October’s PS Plus Games Include Broken Age & Super Meat Boy

The PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection update for October has been announced, with Broken Age and Super Meat Boy headlining in a month which will do little to silence the critics. The six games coming to the subscription service on October 6th are:

However, what’s quite surprising to see is that the Driveclub PS Plus Edition is leaving the IGC alongside September’s offerings. It’s a little unexpected to see that happen just a few months after it finally appeared from the development hell that surrounded Driveclub’s initial launch. There’s still time to grab it before it goes, though, so make sure you do.

Source: EU PS Blog

38 Comments

  1. My PS+ sub is up, and it’s easy to say I won’t be renewing.

    But I wonder why they’re removing the Driveclub PS+ Edition. Poor take up?

    • People buying retail at rock bottom prices cheaper than the PS+ upgrade to full probs, not enough takers due to the long wait for release and any interested parties have already purchased.

      • But even if people are just buying it from retail, surely it serves as a demo to (which is basically what it is anyway) to tempt people in?

        Removing it just seems a strange choice, they have nothing to lose by removing it, unless they were getting a lot of people downloading it but not upgrading?

      • We’ll probably never know the full gist of the how and why’s but it’s now affordably within reach of every New Genner.

    • There’s rumours abound that something big is replacing it!

  2. Or instead of rushing to download the PS+ version of Driveclub, you could just go and buy the whole thing. It’s worth it at £15.99 for the game and season pass.

    I quite like the October lineup. By my calculations, that’s £51.35 + whatever Super Meat Boy costs.

    Not so keen on Chariot being the PS3 version when there’s a PS4 version but it’s not cross-buy, but they all look reasonably entertaining games.

    • Nearly as good as the October xbox GwG lineup then, which is £77 worth of games! (sorry, couldn’t resist!)

      • By my calculations (and finding those XBox prices isn’t as easy at is is with the PSN store), those 3 games for October (no, you can’t count TWD twice!) come to £51.97.

        And that £51.35 for PS+ doesn’t include the price of Super Meat Boy yet either.

        So more value from PS+ then.

        Unless you want to count TWD twice, in which case we can count all 11 PS+ games (the 5 that come with two different platform versions). Which is going to make your argument about the relative prices even more wrong.

        And don’t apologise. I couldn’t resist either ;)

      • No, I was trying to resist yesterday and just managed it, although I’ll have a little dabble now for fun.

        The one factor you’d surely have to account for in ‘value’ is the subscription prices. For reference, XBL is 19.99 for a year and PS+ is 37.99 (CDKeys pricing).

        You could also count some of the PS+ games twice, but then they’re all cross-buy so it’d be impossible to re-buy.

        I’m also sure that the value of what you’re getting is as much comfort as the metacritic ratings of last month’s offerings.

        On a more serious note though, there’s at least one decent offering in each GWG and PS+ selection. This month is quite strong for PS4 what with Broken Age.

      • Well, the official pricing for PS+ and XBL is the same, but I guess I’ll let you count discounted prices from dubious websites.

        But only we agree that you can only count TWD once. And those PS+ games if you want.

        And if you can save £18 a year on XBL, that’s £1.50 a month. More than made up for with the value of the 6 PS+ games compared to the 3 GwG games this month.

        I’ll agree that 2 of those 3 XBox games are very good (not that MGS demo crap) though.

        And really, either service gives more value than you’re paying for. Apart from that 1 month where I’d already got all the PS+ games, there hasn’t been a single month where at least 1 of the games has entertained me for at least a few hours. A few hours of fun for £3.something a month? Can’t really complain.

  3. been wanting to play Broken Age since it came out, so that’s cool.

    so, yeah.
    Broken Age.

    i wonder what we’ll get for December. o_O

    • Do you hate Novembers or have you got the inside scoop already and know them? ;)

  4. I’ve got to say I’m really happy with next month’s offering. I’d have bought Super Meat boy, I nearly bought Broken Age a few weeks ago and I’d rather have Chariot on Ps4 but it’ll do on Ps3 as that’s what I let the kids play anyway. All the others are a bonus.

  5. Hmmm… I’ll give them a go but it’s starting to feel like a chore to play these games at this point. Buuuut I’ve been surprised before so we’ll see.

  6. Broken Age looks like a nice cartoon. Do I have to press any buttons to make the story move on?

    I just checked over my son’s long multiplication homework and got more fun out of that than I will from any of the cr@p on offer in October.

    • Dear me. I just checked out the PS+ October trailer on youtube and they haven’t added a voiceover or bothered to show games other than the first two on the list. Also, at the 9 second mark of the video they’ve repeated at least a couple of the games in the line-up wall.
      I think Sony must have contracted the job of PS+ monthly videos out to my uncle Dave for the princely sum of £10 a video. He’s so very tight with the cash that he won’t normally add music to the video let alone a voice-over. Nice job, Dave!

      If Sony wanted to save some money this month then they could have cut down the number of blue lights lighting up the Tie Fighter at EGX. Cut the number of lights down from 178 to 4 and Sony could have got uncle Dave to include the other games and record a voice-over!

      Anyway, catch you all later. I got some guy at the door asking if I know who he is.

    • It’s a classically styled point and click adventure… so yes, you do have to press buttons, also solve puzzles – some of which may require you to press buttons in the game.

  7. These gamers are utter crap…what on earth is going on with PS+…if Sony are getting the bulk of their cash from subs then they need to start offering decent games.

  8. I’m getting increasingly frustrated with PS Plus updates; not because of the titles on offer (which, in my opinion, are actually pretty good), but because it brings out the absolute worst in gamers. Just because one person thinks a game is bad, that doesn’t mean EVERYONE does, but these people talk like they’re speaking for the entire gaming community. I sincerely hope that anyone threatening to leave PS Plus actually does, as that way I’ll no longer have to endure their presence online.

    • Couldn’t agree more. Everytime the Plus offering are displayed on the blog I’m always careful not to scroll to far down, so I don’t have to read all the vomit and the “do you like this months offering – click yes/click no” posts that always shows up these days. Or they use to, I haven’t checked recently.

    • Who on here is claiming to speak for all PS+ subscribers about the quality of the PS+ games?

      • I didn’t say anyone is on here, but take a look at the PS blog – it’s littered with people making sweeping statements like ‘this is an insult to gamers’ and ‘how can anyone defend this crap?’. They’re getting access to hundreds of pounds worth of games for £40 a year, and somehow still think they’re entitled to more.

    • Many gamers are plebs incapable of independent thought, they just look to the internet to tell them what to think. Is it any wonder they are being radicalised as gsners. I brt that already hate these games don’t actually know much Ascot pabout then.

    • The thing is the value of the games is subjective. They may be worth it to you but some wouldn’t pay £12 for a pixel retro game, however good metacritic says it is.

      • Sadly, Starman, it’s the the fact that so many gamers lack any sort of perspective and understanding of the subjectivity at hand. Even with MrYd and you goes poking at each other, it highlights the defensive/antagonist nature of gamers even if (thankfully) you guys are doing it in the gentlest way possible. :-)

      • I understand that, but I would argue that that is the gamer’s problem, not Sony’s. It would be pretty much impossible to come up with a line-up of games that 100% of people like. I have no issue whatsoever with people voicing their opinion; however, what I object to is hurling abuse around on the Internet for purely selfish reasons.

        Let’s not forget that, without Sony, there’d be no PS Plus in the first place (or Games with Gold or EA Access for that matter), and we’d be getting no monthly games at all. It’s not perfect, but there are far more important issues to complain about within the game’s industry.

      • Fair comment Mike, I try to keep the arguments to a civil level as does everyone else. It’s why this is the only gaming site I frequent very much!

        @Stef I think some are used to the PS3’s plus offerings which were great when it would offer 10 games on the instant game collection, many of which were retail releases that weren’t very old. It probably raised peoples expectations but obviously there weren’t 3-4 years of games already out when the PS4 launched.

        Personally I think they should’ve waited a year before launching plus on the PS4.

  9. I almost bought Unmechanical a few days ago so that’s a win for me, and i was waiting on a price drop for both Broken Age and Chariot , shame the latter isn’t the PS4 version but i will check it out on PS3 anyway.
    Kickbeat and Super Meat Boy have the least appeal for me, but i’ll still check them out.

  10. None of this really appeals to me, but I hardly get around playing those fillers anyway. But, clearly, Plus is not what it used to be, so it definitely is disappointing.

    • Yeh I am struggling too but sometimes you just find a wee nugget that fills that gap of “can’t be arsed concentrating on a game but can’t be arsed just playing footy”. Race the sun has been my filler recently.

      As for this month, broken sword will be ace. And I’ve heard so much about the difficulty of Super Meat Boy so keen to give it a bash.

      • You’re right, sometimes you discover a gem you wouldn’t have tried otherwise (still love Sony for giving me Outlast). So, I generally try not to judge them too harshly, it’s just there’s hardly ever anything which interests me recently.

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