PSP impressions.

[Locit]

TOPIC POSTING!

Today I had a chance to play the PSP, as a friend/aquaintance/guy at my school with a PSP had brought it. Impressions follow:

The wee analog stick is indeed a bit wonky, and takes some getting used to, but isn't that bad after you get accustomed to it. It has good texture, and doesn't seem to be too protruding.

The controls were all responsive, and there were no problems with the square button.

The umd disk was rather cheap looking, but that may be because of the crappy disc art and white casing.

The screen is despicably slick. It's resolution was high, and and the backlighting quite nice. It was a bit awe inspiring.

The system actually takes a good while to boot up, like a wee computer that runs on magic. Slow magic.

Graphics are (obviously) a step up from the DS. Somewhere inbetween the PSX and the PS2, more on the latter's side. Dynasty Warriors (the only title I played) was pretty damn nice looking, though that may have been the awe talking.

Apparently, DW PSP has some wierd innovations, and one's level starts over upon completion of a character's mosou mode. This fact did not make killing the same guy over and over again in hordes any less fun. The map on the right side of the screen didn't interfere at all, but the everpresent fog of the series is a bit more prevalent. It seemed to be running at about 30 fps, pretty steadily.

Aesthetically, the thing is fucking slick. But you all knew that already.

Battery life is unkown, but I was told it wasn't that bad.

These are my impressions. Hopefully I didn't miss anything, or any post that covered this topic prior to this one.

[Baba O'Reily]

Ah, I'm sure it's wort- *UMD flies*Batteries die*

[Green Gibbon!]

Any dead pixels?

[CE]

Apparently, DW PSP has some wierd innovations, and one's level starts over upon completion of a character's mosou mode.

Am I the only person who notices that "innovation" has absolutely no useful meaning? It really pisses me off to see such an ambiguous word become so popular.

[Dark Crow]

Apparently, DW PSP has some wierd innovations, and one's level starts over upon completion of a character's mosou mode.

Am I the only person who notices that "innovation" has absolutely no useful meaning? It really pisses me off to see such an ambiguous word become so popular.

I think the correct term for useless innovation should be replaced in the dictionary as "gimmick". But in all honesty, the PSP does seem to have a fair number of useful media functions, as well as the ability to play games. Now, if we really wanted an example of a handheld built purely on gimmicks, one needs only look at the Nintendo DS.

[j-man]

Thing is, I don't want an inexcusably expensive console or handheld that can play CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, minidisks, get satellite TV reception, store a terabyte of MP3s, do my laundry and suck my dick and so on. Is it too much to ask to get a console that just plays games real good?

[Baba O'Reily]

Is it too much to ask to get a console that just plays games real good?

You are no longer allowed to give me shit about the English language.

[j-man]

Fuck you, we invented it. I have English-language-raping rights.

[chriscaffee]

Fuck you, we invented it. I have English-language-raping rights.

"We" as in people that died many years ago that you are related to. Well if that's the case, then we Americans invented it as well since the majority of us are of European (English) descent.

[j-man]

Shut up because you like guns a lot.

Actually thinking about it, though, I'd say the language was well-established before your guys left the UK in like the 16th century or whatever, and now you've claimed independance and all then it doesn't really count unless you're really anal about ancestry.

I'm actually something like part Spanish, part Romanian by descent, but I like fish and chips and that's good enough of a reason to get all British and defensive. :)

[chriscaffee]

I think everybody likes fish and chips.

[Knuckles Dawson]

We call em Fish n' Fries in Canada. Right, Pep?

[Double-S-]

Fish sucks.

[Knuckles Dawson]

Well, Salmon's good when you cook it like steak. Same with Tuna.

[Brazillian Cara]

A PSP topic becomes a fish 'n chips discussion...I'm SO adding something like that...

[Segaholic2]

I hate fish.

[Knuckles Dawson]

I'm not particular to seafood, but some things, when cooked right, taste awesome, as in, taste like something other than seafood.

[Neo Yi]

Sushi. 'Nuff said...


Oh, and I don't care if the PSP gets praises or not, I ain't buying it anytime soon. No games that interest me.
~Neo

[chriscaffee]

Sushi doesn't have to have fish or any seafood in it for that matter.

As for seafood, bad seafood is about the worst kind of food there is, but good seafood is better then sex. I can say this because I am told that Pizza Combos are better then sex and homemade New England clam chowder is hella better then Combos.

[Segaholic2]

Oh, and I don't care if the PSP gets praises or not, I ain't buying it anytime soon. No games that interest me.

In opposition to the DS's stellar line-up?

[plasticwingsband]

I heart Fish & Chips.

[One Classy Bloke]

Fish is fairly bleh. Battered Sausages are the wave of the future.

I add Battered Milky Ways to that list as well.

[Green Gibbon!]

I love fish, but it has to be fresh. If it's been frozen even for just a few days, it's ruined. And it should never be fried.

[Knuckles Dawson]

Hey GG!, you still got that "proper way to eat lobster"? analysis you did for some family reunion thing?

[Green Gibbon!]

Did I ever do such a thing? I've never even eaten lobster...