With a lack of additional content and the complete omission of any multiplayer features whatsoever, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror fails to deliver on the same scale as its PSP counterpart. If you haven't played the PSP version, give it a try; otherwise, save your cash.
Pros
* + Updated control scheme improves on original
* + Customizable mission mode adds replay value
* + Decent loading times
Cons
* - No multiplayer mode
* - Poor graphical conversion
* - Sound is sometimes not in sync
Syphon Filter could be one of the games that could make its way to the PlayStation Plus Premium subscription as they were recently rated in Korea.
Just make a new one already. I know they aren't interested. But damn. Syphon Filter was a great franchise.
Unfortunately this is like the Capcom test. Nobody is willing to risk making a game that won’t sell, so they test consumer interest with these re-releases. I’m still salty Onimusha and Darkstalkers didn’t do well enough to get new entries, hell I’m just salty we didn’t get the other Onimusha games…
This is what I get annoyed by is studios that worry about a game selling.
I don't get annoyed by that fear but the fact that these studios could easily ensure the game will have enough demand by crowdfunding it with pre-sales to justify development.
So for example Rare has apparently been worried about making a new Banjo game due to the demand for the genre.
I can almost guarantee that if Rare started a campaign where they needed to get $5 million or even $10 million in sales to complete a campaign they would absolutely smash that goal.
A $60 game x 100,000 copies which I think is a low bar for what a new Banjo could do would be $6 million.
The 100,000 pre sales wouldn't even factor in people who buy it through normal release.
If the campaign fails at least the dev's can then say "Hey we tried and nobody lived up to their end"
True. But Capcom took too long to make me a new Onimusha game.
But I'm glad Sucker Punch filled in the gap and created Ghost of Tsushima. It's Capcom's loss. I know Capcom is making some good money now. But they could be making more. As Duck said, relying on gamers to buy old games for interest is ridiculous. Just make a new one that's good. That will generate interest.
That's the worst. I bloody loved Onimusha, especially the 2-disc games (Onimusha 2 and Dawn of Dreams). Genuinely outstanding games.
Relying on the old games to be bought when most of us have the games already isn't a good idea. Unless they are trying to get new fans.
But the old fans lose out if they can't get new fans to buy them. And I'm not buying them twice because it can be played on a new system. I'll just pull out the old PS1 and PSP to play them.
Here the talk about remake is only about bloodborne the community is too young to even know what syphon filter
It's actually strange that no one at Sony wants to create another Syphon Filter game despite the notoriety of the IP.
Heck, I could even see Naughty dog applying the Uncharted/TLOU formula to the spy genre by making the settings more future techno, changing the dogs to robots, etc. I'm sure they could create a winner.
Let's hope that the release of the series coincides with the announcement of a new game.
Only ever played the first two, which were great. I hope they do remakes and it’s not just the old games we will get.
Jerry from BagoGames says, "Sony hasn't had the best of luck with their handheld devices and some of their biggest franchises died on the PSP, here are those five."
Interesting little thought piece. I feel like Parasite Eve and Syphon Filter could still have legs.
That Ghost n Goblins game for the PSP was the ultimate lesson in pain.
Capcom should make a collection and bring that game back.
Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins was hard as hell, did beat it though... yet I did not, because when finishing the game, it encourage you to play through a second time in order to face off against the real final boss. Never did that... too much pain...
You're a braver soldier than me. There was a part that I just couldnt get past and I gave up im defeat.
They may, we are getting a Disney Afternoon Collection of all their old Disney games, maybe Arthur is next!
Sure it's a little dusty, but there are some pretty amazing games out there for the PSP when you actually have a look. Here's to finding games to celebrate!
best handheld by miles ...Vita was even better as hardware but not even close to its software
Yeah, surprised by this. PSP was awesome, I loved it, much better than Vita for software.
So many great exclusives on the PSP, and better versions of multi-platform games than DS.
I agree completely. PSP was probably the best handheld ever made. While i hardly ever play mine anymore, I continue to play the games using PPSSPP because you can make the games look MUCH better than on that tiny low-res screen.
Bette than the Vita... then you never had the PS Vita... Me on the other hand had the PSP and now the Vita... you are wrong.
Who hates the PSP?? Or is this article just 8 years old?
And Yes, I read the article.
It's over 87 million haters!!!!!
Now that's a lot of PSP haters including me. I hate my PSP 1000 and PSP3000
Wow, he/she must be getting confused with the PS Vita. What a noob.. I have NEVER heard of someone hating on the PSP, it is a very successful Handheld.
I like this quote, first sentence. XD
"Sony’s PSP has been given a bad rap, almost as bad as Nintendo’s Virtual Boy." What determines a bad rap, not sales apparently because PSP beat out GBA and maybe even the 3DS.
Man you are wrong! I had the PSP since 2008 and the hate from Nintendo fanboys (on all gaming sites) was even worse, than towards the Vita now.
And I know, because I´ve been debating with the trolls since then.
We're not talking about hate from the other side, but from people who owned or considered owning. Every console gets hate..
Yeah, I don't ever recall much hate for it beyond some fan boy tripe through the years. It was a generally well received console, and most people that owned it were quite happy with the support it received.
Maybe this article confused the Vita with the PSP.
Lots of people hated on the expensive memory stick pro duo cards that only the PSP and certain Sony cameras utilized. Might have been a couple Samsung devices that supported those cards, too, I'm not sure. Lots of people also hated the UMDs. The caddies that contained the disk sometimes would come apart. The disks were much bigger than a flash memory card and so not super easy to carry around a bunch of them with you. Also, optical drives in general in a portable are not viewed as a great idea because they're bulky and suck up a lot of battery power compared to a solid state device. Strangely, the PSP Go was released to see how a UMD-less PSP would be received and it tanked. Flash memory was still kind of expensive when the PSP launched. By the end of it's run, SD cards were getting cheap and used in more places. MS Pro Duo was all but dead in all devices except the PSP. There was some adapters available to let you run Micro SD in a MS Pro Duo adapter stick and those worked pretty well. I might still have one here somewhere, actually.
Edit: At launch, I bought a 1 GB memory stick and it cost me something like $80.
My classmate hated the UMDs. Its loading time made her hacked the handheld and went full digital(piracy) which was faster.
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Sold mine back in 2007 because I needed the money for a book(college) bought a brand new PSP-3000 a few years ago with 3-yr warranty for $99. I prefer new because I don't have to deal with a mis-used battery and wear-and-tear. So worth it, I still play some PS1 and exclusive games on the thing, I will not wear down my Vita when the PSP is perfectly capable and I think the buttons are more comfortable.
Chill out you plebeians, its a special PSP limited edition at that too! You are buying for the: condition, history, limited edition factor, the fact that you cant get or modify a psp like this too. I should have been more specific but I literally dont use it anymore since Im so busy
Its probably worth more than $150....been lazy but I guess I'll go the ebay route..
