teflontactics
Member
Guess who's back,
Back again,
Shizuka's back,
Tell a friend.
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Oh, TOTP?
Buy all the Senran Kagura games. All of 'em.
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PlayStation Network Thread (Vita/PS4/PS3) | January 2015
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Guess who's back,
Back again,
Shizuka's back,
Tell a friend.
--
Oh, TOTP?
Buy all the Senran Kagura games. All of 'em.
Where there that many? I can only remember fast forward, auto, playback/history and stop/clear screen, and that's pretty standard, isn't it? At least for VNs, but JRPGs also tend to incorporate that stuff more and more.
Was there an option to completely skip events though? I tried NG+ for a few minutes to see what carries over and could only fastforward.
Good to have you back.
Edit: And the others as well!
names2hard4you
Member
You know what we should have... A Vita podcast. With this whole IGN members creating their whole content, and seeing how there are issues with creating a Vita thread and all, I think it would be cool for us to create a podcast in which we could discuss gaming on the platform, and such. Who here would be up for listening to a 30min-1hr weekly show with some members from this thread discussing all kinds of Vita stuff?
So now that Moriarty is gone there will be literally 0 coverage of anything Vita in the mainstream sites.
Yay! Welcome back!
Does Tactics Ogre not look so hot? I have precious little space on my current measly 8GB card in my Vita TV and was thinking of cramming that on there and then buying Jeanne D'Arc as well.
Oh and your last sentence, if you find a way... share it. Hate that thing.
I finished Resistance: Burning Skies while I was banned. Got it cheap in the January sale because I wanted a new shooter on the Vita.
From the demo I already knew that Nihilistic fucked up and didn't release a multilingual version of the game so I had to play with the German voiceover, which was horrible. I also knew about the heavily compressed cinematics which looked like internet clips from 10 years ago.
At first, the game was actually fun. The Resistance weapons were always fun and the Vita gimmicks were integrated in a fun way. The game controlled well except for the touch based door/gate/stuff activations which sometimes used up a secondary fire of a weapon. Graphically, it isn't a looker but I thought it was ok.
Unfortunately, the game got tedious and overstayed its welcome which is quite funny considering it is so short. The reasons for that are the atrocious dumb AI and the weak and ever repeating encounter design.
The game just shows its mediocrity in every aspect and I still don't know how Nihilistic landed the job after already releasing other mediocre or shitty games on Playstation platforms before.
I would give the game a 6/10.
It is sad that we don't have more shooters on the Vita because they do play well. As a German, I am even sadder because I won't get Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition this week
It hurts because I thought we would get it as it is available for purchase on the German Steam. I can't understand why it isn't on the German PSN then where you can only buy stuff legally when you are 18 years old.
I know the original game is still indexed, which is quite a joke, but how does Steam manage to offer the Megaton Edition and PSN not?
From the demo I already knew that Nihilistic fucked up and didn't release a multilingual version of the game so I had to play with the German voiceover, which was horrible. I also knew about the heavily compressed cinematics which looked like internet clips from 10 years ago.
At first, the game was actually fun. The Resistance weapons were always fun and the Vita gimmicks were integrated in a fun way. The game controlled well except for the touch based door/gate/stuff activations which sometimes used up a secondary fire of a weapon. Graphically, it isn't a looker but I thought it was ok.
Unfortunately, the game got tedious and overstayed its welcome which is quite funny considering it is so short. The reasons for that are the atrocious dumb AI and the weak and ever repeating encounter design.
The game just shows its mediocrity in every aspect and I still don't know how Nihilistic landed the job after already releasing other mediocre or shitty games on Playstation platforms before.
I would give the game a 6/10.
It is sad that we don't have more shooters on the Vita because they do play well. As a German, I am even sadder because I won't get Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition this week
It hurts because I thought we would get it as it is available for purchase on the German Steam. I can't understand why it isn't on the German PSN then where you can only buy stuff legally when you are 18 years old.
I know the original game is still indexed, which is quite a joke, but how does Steam manage to offer the Megaton Edition and PSN not?
Hikami
Member
Welcome back fallen Vitabros.
Speaking of the Vita, I have like ~$20 left on my PSN account..
Thinking of (finally) getting either Gravity Rush or Soul Sacrifice Delta, already tried the demos for them and they were both great. Still can't decide though.
Just wondering, which game is shorter? Not really looking for a long game right now.
Speaking of the Vita, I have like ~$20 left on my PSN account..
Thinking of (finally) getting either Gravity Rush or Soul Sacrifice Delta, already tried the demos for them and they were both great. Still can't decide though.
Just wondering, which game is shorter? Not really looking for a long game right now.
Gravity Rush is shorter, but it's been available for much cheaper before. I'd suggest SSD, myself.
teflontactics
Member
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Nihilistic getting permission to make Resistance isn't as baffling as letting them make Call of Duty. They gave what was supposed to be he flagship holiday Vita title to a shitty dev that released a shitty FPS only a matter of months earlier. Makes no sense whatsoever.I finished Resistance: Burning Skies while I was banned. Got it cheap in the January sale because I wanted a new shooter on the Vita.
From the demo I already knew that Nihilistic fucked up and didn't release a multilingual version of the game so I had to play with the German voiceover, which was horrible. I also knew about the heavily compressed cinematics which looked like internet clips from 10 years ago.
At first, the game was actually fun. The Resistance weapons were always fun and the Vita gimmicks were integrated in a fun way. The game controlled well except for the touch based door/gate/stuff activations which sometimes used up a secondary fire of a weapon. Graphically, it isn't a looker but I thought it was ok.
Unfortunately, the game got tedious and overstayed its welcome which is quite funny considering it is so short. The reasons for that are the atrocious dumb AI and the weak and ever repeating encounter design.
The game just shows its mediocrity in every aspect and I still don't know how Nihilistic landed the job after already releasing other mediocre or shitty games on Playstation platforms before.
I would give the game a 6/10.
It is sad that we don't have more shooters on the Vita because they do play well. As a German, I am even sadder because I won't get Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition this week
It hurts because I thought we would get it as it is available for purchase on the German Steam. I can't understand why it isn't on the German PSN then where you can only buy stuff legally when you are 18 years old.
I know the original game is still indexed, which is quite a joke, but how does Steam manage to offer the Megaton Edition and PSN not?
Isn't Gravity Rush still a PS+ freebie? You don't have PS+?
Recommending one of the games over the other is difficult. GR is my second favorite Vita game after Persona 4: Golden and I just love it. Haven't played Soul Sacrifice Delta yet but I have the platinum trophy in the base game and the multiplayer was just great. SSD also offers a lot of more content so it might be a better bang for the buck.
Did SSD just went on sale now? If so, it might be smarter to consider it due to the online community. The longer you wait, the worse it will get for a newcomer.
Call of Duty made sense actually. Vicarious Visions fucked up the port of the CoD engine and Activision needed someone who could push out a game on short notice. Nihilistic were the only developers with a FPS engine running on the Vita.
I still can't believe how Activision didn't manage to port the engine. Just look at Killzone: Mercenary. I cringe every time I read Vicarious Visions in an Activision Crash Bandicoot thread.
We might have just got a console port of Black Ops 2 but that would have been better than Declassified (which isn't as bad as it reviewed). Nihilistic actually did an ok job considering they pushed out the whole game in 5 months. If we don't look at the sunk costs of the Vicarious Visions port job the profit of Declassified must have been crazy. 5 months development, heavy marketing by Sony and I guess still the best selling Vita game.
I'm fine with Gravity Crash Ultra as a replacement for Duke but the whole index thing is obviously ridiculously outdated. Sad thing is, we'd probably sooner see Germany changing its form of government before even *considering* updating the JuSchG and rethinking (aka getting rid of) the USK. I've been desperately awaiting change for years now.
Well that i definitely didn't think all these banned peeps would return all at once. Regardless good to see them back.
Thanks for that going to get it for sure and i don't mind it being digital only but my 16gb memory card going to die once i get this game.
I'd totally be down for it. Honestly would be interesting actually to hear how everyone from the community views the vita and to see the various games for the vita being discussed
Hikami
Member
How is the replay value in GR then? I'd rather get it physical later on then if I'm just going to play through it once.. Seems like SSD would be the better digital choice.
I only got my Vita and PS+ back in September last year. As far as I know there's no way to get previous PS+ freebies? Shows up as $13.49 for me on the store.
HowardRoark
Member
I would definitely be down for this, both listening and contributing (schedule-permitting).
Thing is, other older games got taken down from the index but not Duke Nukem 3D which is laughable. Meanwhile, Duke Nukem Forever and all the other modern stuff is ok?
I thought it would still be in the "yearly" freebie cycle like Uncharted: Golden Abyss.
Yeah, it obviously doesn't make sense. Trying to make head or tail of singular cases is pointless, though. It's the whole system that is archaic as hell.
Pandora012
Member
They removed those a couple of months ago.
To be honest, I think the whole situation is ok right now except for some singular cases. Nowadays, I barely see any game getting censored for Germany or even indexed. Only mentionable games are world war related and they have to remove the swastika.
Back in the days, the censoring was jarring and it felt like we only got cut versions.
So there are no "yearly" games? Is it the same for the other Playstations?
teflontactics
Member
"Yearly games" have been replaced by a guaranteed 2 PS3 titles, 2 PS4 titles and 2 Vita titles monthly, presented on the first Tues/Wed of the month (depending on region).
As for a Vita podcast, if you guys can't get one off the ground we'd love to have some of you as rolling guests (one or two a week) on The Vita Cast.
I think you're forgetting about the fact that USK is still a huge pain in the ass for indie devs. To release a game in Germany, you have to go through an extra certification process which is also way more expensive than PEGI's. This has led to several devs not releasing their games in Germany despite putting them out in literally every other EU country. There have been several cases very recently on the eShop of devs deciding against a German release because of the extra hassle and (more importantly) higher fees (Ittle Dew and all Circle Ent. titles including Legend of Dark Witch, to name two painful instances). These are completely unacceptable and, frankly, shameful conditions to work under.
Flightmare
Member
Welcome back everyone (well, not Baekshi ;_!
!names2hard4you
Member
It would be pretty cool, the only problem would be content. As much as I love the Vita, there would be times in which there would simply be nothing noteworthy to talk about
teflontactics
Member
What an awesome friend you have!
Yes a lot! The console is awesome and also the construction materials are good. Not as good as the superior 1000 model (that OLED screen) but good enough to make the machine solid and comfortable.
HowardRoark
Member
True. Though assuming we are good little gamers, there should always be Whatcha Been Playing
Really, replacement games never went on being PS+ titles for every region? I thought they would just say "bad luck Germans (or other countries)".
What did Sound Shapes replace by the way?
Why were Vicarious Visions given the job of porting the CoD engine to Vita when Treyarch had already been able to get it running on hardware as low spec as the Wii? I mean, wouldn't the studio that makes those games and have shown to be able to scale it down be a much better fit?
Outside of Geometry Wars 3, every Vita release from Activision is puzzling in some way. $40 Angry Birds Star Wars? Really late port of a movie tie-in Spiderman game (then the sequel, announced a few weeks after release, completely skipped the platform)? A Spongebob game in 2015? Wat.
teflontactics
Member
It replaced Outlast as the PS4 game for Feb 2014.
Had nothing to do with Germany that time (was for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, India and Turkey).
Thanks! I love this color, I was undecided between the white one and the white/light blue but when I saw the white one in photos I fell in love.
Cool, voted
Pokemon it is then.
Edit: Bravely Default right behind Dragon Age Inquisition... Really?
The crowd starving for Square-Enix JRPGs?
Xenoflare
Member
I am quite appalled by both of them.
Well I always had a bias against Dragon Age so that wouldn't exactly be fair. But Bravely Default?
No, there is reason why people stopped playing after the "halfway point"
teflontactics
Member
They started covering "adventure" (i.e. visual novels) some time ago.
i'm not sure this video really needed to be 10 minutes long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbAxK9m_qo
in previous tag forces it made sense to do things like that since the characters had 3d animations to draw the card, and special animations for signature summonings/activations
this is just eye glances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbAxK9m_qo
in previous tag forces it made sense to do things like that since the characters had 3d animations to draw the card, and special animations for signature summonings/activations
this is just eye glances
Welcome back Shizuka and Nampad. I-it's not like I missed you or anything.
It was extended to December 31st due to the ddos. It was supposed to end on the 29th.