gospvg Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Decision time. Vanilla Tomb Raider on PS3 for free or shiny, extra lovely PS4 version for moneys? PS3 version save your money for something like Infamous Second Son. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumgut Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Dead Nation Apocalypse on PS4 is up. If anyone fancies co-op my PSNID is bumgut3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinholestar Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Decision time. Vanilla Tomb Raider on PS3 for free or shiny, extra lovely PS4 version for moneys? Vanilla for free. It's an absolutely stunning looking game on last-gen anyway, so the next-gen shinies aren't that important. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dude Ranch Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 PS3 version save your money for something like Infamous Second Son. I think you and pinhole are right. Decided then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gospvg Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I need to buy a PS3. And a PS4. My ever-growing pile of shame that I can't even play looks utterly magnificent. Thanks PS+! I purchased a vita because of the continuous PS+ goodness, kept it for six months never played it & have recently sold it. I'll still add the vita PS+ titles to my subscription but there is enough on the PS3/4 to keep me busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirtle Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Decision time. Vanilla Tomb Raider on PS3 for free or shiny, extra lovely PS4 version for moneys? PS3 version save your money for something like Infamous Second Son. I concur with this man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BossSaru Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Decision time. Vanilla Tomb Raider on PS3 for free or shiny, extra lovely PS4 version for moneys? Play the PS3 version, and pretend it is the XB1 version. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Games all available to download now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanR Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 some of the games (in my download queue) I thought were vita-only on PS+ are listed as playable on PS3 specifically but if I dig derper it definately says: BLAZBLUE Continuum Shift Extend BLAZBLUE Continuum Shift ExtendPQube Ltd Compatible with PlayStation®Vita only. DYNASTY WARRIORS NEXT DYNASTY WARRIORS NEXTTecmo Koei Europe Compatible with PlayStation®Vita only. so it's a reference to being able to download to, and then distribute to the vita VIA the PS3? Or that only the VITA version was free, but the game is available on both platforms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPickford Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Games all available to download now Tomb Raider shows up as £19.99 for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanR Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Games all available to download nowstill can't find tomb raider... (I have it on 360 and PS4, so not THAT fussed.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Do 71 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 And I can't even add Brothers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JPickford Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 The 'Digital Edition' one was £49.99 about an hour ago. Now it's £19.99. Presumably that's the one that's supposed to be free at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gospvg Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I'll wait till they all appear on the PS+ section before adding to my download queue, it is not like I have nothing to play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefcha Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 so it's a reference to being able to download to, and then distribute to the vita VIA the PS3? Or that only the VITA version was free, but the game is available on both platforms?It's generally just the store being completely shite and downright misleading with its inconsistencies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysBeClosing Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Dead Nation and Tomb Raider are free on the US store, so yeah, just wait a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MansizeRooster Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Tomb Raider is free on the PS3 store, but the web store is still showing £19.99. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harsin Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Why the hell do you have to download a patch on top when getting a game digitally. Shouldn't it just offer latest version like on the App Store. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferine Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Why the hell do you have to download a patch on top when getting a game digitally. Shouldn't it just offer latest version like on the App Store. I imagine there are several reasons, both technical and logistic. Any examples I could provide would just be guesswork, though. At least on PS4 it queues up both files when you first download something; this could well be how Steam and other such services work, they just don't surface the update as a separate item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superunknown Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Why the hell do you have to download a patch on top when getting a game digitally. Shouldn't it just offer latest version like on the App Store. Hasn't this been discussed before? The digital version is an ISO (or similar) of the disc-based release, and the patches are just that; patches. If they wanted to deliver pre-patched digital versions they'd have to rebuild the ISO based on all the patches released to date. And for any title that was still likely to receive patches (say if you bought a digital game just a few weeks after release) they'd potentially have to rebuild it multiple times during its lifespan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPickford Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Hasn't this been discussed before? The digital version is an ISO (or similar) of the disc-based release, and the patches are just that; patches. If they wanted to deliver pre-patched digital versions they'd have to rebuild the ISO based on all the patches released to date. And for any title that was still likely to receive patches (say if you bought a digital game just a few weeks after release) they'd potentially have to rebuild it multiple times during its lifespan. Which is what any sensible system would do. It's utterly daft not to have a fully patched version for download. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superunknown Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 But corporations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafaqat Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 But corporations.Apple and the Google Play store manage it fine. At least on the PS4 it's slightly better than it used to be on the PS3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harsin Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 First impressions of Dead Nation not great. Tried it with a friend co-op. Set it to 'private game', except it kept trying to put randoms into the second player spot. Managed to get around this by starting and quitting repeatedly and hoping my friend could accept my invite before a random got in. Get into the game, realise they've been too lazy to bother changing the controls from PS3 because shoot is on the bumper instead of a trigger. Change controls. Seems a fairly bog standard dime a dozen twin-stick shooter. Finish first level, it goes to a screen saying it's uploading stats, stays on this screen for about 10 minutes so we both agree it's stuck so press cancel, which instead of just cancelling the stat process boots you back to main menu. Go through rigmarole of starting co-op game again, start playing level two for about two minutes and then both get 'a network error has occured' and both kicked from the game. Decide to play something else instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishyFish Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I had the same issue with uploading stats. I didn't get any error messages, but wasn't especially enamoured by the game either. Is there any reason why it has to be so dark? Are there daylight sections later on? Makes it feel a bit drab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superunknown Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Apple and the Google Play store manage it fine. At least on the PS4 it's slightly better than it used to be on the PS3. Hey, I'm not defending it. Apple and Google are both forward-thinking businesses that focus on usability and customer satisfaction. I can't say the same thing about most video game publishers or platform holders. The publishers probably don't care, and even if they did the platform holders would probably charge them re-testing fees or whatever and so the publishers wouldn't bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strider Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I thiught pixeljunk monsters was free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Do 71 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I thiught pixeljunk monsters was free? Well, Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KriessG Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Which is what any sensible system would do. It's utterly daft not to have a fully patched version for download. Apple and the Google Play store manage it fine. At least on the PS4 it's slightly better than it used to be on the PS3. From my years in videogame QA with 2K and MS, this sounds like a nightmare, especially for legacy platforms like the 360 and PS3 which were designed so long ago. Every time a patch comes it out has to be tested and signed off by Sony and Microsoft, the dev just can't push it out there in the wild. The you'd have all the end users with different base games with differing amount of patches baked in, then stacking new patches as they are released on top of all those different versions. Instead of just testing one base game with the patches, you'd have to test all the differing previously released base games with all the multiple patches released after them. Also known as far more work. Maybe with the new current generation things might end up being different, but I doubt it. Anyway, updating a tiny app for your phone is on thing, when most are free or a few quid at best. Having to pay for the submission process of patches and then having a new ISO version of the base game go through submission as well sounds absurd. Blame the platform owners for having these measures in place, but it's just the nature of the way things are really. Imagine having the one version of the base game that doesn't like the 3rd patch after it's release not work and causes issues, it all sounds like a QA bug finding nightmare. Having the base game locked down is the cheapest and most effective way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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