True. I would have loved a proper sequel since there's lots of ways they could have expanded upon the concepts in the PSP games, but I'm honestly surprised the franchise managed to stick around past PSP in various weird forms at all.
PSP/VITA ENTHUSIASTS ASSEMBLE! Let's list all of the must-own/play Sony handheld content
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I'm not sure if it's more positive but it's certainly very lacking as you never said why those games are must play and how they're totally different than other Metal Gear games! :D
The PSVR is amazing! One of my few plats. Vita is my fave console so I feel I could post so much in here lol.
Chaos Ring Trilogy. The Legend of Heroes Sky Trilogy and Crossbell Dualogy. Fate Stay/Night and Fate/Hollow Ataraxia. You might want to turn your sights on their version of Playstation Classics. There's alot of valuable stuff there I'm told that goes for MONEY on the collectors market, surprise surprise. I curious to see what they have for turn-based JRPG's, Shmups and beat'em ups.
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Thanks, I've heard of Chaos Ring so I'll check that out, I remember begging for a translation back in the day. And I know I have Trails of Cold Steel already, is the Sky trilogy the series before that?
Yes, the Sky games take place before the Cold Steel games, if I remember correctly. The Crossbell games either take place during the Sky games or the Cold Steel games.
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If you're into Yakuza, there are the two Black Panther games. I only played the first game's demo years ago and the gameplay was great! It has cutscenes very reminiscent of the ones in MGS Portable Ops and PW.
You could check The Last Ranker as well. Great visuals, OST and battles from what I played. It's a Imageepoch/Capcom game.
And there's Nayuta no Kiseki from Falcom. I finished that one. It's basically a Ys game without Adol. It's great!
Anyone have good suggestions for a PS Vita 1000 grip which adds L2/R2 buttons?
Been having a quick look and it seems my options are limited to a cheaper one at about £25 which seems ok but not great and another one at about £50 that seems better but not perfect.
Always wanted to get one but with the news about the store it has made me decide to mod my day 1 Vita so I can get a 256GB SD card and download as much as I can just to be safe. I much have countless games for it now since I have bought a lot but also been subbed to PS+ since day 1 and claim every game so that has added untold Vita games for me.
Been having a quick look and it seems my options are limited to a cheaper one at about £25 which seems ok but not great and another one at about £50 that seems better but not perfect.
Always wanted to get one but with the news about the store it has made me decide to mod my day 1 Vita so I can get a 256GB SD card and download as much as I can just to be safe. I much have countless games for it now since I have bought a lot but also been subbed to PS+ since day 1 and claim every game so that has added untold Vita games for me.
I have one by Hori and I don't like it so much as I prefer gripping the console either by itself or with the protective cover. The buttons are fine though, if a tad mushy.
I did see the Hori ones but they are going from anywhere between £150-£250 which is insane lol.
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Some more picks from me. These ones are all PS Minis (or the superior HD remasters of PS Minis that were released on Vita)
Kahoots
This was the first console release from the unfortunately now defunct indie dev Honeyslug (perhaps best known for PS4/PS3/Vita wierd-em-up Hohokum). The core gameplay is very similar to something like Lemmings except you manipulate the world directly. This game oozes charm with cute clay motion characters, in game textures derived from photos of IRL objects and in-game tutorials delivered in song by the legend that is 'Pegbeast':
This one is apparently also on iOS if you might want to check it out there and PS Blog did a short 5 minute making of doc for this one BITD which can be found on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMWKkMD_I8
The HD Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character
Pretty self explanatory this one. You're an octopus, you rotate, you go on adventures, people apparently accepted that 544p was HD. A quick gameplay video is the best way to make sense of the game, I think:
Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims in HD!
From the same devs as The HD Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character (the not defunct Dakko Dakko) this is a sidescrolling shoot-em-up that,striking a common theme, gets lots of points for charm and visual style with game design tailor made for short burst on-the-go play. A sequel called Pop Up Pilgrims came out on PS VR in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-W-OscCb1I
It was interesting looking back at these. Really small indies don't really seem to be that much of a thing on consoles any more with the Xbox Live Arcade and PS Minis programmes long dead. The space got ceded to the wild west of phones and PC.
Kahoots
This was the first console release from the unfortunately now defunct indie dev Honeyslug (perhaps best known for PS4/PS3/Vita wierd-em-up Hohokum). The core gameplay is very similar to something like Lemmings except you manipulate the world directly. This game oozes charm with cute clay motion characters, in game textures derived from photos of IRL objects and in-game tutorials delivered in song by the legend that is 'Pegbeast':
This one is apparently also on iOS if you might want to check it out there and PS Blog did a short 5 minute making of doc for this one BITD which can be found on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMWKkMD_I8
The HD Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character
Pretty self explanatory this one. You're an octopus, you rotate, you go on adventures, people apparently accepted that 544p was HD. A quick gameplay video is the best way to make sense of the game, I think:
Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims in HD!
From the same devs as The HD Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character (the not defunct Dakko Dakko) this is a sidescrolling shoot-em-up that,striking a common theme, gets lots of points for charm and visual style with game design tailor made for short burst on-the-go play. A sequel called Pop Up Pilgrims came out on PS VR in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-W-OscCb1I
It was interesting looking back at these. Really small indies don't really seem to be that much of a thing on consoles any more with the Xbox Live Arcade and PS Minis programmes long dead. The space got ceded to the wild west of phones and PC.
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Imo Tearaway is the quintessential Vita game. Nothing I played on there exploited everything that handheld was capable of in such a charming and inventive way.
it beat Nintendo at it's own game.
it beat Nintendo at it's own game.
And Vagrant Story is such a beautiful game too. Can't vouch for PE2, is that considered a downgrade compared to the first one?
Not really. It's just different. It's inspired by the resident evil games moreso than the first but still a very good game. It has some QOL changes like walking speed and also looks better. Then they abandonned the franchise...
Ok, that's what I kinda remember hearing, but more negatively. That it's less atmospheric and more action-y. But I'm sure that's subjective and it's still really good, and I should check it out. Yeah, it's too bad about the series, and especially so that The Third Birthday didn't turn out so hot.
Realizing I could of bought these years ago on sale, and now I'm stuck paying what they want or never having it is kind of painful.. lol. Wish they'd throw us a bone and have price drops or something.
Went through and trimmed my list, are the Suikoden games worth buying despite the fact I'll never have 5? I keep humming and hawing over it. (Also annoying Ar Nosurge Plus is still $53 on PSN, or $150+ physically.)
Went through and trimmed my list, are the Suikoden games worth buying despite the fact I'll never have 5? I keep humming and hawing over it. (Also annoying Ar Nosurge Plus is still $53 on PSN, or $150+ physically.)
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So got my SD2Vita and 256gig SD card and got all set up and have been downloading every vita and psp game I own digitally.
Must have about 200 give or take because of ps+.
Got a related question, does anyone know if you can use you SD2Vita on your Vita and just take it out to use it on a vita TV?
Always been tempted and since I had issues with my ps classic and some games performance, being able to play PS1, psp and Vita games on the TV is starting to tempt me more. If I can easily swap the SD2Vita between and Vita tv then I might just pull the trigger.
Must have about 200 give or take because of ps+.
Got a related question, does anyone know if you can use you SD2Vita on your Vita and just take it out to use it on a vita TV?
Always been tempted and since I had issues with my ps classic and some games performance, being able to play PS1, psp and Vita games on the TV is starting to tempt me more. If I can easily swap the SD2Vita between and Vita tv then I might just pull the trigger.
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There are a number of knockoff PSP batteries available on Amazon. Insten and Ostent were the 2 most popular it seemed from my research when I recently bought a PSP-3000. Never heard of any bulging issues from those models but it does seem like build quality and longevity are certainly worse in these knockoff batteries vs the OEM.
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Yes.
But try to get 5 as well down the road! :P
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Bought an adapter so I can use a 32gb micro SD card with my super sexy Hannah Montana edition PSP that I bought last week. Already bought 18 digital games; I think I'll probably by another 10-15 in the next couple months to complete my collection of games that I want to play. Currently about 2/3 through Jeanne D'Arc and having a lot of fun.
I never owned a PSP, so I'm having fun discovering its library!
I never owned a PSP, so I'm having fun discovering its library!
No, you need to have henkaku etc on the system.
I did mine ages ago and haven't used it since. Because of the store thread it prompted me to look into bigger storage and so picked up a SD2Vita and 256gb SD card and download around 200 games I had from pan.
If you have experience with hacking systems with cfw it's relatively easy. I followed some guides and it wasn't a problem.
Did have some issues getting SD2Vita to work at first but managed to get it sorted and now it's fine.
You can Spoof the latest firmware and still use it as normal which is great. That's how I sorted out downloading my library from psn.
Silent Hill Shattered Memories was great on Wii. The waggle was lame, so I wonder if the PSP version is good (or even better)? It was also on PS2 iirc.
Anyways -- Vita TV, henkaku, sharp scale plugin, psx classics and psp games = heaven.
Anyways -- Vita TV, henkaku, sharp scale plugin, psx classics and psp games = heaven.
There's a step-by-step guide for hacking the Vita. It takes you through the entire process from upgrading/downgrading OFW through installing ENSO and recommending some helpful plugins. Only took me about an hour my first time, and I was reading everything super carefully so I didn't miss anything. Not sure if it's okay to link it here, but feel free to PM me.
I'm holding fire until the rumour is confirmed, hopefully they'll soften the blow with a closing down mega sale
Just panic bought another memory card. Still aloooootttt of shit to buy for me off the store before they shut it down.
Got Dragons Crown and Stein Gate's physical as I'm going to need to save space for digital only shit lol
Got Dragons Crown and Stein Gate's physical as I'm going to need to save space for digital only shit lol
I'm annoyed I skipped P3P when it was a tenner a few years back
I have FES so I have played the game, but wanted portable for the extra stuff it adds
I can't see it being stuck on Vita forever, the series is too popular to not have it ported somewhere else at some point
Hopefully we see a final sale
Something weird id happening on my vita. If I go to my transaction list I cannot see any of my purchases before 2017. Yet if I go to the pages of games I bought before that I can download them. that means after the store closes I am losing those games?
You can buy on PS3 also.
LBP Vita is great though. That makes me wonder how the DLC for that is going to work though. I think the DLC is cross-buy? So maybe you can still buy it in LBP3 and it'll show up on Vita, not sure.
Edit: Oh, some random DLC that I found and purchased.
Thomas Was Alone had some free DLC that I missed. And I bought a couple level packs for What Did I do to Deserve This, My Lord 2!?!
Yeah LBPV is fantastic. I believe Tarsier studio did the singleplayer, the studio that went on to do Little Nightmares
? The game was originally on the Super Famicom, and was also released for the PS1 in Japan and the US.
Gravity Rush is a must have. It's a shame we didn't get more made for Vita 3D action games.
Super Time Force Ultra is a great game and one of my favorite Vita games. A lot of great characters. It doesn't get enough credit.
Super Stardust is the best twin stick shooter for Vita. Hotline Miami is a close second.
For RPGs I'd pick Undertale or Breath of Fire IV which is a psone classic.
Super Time Force Ultra is a great game and one of my favorite Vita games. A lot of great characters. It doesn't get enough credit.
Super Stardust is the best twin stick shooter for Vita. Hotline Miami is a close second.
For RPGs I'd pick Undertale or Breath of Fire IV which is a psone classic.
