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Loco Roco! It's not a well known game, and honestly I wouldn't even say it's a must-play game, but I've got so many good memories with it that it's got that nostalgia factor for me. When I got my Steam Deck, that was one of the first games that I emulated

Monster Hunter was absolutely perfect as a handheld game. Played way too much of it back in the day on my psp during road trips.

Patapon was always my favourite, seems simple but you need to think quickly while having a good sense of rhythm.

I enjoyed games like SOCOM and Monster Hunter, but my favorite memories came from the homebrew scene.

The PSP was the first thing I learned to "hack" as a kid. Installing dark_alex's M33 CFW (I hope I'm remembering that correctly) was just incredibly exhilarating and exciting. It was like unlocking a whole new aspect that didn't exist before and the whole experience was just fucking cool.

I still maintain my original PSP-1000 to this day, and fire it up once in a blue moon just to relive that nostalgia.

Lumines was such a great game. Soundtrack is S-Tier and gorgeous visually.

Patapon stands up too

There was a tactical rpg (think FFT) called Jeanne D'Arc that I enjoyed quite a bit. It was like a fantasy retelling of the story of Joan of Arc but with a bunch of fantasy anime stuff. I'm not even usually a big anime guy but it was a super fun tactics game.

Crisis Core and Dissidia were my absolute favorite PSP games.

Crisis Core had me bawling by the end and the music in it is fantastic. Combat was insanely fun for me.

Dissidia is possibly my most played game of all time. The combat was so fun and was what I dreamed of as a child when thinking of an action Final Fantasy. Loved all the RPG elements and summons you could equip as well as all the unlockable tracks and costumes.

Dissidia Duodecim was even better but I really wish they didn't drop the ball on Dissidia NT. Such a let down.

A lot of great memories on the PSP, have been heavily considering a modded one!

Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition & Death Jr. we're the first two games I had, along with a UMD of Click, lol.

Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles

GTA: Liberty City Stories

Kingdom of Paradise - the PSN re-release some months ago was such a nice surprise

Marvel - Rise of the Imperfects and the first Ultimate Alliance

PaRappa!!!

Rengoku: The Tower of Purgatory

Patapon, LocoRoco, Peace Walker, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, and Ace Combat were some I played of the hell out of during the PSPs heyday,

I did remember trying Killzone Liberation, and it was better than I expected even if it wasnt an fps like the original, but a top down shooter.

• FF7 Crisis core is my favorite game ever. The gameplay, story, voice acting and music are all top notch.

• DEF Jam Fight for NY is another PSP favorite for me. I really liked the combat and customization options for your character. It was just an enormous fun game.

• Daxter was the first PSP game I played and it was also just an really fun and good game.

• Dissidia Final Fantasy is als just a really good game with an amazing combat system.

• The naruto games were really good. I think it was the ultimate ninja heroes games that had this interesting gameplay and also a story mechanic with an floor system that you had to climb and play through.

• Bleach heat the soul series are fun fighting games. I think not all of them were released in the west but I recommend them because the gameplay was super fun.

I'm a late to the party with PSP but I'm a Yu-Gi-Oh fanatic, and Tag Force are my favorite games in the entire franchise of Yu-Gi-Oh video games. I got a PSP for dirt cheap, but also because I wanted to experience my favorite games in its original quality. But, on another note - Ridge Racer PSP and Tekken are also amazing quality games.

My favourite memory is playing Freedom Unite solo, and finally reaching G rank on my own. It's a tough game, and making it that far without being carried was the most satisfying moment in any game for me. When I first started Freedom 2 (the previous version) I struggled to hunt even basic small monsters, and looking back on that journey made the 200+ hour playtime completely worth it for me. I think G rank took another 100 on top of that lol.

I literally bought a second hand PSP for one game and one game only - Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. Played the absolute shit out of that one. It’s actually the only PlayStation console I’ve ever owned.

Daxter

Definitely! My first game that I got with my PSP Value Pack. Played it in summer holidays in the back of a rented camper we drove in our vacation.

I met my best friend through playing Liberty City Stories together every lunch time in high school while sitting on a window sill.

When I was growing up I played the shit out of monster Hunter. I met someone online and we met up to play at a local mall. Their father obviously was skeptical and wanted to make sure I wasn’t a creep, (we were both in early high school) so after he meets me, he decided to shake my hand AS IM SNEEZING. So I cover my mouth and felt awkward because he already had his hand extended so I went to shake it with my sneeze hand.

I have fond memories of Lumines and the Wipeout games.

My wife and i used to play Star Wars Battlefront 2 together. Getting nostalgic, may look up the cost of the on enay. A local ised entertainment shop has retro gaming stuff, and i always check the PSP area, but alas, no new units.

So many good ones.

Patapon Loco Roco Crush Metal Gear Acid Peace Walker Dissidia Monster Hunter

I also replayed my favorite PS1 games: FF7 FF Tactics Castlevania Symphony of the Night Oddworld

I mainly used it to play emulated ps1 titles and a ton of Jrpgs. Star ocean 1 remake and star ocean 2, tales of phantasia, castlevania SOTN, xenigears, the list goes on. Even had a really good snes emulate I was able to sneak on there somehow and was a great portable snes machine.....just like my steam deck is now. How things change yet stay the same.

"ssx on tour" ate a lot of my time as a kid

"Infected" was a neat game with a fantastic heavy metal soundtrack if you're into that

"Power stone collection" is a great port of the Dreamcast games if you never played them

"Coded arms" was somehow a decent fps on the handheld, and was a launch title if I recall correctly.

"Viewtiful joe red hot rumble" is a decent little fighting game spinoff of the original GameCube titles....

Man I wish Capcom would remember viewtiful joe was a thing....

I really enjoyed Dissidia! I wasn't much of a fighting game player but I found the gameplay loop really enjoyable. I loved the mini-game-esque coliseum and story mode as a reprieve from just grinding battles.

Also the secret unlockables 👌

Just this last weekend I spoke with someone about Dissidia, wild how great the PSP was!

I had a modded PSP and I played a shitton of games as well. Especially monster hunter freedom unite and later mh portable third. I think I had to get a patch because at the time it was only in Japanese. I played all the GTA parts, Dexter, crisis core, proba ly thousand other games and I also downloaded a emulator for all kinds of game box games. I had so much fun with this handheld.

Loco Roco, the Dragon Ball games, GTA Vice City Stories, Burnout Dominator, Formula 1, and honestly all the cool demos I downloaded over the years.

Even though I don't like japanese fantasy games, Dissidia final fantasy took over 1000 hours of my life, such an amazing title.

Discovering podcasts. It was my first device with an RSS feed. Nerdblurb. Every so often I think about Edgar and Jose.

Burnout Legends, Dragon Ball Shin Budokai 2 and the GOW games, just to name a few.

This thread goes to show how criminally underrated GTA Chinatown Wars is. It's a blast and playing it definitely belongs to my favorite PSP memories! I'm actually still playing it with PPSSPP on my phone, lol

I've enjoyed a lot of games on my PSP but for some reason I still have fond memories of the MediEvil remaster. It's such a good game and is dripping with atmosphere. The scarecrow fields level used to scare me a lot lol

Lumines! Man that game was so good. I may just have to fire up my psp haha

I loved Dungeon Siege: Throne Of Agony, its not one of the more well known titles but played through it several times.

Oh man. PSP is one of my all-time favorite systems. Top 3 games I remember playing would probably be Rengoku Towers of Purgatory, Pursuit Force and Mega Man Powered Up. Honorable mention to Metal Gear Ac!d.

I really only had one obsession on the PSP:

Work Time Fun. I had bought the PSP just for that when a friend showed it to me.

Final Fantasy: Crisis Core. First Final Fantasy game I ever played. That game was so fun and to this day I remember being blown away by the cutscenes. I played that game so much and never actually managed to finish it since I wasn't too mechanically gifted and forgot about core mechanics. When I found out about the remake/remaster I immediatley bought it for the switch and got to relive those childhood memories and actually finish the game.

The mods! Coming from console it was my first experience modding a game. Worked great with Liberty City Stories.
Plus all the homebrew stuff was pretty good, using your PSP as a tv remote was a fun prank.

Emulating PSX games on it. It was a great emulation machine at that time.

Playing jRPGs. This was where the Trails in the Sky series first came out in English, years before the PC. I loved that game, still do. Spent hours playing this game under the blanket of my bed. Also Persona 3.

I mean…my nostalgia is for the Vita, since all was backwards compatible, but same thing.

I loved Uncharted Golden Abyss, and Tearaway. I heard the latter was ported, but there’s a number of device features they could never replicate.

In no particular order:

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (English patch)

Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinite (English Patch)

Lord of Apocalypse (English patch)

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker

Metal Gear Portable Ops+

Locoroco 1/2

Patapon 1/2

Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions

Motorstorm Arctic Edge