/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2386875]

What the fuck is this board's issue with PSO? All I get is negative reviews..

[Anonymous No.2386883]

>>2386875
I don't remember it being talked about around here, but it really wasn't amazing. Just endless raids through the same levels for incredibly rare drops. It's not awful, but far from great.

Good times with friends though at least.

[Anonymous No.2386886]

>>2386875
Turning Sega's best RPG series into a console mini-mmo instead of making a real follow up to PSIV rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. That PSO was a symbol for how the series would be handled from that point on was just salt in the wound. Plus it kind of blew.

[Anonymous No.2386889]

>>2386886
Nicely meme'd

[Anonymous No.2386892]

>>2386889
What about that was a meme? Is it a meme now when you explain why a group of people reacts a certain way? Or did you mean my use of 'salt in the would'? I am honestly at a loss here.

[Anonymous No.2386901]

>>2386875
> Dat Punisher

[Anonymous No.2386902]

>>2386889
You asked why people don't like PSO. We told you why people don't like PSO. Go bitch about memes somewhere else faglord.

[Anonymous No.2386906]

>>2386902
#rekt

[Anonymous No.2386907]

>>2386883
>>2386886
> Comparing PSO to MMOs
You're fucking idiots. It's a 4-player Co-op crawler. If you're going to compare it to other games at least compare it to the same type of game
> Gauntlet
> Diablo
> Baldur's Gate
> Monster Hunter
> Dragon's Dogma
It's not supposed to be World of fucking Warcraft

[Anonymous No.2386912]

>>2386907
pretty much this.

I was warned before I got into PSO that its a lot like Diablo.

[Anonymous No.2386921]

>>2386907
That's how it was marketed to us back then. As something akin to an MMO, but with fewer players that you could play on console. It wasn't it's own genre yet in this space.

At any rate, what you want to call it is completely beside the point. It wasn't the game that many, many Phantasy Star fans wanted, it wasn't great and it became the direction the series continued in. That's why it has negative reviews.

I even like (even love maybe) the genre that it started. Monster Hunter at this point is one of my favorite series of all time. But PSO never really became great.

[Anonymous No.2387060]

This game was like crack to me. Played it nonstop. Wish i could go back in time to play it at its peak

[Anonymous No.2387067]

>>2386921
>That's how it was marketed to us back then
Where ? Magazines called it a diablo clone.

[Anonymous No.2387158]

>>2386875
>All I get is negative reviews..

what.
I have not seen a single negative review, and there are several active topics about it in the dreamcast thread

so many hours on DC, pc;bb and pso2 ;w;
rip my life

[Anonymous No.2387186]

It's pretty repetitive, like most RPG's out there.

Had a nice aesthetic and music though.

[Anonymous No.2387253]

>>2386875
PSO is one of the most popular games ever made through the history of /v/.

It's just that now that we've been divided into /vr/, you have the /vr/ side upset that it wasn't a follow up to the turn based Phantasy Star RPGs, and the /v/ side full of edgy teens claiming that it was never good to begin with.

I love this franchise but the fanbase is seriously the worst I've ever seen. Yes, even worse than Sonic.

[Anonymous No.2387258]

>>2387067
>>2386921
>>2386907
This is lost on many people today but back before Free 2 Play became widespread there was actually a distinction between an "MMO" and just a regular online game or rpg.

MMO stands for "Massively Multiplayer Online." The "Massively" directly refers to a large, non-instanced world shared by hundreds of players at once. Games like PSO and Diablo are all instanced, except maybe in lobbies or chat areas.

Today I think MMO is used to refer to more games that aren't really MMO's than its used to refer to games that are, but back when PSO game out you'd never hear the term MMO applied to a game with instanced combat areas

[Anonymous No.2387285]

>>2386875
I played it offline on Xbox recently and thought it was pretty fun solo. Sadly, the splitscreen mode could have been amazing, but there's no quests in it.

[Anonymous No.2387304]

>>2386875
I love it. I hated the early PS games.
Still hoping for a true sequel.

[Anonymous No.2387501]

>>2387253
you have obviously not fully experienced the FFVII fanbase yet then.. At least Phantasy Star fans don't feel the need to shove the games down your throat even if you expressly display a dislike of JRPGs

[Anonymous No.2387932]

We PSO threads often enough and I've never seen much PSO hate before.

PSU is another story, and every complaint you'll ever hear about that game is perfectly valid.

[Anonymous No.2388046]

>>2387158
you should die for having that many Photon crystals.

[Anonymous No.2388102]

>Play mafucking PSO1 for hundreds of hours during early 2000's
>Eventually get bored of it
>Play Universe
>It has some cool stuff
>Play PSO2
>Notice how much smooth and faster the gameplay is
>Go back to playing PSO1 after couple years of PSO2
>It's painfully dull to play

Jesus, how did we think this was fun?

[Anonymous No.2388121]

I feel like one of the only people who doesn't totally hate PSO2. It's definitely not as good, but most of my complaints are minor. The only major problem in my book is that missions are very short affairs instead of longer, dungeon crawling simulations. I still think PSO2 maintains the basic spirit of PSO.

PSO is probably my favorite game of all time, but I still think some of the fans are wearing nostalgia goggles too tight.

[Anonymous No.2388207]

>>2387258
Oh fuck off PSO was totally marketed as an MMO.

[Anonymous No.2388684]

>>2388046
yfw I couldnt pick them up due to 99 being the max inventory space

>>2388121
my big gripe is the fact its hard pushing 'little girl princess dressup simulator' and is raking in money for it.
I want them to make money and be successful but meh.

>>2388207
it was only advertised as multi player online
anything else is your misperseption

[Anonymous No.2388865]

>>2388207
It's Diablo in space. Not an MMO.

[Anonymous No.2388880]

>>2388684
>my big gripe is the fact its hard pushing 'little girl princess dressup simulator' and is raking in money for it.
what do you mean? the elf class, or whatever it's called?

[Anonymous No.2388887]

>>2388207
Are you trying to say that "online multi-player" is the same thing as "MMO"? Do you need help learning how words work?

[Anonymous No.2388894]

>>2387258
were the town areas also instanced?

[Anonymous No.2388910]

>>2388894
Yes.

[Anonymous No.2388972]

>>2388880
no.... ?

have you never played the game?

every 2 weeks

http://pso2.jp/players/catalog/scratch/ac/20150422/

[Anonymous No.2388990]

>>2388972
to be honest, I only played the psp version

[Anonymous No.2389038]

>>2388990
there is a gacha scratch system where you can scratch for a random item from usually a list of 100 items, for 200 or 500 yen a spin.
the list changes every 2 weeks with new(!) stuff for your little princess to wear and play dress up.

these usually consist of accessories, hair styles and costumes for your character.

90% of the playerbase is female character.

racial stats are now defunkt.

http://pso2.swiki.jp/index.php?%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%84%2F%E5%A5%B3%E6%80%A7%E7%94%A8

[Anonymous No.2389043]

>>2389038
dude they have meguka and FATE costumes in there, I'm sold

[Anonymous No.2389047]

>>2389043
you fag haha
yeah they have had like 6 fate scratch events, think there is one soon.
head over to >>102573102

for getting into info,

[Anonymous No.2389049]

>>2389047
wtf cant crosslink?

>>2386875

[Anonymous No.2389051]

>>2389049
JESUS WTF IS GOING ON HERE??

>>>/vg/102573102

[Anonymous No.2390017]

>>2388121
>The only major problem in my book is that missions are very short affairs instead of longer, dungeon crawling simulations.
Pretty much my only complaint. The Challenge Quest fixes it, but it's just the one quest. Need more of those!

Here's hoping for a Ragol CQ for the anniversary. What we'll really get is just costumes and an EM with one classic boss.

[Anonymous No.2390738]

>theres people on this board that honestly believe PSO isn't an MMO.
I'm so dissapointed.

[Anonymous No.2394323]

>>2388887
Do you? You don't need to explicitly say MMO to advertise it as one. The game is clearly implying that it has a shitload of players compared to most online games with the multiple language bit.