Five games you should play on PSP before its lifecycle ends

IDG writes: Today marks the fifth year of the PlayStation Portable's lifecycle and we've got a list of five games you should get around to playing before the console dies off in the next generation of handheld. A birthday is as good an excuse to game as any, right?

[NateNater]

Patapon 1 or 2. Everyone should try out either one or both. They're some of the best PSP games out there.

[Chubear]

The PSP just has too many awesome games in just too many genres. That's just how Sony rolls

[HolyOrangeCows]

"#2 -- Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters"
"#5 -- Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron"

WHAT?! THESE made the cut but not Chains of Olympus?

[ZombieAutopsy]

List needs to be a bit longer. GoWCOO is a great game along with LittleBigPlanet and Final Fantasy Disidia.

[RealityCheck]

I would add Jeanne d'Arc to that list and as stated above, GoW:CoO. I also thought that Daxter was better than Ratchet on the PSP.

[crck]

Jeanne D'Arc is the best game I've played on the PSP. It's really a shame it didn't sell well enough for Sony or Level 5 to ever make a sequel.

[GuruStarr78]

@realitycheck:

I agree, Daxter was a great game (it's only 2.99 at gamestop right now also!), secret agent clank wasn't too bad either.

[drdre74]

YO! How they leave off God of War? The best damn game on the PSP and Syphon Filter games.

[CadDad]

Crush, IQ, LocoRoco, GOW, and FF Tactics TWOTL would probably be closer to my list.

Crush is my favorite PSP game. :)

-CadDad

[GodGinrai]

I still want a psp. dont know why i aint bought one yet but i should do...

[Dnied]

6. God of war Chains of Olympus
7. Killzone: Liberation

[Reigen]

as a psp owner i must say that that was the absolute worst top 5 psp games list iwe ewer seen
i bet my acount activation that the list was made of the best selling psp games
1st, with sony garanteing a 10+ life span for all of their sistems, the psps lifecycle isnt anywere near its end
2nd, the list shold look something like this:
1. god of war: CoO
2. patapon 2
3. final fantasy: crisis core
4. resistance retrobution
5. motorstorm arctic edge

[lightningsax]

Interesting list. I like that Rudden added that Glasser was QA for one of the games - it's better than someone digging that up later.

Mine:

1. Ridge Racer
2. Crisis Core
3. Patapon 2
4. Dissidia
5. Hammerin' Hero

I love the PSP GOW, both Lumines titles, Half-Minute Hero, Gitaroo Man Lives (even though the PS2 version is better), and Space Invaders Extreme, but if it's down to five, those are mine!

[FragGen]

Sounded like they were trying to pick some "diamond in the rough" kind of titles rather than the big megasellers. Sort of like, hey, if the PSP has a successor soon, make sure you play these guys before leaving the original; i.e. there's an implicit assumption most long time PSP owners have played GOW, GTA, Crisis Core, etc.

The PSP has such a big selection of great titles that trying to limit yourself to a list of five "best" titles wouldn't make sense.

[harrisk954]

The author left off what is arguably the best game on the PSP: God of War: Chains of Olympus.

[5tgyw3ty34]

Pfffft lifecycle. There is a reason why good games are good and they will be still good in ten friggin years, or they havent been good in the first place.

[squeeb]

Metal Slug Anthology. Pure WIN.