February 2023's PS+ Essential games announced

[sk_lp_him]

Mafia 1 is great and it's one of the best remakes. That's why I made the platinum my 5000th trophy milestone. As for the rest - absolutely nothing interesting.

[LastMinuteSavior]

38 minutes ago, charxsetsuna said:

Why are we still calling these leaks, no way this isn't intentional 

 

My understanding is that this comes from promotional material that should only be available to resellers.

 

The general public shouldn't have access to it this early. So yeah, it's a leak.

 

[Jeanolt]

Me waiting to play Sekiro & Crash for free:

[LastMinuteSavior]

12 minutes ago, zizimonster said:

The racing section on the highest difficulty setting was quite a challenge as well.

 

Yeah, but no one should feel discouraged by this. It's a fun challenge, not a frustrating one.

 

Anyone who has ever played a racing game can do it. Don't worry too much about being very fast, but rather on driving consistently well.

I don't even remember it very well because it didn't take me too long to get it done, but I believe there's rubber banding and scripted accidents that can be somewhat exploited to win the race. After a few tries you'll notice the patterns and know how to use that knowledge to your advantage.

 

[LastMinuteSavior]

5 minutes ago, Jeanoltt said:

Me waiting to play Sekiro & Crash for free:

 

You're looking so thin though! ?

 

6 minutes ago, Jeanoltt said:

Crash

 

Bandicoot Trilogy? It's on The Collection (PS+ Essential, PS5 required) so it might not happen ?

 

[Clampy-7]

I'm not too excited about this month's. Doesn't feel as strong as January's.

 

Having said that Destiny Beyond Light for free is nice as I'm just getting into it and money saved is always nice.

[GUDGER666]

39 minutes ago, zizimonster said:

What inpug lag? I platted it, and had no such experience

Yes you did you just didn't notice it and have a high tolerance to input lag. 

[zizimonster]

17 minutes ago, LastMinuteSavior said:

 

Yeah, but no one should feel discouraged by this. It's a fun challenge, not a frustrating one.

 

Anyone who has ever played a racing game can do it. Don't worry too much about being very fast, but rather on driving consistently well.

I don't even remember it very well because it didn't take me too long to get it done, but I believe there's rubber banding and scripted accidents that can be somewhat exploited to win the race. After a few tries you'll notice the patterns and know how to use that knowledge to your advantage.

 

Correct.

 

It was a welcomed challenge, actually.

 

1 minute ago, GUDGER666 said:

Yes you did you just didn't notice it and have a high tolerance to input lag. 

I played the game on a monitor, which had faster response time than a telly, mayhaps that contributed to it.

[Stevieboy]

23 minutes ago, Jeanoltt said:

Crash

 

If you mean Crash 4, then that was already a PS+ Essential game in July 2022.

 

9 minutes ago, LastMinuteSavior said:

Bandicoot Trilogy? It's on The Collection (PS+ Essential, PS5 required) so it might not happen ?

 

Previous collection games have been put on the regular PS+ Essential line up before (Days Gone for example), so it's not out of the realms of possibility.

[zulqarmessi]

Evil Dead, Groovy ?

[MRTheChez]

2 hours ago, archangeltw_ said:

They are giving you the paid dlc beyond light for free this time.

Nice! Might actually play it again!

[DizzyDavidson]

The only game I'm interested in is Mafia but I already got that, so nothing for me this time I guess.

Back to the backlog!

[Trancexistence]

Happy with Mafia. I've been putting off buying that for ages. Not sure about the others but will add them all to my library as I always do.

[Dangisuckatgamin]

Already own mafia. It was a great game (bought it full price on pc day one and on sale on ps4 (think I played it on 5 though. idr though) later on)

(Looked insanely good in 4K on pc. Blew my mind at times)

 

will try evil dead since I’m into those kind of games but refuse to really pay for Mp now as I don’t always stick with them.

[GoonerLukeThe]

I played on Olli Olli world when it was on trial, fun game but really tough

[sealightbreeze]

Nothing for me really 

[Lordguwa]

if mafia becomes a library game on my game list. then i'll gain 2 with evil dead as potential candidates to play

sales as usual will make up any gaps.

Edited January 29, 2023 by Lordguwa

[LastMinuteSavior]

14 minutes ago, Stevieboy said:

If you mean Crash 4, then that was already a PS+ Essential game in July 2022.

 

Previous collection games have been put on the regular PS+ Essential line up before (Days Gone for example), so it's not out of the realms of possibility.

 

You're right.

 

Still, the trilogy is an "old" game that won't bring in new subscribers or additional revenue from DLC or MTX, so I'll risk saying it's unlikely.

 

Shuhei Yoshida himself said the strategy for Plus is now to "breath new life into games", a.k.a. sell additional content.

 

@Jeanoltt Sekiro though ??

Would be my introduction to FromSoftware games.

 

[Jeanolt]

38 minutes ago, LastMinuteSavior said:

 

You're right.

 

Still, the trilogy is an "old" game that won't bring in new subscribers or additional revenue from DLC or MTX, so I'll risk saying it's unlikely.

 

Shuhei Yoshida himself said the strategy for Plus is now to "breath new life into games", a.k.a. sell additional content.

 

@Jeanoltt Sekiro though ??

Would be my introduction to FromSoftware games.

 

Yeah, I mentioned the Crash Trilogy. For some reason it never dropped out of 20$ and I always had the feeling it was going to be PS+ game in a matter of months. Never happened lol. 

 

Also sekiro, never less than 30$.

[Alternatewarning]

I'll probably grab Mafia to at least throw it in my backlog since I've thought about buying it a few times

[Terra]

Good lineup. Was hoping for something better though.

[OnuR10Ly]

Tried Mafia Definitive Edition on ps+ extra back then it was alright but the 30fps lock along with motion blur kinda made me sick on ps5. If you get annoyed by that like i did you might wanna stay away. 

[blue_blur_98]

Has a paid DLC pack ever been offered as a PlayStation Plus freebie before this? I think this may be a first.

 

Regardless, not a bad month. Nothing that I'm interested in per se, but these are all well-recieved games, and the lineup is varied.

[VigilantCrow]

Another bad month.

[Skurkitty]

Great month, bit of everything. Challenging game, single player, multiplayer versus, MMO(Ish) xpac. Already own 3/4, with Olli Olli being the one I don't... might check it out.

Edited January 29, 2023 by Skurkitty