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PlayStation Network Thread | April 2015
- Thread starter ZeroAKA
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I just realized if Steins;Gate is late in NA I will have to import an EU version... which is to say, order from where I already live. I swear region lock will drive me mad.
Was there DLC for the Japanese version ? I don't think so but it never hurts to ask.
Oh and by chance, did Sony facilitate the memory card from different region switching ? I heard you had to endure the Vita intro and that it messes up you icons order.
Was there DLC for the Japanese version ? I don't think so but it never hurts to ask.
Oh and by chance, did Sony facilitate the memory card from different region switching ? I heard you had to endure the Vita intro and that it messes up you icons order.
Amazon might work too.
BlowoverKing
Banned
Hmm just looked up how to get yojimbo and it doesn't look too hard. Will try both your tips, thanks!
No DLC, go for it.
A-Dark-Injection
Member
Probably.
Did they also change the price in Europe? It used to be 20.99/£17.99, now 19.99/£14.99.
Me too but I thought it was due to my queue list being full as fuck
names2hard4you
Member
So apparently we are still getting more PSP games!
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Its too bad its not Summon Knight 3 or 4 since 5 was literally the worst in the series... :/
CoH3 isnt too bad though, wonder if it will still have a bunch of bugs and whatnots.
So guys, is the PSTV built-in storage stupidly deactivated when you put a memory card in, like on Vita 2000 if memory serves ?
I still have the little guy in its packaging and struggling to find its purpose in my house. I suppose I could make it my EU Vita, or even my multi-region Vita if the thing isn't has annoying as a real Vita in this case.
I still have the little guy in its packaging and struggling to find its purpose in my house. I suppose I could make it my EU Vita, or even my multi-region Vita if the thing isn't has annoying as a real Vita in this case.
names2hard4you
Member
From what I have been reading, folks seem to say that SK5 is hard as heck. As for CoH, I've been getting the games but unlike other DRPGs, I just drop it after a few days. Maybe I'll get this one, but there's already so many quality DRPGs coming that this one is probably gonna get buried for me.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Its just bad the hard part is making yourself sit there to play the game. Since compared to the previous titles is just real lacking in all aspects outside of the general character design.
names2hard4you
Member
Kind of a shame since they are fighting the good fight, still pumping PSP content out. I'm sure enough people will buy it since his business model is pretty smart, gauging interest first, printing copies later, but it would be nice to see something a little better making it over this way. Hopefully it does well enough though, and these could be the stepping stones to something much bigger and better in months/years to come.
I remember reading similar things in regards to the SN series, but since it's still regarded as a very solid game and I always wanted to try one I'm probably down for it if it doesn't release in a busy time slot.
CoH really has the unfortunate fate (or maybe it turns out to be luck) of releasing in what seems to be the busiest year for western DRPG fans since forever. It's definitely on my radar, but like Names it's below Operation Abyss or Dungeon Travelers 2 on my list, and since DRPGs are draining I don't know how many I can stomach in the span of a year or two.
names2hard4you
Member
Yeah, DRPGs are content-heavy games. I can do 2 or 3 just fine, but considering how there's even more RPGs in the horizon like Lost Dimension, Persona 5 and probably even more since E3 and such are coming, I just cannot justify buying more RPGs that could potentially burn me out and stop me from playing these other great games.
As it stands, Operation Abyss, Lost Dimension and Dungeon Travelers are my Summer RPG games, I'm going to be pretty busy as is lol. Maybe later on, if there is a DRPG drought after we get so many, I'll take a bite, but until then, no thanks. Best of luck to them though!
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
You would think with how niche it is that they would be a bit more careful with what they select. While the CoH is fine SN on the other hand is just a bad buy. Then again its not like most folks in the West know any better considering the other games never came out so would imagine that they are banking on that. Plus less work for the localization compared to 3 / 4. 3 for sure would have been a lot of work with. Though folks who still would have cared about PSP titles would have most def enjoyed 3 or 4 more just due to content and design.
But man am sad that folks first experience will be with the worst game in the series.
Tizoc
Member
What exactly is bad about it from a gameplay point of view?
EU PS Blog: New gameplay trailer for MadMax.
^^
I did know the game is coming but didnt know who makes it and havent watched any videos before this.
^^
I did know the game is coming but didnt know who makes it and havent watched any videos before this.
YianGaruga
Banned
ok..
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Its boring. Feels like a budget title that they went and slapped together along with the name and number then kicked it out the door in hopes of tricking fans.
Even more so if you came from the previous titles.
Game is not like its pure shit, but at the same time its still the worst in the main line series content / gameplay wise.
Some folks may enjoy it, but they really design wise in comparison its like bread & water vs a full course meal.
SerTapTap
Member
As a heads up, if you're a completionist of any sort you'll want a guide for *w* Quintet. True ending is absurdly missable. I really don't know why JRPGs have such a hard-on for letting you permanently damage your save early on. Doubly infuriating because the game does quite a few nice things to eliminate JRPG time-waste...then it does missable quests with permanent late game consequences.
What were you really going to use that 1GB of memory for? It's basically for saves that require memory card only. I don't really know why built-in memory is even a thing instead of including a memory card.
Expected I guess, didn't they say long ago it was too big for a cart?
What were you really going to use that 1GB of memory for? It's basically for saves that require memory card only. I don't really know why built-in memory is even a thing instead of including a memory card.
Expected I guess, didn't they say long ago it was too big for a cart?
Eh, you've got a point there. Still at the premium where Vita memory cards are sold, 1gb is 1gb.
Did this go up on the store in the US? Or are you talking about Japan? I don't care how big it is I want it!
Demon Gaze is GOAT.
Also, fuck :-/
Never tried an IF title and was really toying with the idea of beginning with *w* Quintet. I don't like fan service but your praise of the battle system got me intrigued.
But boy do I hate this habit of Japanese dev to hide true ending behind some obscure condition. I think I have found a Japanese wiki detailing the thing but with google translate, I'm iffy.
Japan. But you can preorder Extend right now.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U2E28YA/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Aksys with the based 8GB vita cart, lol.
teflontactics
Member
Probably the core game, with a download chunk added to it instead of an 8GB cart (a la Borderlands 2 - though that was "DLC").
Only 2GB and 4GB carts out there to my knowledge
so far
autoduelist
Member
It sounds like it was just a bit divisive more than straight up bad?
From the SK wiki, I found this [mistake ridden, but I'm assuming English as a second language]:
http://summonnight.wikia.com/wiki/Summon_Night_5
Honestly, it sounds it sounds more like it just pissed off some fans of the franchise, but wasn't exactly 'bad' itself. I don't really care if there are some 'awkward animations' and I certainly don't care if there are less 'CG events'. I'll give it a go, most likely. Unless a game franchise completely changes genres I'm generally pretty forgiving of changes [especially when I haven't even played the others]. The only thing I don't like hearing about are 'time constraints'.... not sure what is meant by that.
Other things, like 'some very useful skills were limited to impractical classes' is also fine by me -- I mean, that's a reason to run those classes. I don't think every class needs to be equal, and it's nice when an otherwise 'lesser' class has some cool perks.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
The issue is content wise the game is bare bones. And the map designs are the most bland things ever when compared to not only the 4 previous games but generally any SRPG title.
Its not something Id pay full price for. If folks want to play it if you can get around 20 then sure, but Id hate to tell fellow gamers to go run out there and spend their hard earned cash on a title that is not up to par. Even more so considering the titles we have coming down the line which would most def give people a more complete experience for their money.
The game is not shit, but at the same time its not something you need to buy right away either unless you are some hardcore fan of the company who localized it or just have too much money to burn. At least the other title they are bringing out isnt too bad. Though if folks would enjoy that one or not depends if they like the art style. As a dungeon crawler it does its job and comes from back when Zero Div took a little more effort with their titles.
SerTapTap
Member
There's english discussion on GameFAQs, calls out the worst choke points. The biggest thing is to absolutely never advance the story until doing all sidequests (more annoyingly, some side quests are hidden until your approval goes up enough). Knowing that it's not too bad, but I learned this all too late and I'm pretty annoyed.
The Neptunia games have very little missable content so I really don't know why they decided to toss this in. There's a new game + too so it's not the worst thing in the world to replay on a harder difficulty for True End, but missables still seem like arbitrary punishment for not buying a game guide. The game does a decent job of eliminating a fair amount of JRPG fluff (walk speed is fast, no random encounters, menu based towns, fast travel on maps), then they shove in missables just to ruin the streak of being player-friendly.
lol, I was at the same spot this morning.
Thanks for the heads-up, I just had a look at that thread. Hopefully I don't have issues getting the true ending, I really don't like having to play long games multiple times for stuff like that.
Crossposting for the fellow cats since it has a Vita goal: Formula Fusion kickstarter
It's a wipeout-like game made by former wipeout devs + The Designers Republic.
If it comes to consoles I'm so in. If it eventually manages to come to Vita, I'll swim in a river of tears (of joy)
edit: it's worth noting, as I pointed in the OP of the other thread, that the initial goal doesn't guarantee the full development of the game (regardless of the platform). £150k is very likely what they need, judging from the stretch goals. 350k for PS4/One, 400k for Vita
It's a wipeout-like game made by former wipeout devs + The Designers Republic.
If it comes to consoles I'm so in. If it eventually manages to come to Vita, I'll swim in a river of tears (of joy)
edit: it's worth noting, as I pointed in the OP of the other thread, that the initial goal doesn't guarantee the full development of the game (regardless of the platform). £150k is very likely what they need, judging from the stretch goals. 350k for PS4/One, 400k for Vita
Well really, it's the other way around. IF have always had incredibly dickish conditions to unlock good/true endings. It's just Neptunia had them way, waaay simpler. This is kind of a return to form.
I'm gonna guess the Normal ending is horribly disappointing and just sorta stops without resolution, eh? Possibly an "everyone dies"?
How's the NG+ stuff handle by the way?
Do the hidden side-quests have things like a grayed out "???" to show you you need to work on your approval or do you really want a side-quest list to play the game ?
And about the true ending, well it don't change my opinion as I really never liked the idea of depriving less skilled or knowledgeable players of the good stuff, but it seems like it's particularly bad in this game : one of the few reviews insists on the complete shittyness of the normal ending. I mean, for a review to say this, it must be something.
SerTapTap
Member
It's a pretty long game but like Neptunia it's probably quite quick to blast through a second time...though it's got far more time-sensitive busy-work so maybe I shouldn't assume. I think that gamefaqs thread will set you right but I'm pretty sure my save is already SOL so I don't think I can confirm (I'm in chapter 7 or 8, not done yet).
I don't think I'd be so annoyed if I were totally aware from the start, but I didn't even notice until too late that quests were easily failable by progressing the story, and I didn't notice until even later that missable quests have pretty major rewards (fortunately I didn't miss the field travel speed upgrade--gotta go fast).
IFI's work still feels a bit low budget--there's still lots of less-important scenes with missing English VA (JP is fully voiced), and the quest descriptions are confusing (I still have no idea what the time on the time limit means). Actual dialog is fine, quest descriptions are fine, but random crap is confusing for no reason--some quests you have to pay money to complete, and their objective is written as "Other EP 50000" (what it actually means is "pay me 50000 EP").
Overall they're making good games but they could really do with an extra layer of polish on both the original game and the localization pass.
I believe the sidequests are just straight up not there until you have the approval rating which is of course a really unfortunate way to handle it. Feels less like it's based on skill/effort and more like it's based on knowing their particular brand of BS.
And yeah, I've heard bad things about the normal ending (which I'm probably going to get) but I didn't read why due to spoilers.
I've mostly only played Neptunia stuff from IF so that's my main frame of reference...my review constantly compares to Neptunia because, well, same basic engine, fairly overlapping appeal at multiple levels.
It's some sort of Tales-esque thing where you pick what to carry over based on Coins (found from treasure spots, stolen from bosses) You can keep stuff like weapon proficiency, items and stuff. Not sure the specifics yet, haven't beaten it still. I might polish it off this weekend but just in case Im' already writing up my review (I'm 50 hours in)
Side note, I LOVE how they handle stealing--stealing from bosses gives you coins for said unlock system, so stealing from bosses is encouraged but at the same time it's not like if you forget to steal you lose out on Excalibur 2 and your save file is ruined forever. The game has lots of nice touches like that which makes the missables situation a real downer, they could have gone all out to remove the JRPG BS and make this a really smooth ride.
names2hard4you
Member
From Gematsu: Western Dungeon Travelers 2 has four censored images
Atlus says:
Anyone know which images got censored? I really don't care about stuff like this but I know there are a few people who will probably get pissed off.
Atlus says:
Anyone know which images got censored? I really don't care about stuff like this but I know there are a few people who will probably get pissed off.
Oh no, here will come thousands of people
three or four
names2hard4you
Member
Most of the time, when it does happen it makes sense why it got cut. There's just certain things that are wrong lol. Sure liberty of expression and whatever, blah, blah, but if something gets cut there is a reason for it. I can live without it, so can everyone else.
Hikami
Member
Don't really care about this stuff either, but I can already see a certain few people getting mad over this..
and maybe Parakeetman would know which four? not sure of anyone else who's played the Japanese game.
SerTapTap
Member
Ugh. At least it's only four, still ridiculous that this stuff happens though.
Yeah, full nudity in stuff like GTA V and LA Noire is no problem, but can't have sexy anime girl CGs.