorqueL // PS Vita, cross buy with PS4

LBP3 has the community levels from previous games. There’s some really fun stuff if you dig through them. I used the website and queued all the interesting team picks & highly rateds.

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I’m going to use this site to look into some user-made levels for LittleBigPlanet.

Any word on the other games on the list? I haven’t heard of any of them except Anna, but that’s on the PS3, which I don’t have.

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Some of the daily lbp levels shared here were really good.

I’ve only played Anna, which I found incredibly frustrating without a guide. Ninja Senki is a short, brutal retro-style platformer. Steam friends gave it negative reviews. TorqueL is a puzzle game about rolling through platformer levels. I’ve heard that one was fun.

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Not a Hero is from the OlliOlli devs. I’ve heard good things.

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I tried this month’s free games for PS4. Short impressions:

  • Ninja Senki DX - Crappy pixel graphics. But addictive as hell. But I can’t get past the first level. Problem is the controls require a lot of precision, and even though streaming this to my PC has a short lag, it’s enough that I just can’t be precise enough. If I ever play directly on the PS4, I’ll play this one again.
  • TorqueL - The second level was too much for me, I can’t get past the red blood of death. Will not return.
  • Starwhal - I played against one AI opponent and got my ass kicked. Reminds me of Joust. If I ever buy a second controller for the PS4 and am still a PS+ member around thanksgiving, I’d love to try this with other people.
  • Not a Hero - controls are not intuitive at all. And don’t even respond to what’s on the screen. Uninstalled. (Also, horrible pixel art, I hate it so much).
  • Little Big Planet 3 - The worst game of the lot. It’s got the same horrible physics from the first game, it’s still cute as hell, and the story is now more intrusive and boring. Uninstalled.

Ninja Senki DX and Starwhal and TorqueL are worth a try if you’ve got a few minutes.

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My membership has apparently expired, and given the price changes in Canada and the very limited usefulness of the membership to me (the only games I ever got that ever interested me were the ones I think I got in the first month, 3 years ago: Resogun and Don’t Starve).

I might have resubscribed if I didn’t already have LBP3, as that’s the first game in a long while that I would have otherwise played, or if I found Uncharted 4 multiplayer more worthwhile (does some good stuff and is very different from the single player game, but it’s not much fun with randoms). Have Battlefield 4 and 1 but never even tried the multiplayer even though it sometimes looks fun, based upon videos of others playing. GTA Online seems like something I might like, but if I was going to try to get into multiplayer gaming it would probably be something that’s more of a simulation (like ARMA3) or a coop RPG. Zero of my local friends do any gaming these days though.

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March announced:

  • Tearaway Unlimited (PS4)
  • Disc Jam (PS4)
  • Under Night: In-Birth (PS3)
  • Earth Defense Force 2025 (PS3)
  • Lumo (Vita, crossbuy on PS4)
  • Severed (Vita)

Solid month. Disc Jam is a new release headed straight to Plus.

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Much better than last month IMO. Tearaway was one of my favorites on the Vita. I also enjoyed Under Night, it’s really pretty. Both of the PS3 games should be fun with a multiplayer community for awhile.

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Has anything released in this manner actually been good? My memory tells me otherwise but I can’t fully remember which titles apply.

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Rocket League?

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Ah, right, thanks! So there IS hope.

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Giant Bomb played the preview build of Disc Jam for maybe half an hour on a segment a few weeks ago. It looked like a lot of fun, and had clearly already been well polished for release. The main problem was the tiny player base and thus long wait times. Launching straight to Plus will presumably take care of that.

(It won’t be another Rocket League though).

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Early announce: forever-in-beta-formerly-F2P-and-now-pay-game Drawn to Death will be one of April’s PS Plus games to coincide with its launch.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/03/15/drawn-to-death-is-free-for-ps-plus-members-this-april/