***** PlayStation Vita Official Thread *****

MOOGLEYS said:
It's far better than I thought it would be tbh.

It looks just like a small PS3 to me the graphics are amazing for a handheld. uncharted had me drawn in for an hour last night and it is fantastic.

Just need my 16GB card as swapping games from the PC constantly is getting annoying although you can do it wireless which is a great idea.
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Plump for a 32
 
monkeyspank said:
Plump for a 32
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16gb is good for me I won't use it for anything but games and I have everything on my PC & PS3 so can just transfer around if needed. 16gb let's you have a few things installed at once. 4gb is way to small...

Just set up a 3 month lovefilm account so will have a few games on that to play as well..
 
These are not your normal handhold gaming device. Its a mobile PS3 with a small screen attached..!! Really, the screen is amazing but what amazed me the most is the graphics, I was expecting it to be good, but wipeout was not only good looking, it was running like nothing I've seen before.. I've tried racing games on my HTC one X, and they run well and look ok, but ok its a phone but this, wow..!!

It is just a PS3 in your hand. Need a bigger memory card.
 
Just 100% completed Virtue's Last Reward last night and got the platinum.

Mind = blown...

I thought I was doing a good job keeping up with everything until the last few hours, but the last few hours of the story have the complexity of all the Metal Gear Solid games ever made combined.

Had 31 hours playtime on it too, so it's probably my most played Vita game. Well worth a play!
 
To be honest, UC:GA is running sub-qHD so it looks more pixelated than it would at native resolution. Bend have still done a fantastic job with the game though, it's just the Vita is ever so slightly lacking in hardware to up the res.

Snot man said:
Just 100% completed Virtue's Last Reward last night and got the platinum.

Mind = blown...

I thought I was doing a good job keeping up with everything until the last few hours, but the last few hours of the story have the complexity of all the Metal Gear Solid games ever made combined.

Had 31 hours playtime on it too, so it's probably my most played Vita game. Well worth a play!
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This has been easily one of the best games I've played since the original KoTOR1. So engrossing.
 
I was in the same position... I would never have tried VLR but I nearly reached the end! (that's impressive for me) I really enjoyed it and I'm tempted to get the original for my DS.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
I just tried VLR after reading this. Seems a good game I like a puzzle adventure.
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I'll be honest, I really didn't like the puzzles. It's not that they were necessarily bad, it's just I loved the story so much I wanted to get back to it as soon as possible.

It starts off a little slow, but just give it a couple of hours.
 
Metalface Mark said:
What is VLR like - jrpg thing?
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Technically, it's a visual novel with two game play elements. There are the 'novel' sections, where you find out more about the story, and the 'escape' sections, where you're put in a room and need to find a way out. The escape rooms usually involve lots of smaller puzzles to help solve a larger one. The basic story is you find yourself trapped in a building with 8 other people, and you're trying to get out. It's a very deep and complex story once you get into it.

What makes the story so good is the branching and different paths the story can take. There are many opportunities within the game to make a decision that affects the story. From little things from choosing what colour door to go through, to deciding whether to ally with or betray someone else.

At any point within the game, you can go back to any part of the story you have previously visited, which allows you to take a different path without replaying big chunks of the game. It's all displayed very nicely on a flow chart (which I've put in a spoiler to prevent this post getting even longer - it's not a spoiler) The flow chart is much larger than this, but showing any more would be a spoiler.

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There are about 16 different endings, with certain endings giving an in-depth look at each of the characters. Once you have seen all the endings, you get a 'true ending', which expands on everything even more.

It's a sequel to a game made on the DS, 999: 9 persons, 9 hours, 9 doors. I hadn't played it, and about half way through VLR I read up on the story behind it. It was worth spending 20 minutes doing, as it gives a lot of background information which makes the last half of the game have a bigger impact.
 
If the Vita works as Sony have said it will for PS4, then I'll be picking one up early next year. Being able to play PSN/PS4 games while lazing in bed is too good to pass.
 
Hey boys and girls, traded in my xbox n some games and came out with a vita. now. How exactly does this work? What i mean is, downloading games. Can you only download them onto the vita? i just assumed i could download them onto the pc(or ps3) and fire them across onto the memory card when i wanted to play them? or do i need to delete each game and redownload?
 
You can download Vita games to your PS3 or Vita. You can also add games to the download queue (on PS3 or Vita) via your PC browser. You can keep the install file on your PS3 or the whole game on the Vita (if your memory card is big enough). You can also delete and re-download from your PSN 'downloads' list if you wish. You can also back up games from Vita to your PC or PS3 via the Content Manager.

Bear in mind that for Vita games there is (annoyingly) no separate save file - it's all part of the game file. So if you need to clear some space off your Vita memory card and want delete a game but keep the saves, you need to back up the whole game to your PC or PS3. However if you have PS+, you can backup just the saves to cloud storage.
 
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