I'm currently playing Monster Hunter: Freedom (just came out in US today).

Fun game. I didn't like the PS2 version, but this one is more impressive because it's essentially a portable offline MMORPG (and the graphics are superb). I can see putting a lot of hours into this improving my weapons and making kickass armor.

I'm considering Lemmings and Field Commander, too.

Yeah, the graphics are fucking insane. They look like the graphics from an early PS2 game almost.

Gamespot has a new feature discussing the PSP:
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6152212/index.html

It's an embarrassment in my opinion, as most of them have clearly not been following with the latest PSP games. They continue to mention Lumines, Lumines, Lumines, and Burnout Legends gets way too much credit. X-men Legends 2 was just as good a port as Burnout Legends.

Worst for me though, is that there is no mention of what is in my opinion the best PSP game available, Syphon Filter.

Is anyone looking forward to Blade Dancer? It comes out July.

EDIT: The only release I can think of for this month is The Legend of Heroes 2 (psp). Is there anything else interesting? I plan to get Loh2.I've yet to play Tales of Eternia for the psp..

EDIT 2 : I got Y's for the psp. Anyone else? I didn't touch it yet so i want to know what everyone thinks. This is the first time im playing a Y's game.

I have the PS2 version of Y's. It's average to below average. Think old style Zelda game(the 8-Bit NES and SNES game). Although to be honest it reminds me more of Crystalis if you're familiar with that one from the NES. Three upgradable swords, subpar graphics, music that you'll never remember, lots of hack&slash. I hear the PSP version of it has a lot of slow down compared to the PS2 version so be ready for that.

On my end, the next two games I'm planning for the PSP are Gradius Collection and Field Commander. The last game I purchased for my PSP was Generation of Chaos. Think Dragonforce with improvements in some areas and serious deficiencies in others. In specific when you get two armies which have strong defenses against each other battles can take way too long. Also the AI is stupid sometimes and loses battles it should win because of said stupidity(although to be fair Dragonforce did that sometimes too). And completely user unfriendly. The manual is a total mess and if you can't figure out the game on your own(and a lot of the concepts unfortunately aren't explained) you're going to face some problems.

This is probably why i got the game for only 25 bucks. The loadings times are bad. The music (to me ) is great o.o;;... and so far, this main character doesn't talk for shit. Other than that , im kinda enjoying it. I'll just kill time with this when the following games come out.

Legend of Heroes 2
Blade Lancer (or Dancer -- whatever)
Spectral Souls.

Ah there's new firmware and a 7mb downloadable demo of LocoRoco now. LocoRoco is like lemmings but with Japanese kid voice acting and singing...

God damn I hate not having internet. Sorry chato, I would've rpelied sooner...

I've got Blade Dancer pre-ordered and yeah, I am looking forward to it. The art looks cool and it reminds me of Kingdom of Paradise (which I thoroughly enjoyed).

If you haven't played it yet, try playing Field Commander. Fantastic game, more than comparable to Advance Wars (according to the reviewers, at least). Also, my boss said that Astonishia Story looks really good, which I might go check out.

The Ys: Ark of Napishtim for the PS2 doesn't look quite as good as it does on the PSP, but for good reason -- the PS2 Ys uses 3D models, whereas the PSP version goes back to sprites, and they look much better. I really like the Ys game.

Field Commander is "more than comparable" to a game you haven't even played? Uh oh, I'm getting confused. Usually when this occurs, bad things start to happen. Just stabbing in the dark here, but, we wouldn't happen to be biased by any chance, now, would we?

Just curious.

Word.

Word doesn't indirectly answer my question, now, does it?

Okay. So Gamespot gave Field Commander a rating of 8.4, and they gave Advance Wars: Dual Strike a 9.2. IGN gave Advance Wars a 9, and they also gave Field Commander a rating of 8.4.

I could be wrong, but I think both websites are telling me that Advance Wars: Dual Strike is a better game. So how is it "more than comparable" to a game which you 1) haven't played and 2) isn't as highly rated as a game released almost a fucking year ago?Advance Wars: DS?

Okay, that was retarded. You should know that ratings don't make up for your own judgment and enjoyment of a game. But if you compare a game such as Field Commander, released in the US in May of this year, to a game which was released almost a year ago, you're basically defeating the purpose of comparisons. What, do you expect older games just to get better with age? Some do. But you can't blame them if they don't.

No problem.

Aside from Blade Dancer we also have Spectral Souls to look into. Saw a few screens. another must get ..

The Y's game is amazing. I never played the ps2 version but thanks for letting me know about the differences. The psp has weak loading times but the only thing that saves the game is the gameplay and the music is just amazing. Its definately worth the get since its only 25-30 bucks at any store. It's definately a reasonable price so no one can argue with it.


Field Commander -... MAYbe i'll get it. not sure

Kingdom of Paradise ? Its on clearance at my job so i'll probably get it. I thought it sucked cause of the lame cover art lol.

How's Generation of Chaos?

Yeah.. I already know about Tales of Eternia.. Im just looking for a place that sells cheaper.

To be fair to field commander, a lot of sites that gave it lower ratings than Advanced Wars were commenting on it being a blatent Advanced Wars ripoff. I only remember one magazine giving a reason other than that for it's lower score(they said that the AI for Field Commander is pretty poor...that same article also said that Field Commander on the other hand had a better multiplayer setup in general than Advanced Wars). Advanced Wars might be better. Field Commander might be. Or it could just be a matter of personal preference. The problem being that when the reason given for a lower score is "ripoff of another game with a few tweaks" you can't really judge it from the magazine alone.

Double Post:
Think Dragonforce but with some improvements and some areas where it's gotten worse. Biggest problem is the fact that the manual is utterly worthless. It doesn't explain any of the terms in the game and you aren't told much about how the stats interact with each other and if a small boost makes a big difference or which spells are for battle and which are for use on the map. Also you're going to hate when two defense oriented armies go at it. I had a fight like that take almost 30 minutes even with me throwing around spells and special techniques. The AI can be amazingly stupid as well.

Generation of Chaos sucks ass unless you've spent the last 6 months of your life dedicated to playing NIS's strategy titles. No manual, no tutorial, nothing. You're left high and dry when it comes to figuring everything out. Don't buy it.

Ignore Kingdom of Paradise's ungodly bad cover art (its got a reversible cover) and play the game. Graphically, it looks fantastic. The attack animations are smooth and the lighting effects are nice, especially when you're using Chi Arts. The voice acting is also surprisingly solid -- no real VA blunders are present. Some of the voices might get on your nerves, but the characters they're associated with would do the same with the mute button on.

I wish more people would play KoP. It really deserves a sequel, and it's got a fantastic story that would lend itself to another game quite easily.

reversible cover ?

Great..Then i'll cop' the game tomorrow. I swear i was getting ready to draw a picture with that character (only more badass and some detail) and use that as a cover art... o.o;

As long as the gameplay is good then i'll get it. It kinda reminded me of Legend of legaia for some odd reason.

I went and looked up Spectral Souls just to see what it was about. It doesn't come out until October in the US, but more importantly, it's an Idea Factory game.

I.F. is the same company who did Generation of Chaos and ported it to the PSP. So the answer to Spectral Souls is most likely a good, solid, en-oh no. GoC left such a bad impression on me that I came damn near close to banning Idea Factory from my checking account for life.

About Spectral Souls...

I've heard it has HORRIBLE load times between every action.

If they fix the load times for the domestic release, then maybe it'll be a purchase. If not, it's just another wasted PSP RPG.

I'm still very leery of anything brought over by IF. I'll check it out from work and see if it actually is worthy of owning or not. I'll give ya a full report on it if you can wait a week, Jazz. A week after it comes out, that is.

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?...00&source=0613

4GB memory stick for only $39 more than a PSP system itself. :doh: With Sony cracking down on "cracking" the PSP, is there really that much of a market for a simple memory card... that costs $239?

Gotta love paying $150 more for the same storage too, eh? :rolleyes: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820183020

Sony is really going overboard with the price... I'll just get the ritek one then..Hopefuly that one doesn't have any problems..?

Ritek link is compact flash, not duo pro, so it's not PSP compatible. But, it's all flash memory. Why the difference in price?

So, anyone else going to pick up this Undiluted Platinum chip when it's out?

How the hell?!

I just got Metal Gear Acid 2 for PSP, and thinking that the new DevHook would bypass the firmware upgrade I was wrong, it's 2.60. FACK!

Well, I'm going to put it on ISO then, so how do I go about patching it, and playing? With full SolidEye capability?

I really need to find out by tonight, for I am leaving tomrrow on a trip.. :(

I just picked up Field Commander and Metal Gear Solid: Digital Comic, and they're both excellent.

Field Commander is a great TBS game, in some ways better and in some ways worse than the Advance Wars series.

MGS: DC is a kickass retelling of MGS1's story with incredible interactivity (you can zoom in and out of 3-D panels of the comic to find little extras). The music and sound effects keep the story exciting. It's a lot better than just reading the 2 trade paperback volumes (plus it's cheaper), because there's a lot of panning, moving the characters about, flashes, explosions, etc...

MGS: DC came out too?!?! Gah! Robbing me.

So, no one has a clue about my situation? I just got very confused.