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This is what I feared and why I didn't pick it up.
Glad I didn't waste €60 on it. Might pick it up for €15 or less in time though.

@WasabiPeanut
That I certainly understand. And you are right.
But developers have been taken this to the extreme these last couple of years.
If it's just some last minute balance updates for the multiplayer part of the game after an extensive beta test, I'd understand.
But those kinds of day 1 patches are hardly ever reality.
Games get shoved out the door to hit a certain deadline, mostly due to the publisher needing the developer to hit a certain date.
And in the time it takes for the game to pass through certification, get pressed and shipped to retailers, they hope to work out all the kinks.
You can still play all those NES/SNES games perfectly fine today, even though the games haven't been supported for 20-30 years.
But what will happen with a large part of the games that we buy today in 20-30 years time as the servers that support them go offline or the content is no longer available? They will be an unplayable mess.

I really hate this trend of shipping broken games that need a day 1 patch to make them playable. :-/
How something like that passes certification boggles my mind.
Quality control really doesn't mean anything anymore, does it?

Really looking forward to this one, but for such a price I'd want a physical copy to be honest..

@Rudy_Manchego
As far as I know all those games should be confirmed.
But you never know with delays or even cancelations.

I can understand thinking of dropping the PS3. By the end of the year the PS4 will be 3 years old already.
But dropping the Vita would be way too soon.
There is still ton of life in the system and lots of smaller developers keep supporting them, especially since the player base is bordering on the fanatical at times.
Heck, just look at what's coming up http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1164968&page=1

^ All you can do is laugh at this stuff at this point I guess. SMH

@get2sammyb
Oh, didn't know that... :-/

Well it's easy then. Take 3 point of for the shoddy port.

Not that it means much, but personally I'd give it 2 points extra just to show appreciation for PQube for releasing a Physical Vita game in Europe.
Wish it was a different game though.

I'm not paying full price for a year old game like this no.
When it hits the sub €20 range I might pick it up, but certainly not sooner.

@hi_drnick
Yet a bit later they released Ghostbusters 2 for the NES.
Such a mess. Played that game a ton back then. lol

Damnit Activision!
Ghostbusters deserves so much better than this!

Hmm, very tempted to import right away so I can play it during my winter holiday.

These guys are amazing at supporting their games.
I'm happy to double dip on Alienation as my physical edition copy just arrived today.

Gundam Breaker 3 on PS4 and I just got back into Gundam Breaker 1 on Vita as well as starting Grand Kingdom on Vita. Probably some more Earth Defense Force as well.

I'm not even getting a PSVR and I'll buy this day one!
One of the best examples of a game being far greater than the sum of it's parts.
15 years on and it's still perfect.

@whywai88
Nah, KoeiTecmo and Omega Force don't do that kinda stuff.
You're thinking of Ubisoft.

Just looking at how even Dynasty Warriors 8 on PS4 looked a couple of years ago, and seeing how far their engine has come with Samurai Warriors and Dragon Quest, all the gameplay seen in game can easily be realtime.

@Feena likewise.
I used to buy all kinds of weird side games to the ones I really loved.
I even got Grandia Parallel Trippers on the Game Boy Colour.
For Lunar for instance, not only did I get the PSone US import, but also the MegaCD ones, Lunar – Sanposuru Gakuen for the Game Gear and Magical School Lunar for the saturn.
Heck I was even crazy enough to buy Sakura Taisen Steam Radio Show on the Saturn back in the day at full price and enjoy it!

Oh and Panzer Dragoon Mini for the Game Gear, but that one wasn't good at all...

@JaxonH
Oh I love my PS4 and 3DS as well! Even bought a Japanese 3DS last year also to play Japanese exclusives.
I'd really I've a 128GB Vita memory card myself as I've already filled up 2 64GB ones... One with retail games and a second one with most of my indie games, PSP and PSone games. But they don't all fit on that one.
I really need to get a 3rd one, one of these days, but I need to spends a bit less as I just bought a house last year.

One thing I have been doing is buying retail Vita games whenever possible, wether that means grabbing US copies of games that don't come out at retail in Europe. Or even hunt down Asian English releases which can be tough to find.
Glad I came across heavy-arm.com, a little shop from Malasia which does regular restocks on these hard to find games and posts on their Twitter when they come in.
So far I've grabbed Soul Sacrifice Delta, Gundam Breaker 3 and Oreshika from them. With Samurai Warriors 4-2, final fantasy X2 and even Alienation on PS4 on its way to me now.
This really helps to free up some space on my cards.

@Feena
It's funny how things tend to turn out sometimes.
I always have had a thing for the underdog ever since I fell in love with the Saturn at the time nearly everyone was down on it. Then the Dreamcast and nowadays it's the Vita. It's bittersweet I guess.
It also means that I'm much more likely to pick up games on release for the system now, like I just did with Gundam Breaker 3, Gand Kingdom and Reginleiv in 2 days.

BTW Speaking of the Saturn, I love your avatar. Bought the Japanese Saturn version of Grandia before it ever was announced for the west on the PSone.
Gor Grandia Digital museum and played through them with a printed out faq so I could follow the story. Same with Sakura Taisen.
I miss those days...

Glad to see the Vita hanging in there like this.
Which means we'll be getting quite a bit of games for the next couple of years even if we'll have to import them.

I've already grabbed Grand Kingdom on Vita as well as the Limited Edition for PS4. Loving it.

Sheesh, this is so disappointing.
The writing was on the wall though. Trials HD and Evolution were brilliant, yet with Fusion, which was still tons of fun in it's own way, they started to dilute the game with lots of meaningless modes.
Trying to offer diversity, yet adding little of worth.
I was on the verge of picking this up instantly as it popped up on the store, but when watching Bob Mackey steam the game, it became clear that there was a ton of awful stuff thrown into what was once a top series.
Heck some of this stuff has garbage level gameplay that even iOS fans would scoff at. Goddamnit Ubisoft, do you really have to mess everything up?

@get2sammyb Well they did take out all the towns and NPC's besides the one old man you meet for this E3 demo.
The point of this was to make sure nothing could be spoiled when it comes to the plot.
So the only thing we were able to see at this point was overall world design and gameplay systems.
I wouldn't worry about the whole world being empty, although it's quite clear something significant happened in the time period between this and the previous Legend.

Eew.
Well at least Naughty Dog won't be wasting their time with this crap, so there's a silver lining.

They got me twice in the past, this time it won't work.
It just ain't worth it at all.
Sad cause I love the game when it came out.

Digital only? No thanks.
I'll import from Heavy-Arm instead.

I really shouldn't have backed this....
Oh well at least it was only $20, not 100 like Bloodstained or 200 like Shenmue. Those certainly are turning out much, much better.

Seems a bit disappointing from a graphical standpoint.
These have to be 60fps/1080p right?
Cause I certainly don't see anything measuring up the The Last of Us/Tomb Raider remasters right here.
More like Saints Row and Sleeping Dogs, which is still okay I guess, but certainly not impressive.

As a WipEout fan literally from day 1 I hope that when the series finally resurfaces it will be as far removed from 2048 as possible and reboots in the same fashion as Pure.

@JoeBlogs Well I certainly would buy it again as well.
As long as it's on a Japanese system, I'm fine as I buy all the ones that Sony and Nintendo release anyway. Stopped giving MS money after the 360 and really don't miss them at all. Certainly not with Cave not making MS exclusive shoot 'em up ports anymore.

But Bayonetta 2 development was payed for my Nintendo, so it's a long shot to say the least. Unless they dump their hardware plans altogether and create a partnership with Sony. Which is a longshot in and of itself.

Looks absolutely gorgeous.
I only fear for the EU release with the whole Sega mess and NIS not publishing Atlus games any longer here. At least the PS4 is region free as I'm not getting this digital.

@JoeBlogs Yeah, that's never going to happen....

Good to see SNK doing these.
Now get us Twinkle Star Sprites La Petite Princesse with a platinum trophy!
I don't care that it's been out on Japanese PSN for ages nor that I have it on PS2 as well as digitally on my PS3, bring it over here as well!

Not taking any chances and ordered a Japanese Orange and a white one just in case.
That brings the tally up to 6. 3 OLEDs and 3 2000s. I should be good for the rest of my days.

@Churchy Terrible pun, absolutely terrible.

They should hire you at Pushsquare! You'd fit right in! ;P

@Flaming_Kaiser
It all depends on what kind of display you really want. Heck, my latest 65" plasma cost nearly 4000€...
Fantastic screen though, both for films and games, but that shouldn't be a surprise I guess.

Anyway, I say bring on the PS4K. I'll be there day one and I don't plan to buy a 4K tv within the next 5 years or so.
I just want it for better graphical performance as well as better framerate.

One thing Sony should take into account is that they need an easier option to increase your storage. Heck if Nintendo and MS can implement an external HDD solution, it can't be that hard for them as well.
I have a 2TB one in mine right now and I'd love to have a 4TB option, which at this point isn't possible. Having to delete games to get new ones on there as well as needing to redownload all the patches and DLC for the games that you want to reinstall later on is way too much trouble.

@Tekken179 not to mention quicker load times, download speeds, snappier OS and fps improvements in quite q few games. Hyrule Warriors being the latest example.
The DSlite had my favourite form factor of the DS line and the DSiXL sure felt great with the large screens.
Al in all, I tend to go for upgdated systems anyway, so I don't have a problem with this at all.
Not even interested in the 4K part at all since I bought the final high end release of panasonic's plasma line last year, so I'm good for another couple of years at least.
But the performance improvements and more chance of 1080p 60fps games certainly justifies it for me personally.
I hope it comes sooner rather than later.

@Dan_ozzzy189
That's one of the things that I really miss so much about this generation, as well as the past one. The classic compilations. During the PS2 years there were tons of them with every single one of them being worthwhile in their own right. Jay Rignall posted a great articles about this very thing a couple of months ago: http://www.usgamer.net/articles/The-Best-Arcade-Machine-is-Your-PlayStation%202
Nintendo at least has the Virtual Console, although those tend to stick with the tried and true releases.
I wish we'd get a ton more arcade games. The whole Cave catalogue would be great to have on the PS4 for instance, even though I have every single PS2 and 360 import from them already.

Bubble Bobble? Now that's a nice surprise!
Hope that one day they'll put Symphony on there as well.
Not to mention Elevator Action and Returns.

Another dark day for the PlayStation brand. I'm still nowhere close to being over the loss of Studio Liverpool and now this. :,(

@Grawlog
Well yeah, you could shoot Hitler's balls off for example.

Finally! This is great news.
Now let's hope they will start working on Zombie Army 4 soon!

If it wouldn't add bulk to the controller, I'd be all over this as the regular battery life is the worst part of an otherwise great controller.
As it stands, I'll wait for a battery pack that fits into the regular space.
Sadly, those knock-offs on eBay and such are absolute crap and only last as long as the original.

@ShogunRok
Well that's certainly something to look forward to then!
I'll just do what I always do with EDF games for instance and grab the Japanese version, or Asian one in this case. And if it turns out that it gets a EU release, I'll grab that one again later on and replay the game.

When you get your copy, be sure to check out all the different weapon possibilities, even the unarmed fighting style as each one of these makes the gameplay very unique to one another, a bit like a fighting game or a musou game to some extent.
It's a good idea to save several builds with a variety of fighting styles so that you can test them all out and see which ones really click with you.

Already had the Japanese version pre-ordered as soon as it went up, but I'm thinking about grabbing the English version as it would make the building part go a little smoother, not to mention quicker for me.
Wondering if we'll see this one in Europe eventually...
It would be about time since the first two are some of my favourite PS3/Vita games.

For those who don't like to read, the audio book is great as well.

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today...

Looks great but why is this even called Final Fantasy? :-/
If they wanted to put the name in there for marketing reasons, they should have gone with Final Fantasy Revengeance, at least that would have made a bit more sense.

No "Asian" games? Well that's a cop out.

@Ichiban
You say that like it's a bad thing!

The more musou the merrier if you ask me!