Vita PSN Game And Service Thread

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Lando Jones said:
I guess this can count as a service question, but does anyone know if they'll be selling Ps+ subscriptions on the cheap anytime? Looking to get a few cards to stack up as that first wave of free swag definitely won me over!
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If your in the UK play.com is having a sale with 90 days cards only 5.99
 
Dantis said:
Wait what.

This is wrong.

Ignore this and buy P3P. It is better than pretty much every handheld game out there.
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Game.com selling a bundle with a wifi vita, 4 gig card and block ops -

189.99

That's like the sweet price point right?

Lots under 200 and with the biggest new game
 
Dantis said:
Wait what.

This is wrong.

Ignore this and buy P3P. It is better than pretty much every handheld game out there.
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I'm disgusted by that FILTH. Truly is TRASH. Pure shit.

Everyone buy P4G The SUPERIOR Persona as well as the SUPERIOR portable Persona Experience(No Downgrades and point and click adventures with slide shows as cutscenes like that other VILE game). And one of the best JRPGs in existence.

DON'T buy that P3P garbage. Do yourselves a favor
 
Ordered the Black Ops bundle from Target on Tuesday which comes with a $50 gift card. Ordered Virtue's Last Reward and preordered Persona 4 Golden.

Probably going to use the gift card on PS+. Going to sell COD.

Now I wait. I think this is a pretty good birthday present.
 
Maxwood said:
Tried the vita at my local game store a while ago and was quite impressed, but now that i've bought the machine and spent some quality time with it...
...great scott.

And man, dat oled!
I'm in love!

Youtube app works (and looks, oh man does it look good) suprisingly well. I might just start watching movies on a handheld haha :D
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Welcome welcome :) Also I voted for Gravity Rush. Everything else was basically Journey, lol. Speaking of which.. if it was possible, Journey would look AMAZING on the OLED.
 
LeadProtagonist said:
Ordered the Black Ops bundle from Target on Tuesday which comes with a $50 gift card. Ordered Virtue's Last Reward and preordered Persona 4 Golden.

Probably going to use the gift card on PS+. Going to sell COD.

Now I wait. I think this is a pretty good birthday present.
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Nice! Have a happy birthday.

You also have an awesome avatar.
 
Kyon said:
I'm disgusted by that FILTH. Truly is TRASH. Pure shit.

Everyone buy P4G The SUPERIOR Persona as well as the SUPERIOR portable Persona Experience(No Downgrades and point and click adventures with slide shows as cutscenes like that other VILE game). And one of the best JRPGs in existence.

DON'T buy that P3P garbage. Do yourselves a favor
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why not both?
 
Zeer0id said:
I hate you so very much
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LeadProtagonist said:
Ordered the Black Ops bundle from Target on Tuesday which comes with a $50 gift card. Ordered Virtue's Last Reward and preordered Persona 4 Golden.

Probably going to use the gift card on PS+. Going to sell COD.

Now I wait. I think this is a pretty good birthday present.
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Indeed it is a good gift! Happy Birthday! There's so many November birthdays, or at least from what I've noticed. @_@

Ragingnight said:
P4A is the best Persona game!
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Well duh, it's Persona 4 story with the best P3 characters in it, too!
 
StarCreator said:
Shining example of style over substance. Unless they've made major changes to the game system and visuals since the XBLA release, not interested. And this is from a guy who imported a Japanese 360 in order to play Cave's releases.
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I found it superior to any Cave game I've played, personally.
 
As a whole package, P4G is also terrific, though the new content is much more insignificant than P3P. It's not entirely better though. P3 still has a better plot, and the female playthrough means that it's an awful lot longer.

Every Vita owner should get both, really.

Just don't expect the new Golden content to be particularly good.
 
That game.co.uk deal is fantastic btw - you can trade in declassified for about £20-30 which means you can get a wifi vita for about £150

Cheapest I've seen brand new
 
Kyon said:
Because after playing P4 and going to P3P you will see why Totobeni and I warned you.
It's like going from PS3 to PS1 in terms of limitation. VILE

BUY P3:FES on PS3 for 4.99 you will thank us later
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I've been warning them too, but they just won't listen!

P3:P is a soulless husk of what was a good RPG. Half the time I felt like I was playing a Flash game from 1999.
 
Oh my, the P3P hate is so delicious.

get FES and P4G instead

corrosivefrost said:
I found it superior to any Cave game I've played, personally.
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Wow, that's pretty interesting. I am a huge Cave fan and found the XBLA demo of Sine Mora to be nearly as bad as trash like Aegis Wing. I guess some people just look for different things. :lol
 
What is persona? Just from looking I'm assuming JRPG, but some of the talk about it and the trailers doesn't really fit that category
 
mrklaw said:
What is persona? Just from looking I'm assuming JRPG, but some of the talk about it and the trailers doesn't really fit that category
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Persona series is indeed a JRPG series, combining a kind of school life simulator and dungeon crawler. But they have a very unique atmosphere, are on the whole very well written, with genuinely likeable characters.

oh and some gorgeous artwork, too.
 
mrklaw said:
What is persona? Just from looking I'm assuming JRPG, but some of the talk about it and the trailers doesn't really fit that category
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It's pretty much half JRPG, half visual novel.

Half of the game takes place in day to day life. You go to school, hang out with friends. A large amount of the fun here comes from watching the people develop their stories. They're often poignant and very well written. An example would be the dying boy who is trying to a write a novel, or the eccentric TV personality/salesman who takes you under his wing.

The other half is a dungeon crawler. At night you run around randomly generated areas (Either in a giant tower in P3, or in a world inside the TV on P4) and whack monsters in turn based combat. You can also summon and fuse demons like in other MegaTen titles.

It is amazing. I've heard it compared to a JRPG equivalent of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and I'd say that holds true pretty well. The tone combines humour, seriousness etc. rather well.
 
branny said:
Oh my, the P3P hate is so delicious.

get FES and P4G instead


Wow, that's pretty interesting. I am a huge Cave fan and found the XBLA demo of Sine Mora to be nearly as bad as trash like Aegis Wing. I guess some people just look for different things. :lol
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My Cave experience is relatively limited, but I enjoy Sine Mora more than I ever have Guwange or Deathsmiles (Deathsmiles was the better of the two for me). They were okay, maybe I don't understand them properly (looking at you Guwange), but I didn't find them as fun or satisfying as Sine Mora. I've bought Sine Mora twice already, and will buy it a third time on Vita (and hope it gives me the PSN version as well). I don't think I need it on PSN though, if it doesn't come with the Vita purchase.

So yeah. For me, Sine Mora > any Cave game I've played.
I like Treasure shmups too. Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun <3.
 
Oh yeah, one of my favourite things about modern Persona games is the stylishness of them. Contrary to typical JRPG designs, characters are well-dressed and genuinely stylish. It carries through to the whole game too, the environments, the music, even the interface.

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corrosivefrost said:
I found it [Sine Mora] superior to any Cave game I've played, personally.
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Visually, maybe, but on a gameplay level you cannot be more factually incorrect:

  • Powerup drops are randomized, making consistent play impossible. Whether you even have enough power to destroy a stage's boss in time is up to a roll of the dice.
  • Powerups also, at the same time, just fall off the screen if you don't pick them up. So, if you don't want to miss any, you have to pretty much point-blank all the time.
  • The game at the same time actively discourages point-blank play for those that enjoy that sort of thing, because doing so risks death by piano.
  • Offensive targets are often indistinguishable from inert background objects. Nothing like being suckerpunched by a turret sitting a mile in the background that you didn't even see coming.
This is all feedback based on the XBLA version; the director of the game seemed sympathetic to this criticism but was laid off before any changes to the game were possible. I don't know if he was brought back to port the game to other systems after the XBLA exclusivity ended, but I really couldn't care less either.

corrosivefrost said:
My Cave experience is relatively limited, but I enjoy Sine Mora more than I ever have Guwange or Deathsmiles (Deathsmiles was the better of the two for me). They were okay, maybe I don't understand them properly (looking at you Guwange), but I didn't find them as fun or satisfying as Sine Mora. I've bought Sine Mora twice already, and will buy it a third time on Vita (and hope it gives me the PSN version as well). I don't think I need it on PSN though, if it doesn't come with the Vita purchase.

So yeah. For me, Sine Mora > any Cave game I've played.
I like Treasure shmups too. Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun <3.
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There are probably a total of 5 people outside Japan that really understand Guwange.

Guwange and Deathsmiles are probably a few of the furthest outliers from what most people equate to Cave experiences (though one of their hallmarks is very rarely replicating the same gameplay twice while never straying from a strong technical balance). As far as their Xbox 360/iOS output goes, Dodonpachi Resurrection, Mushihimesama Futari and Espgaluda II are much closer to being definitive experiences than what you've tried.
 
StarCreator said:
Visually, maybe, but on a gameplay level you cannot be more factually incorrect:

  • Powerup drops are randomized, making consistent play impossible. Whether you even have enough power to destroy a stage's boss in time is up to a roll of the dice.
  • Powerups also, at the same time, just fall off the screen if you don't pick them up. So, if you don't want to miss any, you have to pretty much point-blank all the time.
  • The game at the same time actively discourages point-blank play for those that enjoy that sort of thing, because doing so risks death by piano.
  • Offensive targets are often indistinguishable from inert background objects. Nothing like being suckerpunched by a turret sitting a mile in the background that you didn't even see coming.
This is all feedback based on the XBLA version; the director of the game seemed sympathetic to this criticism but was laid off before any changes to the game were possible. I don't know if he was brought back to port the game to other systems after the XBLA exclusivity ended, but I really couldn't care less either.
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Most of these comments sounds like the game follows a style of play that you don't enjoy. ie, shumps that can't be memorized rather than complaints about the game itself. I think a shump that focus on quick reflexes and adapting to different situations is a better game than one that put emphasis on memorizing its layout.

EDIT: in fact I'm not a shump fan for those exact same reasons. I highly dislike games that enforce you to learn a layout.
 
StarCreator said:
Visually, maybe, but on a gameplay level you cannot be more factually incorrect:

  • Powerup drops are randomized, making consistent play impossible. Whether you even have enough power to destroy a stage's boss in time is up to a roll of the dice.
  • Powerups also, at the same time, just fall off the screen if you don't pick them up. So, if you don't want to miss any, you have to pretty much point-blank all the time.
  • The game at the same time actively discourages point-blank play for those that enjoy that sort of thing, because doing so risks death by piano.
  • Offensive targets are often indistinguishable from inert background objects. Nothing like being suckerpunched by a turret sitting a mile in the background that you didn't even see coming.
This is all feedback based on the XBLA version; the director of the game seemed sympathetic to this criticism but was laid off before any changes to the game were possible. I don't know if he was brought back to port the game to other systems after the XBLA exclusivity ended, but I really couldn't care less either.
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Factually it's all opinion.
Your list, which I do not dispute because I'm not a professor of shmups, only matters to people who care about that sort of thing. :P

Again, personally, I found Sine Mora (and the Treasure shmups I mentioned) to be more fun and enjoyable than the few Cave games I've experienced.
I'm not saying Cave games suck. I'm not saying they're better for you. Just that I enjoy it more.
Also BomberMouse makes a good point.
 
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