Elden Ring is huge and amazing. Definitely been worth the multiple year wait for a Souls-borne game. Highest rated game as well which is completely wild.
Anyone else getting stuck in to this torture of a game?
Jim Sterling just published their Jimpressions video on the game. Will be watching it tonight, and will be the biggest influence as to whether or not I’ll buy that game.
It’s not the sort of thing that typically appeals to me, but then neither was Zelda yet Breath of The Wild was my first Zelda game and is my favourite gaming experience of all time.
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There’s definitely parallels there for sure! I was never a huge Zelda fan but seeing that there were similar crossover mechanics it kinda sold me.
Going to give this a little watch to see how Jim feels about a game which is very arduous 
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Well, I’ve just bought it! Now downloading! Will play it once I’ve finished the witch queen campaign on Destiny!
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I’ve been playing games since I was 10 and been through nearly all the Call of Duty franchise through the years, Halo, but right now I keep jumping between Valorant and League of Legends (which I used to hate at one point)
There’s no games that interest me at this point I need something similar to The Division franchise to come out that I greatly enjoyed! 
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Meh.
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It’s what I was expecting but not what I was hoping for
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Some people (the hardcore gamer types) seem pretty impressed with the new options. I guess the higher tiers are better value?
hmmm the article above tells you more than the offical e mail
We want to let you know that the PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now membership services are changing.
Your PlayStation Now benefits will become part of a new PlayStation Plus service with a wider range of benefits, and PlayStation Now will no longer be available as a service on its own.
What this means for you
As a current member of both services, your subscriptions will be combined into a single PlayStation Plus subscription plan, with a single recurring payment date and price, unless one or both of your memberships expire before the new service launches.
Rest assured that:
• Your new combined membership will include the same PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now benefits you enjoy today.
• The cost of your membership will not increase when the new service launches*, unless you choose to make any changes to your subscription plan.
We’re also adding some significant new features and options to the PlayStation Plus service, more details of which will be announced soon.
Your benefits
Your current memberships give you the following benefits, all of which you will retain when the new PlayStation Plus service launches for as long as your new membership remains active and unchanged:
PlayStation Plus
• Access to online multiplayer
• Monthly games
• Exclusive discounts
• Exclusive add-on content
• Cloud storage
• Share Play
• Game Help (on PS5)
• The PlayStation Plus Collection (on PS5)
PlayStation Now
• A large catalogue of games to play
• Download option for most PS4 games in the catalogue
• Streaming access to games
Only thing I’m concerned about is that they haven’t (yet) detailed what will happen for people like me who have months or years left on their PS Plus subscription and want to subscribe to a tier other than Essential.
Can we pay the difference? Do we have to forfeit the months we have pre-bought (unlikely, but I wouldn’t rule it out with Sony)?
I recall somewhere saying we would potentially go to mid tier, so we reap similar benefits without losing value.
I think it’s over priced, Xbox game pass has more value with day 1 releases and seems a lot more in hand with the game rollouts.
I’m no expert gamer but I thinks it’s way over priced.
There is the benefit of cloud gaming for financial purposes, but is everyone’s broadband connection going to be up to scratch for this? Especially online gaming without local storage, does this require more bandwidth?
We have a fair speed (350/35) with VM so it’s no bother for us.
Having checking the differences again in probably just going to remain on Essential unless there’s some amazing offer to upgrade or they roll out 50% discounts as they do Plus now and then.
Not sure id wanna go through all the OG games through PlayStation history, they’ve not even labelled what they are yet either so could be absolute tripe.
No, current PS Plus subscribers will go to the Essential tier - the basic one.
If you also have a PS Now subscription you go to the top tier.
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Seems that ps plus has a much better brand than ps now and adding in a half way house on ps now light to get people the try. If they get t1 games in from day 1 like Xbox will be more interesting. Basically committed to nothing on that front at the moment. Playing old stuff is fun but not £50 a year fun.
It’s a pretty meh update to be honest.
I’ve never been a huge fan of the idea of Playstation Plus - the idea of paying for in-game content that PC users don’t need to is a bit grim.
Currently still on that Elden Ring hype and there’s aspects of the game I can’t really use unless I was to sign up. Was tempted to purchase the year membership and Flex-ing it 
but was still on the fence.
Digesting this recent update to see if it sways me 
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I kind of agree but I signed up for a very different reason.
I signed up to Plus because Oddworld: Soulstorm was the free game that month. It cost me ~£30 for a years membership with all the benefits, whereas to buy the game it was ~£50. It was a no-brainer for me.
I was unable to see it mentioned here, but Detroit Become Human, The Last Of Us part 1 and 2 and Heavy Rain are must play games of PS4/5
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Oh god, Heavy Rain was amazing.
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