Vita PSN Game & Service Thread | July 2013 | Slow Month, Fast Games

Does Sony know that the last firmware update broke the store downloads?

I wonder how much money Sony's left on the table by not addressing this problem sooner. I nearly gave up on buying Hotline Miami after having to restart my Vita five times.

Web store.

Hasn't it been a few FW updates since people started seeing the hang/crash when downloading from the store.

I just don't understand why sony can't just give us some launch games for free. I mean come on Rayman Origins as well as Hot Shots Golf would be perfect candidates for the IGC.

Because SCEA is run by assholes.
 
Why is one of the Vita PS+ games always a PSP game
May as well swap a PS3 game for a PS1 game each month while they're at it :/
cross-play on Jet Set would have been nice too..
 
Why is one of the Vita PS+ games always a PSP game
May as well swap a PS3 game for a PS1 game each month while they're at it :/
cross-play on Jet Set would have been nice too..

Don't worry, they will eventually.
Jet Set Radio has not aged well... I never played it before I got it free for Vita PS+ back in November or whatever... horrible.

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Hotline Miami:
(1) Where can I find a screwdriver? I think it's one of the "ground" kills I haven't done. :\ I had the "all guns" and "all projectiles" pop earlier. Strange, cause I don't remember using a shuriken ever. :lol
(2) Fuck these A+ requirements... Chapter 9 is currently the bane of my existence. :(
 
Does Sony know that the last firmware update broke the store downloads?

I wonder how much money Sony's left on the table by not addressing this problem sooner. I nearly gave up on buying Hotline Miami after having to restart my Vita five times.

Lots of people seem to have this problem but I don't, weird o_O

It's the one that stuck you on the now downloading screen, yeah? Never happened to me so I am a bit weirded out by it.
 
Lots of people seem to have this problem but I don't, weird o_O

It's the one that stuck you on the now downloading screen, yeah? Never happened to me so I am a bit weirded out by it.

"preparing to download..."

You can cancel, but then you can't use the home button and it's just stuck in the store and unresponsive.
 
I just don't understand why sony can't just give us some launch games for free. I mean come on Rayman Origins as well as Hot Shots Golf would be perfect candidates for the IGC.

Perhaps those games are still selling well. Also, they clearly stated that even if they wanted to offer some games, the publisher has the last word on it.
 
Yeah, I've never had a problem downloading stuff from the store either. First I'm hearing of it, actually.
 
Yeah, I've never had a problem downloading stuff from the store either. First I'm hearing of it, actually.

You must not be keeping up in here as much as you should be, noi! :P
I always thought people must be crazy and then after the latest FW update mine started randomly doing it too.
 
I heard about it only recently but haven't experienced it yet thankfully. Seems to be taking longer than normal for them to fix it by the sound of things too.
 
Hate to break up the sobbing over buggy firmware updates, but I just wanted to say:

Proteus confirmed and Walking Dead arriving very soon.

Not to mention things like Luftrausers and Spelunky making their way.

I know this is all indie bullshit to a lot of people who're waiting for some more 'AAA' releases, but I'm really excited to be a Vita owner right now. It helps that I haven't played any of these titles yet. It's all so fresh, and I'm able to lap it all up seeing as they're at much lower prices than normal.

If Hotline Miami is anything to go by then having all these awesome little gems on the move is going to be fantastic.

/gush

Edit: Wait, sorry. That 400 Days is not the Vita release... that'll teach me to get worked up! Still, what a time to be alive.
 
Yeah, never happened to me.

Makes me wonder maybe there's something different about my Vita maybe...? Weird.
I also just purchases hotline Miami just fine last week. The store did hang once a couple of weeks ago though while downloading a game. Did a restart and never happened again. Wonder if there are some minute differences between vitas.
 
Whatever happened to Snapshot?

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It was announced over a year ago to come out in fall 2012. That passed and they showed it off again in January, said to be coming soon, and the last I heard of it was something on their Twitter, saying:

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Their last tweet was from the following day. Their last blog post on their site was from January. Their last Facebook post April. Is the studio still around? The game looked awesome, and I know it's out on Steam and has been for awhile.
 
Whatever happened to Snapshot?

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It was announced over a year ago to come out in fall 2012. That passed and they showed it off again in January, said to be coming soon, and the last I heard of it was something on their Twitter, saying:

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Their last tweet was from the following day. Their last blog post on their site was from January. Their last Facebook post April. Is the studio still around? The game looked awesome, and I know it's out on Steam and has been for awhile.

Im not sure, but my gamestop has a demo for it on their display unit. I would ask Shahid, but hes sleeping by now I believe.
 
Yeah, I was just thinking about that again today, too, when I was posting in the "what indie games do you want on Vita" thread.

Was expecting it late 2012 at the latest.
 
Hate to break up the sobbing over buggy firmware updates, but I just wanted to say:

Proteus confirmed and Walking Dead arriving very soon.

Not to mention things like Luftrausers and Spelunky making their way.

I know this is all indie bullshit to a lot of people who're waiting for some more 'AAA' releases, but I'm really excited to be a Vita owner right now. It helps that I haven't played any of these titles yet. It's all so fresh, and I'm able to lap it all up seeing as they're at much lower prices than normal.

If Hotline Miami is anything to go by then having all these awesome little gems on the move is going to be fantastic.

/gush

Edit: Wait, sorry. That 400 Days is not the Vita release... that'll teach me to get worked up! Still, what a time to be alive.

I want Spelunky. Day one on that, for sure. I've seen gameplay videos from the 360 version and it looks FANTASTIC.

I don't really care about the rest of those, I believe.
 
Can it be bought on the store?
It can, but I personally bought it on cart because I didn't want to switch accounts just to play.
 

So basically its done, and Sony is just holding onto it for the hell of it? I really do not understand the reasoning behind holding a bunch of finished games, and then having weeks were there is no releases at all. They did the same thing with FFA where insomniac said it had been finished for awhile.before Sony released it.

Doesnt self publishing mean that Devs get to decide when their games release?
 
So basically its done, and Sony is just holding onto it for the hell of it? I really do not understand the reasoning behind holding a bunch of finished games, and then having weeks were there is no releases at all. They did the same thing with FFA where insomniac said it had been finished for awhile.before Sony released it.

Doesnt self publishing mean that Devs get to decide when their games release?

Well the tweet said the port is still in progress.

Still seems bizarre that it could possible take this long to port to ps3 and Vita. One of the mysteries of the world.
 
me too! it's my most wanted indie. the thought of having it on a handheld seems so perfect.

4 A+'s to go on hotline miami. there's nothing like playing through a level really good only to come out of it with an A.

Yeah, or a B+. I hit like 110k on chapter 10 and it wasn't enough for an A at all.
It makes me very sad. Any tips for that one?
 
Yeah, or a B+. I hit like 110k on chapter 10 and it wasn't enough for an A at all.
It makes me very sad. Any tips for that one?

i'm skipping that one for now. there was someone in the ot saying they got 119,000 and still didn't get A+. i've been trying to use zack or carl to get my A+'s.
 
"preparing to download..."

You can cancel, but then you can't use the home button and it's just stuck in the store and unresponsive.

Weirdest shit happened to me. I was having problems on my US account on my AU Vita, but when I got my Japanese video capture Vita and swapped my US account to it, and put a UK account on my AU Vita, I haven't had it once since.
 
I tried giving Uncharted another shot today as I never finished it, but I still can't get over all the gameplay mechanics that have been forced in. I understand and respect that these choices were made to demonstrate all the capabilities of the Vita's new features, yet I feel it ruins the pacing (especially melee combat, which feels sluggish). I really wish there was an option to turn off all the touch-based combat mechanics in favour of a "classic" Uncharted control scheme.

I ended up putting the game down again as I can only take it in short doses, unlike the console games which I could play for hours. Then again, that is the whole draw of a portable experience...
 
Weirdest shit happened to me. I was having problems on my US account on my AU Vita, but when I got my Japanese video capture Vita and swapped my US account to it, and put a UK account on my AU Vita, I haven't had it once since.

Probably something with specific hardware models.

i'm skipping that one for now. there was someone in the ot saying they got 119,000 and still didn't get A+. i've been trying to use zack or carl to get my A+'s.

I just got it with 160k+.
I thought I might've been short. ;)
On to chapter 11.
 
Well the tweet said the port is still in progress.

Still seems bizarre that it could possible take this long to port to ps3 and Vita. One of the mysteries of the world.

Yeah I dont know, SCEA made FutureLabs resubmit Velocity Ultra a couple of times, despite it being released in EU prior to that with no major issues that I heard of. Yet those same "High standards" allowed the glory that is Motorbike to breeze right on through. I really wish I could take a look at the processes of each region, so I could see why SCEA seems to have a much harder time getting things right then the other two.

Grace Chen time better sure as hell not exsist anymore if we are paying for PSN now.
 
I tried giving Uncharted another shot today as I never finished it, but I still can't get over all the gameplay mechanics that have been forced in. I understand and respect that these choices were made to demonstrate all the capabilities of the Vita's new features, yet I feel it ruins the pacing (especially melee combat, which feels sluggish). I really wish there was an option to turn off all the touch-based combat mechanics in favour of a "classic" Uncharted control scheme.

I ended up putting the game down again as I can only take it in short doses, unlike the console games which I could play for hours. Then again, that is the whole draw of a portable experience...

It's been a while since I played it, but I seem to remember there being much less touch stuff in the latter majority of the game.
 
It's gonna suck requiring two PS+ accounts to play US/JPN games online.

Well atleast it wont be every game, and none of the entertainment stuff is locked up either. Ill be curious to see if they label games as requiring since Sony seems to be allowing it on a developer/publisher choice to require it.
 
Well atleast it wont be every game, and none of the entertainment stuff is locked up either. Ill be curious to see if they label games as requiring since Sony seems to be allowing it on a developer/publisher choice to require it.

I'm jumping in to the middle of a conversation here so forgive me if i'm reading it wrong.

The only games that will be exempt from the PS+ requirement to play online are MMOs and FTP games.

I believe they said one ps plus sub covers multiplayer for all accounts on a console

Yes they did.
 
Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask this, but I just started playing the digital copy of Disgaea 3 that I got through PS+. If I were to purchase a physical copy of the game, would I be able to access my current save file using that copy?
 
Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask this, but I just started playing the digital copy of Disgaea 3 that I got through PS+. If I were to purchase a physical copy of the game, would I be able to access my current save file using that copy?

Yes! But ensure that the game is as the same region as your digital copy.

Upload the save game to the cloud. Delete the digital game. Install the physical game and copy back the save rom the cloud. All done.

I did it for wipeout and it worked flawlessly.
 
Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask this, but I just started playing the digital copy of Disgaea 3 that I got through PS+. If I were to purchase a physical copy of the game, would I be able to access my current save file using that copy?

I know it works the other way round, physical to PS+ saves work.

I would imagine you could cloud save and them import the save back, even if it doesn't work from the get-go.
 
Thanks! I just wanted to know for sure before I invested a bunch of time into the game.
 
beat Hotline Miami last night, those last few stages were soooo good.

a little confused on the story, but what're you gonna do.

super fun, i'm gonna keep it on my vita so i can occasionally go back and re-beat a level / listen to the music.

copped guacamelee - as if my vita backlog wasn't big enough.
 
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