What did you pickup for PSP? (1 Viewer)

[Dave E H]

I finally ordere untold legends. I like RPGs, and I figure it's something I can play for a while, put down, pick back up, etc. without committing to long play periods.

 

[Dave Scarpa]

So far...

Lumines
Twisted Metal
Ridge Racers
Gretsky
Wipeout

I Have coming..

World Tour Soccer
Tiger Woods
MLB 2006

Of those games the only game I've been able to get online has been Gretsky, all other games have some form of errors trying to connect, the online portion of the PSP is definately off to a Rocky Start.

I have a 512 meg Card now I want to get a 1GB as soon as they are available.

 

[Craig S]

Last night I added

Twisted Metal
Ridge Racer
Tiger Woods

The latter two were not available at either Best Buy in my area; luckily, Fry's had a couple RRs and tons of TW left.

I now have pretty much everything from the initial wave of releases I want.

The cool thing about games on the PSP is they seem to have much of the depth of their big console counterparts. Tiger Woods has the full "Game Face" feature which allows you to sculpt your onscreen character with amazing detail. I spent 20 minutes on that before even swinging a club! :b

 

[Ian_Fisher]

I've gotten:

Lumines
Wipeout
Twisted Metal
Darkstalker Chronicles

I've been totally blown away by all of them.

 

[BrionL]

So far I've picked up Untold Legends and Metal Gear Acid. I plan on picking up Rengoku and Revenge of the Sith when they are released.

Brion

 

[Christian Behrens]

I picked up Wipeout Pure (it rocks!) and Lumines, but I also want Ridge Racer, but it's totally sold out! Anyone know when there's a new shipment coming in?

-Christian

 

[RudyN]

I'm going to try to pickup Ridge Racer and Wipeout tomorrow, along with maybe Tiger Woods.

 

[RichardK]

What's the deal with this issue? Are the errors intermittent? Happening to everyone? Are their servers out there to support games or do you have to count on coincedental timing in order to link up with other players? I dont have an internet enabled game yet, but have successfully hit the network update piece from Sony and Wipeout download content screen as well via wi-fi. (BTW both, nothing available)

 

[Eric Samonte]

My son got the Untold Legends and I tried it. If u like Diablo, it could very well eat up ur time.

 

[Christian Behrens]

If you find two Ridge Racers (I highly doubt you'll find one), please buy the second one for me! I'm serious!

Edit: Well, I broke down and bought one off eBay for the same price I would have paid locally in stores. Should be here beginning of next week .

Thanks,

-Christian

 

[TonyTone]

Yeah, what's up with the popularity of Ridge Racers that the PSP copy is hard to find? Me, I had to go all the way to Seattle to buy a copy, and even then I had to go to a Target since the BB I went to was all out of their allotment within 30 minutes.

 

[Derrik Draven]

I'm dying to play Wipeout Pure but, I think the price of the PSP is too high for me to play just one game. None of the others so far do anything for me. Although, I would definitely be interested in picking up a brand new Grand Theft Auto.

From what I've read, it's NOT the same one from the PS2.

I'm going to wait 'till there's more stuff to play. Maybe Sony will ease off that high price tag as well?

 

[RudyN]

Went to 2 different EB's, one was out of both Wipeout and RR, other was out of only RR, so I only picked up Wipeout.

 

[BrionL]

Another game I'm looking forward to is Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. From what I've read it is supposed to be a FPS.

I would also highly recommend Metal Gear Acid if you like strategy games. So far I'm addicted.

Brion

 

[PerryD]

Only picked up Ridge Racer and Ape Escape so far. Probably will get Lumines soon. Ridge Racer is perfect in every way, all the tracks from all the games, graphics and audio are demo material for the PSP, short load times, and great gameplay. I love how you can shut the PSP off at any point in the game and when you power it back on, it starts right where you left off, no loading at all.

I was really looking forward to Ape Escape, but overall it's disappointing. The original games were great because of the great dual stick control scheme, but this version leaves me flat. Plus, the load times are quite long (I'd guess around 15 seconds), and occur quite often during the game.

 

[RichardK]

I picked up Tiger Woods yesterday, waiting for my Lumines to ship, bought it off ebay.

 

[Jeff_Standley]

Well I couldnt hold out any longer. I finally got one today. I saw it sitting in the display case at Wal-Mart and had to grab it. I bought Lumines for it and trying to think of what to get next. I looked for Metal Gear but they didnt have any. Tiger woods and one of the racing games looked good, but I figured $300 was enough for one day. The video quality on the Spiderman UMD was incredible, better than I thought it would have been. Our local Wal-Mart actually had alot of games in stock too. I am fighting the urge to go and get another game tomorrow. I have only gotten to play Lumines for a few minutes but it is alot of fun. I feel like a kid at christmas. I cant wait to go to bed and wake up and play with it. LOL.

 

[David Galindo]

Great to hear Jeff!

I hope you all like your pink PSPs now...the color changed. :frowning:

 

[Brian E]

Are there any strategy games you would say it compares to? Is it turn based or real time? Trying to get a handle on what game play is like exactly.

I've heard some folks bought it thinking it was a shooter (not reading obviously) & were pissed to find out it wasn't.

 

[BrianB]

Metal Gear Acid is turn based. Here's some thoughts I posted elsewhere:

Fundamentally, it's a turn based strategy game using cards to decide
actions, with a heavy emphasis on stealth. It's not as odd or out
there as that sounds - ignoring the cards, it's like a version of XCom
or FFT with only one player controlled character. The levels are like
MGS levels but with a grid overlay. Characters take turns to move &
act.

The big difference is in how you decide whether to move or act, and
what actions to take. Before each mission, you choose a deck of 30
cards from your repetoire, such as various pistols/grenades etc,
health packs, equipment like armour or dodge, special attacks like
Ninja. As you play the mission, you're dealt a random hand of these
cards which you can either use or move with - selecting move throws
the card away effectively. Without a weapon card in your hand, your
only attack option is a simple punch. When you go through all 30
cards, the deck is shuffled & dealt again.

There are overarching rules/costs to using cards obviously, with each
card having a "cost" that modifies turn speed etc. When you've used 4
cards or too much cost, your turn ends & passes onto the next enemy.

So a mission consists of you using cards to move around the MGS-like
map, waiting for your enemies to turn their backs to you for you to
sneak past or kill them. Sometimes you don't have the cards you need -
it's easy to end up with a hand empty of guns for example.

Your performance in each mission is ranked of course, with bonuses
awarded for fulfilling three targets, i.e. "no kills", "fast" &
another I don't know Missions can be repeated. Inside each mission
are bonus cards to pick up that get added to your selection... Points
can be spent on new cards in between missions too.

The story & scenario... Well, the story is classic Metal Gear Solid
hodgepodge hokum so far.

Graphics & sound are very similiar to the PSX Metal Gear Solid
game from what I can remember of it. Controls/interface is nice &
straightforward, and there's a mid mission save option too, which is
very handy for a game of this nature.

So far, I'm really enjoying it. The intro sequence is long & utterly
ignorable, which for me made it hard to get into - there's a good five
minutes before you actually get to do anything - once I got past that,
it really grabbed me.