I love their art style but releasing on the Vita assures that it'll be a huge flop. I hope it doesn't tank the developers because I'd love for them to do well.

true. Weird that they've not gone for iOS. Not that I'm complaining. Vita needs more good stuff.

Thans. Glad i could refrain myself. Tomorrow long trainride to Maastricht. Perfect timing.


Rick

Update to the latest firmware, and go to this website on your Vita browser, and you got Vita homebrew.

My Vita deserves more love than it gets (tbf so does my 3DS but my gf has that at the moment). I think I've just gone off portable gaming - I don't even play games on my phone anymore.

My Vita deserves more love than it gets (tbf so does my 3DS but my gf has that at the moment). I think I've just gone off portable gaming - I don't even play games on my phone anymore.

This morning, somewhere between Gatwick and East Croydon, I was actually in Canada blundering through an alien abduction. Nigella Lawson's sniper got herself killed on the first move by climbing atop a train carriage and making a sitting-yet-sultry duck of herself (forcing a reload. I know I know, but she was my only sniper).

Then Mark Ruffalo went carousing through that same carriage into what I thought was cover but turned out to be a prime position for a sectoid to knock six health off him. Having lost Ross Kemp, Fern Britten and Alexis Petridis in the two prior missions, I was keen to keep casulaties low so I kept Mark back and hunkered him down. A more sensibly positioned Nigella was able to pick off his assailant and the little dude who was brain-docking with him.

Louise Wener was charging forth with her shotty to grab the Meld, supported by Princess Diana. Now we had the Meld, we just needed to clear up the aliens, but couldn't find them anywhere. Suddenly, two came from behind us, where poor old Mark Ruffalo was marooned on his own. Luckily, and awesomely, Mark Ruffalo took one of the aliens down with Overwatch while everyone else dashed back to support. But before they could get there, Mark Ruffalo took down the other alien with a very long range and speculative round of machine gun fire.

Which is definitely the best thing I've done on a train.

I don't know if this Plus version is a little harder, but I'm finding the aliens more aggressive than on other versions. I am only playing on Normal because I am a wuss.

This isn't the dreams and nightmares thread.

Steamworld Heist has been getting a good airing during my commute, although I've hit an annoying difficulty spike.

Which bots are your preferred companions? Payday and Beatriz seem to be my regulars, though I feel bad for leaving my buddy seabrass at home so often. He's now too many levels down, as is the red neck bot, whose kill shot could be a valuable perk if I'd known about it earlier.

I favour mobility and fast killing, so Sally (for Kill Shot), Payroll (for speeeeed), often Piper for Inspire/heal (but I don't often give her sniper weapons), Ivanski (for heavy weapon support and tanking when I fuck up my party movement.)

As someone who'll be spending almost thirty hours on planes in the next three weeks, this interests me.

Don't know if you tried Neon Chrome, a ps plus freebie recently. Just started it and seems to be a very enjoyable rogue game. Cyberpunk setting, excellent synthy sound track.

I have. I initially hated it because it's one of the Vita games that uses too much RAM, so you can't go into Settings without quitting the game. But then Bose fixed the bug on my headphones that meant I had to toggle Bluetooth on and off before I could get sound, so now I think I can play it again.

This is totally a multi-format game, but sounds ideally suited to the Vita:

Vostok Inc review on Eurogamer

Shoot shit. Build shit.

the playstation store only offers me the ps4 version at the moment:( or is it a bundle?

this months psplus offering down the well looks nice too..

I have. I initially hated it because it's one of the Vita games that uses too much RAM, so you can't go into Settings without quitting the game. But then Bose fixed the bug on my headphones that meant I had to toggle Bluetooth on and off before I could get sound, so now I think I can play it again.

I've now played a ton of this (completed it twice.) It's pretty good. Message ends.

Got stuck on a millipede-type boss on the second level and stopped playing.

That's the toughest boss I think. Mostly it's about learning patterns. It has three phases where it spits out variations on mines and offensive drones. Keep moving and keep dodging those mines. Swap your attention back and forth between clearing the drones and attacking the boss. When you attack the boss, focus fire on one section to drain its shield and then destroy it before moving back to clearing drones. If you damage a section but then wait too long, it'll regenerate, which means you wasted your time. I mostly prefer the assault rifle for this, but the shotgun can do in a pinch; the ion variants do more damage against mechanical targets. If you have no choices you can make do with the SMG or burst rifle. With shotguns, you'll have to get close to focus the spread onto one or two segments of the boss's body. Most of the "special" weapons (the purple ones) are too situational to be worth bothering with, I stick to the basics.

If in doubt, start at level 1 and play up -- you'll be more upgraded when you get to that boss. Best classes are hacker (for money) or cyber psycho (for sheer damage dealing.)

If it comes to it, you can just grind out some damage and health upgrades by playing through as hacker a few times. Buy those and the "slot" upgrades for cybermods much more than you buy luck or energy. As hacker, get rid of the drone when you run out of upgrade slots, it's less useful as you play further.

Best cybermods: try and get the +30% damage against bosses one. The one that gives you +40% energy, combined with the one that gives you money for energy every time you complete a level, will net you +1500-2500 per level you complete, which is loads. All the ones that boost health are worth getting, as are the ones that buff movement speed for dodging. Buffs to reload speed are good. Perhaps my favourite is the one that makes the first shot out of each mag do explosive damage -- it's huge, and turns high level shotguns into one-shot-kill guns against almost everything.

so it's over (no plus games anymore as well, i had hoped on a grand finale of some sorts)

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019 ... nding-down
a little obituary:

Bought my second hand vita 3 years ago for about 100 euros (just before we knew of the switch)...

still, mine has such a nice library =, all fitting on the included mem card
- Geometry wars.. so beatiful on the screen
- TempestX
- God of war: Sparta (psp)
- pong (psone)

- pixeljunk shooter ultimate...
-resogun (the pleasant surprise when you get this for free because i already had the ps4 version)
- monkey ball
- luftrausers
- Everybody's golf
- EDF!
- Hitman
-Katamari
- Minecraft
- Downfall.


it's just a perfectly formed little arcade heaven on the go.. (which is kind of funny, since sony always gets the 'only focussed on home console and not on portable experience'-rep, but that gave space to these lovely third party games, still looking so beautiful)

thanks for the list, there's a few on there that I don't have e.g. EDF and Katamari. Had no idea there was Geometry Wars available on it.

Poor PS Vita. It’s such a tidy bit of kit with a host of features that hardly got used. The rear touchpad will surely go down in history as the most baffling feature on a handheld.