24th October 2016, 3:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 28th November 2016, 10:43 PM by A Black Falcon.)
These first few downloadable games I got in a PSN sale that ended a few days ago, I'm just listing them now.
PS3 DD (PS3 PSN)
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Battle Princess of Arcadias - $15 (half off the regular price) - This is a sidescrolling action/beat 'em up game, surely Vanillaware-inspired, with a strategy game component -- you give orders to soldiers fighting on your side as you play. I can't play it until I get a hard drive (I have ordered one online, but it's not here yet, hopefully next week...), but it does look interesting.
Motorsiege (EU Store) - UKP 2 (half off regular price) - This is a PS2 Classic title that only ever was released in Europe, on both the PS2 and PS3. I got this I had 2.02 UK Pounds still on my UK PS3 account from when I bought some UK PSN money with a points card a few years ago to buy After Burner with, and since I have a PS3 now I decided to see if there was something I could spend it on. I didn't see anything looking in the store, but searching online I found that all PS1 and PS2 Classics have, for some insane reason, been hidden in the European Playstation Store. The games exist, and you can buy them if you search for them directly by name, but they will not appear in other searches and do not have any list in the interface. The US store has some nice lists of available PS1 and PS2 titles, but not the European one. That's crazy, but I found a site listing all games currently on sale on PSN and this one was listed, and after searching in the store, yup, it's there. So, this game is an arena car combat game with futuristic hover-cars shooting at eachother. It's supposed to be alright, and getting a European exclusive game is the best use for this money for sure; anything released here is almost certainly going to be cheaper in the US store.
PSP DD
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ClaDun: This Is An RPG! - $1.80
ClaDun X2 - $3.50 or so - These two games are pixel-art dungeon crawling action-RPGs. They were download-only releases. I wouldn't have bought these at full price, but discounted... I decided to pick them up. I have tried the first one, and it's decently fun.
Additionally, I also got some physical PS3 games recently.
PS3
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Under Night In:Birth Exe:Late - $16, complete - This is a 2d fighting game. I've never played a fighting game from this team, but I wanted to get a fighting game for the PS3 and most of the major stuff is also available on the 360 (and I have many of the better ones for that system), so I decided on this PS3 and PC-only one. The name is one of those typically silly Japanese titles, but hopefully the game is better; it is supposed to be good, so I hope it is. I've played it some now, and it's fun. The single player mode is a bit on the easy side and the story is mostly incomprehensibly confusing. This game is trying to be accessible, so the moves aren't super hard and the AI isn't nearly as hard as some fighting games are, but it is a well-designed game that plays quite well. The gameplay and graphics are good, so it was probably worth getting.
Warhawk - $1, complete - Yeah, I know this game is online play-only and surely has no one playing it anymore, but the original Warhawk is one of the best early PS1 games, so I had to get this. Maybe I'll even find a game sometime? The case looks nice though, it's a game I have always wanted to try, and it was cheap, so I had to get it.
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Mix - $16, complete - Yes, I know I said I probably wasn't going to get this and then did, but... well, one of the two games in the collection (the GBA remake) is something I've never played before and am interested in, and as for the remake of the original, as much as I dislike to re-buy games I already own, given how horrendous PS2 image quality is, trying some of these PS2 to PS3 HD Remakes might be worthwhile in a way I'd almost certainly not bother with for, say, an Xbox to X360 remaster. Xbox graphics don't have horrendous image quality problems like the PS2 does, after all. Also, I got this for less than Gamestop's price, which is nice.
PS3 DD (PS3 PSN)
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Battle Princess of Arcadias - $15 (half off the regular price) - This is a sidescrolling action/beat 'em up game, surely Vanillaware-inspired, with a strategy game component -- you give orders to soldiers fighting on your side as you play. I can't play it until I get a hard drive (I have ordered one online, but it's not here yet, hopefully next week...), but it does look interesting.
Motorsiege (EU Store) - UKP 2 (half off regular price) - This is a PS2 Classic title that only ever was released in Europe, on both the PS2 and PS3. I got this I had 2.02 UK Pounds still on my UK PS3 account from when I bought some UK PSN money with a points card a few years ago to buy After Burner with, and since I have a PS3 now I decided to see if there was something I could spend it on. I didn't see anything looking in the store, but searching online I found that all PS1 and PS2 Classics have, for some insane reason, been hidden in the European Playstation Store. The games exist, and you can buy them if you search for them directly by name, but they will not appear in other searches and do not have any list in the interface. The US store has some nice lists of available PS1 and PS2 titles, but not the European one. That's crazy, but I found a site listing all games currently on sale on PSN and this one was listed, and after searching in the store, yup, it's there. So, this game is an arena car combat game with futuristic hover-cars shooting at eachother. It's supposed to be alright, and getting a European exclusive game is the best use for this money for sure; anything released here is almost certainly going to be cheaper in the US store.
PSP DD
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ClaDun: This Is An RPG! - $1.80
ClaDun X2 - $3.50 or so - These two games are pixel-art dungeon crawling action-RPGs. They were download-only releases. I wouldn't have bought these at full price, but discounted... I decided to pick them up. I have tried the first one, and it's decently fun.
Additionally, I also got some physical PS3 games recently.
PS3
--
Under Night In:Birth Exe:Late - $16, complete - This is a 2d fighting game. I've never played a fighting game from this team, but I wanted to get a fighting game for the PS3 and most of the major stuff is also available on the 360 (and I have many of the better ones for that system), so I decided on this PS3 and PC-only one. The name is one of those typically silly Japanese titles, but hopefully the game is better; it is supposed to be good, so I hope it is. I've played it some now, and it's fun. The single player mode is a bit on the easy side and the story is mostly incomprehensibly confusing. This game is trying to be accessible, so the moves aren't super hard and the AI isn't nearly as hard as some fighting games are, but it is a well-designed game that plays quite well. The gameplay and graphics are good, so it was probably worth getting.
Warhawk - $1, complete - Yeah, I know this game is online play-only and surely has no one playing it anymore, but the original Warhawk is one of the best early PS1 games, so I had to get this. Maybe I'll even find a game sometime? The case looks nice though, it's a game I have always wanted to try, and it was cheap, so I had to get it.
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Mix - $16, complete - Yes, I know I said I probably wasn't going to get this and then did, but... well, one of the two games in the collection (the GBA remake) is something I've never played before and am interested in, and as for the remake of the original, as much as I dislike to re-buy games I already own, given how horrendous PS2 image quality is, trying some of these PS2 to PS3 HD Remakes might be worthwhile in a way I'd almost certainly not bother with for, say, an Xbox to X360 remaster. Xbox graphics don't have horrendous image quality problems like the PS2 does, after all. Also, I got this for less than Gamestop's price, which is nice.