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

CaptainTiptop said:
Killzone Mercenary PS Blog post.

New release date. September 4th EU, 6th UK. Smart decision, and glad I can play it sooner.

Not a fan of those pre-order bonuses, though...
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Yeah it really is smart, the game needs more time to sell and get exposure. Once GTA V hits, that's ALL lots of people are going to be talking about.

Also I'm going to get Jacob Jones and a bunch of minis today. I have $20. What minis should I buy? I already own Aqua Kitty, but I've seen some names flying around here and I want to get a good idea of what minis are doing well.
 
VanWinkle said:
He's right, though. I don't think there's going to be a lot of people who will buy both GTA and a portable FPS on Vita, and for the few that are, I don't think it would have mattered if it released a month before or on the same day. Completely different games. Completely different platforms.
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Agreed. Reminds me of the guys that were saying "lol rayman legends at the same time as GTA V they're doomed".
 
Schobeleth said:
Yeah it really is smart, the game needs more time to sell and get exposure. Once GTA V hits, that's ALL lots of people are going to be talking about.

Also I'm going to get Jacob Jones and a bunch of minis today. I have $20. What minis should I buy? I already own Aqua Kitty, but I've seen some names flying around here and I want to get a good idea of what minis are doing well.
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Where is my heart? for sure. Wouldn't know about the others.
 
bobbytkc said:
It got bad reviews partly because it was compared to its bigger cousin, and partly because of its 50 dollar price tag.
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I LOVED Resistance and hated CoD: Declassified. Even though I got CoD for 20 bucks it's not worth it. Resistance is worth fullprice.

The controls in CoD are terrible :(
 
Schobeleth said:
Yeah it really is smart, the game needs more time to sell and get exposure. Once GTA V hits, that's ALL lots of people are going to be talking about.

Also I'm going to get Jacob Jones and a bunch of minis today. I have $20. What minis should I buy? I already own Aqua Kitty, but I've seen some names flying around here and I want to get a good idea of what minis are doing well.
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Where Is My Heart
Flying Hamster
Wizorb
Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims
The 2D adventures of Rotating Octopus Character
Aero Racer
Age of Zombies
Hysteria Project
Kahoots (made by HoneySlug - guys who did Frobisher and are doing Hohokum)
Monsters (Probably) stole my princess
Nom Nation
OMG-Z
Pix'n' Love Rush


Also: Velocity and Coconut Dodge (but both are coming out natively for Vita so i'd wait if i were you!)
 
Schobeleth said:
Yeah it really is smart, the game needs more time to sell and get exposure. Once GTA V hits, that's ALL lots of people are going to be talking about.

Also I'm going to get Jacob Jones and a bunch of minis today. I have $20. What minis should I buy? I already own Aqua Kitty, but I've seen some names flying around here and I want to get a good idea of what minis are doing well.
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Minis:
Where is my Heart?

Playstation Mobile:
Rymdkapsel
Surge
Super Crate Box
Lemmings
 
corrosivefrost said:
Exactly. I've posted this argument before with a better explanation and bullet points even. ;)

The only way it's actually valid, as far as I'm concerned, is if someone says "I'm buying GTAV, I'm ordering all my food delivered and I'm taking 6 weeks off work to play it and only it and there's not way I'll ever want to play anything else until I'm 100% done and maxed out my multiplayer level."

If that happens, yeah, you might say "I don't need to spend $40 on Killzone for my Vita." If you even own a Vita.

Now people with a Vita? That's another story. How long have we been waiting for a well done FPS that truly makes use of everything our favorite handheld offers? By all accounts, this game looks to be one of those "console experiences on the go". By all reasoning, it should blow the FPS starved Vita market wide open... Resistance: Burning Skies and CoD:Declassified will be distant memories.

Me? I like taking my Vita into the office with me and playing it on lunch break or during downtime. You're going to put a competent score-attack based Killzone on that? What do I care if I play GTAV when I get home. There's no "one or the other" ultimatum in effect. It's not like they're both in the same gameplay genre and competing for anything other than playtime. I own like 15 fighters and THOSE compete with each other for playtime.
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LorDjidane said:
Agreed. Reminds me of the guys that were saying "lol rayman legends at the same time as GTA V they're doomed".
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Well, to the last point made, Rayman Origins was slaughtered by the competition. Arguably the best platformer to come out this gen, but grossly overlooked. If I recall correctly, it came out right around the same time as COD.

We can be myopic about this all we'd like, but I think a far larger number of people have a limited amount of money they're willing to throw at video games. Perhaps this isn't an issue for the people who frequent GAF and even less of one for those who own a vita (a niche device). I just think that given the importance this title holds for vita, it's a bit worrying that it's coming out around the same time as one of the biggest entertainment monoliths in existence. Apparently Sony feels the same, or they wouldn't have moved it up a week, no? I only contend that it would probably benefit even more if they moved it up some more.
 
Canada GAF ebgames has vita wifi models on sale for 199.99 for their game days promo. Looks like all wifi model bundles are on. Online coupon code is PSVSAVE50.
 
Tomodachi said:
Where is my heart? for sure. Wouldn't know about the others.
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Carl said:
Where Is My Heart

Also: Velocity and Coconut Dodge (but both are coming out natively for Vita so i'd wait if i were you!)
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nampad said:
Minis:
Where is my Heart?

Playstation Mobile:
Rymdkapsel
Surge
Super Crate Box
Lemmings
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Oh derr, I keep getting PSM and Minis confused :\ I actually have a bunch of minis but I always meant to get Where is my Heart?, so I'm definitely gonna get that now. I don't have any PSM games tho, so I'm gonna check these out. Thanks guy :)
 
Schobeleth said:
Oh derr, I keep getting PSM and Minis confused :\ I actually have a bunch of minis but I always meant to get Where is my Heart?, so I'm definitely gonna get that now. I don't have any PSM games tho, so I'm gonna check these out. Thanks guy :)
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Haha so you wanted PSM recommendations? xD

Nunnageddon
Snake
Penguin Party (free)
Switch Galaxy
Gun Commando
Life of Pixel
Surge
Lemmings (free)
Sixty Second Shooter Deluxe
Super Crate Box
Fuel Tiracas
 
Carl said:
Haha so you wanted PSM recommendations? xD

Nunnageddon
Snake
Penguin Party (free)
Switch Galaxy
Gun Commando
Life of Pixel
Surge
Lemmings (free)
Sixty Second Shooter Deluxe
Super Crate Box
Fuel Tiracas
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Yeah I got a bunch of minis before and I got kind of bored with them. For some reason I have such a boner for PSM games now.

I'm especially looking forward to that crazy swedish space RTS game, I'm trying to get it now but I kept forgetting to update my firmware so now I'm doing that because it kept locking up on the PSN store :\ THEN I SHALL DEVOUR RIDAPSELNEFARWARTOR or whatever it's called.
 
Schobeleth said:
Yeah it really is smart, the game needs more time to sell and get exposure. Once GTA V hits, that's ALL lots of people are going to be talking about.

Also I'm going to get Jacob Jones and a bunch of minis today. I have $20. What minis should I buy? I already own Aqua Kitty, but I've seen some names flying around here and I want to get a good idea of what minis are doing well.
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Archibald adventure is one of the best minis ever, but since it's one of the oldest not many people knows it, but it's awesome
 
People saying buy Surge... I would pass. Atleast until they patch the game.

It currently takes like 2 min for the game to load. No thanks.
 
I want to buy more games but I'm going mostly digital and I dun have enough space left on my card. :( God damnit Sony I would happily give you more money if you would let me store all my games on a reasonably priced and sized card.
 
kassatsu said:
People saying buy Surge... I would pass. Atleast until they patch the game.

It currently takes like 2 min for the game to load. No thanks.
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Wow, haven't played it in a while. What happened?

Also while playing Rymdkapsel I saw that my status in the friends app was just "PSM Runtime 1.11" and not the name of the game, which is stupid in my opinion. When I see friends playing stuff I don't know I get interested and look it up. It's nice word of mouth for games. PSM is already lacking in the marketing department.
 
nampad said:
Wow, haven't played it in a while. What happened?

Also while playing Rymdkapsel I saw that my status in the friends app was just "PSM Runtime 1.11" and not the name of the game, which is stupid in my opinion. When I see friends playing stuff I don't know I get interested and look it up. It's nice word of mouth for games. PSM is already lacking in the marketing department.
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When they update the PSM Runtime thing, it sometimes breaks games that use earlier versions of it.
 
2+2=5 said:
Archibald adventure is one of the best minis ever, but since it's one of the oldest not many people knows it, but it's awesome
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This sounds awesome too thank you! I got:

rymdkapsel
switch galaxy
life of pixel
60second shooter
nunnageddon
gun commando

I also got Tablet Mini Golf, I toyed around with it at work and I really like it. Some of the other AR things were kind of meh but I'm really enjoying the scenery in this one. I really need to start playing through the games I have though :\
 
LuchaShaq said:
I disagree 100% tried nun attack and deleted after less than an hour controls poorly.
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It controls fine. Otherwise I wouldn't have put in enough time to complete the game 100%.

kassatsu said:
People saying buy Surge... I would pass. Atleast until they patch the game.

It currently takes like 2 min for the game to load. No thanks.
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nampad said:
Wow, haven't played it in a while. What happened?

Also while playing Rymdkapsel I saw that my status in the friends app was just "PSM Runtime 1.11" and not the name of the game, which is stupid in my opinion. When I see friends playing stuff I don't know I get interested and look it up. It's nice word of mouth for games. PSM is already lacking in the marketing department.
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Huh. I don't remember it taking a long time to load at all. Like nampad, I'm wondering what the hell happened.
 
Shinypogs said:
I want to buy more games but I'm going mostly digital and I dun have enough space left on my card. :( God damnit Sony I would happily give you more money if you would let me store all my games on a reasonably priced and sized card.
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Hope we get news of bigger cards at E3. Completely addicted to digital.
 
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I'd love for XCOM to come to the system, but it really isn't going to. :(
 
To be honest, I'm surprised Rockstar hasn't touched Vita at all so far. Vita and iOS share so much of the same hardware that porting between them should be a piece of cake, so why haven't we gotten GTA3 Anniversary Edition, GTA:VC, and Max Payne on PSN?

Not to mention all those iOS games that are utterly useless without buttons like Soul Calibur (it's a dream to look at on iPhone with its high-res graphics and 60fps, but impossible to enjoy with virtual buttons), MvC2, Sonic 4, Dead Space, Rayman 2, etc.

Games like these would be perfect for the types of new release lulls Vita seems to experience every other month, and would require minimal investment other than testing and programming in button support. Easy money for zero effort.
 
kassatsu said:
People saying buy Surge... I would pass. Atleast until they patch the game.

It currently takes like 2 min for the game to load. No thanks.
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Infernal Monkey said:
Yeah, avoid Surge. Futurlab's other PSM game Fuel Tiracas, too. Has the same massive loading issues that weren't there before.
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huh, people finally agreeing with me over that horrible 2 mins and never touch again "game"

Better late than never I guess.
 
TheSeks said:
I'd love for XCOM to come to the system, but it really isn't going to. :(
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It might get the iOS version, I think.

Leona Lewis said:
To be honest, I'm surprised Rockstar hasn't touched Vita at all so far. Vita and iOS share so much of the same hardware that porting between them should be a piece of cake, so why haven't we gotten GTA3 Anniversary Edition, GTA:VC, and Max Payne on PSN?
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Yeah, that's been puzzling me too. the general lack of mobile ports. We haven't even gotten any Gameloft support beyond those two games Ubisoft published. They're up to like 4 Dungeon Hunters now on iOS, not to mention that Modern Combat game. All of these would likely sell well on the Vita.
 
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