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PSP suitable for MMO Comments by Robert Purchese

4 June, 2007

D&D Tactics boss speaks up.

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dirigiblebill
04/06/07 @ 11:18
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As with any handheld game, a MMO for the psp would have to be playable in fits and starts. I don't wanna spend five hours farming for ore when I could be playing Crush, for feck's sake. Not sure the battery life would hold up, either.

These criticisms aside, ZOMG teh psp MMO is teh schnizzl3!1
Venkman90
04/06/07 @ 11:22
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D&D Tactics is the one game I think will make me regret selling my PSP

Convert it to DS please, you will make bundles :b
dirigiblebill
04/06/07 @ 11:24
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Not sure the DS could crunch the numbers or handle the save file :(
Hughes.
04/06/07 @ 11:29
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TDU works fine as an always on MMO, the only flaw being you get logged out if you go into sleep mode and have to quit the game to log back in. Whether an MMO RPG would work as well depends on the pacing of the game, and whether handheld gamers would be expected to pay a monthly subscription that usually goes with them.

I wouldn't.
Quine
04/06/07 @ 12:10
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I'm oddly excited about D&D Tactics- not sure it would work on the DS, but there's some loose talk of a Disgaea port in the works for it.

The PSP could make a good stripped-down client for a full-on subscription MMO- do some crafting while on the bus, grind a few mobs while the autopatcher finishes on the main machine...
Nobuo
04/06/07 @ 12:33
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Why would you design a non-portable game for the PSP?
bushwod
04/06/07 @ 13:44
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Right, so I wouldn't be able to play this on the train or tube or bus or park (unless your very lucky)...

So...

...pointless then.
manic_mouse
04/06/07 @ 15:45
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"Why would you design a non-portable game for the PSP?"

What is a portable game? One you can play on the go, which means ANY game on the PSP is portable. And with the sleep functionality the length of time needed to play is irrelevant.

I, for one, am really glad the PSP hasn't been inundated with "portable games".
AOFanboi
04/06/07 @ 15:50
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Tactical D&D 3 ed. RPG has already been done in the form of Eye of the Beholder on the GBA, though.

PSP MMO - well, the interface would nbeed to be far less cluttered than the traditional MMOs use - maybe something like the console-oriented MMOs like FF XI or PSO/PSU.
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05/06/07 @ 03:54
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Wouldn't instanced style MMOs work pretty well on a PSP? You'll go off on your own in an instance with friends or even alone and then if you are alone you can play it without being connected. Then when you are leaving the instance you'll have to reconnect to the global servers.
Nobuo
05/06/07 @ 08:53
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"What is a portable game? One you can play on the go, which means ANY game on the PSP is portable."

Except THIS game, which would make you unable to move from a wireless hotspot, for most people meaning their own home.

But like this guy says, it's possible. It just occurs to me that once you've taken the portable out of the PSP the usually lame argument of "it's just a PS2" becomes valid.
dirigiblebill
06/06/07 @ 07:11
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"What is a portable game? One you can play on the go, which means ANY game on the PSP is portable."

Except THIS game, which would make you unable to move from a wireless hotspot, for most people meaning their own home.

They could bundle it with some sort of wi-fi hotspot deal, but that would be pretty cynical.

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