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Sure but usually a license will get at least one or two half decent games at some point. But, from what I can tell, every single Avatar game so far has been absolute garbage. And considering Activision still seems to have no problem whatsoever shitting out rushed licensed crap (see Amazing Spider-Man 2), this wouldn't even be on my radar if it wasn't for Platinum. I'm actually kinda shocked that they even bothered to hire them.

Platinum is the only thing I'm excited about here. The Avatar license doesn't exactly have a great history when it comes to videogames.

Yay! A Platinum game that's not exclusive to a platform I don't want! I guess I should get around to watching Book 2 before this comes out.

Yeah, I know. It made me hesitate to buy it but I've heard so much praise that I just went for it anyway. I just hope it won't take them another year to release the next act...

You're making my head hurt, Cowboy... edit: oh and And to think I went into this one thinking I wouldn't buy much. I should know better by now... Oh well, I was gonna spend that money on some Vita games anyway. This is good, too.

Yaaay! Only big game I was on the lookout for. Completely forgot that this had come out. It was pretty cheap and I love me some Joe Danger. Purely nostalgia-driven impulse purchases, though it certainly helps that they were both dirt cheap. I'm not sure if I'll ever actually replay them but I loved the hell out of those games a decade or so ago so they deserve a spot in my collection. I mean, Anachronox is a scifi/cyberpunk-ish JRPG from the studio that made the original Deus Ex, what's not to love?! I could never really figure out Omikron, though. Which is fitting for Quantic Dream/David Cage's first game, I suppose. It's fucking weird but also kind of interesting. Very ambitious for the time. When you die, the game doesn't end. You just end up reincarnating as another character already in the world. There's a bunch of them and they all have different jobs and abilities, which gives them access to different areas and such. Combined with a fairly large (from what I remember) game world, it provides you with a surprising amount of freedom of exploration compared to his most recent outings. Also David Bowie's in it, for some reason.

Strider. Meh. Not bad but definitely not great. I am so fucking glad I didn't play real money for it. I've never wanted to hate a non-bad game so much. It just has so many annoyances... The one thing it does right is movement. Running and jumping around like a badass ninja feels super good. Problem is, for a long time the game never really does anything interesting. You're just running from one place to the next, slashing away at the same enemies again and again. By the time it starts mixing things up a bit, it just feels like too little too late. You're already well past caring. For most of my playthrough, I could never play it for more than 2 hours or so at a time. And even then it felt like much longer. It's also pretty retarded with its checkpoints. Say you spent a few long mins exploring a very large room, slowly climbing your way across the ceiling to find a bunch of hidden collectibles or whatever. Then you end up dying 2-3 rooms later, and there's wasn't a health regen station? Have fun redoing all that shit, loser! Then there's the boss fights. They're not particularly difficult, just kinda boring. Most of them end up feeling like a chore. And there's a SHIT TON of them. Seriously, it's a 5 hours game and there's like 12 of them. So, yeah. Not bad but definitely not great. If you're curious, pay no more than 5$.

Nah, just had a look on the Vita store and FEZ clearly says it's PS3/PS4/Vita cross-buy.

That was the dev's decision, though. I know because when I bought my Vita I shot them an email, told them I'd owned Limbo on PS3 for a while and asked for a Vita code since I'd only just gotten a Vita and had missed out on the cross-buy window. They kindly gave me one and explained it was just a way for them to thank early adopters, not a permanent deal. They removed cross-buy and instead dropped the price of both versions.

Lone Survivor: Director's Cut. Well, this one was long overdue. I've owned this game on Steam for years (from one of the early HIB, I believe) and, although I'd been meaning to play it, I somehow never got around to it. Ended up double-dipping and playing it on Vita instead. Anyway, really neat, short little horror game. End screen said I clocked in a little under three hours but it was probably closer to 5 with all the dying and reloading. Plays a lot like a 2D version of the old Resident Evil trilogy but with a more Silent Hill-esque approach to the horror. Not really scary but the creepy atmosphere is well done. I thought I had the story figured out pretty early on but after that ending I'm not quite sure what the fuck was going on anymore. Definitely going to give this one a few more runs to see if the other endings shed a bit more light onto things. I wouldn't be surprised if they were all deliberately vague and up to interpretation, though.

Is FEZ on sale? I'm seeing it full price. I would totally double dip.

I guess it took some getting used to but I found the control scheme translated to a controller pretty naturally. Controls almost like a twin-stick shooter at times. It gets easier once you're able to use to lock-on reliably in the middle of the action, though. I enjoyed the experience so much I'm actually considering getting Hotline 2 on Vita first.

Lol. Like I said, say what you will about its quality. I don't really feel the need to defend it in that regard. But it is more substantial than what's in GZ. Saying that GZ has a better story is kind of insane because it doesn't have one. Those are the big payoffs but it does more than just lead up to them. And at least there is a build up to those events, they don't just kind of happen. There's a substantial amount of dialogue between Snake and Otacon that establishes a lot of the backstory and exposition. Which is a hell of a lot better than having to track down cassettes all over the map. If it's an optional collectible, then it doesn't count as the main story. There's also the introduction of a few elements that aren't immediately important, such as Olga and Gurlukovich's army. Basically, it's a real prologue. It introduces and sets into motion a lot of characters and events that play a key part later on. As for the spoilered stuff, sure but like I said, there's no build-up whatsoever. These things just kind of happen and feel so rushed that there was very little impact to them. You get a short intro cutscene, an hour-ish (on a first run, mind you) of gameplay, and then a slightly longer cutscene. That's it. I mean, I wouldn't have as much of an issue with it if it had just been the first hour of Phantom Pain. But as a standalone release, and one that they had the gall of charging 30 bucks for, it's fucking nothing.

What the fuck are you smoking, man? Say what you will about the quality of Tomb Raider's plot but at least it has a complete story. Ground Zeroes is nothing more than a prologue for Phantom Pain. It literally has no plot whatsoever. Not only is there less that happens in it than there was in MGS2's Tanker mission, there's also less story overall (i.e. dialogue, characters introduced, events set in motion, etc..). The Tanker at least acted as a proper prologue to the Big Shell chapter. GZ is nowhere near as meaty, it feels more like a cold open... @RobDaCool: Unless you're an hardcore MGS fanboy, try to get it as cheap as you can get. I'd describe myself as just that and even I borderline regretted the 20 bucks I spent on it. If it wasn't for what little added playtime the collectibles and side ops provide, it would literally be a 30$ demo.

Both for "free". I had accumulated almost 30 bucks in GMG credit from the Playfire Rewards beta. Grabbed Dragonfall yesterday and today there's finally a new voucher that can be combined with credit again so I was able to bring the price of Strider down just enough to grab it with what I had left. I kinda had to search for a bit before I could find anything, though. Strider wasn't exactly my first pick. I feel like the selection on GMG has gone a bit to shit. I was initially planning on using my credit for Killer is Dead and Transistor but the latter never showed up and apparently all the Deep Silver games are gone from GMG. That includes KiD, Saints Row, Dead Island and Red Faction... And after searching around a bit, I feel like they might not be the only ones. Not sure what happened there... GMG in general isn't what it used to be, to be honest. Vouchers now tend to be very restricted and usually can't be combined with store credit. And the credit rewards from pre-orders are borderline insulting at times. I mean, what the fuck am I supposed to do with 10 fucking cents? At that point, you might as well not even bother. It's a shame, really. For a while there they were the best Steam competitor in terms of prices, especially on pre-orders.

Hotline Miami. Man, the game plays much better with a controller than I expected (or in my case, on Vita). I kinda want to say it was better than mouse and keyboard. Just seemed like I was sucking less. Anyway, I already beat it when it first came out on PC but I never bothered going for the true ending. I did now and... well, there really isn't much to it. Game is as fun as ever, though. Really tempted to go for the platinum now since it looks pretty doable and I'm already almost 75% there. edit: Platinum achieved! Getting an A+ rank on every mission was much easier than I anticipated. Now to wait for the sequel...

For Vita. So, last night I figured I should probably check it out before the E3 sale ends since it's pretty much the only Vita game with a decent discount. I watched the GiantBomb quick look and thought it looked alright but not really my kind of game. Then today I remember it and go "Wait, no, that looked totally sweet!" and went to buy it. I don't know what's wrong with me...

I do!

Looking back at the first page of this thread, it seems I never did get around to posting my gaming area. Better late than never, I suppose. Sorry about the potato quality, pic was taken with my Vita... Pretty basic setup. My fat PS3 and ugly-ass PC both hooked up to my monitor. On the shelf is a little over half of my PS3 collection as well as all my Vita games. I still have a stack of DS games but nothing to play them on at the moment so they're hidden away somewhere with my PS2 games. Having limited shelf space sucks. I used to have a shitload more for PS3 but I sold a lot of them over the years, usually because I needed money for Steam sales. I tend to only hold onto exclusives, everything else I always end up rebuying on Steam sooner or later, anyway...

I was already considering buying it day one (making it the first fighting game I ever buy at full price) and I just saw Amazon.ca has some E3 discounts on pre-orders. It was down to 50 bucks so while I'm still not 100% sure I'll get it at launch, I figured I might as well lock that price down now and just cancel it if I change my mind. Disgaea 4 and DanganRonpa 2 have been pre-ordered for months but I don't think I ever posted them. Anyway, they were both also discounted but for some reason my orders didn't update to reflect the lower price. I don't know if Amazon's lower price guarantee is just slow to kick in or what but I cancelled and re-ordered them both just to be safe. Probably for the better since my credit card expired this month and I completely forgot to update the info for past orders.

Was on sale on GMG a couple days ago, used my leftover credit and ended up paying about 3 bucks. Now I just have to actually put some time into it before Beyond Earth comes out.

Yeah, this is such a major mistake to make that it's kind of hilarious. But now I'm tempted to never buy it or FFX HD purely out of spite. Don't play games with my heart, damnit.

Then I really wonder how retouched it'll actually be because I can't imagine PSP graphics will look very good on PS4 and Xbone. edit: uh, looks like SE's press release made no mention of Vita and now they edited the blog post to only mention PS4. So, I guess it's not coming to Vita then? Um, fuck you?

Well shit, better late than never! http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/06/10/final-fantasy-type-0-hd-coming-to-ps-vita/#sf3255743 I honestly never expected it to happen. I kinda feel bad for the fan-made translation patch that literally just came out a few days ago.