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Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Endorph posted:

this thread is filled with exaggerated insults towards developers/franchises/countries/chrono trigger

CHRONO TRIGGER INSULTS?????? WHERE?!?!?!

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Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Captain Baal posted:

Chrono Trigger is dumb

There



You've done more damage to video game posting in video games than your average hate crime

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
My problem with Tales games is that none of them have matched the title mechanic from Tales of Graces, where doing stuff (almost any stuff) made you stronger, which inspired you to do different things in battles to unlock and power up the titles, which got you more stuff to do and power up.

Edit: Shame about the story though.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Alteisen posted:

So I'm playing Digimon Cyber Sleuth and it hard locked my Vita, took awhile for it to restart, started in safe mode, rebuilt the database and when it started up half my gaming library is missing.

I don't know what just happened but I don't like it, Cyber Sleuth doesn't have an icon anymore either, just looks like a white ball.

Any idea what's going on? Is the memory card on the fritz?

Edit: Content manager says the games are there but I can't see them.

I've had my database rebuilt before, usually when my memory card accidentally pops out during transport. Try hard-booting the system (hold down the power button until it turns off) then turn it back on. That should bring back the games.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
Just finished platinuming Memories of Celceta. A good game, though it dragged a bit at some points. I enjoyed running around killing monsters a lot more than I enjoyed the plot. Once I make a bit of a dent in my 3DS backlog, I think I'll check out Tales of Hearts R, as people have said its good.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
So I want to get Cyber Sleuth - does it have any problems on the Vita, or am I good getting that version?

Also, bummed Toukiden isn't on sale.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Alder posted:

D:CS is a good game and originally made for the vita. It reminded me of my childhood before I got jaded by anime.

I just found out that the Vita version isn't on sale for Golden Week :( I have too many PS4 games and can't justify picking up another one that I won't get to for some time - hopefully sometime in the future it'll be cheaper on the handheld.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
I bought the collector's edition of Cold Steel on sale and it has a spot in the box for Cold Steel 2 so now I have to get that too I guess?

Edit: I love my dead handheld and I will carry around its corpse Weekend at Bernie's style until it falls apart or until its voodoo curse wears off.

Edit: Wait that was Weekend at Bernie's 2.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
I have played most of Valkyria Revolution, and it is bad.

- There are only like a dozen maps in the game, expect to see them a lot, except with random parts blocked off depending on the mission
- You can't access the map while in a mission, so if there's an enemy you need to kill to trigger the next part, oh boy have fun looking for them.
- What am I saying that doesn't matter because enemies don't show up on the minimap either unless it's to take a base.
- Enemies are pushovers at best, damage sponges at worst. Mechs in particular are bad, because the entire strategy for them is to run up to them and press the attack button until they die.
- This applies to literally every enemy and boss in the game.
- Magic powers are trash except for one or two that just blow up a bunch of enemies and once, saving you from pressing x repeatedly until they die.
- The story is "Are we doing the right thing by starting this war?" except that their enemy is a power-hungry dictator who is a caricature of evil, so the answer is "Yes." and doesn't involve any real moral issue.
- You upgrade your weapons by cramming magic spells into them. No strategy or thought required, just mush your spells into it, you'll get more later so it doesn't matter.
- Equipment, like guns and grenades, are useless. Yes you can kill a single soldier, or you can magic them into mush. The only exception is very specific boss battles where you need rocket launchers.
- There are cover mechanics, and status effects, and surprise attacks, and every single one of these are pointless and worse than the previously-explained strategy of 'run into the enemy and press x'.
- Oh and the Vita runs it poorly. Enemies pop into existence as they spawn, or you run close to them, and if they're far enough away their animation is like a slideshow that looks terrible.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
Severed is a great first-person metroidvania with cool combat mechanics that doesn't outstay its welcome.

Toukiden 2 is a good Monster Hunter clone, I've found. Soul Sacrifice Delta, as well, but it's a different style.

Edit: After you beat Persona 4 you can play Persona 4: Dancing All Night, of course.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
Yakuza works so well because of that juxtaposition between beating a man's head into the sidewalk while walking to the video store to get your rocks off, or engaging in super-serious yakuza political strife right after delivering piping hot ramen or something down the road. If it were just one or the other I doubt I, at least, would enjoy it nearly as much.

Edit: Wait this is the Vita thread, what is Yakuza chat doing in here.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
But not the Switch? Goddamn.

Still gonna get it though.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
I've always stuck with my basic, uh, 4 gb card (I think). It limits the number of games I can have at once on my system, sure, but I can transfer them to my PC when I'm done with them, and because my brain is broken, having fewer games to choose at any given time means I'm more likely to actually play them, unlike, say, my Steam library.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Beelerzebub posted:

I can't use my campus wifi on my vita, so this way I can just download all my games when I go home

Ah, lovely. I'm pretty certain that Starbucks wifi works though, if you are able to find one though uh that's less optimal, sitting there for a couple of hours hoping nothing happens to the connection.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
Oh nice, I might actually get around to playing it in that case.

I mean the Vita is a dumb gay dead system but when I have an option to get a game on it or another system, as someone who takes public transit, I'm going to pick the Vita every time. I recently bought Salt and Sanctuary during the Halloween sale, and just platinumed it over the weekend since I had been playing it off and on wherever I happened to be sitting fairly non-stop. If only Sony hadn't been so incredibly incompetent in their marketing and proprietary garbage.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

In Training posted:

As someone who loved the Vita for the same reason, I can highly recommend getting a switch at some point

Oh I have one, but I feel weird pulling it out like on the bus or whatever. It's fantastic, though, when someone else is using the ps4.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
I'd consider getting Mercenary Kings for Vita, it's structured much better as a mobile game rather than one that you need to sit down with.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
Uh a fighting game/visual novel by the makers of Melty Blood, if I'm understanding correctly. Everytime I look at that name I have a seizure, though.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

SelenicMartian posted:

My bar is so high.

Mine's curved just a liiiittle to the left.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
Goddamn it I just bought Stardew Valley on the Switch. I'd play it so loving much on the Vita.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
I know the Vita is a joke and such, but I've put so many hours into it and am happy when new games come out, even though I have a couple titles I still want to play through. Ive probably put like a hundred hours into Toukiden Kiwani, I've got Cold Steel waiting for me afterwards, halfway through Digimon Cyber Sleuth - these are (almost) all available on better consoles, but there's no way I'd be putting half as many hours into them if I didn't have the portable option.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

The White Dragon posted:

how quickly we forget the classic ds game, grope animes with your stylus: doki doki majou shinpan
:nws:https://imgur.com/pvtGG0u:nws:

and before you say this was some one-off misstep that nintendo made, snk released two sequels!! :henget:

Look man that's not weird, I've gotta find those witches and by god if I get an erection by doing it is that really so terrible.

the answer is yes

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
I bet it's going to be something like Katrina or Katerina or something.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
Has anyone had an issue on their Vita of the memory card frequently being 'removed', despite not actually being removed? I'll grab my system out of my bag to play it and at least once or twice a week, it'll have booted back to the menu with that message, losing progress in a game I'm playing. Then I'll need to pull the card out and put it back in, then restart the system, to actually have it recognize the card.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
How is there an anime sale going on right now and Ys 8 isn't on that list?

Oh the re-translation came out on the 30th. Not sure if that was ever actually announced, not even on the blog that NIS specifically started to track it.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Pablo Gigante posted:

It's a Bandai Namco-only anime sale

Well they shouldn't call it 'Anime Sale' if it's only them :colbert:

Edit: The Sword Art Online games, I remember one had a bad translation and one had bad gameplay? Which is which? Are they decent enough to pick up? Hollow Fragment is $5 at the moment.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
I thought half the point of a visual novel was that the art isn't poo poo?

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
Oh huh I didn't realize that both Vostok Inc and Iconoclasts were released on Vita, sweet. Vostok Inc in particular seems much better fitted as a mobile game, and I'm much more likely to play Iconoclasts on the go.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
I don't think I've ever been interested in playing a single Vita game offered by PSPlus. They always seem to pick the worst on the console.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

History Comes Inside! posted:

Memory card dying. May never happen again, may happen again immediately and never come back.

Backup and cross your fingers. Maybe buy a new card now before they're never seen again just in case.

I only ever got this error while playing a game that was on the memory card. Been playing Cold Steel lately and it's never come up, even though actually removing the memory card does the same thing.


Wandle Cax posted:

Grand Kingdom or whatever was this months and thats really good

Already have it. It's a weird game, especially if you look at the online stuff. I'd probably recommend against that.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Oscar Wild posted:


The Sony store rating system is worse than useless.

All user-based rating systems are.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

R.C. Pro Am Porn posted:

Please make sure you do this, it's the second best part of the Operation games; after the dungeon design.



If I saw a team of heroes charging at me dressed like that I'd probably just give up on the spot.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Help Im Alive posted:

Hey Stardew Valley is out on Vita next week

and it's crossbuy so you can get it for free if you already have it on PS4

Fuuuuuck finally I'm going to play the poo poo out of this on my commute.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

TV Zombie posted:

So when will the memory cards stop being produced? As long as digital downloads are available, we should be okay, right?

.... Vita is dead.

Honestly this is my only worry - there're a bunch of games I still want to play on Vita, so I don't care about physical production, but once the card I have dies, that thing is useless.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
Hey folks, Stardew Valley comes out today on Vita, if you're a mobile-friendly person as I am.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Dehry posted:

There's no multiplayer planned and no cross save. I guess if you're a big fan or got it free via the PS4 version it's good but not something I would invest a lot of time in.

Or you don't care about those things, such as myself.

Strange that lack of cross save is a detriment for a game on multiple consoles/systems that don't have that feature anyway.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Policenaut posted:

They kept having rating classification issues in the West and Sony doesn't want Adults Only games on their platforms. If PQube didn't want to censor anything for a Western release then what could they do? Other than put it out on Steam I guess, because Steam's new caveat emptor deal would probably be fine.

I can't imagine why Sony would care so much about a system they no longer support, market, or make games for. What are people going to do, buy fewer Vitas?

I'm sure there's some stuff going on that I don't understand as someone looking in, but it seems silly. I guess it's all just a big overall branding thing?

That said, I couldn't give half a rat's rear end about this game coming out anywhere so whatever.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Help Im Alive posted:

There's still the Persona rhythm games I guess

I loved Dancing All Night

I reviewed Dancing All Night once upon a time and needed my friend's Vita to do so, so the game is now tied to his account/system.

I regret doing this. It's the only rhythm game i've wanted to keep playing.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters
One can hope this would be a deterrent for other creepy-rear end cartoon pedophile games.

It won't be

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Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

U-DO Burger posted:

it's really hosed up that the series known for confusing you by bouncing around timelines would have you do that again in the third game

I can understand his confusion. In other games you bounce around the flowchart, but it's a single flowchart - when you start a scene you know exactly how you got there. In ZTD, you have no idea what's been happening. A team could already be dead. Someone on your team could be dead. Maybe you have an antidote in you? Who knows!

I mean granted the game (Zero's game, that is) is based around the drugs he gives you and knocking you out, so the feeling of disconnect and such is being replicated for the player, which is neat. But I can understand the getting a little frustrated when first playing the game.

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