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mazz0 · Post by **mazz0** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:01 am

Any chance of Legion being ported to PSP? It would be the perfect thing for long journies. So would Arena, come to think of it...

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:14 am

We would love to do a PSP version. We agree that it would be perfect. Now all we need is for Sony + a publisher to agree

Cheers

Pip

mazz0 · Post by **mazz0** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:11 am

pipfromslitherine wrote:... Now all we need is for Sony + a publisher to agree ...

Is that hard to get?

kiwusek · Post by **kiwusek** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:25 pm

But wouldn't it be hard to control armies on the field quickly with the PSP's controler? Or am I missing something out?

mazz0 · Post by **mazz0** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:09 am

Hmm, well, I suppose you could pause it...

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:27 pm

It is indeed not always a simple task to port a game to a different platform while retaining all the features in the same form. Handheld development often requires that you rethink and reinvent some of the core UI and control elements, as things are somewhat different with a thumbpad and a 4 inch screen

Cheers

Pip

mazz0 · Post by **mazz0** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:32 pm

I don't think it would be a problem with Legion, but obviously Arena would need a few changes...

I find Legion more addictive thought; it's the game that would make me miss my stop on the bus more!

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:30 pm

if you could do it ian

mazz0 · Post by **mazz0** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:39 pm

It would, wouldn't it?

But then, perhaps we shouldn't distract them away from L2?

I'm playing Lemmings on PSP at the moment. Well, I say playing, I mean making levels for. That's a great feature!

Anyway, perhaps they could outsource the PSP porting? I shoudln't think it would be that difficult. But then, what do I know?!

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:37 am

Outsourcing can be a positive thing and a negative thing. Would you like your game/idea destroyed by someone who never saw it the way you did?

Some out-sourced games are good, but the majority of them are plain knock-offs.

mazz0 · Post by **mazz0** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:18 am

They couldn't do much harm if just making a straight port

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:17 pm

pipfromslitherine wrote:It is indeed not always a simple task to port a game to a different platform while retaining all the features in the same form. Handheld development often requires that you rethink and reinvent some of the core UI and control elements, as things are somewhat different with a thumbpad and a 4 inch screen

Cheers

Pip

There is no true port. If you look at GTA: Liberty Stories, you'll see what I mean. The storyline is decent. the plot is the same as the rest, yes they've added new features such as online play, which the ps2 didn't have, but the gameplay is so much harder.

mazz0 · Post by **mazz0** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:50 pm

I thought the controls in GTA-LCS were quite good, but I know what you mean.

The advantage Legion would have is that it's not real-time, so even if the controls were a little more cumbersome it wouldn't be much of an issue. I think it's perfectly suited to dpad control anyway, and you could use the analogue stick to move a cursor (I wouldn't like that, I'd much rather jump from item to item with the dpad, but I expect some people would prefer a cursor, and options are nice).

kiwusek · Post by **kiwusek** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:08 pm

O yes I forgot that LEgion was not real time. As legion Arena would be a bit difficult with it being in real time.

mazz0 · Post by **mazz0** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:11 pm

Yeah, you'd have to be able to pause it all the time but still issue orders. You can't do that in the PC version can you?

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:09 pm

mazz0 · Post by **mazz0** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:06 pm

Maybe if you put the process priority down low and started up a cpu intensive app...

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That would be awesome

I wouldn't do that myself.

LOL

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