Starbound feels lacking, even though it has "officially" come out. And now development on it seems to have hit a few roadblocks (which is to be expected given how many years it spent in the early access hellvoid) and I worry that it's just not ever going to get to where I want it to be. Which is a bummer, because the time I've spent playing it with a friend has been pretty fun.
@songhunter: I mean, it's probably an inadvisable purchase, all things considered, so I'd feel bad if I actually sold a Vita with this. That said, I'm most definitely going to get my money's worth out of it, if I put down the excessive amount of money it costs to buy a memory card. And those things, I doubt their ever going to get cheaper, even as the Vita itself does.
So yeah, definitely keep the storage space being stupid expensive as a concern. I have a 4g card that is full right now. If I want to download anything else, I have to delete stuff to do it. If I want to upgrade, an 8g card is in the 45-50$ range. And if I was going to upgrade, an 8g card would still be totally insufficient.
I have yet to watch the Steins;Gate anime, but it's on my list, literally. (MAL) I thought the visual novel was incredible. I've played my fair share of visual novels, like, including a bunch of obscure fan-translated ones because I was in deep for a couple years there, and Steins;Gate is one of, if not the best.
On Tales of Hearts, it's still totally a Tales game as far as gameplay is concerned, and this one even lacks the greatly appreciated feature of random encounters being avoidable. It might be more for fans of the series, though honestly I find this title to be super endearing in its unabashed corniness and anime character tropes, so maybe it's better than that.
I really want to try an Atelier game, but they never seem to go on sale or drop in price at all. Even the oldest ones are holding down a 30$ price point, and as a (once again) broke college student, 30$ is hard to spend. I could see myself dropping 15$ on one, but I've yet to see any for quite that cheap, unfortunately.
Oh, also, it totally didn't come with a memory card, so it's a good thing I bought one. I don't think I would've been able to play anything without it.
@songhunter: I only regret now because, as it goes, a sudden and pressing expense came up a couple days ago that has left me in the same state I was before getting my return -_-
On the other hand, P4G is amazing. They added so much to it from the original, and cleaned up all the parts that were slogging the original down, like having to roll the die for your Personas' abilities when fusing.
Tales of Hearts R has actually been pretty fun. The characters and story as cliche and corny, but it's the kind of corny I can get behind. The plot is literally going into people's hearts to recover a girls lost emotions. That's so corny that I'm pretty sure GFW Radio did a bit about a fake game with that concept. That said, it's really charming.
I haven't dug into Steins;Gate 0 yet because I know I'm gonna want to sit and just play that nonstop until it's done.
Other than that, I've been playing a Hyperdimension Neptunia game, and it's bad, because they all are, but it's something I can play when I'm not in the mood to actually care about what I'm doing.
And then Rogue Legacy and Spelunky; the Vita is a great platform for roguelikes, as many before me have said.
Thanks again for putting me up here, guys! Part 3 of my little speedrunning series is written, I just need to figure out the layout of my screenshots and add captions, so it'll be a lot less time from part 2 to part 3 than it was for part 1 to part 2.
Ack. I've been meaning to write a post like this for a while, but it would have been way more defensive and not funny at all and probably would have made people mad at me.
Made me laugh out loud several times, and was a thoughtful piece, too. Great stuff as always.
Thanks for featuring my post this week; I've been really itching to talk about that particular sequence in Twilight Princess for a while and it felt good to finally piece my thoughts on it together.
@sinusoidal: Yeah, this doesn't happen to me anymore for the most part. The only situations where I get really antsy about wanting to play a game in the lead-up to its release anymore tend to be Zelda games, Ace Attorney games, and Persona games. And in all three of those cases, the releases are few and far between. I just slipped up here, getting excited more at the novelty of playing this thing the moment it came out than for the game itself (though I do really want to play it.)
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