PS Vita: The original Switch

Donnicton

I put in for that, but none of those really interested me so I took the PSN credit and got something else. I did get the credit.

GMaster7

Zero Time Dilemma was awesome (if a little long). I think I'm going to play some other stuff before moving on to Steins;Gate... Gravity Rush might be next. Or the Swindle, or something else from PS+.

Enigmedic

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Woo, Final Fantasy sale! Picked up FF Tactics: War of the Lions and Dissidia 012. Already had WoFF, FF1&2, FF8, FF9, and the original FF Tactics. I suppose I could get X&X-2, 3, 4 complete, 5, 6, and 9, but I already have em on Steam, so eh.

You da mvp. I only check this thread every now and then because I actually only own a PSP, but an FF sale is nice to know about since I wouldn't have checked otherwise. Got the hankering to play some of the older games since the ff7 remake announcement and hearing the ff7 battle music in smash 4, but didn't want to pay $10 for 10 year old games. I so wish I had a vita for all the other great rpgs but I can't afford one. Also now that I've said ff7 is old, it makes me feel ancient.

vamen

So I haven't used my Vita in a good while. I fired it up last night, updated the system software, and every single game I tried to launch crashed at startup. The only one I managed to get in was Severed, and then about 10 minutes into it, the game crashed to the 'desktop' and said it was corrupt and needed to be redownloaded.

Anyone run into that before? And, if so, manage to fix it without having to redownload everything? That's a lot of stuff!

RandomHajile

vamen wrote: »

So I haven't used my Vita in a good while. I fired it up last night, updated the system software, and every single game I tried to launch crashed at startup. The only one I managed to get in was Severed, and then about 10 minutes into it, the game crashed to the 'desktop' and said it was corrupt and needed to be redownloaded.

Anyone run into that before? And, if so, manage to fix it without having to redownload everything? That's a lot of stuff!

Boot into safe mode and rebuild the database? I forget how to do that offhand, though.

PLA

Deep Silver should give me Phantasy Star.

Polaritie

PLA wrote: »

Deep Silver should give me Phantasy Star.

I do not need reminders of the death of it in the west.

vamen

RandomHajile wrote: »

vamen wrote: »

So I haven't used my Vita in a good while. I fired it up last night, updated the system software, and every single game I tried to launch crashed at startup. The only one I managed to get in was Severed, and then about 10 minutes into it, the game crashed to the 'desktop' and said it was corrupt and needed to be redownloaded.

Anyone run into that before? And, if so, manage to fix it without having to redownload everything? That's a lot of stuff!

Boot into safe mode and rebuild the database? I forget how to do that offhand, though.

Thanks! I will look into it.

GMaster7

Polaritie wrote: »

PLA wrote: »

Deep Silver should give me Phantasy Star.

I do not need reminders of the death of it in the west.

Are you guys talking about Phantasy Star Nova? Was just googling. I'm probably more nostalgic about PSO than I am for any other game of its era, and as much as I never really got into the early, single-player Phantasy Stars (though I did play them through Sega Channel, way back when), I'd probably be interested if Nova came to the US.

I grew up a huge Sega fanboy and am always looking for an excuse to relive or reconnect with old memories.

vagrant_winds

Nah. They're talking moreso about Phantasy Star Online 2, which was officially announced for the west then silence and silence and silence and more silence.

GMaster7

vagrant_winds wrote: »

Nah. They're talking moreso about Phantasy Star Online 2, which was officially announced for the west then silence and silence and silence and more silence.

Oh. In that case, yeah. Doubly interested.

Also, NA Flash Sale is up. Nothing crazy, but some good deals on indies.

PLA

I'm talking about publish a goddamn Phantasy Star again Sega you fucks.
I heard that PSO2 on PC is pretty much fully translated and all by now, but I haven't had time to test it.

I've bought another Vita so that I can play my american games without an aneurysm.

Donnicton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STvd7PIrMl8

Stranger of Sword City Revisited hitting PSN in 10 days. Has additional classes and some of the really obnoxious leveling mechanics were changed a bit(i.e. no more reclass limit). There are supposedly other changes but I'm hard pressed to find an actual list anywhere.

A demo is supposedly releasing this weekend for the first 8 or so hours of the game and progress can be carried into the full game.

Stabbity Style

Ys VIII confirmed for western release for Vita and PS4 (and Steam!). Also, Danganronpa 3 got a western release date for Vita and PS4 sometime in September. Nice to know we'll still be getting some big name games this year.

Donnicton

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Ys VIII confirmed for western release for Vita and PS4.

NISA store already has preorders up for the LE/SE

http://store.nisamerica.com/preorders/ysviii/ys-viii-lacrimosa-of-dana-limited-edition-ps-vita

chocobolicious

Welp time to preorder some Ys

I've also been playing SAO lost song lately. I'm enjoying it far more than I expected to considering its... A not hugely creative or diverse hack n slash dungeon thing. I'll probably finish it up soon and probably buy the third one?

Shadowfire

This is the first Ys game not coming over from Xseed in a long time. Wonder what happened there.

Darth_Mogs

NISA outbid XSeed, most likely.

PLA

Donnicton wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STvd7PIrMl8

Stranger of Sword City Revisited hitting PSN in 10 days. Has additional classes and some of the really obnoxious leveling mechanics were changed a bit(i.e. no more reclass limit). There are supposedly other changes but I'm hard pressed to find an actual list anywhere.

A demo is supposedly releasing this weekend for the first 8 or so hours of the game and progress can be carried into the full game.

NeoGAF had this to say a while ago.

Parakeetman wrote:

New Traits
Addition of Origins? to character creation (similar to traits)
New portraits for the 3 new classes 6 total. 1 Male / Female portrait per class.
Removal of limit of Class Changing.
Adjustment of Skill Slots
Addition of items that increase Exp / Stats / Skill Slots
Addition of Beginner difficulty mode
Addition of "Ball of Light" repeat battle challenge system (No idea what this is)
Adjustment to current and new skills
Adjustment to current spells
Buff / Debuff limit setting?
Addition of enemy skills "Awareness" "Feint"
Addition of the "Guard Counter" system for the player. Able to KO enemies with it. Loses effectiveness the more its procced
Divinity skill adjustment
Addition of repeat Divinity skill command selection
Addition of new bad status "Curse" and adjustment to existing bad status effects
Displaying of bad status effects on enemies
Adjustment of enemy action patterns
Addition of Lineage Species Subjugation Challenge? system
Adjustment of Lineage Species respawn location and timing
Adjustment of random encounter percentage
Changed set enemy icon repop conditions to changing areas
Able to obtain treasure from enemy icons
Removal of rare item limitations (can have multiple rare items now)
Addition of new equipment
Addition of equipment strengthening at the shop. Removal of Mumic system
Addition of shop items restock when items are sold? (translation might be wrong)
Adjustment of resurrection / recovery healing time / cost
Addition of "Soul Saving" event
Addition of new monsters
Addition of Monster Gathering gimmick in dungeons (think this is the multiple encounter battle icon)
Addition of hidden treasure points
Adjustment of some sections in dungeons? (transalation might be wrong)
Improvement of the auto movement system for passing through cleared sections with spinner panels
Adjustement to morale usage rate for hiding system
Adjustment to drop rates for some items (underwear and accessories) in particular
Adjustment to inventory space
Removal of limit on amount of playthroughs that can be done
Change to how one can approach the different ending routes? (translation might be wrong)
Adjustement to traps in dungeons
Mausoleum of Ice - limitation on skill usage has been changed (blocked to take damage instead)
Adjustment to the switch gimmicks in the Ark of Eternity
Addition of item identification during battle (why? lol)
Change to ranking categories
Change to trophies
Improvement of UI?
20 other fixes (not listed)
Additional dungeon(s)? added after clearing the game. (Not sure on how many total? will try to find out when the wiki is updated)

I found some more details here. http://www.spoiler.jp/srv/tsurugi/index.php

vagrant_winds

And another new trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ4KI3fIJXE

Comes out this week.

PLA

Btw, here you go, the portraits intended for the dumbest fucking class.



It's like an accountant, or something. Unable to fight, unable to enter dungeons, but their battle-stats actually are the lowest. Even the invisible stats that players will never know about. They put in the work to make the weakness honest.

vagrant_winds

PLA wrote: »

It's like an accountant, or something. Unable to fight, unable to enter dungeons, but their battle-stats actually are the lowest. Even the invisible stats that players will never know about. They put in the work to make the weakness honest.

Wait. If they can't fight and can't enter dungeons.... what do they even do in a dungeon crawler?

Donnicton

I'm not familiar with the specifics but they're supposed to do things that benefit what you do at home base, like discounts and such. Apparently the more you have the more it stacks whatever benefit they give, as well.

PLA

Yup. Keeping people at home earns you some money and experience by default. These losers are better at that, and also reduce some costs in town. Only like five percent per loser, but many a little make a mickle.

Polaritie

vagrant_winds wrote: »

Nah. They're talking moreso about Phantasy Star Online 2, which was officially announced for the west then silence and silence and silence and more silence.

Also Portable 2 Infinity, which iirc they also announced would be coming west and then ignored.

PSO2 had promise but I think it's fallen into f2p traps since launch. There's a thread over in the MMO section for it actually.

PLA

I think people were still working on a patch for Portable 2 Infinity as late as last year.

vagrant_winds

PLA wrote: »

I think people were still working on a patch for Portable 2 Infinity as late as last year.

Phantasy Star Nova has been getting patched too.

PLA

I think that one might be done.

Stabbity Style

Woo, Persona 4 Golden on sale on PSN. Finally, gonna pick that up and finally have all of the Persona games on PSN.

PLA

Why are people saying that Revisited was released in Europe? Who is spreading this bullshit?

Donnicton

So I was doing my routine Amazon trolling through the upcoming releases when I spotted a game coming out called "Tokyo Tattoo Girls". Apparently will be hitting Vita and Steam some time this year.

NISA is localizing it but they're doing a fuckawful job of indicating what the actual gameplay is about. So far the videos and screenshots I've seen only show the world map and some Criminal Girls-esque ero scenes where you paint tattoos onto the backs of topless banchou girls a la Yakuza. Also these tattoos give them magical powers because of course they do.

Went to the site of the actual developer and couldn't find a damn thing more than NISA had, which raises a few red flags. What even is this? Hopefully something shows up some time before release. All the vidya gaem news aggregate sites do nothing but copy/paste the same trailer and game description. Worthless.

PLA

Looks bureaucracy.

Reynolds

I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that it's a bad mobile game, and that person had no idea why they'd pick it to bring over.

vagrant_winds

I have no idea why NISA picks this crap considering how many other good games there are.

Donnicton

I can think of a few hundred thousand reasons

Zerozaki Ishiki

You can customize the tattoos on your waifu.
I'm not sure what's not to understand.

joshofalltrades

Oh man, Severed is our PS+ game this month? I knew I was right to hold off.

Armoroc

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Woo, Persona 4 Golden on sale on PSN. Finally, gonna pick that up and finally have all of the Persona games on PSN.

That's cool and I'll jump into it, but damn if I can finish that game. Already borrowed persona 4 golden two times and both times I had to give it back because I get distracted easily.

DoctorArch

joshofalltrades wrote: »

Oh man, Severed is our PS+ game this month? I knew I was right to hold off.

Good job. I bought it last month thus fulfilling the PS+ curse

Picked up Shovel Knight last week so maybe that will go PS+ next month too!

DoctorArch

Armoroc wrote: »

Stabbity Style wrote: »

Woo, Persona 4 Golden on sale on PSN. Finally, gonna pick that up and finally have all of the Persona games on PSN.

That's cool and I'll jump into it, but damn if I can finish that game. Already borrowed persona 4 golden two times and both times I had to give it back because I get distracted easily.

I beat it once and got the true ending, but I've stalled out on a second playthrough because I'm trying to finish up niggling things before I do a perfect S-link third playthrough to get the platinum trophy.