VITA

A lot of Sony's practices which seem like unfair cash grabs are ultimately and counterintuitively geared towards disincentivizing the consumer from giving Sony even more of their money. Like, for instance, if the PS3 could support more than a 1TB drive or if I could save all of my downloaded PSN games to an external hard drive for later retrieval and installation, I would buy literal shitloads of games. But I'm pretty much limited to buying a more sensible amount of whatever will actually fit on my console. If 64GB Vita cards weren't so expensive, I'd buy several of them and happily fill them up. So because Sony wants to charge $100+ for their proprietary nonsense, they've potentially lost out on hundreds of dollars more in game sales. And I'm just one Vita owner.

I really need to upgrade my memory card. So many games to try but I can only park a handful on my system at a time.

Zero search results for Orgarhythm! Haven't played too much yet but it's kinda great. A real-time strategy/rhythm game with a dancing god and his dancing troops taking down enemies on the beat.

if I could save all of my downloaded PSN games to an external hard drive for later retrieval and installation

pretty sure that the online content is redownloadable forever, including the PS+ content

which is odd and irritating because, even if not gaming, it's worth going in and clicking on each game to add it to your library... even if you don't own that platform, because if you later own it, all those clicks become useful

holy shit - 2k apparently released a port of Enemy Unknown a few days ago! apparently it's pretty buggy but this + Earthbound showing up just in time for my trip to Knoxville for Big Ears is delightful news

and now it looks like the GOTY edition of Civ Rev 2 is coming out on Tuesday, lord have mercy

FYI, y'all, I've taken to combing through the Vita listings in the PSN store every week because I always seem to find sale items that aren't listed on, y'know, the weekly sale page. That seriously has to be the most inept corporate website I've ever encountered.

Seconded, only i now have too much back inventory to even check anymore

For instance, Earth Defense Force 2 and the new Corpse Party are both currently on sale and neither is listed as such.

I inherited one of these; is there anything I need to be playing?

EDF 2 and Persona 4 Golden

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...

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 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 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