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Thinking of picking up a Vita this weekend.

Been tossing and turning over whether to pick up a Vita or re-buy a PS3 for GTA V after mine died over the summer. Think I'm going for the Vita though. As much as I want to play GTA V, I'd be spending £200 or so just for that one game, which I'm not in a rush to do, and would inevitably lose money once I traded it back in towards my PS4 or when I finish with GTA V. The Vita is actually something I've wanted to pick up for a while and will keep in and around my gaming plans for the next few years - especially with the PS4 integration - so seems a better investment for me.

I did own a launch Vita before so I'm fairly familiar with the system itself, but feel like I've missed out on TONS of stuff since then. Any recommendations or tips? Think I'm going for the £169 Vita + Killzone Mercenary + 8GB card bundle. I don't really want to have to make do with 8GB but also don't want to pay £55 for 32GB. Is 16GB an acceptable happy medium if I mostly intend on playing PS1 classics and indie games?

Sounds like a plan. 16GB is fine, especially if you buy physical for retail releases and don't plan on trying to fill it up with Square PSOne games (CG FMV = huge filesizes). Most all the worthwhile digital-only games never break 1000MB, or even get up in that range. Then if you ever wanted to upgrade you could look towards the 64GB when it's available, instead of 32.

Killzone, Dragon's Crown, Rayman Origins & Legends (can make do with just Legends tbh since many Origins levels made it into the game), Lumines, Hot Shots Golf, Little Big Planet, Gravity Rush (still free on PS+), Persona 4, Soul Sacrifice (could wait to see if Delta comes here), Muramasa, Sly Cooper, Disgaea 3, Rocketbirds, Sound Shapes, Guacamelee, Stealth Inc, Hotline Miami, Velocity Ultra, Super Stardust Delta, Motorstorm RC, Spelunky, Retro City Rampage, Plants Vs Zombies etc... you could be straight for a long time with any number of these. There's still a few more I like, but it depends on taste, and that's already enough when not buying stuff over time as it releases.
 
Anyone wants to buy the 32 GB vita card I bought from Amazon UK? It's new still on the amazon package even. Cost was 62 dlls so I will take that plus 3 dlls for the shipping. 65 shipped....
 
PAL too, so add me to your friend list anytime you want (same name as GAF ID). I guess I could try speaking english eventhough i'm not native. Need to practice for first this december xD.

The most painful thing in being a tank in BC was getting the necesary gear to start raids. If I remember well, you actually had to use a caster weapon. So much rages from noobs when i rolled from one of those weapons. The 490 cap was awful at first.

Sent a req.

It's been a while but all I remember is wanting the Hammer of Judgement from Hyjal. I went through WoWhead and I cannot remember what else I would have used, but I remember wanting slow spell power weapons. I think I had a strength weapon also depending on the fight.
 
So, I wanted to love me some Aqua Kitty last night, but right before displaying the loading screen it tried to connect to PSN and complained that I had to update the fw to start it: wtf have PS Mobile games always done a check like this before?!


PS Mobile games have online DRM. They need to check in every other day. I don't know the exact timespan but it is not always online.
 
Thinking of picking up a Vita this weekend.

Been tossing and turning over whether to pick up a Vita or re-buy a PS3 for GTA V after mine died over the summer. Think I'm going for the Vita though. As much as I want to play GTA V, I'd be spending £200 or so just for that one game, which I'm not in a rush to do, and would inevitably lose money once I traded it back in towards my PS4 or when I finish with GTA V. The Vita is actually something I've wanted to pick up for a while and will keep in and around my gaming plans for the next few years - especially with the PS4 integration - so seems a better investment for me.

I did own a launch Vita before so I'm fairly familiar with the system itself, but feel like I've missed out on TONS of stuff since then. Any recommendations or tips? Think I'm going for the £169 Vita + Killzone Mercenary + 8GB card bundle. I don't really want to have to make do with 8GB but also don't want to pay £55 for 32GB. Is 16GB an acceptable happy medium if I mostly intend on playing PS1 classics and indie games?

I would not recommend any card smaller than 16GB. They fill up pretty quickly.
 
Finally got Ridge Racer for $10 new & sealed w/ free shipping. I know it got blasted so hard for being 1/3rd of a game without DLC, but I dig some drifting in RR sometimes, and just never wanted to pay the $20-35 that it's been stuck at for a long time.
 
Thinking of picking up a Vita this weekend.

Been tossing and turning over whether to pick up a Vita or re-buy a PS3 for GTA V after mine died over the summer. Think I'm going for the Vita though. As much as I want to play GTA V, I'd be spending £200 or so just for that one game, which I'm not in a rush to do, and would inevitably lose money once I traded it back in towards my PS4 or when I finish with GTA V. The Vita is actually something I've wanted to pick up for a while and will keep in and around my gaming plans for the next few years - especially with the PS4 integration - so seems a better investment for me.

I did own a launch Vita before so I'm fairly familiar with the system itself, but feel like I've missed out on TONS of stuff since then. Any recommendations or tips? Think I'm going for the £169 Vita + Killzone Mercenary + 8GB card bundle. I don't really want to have to make do with 8GB but also don't want to pay £55 for 32GB. Is 16GB an acceptable happy medium if I mostly intend on playing PS1 classics and indie games?

You played the last of us? If not, amazon have a nice £199 PS3 bundle with both TLoU and GTAV. Would trade in or sell afterwards for a decent amount I think.



Finally got Ridge Racer for $10 new & sealed w/ free shipping. I know it got blasted so hard for being 1/3rd of a game without DLC, but I dig some drifting in RR sometimes, and just never wanted to pay the $20-35 that it's been stuck at for a long time.

Ridge racers PSP is way better than the native vita game IMO
 
TGS news is moving briskly, but can someone give me a rundown on what new games were announced for Vita? I know GR2 was (yay!!), but did we get any new localization announcements? Or release date for FFXHD?
 
I wouldn't mind if analog controls weren't added to the Vita version at all. The touch-swipe controls were much better for me.

It's a tiny control option already added to the PS3 version that would make or break compatibility with the VitaTV. What reason would they have /not/ to add it?
 
TGS news is moving briskly, but can someone give me a rundown on what new games were announced for Vita? I know GR2 was (yay!!), but did we get any new localization announcements? Or release date for FFXHD?

New Game Announcements (Includes PreTGS SCEJA conference):
- Dangan Ronpa: Another Episode
- Samurai Warriors 4
- Shin Gundam Dynasty Warriors
- Deception IV: Blood Ties
- New Gravity Project
- Soul Sacrifice Delta
- Phantasy Star Nova
- Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman / No Heroes Allowed G
- Monster Hunter Frontier G
- Damascus Gear: Tokyo Shinsen
- Fantasy Hero: Unsigned Legacy
- Magical Beat
- Madoka Magica: The Battle Pentagram
- Puyopuyo Tetris
- Natural Doctrine
- Love Live! School Idol Paradise
- Airship Q

Localization Wise:
- Toukiden slips into 2014
- Deception IV confirmed for localization
- Final Fantasy X|X-2 "Winter"

Nah, we'll just chill and maybe make fun of Takao. I told Shinriji the 25th @ 6 pm.

If any of you other Vitabros want to relax in NY city PM me.

hey man i don't live in new york no fair making fun of me

PS Mobile games have online DRM. They need to check in every other day. I don't know the exact timespan but it is not always online.

It's about a month. You don't need to check in with every single PSM game you own, just one.
 
Really? I know it's December 4th in Japan, but I thought it got pushed back to next year for the west.

Im guessing feb or march.

Nah, we'll just chill and maybe make fun of Takao. I told Shinriji the 25th @ 6 pm.

If any of you other Vitabros want to relax in NY city PM me.
Word. That works for me, though i work till 7 in bk, so ill try to get out early, might be a little later than 6 tho.
 
I wonder why did Sony put that sort of DRM on PSM, maybe are they worried about piracy in their android phones? because I don't see the point on Vita.

Yes, it was because of the high piracy rate of Android games. They thought this would convince some developers picking PSM as a viable platform.
 
I would be so cool if you can join us. I was thinking of bringin my vita just for picures and the lulz (and for some ad-hoc trophies :(.

That's cool if you want to bring it. I usually don't bring it with me on the commute because I don't want to break or lose it ;). I would be depressed for weeks!!
 
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That's cool if you want to bring it. I usually don't bring it with me on the commute because I don't want to break or lose it ;). I would be depressed for weeks!!

I saw some people with vita on the subway. And Saw one 3ds with a guy outside gamestop. But 99,9% is iphones and androids playing camdy crush
 
I wonder why did Sony put that sort of DRM on PSM, maybe are they worried about piracy in their android phones? because I don't see the point on Vita.

Even this Android "DRM" has been broken. If you're in a supported region, you can add the PSM certificates to an unsupported phone and start playing the games.
 
All right, P4G friends... One more (set of) question(s):

So, I just sold all my items and stuff. I'm right at the end, Level 9 of the last dungeon before fighting Izanami, and now I have like 1.3 million yen. I'm at around 85% of the Persona Compendium, so I'm thinking of making a run at finishing it off. Most of what I have left to fuse belongs to the Aeon and Hunger arcana. Any suggestions on how to fuse them appropriately?
 
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