The Playstation Vita

I like using the Vita, and I recommend it to everyone. I think it's a good console, and I enjoyed playing Project Diva on it. The screen is sleek, neat and wide, the battery lasts long enough on standby, I can stream Youtube videos and play music and browse the internet. Even when recent consoles can do that, I like it. It's also possible to jailbreak it to use an emulator, though it's not as good as the PSP. The only gripe I have is the bad photo quality. ^^;

Vita-exclusive or not, I like the enhanced port. And PSN offers good deals, if you look for USD/your region cards. That said, I haven't played vita-games in forever, but I keep it everywhere for use for...music. I wish I'd gotten the mobile internet thingy Vita as a back-up signal since the it's weaker, but it's nice enough. If I'm making sense...

Project Diva Screencap◊

edited 14th Jan '15 9:47:48 PM by TheTomatoFairy

I don't think there's anything you can really do about that yourself aside from sending it in.

Just letting people know: if you want to take advantage of the 10% off weekend that Sony is running for the Vita, you'll need to use their browser-based webstore to do it.

https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com

edited 23rd Jan '15 4:38:25 PM by Alucard

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

Well, let see if there's anything interesting.

Also, there's a flash sale going on with a bunch of indie games for big discounts. The 10% off code applies to those games, so there are savings to be had.

Are any of those indi games any good? At least the vita/PS 3 ones.

Anyway, what do you think of the Clock Tower successor, Nightcry?

Guacamelee for PS Vita and PS 3 is good. The Last Guy for PS 3 is a gem from way back in the early days of PSN.

edited 25th Jan '15 3:54:18 PM by Nettacki

Well I hope you don't watch You Tube on your vita because it's going away...

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstation-vita-losing-some-apps-soon/1100-6424943/

Seriously wtf it is the only damn app I use on my vita and it's not like you can actually use the browser for it as the browser really does not work. I am VERY VERY pissed.

Seriously the coffin keeps getting nails put into it.

edited 28th Jan '15 1:14:22 PM by Memers

Eh? I heard its removal is because the browser version now works.

And the fact that Youtube is overhauling its moblie app this spring and Sony was just like "eh."

In my experience, the browser version has worked on the Vita for months, and in some ways is better than the app version. I can access all my private videos with it, for one.

So Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax, a fighting game featuring Light Novel-protagonists from Dengeki Bunko (Shakugan No Shana, Toradora, Kinos Journey and more) is coming to the US and Europe on PS 3 and Vita.

...well, I'm hyped!

Wait, it wasn't released in English yet? My (non-Japanese-speaking) friend was playing it just last Wednesday...

Games sometimes get English subs for Asia region releases, but it's perfectly possible to play games without understanding the language they're in. I've gotten through several Super Robot Wars titles (with FA Qs at my elbow) and the Girls und Panzer game that way.

Fighting games are extremely import-friendly. Some are already using some English in the Japanese release.

edited 30th Jan '15 11:46:06 AM by burnpsy

Time for a sizzle reel.

Oh! We're getting that game that was not recieved well in Japan! Nice that it's coming over though. And Shovel Knight'll be fun to actually play.

And Grim Fandango is pretty cool. Working on finishing off trophies now.

...and remote play means NOTHING to someone who doesn't have a PS 4

Aw yeah, the first Uncharted game! I've been wanting to get into that series.

I wonder if you can play 2 and 3 on the Vita too...

edited 11th Feb '15 6:53:08 PM by theLibrarian

Oreshika? Yeah, it wasn't that well received...for reasons that had nothing to do with the gameplay. Apparently the story has a major focus be on some goddess or something and players were furious because they wanted the plot to be concentrated entirely on the player-generated family or something?

Sometimes the Amazon Japan reviews are brought up and they make the reviewers sound ridiculously entitled.

edited 11th Feb '15 7:07:40 PM by Zendervai

Portraying them a bit too harshly there.

The complaint was that the player-created family, which was a huge deal in the original, are treated as irrelevant nobodies in the story. The antagonists say that to the player's face, in fact. Also, the goddess is forced into the party at certain points, which meant you had to keep her around to stop her from being dead weight. That latter one is gameplay-related and resulted in a patch to make it cheaper to revive her or something.

edited 11th Feb '15 7:29:26 PM by burnpsy

Oh, okay. I didn't realize it was like that.

Happy 3rd birthday, Vita! Some good sales are starting.

Angry Birds still too expensive.

I remember seeing some of these games at lower prices before. And I'm talking about Plus discounts.