General Gaming Thread

[jrhodes]

Does anyone know how much it generally costs to ship a game from the US to the UK?

I want to get Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars for the Vita but it looks like it's only getting a US release.

[Bobfoc]

I'm not sure about a general price, but it should tell you on whichever site you buy it from. Is the game getting a digital release, though? If so, it might be worth setting up a US account and avoiding shipping costs altogether.

[jrhodes]

Not sure yet although I think all Vita games get a digital release. I do have a US PSN account so that may be the way to go.

[King Ellis]

But aren't you limited to only one account per memory card on Vita so you'd be splitting your two accounts/libraries up.

[jrhodes]

Ah...bugger.

[Cactus Drags]

Yeah, can't really faff around with accounts unless you get two memory cards, and they're pricey enough as it is. Also, the digital releases tend to be outrageously priced at least to begin with, there's some good deals to be had if you can hang on a few months.

[TKz]

I hope his entire defense boiled down to putting his hand through his hair and mumbling "...whatever".

[TKz]

That looks awesome.

[jrhodes]

Back on the subject of buying a PS Vita game on the US PSN as a UKer; would I be able to download the game on my PS3, then swap it to my English account, and then transfer it to my Vita?

Edited January 24, 2014 by Jake O. Rhodes

[EWB's Best Poster.]

If youre a plus member why not try it? I'm curious.

[King Ellis]

This isn't something I've had experience with but I can't imagine it'd work. You can't transfer ownership, AFAIK, so it'd probably just tell you that you can't play it unless you're signed in as the other account.

In other news, I found a copy of Tomb Raider 3 on PS1 today. I never really properly played those games when they were new, rather I just spent time maybe dicking around on the first level, otherwise I was in Lara's mansion, making her swan dive to her death from her second floor. The game forcing it's awkward camera positioning to get a good shot of her bum and horrible controls aside, it was fun to revisit that again. I had forgotten about that creepy butler though, you're just running around and you hear weird groaning and the tinkling of crockery. I can imagine that would be really confusing and weird to anyone playing for the first time, it took me a few seconds to remember WTF it was.

[Ruki]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03K5SgYI2M

Soon.

[Benji]

[Bobfoc]

I'm not expecting the gameplay to be anything special, but I'm not really bothered. There aren't enough funny games out there, and I hope this ends up being one of them.

[Quom]

Well that just did its job. Went from totally meh about the whole thing to thinking I'll probably day one it.

To expand I thought it was their normal licencing type deal where they just gave the characters over for money. I didn't realise that the South Park team were also putting effort into making sure it was up to standard and met their expectations.

[Your Mom]

I don't normally enjoy fart jokes so much but Cartman showing the fart attack in what looked like the tutorial was hilarious

[Bobfoc]

Well that just did its job. Went from totally meh about the whole thing to thinking I'll probably day one it.

To expand I thought it was their normal licencing type deal where they just gave the characters over for money. I didn't realise that the South Park team were also putting effort into making sure it was up to standard and met their expectations.

That's what they did for the previous South Park games that were released in the PS1/N64/Dreamcast era. Being keen video game fans themselves, Parker and Stone decided that they wanted to make sure they were heavily involved with the creative process for this game as a way of ensuring it didn't end up being as bad as those previous games. That's presumably also why they decided to collaborate with Obsidian, a studio with a decent pedigree in the RPG domain.

[EWB's Best Poster.]

Those games sucked though. Badly.

[Bobfoc]

Those games sucked though. Badly.

And that's why Trey and Matt want to avoid a repeat performance this time round.

[EWB's Best Poster.]

They made a party one years ago, it could have been more fun but the load times were crazy. Answer a question and wait over a minute, play a mini game then a full minute load... crazy. Just ruined it.