Author Topic: EB's ultimate portable gaming 2009 lineup thread (Read 6307 times)

Himu · « **on:** December 30, 2008, 04:46:31 PM »

DS + PSP > ps3, 360, and wii

Giana Sisters ds

Retro Game Challenge

Trackmania ds

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

Dragon Quest V

Rhythm Heaven

Valkyrie Profile Tactics or whatever

Infinite Space

Scribblenauts

Fire Emblem ds

Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?

More:

Suikoden Tierkries
Hammerin' Hero
Flower Sun and Rain
Ys Book of I and II
Pokemon Platinum
Dragon Quest IX
Dragon Quest VI (maybe)
Final Fantasy: Disiddia

What else?

Eric P · « **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2008, 04:52:19 PM »

star ocean 2

littlemathletics · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2008, 04:59:19 PM »

I still can't for the life of me figure out how they're able to release Gianna Sisters. Looks awesome, though.

Himu · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:02:01 PM »

DS' rpg output now is ridiculous. What is coming out next year that's NOT an rpg?

Himu · « **Reply #4 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:03:52 PM »

Predicting retro game challenge will be portable goty

littlemathletics · « **Reply #5 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:08:01 PM »

You just answered your own question $:-\$

Himu · « **Reply #6 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:11:12 PM »

But I mean...no I really didn't. The rpg:non-rpg ratio is ridiculous. I like portable rpgs but shit, what the hell happened to fast paced, pick up and play action? I think ds is severely lacking on that front, which is why I prefer the gba and the psp.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #7 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:28:52 PM »

A lot of those games look like PC shareware junk to be blunt.

Himu · « **Reply #8 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:31:18 PM »

Really?

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #9 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:35:45 PM »

Gianna Sisters looks like a shareware clone. As does Trackmania.

Not saying all are as there looks to be a few good ones in there. My tastes may be different than yours of course.

Himu · « **Reply #10 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:37:34 PM »

I think Gianna Sisters looks good for ds.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #11 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:42:24 PM »

You forgot Phantasy Star Portable for NA PSP. Also, Umihara Kawase is supposedly being tweaked/fixed for it's North American PSP release.

As for the PSP in Japan 2009:

Cho Aniki
Zill O'll Infinite Plus
Tenchu 4
Tales of The World: Radiant Mythology 2
Parasite Eve: Third Birthday
Dynasty Warriors Multi Raid
Gundam: Ghiren no Yabou: Axis no Kyoui V
Brandish
Fist of the North Star: Raoh Gaiden - Ten no Haoh
Idolmaster SP: THREE FUCKING VERSIONS
Kamen no Maid Guy: Boyoyon Battle Royale
Mimana Iyar Chronicle
Soul Eater Battle Resonance

littlemathletics · « **Reply #12 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:46:49 PM »

Quote from: Himuro on December 30, 2008, 05:37:34 PM

I think Gianna Sisters looks good for ds.

Yeah, me too. I don't know if many people out there will even know what it is, but I'll probably buy it.

demi · « **Reply #13 on:** December 30, 2008, 05:54:53 PM »

LOL. Only someone who games on s-video would think this. Sorry, dirty poor thread. I will be playing Star Ocean 4, Skate 2, Resident Evil 5, and more in 1080p crisp visuals.

drew · « **Reply #14 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:03:20 PM »

as will i :fistbummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmp

what is this ds lite pish, nothing looks good on the ds you japafag

tiesto · « **Reply #15 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:09:12 PM »

Graphics Whores

Himu · « **Reply #16 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:18:29 PM »

the only console games i'm really even remotely interested in next year are star ocean 4, bionic commando, street fighter 4, and ff13.

I like the psn/wiiware/xbl game library FAR more than ps3/360 library.

Beezy · « **Reply #17 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:20:56 PM »

Quote from: Himuro on December 30, 2008, 05:02:01 PM

DS' rpg output now is ridiculous. What is coming out next year that's NOT an rpg?

Hopefully more than one of them is actually good original game. DS rpgs are meh.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #18 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:21:54 PM »

3rd Birthday is probably 2010, as is Agito.

Himu · « **Reply #19 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:22:56 PM »

Quote from: Beezy on December 30, 2008, 06:20:56 PM

Quote from: Himuro on December 30, 2008, 05:02:01 PM
DS' rpg output now is ridiculous. What is coming out next year that's NOT an rpg?
Hopefully more than one of them is actually good original game. DS rpgs are meh.

agreed. most of them seem more geared towards people who ONLY play rpgs rather than like, you know, actually really good games I'd want to try out.

Pretty much all the best ds rpgs are PORTS or REMAKES. Etrian aside, I can't think of any ds rpgs that I'd want to play that's currently out on the system and I already have that.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #20 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:29:07 PM »

Shiren may possibly become my favorite RPG of all time. I guess it's a port, but it's a port (with additions) of a game never released outside Japan. World Ends with You and Lunar Knights are also fine games.

Himu · « **Reply #21 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:30:07 PM »

Shiren is fucking amazing. The great thing about the DS is that we're getting tons of unreleased games we didn't get in the past.

cool breeze · « **Reply #22 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:30:20 PM »

No mention of Resistance Retribution? it already looks better than Resistance 2 (what a feat that was!)

also, Pixel Junk Monsters on PSP

Quote from: Himuro on December 30, 2008, 05:03:52 PM

Predicting retro game challenge will be portable goty

I have the import and it's not. It's a bunch of so-so games that seem like they were made in the nes era. That isn't exactly a bad thing, just don't expect these to be good games. Like, if these games were released on the nes way back when, no one would have remembered them at all. Well, maybe the Ninja Gaiden-ish one, but not the rest. The sequel looks better and I'll probably import that.

Himu · « **Reply #23 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:31:27 PM »

Quote from: swaggaz on December 30, 2008, 06:30:20 PM

I have the import and it's not. It's a bunch of so-so games that seem like they were made in the nes era. That isn't exactly a bad thing, just don't expect these to be good games. Like, if these games were released on the nes way back when, no one would have remembered them at all. Well, maybe the Ninja Gaiden-ish one, but not the rest. The sequel looks better and I'll probably import that.

nooooooo :'(

y2kev · « **Reply #24 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:31:40 PM »

You really think 3rd birthday is 2010? I could see that for fiscal year reasoning, but wow. Then again, Square's PSP titles have all had really healthy, long dev cycles. But the death of the PSP in general has to be pushing up against them on the back end.

cool breeze · « **Reply #25 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:32:50 PM »

speaking of Square games, why not put Kingdom Hearts DS or PSP up there? PSP game looks great

Himu · « **Reply #26 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:43:15 PM »

Are those 2009?

Swaggaz you import ds games right? What's good and worth importing? I've got band bros., oeundan, and culdcept ds on the list.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #27 on:** December 30, 2008, 06:58:29 PM »

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You really think 3rd birthday is 2010? I could see that for fiscal year reasoning, but wow. Then again, Square's PSP titles have all had really healthy, long dev cycles. But the death of the PSP in general has to be pushing up against them on the back end.

Developer interviews give the impression it's still sort of on the back burner while they concentrate on other stuff like FF13 and Agito, and Agito is almost definitely 2010. Then again, 3B is externally co-developed and probably a smaller project, so who knows. How big is Hexa Drive, and are they working on anything else at the moment?

cool breeze · « **Reply #28 on:** December 30, 2008, 07:00:16 PM »

Quote from: Himuro on December 30, 2008, 06:43:15 PM

Are those 2009?

Swaggaz you import ds games right? What's good and worth importing? I've got band bros., oeundan, and culdcept ds on the list.

most of the games I've imported already came to the states (Bleach fighting games, Bangai-o, now game center cx) and I wind up getting doubles. Off the top of my head, the games that haven't been brought over here are the Jump Stars games (good), Gurren Lagann DS (terrible), Gundam 00 DS (terrible), Chou Soujuu Mecha MG (surprisingly awesome), Prince of Tennis (good; and I think others came out, I'm talking about the first one)

Chou Soujuu Mecha MG is basically a mech game similar to R.A.D on the PS2, except all the controls are on the touch screen. You actually flip switches and turn dials to move parts.

y2kev · « **Reply #29 on:** December 30, 2008, 07:07:34 PM »

Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on December 30, 2008, 06:58:29 PM

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You really think 3rd birthday is 2010? I could see that for fiscal year reasoning, but wow. Then again, Square's PSP titles have all had really healthy, long dev cycles. But the death of the PSP in general has to be pushing up against them on the back end.

Developer interviews give the impression it's still sort of on the back burner while they concentrate on other stuff like FF13 and Agito, and Agito is almost definitely 2010. Then again, 3B is externally co-developed and probably a smaller project, so who knows. How big is Hexa Drive, and are they working on anything else at the moment?

I got the impression Hexadrive was just doing engine coding and programming though, so it might not matter. :\

Enl · « **Reply #30 on:** December 30, 2008, 07:17:45 PM »

The hell?! There's a new Giana Sisters coming to the DS?!?! And it actually looks decent??!! What bizarre earth dimension have I landed in?!?

littlemathletics · « **Reply #31 on:** December 30, 2008, 07:35:06 PM »

Quote from: Enl on December 30, 2008, 07:17:45 PM

The hell?! There's a new Giana Sisters coming to the DS?!?! And it actually looks decent??!! What bizarre earth dimension have I landed in?!?

I know - I couldn't believe it when I saw the press release. I'm not sure if it's new, or just a remake though - trying to get an interview with the devs at the moment.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #32 on:** December 30, 2008, 08:42:50 PM »

Quote from: Kosma on December 30, 2008, 07:32:29 PM

PSP delivers again.

oh man if this ends up being better than Resistance 2

Guybrush Threepwood · « **Reply #33 on:** December 30, 2008, 08:48:21 PM »

PERFECT PROSECUTOR

y2kev · « **Reply #34 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:17:53 PM »

it looks better than r2

cool breeze · « **Reply #35 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:20:26 PM »

Resistance PSP has an actual cover system, so that already makes it better than the 3 hit death of R2

littlemathletics · « **Reply #36 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:35:50 PM »

Quote from: Jinfash on December 30, 2008, 09:02:45 PM

DID YOU JUST SAY GIANA SISTERS?

Yup. No idea whether it's still got the same awesome soundtrack, unfortunately.

demi · « **Reply #37 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:38:58 PM »

Quote from: swaggaz on December 30, 2008, 09:20:26 PM

Resistance PSP has an actual cover system, so that already makes it better than the 3 hit death of R2

It's just a mod of Sony Bend's Syphonfilter games. Expect wonky controls

y2kev · « **Reply #38 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:43:40 PM »

If it's a mod, it's probably a small team. Real team doing SF PS3?

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #39 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:49:30 PM »

I don't really wanna buy anything I see in this topic tbh

siamesedreamer · « **Reply #40 on:** December 30, 2008, 09:54:42 PM »

Mildly interested in DQ IX.

smh at Nintendo not doing a NSMB2 or a new Metroid.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #41 on:** December 30, 2008, 10:06:27 PM »

Nintendo is just being a bunch of lazy fucks now, riding the wave of success.

littlemathletics · « **Reply #42 on:** December 30, 2008, 10:14:36 PM »

Quote from: siamesedreamer on December 30, 2008, 09:54:42 PM

Mildly interested in DQ IX.

smh at Nintendo not doing a NSMB2 or a new Metroid.

I'm sure NSMB2 is coming, but I really don't understand why they haven't done it before now. Can't be that hard to reuse the same engine and do a few different sprites.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #43 on:** December 30, 2008, 10:15:14 PM »

Isn't the first one still selling a million or so each year? See T EXP

littlemathletics · « **Reply #44 on:** December 30, 2008, 10:21:34 PM »

Fair point.

CurseoftheGods · « **Reply #45 on:** December 30, 2008, 10:26:52 PM »

NSMB2 will be on the next DS. The new Nintendo only does one Mario platformer for each system per generation.

littlemathletics · « **Reply #46 on:** December 30, 2008, 10:41:18 PM »

New Nintendo :'(

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #47 on:** December 30, 2008, 10:43:14 PM »

Syphon Filter on PSP was awesome. I never got the second one, is the definitive version on PS2?

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #48 on:** December 30, 2008, 10:52:55 PM »

Logan's Shadow was really fun, but it was very repetitive. The controls were surprisingly competent and the cinematics were very high quality. I am looking forward to Resistance, but I wish that sony would focus more on the handheld specific games (like Jeanne Darc).

Persona on PSP

TVC15 · « **Reply #49 on:** December 30, 2008, 11:00:06 PM »

You may as well throw in Iga's next mediocre Castlevania in the first post. Those chores are more regular than my bowel movements at this point. You could probably just post a few pictures from any of the past 3 iterations since that's about what it will look like.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #50 on:** December 30, 2008, 11:01:14 PM »

wasn't there a port of persona 3 to the psp planned at some point?

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #51 on:** December 30, 2008, 11:03:22 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on December 30, 2008, 10:56:43 PM

Quote from: AdmiralViscen on December 30, 2008, 10:43:14 PM
Syphon Filter on PSP was awesome. I never got the second one, is the definitive version on PS2?

I don't think they've announced a PS2 release yet. Hard to say if they'll bother, based on Dark Mirror's sales.

Logan's Shadow is pretty cool. The story is really interesting, the new swimming stuff is fairly well-handled, and you barely miss the "M" rating. It's definitely just another serving of Dark Mirror, but I loved every minute of it.

In that case I will probably just stick with Dark Mirror. I got up to some annoying part with tons of snipers and put it down a long time ago :/

TVC15 · « **Reply #52 on:** December 30, 2008, 11:06:55 PM »

Persona 3 on PSP would be like my most wanted thing evar. Well, that and a new Dark Cloud PSP game.

y2kev · « **Reply #53 on:** December 30, 2008, 11:27:18 PM »

Persona PSP was rumored a number of times by a number of different sources and even faked on Famitsu night a while back.

shitgavania 9 coming soon!

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #54 on:** December 30, 2008, 11:45:10 PM »

Quote

Yup. No idea whether it's still got the same awesome soundtrack, unfortunately.

a bit of Googling reveals that it will have a rearranged version of the soundtrack, done by the original composer Chris Hulsbeck.

tiesto · « **Reply #55 on:** December 31, 2008, 12:26:31 AM »

The music in that Giana Sisters video is awesome...

and I haven't really been keeping up on VP DS, I didn't know it was an SRPG, that sucks

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #56 on:** December 31, 2008, 12:42:05 AM »

I hope to God that another generic Metroidvania isn't getting released next year.

bobobo this time it'll be different! See those two or three new sprites!?

Guybrush Threepwood · « **Reply #57 on:** December 31, 2008, 01:03:13 AM »

Quote from: littlemathletics on December 30, 2008, 10:41:18 PM

New Nintendo :'(

I'd much rather have N64/GC-era Nintendo than the abomination that exists today. :'(

cool breeze · « **Reply #58 on:** December 31, 2008, 01:15:19 AM »

I don't know about that. I mean, Galaxy was amazing, but I'd bet that was before they realized they can make profit for little to no effort. If they do something in 2009 that proves they're still willing to make good games, then cool.

tiesto · « **Reply #59 on:** December 31, 2008, 02:02:11 AM »

I definitely preferred Galaxy and Twilight Princess over Sunshine and Wind Waker. I'd rather have SNES era Nintendo over everything though. I have a feeling that any 'hardcore' games won't be done by EAD proper, anymore, but rather be farmed out to sub-teams.

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