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Wipeout 2048 (VITA) Status: Stopped playing - Got Bored I started playing this game on Saturday 25 February, 2012 // I stopped playing this game on: Saturday 25 August, 2012
Current opinion of this game
It's Wipeout. If you've played them before you're getting more of the same.
August 25, 2012 04:50:46 PM
I finished the 2nd campaign and, as I'm starting to recall (deja-vu!), I've reached my point of exhaustion. It's that point in which I don't feel I'll be able to meet the goals (e.g. win a race) OR the point in which I feel that the outcome has started to feel random (e.g. I won, but it was pure luck - I raced as well as I normally do). The deja-vu part comes from this being a recurring experience for me with the Wipeout series. This seems a bit sad. Am I a sucker for these games (I have quite a few in the series) because I buy them and tire of them quite soon? Am I tiring of them more quickly than I used to? At this point I feel like I've been reduced to thinking of them as "Wipeout" games with no other distinguishing remarks. What is better/worse/different between the Vita version and the PS3 versions (or the PSP ones)? I couldn't really say. Are there any important distinctions? Dunno. Oh, it's the progression system significantly different? Maybe? None of those details seem to have stuck in my mind. Sad really...perhaps it's all me though.
August 15, 2012 10:41:12 AM
I've finished the first "campaign" (the 2048 season) and I'm making my way through the next one (2049). It's hard for me to think of anything meaningful to say about the experience so far other than it's Wipeout. You sort of have to know what you're getting into. I also just realized (remembered?) that I played two of the PSP games - which just goes to show how (to me at least), these games are all essentially the same and have become indistinguishable from each other in my mind. That's probably a pretty good indicator as well of my lack of hardcore expertise...because, surely the games aren't all the same!

Wipeout 2048 (VITA)