Phantasy Star Online

I've played it to death years ago when it was still relevant. There's only so much you can do with this game before it becomes autism.

SLICER OF ASSASSIN

>>383344867
Because /v/ doesn't play video games. 30 people are down for PSO today, 14 will log in tomorrow, 6 the day after, then ded. Happens all the time when /v/ decides to play a game together.

>>383345627
Fair enough.
Let's just shitpost about the game instead and bitch about Online 2.

because I've had 'IDOLA' have the immortal feather playing nonstop for the past 10+ years which has kept me perfectly satiated

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>you can't save him

>>383346295
>executioner for a human trafficking cartel

Good.

Soul Eater questline also isn't canon.
Kireek shows up later with it in Episode 4.

Is it worth playing through all the quests again? I hardly remember them.

I also play the shit out of this game on the Ultima server. Might move to Ephinea though. I used to play on SCHT in like 08

Because I played 3000 hours of it solo back in high school when AOL was didn't work with any consoles, and now I have absolutely no desire to play it solo any more.

I'd install the Ephinea client if there was any guarantee that people would stick with it, but /v/ is a bunch of fickle faggots that are die-hard fans of a game one day and then forget it exists the next.

>>383346884
Apparently there's a story in this Online Diablo II clone.

>>383344867
>played it offline on the GC for years with one friend
>got to 4 characters to level 100 and 1 character to level 168
>first character is a Hucast Pinkal

Couldn't beat Episode 2 Ultimate alone.

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>Decide to make a new character and solo through all govt quests
>mfw I get to sapceship and I can barely go through the first area before the time is up on the timed quest
Why did I make a HUnewearl

>>383348175

Episode 2 ultimate was bullshit. They just slapped level 30 megid on every enemy and called it a day.

>>383348794

RAmar, RAmarl, HUcast and FOnewm are the only classes worth playing.

>spend hours doing the telepipe trick to spawn rare enemies so that I could get a special weapon or armor
>seeing that glorious glorious red box

How could they fuck up PSO2 and not even bring it to the West?

>>383344867

What's the best private server?

>>383349374
Because China contracts.
Thanks a lot SEGA. Now I can play Phantasy Star II on my iPhone with adds.

>>383349426
It seems like there's three big private servers.
Schtack, Ultima and Ephinea.

All three have the same number of players, about 70 each ever online at a time on average.

Maybe someone more versed in PSO could tell us the finer details.

>>383349482
are they good games? I was interested in trying the earlier phantasy star games but heard they were REALLY fucking grindy

>>383349823
I, II and III are grindy as fuck.
But they're probably the best stories from early era JRPGs/RPGs.

Just play IV. It's fast, gets to the point, and there's this playing constantly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnnnPntUAeM

>>383350289
alright anon, I'll give it a look

>>383348175
We can do it all together Anon.
Don't you want to play with three other strangers who constantly recite memes?

>>383344867
There was a discord a year ago but it died out after three monts or so and has no leader now so there's no way it will ever get better. Also, it was constant ttf with only some ticket and rare weapon hunting to break the mold so not sure you are gonna enjoy it, better just join some random guild.

>>383351493
I ain't playing a seventeen year old online JRPG for a modern grind.

You play it with the boys for fun when you need it.

I just listen to the OST.

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>>383351493
>constant ttf
I used to love this shit for the EXP but then hated it with the realization thats all the grand majority of people want to do in this game all the time, even years later on private servers the same thing like what the fuck.

>hey lets do other episodes or quests for fun
>no

Shame even that I really like EP2s aesthetics the most but lol that's apparently the scariest place for people, esp Towers if they even heard of it in the first place.

Zero was good but it made me realize none of these games last forever

>>383345210
LAST SURVIVOR

>>383344867
For the last time Jesse I'm not going to play this shitty game with you

>>383352957
https://youtu.be/UpdUZ_4fPHE?t=78

:^)

>>383353026
oh fug anon
I thought it was a cool sword
but whitill is pretty suffering
lots of slicers that I don't like
and then the general db saber/varista
the game I have going with my brother, I still haven't found musashis ;_;

>>383349482
>China cucking the west again, ruining good things

Why can't China go back to being cool again?

>>383353226
Well, no one really knows the reason except the SEGA heads.
Who really knows what the reason is.
The funny thing is, the English website for two still exists.

>>383353185
I wish I was a whitill for a good Agito droprate.

>>383353603
the real agito? where?

>>383353692
Mil Lily in Ultimate Caves

>>383353776
oh shit
orotiagito here I come
many thanks, anon

>>383344867
The fact that my favorite character, the RAcast, sounds like a fucking tumbling refrigerator when he moves is why I'm not playing.

Burned myself out on it late last year.
Miss the good old days on DC and GCN

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>>383353862
>Not embracing the clunk and becoming a walking gunwagon

I want to play it some more instead of stopping short a lot, but I don't know if I should play on vanilla slow as shit Ephinea or altered difficulty Ultima where some people say it's pay 2 win.

>>383353112
Why do I get End of Evangelion vibes from this?
Is the whole OST this good?

>>383353560
Given that, they missed so many other chances and hints to bring it over, even turned an offer to have the translation work done for then for free, And letting SEA server die as soon as it releases. I strongly believe they actually fucked up and got screwed over by a Chinese contract for oversea rights. It's only acceptable reason for a such terrible move.

>>383353226
China is cool though. I really doubt PSO players asking for PSO2 will be happy if they actually played it beyond the initial rush they would get.
Trust me after subjecting myself for almost 800 hours total on it hoping it would get better as a long time PSO/U player that the game is a shallow as fuck otaku pandering shiftest of a literal waifu simulator that exists mainly to be a advertising platform with anime collaborations as their main focus at this point.

Which is actually the real reason why it would never come out here because you would never get any of that.

>>383354185
>even turned an offer to have the translation work done for then for free

Who offered them the translation?

>>383354409
The guys who make the english patch for the japanese version.

Should I play both of the PSP games or just the second one?

>>383354591
From what I heard, you might as well just play the second unless you deeply care about the story, but I don't know for sure.

>>383354294
>the game is a shallow as fuck otaku pandering shiftest of a literal waifu simulator that exists mainly to be a advertising platform with anime collaborations as their main focus at this point.

And all of would be thanks to Sega not localizing in the first, it's in that mess now cause they gotta pander even harder then they'd need to if it were localized.

>>383354130
Yes.

>>383354052
So Ephinea gives no extra EXP while Ultima does?

>>383354907
Ephinea does give extra EXP if there was more monsters killed than the previous week I think, but Ultima has 3x EXP until like level 100 I think and then 2x after that, but they also altered Ultimate difficulty apparently and some people say it's really bad.

>>383354130
the OST is fantastic but this is the best song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_kUlf-A870

>>383354564
If this ever happened I can guarantee you they were joking, nobody (or in this case a group) would sign some contract or some shit for translating an ever updating MMO for free.

Even if true no way would Sega agree to that because actual translation work has timelines, we still have so much shit untranslated in PSO2. Plus I would expect them to dub the game and whatever the fuck else localizations they would do.

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>>383344867

Played too much, OP.

Burned myself out on it, you have fun though man.

>>383355149
>Tricktrack
Patrician taste.

>>383344867
>I'll never have those 3 online achievements in Phantasy Star Universe.

Man that really fucks with my OCD. My bigger regret is never getting to play the real deal instead of the demo that poorfags like myself would play.

>>383344867
I do still play off/on because it's my favorite game. I just play offline these days because I don't care about private servers.

Trying to find a hit% chain sawd for my HUcaseal but never lucky enough even after 6 of them.

>>383355224
natural, but the point of it was to show that people over here really wanted this come over back then, proving whatever hesitance about interest they had at the time if there were any, wrong. That should have at least spark some plans or talk to bring the game over.

>>383355332
Come with us Anon, it'll be terrible.

>>383355610
>hit% chain sawd
best of luck anon

I played the fuck out of this game back in the day.

Solo'd to like level 100 until I got online and then I played the everliving fuck out of that.

I remember that I legit earned the Soul Eater, but at that point, duping was so prominent that nobody believed it was a real one

>>383354010

>Not being a HuCast

Best race

>>383354789
Dude do realize how much money it is raking in for them for doing that?
They have no incentive to actually put making costumes and collabs shit on the backburner for an actual game when that is making them DOSH, not updating the game and incentivising for actually playing the thing and not idling in the lobby all day to only play the hourly clusterfuck when some alarm goes off.

If they released PSO2 in the west around the time they made the English website, I can guarantee you it would be shut down by now due to players quitting after long droughts of no actual content and not enough money being made for them to bother sustaining it, potentially even worse than what happened to PSU.

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>There's a public Japanese server for Resident Evil: Outbreak File #2 right at this very moment
>PSO and MGS4 caught their second winds and are starting to thrive again with workarounds
>Meanwhile PSU and PS0 players can go fuck themselves

I didn't want to play with you faggots anyway.

The last game I used to play with my brother offline.

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>>383355149
I like that one but ATTENTION EP3 had some real good PSO music as well and it's OST criminally underrated. Even if you hated that it was a card game check out it's OST if you liked PSO.

https://youtu.be/E6sI5SMKThA?t=97
Personal fav from EP3, love when it starts to pick up around 2 mins in to the game's environment.

I've been meaning to play this with friends for awhile now. Is there anything I should know going in? Is each episode like a full game or an expansion?

>>383356697
They're basically like expansions

>>383355973
So there's no real endgame in PSO2?
Is there and endgame in 1?

>>383356697
Well EP2 is as big as EP1 (or maybe bigger if you count the Towers area...)
EP3 is a card game. GC only.
EP4 is smaller than the rest in areas.

Online there a quests for each Episode which has you do various things with a bit of story here and there. The "government" quests could be seen as the "main story" but there isn't much "story" to it honestly and imo its annoying how it tells you to repeat whole areas often.

Otherwise you have Online's Single Player mode which has quests with much more story and shit with a few quests having branching paths, sometimes even with NPCs helping you.

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>>383357217
It's pretty much
>Get to 75 on your main and sub
>Pull MyShop tickets and do TACOs for meseta
>Farm or buy affix fodder
>Farm for a 13-star(s) and Saiki set
>Upgrade and affix your set and weapon(s)
>Clear Heaven and Hell up to Stage 5
>Do nothing but farm more meseta for fashion

>>383357338
So Ep 1, 2 and 4 are all one game? But episode 3 isn't?

>>383357815
Yeah EP1,2,4 are all on PSO Blue Burst on PC.
GC has EP1&2 and 3 separate and DC has 1 only.

>>383357658
>Farm or buy affix fodder
I hated this shit especially, I dunno if its different or easier now but I remember picking all the shit I found that had the potential to be good and send it to my storage to look at later.
Later comes when my storage is full and I'm having "fun" sorting through all this garbage either thinking something is alright for me to use/sell or if I should just trash it. Basically working on a virtual convert belt of menu item QA.
Fuck that and fuck the rest that came with it people complained like fuck about PSU's crafting system but holy hell I would take its simplicity back a thousand times over.

This commercial still give me shivers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw6hosekixk

And for PSO2 we had...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWI__P4KusU

Thanks Sega.

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>>383358862
>there are people that bought Vitas for PSO2 and it still hasn't released in the west
>its been 5 years now
Those poor souls

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A-Anyone want to play PSU?

The best thing to come out from PSO2 is all remixes they have for the PSO opening "the whole new world"
https://youtu.be/jikvlI1ZvSU?t=657
11 mins in.

>>383344867
Step aside bitches, comfy track comin through

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4B4fdisd0c

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>>383359201
>I bought a Vita for Disgaea 5 and was holding out for a new SaGa
>"lol the Vita's too weak to run Disgaea 5, here's a Switch port btw"
>"You wanted SaGa you filthy gaijin?
hahahaha! Fuck you have Caligula and yet another shit Final Fantasy, hahaha!"

>>383358862
Really the only thing that would make is successful in the west is that initial Phantasy Star artstyle.
That late 90's anime look that .hack and co. had.

>>383359450
I like PSU but its hard to get back into it after playing PSP2i.

And as long as we are posting music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYZ9n-cOnp0

Because while it was revolutionary for its time, being a big ol' online game that didn't have shitty wow tab target combat, there have since been advances in this kind of thing, like Tera, Black Desert, Dark Souls, etc.

>>383359450
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTR-7y1GWbk

>>383347949
>online diablo 2 clone
at least call it japanese diablo you dumb faggot

>>383359809
I have no doubt PSO was as successful as it was because Sega had pretty much no competition with it at the time on consoles.

>>383359851
I love this track but what the hell do people seriously like that reversed version?

>>383344867
Because my nostalgia lies with PSU and I had enough of PSO on the Xbox. Played a little on a private server and realized how limited it was compared to PSU.

>>383352897
I don't get it either cuz once you're like 130, maybe even lower you don't even really need more levels. You should be running shit for the rare drops. There's literally no point in getting 200

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Imi9eSc2Jg

>>383360474
>Run TTF 24/7 while making Mags
>Trade Mags for PDs
>Get goods.
>Never have to leave TTF to get shit.

It works and it's the most fun you could ever have while playing PSO trust me.

>>383360092
;_;

I want to do this so bad, but I need to sleep.

Anyone opposed to organizing stuff tomorrow?

>>383344867
I have nothing to play it on. I just listen to the OST nowadays.
https://youtu.be/pq_nXXuZTtA

>>383359536
Good one. Chaotic bar is really good too.

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PSO is the best game ever.

Ephieneianenanena server has a hardcore ladder where if you die your character gets

D
E
L
E
T
E
D

It's pretty fun but no one plays with me.
Also you can change your section ID colour once, which is nice

>>383354130
A lot of aesthetics in PSO seem to be inspired by Evangelion. You can pretty much recreate EVA units in PSO2.
PSU LITERALLY has Plug Suits and the Lance of Longinus as a weapon.

>>383358446
It takes like 5 minutes to learn what shit is actually valuable. You have brain problems.

>>383362760
Yes that's the problem and not me having to shift through all this shit in the first place, I admit I made it harder on myself by leaving it till my storage was full but either way its tedious as fuck menu busywork.

>>383363157
>press shift
>scroll down
>left click
>discard items
PSO2 is shit for a multitude of reasons, but you're just mentally retarded.

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>>383359687
>Disgaea 5
D4 already runs like shit when there are too many enemies and we didn't even get DD2, why would you think we would get 5?

I'm not gonna lie, I just can't seem to play this game with people. Every time I've tried it's just not been fun, due to a few reasons.

First of all, just like with all multiplayer games, all people want to do is rush through everything until they get to end game.
You may be thinking "well what's wrong with that?" and the truth is, I just cannot stand that approach. I tend to enjoy the journey, even if it is a grindy as fuck one like PSO.

Second reason.
Nobody fucking sticks with it. It never fucking happens, I've heard it over and over that "we'll get a group and we'll play each day and it'll be great!", for multiple different games even, and it never happens.
If we were to get a group now, you'd get a few missions done before people already started to break off, and then by tomorrow 3/4 of the people who were playing won't want to anymore. Fucking always happens, guaranteed.

>>383359809
>Dark Souls
I would play the ever-loving heck out of an online game that fused the two, actually.
>PSO droprates and aesthetics
>Souls series combat
>Dedicated servers

Just imagine grinding bosses and rares with engaging combat.

>>383359450
I thought everyone shittalks Universe.

>>383363889
they do, but it does have a dead-as-fuck pserver up

>>383363803
You have a nu male way of looking at things. The game is 17 years old. If youre a gook its 18. People who played it lets say up until 2006 had enough time to learn things and go at a modest pace. But the nature of the game is finding good rares to keep and use or use as tradebait and further get more good rares. Sure, an occassional non quest run through of some areas is nice and I still do it, but with a few hundred people left playing, the real real veterans who really like the game, they have gotten past the honeymoon new game phase.

>>383363889
PSU is fantastic, you stop being a faggot

>>383354760
>>383354760
PSP2i when the translation gets finished. :^)

It's aged terribly

>>383364069
>:^)
Wait what happened?

>>383356697
Let me give you a timeline of PSO.
Originally released on Dreamcast, the only game was "Phantasy Star Online".
You had four areas.
>Forest (Two areas)
>Caves (Three areas)
>Mines (Two areas)
>Ruins (Three areas)
This today is known as "Episode 1".
A few months later, they released "Version 2" on Dreamcast. This increased the level cap to 200 and introduced Ultimate difficulty which is hard as fuck and can only be played from level 120 onwards. It also fixed some stupid as hell bugs and exploits (and introduced some more!)
Thus ends PSO on Dreamcast.
Next we got Xbox and Gamecube ports of PSO called "Episode 1 and 2". It had all the Dreamcast Episode 1 content (including the Version 2 stuff of course) but introduced 4 player split screen co-op (!!!) and an entire new game called Episode 2. It takes place in an entirely new world and is a lot of fun.
Episode 3 was then a Gamecube exclusive and a card game and no one gives a fuck about it.
Episode 4 is the PC port called "Blue Burst". Yet again it added a completely new world with new areas. No split screen of course, but added in a few new features and QOL things.
And then PSO died forever and PSU was released.

Phantasy Star Online 2 Offline mode with an English translation when?

>>383364203
programmer ded
not really but he's avoiding contact with the translator for a year now, go check the thread on gbatemp

>>383364203
You know how the shittiest fucking people take on these big projects and give the commmunity hope but then they overdose on soylent and have weekly PMS attacks and then just suddenly disappear? Thats what happened to psp2i

>>383359450
Since when I thought it was fucked?

>>383363810
One of the reasons I like DaS so much was it reminded me a lot of Phantasy Star.

>>383363889
not anymore, just like people will have fond memories for PSO2 when PSO3/U2 happens and is an even bigger abomination.

>>383364402
>he's avoiding contact with the translator
But why?
Just say you're not interested in the project anymore and let someone else do it instead of dragging this shit to keep your e-pride or whatever intact.

>>383363803
PSO takes a while to get into.
You and your friends are playing on Normal and going "why is this booorrring" when the game only gets good after you finish Normal.

>>383364623
Clementine's still up, just half the bosses have no AI and some classes have a bug to where they can't equip armor, also my room is completely broken
Works otherwise, but it still has single-digit peak players due to poor advertising and no endgame I guess

>>383364773
A quick look around the forums here and you'll realise that there's been some major progress since your last visit.

In short though, an awful lot from the original servers is now supported and functioning.

Marmalade, along with a tiny but dedicated team, has done a masterful job getting everything up and running. Things have slowly but surely been falling into place, so there's now lots to see and do when you visit the servers (even if everyone just sits around on the 5th floor! LOL). Virtually everything from the original US/EU servers is now in-game and working, although there are still some major omissions such as player Rooms. There's also a few minor bugs, but mostly nothing gamebreaking.

Server Functionality

All missions without bosses are supported and working except for 'Unsafe Passage' - which works fine, just doesn't complete properly - for the time being, you need to complete it manually when you've reached the 'Transfer Terminal' lobby.
All missions with dragon type bosses work fine and every other mission that ends with a major boss works fine too - up until you reach the boss warp!! So again, it's best to manually end those missions at that point (some boss warps lead to non-functioning bosses, but some result in an infinite loading screen!).

Actually the latest version of the server is just a stepping stone to the next one, which is currently being written from the ground up, again courtesy of Marmalade. The new version will allow for support of some glaring omissions from the current server, most notably Rooms and player shop support (at least hopefully).

This doesn't mean that the latest version isn't currently going to be updated and supported. There will be more stuff added before the doors are closed on the current build. At the moment we have a core base of users who come and play come-what-may and a much larger group of players who come and have a look occassionaly to see what progress has been made.

clementines doing fine

>>383364715
i dont think theres a lot of epride left on the line when this is the 2nd time he does this to a translation project. He vanished from "sol trigger" translation project too long ago.

>>383364203
OH YEAH GUESS WHAT? ALOT OF SHIT IS DONE MINUS THE STORY BUT YOU KNOW HOW FUCKERS LIKE TO SAY "We won't release the patch until it's done." WELL WHOOP DE FUCKING DOO.

Still mad

>>383364975
Where did you get this post?

>>383365110
http://psu-clementine.net/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2693

games fine and making great progress. only pso nostalgtards and butthurt pso2 retards who are to stupid to downloader an exe that translates everything for them to try to discredit clementine psu

Why every character i see of PSO2 is a little girl?

>>383360460
I think that simplicity is part of the appeal though.
Players like that simple traversal through the dungeons while collecting.
In fact it's really all about the collecting.

Any Ephinea players? I need some lads to team up with.

>>383365218
it's nice that they're so optimistic, but it's been dead empty every time i've checked in

I've also been sitting in the lobby to see if anyone from /v/ showed up tonight

>>383365384
How big is the geam?

>>383365283
You know damn fucking why

>>383365384
its dead because people know its still going to be wiped and rooms are missing, the primary trade and shopping system isnt implemented yet. why play it seriously if its not the final version and going to be deleted? why burn out now on an incomplete version? with almost 5000 forum members, you can bet there is a good size crowd waiting to play the real game. there are even japs that sign up and they will rule the server just like they did on jp pc. dont count it out until marmalade says hes done with it because they are going strong still, 3 years in.

>>383349426
>>383349731
Ultima is gotta go fast XP and various other features. Ephinea is mostly vanilla with some nice QoL changes. Schtack is ran by dramamongers and should be avoided at all costs.

If you want the original experience, go ephinea. If you've played the game a lot and would rather skip the grind you've experienced many times before, Ultima might be right up your alley.

>>383365509
tiny by modern standards, like 5gb
unless you mean how much content, in which case it's like 4 planets with horribly imbalanced missions to where only two or three of them are viable to do if you really want to grind
in the state the server's in though, there's no reason to hardcore grind so it's neat to tour all the missions that would otherwise be ignored by most of the playerbase

>>383365625
>why play it seriously if its not the final version and going to be deleted?
yeah, this is why i haven't been, but i still occasionally post it in threads like these to see if anyone wants to go for some quick runs
usually isn't very successful

i look forward to if it ever does get finished though- it just isn't now, and probably won't be soon

>>383344867
the gameplay is just not fun

>>383363810
>Online game with pso2 combat and dark souls level design

DOO IT

>>383365716
>Schtack is ran by dramamongers and should be avoided at all costs.
>And corrupt admins that sell hacked items then also ban you.
>And corrupt admins that hack in your face.
>And corrupt admins that keep anything they "confiscate"
>And etc

>>383365854
thats what i do. just tour around doing random missions i normally wouldnt do. i have a group of friends to play with, with no interest in making any new ones but i have seen your posts i think time to time.

my bets on it being finished is just before 2019. maybe next christmas. depends how fast they rewrite the server with a more modern format and decode whatever odd programming tricks sonic team did back in 2003-2006 when they made it. i still have faith though because the current team has proven their worth countless times now even when all hope seemed lost.

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Did you use Dupe items back in the day anon?

>>383366105
SCHT is such a shithole. I can't believe anybody would go back to that server after they fucked over all the players by losing character data.

>>383345086
this and the game hasn't aged well at all, it's time to let go

>>383366207
It's pretty sad it took until characters being lost for most people to see it as the shithole it was.

I really want to play this and get my friends to play it but I'm scared of private servers, fucking hacking, data mining, bitcoin mining and shit.

>>383366138
very nice, i used to have a group but they got tired quick so i've been trying to see if i could relive the times when /v/ groups would get on PSO pservers together
though, judging by this thread and others lately, even that doesn't succeed much anymore
just how the modern attitude toward the genre is i guess

you bet i'll keep shilling it even if it takes a decade for them to get it fully running though

>>383365298
PSU is simple to, it just added more to the formula and made it flashier, improved the social and customization dynamics, and added way more to collect. PSO2 is the one thats confusing and mmo-like with a million menus and hidden attributes and things to worry about. PSU is a logical evolution of what PSO started. The preference comes from which combat system you prefer when its all said and done.

>>383366207
>>383366105
I know we keep saying SCHT but it's that Faggot fuck Crono and his faggot fuck gf Envy

>>383366517
It's not as scary as you think. I've been playing on PSO's various private servers for years. The worst that could happen is someone cheating in game. Beyond that, you're not gonna get hacked directly.

>>383366749
And anyone that can still have the nerve to work with Crono. Any staff member on that team right now is a fucking douchebag for allowing crono to send the server straight to hell all over again.

>>383364086
So many Jrpgs have aged terribly.
I dare someone to go back and play Dragon Quest 2 or something.
Even Phantasy Star 2, my lord.

>>383367285
If I ever replay PS2 again it's either the PS2 version or an ips patch.

>>383364339
September.

>>383364638
You mean Online or the numbered games?
Was it the combat?

>>383367285
PSO was never a jrpg. It was an online arpg, a console version of diablo 2. But i agree that jrpgs have aged bad. The only ones that will age fine is ones from last gen, but was there even like 5 good jrpgs last gen? Only ones i liked was lost odyssey and eternal sonata

>>383368030
Online
No one cares about I-IV lol
Generally the atmosphere and the combat. PSO can vary between comfy and spooky a lot like Dark Souls does.
The Ruins especially, if you're all alone. Occasionally you'll find an NPC like in Dark Souls and it seems weird to see another "person" down there.

>>383365350
But Ultima says they give x3 exp.

https://discord.gg/RT9fmJ

If anyone wants to get together in the next few days to play, I'm down. Made a server

>>383344867
Looks better than wow, I give you that

>>383366207
Tell us about the drama.
I'm curious as to how a game can even do that.

>>383366095
>dark souls level design
That would get old really fast without some decent randomisation.

>>383366095
>>383370687

Theres no need for either. PSO and U style is fine, a few variations but with notable landmarks by the third block and so on. Level design feels very generic in PSO2 because everythings random and you can just run past everything. Speedrunning levels used to be a thing, whats the point of normal spawns now that you can just walk to the boss?

>>383344867
Played too much of this when i was younger and don't wanna grind for my kick ass equipment again.
Could solo most of ultimate with my shota hucast

>>383370687
You could have segments.
Like having a static garden between two random mazes.

>>383366749
envy is a 34 year old tranny lol

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>>383372565
DELETE

>>383370983
Once you get to TACOs and Advance quests in pso2, they stop being run straight to the boss levels. No remembers these because they aren't really worth the effort which something they should fix

Is ephenia a good choice for a server?

Also does this provide the full game, forest > caves > mines > ruins & the episode 2 stuff with the fancy new zones?

>>383374236
Yus.
Ephenia is the closest to Vanilla PSO you can get.
It also has Hardcore that deletes your character when you die. It's fun.

>>383374750
Hardcore is an option or server standard?

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SEGA really just needs to re-release Blue Burst onto Steam with compatibility with modern machines and resolutions with new servers that aren't subscription based and they'd roll in the dough and realise that they'd make even more money releasing PSO2 to the west as well.

But i'm just living in a dream world.

>>383375305
Honestly I think the reason they won't release pso2 in the west is because Sega US is in California. Liberal paradise.

Have you seen pso2? They would force the devs to remove all that titty madness and the devs probably told them to fuck right off.