PS+ games for November.

[The Curmudgeon]

So I figured now I'm a fully fledged member of PS+ we could do a monthly run down of the free games available. I'm only two months in and I am loving it so far.

I mentioned it in another thread, but I am just over-run with games I want to play right now, so much so I haven't even looked at some of the free games sitting on my PS4 right now. There's an old school Transformers fighting game that I haven't even looked at yet. What the fuck is going on?

This month, though, there's a small bundle of games, "We're All Going to the Rapture" which I haven't looked at yet. There's "Letter Quest Remastered", a word game originally designed for the Vita but available to play on PS4, and it's all kinds of addictive fun, but really more suited to a mobile platform than a home console. There's also some BMX shit that I will almost likely never play.

The real star of the show for me, though, is "The Deadly Tower of Monsters."



It doesn't have the instant download and play name value of, say, Resident Evil or Transformers (it is a fucking cool name, though), and it is an absolute JOY.

Gamewise, it's a fairly standard almost bird-eye view shoot 'em up, but the idea and execution is just great. As soon as the game loads, you hear a voice welcoming you to the commentary of the movie you're about to watch, and it's an old 50's style b-movie and as the game progresses and the commentary progresses, you realise the director is a Roger Corman style (maybe even Ed Wood style) director, throwing low budget monsters and dinosaurs at the screen for no real reason other than it's a movie. There's some great lines (through the years I've been to many movie conventions, and it really is very flattering to see my movie still has a place in so many people's hearts, every year I see people dress up as apes or robots or dinosaurs, all because of my movie."

So the cut scenes are full of bad dialogue and wooden acting, flying monsters can actually be seen on strings and the directors commentary follows you all the way through the "movie" as you play. It's a nice idea, perfectly executed. The game itself won't change your life, but it's full of hidden stuff, unlockables and trophies.. I loaded it up to see what it was like and ended up playing it all day.

Another absolute win for PS+. See you in December.

[trashcanman]

I've got a growing library of unplayed free games, but the ones I've paid for always take precedence. I've had my eye on this one for awhile so I'm really pleased it got the nod. I've also wanted to play Rapture so it's a good month for me. Rapture is a type of game known semi-affectionately as a "walking sim". You won't need any skills to speak of to beat it as it's actually more of a story experience. Think of a movie where instead of just watching a series of shots from fixed camera angles, you actually have the freedom to move around within the world of the movie and experience it that way. I tend to really them, but a lot of gamers would rather be shooting stuff.

[trashcanman]

Hey, Hotline Miami is free too just for this week, so be sure to pick that one up while you can.

store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/hotline-miami/cid=UP3643-CUSA00486_00-HOTLINEMIAMIPS40

Brilliant game.

[edit: link is weird, so copy and paste address]

[The Curmudgeon]

Hmm, no free Hotline Miami for the UK it seems. That's a shame.

I think the problem, if it can be called that, is that games are just so BIG now. Like, if you get into a genuinely good game you're playing that sucker for weeks, and if you want to get 100% trophies and all that sometimes months. And this is factoring in things like work and life and shit.

So there's a very real chance I'm going to have a whole catalogue of games just sitting there, played once, and that's not even counting games I would actually buy. My next essential buy is the new South Park game though, cos the first one was superb (and it comes as a bonus game on the PS4 version as well). Everything else is put on hold for that one.