gamingeek said:

I knew about the warp pipes and 1up tricks. Ehhhhhh, I don't think I will up for beating every level as Luigi. Get me a video of this super secret level please.

Odds are its just the final level of the main game with a timer on it and shadow mario chasing you.

Let's hope it's not prophetic.,

The zombie part is the most realistic thing about that plot.

Hudson to Close: Konami decides

Crap how'd I miss that? Damn, damn, damn...

RIP little bee.

I only played a TG16 once at an event showing off the system and I got to play Bonk and R Type. Didn't touch any of those games again until years later on the VC. But Bonk was still fun.

robio said:

I only played a TG16 once at an event showing off the system and I got to play Bonk and R Type. Didn't touch any of those games until years later on the VC. But Bonk was still fun.

I worked at NEC when the Turbo came out, I was tester and phone consoler. Good old times.

Tried out the Kingdoms of Amalur demo. Kind of fun, nice looking game. It has a MMO-meets-torchlight vibe to its visual style. It's pretty easy on requirements, and it has loads of colors. Combat is simplistic at the beginning, though you can unlock moves and combos as you progress. Story is standard fantasy fare.

The only way to go to battle.

Little dude couldn't cope with the awesomeness of the hot ass of my character.

My girl is so badass she pierced that dude's chest with her bare hand. No, that's not clipping.

You get magic abilities.

You can also unlock tits.

At the end of the tutorial you fight and kill some nude thing. Afterwards you reach a town where things open up a bit and you're let loose to do as you wish.

As you hold it, your hand rests comfortably on the back touch panel which I got to try with Little Deviants. In one part of the demo I would raise the ground depending on where my finger touched and I had to guide this ball shaped creature into a hole. It was pretty responsive but felt strange controlling something from the back. The menus on the Vita work with the front touch screen which is super responsive, like Iphone good. I loved navigating the Vita menu which has bubbles with the apps, I like the stylish layout which works way better for a touch screen device than an XMB would. There was another part of Little Deviants which used the built in camera for some augmented reality gameplay, this was a complete rip off of face raiders on the 3DS. Here little enemies on planes are displayed against your background you move the entire Vita around using its motion control to aim, so you end up turning around or looking up and down to find the enemies and shoot them. The background is just there, it adds nothing but I will say the camera quality is nice and obviously blows away what the 3DS can do. The impression I got is that the 3DS is like a toy (I love my 3DS but that thing has ancient tech compared to this) and this thing is a high end electronic device.

I did not get to play many games but I at least played the ones i wanted to play. Of course topping that list is Uncharted and I must say they somehow got PS3 like graphics on a handheld, it's pretty crazy. It looks like Uncharted, has all the awesome background effects like buring buildings and complex scripted moments you would expect from the game. The only area it looks different is on the models which don't have the same detail as their PS3 counterparts. There were two chapters to choose from, one a platforming level in a buring building and the other a sniper battle. I started with the platforming and it plays just like you would expect. I strangely had trouble with the sticks, moving Drake was fine but adjusting the camera did not come as natural to me as it does on the PS3. The situation got worse when I was aiming, I dont know if its the size of the sticks or maybe its not as responsive as the PS3 or even if its just getting used to the placement (which shouldnt be a problem as its close to the Dual Shock), it was just weird.

Motion and touch controls come into play at times like when you need to balance on a beam you move the Vita around. Strangely when I was hanging from a beam the only way to get back up was to tap the beam on the screen, not press up or X. At one point there was a totally random slashing moment, where you pull out your knife and giant arrows come on the screen telling you where to to slash, you simply follow the on screen prompts and the Drake cuts through a tent. It's like a totally pointless QTE, that is bad implementation of touch control. Menus are all navigated with your touch screen, you cant even use the sticks or buttons if you wanted too. I took a peak at the menus and there seems to be a bunch of stuff in there, way more than the console games. It looks like each chapter has a log of all secerets and stats. The shooting demo has you stuck on a balcony with sniper rifles and you have to protect a woman. So you take cover and fire on bad guys. Again I had some difficulty with the aiming stick but here you can use the Vita itself to aim which I was used to with the 3DS and it works surprisingly well. Not much to the demo, it's Uncharted, I didnt even get to any classic cover shooting areas.

I also tried LittleBigPlanet which was a beta version or something cause it kept crashing every few minutes. I only got to play two levels but already the potental I saw blows my mind. The first level has you hold the Vita vertically and the level is like an old school top down racing game but with Tron like effects, awesome. The other level has sack boy stuck in a bubble and you control the bubble only with the touch screen. Of course this causes the issue of your finger getting in the way of the screen, if you have played any cell phone games you know what to expect. I do find using a stylus on the DS to be more responsive than my finger on a giant touchscreen, it is a tad bit more accurate but in this LBP level it did not harm the gameplay in anyway as it wasn't too difficult a level to navigate. Who knows what other Vita features the other levels use, that is the killer app.

I got to see Wipeout but not play it, WOW gorgeous. Seriously just incredible looking and probably a game you should be getting. There was Hot Shots Golf which looked terrible with really jaggy graphics, totally didn't match the graphical levels of the other games. So overall the hardware is great my only issue being the sticks. It feels state of the art, it is something you are probably going to want to show off. The games so far seem ok, Uncharted didn't do much for me, LBP is the one I really want. They succeeded in making a portable that matches current gen graphics and that in itself is pretty insane. The question I need to answer is do I want another current gen system right now even if this one is portable...

Dvader said:

Look what you have done to poor George Lucas. He wants to retire now. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/52726

“Why would I make any more, when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?” -

Sorry, I feel nothing.

Logic dictates that this is good news.