PSP Your favorite PSP games?

[RetroLaw]

They shut down SoR Remake and they're not delisting their older games on online stores.

Wait wuuuuuuut they did ? Gotta look into that

 

[RageBurner]

Perhaps SoR R has every stages from all 3 games so it may have brushed Sega the wrong way that someone could play all games without paying.

You have a good point there, although not all routes cover every stage from all three games. There are mods that go on top of SORR that do recreate the games 1:1, though. Sega just handled this badly, they should have approached the SORR guys and cut a deal to sell it as an actual product, not trying to shut the door on the work that'd been done.

Heck, even the Game Gear/SMS stages have been recreated and that was incredible to see.

 

[spectresfrommercury]

Growlanser is one such game i've gotten into recently.

 

[Inkingsama]

What? No mention of this gem? You guys are missing out.

My cousin gave it to me because he said that it looked like a dumb game, which i thought too at that moment. How mistaken i was. This is a tower defense game, very charming, somewhat relaxing if you don't aim to get a perfect score in each level. The game starts easy enough but later down the line it gets so intense. There is a sequel but my pc isn't good enough to run it

 

[Cu-Neo]

Phantasy Star Portable 2 infinity. Easily one of the longest games on the system and it's really cool that you can use your character from Portable 1. Another one would be Valkyria Chronicles 2 and 3 it could be so nice having them on modern platforms

 

[RageBurner]

Phantasy Star Portable 2 infinity. Easily one of the longest games on the system and it's really cool that you can use your character from Portable 1. Another one would be Valkyria Chronicles 2 and 3 it could be so nice having them on modern platforms

I never understood why they weren't all collected and sold as a set like the Yakuza games tend to be.

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

Growlanser 4 and Trails in the sky are my favorites.

 

[kelbot]

It's tough picking favorites. I'll list some of my favs but I'm probably forgetting some. Also, I have not even come close to playing a significant percentage of the PSP library so I'm sure more will attain favorite status as I play and discover more.

- LittleBigPlanet
- Crash Tag Team Racing
- Gitarro Man Lives!
- Gripshift
- Tokobot
- Daxter
- Loco Roco 1/2
- Lumines
- FlatOut: Head On
- Jeanne D'Arc
- Pangya Fantasy Golf
- Ratchet & Clant: Size Matters & Secret Agent Clank

 

[CureMofurun]

Corpse Party Blood Covered: Repeated Fear is my prime example for a great psychological horror game. It's a great expansion of the old Corpse Party idea, but less Sweat Home and a bit more of it's own thing. I'm not a fan of all the new characters, but a lot of the new content is very good and the voice acting is straight up top tier. It's a shame they gave up on the detailed pixel art enviroment for the series, I really like how this game looks.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Tag Force 6 is one of the games I played the most... ever. I love all the tier 3 characters having more interesting designs with customizable decks. The broken anime only cards are very funny and I have a blast booting this thing from time to time to make some partner AI tornaments to see all my silly fully optmized decks go against each other, even if the winners are usually Tasha, Yusei or Crow. My favorite Tag Force and one of my favorite YGO games for sure.

I'm not really into rhythm games, but vocaloid is just the right thing to make me try one, and I had a lot of fun with Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Extend, I did play all 3 games on the PSP, but Extend ended up being my favorite for all the musics it had and I put way too many hours into that thing.

There are very fell franchises that make me happy quite the same way Queen's Blade do, so you can imagine how it must have felt to learn the franchise actually had a great PSP game called Queen's Blade: Spiral Chaos, it is the perfect balance between fan service and fun. The armor breaking mechanic has enough to it to make playing engaging, but don't really get too annoying and you really can just focus on characters you like to make the most of your playthrough.

 

[Stingy Perry]

Final Fantasy Type 0 it has war and political themes kinda like the suikoden series and I love the game mechanics and battle system.

 

[BlackulaZ64]

it may be dumb, but honestly...crisis core final fantasy vii. I still remember playing the game on the bus ride home, on my hacked psp, playing the game off the iso on the memory stick. I was at the end. I won't spoil (honestly everyone should know what happens to zack but whatever), but if you know, you know.

I remember the weather from that day, I can't listen to this certain song without thinking of the game bc I was listening to it off my ipod while playing zack's last stand (i did listen to the game song when the cutscene hit). it's crazy how things just stick with you.

 

[MemeAlert]

A PSP game that I wish I played when I was young is Ys Seven, literally a better action rpg than Birth by Sleep & Crisis Core.

 

[Karde10_]

I love many titles of the PSP library, but I've lost count of how many times I've played The Bigs 1 & 2 on carreer mode and I always enjoy every second of it.

 

[Rayfox-Ryan]

Here the PSP Games I mostly played

 

[Lukahn]

Both Phantasy Star Portable games, is such a time waster that I can't help but love.

Portable 1 plays straight like PSU with better load times and simplified combat, though lacks the lobby to walk around due to limitation at the time.

Portable 2/Infinity revamps lots of things, giving a lobby to walk around, a room to customize as you see fit and lots of missions, characters, and items to drop. While has worse load times (especially if one uses DLC for Infinity expansion)

Both games has lots to do: grind for level, jobs and equipment while progressing through the story. It's basically a mini offline mmo on your portable device.

 

[SodiePoPz]

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Shoutout to Locoroco 2, a cute little puzzler where you gain/lose mass and tilt the stage itself to move your guys around. One of the simplest games on the console since you're basically just using 2 buttons most of the time, but it's a really creative and fun gameplay loop that landed it a permanent spot on my PSP for years, it really lent itself well to the portable format since you could finish levels pretty fast if you're wanting to kill some time on the road.

I find it interesting that the PSP's most popular genre by far was JRPGs. games that demand long continuous play sessions.

 

[ConanTheDestroyer]

Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max. My favourite street fighter game.

 

[Zeph]

Dissidia 012
Final Fantasy Type-0
Crash Tag Team Racing
Patapon 3
Digimon World Re: Digitize
Harvest Moon : Boy & Girl
Persona 3
Loco Roco
Dragon Ball Z : Shin Budokai 2

 

[AzureArbitrator]

Fate Extra, CCC and Ao no Kiseki

 

[captainshrimple]

Monster Motherfucking Hunter. Grabbed it from the site last week and already clocked in 50 hours.

Pic related perfectly encapsulates the game. I'm being stunned by a trash mob just as I was trying to take an epic victory pic after defeating the most annoying boss in the game.
(Well shucks I can't upload the file but you get the idea. Imagine a rocky desert with a very very very dead 4.5-ton giant tapeworm. Next to it there's an anime girl wearing a combat bikini and pigface mask, being bitchslapped around by a velociraptor)

 

[RebelofDaNeonGod]

I think someone already mentioned them, but Split/Second, Lord of Arcana, Gurumin, and Peace Walker are the games that really sold me on the psp. Currently going through the pc port of Gurumin and I can't believe I forgot how good it was.

 

[Somnia]

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite and Final Fantasy Dissidia Duodecim have to be my picks. As my favorite system of all time I have tons of games I adore, but MHFU had such a chokehold on me in highschool that I took a spare notebook and made a very rough nature journal as I played. I wrote and formatted it as if I was an actual explorer/scientist studying the monsters/areas and recording my findings and it served as a guide where as I discovered where things were, lore bits and how to fight certain monsters I'd update the journal. Wish I still had it but my parents accidentally threw it out while cleaning my room while I was away haha.

Dissidia is just the ultimate dream game. Super unique for an arena fighter with shocking amounts of depth and balance for genre standards along with seemingly endless content and fanservice. You can spend hundreds of hours and not have every achievement unlocked or every character maxed out and it is still unbelievably fun both alone and with friends. Was also one of the first competitive games I ever got into super seriously and I have very fond memories of spending tons of hours perusing the Dissidia Forum (RIP) and jokin around in IRC. Back when you had to hook your PSP up to your wired-in PS3 and use Ad-Hoc Party to play with others online lol.

Some honorable mentions would be Resistance: Retribution, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (hurray for the upcoming remake), Wipeout Pulse, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (my intro to the franchise) and LittleBigPlanet!