It's a side-note to this conversation, but Sniper Elite 5 and Zombie Army 4 are two Game Pass titles that I really enjoyed playing through, which I absolutely would not have bought and I can enjoy with someone else. World War Z and Exoprimal are two others. For me, this is exactly where Game Pass shines. I'm looking down the recently added list and there's nothing like those titles, except maybe Dead Island 2, unless I'm mistaken?

I keep paying for Game Pass as it's almost too good a deal on paper not to, but I'm also not really playing anything on it that actually justifies it. Anyone else in a similar space?

I got 24 months of it with the series x upgrade. I have not played anything on it in a year. Banger.

Ive noticed quite a bit of that in recent months across the two services.
I guess some publishers are more open to the concept than others and some games more suited so its inevitable.

Iirc The Quarry was on PS+ as well. The Resi Remakes also arrived on both services close together.

I liked the hot air balloon brothers who were looking for the trinkets those blue cave creatures dropped. Have you found them?

Ah right, I never got to the photo bit. Tbh I only found the camera because there's a point in the main quest that requires it.

Can’t recall
Now who recommended AC:Mirage but so far it’s hilariously bad. Completed the prologue which commits every sin under the AC pre-Origins sun only to
Be followed by the start where a deer hilariously collides with me cos they’re famous for not being shy and running into
Humans every chance they get.

Standard

Hilariously there’s a bit where it teaches you to call your mount but your mount doesn’t move so you have to go to
It anyway

Been doing the odd 9 on Everybody's Golf on the PS4 again. It's not the series highpoint but they do the basics so well. I do miss the lovely "well done/game over" screens at the end of each comp like it had on PS3/PSP.

On here? Don't think so. 3DS Mario Golf was the peak with badgers.

Yeah it was ok on 3DS but it still doesn't touch Everybody's golf.

Yeah if was a cracker - the vita version is neat too

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On here? Don't think so. 3DS Mario Golf was the peak with badgers.

But what a peak.

Just met the prison guard or what ever he's called in Prince of Persia. Can you kill that guy? I get the impression you can only hurt him and stall him briefly.

Game plays like a dream by the way. Very impressed so far. Seems to have just nailed everything to my tastes for a 2d game.

Lost in Random (Steam)

It's a pretty good attempt at blending deck building with real time combat. Not perfect, but definitely worth checking out when it's on sale.

Somebody really had a boner for Tim Burton in the art department; it's possibly worth checking out the game just for the handcrafted wooden puppet aesthetic.

It's a bit rough around the edges (poorly sanded, perhaps?). One animation of the moon bouncing down the street (don't ask) had a real 'oh shit we forgot to do this and it's Friday afternoon' feel to it. In one board game section (think: arena horde fight), I thought I'd messed something up as the game piece definitely wasn't going to be able to fit under the bridge that was in front of the end space. But I rolled the dice and it just clipped through and I won. Righto. One NPC tells you you can't progress because this area is an active construction zone (there's nothing going on), and an invisible wall stops you walking past him, despite there being plenty of room to get by. Would it have taken too much time to make a temporary barrier model? Not so much ludo-narrative dissonance, but... enviro-narrative?

The main bugbear is the combat. It's mechanically fine, but the game enjoys having you wipe an area, and then spawning in more enemies. The first time is fine, but when its the second or third (or fourth...) wave, it starts to feel like padding.

A good game, then. But I can see why it didn't set the sales charts on fire.