Vita PSN Game & Service Thread | October 2013 | Ver 2000, Batman and some Angry Birds

eighty(one) said:
Impressions aren't too favorable?

How is the gameplay itself, I suppose?
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It's hard to tell -- as I said, I'm about 90 minutes in, and it's pretty much all dialogue for at least the first hour. The only time you control your character is moving them from one cut scene to the next, though, to be fair, I'll note that you get to fight someone about half an hour in. Based on that limited experience it seems...so-so? The combat is real-time, which is nice, and you can switch between characters pretty easily. I'm interested in seeing what happens when I get better weapons.

Oh, and the whole wooing women thing kind of creeps me out. In fact, the game's whole representation of women is pretty creepy to me -- but I say that as a pretty hardcore feminist liberal, and as someone who doesn't play lots of JRPGs (though I did really like both Atelier Vita games), so you may/probably have a vastly different threshold for that kind of thing than I do.

Oooh, top of page! Nice. In keeping with this post...buy both Atelier games (Atelier Meruru and Atelier Totori), and import a 64GB card so you can actually have both on your Vita at once!
 
golduck342 said:
Hey guys...

I've been thinking of putting videos and music on my Vita (32gb card) just cause I feel it's an underused ability, and I also want to save my phone's battery. My idea is to just delete games outright and reinstall them whenever I need them, seems like the way to go thanks to cloud saving with Plus. My card is basically full right now. Does anyone else do that? Like the whole install and reinstall thing? Anyone know if redownloading games still incurs bandwidth fees for developers?

I guess my problem is that I like to keep games on hand in case I want to play them, but I haven't even started some like Virtue's Last Reward, which is taking up about 1.3gb. My other issue is I'll completely forget to try games out if I don't have them installed. Like Blazblue, I only remembered about it a few months after I got it from Plus. Which is a whole nother fridge management issue. Anyone have a good way to remind yourself of games you own? Sony really needs to fix the PSN download list so it can separate PS3/Vita and even Demos/DLC/Games, if they did I wouldn't have this problem.

Any have any ideas to streamline this process?
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was this ever a thing? i've never heard of that.
 
golduck342 said:
Hey guys...

I've been thinking of putting videos and music on my Vita (32gb card) just cause I feel it's an underused ability, and I also want to save my phone's battery. My idea is to just delete games outright and reinstall them whenever I need them, seems like the way to go thanks to cloud saving with Plus. My card is basically full right now. Does anyone else do that? Like the whole install and reinstall thing? Anyone know if redownloading games still incurs bandwidth fees for developers?

I guess my problem is that I like to keep games on hand in case I want to play them, but I haven't even started some like Virtue's Last Reward, which is taking up about 1.3gb. My other issue is I'll completely forget to try games out if I don't have them installed. Like Blazblue, I only remembered about it a few months after I got it from Plus. Which is a whole nother fridge management issue. Anyone have a good way to remind yourself of games you own? Sony really needs to fix the PSN download list so it can separate PS3/Vita and even Demos/DLC/Games, if they did I wouldn't have this problem.

Any have any ideas to streamline this process?
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I never redownload Vita games, whenever I want to temporarily take a game off my Vita I just transfer it to one of my computers through Content Manager. It solves your issue of having to worry about forgetting which games you own.
 
antibolo said:
I never redownload Vita games, whenever I want to temporarily take a game off my Vita I just transfer it to one of my computers through Content Manager. It solves your issue of having to worry about forgetting which games you own.
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Since my cable service provider gouges me every month, I use as much bandwidth as I possibly can. Add in PS+ and the fact that I can redownload faster than CM transfers in most cases and I almost ALWAYS redownload.
 
I don't know if anyone is interested, but here are some of my impressions of Valhalla Knights 3 so far. I'm about 5 hours, 45 minutes into the game, so I'm still pretty early (Level 6 Thief).

Graphics:
Very solid.The Vita isn't a PS3, or a high end PC, so I personally don't care about aliasing, or sub-native resolutions. I think the character models are good, with funny, creepy faces, but they're fine. Environments so far are detailed, and look good as well. I wasn't expecting Uncharted, or even Gravity Rush from VK3.

Story:
Interesting premise, but I'm not terribly deep into the story yet. It kind of reminds me a bit of Way of the Samurai, minus the Choose Your Own Adventure aspects, with a bit of Gladiator Begins thrown in. The text only presentation, and the cutscene animations straight out of the PS2 era are charming to me. I like warring gang storylines anyway, and setting the game in a prison reiminds me of cheesy 80's action movies. In short, it's enough.

Gameplay:
It's very, very grindy. I'm usually not a big fan of excessive grinding in games, but in this one, I actually don't mind it as much, since I'm usually playing the game on the bus ride to and from work, and have a good hour to kill each way.

The combat is fairly straightforward and simple so far, and a little clunky at first. I'm sure it will open up more once I start unlocking newer skills and doing some cross class stuff. The game is also very hard. I've died more than my fair share of times, so saving often is a must. No autosave is a bitch, but it's not a dealbreaker for me. I've been in the habit of regularly backing up my saves for years now, so it's not a new thing I need to learn here.

Overall, I am pleasantly surprised with this title, especially after the first game (which I somehow got for free this week; it's possible I bought it a while back, and forgot? I have no idea). Then again, I went into VK3 with quite literally no expectations at all. I had no intention of even buying the game this week, but after watching about a minute or two of a gameplay video I was sold.

Can I recommend this game to others? Eh, I don't know. I'm enjoying it, but I tend to have a high tolerance for a lot of the things that drive people crazy about these types of games. I don't think it's worth $40, but I also don't regret spending $40 playing it. In short, make up your own mind about buying it or not, dammit!

Pros:
Story/Setting
Combat is satisfying, if clunky sometimes
Old school, PS2 Way of the Samurai or Gladiator Begins (PSP) feel
Funny dialogue and characters (maybe not intentional)
Visuals are pretty solid and well done.

Cons:
The single setting could be a turnoff.
Grind heavy.
Awkward hostess mini-games are awkward (but I still play the fuck out of them on the bus, gawkers be damned).
 
Reluctant-Hero said:
Do yourselves a favor and download Ys Seven from PSN. It's a PSP game that plays perfectly in the Vita. It'll serve as a nice preview for Ys Celceta.
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Yeah, Y's Seven was my first intro to the series, and I'm really enjoying it. I've been jumping around a lot, so I haven't finished it, but I put quite a bit of time into it. Really, really looking forward to Celceta, which I played a bit of at E3 this year and liked it a lot. Very similar to Seven in a lot of ways gameplay wise, and the visuals looked great on the Vita screen.
 
Takao said:
Oh, lol 3DS just got a Hulu Plus app this week.
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Why would someone want to see videos in a screen that it like 240p in a time where my shitty smartphone can stream HD videos? Am I missing something?

I mean, the Vita at least has a good screen and 720p support so it's not as shitty.

I don't know what suprises me the most. Seeing GAF with 50k people online without real motives, or seeing it working despite there is 50k people online.
 
Reluctant-Hero said:
The "typeface" looks pretty good to me.
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Battle text and notifications look great too.
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Looking good.
 
1.21Gigawatts said:
Why is the 3DS getting The Amazing Spiderman 2 and Vita is only getting The Amazing Spiderman 1?
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Test run?

What I mean is, ASM1 on the Vita is them getting a workable open world Spider-Man engine in place, then ASM2 getting an updated/upgraded version of that engine?

Real reason? It's Activision, and they figure, "Hey, Vita owners are so starved for games, they'll buy our shitty year old leftovers! HA!"

I got plenty on my plate to play on my Vita, so I'll be passing on ASM1, although I admit, I did enjoy it on my PC. But then again, I was running it at Max settings, with a silky smooth framerate and sharp as a tack resolution. As much as I'm a diehard Spider-Man fan, I don't think I can bring myself to buy ASM on Vita. I also hate to support Activision with money, so I'm in an annoying position where my Spider-Man fandom usually wins out over my Activision hate, so I end up buying all the Spidey games anyway...
 
corrosivefrost said:
Add in PS+ and the fact that I can redownload faster than CM transfers in most cases and I almost ALWAYS redownload.
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This, plus the system can sleep during the download time (no cumulative time with static screens that increase burn in risk) or still be used for other things while it's happening. If for some reason I didn't have access to a PC, that'd be the only option. I just wish I could alphabetize my DL history and filter out PS3 items, demos, DLC etc as others have said.

It's good to have the CM though, for future proof reasons or if you're ever internet-less for whatever reason... it took a long time to find Cladun x2 in my DL history the other day since it's not on the Vita store anymore and the SEN webstore doesn't connect store pages directly to the download queue option.
 
NinjamicWZ said:
This, plus the system can sleep during the download time (no cumulative time with static screens that increase burn in risk) or still be used for other things while it's happening. If for some reason I didn't have access to a PC, that'd be the only option. I just wish I could alphabetize my DL history and filter out PS3 items, demos, DLC etc as others have said.

It's good to have the CM though, for future proof reasons or if you're ever internet-less for whatever reason... it took a long time to find Cladun x2 in my DL history the other day since it's not on the Vita store anymore and the SEN webstore doesn't connect store pages directly to the download queue option.
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Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly.
I started looking for Rayman Origins to check the PS+ save file for one of our Vitabros and I couldn't find it -- it was faster to browse to the game in the Vita store and do it... over 1500 items in my download history... it needs a sort or a search option... or the ability to add things to your dl queue from the store pages as you suggest.
 
Remind me what Vita games are releasing soon within this year, Indie, PS4/PS3+Vita crossbuy or otherwise please?
 
darkside31337 said:
They originally announced it at Anime Expo 2012.

Then they reannounced it this year at Anime Expo 2013!

And still nothing.
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Hopefully the Vita app will be much more stable than the Crunchyroll app on PS3.

On PS3:
  • Watch three episodes back-to-back...crash.
  • Scroll too far in one of the show lists....hang.
  • Look at it wrong...it talks badly about your mother.
Shameful. But I use it frequently. (Must have a high pain tolerance.)
 
FireCloud said:
Hopefully the Vita app will be much more stable than the Crunchyroll app on PS3.

On PS3:
  • Watch three episodes back-to-back...crash.
  • Scroll too far in one of the show lists....hang.
  • Look at it wrong...it talks badly about your mother.
Shameful. But I use it frequently. (Must have a high pain tolerance.)
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I didn't tried in my PS3, but my Samsung TV has a CR app, if I remember correctly. The service wasn't available in Spain when I was interested, and now I'm not spending 5€ for a service that i'm not going to use (last summer I started watching Attack on Titans and I haven't found anything worthwhile my time in the last months, so i'm watching 0 series right now). If Naruto (hopefully) finishes soon, I won't have anything to see from that side of the world other than Vita titles that we are eagerly waiting for localization xD
 
Any other releases this month? I need to find something else to buy if I'm going to take advantage of the October rebate.
 
I think my malicious rebirth is bugged. I spent an hour or so trying the final boss (yes, complaining about him again :p). One time I broke the shield and it regenerated after about a single second! Didn't even have time to change weapon.
at least I got to see him fly though, also i have wifi now so i'll watch that video omega put up. still though, smells like bullshit. it's 99x more difficult than the rest of the game lol!
At least it helped kill time during the plane ride...but fffffffffff I want to play the hard mode on the other levels already! Lots of them were so fun. I might be able to do it but there's a bloody time limit too :'( Must be missing something...will watch the video tomorrow asap

cyborg09 said:
I wish we got twitch. And nico nico got a update in japan for livestreaming from your vita.
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Wow...that's pretty amazing! Surely it only works with certain games, tbh I'd be impressed if it worked with any vita game! What a feature. Shame we don't get the same love elsewhere. Yeah, UK and no netflix...ridiculous
 
The final boss in Malicious isn't bugged, he's just really fucking stupid. The lowest point of the game, and I LOVE the game.

Also really late reply to Corrosive, but chaining is done when you use a souped up version of an attack. You know those rings that pop up? As long as those rings are what take out another enemies, the chain keeps going. X time goes by without doing so, chain breaks.

RalchAC said:
If you want me to check it and correct any mistakes you have, just ask me. Irregular verbs / gender are always a hassle for foreigners :)



That's the perfect example about mistaking genders. It's "una" Vita, since the term is femenine and (at least in Spain) consoles are always femenine.

(Maybe in South America is different. There are some differences, like in US / UK English)
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I'm Puerto Rican. It'd be feminine if we were referring to it as a console ("La consola"), but we're calling it by name, which is typically done in a masculine gender here. So we use "El PS4", "El Vita", "El Xbox", etc.
 
Noi said:
The final boss in Malicious isn't bugged, he's just really fucking stupid. The lowest point of the game, and I LOVE the game.

Also really late reply to Corrosive, but chaining is done when you use a souped up version of an attack. You know those rings that pop up? As long as those rings are what take out another enemies, the chain keeps going. X time goes by without doing so, chain breaks.
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So the rings do it?
That would make some sense -- trying to chain 100 and they say to use release 3 and the bullets... but that was killing them too quick for me... i guess i have to shoot bullets slower so the chain can try to take them out? Hold L (L1) and press [] with bullets equipped right?
 
That's right. The rings actually do massive damage to everything they touch, it's the reason\ why when you use L1 + Attack on the cavalry in that one destroyed stage whose name I forget with the horse boss, they pretty much instantly collapse because of all the units that spawn from them getting chained at once.

You can test it out in the airship stage with the knight. Start the stage, but ignore the boss and jump down into the lower areas of the ship. You should find a hallway with three doors where mooks spawn from which you can easily practice chains with.

(This was also the spot where you used to farm for the 10k kills trophy in the PS3 version. Thank god that one got removed).

Using release for a high chain count is a bad idea, imo, as that does kill things too quickly. Just using the basic sword combo + L1 is enough to get a nice chain going. It's been a while though, so I could be terribly wrong, but I don't remember doing that to get the 100 chain trophy.
 
corrosivefrost said:
So the rings do it?
That would make some sense -- trying to chain 100 and they say to use release 3 and the bullets... but that was killing them too quick for me... i guess i have to shoot bullets slower so the chain can try to take them out? Hold L (L1) and press [] with bullets equipped right?
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Chaining 100 is easy on the flying things on the boss stages, try not targeting the whole group but only a few in each of the groups? Otherwise I think the projectiles take them out as a whole, before the chains get a chance?

I hope you're right Noi, I have a feeling I will be dealing with him for a while though. I'm going to record it as I still kinda believe it's bugged. Felt like a ninja gaiden boss somehow slipped in.
 
Skyzard said:
Chaining 100 is easy on the flying things on the boss stages, try not targeting the whole group but only a few in each of the groups? Otherwise I think the projectiles take them out as a whole, before the chains get a chance?

I hope you're right Noi, I have a feeling I will be dealing with him for a while though. I'm going to record it as I still kinda believe it's bugged. Felt like a ninja gaiden boss somehow slipped in.
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I did read something about using the triangle attack for the bullets on the flying things... can't try it yet, as I just have to beat the Mad Queen... (no freeplay unlocked).
Damn, she's annoying.
 
Lt.Chips said:
Already had high expectations for Velocity 2X, but reading this preview still filled me with excitement.

Sony should make FuturLab their first party developer and Kai Tana their Samus Aran.
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Yeah I am not sure about mixing the flying with platforming. Seems like it would have been better as just platforming. Loved the first one but I am not sure I need more of that.
 
Hi guys,

I'm gunning for PSV2000 this November and I'm trying to choose which PSN server I'm signing in with PS+

I know EU got most of the cake with their exceptional PS+ Offerings but I'm kinda skeptical about their server since it gets the short end of the RPG stick.

So which PSN server is the best?
 
With the 64gb card on the way, are they removing that ridiculous 100 game limit? I ordered one, but just remembered that I saw that warning at one proint, meaning I probably won't be able to use it as is.
 
killatopak said:
Hi guys,

I'm gunning for PSV2000 this November and I'm trying to choose which PSN server I'm signing in with PS+

I know EU got most of the cake with their exceptional PS+ Offerings but I'm kinda skeptical about their server since it gets the short end of the RPG stick.

So which PSN server is the best?
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I'm happy with my US account. We might not get a few stellar offerings on PS+, but we get all the good games on day one, which is not the case for Europe. And to be honest, if I see a game I like and that I think is great, I'd rather buy it instead of waiting for a possible PS+ showing.

For me PS+ is more a way to experience games I would have never experienced if I had to pay full price.
 
killatopak said:
Hi guys,

I'm gunning for PSV2000 this November and I'm trying to choose which PSN server I'm signing in with PS+

I know EU got most of the cake with their exceptional PS+ Offerings but I'm kinda skeptical about their server since it gets the short end of the RPG stick.

So which PSN server is the best?
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JP if you're fluent. Otherwise I'm ok with US since it got games like DC and Muramasa ahead of EU. I look at PS+ more as a way to try out games I'm on the fence about, would rather buy a game if I'm really interested in it.
 
Figboy79 said:
I don't know if anyone is interested, but here are some of my impressions of Valhalla Knights 3 so far. I'm about 5 hours, 45 minutes into the game, so I'm still pretty early (Level 6 Thief).

Graphics:
Very solid.The Vita isn't a PS3, or a high end PC, so I personally don't care about aliasing, or sub-native resolutions. I think the character models are good, with funny, creepy faces, but they're fine. Environments so far are detailed, and look good as well. I wasn't expecting Uncharted, or even Gravity Rush from VK3.

Story:
Interesting premise, but I'm not terribly deep into the story yet. It kind of reminds me a bit of Way of the Samurai, minus the Choose Your Own Adventure aspects, with a bit of Gladiator Begins thrown in. The text only presentation, and the cutscene animations straight out of the PS2 era are charming to me. I like warring gang storylines anyway, and setting the game in a prison reiminds me of cheesy 80's action movies. In short, it's enough.

Gameplay:
It's very, very grindy. I'm usually not a big fan of excessive grinding in games, but in this one, I actually don't mind it as much, since I'm usually playing the game on the bus ride to and from work, and have a good hour to kill each way.

The combat is fairly straightforward and simple so far, and a little clunky at first. I'm sure it will open up more once I start unlocking newer skills and doing some cross class stuff. The game is also very hard. I've died more than my fair share of times, so saving often is a must. No autosave is a bitch, but it's not a dealbreaker for me. I've been in the habit of regularly backing up my saves for years now, so it's not a new thing I need to learn here.

Overall, I am pleasantly surprised with this title, especially after the first game (which I somehow got for free this week; it's possible I bought it a while back, and forgot? I have no idea). Then again, I went into VK3 with quite literally no expectations at all. I had no intention of even buying the game this week, but after watching about a minute or two of a gameplay video I was sold.

Can I recommend this game to others? Eh, I don't know. I'm enjoying it, but I tend to have a high tolerance for a lot of the things that drive people crazy about these types of games. I don't think it's worth $40, but I also don't regret spending $40 playing it. In short, make up your own mind about buying it or not, dammit!

Pros:
Story/Setting
Combat is satisfying, if clunky sometimes
Old school, PS2 Way of the Samurai or Gladiator Begins (PSP) feel
Funny dialogue and characters (maybe not intentional)
Visuals are pretty solid and well done.

Cons:
The single setting could be a turnoff.
Grind heavy.
Awkward hostess mini-games are awkward (but I still play the fuck out of them on the bus, gawkers be damned).
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Yup, seems like Ill enjoy this game just as I did the first one, thanks for impressions :D Just asking but how was the performance, any drops anywhere or smooth sailing since the start?

Btw, Tearaway customization screen yesterday/today are awesome. You all as vita owners better have buy this game as one, its an original IP on the vita and two, its by Mm and three, cause look at this! http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=86402800&highlight=#post86402800
 
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