The Gamer's Quarter

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject: The PSP isn't complete garbage

My PSP sat lonely on my nightstand for months until the weekend. Yes, I finally retired it to the inside of my Dresser where all of my unplayed GBA games sit. What the hell is going on with Sony? They've got this amazing piece of hardware and they don't seem to have any interest in making me want to use it. I feel really sorry for the people who traded in their PS2s for PSPs.

But no. This topic is not here to put down the PSP and talk about how worthless it is. It's here to talk about the great games that are going to make me pull my PSP out of my dresser, give it a kiss, make love to it, and cuddle it afterwards. I mean, it's sexy, right?

Here are the games:

My My Katamari
Loco Roco
Exit
Metal Gear Ac!d 2
FukuFuku Island
Talkman
Byte Hell 2000 (Click on the video tape in the lower-left corner. It looks nuts!)
Tenchi no Mon
Rockman Rockman
Street Fighter Zero 3 Upper
Irregular Hunter X
Monster Hunter Portable
Karakuri
Unnamed David Jaffe game that's going to make me cry.

Assuming at least a few of those don't suck, my purchase should pay itself off! Add other games you're interested in and any games you might like to come to the PSP.

-Wes
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject:

you know i'd be happy to take some of those gameboy games off your hands, wes.
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:19 pm Post subject:

so what's wrong with loco roco now? i remember it looking like cameltry, only completely gorgeous.

(also, they seem to be making a cameltry for the ds. hmm!)
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I'm in total denial about my PSP. I haven't retired it, but for god's sake, I never play it.

Of course, I used to play it all the time, when I had a 30 minute train ride every day. But now I'm overwhelmed by the quality of home releases, and simply don't touch the machine.

Where's the KILLER game for the system? Hell, just one good RPG would have me fingerprinting my screen again.
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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

I think the real problem with the PSP is that it's foreshadowing the collapse of the industry.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

even costikyan doesn't think the industry will collapse.
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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

i may have exaggerated. but, still, the PSP represents everything in the industry that would destroy it.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:46 pm Post subject:

i'd point to the seven reiterations of the gameboy first, but that's me.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject:

edits for clarity:

what's going to hurt the industry in the short run is not the creation of devices which appeal to a larger audience than just "gamers" but a saturation of the handheld market. after a while there's only so much room for growth unless other options are offered, regardless of one's like or dislike of said options.

i'm not of a mind to praise nintendo for much, mind you, so the idea of them or sony winning or losing 'the war' means little to me. all of them seem to see the writing on the walls, and know that what's coming is likely to shrink the market down to two competitors, or perhaps only one.

mind you, this ties into some economic issues in regards to what i (and others) see as the coming credit crunch, which will crush certain forms of entertainment in favor of the cheap and easily reproduceable. (pc gaming, namely) it will also destroy a large segment of the entertainment industry in the same way that the internet bust destroyed a large segment of "dotcom" companies.

[the magic word here is yield curve flattening]

on the plus side both events leave us with certain bonuses (incredibly cheap telecom infrastructure and computer cost/power ratios, worldwide adoption of cell phones which don't require nearly the same amount of physical materials to create networks, hence phones in remote parts of africa, etc) a push into flash and other small-form storage options, etc) and the minus sides are pretty obvious, except it's going to be really fucking bad for 3 to 4 years.

device convergence isn't that far off regardless of credit crunching, and we've probably seeing the last of the console releases as we know and understand them.
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:33 am Post subject:

hey, where's every extend extra in this thread?
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atheistium · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:44 am Post subject:

I`ve actually always wanted a psp, but i am certainly not trading my precious ps2 for it!!

I like the fact that its not JUST games, its music and videos too which is something that touch-able-horn-pad can`t do.

So many people bash the PSP and I dont see whats crappy about it accept for the lack of AMAZING games for it. Just needs a while to stable itself I suppose.

ee_emm_ecks · . Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 98 Location: St. Louis

dhex- Is there any good summary of what this credit crunch business is all about? I've heard it mentioned in passing a lot lately.

ApM · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:38 am Post subject:

It's actually fairly affordable (dspassme.com sells a PassMe / GBAMP combo for $40) to mod the DS to play MP3s, videos, and homebrew off of a compact flash card. Just load up Moonshell, and you're off.

I've.. never bothered, though. I mean, I've got an MP3 Discman already.

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dhex · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:58 pm Post subject:

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

I've played Loco Roco, you know. It's... really good. Like Cameltry crossed with Seiklus, maybe. People keep telling me it's a Gish rip-off. I wouldn't know.

I was exchanging emails with its creator for a while. He started calling me "Susan", then stopped relpying.
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Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

I think Loco Roco looks positively lovable. I wish it were on DS, but there you go. I don't want to have any more consoles around the house, even portable ones. Shelf space is limited these days.

Gish had some nice stuff with the different modes the character could go into.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:04 pm Post subject:

i might get a psp and this sometime in the future. mostly for emulation, though i'm curious about that "exit" game (and loco roco and beito hell).
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