It's more about the notoriety your game gets being on PS+, than the actual money. Take Resogun, for example. I'd never heard of Housemarque before their game came out on Plus, now when their next game comes out, I'll remember what I played before and be interested in it. Same for Don't Starve and the incoming sequel.
PlayStation Blog Hands-on with Borderlands 2 PS Vita
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It's more about the notoriety your game gets being on PS+, than the actual money. Take Resogun, for example. I'd never heard of Housemarque before their game came out on Plus, now when their next game comes out, I'll remember what I played before and be interested in it. Same for Don't Starve and the incoming sequel.
AdmiralMikey
Member
I love Borderlands 2 (I think the 200+ hours I put into it on Xbox 360 proves that), and I really hope this version performs and controls well. Borderlands has the magical ability to turn hours into minutes for me, and I can't think of any other way I'd prefer to kill time on a long car/plane ride.
SwiftDeath
Member
The digital foundry article for this port should be intriguing assuming they remember it exists
O ye, of little faith...It will do decent... 300k prediction
Game looks fine, will look better on my Vita screen too.
outunderthestars
Banned
Something about the game just looks really, really bad to me. I can't put my finger on it, but it just looks awful.
That is probably because the vita is less powerful than just about any PC.
entremet
Member
i tend to play my Vita at work in my breaks. something i can't really do with a home console. good games on a good handheld are a good match by default imo.
CaptainTiptop
Member
I wish this was actually a port of The Pre-Sequel coming day one with the other versions, but I'll still get it.
vagabondarts
Member
Same for me. Looking forward to it
I liked it. It was annoying at first but it became second nature after a couple matches.
IdreamofHIME
Member
Back touchpad sprinting?
I'm out.
Game can look glorious, not using that system again. It fucking sucked in Killzone.
I'm out.
Game can look glorious, not using that system again. It fucking sucked in Killzone.
Stratostar
Member
Unless you've got some statistics or some shit confirming that, speak for yourself.
LithiumSpade
Member
All the controls are fully re-mappable, it says in the article. I actually don't mind it, got used to it in Killzone, but if it bugs you just change it!
Screens look really bad. Everything seems really low res. The vending machines look all blurry and detail-less from. I played the PS3 version in splitscreen from start to finish and while it wasn't exactly a looker, it looked much better than this. Ouch!
It's now only 2 player online coop and only between Vita players too?
It's now only 2 player online coop and only between Vita players too?
Kazuma Kiryu
Member
I soloed BL 1 and 2... 2-player co-op is enough.
PS Vita less powerful than PS3 confirmed.
HassanJamal
Member
Going Commando on PS3, Axton is the best for soloing, with his turrets and all. Looking forward to trying Krieger and Gaige though and finally finishing all the side quests in the game.
That doesn't mean it has to look like that. They probably didn't have a huge budget to do a late port for a system with a low userbase . We saw many vita games looking much better than this.
The PS3 version already had slowdowns. Can't imagine how this version is going to perform in the long run.
poopninjamvc3mk
I sucked six dicks to get this tag.
Download the pics to your vita and view it there. It doesn't even look all that bad tbh.
I think I liked Roland a bit better, but then again, I did play BL1 with other people so maybe that's why I feel like I'm beasting my way through the game. Wilhelm was a piece of cake compared to solo Maya run in the 360. :S
OverBlood 3
Banned
The last thing I want to do is play a game "on the go" unless it's a shitty phone game, my Vita is my lights off in bed system.
I may, maayyy pick this up though thanks to it's cheap price.
I suspect it does need to look like that. Don't forget, we're talking about a two year old handheld here.
Personally, I think it looks pretty damned good.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Sounds good and the screens looks great, but I really need to see some footage from a later build.
The last released footage wasn't exactly great. Also hoping they've managed to reduce the load times from the near 30 seconds it took in earlier footage.
The last released footage wasn't exactly great. Also hoping they've managed to reduce the load times from the near 30 seconds it took in earlier footage.
ChronotriggerJM
Member
I will buy and play the hell out of this 
I love me some borderlands, probably one of my favorite IP's of last generation.
I love me some borderlands, probably one of my favorite IP's of last generation.Missing the Tina expansion (and Hammerlock) and level is capped at 61. Not sure how the cross-save is even going to work. You'll be too high level on PS3 to transfer over to Vita if you own all the PS3 DLC because the level cap is higher than 61. And you'll be too high of a level on Vita to transfer over to PS3 if you don't own any PS3 DLC because then your level is capped at 50.
Really bizarre omissions of content on the Vita version that don't even make it possible to match your save files up unless you made very specific selections of purchased DLC on PS3. Seems like too many compromises all around to be worthwhile.
In other words, the cross-save is a useless feature because of the specific, cherry-picked DLC that the Vita version comes with that makes it unlikely to be able to successfully sync your characters properly.
Really bizarre omissions of content on the Vita version that don't even make it possible to match your save files up unless you made very specific selections of purchased DLC on PS3. Seems like too many compromises all around to be worthwhile.
In other words, the cross-save is a useless feature because of the specific, cherry-picked DLC that the Vita version comes with that makes it unlikely to be able to successfully sync your characters properly.
its common for Vita games, feel like they wanna hide shit till the last minute.
TheCowboyPoet
Member
Woot! Sign me up. I couldn't care less about the co-op, and remap controls sound perfect. I never got to far into Borderlands 1 on PS3 but Borderlands 2 sounded like a big improvement, by the time I was ready to play it the Vita version was announced so I've been holding out for that.
That's what I plan on doing. I am just going to remap controls that I don't use as much to the back touch screen. I don't tend to rely on throwing grenades and such in games so that will probably be one.
Eh... at least the controls for FF14 made sense on controllers for what they were doing.
I will NEVER get why they put sprint/melee/etc. on backtouch for shooters for the PSP2. It's horrible. WHY THE FUCK would anyone want a too-large back-touch control for something like movement or melee? Maybe if the backtouch didn't get in the way it wouldn't be as bad.
Didnt colin moriarty say that the game sucked?
Weren't they playing a demo build that was still running at like 15fps? That's what their video seemed to show. If they got it up to 30, I'm sure that will change the experience.
7DollarHagane
Banned
If the framerate holds steady this could be fun
That might be true, but I recall them having a conversation about how BL2 was Vita's last chance or something. That's just eye roll worthy.
AgentOtaku
Member
once again, view these natively on your Vita screen for best results 
game looks great quite honestly
game looks great quite honestly
family_guy
Member
Most people can create a wireless hotspot with their cell phones/tablets on LTE but yes if you don't have unlimited data then that can cost you a lot.
He did in his first review (badly enough that I think even I would notice the issues). He reviewed it again I believe after they had refined it. He still didn't like the controls (But honestly, some of that cannot be helped as Vita has less buttons than a console's controller and he admitted as such) but he said they did get it to run a lot better than the first iteration. His second review seemed to paint it as pretty decent (or at least enough that I know I probably won't notice too many issues but I do think I'm less picky than many people here) but with control issues.
LithiumSpade
Member
once again, view these natively on your Vita screen for best results
game looks great quite honestly
I second (third?) this. The distant stuff doesn't look so good but to be fair the draw distance in BL2 is huge, so that's no surprise. The close up stuff, like the screenshot with the pirates, looks great on the Vita.
For some reason it's impossible to see a bigger version of what seems to be the best looking screenshot without a Yahoo account
EDIT:
same for the others lol
Well doesn't the Vita 2000 have a 1" by 1.5" screen? Makes sense