Ninja Gaiden Sigma plusAre there any long meaty single player vita games out besides uncharted?
Rayman is plenty long too, especially if you're going for platinum.Are there any long meaty single player vita games out besides uncharted?
Rayman is plenty long too, especially if you're going for platinum.
I am extremely irritated at the USB charging limitations.
Especially since they seem trivial and arbitrary.
At least there are already mods surfacing:
http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26419/PS+Vita+USB+Mod.html
And that guy didn't even really know what he was doing. But he got it to charge from a portable battery.
I hope 3rd parties make new Vita data/charge cables that remove this stupid limitation, as I'd like to use my Brunton Restore that I already own to recharge the Vita when I'm out of the country or away from wall outlets for extended trips.
EDIT - this solution is much better
http://www.snapturtle.com/wp/2012/02/22/ps-vita-usb-charging-solved/
If you order this can you tell me if it works with the Vita using the Trent, I'd rather not do the mod tbh, my soldering skills are not great.
Thanks for this! I've been looking for alternative methods to charge my Vita. Sony got everything right with this device except the atrocious power cord and limited charging options.
I'll take one for the team and also try the power switching adapter from Amazon - thanks to DBT85.
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Urgent feedback and suggestions (things that mess with the user experience):
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Notifications
Notifications do not work very well (yet), and it seems it will only keep you signed in into PSN when you're either in a game or in an active party. If you do something else, you will see the 'Signing in' pop-up when you try to go back to your Friends List.
What I expected it to do (especially with the 3G version, which I have), is keep you signed in all the time (using push notifications and a proxy, much like apps like eBuddy/WhatsApp etc) and constantly inform you of Near activity, notify you about invites/messages when the Vita is in standby.
Suggestion:
- Use push-notifications and a proxy to keep users signed in into the PSN even while idle (and standby), or at least include it as an option so you can choose if you want this just on Wifi or both Wifi and 3G. I understand that this was designed to save your battery, but when I'm at home - using my Wifi and with my charger stand by, I just want the option to be online all the time like on my PS3.
The main thing here, is that it's annoying to get game invites or messages 15 minutes later than they were sent.
- Currently, if a user 'likes' / 'thumbs up' or comments on something that happened in the Near / game-specific activity feeds, no one receives any notification of that event. There's no use of commenting on a status-update if no one knows about it...
Online gaming
- Right now, you can't quickly invite someone to your party or check the time when you're waiting in a game lobby, because when you press the PS Button, the game instantly disconnects you! Please change this.
- Some games seem to FORCE your connection to be in an 'offline' state. Is this because those games were in development long before the Vita's hardware / OS were finalized, or is there another reason? Because I strongly advice to NOT do this for future games, as the (long awaited) cross-game Party Chat-app has no use if games keep forcing you to sign off the PlayStation Network and go offline.
User Interface
- Enable an option to skip the 'Live Area' screen of the social apps, so you don't have to keep touching 'Start' after selecting Party, Friends or Group Messages. I understand things like 'documentation' and a quick 'link' to 'compose message' and such are on those screens, but they can also be accessed within the 'app' by pressing the PS-button afterwards). Forcing users to press a button twice to get to where they want will get them annoyed. And right now, the Vita's UI becomes cumbersome to use after some time.
- When you get notifications, you can't touch the bubble. You have to press the PS-button and then touch the upper right corner, touch the notification again etc. Basically, this sucks. It should just go to the notification list when I touch the notification bubble, or at least open the list when I press the PS-button while the notification is still active.
- Add a 3G/Wifi switch to the quick settings screen (accessed by holding the PS button - the screen where you also adjust the brightness).
- Add / Enable PORTRAIT VIEW when I tilt my screen in the browser.
- Finally, there's the IN YOUR FACE pop-ups that keep informing me about things I don't care about. They only make the UI feel slow. I'm talking about the 'Please wait...' and 'Signing into the PlayStation Network' or 'Sending message - 22% of 100%' pop-ups.
- Come on! Just show me the cached version of the latest state the app was in, and refresh/reconnect in the background. Same goes for Trophies, or Sending messages...}
- When I send a message, just let me continue with what I was doing and send it in the background. Then, when it's sent, notify me with the more subtle notifications that are also being used for Trophies/Online Friends/Messages received and such.
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Additional feedback and ideas:
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Activity Stream
Right now, we have this lovely stream of all the stuff your friends are doing (you can see the entire stream in 'Near', but you can also filter it by scrolling down a game's Live Area-screen), which is great, but very messy.
- You can comment on stuff and like it, but as far as I know, no one will get notified about comments/likes, so why even bother?
- Everything is being pushed into the stream unbundled. If High Score-updates would merge and only show the highest score, and Trophy-updates would be combined (so that you can expand the update to see all collected trophies), the feature would be much better in my opinion.
But that's not all. Because the stream is a great addition, but it has so much more potential as a whole:
General Leaderboards
Currently, there's no way to filter the stream for 'highest score', so that you can easily see what your friends best scores are. Yes, some games support it internally, but not all games.
The best example here, is Welcome Park: The app has some fun games, which are great to get some competition going among friends. But there's no way to keep up to date with the latest scores, unless you go digging in the (very long and ever growing) stream...
If the Vita would have General Leaderboards for ALL games (which need to be supported by all developers), we could all just check out Friends and Universal High Scores within the Vita's OS!
Wouldn't that be something?
This would also allow for even more competitive fun, such as:
Integrated Challenges
In addition to the General Leaderboards, I think a 'Challenge'-system within games could prove to be very fun. Example:
You just scored an amazing high score and think: I bet my friends can never beat that!
Well... what if the game would ask you to send you score as a challenge to one or more friends?
Here's how it could work:
- Tap or Select the 'Send Challenge' button
- Select the Friend(s) you would like to challenge
- Press Send
That's it!
Now, in order for this to work, your Friends need to be notified about their incoming Challenges... So I suggest an integration with the current Notifications:
High Score-notifications:
So I just send you a Challenge...
PING!
"Caemgen has challenged you to beat his High Score of 223.442 in Super Stardust Delta's Arcade Mode (Medium difficulty)" - Accept Challenge?
You press 'Accept' and the Vita asks if you would like to start the game right away, or save the challenge for later. You decide to go for it straight away and press 'Accept'.
PING!
I get notified about you accepting my challenge.
PING!
I get notified about you beating my high score and you send me a new challenge right away.
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The above scenario is one of the things that could be done with this functionality. Another thing that would a great addition is the option to enable notifications for whenever a friend beats on of your high scores in ANY game.
Filtering notifications
Additionally, it would be nice to filter out some of these notifications (or disable them all together, if you're not into competitive gaming at all, or have no friends to play games with).
- Disable notifications for a specific game
- Maximize notifications to bundled alerts hourly
- Disable all notifications (you could still be able to check the Global Leaderboards and select the 'Challenges' tab to see whatever Challenges and notifications are currently open).
For people interested, wololo revealed which game can be exploited to run homebrew through. It's not available on the US store, though. Since I don't want to use a EU account, and don't feel like spending $60 for it on the JP store, I think I'll pass.
Thrustmaster VIP case finally shipped! And for a much lower price of £12.99 on Amazon, so hopefully thats just price matching and not indicative of quality. My portable system can finally be portable!
Now if only I could track down one of those PS Vita Wallets that were pre-order bonuses in the rest of the EU. Other than one insane ebay scalper, they're nowhere to be found...?!
The only people shitting on the Vita in this thread are the usual know it alls that don't actually have one.
If you read posts from people who own them, they are happy, not exactly anecdotal is it? There's no point sitting in the middle of a happy thread of owners crying like a bitch about something you don't have, just make a decision, stick to it and stop fucking banging on about it.
Looks nice, but no extra places for game cards as far as i can see. I got the EVA case from Kamikaze. I like it, except for those straps. It did cost me only 9, so not big deal if i find a better case later on. Going to put the VIP case on my wishlist
Looks nice, but no extra places for game cards as far as i can see. I got the EVA case from Kamikaze. I like it, except for those straps. It did cost me only 9€, so not big deal if i find a better case later on. Going to put the VIP case on my wishlist
Alright... So I got in touch with someone from Sony UK on the EU Official Forums and he told me that he could get any valuable feedback to the RIGHT people: the team responsible for the Vita's OS / firmware.
This is the list I sent him. Let's hope it helps:
He just PM'ed me that he forwarded the list to them, as he thought it was great feedback. ^.^
I picked up an earbud pouch form eBay for my carts so that they can go in the VIP case without sliding all over the place.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LEATHER-C..._HomeAudioHiFi_Headphones&hash=item19c63edf08
Thats why I've been on the hunt for this:
The perfect solution and I can't find it anywhere Dear Sony, I would like to give you money, would you like some? If any European GAF'r can nab me one, i will love you. forever.
Con is censored? Considering they released a PSP game titled "The Con", I'm particularly surprised.i don't get some of the censorships and why is it in placed.
"con" is censored. so you can't use any words with that in there.
i don't get some of the censorships and why is it in placed. "con" is censored. so you can't use any words with that in there.
'Fica' means 'pussy' in italian :lol
I put God of War: Ghost of Sparta on my Vita just to see how it looked, and once I started playing it I had to play it all the way through to the end. It looked absolutely beautiful on the Vita and played wonderfully. Also, Chains of Olympus is a great place to "jump in" to the series, as I believe it is the first of the games chronologically (it was a prequel to the PS2/3 games)...I haven't played either of the PSP God of War games (any God of War game, actually)... just wondering how they feel on the Vita? I've heard nothing but good things about the series, think these are a good place to jump in?
Never saw anything mentioning how used games and trophies worked. Basically you need to clear out the used cart to allow trophies to work again.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/...tm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
Never saw anything mentioning how used games and trophies worked. Basically you need to clear out the used cart to allow trophies to work again.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/...tm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
That's what I did. I've got Peace Walker on my Vita now. It works fine...Just making sure,
I can download Metal Gear: Peace Walker on my PS3 and download it to the Vita directly. Nothing else needed? I may be wrong but I looked on the PS store and didn't see it in the compatibility list although the list looked bigger than what is currently offered on the Vita's store.
Does anybody know when the "Diablo-clone", i think its called Rune or something, with PS3 <> PSVita savegame transition will be released? Haven't read anything about it in the last weeks.
Congrats. What game? =D
You mean The 3rd Birthday, I presume? Yes, I'm playing it now on my Vita (started yesterday) and it's quite a bit nicer than playing on the PSP. Mapping the second stick to the D-Pad for camera control improves the playability a bit, and the graphics look very, very good. I think it's well worth the $20 PSN price, and I double dipped for it (I've got it on UMD as well).Hey this has probably been brought up already but anyone play
Parasite Eve 3 on the Vita?
I always wanted to get it on PSP but wasn't sure if it turned out to be a great game or mediocre one.
Very cool that Toys R Us is doing a B1G1 next week. MLB 12 and something else. Maybe MvC?
Sorry if this has been asked...I've seen that this is the best screen protector, right?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006VE40JQ/?tag=neogaf0e-20
What case have you guys decided is the best (and reasonably affordable)?
And has there been any announcement about adding PSOne support recently?
I can't believe how dumb people are so they have to be told that a save game needs to be erased in order to earn trophies. Of course you won't earn trophies on a save that isn't yours.
I have both listed as incompatible. If you do find a way to make them run on a Vita, please let me know so I can update the OP.Is there a list of PS Minis that work on the Vita but aren't listed? I wanted Age of Zombies and Pac-Man Championship, but they're not in the store, but then I read somewhere that they did work.
Sorry if this has been asked...I've seen that this is the best screen protector, right?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006VE40JQ/?tag=neogaf0e-20
What case have you guys decided is the best (and reasonably affordable)?
And has there been any announcement about adding PSOne support recently?
i'm not sure of the release date but it's called warrior's lair now. sometime later this year is all that has really been stated as far as i know.
Ya, I gotta echo these sentiments... I was sure I didn't want to bother with Rayman - the last Rayman game I played was on my Sega CD and my impression back then was that it was a pretty but dull floaty platformer (then I'd go back to playing Sewer Shark in all its pixely-FMV glory!!) so I just wasn't interested... but the praise the Vita version has received here on GAF convinced me to try the demo yesterday, and I immediately went out and bought the game. It is beautiful! And fun! Between it, Prinny and Tales From Space: MBA I'm well served for platformers at the moment on my Vita...Just wanted to thank GAF for the feedback regarding Rayman. You guys were not BSing about how great it looks This game is very beautiful. Never played a Rayman game before, but I am glad I got it.
I don't see how it's a workaround or a "loophole" as other sites were saying. Doesn't it specifically tell you when you put a pre-owned cartridge in that you need to delete all the data in order to earn trophies?