haha OTM, I did exactly the same thing with Wipeout 2048; I was all "jesus I don't need this why did I even buy it oh it's 2:30"
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
thinking dreamcast virtua tennis is in my personal top 10. it is just incredibly fun w/a group of friends. perfect mix of being totally intuitive and easy to pick up and play but being deep enough that the game doesn't get old.
and thanks for the info, djp!
― original bgm, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Killscreen continues to be staggeringly useless
― back that ASSAF up (jamescobo), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
How can anyone read that site.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
Giving the device the subway test, I find not only my hands, but my whole body wrapped around the Vita as if it were a cello.
lol wtf why is he trying to fuck his Vita on the subway
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
a sign of identification with the hardcore, another quaint idea that I assume will soon join the ranks of cyberpunk...
lol cyberpunk yeah yeah yeah but every once in a while i think about the old cyberpunk rpg and how in the main sourcebook a "cellular modem" is this crazy expensive thing that allows one's netrunner or whatever to "jack in" from anywhere he or she pleases.
http://uwbcsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/johnny-mnemonic-big.jpg
― adam, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
by which i mean iphone
sometimes I feel like the only thing the cyberpunk ppl got wrong is that we aren't all wearing jumpsuits 24/7
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
i really wish killscreen wasn't so goddam mawkish
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
xp speak for yourself, this jumpsuit is comfortable and stylish
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
how comes youse guyses aren't all raving about lumines: electric symphony?
― ledge, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't played it yet
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
$40 feels like a lot for another lumines
― adam, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I just feel no need to play more of Lumines - I don't think the price was the issue, more that it just looks like more of the same (okay, if it was a $5 download or something I'm sure I would have picked it up, because why not?). It's a little funny though, because I'm enjoying the hell of out Hot Shots Golf and Wipeout & both of those are more of the same too.
― JCL, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
i got the monster hunter psp game and it is really fun, this whole library of psp games that i didn't get to play available on demand is a v dangerous thing
― adam, Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
^srsly
― the jeremy lin of YANIV (cozen), Thursday, 1 March 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
Eurogamer had a look at Vita memory cards, concluded Sony are overcharging by at least a multiple of 4, lolhttp://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-how-fast-are-vita-memory-cardsSony are having a web broadcast on March 9th to announce new Vita titles. nerdz be speculating!http://andriasang.com/con05a/vita_heaven/
― zappi, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
psp games that are awesome besides monster hunter:
3rd birthday: parasite eve 3, makes no sense and lol japan the chick's clothes disintegrate over the course of a mission. good shooting, big bosses. read some people comparing the gameplay to mass effect 2 but idgi as this game is actually fun.
"legend of heroes": "trails in the sky": lol japan again, animu rpg, people talk and talk and talk and the main character is a 16 year old girl and everyone says "..." all the time. BUT it feels as if someone with some amount of sense sat down and decided not to implement all the horrible things that typically cripple jrpgs. for example: one can O-button thru the text really fast and not accidentally miss anything or decline an impt quest or something. the text itself is almost funny sometimes. the battle system is p fast. no random encounters. crafting is available but not necessary. the magic system is basically materia which fuck the haters is the best jrpg magic system ever. music rules especially the goofy jazzy fusion battle theme.
i think i've spent more time playing video games in the past week than i did in the previous six months.
― adam, Monday, 5 March 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
what to play Trails in the Sky but waiting to see if the heavily rumored Steam version comes out soon
― zappi, Monday, 5 March 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
If you're in North America, the vita version of Motorstorm RC is coming out tomorrow for free (for a limited time)...
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/03/05/motorstorm-rc-driving-to-ps-vita-for-free-courtesy-of-scion/
― JCL, Monday, 5 March 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost the PSP reboot of Tactics Ogre is really great too. they put in lots of work to make sure it doesn't feel like a decade-and-a-half-old SRPG (eg leveling is more reasonable, new translation for the text, etc). definitely preferable to the slowdown-prone PSP FFT game.
― back that ASSAF up (jamescobo), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
also hell yeah to free Motorstorm RC! I was going to buy it anyway but since I don't really care about the PS3 integration I'll gladly save my money for, idk, Super Stardust or whatever. between that and The Show 12 tomorrow's going to make me awful glad I sprang for the (hideously overpriced) 32GB card.
― back that ASSAF up (jamescobo), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
sound shapes! it's pretty cool
― adam, Thursday, 9 August 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
what the hell happened with this
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 August 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
the vita? no games man. just week into month of nothing. it's really a cool piece of hardware though.
sound shapes, it works on ps3 too, it's got the first good beck stuff since midnite vultures, it's like $12, i'm pleased. anything to keep myself from buying the persona 4 fighting game.
― adam, Thursday, 9 August 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
No games OTM, the thing I've played the most on it is... Pinball Arcade
Don't get me wrong, Pinball Arcade is awesome, just not the game I thought I was buying the system for
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Thursday, 9 August 2012 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah pinball arcade is my favorite $250 pinball simulator
― adam, Thursday, 9 August 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
the persona 4 fighting game looks pretty cool actually - but then i feel the guilt of not playing the actual Persona games
― Nhex, Thursday, 9 August 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
if i got a Vita, those Persona ports would probably be my #1 pick-up
“We’re having a more difficult time than we had anticipated in terms of getting support from third-party publishers, but that’s our job,” Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studio President Shuhei Yoshida
Sony tried to get western studios on board, and neglected Japanese developers.Western studios were uninterested though, and meanwhile Nintendo pinched PSPs break-out hit Monster Hunter and as a result 3DS is murdering Vita in Japan. Japan is the only market that seems interested in a dedicated portable gaming system though, both 3DS & Vita stinking up the sales charts in the west.
― zappi, Thursday, 9 August 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
sound shapes! it's pretty cool― adam, Wednesday, August 8
― adam, Wednesday, August 8
Is it a fun & challenging game to play, or is it just more of a music maker?
― JCL, Friday, 10 August 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
looking forward to retro city rampage, jetset radio, MGS3 standalone download, VC2 PSP, person 4 vita, and sound shapes
but yeah don't play this thing nearly as much as I'd like; waiting for price drop on gravity crush
― skrill xx (cozen), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
oh shit I'd forgotten about JSR, thank you for the reminder
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
gimmie dark souls vita, valkyria chronicles vita, team ico game vita, and metal gear vita pls sony
― skrill xx (cozen), Friday, 10 August 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
sound shapes is a sort of fun music maker and a sort of fun platformer. adds up to fun.
i only fucked with the level editor a little bit, was able to crank out a fake early 00s kompakt thing pretty quickly, i imagine truly dedicated types will create some interesting shit.
do we know a date for jet set radio??
― adam, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
dates for jet set radio were announced today...
PlayStation Plus: September 11 PlayStation Network: September 18 Xbox LIVE Arcade and PC: September 19 PlayStation Vita: October 16
― JCL, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
The thing about Sound Shapes for me is that I know I would never bother with the music/level creation and as a pure platformer, there doesn't seem to be enough there (at least in the videos I watched). I love the look of it, but it just doesn't seem like something I would actually play very much. Other games that have promised great user developed content in the past (Trials, Little Big Planet, N+) always have let me down because it's not worth the impossible effort to sort the good stuff out of all the crap that gets uploaded.
I think it's a big problem for the Vita's future that its most interesting looking upcoming releases (Jet Set Radio, Retro City Rampage, Persona 4) are all available elsewhere. It's still early, but so far its game library is very disappointing. Hopefully a few interesting things get announced at Gamescom next week, but I do feel like the Vita is very close to dead.
However, I'd definitely buy a portable Dead Souls / Demon's Souls.
― JCL, Friday, 10 August 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
give us the PS2 vanillaware games & a dept. heaven compilation pls sony
― skrill xx (cozen), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
wow MGS3's ecosystem is ridiculously involved. actually very good on VITA too... the controls are not an issue
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Monday, 15 October 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
PS+ initial Vita games announced
EU: Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Gravity Rush, Chronovolt, Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs AttackUSA : Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Jet Set Radio HD, Wipeout 2048, Gravity Rush, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack!, + PSP game Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions.
interesting to see what effect this will have on Vita hardware sales, which have been moribund for the last 6 months - and if you give people access to this many free games, how will it affect software sales?
― ざっぴ (zappi), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
i was pretty damn impressed by that Plus lineup, i gotta admit. though i'm still far from buying one, this is definitely enticing
― Nhex, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
huh, so all you have to do is have ps+ and those things instant run?they may just have had me buy one with that lineupWar of the Lions is great btw, def top ten all time for me
― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
jeez, that Call Of Duty game is getting a right kicking at the momentcurrent Metacritic : 29length of single player content : 1 hourmore here http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/call-of-duty-declassifed-is-horrible-but-its-sony-who-will-be-punished
― ざっぴ (zappi), Thursday, 15 November 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
wait, is this thing still $250? maybe for 150 i'd consider but...
― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 November 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
currently enjoying P3P and VC2 on this
― cozen, Monday, 21 January 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
pretty that telling those are both PSP gamesi got one of these for £100 at xmas. i've been mainly playing PSP games too, the only retail game i'm planning to get is P4G. Gravity Rush was a bit disappointing :/
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 21 January 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
Ok, I picked one of these up yesterday because I had an 8 hour flight and I'll be away from my home consoles for 3 weeks and I had an iphone 4 to trade in and I was feeling increasingly weird about having all those vita games available via PS+ without actually being able to play them.
First impressions are 1) The user interface is no friendlier than the PS3, seems like Sony are just plain bad at this stuff nowadays. 2) Uncharted is pretty stunning, really does feel odd and great (much more than I thought it would) to be playing what feels like a current gen proper console game on a handheld, but 3) Uncharted games are so strange, I like platformers, I like 3rd person shooters, I like puzzle-based adventures, I even like hidden object games and cute touch screen minigames. I just don't want to play all those things at the same time. 4) I still love lumines but it hasn't changed at all. 5) Wipeout is great on this but why did they switch to that dumbed-down default control system without the airbrakes?
Haven't yet tried Pinball Arcade (I expect I'll love it), Gravity Rush, MGS Collection, Jet Set Radio, Big Sky Infinity. Battery held out surprisingly well though, I got almost 5 and a half hours solid play out of it, a lot more than I expected.
― JimD, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 10:59 (eleven years ago) link
anyone interested in playing some peace walker online co-op?
― auscozeichnet (cozen), Monday, 22 July 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
the store is a mess; they need to get someone in charge of that ish and get if fixed
― auscozeichnet (cozen), Monday, 22 July 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
gotWIFI VITA, 4GB card, everybody's golf, persona 3 portable, valkyria chronicles 2, MGS3 HD, MGS5: peace walker, velocity, motorstorm: RC, the 3rd birthday, patapon 2, half minute hero, super stardust delta, Ys: the oath in felghana
want3DS XL (preferably not red) w/fire emblem & animal crossingor money (what's a good price?)
― pr0n tsar (cozen), Monday, 29 July 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
For instance, Earth Defense Force 2 and the new Corpse Party are both currently on sale and neither is listed as such.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Monday, 28 March 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
I inherited one of these; is there anything I need to be playing?
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Thursday, 4 August 2016 04:34 (seven years ago) link
EDF 2 and Persona 4 Golden
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 4 August 2016 10:58 (seven years ago) link
There are two Zero Escape games available... Virtue's Last Reward and and Zero Time Dilemma. The first one, 999, may also be, I can't remember. Tbh I've only played ZE2, but it is surprisingly fantastic.
Big, big, big second on Persona 4 Golden. Pretty much one of the only JRPGs I've had the patience to complete in the past ~5 years (this, and Tactics Ogre PSP, and Persona 3 Portable, pretty much).
Danganronpa 1 and 2 are fantastic as well.
A bunch of stuff you may have played on other consoles, are very good on the Vita... Spelunky, Everyday Shooter, Telltale stuff (Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us), Fez, Hotline Miami, Dragon's Crown... if I think of any more I'll post but that's almost 20 games, should keep you busy (esp. with the length of Persona 4).
And then there's the PSP library you can play too...
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 4 August 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
I honestly don't think I've played all that many Vita exclusives, tbh. I have a bunch but I still haven't upgraded past the 8 GB memory card so that limits my options. I use it mainly for PS1 classics/old stuff in general and anything cross-platform. It's a pretty great portable RPG machine, if that's your bag. I've been playing a lot of XCOM and Dragon's Crown lately.
― I'm a werewolf is anybody else one?? (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
I can imagine that people might pooh-pooh the Vita out of hand for its dearth of impressive exclusives, but it's pretty cool to be able to play a lot of those non-exclusive games on a handheld platform, imo. RPGs, f'rinstance, that I'd likely never get through at home but that I can easily chip away at an hour at a time on the train.
― I'm a werewolf is anybody else one?? (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 August 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
i have been playing the first persona game. it is not a very good game. it's interesting the ways it seems to have been retrofit in light of the success of the latter iterations tho
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 6 August 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link