Your Daily Dose of Gaming.

[xelement5x]

I picked up a Playstation TV brand new from a pawn shop for $30, and as fate would have it, there's now an exploit that finally makes the English version of Ys: Memories of Celceta playable by overwriting the whitelist. 

I sold my Vita after I platinum-ed the game, thinking that I'd just get a PS TV instead.  I've never been huge on handhelds, anyway.  Unfortunately, they never patched the US version, so I thought I was pretty much screwed out of ever playing it again.  Crazy that I picked that thing up on a whim today and it just so happened that the exploit became public a few days ago.

Anyway, I spent about four hours playing it on my nice 60" display.  It was a glorious time.   I'm still wondering how Falcom is progressing with Ys VIII.  It's been so long since I've seen any info on it.

At any rate, the PS TV is suddenly a pretty solid purchase now.  I think Best Buy even has a bare bones unit for $40 now.

I've yet to get the hack figured out yet, the PSTV is cranky with my Gmail account.  Would you possibly be willing to forward that exploit email and the updated whitelist to others?

[NightWolve]

Huh, interesting, I didn't know about this Playstation TV "microconsole."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_TV

So it can do about 100 Vita games, PSP, PS1 and even PC Engine games so there's an approved emulator included along by default. I guess it's an el cheapo alternative to PS4 and an admission portables just aren't that popular anymore ??

[GohanX]

It's a fun device to play around with. I mostly use to it play PSP games on my tv, it's much better than hooking the psp up with component cables. Mine isn't hacked, but I have a lot of the arcade collections on there so it makes a nice little HDMI rombox.

[xelement5x]

I got the hack figured out last night, it will work on firmware up to 3.52, don't upgrade to the most recent 3.55 as the functionality gets wiped out.

For anyone interested:

Here is the news post to read the instructions:
http://hackinformer.com/2015/09/24/mr-gas-releases-methode-to-write-to-the-vita-filesystem-pstv-whitelist-patch/

then go here:
http://wololo.net/talk/pstv_whitelist/

And they will autogenerate and send the emails needed to complete the hack to you.

I was playing Uncharted: Golden Abysss last night finally

[VenomMacbeth]

A very strange thing happened today.  I sat down to play a few casual minutes of Genesis before work today & ended up 1ccing Thunder Force III for the first time ever.  It's a good thing the bosses are pitifully easy to kill, otherwise I'd have been a goner for sure (I beat the final, final, final boss with zero lives remaining & no power ups).

[munchiaz]

played some Eliminate down a few days ago. Made it to stage 4 and called it quits after dying. It was getting late at night. Still playing around with MGS:V Although the game is wearing a bit thin for me. The missions are to similar, and i'm starting to lose interest. Lastly, i have been playing xenoblade chronicles on my japanese 3ds. (thank god for the youtube hack) gotts started on the game about a week ago, so i have something to do while flying to Japan next week.

[roflmao]

Lately my game playing tendencies have been all over the map.  I apologize for the long post, I've been away for awhile.  :-"



My son and I beat Wonder Boy in Monster World on the Genesis. What a great game! It's a shame I'll never own the TG16 version. 



I reached a new personal best in Alleyway. Lvl 17! My previous best was somewhere around lvl 13.



I dug out Seaman to show to my son. He dug it.  For a couple of days.



Borderlands 2. Digital crack. 'nuff said.




Lately I've been doing a lot of boardgaming as opposed to videogaming (heresy, I know!).



Plants Vs Zombies Risk! Another game I've been playing w/ my son. Good times. (At least this one is almost videogame related...)



Yesterday Tikal arrived in the mail so my wife and I gave it a play. It's pretty awesome.  It's been on my radar for roughly 15 years now and I finally bit. Now I have all 3 of the "Faces" games. I think Java may still be my favorite, but it's got nostalgia going for it...

[blueraven]

Terraforming

[TR0N]

PS4
Pinball Arcade

Wii-U
Freedom Planet

After many months i turned on the wii-u again for freedom planet.The game came out for PC via steam in 2014 then in october of 2015 for the wii-u.It's a indie 2D platformer by galaxy trail,think sonic cross with gunstar heroes   

[SamIAm]

I've been playing the PS3 version of Shadow of the Colossus lately. Two more fights, and I'll clear it.

My one sentence review: I positively love the game, but I don't actually enjoy playing it particularly much.

[NightWolve]

I've been playing the PS3 version of Shadow of the Colossus lately. Two more fights, and I'll clear it.

My one sentence review: I positively love the game, but I don't actually enjoy playing it particularly much.

I absolutely loved the PS2 version, and holy moly was that final boss battle epic/spectacular!!!! THAT'S HOW YOU DO A BOSS!!! WOW!!!!

P.S. I miss my horsey, those bastards!!!!

[SamIAm]

I absolutely loved the PS2 version, and holy moly was that final boss battle epic/spectacular!!!! THAT'S HOW YOU DO A BOSS!!! WOW!!!!

P.S. I miss my horsey, those bastards!!!!

You're lucky I have already had that spoiled for me.

I haven't, however, seen the final boss yet. My expectations are pretty high at this point.

[Digi.k]

Forza 6 - Xbone
Assassins Creed Syndicate - Xbone
Animal Crossing New Leaf - 3DS
Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer - 3DS
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate - 3DS
Magicoal - pc engine

[SamIAm]

Finished Shadow of the Colossus.

As a general "experience", it's definitely one of the best games I've ever played. It leaves a huge impression and excites the imagination wonderfully. It reminds me of Ikaruga in that it's one of those game concepts that's so simple and clever, it makes you wonder why nobody had ever done it before.

When focusing in on it as an action game, however...it's really just "OK". Personally, I think of it in terms of a 70/30 split; I found it boring roughly 70% of the time that I was actually playing it.

The long horse rides from the hub to the colossi could make me feel the atmosphere...the vast, lonely, beautiful, raw world of the game...about 30% of the time. The rest just felt like a waste. Watch a bland 3D landscape go by for several minutes. Hope your horse obeys your commands (they programmed him to disobey you occasionally). Do your best not to go the wrong way, or else it's up to a half hour of desperate wandering.

The 30/70 split applies during the colossi fights, too. In the beginning, I spend about 30% of the time eagerly studying the layout of the land, the movement of the boss, and what I can do to provoke him. The other 70%, I'm merely waiting for either the colossus or my character to get into the right position to try what I think might work. Later, when I've cracked his pattern and know how to kill him, I spend 30% of the time actively doing something to accomplish this, and the other 70% of the time getting shaken off and waiting for a chance to get near where I need to be again.

Ico was much better. You can set aside all the story and atmosphere, and you've still got yourself a totally decent puzzle game. Again, Shadow of the Colossus has one hell of a presentation, and I'm actually glad that it's held in such high regard and looked to for inspiration. I really appreciate some of its minimalism, too. It's just that the action itself is actually pretty milk-and-water.

I might play it one more time to see if knowing how to do everything in advance improves the experience.

[roflmao]

Lately I've been totally addicted to this digital card game, Star Realms:
http://www.starrealms.com/digital-game/

I ordered the physical copy from Amazon and decided I'd try out the digital version while I waited for it to arrive. I've probably played it 100 times since then. Really great game. It's free to play and $5 to unlock harder AI, online play, and more than 1 chapter of the campaign mode (which is just variations and specific goals to win strung together).

It's on Android, IOS, Mac, PC and plays perfectly on my Linux laptop via Wine and if you buy it on one device it unlocks the full version on all the other devices you own.

Dangit, I think I'm going to go play it right now...