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Me and the little wife were looking into buying one of them little thingers to play Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together and FFT: War of the Lions. Also possibly Persona 3 Portable down the line
Are these things compatible with the PSTV? We don't know anything about it except that it's the most affordable way to play some Vita/PSP games
I think the only AC I'd be interested in these days is an AC2 Collection of AC2, AssBro and AssRev.
I'm pretty sure it will play any PSP/PS1 game that you could download straight to and play on a Vita.
That'd be a hell of a great month for Plus
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Well Black Flag was better than Tomb Raider 2013 and DmC, I agree. Better than The Last of Us, GTAV, Tearaway or Metal Gear Rising though? Don't do drugs, kids.
I found this
https://www.cheapassgamer.com/index.php?showtopic=281768
vita/pstv compatability should be identical, however ive heard reports of games not working on pstv if you download it directly to pstv (from psn store) but works if you download to ps3 and then use the transfer feature to get it onto the pstv
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The Personas definitely work. I bought one recently during a sale, and it's essentially my Persona 3/4 machine.
I know that my husband has TO:LUCT on his memory card. When he gets home I'll get him to start up the Vita tv and try it for you.
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Fair warning, it's... not a good port. Lots of slowdown and shit, poorly optimized. It's completely playable, and maybe it won't even bother you, but it might also drive you up the wall. There are fixes for it, but only on homebrew systems. Nothing you can take advantage of on the TV.
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Well, some of the slowdown is because tactics has always had slowdown issues. Some things like AI decision making I think is faster on the PSP version. The thing I have the most problem with is the sound quality of the special effects. The added cinematics are super nice though.
This is the definitive list of Playstation TV compatible stuff in the US. Different regions have slightly different compatibility lists. You can create European or Japanese PSN accounts and buy games from other regions, but you'll need a different memory card for each region.
Some games are compatible with the PSTV but do not show up in the PlayStation Store on the PSTV; those are the ones that need to be transferred via a PS3.
Some games are compatible with the PSTV, but only the digital release of the game, not the physical release.
And of course there are tons and tons of games that Sony will gladly let you purchase from and download onto a PSTV with absolutely no indication that they're incompatible.
These are things we know.
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I am in exactly the same boat. (ha!)
I loved Pirates and, as a result, loved Black Flag because a lot of it felt very much like an upgrade of Pirates. I've never been able to get into another AC game.
Tearaway and Rising are trash fire garbage
The Last of Us is great, GTAV is great, the rest of those are all great games
Black Flag gave me a sense of discovery that I never really see in other games though, and what's more important is how it felt
I spend a good amount of time every year in the Florida Keys (not Key West though, ugh), and also spent a few months in Hawaii several years ago, and the feeling of isolation from civilization that the game conveys when sailing to new areas fits so well with the feeling that I get from those places that it was one of the few times a game rose above being "just a game" for me
A bad Assassin's Creed title? Maybe, but that franchise is dangling from the thinnest thread anyways as far as I'm concerned. But Black Flag was a beautiful idea and one that I'd love to see them revisit in a new franchise entirely
EDIT: Actually even from a franchise perspective I think it's pretty strong. Edward is easily my favorite AC protagonist. As far as settings go, also my favorite (because I'm a sucker for anything tropical). I loved the combat in 3 and 4, easily my favorite version of AC combat. I'll always miss the Truth puzzles from 2 and Brotherhood but I really dug the Abstergo sequences, like, a whole bunch. The modern day story just ends rather abruptly and there are some bad mission types still but overall I think it's a damn good AC game as well as a fantastic game in its own right
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AC4 to me was this generation's Super Mario Brothers 2; it felt like they took a random completely unrelated game and slapped the AC name on it.
I guess Unity and (whatever the upcoming one is called) are actually set in cities? With buildings to climb over, and maybe a lack of "hunt random wildlife to get parts for tacked-on crafting system"?
There's wrong and then there's "UV wrong".
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Because people were ranking games, and the mere process of ranking games implies objectivity, so if you were fine with it in one case you should be fine with it in the other
"X game is better than Y game" is no different than "Y game is trash" because you are (supposedly) making objective value statements either way
Of course, I have full faith in people knowing the difference between objectivity and subjectivity
And then I see posts like yours and remember, "wait, they don't"
I'm too lazy to do it, but I'm sure if you like you can go through your own post history and find an instance of a time you said "this game is good" or "this game is bad" and then you can ask yourself "why don't I know the difference between something that's good and something I like?"
Pistols at dawn, good sir.
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It's a bummer too because I'm one of the few that actually likes the platforming in LBP, so I know they know how to make good quality shit
I'm sure after Unfolded they'll move onto something else (because there's no way in hell that game will not bomb and bomb hard)
Yes it is.
How so?
If we just go by the logic presented there, you're saying that 'X>Y' is exactly the same as 'Y=trash'. So in any situation where you compare two things, the lesser thing immediately becomes trash. By what you're saying, there is exactly one good game in existence and all others are trash. Edit: Actually, it might just end up with every game eventually being trash.
But I meant more in the sense of, okay, I think Chrono Cross is a great game. Maybe you think it's a bad game. Who is right and who is wrong? Neither of us. Judging a game's quality is completely subjective, and if you want objective statements on games I will direct you to Objective Game Reviews, where only provable objective fact matters
I said I thought Black Flag was the best game of 2013. Not being negative, not shitting on anyone's parade. Not a negative post. Unco jumped in and said "wait, you're saying it's better than GTAV, The Last of Us, etc.? Don't do drugs, kids." Implying that my thinking is wrong, if I took his post in an objective manner.
I did not! Unco and I trade barbs about game quality all the time. I know he thinks DmC is a bad game, for example, and he also says some negative things about Black Flag a few posts above. I will not hold him over the fire and say "WHOA HEY DON'T YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BAD GAME AND A GAME YOU DON'T LIKE?" because they are one and the same, to him. If he thought it was good, he'd probably like it! It is not Provably Good, nor is it Provably Bad.
But then Stormwatcher comes in and tries to jump on only me saying "hey, don't you know the difference between what you like and what is quality?" He completely ignores the fact that Unco just listed two games that he thinks are worse Black Flag, and a list of four games he thinks are better. You will notice that nowhere in Unco's post did he say "in my opinion," because of course it's his opinion! He's posting it! But nope, I likely said something bad about something that Stormwatcher probably likes and thus I will be held to the standard where everything I post should be objective facts and my opinions should be stated as such.
This is goosery, obviously, because head into any designated thread for any designated game on this board and you will likely find some people praising those things. Their statements? No more objective than mine.
If someone is so sensitive that they can't handle somebody thinking a game they like is trash, that is on them. I'm not here to say "well I think the game is good but not my cup of tea," because no, no, I don't think the game is good! I think it is bad! If it were good, I'd like it. I like good games.
And in case you couldn't tell, "good" as my taste defines, because objectively good is not a thing that exists.
I actually agree with you on a lot of games, so I don't want to attack you or anything, and it's really frustrating when you act like this.
The best thing about Black Flag - other than the ships, pirates, the setting and the shanties - is that it is a game that is largely about people who do not give a fuck about the Assassin/Templar bullshit. I'm glad that recent games have drifted away from that uberplot, since I felt it peaked when I murdered the Pope.
I'd never be as goosey as saying serious sports games are all bad.
I completely suck at fighting games, therefore I don't like playing them.
I'd never be as goosey as saying fighting games are all fire trash whatsits.
There's plenty of great games I don't like, for several reasons such as the above examples.
There's plenty of mediocre or even badly made games I enjoy. They might be failures in the gameplay or narrative areas, but maybe they appeal to my occasional escapist needs, nostalgia, or maybe I can feel super powerful because I can abuse shitty mechanics and that makes me feel good.
The whole objectivity vs subjectivity thing is not that binary or the absolute argument. You can recognize good craftsmanship and hate aesthetics. You can admit a game (or movie or book or whatever) is well made, clever, but that it doesn't appeal to you on some level.
for instance, Tearaway has some pretty lukewarm gameplay, but I completely fell in love with the looks, the feel and the experience. For me that's enough. But I recognize that the gameplay is lackluster, and therefore I understand that people who focus on challenge, skill and competition when playing games might not like it at all. See, here we have a great example, a well made experience, but a not very good test of skill
So I get that anyone might dislike it, and I even get that it can be fairly called a bad game. I still like it though.
Thus, I don't just buy that dumping a bunch of tired rhetoric about HUR EVERYONE KNOWS SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE is the only way to talk about games.
Don't know why we gotta have a big deal about it.