Vita PSN Game And Service Thread

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Takao said:
you will not believe how many times I have typed out Wonderbook: Book of Spells
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That sounds rather annoying actually.. best of luck that you at least get something from doing that stuff 24k times.
 
The best thing about having a facebook account I don't use is I have no qualms about spamming my friends with inane bullshit :P

Right now Takao has a 1.25% chance of winning :lol
 
You must all have terrible handwriting. Smart As hasn't mistaken my letters/numbers for anything except that which i intended them to be.
 
Zeer0id said:
The best thing about having a facebook account I don't use is I have no qualms about spamming my friends with inane bullshit :P

Right now Takao has a 1.25% chance of winning :lol
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Once you hit 5 digits the game points decrease from 250 to 50.
 
Here's some Smart As impressions (kind of >.<) that i posted on my blog thing. Really long and bullshitty, so apologies :P

Based on around 1 hour of playing

First, the biggest chunk of the game (or as it seems so far) and the part of it that will bring you back every day, is the Daily Challenge. The game will put you through four different tests, each testing you on a different subject - arithmetic, logic, language and observation. At the end of the Daily Challenge, you will be given a percentage score which is supposed to represent your "brain power", whatever that means. You can also view stats on how you've done with regard to each different subject. Being a daily challenge, of course, you're expected to come back every day and re-do it, seeing how you improve over time and how your "brain power" increases (or decreases). How the daily challenge will hold out over multiple days of play is something i haven't experienced yet of course.

The rest of the game is mostly made up of "free-play" challenges which are, as the name suggests, challenges you can play freely (who'd have thought it?). Once again you can choose from the four subjects of play, and you then choose one of the games from that subject. There is only one available in each subject when you first start, but you unlock more as you go - to a total of 29 challenges - which helps to keep things fresh. Every different mini games also has 4 different difficulty levels from easy to "genius", which will also help to mix things up a bit and presumably turn you into the next Einstein. As an example of some of the free-play challenges, one has you deciding whether the number on the left is more than, equal to, or less than the number on the right; another has you using your powers of observation to remember the objects thrown up on screen, and then select them from a bunch of objects. It's all pretty simple to understand, but not so easy in practice. I was fairly surprised by the difficulty i had with some of these challenges - even on easy. Once completing each challenge, you will be graded in stars, with 1 being terrible and 3 being the best you can get. You will also have your time logged so you have something to strive to beat the next time you play the game. If you get a three-star rating you have the option of using NEAR to leave that as a challenge for someone else in the local area to beat.

Locations seems to be a rather large part of Near. When you first enter the World view, it will ask you for your location. The game then allows you to compare your score and compete with everyone from your home town, from your home country, and even across the whole world - which adds a nice touch of competition into the mix, so the whole game isn't just based on beating your own scores and times. There is another interesting piece of location based gameplay; if you travel to another city with your Vita and Smart As, you can pick up challenges in the city you visit, complete them, and compete with the people in that city too. It's a nice way to bring you back to the game and encourage you to take your Vita out and about with you, which is quite nice and probably something i will end up using a lot as i travel a fair bit.

Of course, with all of these different challenges, a game like this wouldn't be complete without a myriad of stats - something which this game definitely has. From the statistics page, you can view your daily challenges, and see how you did in each of them - helping you see how and where you improved over the course of the month. There are also stats for your most played challenge, the challenge you're best at, total time played, and anything else you could possibly wish to know. Your star rating for every challenge on every difficulty is also logged. If there's a single statistic you want to know, the chances are that the game has logged it somewhere on the statistics page.

Overall, i quite enjoyed my first hour with the game. It's clear the is a lot of stuff packed into it. There are a fair number of challenges, and plenty of reasons to come back to the game - both to compete with your friends and neighbours, and to increase your statistics and become better at the daily challenges. The UI is slick and easy to navigate, and John Cleese's voice-over is fairly good too - though disappointingly lacking in comedy from what i have played so far. My only worry is that the daily challenges will become stale and boring after repeated playing..
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cyborg009 said:
And I ruin it.........

Well I just cut off some of the edges seems pretty good
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I found it awkward to do in the bathroom. Without a table or something to rest the Vita on during the process, so I had to do a balancing/juggling act. Did mine fine in the end though, but it was more hassle than it needed to be.

When my cousin did his, I didn't bother with any of that. Just did it in the living room. Was much easier
 
Damn, it is downloading ridiculously slow..

Decreasing at one minute extra left per second, 700 atm.. this is going to be a corrupt download for sure :/

Pause and resume, insta fix >:) hour or two, >:D
 
Shahed said:
I found it awkward to do in the bathroom. Without a table or something to rest the Vita on during the process, so I had to do a balancing/juggling act. Did mine fine in the end though, but it was more hassle than it needed to be.

When my cousin did his, I didn't bother with any of that. Just did it in the living room. Was much easier
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I'll buy another one day, my luck today was really low....

and now a system update........
 
Hey blue, how many views would you say your vita videos get? I'm kinda interested in adding something similar to my channel but I'm not sure. It'd be a real hassle to record and tbh I'm not sure it's worth it.
 
tamaster92 said:
Hey blue, how many views would you say your vita videos get? I'm kinda interested in adding something similar to my channel but I'm not sure. It'd be a real hassle to record and tbh I'm not sure it's worth it.
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Definitely would be appreciated I'm sure, especially when the videos are well edited (with good clips) and have a script (basically do gametrailers job for vita reviews :P)

Will need an expensive camera or people will complain though - especially when they appreciate the info and clips...I dunno. I've seen some great recordings, that nfs review was great I thought:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdZ36zCq3L0
 
cyborg009 said:
And I ruin it.........

Well I just cut off some of the edges seems pretty good
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I did mine in my bedroom. I cleared all the dust from my desk as best I could, and was sure the door was close, and no windows were open. Worked out rather well, but there was an errant hair that got under there. Extremely tiny, but I notice it, and it's bothersome. Not going to bother and fix it, though, and I am sure I'll eventually stop noticing it.
 
Takao said:
It's weird there's no leaderboards or even anything tying the site back to Facebook.
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LOL I won a free game

Please don't be NHL 12, for the love of Kaz...

Other possibilities included Resistance 3, Battlefield 3, Arkham City, and Just Dance 3, I think...
 
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Takao said:
Awh man, I've yet to win anything :(
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Bad luck :(

Hmm, the rules say you're only eligible for a max of 1 instant win prize. I should probably just stop now. I mean, if I had any common sense, I would. It also says there are 200 available in total.
 
btkadams said:
is it not possible for devs to implement in-game custom soundtracks in vita like they can for ps3? i love how - in games like ssx, hot pursuit, and wipeout hd - you can select a ps3 music playlist in-game and it will know to start new songs when you play new levels/races or enter the menus. it's like your custom soundtrack is a part of the actual game.

is this sort of functionality not possibe with vita? i know you can mute music in-game and play music from the menu, but it's not the same when it just plays over top of everything.
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For me most of the games play music from the music-player, while the SFX is from the game.
I.e. games like Virtua Tennis, etc. mutes the music automatically when you run the music-player, but keeps the sounds from hitting the balls and similar while playing my custom music.

I did have one game where I had to mute the music manually tough, since the music kept playing when I loaded the custom music, Army Corpse of Hell, but once I did that I never had to do it again, when I started the game later it automatically muted when I loaded the player. :-/
 
Takao said:
I was afraid I would kill my laptop's touchpad so I plugged in the USB mouse. You know this is HXC.
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Haha I'm permanently a USB mouse guy :)

Anyway, I got to 10000. I think I'm done here. This damn thing is lasting all the way through December 20th; there will be like 1 billion entries by the time it's done. Too HXC for me.

At least I'm walking away with a game :P
 
oh I played some mutant blobs while the power is out

not really for me

Ken said:
NSFWMW, RO, New Little King's Story, or ACL. I can't decide. D:
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You imported RO, right? No need to get that unless you want to support XSEED(perfectly good reason to buy!) and play in English.
 
Sorry Takao, I tried for you. Still would have tested the code >:) Fingers are killing! Why did I backtrack to that post :P

If you're still clicking away...careful ! Also not sure if it was updating before but the totalcount remains pretty static (like only updates for my clicks but shows over 2million!). At least the site saves the count number.

Damn, most wanted just failed download..knew it!
 
If any of you Canadian Vitabros want $10 off Black Ops Declassified (for some reason), I have a coupon code I don't want.
 
OmegaZero said:
Wait, wait, don't do it.
I regret buying it!

the retail version, that is
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The download wait is killing me, restarted once already - glad you're enjoying it, it's the only one I picked up this month with these steep prices recently. Try and stick with retail for a little while to see if ps+ discounts make an appearance. I doubt it would drop in value too much so soon..
 
tamaster92 said:
Hey blue, how many views would you say your vita videos get? I'm kinda interested in adding something similar to my channel but I'm not sure. It'd be a real hassle to record and tbh I'm not sure it's worth it.
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Usually a few hundred for gameplay, a few thousand for weekly updates. I want more viewers but I don't know how to expand my audience.
 
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