PlayStation Plus: Free Games for March 2016

Child of Light is not a AAA game… it’s an AMAZING game, don’tget me wrong. But it was basically an indy game funded by a major publisher.

You don’t have to be AAA to be good, and not all bad games are Indy.

Why does it matter if they give AAA or INdy games? As long as they keep giving us games, and some of them end up being good, I’m happy.

I wish we could drop the titles of ‘indy’ and ‘AAA’. Some of the worst games I’ve ever played: Bound by Flame, Dark Souls, Dragon Age: Inquisition… were AAA gmaes, while a few of the best games I’ve ever played were Indy, like Journey.

That being said, there’s good and bad on both sides of the fence.

The one thing I kind of wish they’d do is reach out to more Japanese developers and toss us some ps3/ps4 jrpgs a bit more often. Even though I have most of them, it’d be nice for more people to get exposed to some of the really good ones./

@Akma given the caliber of your comments, I think we can all safely say that your comments won’t be missed with you having passed on during the creation of that one.

In the end… the games aren’t free, but peopleneed to be more respectful when providing feedback. Just because you don’t like a game, does not make it garbage. Acknowledge that you’re not the target audience of this month, make a respectful comment indicating the type of things you’d prefer to get from the service(respectful is a key word here), and then make your decision as to whether the service offers enough for you to renew.

Then it’s not worthless, is it?

If you’re finding value in the multiplayer, then you’re getting value out of the service.

The price is only ~5 bucks per month, not even 20-30.

But really… even if they give 6 ~4 dollar indy games per month, that’s ~300 dollars + access to multiplayer.

Now I get that not every game is going to appeal, but they do give out games of all styles. They can’t appeal to everyone every month… so lets assume you’re just interested in AAA games:

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax – Feb
Medal of Honor: Warfighter / Dragon Age: Origins – Jan
SSX / Far Cry: Blood Dragon – Dec
Mass Effect 2 – Nov
Twisted Metal – Sep
God of War: Ascension – Aug
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger – Jun
Dishonored – Apr
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments – Mar
Yakuza 4 / Thief – Feb

So that’s about 1 year. Are we trying to claim there are no AAA games offered?

If you’re talking JUST for PS4… well, there aren’t that many AAA PS4 games yet so it’s kind of hard to give away what doesn’t exist. And most of the AAA PS4 games suck(new consoles always have a deluge of bad games), and the ones that don’t suck are still selling well so no reason to give them away. They’re willing to give them away on XBO because they XBO copies aren’t selling as well, most likely.

@moos the ~100 or so people who comment here every month are far from the majority. People who are happy with a service are far less likely to comment, so I can be fairly safely assumed that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are happy – or at least content – with the service since they are not making an effort to complain.

“Indie games aren’t for me” is a really silly statement. Since there are indie games in literally every genre…

Have you tried Bastion, Transistor, Journey, Rain, Don’t Starve, Rogue Legacy, Limbo, or Shovel Knight?

These are widely seen as some of the best the scene has to offer… but perhaps in stead of judging based off of indy/not indy, just judge based off of the game itself. Trying to apply a label like ‘indy’ to a game and judging it based off of that label is just demeaning to yourself and the industry.