Night Cry, aka Project Scissors, aka a new Clock Tower spiritual successor

[kane_magus]

I was watching Matt and Pat play Silent Hill 2 just now, when Matt mentioned something called "Project Scissors, or as it's called now: Night Cry" and then claimed that it's an upcoming spiritual successor to the Clock Tower games.

(EDIT) Most of the below about the Vita is now irrelevant, since the game will be coming to PC as well. So, back to at least :) I guess. (/EDIT)

Well... let's just say that this was another one of those ":D to :( in 30 seconds" things, because while it's great that they're making this, since at least the first couple of Clock Tower games were pretty awesome (as was Haunting Ground), it totally sucks that it apparently is only coming out for the Vita, iOS, and Android. I didn't even have a fucking Vita, or interest in getting a fucking Vita, even back when I still actually owned console/handheld games, and I certainly don't want one now, even for something as potentially cool as this. If it'd been on a, you know, real console, it'd have made me potentially interested in maybe buying said console at some point in the nebulous future (unless said console had been the X-Bone, in which case I'd have still been just as irritated as I am now), but I'm not buying a goddamn Vita, or an iOS/Android smart phone, just to play it. :/

Having said all that, however, I did and still do have some vague, potential interest in the Vita TV, though I had almost completely forgotten that the thing even existed until just now. Maybe that would be something worth looking into a bit more, when this Night Cry game comes out, and hopefully Night Cry will be compatible with it. (Seriously, I can't really explain why I am so vehemently opposed to buying the Vita handheld version... I just am.) In any case, though, it'll be quite a while before I have either the interest or ability to start spending a bunch of money on video game console shit again.

Anyway, to go off on a tangential, happier note, since it was through them that I heard of the above, I have to say that the current crop of LPs that the Super Best Friends are doing are probably their best yet: Silent Hill 2, Super Mario RPG, and Parasite Eve are the ones I'm actually watching, though they're also doing LPs of the Telltale Game of Thrones game and a No More Heroes game that I'd never heard of before. Aside from James and Mike, these are the only guys who do Let's Plays that I can actually tolerate and even enjoy, unlike certain others. I mean, sure, there probably are other decent LPers out there, but I just haven't seen or heard of them. Not that I've done an awful lot of searching for others, mind you. (Hell, I couldn't even get into Game Grumps, the little bit I tried to watch of them back when they first started, even though Egoraptor is otherwise pretty awesome.)

And now... back to watching that episode of the TBFP SH2 LP, which I paused in order to write this post that ended up taking quite a bit longer than I original intended it to. >_>;

(EDIT) With all of that about SBFP said, and despite all my praise for them, the fact that it took Pat and Liam until episode 7 (or over 3 hours in) to learn the incredibly simple fact that Mario can fucking run in Super Mario RPG (via having to look it up in a walkthrough, because they thought they were stuck) was painful to watch and made me feel embarrassed for them. To their credit, at least, they fully acknowledged that they were idiots for not figuring it out on their own in all that time. (/EDIT)

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[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

I've heard little good about the Playstation TV myself, although most of what I hear are from the few people on Atari Age that bought one.

Essentially if they make use of the touch screens, expect the game to either not work, or work so horribly that you'd probably be better off not playing it. Since you use a standard PS3 controller on that thing, there's no touch controls - they have something hacked into it, regarding pressing the push buttons under the analog sticks iirc (You know, the buttons everyone forgets exist.) but if you need any speed to the button pressing you'll be SOL.

Very few Vita games work on the unit, which is probably the real reason it began to be called the Playstation TV in NA/Europe instead of the Vita TV. Apparently not all of the digital PSP games that work on a normal Vita will work on the TV as well.

Basically if you're going to be buying that thing for a specific game, wait until the game is out and it's confirmed to work well on it.

For the actual Vita, I haven't minded it too much myself. But I only have a few games for it that I've bought. (The two Project Diva games and whatnot.) The rest of any games I have are "rented" games - freebies that came with having a PSN+ account that stop working if I ever end my membership.

The biggest reason to be wary of the Vita in either incarnation though is that physical games are rare compared to digital - certainly harder to find. And Sony has a nice unique memory card just for the Vita that costs a mint. My 16gig card cost 40 bucks. The 32gig card costs 80 or so. Only reason I bought a Vita afterwards was because I got a 40 dollar giftcard from work one day which covered the cost of the memory card, and I had bonus from work separate from that that bought the Vita itself.

Of course it's been like that with all my current last gen consoles - buying them with the yearly bonus. If I get a bonus this year though, I won't be buying a current gen system. Instead I'm probably going to consider investing in a new(er) comp.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

It's kind of weird. I buy pretty much all of my games these days through Steam and GOG on the PC. Not having physical copies of those games doesn't bother me all that much (mainly because I very rarely pay more than $5-$10 for them, if even that much). Yet, the concept of an entirely, or even just mostly, digital-only console/handheld is still somewhat grating to me (and I seriously doubt games for those, even digital-only ones, could be gotten for anything close to that inexpensively).

Well... at some point in the distant future, I may just break down and get a Vita handheld anyway, since what little I've researched on the Vita TV myself, combined with what you said here, kind of makes it seem like a piece of shit even when compared to the handheld version. At least with the handheld, I wouldn't have to worry so much about looking at other games and asking if they work on the TV thing or not. But then, at this point, the only game so far that even remotely interests me for the Vita in general is this one here, Night Cry, and I still don't think I'd want to get a Vita just for that. Well, I'd probably end up getting Persona 4 Golden as well, but eh... beyond that, I can't really think of any other Vita games I'd care to get, not that I've been following what has been released on the Vita at all in the first place.

As for a 32GB memory thing costing $80... shit, you can get a 2 terabyte or better PC hard drive for around that price, these days. What the fuck is Sony thinking? ...oh right, never mind, they sell such tiny amounts of storage at that exorbitant price because they know people will buy it at that price. And if that's the only game in town, then what other choice do you even have, really, aside from just not buying it at all, I guess? I see on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/32GB-PlayStation-Vita-Memory-Card/dp/B006JKASCK) that it's apparently normally $100, but is currently marked down to $56 or so, as if that's supposedly some kind of amazing discount or something. Even $56 for that relatively shit-tier amount of memory is still too much, in my opinion.

Ugh, it feels really weird to call 32GB a "shit-tier amount of memory," given that the first computer I ever owned had 850MB of hard drive space max, and I thought I was absolutely swimming in the drive space later when I got a newer computer that had a 2GB hard drive (i.e. the exact same amount that's in the tiny USB thumb drive I got over a decade later with The Sims 3 and which I'm using simply for ReadyBoost (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost) purposes on my current comp). Amazing how far that sort of thing has progressed since then. Hell, I have two 640GB drives in my current computer, and even that is starting to feel a bit cramped to me. >_>;