@Seppli: I did exactly this just a couple of months back. I bought one of the 1000E models hoping to have it tide me over until the first Vita price drop (or even hardware revision) while I work through some of the amazing RPGs in its back catalogue.
The three games you mentioned are ideal choices for the system, personally I would stick to mainly playing RPGs like those, 3rd person controls like in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker or The 3rd Birthday don't work particularly well in my opinion. Also don't forget that as long as you purchase the games via PSN they will carry over to the Vita were you to eventually pick one up.
As far as other games recommendations go, I would say check out Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness and The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky if you are into JRPGs. Also PSN has a lot of good PS1 originals on it now for cheap. Front Mission 3 and Vagrant Story being particualarly good options.
The 1000E hardware seems perfectly fine so far. Keep in mind it is the only PSP model I have ever used so I cannot really compare it to older versions, but for the price I think it is a solid buy. All you really lose out on is WiFi, which if you were to mainly be playing RPGs will make little difference to you, and stereo speakers. While stereo speakers would be welcome don't forget that you can still get stereo sound by using earphones. So again, not a great loss. Also, I assume you are in Europe as I think that the 1000E was only released here, and if that is the case then it can be hard to find the PSP2000 or 3000 models for anything close to the €100 you will pay for the 1000E. I guess the older models are in high demand now that they are discontinued over here.
For a memory stick I would recommend one of these thingys and a couple of these. Then you have 16GB (about 14GB usable) of memory for a fraction of the price you would pay for one of the incredibly overpriced official memory sticks. I would recommend buying games digitally as much as possible, or at least using disk installs for when you must use UMD, as the UMD drive is incredibly slow and cumbersome, hence you will need a decent amount of memory. Although 2GB would be fine for one or two games if that is all you require.
Hope this helps you out man! All in all, I am delighted with my PSP1000E purchase, a great selection of games which will carry over to my eventual (cheaper and hopefully second generation) Vita purchase.
EDIT: I should mention that save games are only a few hundred kBs for most games, so if you don't want to install then a 2GB stick would be more than enough.
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