Listening to last weeks Bombcast, the guys spent some time talking about observing PSP's in the wild. The conversation prompted me to go looking for my PSP, mostly because I wanted to see what game/UMD I had last played. I had moved twice since I had last powered up my PSP, so finding it and its AC adapter was no easy task. I finally located my old PSP and, with great excitement, opened the UMD slot. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigalo is what stared back at me from the back to my dusty PSP. This is extremely fitting, I thought to myself as I closed the PSP, placed it back in the box in my closet and shut the door.

Listening to last weeks Bombcast, the guys spent some time talking about observing PSP's in the wild. The conversation prompted me to go looking for my PSP, mostly because I wanted to see what game/UMD I had last played. I had moved twice since I had last powered up my PSP, so finding it and its AC adapter was no easy task. I finally located my old PSP and, with great excitement, opened the UMD slot. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigalo is what stared back at me from the back to my dusty PSP. This is extremely fitting, I thought to myself as I closed the PSP, placed it back in the box in my closet and shut the door.

I just bought Valkyria Chronicles II for mine. You can buy either the full game right now on the Playstation Store for $40, or you can buy the full game and all of the DLC for $22.
 
Such a great game. <3

@N7: If you liked Valkyria Chronicles 2 you should look into importing VC3 since the english version was canceled. I'm playing it now and it's basically the same gameplay with better characters and twice as many maps (most of the VC2 maps plus an equal amount of new maps). I can't tell exactly what's going on but it runs parallel with the events of Valkyria Chronicles 1 so there is some familiarity.

After I finish that I'm thinking of replaying Crisis Core or getting Persona 2. PSP is quite the RPG machine. I think it's a shame some people don't get much use out of their PSPs.

Pretty much every single year since the PSP, I would get an illogical urge to run out and buy one. My DS has and seemingly always will treat me well, but the occasional PSP gem was always far more tempting than they really should have been. I felt better once PSP to PS2 ports began and I imagine I'll be able to play the best PSP games on the Vita via download or the PSN, but I'm not sure on that (don't have a PS3). The only person I know that has a PSP has been using it as an MP3 player for the last year and a half, though. :( What a waste.

@mosespippy: @N7: Hey guys! thanks for reminding me of how disappointed I was in VC2! : (

@N7 said:

@Cloudenvy: Daw :( No spoilers, but how could you have been disappointed with it? From what I see, it's a greatly improved Valkyria Chronicles game.

I just didn't like any of the characters at all, it feels much more generic highschool-y than the previous one to me.

You're right though, gameplay wise it's totally competent.

@Lavapotamus: The only reason I would turn my on again would be to play Final Fantasy Tactics, I always loved having a portable way to play this game. I found the PSP's online to be very disappointing. It is a shame, I really wanted to like my PSP, it just never stuck with me. I ended up just using it to watch UMD's(Which I bought on the cheap) during business flights. It became obsolete when I bought my first laptop.

@N7: Yeah it's pretty long with a lot of great end game content. I fumbled through the Japanese version for about 300 hours and played the English version for 200 hours. I'm on the last chapter of VC3 at about 50 hours in.

@Cloudenvy said:

I just didn't like any of the characters at all, it feels much more generic highschool-y than the previous one to me.

Playing it in Japanese first and only being able to judge the game based on it's mechanics made me like it more than when I played it in English. I had no idea how bad the writing was. My understanding is that the devs heard the complaints and tried to be more like the first game for VC3.