DangerousDave
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No Agarest DLC?? Damn.
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Playstation Store 11/12/09 Braid (US)
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TheShampion
Member
Dragona Akehi said:
Now I know that Vagrant Story is truly beloved and all, but even with that explanation, why Vagrant Story is so great will always avoid me. Having to go through your inventory in the middle of battle to equip and reequip items made combat in that game a chore. Also, walking into a boss room and having them cast a spell that immediatly kills you just doesn`t seem very fair to me. I feel like Vagrant Story wanted to have this dungeon crawl gameplay, but has systems that are not really intuitive to the experience. Its like a Parasite Eve spinoff plopped in the middle of a Nethack clone. I ended up in that game being able to completely incapasitate foes, but only do mininal damage to them with no idea where I went wrong. I spent like 20 minutes on one fight blinding and paralysing them and not being able to kill them before I just quit.
I really wanted to like that game, but it just hates me for some reason.
Gamecocks625
Member
Blablurn said:
Seriously, if it's not on PSN I might just sell the PSPgo and get a PSP 3000 instead. I'm tired of not being able to play key PSP games on my PSPgo. First Lumines I/II and now potentially PES 2010?!? It's one of the biggest sports franchises out there. Why in the world would Konami not release it on PSN?
One of the "advanced" strategies is to reflect damage. Usually does more damage than your weapon and keeping healed up is relatively easy.TheShampion said:
Dragona,
it's easy enough to end up in the forest section without a slash weapon, and best of luck slogging through that section then. It's not even that you die and fail, the game isn't hard like that, it's just that stuff takes forever to kill.
Basically the first fusion room should have a sign in front of that saying "Never use this room lolz". Or fusion should just be designed better.
And that's the thing. A lot of the gameplay pitfalls are poor design. Other developers have implemented the same ideas in better ways, that don't punish experimentation and don't make your game unsalvagable several hours after you did something you couldn't possibly know would ruin your progress. That's why better games are better and Vagrant Story? Not so great.
DangerousDave
Member
When we rate the quality of an old game, we do it by comparation with the games that were in that moment.
For example, FF VII. After it, there were RPG with better mechanics. RPG with much better controls (walking in certain areas with the 4-direction controls is a pain in the ass). RPG with better story. Of course, RPG with better graphics (remember the blocky hands).
But, when FF VII came out, in 97, with nearly all RPG in a cenital sprite way (the top-noch technology was being able to rotate 90% the screen, in the games with basic 3D maps), the difference with a game with cinematic experience, that mixed 3D characters with prerrendered maps and even videos, allowing any possible camera (instead of a cenital or isometric fixed one), and a huge variety of gameplays, was a lot of degrees better than any existant game. That's why FF VII got all the love, and is still a masterpiece.
With Vagrant Story is the same. The graphics were incredible in that moment, the amount of tactics and weapon custom amazing for an "action-rpg", the cinematic experience, with a non-topical plot and well-done ingame scenes, impressive. Even if later came a lot of better games than VS, the important is how better it was to the other games when it launched.
For example, FF VII. After it, there were RPG with better mechanics. RPG with much better controls (walking in certain areas with the 4-direction controls is a pain in the ass). RPG with better story. Of course, RPG with better graphics (remember the blocky hands).
But, when FF VII came out, in 97, with nearly all RPG in a cenital sprite way (the top-noch technology was being able to rotate 90% the screen, in the games with basic 3D maps), the difference with a game with cinematic experience, that mixed 3D characters with prerrendered maps and even videos, allowing any possible camera (instead of a cenital or isometric fixed one), and a huge variety of gameplays, was a lot of degrees better than any existant game. That's why FF VII got all the love, and is still a masterpiece.
With Vagrant Story is the same. The graphics were incredible in that moment, the amount of tactics and weapon custom amazing for an "action-rpg", the cinematic experience, with a non-topical plot and well-done ingame scenes, impressive. Even if later came a lot of better games than VS, the important is how better it was to the other games when it launched.
Deadly Monk
Banned
Kenka Bancho, you better be on PSN tonight! It's Atlus so it probably will be.
/!\ Some content not available in every Store.
Demos
► Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
○ 243 MB
PSP Games
► Full Games
○ Major League Baseball 2K9 (£11.99 | 14.99)
○ Mana Khemia: Student Alliance (£19.99 | 24.99)
○ Street Fighter Alpha Max 3 (£13.99 | 17.99)
► minis
○ Circles Circles Circles (£2.49 | 2.99)
○ D-Cube Planet (£2.49 | 2.99)
○ Bubble Trubble (£3.99 | 4.99)
Add-ons
► Burnout Paradise
○ Big Surf Bundle (£27.99 | 34.99)
► Buzz!
○ Euro Sports Quiz (£3.99 | 4.99)
► Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce (PSP)
○ Additional Quests 7
► Fallout 3 (Spanish Version)
○ Broken Steel (7.99)
○ Operation Anchorage (7.99)
○ The Pitt (7.99)
○ Point Lookout (7.99)
○ Mothership Zeta (7.99)
► EyePet
○ Lucky Dip Styling Pack 4
► Guitar Hero 5
○ Lenny Kravitz Track Pack (£4.39 | 5.49 or £1.59 | 1.99 each)
♪ Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz
♪ Lady by Lenny Kravitz
♪ Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz
► Pain
○ Fat Princess Pack
○ Speed Oocher Pack (£1.59 | 1.99)
► Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic
○ Mistress of Mime
○ Shaolin Scarecrow
► Rock Band
○ White Stripes Pack 01 (£2.49 | 3.99 or £0.99 | 1.49 each)
♪ Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground by White Stripes
♪ Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine by White Stripes
♪ Icky Thump by White Stripes
○ Singles (£0.59 | 0.79 £0.99 | 1.49 each)
♪ A Day Like This SpongeBob SquarePants
♪ Club Foot by Kasabian
♪ Employee of the Month SpongeBob SquarePants
♪ Ridin the Hook SpongeBob SquarePants
♪ Smash It Up (Part II) by The Damned
► Rock Band Unplugged (PSP)
○ Singles (£0.99 | 1.49 each)
♪ Excuse Me Mr. by No Doubt
♪ Im Shipping Up To Boston by Dropkick Murphys
videos
► Avatar
○ Dev Diary 2
► Dantes Inferno
○ Anger Dev Diary
► Just Cause 2
○ Island of Panua Mini Doc 2
► Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time
○ Launch Trailer
Themes & Wallpapers
► PS3 Premium Themes
○ King Zumo Theme (£1.19 | 1.49)
○ Cavalier Warrior Theme (£1.19 | 1.49)
○ Wise Father Theme (£1.19 | 1.49)
○ Yuefeng Theme (£1.19 | 1.49)
Gamecocks625
Member
kassatsu said:NOW UP!
/!\ Some content not available in every Store.
PSP Games
► Full Games
○ Major League Baseball 2K9 (£11.99 | 14.99)
I'm sure most Europeans were looking forward to this way much more than PES 2010.
kyo_daikun
Member
Kuraudo said:
Those european premium ones? They are all static, if your talking about the eyepet/demon souls ones someone posted a link to them on page 2 I beleive.
Also nothing for me this week, will get the eyepet pack tho if I ever bother to open and use the game tho (this week could really have used vagrant story)
distantmantra
Member
Doc Evils said:
Sometime during the summer.
Pinball Heroes today. $4/table
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/11/pinball-heroes-out-today-on-psn-for-psp/
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/11/pinball-heroes-out-today-on-psn-for-psp/
Gamecocks625
Member
jvm said:
Ah was about to post this. Nice surprise! I'll definitely pick up the HSG theme...maybe the bowling theme as well.
Gamecocks625
Member
jvm said:
PS Blog said:
Sounds good!
Benjamin1981
Member
I like my PSP Go, but the last couple of updates on the European store have all been lackluster. Sony really needs to push for more good games and real PSone classics on PSN ASAP or i will put my PSP Go on Ebay and buy a 3000.
Host Samurai
Member
Come on baby, give some PSone games. Some JRPGs and Platformers to be exact. Hell, I really want my digital Fighting Force. My real copy got stolen/misplaced 3X. I think I went through 3 copies for that game.
According to EU PS blog next week will be interesting:Benjamin1981 said:
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/11/12/%e2%80%98heads-up%e2%80%99-playstation-store-update-12th-november-2009/
Who knows what that means though? 10 new music vids?
NFL Arcade coming Nov 24th.
http://www.psnstores.com/2009/11/madden-nfl-arcade-coming-in-2-weeks/
The trailer makes this look like my kind of football game.
http://www.psnstores.com/2009/11/madden-nfl-arcade-coming-in-2-weeks/
The trailer makes this look like my kind of football game.
Angst said:
It'd be nice if a certain PS Store manager bitch from the US gave us nice updates on things to come and such. Or if we got a heads-up update like EU so they know not to expect things. We just get it put up haphazardly with no reason why it cant come in a timely fashion.
Sigh.
The EU Blog is definitively better than the US one agreed. Most post on the US blog gets lots of comments but no replies, whereas the EU OP almost all of the time replies to comments which is really nice.DMeisterJ said:
But can't you just buy from the EU store if there's content that interest you? I'm in EU but I buy from the US store all the time as it's cheaper and my norwegian visa works for some reason. It's a bit of a hassle to change accounts on the PSP of course...
Edit - the dog replies to the cat, nice :lol
Dreamwriter
Member
kassatsu said:I spotted a wipeout one in that sizzle video
What's so bad about Wipeout?
Dreamwriter
Member
But he said he *did* see one (and so did I - the screen said the guy owned 5 tables, and there was a page that looked Wipeoutish after the last one).
Benjamin1981
Member
Angst said:
Next week could be good with the video store, Vagrant Story, Jak and Daxter The Lost Frontier and Little Big Planet.
But still, the support for UMD legacy with real classics from third parties is lackluster. You don't release a piece of hardware that relies on digital distribution if you don't have agreements with the big publishers to support it.
Philanthropist
Banned
Angst said:
I guess you know the EU video store launches next week (meh, beaten), and that should be huge on itself. If there is anything else, it'll be certainly welcome.
The new firmware update is coming next week too.
Benjamin1981
Member
kassatsu said:
Hustle Kings?
Cromulent_Word
Member
CRITTER CRUNCH!!! In case you can't tell, i am so happy it's finally hitting across the pond.Philanthropist said:
Benjamin1981
Member
Cromulent_Word said:
Nice, will buy!
Dead Prince
Banned
I'll be back on Critter Crunch TOmorrow. I need to lvl up :lol.
There should be a way to make you lose EXP if you lose or rather than just get 5 or so EXP each win to level up it. I don't remember exactly how it works.
There should be a way to make you lose EXP if you lose or rather than just get 5 or so EXP each win to level up it. I don't remember exactly how it works.