
The process of modding any game is being able to transfer the game save file to a computer program in order to alter or fix any negative bugs or glitches that game developers were unable to correct or missed within the parameters of the game/program or just to make better since modders creativity is not restricted by deadlines and incorrigible co-workers. "But as time moved on, you are seeing PS4 quality and people's expectations for the graphic fidelity has gone up." Essentially, the excellent indies that Sony coaxed to its platforms have to pick up the slack now that the Vita can't seem to leverage its status as a handheld graphics powerhouse.Modding Borderlands is fairly simple, and it can be more fun than playing the game alone, and it's easy to do with a few basic tools and skills!įirst and foremost, Borderlands is technically a mod itself since at the heart of the game is a modded Unreal Engine, so it feels only natural to mod Borderlands. "When we launched the Vita with Uncharted, it was amazing PS3-like quality in your palm," said Yoshida. Yoshida told Polygon at E3 that "It's very fortunate that the indie boom happened and they are providing lots of great content to Vita," adding that graphics are no longer a major "talking point" for the Vita's strengths.

Because, as Shuhei Yoshida recently affirmed, support for the Vita by way of AAA exclusives will only continue to dwindle in the coming months. If not for the swath of indie games and third-party titles filling in the cracks on the Vita's release calendar, the Vita would be in dire straits.

A seemingly surefire hit like the Sony-published Vita adaptation of Gearbox's Borderlands 2 completely missed its mark, feeling like an inferior port that neither Vita owners nor Borderlands fans wanted. Games like Tearaway, Gravity Rush, and Killzone: Mercenary turned out great, yet they seemed to have barely resonated with Vita gamers at release or in the months that followed. Simply put, Sony's investments into first-party support haven't panned out like it probably hoped.
