recommend me some PSP games?

[Kyo]

Yep thats why I used the sticky to necro this one.

[Atreides]

brave story is pretty awesome tbh

[Kyo]

Ill check it out for sure.

[Kyo]

Someone told me Jean D Arc was good as well, opinions?

[Atreides]

that's an SRPG which you said you didn't want D:

[Kyo]

Then I wont be playing it!

[Kyo]

Also will someone please explain Dissida to me, I read some of the thread and tried to understand what it was, but that didnt go too well.

[Insanecyclone]

New Lunar psp game on feburary 2nd. It's a remake of a remake of a remake of the psx version.

[Atreides]

oo and crimson gem saga

[Qalbert]

^fucking yes
CGS was fun and had some great references/one-liners
review I wrote of it a while back

Spoiler: show

Crimson Gem Saga is sure to receive mixed reception, as it is very old school, and to some degree cliche for an RPG. In some minds, that is a bad thing, but as far as I am concerned it worked well. The game is highly polished, and well presented, which certainly helps the case for it. Additionally, the majority of the dialogue is brilliant with such lines as ” ‘My parents are looking down on me from above’ ‘Oh, sorry to hear they died’ ‘What?! They’re on an airship’ ‘Oh… gotta run’ ” or pop culture references like (paraphrased slightly) “Scruffy dun want to be a clown any more, when Scruffy gets reincarnated he wants to be something else, maybe a janitor.” Also some of the lines make jokes about cliches in RPGs as evidenced here:
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To further add to the humor, in the next chapter you have to go on a fetch quest to retrieve medicine for a sick innkeeper. The game indulges in cliche, yet acknowledges and jokes about using it.

The plot again is somewhat on the cliche side. The main character, Killian von Rochoff has just graduated second in his class, and is disappointed in himself as he always ends up second best at everything. He meets a female treasure hunter and is thrust into an adventure to recover some ancient artifacts. He meets several unique characters along the way, and learns that someone is (GASP!) trying to revive an ancient evil and he must stop it. So yes a bit cliche, but the polish and dialogue really help offset that, and give it a sort of charm, like when two longtime rivals meet, one remarks “I was expecting some sort of epic fight to the death, glad that didn’t happen.” There are a few other twists along the way, but ultimately nothing amazing, just decent.

Gameplay in Crimson Gem Saga hearkens back to older titles, it is a simple turn based affair, albeit with a few tweaks. Characters can do basic attacks, use items, use skills, escape, etc. The tweaks are in the skills. First, each battle earns EXP towards leveling characters, and SP which goes into a common pool, and is used to unlock different skills on the Skill tree. Some of the skills that can be unlocked are combination skills requiring the two or more characters with said skill to have consecutive turns in battle. Most of the skill animations are great, even when seeing them for the umpteenth time. A couple minor issues I had with the gameplay is that first, two characters have an area-of-effect attack, that for some inexplicable, and presumably glitched reason, gives them vast amounts of experience and leaves the rest of the party behind, levelwise. Secondly, there is a dungeon in the game that is not mandatory until chapter four, but can be visited as early as chapter two, and the battles there distribute around four times as much SP as normal ones, which led to most of my skill trees being complete (or as complete as I wanted them) by the midpoint of the game. While certainly not a bad thing, the fact that I could just spam a really powerful attack to get through basic encounters felt a tad broken. Also, there are no random encounters, enemies are visible on the screen, and you can ambush them for extra damage by approaching from behind.

Crimson Gem Saga proves, in my mind, that the old school turn based RPG is far from dead. When presented well, and with charm, as is the case here, it can feel fresh and fun. My only qualm with the game is how short it is. I cannot say for sure, since the clock continues to run when the PSP is in sleep mode (which is a bit irksome), but I would guess I put around 25 hours into it. Let’s hope that if they make a sequel (and the ending is open enough for one) that it is considerably longer. That being said I wholly recommend this game to anyone who is a fan of RPGs, whether you rent it, and marathon through it, or purchase it.

[Meian]

Also will someone please explain Dissida to me, I read some of the thread and tried to understand what it was, but that didnt go too well.

Easier to watch videos of it to get a feel for it then ask questions on it here

[Lebzile]

Also will someone please explain Dissida to me, I read some of the thread and tried to understand what it was, but that didnt go too well.

Easiest way to explain it is imagine SSB with FF characters.

[Atreides]

or you can just download a demo on PSN ;o

[Meian]

Easiest way to explain it is imagine SSB with FF characters.

SSB + DBZ + FF I think is a better way XD

Forgot about the demo but never tried it to comment

[Asuza]

if you like RPGs, my favorite RPG of all time is on PSN. Suikoden is like 5.99 i think and their is rumors of 2 coming out on PSN as well. I would suggest any RPG fan try this game out.

[Gokulo]

New Lunar psp game on feburary 2nd. It's a remake of a remake of a remake of the psx version.

While the game is so cool, it's getting annoying to have to play it once more XD I wish they finally remade the second one.

[Kyo]

if you like RPGs, my favorite RPG of all time is on PSN. Suikoden is like 5.99 i think and their is rumors of 2 coming out on PSN as well. I would suggest any RPG fan try this game out.

Thanks for the suggestion, request was for PSP games, Ive tried Suikoden, 1 and 2, when they released, both were incredibly boring ;/

[Gokulo]

If you didn't play them before:
Persona, Mana Khemia.