The main reason I haven't gone digital with Vita is the PSN prices. I have a 32GB memory card and I'd love to put all my games on it, so that I don't have to swap carts. And if digital and retail prices were equal, I'd go digital. But that's not the case. From retail sales and deals, I haven't had to pay more than $30 for a Vita game. Many were only $20. It's too bad, Sony would get alot more of my money if they just offered good PSN discounts.
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PS Vita general discussion thread, part 5 | The handheld who would be King
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SpaceBridge
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Really?
Fill it with gifs.
No, more like screenshots Im thinking.
I know.. but gifs really work well with the vita. Page of lag though.
A well put together thread should withstand the trolling. (in theory.. - hence the gifs
)tamaster92
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Don't fail me Japan-GAF! I need edf screens and impressions! Hell, a video would be nice!
BlueMaxima
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SpaceBridge
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I cant even imagine trying to load the page on my phone. Eeek.
sad but true
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
i played about 5 minutes - graphics aren't as good as the X360 version and the super crazy draw distance has been pulled in, but it looks as good as expected. It's still long, but not so you can see to the end of the universe.
Killed some ants - very little slowdown :O - which was a surprise. Not put in enough time yet.
Seems to be a fair amount of loading.
Also - you have to switch to Technical controls to get the right stick mapped to view movement.
SpaceBridge
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I know.. but gifs really work well with the vita. Page of lag though.
A well put together thread should withstand the trolling. (in theory.. - hence the gifs
If I put effort into it, and formatted similarly to MidnightScotts thread, and specifically prefaced it to keep the "Vita am dead" comments out it should be okay. I mean, Id want it to be a thread for game recommendations, suggestions and impressions. It could also serve to illustrate that the Vita has games and might be worth owning. God knows Sony cant manage to muster the effort.
My one challenge is to post screenshots that are all the same size and dimensions.
As long as it is updated (for the coming games) it should be a good idea...would save a lot of repeating here as well as being a generally good source of info for people.
The vita op does list this:
Which is pretty useful itself...one thread to discuss them all is sort of like this thread. Perhaps working on some screenshots + descriptions for the op - or even have that as a backup incase the thread is over-run by trolls or lost in the back pages. (go for it, it is needed)
Callibretto
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I heard that sony went crazy with encryption or whstever protection they could think of built in their memory card, which is the main culprit why file transfer is so damn slow on vita. Basicaly its scanning each file in and out of vita while copying files.
SpaceBridge
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Actually there already was a thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467386
Hasnt been updated in a long while though it seems.
Some great screenshots! But it is a bit of an overload - needs a better way of organising and definitely more quoted images imo..?
Perhaps pm him to talk about contributing to it or a new thread?
Some descriptions would be useful and also help to separate the images..won't need to quote them as actually they are a nice size already.
also seems like he's popped up (ellooo
so no need to pm!neogaf needs those spoilers from penny arcade where you click to reveal more...but tbh it's a decent thread, hope it is linked in op. -- it is, good.
Yeah... lol
What's the language barrier like? Would I need to learn to read anything beyond the menus? I'm kind of itching for a shooter.
tamaster92
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Thanks for the impressions. Sounds like what I expected to be honest which is a very good thing! I presume tw language barrier would be the same as the other games in the series? Which is to say pretty easy to understand.
Also ill be interested as to how pale wing works, is it a separate campaign? New mission? Or just a select a character for the original missions?
I’ve also got one copy of EDF3P so let me put some of my impressions.
The only slowdown point you may experience would be the Queen Ant mission. Otherwise you may not notice any major slowdowns
The network play also does not affect frame rates by much.Surprisingly, it seems like they are actually synchronizing (or at least trying) position and status of minions between clients, let alone bosses, when you go online with your friends (as far as I know Monster Hunter series do not put much effort to synchronize minions between clients).
To unlock Palewing you must beat all missions in ANY difficulty at least once.
michaelius
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tamaster92
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Ive also got one copy of EDF3P so let me put some of my impressions.
The only slowdown point you may experience would be the Queen Ant mission. Otherwise you may not notice any major slowdowns
Surprisingly, it seems like they are actually synchronizing (or at least trying) position and status of minions between clients, let alone bosses, when you go online with your friends (as far as I know Monster Hunter series do not put much effort to synchronize minions between clients).
Thanks for the news, sounds pretty much perfect for what I wanted then
if the online is stable and it has all the missions plus pale wing looks like ill be importing it next pay day!Canis lupus
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tamaster92
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Gonna spam "steam summer sale" @yosp
If they did a yearly psn summer sale inane with steam then that would decimate the sales for summer of arcade
You should spam 'no system sellers for vita' and 'why u not give a fook about the vita' @yosp.Gonna spam "steam summer sale" @yosp
Sidewinder
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michaelius
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And " I want 64 gig memory card for PSN+ launch"
Wow, talk about being different from the Korean version lol.. just a bit.
(aesthetically.)
I support this idea. Plus we need folders to go along with the bigger capacities.
And I really support this idea.
Maybe I'll spam yosp myself later.
Strangely i thought about this at the beginning of the first play, but no more in the 3 times i played the demo.
Remember that in silent hill bom everything(puzzles, map, enemies, bonus, weapons etc), except special rooms and missions, is randomly generated.
Puzzles and blue orbs missions should have been better and more various, but they are random, so you can't expect something too deep, but at the same time every play is different.
In 2 dungeons there are very different enemies, so i'm positive about enemies.
Maps are small, so you can make a relatively short play when you want.
The game has its faults, but the story(a boy/girl that egoistically use a book tied with silent hill to gain a better life, it's not difficult to imagine that nothing good will come from it...), the karma mechanics(enemies with the same karma won't attack you or they could even protect you from opposite karma enemies), karma special moves, very limited number of object you can carry(i really hate unlimited inventories i survival horrors), special event rooms with 3 different results, everything randomly generated etc intrigue me, i really want to see where the game goes.
Canis lupus
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They need to do that for PS+, subscribtions will go throough the roof!
tamaster92
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Damn straight! I always wonder how ps plus does for them actually. It's seems like a very popular thing but who knows
Why didn't he just outright say there will be no mh vita? http://www.gamezone.com/news/will_monster_hunter_4_land_on_vita noone was going to buy the vita hoping it lands on it anyway.
tamaster92
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I presume it's because Sony are constantly trying to push capcpom to release a mh vita.
Edit: in regards to ragnarok I swear I remember hearing something about them patching online in?
Edit 2: yep here we go - online was patched in as well as some new maps
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467445
I know but even by then mh4 was announced for the 3ds so why not just be upfront about it?
Canis lupus
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Since june I kept counting the number of ps+ icons in my friendlist. Before june, it was +-4 max. Then it went to around 10, then somewhere in the 20s. Since I deleted some people and added GAFfers(still in the proces of this), it jumped to 35. :O
I wish Sony would give us the total numbers of PS+ subscribers, since they like numbers at E3.
michaelius
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tamaster92
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If the number was big enough they would tell
Shh! It's so high they can't put it into words is why.
Canis lupus
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If the number was big enough they would tell
I wonder if it is more than a million?
The Grim Heaper
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Correct. It was free DLC with the JPN version and ships with the game in NA.
tamaster92
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So you're saying it's junk. Thanks for shattering my dreams of a good John Cleese videogame.
tamaster92
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sorry can´t say...
Now I want a game written by John Cleese :/
Callibretto
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Any hints as to its quality?
I heard in podcast a couple months ago that it's like brain training, a collection of mini games designed to give your brain some exercise, I remember hearing that it has robust social element like leaderboard etc and the game constantly compare you to other player that push you along to play another round or something similar to that effect.
tamaster92
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That sounds ok actually, is it retail or psn? If its a cheap psn game similar to Frobisher says then that could be a cool little game.
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