Those super large sprites really put me off, but I understand that it's the "only the center kills you" kind of shmup. It's decided. Once I get some free time off of work, Gundanium Collection will be mine.
im so glad final fantasy 9 has finally released... i really hope to see origins, anthology, and chronicles next. it would also be cool if they put more out on the wii vc, but thats not for this thread.
I wouldn't hold my breath. I have Origins and to this day FF 2 still crashes my PS3 whenever you use a church. FF Chronicles and Anthology are lousy SNES ports.
im so glad final fantasy 9 has finally released... i really hope to see origins, anthology, and chronicles next. it would also be cool if they put more out on the wii vc, but thats not for this thread.
I wouldn't hold my breath. I have Origins and to this day FF 2 still crashes my PS3 whenever you use a church. FF Chronicles and Anthology are lousy SNES ports.
Honestly, the next game SE releases should be Chrono Cross. Love that game. Too bad my disks are ruined.
I bought Catan, and there is no local multiplayer. It wouldn't work too well anyway because you could see each other's hands.
You have to play 4 player games, the AI is there to play with in single player, and I think if you don't have enough humans in online, though I haven't taken it online yet.
Its a fairly nice package, my biggest gripe is how the trading works with the computer on their turns, you have to be really fast if you want to accept it, and it can be hard to determine so fast if you want to do the trade with them.
Second biggest gripe is the lack of the 4th Edition printing like my board is, which I think looks better than any of the other offerings. The 3D board is kinda neat, but I don't like how hard it can be to see the roads, and some of the player colors blend into the terrain. You can zoom in and out and rotate the board freely though. All the artwork for the Mayfair and Kosmos printings looks authentic enough, but I've never played on such boards so I couldn't tell you. I thought the Mayfair board was the easiest to play on in terms of visually picking out what the situation was on the board. The Kosmos cards are in German, but it doesn't hinder play because the game always tells you what kind of card was played.
Overall, I'd say its a worthwhile pickup since the price is right ($6.99). The computer AI is not entirely stupid though it trades kinda funny and doesn't seem to pick its Year of Plenty choices very well. Its very good at the robber though, it always targets the player that's winning and always picks their best tiles.
Visually its better than the PC Catan Online world, but since that's free, and any little laptop can run it, it might still be the better way to play Catan when getting together in person isn't possible. But this version is a nice way to just practice picking spots and going for strategies.
Hopefully they come out with some of the expansions as DLC or something, I'd like to try those cheaply before buying the board versions.
im so glad final fantasy 9 has finally released... i really hope to see origins, anthology, and chronicles next. it would also be cool if they put more out on the wii vc, but thats not for this thread.
I wouldn't hold my breath. I have Origins and to this day FF 2 still crashes my PS3 whenever you use a church. FF Chronicles and Anthology are lousy SNES ports.
Honestly, the next game SE releases should be Chrono Cross. Love that game. Too bad my disks are ruined.
yeah, but not having a chance to play them any other way kinda sucks... i mean, i guess there's always emulators... but something about doing that feels so detached to me... =/ i used to enjoy it so much too...
So... I got hooked on using PSN for PSP games, but I have a 4GB stick. I have about a gig of space left on it for one more game.
If I get a bigger memory stick, is there a way to transfer all the saves and games to it from my old stick?
Plug a USB cable into your PSP. Plug the other end into your PC. Copy everything. Insert new memory stick. Copy everything. It should work for everything but games. You'll likely have to redownload your games. I think. I imagine they have some sort of DRM solution for that.
If you're using the same PSP (possibly even a different PSP that you've already activated to your PSN account), the licenses will work fine without a redownload. Just copy the contents of the old memory stick to the new one, in whatever way works easiest for you.
If you're using the same PSP (possibly even a different PSP that you've already activated to your PSN account), the licenses will work fine without a redownload. Just copy the contents of the old memory stick to the new one, in whatever way works easiest for you.
Specifically, there is a folder on your memory stick labeled License. That's the one that is important.
Newegg seems to be the best place to go for memory sticks. They have 16GB Lexars for around $45 (although they're out of stock right now) and 16GB 30mb/s SanDisks for around $80.
I picked up a Lexar 32GB for about $88 there some time ago (although it looks like that one is out of stock as well), and it's been pretty awesome having such a ridiculous amount of space (although I'm down to like nine gigs free). A lot of department stores seem to have 8GB sticks for around $40.
You can also find larger capacity memory sticks online from SonyStyle and digital camera retailers like JR.com as well. Just do yourself a favor and don't buy memory sticks from EbStop - they're ridiculously overpriced.
You can also put together a frankenstick by getting a MicroSD to Memory Stick adapter, and picking up some cheap MicroSDs. I put together 16GB of storage for around ~$40 that way, and it works pretty well.
Technically speaking it won't support Sony's MagicGate DRM (though I have never experienced any loss of functionality due to such), and will have slower transfer speeds than an actual Memory Stick, but honestly the difference in speed is not noticable.
They fell into the trap of having too many characters and too few personalities in Chrono Cross.
That and to me at least the whole connection to the Chrono universe seemed like they threw it in at the last second to make it a Chrono game. I probably would have liked it better without that whole mess near the end, and them having it be more of a spiritual successor to the series instead of a sequel.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the game, but it was far from being the perfection (to me at least) that a lot of people seem to consider it.
So I downloaded FF9 overnight, woke up expecting to play one of my favorite Final Fantasies and instead I have a corrupted memory card. I have a backup of all of my PSP game saves up to a year ago, which doesn't include FF8, Lunar, or Star Ocean 2. On top of that, I think the battery is shot. Gotta love Sony hardware.
So I downloaded FF9 overnight, woke up expecting to play one of my favorite Final Fantasies and instead I have a corrupted memory card. I have a backup of all of my PSP game saves up to a year ago, which doesn't include FF8, Lunar, or Star Ocean 2. On top of that, I think the battery is shot. Gotta love Sony hardware.
Where did you get your memory stick? A stick just taking a shit out of nowhere usually means it was fake.
"Sony hardware" this gen has had excellent build quality.
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I don't know. Thematically it is. The only real gripe I have with the game is the whole...
Serge in Lynx's body
segment is to damn long for my tastes.
My beef with Chrono Cross is it probably would have been "GAME OF THE YEAR, ALL YEARS!" material had it not suffered from "Too many playable characters I don't give a fuck about" syndrome and focused on a tighter cast.
The problem with Chrono Cross is that it's only 2/3rds of a game. The ENTIRE LAST THIRD of the game was cut Xenogears Disc 2 style and replaced with straight exposition.
They also cut Magus out of the game and replaced him with an original character based on his design. This made his promise at the end of CT mean nothing, and it's also a grating change from Radical Dreamers where he was one of the three main characters (along with Kid and Serge) and of which Chrono Cross was supposed to be a remake/reimaging of.
I'm also bitter that Serge got rewritten from an older, fun loving, spoony bard in Radical Dreamers into a dumb as hell mute child protagonist in CC.
It's not that I didn't enjoy CC, but it was a game of horrible waisted potential. The soundtrack is indeed god-tier though.
I didn't want to start a new thread for it, but I just bought the retail version of Persona for PSP and the instruction manual seems to be cut in half? It should be new, and everything else was fine . . . . just half an instruction book . . .
did anyone beside me grab the gundemonium pack? its pretty damn fun. i almost 1ccd gundeadligne on normal, but i had to continue right at the end of the last boss. soon enough...
Yeah I bought it too. I've tried all three and haven't gotten very far. I honestly haven't had time to play many games lately... i'll tackle them soon though!
i must be missing something obvious on the vertical scroller. i get to the first boss, and shoot at him for a while, and then he does this crazy attack that when it hits me it ends my game no matter how many lives i have left. this has happened every time ive played the game, so i dont really know whats supposed to be going on there.
I bought pixeljunk monsters some time ago and when I went to re-download it earlier I noticed you can't actually buy it at this point... or download it even if you bought it already.
anyone know a way around this? I'll buy the deluxe version they released if necessary but I want to be able to play on my tv.
thanks. just checked out psn after a while not even glancing at it and there are some playstation games I can't wait to play again.
You didn't just look for it on the store did you? Completely ignoring the 'Download List' button up the top (and in the Account Management part of the XMB)?
I did look in that list, and it would go to the download screen but not actually download anything, and say it was finished. 0KB.
How much is the gundemonium pack? I'm basically obligated to buy every shmup that peeks its head out on to the PSN, but I'd like a little more info before I set money on fire.
i must be missing something obvious on the vertical scroller. i get to the first boss, and shoot at him for a while, and then he does this crazy attack that when it hits me it ends my game no matter how many lives i have left. this has happened every time ive played the game, so i dont really know whats supposed to be going on there.
I had the same problem too, until I found out you have to go all Kamikaze. When you fill up a certain meter, running into enemies will cause a super-attack to occur, that knocks off a ton of the boss' health. You have to kamikaze the regular guys to initiate the attack.
The "how to play" menu will fill you in any further. I'll definately say Hagimati Hoppy is the hardest of the three Gundam Mania games.
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How much is the gundemonium pack? I'm basically obligated to buy every shmup that peeks its head out on to the PSN, but I'd like a little more info before I set money on fire.
How much is the gundemonium pack? I'm basically obligated to buy every shmup that peeks its head out on to the PSN, but I'd like a little more info before I set money on fire.
You can view videos of them in action on the PSN.
Yeah, but marketing videos are so much less accurate than recommendations and explanations from the PA crowd =P
How much is the gundemonium pack? I'm basically obligated to buy every shmup that peeks its head out on to the PSN, but I'd like a little more info before I set money on fire.
You can view videos of them in action on the PSN.
Yeah, but marketing videos are so much less accurate than recommendations and explanations from the PA crowd =P
They're both definately hard/traditional bullet-hell doujin shmups. Tons of bullets, lots of crazy patterns and rules to learn.
But I feel a twinge of something as I play them. I believe it's called "shame". They could have just made the enemies ships, or demons, or something. Instead it's women without pants riding giant magnums.
Still fun though, but that's because I love shmups of any kind.
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No local play at all, according to the IGN review. Just online wit voice-chat capability.
to clarify, DX is the sequel to the original pacman CE and its coming to both xbla and psn.
I wouldn't hold my breath. I have Origins and to this day FF 2 still crashes my PS3 whenever you use a church. FF Chronicles and Anthology are lousy SNES ports.
Honestly, the next game SE releases should be Chrono Cross. Love that game. Too bad my disks are ruined.
I was against the idea of the game when it came out since it wasn't a true sequel to Chrono Trigger.
You have to play 4 player games, the AI is there to play with in single player, and I think if you don't have enough humans in online, though I haven't taken it online yet.
Its a fairly nice package, my biggest gripe is how the trading works with the computer on their turns, you have to be really fast if you want to accept it, and it can be hard to determine so fast if you want to do the trade with them.
Second biggest gripe is the lack of the 4th Edition printing like my board is, which I think looks better than any of the other offerings. The 3D board is kinda neat, but I don't like how hard it can be to see the roads, and some of the player colors blend into the terrain. You can zoom in and out and rotate the board freely though. All the artwork for the Mayfair and Kosmos printings looks authentic enough, but I've never played on such boards so I couldn't tell you. I thought the Mayfair board was the easiest to play on in terms of visually picking out what the situation was on the board. The Kosmos cards are in German, but it doesn't hinder play because the game always tells you what kind of card was played.
Overall, I'd say its a worthwhile pickup since the price is right ($6.99). The computer AI is not entirely stupid though it trades kinda funny and doesn't seem to pick its Year of Plenty choices very well. Its very good at the robber though, it always targets the player that's winning and always picks their best tiles.
Visually its better than the PC Catan Online world, but since that's free, and any little laptop can run it, it might still be the better way to play Catan when getting together in person isn't possible. But this version is a nice way to just practice picking spots and going for strategies.
Hopefully they come out with some of the expansions as DLC or something, I'd like to try those cheaply before buying the board versions.
-(PS3) Tales of Monkey Island (Full Season) (trial free, unlock key £13.99/€17.99)
-(PSP) Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (£31.99/€39.99)
-(PSP) Toy Story 3 (€34.99)
-(PSP) Capcom Classics Collection Remixed (£13.99/€17.99)
-(PSP) Armored Core Silent Line Portable (£11.99/€14.99)
-(PSP) Valhalla Knights (£9.99/€12.99)
-(PSP) Demo for Everybody’s Tennis
-(Minis) Widget’s Odyssey (£1.74/€1.99)
-(PSOne) Kurushi Final (£3.99/€4.99)
So, Peace Walker and Monkey Island. And....that's about it.
lionhart_M: To be honest, that was the only thing I really liked about Chrono Cross when I played it. But I never beat the game, either.
yeah, but not having a chance to play them any other way kinda sucks... i mean, i guess there's always emulators... but something about doing that feels so detached to me... =/ i used to enjoy it so much too...
If I get a bigger memory stick, is there a way to transfer all the saves and games to it from my old stick?
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Plug a USB cable into your PSP. Plug the other end into your PC. Copy everything. Insert new memory stick. Copy everything. It should work for everything but games. You'll likely have to redownload your games. I think. I imagine they have some sort of DRM solution for that.
Specifically, there is a folder on your memory stick labeled License. That's the one that is important.
Newegg seems to be the best place to go for memory sticks. They have 16GB Lexars for around $45 (although they're out of stock right now) and 16GB 30mb/s SanDisks for around $80.
I picked up a Lexar 32GB for about $88 there some time ago (although it looks like that one is out of stock as well), and it's been pretty awesome having such a ridiculous amount of space (although I'm down to like nine gigs free). A lot of department stores seem to have 8GB sticks for around $40.
You can also find larger capacity memory sticks online from SonyStyle and digital camera retailers like JR.com as well. Just do yourself a favor and don't buy memory sticks from EbStop - they're ridiculously overpriced.
Technically speaking it won't support Sony's MagicGate DRM (though I have never experienced any loss of functionality due to such), and will have slower transfer speeds than an actual Memory Stick, but honestly the difference in speed is not noticable.
That and to me at least the whole connection to the Chrono universe seemed like they threw it in at the last second to make it a Chrono game. I probably would have liked it better without that whole mess near the end, and them having it be more of a spiritual successor to the series instead of a sequel.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the game, but it was far from being the perfection (to me at least) that a lot of people seem to consider it.
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Where did you get your memory stick? A stick just taking a shit out of nowhere usually means it was fake.
"Sony hardware" this gen has had excellent build quality.
My beef with Chrono Cross is it probably would have been "GAME OF THE YEAR, ALL YEARS!" material had it not suffered from "Too many playable characters I don't give a fuck about" syndrome and focused on a tighter cast.
OST is God Tier though.
"...only mights and maybes."
They also cut Magus out of the game and replaced him with an original character based on his design. This made his promise at the end of CT mean nothing, and it's also a grating change from Radical Dreamers where he was one of the three main characters (along with Kid and Serge) and of which Chrono Cross was supposed to be a remake/reimaging of.
I'm also bitter that Serge got rewritten from an older, fun loving, spoony bard in Radical Dreamers into a dumb as hell mute child protagonist in CC.
It's not that I didn't enjoy CC, but it was a game of horrible waisted potential. The soundtrack is indeed god-tier though.
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I don't suppose there's a way to play PSP stuff on the PS3 though.
At a glance, the sidescrollers seem the most fun. The vertical one looked kind of mediocre, but for the price, I'll probably just buy all three.
I did look in that list, and it would go to the download screen but not actually download anything, and say it was finished. 0KB.
I had the same problem too, until I found out you have to go all Kamikaze. When you fill up a certain meter, running into enemies will cause a super-attack to occur, that knocks off a ton of the boss' health. You have to kamikaze the regular guys to initiate the attack.
The "how to play" menu will fill you in any further. I'll definately say Hagimati Hoppy is the hardest of the three Gundam Mania games.
PSN: Toma84
You can view videos of them in action on the PSN.
Yeah, but marketing videos are so much less accurate than recommendations and explanations from the PA crowd =P
They're both definately hard/traditional bullet-hell doujin shmups. Tons of bullets, lots of crazy patterns and rules to learn.
But I feel a twinge of something as I play them. I believe it's called "shame". They could have just made the enemies ships, or demons, or something. Instead it's women without pants riding giant magnums.
Still fun though, but that's because I love shmups of any kind.
PSN: Toma84
Who knows, maybe someday I'll develop skill at them, haha
A metric assload of DLC, two minis, a Miley Cyrus album for Rock Band, and the PSP got a wrestling game and some DLC.
Oh, there is a ton of Sonic the Hedgehog stuff on sale though.