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PlayStation Network Thread (Vita/PS4/PS3) | March 2015
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xKilltheMx
Member
Already.
Ah ok. Do we have to do anything particular to games we already downloaded?
xKilltheMx
Member
Don't think so, just make sure to activate your system in the system settings menu us all I've seen.
YianGaruga
Banned
Yep, same here. It was "late March" before and now it's April 10th, which isn't so bad.
http://www.play-asia.com/new-releas...with-english-chines-paOS-5f-74-61n-49-en.html
Was the release delayed or their shipment?
YianGaruga
Banned
Yesasia also list April as the release date
autoduelist
Member
I wish more people realized that having to run up to every single NPC every chapter and tap through some meaningless dialog in hopes it might have changed to give them a quest is terrible design.
There are some easy fixes:
1) Put exclamation points over all characters with new things to say.
2) Color code #1 to indicate characters have either dialog, rewards, or quests.
3) Remove all chests from NPC houses. Stop making me steal from the people being nice to me.
But ultimately all towns, even the ones you run around, are just glorified menus. It's just that you need to spend 10 or 20 seconds (or more) running from the 'armor store' to the 'weapon store' rather than simply hitting the down button once. There are fixed options (stores, quest givers, dialog/background flavor, etc) on a visual / movement based menu. Rather than hitting 'down' once to get to the next option, you're using an analog stick to run to it.
I realize this is a bit dismissive of the 'immersion' of running around town, but i'm just stating it because it's also important to recognize. Adding run time between options is just that. If some players achieve immersion though that, fantastic for them, but it's not hard to understand that others might just want to get to the point.
Likewise, I understand that some people like to chat with everyone in town. It would help, though, if more games had far superior dialog. In most games, it's just some brain dead text that echos your current quest:
ie, if your next goal is clearing a haunted house, you might talk to the lady by the well and get:
"Did you hear the house on the hill was haunted?"
click x
"So scary!"
click x
"I hope someone does something about it."
click x
I'm sure some games do it better than others. But many do it terribly, so it's also hopefully easy to understand why it could get annoying.
Ultimately, every time I hit a town in games like that, I sigh because I know I'm about to spend an hour exploring every nook and cranny, talking to everyone, and at the end of it I might have 2 health potions, 300 gold, and 2 quests to show for it.
It would go far to do some of the things I suggested.
It's hard to fix. The more you make it 'lively' the more tedious it becomes -- for example, having villagers walk around and do their daily thing (go to work, go to bed, etc) the more you then have to do extra stuff just to talk to them. That is, it sounds cool on paper until you realize you now don't know where the people are and need to spend more time chasing them down. Iirc, dqviii had some of that that in a simple way -- people went to bed at night and everything closed. Cool, that adds immersion. But from a gameplay perspective, that just means whenever i need to talk to people i have to go run to an inn first and sleep till morning.
i don't really have a solution -- perhaps jrpgs could learn a bit from the open world games? That is, in an open world game you effectively know nothing matters unless you hit the next 'event icon'. npcs do their thing, but if they have a quest they're marked. You see people running around and living and existing. But all 'key information' will be given to you when you hit the next 'event' icon. I'm not saying it needs to be exactly like that, but perhaps something can be learned from it. I shouldn't need to go talk to the kid sitting in his bedroom 'just in case' he has something vital to say.
Quick travel is almost always nice. i don't necessarily agree with your second sentence though -- some game elements are boring/bland/bad. I wasn't saying 'remove it all', i was saying i wish more/all games did so. And I do. i don't need to hide behind that... it's silly to mince words when it's perfectly true that i wish I never had to search another villager's house for chests, ever.
agreed with all of the above. FW got a lot of that right.
OK, this is a first...
Got this message on Vita When trying to play Titan Attacks!:
"There is not enough space to save trophy information. Trophy information for the following application will be deleted. Do you want to continue?
Ecolibrium
* This trophy information is not saved on the server."
____
If I press no, I get:
!
Could not prepare the application to start.
Got this message on Vita When trying to play Titan Attacks!:
"There is not enough space to save trophy information. Trophy information for the following application will be deleted. Do you want to continue?
Ecolibrium
* This trophy information is not saved on the server."
____
If I press no, I get:
!
Could not prepare the application to start.
names2hard4you
Member
Never heard of this one, but it isn't rare to hear of people complaining about bugs in that game
Maybe we're getting a stealth release next month after all.
shotgunshine
Member
Has anyone here tried this grip for the Vita slim?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Handgrip-Br...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item4189e1a9f9
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Handgrip-Br...t=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item4189e1a9f9
SerTapTap
Member
Don't worry, SFMT mode will clear you of that affliction, at least it did for me. Plus the general excessive impact of RNG
oh god no, please no, you can't make any interesting worlds like this
I played so much of this game when I got it, absolutely loved it. Was crestfallen to find out that the very last mission was glitched and I could never get it or the last two trophies. I think Vlambeer said they were probably never going to patch this, does anyone know if it is still glitched or was fixed at some point? Would love to finish it up.
In most of these interesting worlds I am a petty thief who enters every villager's house without permission and steals what stuff I can. But yea, I'm still torn over gameplay vs. immersion. Full towns you walk around is obviously better immersion, but menu based towns meaning you don't need to run all over for quests/vendors is arguably better gameplay. The immersion still wins for me here, but I really wish some of what autoduelist suggested was implemented, especially color coding text that is pure flavor so I know I can skip it.
What do you mean by "the very last mission"? Are you talking about the events that trigger a cutscene the first time you clear them, or the equipment-specific achievements?
Barajas_201
Member
There would be no arguments if Atlus would just make P3 Vita, everything good about FES, FeMC, and P4 improvements plus animated FeMC route and trophies!!!...
I really want it to happen :'(
I actually only played P3P then watched the 3D cut scenes and anime cut scenes on YouTube and I got to say they add a lot more enjoyment to the experience. But yeah, portability is a big plus as well.
FlyingIrishMan
Member
nevermind..
names2hard4you
Member
Welcome! You did well... very well.
SerTapTap
Member
Welcome! Hope bloodborne is great so GAF doesn't pop a collective aneurism
People here would still find reason to complain even if Bloodborne is the greatest game in the world.
Pandora012
Member
So sad, but true.
That will be fun to watch. I wonder if people will go so far to get themselves banned.
My addiction to Luftrausers didn't really last long, so I'd say don't worry. Great game though
Now I'm playing Counterspy, not bad. It took me a while to understand how progression works, but now I'm digging it. I got to the last mission but I think I need to "farm" before starting it, as the game suggests.
By the way, my Vita has been on a roll lately: I've played Kick and Fennick, The Swapper, Escape Plan, both Stealth inc DLCs, Counterspy and I'm crossplaying Sly 4(I'm mainly playing it on PS3 though) all in the span of a month. Plus a lot of Cel Damage HD playtime which is surprisingly fun, even in single player. And I've yet to touch Olliolli2. I wish more systems were as dead as Vita supposedly is.
autoduelist
Member
i put so much crazy time into that game. so good. i can't send help... i'm scared i'd get back into it.
did it ever get the needed trophy patches?
I'm so surprised you have a PS4 already Soriku, haven't you just had a PS3 for a year or so?
Not sure about the answer, but I don't think Left Behind is a separate download, at least in the retail version of TLoUR.
I've had a PS3 for nearly 2 years. Also I have a job and saved up
Alright.
Pandora012
Member
Yeah if it's in rest mode games can be downloaded.
That's... the entire point of Rest mode in the first place. Or at least up until they finally add suspending games (coming in the next major update).
I don't know why I still have my PS3. Two years ago, I decided to go all portable (3DS + Vita), so I sold all my PS3 games. All of them. I bought Hakuoki: Stories of the Shinsengumi limited edition last year because I have them all, but I already got the platinum trophy. I probably don't get rid of it because I wouldn't get all that much money and it was a gift.
Nope, both that and TxK still have a couple of glitched trophies.
So put it in Rest Mode, log in to PSN website, put in voucher, demo will be queued and downloaded, turn PS4 on later, and have demo ready for installation?
names2hard4you
Member
Exactly that yeah. Your PS4 remains connected to the internet in Rest Mode, that means that any updates to your account, remote downloads, patches, etc, all get done even when you aren't there. In this case it's just as you said, you can through your phone just input the code, get home, install the demo and play. It's what I will be doing as well btw.
EDIT: OFF-TOPIC - Just took in, it's been a year since I joined NeoGaf as a member... Time flies when you are having fun.
xKilltheMx
Member
Never get rid of it. Ever.
Pandora012
Member
It's just collecting dust inside my closet. I should probably store it inside its original box and put it somewhere else.
The goals for each part are called missions (I believe?), the last one you need to do for the Body parts where you need to kill 3 Blimps after death always says 0/3 no matter how many you kill. I did Body missions last, so it was my last mission and I couldn't do it.
Think theres another trophy that is glitched, but the mission one is the only actual ingame thing that can't be done (as opposed to a random side thing for a trophy).
No PSN games?
Best netflix and crunchyroll player. Even my wife got used to the controller.
Not really, just cross-buy ones I have from my Vita, which I'd rather play on my Vita.
Wii U's got me covered there. I love using the Gamepad to control everything.
It kills me that Wii U netflix doesn't support profiles (I'm not the main one on netflix), gamepad is awesome since it also acts as a TV remote but without profiles it is so close to perfect but just misses.
I dont know how the netflix client is on wii u, but
Crunchyroll is terrible.
SerTapTap
Member
So satisfying. I love that feature
Pandora012
Member
Have any of you guys played saints row iv? It's on sale for $22. I am just a bit iffy, because a lot of people say that Saints Row went down hill after 2.
AsfaeksBR
Member
As someone that really loved Saints Row The Third, Saints Row IV was a let down for me.