Leona Lewis
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We know it's coming. We don't know when.
Vita PSN Game & Service Thread | March 2013 | Carving an Independent niche
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breakfuss
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I'm the same, despite all the rave reviews. I just can't seem to stick with it for more than 5 minutes. Not seeing how a mix between a rubik's cube and tetris is fun...
If you are in one of the 7 countries it is available forThere's a Playstation Mobile section on the PS Store.
Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims HD and The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character HD coming to Vita? Woo 
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Fl...ctopus-Character-Vita-bound-Summer-53591.html
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Fl...ctopus-Character-Vita-bound-Summer-53591.html
It will automatically save the updated settings when it saves your game. The first time the option popped up, i discarded the changes. My second game started out at the 1/6 beginner level, I then saved it after the second game. Since then it saved the changes on the settings automatically.
Wonko_C
Member
The original games ran at 60fps, Vita version runs at 30 so the controls do indeed feel a bit worse than the console versions.
My name is Fizipop, I am D+... but enthusiastic, lol!
Few pages backFloating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims HD and The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character HD coming to Vita? Woo
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Fl...ctopus-Character-Vita-bound-Summer-53591.html
Few pages back
Never hurts to post it again ;D
Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims HD and The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character HD coming to Vita? Woo
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Fl...ctopus-Character-Vita-bound-Summer-53591.html
Nice, hope they come to NA in a reasonable time. Flying Hamster HD STILL hasn't come out here.
ThatStupidLion
Member
noice - didnt see this.
honestly though with so many games getting re-released on vita... i'd like some extra stuff. not just HDized.. leaderboards, trophies, touch.... make a new mode or bonus levels..
atleast muramasa is doing something along those lines.
That's a shame. I wonder how much is down to the platform, and how much is down to the fact that initially the word of mouth didn't seem that great (pre-patch).
That stinks
ThatStupidLion
Member
That stinks
needs PR. cant just release and hope. even if a few gaming journalists/blogs cover it.
needs pimping, something not many indie studios are good at.
i feel bad for them though
sechsterangriff
Member
PS Mobile is not even available in many countries. They would be better with a dedicated release.
That stinks
breakfuss
Member
That stinks
I didn't even bother with many of the free offerings, let alone something that costs.
needs PR. cant just release and hope. even if a few gaming journalists/blogs cover it.
needs pimping, something not many indie studios are good at.
i feel bad for them though
Yeah. The were (are?) working on two native Vita titles but ran out of money, so they released this on PSM to try and get some additional funding.
Blog post from January about it.
Full stop - PSM shouldn't exist. I appreciate what they're doing but Sony and HTC don't have enough market share to warrant a separate app store. Their phones don't even have a foothold in North America right now, which is probably PSM's 'biggest' market (and one of the few available).
I feel like it's being kept alive by a few engineers and an indie developer relations (re: snake oil salesman) guy at Sony, and nobody else is even giving it enough thought to cut it.
I feel like it's being kept alive by a few engineers and an indie developer relations (re: snake oil salesman) guy at Sony, and nobody else is even giving it enough thought to cut it.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Yep its absolutely disgusting they don't even get that kind of space on the PS Blog.
If Sony doesn't care why the hell would the average consumer?
Yup, and have PSN integration and support for more intensive 3D graphics. Would have been MUCH better had it started it like that.
I disagree with Lyphen, though. I don't feel that PSM shouldn't exist. What I DO feel is that it shouldn't exist in it's current form. If what dsigns1 and I had mentioned were to come into fruition, I think we would be in a better situation. It's it's not as though that it can't be turned around. We will just have to see if it ever does.
Sony just needs to clean itself up. It spreads itself too thin and everything is always jank as fudge. Forget about getting your games on cellphones right now. They released Xperia and that only got like 3 PSone classics even though it was an advertised feature. Push support for the Vita, help games that were originally for PSM just come out as cheap Vita mini-esque titles and put them in the front of the store. Its not that hard. At least I don't think so.
That stinks
To be fair, the initial release of the game was SUPER underwhelming and only the release of the last patch actually made it enjoyable.
Oh and Surge is the best PSM game
But yeah, PSM is... redundant. They should just integrate these games into the normal store front.
You make a good point. It should have been for Vita only. It's version of minis, except even easier for indie devs to get their games up. There's also other problems that I forgot to mention above, like it's horrible update system for games. Nobody cares about this on smartphones, and I wouldn't expect them to. If it was Vita only, they could have more easily integrated PSM into it and into the PS Store.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
I was sort in that same boat. Downloaded and played the demo 3 times different times since I got my vita (and I played the demos of the other versions on PSN and XBL before this). The gameplay never really left a lasting impression on me. I kept coming back because the soundtrack had so much appeal to me, and tracklist+price are what finally pushed me over.
Strangely, after time with the full game, its the gameplay thats now 'catchy' and leaving an impression on me over the soundtrack. I guess the Tetris comparisons are on point, in that it reminded me of the logical/strategic progression of the first time I played Tetris...I had no idea what I was doing, but kind of have a grasp on how to make a Line clear. Then I would see the 2x2 offset block and panic (Damn checkered blocks in Lumines). After so much forced-twitch trial and error, I started to pick up on what to do with it those blocks and how it can be used in relation to the other blocks. Then I would be setting myself up to easily make a Tetris. Finally i'd be setting myself up for multiple Tetris. The fast paced strategy and thought just keep building.
Then you realize you have played so much that you suddenly have a Tetris Effect w/ Lumines going on in your mind. lol
Shai-Tan
Banned
To be fair, the initial release of the game was SUPER underwhelming and only the release of the last patch actually made it enjoyable.
Oh and Surge is the best PSM game
But yeah, PSM is... redundant. They should just integrate these games into the normal store front.
I wonder if there are any PSM games that sold decently
That stinks
I've been all around the PS store on my Vita and I've never seen Life of Pixel. It must be buried deep.
That stinks
I just bought it now
Its a PS Mobile game its not on the psn store exactly
The Lumines developers thought that platinum trophies unlocked automatically for getting the rest of the trophies in a game. They didn't realize they had to add one to unlock.
Probably not. Just a couple weeks ago we were hearing about the guys behind Haunt the House making a whopping 3000$. And apparently that's great for a PSM title.
Despite all devs saying their relationship with the Sony Mobile team was friendly and supportive, I think Sony is tempting/courting these guys with the wrong platform. I can't imagine why any of these developers would want to get bit by another financial failure through PSM. No amount of flowers and smiles will bring them back on board.
So again - cut it. Focus on piercing the market with good phones (Xperia can and should be kicking the shit out of the Galaxy) and getting games on the Vita instead. PSM provides nothing interesting to any of the platforms it's present on.
Get your priorities straight. Just let someone else review the other games.
Congrats on the pick-up!
famousmortimer
Banned
They need to update the SDK of PSM to include trophies and PSN leaderboards with friends list support (ie sorting).
They also need to move where the games are in the store.
Until then PSM is irrelevant. Which is a shame because there are quite a few good games on the platform.
They also need to move where the games are in the store.
Until then PSM is irrelevant. Which is a shame because there are quite a few good games on the platform.
ThatStupidLion
Member
i went there last night.... couldn't locate that free game zoozoogo or whatever... don't know what kind of a game it is so i didnt dig any deeper... but the fact that it went free and wasnt in featured or an instant list is terrible marketing. seriously how am i supposed to find these games on mobile... aside from just hunting in every category
true, I hate to say it but with trophies, they will sell a lot more
Well no, I love my review copies. I have way more games for review now but it's my job so of course it have higher priority than Persona 4 but it'll be my guilty pleasure in my free-time.Get your priorities straight. Just let someone else review the other games.
Congrats on the pick-up!
Oh it's VERY terrible. Nobody even knows it exists.
Should have been a Vita only thing and it should have been integrated with the main store and with PSN as a whole. Live Areas, coding specifically for Vita meaning much better graphical capabilities, Vita game update system, and incredibly easy for indies to develop for. Just thinking now about what it could be makes me sad because of what it actually is.
It's not there. Who knows why.
Marketing isn't even the biggest problem with PSM. The whole layout of the PSM Store is awful. Everything is inadequately organized into a single category, and there is no way to search for the specific app you want. Baffling.