r/vita • u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl • Mar 06 '18
News r/Vita's Best games of All Time Poll Results!! (for real this time)
And here we have it! It's been a long process, but I am finally able to share the results to you all! I think my setup on how to present this information is pretty self explanatory, but I'll go through it anyway. First, we have the genre in big letters. Then the top 3 winners within that genre. After that is Voter turnout, which means how many % of all who took this survey answered the questions. Then we have a note, where I note something that is interesting in some way. Then after that, comes the next genre! I hope you will have an interesting time looking at the winners!
Best Platform Game
Top 3:
Tearaway 16%
Shovel Knight 12%
LittleBigPlanet PS Vita 9%
Voter turn out: 72%
Note: Gravity Rush and Rayman Origins is shared 4th place with 8%
Best Shooter
Top 3:
Killzone Mercenary 70%
Borderlands 2 7%
Uncharted golden abyss 2%
Voter turnout: 70%
Note: Killzone killed the competition.
Best Fighting Game
Top 3:
Marvel VS Capcom 3 15%
Mortal Kombat / Injustice god among us 11%
Blazblue chrono phantasma 10%
Voter turnout: 62%
Note: Dead or Alive is better than Playstation All Stars according to r/Vita
Best Survival Game
Top 3:
Don’t Starve Giant Edition 32%
Minecraft 16%
Resident Evil Revelations 2 11%
Voter turnout: 43%
Note: Except for Darkest Dungeon and the top 3, so were most answers none-survival games for Vita.
Best Rhythm Game
Top 3:
Persona 4 Dancing All Night 36%
Hatsune Miku Project Diva F 2nd 15%
Crypt of the Necrodancer 11%
Voter turnout: 63%
Note: All hatsune miku games collected in a total percentage is still only 18%
Best Visual Novel
Top 3:
Steins;Gate 35%
Danganronpa Trigger happy havoc 19%
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye despair 15%
Voter turnout: 69%
Note: Actually, if you count Danganronpa Trilogy as 1 entry, Danganronpa wins over Steins;Gate with 1 vote.
Best Horror
Top 3:
Corpse Party 18%
Resident Evil Revelations 2 16%
Lone Survivor / Yamowari 10%
Voter turnout: 42%
Note: Minecraft got votes.
Best Overall RPG
Top 3:
Persona 4 Golden 68%
Trails of Cold Steel 7%
YS 8 5%
Voter turnout: 88%
Note: Killzone mercenary is more of the obvious answer to best shooter than P4G is to RPG’s.
Best Simulation
Discontinued: Too little votes
Overview: Farming Simulator got almost beaten by Persona 4 Golden. Think about that for a while.
Best Strategy Game
Top 3:
Xcom Enemy Unknown 18%
Disgaea 4 15%
Disgaea 3 / Darkest Dungeon 8%
Voter turnout: 45%
Note: You steamworld heist fans just missed the bar for shared third place.
Best Sport Game
Top 3:
Virtua tennis 4 20%
Hot shots golf 19%
Fifa 17%
Voter turnout: 40%
Note: For the sake of sport games coming out every year, and that some people don’t specify, I put them in one nomination. For example, Fifa is both Fifa 14 and Fifa 15.
Best Racing Game
Top 3:
Wipeout 2048 45%
Need for Speed Most Wanted 30%
Sonic All Star Racing 14%
Voter turnout: 63%
Note: The rest 11% are 1 vote per game. This technically makes ALL the other racing games 4th place. Also Persona 4. You heard it, Persona 4 is the 4th best Racing Game.
Best Multiplayer Game
Top 3
Killzone Mercenary 34%
Freedom Wars 14%
Dragons Crown / Soul Sacrifice Delta 7%
Voter turnout: 51%
Note: Once again Vita shows their love towards Killzone.
Best Creation Game
Top 3:
LittleBigPlanet PS Vita 45%
Dragon Quest Builders 20%
Minecraft 16%
Voter turnout: 62%
Note: To be fair, LBP and Minecraft had an unfair advantage, as I named them as examples for what this category is. So the really impressive one here is Dragon Quest Builders. If I could remake this poll, this would be one thing I would change. Sorry.
BEST ACTION
Top 3:
Uncharted Golden Abyss 23%
Gravity Rush 17%
Soul Sacrifice Delta 9%
Voter turnout: 66%
Note: Probably the one category r/Vita is the most split on. Over 37 games was in this category.
Best Beat-em-ups
Top 3:
Dragons Crown 15%
Odin Sphere leifthrasir 11%
Senran Kagura Estival Versus 8%
Voter turnout: 48%
Note: Dragons Crown fans will shout only one sentence after this: ‘’Beat-em!’’
Best Puzzle Game
Top 3:
Lumines electronic symphony 34%
Puyo Puyo Tetris 11%
Zero Escape the Nonary Games 10%
Voter turnout: 42%
Note: Fez got 1 vote.
Best Rogue-like Game
Top 3:
Rogue Legacy 28%
Binding of Isaac Rebirth 18%
Spelunky 15%
Voter turnout: 47%
Note: Someone voted ‘’anything but nuclear throne’’. Fun fact: Nuclear Throne got theoretically -1 votes.
Best Shoot-em-up / Twin sticker shooter Games
Top 3:
Super Stardust 17%
Geometry wars 3 12%
hotline miami 11%
Voter turnout: 45%
Note: Fun fact: Nuclear throne got 1 vote.
Best Card game
Discontinued: Too little votes
Overview: 1st place is Monster Monpiece, second is ‘’I have no idea / there is card games?’’ and third is uncharted fight for fortune.
RPG Section
Best Action RPG
Top 3:
YS 8 23%
Soul Sacrifice Delta 15%
YS Memories of Celceta 9%
Voter turnout: 53%
Note: Freedom wars lost to YS Memories of Celceta by 1 vote.
Best Turn-based RPG
Top 3:
Persona 4 golden 56%
Trails of cold steel 7%
FFX / Disgaea 4 / Darkest Dungeon 5%
Voter turnout: 64%
Best Dungeon RPG
Top 3:
Persona 4 Golden 23%
Mary Skelter Nightmares 14%
Dungeon Travelers 2 12%
Voter turnout: 39%
Note: Darkest Dungeon and Demon Gaze had shared 4th place with 11% each.
Best SRPG
Top 3:
Disgaea 4 29%
FF tactics / Persona 4 Golden 8%
God Wars future past / Summon night 6 / Disgaea 3 6%
Voter turnout: 34%
Note: Very many shared places in this one.
And now for the Big ones!
Best PS Vita game of all time
Top 3:
Persona 4 Golden 60%
Killzone mercenary 3%
Tearaway / Gravity Rush / Uncharted Golden Abyss / YS 8 2%
Voter turnout: 99%
Note: Honestly less persona 4 than I thought it would be. And wow, if r/Vita doesn’t like Killzone. Were prepared to see Persona 4 dominating in this whole opinion poll, but Killzone isn’t that far for being a personal favourite within r/Vita. of course, it’s still a looong way before it can beat r/Vita’s own golden boy head to head.
Your favourite PS Vita game
Top 3:
Persona 4 Golden 29%
Gravity Rush 5%
Steins;Gate / Soul Sacrifice Delta 4%
Voter turnout: 99%
Note: Shared 4th place is between Tearaway, Danganronpa 2, Trails of Cold Steel and Uncharted golden abyss.
Best Indie PS Vita game of all time
Top 3:
Undertale 14%
Spelunky / Shovel Knight 7%
Axiom Verge / Va11 Hall-a 6%
Voter turnout: 64% Note: ‘’Despite everything, it’s still you’’
Best PS Vita Exclusive Game
And yes, we have exclusives.
Top 3:
Persona 4 Golden 20%
Killzone Mercenary 15%
Uncharted Golden Abyss 12%
Voter turnout: 77%
Note: Because this might turn out interesting for you: 4th is Soul sacrifice Delta / tearaway with 10%, 5th is Freedom Wars with 9% and 6th is Gravity Rush / LittleBigPlanet PS Vita with 5%
Most anticipated PS Vita game
Top 3:
Catherine Full body 22%
Stardew Valley 14%
Persona 5 Dancing star night 7%
Note: Someone voted ‘’bioshock :(‘’
That was all! Way more work than I thought it would be! But I am glad I did this though, puts it in a perspective of what r/Vita likes. I hope you also can get something out of this! So that’s all for me. Thanks for waiting, and thanks for reading through. I am now going to open up my vita and relax for a moment.
Thanks all for making this poll possible. - u/Fungoblins.
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u/Executioner_Miralda Mar 06 '18
Hatsune Miku was robbed I tell you!
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 06 '18
Was actually very surprised Hatsune didn't take place 1 on rythm games. But then again, when the competition is a Persona game and the votes are by r/Vita, what do you expect.
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u/Executioner_Miralda Mar 06 '18
Interesting thread by the way, and as good a time as any to remind people that both Soul Sacrifice Delta and Demon Gaze are excellent games
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 06 '18
You would know how many times I read Soul Sacrifice Delta in my head. It's stuck by now.
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u/ar4757 I8AllDaBadgerz Mar 07 '18
Even as a huge Persona and SMT fan, P4D is crap compared to the Project Diva games. Gameplay wise it can’t compete, and (totally subjective) I found the remixes disappointing
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u/DavidSpadeAMA Mar 07 '18 edited Mar 07 '18
I voted “anything but Nuclear Throne”.
Fuck you Rami Ismael and your broken, shitty port that is still being sold.
Edit: it’s a great port if you can’t get past the first 5 minutes, but the frame rate drops off instantly and permanently at level 3.
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u/bad_buoys Mar 07 '18
Along those same lines, last I checked Luftrausers' glitched trophies still aren't unglitched.
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u/talkingwires talkingwires Mar 07 '18
Reminds me of the time Dragon Fin Soup was rushed out the door in a broken, unplayable state to be featured on PS Plus. Then the devs threw the studio that ported it under the bus before admitting they couldn't fix it themselves. Still cashed that check from Sony, though.
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u/kirillre4 Mar 07 '18
"Best dungeon RPG - P4G". It's not even DRPG. And dungeons are, aside from design direction and theme, are plain terrible - soulless procedurally generated afterthought to otherwise great game. The only thing that makes them better than P3 is that there's not a 250 of them
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u/bssmarksss Mar 07 '18
I dunno man, turn based RPGs have dungeons and P4G is bigger than Jesus and better than sex.
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u/ryuisu4 Mar 06 '18
Thank you for all the energy you put in! Was worth the wait, and a very well deserved r & r for you!
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u/zaiueo Mar 07 '18
I am shocked and appalled by the complete absence of Muramasa Rebirth.
(And for the record Gravity Rush is the real best game on the Vita.)
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 07 '18
Muramasa Rebirth did come up several times in some categories, but never enough to get in the top 3 or be mentioned in the notes.
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u/Reset_Tears Reset_Tears Mar 06 '18
No Oreshika at all... :(
But cool to see Virtua Tennis 4 a winner, and Puyo Puyo Tetris make it in the rankings. Lots of great games.
Thanks for putting this together, op
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u/StefGdook Mar 07 '18
Yeah i'm glad Virtua Tennis 4 won that, such a good sports game
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u/bssmarksss Mar 07 '18
I used the camera in dark lighting to create my female VT4 character (I'm a pale adult man.) It's the most hideous creature in a video game outside of a Silent Hill title.
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 06 '18
Actually, Oreshika got several votes in different categories, including the 'your favourite PS Vita game' one. If that makes you any happier. Just never lived up for a mention sadly.
Thanks for putting this together, op
Alright, now I'm blushing... No problem, it was my honour to do so!
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u/Altheon_1994 Mar 07 '18
Huh, thought I'd see Helldivers on the twin stick shooter category. Tell you what though, it's one hell of a game. No pun intended.
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u/bssmarksss Mar 07 '18
I'm 99% sure that's a Plus game so I have it carted, but I never downloaded it because the file + update is enormous even on a 32GB card, and Geometry Wars, Sky Force, Soldner and Stardust more than fill my shooter needs
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u/Altheon_1994 Mar 09 '18
Can't remember if it was a plus game but it did go on sale on ps plus., but 100 percent sure you don't need PS Plus for it to go multiplayer and for cloud saves. Hmm it's 3600 MB. or was it 3800 MB?
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u/talkingwires talkingwires Mar 07 '18
I've been meaning to dive back into the game, are people still playing? Pun intended.
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u/Altheon_1994 Mar 09 '18
Quite plenty, randoms aside, me and my buddies play weekly together, all on vita.
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u/KuroGW2 Mar 07 '18 edited Mar 07 '18
I'm pretty sure that Persona 4 Golden can be a simulation game but not a DRPG (Grid based) lol
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u/bssmarksss Mar 07 '18
P4G got my heart racing so much, it's better than Wipeout. Plus it's puzzling how insistent P4G fanatics praise the game constantly, it should've won best puzzle game. Underrated game for sure
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Mar 07 '18
Jesus Christ. People are shoe-horning P4G in to every god damn genre they can think of, even if it's not that genre at all.
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 07 '18
I kinda expected this to be the case, but what I did not expect was to see Soul Sacrifice Delta get the same treatment. Although, it got quite a lot less votes than Persona 4 Golden most of the time.
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u/bssmarksss Mar 07 '18
What an utter shock to see r/Vita be so obnoxious in its neverending fawning over P4G. An utter shock, I tells ya
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u/Rasputin3000 Mar 07 '18
Thanks for doing this u/Fungoblins. Glad to see that I am among like minded nerds.
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Mar 06 '18
Come on guys, we all know Superbeat Xonic or DJ Max Technika are better than Hatsune lol
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 06 '18
Fun fact: Superbeat Xonic was 4th place with 9% of the Rythm Votes. Superbeat Xonic also got more votes than Hatsune Miku on the 'Your favourite PS Vita game' vote.
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u/Bubbles_the_Titan Mar 06 '18
as someone who found persona 4 boring, i just don't get this.
but that's okay. everyone likes their own games. I voted for danganronpa.
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u/bssmarksss Mar 07 '18
Constantly and insecurely circlejerking about how great Persona is is actually a secret achievement necessary to keep trophies for the game.
If you go more than 3 days without making a big public show of talking about it, you lose your game save and achievements.
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u/timmycbc Mar 06 '18
This is awesome OP, thanks! I find it funny (but not surprising) that P4G won best dungeon RPG. It's a really great game, but the dungeons are so dang bad.
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 06 '18
I thought dungeon travelers 2 would be second place or first. (I assumed second place because of r/Vita's love for Persona 4)
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u/mcolwander90 Mar 07 '18
second is ‘’I have no idea / there is card games?’’ and third is uncharted fight for fortune.
I was probably the only Uncharted vote haha. Fight for Fortune needs a sequel/reboot :(
EDIT: Would've loved to see the vote distribution for a "Best Story" category.
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 07 '18 edited Mar 07 '18
there were several votes for uncharted fight for fortune actually. Just not enough to beat 'I have no idea / there is card games?' lol.
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u/kimpy7 kimpy7 Mar 06 '18
Started having a bit of a renaissance with my Vita. Got it for jrpgs way back when and then had a bit if a ps2 era platformer itch. I'm thinking Visual Novels now though. Steins Gate was my top choice and now I think I'll pull the trigger thanks to this poll.
Note: I got Danganronpa 1+2 for PS4 a while back but couldn't get into it and sold it. Plan on getting it again for Vita, since that makes way more sense.
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 06 '18
Steins;Gate is a very good visual novel. Just a heads up that the most normal complaint is that it's a game with a slow start. However, when it picks up its an experience to be had.
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u/kimpy7 kimpy7 Mar 07 '18
I've seen the anime. Recently wanted to watch it again but Im thinking the VN may be a more fulfilling experience.
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 07 '18
the VN have branching endings and is definitely worth checking out if you liked the anime. Not to mention that steins;gate 0 haven't been released as an anime yet.
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u/DarkWolfen21 Mar 06 '18 edited Mar 06 '18
It looks well done, but just a few things...
Best Shooter Game
Hmm... There should've been a best TPS category, and FPS. I can think of TPSs that are more fun (over Borderlands 2) in their ports, or exclusively on Vita.
Best Simulation
Equilibrium?
Best Survival Game
RE2 is a PS1 classic. What's that doing on the list?! Shouldn't Revelations 2 be here? It should only be actual Vita games, and PSN games! LOL
Other than that, everything looks great! Nice job! It's great to see someone else doing this around here. It gives the sub its own PSVITA Rewards Show like the old G4TV's X-Play, or E3.
In the future, I'll setup:
- best hack 'n' slash
- best third-person shooter
- best tower defense
- best adventure game
I just want to do that, so we can break down other categories more specifically.
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 06 '18
Thanks for the feedback.
I fixed the Resident Evil Revelations 2 miss. When I put them in I made short titles, and that skipped my eye when I were making it more accurate.
There should've been a best TPS category, and FPS
I agree that I should have a bit more specific categories when it came to shooters. Just when I realized that it was kinda too late to fix it up. My apologies.
Next time (whenever that is) I'll be sure to include these categories!
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Mar 07 '18
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u/DarkWolfen21 Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 08 '18
EDIT: I just went through what I remember here. These are just other choices. I wouldn't say CoD or Resistance on Vita beats Killzone Mercenary. However, I do feel EDF is one the best shooters the VITA has! It makes no sense to be ignored here! Also, there's lots of action to be had from the miscellaneous list!
There are plenty of other shooters available. It's just the ones listed were in the majority of what people played. These are just other considerations...
Third-person
- Earth Defense Force 2
- Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable
- Unit 13
- MGS Collection (there is shooting)
- Ratchet and Clank Collection
FPS
- Resistance: Burning Skies
- Call of Duty: B-Ops Declassified
- Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (Technically, most of the game is shooting.)
Miscellaneous
- Söldner-X 2
- Spy Hunter
- Bentley's Hackpack
- Neon Chrome
I feel the EDF games belong somewhere on these lists either for action, or third-person shooting. I spent hundreds of hours on these games, because they are very fun, and addicting! They are extremely full of action moments. Buildings are blowing up, bridges are collapsing, along with explosions everywhere. Hundreds of lasers will be seen shooting out of a mothership, while insects/arachnids are crawling everywhere towards you. The pacing and performance is better than the port of Borderlands 2!
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Mar 08 '18
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u/DarkWolfen21 Mar 08 '18
No problem! :-) I'll even CO-OP with you to farm high level weapons and equipment you can use early on. Also, all of the DLC add-ons in EDF 2 are completely free!
If you want to join up with me and others, just send a message on Reddit with your PSN ID, and time zone. I'll add you for sure and we can pick times when we're on.
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u/ykk211 Mar 07 '18
Revelations 2 isn't really a survival game though. It's an action game.
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u/DarkWolfen21 Mar 07 '18 edited Mar 07 '18
Action game or not, it's still apart of a survival-horror series. It's an action-horror experience. What else can you make of it? RE4 was still horror, even if it was more action-orientated. RE2 is still a PS1 game... Wouldn't it make sense to have actual Vita games? Just saying... (lol) If we can't have Revelations 2 up there, then another game should replace RE2.
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u/ykk211 Mar 07 '18
But the category is not for series. It's for a single game. Revelations is not a survival game. Just because the series was originally a survival horror series doesn't mean it belongs in that category. You wouldn't put mario kart in a platformer category because mario started out as a platformer.
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u/DarkWolfen21 Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 08 '18
If we can't have Revelations 2 up there, then another game should replace RE2.
Classics don't count, because they're not officially the Vita's games, but emulated. Also, the Resident Evil Revelations 2 story mode still plays like a Resident Evil slow horror game. I don't see the issue people have with later games in the series. It's hilarious! So when a game adds more action, it no longer shows horror elements?! LOL You're still looking for resources and trying to live, so you can see the end! You're also killing creatures before they can kill you! Ha-ha-ha-ha!
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u/LJankes13 LJankes13 Mar 06 '18
Was kinda hoping to see salt and sanctuary somewhere even at third or so, for any category not necessarily best.
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u/melvinlee88 MelvinLee88 Mar 07 '18
Virtua Tennis 4 was great and all but I feel like the WT mode was way too short. It wasn't endless like VT 3. Everybody's Golf has like a challenges mode which was longer ( by being tougher to beat I guess) and equally as fun. Man, if we had more sports games, FIFA really didn't deserve to be in the top 3.
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u/Levobertus Mar 07 '18
All hatsune miku games collected in a total percentage is still only 18%
I knew the consensus was that F2nd is the best but it still surprises me.
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u/indiebandnooneknows Mar 07 '18
Is Marvel vs Capcom still sold or has it been discontinued for whatever reason?
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u/bssmarksss Mar 07 '18
Pulled from PSN but you can find used physical copies pretty easily. Usually for 30+ bucks, it's somewhat rare. You can't download DLC anymore for any version though, which is fine because why the hell does an "Ultimate" version of a game have so much dang DLC anyway
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u/xrayhearing xrayhearing Mar 07 '18
How many people voted in total?
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u/talkingwires talkingwires Mar 07 '18
100%.
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u/xrayhearing xrayhearing Mar 07 '18
What's the total number of people who participated in the poll?
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl Mar 07 '18
300, so it's totally possible to make a bigger poll. I think 1 mistake I did with this is that I didn't advertise it that much, but that comes down to me not wanting to be spammy you know.
Either way, 300 is still a great sample size towards what r/Vita likes.
edit: to clarify, not exactly 300, but about there.
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u/WhiteKnightC Mar 07 '18
NFS MW Vita is like the real one? The PSP ver. is weird.
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u/timmycbc Mar 08 '18
You talking about Most Wanted on PS2/NGC? Naw, it's a new one.
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u/WhiteKnightC Mar 08 '18
PC one (PS2 maybe). Oh it's the newer version :(
The version I talk has "Get Low" with the cool BMW.
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u/timmycbc Mar 08 '18
That was Need for Speed Underground! Sick game
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u/WhiteKnightC Mar 08 '18
No! It was Most Wanted and the BMW.
The 2005 release I never played the newer one, but is hard to beat the 2005 was so much fun.
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u/timmycbc Mar 09 '18
Broooo, there's no way. Get Low was the opening track for Underground 1. Somebody in the comments said the same thing.
Here's a tracklist: http://nfssoundtrack.com/ug/
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u/WhiteKnightC Mar 09 '18
Damn I was pretty sure, well still the cool BMW was on MW.
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u/timmycbc Mar 09 '18
Definitely. And those damn coppers key it right in front of you, then somebody steals it :'(
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u/WhiteKnightC Mar 09 '18
Even with the cheesy acting that drove me mad >:( It was really satisfactory to beat Razor.
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u/Flyron-Fist May 04 '18
What's up with resident evil 2 on this list? Was there a vita version that I'm not aware of?
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u/FunGoblins Darkforce_carl May 04 '18
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u/Flyron-Fist May 04 '18
Oh revelations 2! Gotcha gotcha. I thought I missed a remaster or something.
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u/Its_Persona_4 Mar 06 '18