Whats in the PS Store Thread: Sega Superstars Tennis and Condemned 2 demos up now!

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The gameplay of MGS4 is AWESOME. Hopefully they force you to utilize those features and CQC's throughout the game :D

RE5 trailer gets a two thumbs up as well, looks like they're sticking with RE4 gameplay mechanics, woo hoo!
 
Good to see that I'm not the only one that feels that the PS1 store is the most under-utilized feature in all of the next gen systems combined. Sure, SOTN is on there now.. but give me a break, that's nothing more than a feeble attempt to compete with XBLA. If they were to throw Einhander, Lunar, Arc the Lad, or any of these other games that garner a heavy cult and collector following, they'd definitely make a few bucks.

I guess this is a side note, and maybe not that relevant since they're going to software emulation... but wouldn't it be safe to say that the PS1 games are loaded on the PC similar to using Daemon tools and a disc image on a PC? If so, that makes the PS1 game shortage even worse.
 
[quote name='Josh7289']Quick question:

Has anything ever been removed from the PlayStation Store?[/quote]Couple things from the JPN store that I know of.

Afrika game trailer, and Hot Shots Golf 5 demo.
 
Just off the top of my head i believe the Casino Royale blu-ray trailer (or maybe it was theatrical? Either way it was in 1080p) has been removed. I only know that cuz my friend was looking for it to decide whether or not to get the blu-ray version or not and he couldn't find it.
 
[quote name='Josh7289']Quick question:

Has anything ever been removed from the PlayStation Store?[/QUOTE]GripShift demo.
[quote name='dallow']Couple things from the JPN store that I know of.

Afrika game trailer, and Hot Shots Golf 5 demo.[/QUOTE]Hot Shots Golf 5 demo is gone. Folklore demo is still up in Japan.
 
fucking japan PS3s... US gets so much less crap.

also... I downloaded Tekken 2 a few weeks ago and now it's gone...??????? why would they even do that?????????? less PS1 titles already.
 
[quote name='RelentlessRolento']
also... I downloaded Tekken 2 a few weeks ago and now it's gone...??????? why would they even do that?????????? less PS1 titles already.[/QUOTE]
It's not gone, it removes itself from the main store after you purchase it.
 
[quote name='Pratt75']Has anyone downloaded Castlevania? How is it?[/quote]It's an exact replica of the PSX game.

Meaning, one of the best games of all time.
 
I really want to start buying games from the PSN store but one thing stops me. Is it secure you know to put your CC info up? I mean you are going through the net and everything, I just want to make sure it's safe before I do it.
 
[quote name='Silent Assassin120']I really want to start buying games from the PSN store but one thing stops me. Is it secure you know to put your CC info up? I mean you are going through the net and everything, I just want to make sure it's safe before I do it.[/QUOTE]


It's sony. A huge company. If they did cap like that they would have tons of legal issues up the butt.
 
There's tens of thousands of members buying stuff through PSN. I think it's safe.


Also BLADESTORM DEMO tomorrow on JPN PSN store!
 
[quote name='dallow']There's tens of thousands of members buying stuff through PSN. I think it's safe.


Also BLADESTORM DEMO tomorrow on JPN PSN store![/QUOTE]


the US and Euro PSN store need to follow the JPN one closely...
 
Bladestorm demo up on JPN store.
Here's a quick guide since it's in Japanese.
Thanks to Bebpo on GAF.

Developed by Omega Force who does the Musou or Dynasty/Samurai/etc...Warriors games, Bladestorm is a 3rd person action RTS game that's a bit like Kessen and Total War mixed together. It's about a war between France and England and you play as a merc.

The demo is now out, and this will guide you on how to play the demo. Not because the game is average and needs someone standing over your shoulder telling you how to play it just to be fun, but rather because the demo is in Moon language and many here don't speak it.

HOW TO PLAY:

-Bar: This is where you start and it's the main hub for the game. You create a general and your goal is to up your reputation and build a huge mercenary army and win the war for some side. Things to do at the bar:

-Pick a mission: This works like any quest in an rpg. The missions tell you whether you are fighting for France or England, what the situation is, difficulty level, etc...

-Player info: You can't do anything here until you've finished a mission so I'll get back to it later.

-Merchant: You can buy weapons/armor/items after you finish a mission and have money. For equipment the DEF stats you see are defense parameters against being slashed, hit with a big objects, stabbed, shot with an arrow, hit by a cannon, hit with magic. Items are attached to Square, Triangle, Circle and hold L1 + button in battle to use them. They are one use only.

-Talk: You can talk to people and find out info.

-Recruit: You can use money after you finish a mission to buy unit types. You attach them to Square,Triangle,Circle and hold L2 + button to summon them in battle. You can only summon them once.


MISSION:

-You grab a group of units with the X button. You'll see units you can grab because they'll be your color and have a symbol over their head to indicate unit type. In the demo there is sword, arrow, horse. The amount of units you can grab is dependent on your unit gathering stat which you can upgrade with SP earned from battle after the mission ends. You deselect them by pressing X again.

-Once in control of a group, moving moves them around, but if you see an enemy group you hold R1 to rush and attack them. Keep holding R1 and they will continue to do normal attacks until they die or there are no enemies in sight.

-You will see that you have three commands tied to the Square, Triangle ,Circle button. These commands are unique for each unit type. Triangle is a low-level special attack that after a use has to recharge (the bar filling up) before you can use it again. For standard soldiers Triangle is shield bash attack. Square is a high-level special attack that recharges slower than the Triangle attack. For soldiers it's sword slash waves IIRC. Circle is the defend button. You hold it down and a meter goes down. You can defend until the meter runs out and then it has to recharge.

-For Archers, the Square attack will put you in first person where you aim at a spot and hit Square again and they'll fire all their arrows at the spot.

-You get EXP when you kill with a unit type and it sticks with your leader. So if you have level 10 sword then when you grab sword units they are level 10 (I think, I don't have the game on so I'm not 100% sure) but anyhow you level and become more awesome as you do.

-For everytime an attack (square, triangle, circle) connects the attack levels up slowly. When you reach the next level, the attack gets new abilities such as more damage and wider range.

-When you kill an enemy with a certain unit type you get SP for that unit. After the battle you can spend it on stuff like upping attack power, how many of that unit type you can command, more arrows, etc...

-THE BLADESTORM: Most fun part of the battles. When you rush an army and kick ass with high combos and little damage to yourself you start the BLADESTORM where your army glows with passion and basically you get stronger and faster every second it goes on. This keeps going as long as you keep killing and not being hurt. So just like in the movies it's all about rolling thunder and the goal is to start a BLADESTORM and then keep rushing and rushing through enemies killing them all along the way.

MISSION FLOW:

-Look at the map (start, first thing, use Square to zoom in). There are bases of your color and bases of the enemy color. There is a map objective on the left and it'll say "take over base X". Match X with the base name on the map (should be within a few bases of your start point). Next to each base you see a number out of a number. For example "6/8" that means there are 6 of 8 generals remaining guarding that point. Also R2 changes the map to a closer one.

-The goal is to go to a base and kill all the generals (the guys with LVL X or names over their heads) and then when the base is 0/X you go kill the base guardian (only guy remaining with writing over his head). Then the base becomes yours.

-Head towards the base you need to take over, while taking over other bases along the way to choke the enemy and make sure they don't sneak into your territory and take it over. This is actually the exact same way you play Gundam Musou fwiw.

-You need to stick with your army. I once took a group of 20 and left the army fighting the other army to go attack the objective base with 8 generals and once the generals and their dozens and dozens of units killed my guys I had no one left to grab since they were way back fighting and I died real quick.

-When you kill enemy generals they drop random loot like Dynasty Warriors. Gold, items, etc...

POST-MISSION:

-Back in the bar, you can know mess with your player:
-Equip: Equip weapons/armor/items on your guy
-Unit Book: Click on a unit type and use the SP (first one is power, 2nd is how many you can command, 3rd changes around).
-I don't remember what the 3rd command here was. I think it's what items you have.

-You can now buy stuff, recruit guys, and the last option is history stuff. Story, characters, your play data.

...and I think that should get you started!



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Good grief. That's a lot of things to be able to do in the demo. Seems pretty complicated. I'll give it a look tonight though.
 
[quote name='psunami']Good grief. That's a lot of things to be able to do in the demo. Seems pretty complicated. I'll give it a look tonight though.[/quote]The demo is the exact opposite of Heavenly Sword's demo. :)
 
After playing the demo, I am anxious to take a look at the English version of the game that's dated for November according to EB. The demo plays out like a very solid action/strategy game.

Graphically the game is very impressive. It is funny to see all English on the game maps but still not have any idea of what is going on. I really need to start learning more Japanese.
 
NICE to hear about the GRAW demo.

I liked the Bladestorm demo as well. Seems like a solid action/strategy game as mentioned. Really want to see an English version.
 
I was having a discussion with a friend about having accounts for the various different regions and he believes they'll be locked out like they were on the 360.

I guess I have the feeling that the PS3 will be different because there is no region locking on the console. What would be the point of disabling those accounts when you could end up playing games from those regions legitimately?

I played the GRAW2 demo on the 360 a while back, is this one going to be any different?
 
Well on the 360 all they locked out was the video content due to copyright issues. You can still download demos and other content from different regions.
 
[quote name='psunami']I was having a discussion with a friend about having accounts for the various different regions and he believes they'll be locked out like they were on the 360.

I guess I have the feeling that the PS3 will be different because there is no region locking on the console. What would be the point of disabling those accounts when you could end up playing games from those regions legitimately?

I played the GRAW2 demo on the 360 a while back, is this one going to be any different?[/quote]

Well the PSN is a bit different. At least, so far. Sony has been all, "have your friends on your PS3" and "Take your content to a friend's house!" for a while.

So they basically look at the extra accounts as if someone is visiting you and using your PS3 to check their region. Not sure how they would be able to figure out if Sam from England isn't really visiting someone in the US...

Good question about GRAW2. 99% sure it is the same thing though.
 
Not final.

Europe/PAL (UK mostly)

Games:
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 demo


Trailers:
-Lair
-Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights


Japan

Games:
-BladeStorm demo (all in Japanese, check out Official thread for gameplay hints)
-Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection w/ Online - 2800 yen
--without online - 2000 yen
--online patch (which only appears if you own the base pack) - 800 yen
-My Summer Vacation DLC
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and nothing for us because Heavenly Sword was such a nice gift that Sony deserves a week off? bollocks.
 
[quote name='Apossum']and nothing for us because Heavenly Sword was such a nice gift that Sony deserves a week off? bollocks.[/QUOTE]

...say wha???? We get jack squat this week? I hope you're just guessing.
 
Come onnnnnnnnnnn trailer for some dumb movie I don't care about :)


myke-- yeah, I have no idea, but I wouldn't be surprised.
 
I still wish sony would release my summer vacation here in the US. All animal crossing players like myself would be enjoying it.

and sony: release better PS1 games.
 
[quote name='Silent Assassin120']I couldn't agree more. :)[/QUOTE]
Same...well actually not.

I already own the game (I thought you did too?) so I doubt I'd buy it again off PSN.

I hope we get something good though.
 
[quote name='whoknows']Same...well actually not.

I already own the game (I thought you did too?) so I doubt I'd buy it again off PSN.

I hope we get something good though.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but you'd be able to play it on your PSP!

I own it already, but I'd defintiely buy MGS1 if they put it up there.
 
Sounds like the US will be getting the Darkness demo, the GRAW2 demo, the Blast Factor addon and a few movie trailers. No update time stated though.
 
I guess I could enjoy the GRAW2 demo again, even though I'll never buy the game.


Blast Factor has been tempting me since the day I bought a PS3...
 
GRAW2 demo impressions from a game reviewer if anyone cares:

Downloaded (took me 15 mins) and played the GRAW 2 demo.

Wow, very nice. Frame rate is not perfect but everything else is fine. Actually, I dont recall some of the details I'm seeing here in the 360 version. Was the vegetation the same? How about those birds taking off at the biginning? Don't recall those.

Anyway, I'm quite impressed by the motion sensor implementation. Stance switching gave me troubles at first cos the descrtiption says to move the controller up or down while u actually have to PITCH is up and down to get it working. And it works indeed. Rolling L/R by tilting the controller is so cool. I can see myself doing it much more than I did on the 360 just for the coolness of it :). Didn't know it was also possible to do a side roll while standing up (much like that new Old Snake move in MGS4). Overall motion sensing seems to add a little bit of fluidity to the controls.

Me likes total. Hopefully frame rate stays stable in more busy situations.
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