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Message: [QUOTE="Parasite_Steve, post: 7757, member: 5378"] The psp truly had a lot of gems. I still have mine but I've switched to emulation exclusively a while ago because ergonomics-wise I can't stand it. Some of my personal favorites (there's probably more): [B]Daxter[/B]. Feels like a better continuation of Jak & Daxter than the mainline Jak games on ps2. Just very cozy and fun to play and it looks fantastic too. [B]MGS Peace Walker[/B]. What an incredible game, I hold it in higher regard than some of the main MGS titles. I prefer the ps3 version these days because it plays more smoothly, but I appreciate just how ambitious and expansive this game was. [B]Wipeout Pulse[/B]. Every Playstation console needs a good wipeout game. [B]Motorstorm Arctic Edge[/B]. Some people like sim racers, I'm more of a give me ramps and mayhem kinda gal. Just pure fun. [B]Final Fantasy Tactics/Tactics Ogre[/B]. I'd put those on the same pedestal. I never really got into the Disgaea series so these are my psp tactical rpg kings/queens. [B]Gitaroo Man Lives[/B]. Already my favorite underrated PS2 gem so it figures it becomes my favorite underrated psp game too. A very unique and creative title with a great soundtrack. The gameplay to me as a guitarist is the closest approximation to playing guitar I've seen. Hear me out. Whereas guitar hero/rock band emulated the instrument well mechanically it never really [I]felt[/I] like playing guitar to me, oddly enough, gitaroo man is what I see in my head when I try to shred. The [B]god of war[/B] psp games. The second one is just nuts. It's fun on the handheld but play it on the big screen if you can. Borderline the best 128-bit god of war. A timid endorsment of [B]Tenchu: shadow assassins[/B]. I'm a sucker for this franchise as there's to this day nothing quite like it, but there was a series of very odd choices that have been made during the creation of shadow assassins that may hamper your enjoyment. Iirc it was originally a rather gimmicky wii title before it made its way to the psp. The Japan-only ports of Tenchu 3 and Kurenai aren't bad either but the controls suffered greatly in conversion. [B]3rd birthday, dissidia, kingdom hearts, crisis core[/B] as mentioned before. I'm not quite as enamored with crisis core as I am with the other ones but Squeenix were undoubtably masters of the hardware. What they put on the screen borders on black magic at times. [B]Tony Hawk's Underground 2 remix[/B]. Pure distilled joie de vivre. The ps2 and pc versions play much more smoothly due to the larger number of shoulder buttons but having this kind of game on the go back then was mindblowing. [B]Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles[/B]. Polygonal remaster of Rondo of Blood. Spiffy in its own right. Includes the original Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the night as unlockables. [B]Me & My Katamari[/B]. Just lovely. [B]Metal Slug Anthology[/B]. Compilation of the first 6 and a half Metal Slug games. There are now much better ways to play them but back then it was amazing to have the them all portable. [B]Burnout Legends/Dominator[/B]. One of the most fun arcade racing game series period. Favorite fighting game on the system is a tie between [B]Tekken 5[/B] and [B]Blazblue 2[/B]. Soulcalibur broken destiny is fun too and graphically impressive but the lack of any storymode diminished my enjoyment. [/QUOTE]

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