The Playstation 3 is IDENTITY THEFT

I don't know if you can multi it! The game doesn't really explain itself well... took me forever to realize i couldn't play story!

i think i played this for four hours last night. The key is to beat the passel of challenges you have on point... also to keep breeding and equipping your animal once you unlock clothes. I completely missed both points and the game doesn't really push you to do that stuff if you accomplish goals out of order. The graphics are TERRIBLE, the platforming is wobbly and the gameplay goals are generally vague and confusing, the game is laid out weird, it's very frustrating and often senseless what animals you can kill (a hyena with a pomeranian?) and then the one hit kill animals the other way (never fuck with a buffalo). It is, however, really really fun and addictive once you get on the excruciatingly slow progression ladder. The RPG elements are surprisingly engaging and the threat of having to sit through an end screen really makes dying a necessary avoidance. The stakes is high.

yo why is valkyria chronicles so good? and why hasn't anybody ripped off the 3p TBS mechanic yet? this is seriously great (minus the crazy number of cutscenes which is just bewildering. i mean why can't these play in a window while i do all my aspie changeloadouts.xls things? OH VIDEO GAMES

but seriously i really like this (i loved VC2 which i played first and this just feels a lot cleaner/less painful)

yeah i loved vc a bunch.

yeh VC1 is one of my favs of the last few years. couldn't get into VC2 tho, so many annoying characters. VC3 is supposed to be better, fan translation is nearing completion last i heard.

VC2 was PSP only, right? Can you play PSP games on the PS3? I've never tried.

you can play them on the Vita!

lol you can't play UMDs on Vita tho
VC2 & VC3 are both PSP games, can't be played on PS3 unfortunately

:(

Tokyo Jungle is ridiculous. I died 4 times doing the FIRST PART OF THE TUTORIAL.

Then I played as a deer and somehow I accidentally killed a rabbit (but couldn't eat it) and that pissed off every other rabbit in the world so they all ganged up on me and chased me through the streets.

It's definitely one of those games that goes "here's an open world, feel free to roam around! Although actually if you don't do what we tell you when we tell you you'll last all of 2 minutes". Which is a bit of a shame, but perhaps once I've gone through all those hoops and got a better feel for what it's actually about, it'll open up a bit more.

I love it btw

otm
i have unlocked the gazelle, the cat, the beagle and OMG the chick which is like controlling a bumblebee and instadeath
my cat is kind of a badass now. I took down a dairy cow. here's how bad the graphics are: i initially thought it was a panda.
it should be noted that everytime you breed, the game restarts with those stats... even though it doesn't tell you that!

we should probably start a tokyo jungle thread but i don't wanna if it's just gonna be me.

I might have to play just to make sense of what you're all talking about.

my cat is kind of a badass now. I took down a dairy cow. here's how bad the graphics are: i initially thought it was a panda.

I am fucking getting this game, holy shit

snuck up on a crocodile in the sewers with my fat cat and thought, well I took down a cow so why not
one bite on the tail, thing turns around and massacres me with a snap
do not fuck with crocodiles in this game

btw: there are dinosaurs

i find your posts fascinating, and also convincing to never ever play this game

it is, in many ways, totally reminiscent of Parasite Eve/Dino Crisis era capcom games

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-29-sony-on-the-new-ps3-vita-sales-the-decline-of-3d-and-the-threat-of-the-wii-u
really, sony seems simultaneously confused and crazy like a fox in the marketplace right now.
i gotta recommend getting a ps3 and ps+ to anyone: it's a new game every week. and good games!

how are the PS3 and Vita doing? I honestly can't tell

PS3 is selling well at the moment, consistently outselling 360 worldwide (360 still king in US though).
Vita sales figures are disastrous at the moment, we're talking Dreamcast levels here.

sony is the dumbest

i gotta recommend getting a ps3 and ps+ to anyone: it's a new game every week. and good games!

Yeah, I got a free month trial of PS+ yesterday and am kind of impressed actually, that's a pretty decent bunch of free stuff. Tempted to stay with it. Not clear on how the automatic downloads thing works though, it says something like "automatically download recommended games and demos"...so do they just push out every new freebie they add to the list, or what? And how do they decide which demos I do or don't care about?

they don't push much of anything really. It's mostly good for updates. They drop the occasional thing they're wanting everybody to get into; can't remember them ever pushing a demo.

nfl blitz for free this week btw

i got PS+ a few weeks ago and i've been impressed with it, i don't normally play the "big" games on release anyway so its perfect for me - playing Borderlands at the moment, Red Dead Redemption or RE5 next. Hey Sony this makes me even less likely to buy games on release for full price, so thanks!

Yeah don't think we get blitz in the UK. Some dead rabbit something or other today, then bulletstorm/RE5 next week apparently.

hell yeah!: wrath of the dead rabbit is a good time

Just want to pick up on those people who are loving Valkyria Chronicles upthread. I found that the actual strategic elements of it are often overstated. Then there was an absurd difficulty spike (that desert level with the tank you have to blow up its radiators one by one before this crazy chick who can one-shot kill anybody arrives) which caused me to put the game down and stop playing. That was like two years ago, I haven't picked it up since.

the difficulty is one of the things i loved about it! i didn't really bother with the orders until the very end though which makes it a lot easier.

er would have made it a lot easier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueQyTnlAZA

That tank level in VC was pretty awesome.

KOF13 is free tomorrow for PS+ members.

well this one is straight out of left field!

Deadly Premonition: The Directors Cut coming to PlayStation 3 in 2013
Along with the original story and gameplay, there are some great new features, including HD graphics, an updated control system, a brand new scenario from the game’s director, Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro, and DLC to keep the mystery going once you complete the main campaign.

huuuh. will anyone actually buy this?

other than jjj?

unfinished swan is out today for ps+; think i might get it?

Skullgirls patch is out. Changelog here: http://shoryuken.com/2012/11/20/skullgirls-1-01-slightly-different-edition-out-now-on-psn-complete-patch-notes-released/

Fuck man, now I have to buy a ps3

Gentlemen! I have joined the dark side.

PS+ is pretty crazy. Do they always give out this many games for free? Rushed to start my 30-day trial so I could grab KOF XIII, Dungeon Defenders, PayDay, Resident Evil 5 Gold, Double Dragon Neon, Bloodrayne... I didn't even pick up some of the others they were offering

yeah, it's a good bargain. though at least one week a month they have virtually nothing. that's this week.

Arkham City, Vanquish and Limbo are the new PS+ freebs in the UK this month. Two of those three are definitely great, Vanquish might be ok too.

But that means today is the last chance to grab Crysis 2, Scott Pilgrim, Double Dragon Neon.

Double Dragon Neon is so, so stupid, but I kinda love it?

EU peeps : Tokyo Jungle is £5.19/€6.49 (£4.67/€5.84 for PS+) for next couple of days

SO worth it

So not worth it!

Did we have some kind of trash/guilty pleasures thread? 'Cuz Double Dragon Neon definitely is my Guilty Pleasure of The Year. Tries as hard as it can to be incredibly stupid and succeeds wonderfully. The actual game, eh, it's OK. Being such a huge NES Double Dragon fan back in the day helps, but wow, the ending song belongs in the pantheon with "Still Alive" and the God Hand ending:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNDP_HTFp4

I almost xposted this to the Xbox thread to make sure jjjusten read this. But then again, you probably don't need to play the game now that you've seen that. But man! This is gonna make my C&P just for taking the original DD theme and turning it into a cheesy karaoke rock opera.

Papo & Yo on sale tomorrow through Jan. 3rd:

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/12/17/the-music-styling-of-papo-yo-soundtrack-and-sale-on-psn-tomorrow/

Some other junk too, but not a great start for the sale week. Anyone rep for I Am Alive?

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/12/17/holiday-essentials-huge-discounts-on-40-must-have-games/