Originally Posted by Elixir
y u a haeter? (sic)
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Why did you bring that up? I wasn't flaming the PSP; just stating truths. Anyone who's played Lemmings for SNES can tell you that it wasn't as good as Lemmings 2 for SNES. Why? Because Lemmings doesn't work very well with a gamepad. It works best with a mouse, and Lemmings 2 for SNES used the Mario Paint mouse for control. Be it nub or dpad for PSP, the DS' touchscreen wins by default in the case of Lemmings. End of story.
Also, I wouldn't buy a PSP for portable emulation. I enjoy playing emulated games which most of the time are SNES games with an actual SNES controller displayed on my big 24 inch lcd screen or to the television which is even bigger. Besides, I'd have to go through all that firmware bullshit if I bought a PSP now to do that.
Originally Posted by Elixir
a few actual PSP titles, such as DJMAX, Taiko no Tatsujin Portaboloo, Popolocrois and Breath of Fire III which are worth buying
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Anyway since you've gotten me in the mood now, let's look at your list of AMAZING PSP titles.
DJMAX probably plays better with a keyboard on a computer like you've shown us in your journal than the clusterfuck of scattered face buttons that just doesn't translate well to me for a game of beatmania.
Portable Taiko? You look me in the face and tell me this is more fun without the actual drums.
I'd rather watch both Popolocrois anime series than play the RPGs but I'm interested in it so-so just on recognition factor alone. I'm sure the DS could more than handle the sprite graphics of Popolocrois. Even the N64 and PSX could pull off the fancy battle effects going on in that game so the DS shouldn't have issues there. The problem the DS might have is with music and fmv but that's nothing some well done compression can't fix. That game would probably do better on a console in any case if it weren't that it already has done well on a console.
Breath of Fire III? I never really played Breath of Fire but if you're a fan of the series then I suppose a remake of a PSX game would be good. Meanwhile I think I'll play Children of Mana whenever that makes it over here.
Originally Posted by Elixir
It's still good for emulation, if you're incapable of enjoying emulated games on a Gamepark, xbox or PC.
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If you own a PSP, a large memory stick, and can flash the bios or whatever in order to download and play SNES games on your PSP it's more than likely that you a) own a PC and b) your PC can run SNES games perfectly fine. I've been doing SNES emulation ever since I've had a Pentium II with 80 GB of storage and probably even earlier so don't give me that bullshit. If you can't enjoy it with a keyboard then pluck down 20 bucks for either a
USB gamepad or a
Super SmartJoy (SNES to USB Adapter) and an
SNES controller in the case you're a heathen and don't own one already.
Don't get me wrong. The PSP has enormous potential but so far it's not been used all that much in its game lineup. I only see 4 games for it that might interest me so far. It would take at least 8 must-have PSP exclusive games and a great future lineup AND a price drop to get me to buy a PSP otherwise I'd be wasting my money.
Right now I see the PSP getting bought by three kinds of people.
There are the hip mainstreamers which Sony has hook line and sinker with cool racing games, gang GTA-style games, and various sport titles.
Second are the hardcore Sony fans who are just eating anything they can get which so far I hope is just Lumines, Wipeout, Jak, and maybe GTA and a few others.
And third are the people that I think Sony didn't expect and are eating a large chunk of system purchases. These would be people who use it as a portable media player via the memory stick. The PSP and the video iPod were EVERYWHERE at film festivals like Sundance. They would use them to show people their films, music, or anything else in their portfolios. The PSP is a dream for these guys and I have high respect for the machine in that regard.
Originally Posted by SOLDIER
That's why it's outselling the DS in America, right? Or maybe it's because it's like cheese you can listen to outside.
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I believe the above explains that, but I'm pretty sure the DS is selling better worldwide and if not it still has a much better game lineup than PSP.
Also I have to hand it to Sony's marketing team. They really know how to do a good campaign. The squirrels, baseballs, mice, etc. were a really good move. More of that and less of throwing the PSP around to random people acting like it can actually take that sort of abuse.
Originally Posted by SOLDIER
Nobody said there wouldn't be a DS Lemmings. Not like it's exclusive or anything.
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While this is true, my point still stands that it would be a better move to make it for DS. Reason number one is for gameplay and reason number two is money. It would cost MUCH less to make it for DS and you'd have a better audience to sell it to.
Originally Posted by Kensaki
How the fduck did a thread on the discussion about PS3 get turned into a whinefest over lemmings on PSP and started by a mod even. Nice derailing...
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Whinefest? =/
I was simply being logical. I wouldn't mind Lemmings being on PSP if it were also on DS. Tons of games are being multiplatformed for both systems. It doesn't make sense for Lemmings to not be on DS while being on a system with inferior control for such a game. That's all.
And if you read the last page or so you'd understand how the conversation drifted to Lemmings on PSP. It started with people talking about Linux on PS3 and how adaptable the OS is and then sega.co.jp came in with the following tidbit:
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Actually any console you own is not a legitimate (or very adaptable) gaming system until you can play Doom or Lemmings on it (or hack your way into playing it). Which is why Linux and the PS3 is a match made in heaven.
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Then he later linked to a wiki which showed how many things Lemmings had been on. When I read that I was rather confused as to why it was not on DS while it was on PSP. Some stupid stuff later and here we are. Was that too hard to follow, Kensaki? There's a big difference between transitioning and derailing. So what was that statement about? Were you legitimately confused or were you member moderating? Dear me, I do hope it wasn't the latter.
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