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Can't... Stop... Playing... Persona 4...

I am fucking LOVING this game. I'm only about 12-13 hours in but I've been playing it every chance I get. I've spent the past 2 nights sitting in bed playing it for hours upon hours straight, then playing it on the bus, then playing it on my work break.

The gameplay itself doesn't seem too bad, it's just actually navigating the dungeons that seem kinda shitty. I'm still only in the first one so I'm hoping that'll change. One thing I really like is how everything seems to have a point. There's no random ass shit, it all benefits you in some awesome way which makes everything really tempting to try out worth as well as adding a nice amount of weight to your actions due to the time restrictions.

Well the "gameplay" of the persona games is admittedly 75% reading, but it's interesting and addictive reading so hey, no complaints here. I'd love if they released Persona 4 Golden for PS3 or something eventually as I have no intention of buying a Vita anytime soon *sigh*

Also, alright Kay, you've sold me to at least throw it on the wishlist. If it comes down in price I'll give it a stab and let you know what I think.

Holy heebly jeebly. The last bosses of cave story are kicking my ass...damn.

Tried playing a bit more NBA2K13. After my players started missing easy lay-ups, failed to grab about 10 consecutive rebounds, and somehow had the ball stolen from them by an opponent facing the other direction, I decided to give up and review the game. Keep in mind, all of this stuff starts to happen EVERY SINGLE TIME you have a chance to take the lead

This is my review


I'd appreciate the attempt to make each game excited if it wasn't done in such an annoying way. I don't even feel bad for doing this

AHAHAHA! Very nice! This is the best review I've seen in a long time.

Random battles in poke'mon are getting kind of annoying now that everyone is using the exact same setup. There's very little diversity. I do about 5 random battles a night and every single one has at least 4 out of 6 poke'mon in common. I finally got fed up and put 6 toons with substitute and debuffs in my battle box to prolong the fights as long as possible. My theory is that if you want to follow some poke'god template and sap the fun out, I can beat you to it. And surprisingly that doesn't affect getting them to register for my friend safari >.>

At least trading is getting increasingly more fun since random trades for eggs are occurring more often

Got so...god damn close on those last bosses. No mid-boss check points. Just 4 hard boss battles in a row, eh cave story? I SEE YOUR GAME

It amazes me that Sony thinks it's OK to charge $60 for a d/l of NBA 2K14 and $30 for a d/l of Spiderman. Anyways...

Has anyone played Spiderman on Vita? The last one I played was on a friends PS2 WAY back when you could first freely explore the city. Wondering if this one is cool for a handheld.

I played the console version and enjoyed it. I don't think that it's anywhere near Batman quality, but if you like Spider-Man enough it's worth a play-through. Web swinging is different. It's better because the camera moves like how it would actually feel, but worse because your webs don't actually attach to anything.

I think Beenox is putting in a pretty good effort with these games. Apparently they're doing something crazy with web-swinging in the next one. I'd be so happy if it's on par with the recent Batmans.

I think the pricing of downloadable content (across all mediums) really needs to be retooled. Books, and PSN classics come particularly to mind.

@Mot: Hmm, the way you put it I may have to jump. Not for $30, but I think this might be a game to give my Vita some much deserved love when it hits $20.

@T-wolf: Books especially. I can buy a paperback off Amazon for $7 with free shipping yet they want $15 for ebook? Yeah, sounds about right. Also, add me to Steam. I only have Kay on there so far and I might jump on more Humble Bundles if I have people to gift to. This applies to the whole forum but I like making T-wolf feel special

Any luck with those last bosses in Cave Story, Twolf? If so... HOW DID YOU DO IT? As much as I loved that game those bosses were just too much for me and I gave up.

PSN classics pricing seem right to me for the most part. Paying $10 for Final Fantasy VII, IX, and Metal Gear Solid makes me feel like I'm ripping them off.

I just wish they'd have better sales on PSN. Something just feels off when I can buy a game released in the past year or so on Steam or GOG or whatever for like £5 or whatever then you go onto PSN for their sales and barely anything has gotten cheaper and the PS1/PS2 games still cost £8.

I wish they'd keep updating the PS1 classics. They haven't added a good game in a while. They're one of my only hopes to ever getting my hands onto Dragon Quest VII.

Working on a Challenge mode run on Ratchet now. I'm still playing Resogun and Killzone. I started NSMB2 too. It seems okay. I never really go for coins too much in Mario except for special ones. That might sound weird, but I like to play really fast. So with the focus on getting coins, I find myself stopping for blocks and stuff more often which feels weird. Stuff like gold shells leaving a trail of coins is neat though.

BretBaber wrote:I wish they'd keep updating the PS1 classics.  They haven't added a good game in a while.  They're one of my only hopes to ever getting my hands onto Dragon Quest VII.  

I just looked up the sealed prices for that game and it's stupid. Kind of makes me want to play it now. I took the shrink-wrap off but never played it. I can loan it to you if you're jonesing that bad for it.

If you loaned it to me, I'd disappear off of here and your life.

Thanks for the offer, but I'll just hope and wait for a release date someday. It'll probably never happen, but I can dream. Also, I heard that game is super long, so I'd probably have it for a super long amount of time. I know they're releasing a 3DS version, I just wish Square-Enix would release games like this for the Vita.

I wish I'd known it was a rare game when I bought it. MANY moons ago I went to a TRU that had a MASSIVE clearance sale going on. I nabbed DQVII and RPG Maker for $10 each and everything you could imagine for Dreamcast. Not just games, but the crazy peripherals. I seriously had so many VMUs that a lot of them were still in the package.

It was the year when TRU found a bunch of Game Gears in storage and liquidated them for $20. Man, that was a good year. Anyways, if DQ doesn't get localized and you want to borrow it just let me know. (No, I won't call it Dragon Warrior...)

I don't call it Dragon Warrior either. Probably because the first game in the series I played was Dragon Quest VIII. I'm pretty disappointed the new one is going to WiiU and Wii (I believe Wii any ways). Would have been awesome to have on the PS4 or PS3. I get that they always pick the system that is selling the best, but I think they jumped the gun with Wii/WiiU. Maybe it is different in Japan though.

Also, power has been restored. 66 hours I was without internet, so therefore I had no reason to live.

I don't have you on Steam spiddy?! Madness

Krubixcube wrote:I don't have you on Steam spiddy?! Madness

I know! It's like there's an empty void in my life where beauty and wonderment should exist!

It's ok, we talked on Steam today and filled the void.


I've been replaying Bioshock instead of being useful and finishing my backlog like the last act (I assume) of The Witcher 2. But The Witcher 2, despite how much everyone praises it is a lot of busywork quests let's be honest. Interesting story, but padded like a mother fucker.

"This person's sick, and you better believe that we're going to send you through a ringer to get all 5 ingredients for her cure!"

TEN HOURS LATER! "You cured her! Good job"
Me: "She was sick? That's why I was doing all this? OH YEAH!"

Kind of kills the story momentum a bit when it keeps sending me to do busywork.

chocobot wrote:Any luck with those last bosses in Cave Story, Twolf? If so... HOW DID YOU DO IT? As much as I loved that game those bosses were just too much for me and I gave up.

YES! I did. And I actually do have a strategy if you ever go back to it. It requires 2 things.

1. Lvl 3 missile launcher
2. Life Jar Thingy

So the first boss you just get better at, pretty easy to avoid attacks and when you DO get hit just farm the little bats because they drop health and don't beat her until you're full or near-full health.

first stage of the doctor always FUCKED me up. So I just would boost over his little wave attack and then SPAM HIS ASS WITH MISSILES! Using this strategy I could beat him in about...10 seconds. Trying to beat him legit always took about 20-25 health from me so fuck that.

The next stage isn't so bad if you really go after him. He jumps you retreat a few steps, hit him with gun, repeat ad-naseum.

Then the demon core thing, beat the little helpers then open up on the thing. The helper that spawns the orange monster and fires ze missiles at you technically wont do that unless you shoot her first. That's what the guides say. But if you play anything like I do then you will be shooting everywhere and screaming while you do so, so chances of not hitting her are slim. So when you do, farm her little minions as best you can then kill her because the missiles are annoying. Then...just learn the attacks. Jump from platform to platform until its face opens then blast it. Just be careful when it starts doing "shoot the big white laser" down the middle...attack. That thing will fuck you up. There's no particular strategy but save your life jar for this as you can heal yourself in a pinch.

So yes, I did it, but it took about 15 tries. Good luck!

I just got Splinter Cell Blacklist for PS3 via Gamefly so I can finally play that after the 360 fiasco and also Tearaway is coming now. The PS4 games weren't being sent to me and I didn't want the trial thing to go to waste. Hopefully I'll be able to get a hold of them in December.

By the way do Vita games save to the memory card or the game card itself? I've never really looked into this. I will buy Tearaway eventually, but wondering if I will still have my save from this rental experiement.

They save to the memory card. I used to have to change out my memory card every time I wanted to play P4G, since my saves were all on the 4 GB card and my games were all on the 32GB

Ah thanks. That is what I figured and is good news. Now I can play this on release and if I feel like sending it back for something else I can always maybe clean up collectibles with a bought copy later or something.

Tearaway has been getting really good reviews. This and Ratchet are two of the games I want for Christmas. Someday I'm going to have to take my save file from Uncharted and move it to my 16 GB card so I can finish up the 8 trophies I have for it.

I'd buy Tearaway right now if it weren't for this Criterion Collection sale at Barnes & Noble. When its over, I have to focus on Christmas gifts.

I bought my rental copy of The Last of Us from Gamefly. The disc was in great condition and I got it for $41. The case and inserts came in Monday.

Right now I'm trying out the TuneIn app for the Vita. It's an internet radio/podcast app like Stitcher. It's working just fine right now. I'm listening to the Kevin & Bean show on KROQ. I'm used to the podcast version.