The PS Vita Thread - Remote Play for all PS4 Games

[Cuilan]

On the subject of Soul Sacrifice, this is good news.

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/07/31/so ... ltiplayer/

Some new screenshots and info here too (copy/paste URL).

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201208/02018907.html

Edit : even more stuff.

http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/titl ... rifice/en/

[Op Intensify]

Soul Sacrifice's Japanese site has an English translation now.

Sounds very promising, I hope the dev team can make good on realizing their vision outlined here. Yasunori Mitsuda is doing the OST!!

I lost the link, but there's a feature on Ys Celceta in a recent Famitsu. Looks like Ys Seven: Part 2; the menus and HUD are nearly identical, and it's clearly running on the same engine. Not that more Ys Seven is a bad thing. It also seems that it's going to be more of a retelling than a remake of Ys IV, with plenty of new characters and locales.

[professor ganson]

It's been tough to favor my Vita over my other handhelds lately. Disgaea 3's main game is way too easy. Perhaps the Item World is fun, as it was in Disgaea 1 and 2, but I've had enough of that.

The one game that's fun enough to get me to play my Vita right now is Hot Shots Golf.

[Op Intensify]

Are you aware of Army Corps of Hell and Shinobido 2? Those aren't enough to be system-sellers for me, but they're the two games I'd get straight away when buying a Vita.

Despite appearing to be a Pikmin clone, ACoH is really more of an arena shmup. Shinobido is from the original developers of Tenchu, which was a much better series before K2 and From Software took it over.

[Friendly]

Call of Duty, Killzone, TearAway (new exclusive game) , PS1 compatibility and PS+ for Vita were announced by Sony at Gamescom today.

[Op Intensify]

They also announced a program where if you buy the PS3 version of several of their upcoming major franchise games (i.e. the new Sly Cooper and Ratchet) they'll give you the Vita version for free. They're getting desperate.

[Friendly]

This "cross-buy" is for the upcoming Sly 4, Ratched & Clank, and Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale. That is actually quite cool, not having to buy the same game twice so you can play it on your PS3 and your Vita. Sony should have done this from the start.

[Marc]

Still not seeing anything of interest on the horizon. Even the best PSP games are MIA here in the UK. It's not looking good, which would be a shame for such a capable piece of kit.

[Friendly]

Tearaway looks good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r97hR-xheac

[Khan]

Still not seeing anything of interest on the horizon. Even the best PSP games are MIA here in the UK. It's not looking good, which would be a shame for such a capable piece of kit.

you know the Vita is region free right?

Im hoping theres a price drop soon to stimulate sales, at the moment im watching a few on ebay to maybe grab one at a stupendious bargain price.

[BulletMagnet]

you know the Vita is region free right?

It sort of is, but there's some manner of limitation, like you can only have one profile at a time and each profile can only have one region, something like that.

[Op Intensify]

Anyone have an idea of how hard Shinobido 2 is? It's from the developers of the first two Tenchu games, which were pretty easy if you just ran around with your sword hacking everyone, but often very challenging if you were going for high mission rankings by avoiding ever being spotted. I would hope the new game is the same way.

There's some kind of foolproof long-distance remote QTE stealth kill you can do, I hope its use is very limited.

[brentsg]

you know the Vita is region free right?

It sort of is, but there's some manner of limitation, like you can only have one profile at a time and each profile can only have one region, something like that.

Only one profile on a memory card, so it's region free. You just need to buy an extra memory card.

[Ganelon]

You can reset and switch profiles on a single memory card by formatting the system. The process takes about 2 minutes each time but wipes out all of the Vita's system settings (including un-synced trophies, but it doesn't touch game data). This process is more annoying than the PSP's 30 sec. account swap but is actually much faster than the dual memory card profile approach, which also involves a full reset and is not a trivial process of just switching out one card and plugging in another.

It's unfortunate Sony gave that lacking "1 account per memory card" answer before the system was released and now a lot of folks are still under that misunderstanding. It's also unfortunate that many Vita multi-account guides tell the user to wait through the whole 5-minute intro after the format when the more efficient process is to immediately shut the system down and then turn it on again. Playing multi-region games is easy on the Vita, and Sony should be commended for supporting the process.

[Op Intensify]

Could someone provide a link to a "good" region switching guide? Searching gets a million results, and I don't actually own a Vita yet so I'm clueless.

[Cuilan]

Assassin's Creed Liberation and Killzone Mercenary look great. But it's kind of unfortunate that the CoD game is apparently little more than a quick cash-in. Even though I wouldn't have bought it either way since I swore to not buy any more Activision games so long as Kotick is CEO, it would have been nice to have a good CoD game on the Vita that takes full advantage of the system, since the Vita needs all the sales it can get.

Could someone provide a link to a "good" region switching guide? Searching gets a million results, and I don't actually own a Vita yet so I'm clueless.

1. Go to the Settings menu
2. Select the Format option
3. Select "Restore the PS Vita System" option
4. When it asks you if you want to format the memory card, say no
5. When formatting is done, the Vita will shut down/restart
6. After it boots up again, log into PSN with whichever other account you want to use

[Op Intensify]

Thanks. This is my current list of Vita Games To Get (some pending release):

Shinobido 2
UMvC3
Virtua Tennis 4
@field
Senko no Ronde (hopefully not canceled)
Army Corps of Hell
Malicious ReBirth
Gundam Seed Battle Destiny (supposedly a huge improvement on the PSP Gundam Battle games, with dual analog at last)
Disgaea 3
Ys: Celceta
Zero no Kiseki (assuming US release)
Persona 4 Golden
Soul Sacrifice

Ragnarok Odyssey is coming to the US, though it apparently plays like a mediocre Korean MMO + some Monster Hunter trappings.

Even though I wouldn't have bought it either way since I swore to not buy any more Activision games so long as Kotick is CEO

You would have missed out on Tenchu and Virtual On OT (Dreamcast), he was CEO even back then.

[Cuilan]

Ragnarok Odyssey is coming to the US, though it apparently plays like a mediocre Korean MMO + some Monster Hunter trappings.

From my experience with the demo, it plays more like Monster Hunter than a Korean MMO. I would describe it as a more action-gamey Monster Hunter clone with online co-op.

You would have missed out on Tenchu and Virtual On OT (Dreamcast), he was CEO even back then.

The only Tenchu game I've ever played was the first one, and I borrowed it from a friend. And I never bought VOOT on the Dreamcast. Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time I bought an Activision-published game prior to this generation. I guess the IW fiasco was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

[Op Intensify]

From my experience with the demo, it plays more like Monster Hunter than a Korean MMO.

So it's probably like God Eater, which I thought was painfully mediocre from the demo. I'll wait for some detailed reviews of the US version before making a decision.

From Software hasn't played their cards in the next-gen handheld war yet. I really hope they support the Vita full-on like they did with the PSP. I would love to see Armored Core and Souls spinoffs for the Vita--the hardware and controls could accommodate both series with little to no compromise, in a stark contrast to the gimped controls of the AC PSP ports.

There was a Vita port of KOF XIII listed on a leaked document from E3. Why haven't we heard more about that yet? I'm also eying Orgarhythm, the "music-based RTS" from Acquire, which looks like a cross between Patapon and Pikmin. Could be decent, could be too experimental for its own good.

[Friendly]

Snapshot, upcoming 2D puzzle platfomer. Also for PS3 with Move.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/05/ ... this-fall/

[Op Intensify]

It's unfortunate Sony gave that lacking "1 account per memory card" answer before the system was released and now a lot of folks are still under that misunderstanding.

Thanks to a particularly bullshitty firmware update, it's now true. You can now only have one account per memory card, so you'll need to switch them out (as well as going through the additional processes) every time you want to play import games. The only way to change accounts on your card is to format it, so the trick explained above will no longer work.

Still better than the 3DS's no-buts-about-it universal region lock, though. But if and when Vita game piracy becomes a real thing, I wouldn't be surprised if another firmware update added similar measures. Just like with the PS3, the code for region locks is already there.

[Friendly]

Yeah, that's indeed bullshit. Maybe Sony thinks that PS Vita is selling too well and would like it to slow down a bit because they can't keep up with production.

[Op Intensify]

Or they want to sell more memory cards.

4 GB ones are darn cheap, though, and should be adequate for playing retail import games.

Keep in mind that Sony had stated from the get-go that the Vita was supposed to be "one account per memory card." They only closed a loophole in their system. Still bullshit, but not without precedent.

[Ganelon]

Wow, that's an unbelievably inane move. Glad you linked that thread though; I was planning to upgrade my Vita firmware sometime this week. Looks like I have to get my JP profile out of the card before I update or the data will be stuck there forever.

The least Sony could've done after this change would be to allow memory card profile switching with no formatting involved. I can't believe any business would waste time and resources to remove this option, the only immediately obvious result of which is to upset its customers. Sony is apparently itching to get its just deserts.

[Op Intensify]

Sony learned their lesson with the PSP, and are doing everything they can that they think will stave off the pirates and hackers, short of region locking the system. The PSN breach also put them on permanent high alert.

Expect the PS4/Orbis to include some seriously hardcore and anti-consumer protection measures, and don't expect anything like Linux to ever show up again. Might even be region-locked at launch.

[Marc]

Seems this amazing machine is headed down the toilet. So this week, I can play PS1 games, emulated less than perfectly at silly prices? Cheers Sony.

[Op Intensify]

Shit, are you telling me the PS1 emulation's imperfect compared to PS3/PSP? The input lag's probably still there. What a joke.

I'm still getting one of these at some point, but I don't know how long I'm going to wait for it. The Ys game being localized would be a huge boost to my interest.

[Skykid]

Sony's drive for bankruptcy continues in earnest.

[Marc]

So I just checked the store. Eurogamer published a list of 100+ games that were to be available today for this service. Upon checking, it's half that, with the one title I wanted - Resi 1 Directors Cut - not there at all. Even if it were, Sony can suck me off at eight quid. So, a let down all round really.

[shmuppyLove]

the one title I wanted - Resi 1 Directors Cut - not there at all.

Instead I will give you this: