Peter

Remote Control... Adam Sandler and Colin Quinn, priceless.

I'd pretty much given up on getting the demo but guess what, it arrived yesterday. Wow, big deal over a little peice of plastic, but it was cool when it finally arrived. Plus it's not like I paid for it and therefore felt entitled to their good will, but I'm glad I didn't go off on them for not getting the demo out to me for so long. No need for slogans like "Just remember that it's not promotion, it's personal!"

Anyways, the game looks great and is fun. I'll be picking this up as required gameplay for any PSP owner just like the rest of everybody else (the SAT analogy will be -- God of War:PSP::Halo 3:Xbox 360)

Did they tweak the performance on this version any? Better frame rates? I haven't picked up the US version yet but if this is the best version of the game then I may consider importing this game.

Is this a peripheral that us North American PSP owners will be able to import like the camera and the GPS unit or is it some how locked to the Japanese regional hardware?

We need to get the Starcraft 2 cinematic on the next fanboy theater.

It looked as though the Sledgehammer broke after so many swings. There was a plus sign on the picture; it was green on one video and yellow on the one in which the hammer broke. That's a totally new gameplay mechanic for Silent Hill! I loved it in Condemned when in your moment of need your trusty sledgehammer broke, your heart jumps and you think "oh crap, gotta find a weapon now!" Can't wait for this game.

"Like when you go to the arcade with friends, you go to play with people in the same vicinity -- you don't go to play with people across the country"

A rebuttal to that point: In America arcades have been in a decline since the 80's, clearly Americans have given their opinion of playing games with people in the same vicinity; that being, playing games from home is just more appealing to us. Because of this decline in a social arcade scene I can honestly say that, other than the ocassional PC LAN party, there are no public places I can go to play games with people in the same vicinity. Even the few internet gaming cafes that pop-up in my town never seem to last more than a few months. Now that's just for PC gaming! imagine the rarity of finding a local social spot for people playing not just games but PSP games and not just any PSP game but specifically the Monster Hunter title. In Japan that may be quite easy to do; arcades are still popular; people hang out there and can bring their PSPs, along with the very popular Monster Hunter UMD, it can be expected with some reliability.

Where I live, in suburbian America, arcades are dying and if you go there it's to play the actual arcade machines and not soak in the atmosphere and play a few missions of Monster Hunter. I wish it was like that here, but it just isn't.

Maybe Capcom just isn't aware of how different the situation outside of Japan is. It's not just that we Americans like to play games at home over the internet rather than going out to play games with other people in the same vicinity, it's just that more often than not we can't.

Infrastructure mode on MHF2 isn't just a nice extra bonus feature that we'd like for the game, for us infrustructure is a critical feature that for many would be the only means for us to play the multiplayer portion of the game. Seeing as the multiplayer portion of the game is rather intergral to the whole design of the game, it seems foolish not to make it a priority to include infrustructure for the NA/EU release.

And here I thought Dungeon Siege was a Microsoft property.

So are they going to release a demo of this before a retail release?