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A-Stump said:
If it isn't God of War, Sony treats their IPs like shit. A good example of this I think is to bring up Playstation Allstars, which I'm sure like most of the IPs in it, most people have forgotten about. How many of the fighters continue to even be mentioned in passing by Sony? Three. Two of which are God of War characters.

One sticker in my side is they own the rights to a JRPG fan fav. A cult classic that many hold to be one of the best of the PS1 generation. Legend of Dragoon. They could make a new game. They could remaster that game. They could simply release it. Instead Legend of Dragoon exists to be forgotten like the retard child Sony wants to cut out of their family portraits.
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Well... they didn't fuck up Ghost of Tsushima... yet.
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
The PS VITA is still my personal favorite handheld console, and I’m thinking about playing some VITA games before the Spring season stars. Anyone have any favorites that are good?
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I rank Vita pretty highly too. One of the best for it is definitely Muramasa Rebirth.
 
Jonah Hill poster said:
The PS VITA is still my personal favorite handheld console, and I’m thinking about playing some VITA games before the Spring season stars. Anyone have any favorites that are good?
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Gravity Rush
Soul Sacrifice Delta (online might be dead at this point, and it was required to have a Online Pass linked to the PSN account to access in online features on 1st-party Vita games)
Earth Defense Force 2 & 3 Portable (only the JP versions had an alive online community which was separated from the western releases due of patches)
Vanillaware in general (Dragon's Crown, Odin Sphere, Muramasa Rebirth)
Atelier games (either Rorona Plus or Ayesha for a start)
Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate HD
Pix the Cat
Deception IV The Nightmare Princess
Superbeat Xonic + Taiko Tatsujin and IA/VT Colorful
Metal Gear Solid HD 2 & 3
Nippon Ichi Software (Disgaea, Yomawari, A Rose in the Twilight, htol#NiQ, etc.)

The Playstation Vita was my main console system for most of the 2010's and the Switch replaced it during the period of lockdowns.
I hope yours is hacked though because it would be silly to not take advantage of the positives the homebrew brings (micro SD adapter in the game cart slot, battery percentage, Retroarch, ability to screenshot in any game, direct access to the PSP's operating system, english patches for JP-only titles, etc.)

The sole downside that I know of is the compatibility for custom PS1 files is lower due of the Vita's inability to change the firmware version of POPS (Sony's official PS1 emulator) unlike on a real PSP.

Also something that not much people knew about is that you could use the Vita's music player for your own custom BGMs (replacing the original background music without disabling other sounds) although that worked only in a bunch of games like EDF, as far as I remember.

SSj_Ness said:
I rank Vita pretty highly too. One of the best for it is definitely Muramasa Rebirth.
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George Kamitani wants to bring Muramasa in modern platforms but apparently unspecified issues are preventing the ports to happen.
So far, 13 Sentinels (published by Atlus) got ported on Switch and Grimgrimoire (owned by Nippon Ichi Software) got a remaster on Switch & PS4 last year.
Muramasa is tied to Marvelous so I'm assuming there be issues with the publisher itself.
 
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BananaSplit² said:
Gravity Rush
Soul Sacrifice Delta (online might be dead at this point, and it was required to have a Online Pass linked to the PSN account to access in online features on 1st-party Vita games)
Earth Defense Force 2 & 3 Portable (only the JP versions had an alive online community which was separated from the western releases due of patches)
Vanillaware in general (Dragon's Crown, Odin Sphere, Muramasa Rebirth)
Atelier games (either Rorona Plus or Ayesha for a start)
Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate HD
Pix the Cat
Deception IV The Nightmare Princess
Superbeat Xonic + Taiko Tatsujin and IA/VT Colorful
Metal Gear Solid HD 2 & 3
Nippon Ichi Software (Disgaea, Yomawari, A Rose in the Twilight, htol#NiQ, etc.)

The Playstation Vita was my main console system for most of the 2010's and the Switch replaced it during the period of lockdowns.
I hope yours is hacked though because it would be silly to not take advantage of the positives the homebrew brings (micro SD adapter in the game cart slot, battery percentage, Retroarch, ability to screenshot in any game, direct access to the PSP's operating system, english patches for JP-only titles, etc.)

The sole downside that I know of is the compatibility for custom PS1 files is lower due of the Vita's inability to change the firmware version of POPS (Sony's official PS1 emulator) unlike on a real PSP.

Also something that not much people knew about is that you could use the Vita's music player for your own custom BGMs (replacing the original background music without disabling other sounds) although that worked only in a bunch of games like EDF, as far as I remember.


George Kamitani wants to bring Muramasa in modern platforms but apparently unspecified issues are preventing the ports to happen.
So far, 13 Sentinels (published by Atlus) got ported on Switch and Grimgrimoire (owned by Nippon Ichi Software) got a remaster on Switch & PS4 last year.
Muramasa is tied to Marvelous so I'm assuming there be issues with the publisher itself.
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Vita would have been great if Sony made games for it...
 
CaptainAutism69 said:
Vita would have been great if Sony made games for it...
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The Vita, and to an extent the PSP, has the same problem that older systems like the TurboGraphx16 and Sega Saturn had in that it had more Japanese support and games than the US/EU, whether it was poor marketing (or none at all) or that the console was more expensive than the Nintendo DS. The irony is that it's better to get a VITA now since you can hack/mod the ever-loving fuck out of it but there are things you should know about it before you even decide to get one
 
BananaSplit² said:
The Playstation Vita was my main console system for most of the 2010's and the Switch replaced it during the period of lockdowns.
I hope yours is hacked though because it would be silly to not take advantage of the positives the homebrew brings (micro SD adapter in the game cart slot, battery percentage, Retroarch, ability to screenshot in any game, direct access to the PSP's operating system, english patches for JP-only titles, etc.)
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Don’t forget overclocking (or rather, disabling the built-in underclocking) to make games run better. This is especially important because the Vita was like the Switch Zero in the sense that a lot of devs ported their console games over, but they often ran poorly because of the lack of power. Overclocking doesn’t completely fix those issues, but it certainly helps.

Also, the community has ported a ton of Unity and Android games to Vita, along with a bunch of original homebrew games.
 
Two Dollars said:
Don’t forget overclocking (or rather, disabling the built-in underclocking) to make games run better. This is especially important because the Vita was like the Switch Zero in the sense that a lot of devs ported their console games over, but they often ran poorly because of the lack of power. Overclocking doesn’t completely fix those issues, but it certainly helps.

Also, the community has ported a ton of Unity and Android games to Vita, along with a bunch of original homebrew games.
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Overclocking can mess some games up, Danganronpa 3 freezes in several places if it's on, so I doubt it's the only example.
 
CaptainAutism69 said:
I recall Dead Space being like, 6 hours long. Not sure why I would rebuy it with new graphics and extra woke...
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I recently replayed the original Dead Space and even knowing what to do and where to go it is about a 12 hour game.

BananaSplit² said:
George Kamitani wants to bring Muramasa in modern platforms but apparently unspecified issues are preventing the ports to happen.
So far, 13 Sentinels (published by Atlus) got ported on Switch and Grimgrimoire (owned by Nippon Ichi Software) got a remaster on Switch & PS4 last year.
Muramasa is tied to Marvelous so I'm assuming there be issues with the publisher itself.
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Why does Vanilaware seem to only care to port their games to consoles? I've been waiting for years for them to release their games on PC. I was so disappointed when I found out that the re-release of GrimGrimoire was going to be PS4/Switch only. That game is a damn RTS! A PC port with proper M/KB support which would make that game's gameplay shine.
 
Kheapathic said:
The sad thing is, if they weren't so up their ass about making things cinematic or whatever, they problems wouldn't be too hard to fix; but the devs think they're smarter than the playerbase, and have some horrible fucking camera design decisions for combat. To include a borderline useless lock-on mechanic and what can only be called aim-assist like we're in a fucking FPS. I know where and what I want to fucking look at, I shouldn't have to fight what the game wants me to look at when I'm in the middle of a fucking battle.
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yet people have been whining about no lock-on in genshin for over 2 years...

A-Stump said:
One sticker in my side is they own the rights to a JRPG fan fav. A cult classic that many hold to be one of the best of the PS1 generation. Legend of Dragoon. They could make a new game. They could remaster that game. They could simply release it. Instead Legend of Dragoon exists to be forgotten like the retard child Sony wants to cut out of their family portraits.
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pretty sure they know, but it doesn't fit into their MUH BLOCKBUSTERS strategy so it gets no attention. the smart play would be to license/outsource those IPs for cheap, but again, that's sony.

BananaSplit² said:
The fact SIE considers the Microsoft-Activision deal (namely Call of Duty) to be a big enough to break the Playstation's success is rather sad too. It further shows how little the executive suits at California think of the Playstation brand.
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they have the numbers, they know how much money COD makes them. I think the problem is less valuing the brand, it's more that they're fully aware they have no competition, at all (one rumor is that's why they bought bunghole). it's even sadder when you look around and notice that is isn't just sony, it's everyone. there's fortnite, but that's cartoony battle royale. there's destiny, but that's a scifi-fantasy looter-shooter. there's isn't anything in the "boots on the ground" space that gets the normies going; at least up until a few years ago there was still battlefield, but thanks to dice' incompetence even that is gone.
so once microsoft eventually takes COD away from them - or makes them pay a hefty sum to keep it - there's nothing they can replace it with really.

EDIT: and what's even more baffling, that means it would be so fucking easy to get into that space too - just don't suck as much as COD, and that will inevitably get people. I take the dozens FOTM clones of the past over this drought interspersed with incompetence...
 
ZMOT said:
so once microsoft eventually takes COD away from them - or makes them pay a hefty sum to keep it - there's nothing they can replace it with really.
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People have been sperging about SOCOM as a potential COD replacement - but then again, like you have said, getting Sony to care about their old IPs is like getting Pixyteri to shower.
 
Wesker said:
Bar a couple games, PS4 was a worthless console.
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I bought a PS4 for Bloodborne and still regret the waste of money since Bloodborne did most of the same shit that made me hate DS2 and is insanely overrated if you ask me. Only other games I bothered playing on the thing were a few Sony first party games like God Of Soy and Death Stranding which weren't worth the 3 bucks I spent renting them.
 
ZMOT said:
they have the numbers, they know how much money COD makes them. I think the problem is less valuing the brand, it's more that they're fully aware they have no competition, at all (one rumor is that's why they bought bunghole). it's even sadder when you look around and notice that is isn't just sony, it's everyone. there's fortnite, but that's cartoony battle royale. there's destiny, but that's a scifi-fantasy looter-shooter. there's isn't anything in the "boots on the ground" space that gets the normies going; at least up until a few years ago there was still battlefield, but thanks to dice' incompetence even that is gone.
so once microsoft eventually takes COD away from them - or makes them pay a hefty sum to keep it - there's nothing they can replace it with really.
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They've already tried it. MAG, an incredibly ambitious PS3 exclusive. The only problem was hardware could barely sustain that ambitious feat. 256 players on a PS3 connection? Incredibly unbalanced gameplay? It could have been amazing but they fucked up and hard too.

Dust 514 was also an ambitious PS3 exclusive. The thing holding that back the most was the incredible, pure autism required to play it. You had to grind an insanely long amount of time to be able to get licenses for niche roles. Want to be a communications specialist? Want to drive the equivalent of a bus around? You need the license.

They tried so hard in the PS3 era and expected way too much out of everything.
 
I got a PS4 for Nier Automata, Dragon's Crown Pro and the Yakuza games, I feel I got my moneys worth.
Sakuna, Doom Eternal (that my pc couldn't run back then) Judgement, Nier Replicant and Labyrinth of Refrain were neat bonuses. I think if I had bought into the last of us/ dad of war tripe and bought it for those my impression would be dismally different.
 
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