VITA

lol people would have to know what one is before they could be a "hater"

Pretty much just bought one of these for Persona 4 and I don't even CARE MAN

What else should I get? Already have Hotline Miami on PC, and the show on PS3 (might rebuy anyway), Terraria on PC... I think Wipeout is crossplay...

I fucking LOVE Spelunky, although it's on PC too (and with a daily challenge mode to boot). Still, for indie darlings like it Spelunky/Terraria/Rogue Legacy/Binding of Isaac/Plants vs. Zombies/Hotline Miami/Retro City Rampage etc., there really is something to be said for being able to play these games whenever, wherever, in short bursts or long draw-out sessions (and with solid physical controls too); it's an indie gamer's dream console. Just waiting for the inevitable port of Cave Story so that I can buy it AGAIN.

Other than that, Earth Defense Force (run around killing giant bugs in a b-movie atmosphere), Rayman Origins (this is apparently about to be free soon on PS+ so hold off on spending, but it is a REALLY good platformer), MLB The Show if you like baseball games (and if you have the console version you can pick up & play games from one to the other pretty easily), Disgaea 3 (PORTABLE DISGAEA), Pixeljunk Monsters Deluxe (the definitive version [for now; they've said this like five times now] of the only tower defense game I ever liked, and Little Big Planet 2 are all crazy fun. And then all the PSP legacy games (Tactics Ogre! The Warriors! Half-Minute Hero! Valkyria Chronicles 2) and PS1 legacy games (Symphony of the Night! Grandia! Tomba!) and the minis (BUT WHERE IS FUCKING PAC-MAN DX OR EVEN CE COME ON PEOPLE)!

Seriously, there are games for fucking days on this thing; I love it a lot.

ctrl-f "guacamelee" not found

apparently pac-man DX/CE isn't coming to VITA. dumb. the new killzone looks ridiculous & people are raving about it. I still need to pick up gravity rush too

velocity is a good PSmini http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-16-velocity-review

in an ideal world we'd get a DARK SOULS vita along with a viewtiful joe, an okami, a resident evil, and a PES. pls based kaz hirai pls

Sony's shit is always awesome.. I want them to make a huge comeback.

apparently pac-man DX/CE isn't coming to VITA. dumb.

that is awful and I hope whoever made that decision is attacked by bees. ditto for the person who decided not to put Sid Meier's Pirates on the PSP e-store

seriously guys the Vita is basically the Dreamcast of handhelds, except it will not enjoy the fruits of being an awesome emulation machine or have a readily-accessible Fire Pro put out on it. on the other hand, twin sticks!

in an ideal world we'd get a DARK SOULS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Sacrifice_(video_game)

except it will not enjoy the fruits of being an awesome emulation machine or have a readily-accessible Fire Pro put out on it

don't say that, man

this rad-looking Kickstarter game just hit its Vita stretch goal:

http://kck.st/1e78Qoh

oh and motherfucking LA MULANA too

http://www.analoghype.com/video-games/la-mulana-2-coming-to-the-ps-vita/

who has one of these anyway? add me on PSN: dogofthenorth

Er don't I already have you on my list as cozeny? Anyway, added.

I don't understand hotline miami scores. It regularly tells me at the end of a level that I've got, say, 294500/230000.

the second score is a "par" score of sorts - if you pass it, a weapon or mask gets unlocked and thrown into the available pool

Ah got you, ta.

sent you an inv cozen, altho the only game i have plays since i bought it a month or two ago is the least social game ever, persona 4.

Ordered one of these, seeing as there are some decent deals coming about now and I just got PS Plus. Got the 3G + Wifi version, with a 16GB card, one of those "10 'great' games" download things (LBP, Wipeout 2048, Motorstorm RC seem the ones worth mentioning), plus a code for FIFA, all for £145 which doesn't feel too steep. Should hopefully get it tomorrow in time for a bunch of travel I have coming up over the next month.

I can see myself just ending up using it to final get round to playing Final Fantasy VII which I bought on PSN ages ago.

Get it down to 150, 200 with a decent memory card and i will buy tomorrow. No idea why this is my magic price range but it totally is.

200 w/ decent-ish memory card is where it is tho

tbf i say this bc i haven't started DLing games all over the place so 4GB seems fine for my persona 4 savegames

the ps+ thing is the strongest selling point for me. it's a smart move on their point. i feel like i'm wasting money NOT buying it...

ps+ is why I bought mine. nearly a year on and I still haven't bought anything apart from a couple of psp games in a sale lol

it doesn't play the discs, right?

i definitely need a 32 gig card or else i'll be up all night wondering why my memory card is so small
oh it will bother me

only digital psp games via PSN, they have regular sales though (I got Trails In The Sky & Persona 2 for about £10 each)
32gig is more than enough really unless you are a digital hoarder that must have access to all games at all times

geez, they charge $100 for 32GB? wth Sony

yeah the cards are a total scam

so with tax, it's a lot more like 300 bucks instead of 200 with a 32 gig card.
that radio shack discounted one was 160, so they're getting there. maybe after the holidays.

Definitely dropping in price quite steadily over this side of the water. HMV are selling old stock so you can grab just a Vita on its own for about £130 at the moment, but once you add £62 for a 32Gig card (wait, it's cheaper to buy two 16GB cards than one 32GB card on Amazon!?) it's not great, which is why I grabbed one of the bundles. Like others, if it wasn't for PS Plus I wouldn't be buying this at all, but I figure if all I spend is £145 (as I have a PS3 to justify PS+ anyway), it only needs to deliver a few decent free games so I don't feel like it was a waste.

something kinda driving me crazy is that there is such a poor content management system -- i tried to delete everything (except netflix at 30mb and my p4 saves at 4mb) and there were still ~500mb missing from the "max". I don't think it saves any unnecessary system data, so no idea where that missing data is...

why no netflix on UK vita sony

Tearaway is fun

that Vita TV thing is absolutely bombing in Japan btw, such a bad idea

so is soul sacrifice worth playing? i plugged it in on PS+ but not sure if i wanna waste the gigabytes yet, v v cursory internet searches didn't tell me much aside form inafune and EMOOOO

current amazong pricing is 250 for the walking dead bundle + a 32 gig card.
i am kinda doomed to get one of these after the holidays i think

http://www.amazon.com/Borderlands-2-Limited-PlayStation-Vita-Bundle/dp/B00HLT0YT0/
new edition slim vita is $170 + 32 gig card is $66 = $240
and even with probably 30+ games already dl'd from ps+, i simply can't handle that price until it hits $200. Another year i guess.

I'd still very much recommend a used first gen vita to the slim update, the difference in screen quality is vast.

i should really be posting on this thread more.

i have been playing this thing a bunch! aside from being a pretty dope device on which to play PS classics (started my MGS replay on PS3; moved the save and the game to my vita to continue) and a never-ending stream of free PS plus games (started fez again, loving it on here. also: gravity rush, uncharted, dragon's crown, spelunky, luftrausers, rogue legacy, olliolli2 all in various stages of backburner and/or mid-play), I've also been getting into these Spike Chunsoft visual novel things. Specifically, Danganronpa and Danganronpa 2 (although I bought Zero Escape so that's probably next).

I think I was already pretty effusive about DGR1 in the year-end poll but i'll say it again -- get on this if you have a vita! it's insane! the second one is so far a tiny bit of a letdown imo, but still good (and if you like the first as much as I did, it's a foregone conclusion, you'll play 2 anyway).

also last night i stared at my screen mouth agape because i unlocked a trophy called "Is it medicine or social skill?". The game is already full of twisty turny plot stuff which i was already like "wtffffffff" before the trophy, and then it popped up and i was like NOW YOU'RE QUOTING THE KNIFE? GET OUT OF MY BRAIN.

AC Liberty and the vita Killzone were both something like 60% off last month so I picked those up. Haven't touched Killzone yet. AC is something I've never played before so I don't know how this sits relative to others in the series but it so far feels hugely linear and gameplay light, I'm pretty much just walking from cutscene to cutscene with the option of collecting stuff here and there on the way if I can convince myself its worthwhile. Maybe that's normal for AC.

I hit a wall with Little Big Planet because I mostly play vita on the train, and I got to a level where it wanted me to start tilting the console around. I ain't doing that in public. But I feel like I'm pretty close now to having played every AAA vita game to ever come out so i guess that's something to aim for (does DGR count as one of those? You've convinced me to try it either way).

I doubt it counts as "AAA Vita". It's way too niche. Persona 4 minus the RPG, plus light Phoenix Wright-ing. I think the world collectively yawns and shrugs when you say "visual novel..." (I do too, though, so this game is more exception than rule.)

Glad you'll play it too! I really hope this console gets more love in the future... I really like it, and I love weird Japanese handheld games, but it seems like I maybe picked the wrong horse this time around. Looking at Atlus's releases on 3DS vs. Vita is painful. They get SMT4, countless Etrian Odysseys, Devil Summoner, and we get a dancing game?!

(well... and Persona 4, which is why I bought this thing in the first place... I guess I can't complain.)

the remote play element is making me consider doing a PS4/bloodborne/vita/64gigcard bourgiefuckhead amazon order of catastrophic proportions.

so persona 4, a vita bundle, a 64 gig card, a ps4 with last of us/infamous/shootshootkillfps, an extra joystick, bloodborne and the strategy guide and a 2 TB drive for the PS4 is a shade over 1k
next gen, you are so special

Persona 4 minus the RPG

Haha I can't tell you how appealing to me this is, given that I recently gave up on persona 4, 60 hours in, after one to many "long tedious crawl through a zero challenge dungeon only to reach a boss I had no chance against" situations. Loved everything else about it but I'm too old for that kind of jrpg grind.

The shine is coming off remote play a little for me. I'm getting connection drops around once every 15 minutes, ps4 is on ethernet, vita is literally 2 feet from my wireless router. Tried swapping out the router for a completely different one and it had no effect, so it can only be down to Sony hardware one way or another, leaves me without any other troubleshooting options really. And that's same-building LAN play, I've still not managed a playable experience over an Internet connection.

yeah, i only used remote play once, and i went through a few menus, and i was like "...i don't know about this."

olliolli 2 on the vita on the other hand i think i like more than the ps4 version. might be the controls or the lack of input lag or something but it is great!

and i need to take back what i said about danganronpa 2 being inferior... the end is some all-time mindfuck japanese video games shit. love it.

Yeah Olliolli definitely fits vita better, I think there's too much travel on the full sized dualshock analogue stick.

opting in here as well; splurged and got a Borderlands 2 edition, 64gig card and persona 4 gold
it was the goddamn ps+ that won me over; before I even get the system, I already have Soul Sacrifice, FF V, Gravity Rush, Uncharted, WIpeout 2048, Binding of Isaac, Metrico, Woah Dave!, Terraria, OlliOlli2, God's Eater Burst, Disgaea 3, Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, Dragon's Crown, Muramasa Rebirth, Limbo, Joe Danger, Rayman Origins, Sine Mora, Jet Set Radio, Darkstalkers Chronicle, SoundShapes, Castlevania Secret of the Night and two dozen more waiting for me
DAMN YOU SONY

AC Liberty and the vita Killzone were both something like 60% off last month so I picked those up. Haven't touched Killzone yet.

Gah, still haven't touched it...and now it's free with April's PS+.

i'm half-ish way through Zero Escape, good escape the room type game with some interesting wrinkles added on top

and the wrinkles are not as immediately apparent as i thought, it is a nice surprise when you get abt halfway thru

forks you need to get Spelunky and Rogue Legacy and La Mulana in that order

also Frozen Synapse