Vita PSN Game & Service Thread | August 2013 | Divekicks & Dragons

i've died 287 times and still haven't completed Spelunky, yet more resolved than ever. i was kind of hoping to beat it before the Vita release, but no i'm not bothered either way


Don't believe in indy games? Buy Spelunky

Die 300 times

then tell me you still think so
 
ricen-beans said:
So does anyone think we'll be getting a redesigned Vita sometime sooner rather than later??

The Vita that was shown at the gamescom conference showed concave sticks instead of convex!! That's one of the biggest problems i have with my current vita, is that my thumbs will sometimes slip off in a frantic game.

pic shown here: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/20/...utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget
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You know what.... I caught that shit too and I forgot to say something...

Those concave sticks looked so comfortable!!


Does anybody know which version Minecraft is on XBLA? Is it as full featured as the full PC release? (Survival Adventure?, Classic, Hellworld?)

Im trying to figure out which version we might get for Vita... because if its the shitty ass mobile version, they can keep it
 
That concave stick is almost thread worthy to be honest. Since it could indeed be a redesign at least with sticks and little things here and there.
 
Just picked up a used 32 gig card online via gamestop for $50 thanks to being a powered up member and a $15 code I got from CAG. $50 was my sweet-spot price for the 32 gig card and im glad to have it. This poor 8 gig card has suffered enough.
 
So... I finally got validated. About two weeks ago... XD
Yay, first post? Been a lurker here a while.

Yeah, I bought The Walking Dead yesterday, and played through the first two episodes. It's actually a pretty good port. Graphically, it looks to be in between the iOS and PS3 versions- a little closer to PS3 than iOS. It runs at native resolution, and the frame rate is very smooth- much smoother than the iOS and PS3 versions so far. There are no character shadows though- which I didn't notice until it was pointed out, but surprised me because it runs so well. It looks rough in a few places (it always seems to be car interiors). It still hangs when making transitions, just like the game does on every other platform. For controls, you can choose between the physical buttons (same as on consoles) or touch (same as on mobile). There unfortunately is not a hybrid of the two control methods, which I would have appreciated, as controlling movement with the analogs, and making selections with the touchscreen seems like it would work well. I prefer the physical controls, because the touch controls make a janky looking frame appear around the screen whenever a cutscene/story event occurs, making it less 'cinematic'. Overall, a pretty solid port.

A few screens:
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Edit: okay, I get it now. The URLs Imgur spit out didn't include the .jpg
 
Moobabe said:
I'm worried if I picked up Divekick that I wouldn't be able to play online - I can't on Killzone.
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I haven't played KZ since the closed beta, but I know my Vita lately has had a heck of a time staying connected to my wifi. It downloads for a minute, then I get error NW-9735-4, which I know is the network connection error. Buuut...I'm like 10 feet from my router. And it's annoying. I haven't played anything online since Monday, and this was happening to me on Tuesday when I was downlaoding my recent purchases.

Please refresh my memory Vitabros. THe KZ beta. I see it on the PSN store. Free. Is this is exact same as the code I got from home? And the "exclusive" code I got in my email? If so, I have teh codez (USA) to giveaway. Not that it matters with it being on the store..
 
Baron Von Beans said:
I haven't played KZ since the closed beta, but I know my Vita lately has had a heck of a time staying connected to my wifi. It downloads for a minute, then I get error NW-9735-4, which I know is the network connection error. Buuut...I'm like 10 feet from my router. And it's annoying. I haven't played anything online since Monday, and this was happening to me on Tuesday when I was downlaoding my recent purchases.

Please refresh my memory Vitabros. THe KZ beta. I see it on the PSN store. Free. Is this is exact same as the code I got from home? And the "exclusive" code I got in my email? If so, I have teh codez (USA) to giveaway. Not that it matters with it being on the store..
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Maybe you're right - I am getting high packet loss from time to time in stuff like DOTA 2, and according to my wireless signal it is dropping from time to time.

I might try sitting by my router.
 
Freedom = $1.05 said:
Just picked up a used 32 gig card online via gamestop for $50 thanks to being a powered up member and a $15 code I got from CAG. $50 was my sweet-spot price for the 32 gig card and im glad to have it. This poor 8 gig card has suffered enough.
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welcome! heres your complimentary glass of champagne. enjoy the freedom of having an (pseudo) endless library on your vita!
 
Moobabe said:
Football Manager IS a huge title.
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Well... It's not the kind of title he should call huge. Nobody should fainted because of that game. And would have said the same if the game had ended being a JRPG (and i love them).

Huge and mindblowing is GTA, GT, Battlefield, Final Fantasy (todo some degree)... Football Mánager is cool, but not the kind of "huge" people thought. Well, at least there seem todo be quite a lo of Gaffers buying the Vita right nos.

Edit: Well, Persona 5 Vita exclusive would be huge un GAF meter, bit not in the real world
 
It is not the real football manager though. It's only classic mode which is a cutdown version of the game. That's really disappointing.
 
FDC1 said:
Saw Bit Trip Runner 2 for PS3 on the EU store. It's coming on Vita, right? It's to know if I wait or not to buy it.
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Yeah, it's coming to the Vita as well. No release date announced yet though. They said summer when it was first announced for Vita, but they've only got a month of summer left.
 
The controls in Killzone Mercenary are fucking terrible. The aiming is absolutely awful. I know the Vita sticks aren't as good as ome consoles but jesus christ the aiming is horrible. They make the beta barely playable.

That was my reaction playing on the default settings. After I put the sensitivity up I discovered the aiming is....decent. Good enough for a portable. It's certainly not up there with the FPS aiming we have on PS3, but I'll settle for this. I have no idea why the default settings are the way they are though. Now for my general impressions of the beta. Pretty good. It's definitely fun. I've never played a Killzone game before and I'm quite liking it. I'm not great at it but I wouldn't say I'm awful either. I get more kills than deaths at least. The one map seems pretty good and well suited to 4v4...most of the time. I have to say I've spawned right in front of an enemy more times than I'd have liked. I really like the vanguard system with the capsules that spawn on the map for you to get. Keeps things interesting. It's so satisfying to get kills with that flying spike thing. I also like the whole interrogating people to reveal you opponents positions on the map thing.

I'm not a fan of touch being used for certain things though. Not a game breaker but I wish you didn't have to do that touch qte every time you melee. Also if you attempt to revive another player who was downed but not killed you also have to do a touch qte. This is such a rare thing you'll ever do so when it happens it just throws you off. A button prompt came up for me to revive another player so I pressed triangle but then I just completely wasn't expecting a touch qte and failed it, killing my teammate. It was just stupid. I don't see why a qte was necessary there.

So yeah I quite like the beta and definitely will be getting the full game day 1. It's not perfect but it's certainly the best FPS to ever hit a portable by a mile.
 
RalchAC said:
Well... It's not the kind of title he should call huge. Nobody should fainted because of that game. And would have said the same if the game had ended being a JRPG (and i love them).

Huge and mindblowing is GTA, GT, Battlefield, Final Fantasy (todo some degree)... Football Mánager is cool, but not the kind of "huge" people thought. Well, at least there seem todo be quite a lo of Gaffers buying the Vita right nos.

Edit: Well, Persona 5 Vita exclusive would be huge un GAF meter, bit not in the real world
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Nobody should ever feint because of a game. And there's 'huge and a fanboy fantasy' and 'huge and legit' - Football Manager is a big game, no two ways about it.

But the conference must have been good - people are buying Vitas on GAF!
 
gosh i'm so bad at fps'. mercanary sure looks nice though and i like the revolving objectives.

also at risk of revealing myself as very dense but how do you interrogate people. also how do you do that hacking minigame for the capsules. i always get killed before i work it out.
 
Moobabe said:
Nobody should ever feint because of a game. And there's 'huge and a fanboy fantasy' and 'huge and legit' - Football Manager is a big game, no two ways about it.

But the conference must have been good - people are buying Vitas on GAF!
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it's the price drop + anticipation of ps4

but it was good, yes.
 
RalchAC said:
Well... It's not the kind of title he should call huge. Nobody should fainted because of that game. And would have said the same if the game had ended being a JRPG (and i love them).

Huge and mindblowing is GTA, GT, Battlefield, Final Fantasy (todo some degree)... Football Mánager is cool, but not the kind of "huge" people thought. Well, at least there seem todo be quite a lo of Gaffers buying the Vita right nos.

Edit: Well, Persona 5 Vita exclusive would be huge un GAF meter, bit not in the real world
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Well you see contrary to Persona, FM is huge in Europe, so yeah FM2014 is a huge deal considering the crossplay with the PC version.
 
Moobabe said:
Nobody should ever feint because of a game. And there's 'huge and a fanboy fantasy' and 'huge and legit' - Football Manager is a big game, no two ways about it.

But the conference must have been good - people are buying Vitas on GAF!
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There was a jerk saying he almost fainted after seeing the game. I was talking about that.

But, the Vita conference was cool, so it's okey. Thanks god most people get burned after E3 and have forgotten that "amazing Vita non port, non indie, i've seen it when going to the office and almost fainted title" is Football Manager.

Still, with Arland trilogy in Vita (I have to start them soon, but I think I can stand moe to a certain degree), P4G (will buy it after ending Tales of Xillia, I don't like to play 2 story-driven games at the same time), FFX and Tearaway my bought has been easily justified.
 
i don't know anything about football manager but it's pretty much always in the top 5 games being played on steam, so yeah there's a huge amount of people that play that game.


picked up NLKS. framerate slowdown is annoying as hell but i'm about 2 hours in and i'm enjoying it.


still hoping for FFX HD for this year :3
 
Just played 2 games of killzone and wow.
Amazing graphics
Great gameplay (feels way better than resistance and cod)
Fast connection
Basically no lag
Interesting weapon upgrade choices
Great game mode with warzone
Good paced combat. Feels right for controller.
Gyro aiming Down the sites.

Must buy. Prob won't play any more of the beta. Don't want to ruin the retail experience. Looking at leader boards shows 2 people have played over 20 days worth.....of ONE map. Some people be crazy.
 
Leona Lewis said:
It looks concave if you look at the whole thing like one piece, but the middle part has a different texture, so it only appears concave.

It's the same as normal.
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Damn it... I had to pull out my Vita and inspect it...

Totally stupid how I never noticed it before....


OmegaTreeFish said:
Just played 2 games of killzone and wow.
Amazing graphics
Great gameplay (feels way better than resistance and cod)
Fast connection
Basically no lag
Interesting weapon upgrade choices
Great game mode with warzone
Good paced combat. Feels right for controller.
Gyro aiming Down the sites.

Must buy. Prob won't play any more of the beta. Don't want to ruin the retail experience. Looking at leader boards shows 2 people have played over 20 days worth.....of ONE map. Some people be crazy.
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Sweet. Im gonna try the beta tonight. Doesn't it end on Saturday or something?
 
So, I bought Motorstorm RC complete and now I have a shit ton of extra cars as separate downloads in my d/l list (actually two shit tons as th PS3 cars are separate downloads, fucking great idea there) . Is thre any way to chose and download multiple items on the Vita store?
If not I regret ever buying the damn game as my download list is full of crap I have to scroll through now.
 
So this is my first time having PS+, and I feel really giddy about how many free games there are for me to download right now. It's almost overwhelming! There are a few games on sale (some not) through PS+ that I am mulling over which I want to spend my $20 on like Muramasa or Sound Shapes as well. On top of that, I'm downloading the Killzone Beta and Gravity Rush. The sizeable PSP library is also quite tempting since I skipped out on the majority of that handheld's life cycle.

You can probably tell that I'm feeling really good about buying this Vita bundle right about now!
 
Someone help.

What do I need to be able to fight the hardest boss in p4g? I'm afraid i screwed up...
Margaret

I have:
Gotten the orb of truth.
Maxed Margaret's SLink
But I didn't make a second trip into the velvet room before I talked to the gas station attendant. Did I just screw myself out of whatever is needed?
 
corrosivefrost said:
Someone help.

What do I need to be able to fight the hardest boss in p4g? I'm afraid i screwed up...
Margaret

I have:
Gotten the orb of truth.
Maxed Margaret's SLink
But I didn't make a second trip into the velvet room before I talked to the gas station attendant. Did I just screw myself out of whatever is needed?
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Max Marg SLink before 3/20. Go to Velvet Room, Get Orb. Leave.
Immediatly go back to the Velvet Room. Get Aqua Invitation. Talk to Izanagi
 
Shinriji said:
Max Marg SLink before 3/20. Go to Velvet Room, Get Orb. Leave.
Immediatly go back to the Velvet Room. Get Aqua Invitation. Talk to Izanagi
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Effin balls. I was afraid of this.
I now love and hate PS+.
I was able to recover an old save but it's at 9/11 and I'm at level 63... all the personas I'm now missing, all the slinks I have to remax... dammit!
 
oldmario said:
anyone know if my GT psp save will work on my vita? i remember it kicking up a fuss and not loading the save when i upgraded to a 3000 from 1000 years ago
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if your name on the Vita is the same, there's a chance it'll work. It all has to do with the name of your console or something; I'm not quite sure.


btw, it's "indie", not "indy"
 
corrosivefrost said:
Effin balls. I was afraid of this.
I now love and hate PS+.
I was able to recover an old save but it's at 9/11 and I'm at level 63... all the personas I'm now missing, all the slinks I have to remax... dammit!
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I really wanted to plat this game but its toooo much work! Awesome game though enjoyed my nearly 100 hours with it :)
 
If I've followed some of the recent discussion properly:

1) FM2014 Classic was Shahid's big game
2) Some people are upset with that

Did I miss something official from Shahid that pointed this out? Regardless, FM2014 is a megawin for the Vita; totally unexpected after some of the answers that came when people queried why FMH wasn't coming as a native Vita title. I'm not sure if some of the disappointment is from AmericanGAF but I've never seen my Vita owning friends more excited about a title and my jaw certainly dropped at the news.

I guess its going to be about twenty years before we move the kids out of the house and I get some freetime at home again so I'd given up any hope of properly playing FM forever. Now? Conference to Champions League in ten seasons here I come again!
 
nampad said:
Yes, my pre-order said 12th September for days now. I guess they don't want to put it out on the same day because it is much cheaper and for some people superior to the home console version.
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Delayed in NA too?

Edit: And to add my two cents to Football Manager talk. So if it really is Shahid's big AAA game, i don't mind it. I can really see the appeal of it in Europe and Shahid belongs to SCEE so he was definitely hyped for it. I hope that it makes the VITA relevant in the European market otherwise i think VITA is stable in Japan/Asia but needs killer app in EU/US. EU killer app being FIFA/Football Manager combo and hopefully GT VITA sometimes later.
 
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