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No, but I do have my PS2 hooked up to an old 27" CRT that I keep mainly for old games and Buffy (since it was shot in full screen) and anything else that is made for older televisions. I didn't think MGS looked bad on the Vita, but it looked like horrible on a 50" plasma. Here's a list of games I've played on my Vita...

Parasite Eve - Looked nice, any problems would be the color selection from the developers, a really dark game.

Threads of Fate - Really colorful and looked good on the Vita, horrible character models though.

Final Fantasy VII - Looked great, best I've ever seen it look. Even a lot better than on the PSP.

Medievil - Nothing spectacular, but I never seen it running on an old CRT.

Resident Evil - Looked nice on the Vita, but darker parts were hard to see but I'm betting they were hard to see on older televisions as well

I put Crash Bandicoot on there last night, but haven't played it. That game is hard as hell, I don't know why I keep torturing myself. Crash Bandicoot I remember looking alright on my plasma.

Finished my replay of MGS2. I played it a lot more like an action game this time around and found myself having way more fun. The story and dialogue remains just as interesting as always, it was fun finding all the hidden bits of detail in these games too.

MGS3 replay, starto~

Playing Spyro on my Vita. Honestly I think it's aged quite well apart from the camera, which is still at least tolerable. Setting the shoulder buttons to the right analog might help with that but I wanted to keep analog movement (why can I have both, sony? Name 3 ps1 games that need the right analog stick.) Nostalgia aside it still holds up better than most N64 platformers to me.

Tried Skate 2 and just don't think this series is for me. I found myself more frustrated at what I couldn't do than having fun, think I just prefer Tony Hawk style craziness

I started up Punch Out today. Kind of rusty, but enjoying it. Glad there are new characters because I still remember a lot of the old ones patterns.

TripOpt55 wrote:I started up Punch Out today. Kind of rusty, but enjoying it. Glad there are new characters because I still remember a lot of the old ones patterns.

They did change up a couple of old patterns, like Great Tiger and Aran Ryan. It gets really interesting during the Title Defense circuit.

I managed to win the title. I kept saying "just one more fight!" I then tried the title defense and lost to Glass Joe... haha. That was enough for the night. It seems like it should be super tough which is cool. Definitely way different too. I look forward to trying it some more. Did you beat the title defense San?

I got to TD Piston Hondo before I said "screw this, I'm done for now." I understand that Aran Ryan is quite interesting in TD and takes cheating to a whole new level. Like I said before, it feels kind of odd getting your ass kicked by pushovers like Glass Joe and Von Kaiser.

Played splitscreen in Driver San Francisco for about 3 hours straight last night. It has some really great unique modes. Definitely in my top 5 for 2011

I played a bit more of that Punch-Out!! title defense. Yeah fuck that. Going to drive me insane. Still enjoyed the game, but that part is too much for me.

those games are fun pick up and play games (punch out), but to me they're way too hard to ever beat.

My wife still won't let me play Monster Hunter WiiU. Not that she's even playing her WiiU, she's playing the F2P Simpsons on her kindle, I'm just not allowed on the WiiU without her permission.

I'm not terribly bothered by it since my list of unfinished and not started games is stupid: Xillia, FFX, Second Son, Fire Emblem, Bravely Default, Dishonored. And that is just what is literally in front of me at the moment.

Diablo 3 (PS3) is my new brand of crack.

Trying to finish up Uncharted (the first one) quickly so I can get started on FFX. I'm about 7 or 8 chapters from the end, so I'm just gonna plow through it, otherwise I'll never finish it.

Started playing Puppeteer. Felt I should probably justify my Christmas present by playing it before it becomes free on PS+. Finished the first Act and it seems like a really fun game with a stylish way of telling the story.

Uncharted was a game I couldn't put down, all of them actually. From what I remember a lot of the last chapters go pretty fast.

Played a couple of matches in DOTA 2. Holy hell, am I out of practice... still love that game though!

I didn't like what I played from Puppeteer at all. Granted, I didn't get very far, but the controls kind of felt wrong in a way I can't really describe. I had other gripes that I could see getting better as the game went on, but that aspect really made me lose all motivation to keep playing.

It might be having to control that cat that you didn't like. I think it might have been a little weird because it can also be a playstation move game. Everything seemed smooth to me, felt like a LBP game only with more responsive controls. I'm assuming it'll only get better as I play.

Binary Domain is average and clunky as expected yet surprisingly funny.

TheMatt wrote:Played a couple of matches in DOTA 2. Holy hell, am I out of practice... still love that game though!

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I'm still chugging through the endgame stuff for Fire Emblem but I might pick up Child of Light. If you dig the battle system as an RPG fan and say it reminds you of FF plus the cool art style...that's pretty much a sale to me.

I want it but too many games right now. I just might wait for a PS+ sale on it.

Decided to jump on Child of Light. Will give some impressions later for any of you who are interested in it.

So I've played about...3 hours so far of Child of Light and I must say I'm in love.

Aesthetically the game is GORGEOUS. It looks wonderful, and it's a world you really want to explore. The music proves to me that soundtracks with live instruments benefit from having a smaller, more focused group of performers as opposed to big-budget orchestral clusterfucks. Though get used to hearing the main theme...a LOT, it permeates every environment in the game (luckily, it's very pretty). The battle themes (main boss theme in particular) are wonderful.

The story is very simple and is better for it. There's the usual trappings of the indie "The story is an allegory for something else" feel at work but it's not overt or overly pretentious here. Everything rhymes in couplets and it has a very fairy tale feel to it.

Gameplay wise, it's very much like a JRPG. I've seen some sites list it as a platformer, but that aspect of the game is pretty much non existent after the first hour. The battle system reminds me the most of Grandia with a timeline that shows your characters and enemy characters actions. When you reach the end of the bar you enter the "Act" part of the bar. If you attack an enemy (or are attacked by an enemy) while in that bar the action is interrupted. Different actions take longer to cast (therefore longer to get through that little red space), so a basic attack might be faster than a powerful spell, say. Combat is simple but the timing really does keep you on your toes, not to mention your little fairy companion who you can control to slow down enemies (slightly) and try to get the timing down.

The timing makes the battle system deep but I wouldn't say the game is particularly hard on its normal difficulty and while I don't mind playing through the game for the prettyness and the nice story if you want a challenge bump it up to hard right away.

Anyway, considering I knew nothing about this game before a few weeks ago I'm extremely impressed and happy with what I've played so far so if you're on the fence and like a good Japanese-style RPG I'd say jump on it.

Dear Uncharted: Tell your jet ski segments I told them to go die in a hole.

I want to pick up Child of Light. I wanted it before I even knew about the optional co-op mode, but now that I know it's there, I think it's something my wife and I could really get into.

I am still working on Sleeping Dogs. It has definitely grown on me. A lot of little things make it more fun than it should be. Environmental finishers. Bullet time. Hijacking a car by jumping from another moving one. Still feels pretty middle of the road as far as sandbox games go, but I am enjoying it. Pretty close to finishing it it seems.

I never got jumping between cars to work right in Sleeping Dogs. Not even once. I don't get it

After about 10 hours, Child of Light is easily my game of the year so far (given, I haven't played much) even beating out South Park, which I also loved.