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Vita PSN Game & Service Thread | May 2013 | Lovecraftian Wasteland

Wow at FIFA 13 - and not in a good way.

I got it for "free" through Amazon and I still feel insulted that EA considered this worthy of taking up space on people's memory cards.

If it wasn't bad enough that it's exactly the same game as FIFA Football save for a few kit and transfer updates that could have been delivered for free, we then have the fact they're charging the poor sods who actually buy this thing 40 quid for the "privilege" (higher than most Vita games here).

Then you actually play it, and find out it doesn't even work properly. There's a trophy for remaining unbeaten for 5 games in a row online - which I should have unlocked today - my first five results were 3-0, 3-0, 3-0, 6-1 and 6-1 - guess what, no trophy. I've refreshed the trophy list, restarted the game and even tried playing another match (which I inevitably lost) to see if that would trigger it - nothing.

Reading online I see that the "issue" / broken game design is that if you're winning and your opponent quits, then though you may have won the match, it doesn't count towards this trophy. Every one of my five opponents eventually quit, so even before the loss in the sixth match, according to EA I was 0% of the way to this trophy. Fantastic. So not only do you have to not lose 5 games in a row, you have to hope your efforts at not losing don't cause someone to rage quit on you - effectively you're punished for being better at the game. Brilliant.

Not that anyone from EA is reading this (do they read anything? Unlikely) but if you're going to be that lazy and half-arsed about a game that all you do is a few database updates and have your trainee artist slap together a new logo in Photoshop, at least make sure the bloody thing works properly. Charging full price for this shite is ridiculous.
 
With Mutant Blobs Attack done I decided to get another snack for my Vita so I got Nun Attack.

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I'm still new to taking screenshots, so I will get better but it's a cool feature so far.
 
sony will assimilate all of their hd collections under this imagery:

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need both gow collections, team ico, and eventual ape escape/wild arms/dark cloud collections
I honestly think that Sony will port the 2 HD GoW collections to Vita and say 'there, see we got GoW on Vita too, people should start buying it now'.

Not gonna lie, I'd buy them :(
 
Rymdkapsel has been really fun so far, but I can see it's really easy to paint yourself into a corner fast. Once the enemy waves start speeding up, there's pretty much nothing you can do but start over unless you built right.

Playing this on my Nexus 7 tablet is really cool too, it definitely is the finest PSM game I've played so far.
 
remove photo of you and your significant other and I think you're good to go!

but really - get some nice framed gaming artwork up on those walls.

It's a gaming room, so put in a picture of you two in cosplay.

Instead they're putting "import games" onto the Vita PSN which makes EVEN LESS SENSE because they're COMPLETELY IN JAPANESE .... seriously wtf is going on at SCEA?

I feels you. I want to play Sentimental Graffiti, but it makes no sense to play it without reading Japanese. If they want us to learn Japanese, they could help by localizing at least one text-heavy game with a literal translation that displays kanji/hiragana/romaji/english simultaneously. They might even get some MITI/MECSST backing for it.
 
Is it any good?

Well, it's an okay "snack" fellow GAFfer. You get what you paid for (it's 2.49€) and the gameplay it's Touch Screen only, something that I found out I'm not that good at. Good to play in bursts.

- You have 4 Nuns, each with a different ability. At the start you can only have two on screen.

- You level up and unlock new weapons if you catch them (they are in chests) and then you can also level up those weapons so the stats (damage, Critical Hit %, etc) increase.

- You also have Miracles, which assist you in battle by healing, reviving or by slowing/damaging enemies.

- In the end of a World you will have a Boss, in each world there are 10 levels, I believe.

- Each level have one, two or three bullet Ratings. To get the best rating you must destroy everything and every one in it.

Hope it helps!
 

hows it going so far? do you receive a donation per day? or has it slowed down to a flatline?

may i suggest more incentives for the the higher tiers? i know it would kind of negate some of the money you'd be getting in, but if you were to gift some PSN monies to someone who donates 75$ you might be able to bring in more donations in the long run hitting your mark.

just a random idea?? good luck either way!
 
Rymdkapsel has been really fun so far, but I can see it's really easy to paint yourself into a corner fast. Once the enemy waves start speeding up, there's pretty much nothing you can do but start over unless you built right.

Playing this on my Nexus 7 tablet is really cool too, it definitely is the finest PSM game I've played so far.

how are you playing it on the N7? I couldn't find an android version.
 
how are you playing it on the N7? I couldn't find an android version.
You have to load a certain zip file with a rooted N7 to be able to load PSM up, but it's pretty doable. It definitely gives any PSM games I buy a lot of extra value.


Is Life Of Pixel actually a great game or something? Last I read it was supposed to be shallow.
 
Even after the new firmware update, I STILL get the "preparing to download" error from the store. I left it on that screen for a couple minutes before giving up. How is this not fixed yet?

Stability my ass.
 
Almost finished the game so it is "playable"

I finished it on Mentor only to find that Master Ninja run's a bit better in most areas due to tactical ninja being a bigger hit on performance.

It's a rubbish version of a rubbish version of Ninja Gaiden 2.
 
This is what really killed me while playing the game. Nun Attack would of been much better if I could have used the physical controls.

IMO, it would of been better off as a iOS/WP7/Android game.

I've heard the mobile versions have extensive IAPs which aren't in the Vita version.
 
How are they fitting them Jak games on a 4GB game card?

By making it look like the vita version of Sly Cooper: thieves in time.

Another question, where can I find the upcoming ps plus deals for EU?

The gaf ps+ thread is really good at keeping up with it. Someone usually posts updates even before the official PSN blog announces the deals:

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=404938

My go-to source is cheap ass gamer. The thread over there is really on top of it. Though, that's only for the North American side of things:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=340900
 
Even after the new firmware update, I STILL get the "preparing to download" error from the store. I left it on that screen for a couple minutes before giving up. How is this not fixed yet?

Stability my ass.

I could have sworn they fixed it in 2.11. At least I didn't have that problem in 2.11, maybe I was lucky.

But it happened to me last night after updating to 2.12.

I honestly think that no one at Sony ever actually uses the store. At least not anyone in a position of power.
 
Oh I GIVE UP.

I want to download/purchase games from PSN but all I get is CANNOT CONNECT TO NETWORK crap all over the place. It is as if Sony does not want me to give them money.
 
By making it look like the vita version of Sly Cooper: thieves in time.

Ruh?

But that took up a whole card's worth of data on it's own, dog. I'm just curious as to how they're fitting three games that were so big file wise on PS3 onto a single Vita card.
 
Im enjoying Guacamelee! but the dodge button is sometimes weird like my char wont dodge all of a sudden... dunno if its because its in the middle of the attack animation but its a bit annoying.
 
Anyone here can recommend me tables to buy for Zen Pinball 2? Tables that play great.

It depends on what your looking for, I have almost all of tables with the exception of the street fighter, ninja gaiden, and starwars.

My favorites are Epic Quest, Paranormal, Mars, Earth Defence and pretty much all of the Marvel tables especially Infinity Gauntlet, WWHulk, and Ghost Rider.
 
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