#and well. the ps2 is my favourite console so anything that reminds me of it will immediately appeal to me
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how it feels to be a sims 2 glazer

#not sonic#im not tagging this because sometimes simmers scare me#also idk if this is the right reaction image i just couldnt find a better one#the thing is. i actually quite like sims 4. and i still play it the most.#but sims 2... oh my beloved sims 2...#like i mean i have a million billion mods for sims 4 (admittedly it is also base game)#but i only have the gussy up mod a mod for same sex marriage and a handful of cas cc in sims 2 (admittedly it is also EVERY DLC)#and im entirely aware of my bias btw. sims 2 is just the most appealing to me#i think a big part of it is that its a ps2 era game. yes sims 1 is on ps2 and is technically ps2 era but it feels more ps1 to me 💔#sims 3 feels very ps3 and sims 4 feels very ps4#and well. the ps2 is my favourite console so anything that reminds me of it will immediately appeal to me#its like. the perfect mix of raunchy and cartoony#whatever i only started playing the sims in 2023 my opinion immediately doesnt matter
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Trying to play through the metal gear series has been one of the most infuriating things I’ve ever done not because of the games themselves they’re amazing but actually being able to play them is the issue:
First metal gear solid 1 (no I have not played the 2d games maybe I’ll get round to playing them eventually) played the original ps1 game on a ps2 worked almost perfectly except for slight graphical errors weird see through clones of the models always appeared next to them like shadows as if all the models were cloned it was slightly annoying but it was such a minor issue that It didn’t bother me and I finished the game fine.
Then mgs2 on an original ps2 no issues at all and it’s my favourite of all the metal gears that I’ve played genuinely one of the greatest video game stories I’ve ever experienced with great gameplay that improves on everything the last game did.
Then we get to mgs 3 and here are where the problems begin first of all I played the game on ps2 with a disc that seemed relatively clean but while the gameplay was fine the cutscenes we’re constantly freezing making playing very annoying considering metal gear is 50% cutscenes so I had to sit through a lot of stuttering cutscenes it didn’t happen all the time but it was very annoying when it did. Now those who’ve played mgs3 will know near the end of the game there is a section that you shoot enemies on the back of the motorbike this section is both gameplay and cutscene which means it has the painful property of both having freezing issues which would not unfreeze at all and also being unskippable I gave it a few tries and tried waiting for frozen cutscenes to unfreeze but eventually I had to relent and watch the last hour of the game on YouTube. I’d already complete most of the game anyway it was still really annoying though but hey at least the game didn’t break literally halfway through and not just that but the entire console stops working wouldn’t that be funny hahahahahahahahaha…
Metal gear solid 4 uggghhhhhhhhh this one is really painful so basically I bought a ps3 of eBay like a month and a half ago cause their was one for a good deal despite me not finishing mgs3 yet I had bought it mainly for mgs4 which cannot be played “legally” on anything but a ps3 and when it arrived and I tried it ,it worked fine. So I later ordered mgs4 and it never arrived great I then had to wait 2 weeks to get my refund from eBay but no big deal I order a new copy and it arrives I start playing it works and it’s fine. Well one small issue the ps3 is having issues starting it has to be turned on and off multiple times before it can properly start and messing with the hdmi channels on my tv. Well it’s not that big of a deal so I’m now about half way through the game at the raging raven boss fight and decide to call it a night I go to sleep, I wake up the next morning and try to start the ps3 again but despite all my attempts it won’t turn on eventually I get it on but trying to run mgs4 crashes the console. I try it on a different older tv same thing happens keep trying it now I’m getting problems with green flashing lines and crackling noises NOPE eventually I can get the game working again but eventually within a few seconds it crashes. The console keeps turning itself automatically with a loud click sound so after a bit of research I find out the console is probably overheating and turning itself automatically maybe due to dirt in the fans. I would like to remind you the console worked completely fine when I first got it. So if the original copy of the game I ordered had arrived I may have been able to play through it no problem. But the story dosent end their because I decided after this happened that instead of spending money on trying to repair my ps3 or buy a new ps3 I would instead use an emulator specifically RPCS3 which is apparently the best one with mgs4 being the game that most videos discussing the Emulator showed off as one of the best games to use the emulator for. So seemed perfect right? well after downloading the emulator a rom for mgs4 (arrrrr) and the other files necessary the emulator runs the game up to when it loads and within 5 seconds it crashes and after several hours of research and testing making changes to try to fix it I can’t get it to run without crashing every 5 seconds I have a decent pc too so I know it isn’t my specs. Honestly at this point I’m thinking of just watching the rest of the game on YouTube because I really don’t want to have to buy anything else to try to get this game working plus I’ve already bought mgs5 on steam to play when I finished 4 (also I already played mgr last summer because of the MEMES DNA OF THE SOUL)
But anyway yeah I love these games but they certainly don’t love me back but at least the mgs master collections as long as they are good will make playing these game a lot easier so no one else has to go through the metal gear solid suffering that I have done these last few months
I just want to play the funny sci fi stealth game series man
#metal gear#metal gear solid#metal gear solid 2#mgs3#mgs4#emulation#retro gaming#the pain#agggggghhhhhhhhh
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Get to know me
[useless info edition]
I was tagged by @shanisims ♥ thanks a lot !
1. what do you have under your bed? My bed is like a big box so a loooot of things like cables, old consoles/games (ps2,GBA ♥),some writting fournitures, Xmas gifts ....
2. favourite candy? I love fruit flavor candy, especially rasberry and peach. Stuff like these
3. describe your favourite shirt: I have one with flowers that I love but I’m more a tshirt+cardigan kind ^^
4. the last thing you drew/doodled was: probably some hairlines on an edit
5. are you completely sober right now? ... Guess ?
6. what's the one thing that annoys you more than anything? racism and selfishness
7. have you ever gotten your tongue stuck to a cold pole during winter? OMG ! That reminds me about Home Alone XD Nope but on a ice-cream when I was a kid once, it was a terrifying experience !
8. if you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would it be? Brussel or Amsterdam. I always loved those cities and their vibes. Or in a small town full of nature like the HUB.
9. what was the last single word you spoke? Myers (referring to Michael Myers because Halloween’s on TV)
Going to tag @ladykendalsims @nigmos @nilonne @aniraklova @castawavy @prismaticpixels @hauntedplasma @ravensim @eslanes @someone-elsa and anyone who sees this and want to join ♥ feel free to tag me or ignore this as well ^^
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I think I've heard you say you enjoy turn-based games before, and you've posted bioshock infinite fan art, but I've never seen you talk about games before. What are your favourite games? (Or really just tell us anything about you and gaming!)
TL;DR: Yes I play games!
I haven’t been so active ever since I graduated school and started working, because… 9 to 5 job… raising a kid as a mother… but games and video games have always been a big part of my life!
It was the 90s so my mom was against violence in video games so I watched my elementary school guy friends play things like Street Fighter 2, Sonic, Tomb Raider, KOTOR.. but never picked it up.
I eased into computer games through puzzle games like Myst, and Humongous Entertainment (Pajama Sam, Spyfox, Backyard Baseball), and edutainment games like Oregon Trail 3 and Where in Time is Carmen San Diego. I always played with my sister! My neighbor and I also played this Indiana jones top-down adventure game a lot. I also loved things like petz, sim farm, sim tower, sim city, and roller coaster tycoon, and the sims and sims2, oh and this game called “creatures”?
My family are big card players and board game players, and I grew up playing a version of speed solitaire that only exists in my family. In 4th grade I somehow played online poker via America Online…? And when someone asked my age I lied and said I was in 5th grade lol. My sister and I still love playing board games, especially Serenissima and Clueless (a version of Clue we came up with where you play without a notepad). a few friends in high school played Warhammer so I watched that a bit.
In middle school I got into TCG’s, mainly Pokémon and Magic the Gathering.. I had a solid Armadillo Deck in high school.. I used to play with this education tool called Interactive Physics in the computer lab a lot. Also loved this website called Orisinal, which come to think of it has informed my aesthetic a lot. I got a gameboy color and played Pokémon Blue, Kirby’s Tilt n Tumble, Conker’s Pocket Tales.. I got into DDR for a hot minute, Marvel vs Capcom, King of Fighters, Guilty Gear..
My first console was a translucent orange N64, I loved games like Harvest Moon and Hey You Pikachu, Mario Party 2 (the best), beetle adventure racing, tons of games rented from blockbuster, and I would watch my guy friends play StarFox and Smash Brothers. Before it came out, I ran emulators of Pokémon Gold on my computer and tried playing through it in Japanese haha. I super got into the Japanese emulator for the Pokémon trading card game gameboy game!
When I got in high school I finally got a PlayStation, and I fell hard for Final Fantasy. My first was 9, and I went back from there. It’s hard to go back from 9 to 8 and then to 7. In the end I lost interest in 7 and never finished it. Also followed the squaresoft road and really loved Legend of Mana! I watched G4 and cosplayed as game characters at anime cons and stuff. Got my PS2 to play Final Fantasy X, loved the core Kingdom Hearts games, Katamari Damacy.. odd titles like Magic Pengel.. doubled down with X-2, HM:BTN.. not a lot of ‘violent’ games or shooters. (My family all played our Wii Sports to pieces, etc..) I watched my friends play a ton of GTA, and I loved just listening to the radio!
I spent a ton of time playing Ragnarok! I got to the Monk class, had some pretty rare headgear, which was so fun. In college I got my PS3 and played a mess of stuff, some tekken and Soul Calibur, but really just got busy with uni and then work.. I lived in Tokyo though so I would go to TGS and soak it all in. I saw Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb taping a segment there one year! But my interest was mostly on the peripheral, I checked out of it as a hobby for a good amount of years until I got an iPhone and then started watching let’s plays on YouTube!
I got back into following games as a medium through being interested in the development of Bioshock Infinite. During college, when I went back home for the summer, I spent a night hanging out in a park with my high school friends listening to them talk about how cool this game called bioshock is. Sounded too scary for me, but I plot searched the hell out of it online much like I do when I’m interested in scary movies but don’t want to watch them…?
So when I heard a new one was coming out I casually followed it through its development, then watched lets plays of it when it came out in real time, and just got super into it because I had been studying the history of math and science in college, and so I was studying about the history of quantum theory and stuff right at the time. then because of all that I got into watching gaming related stuff on YouTube, watched a lot of rev3 et all, gamergate happened, yeah..
But I still play games on muh lonesome, and still watch let’s plays of games I don’t have the skill or time to play! I think I’ve watched let’s plays of most of the major games for 2013-2016 in the process! I really liked Firewatch! Watched through Lots of older ones too. I really got into watching videos of the Arkham series, and from that I started watching deep dives on US comics by people on YouTube, etc… also found MBMBaM via games!
So I don’t think my story is unique but I’m sort of more of a spectator of what you may call your classic video games, and the ones I do play are either strategic, or laid back.. usually turn-based. But looking back I certainly have experienced more than someone who doesn’t!
Nowadays I love Civilization 4 with a passion, retroactively played through the Bioshock Series while I was on maternity leave (my first time playing a shooter!) which was an important touchstone for me as a person for many reasons.. separate from my opinion of the game itself, but either than that though, I haven’t picked up a controller since Splatoon. ..well that’s a lie, my toddler *loves* wii-u party. But, still haven’t gotten around to buying a PS4. Or a switch. But ive played through Riven and Exile on my iPhone, recently played Oxenfree, um let’s see, I backed We Happy Few, and it freaks me out to play but I got pretty good at playing one of the earlier versions! I listen to a lot of video game podcasts, too, though I think it’s more from a companionship stance than anything.. I still live in japan and most of my social circle doesn’t speak English, and all these people remind me of my high school friends. Good times. That kinda thing.
Yeah, that’s me and games!
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Discovering Retro Gaming Part 1
Over the last 43 blogs I’ve shared some of my favourite gaming memories from my childhood, the consoles I once owned and the fantastic games which me and my friends played back in the early to late 90’s. Jump to 2019 and I’m once again enjoying those classic titles all over again, on the original hardware plus discovering new games and consoles which I never had the opportunity to own back in the day. So what drew me to this unusual hobby we call ‘retro gaming’?
It all started about eleven years ago. As previously mentioned I’ve been a gamer since a young age and would always strive to get my hands on the latest gaming console. Nearing the end of 2008 I purchased a PS3, the newest and most exciting games system on the market at the time. The problem was after shelling out a load of cash on the newest console available I was stuck with just one game, a copy of Grand Theft Auto 4. The game was enjoyable and looked amazing on the next gen hardware but the gameplay itself soon became monotonous, not quite living up to San Andreas which I had thoroughly enjoyed on the PS2. As the weeks went on I found myself playing less and less on my new console, had I just thrown over £400 down the drain, even worse had I finally grown out of video games?

It wasn’t long before my childhood friend, Ben sent me a text asking if I had a free evening for him to come over and give my new PS3 a whirl. We agreed on the following weekend. At this point I had no interest in retro gaming, that was all in the past but thought it would be a laugh to try and get my hands on an old console for the night. I set about scanning eBay for an old Super Nintendo as this was the system we played together back in the day. This was just before the UK boom in retro gaming so prices were still relatively cheap. I ended up purchasing a SNES, two controllers, a copy of Mario Kart and a copy of NBA Jam (two of the games we played the most as kids) all for the grand total of £40.

This little surprise went down a storm and both me and Ben spent that Saturday evening reliving our childhood memories well into the early hours. I may not have been a retro gaming fan when I purchased that secondhand SNES but by the Sunday morning I had defiantly caught the bug. It’s amazing how many wonderful memories came flooding back when Mario Karts title screen music kicked in. Even though we were playing on a modern HD tv which made the 16bit graphics look blurry and pixelated it was the gameplay which had stood the test of time. For those few hours we were transported back in time to Bens old bedroom from 1993 where we would sit, listen to Guns and Roses and compete for first place in the Mushroom Cup.
Having that small taste of nostalgia had left me wanting more. I soon found myself regularly scanning eBay for more SNES games. The next on the list was Street Fighter 2 Turbo which I played to death as a teenager. Having originally forked out around £100 for an imported copy of the game back in the December 1992 I was quite happy picking up a loose cartridge for a couple of quid. Rather than buying up every cartridge which I came across I decided to concentrate on the games which I had previously owned or played as a teenager, a rule I still follow today.
As my collection of games grew I relocated the SNES to the spare bedroom where I connected it to a small CRT monitor which I was given to me by someone at work, now I had a true retro set up on the go. Playing these old games felt fantastic. It’s true to say some of the titles didn’t hold up as well as I remembered but it was more the initial experience of rediscovering the box art, reading the old gaming manuals and the excitement of starting up an old game which I hadn’t seen or heard in years which was most appealing.
Feeling myself slipping deeper and deeper into the retro wormhole I looked for my next big nostalgia hit so I turned my attention to old gaming magazines. Back in the 90’s I was a massive fan of the video games magazine. As a kid I would spend my pocket money on CVG, Mean Machines, NMS, Super Play in fact anything which related to my current console at the time. The first magazine which came to mind was Super Play, so into the eBay search bar it went. I couldn’t believe it when several issues of the magazine popped up on my screen. Images which I hadn’t laid eyes upon in years sent me right back to my childhood. I quickly purchased issue 26, the one with the the fantastic art work by Will Overton of the Final Fantasy Chocobo. A couple of days later I found an A4 sized envelope waiting for me when I returned from work, I was very excited.

That evening I read the issue from cover to cover. The condition of the magazine which was two decades old was immaculate, you would have thought it had been printed yesterday! It’s amazing how certain pages from that particular issue brought back lost memories especially the anime article featuring characters which I would draw over and over as a teenager. These images literally leapt off the page when I saw them for the first time in many years. I even enjoyed reading the old video game shop adverts from the back of magazine and was reminded of the high prices we once paid for games.
One magazine lead to another and before I knew it I had old issues of Mean Machines, Electronic Monthly, CVG and Games Master being dropped through my letterbox on a daily basis. Like with my game collecting I would only purchase magazines which I remembered owning as a kid and thanks to the amazing cover art most of these magazines proved to be surprisingly easy to track down.

One standout moment was receiving issue ten of NMS Magazine. I was flicking through this particular issue whilst enjoying a coffee when I stumbled across the letters page which included drawings sent in by the readers of their favourite video game characters. Turning to page ninety nine I almost spat out my coffee, there at the top of the page was my drawing of Ranma 1/2 for the Super Nintendo sketched in pencil crayon which I had sent to NMS wayback in 1993, I couldn’t believe it! As soon as a saw the picture the memories came flooding back of that day in question. I remember carefully copying the wonderful anime style artwork from a previous issue then using my expensive acrylic pencils (which had been purchased by my parents solely to be used during my GCSE Art coursework) to colour with picture. Over the next few months I would discovering yet more of my sketches which I had sent into the magazine over the years.

Similar to my ever-increasing SNES collection these magazines have unearthed so many wonderful memories from my past, but these weren’t just gaming related. I found I could map out large chunks of my childhood using these memories including holidays with my family, times spent with mates, birthdays, Christmas’s and many more. Being able to recount a particular game release date or console launch has helped pinpoint certain events long forgotten. I’m able to recount exactly what I did the day I received my copy of Secret of Mana for the SNES or the time my precious saved data was erased from my Final Fantasy 2 cart.
Retro gaming had now become an addiction, feeling that wave of nostalgia every time I opened a new eBay package was so fulfilling, I had to have more! Within a couple of months I had purchased a SNES, a number of classic games and a stack of magazines, now it was time to look for a new retro console.... but which one to choose?
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The Struggles of Vita
Just a couple of moments ago I decided to browse the PS Store because of the current Summer Sale Deals in hope to find something good for cheap. So after a few minutes of scrolling in the badly designed PS Store I found Mortal Kombat 9 for 10 or so bucks. Now MK9 is my most favourite fighting game mainly because it is the only one that I’m tolerable at so I decided to pick it up. Now from the title you can guess that the version I ended up choosing is the Vita one. I picked this one because it has the most stuff in it and well playing Mortal Kombat on the toilet is a good thing. After dusting of my Vita and recharged it and started to play the game I couldn’t stop myself thinking about how Sony could have fucked up one of the (if not the best) handheld gaming system ever. So why not look at back the sad history of the PlayStation Vita and point out the bad decisions that Sony has made with it!

It is a really good port! You should get it!
The system came out back in 2012 February 22 and it was the most powerful handheld dedicated gaming system that has ever made ‘till that day. With an amazing OLED multi-touch supported display and dual analogue sticks Sony was clearly targeted the more hardcore audience of the gaming community and with a starting price of 250$ it wasn’t a system too out of reach. Heck even the launch line up was massive with a whopping 25 titles to play from day one! Not to mention that Sony promised that you can stream your PS3 games to the Vita to play on it and you can even download PSP and PS1 games from day one! How could this go wrong? Well easily...

Even Kat saw the signs
Because the Vita is a handheld system it needs a memory card to store the games you purchased (even if you bought it physically) which shouldn’t be a big issue. I mean I just store a few games on the internal storage until I go and pick up a memory card. What do you mean that the Vita doesn’t have an internal storage? Okay no problem I just go and pick up a microSD card for dirt cheap and I’m good to go! What now?! Why wouldn’t the Vita use microSD card? What the hell is it using then? Oh they made a design of their own? No problem than I pick up one of theirs. What 4GB for 20$?! Fuck it!

You should have listened to Yosuke Sony!
The first and biggest problem that the Vita still even has today is their overpriced memory cards. For comparison you could pick up a 4GB microSD card for like 5$ or so. Now I wouldn’t mind paying premium for anything especially if for that price the product delivers and take me to dinner but for the plus we have (gosh I wish to say had) to cough up we don’t get a speed boost and sure as hell not a storage upgrade either. Now buying some memory is a hidden cost that everyone who plays games aren’t going to get surprised but with this high of a cost that means you had to pick up the Vita for 250$ a 16GB of memory Card (because let’s face it anything under than that is just won’t cut it) for 70$ and you would might as well pick up a game to play with on the system, so let that game be Uncharted The Golden Abyss for 50$ (50$ for a handheld game we will cover that too) and we just spent 370$! Nearly the cost of a brand new console during that time when the next gens rumours were getting more and more believable. So while the system was fairly priced the necessary overpriced memory card and the nearly full priced games made the system more out of reach for the majority of people.

High memory card cost means less anime waifues that you can store!
Also because Sony was targeted the more hardcore audience of the gaming community the games on the system really had to deliver on that promise. So games ended up costing 50 bucks because studios poured a ton of effort into their games (well most of the time) and for comparison most games on the 3DS -the main adversary of the Vita- only cost 30$. Now back in the old days of 2011 it was unheard of portable games to cost that much so people weren’t that happy about it. Not to mention that all this happened around the time when mobile games started to become more and more popular and most of the games on it are “free”.

Sony also should have listened to Yukiko how to beat competitions!
Pricing issues aside any gaming system can become successful if the actual games on it are good and most importantly the ones during the launch because those are the games that will always show what a system is capable of. The Vita launched with 25 games on its release date which in my opinion was kinda a good thing. Kicking of a console with a lot of titles helps people to find one that they are going to enjoy and assures that they want to buy the system for that title. On the other hand launching with that many games also can be confusing for the customers as they find themselves overwhelmed with a lot of options and it makes it hard for them to choose. Not to mention the first party titles always have to be on top quality even if there’s only one (see Breath of the Wild) and if there’s a lot of first party games on development before launch that can divide the attention of the developers. In short trying to make too many games for launch can make developers and publisher lose their focus also working on one game is cheaper than working on many others at the same time. I personally was very pleased with the launch line up that the Vita had to offer. Games like Uncharted: Golden Abyss, wipEout, Plants VS Zombies, Rayman Origins and with other genially good games that every Vita owner should have.

Gravity Rush was an amazing opening game also!
Of course other than the launch titles Sony promised that the Vita is capable of playing PSP and PS1 (why not PS2 too I don’t know) and all of our favourite old games will be there for download from day one, except they weren’t. To this day the Vita still lacks a lot of crucial PS1 and PSP classic and if you are an idiot like me who dared to born in Hungary and have a Hungarian PSN account than your choices are even more limited. Not delivering on the backwards compatibility promise was a huge disappointment for us. Previously I spoke about why too many launch games can be bad, but that same policy does not apply for virtual titles. Those games are already had been made so if your system already has an emulator to play older titles there’s literally no good reason to not put up all of them onto the store for cheap (of course after you did the testing). The good thing about those titles is nostalgia. Who wouldn’t anyone pick up his/her favourite old games if it was on the store? Also they can provide distraction while a new game for the system is on the way so you can play something between releases. Not to mention getting to run games from the previous generations are getting more and more trickier as time passes so having an option to play those games on a modern system would be amazing. Also the Vita is portable so you can play them everywhere! Like on the toilet! But as of 2017 the Vita still misses some crucial old games on its store like all the Star Wars Battlefront games that were on the PSP, the first Persona game, the old Harry Potter titles, the Army Man ones, and I think everybody can point out what is missing.

Well at least P3P is on the HUN PSN.
Other than broken backwards compatibility promises the PS3 streaming is went nowhere either at all. Luckily this feature was nearly perfectly implemented for the PS4 (and I think this is the main reason why the PS3 one was dropped). This feature for me is not something that I miss at all, of course it would have been nice to play more than 27 games but if when your system already stumbling at day one delivering on its promises than maybe you should try to keep as many as possible.

Me and best girl Yukiko looking at the wasted potential of the Vita
Finally there’s one big personal complain that I have to make. Again a reminder the year is 2011 and there’s one franchise that is going strong and its name is Call of Duty. CoD is still a stable of the gaming community and back in the day if your system didn’t have it than what were you doing (in comparison even the Wii and the WiiU had nearly all of them). Now because Sony was promising console like experience on its handheld everybody was imagining and wishing for a CoD game for the system and sadly our prayers were listened. Call of Duty Black Ops Declassified come out in 2012 November and it was a huge failure. The game was buggy, the aiming down sight just simply wasn’t working and it was simply just a broken mess. Heck I got so frustrated that I have even wrote one of my very first reviews just to bash on that game. (read it here: http://mlpsimta.tumblr.com/post/121297005557/black-ops-declassified-review) The quality of the title was so bad that it made me question Sony’s quality control for the system and their faith for it. Luckily Sony delivered some time later with Killzone Mercenaries but Killzone as amazing as that game is (the best Killzone that I have ever played and I highly recommend to pick up a Vita just for it) just didn’t have the recognition and following as the CoD franchise. So failing to deliver one was clearly a huge let down for the majority of the gaming audience back in the day.

I have nothing witty to say. Fuck this game...
In conclusion what killed the system is Sony’s own arrogance. They struck gold with the PSP and they thought that they couldn’t do wrong and the audience would fall for it because of the previous success with their handheld. Which is baffling now that I think about it because this isn’t the first time Sony did such a thing. Remember the utter failure of the PS3’s launch? Sony did the same thing back then and learnt nothing from it and because of it great systems suffered. This is what I like to call the upper dog effect. When you are on the top and thinking that you can’t do anything wrong and start doing everything wrong. Overpricing the unavoidable memory cards, lack of quality control during the start and the broken promises sadly killed the Vita.

It even has an open world Assassin’s Creed on it and it alright!
But could the Vita make a comeback still? Of course it could. Dropping the memory card prices and focusing on bringing more older titles for the system from the PS1 and PSP area as they promised also maybe throwing in some PS2 games for good measure can still be a game changer and could revive the Vita. Also implementing more apps like YouTube (which for some reason no longer available), Crunchyroll, TumblR and other social media stuff could also be very beneficial as it gives more stuff that you can do on the system, and why not try and revive old features like the near app which was supposed to be the Vita’s StreetPass? (It there’s something that I learned from Persona 5 is that there’s every time at least one guy with a Vita on the Metro) Finally why not make the PS4 controllers much easier to connect to the vita? It’s a real hassle to do it.

Just some of the apps that I’m frequently using.
Sadly I highly doubt that would ever happen. Sony clearly stopped caring about the system for years now and seeing how they handle backwards compatibility (they don’t at all) the Vita will not have its comeback sadly. Which is such a shame... From the system that has Persona 4 Golden, Freedom Wars, Soul Sacrifice and now even Undertale it’s really heartbreaking to see a great little console struggling.

You can date a Skeleton in Undertale. With the Vita you can date a Skeleton in Undertale while on the toilet!
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worse i am a strangetown premades fan who only seriously cares about the curious brothers and nervscal
how it feels to be a sims 2 glazer

#not sonic#original tags ->#im not tagging this because sometimes simmers scare me#also idk if this is the right reaction image i just couldnt find a better one#the thing is. i actually quite like sims 4. and i still play it the most.#but sims 2... oh my beloved sims 2...#like i mean i have a million billion mods for sims 4 (admittedly it is also base game)#but i only have the gussy up mod a mod for same sex marriage and a handful of cas cc in sims 2 (admittedly it is also EVERY DLC)#and im entirely aware of my bias btw. sims 2 is just the most appealing to me#i think a big part of it is that its a ps2 era game. yes sims 1 is on ps2 and is technically ps2 era but it feels more ps1 to me 💔#sims 3 feels very ps3 and sims 4 feels very ps4#and well. the ps2 is my favourite console so anything that reminds me of it will immediately appeal to me#its like. the perfect mix of raunchy and cartoony#whatever i only started playing the sims in 2023 my opinion immediately doesnt matter
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