Crimson Gem Saga is a generic turn based RPG, it has a skill tree system that you learn with ability points earned through battle. Quest system from town, etc. I played it and it was fairly decent, worth a try. My brother beat it and said it was short and got pretty easy near the end. But then again, most RPGs get fairly easy after you grind a bit.
There's
Mana Khemia Student Alliance. RPG with an alchemy synthesis system. I haven't gotten very far with this game, but it seems fun.
Stay away from
Class of Heroes, unless you are a fan of old style labyrinth RPGs like Wizardry. I found this game to be horrid and could not even play past the first random battle.
Disgaea 2 is coming out too.
I wish Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep would come out :(
And if you are a fan of
Shin Megami Tensei it'll be out soon.
I liked
Jeanne D'arc even though I hated the fact that the fights had turn limits. I like playing around during battle too much, and a turn limit really messes with that.
There's
Tales of the World, Radiant Mythology. A decent Tales game.
Valkyrie Profile many people liked it, I found it interesting but the whole thing of the Valkyrie Profile games kinda throws me off. My first one I tried was for the DS, and while an interesting twist, I ended up not caring for it too much.
Brave Story, New Traveler. Generic. My brother played it for a while, it kept him busy. But games like this is why it's good to try before you buy. I hear the PSN has Demos of some games available... I wonder if
Phantasy Star Portable is fun if you have a person you can play multiplayer with. I believe it only utilizes direct PSP to PSP wireless connections, not WiFi, so you can only play locally, not of the internet.
Rykhorne wrote:
Oh, not to derail the thread (but I'm gonna), but maybe someone around here can answer a question. I have a first-gen PSP (model# 1001 specifically). I've been wondering if there's any reason to upgrade to the newer generation? Alternately, is there a reason to stick with the old one? I vaguely remember reading that the older ones were easier to hack for homebrewing purposes...
There is no reason to upgrade. The 2000 and 3000 models have more memory (64MB instead of 32MB, or something like that) but it's only really useful if you are running homebrew stuff on your PSP, and even then not that useful. The 1000 and most of the 2000 models are easier to modify for homebrew purposes. But all of them, 1000, 2000, and 3000, can be modified in varying ways for homebrew.
Edited, Jul 30th 2009 8:45pm by TirithRR