{"id":36081,"date":"2019-10-15T21:12:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T04:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=36081"},"modified":"2019-10-15T21:17:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T04:17:26","slug":"octobers-ps-titles-fall-console-exclusive-mvps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/octobers-ps-titles-fall-console-exclusive-mvps\/","title":{"rendered":"October’s PS+ Titles Usher in Fall With Console Exclusive MVPs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the approach of Halloween and the end of division matchups leading into the World Series, it\u2019s hard not to first imagine horror movies and baseball when one thinks of October. Now, yes, Sony has made some questionable decisions throughout 2019 in terms of their PlayStation Plus offerings, but they\u2019ve taken the appropriate cues here and delivered on a pair of PS4 titles for this month that speak directly to those seasonal desires \u2026 and they\u2019ve done so in the best way possible.\u00a0 The most current version of the leading baseball video game franchise? Check. The remastered version of arguably the most universally appreciated survival horror game ever created? Check. Especially in comparison to their competition, Sony has clearly zeroed in on their strike zone and didn’t hesitate whatsoever in hitting it this month. Let\u2019s take a closer look.<\/p>\n

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MLB 2019: The Show<\/h4>\n

Granted, there isn\u2019t much competition to be had on this front: if you want to play a realistic baseball simulator, you\u2019ve got The Show<\/em>.\u00a0 Yes, games like RBI Baseball<\/em> and Super Mega Baaseball<\/em> have their place, but there\u2019s something entirely absorbing about digging in to play Sony\u2019s exclusive, longstanding franchise. It has gotten to the point where it\u2019s on the same level as EA\u2019s games for \u2026 well, just about all other sports, in that the year-to-year changes have become incremental, sometimes yielding slightly more positive results and others resulting in slightly more negative turns than the last iteration.\u00a0 Both critics and fans view The Show 2019<\/em> as the franchise on the upswing after a less-than-stellar year, with a few tweaks to career\/season modes worked into its routinely lifelike graphics and gameplay. It\u2019s pretty amazing that Sony and The Show<\/em> have kept the corner of the baseball sim market locked down as an exclusive for this long, yet here we are, and it doesn\u2019t look like they\u2019re getting benched anytime soon.<\/p>\n

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The Last of Us: Remastered<\/h4>\n

Is The Last of Us<\/em> the scariest survival horror game out there? Opinions vary on this kind of thing, sure, but I would imagine that most gamers would say \u201cno\u201d to that question. For it to succeed in what it sets out to do, it doesn\u2019t need to be the scariest. The folks at Naughty Dog have become masters as crafting characters, then throwing them into peril in ways that make those playing genuinely give a damn about what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 With The Last of Us<\/em>, the peril involves zombie-like fungal \u201cinfected\u201d people, and the narrative ties into a blossoming near-paternal bond between hardened smuggler Joel and his human contraband, Ellie, who somehow holds the key to a cure for the pandemic. The third-person shooter controls are impeccable, the graphics are enormously immersive, and the tension remains at a consistently buzzy, weighty level, but it\u2019s the potency of their story and how that informs everything previously mentioned that makes this Naughty Dog\u2019s masterwork. Can\u2019t wait for The Last of Us 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the approach of Halloween and the end of division matchups leading into the World Series, it\u2019s hard not to first imagine horror movies and baseball when one thinks of October. Now, yes, Sony has made some questionable decisions throughout 2019 in terms of their PlayStation Plus offerings, but they\u2019ve taken the appropriate cues here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":36083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36086,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36081\/revisions\/36086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}