I totally agree on Phoenix Wright and the Capcom vs Snk card game (and yeah, give us back the free roaming it had on NGPocket). The other games... meh. Can live without 'em.

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You do realise the whole reason why Kirby Canvas Curse's gameplay is so good is because of the touch screen.....

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Mario this, Wario that, Kirby this, Pokemon that, who cares?

I won't buy a Nintendo console because of games like that.

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Meanwhile, some people own both systems and don't have to make these sorts of decisions.

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New Super Mario Bros. is a great game, but it's soooo frikkin' short!

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There's a Phoenix Wright clone coming to PSP (Harvey Birdman, whose potentially far more entertaining)

Field Commander is a similar Advance Wars clone( although I wish the PSP adopted a graphical style that isn't so damn bland).

Hot PXL and WTF have a huge set of minigames. We also have Capcom, Sega, Taito compilations of arcade games.
Seriously though, what's with all the Nintendo franchises? Mario, Kirby? Its the reason I stayed AWAY from the DS! I would *love* to see a Ninja Cop/Ninja 5-0 (GBA) game remade on the PSP, taking advantage of the widescreen and resolution!

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There arent really many . There would be FF and RE , but the PSP have both , and much more of them , so they fall of . Mario ... meh , I rather play Daxter , much batter . Wario , Kirby ... never liked them . There are only 2 DS games that I want , but I can leave without them to : Battles of POP and Metroid Prime FH :)

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Re: "Field Commander is a similar Advance Wars clone"

I *wish* that were true ... I recently replayed some of both and the difference (i.e. how much Field Commander is lacking) is even more striking now than at first play. That is unfortunate, as I had really high hopes for that game! I hope someone else puts out a solid turn-based strategy game in that style.

Another style of game that the DS excels at is 'point & click' adventures like Trace Memory and Hotel Dusk. That style the PSP couldn't do, but stuff like Safe Cracker or Call of Cthulhu it could do nicely.

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here's for me!

*Fire Emblem (all of them)
*Rivera
*FF tactic
*Mario Kart

that's it.

I think Rivera is coming to PSP, so is Tactic, but I would loove to have Fire Emblem tho.

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Well, Fire Emblem has yet to hit DS, but I'm sure it will. That is one place where the upper/lower screen can be used nicely to provide loads of info.

Agreed - Riviera was a fun GBA game, and I can't wait for the PSP version!

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Riviera was a good game, but nothing compared to Fire Emblem...best game ever...at least the first one on the US was, all the other ones became too easy that now it isnt that challenging not even at the hardest difficulty.

And I doubt Nintendo will add something new to FE for the DS, I don't see anything that could be going on the second screen, I rather keep the info on the first screen like always, and the map, blah, I never even looked at the map, lol.

Hopefully they wont screw up....Sacred Stones anyone?

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test. sorry.

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I wish shounen jump super stars was on the psp.

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New Super Mario Bros
If you want to play Nintendo games, you need to buy Nintendo systems.


SNK vs Capcom Cardfighters
Yeah, this one would be cool.


Ace Attorney
Harvey Birdman, maybe?


Kirby
Same as Mario. Might as well say "wow, Halo would be great on the PSP"... sure it would, but it won't happen.


Advance Wars
I disagree.... Field Commander > Advance Wars


WarioWare
You sure do like your Nintendo games, huh?


Meteos
Awesome game, but it wouldn't be very fun without the touch screen.

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Super Mario: A decent rehash with new features, but it's basically the same game we've been playing for many hardware generations. At some point, the retro-cool wears off, like with Mario Kart. I was psyched about MK for about a week, and then I realized I was simply revisiting the same game from 15 years ago. There are no 2D retro platformers to compare on PSP (that aren't emulated), but in reality stuff like Ratchet & Clank and Daxter are the updated platform games.

Advance Wars: It's a solid game, but again, it's missing the mark. The first two GBA titles were fantastic - the DS game felt too much like a GBA port with DS functions as a total afterthought. The graphics didn't look as polished as previous versions, and I found myself avoiding the stylus input and sticking to quicker d-pad use. Yes, Field Commander is inferior - it lacks the story, efficient UI and style of Advance Wars.

Aren't as many minigames on PSP: I wish that were true. I hate minigame compilations (unless they're classic arcade collections).

Trace Memory and Hotel Dusk are NOT good games. They have frustratingly tedious game flow (I cut my teeth on ZORK when I was a kid, so don't tell me I'm impatient) and rely on disruptively complex or difficult puzzles to break up the monotony. Their stories are somewhat engaging as is their quirky sketchy-simplistic manga-esque graphic style, but what creativity and novelty there is (especially the neat open-book configuration of Hotel Dusk) gets buried by spending 10 minutes trying to do a simple task like sticking a key in a lock and turning it, or knocking on and trying to open a couple of doors... Or tapping through endless pages of needlessly rambling, meandering dialogue. Sorry, I really wanted to like Hotel Dusk and Trace Memory but both are just too much of a pain in the ass to play. And again, even though the stylus features prominently in both of these, you can play without it just as well. There are better examples of stylus-only games that the PSP really *couldn't* do, like Kirby Canvas Curse.

"Meanwhile, some people own both systems and don't have to make these sorts of decisions."

Amen to that. Anyone who considers themselves a serious gamer should have both systems.

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Uggg, definately none of those Mario esque kiddy games :S

I can only think of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. That said, theres prolly quite a few Jrpgs that would interest me, but thats about it really.

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@pixelator...

Relive your Zork years

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/

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There are many games I would love to see on the PSP, none of them are on the DS though.

Hydro Thunder (dreamcast)
Farcry (Pc)
Rogue Leader (Gamecube)
Zerogunner 2 (dreamcast)
Tron 2.0 (pc)
Aliens Vs Predator (pc)
Starcraft (pc)

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Just buy both systems. You obviously own both, so play the rest on the DS and the other on the PSP.

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Obviously a 3D legend of Zelda would be nice, even if it were a conversion of one of the N64 titles. A kart racer with the imagination of MarioKart (as opposed to an uninspired copy like that Ape Escape-themed one) and a Metroid game. Whatever one says about Nintendo, it's hard to argue against the quality of their most beloved IP's.

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