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Are You Picking Up Killzone for Vita?

Day 1 69 33.82%
 
This Year 41 20.10%
 
Maybe Next Year 30 14.71%
 
Not For Me 64 31.37%
 
Total:204
thekin on 04 September 2013
BlowoverKing said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
BlowoverKing said:
Pretty good score when you consider most sites are reviewing the game as a PS3 game. I mean seriously why can't people realize that the Vita is a handheld and not a home console and review it's games accordingly.

Because the system and this game are promoted as console-quality on a handheld? It is a lot cheaper than the console versions though, so they should take that into account. 


But the fact remains that it's a handheld game regaurdless of what Sony's marketing team says. The Vita is a Vita, not a PS3 and comparing it's games to PS3 games is just wrong.

But that is the major problem with the vita, Sony keeps marketing it as a shrunken PS3 that will have console level games (both graphically and game play wise) and a lot of people’s expectations has been set that it is just be a portable PS3, so them comparing it to Killzone 3 or cod is not that surprising. And the current library is not helping, most of the games on the system are ports, and one of the major release for 2014 is borderlands 2 a game that is available on every platform.



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thekin on 04 September 2013

Mistake



MDMAlliance on 04 September 2013

Not a bad current score, but my initial impression was that it was bad considering how many people here were saying it would be something like 85+ and that it'll be this and that.

I might get it sometime, though.



Ajescent on 04 September 2013
thekin said:
BlowoverKing said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
BlowoverKing said:
Pretty good score when you consider most sites are reviewing the game as a PS3 game. I mean seriously why can't people realize that the Vita is a handheld and not a home console and review it's games accordingly.

Because the system and this game are promoted as console-quality on a handheld? It is a lot cheaper than the console versions though, so they should take that into account. 


But the fact remains that it's a handheld game regaurdless of what Sony's marketing team says. The Vita is a Vita, not a PS3 and comparing it's games to PS3 games is just wrong.

But that is the major problem with the vita, Sony keeps marketing it as a shrunken PS3 that will have console level games (both graphically and game play wise) and a lot of people’s expectations has been set that it is just be a portable PS3, so them comparing it to Killzone 3 or cod is not that surprising. And the current library is not helping, most of the games on the system are ports, and one of the major release for 2014 is borderlands 2 a game that is available on every platform.

 

Exactly how stupid are people that they listen to PR speak verbatum without using their head to question anything.

Sony may have told you it's a ps3 in your pocket but after the first 2-3 times it's proven to not be the case, perhaps maybe you should stop buying into the hype because it starts to make you look stupid.



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thekin on 04 September 2013
Ajescent said:
thekin said:
BlowoverKing said:
Andrespetmonkey said:
BlowoverKing said:
Pretty good score when you consider most sites are reviewing the game as a PS3 game. I mean seriously why can't people realize that the Vita is a handheld and not a home console and review it's games accordingly.

Because the system and this game are promoted as console-quality on a handheld? It is a lot cheaper than the console versions though, so they should take that into account. 


But the fact remains that it's a handheld game regaurdless of what Sony's marketing team says. The Vita is a Vita, not a PS3 and comparing it's games to PS3 games is just wrong.

But that is the major problem with the vita, Sony keeps marketing it as a shrunken PS3 that will have console level games (both graphically and game play wise) and a lot of people’s expectations has been set that it is just be a portable PS3, so them comparing it to Killzone 3 or cod is not that surprising. And the current library is not helping, most of the games on the system are ports, and one of the major release for 2014 is borderlands 2 a game that is available on every platform.

 

Exactly how stupid are people that they listen to PR speak verbatum without using their head to question anything.

Sony may have told you it's a ps3 in your pocket but after the first 2-3 times it's proven to not be the case, perhaps maybe you should stop buying into the hype because it starts to make you look stupid.

Dude why the hell are you calling me stupid?  Sony hasn’t done anything to make Vita into its own system, just look what they did, paying to get Borderlands 2 on the system while they could have made a new ip with the money, not just that they keep promoting the system as a controller for the PS4.

If they really want the system to sell? Why haven’t they released sequels to original psp games such as Patapon, locoroco or instead of borderlands 2 they could have release Type 0 enhanced edition. But noooo, all they have been announcing are ports of 1-2 year old Ps360PC games.



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curl-6 on 04 September 2013

I agree with thekin and Andrespetmoneky; by marketing Vita as a handheld PS3, Sony have brought such comparisons on themselves.



RustyShakleford on 04 September 2013

I will eventually pick this up, but only after the price reaches the $20 range. I played the beta and I was pretty impressed. However, I am not a huge fps fan so I don't feel like paying $40 for this game. I was expecting the reviews to be in the 8-8.5 range, so it is a little lower than I thought it was going to be.



JWeinCom on 04 September 2013

It's not JUST that the Vita is marketed as a console experience, it's also that they're taking a genre that is typically experienced on a console. When we play a game in a genre we inevitably compare it to other games we've played in that genre.  With FPS games, there are so few on handhelds that were worth playing, so our frame of reference is entierely handheld games.

That's another part of the problem with trying to do console gaming on the go. A lot of people actually DO play their handhelds at home alot of the time. Many gamers might find themselves in the circumstance of choosing between Killzone Mercenary and Shadow Fall. If Mercenary is not either as good, or somehow distinctive, that could be a problem.

Sony's marketing exacerbates this. Should we take PR seriously? Well, yes, I think we should. If that's what Sony is promising to customers, that's what they should expect. Of course PR people make BS statements all the time (PS2 will have toy story graphics, XBox 360 is like playing a lucid dream, all multiplatform titles are significantly better on Wii U), but just because they do it often does that make it ok? If they lie often enough should we just stop calling them on their BS? If they promise something and don't deliver, that's not ok.

Of course, what's getting lost in all this is that 77/100 is a pretty good score and it could go up. When Wonderful 101 was getting those kind of reviews, it didn't make me want it any less. Mercenary may not be the savior of the Vita that many were hoping for, but it sounds like a pretty solid shooter that will be especially good for people who are constantly on the go.



kupomogli on 05 September 2013

I'm not really a fan of FPS games, but for gameplay, other than the amount of players, 4v4 instead of 6v6 or 5v5 on consoles, the gameplay is a bit better than most CoD or CoD clones I've played. Atleast Warzone, which is all I've played.  Not as good graphically as on the PS3, but the graphichs do look nice as well.



curl-6 on 05 September 2013
kupomogli said:

I'm not really a fan of FPS games, but for gameplay, other than the amount of players, 4v4 instead of 6v6 or 5v5 on consoles, the gameplay is a bit better than most CoD or CoD clones I've played. Atleast Warzone, which is all I've played.  Not as good graphically as on the PS3, but the graphichs do look nice as well.

I don't think anyone in their right mind expects Killzone 3 graphics on a handheld.