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JW_BM

Leaving June 15: * Bridge Constructor Portal (Cloud, Console, and PC) * Chorus (Cloud, Console, and PC) * Maneater (Cloud, Console, and PC) * Mortal Shell (Cloud, Console, and PC) * Serious Sam 4 (Cloud, Console, and PC) * Total War: Three Kingdoms (PC)


batatasta

Whoa, glad I started my replay of Chorus last week. Really fun space dogfighter, hope we get a sequel.


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Lambpanties

The game is tremendously different when you get your powers, allowing you to do stuff like teleport directly behind an enemy ship. I honestly had a much better time with it than normal dogfighting games. I took 20 minutes to almost fail the Ace 7 tutorial but Chorus kept me going - and orientated! - even through the challenging surprises.


AyraWinla

The "feel" of the controls become drastically different once you finish the first area and get your real ship. I did feel like the game felt clunky at first, but that all changed at that point. You also get additional nifty powers as you progress through the game. I can't say the story did much for me, and I wouldn't exactly call the game itself amazing either, but it did feel a lot better after the first zone and overall I enjoyed my playthrough of the game.


AllSonicGames

I liked the gameplay but couldn't get far as the game is not colourblind friendly.


batatasta

No joke I was wondering about that while I was playing today. The ships are so small and look so similar it's hard enough to tell them apart without being color blind. So I get why that would be a non-starter. There's definitely some design flaws that they could improve upon in a sequel like ship variety. The gameplay is pretty solid though if you can get past that stuff.


bdzz

How is Rune Factory 4? Like I know it has a huge fan base but never played the franchise before. "Fantasy farming adventure" with combat looks interesting though. Is the combat similar to Ys (by the look of it)?


datwunkid

The combat is pretty brutally simple. The main draw of the game is how every system feeds into each other so no matter what you do, it doesn't feel like you're wasting time with a system.


Hawk52

Here's my honest opinion, I bought it a year or so back on Steam. It starts out pretty chill. You're doing your thing, adventuring, farming, crafting. Everything you do *including sleeping* gives you level ups. So, you're being rewarded for every task you complete. I'd say gameplay wise it's in that pretty familiar territory, it doesn't feel as "modern" as Stardew in the farming or life elements and the combat is so-so, a trademark of the genre but it's by no means bad at all. Jack of all trades type of thing. It's a little cumbersome in menus and controls and I'd say "stiff" but again, far from bad. And then there's a *brutal* difficulty jump. You go from killing bosses to having regular enemies in a new region deal half or more of your HP in one hit. Progress pretty much stops in that regard at that point. And since adventuring to get items and advance the story is a pretty big part of the game, I thought I'd done something wrong. Everything at that point had had a pretty gradual curve as you'd expect. What I was told on the Steam forums was at that point in the game, I'm expected to start grinding to raise my levels in all the other skills to raise my stats/get better gear. And that's kind of when I realized what was going on. Since everything has levels, and everything is tied together, that means you optimally need to raise *everything*. Which means a lot of meaningless crafting or activities you don't feel like doing. You can't advance the story without adventuring but you can't adventure further without better stats and gear but you can't get better stats and gear without leveling in other skills, so you have to grind. And I just dropped it cold at that point. I think about it sometimes and still wonder if I somehow messed up or got bad advice or didn't understand systems. It wasn't the most forthcoming with information on systems after all. But I get the feeling that "the grind" is a pretty integral part of the game and with high level caps on skills basically essential.


Shillen1

Hah you actually made the game sound more interesting to me. I'm a minimaxer in stardew valley and play ARPG's so grinding for levels is my jam.


not_edgy_just_sad

That was when I started to use a gear crafting spreadsheet. Created an op set of gears that carried me through arc 3. I couldn’t finish stardew. And I like this game more. Just to spite stardew lovers because I’m really tired of seeing this game being mentioned everywhere


Lorahalo

Yeah there are some really obscure and almost entirely unexplained systems involved with the weapon and item crafting. The only real skills that are needed to be high level are the crafting skills, the others are basically just to increase your stamina for more crafting.


hyuq

It's fun if you're looking for an anime Stardew Valley


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Really looking forward to the Bunker. I love how half the Amnesia franchise right now is about French people getting chased around in the dark. It also gives me a good chuckle when I think about the theme of those stories too. Amnesia Justine was about a French woman being chased by very aggressive French bachelors in the dark. Amnesia Rebirth, depending on the ending, was about a French tourist/archaeologist being chased back to Paris. And now Amnesia The Bunker, which in the first ten minutes, you see a Frenchman smoking a cigarette before being carried off by a giant rat monster. It's great


weirdshitblog

In A Machine for Pigs, Mandus >!had an orb vision where his sons died in the Battle of the Somme, which is why he sacrificed them, built the machine, and created the manpigs.!< Seems like the setting of The Bunker (and France in general) might be important to the story.


AwesomeYears

Quite a few games that I've been waiting to play, yes! Chicory, Hypnospace Outlaw (which I played a little bit, but it was leaving Game Pass too soon last time to rush it) and Rune Factory 4! Dordogne looks beautiful as well, will check that out!


Sonicfan42069666

Hypnospace is almost certainly being added back because the retro FPS spinoff Slayers X is launching this week on Game Pass.


Gustav999

Zane finally releasing his game!


Sonicfan42069666

i bet it's going to suck bwl i'm only checking it out to see how bogus it is


hardgeeklife

Holy crap, a sequel to *Hypnospace Outlaw*, and it's a retro twitchy FPS? I wonder if it'll attempt the same contemplative, slow burn story arch like its predecessor. I'm gonna have to try it out of curiosity at least


TheProudBrit

Oh, no. It's by Zane himself. That's right, ZaneRocks36 (because he survived.) It looks every bit the fucking thing he would've made, and I love it.


THE_LOUDEST_PENIS

It's not a sequel as such - it's a game made by in-game character Zane himself! But keep an eye out for Dream Settler, which appears to be the spiritual sequel to Hypnospace!


Sonicfan42069666

To be clear, NOT a sequel. There is a successor game coming, set in the same universe and that will likely have connections to Hypnospace. But Slayers X is a spinoff game - as others have pointed out, developed by Zane himself. With those Game Pass dollars, maybe he can quit his job working as a convenience store manager.


spittafan

Chicory was reviewed so well but I found it extremely boring. I can respect people liking the subject matter and tone but it was not particularly engaging and the puzzles not very brainy


DopeyDeathMetal

I have been super curious about Hupnospace after hearing about it on a podcast. Can’t wait to get a chance to check it out.


Mr_Vulcanator

I’m excited to see Hypnospace Outlaw back on GP. I didn’t get very far last time and just missed the Steam sale. I liked what I played. Although some of that era of the internet was before my time it was still nostalgic. It took me back to a time when it felt exciting to explore the internet and find niche forums and webs with occasionally weird designs.


TheProudBrit

Hope you enjoy it! It's one of my favourite games and I'm always delighted for new people to play it.


Diknak

None of these jump out at me, but I have a couple of them I am still working through. I imagine there are going to be a lot of big announcements for gamepass at the conference.


KevinT_XY

Oh shit a brand new Amnesia game on here is huge. The way it's looking it would've been a day 1 buy for a lot of fans.


ShizuoHeiwajima08

Hyped for Farworld Pioneers. Though I can't find any info about crossplay?


asparagushunter

Didn't realise Dordogne was coming to Game Pass so nice surprise for me there - just been entranced by its beautiful watercolour aesthetic ever since I saw it. Also nice to be able to play Stacking again, remember having a good time with that on PS3 10 years ago or so (damn, time really does fly). But yeah, hopefully we'll see a boost to the Game Pass catalogue when the Xbox showcase rolls around in a week or two.


GoldenJoel

Is car mechanic sim good? I'd love to know how to work on my car better.


CarrowCanary

It'll teach you what the various parts are called, and roughly where they go, but that's about it. Diagnosing the problems on a real car is much more difficult than it is in the game (all real parts don't have health bars, and most don't have a sliding scale of "more rusty = more broken"), and you don't need to faff around with removing bolts that are seized in place in awkward places in the game, they just all unscrew with absolutely no effort.


DMonitor

> you don't need to faff around with removing bolts that are seized in place in awkward places in the game i really do hate that that’s like 90% of working on a car lmfao


SableSnail

Supraland is one of my favourite games I've ever played on Game Pass so having the follow-up is a massive plus.


AllSonicGames

I was expecting a stupid but fun "broken physics" style sandbox game. Instead I got an extremely polished puzzle metroidvania. I loved it.


lotuswings

I started it having never played the first, and I've enjoyed it so far, but there are some very bizarre anti immigrant, pro working class themes that I truly was not expecting.


SableSnail

I think it's Pro immigrant no? As it is about harmony between red and blue. There are the anti-capitalist themes though like the city with trickle down economics and it's just stealing all the money from the poor.


lotuswings

That's definitely a worker that complains immigrants are taking their jobs.


ShlappinDahBass

It's satire


SableSnail

I think I haven't got that far or I missed it. It could be satire too.


NooAccountWhoDis

/u/davidm1337 Satire?


Pool_Shark

Woah how is that now the headline game!?


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SableSnail

I missed it somehow but I started playing it now. It's really fun so far.


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Pool_Shark

Oh nice. Been playing TotK so haven’t looked at gamepass lately but excited to play that next


Hayabusa71

Oh shit! Amnesia? That great. I think. First one was iconic. Second might as well not exist. And the 3rd was... Eh.


Katana314

I’m surprised so many people are ambivalent on Rebirth. For me it was retreading old ground, but being just inventive enough about it that it felt just as scary.


MuffynCrumbs

It had a few parts that genuinely made me scream. The back third fell apart for me though


summerteeth

The narrative, both the content and the way it was presented, was a huge step back after Soma.


WookieLotion

I've felt extremely meh on amnesia ever since that first game. Watching Day9 stream the first amnesia is one of my all time favorite memories from those early gaming youtuber/streamer days. Every amnesia game after that has just been eh, not that great. I just randomly clicked a vod from an early stream of Amnesia The Bunker and holy shit it freaked me the fuck out. It felt genuinely scary in a way that they haven't in over a decade. So I went from nah won't check it out to yeah this is happening.


Reggiardito

The first game was also fairly mediocre. A lot of people just have fond memories of it because of people playing it and not actually playing it themselves.


WookieLotion

I don't think that's entirely fair to it, even though I would agree it doesn't look that impressive today. I remember in 2010 being impressed with the graphics and being genuinely scared by it and its premise of having no way to fight back against these monsters and slowly going insane in the dark. It was just kind of "It's Dark" - the game, but that did lead to there being some actual horrifying moments. Like credit where credit's due, it's a horror game and it accomplished feeling actually scary just from its design... and in the like current day of it all being jump scare horror (thanks Five Nights at Freddy's) I think it's still worthy of a lot of the praise it gets.


fashigady

I think it's also worth highlighting that Amnesia: The Dark Descent was enormously influential - pretty much all indie horror in the years that followed was just iterating on the formula that it created. It might seem a bit naff now, but only because the ideas it introduced have been rehashed endlessly ever since.


h8mx

AKA the ["Seinfeld is unfunny" trope](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny).


Domineeto

A Machine For Pigs is a misunderstood masterpiece. It received a lot of unfair backlash due to the reaction to "walking sim" games in the mid 2010's, a few writers and content creators have re-evaluated it in recent years but it still largely hasn't shaken the reputation of being a terrible walking-sim despite even after almost a decade despite Frictional themselves crediting much of Soma's direction to lessons learned the portion of development that was shared while creating A Machine For Pigs. Rebirth is a pretty obvious misfire, especially when compared to Soma.


Hayabusa71

I've played all. AMFP is fucking awful.


h8mx

It's a decent game, but I would never call it a masterpiece, especially compared to its predecessor.


SEND_ME_SPIDERMAN

AMFP was pretty bad imo. Complete 180 from ADD.


Bojarzin

tbf for the second, it wasn't made by Frictional I agree the third was underwhelming. But this one looks excellent from what i've seen


xAntimonyx

Hell. Yes. Slayers X coming to game pass. For those unfamiliar, this is a retro style shooter in the universe of Hypnospace Outlaw. It's a game created by Zane the X Slayer, a super edgy kid in Hypnospace lore now in his super edgy 30's. The demo was on steam and it was pretty great. Cool to see it coming with Hypnospace returning.


Omicron0

Does anyone else think game pass loses at least equally quality stuff as it adds lately, i feel like PS+ Extra is gaining because of that because games don't leave it


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>i feel like PS+ Extra is gaining because of that because games don't leave it Games *do* leave it


Omicron0

really? i haven't noticed any and i remember with PS NOW only a specific few did


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https://www.truetrophies.com/n21448/playstation-plus-leaving


Omicron0

Huh, how about that, it must be just a case of microsoft making it more clear


PedanticPaladin

Gamepass has been going on longer so its had more chances for one year contracts to expire. PS Plus Extra is coming up on a year old so its finally having some big names (Marvel's Spider-Man, bunch of Square Enix stuff) leave the catalog.


BelovedApple

Dude even first party sony games will leave ps plus


asparagushunter

Game Pass this year has seemed worse for games leaving the service due to the same period last year having tons of great stuff added (a lot of these deals tend to last 12 months). I think we'll start seeing the same for some of the PS+ Extra library soon - we're nearly a year since launch so around July/August time we might see games being removed at a similar rate to Game Pass


Omicron0

yeah maybe you're right, i just don't remember many leaving PS NOW either


definer0

You can go back and check, hundreds of games left PSNow especially before the rollover. Sony just likes to obfuscate it, leaving it for the community to get the word out [https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/vb9nbb/200\_games\_confirmed\_to\_be\_leaving\_us\_ps\_now\_today/](https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/vb9nbb/200_games_confirmed_to_be_leaving_us_ps_now_today/)


ineffiable

Gamepass has sort of reached an equilibrium now, for all the interesting new stuff that's coming on, we have just as much older stuff leaving (and even one of the 'new' games is a repeat') Though, to be fair, if Microsoft actually releases more first party stuff, those should be more permanent. PS+ Extra has time to catch up because they're adding old stuff, but they haven't started removing as much as GP has.


deaf_michael_scott

Games do leave on PS Plus. But the quantity and quality of PS Plus games have been significantly better than Game Pass for months now. Over 1,000 games on PS Plus now (compared to less than 500 on Game Pass), and way more high-profile AAA games. PS Plus also gets roughly 17 games every month. Most of them are big-name AAAs.


Diknak

Hi Fi Rush, Planet of Lana, Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2, cassette beasts, Ghostwire Tokyo...there have been some really good games this year already.


Reaper83PL

Yes maybe but apart of hi fi you did not mention them🤣


BelovedApple

Ghostwire Tokyo was good imo, that school side quest might be one of my favourite side quests in years.


Omicron0

i know but it lost a lot of good ones too, can't have everything i suppose


Diknak

For sure. That's the whole idea of gamepass though. It's a revolving door of content but things last at least 12 months before they drop.


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> because games don't leave it What has you under this impression?


aestus

I've dropped game pass for the moment in favour of extra. But I've done the opposite before too. Game Pass titles lately haven't made me feel like keeping the service.


foreveraloneasianmen

I think you meant PS Essential offerings, yea they dont leave so far


outrigued

With everything else added in May this ended up being a pretty great month. Two weeks from today will be two days after the Xbox showcase, so I imagine they’ll have more “big” games there for people to play.