VGChartz's Nicholas Taylor: "Overall, Granblue Fantasy: Versus is a fantastic experience for anyone who enjoys fighting games, and probably a great one even if you're not a big fan of the genre. There's plenty to keep you entertained and it just oozes personality from every single pore of its being. It's beautiful, charismatic, and beautifully recreates the expansive world and intricate character relationships from Granblue Fantasy in a new and exciting way. Unless fighting games are the worst thing imaginable to you, I'd give this a solid 'recommended' stamp every day of the week."
The Bits & Pieces boys discuss their favourite games of 2023.
From PS Blog: "It’s been more than two months since the all-new PlayStation Plus completed its launch rollout in late June, and we are pleased to see the positive feedback we’ve gotten from our members. This includes games available on the service, such as Stray, Ghost of Tsushima, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, which are among some of the top games played so far from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. Today, we’re excited to share the lineup we have in store for the month of September that we are adding to both the Monthly Games lineup for all members and Game Catalog for Essential, Extra and Premium members on PlayStation Plus.
The Monthly Games are available from September 6, and Game Catalog and Classics from September 20. Let’s take a closer look at the packed month ahead. "
I definitely want to check out Granblue as I'm interested in the Granblue JRPG coming out next year.
Its pretty good, especially for people that don't play fighting games only to compete vs. others online
Yea, that's what I was going to say, it's not just an online fighter it's got a great single player story.
Yeah definitely worth it if you haven't checked out the mobile game. It's a far more accessible than most fighters too.
Yeah I wanted it at one point but kept backing out cause I had GG strive and other games
I'll play some Heat. and Toem looks rather interesting. Extra / Premium get some good titles too.
Mainly Granblue for me, but I heard good things about Toem and it's one I wouldn't have bought, so that's good. Heat is throwaway fun, which is what I want from Plus essentials.
Really good month for Extra and Premium too. Ass Creed Origins, Deathloop and WatchDogs 2 and Granblue Versus are all for me.
Of course they put Deathloop on there less than a month after I finally bought it, and naturally still have it sealed. At least now Ill be able to play it without swapping discs out. Kinda surprised to see them put that on there considering its a Microsoft owned property. I think you have to respect Microsoft a little bit here for allowing Bethesda to operate independently and do these sorts of things. They kept the agreements in place and havent even announced the PS5 exclusive Bethesda games for Xbox. Im starting to wonder of those deals are for permanent PS5 exclusivity.
@brewin
Deathloop released September 14th. So we wouldn't hear any news about an Xbox release until a year has passed. Same with Ghostwire: Tokyo, wouldn't expect to hear anything until after March 25th.
Yeah, I'm sure Deathloop will come to Xbox after the exclusivity contact ends, and I doubt PS will partner with Bethesda again given the new ownership.
Anyone who plays games or even doesn't, should play Spiritfarer. It's easy 10/10, your emotions aren't ready...
I got lost in that game. Loved it so much! It soaked up my time in the best possible way
I'm looking forward to that.
Also, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, which won a bunch of awards. I have almost bought the game a dozen or more times.
From VGC: "September 2022’s free PlayStation Plus Essential games have been revealed by their usual leaker.
Dealabs user billbil-kun, who has been accurately leaking the PS Plus line-ups almost every month since September 2021, has revealed what they claim to be the new titles coming to the service in September.
The new batch of games reportedly includes Need for Speed Heat, Toem and Granblue Fantasy Versus."
Pretty weak month if true. My suspicion is that they’ll let this go the same way as GWG now that they have a premium content subscription.
The last two months count against your theory, but lets see.
Granblue Fantasy Versus is an excellent fighting game at least..didnt play the other two
I'll take a throwaway racer and an awesome fighting game!
Don't know anything about Toem, but heard it's good, so I'll give it a shot for a bit.
I mean, it's really just PS Now rebranded. The numbers were terrible, so they just threw it in with the PS Plus numbers you need to play online. That way they don't have one large service that you basically need just to play online, and one premium alternate service that nobody liked.
Xbox tried to do the the same thing, but not really at the same time.
I think the only reason they wanted to double gold was to just push people onto Gamepass, but the outcry was too hard and too quick, and they were actually gaining a positive image in the gaming space again, so why ruin it.
Just now when Sony does crappy moves they stick to it and expect you to follow blindly and happily.
'I mean, it's really just PS Now rebranded. The numbers were terrible, so they just threw it in with the PS Plus numbers you need to play online. That way they don't have one large service that you basically need just to play online, and one premium alternate service that nobody liked.'.
Did you just figure this out?
Also, are you going to post this every month?
I’m not understanding your complaint. Are you frustrated at the PS+ games you get or, on an entirely unrelated note, you’re upset that they merged PS Now with PS+ Premium and negate any of the other libraries (PS1 classics for example) that are included with the service?
I’m not sure why merging PS Now with PS+ is anything to complain about. There’s a lot of games on there I’ve been wanting to play and now I can under a single subscription. To get these PS+ games you don’t need to change what tier your PS+ subscription is.
People complained that the services were separate. Sony combines both services and people still complain. Never fails.
Honestly, I don't have time to play the games I've bought throughout the years, my backlog is pretty big. These services will just make that backlog even bigger lol.
I have a life outside of gaming and don't play every single game I want day one and beat it lol. People who are complaining about the titles in the library are extremely picky or have played everything. That's not the services fault lol. Gaming is a selfish habit and people only think about themselves in any given situation.
Happy gaming and no disagree from me.
"and expect you to follow blindly and happily."
lol, gotta love the irony of that comment.
I'm not interested in GranBlue or Need for Speed but they're great choices to add in fairness. Granblue is very well regarded and looks like a fantastic game. I'm just not likely to play either.
I'll check Toem out though. Had an eye on that for a while
Your suspicions are probably wrong and this is far batter than the GWG offering for the month regardless.
Good, i didn't buy any of them. I don't care about NFS but Toem is great and long time since i don't play a beat'em up, so Grandblue Fantasy is great for me. Now i'm curious to see what's coming with Extra :D
The games with gold titles are always weak, but its funny that sony raises the price of the ps5 and then comes with the worst ps plus games in a while. It feels like they are dropping the ball like Microsoft did in the Xbox one era
So....if anything they're dropping the ball with pricing like in the PS3 era....Xbox one had barely any games...PS5 is likely not going that route.
“worst ps plus games in a while”
How short are our memories? Wasn’t a year ago that PS Plus released a cut down version of Godfall and a standalone version of Borderlands DLC that was included in a previous PS+ offering.
Not "always"... XB has given some bangers in their day. Gears 5, Sunset Overdrive, Forza 6. And those are just a few of the recent XBO era titles. On 360 they gave a bunch of really good games like Fable 3, Halo 3, Gears 2 and many more. My guess as to why people crap on it is because they have given some stinkers. And it is those they remember instead of the good ones.
It's easier to remember the bad than the good but if you want a full list....
https://en.everybodywiki.co...
Oh and as a tip, you really shouldn't speak in absolutes. If you dont know what that means... google it.
Doesn't seem horrid but the chances of me booting up any of them this year is slim to none.
I actually think this is a good month. I won’t touch Toem, but Gran Blue and Need for Speed are great!
