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What PSP game to get.... with a twist!
Khavall
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Allright, so here's the story and twist.
I'm going on a long bus ride for a tour with a group I play for starting Friday.
Today I'm going down to best buy to get ready for the day with some PSP games(I don't have a DS). I'm getting Patapon and God of War, but since it's going to be really, really fucking long, I'm thinking I'm going to pick up something else.
However, since I'm already spending $60 on games for a 10-day streak, and I'm picking up Brawl when I get back, and Crisis Core is coming out at the end of the month, I'm really not looking to spend any more than $20 on this other game.
Games I already have:
MGS : PO
Killzone: Liberation
Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow
Daxter
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Beats
Lumines
In general I'm a huge fan of any game with a working cover system, I love me some tactical shooters. Also I'm a fan of the vertical shumps, but I'm not sure how many of those there are on the PSP(Or I'd probably already have them). In general, though, other than strategy games or driving games, I'm up for almost anything. I'm also looking for as long of an experience as I can get, so a really, really, really polished 6-hour game isn't really going to do it for me, unless it has super awesome replayability.
So, summarized, I'm looking for:
Cheap
Long
Not driving/strategy. Preferably Tactical shooter(1st or 3rd) or Shump.
So. Any suggestions?
And when we find this we can have a good budget games thing, since budget games can be awesome.
I'm going on a long bus ride for a tour with a group I play for starting Friday.
Today I'm going down to best buy to get ready for the day with some PSP games(I don't have a DS). I'm getting Patapon and God of War, but since it's going to be really, really fucking long, I'm thinking I'm going to pick up something else.
However, since I'm already spending $60 on games for a 10-day streak, and I'm picking up Brawl when I get back, and Crisis Core is coming out at the end of the month, I'm really not looking to spend any more than $20 on this other game.
Games I already have:
MGS : PO
Killzone: Liberation
Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow
Daxter
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Beats
Lumines
In general I'm a huge fan of any game with a working cover system, I love me some tactical shooters. Also I'm a fan of the vertical shumps, but I'm not sure how many of those there are on the PSP(Or I'd probably already have them). In general, though, other than strategy games or driving games, I'm up for almost anything. I'm also looking for as long of an experience as I can get, so a really, really, really polished 6-hour game isn't really going to do it for me, unless it has super awesome replayability.
So, summarized, I'm looking for:
Cheap
Long
Not driving/strategy. Preferably Tactical shooter(1st or 3rd) or Shump.
So. Any suggestions?
And when we find this we can have a good budget games thing, since budget games can be awesome.
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What about Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror?
It doesn't really meet your criteria, but you should get Dracula X Collection.
Also SOCOM..... There are two with 80+ ratings... ooh.
Oh and yeah, I'm still looking to pick up the Castlevania games and FFT sometime, but since I'm spending a bajillion dollars this month already that's off the table for a while. One of these days...
And yeah, unfortunately the other thing is that I need to be able to find the games at Best Buy, Wal-mart, or Circuit City.
Possibly Gamestop but the one around where I'm going has a terrible library, it's a really small one.
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An interesting puzzle to solve ... do you like PS1-era JRPGs? On the Playstation PC Store you can buy the original Wild Arms for $5.99, which will last you at least 20+ hours, though it's decidedly old-school in both presentation and pacing; you may cut yourself on the battle-graphic jaggies, but the spritework still holds up.
Also, if you're into strategy RPGs I think Jeanne D'Arc is going used for about $25-ish. It's not as complex or multilayered as something like FFT but I liked it enough for the first 6-8 hours, though it's on my backlog now.
For strategy RPGs.... I've not yet found one that really gets me in for a good period of time.
It's weird, I used to be way into RPGs but recently I've been really getting into the faster skill-based games than too much number crunching.
If you can find it, Ultimate Ghouls 'n Ghosts should only run you about $15. Not that long, but tough as nails.
If you're really looking for something to sink a lot of time into, however, why don't you just change around your strategy a little and get either FFT, Disgaea, or Jean D'arc instead of God of War? Or get one of those games, God of War, and nothing else? I haven't played Patapon yet, but it doesn't sound like it's that long of an experience.
*Never mind, just saw your above post. You might want to see if your local Gamestop has a used copy of Gradius Collection. If they do, I think it's only like $12 or something.
Damn so far all this has done is made me go from "Well I'm not really sure" to "Fuck there are like 80 of them that I want to get now"
Excellent suggestions though.
And yeah, God of War.... I really love action games. Love them so much. So very much. I need my GoW fix. Slash slash! Pew Pew magic! Slash! Cut! Grab!
My solution was home brew though. I'm not sure if that's an option for you but it's free and its length is only limited by your memory stick. I ripped and played a copy of Parasite Eve for my trip.
When you get some more money you might want to consider buying an extended battery. One of those babies lasted me the entire 7 hour trip and still had plenty of juice left.
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if you're looking for a shump.
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Again, if you like the God of War gameplay, you'll like Monster Hunter most likely. Lots of slashy slashy.
God of War is awesome, but all of the reviews have said it's between five and a half and six hours long, so it might not be the best option for a super long trip.
Also, the GTA games stream data from the UMD much moreso than any other PSP games, so the battery life drops a bit when you play them.
Have you thought about picking up the Sega Genesis Collection? It hit at $30, but should be down to $20 nowadays. It has a ton of games: platformers, fighting games, and RPGs being the bulk of them. It's an incredible buy if you're a Sega fan, and for the most part the rom loads once and that's it, so the UMD access is low, which means your battery holds out longer.
It's a shame you don't have a modded PSP, there is some awesome homebrew stuff available that could keep you occupied for quite a while. SCUMMVM, DosBox, and Cave Story being three really good examples.
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I picked up Vice City Stories on a whim, even though I'm really not a fan of the main series, and VCS did nothing to change my mind, so its kind of a game that preaches to the choir. If you enjoy the dicking around aspects of GTA then it's right up your alley, though.
And God of War and Monster Hunter are really two very different approaches to action; I found MHP far too limiting and rigid in terms of its fighting mechanics, and you have to be really precise and plan ahead to fight well. In God of War it's much faster and looser, which I prefer.
Yeah, that's true but I can see a liker of one type being a liker of the other without stretching my brainmeats too much.
QFT, Snatcher and Monkey Island on PSP was pretty awesome.
I'm looking for a RPG for my psp. Should I get
Disagea Afternoon of Darkness (I heard its for completionists, which I am not)
Jeanne D' Arc (Have only heard good things about)
Wait for Crisis Core (I really liked FFVII, but its $40)
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
It's all too confusing until I have the time to actually figure it out.
Anyways... lunch time, class, then time to spend a few more hours agonizing at the store.
Loco Roco is kick ass too, get that.
1000x this. I have recently picked this back up and am simply amazed by how incredible it is. It is one part Diablo, one part Quake and one part Animal Crossing and this as you can imagine = awesome.
i'll 1000000x this too. I've logged over 150+ hours now...aiyah. But my hunter is damned seksy. Also Pirates might be good, though play it on hard since that'll make the game go way slower.
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Anyway. I was reasonably impressed with the fancy-shmancy PSP Armored Core we got here in the states. Dunno how available it is, and apparently there is a version in which you cannot directly control you AC (which is weird). AC is a nice timesink because you can just sit there and tweak your mech for a good quarter century - but you have to like that type of game. Not exactly the most forgiving control scheme I've ever seen either. Only got a chance to play it, don't own it yet.
EDIT: the American version allows you to pilot your mech and it's called Armored Core Formula Force: Extreme Battle Edition. horrible.
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Disgaea has an absurd amount of replayability but I think it's still in the $30-ish range. I'd buy it but I still have to actually finish up FFT and Jeanne D'Arc.
We had a PSP thread not too long ago and it was rife with discussion of homebrew and hacking. Not sure which part of the rules you're talking about. He didn't indicate he pirated any of his games.
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Really? I was under the impression even if it was legit backups of stuff you own on retail discs, it was still verboten, and "homebrew," as in software made for free, is kosher, but "homebrew" in the "I'm using the general term to talk about ROMs" sense wasn't. I had PMed a mod about it when I was debating going with a custom firmware last year and was told not to make a thread, although now that I think about it I was looking to make a thread more about the "how-to" of it all.
You need a pandora battery to install CFW. A battery can be "pandora-ized" through softmod (access to the PSP running CFW) or hardmod, which involves cutting the 4th pin after opening the battery. Softmod can be performed and undone through software. Hardmod can be undone with solder if you are comfortable doing so.
Creating the Magic Memory Stick to work with the Pandora battery is incredibly easy now since there are about 4 reliable tools that can do this for you.
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Super Star Soldier is a vertical shmup, and you actually hold the PSP sideways so the screen is oriented vertically. Good luck finding a copy by Friday tho. It was a Jap only release way back.
The important text is in english, and its not hard to figure out the menu. There are a few other Japanese only shmup release collections like Parodius Portable, Twinbee Portable, and Salamander Portable.
yeah I kind of after-the-fact realized that this was a grey area. I've spent a lot of time on a PSP homebrew forum lately and just sort of forgot that the mods around here like to keep things on the safe side (and for totally legit reasons too). I'm pretty sure that you are correct in thinking that talking about homebrew is against the rules, and I'll shut my yap until we get official confirmation otherwise.
I guess I'll find out starting Friday if I made the right choice.
If not, hey I've got GoW and Patapon!
I will of course be coming after some of your families though.