My wife just surprised me with a new PSP battery after listening to me moan about not having one ever since reading PerfectDark’s most recent PSP article. After messing around with broken USB cables and jumping through hoops to un-spoof my old prome-2 firmware version for too long last night, I finally got ARK4 running and had a blast playing Wipeout Pure.
My favourite PSP game back in the day was probably Monster Hunter Freedom Unite… so many late nights spent playing that with friends in my freezing flat. There was something special about LAN parties with handheld games. I remember putting serious hours into Peace Walker and Dissidia too.
Now I want some game recommendations… tell me which games you loved on the PSP! I might even have a look around for some UMDs!
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There’s a disturbing lack of Phantasy Star Portable 1 & 2 in this thread.
Also want to second Rock Band Unplugged because it has similar gameplay to the ps2 game Amplitude.
I still have my PSP on my desk, on who knows how many battery replacements. I come back for:
- Burnout Legends
- Locoroco
- Lumines & Lumines II
- N+
- Echochrome
- Guilty Gear XX
Nobody mentioned Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep. That’s pretty much kh1/2 off ps2 except on a handheld. Super cool and replayable game.
Since nobody mentioned it. Exit 1&2 are super fun
Loco Roco was nice and I don’t think its been mentioned.
Brave Story is a great RPG that doesn’t overstay it’s welcome and that I’ve enjoyed a lot. The enemy design was what really got me into it at the time, but the fun story and quality of life features kept me going
LocoRoco, Patapon, the God of War priquel and Crisis Core
And also Armored Core Formula Front, it’s such a weird game in the series.
Oh, and Carnage Heart EXA. I’ve never managed to actually get far, but it’s the most unique mecha game there is. You program your mecha from scratch using logic blocks, and you can make it fully autonomous, fully manual (but you have to program each button press), or a combination of two. It takes as many hours to learn as an Armored Core game would take to complete.
I always had a great time with Field Commander. Before my PSP broke it was basically the only game I played.
SW:BF2 was also really nice because the autoaim made it a really nice power fantasy.
Now I want to play it again. Anyone know a good PSP emulator?
Well, there’s no competition. It’s Danganronpa.
Oh and the Parodius collection is also great.
- Fifa Streets
- Sims 2: I really liked the story mode of it where you had to solve different quests to ger your car back
I’m not going to lie even when it was brand new I thought the PSP’s graphics were lame for 3D games and never wanted one. But it might have been the prevalent art style.
There’s a huge gap between the PSP & the PS2 in terms of 3D graphics. For handheld though, the PSP did its best
Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilmaniis a really good rogue like, that actually plays like rouge (the original game), but has a lot of nice gameplay additions, a crazy anime story, permanent upgrades and enough depth to stay interesting
Awesome, I was also going to say Z.H.P. They did end up making a PC port finally which is on Steam which is pretty solid.
- Field Commander
- Gran Turismo
- Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars (the best GTA)
- Hellboy The Science of Evil
- Jackass The Game
- Killzone Liberation
- Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops & Peace Walker
- Midnight Club LA Remix
- Motorstorm Arctic Edge
- Socom Fireteam Bravo 1-3
- Star Wars Battlefront Renegade Squadron
- Twisted Metal Head On
- Untold Legends Brotherhood of the Blade
- Worms Open Warfare 2
- Ys Seven
All the usual suspects are already mentioned, but I have to shout out one of the most unique and addictive strategy games I have ever played, What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord?
That’s a really unique sounding game.
There is a sequel to it as well.
PATA PATA PATA PON!
Play patafour! (I was once a major maintainer! It’s a bit abandoned now but if any souls wanna help it’s ripe for the taking)
FEVERRRRR!!!
I just got a new battery and screen for my Darth Vader PSP2000 just to play this but have been struggling because the audio is so terrible which makes it difficult to hear the beat over the other sound effects. I had to try three different pairs of modern headphones to find one that even worked and yet the audio is still so hard to hear. IIRC the original earbud that came with it was a mono piece (just one ear) so maybe I need to buy an amp or something. Or perhaps its the 30 years of hearing abuse I’ve subjected myself to in the interim that is the culprit.
Could be the perhaps part… or your audio jack is defective - the PSPs audio output is fine. Maybe try some cheap inears or Ports Pros if you can.