Hero-of-Time Posted January 21 Posted January 21 Here's the list of games leaving the service next month. Quote The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition (PS5) Tales of Arise (PS5, PS4) Tales of Zestiria (PS4) Tales of Symphonia Remastered (PS4) Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition (PS4) Outriders (PS5, PS4) Scarlet Nexus (PS5, PS4) Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition (PS4) 1
Julius Posted January 29 Author Posted January 29 (edited) Essential monthly games for February are Payday 3, High on Life, and Pac-Man World Re-Pac: Additionally, there is an update on PS4 titles as part of the service – with plans to shift towards PS5 games being the focus of Monthly Games and the Game Catalog come January 2026. Quote Update on PS4 Games for PlayStation Plus As many of our players are currently playing on PS5 and have shifted toward redeeming and accessing PS5 titles from the Monthly Games and Game Catalog benefit, PlayStation Plus is also evolving with this trend and will focus on offering PS5 titles through the Monthly Games and Game Catalog benefit starting January 2026. As we shift to PS5, PS4 games will no longer be a key benefit and will only be occasionally offered for PlayStation Plus Monthly Games and Game Catalog starting January 2026. We may still provide titles that can be playable on both PS4 and PS5 consoles after this date. Please note, this won’t affect the PS4 Monthly Games that you have already redeemed from PlayStation Plus. You’ll continue to have access to games you’ve already redeemed as long as you remain a member. For Game Catalog, PS4 games will still be available to play until it leaves the catalog as part of our monthly refresh. We’ll continue to evolve the experience of PlayStation Plus and optimize the benefits you receive, including exclusive discounts, online multiplayer access, online game save storage and more. As we shift our focus to PS5, we look forward to adding new PS5 titles monthly for you to enjoy. Interesting... Edited January 29 by Julius
Julius Posted February 11 Author Posted February 11 Seems like Patapon 3 will be getting added to the Classics Catalog this month:
Julius Posted February 12 Author Posted February 12 New titles and this month's updates announced to be coming during today's State of Play: Extra and Premium Star Wars Jedi: Survivor TopSpin 2K25 Lost Records: Bloom & Rage - Tape 1 (launches into Plus on Feb 18th) SaGa Frontier Remastered Somerville Tin Hearts Mordhau Premium / Classics Patapon 3 Dropship: United Peace Force In the future Lost Records: Bloom & Rage - Tape 2 (April catalog update, launching into Plus on April 15th) Blue Prince (launching into the service this Spring) Abiotic Factor (launching into the service this Summer) Armored Core, Armored Core Project Phantasma, and Armored Core Master of Arena ("Coming Soon") The PS1 Armored Core trilogy is the highlight for me, for sure - I've been eyeing up a copy of the first Armored Core ever since I finished VI, but what was stopping me was knowing that I wouldn't have access to Project Phantasma and Master of Arena, which both never launched in Europe and to which you can carry over save data from the original. I had been thinking about playing them through other means because of this, but it seems like I held out just long enough! Wonder what this means for the rest of the series...as well as if that means we might see another Armored Core announcement this year?
Julius Posted February 26 Author Posted February 26 (edited) Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Sonic Colors: Ultimate and TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection are the Essentials games for March. Wild to see Veilguard already hitting the service, end of October release to PS+ Essential in March...got to be one of the fastest turnarounds on a third-party AAA release getting onto the service, surely? Can't tell if that's because PS paid the big bucks or if it's a case of the sales numbers dropping and EA wanting to cash in, or maybe it's a weird counter to Avowed on Xbox? Edited February 26 by Julius
Hero-of-Time Posted March 6 Posted March 6 https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/32413-lego-star-wars-ii-the-original-trilogy Amazing! First Star Wars Demolition got updated and now this.
Julius Posted March 12 Author Posted March 12 (edited) PS Plus line-up for March has been announced... ...it's Armored Core time baby! Quote PS Extra: UFC 5 | PS5 Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown | PS4, PS5 Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions | PS4 Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation Code Fairy | PS4, PS5 Arcade Paradise | PS4, PS5 Bang-On Balls: Chronicles | PS4, PS5 You Suck at Parking | PS4, PS5 Syberia – The World Before | PS4, PS5 PS Premium: Arcade Paradise VR | PS VR2 Armored Core | PS4, PS5 Armored Core: Project Phantasma | PS4, PS5 Armored Core: Master of Arena | PS4, PS5 Going to give it a beat for someone online to tell me the best button configuration for these Armored Core titles considering they weren't made with dual sticks in mind and are known to be a bit of a nightmare to control! Guess this is the year I finally get to go all-in on this franchise after falling for VI still not sure the order I'll get through them, mind you. Some sick part of me wants to go PS3 games > PS2 games > PS1 games, but we'll see EDIT: totally ignored The Lost Crown being there (because Armored Core!!!). Really solid month! Edited March 12 by Julius 1
Julius Posted March 12 Author Posted March 12 PlayStation Blog has a dedicated post going over the entire history of the Armored Core franchise... Might just be to commemorate the PS1 games coming to PS+, but I wonder if they're hinting that the other games will follow suit?
Hero-of-Time Posted March 12 Posted March 12 I would have preferred if they spaced out the AC releases. I wonder if they get the trophy treatment?
Julius Posted March 12 Author Posted March 12 22 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: I would have preferred if they spaced out the AC releases. I think it makes sense in this case, simply because the games apparently haven't aged the best, and so I think there's a bit of an adjustment period which will come with that – and so expecting players - especially modern players who can be playing one of any number of things at any given time - to keep those skills in check for the next game to drop sounds like it would result in a bit of a rough time. There are also save transfers between the games as you go through the Gen, which I think kind of ties into the idea you should probably play these fairly close together to have a good time with them these days. From the research I did leading up to the release of and then after completing VI, it sounds like these older games can be a bit gnarly - perhaps even a bit unfair - and do, yeah, releasing them all at once is probably the best idea I think. Isn't that last Astro Bot mission which sounded like it would have an Armored Core tie-in dropping soon, too? There's something afoot. 26 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: I wonder if they get the trophy treatment? I'd hope so. Could totally see there being trophies for going into debt (which you could do in these older games, but isn't around I'm VI) and unlocking Human Plus, which if I'm remembering right requires you to go so far into debt to unlock before it gives you better abilities/performance of certain parts/aspects. Outside of the potential challenge of the controls and facing off against how the games themselves have aged, I seem to remember all three having pretty low completionist times on HLTB, so can't imagine the Platinums would take too long to get here. 1
Julius Posted 18 hours ago Author Posted 18 hours ago The PS1 Armored Core games are now available for download! I checked the usual sites to see if there were any details on trophies for these games, and it doesn't look like there are any. I just booted up the first game to see if that would trigger the trophies to pop up and, well: So, no trophies by the looks of things. Which is definitely a bit disappointing. Interestingly, on booting up, Agetec were listed as the game's publisher – so that seems to confirm that these will be the NA versions of the games, but much more interestingly, Agetec weren't the original publisher in NA of the first game, as Sony Computer Entertainment published the game outside of Japan (where it was published by FromSoftware); for reference, Armored Core released in the US on 22nd October 1997, whereas Agetec didn't even exist until 1998! I wonder if that's a mistake or the rights somehow reverted to them? They did publish a lot of the later games in the series, up until Last Raven (the final game on PS2), so maybe they were bundled in somehow. FromSoftware seem to be listed as the publisher of the PSP port so I don't think it's a case of this being based on the PSP version I just checked out the two other games and they both reflect the "correct" publisher, with ASCII Entertainment showing for Project Phantasma and Agetec showing for Master of Arena. The reason I highlight this is because it's a great sign. The rights for Armored Core are pretty messy in terms of the publishers of the games outside of Japan, but are much messier in Europe than they were in the US, and Agetec published every game from Master of Arena (the last of the three PS1 ACs) to Last Raven, so if I were a betting man, I think there's a great chance we at least see the PS2 games come to the service at some point in the future, too!
Hero-of-Time Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago Well, that sucks. At least there's no rush for me to play them now.
drahkon Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago Gonna try the Prince of Persia and Tsubasa games, but doubt I'll get much playtime at all in the near future. Lots of travels and events are coming up
Hero-of-Time Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago 1 minute ago, drahkon said: Gonna try the Prince of Persia and Tsubasa games, but doubt I'll get much playtime at all in the near future. PoP is fantastic. Well worth playing through and it's not too long either. 1
Julius Posted 17 hours ago Author Posted 17 hours ago 21 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: Well, that sucks. At least there's no rush for me to play them now. I mean Armored Core VI already has a pretty fun but challenging trophy list... 1
Hero-of-Time Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago 4 minutes ago, Julius said: I mean Armored Core VI already has a pretty fun but challenging trophy list... No instant save or rewind function though. 1
Hero-of-Time Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago List of games leaving the service next month. Animal Well (PS5) Tales of Kenzera: ZAU (PS5) Nour: Play with Your Food (PS5, PS4) Deliver Us Mars (PS5, PS4) Miasma Chronicles (PS5) Stray Blade (PS5) Kena: Bridge of Spirits (PS5, PS4) Slay the Spire (PS4) I would have liked to have played through Animal Well and Tales of Kenzera but I doubt I'll get around to playing either of them.
drahkon Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago 10 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: I would have liked to have played through Animal Well and Tales of Kenzera but I doubt I'll get around to playing either of them. Enjoyed both for 2-3 hours but dropped them. Pretty "meh" games. 10 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: Slay the Spire (PS4) 35 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said: PoP is fantastic. Well worth playing through and it's not too long either. "Not too long" as in "10 hours"? If so, I might be able to get it done before going away in April.
Hero-of-Time Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago 14 minutes ago, drahkon said: "Not too long" as in "10 hours"? If so, I might be able to get it done before going away in April. It's more like 15-20 hours.
Hero-of-Time Posted 9 hours ago Posted 9 hours ago I guess Wall-E will be getting released next month on the service. https://www.exophase.com/game/disneyopixar-wall-e-psn/trophies/
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