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    Christian, I completely agree with calling Traveller'sTale Games lazy over the Vita port of the 3DS version. I was looking forward to playing this game on the Vita after seeing so much praise for the console versions, luckily I waited until I saw reviews and heard about it on podcasts. One of these other podcasts had mentioned that if we wanted the developers to know that this laziness was unacceptable, contact them on twitter about it, so I did. I tweeted at Jon Burton (@JonTt) and man, was he a dick. I tried to be as polite as one could be telling him they lost a sale and asking why we got a 3DS port when the Vita is obviously capable of handling experiences found on PS3. He asks what PS3 ports I'd buy on Vita then gets all upset when MGSHD is one of them because they're all PS2 ports, God forbid they put out a 3DS one. He tells me that the open world was the issue and my response was then how does the Wii version have an open world, since this thing is obviously much more powerful than the Wii. His explanation: the Vita CPU is half as powerful as the Wii's and it took months of specialized programming to get the open world to work on the Wii and when they tried it on Vita, it only ran at 10FPS. I called bullshit on it by asking "So, I'm to understand that a quad core processor clocking in at 800mhz-2ghz is half as powerful as a single core 729mhz one?" No direct response to that. The conversation ended with him saying "Oh, I'm sorry, looks like LB2 Vita is the number 1 game in the UK" and after I congratulated him on that and said I wasn't interested in adding to the Vita sales numbers, he asks me why I can't just buy the PS3 version and remote play it. Like I'd want to go through hoops to play a goddamn Lego game. This was gonna be the first Lego game I had bought, but the hell if I'll give this defensive ass' company any money.
    Jul 14, 2012 6:40am PDT
    Christian, I completely agree with calling Traveller'sTale Games lazy over the Vita port of the 3DS versi... : jonyblayze