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Sooner or later I'll need to buy more after I stop listening to music all of the time on it.
Right now I have MediEvil, Sonic Rivals, and Daxter.
What'r some good ones to buy?

Here we go:

MegaMan Maverick Hunter X (Great remake of the original Mega Man X)

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (A sequel to Metal Gear Solid, which goes even further into Big Boss's history)

Lumines (Wonderfully addictive, Half-Tetris, Half-Bejeweled hybrid)

Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (A remake/port/sequel to a Castlevania game never released in America before this. Also has a slightly redone version of Symphony of the Night!)

Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law (While I haven't played this, I can't see any reason why it would be bad)

UFO wrote:Sooner or later I'll need to buy more after I stop listening to music all of the time on it.
Right now I have MediEvil, Sonic Rivals, and Daxter.
What'r some good ones to buy?

Here are the ones I find myself playing ALOT

Star Wars Battlefront - Renegade Squadron - The story mode has soem great moments in it but the refined game engine for the PSP is fantastic. Lots of fun with this one.

Disgeaea Afternoon of Darkness - fantastic strategy RPG with lots of humor thrown in to keep it interesting and it has more stuff in it thatn the original PS2 game

Jeanne D'Arc - Another strategy RPG, this one based VERY loosely on Joan of Arc with soem great fantasy elements thrown in.

You already mentioned Daxter

Syphon Filter Dark Mirror - I was surprised at how well this one works on the PSP. I dont' usualyl go for shooters either.

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops - Sequel to 3 and plays alto mroe like the big brother console versions except it plays more like a bunch of VR missions strung together for the story as you don't have to sneak from one area to another just within the areas you go to.

I've got Silent Hill Origins, but Disgeaea and Star Wars killed that one for em for awhile. lol. It's really well done though.

The one I'm looking forward to at the end of March is Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core. There is a version of Force Unleashed coming to the PSP at the beginning of April but I'm not holding out high hopes for that one.

If you'e into more straight-forward RPGs I woudl recommend Valkyrie Profile Lenneth and Dragoneer's Aria. Monster Hunter Freedom is great if you have someone to partner up with for the tougher monsters. I don't so it's a bit of a grind.

I have a bunch more PSP games but they're not all that good and more something I picked up to fill some gaps in my game types.

Maverick Hunter X is a must. That and Dark Mirror were the only reason I held onto mine for so long. Fighting games do not work well on it though so I say avoid Street Fighter Alpha 3.

TheMuffin wrote:Maverick Hunter X is a must. That and Dark Mirror were the only reason I held onto mine for so long. Fighting games do not work well on it though so I say avoid Street Fighter Alpha 3.

Damn, thanks for that. I was about to get Tekken: Dark Resurrection, because I thought a fighting game would last a bit longer than other games.

Hell, I still have Lumines. That game doesn't get old.

God of War: Chains of Olympus and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII are coming out next month. I might have to save up every last penny I come upon.

Reviews for Crisis Core have, apparently, been fantastic. It's getting consistently high reviews at GameFAQs. That's gotta count for something.

Don't get me wrong the game runs fine. It's just that damned nub of a control stick that kills things. And the control pad isn't any better.

TheMuffin wrote:Don't get me wrong the game runs fine. It's just that damned nub of a control stick that kills things. And the control pad isn't any better.

The nub is kind of a compromise. It's just flat enough that it doesn't stick out too much, while an actual analog stick would stick out too much.

A second nub, though, would have been nice. And if they did it right, they could probably have L2 and R2, maybe even make the nubs buttons. Then porting PS2 and PS1 games would be a lot easier.

Goddamn it, Ken Kutaragi. What were you smoking? This is why you got kicked out of Sony, you arrogant douchebag!

They need to hurry the fudge up with that Landstalker remake, or I'll never have a good enough reason to buy a PSP.

God of War: Chains of Olympus is a great game! One of the best looking I've seen on PSP so far. But that darned analog nub...it's...just awkward to use and ends up cramping my hand up! It'd have been slightly better if it was right where the d-pad\ is.

And the nub is used for controlling Kratos...can't recall what the d-pad does, if anything at all.

Still tho...Great game!

loco Roco is good too :3

Ratchet and Clank Size Matters is cool, even though it pales in comparison to the PS2/3 games, it's still pretty awesome.