Finally, while some games supported cross-saves and/or cross buys (i.e. you get both the Vita & PS4 version in one purchase), that was inconsistent and eventually pretty rare.
Still happens, Stardew Valley is the most recent one as of next week.
so many people might have large libraries if they were smart enough to add those games even when they didn't own the system.
I wasn't, missed out on some good titles that way. Though as you know, Vita owners tend to buy a LOT of games...the thing has an INSANE attach rate.
You can't release a console, especially one that has absolutely no backwards compatibility with your previous offering, and tell everyone to buy games online.
Sure you can, because the Vita IS digitally backwards compatible with the previous offering. Heck, most long term PSP owners had a mostly digital library when the Vita came out. Digital reduced load times, reduced battery drain from a spinning UMD disc, and UMD's were fragile.
Because when the parents go to the store, they want to know the product their buying isn't a deadend product that isn't going to make little Bobby happy / shut him up for awhile.
Who says the Vita's target market was young kids? The majority of gamers are adults you know.
They also don't want to spend money on a system that has no physical offerings.
Really? Tell that to all those in the Android and iOS ecosystems.
Digital is fleeting.
So you don't use Steam or GoG? You don't have a smartphone? You don't buy digital music from Amazon or iTunes?
My first digital purchase on PSN was the PSone Classic, Castlevania Symphony of the Night, on May 19th, 2008. (I didn't have a PS3, until June of 2008) I could right now, almost exactly 10 years later, redownload that game on my PS3, Vita or even the PSP 3000 and the PSP1000 with the failed UMD drive. I can even have it on all 4 at once.
Nevermind the overpriced proprietary memory cards have a premium for GB. Of which most games take at least a few.
I don't know what you mean by "take at least a few". Vita cards come in 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64GB capacities. The largest game I'm aware of is Borderlands 2, which comes up to around 5.5GB or so including DLC. Games can't span multiple cards. But most games aren't near that big.
Also, those memory cards were tiny, and required a system restart due to DRM, just to change them.
Yes, but the reboot doesn't take "that" long.
So good luck actually using more than two cards in practice.
I have 7: three 16GB, one 8GB and three 4GB The hardest part of using more than one card is that they're not colored and they're so tiny they're hard to label. But I used tiny storage card cases to help with that.
I finally started taking the system seriously once they finally started releasing physical cards for it.
Finally? There were physical games available at launch! Didn't you see them? But as I said, most serious Vita owners do a LOT of digital games.
Do you want to know how many physical vita games I have? Just six: Freedom Wars, Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed, Borderlands 2 (went physical on this one because of the 5+GB the digital version takes up, with physical it uses space only for the DLC/patches), FFX/FFX-2 HD remaster (only FFX is on the cartridge, FFX-2 is actually a digital download), Dungeon Hunter Alliance (only available physically now), and Disney Infinity 2.0 (only available physically because the game requires the Vita's bluetooth version of the Infinity Base)
Want to know how many digital Vita games I have? 28, It will be 30 next week when the vita version of Stardew Valley (cross-buy with the PS4 version) and that Bloodstained castlevania 3 style prequel.
That doesn't even count Vita games I own but don't have on the cards (mostly cross-buy and PS+ titles I don't have much interest in), or all the PSP, PSone Classic and PS Mini titles.
I've gone mostly digital on the PS4 too. Most of my physical PS4 games from the bargain bin or were gifts.
Would have bought some more if they had bothered to put the digital only games on them. But I guess now I won't.
You understand that in this way you are something of a tech luddite compared to most gamers, right? Not even taking into account storage of those physical games. You buy all your PC games physically, right? CD's? Blu-rays?
Vita digital games aren't unit locked, they're tied to your PSN account. Pay once, download/play the game on multiple devices. For example you could buy a PSone classic once and have it on a PSP, PS3, and Vita simultaneously.
The console version doesn't have the PC versions always-online requirement. Try it out, and discover the bliss of direct movement control in a Diablo-style ARPG rather than indirect mouse-pointing.
Nothing happens? Heywood Floyd is on that ship, it lands on the landing pad and then is lowered into some kind of internal bay on the moonbase. Did you take a trip to the bathroom or something.
What happens next is the Moonbase meeting scene. After that Heywood gets on that suborbital moon bus, which probably inspired Space 1999's Eagles, heading to TMA1
That's not as much of a disadvantage as it sometimes has been in the past since even the "vanilla" versions of most games these days have more content than you can shake a stick at.
I mean sure, some gamers love their mods....but we have finite time and it eventually reaches a point of excess content that you'll never get to see even in the base game.
No. While PS2's can use the Linux kit, PS2's are not Linux systems when running games. IIRC some PS2 games include open source notices for things like image libraries or networking.
PS2 TOOL's do use Linux, RedHat in fact.
PS3's are BSD-based systems but not pure BSD. The kernel isn't a BSD kernel. The same pretty much applies to the PSP and Vita.
It isn't actually encrypted of course, just an example of what could be done if someone actually encrypted a message. Facebook makes it easy to share gpg keys.
Ha! That's even better. I'm seeing that quote for the first time today. Reminds me of all those Cardassian vs. Kardashian memes a la one is a fictional race from Star Trek, the other we WISH were fictional:
The US runs on Ayn Rand's values for a good reason.
I'm sorry I was unaware that Ayn Rand was so awsum that she developed time travel and was a "founding father" in 1787.
Ayn Rand whose real name is Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum by the way, didn't actually live under Communism for very long. Her family fled St. Petersburg for Ukraine which was still under non-communist "White" control, they stayed there till 1921, then returning to St. Petersburg. While there, she attended college, which wasn't allowed to women before the Revolution. Her education of course, being subsidized by the new Soviet Government. That's right, she wouldn't have had a degree without Communism
She left the USSR via a tourist visa in 1926, thusly only having lived under communism for 5 years...basically as a student.
She then violated the terms of her tourist visa by staying and getting work. Thusly she was an illegal immigrant. She got her Hollywood scriptwriting job via nepotism. Yeah nice job pulling yourself by your bootstraps "Ayn". She turned her job into a career as a pundit lambasting the collectivists who paid for her college degree. And by the way, her degree is in History, NOT economics, Not politics or government.
Atlas Shrugged is a author tract Sci-Fi novel where actual science and laws of nature are handwaved by a bunch of Mary Sues to justify her socio-economic and political axes. A society of just 200 people would be missing the PEOPLE and resources necessary to maintain anything other than say 18th century technology. Building trains and steel requires a lot of technology and a lot of people not just building trains and steel but all the supporting industries and infrastructure. And it requires a lot of energy. Where was the Gulch going to get it's power? Some sci-fi applied phlebotinum? Not to mention, how are pharmaceuticals going to be made? Who's going to mine the iron? Who's going to pick the crops, process the food, build the machines? 200 Upper class ubermensch desk bound back slapping plutocrats?
Haven't you ever noticed that a lot of the "internet libertarians" say they read Atlas Shrugged as teenagers? And who's more sociopathic and narcissistic than teenagers.
So get some teenage boy who's spent his early years reading Heinleins Sci-fi author tracts with the ubermensch genius Mary Sue's and anti-union, anti-government screeds...well except for the military, in that situation MORE government is GOOD.
And then they get exposed to Atlas Shrugged by some older neckbearded geek who sees him self as a genius held down by society's rules that don't let him be a racist misogynistic jerk. What do you think is going to happen.
Don't let teenage boys read too much Heinlein, it's the gateway to gamergater alt-right edgelord Randroid asshattery.
I wrote this in response to yet another Edgelord aspie libertarian type online a few weeks back:
Atlas Shrugged is a author tract Sci-Fi novel where actual science and laws of nature are handwaved by a bunch of Mary Sues to justify her socio-economic and political axes. A society of just 200 people would be missing the PEOPLE and resources necessary to maintain anything other than say 18th century technology. Building trains and steel requires a lot of technology and a lot of people not just building trains and steel but all the supporting industries and infrastructure. And it requires a lot of energy. Where was the Gulch going to get it's power? Some sci-fi applied phlebotinum? Not to mention, how are pharmaceuticals going to be made? Who's going to mine the iron? Who's going to pick the crops, process the food, build the machines? 200 Upper class ubermensch desk bound back slapping plutocrats?
Haven't you ever noticed that a lot of the "internet libertarians" say they read Atlas Shrugged as teenagers? And who's more sociopathic and narcissistic than teenagers.
So get some teenage boy who's spent his early years reading Heinleins Sci-fi author tracts with the ubermensch genius Mary Sue's and anti-union, anti-government screeds...well except for the military, in that situation MORE government is GOOD.
And then they get exposed to Atlas Shrugged by some older neckbearded geek who sees him self as a genius held down by society's rules that don't let him be a racist misogynistic jerk. What do you think is going to happen.
Don't let teenage boys read too much Heinlein, it's the gateway to gamergater alt-right edgelord randroid asshattery.
Yep, in fact when I first used a DualShock 3 with Linux it was far far easier to use it with Linux than it was with Windows!
The DualShock 4 also works just fine with Linux (with perhaps a few udev rules depending on distro), tested it out with Steam's Big Picture Mode on Linux.
No flightsticks, no steering wheels, no macro keyboards or mice, not even game controllers for the most part.
If anyone knows of any gaming hardware that actually works properly on Linux, please say so. I know not a single example of gaming hardware that does.
I personally have used PS2 (via USB dongle), PS3, and PS4 versions of the DualShock under Linux. Also I have the PS3 Playstation Eye camera and the Playstation "Silver" headset, both work just fine under Linux as a camera and headset.
And I just right now configured a Saitek x52 for basic flight controls in the Linux version of War Thunder running on Fedora Linux.
And Minecraft, especially, needs as much hardware as you can throw at it. It's horribly optimized.
Yep. Mojang's recommended system is a machine with a 3.5 Ghz CPU and Nvidia 7xx series GPU or better. 3.5 Ghz!
Though the Windows Store version performs better than the Java version.
That's because that version is based on the console version's code! Which is itself derived from the original Pocket edition codebase. It had to be efficient. Unlike Notch, 4J's programmers aren't aspies who were fixated on Java and who can actually write efficient code.
Consider the Linux version a console port, no different than you would the PS3 or XBOX.
The funny thing is that the PS3 is BSD based and the PS4 is a full fledged BSD system so if there's a PS3/PS4 version already doing a Linux/SteamOS port would be "relatively" easy. Not as easy as doing a./configure && make && make install of the source tree on a Linux dev system of course, but easier than porting from Windows to Linux.
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Finally, while some games supported cross-saves and/or cross buys (i.e. you get both the Vita & PS4 version in one purchase), that was inconsistent and eventually pretty rare.
Still happens, Stardew Valley is the most recent one as of next week.
so many people might have large libraries if they were smart enough to add those games even when they didn't own the system.
I wasn't, missed out on some good titles that way. Though as you know, Vita owners tend to buy a LOT of games...the thing has an INSANE attach rate.
You can't release a console, especially one that has absolutely no backwards compatibility with your previous offering, and tell everyone to buy games online.
Sure you can, because the Vita IS digitally backwards compatible with the previous offering. Heck, most long term PSP owners had a mostly digital library when the Vita came out. Digital reduced load times, reduced battery drain from a spinning UMD disc, and UMD's were fragile.
Because when the parents go to the store, they want to know the product their buying isn't a deadend product that isn't going to make little Bobby happy / shut him up for awhile.
Who says the Vita's target market was young kids? The majority of gamers are adults you know.
They also don't want to spend money on a system that has no physical offerings.
Really? Tell that to all those in the Android and iOS ecosystems.
Digital is fleeting.
So you don't use Steam or GoG? You don't have a smartphone? You don't buy digital music from Amazon or iTunes?
My first digital purchase on PSN was the PSone Classic, Castlevania Symphony of the Night, on May 19th, 2008. (I didn't have a PS3, until June of 2008) I could right now, almost exactly 10 years later, redownload that game on my PS3, Vita or even the PSP 3000 and the PSP1000 with the failed UMD drive. I can even have it on all 4 at once.
Nevermind the overpriced proprietary memory cards have a premium for GB. Of which most games take at least a few.
I don't know what you mean by "take at least a few". Vita cards come in 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64GB capacities. The largest game I'm aware of is Borderlands 2, which comes up to around 5.5GB or so including DLC. Games can't span multiple cards. But most games aren't near that big.
Also, those memory cards were tiny, and required a system restart due to DRM, just to change them.
Yes, but the reboot doesn't take "that" long.
So good luck actually using more than two cards in practice.
I have 7: three 16GB, one 8GB and three 4GB The hardest part of using more than one card is that they're not colored and they're so tiny they're hard to label. But I used tiny storage card cases to help with that.
I finally started taking the system seriously once they finally started releasing physical cards for it.
Finally? There were physical games available at launch! Didn't you see them? But as I said, most serious Vita owners do a LOT of digital games.
Do you want to know how many physical vita games I have? Just six: Freedom Wars, Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed, Borderlands 2 (went physical on this one because of the 5+GB the digital version takes up, with physical it uses space only for the DLC/patches), FFX/FFX-2 HD remaster (only FFX is on the cartridge, FFX-2 is actually a digital download), Dungeon Hunter Alliance (only available physically now), and Disney Infinity 2.0 (only available physically because the game requires the Vita's bluetooth version of the Infinity Base)
Want to know how many digital Vita games I have? 28, It will be 30 next week when the vita version of Stardew Valley (cross-buy with the PS4 version) and that Bloodstained castlevania 3 style prequel.
That doesn't even count Vita games I own but don't have on the cards (mostly cross-buy and PS+ titles I don't have much interest in), or all the PSP, PSone Classic and PS Mini titles.
I've gone mostly digital on the PS4 too. Most of my physical PS4 games from the bargain bin or were gifts.
Would have bought some more if they had bothered to put the digital only games on them. But I guess now I won't.
You understand that in this way you are something of a tech luddite compared to most gamers, right? Not even taking into account storage of those physical games. You buy all your PC games physically, right? CD's? Blu-rays?
Vita digital games aren't unit locked, they're tied to your PSN account. Pay once, download/play the game on multiple devices. For example you could buy a PSone classic once and have it on a PSP, PS3, and Vita simultaneously.
Diablo III pay to play? Are you referring to the Auction House? It's been gone for years, and the console version never had it in the first place.
The console version doesn't have the PC versions always-online requirement. Try it out, and discover the bliss of direct movement control in a Diablo-style ARPG rather than indirect mouse-pointing.
"Episodes" not zones. Only the first episode of 9 levels "Knee Deep in the Dead" was part of the shareware package.
Second Life was doing micro-transactions for cosmetic items, some of which were/are actual makeup style cosmetics, years before Valve had their hats.
Avatar Appearance is such a big part of Second Life and has so many items available, that there are blogs dedicated to Second Life fashion.
Here's one of my favorites: http://www.strawberrysingh.com...
You may have seen that article on PC Gamer where they mentioned her:
https://www.pcgamer.com/second...
Nothing happens? Heywood Floyd is on that ship, it lands on the landing pad and then is lowered into some kind of internal bay on the moonbase. Did you take a trip to the bathroom or something.
What happens next is the Moonbase meeting scene. After that Heywood gets on that suborbital moon bus, which probably inspired Space 1999's Eagles, heading to TMA1
That's not as much of a disadvantage as it sometimes has been in the past since even the "vanilla" versions of most games these days have more content than you can shake a stick at.
I mean sure, some gamers love their mods....but we have finite time and it eventually reaches a point of excess content that you'll never get to see even in the base game.
No. While PS2's can use the Linux kit, PS2's are not Linux systems when running games. IIRC some PS2 games include open source notices for things like image libraries or networking.
PS2 TOOL's do use Linux, RedHat in fact.
PS3's are BSD-based systems but not pure BSD. The kernel isn't a BSD kernel. The same pretty much applies to the PSP and Vita.
PS4's however ARE full-fledged BSD systems.
Trying to blame one kid
The SWATer is no kid: "25-year-old Tyler Barriss"
But can they break any encryption the user can use? After all you can put ANY text into a facebook message field:
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
owE7bZjEEDV3vqRnmkJlfqlCcmKeQlFqYopCSUZmsQ5YKDczPaNEISlVIVEhL7Uo
RY8LAA==
=4NpZ
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It isn't actually encrypted of course, just an example of what could be done if someone actually encrypted a message. Facebook makes it easy to share gpg keys.
32? It was actually 20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ha! That's even better. I'm seeing that quote for the first time today. Reminds me of all those Cardassian vs. Kardashian memes a la one is a fictional race from Star Trek, the other we WISH were fictional:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8...
you mean "/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind" on most modern Linux systems.
Sylpheed
What, did I time travel back to 2002?
The only people using sylpheed these days are Japanese folk using it out of a sense of national pride instead of the superior fork, Claws-mail.
It's not a bad client, it's just that Claws-mail is better.
The US runs on Ayn Rand's values for a good reason.
I'm sorry I was unaware that Ayn Rand was so awsum that she developed time travel and was a "founding father" in 1787.
Ayn Rand whose real name is Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum by the way, didn't actually live under Communism for very long. Her family fled St. Petersburg for Ukraine which was still under non-communist "White" control, they stayed there till 1921, then returning to St. Petersburg. While there, she attended college, which wasn't allowed to women before the Revolution. Her education of course, being subsidized by the new Soviet Government. That's right, she wouldn't have had a degree without Communism
She left the USSR via a tourist visa in 1926, thusly only having lived under communism for 5 years...basically as a student.
She then violated the terms of her tourist visa by staying and getting work. Thusly she was an illegal immigrant. She got her Hollywood scriptwriting job via nepotism. Yeah nice job pulling yourself by your bootstraps "Ayn". She turned her job into a career as a pundit lambasting the collectivists who paid for her college degree. And by the way, her degree is in History, NOT economics, Not politics or government.
Atlas Shrugged is a author tract Sci-Fi novel where actual science and laws of nature are handwaved by a bunch of Mary Sues to justify her socio-economic and political axes. A society of just 200 people would be missing the PEOPLE and resources necessary to maintain anything other than say 18th century technology. Building trains and steel requires a lot of technology and a lot of people not just building trains and steel but all the supporting industries and infrastructure. And it requires a lot of energy. Where was the Gulch going to get it's power? Some sci-fi applied phlebotinum? Not to mention, how are pharmaceuticals going to be made? Who's going to mine the iron? Who's going to pick the crops, process the food, build the machines? 200 Upper class ubermensch desk bound back slapping plutocrats?
Haven't you ever noticed that a lot of the "internet libertarians" say they read Atlas Shrugged as teenagers? And who's more sociopathic and narcissistic than teenagers.
So get some teenage boy who's spent his early years reading Heinleins Sci-fi author tracts with the ubermensch genius Mary Sue's and anti-union, anti-government screeds...well except for the military, in that situation MORE government is GOOD.
And then they get exposed to Atlas Shrugged by some older neckbearded geek who sees him self as a genius held down by society's rules that don't let him be a racist misogynistic jerk. What do you think is going to happen.
Don't let teenage boys read too much Heinlein, it's the gateway to gamergater alt-right edgelord Randroid asshattery.
I wrote this in response to yet another Edgelord aspie libertarian type online a few weeks back:
Atlas Shrugged is a author tract Sci-Fi novel where actual science and laws of nature are handwaved by a bunch of Mary Sues to justify her socio-economic and political axes. A society of just 200 people would be missing the PEOPLE and resources necessary to maintain anything other than say 18th century technology. Building trains and steel requires a lot of technology and a lot of people not just building trains and steel but all the supporting industries and infrastructure. And it requires a lot of energy. Where was the Gulch going to get it's power? Some sci-fi applied phlebotinum? Not to mention, how are pharmaceuticals going to be made? Who's going to mine the iron? Who's going to pick the crops, process the food, build the machines? 200 Upper class ubermensch desk bound back slapping plutocrats?
Haven't you ever noticed that a lot of the "internet libertarians" say they read Atlas Shrugged as teenagers? And who's more sociopathic and narcissistic than teenagers.
So get some teenage boy who's spent his early years reading Heinleins Sci-fi author tracts with the ubermensch genius Mary Sue's and anti-union, anti-government screeds...well except for the military, in that situation MORE government is GOOD.
And then they get exposed to Atlas Shrugged by some older neckbearded geek who sees him self as a genius held down by society's rules that don't let him be a racist misogynistic jerk. What do you think is going to happen.
Don't let teenage boys read too much Heinlein, it's the gateway to gamergater alt-right edgelord randroid asshattery.
You can even get one of Unicomp's modernized USB model M's for less than $100.
Yep, in fact when I first used a DualShock 3 with Linux it was far far easier to use it with Linux than it was with Windows!
The DualShock 4 also works just fine with Linux (with perhaps a few udev rules depending on distro), tested it out with Steam's Big Picture Mode on Linux.
DCS is Windows only, but as I said, I just "right now" configured a Saitek x52 for basic flight controls in War Thunder. Pitch, Roll, Yaw, Throttle.
No flightsticks, no steering wheels, no macro keyboards or mice, not even game controllers for the most part.
If anyone knows of any gaming hardware that actually works properly on Linux, please say so. I know not a single example of gaming hardware that does.
I personally have used PS2 (via USB dongle), PS3, and PS4 versions of the DualShock under Linux. Also I have the PS3 Playstation Eye camera and the Playstation "Silver" headset, both work just fine under Linux as a camera and headset.
And I just right now configured a Saitek x52 for basic flight controls in the Linux version of War Thunder running on Fedora Linux.
And Minecraft, especially, needs as much hardware as you can throw at it. It's horribly optimized.
Yep. Mojang's recommended system is a machine with a 3.5 Ghz CPU and Nvidia 7xx series GPU or better. 3.5 Ghz!
Though the Windows Store version performs better than the Java version.
That's because that version is based on the console version's code! Which is itself derived from the original Pocket edition codebase. It had to be efficient. Unlike Notch, 4J's programmers aren't aspies who were fixated on Java and who can actually write efficient code.
Consider the Linux version a console port, no different than you would the PS3 or XBOX.
The funny thing is that the PS3 is BSD based and the PS4 is a full fledged BSD system so if there's a PS3/PS4 version already doing a Linux/SteamOS port would be "relatively" easy. Not as easy as doing a ./configure && make && make install of the source tree on a Linux dev system of course, but easier than porting from Windows to Linux.
I'm taking your nerd card.
Didn't you ever play D&D and other tabletop RPG's? Didn't you read the various tabletop RPG magazines? Mayfair ads were common in them.
They did the DC Roleplaying game for goodness sake! They were even one of the many publishers of Cosmic Encounter. Their version supports 10 players.