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Just made an impulse purchase of Ragnarok Odyssey. It was on sale here and I figure it'll tide me over at least until Toukiden next month. I know the series has a bad rep but I'd heard some positive things about the game from Monster Hunter youtubers I follow. Anyone here playing or played it? I assume it'd be more fun online than solo as usual for this kind of game.

I have it, but I'm stuck on one of the bosses. Can't beat it by myself and the times I've tried in coop have failed. But ya, it's definitely better in coop.
 
That's certainly how Sony (specifically Tretton) portrayed it initially. But that particular philosophy has gone by the wayside.

Now it's for convenience, mostly. Have two consoles? Share the games! Have two handhelds? Same deal!

Are there any Sony reps on here that i can get an official answer...I dont plan on abusing this obviously and its a close friend, not some guy im selling an account to or something.... we trade/borrow disc games all the time, and I heard you could do something similar with PSN games
 
I have it, but I'm stuck on one of the bosses. Can't beat it by myself and the times I've tried in coop have failed. But ya, it's definitely better in coop.
Yeah it kinda worries me that I've heard a lot about the difficulty ramping up so high as to be almost impossible solo later on in the game. I suppose at the end of the day it only cost me like $17 so as long as I get a bit of fun out of it until Toukiden I'm pleased haha.

Is there much of an online community for it?
 
Pulled this from the Vita TV import thread, http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=713731&page=9

PlayStation®Vita TV to be Launched on 16th January, 2014 good news
http://asia.playstation.com/hk/en/newsdetail?id=1710

PS4 just got release here in the Philippines and Sony surprise us by also releasing the Vita TV without any announcement. 8599 Php is about 192 USD
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Good news for Vita TV releases in other territories. Not long now until we can use western accounts on it. Does not support DS4 at the moment but that should change in the future.
 
Are there any Sony reps on here that i can get an official answer...I dont plan on abusing this obviously and its a close friend, not some guy im selling an account to or something.... we trade/borrow disc games all the time, and I heard you could do something similar with PSN games
I haven't seen mochuuu here in a while, but he is/was a PSN/SEN support person. Same as Morgan Haro on the PS Blog.

That said, I doubt you'll get a straight answer. Most new consumers don't know that you can share, and Sony isn't keen to encourage people to do so. Those who own more than 3 of any type of device (IIRC) will probably run into it, but you can imagine how rare that is.

In brief: The technology permits it, but the terms of service probably discourage it, since it requires giving someone else access to content that is technically licensed to you, and you alone. IANAL and YMMV. HAND.
 
I got money from the paypal and winter $10 promotions. My wallet is ready to spend tomorrow. Puppeteer, Killzone, Peace Walker, Thomas will be all mine.

Anyone recommend Rain and Lone Survivor?
 
Yeah it kinda worries me that I've heard a lot about the difficulty ramping up so high as to be almost impossible solo later on in the game. I suppose at the end of the day it only cost me like $17 so as long as I get a bit of fun out of it until Toukiden I'm pleased haha.

Is there much of an online community for it?


Sorry for the late reply. Umm, from what I remember the online community is still there. Not a lot of people playing but it's still possible to find and set up games. Only thing is some people might be playing the later levels making it difficult to play coop early on. IIRC the netcode isn't that great either, so you'll probably experience some lag.
 
Pulled this from the Vita TV import thread, http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=713731&page=9






Good news for Vita TV releases in other territories. Not long now until we can use western accounts on it. Does not support DS4 at the moment but that should change in the future.

We already knew that it was coming to the Asian countries in January, though not when they will be hitting shelves in January.

This doesn't mean anything, also they all had Vita 2000 in November. And we haven't seen any of that. No first party games announcement from SCEA/E either. Soul Sacrifice Delta is coming soon in Japan and we know nothing about Western release...
 
Good news for Vita TV releases in other territories. Not long now until we can use western accounts on it. Does not support DS4 at the moment but that should change in the future.

I'm expecting E3 annoucement together with marketing it as cheapest device to stream playstation now games to it which also happens to play Vita games.


Also did Laughting Banana import Monster Monpiece ?
 
Hey Gaf! This morning I found an auto downloaded patch for Muramasa (USA Version). Does anyone know anything about the contents? Western DLC coming soon???
 
So i bought Injustice Vita , game plays great, unfortunately not at 60fps all the time , there are some frame drops here and there, but the weird thing is, the cutscenes are full of framedrops. A shame , the game is one of the best regarding single player content. Its big , i mean the story mode took me a few hours and its a good story mode, better even than Mortal kombat. character models look good but colors are pale and dull. In order to "Fix" a little this you have to put the higher brightness from the settings of the game. An then the game will look better. It is not a great port , but it is a great game in the Vita ,Lobo and Scorpion rules in this game.So guys: Buy it.
 
I keep redownloading the Spelunky demo and I can't get into it at all -_- I feel bad about that but I genuinely don't enjoy it like I want to. Even after watching so many videos of people playing it and such... >_<
 
Does anyone know Toukiden's file size?

Wondering the same here.

JP version is at 2gb. Might be the same for the localization, since we'll only get jp voices.

I keep redownloading the Spelunky demo and I can't get into it at all -_- I feel bad about that but I genuinely don't enjoy it like I want to. Even after watching so many videos of people playing it and such... >_<

Well, It's not for everyone. It didn't click for me too.
 
Could somone explain how game sharing works? I would like to lend some of my PSN games to a friend, and Ive heard you are able to do this if I just log onto his PS3 and DL the games. No idea if this is against Sony's TOS, but Ive seen some neogaf threads about it.
(Simplified for the sake of, well, simplicity)

Your account can be activated on two PS3s at a time. That's basically all there is to it - you make a profile with your main account on your friend's PS3 and start downloading stuff, and his system becomes the second activated console, and any other user profile has full access to whatever games your account has that are installed.

I'm not a Sony employee, but it's not something you're going to get banned for, short of calling up CS and rubbing it in their face or something.
 
Ok, each time I go to my cart to buy Liberation, my PS3 freezes. Is there something going on with PSN?

It's a sign.

(Simplified for the sake of, well, simplicity)

Your account can be activated on two PS3s at a time. That's basically all there is to it - you make a profile with your main account on your friend's PS3 and start downloading stuff, and his system becomes the second activated console, and any other user profile has full access to whatever games your account has that are installed.

I'm not a Sony employee, but it's not something you're going to get banned for, short of calling up CS and rubbing it in their face or something.

I thought it was 3 PS3s. And 2 portables, except in Japan, where they allow 3 portables now (so someone could have a PSP, Vita, and Vita TV).
My account is currently active on 3 PS3s...

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Good sacrificing, Itachi/Cyborg/Alias; can't believe we dropped 2 gods at once.
 
Have you tried playing a game purchased after 2011 on all three systems? You can have more than two systems listed as activated on your PSN account management page, but that doesn't mean they'll all work.

I think they reduced the amount of systems from 5 to 2 because some people (a lot probably) just share DLCs. I have a couple of friends that bought Call of Duty maps between four people (you need to give your password, but if they're all friends it doesn't matter). There is quite some people that shares PS3 PS+ because of the two systems thing. Imagine if those 5 accounts were still active.
 
I had a few games (not only DLCs) shared with 3 friends (we always left a slot open, just because). Some of them still work on more than 2 PS3s, but mostly (even some purchased before the change to 2 systems/acc) don't.
 
So i bought Injustice Vita , game plays great, unfortunately not at 60fps all the time , there are some frame drops here and there, but the weird thing is, the cutscenes are full of framedrops. A shame , the game is one of the best regarding single player content. Its big , i mean the story mode took me a few hours and its a good story mode, better even than Mortal kombat. character models look good but colors are pale and dull. In order to "Fix" a little this you have to put the higher brightness from the settings of the game. An then the game will look better. It is not a great port , but it is a great game in the Vita ,Lobo and Scorpion rules in this game.So guys: Buy it.

Way ahead of you. It's a good port, blows that the online is so barren.
 
Omg, mercenary just 9usd?, i need it now but i don't have enough memory space (8GB with 3.3 used by blazblue xd... and others)
Buy it and put it on your card when you have space. It's a steal at that price.

Don't have a PS3, only a PS4 and Vita. But I don't like choppy framerates, so I might pass. I'll have to look into Killzone, though I don't feel like playing a shooter.
Sly is completely devoid of atmosphere, personally I'd avoid it regardless of platform. I couldn't motivate myself to play it more than a few times before deleting it. For context, I've only played the first Sly (from the HD remaster) and I quite enjoyed it.

Need a good Vita platformer? Guacamelee or either of the Rayman games spring to mind.
 
Buy it and put it on your card when you have space. It's a steal at that price.


Sly is completely devoid of atmosphere, personally I'd avoid it regardless of platform. I couldn't motivate myself to play it more than a few times before deleting it. For context, I've only played the first Sly (from the HD remaster) and I quite enjoyed it.

Need a good Vita platformer? Guacamelee or either of the Rayman games spring to mind.

I only had the first Sly game during the PS2 era and it was awesome. I don't know why my 11 years old self didn't buy 2 and 3. Probably not being marketed at all helped, I wasn't to found in gaming at that age.

And not much time after that I was sucked by WoW... (well, like a year or a year and half)
 
It's $29.99 on Amazon.. It's still too much in my opinion. If it follows the pattern of MK. I'd say by March we're looking at $9.99 game.

UMvC3 has seen multiple sales. It's been as cheap as sub $10 IIRC.
I ended up buying MK for $19 on the store. It has a shitload of content, so I think it is worth the money. Plus, Netherrealm isn't Capcom so I don't mind giving them my money :P

UMvC3 though? I love the series, probably my favorite as far as fighting games are concerned, but I won't pay more than $15 for the game. Fuck Capcom. I can wait a few months for a good sale.
 
Keen for this US PSN sale to start, the PS+ discounts are some of the best I've seen so far, can't believe Killzone Mercs is going for $9 already. I have a few bucks in my wallet so I'm thinking I'll get Pixeljunk Monsters and Spelunky for Vita. Tales of Xillia for $10 is mighty tempting too, even though I'd prefer a retail copy.
 
HOLY. CRAP.

https://twitter.com/nihonfalcom/status/422975708131254272

That's Sora no Kiseki the 3rd for PS+ (it should be starting tom, since today is the last day for many titles).

That's the entire Sora no Kiseki subseries on PS+. I was gonna buy the 3rd anyways, but I guess this lets me save up a bit for their next titles.

I guess I'm buying Ao no Kiseki Evolution and whatever is the Sen no Kiseki continuation both day 1. Whether or not I'm ready to play them, LOL.
 
How does Metal Gear PW play on vita? Are the controls good with the 2 analogs? Thinking of getting that along with walking dead and velocity ultra
 
Is there really no way to deactivate old PS3 systems that I no longer own? On the SEN page it just tells you to go to the console to deactivate. I obviously don't have any of those consoles anymore.
 
I found an option to deactivate all. Does anyone know if that will work? I can obviously just go to my PS3 and PS4 and reactivate them.
you're doing it wrong. I had the same problem recently and the solution is to click a devices tab somewhere and you can see all of your systems. Not home now so I can't load it up. Don't waste your deactivate all option on this.
 
you're doing it wrong. I had the same problem recently and the solution is to click a devices tab somewhere and you can see all of your systems. Not home now so I can't load it up. Don't waste your deactivate all option on this.

OK thanks. I will just get on chat with them later. There are 3 old PS3's that I need to deactivate.
 
Is there really no way to deactivate old PS3 systems that I no longer own? On the SEN page it just tells you to go to the console to deactivate. I obviously don't have any of those consoles anymore.

I found an option to deactivate all. Does anyone know if that will work? I can obviously just go to my PS3 and PS4 and reactivate them.

It will work. It's your only option without calling Sony.
Mind that you can only use this remote deactivation once per 6 months.

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you're doing it wrong. I had the same problem recently and the solution is to click a devices tab somewhere and you can see all of your systems. Not home now so I can't load it up. Don't waste your deactivate all option on this.

I had to deactivate a system past november and couldn't choose which one to do so (the site said I had to deactivate them all), and was not the first time I did that. Unless it changed past november, deactivating everything is the only available option (sorry if you suggested Gloomfire to call Sony, 'cause I didn't read it like that).
 
I asked this in a previous thread but can one play the game without the touchscreen stuff?
Oh man why there's such preventive hate for DWN minigames? No they are not skippable but:
1)all the on-map minigames are rare, lasts few seconds, are easy, add variety to a repetitive genre, and even if you fail them you don't lose.
2)Duels are the real challenge in a very easy game and if you fail you only have to redo the duel, not the entire mission
3)horse riding is fun
4)defending can be hard too but nothing impossible

DWN is a great game imo.
 
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