@HeavyMetalWario64DS I really enjoyed Need for Speed on PS Vita earlier this year. I've also heard good things about Resistance, but I haven't played any of the mainline PS3 games. Are they required background to the Vita version, or can it be enjoyed as a standalone shooter?
I haven't played the PS3 Resistance games either, but I don't feel like I'm missing anything story wise with the Vita game. I've also heard that the Vita version is supposed to be the worst in the series, but I still find it fun.
Finally returned to Darkest Dungeon on my Vita, what a great game. I put it down 3 or 4 years ago on reaching the final dungeon. I'm back to it and just have the final level to go now! Might go for a 2nd playthrough after completing it, see if I can cope with the highest difficulty.
After reading the PowerWash simulator review, I got thinking about Velocity, and then got thinking about my Vita. I dug it out, it was a bit of a dusty mess. Gave it a once over with isopropyl alcohol and a cloth with some cotton buds and it's looking great - charged up fine. I used to use it a lot when I commuted by tube.
Coming straight over from Switch, the build quality of the Vita still feels really nice and that screen is just WOW. The smaller form factor (versus Switch with large aftermarket joy-cons) actually means I might feel comfortable using this outdoors.
I had a quick go on FF10 (last save was 2015, literally remember putting it down like it was yesterday!), FF9 (feels so much better to play than the remastered version due to the true analogue movement) and Virtua Tennis 4.
I don't have a lot of time for games recently which is a shame because I have a few to play, but I am hoping I can make a bit of time to crawl through some of my old favourites. I have been wanting to play Tomb Raider 2, 3 or Chronicles for a while now so maybe one of those. And it's been a while since I last played FF9.
@kyleforrester87 I pulled the ol’ Vita out of hibernation a month or two ago (although yours sounds like was in much worse shape than mine! 😄) to play MGS2. After using it to play several hours of that game on the road, I haven’t gone back to finish it, but I’m glad to have the option. I’ll be doing a little travel in coming months and maybe my Vita will get a little more love then.
I was rather put off by the poorly functioning PS store on the Vita. After being away from it for so long, it was surprisingly how bad navigating the store is. And I had to do some PSN gymnastics to get it going again with two-factor authentication. I hadn’t enabled that before and the Vita made me do all that jazz before it would let me connect online.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution I didn’t try to log into the store as I didn’t want my playtest to end on a downer 😂 I will give it a go later, but I am expecting lots of gremlins.
My Vita is alive and kicking. I use it to slowly work my way to the MGS3 platinum. Game still looks amazing on the OLED screen after all these years. My son also likes to use it for various Lego games and Sly Cooper. He calls it “the mini PlayStation” 😂
Managed to get into the store relatively easily and have Tomb Raider Chronicles downloaded and ready to go. Expectations in check. Just gotta think like it’s 1999 baby.
@kyleforrester87 Hmmm… 1999…. Let’s see. Shakespeare in Love dominates the Oscars (with Saving Private Ryan and Life is Beautiful taking a few as well). Cher’s “Believe” tops the charts. Bill Clinton’s impeachment ends. Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President. JFK Jr. crashes his plane. And who could forget Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. We also had Sixth Sense and Fight Club and the publishing of the third installment of the Harry Potter books, “Prisoner of Azkaban.”
To borrow from Charles Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution The atmosphere and anticipation in the queue for the midnight premiere of "The Phantom Menace" in July of 1999 was the best of times - the worst of times followed very shortly thereafter.
@Th3solution hey, PS2 and FF9 were right around the corner.
I played the first level on Chronicles (I think it would qualify as a level, I got to a cut scene at any rate - and no, I don’t mean the intro sequence!!), it confused the hell out of me at one point since apparently you can just push closed doors open without levers now but as for the controls they are really not too bad!
It’s an incredible system. Probably my favourite handheld ever. The library is insane.
My top 5:
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth
Freedom Wars
Persona 3 Portable
Uncharted Golden Abyss
Severed
Lives, Lived, Will Live.
Dies, Died, Will Die.
If we could perceive time for what it really was,
What reason would Grammar Professors have to get out of bed?- Robert & Rosalind Lutece
@Fight_Teza_Fight It’s a shame some of the Vita exclusives are trapped there, but perhaps one day we’ll get a Golden Abyss console port. There’s all those Vita-specific interactive elements like touch controls, but they’ve modified such features out for games like Tearaway and Gravity Rush. A game like Severed couldn’t be ported effectively since the touch screen slashing combat is essentially the whole point of the game, but most of these other screen inputs can be modded out.
I never got around to playing Freedom Wars. Maybe one day.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Tons of great games on this system but I'd say my favorites are Gravity Rush, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and Killzone Mercenary. Replayed those many times. There's also some great ports like Muramasa Rebirth, Mortal Kombat, the Ninja Gaiden Sigmas, Dead or Alive 5+ and shockingly good portable effort of Virtua Tennis 4.
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