I have been gaming on my PS5 since release. I usually play AAA games and since a few months I stopped buying them. Nowadays they arrive with loads of problems and take forever to fix. Once they are fixed, DLC arrives and the games get big discounts. All publishers are guilty of this, even Sony games now suffer from problems. Considering 2024 looks like a bit weaker and I have a big Steam library full of titles I haven’t played in years I ordered myself a Steam Deck OLED. I want to avoid buying new AAA games that now cost €80 and aren’t even finished. My plan is to replay a lot of following games before I buy a new game:

  • Witcher 3

  • Cyberpunk 2077

  • Red Dead Redemption 2

  • Portal 1 + 2

  • Resident Evil 3 + Village

  • Mirror’s Edge

  • Max Payne 2 + 3 (1 has seemingly vanished from my Steam account?)

  • Mafia 1 + 2 Definitive Edition

  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance

  • GTA San Andreas + 4 Complete

  • Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

  • Far Cry 2

  • Fallout: New Vegas

  • Doom + Eternal

  • Skyrim

  • Death Stranding

  • Dead Space 1 + 2

  • Dark Souls III

  • Crysis 1 + 2, Warhead

  • Control

  • CoD Black Ops

  • Bully Scholarship Edition

  • Borderlands GOTY Enhanced

  • Bioshock 1 + 2 Remastered

  • Arkham Trilogy

  • Assassin’s Creed Ezio Trilogy

  • Alien Isolation

  • Alan Wake + American Nightmare

This also made my reconsider buying physical games on Playstation by the way. I usually sell my games after I beat them but because of that I also have a tiny Playstation library.

  • -Cooki-@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Best way to play AAA titles BY FAR !!! (if you care about the costs):

    • buy PS5 disc edition
    • when new AAA game releases:
      • buy physical copy
        • physical copies - even on day 1 of release - are cheaper then the digital version. because of the price war in retail stores.
      • play through game in 2-6 weeks
      • sell game on ebay
        • you will get back 50-70% of what you paid for it
    • Result:
      • 70€ game only costs 55-65 € in retail
        • = 10€ saved
      • you recoup 50-70% through selling the game
        • = 30-40€ saved
      • This way the “70€ AAA game” only cost you ~20€
        • thats a 70% reduction in cost

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    This is BY FAR the best way to enjoy AAA titles if you care about the spent money.

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    And it can only be done on PS5

    • because on PC there are no longer physical versions - its all “keys” which dont transfer
    • on SeriesX it kinda works - but not as good. Because the market is much smaller because most xbox people just use gamepass and dont buy AAA titles.