The Sony news and discussion thread

[Alex79]

Yeah it's still brilliant.

[Flabyo]

I just wish they'd go back and redo the localisation like they did for the PSP release of Final Fantasy Tactics. There's some really awful stuff in FF7 that wouldn't take much to fix. (although I do miss the line 'Die in Obscurity!' from the original FFT)

[Alex79]

Woo currently #1 in the world on OlliOlli's daily grind!!

[RoboticMonk3y]

I've considered getting up at 5am, and putting a score in on olliolli, just to crack that top ten!
I was playing a lot over the weekend, to see if I can unlock "rad" mode, I'm about two thirds of the way there, but man, the pro level challenges are getting really tricky!
Managed to get a decent score in on the daily grind last night and got #12 ranking!

[Alex79]

I was bloody first on the Daily Grind on Sunday with about half an hour to go when someone beat it >_<

Managing top ten on each course though so far! Loving this game so much, but I wish you could set up friends leaderboards. Its the perfect high score game.

[mikeleddy83]

Instabuy price was hit today and the system is on its way. Hope you guys were right about it... :S

[hazeredmist]

Instabuy price was hit today and the system is on its way. Hope you guys were right about it... :S

It's all been an elaborate troll! The Vita is a hideous mess and is exceeded in the category of ill-advised, unspeakably awful consoles only by the Barcode Battler.

[Beck]

ha ha can't believe you fell for it; )

[mikeleddy83]

Right then. Tearaway approx £11.60 in a weeks time, having that.

Unknowingly cross bought Spelunky, Hotline Miami and Lone Survivor last week.. cashback!

Glut of PS Plus games including retroactively anticipated Gravity Rush and SFxT.. check. What's missing (besides my long standing yet now mysteriously absent lack of enthusiasm for the system)?

[Beck]

Tearaway is a joy to play, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would also recommend the jak and daxter games.

[hazeredmist]

Persona 4 Golden should be played by anyone who owns a Vita! Expensive but worth it.

[dezm0nd]

There's a new Jeff Minter game out today for the Vita!

[mikeleddy83]

Jak 1-3 covered by PS plus (strange but redundant info: PS3 versions have no time stamp and will never expire), really need to try the second and third.

Persona 4 Golden? Worth the double dip? Completed p4 on ps2 about 3 years ago.

Edit. Was about to post about TxK, was going to say it looks like a minter game (and it is ).

[Alex79]

Awesome!! I love Jeff Minter games! Funny day to release though. Usually Wednesdays isn't it?

Also, Mike, grab Guacamelee it's brilliant and still free on PS+ I think.

[Alex79]

Did anyone else get TxK? Just about to give it a go.

[ratsoalbion]

Yes! It's a lot like Tempest 2000/Tempest X3, which is a good thing in my book!

[Alex79]

Hmm I spent a bit of time with it last night, it's Space Giraffe!? It's like exactly the same only slightly simplified. There's no 'billing' aspect to the game play but other than that I'm struggling to see a difference. Now I loved Space Giraffe and to have it on Vita is great, but I can't help feeling a little cheated that it's so similar. It looks the same, controls the same, has the same play style, even as far as jumping back above the play line to kill enemies that have already reached you. It just seems odd to me that he'd release something that actually doesn't really differ from one of his previous games whatsoever.

[ratsoalbion]

Well Space Giraffe was a significant twist on the Tempest formula, whereas TxK is a slightly purer form of Tempest update.

This is closer to a remix of Tempest 2000 which Minter made as an update on the Atari arcade original for the Jaguar console more than a decade before Space Giraffe.

[Sinclair Gregstrum]

I'm ashamed to say that despite a gaming career spanning at least 25 of my 31 years, I've never played Tempest or any iteration of it on any platform. Always wanted to, but just never got round to it! Will have to give this new effort a go.....

Game recommendation for you Mike (albeit a very obvious one) - Uncharted! I've been really enjoying it and it's got great use of some of the Vita's lesser used hardware features like the camera, rear touch pad and gyroscope. I also still haven't got over the childish thrill of playing what feels and looks like a AAA home console game on a handheld! Sad but true.....

[hazeredmist]

Grabbed TXK last night, absolutely hooked. Pretty much the perfect arcade blaster!

Remember when people said the Vita was shit and had no games?