It's not difficult to see why the Monster Hunter series has become the leading PSP franchise in Japan. Offering gamers the chance to hook up together on quests to hunt ferocious monsters and search for hidden treasures across an appealing fantasy game world, this action RPG possesses many of same addictive qualities that have made other role playing games, such as the Final Fantasy titles, so popular. High praise has been lauded on the latest game in the series, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, after it became the top selling game in the Land of The Rising Sun last year, besting the likes of Pokémon Platinum and Wii Fit. In the U.S. and Europe, though, Monster Hunter faces a very different type of audience. Will it appeal to the taste of Western players?
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You can play some of them on the Vita via PSN purchasing, but a PSP with a functional UMD drive is the only completely legal way to play games like FF7: Crisis Core.
Some of them, yes. But most PSP games are locked to that system or digitally on Vita. The Vita's second analog stick is amazing for FPS games. I use an emulator to play many PSP games. I know that's illegal, but I wouldn't call it unethical. There's no way to give developers money for these games anymore. Unless you buy their new games. :)
Highly recommend Infected, if you get the chance.
Emulators aren't illegal. Unethical? Maybe. The issue companies have are how you obtained the games. If you got them through legal matters (such as making your own backups of games you own and not distributing them), they're mostly okay with that. If you got the through less..... ethical means, then yeah, it's a no-no in their eyes.
@Magic_Spatula Like he said, there is no legal way to buy most psp games anymore in a way that gives the developers any money. So yes emulators are normally illegal and unethical, but in this case its actually the only way to play some of these games, if you didn't buy the games many years ago.
Yeah they really need to give us a remake of that for PS4/5 I absolutely loved that game. Still the saddest ending to a video game ever.
The fact this has vanilla Dissidia instead of Duodecim tells me not to take the list serious. Duodecim is obviously the superior since it has the same content (story included) from the first game and (much) more
RPad.tv explains the wild popularity of Monster Hunter in Japan by explaining the cultural concept of senpai and kohai. More complex and subtle than Western mentor/protege relationships, the senpai/kohai relationship is a huge part of why Japanese gamers love the Monster Hunter games for PSP.
NOt just monster hunter , everyteam based rpg is affected ( draque 9 , PSuPortable and the list goes on )
Last night on PlayStation Home, Capcom was generous to host a Q&A session to answer many of the burning questions on so many fan's minds and D-GU.com was right there in the mix to bring you the goods on the upcoming Moster Hunters game, Super Street Fighter 4 and much more.
Well sadly I couldn't get this game today, but come 10:30 tomorrow hopefully my paycheck will be ready and I'll be able to get this game as well as put some money down on Dissidia.
UMD is sitting in my drive doing the install now on a fresh 4 Gig stick with my NHF2 save moved over. Then when done will fire up the PS3 and start Ad Hoc Party and go whack some critters.