Now that Game Pass Ultimate costs an eye-watering £275 a year, is PS Plus Extra the new 'best deal in gaming'?
I just bought a year for £80 and downloaded Granblue, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Epic Mickey, Skate Story, the Red Dead Remaster, and Blue Prince. And that was just from the first screen. I'm sure they're all on Game Pass too, and PS Plus Extra doesn't have the big day-one releases, but how many of those does Xbox actually have any more?
Even when I've bought Fable and Horizon 6 for PS5 (instead of renting on Game Pass), I'll still be £100 up. And I'll own more games.
Am I being a MASSIVE grump, or did the new Fable actually look a bit meh?
Don't get me wrong, it's visually stunning, but it all looked a bit clinical. The UI didn't have any character, the visuals weren't chunky and colourful enough. It looked like someone had modded a Fable game into Flight Simulator.
The framerate looked rough. The combat looked naff.
It's Fable, and it's Playground, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. But I've gone from a 10 to a 5 on the excite-o-meter.
https://www.eurogamer.net/hitman-3-world-of-assassination-all-time-classic
New fawning article from eurogamer.
As Hitman 3 turns five years old, we surely have enough hindsight to declare: this is one of the greatest of all time, right?
I'm still loving this (obvs), but one thing I've never been able to decide is whether to have the quest direction on. Do you guys play it without any prompts and map markers? I've tried that, it just takes bloody ages to find a screwdriver sometimes.
I've warmed massively to Star Wars Outlaws. I played it on PS5 and bounced off it after a few hours. It felt overly fiddly, fairly confusing and just a bit dull.
But for whatever reason, it's clicked a lot more on PC Game Pass. I think I'm just getting old, and it's nice having all of the information up close on a monitor. Combat involves a lot of popping headshots on tiny enemies, which is much easier with a mouse. And I finally understand the gang system, and how to use brokers to raise my reputation so everyone isn't shooting at me constantly.
I haven't had any issue with Kay, she seems as well written as most other videogame heroes.
Reinstalled Mario Kart World, and they've made a couple of nice changes. Firstly, you can finally turn the music up. And it's an incredible soundtrack, so you'll want to turn it up.
And secondly, they've put icons on the map to show where you've already found blue quests in Free Roam. It's still not ideal (this is Nintendo after all) but at least it shows which areas of the map to focus on. And the micro-quests really are great; 20-second bursts of imaginative, playful fun.
But they still haven't fixed Grand Prixs. At this point, you've got to assume they're working as intended, which is a huge shame. There are some brilliant courses here, and racing 3 laps of them in VS mode is really the only way to see them. It's a genuinely mad decision, and I hope someday they add an option to use them online. There's a whole, proper Mario Kart game in here somewhere. All it'd take is a menu change.
Mr Party Hat