Are These Really The Essential PSP Games?

16 responses to “Are These Really The Essential PSP Games?”

1. 

   Corey Lee

   September 2, 2010 at 10:10 am

   To me, some PSP essentials are;

   Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
   Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
   Metal Gear Acid
   Metal Gear Acid 2
   Dissidia
   Crisis Core
   Valkyria Profile: Lenneth
   Tekken 5: Dark Ressurection + Tekken 6

   I’m sure there are plenty more but that’s all I can think of for now.

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2. 

   Woopstreet

   September 2, 2010 at 10:12 am

   They arrived in stores this week – I saw some at BigW on Tuesday.

   And as is typical for every ‘SCE’ that isn’t ‘J’, the boxes are ugly as sin.

   But their value is unarguable!

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   1. 

      The Gremlin

      September 2, 2010 at 1:52 pm

      That’s no coincidence. All “Greatest Hits” boxes are designed to be ugly on purpose. Though these seem to achieve all new levels of ugliness.

      I think it’s an attempt to preserve the value of the older copies with the nicer artwork for anyone who cares.

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3. 

   Bish

   September 2, 2010 at 10:25 am

   Finally, Petz: My Puppy Family gets the recognition it deserves.

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      Ben2

      September 2, 2010 at 3:42 pm

      !! I know, right? !!

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4. 

   Nathan Cocks

   September 2, 2010 at 10:28 am

   No Lumines or Lumines 2? Baffling.

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5. 

   Stone

   September 2, 2010 at 10:30 am

   This couldn’t be better timing in my case. I’ve for right or wrong recently returned from the dark side of CFW to OFW due to posts such as the value in Mini’s as well as a fundamental disagreement with myself due to the flawed ethics of using a CFW PSP.

   As far as I’m concerned even though I own a PSP-1000 the UMD drive is dead to me and with the 8 Gb stick its digital distribution for me all the way.

   I’ve “demo’ed” a couple of the titles now in the essential range and will likely purchase one or two of them and actually play through them since I’ve invested some hard earned into them rather than look them over for 5 mins and move on to the next “demo”.

   I feel pleased about my decision to move back to OFW before this announcement but it is a nice sweetener.

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6. 

   oggob

   September 2, 2010 at 11:09 am

   Certainly some of the games are worth the price point, but is this a new branding for the platinum range, or does it sit alongside it?

   Even though I wouldn’t be caught dead buying a game that was in either range (original boxart ftw! :D), just really think they should have made the entire platinum range at this new price point.

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7. 

   SemiConscious

   September 2, 2010 at 11:13 am

   where’s Patapon 2?
   the UK list is much bigger/better, seems to be twice the number of essentials as we have….

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8. 

   Chuloopa

   September 2, 2010 at 11:28 am

   Burnout Legends
   Daxter
   Phantasy Star
   Pursuit Force
   Ratchet & Clank
   Secret Agent Clank
   Sega Mega Drive Collection
   Squad Command
   Wipeout Pulse

   Yeah… there’s a few… most of them are schlock though… You know, Sims 2 was the FIRST and only game i ever returned.. it was the load time.. EVERY action sent the UMD whirring and you’d be waiting 5-10 seconds to your sim to actually do something… it was HORRIBLE…

   There are certainly a great many games i would add to the list of what should be essentials… in place of the other pap, though…

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9. 

   Blake

   September 2, 2010 at 11:33 am

   A couple of those are worth picking up for sure!

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10. 

    Michael Barnes

    September 2, 2010 at 11:42 am

    Sonic Riders 2 was TERRIBLE! Even worst than the first!

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11. 

    Ryan Thomas

    September 2, 2010 at 1:00 pm

    i have locoroco as a psp essentials in my hand right now…. :S

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12. 

    Ben2

    September 2, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    As stated, real PSP essentials are;
    MGS Peace Walker
    FFVII Crisis Core
    Petz My Puppy Family.

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13. 

    David Smith

    September 3, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    Comparing this to the PSN store list…

    Ben 10 Alien Force
    Daxter
    EA Sports Fight Night Round 3
    Exit
    FIFA 09
    Generation of Chaos
    Marvel Super Hero Squad
    MX v. ATV Untamed
    Petz: My Baby Hamster
    Petz: My Puppy Family
    Pursuit Force
    Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters
    Sega Mega Drive Collection
    Sega Rally
    Skate Park City
    Sonic Rivals
    Sonic Rivals 2
    SpongeBob SquarePants: Yellow Avenger
    Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max
    Super Monkey Ball Adventures
    Surf’s Up
    Warhammer 40K: Squad Command
    Wipeout Pulse

    Pity, the ones I wanted aren’t on the PSN store as Essentials… yet. Namely Burnout and Shaun White Snowboarding. I know Burnout is on the store, it just hasn’t had the price reduced… still at $30.

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14. 

    Nicolai Parsons

    September 8, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    While my first vote for an essential has to be Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, it’s not everyone’s taste.

    How God of War: Chains of Olympus missed the essentials list is beyond me, though.

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