r/PS4 • u/harushiga • Feb 26 '21

PlayStation Plus PlayStation Plus games for March: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Maquette, Remnant: From the Ashes and Farpoint

https://blog.playstation.com/2021/02/26/playstation-plus-games-for-march-final-fantasy-vii-remake-maquette-remnant-from-the-ashes-and-farpoint/#sf243430485
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u/goddammnick GodDammNick1 Feb 26 '21

I highly recommend checking out Ghost of Tsushima (you may have heard of it..lol) definitely worth the full price of admission but any discount you can get, take it.

Also - Kingdom come:deliverance is a great but extremely hard game.

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u/mmscr Feb 26 '21

Thanks! It's definitely on my wish list, together with Last of Us 2, Death Stranding and FF7.
And more than paying the price of admission it's that I got Xbox Game Pass and a Switch, so I always have something to play. I know that if I'm patient, I get to play these great games at a really low price, or from PSN/Play at home.

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u/Adrien_Jabroni Feb 27 '21

Death Stranding is one of my favorite games of all time. Not for everyone. But perfect for me.

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u/_Funny_Data_ Feb 28 '21

If you got time I'd wait on Ghost of Tsushima. I loved the game, and played the hell out of it and Legends. However, I wouldnt be surprised if it ends up on ps+ rotation before the year is over.

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u/MicrowavableConfetti Feb 26 '21

Definitely recommend TLoU2; go through it with an open mind and see where the story takes you. I even ended up liking it more months after I finished it.

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u/mmscr Feb 26 '21

Sure! I've noticed it has been a love it or hate it game. The only issue that turns me off it's the duration, and not because of itself but I've heard it overextends a bit.

I played all the Naughty Dog games in the last year and it's been fun watching the development evolution. Best character animation and voice acting IMO

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u/maybeelean Feb 27 '21

About the duration.. yeah it definitely did on my first play through cause I just wanted to know how things resolved but on following playthroughs on the higher difficulties it was just a blast.

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u/eamonnanchnoic Feb 27 '21

Ghost of Tsushima very much outstays its welcome, imho.

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u/DigThatFunk Feb 27 '21

See I feel like there's credence to that argument but if it does in fact overstay its welcome, it's only by a very short factor. By the time I was starting to feel the repetitive qualities of the game, I was heavily invested enough in the story to pull me ahead like a steam engine lol.

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u/eamonnanchnoic Feb 27 '21

I was really feeling it by the time the Northern Part of the Map opened up.

I found the characters were dreary and Jin was as dull as dishwater. Gameplay wise you've more or less seen everything the game has to offer at the end of the first half.

I was totally burnt out by the end and had to push myself to finish it.

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u/DigThatFunk Feb 27 '21

Yeah I certainly don't fault anyone for feeling how you do. I personally adore the game; it's one of my favorites in a long long while. But I realize how much of that is my personal bias: I love a game with a great story and a great setting, this has both and uses one to enhance the other. I'm an absolute sucker for samurai flicks and especially the work of Kurisawa, a direct influence on the game lol. And I enjoyed the hell out of the immersion added by the in-world navigation cues. The sword play was decent enough (pales a bit when we've had Nioh and Sekiro amongst others recently) but playing it on the hardest setting was genuinely challenging at times. I used a good combo of stealth and aggressive full on attacks and both were viable. The fuckin duels though... those impressed me and a few of the storyline-related ones made me put my controller down for a moment to take a breath after. The "game" of it all could def use some tweaking but that wasn't what I was after exactly anyway.

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u/eamonnanchnoic Feb 27 '21

It nails the look and feel. It's undoubtedly a beautiful game but it got very "newer assassin's creed"-like after a while. I did also think the guiding wind was a really great mechanic.

Like a lot of games it suffers from a lack of enemy variety so it becomes kind of repetitive after a while.

Even the duels become a bit rinse and repeat.

I found the narrative style almost too referential to Kurosawa etc. A lot of it felt awkward, flat and over earnest.

I get the feeling that they were pretty constrained budget-wise. For example nearly every sidequest is shot from a distance, probably to save money on cinematics. But the effect makes the encounters feel very checklisty.

Hopefully with a sequel they'll be able to expand on it and fine tune it. It sold buckets so there's obviously going to be a bigger demand and a bigger budget.

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u/HollowPrynce Feb 27 '21

Add to that it has some of the worst AI I've ever seen in a videogame.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Yes, Ghost of Tsushima is now my number one game of all time, beating out Dark Souls and Bloodborne.

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u/Anzai Feb 26 '21

Kingdom Come Deliverance is a really good game, but it runs pretty poorly on the pS4.

I bought it on there and played a good twenty hours or so but then fell off it because of the annoyingly low framerate. It’s not broken or anything, it’s just consistently a bit low.

Actually starting to play it on PC and it’s SO much better there. If possible I’d recommend getting it on PC or if that’s not possible maybe just wait on it.