RenegadePanda

Looking forward to this game, preordered on Amazon because Gamestop still doesn't have it listed. I enjoyed the Japanese demo, didn't seem incredibly deep, but it was fun and easy to pick up.

Plus lots of moe, which is a great way to make me buy anything.

I tried it and I have to say, I'm extremely disappointed. I don't know if they turned the brightness down, or what, but the screen I saw was dark and had horrible contrast, and compared to a PSP3K or 3DS, the colors were washed out. I'm hoping that was just them not setting the thing up correctly.

But the sticks felt cheap and had a very small swing that felt off coming from a controller or even from the PSP. The buttons were tiny, usuable, but small enough to throw me off a bit. Same goes for the D-Pad too. The interface worked fine, but the bubbles on the home screen are stupidly oversized and take up too much space for no real reason, and aesthetically I hated them.

I messed around with Uncharted and Gravity Rush, and while they played fine once I adjusted to the controls, I wasn't really blown away by anything. It's impressive that they got a PS3 style game running on a handheld, but it's nothing new in the gameplay department. Gravity started off slow too, and I didn't have time to get to any real gameplay parts.

At least the thing is light, but that also lends to a certain cheap feeling. The touch screen is just a touch screen, and I couldn't mess with the rear pad, though I hate how it's glossy like the front of the unit is, and it is difficult to be sure you have your fingers on it when you're trying to play a game. Some kind of texture or ridge to signal the pad would have helped.

I was getting excited for the Vita more every day, then I played it and now I won't bother buying one at launch. Unless they release some kind of special edition bundle or a price drop, I just don't want one right away anymore.

This seems incredibly practical for those long bus rides and tedious waiting times at the restaurant.

Soon enough we'll have more qualifiers for the content delivery than we do content.

Oh, Elite members get it first, but even sooner if they're on Xbox Live, and even sooner if you got the Limited Edition, and three days sooner than that if you got the Ultra Prestige Super Edition, which comes with early access to the early access DLC that is only available if you preordered it through Gamestop between January and March, but Power Up Reward members get an extra map with it.

So they expect Mac people to pay 10 dollars more than everyone else for less content?

That's not even mentioning that Gamestop has it new for $20.

They're also responsible for the region free UK port of Dodonpachi Resurrection on 360.

Is it a timed Gold demo, or do all XBL members get it on the first?

My Japanese XBL accounts aren't Gold anymore, and I hate trying to navigate the Japanese PSN store since I always forget where everything is.

@Tachyonic Cargo

And a Ridge Racer on Nintendo 64

Single player maybe?

That's what I'm buying it for.

So they're still not fixing the Companions?

I can't complete their questline because the entire group got stuck after a quest and refused to talk to me. The group inside now talks to me after assaulting one of them and yielding, but the Huntress (who apparently gives me a required quest) will not engage in dialogue at all, and she's stuck outside of the hall.

Oh, and fixing my Whiterun house so I can display weapons is nice, although I have the Windhelm one now, which works (but I can't clean out that room).

And while we're at it, can you remove my quest items? I'm still stuck with 5 witch heads, an Elder Scroll, Gallus' encoded journal and about 4 other items to the tune of about 60-80 pounds of inventory space, despite the fact that I've finished all the quests related to those items.

I suppose for 100 hours though, one game breaker is mildly forgivable. Though I don't believe I've done some of the quests noted here.