Jamie Briggs, Analog Addiction. "Remaster: A term that would bring excitement as we watched a beloved experience receiving a full makeover, allowing us to once again experience the wonderful adventure on our current batch of consoles. These days the term has a lot of negative stigma, mostly due to the large number of remastered titles releasing each month rather than each year. The remaster has become more than common throughout the gaming industry, especially with the introduction of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Though some hate the huge number of remastered titles being released, some absolutely adore them for many reasons."
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Humanity, Watch Dogs: Legion, Dishonored 2, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, and more.
Today we’re happy to reveal the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for May 2023. All games will be available on Tuesday May 16. Let’s dive in.
Holy crap, R&C Rift Apart is a huge score for those who haven't played it! It was so good.
Played and platinumed Ratchet And Clank: Rift Apart at launch. Loved it so much. 9/10
Am I going to download and play Bus Simulator 21? You bet :-D
I think this news has reunited two long lost brothers, OtterX and potatoseal 🤣.
For 5 months we got 102 games
001. Back 4 Blood | PS4 002. Dragon Ball FighterZ | PS4
003. Devil May Cry 5 | PS4 004. Life is Strange: Before the Storm | PS4 005. Life is Strange | PS4 006. Jett: The Far Shore | PS4 007. Just Cause 4: Reloaded | PS4 008. Omno | PS4
009. Erica | PS4 010. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order | PS4 011. Fallout 76 | PS4 012. Axiom Verge 2 | PS4 013. Syphon Filter 3 | PS4 014. Star Wars Demolition | PS4 015. Hot Shots Golf 2 | PS4 016. Evil Dead: The Game | PS4 017. OlliOlliWorld | PS4 018. Destiny 2: Beyond Light | PS4 019. Mafia: The Definitive Edition | PS4 020. Horizon Forbidden West | PS4 021. The Quarry | PS4 022. Resident Evil 7 biohazard | PS4 023. Outriders | PS4 024. Scarlet Nexus | PS4 025. Borderlands 3 | PS4 026. Tekken 7 | PS4 027. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown | PS4
028. Earth Defense Force 5 | PS4 029. Oninaki | PS4 030. Lost Sphear | PS4 031. I am Setsuna | PS4 032. The Forgotten City | PS4 033. The Legend of Dragoon | PS4 034. Wild Arms 2 | PS4 035. Harvest Moon: Back to Nature | PS4 036. Destroy All Humans! | PS4 037. Battlefield 2042 | PS4 038. Minecraft Dungeons | PS4 039. Code Vein | PS4 040. Uncharted 4 | PS5 Fixed 041. Uncharted Lost Legacy | PS5 Fixed 042. Tchia | PS4 043. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction | PS4 044. Ghostwire Tokyo | PS5 045. Life Is Strange: True Colors | PS4 046. Immortals Fenyx Rising | PS4 047. Life is Strange 2 | PS4 048. Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot | PS4 049. Street Fighter V Champion Edition | PS4 050. Untitled Goose Game | PS4
051. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD | PS4 052. Rage 2 | PS4 053. Neo: The World Ends with You | PS4 054. Haven | PS4 055. Ridge Racer Type 4 | PS4 056. Ape Academy 2 | PS4 Fixed 057. Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror | PS4 058. Meet Your Maker | PS4
059. Sackboy: A Big Adventure | PS4 060. Tails of Iron | PS4 061. Anodyne | PS4 (Bonus Game) 062. Kena: Bridge of Spirits | PS4 063. Doom Eternal | PS4 064. Riders Republic | PS4 065. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus | PS4 066. Slay the Spire | PS4 067. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom | PS4 068. The Evil Within | PS4 069. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood | PS4 070. Bassmaster Fishing | PS4 071. Paradise Killer | PS4 072. Doom | PS4 073. Doom II | PS4
074. Doom 64 | PS4 075. Doom 3 | PS4 076. Dishonored: Definitive Edition | PS4 077. GRID Legends | PS4 078. Chivalry 2 | PS4 079. Descenders | PS4 080. Humanity | PS4 081. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart | PS5 082. Watch Dogs: Legion | PS4 083. Dishonored 2 | PS4 084. Dishonored: Death of the Outsider | PS4 085. Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin | PS4 086. Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition | PS4 087. Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration | PS4 088. Shadow of the Tomb Raider | PS4 089. Bus Simulator 21: Next Stop | PS4 090. The Evil Within 2 | PS4 091. Wolfenstein: Youngblood | PS4 092. Thymesia | PS5 093. Rain World | PS4 094 Lake | PS4 095. Conan Exiles | PS4 096. Rune Factory 4 Special | PS4 097. Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town* | PS4 098. Soundfall | PS4 099. Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow | PS4 100. Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light | PS4 101. Pursuit Force | PS4 102. Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered | PS4
January 15 Games | February 21 Games | March 21 Games | April 19 Games |
May 26 Games | June Unknown | July Unknown | August Unknown | September Unknown |
October Unknown | November Unknown | December Unknown |
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin Is fantastic, I can't recommend it highly enough.
Even though you have never heard of it it went on to sell well over a million copies.
The best Legend of Zelda games experiment and tackle new grounds for the industry. These are the essential titles in the series you need to play.
I am a huge Zelda fan and love them all, but for me Ocarina Of Time is the greatest and my second all time favourite game after Final Fantasy VII.
Oh gee can't imagine what Number 1 is
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A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker etc is better than Breath of the Wild.
Majora's Mask still holds as my favorite to this day, despite being the black sheep of the series.
I love them all, but Wind Walker, Link to the Past and Minish Cap are my favorites
There are some epic PlayStation Plus Premium shooters, from Naughty Dog's Uncharted series to the high-stakes action of Doom published by Bethesda.
As long as developers don't think that it's ok for them to just re-release their older library of games rather than coming up with new stuff.
Some remasters are definitely warranted and worth it, but it's starting to get a little out of hand here on the new generation of machines.
For every Last of Us or Tomb Raider that was worth of a remaster, I can point out a Sleeping Dogs or Saints Row that didn't need one.
The first major remaster that was I was aware of is Resident Evil on the Gamecube.
But it wasn't just a remaster. They'd completely overhauled the graphics of what was a 5 year old game and they'd changed the puzzles. The game was a testament to what the Gamecube was capable of.
The remasters of today are of games that are barely a year old with just cosmetic changes.
They are taking up the time of top developers who should be working on new material.
I understand that because the PS4 and Xbox One aren't backwards compatible- and because they want to make some more money and fans for their series in the short term - and because it takes longer to get original games out, they release remasters in the meantime. But it doesn't mean they're worth my money if I have the last gen version of the same game.
Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite, although not perfect, were arguably 2 of the great games of last generation. But, to Irrational's credit, they closed the studio and they're not rushing to get remasters out are they.
Sometimes the last gen version even looks better or at least suits the style of the game more. e.g. Silent Hill HD wasn't as praised as the last gen equivalents.