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God Of War Collection (Vita) |OT| Kratos in yo pocket at upscaled 544p
- Thread starter Flandy
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HamsterPackage
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What Glitch?
Velcro Fly
Member
Does this share a trophy list with the PS3 version?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=814126
Don't think so. I'm pretty sure that it has two seperate trophy lists, one for each game, different from PS3.
Damn it. Yeah I am finding it annoying that most Vita reviews don't typically touch on resolution as well. Had a hell of a time finding any answers on FFX as well. Thanks for the heads up.
DirtyLarry
Member
Damn, was hoping to hear some better impressions overall.
I actually never completed God of War 01.
I actually rented it right when the PS3 was first released (had a Phat with backwards compatibility), however at the time I was so enamored with the at the time impressive graphics of Resistance: Fall Of Man that I stopped playing the lowly PS2 game pretty damn early on.
I then rented the Ultimate Collection when it was released on PS3 but went right to playing Part 2. Actually got pretty damn far with it but once again stopped playing for something else.
I was planning on finally checking out both games on the Vita. However I did once again rent it, so not sure there is any real urgency or need to play, so now that I am reading it has some questionable performance, looks like the truth of the matter is I may never play the first two God of War games.
I actually never completed God of War 01.
I actually rented it right when the PS3 was first released (had a Phat with backwards compatibility), however at the time I was so enamored with the at the time impressive graphics of Resistance: Fall Of Man that I stopped playing the lowly PS2 game pretty damn early on.
I then rented the Ultimate Collection when it was released on PS3 but went right to playing Part 2. Actually got pretty damn far with it but once again stopped playing for something else.
I was planning on finally checking out both games on the Vita. However I did once again rent it, so not sure there is any real urgency or need to play, so now that I am reading it has some questionable performance, looks like the truth of the matter is I may never play the first two God of War games.
The game is not unplayable on Vita, its not the Jak Collection
. The graphics I find are quite solid on Vita, the controls are good and the frame rate isn't bad at all (yes, there are drops...but they aren't super frequent). If you took advantage of the PS+ Trail Glitch, then it is a steal at the price of free . If you never owned the games and are considering buying this, then it's far from a bad deal; two great games that run good on the go. Just keep in mind that this isn't a perfect port, but otherwise its a solid one
.darkjedi187
Member
Had to stop in and say wonderful OT Flandy! Now I get to play these for the umpteenth time. Yay
Dam. More info aboui this?
pokeystaples
Banned
And I was thinking the opposite. Love that it's not split in two.
I just got to the Rooftops of Athens, and there's slowdown every time you petrify something with Medusa's Head.
Downloading now. Cross buy, yay! Though the collector in me still wants to get a boxed copy for the collection, lol. Never finished GoW1 HD on PS3 and didn't even play 2, so I will be doing so on Vita. I hope I'm not bothered by the technical issues, but I doubt I will be. I like playing Jak on Vita, I can handle anything.
Cave Johnson
Member
Slowdowns? Why is this even a port to begin with? The SONY's collection are supposed to be the highest quality remasters and now it seems they can't even put more effort into it.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
The games play well and look very nice on Vita. If there's slowdown it doesn't hinder the game play much. Cut scenes are original resolution and don't fill the screen but I don't care much for it. Feels like a good port on both without taking part in much of the sensationalism created by the tone of the OP.
MaximumSpider
Banned
Hold the rear touchpad.
First time? Wow
God of War HD Collection on PS3 is pretty good. Hell it was done by Bluepoint
dragonflys545
Member
I can finally play them while taking a dump. This will be my 7th time playing through the first 2 games.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
legit never tried these games before. will give them a shot for free.
I did try the Ascension demo I think (and some other game) but didn't really get into it :/
man. what happened to the Vita game ><
MaximumSpider
Banned
Yeah, that cutscene was awful.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
This was not the highest budgeted re-release from the looks of it but the game looks good and plays well. Can't ask for more despite being disappointed with the blurred and low res cutscenes.
HueyFreeman
Banned
Just fired up some GOWII.
Reports of this being a terrible port are definitely exaggerated, the problem is mostly that the PS3 remains the finest HD remastering of all time, so this pales in comparison. Framerate is much more akin to the PSP games (which were completely playable) but does definitely take hits when things get busy. Otherwise the subnative res means things look soft. I still think it's great to see these setpieces on the OLED, but yeah it is a bit jarring after the razor sharp PS3 reduxes. The engine based FMV is a bit embarassing too, not sure how that passed muster.
Great to have it on vita, but as a port it's 7/10 fo sho.
Reports of this being a terrible port are definitely exaggerated, the problem is mostly that the PS3 remains the finest HD remastering of all time, so this pales in comparison. Framerate is much more akin to the PSP games (which were completely playable) but does definitely take hits when things get busy. Otherwise the subnative res means things look soft. I still think it's great to see these setpieces on the OLED, but yeah it is a bit jarring after the razor sharp PS3 reduxes. The engine based FMV is a bit embarassing too, not sure how that passed muster.
Great to have it on vita, but as a port it's 7/10 fo sho.
HitCtrlAltDel
Member
Everyone complaining about frame rate I just don't understand. It runs just as good as the PSP games and those were perfectly playable. I'd have to compare them to the originals to see what the big difference is, but these are at least a consistent 30FPS.
Yes the cutscenes are compressed to garbage, but the in game resolution is fine. Its not native, but it has a soft quality to it that doesn't make aliasing an issue.
The audio however is horrendous. While this is way more forgivable than if the frame rate was low, its still a little jarring. Were the originals this compressed? I don't remember that they were. At 3100MB, and with what I thought a 4GB limit, why didn't they loosen up on the compression? They had roughly 900MB more to work with...
Yes the cutscenes are compressed to garbage, but the in game resolution is fine. Its not native, but it has a soft quality to it that doesn't make aliasing an issue.
The audio however is horrendous. While this is way more forgivable than if the frame rate was low, its still a little jarring. Were the originals this compressed? I don't remember that they were. At 3100MB, and with what I thought a 4GB limit, why didn't they loosen up on the compression? They had roughly 900MB more to work with...
zerokoolpsx
Member
The sparklee's wasn't blinding enough.
Got God of War Collection for PS Vita. It just updated the date or license on my download history? Nab it when it was free for ps+.
AgentOtaku
Member
Well looks like I can skip this one. Too bad, so sad.
At least we know the Sly Collection turned out well
At least we know the Sly Collection turned out well
Damn
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Well looks like I can skip this one. Too bad, so sad.
At least we know the Sly Collection turned out well
It's not as bad as some of the comments say. The devs did a good job. I do anticipate the Sly Collection and its hopeful cross buy prospects as I already own all 3 digitally on PS3.
God of War screenshot or Jackson Pollock painting? You make the call!
For some people, a Vita port which only runs at half the framerate of the PS2 version of the game is unacceptable. These aren't a consistent 30 fps, either.
The actual limit is around 3.4GB, since carts have 10%-ish reserved to patches/saves.
Not sure why they didn't go the way of other collections and just packed a download code to the second game instead of cramming both and ending up having to make sacrifices like that. The compression is pretty jarring at times, but at least isn't everywhere.
Love Deterrence
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JAF > Internet > JAF
Sweet OT, OP! Never been all that into God of War, but certainly plan on picking this up for the Vita. Awesome thread. ^_^
Sweet OT, OP! Never been all that into God of War, but certainly plan on picking this up for the Vita. Awesome thread. ^_^
poopninjamvc3mk
I sucked six dicks to get this tag.
Since I couldn't use the glitch for properly for free since I played the 60minute trial of GOW1 and it expired last time I had PS+ for 30days(when it was free after the outage), I just used the glitch get a 50% discount basically and get both PSV/PS3 collections for $15 by buying GOW1.
So now I can see if the collection really as bad as some of you are making it out to be or if the reviews or right(lot of good reviews surprisingly). If it's bad I at least still get the PS3 version of the collection to play through
So now I can see if the collection really as bad as some of you are making it out to be or if the reviews or right(lot of good reviews surprisingly
). If it's bad I at least still get the PS3 version of the collection to play throughEww. I was really looking forward to this, too. I probably could lived with 30 fps, but 30 fps and ugly is making me reconsider.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I played this for 10 mins before re installing DOA 5+
No nostalgia factor for me, and vita memory at too much of a premium on a 16 gig card. Real choppy and real ugly.
No nostalgia factor for me, and vita memory at too much of a premium on a 16 gig card. Real choppy and real ugly.
Did you buy it digitally, physically, or grandfather it?
Played for about 20-30 minutes ... I just couldn't do it anymore ... To be fair, I played the originals back in the day, so this was more for curiosity ... I'd say if you've played the games before, then you probably won't get much from the Vita versions ... if it weren't for the memory card and worrying about sizes, I'd keep it, but I'd rather have other games on it now ... pretty much meh overall ...