What the hell people still play this game?

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Anonymous Fri Sep 14 16:33:45 2018 No.5043390 [Reply] [Original]

What the hell people still play this game?

Anonymous Fri Sep 14 16:43:56 2018 No.5043402
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It's still playable on the DC, GC, and PC. DC and GC require a few extra hoops compared to the PC.

PC is the most active way to play, but you can still get games going on the DC and GC.

DC and GC: https://sylverant.net/

PC: https://ephinea.pioneer2.net/ (server usually has a higher player count, but people are taking a break after a big event that just happened)

You should play the PC or GC version so you can be and see Best Girl, though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 17:15:26 2018 No.5043430 >>5043402 what is there even left to do?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 18:47:46 2018 No.5043576 >>5043430 still have to kit out a character with 60+ hit weapons

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 18:53:31 2018 No.5043590 >>5043390 Yes, because it's a legit great game, it's like how broodwar is still regularly played and has fuck heug tourneys and shit.

babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Fri Sep 14 19:03:12 2018 No.5043612

Thought I'd add that the GameCube version (and modded Xbox) version support split screen although these days most people have multiple PCs good enough to run Blue Burst and that's a better multiplayer experience - unless you REALLY love couch co-op which I kinda do.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 19:44:48 2018 No.5043665 File: 2.53 MB, 4032x3024, C9EE60AD-A316-4702-B65B-E0594135DD1F.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5043402 big event was recent worldwide mass deaths? the weather is real nuclear winter.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 20:15:36 2018 No.5043718 >>5043665 That's what happens when you patrol the Mojave too much and your wish for a nuclear winter comes true.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 09:27:55 2018 No.5044489 File: 282 KB, 1920x1080, pso131810606371694770.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5043390 No, who would play this stinky old game? I hate fun!

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 10:49:49 2018 No.5044550 >>5044489 Remember: Fun is just a buzzword (courtesy of /v/)

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 12:12:16 2018 No.5044643 >>5043402 Ok, now I want to play. It is noob friendly or I must have 20 years of practice?

Anonymous Sat Sep 15 12:53:17 2018 No.5044718

Because it's fucking good. It was straight to the point make your 90s Xenon Rave girl with lightsabers, buy some merch, and go kill some stuff. 2 is decent but it overcomplecates some things. I don't see why noone's tried to remake the classic one in Second Life or something.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 16:59:48 2018 No.5045084 >>5044643 You'll be just fine. In fact, you'll probably get showered with goodies to get you started and have high level players carry you for a bit so you're not completely helpless levelwise.

Anonymous Sat Sep 15 17:04:18 2018 No.5045093

>>5044643
The game itself is very balanced and relies more on stats than dexterity. If you want an easy time though, go for an android character. They get the best overall attack power and their ailment traps have a 100% infliction rate. Difficulty curve is fairly sharp when you change to hard and even bigger when you change to ultimate.

Look up a guide for feeding a mag and don't put it on the back burner. The more time you spend feeding it mid-mission the less time you spend in mag feeding rooms with a stopwatch.

Anonymous Sat Sep 15 23:04:56 2018 No.5045745

>>5045093
>If you want an easy time though, go for an android character.
Androids are great in parties (or for Normal skilll play where Shifta doesn't really matter) but the lack of Shifta can certainly hurt when going it alone. But yeah, still nothing's as good as a good old freeze trap. Androids rock.

>>5044643
Your only real hurdle will be the controls. It won't take long to conquer them, but there absolutley will be some initial discomfort. I suggest you look up the Dreamcast button layout and replicate it on your controller. You do have a controller, don't you? May the Great Light have mercy upon your soul if you don't.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 23:18:18 2018 No.5045771 >>5043390 PSO had and still has the greatest MMO UI.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 23:19:26 2018 No.5045774 >>5045771 hey bro lets play at 500 beats on vega 1 block 03 see you there

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 23:52:03 2018 No.5045816 >>5045750 >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyEnJCgTZds ONE THOUSAND BEATS A DAY

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 15 23:55:52 2018 No.5045819 >>5045745 Casts are very comfy to play as after being a support-focused character for so long. All you have to do is kill enemies while occasionally tossing Freeze Traps to control big groups or strong enemies.

Anonymous Sun Sep 16 00:19:08 2018 No.5045836

>>5045819
It can still be fairly support-orientated in a different sort of way. As a RAcast, at least. Took me a while to realise that sometimes the most valuable thing I can do is spam paralyse/freeze specials rather than switching to higher damage weapons and killing things fast.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 16 00:47:36 2018 No.5045868 File: 1.91 MB, 230x179, 1519614192868.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >not playing NFL2k1 online

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 16 03:57:31 2018 No.5046124 >>5043390 My only complain with this game is with how Forest is easily the best area of the game, but it is the smallest and the one you spend the least amount of time in. I wish the other areas had been like Forest.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 16 04:05:17 2018 No.5046139 >>5046124 Replace the music for the other areas, it makes them more tolerable. PSO music is shiiiiiiiiit.

Anonymous Sun Sep 16 06:29:54 2018 No.5046283

PSO is one of those games that doesn't do much but what it does do it does really well. Basic shit like the speed at which bullets fire and the impact recoil as they hit enemies is exceptionally satisfying. Art design is superb and although it's basically a 2D plane dinosaur killing grindfest, it has a certain mysterious atmosphere that makes you feel like if you JUST played a bit longer you'll find some secret weapon / magic door / blue Rappy.

Mines 2 is the most atmospheric environment of any video game ever made.

Anonymous Sun Sep 16 07:46:33 2018 No.5046363

>>5043390
I played this game on my dreamcast and never got very far on any character, probably made like 5. Always had a lot of fun. I played it again years later on the gamecube and only made like 2 characters probably the same and still had fun. I think I am going to try to talk a friend into picking it up so I can give it another go and see if I can make it to late game this time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 16 12:18:57 2018 No.5046648 >>5046363 This was me until I found SCHThack back when that was still around, if you got some friends it's great the whole way through.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 16 13:31:35 2018 No.5046789 File: 28 KB, 500x376, Snrub.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5046283 >Mines 2 is the most atmospheric environment of any video game ever made. holy shit, are you me?

>>	babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Sun Sep 16 13:40:20 2018 No.5046814 >>5046789 I thought it was just me because that's the best level on which to grind FO because of the way you can corral robots with zonde

Anonymous Sun Sep 16 16:49:20 2018 No.5047329

>>5046283

PSO's art direction is surprisingly good. I think it speaks well to the game's art direction when a team that consists of a hulking killbot armed with guns, a space elf that dresses like a goth stripper that uses swords twice her height, a 11 year old jester girl blasting people with a pistol and spells, and a stern-looking space marine man all looks perfectly natural instead of ridiculous.

Also, I noticed this years ago, but Episode 1 seems to have a "theme" to its locations that slowly and organically takes the player from simple nature to an alien location.

Forest - Nature, with a man-made location at the end. It's calm, relaxing, and feels friendly, despite the hostile wildlife.

Cave - Fusion of nature and man-made locations. The deeper you get into it, the more man-made devices appear. This weens you in for the next location.

Mines - Full-brown man-made location. Any sort of "nature" is gone as you go through a giant mechanical fortress with robot defenses.

Ruins - Both the nature theme seen in Forest and the mechanical locations seen in Mines taken to the final level. "Nature" consists of alien goop and strange organic devices, while "man-made" uses a mechanical style that doesn't fit with the style you've seen in previous locations. While technically a fusion of nature and man-made, like in Caves, the alien design tells the player he better be ready for some serious shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 16 21:04:37 2018 No.5047741 Be honest with me, I have a dreamcast, is it worth it to make a dreampi modem for playing pso? I never played it back in the day.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 16 22:31:25 2018 No.5047869 >>5046124 That's a curious opinion. What about the Central Control Area and Crater? They're more static like Forest is compared to the random configurations of the other fields.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 16 22:55:13 2018 No.5047892 File: 128 KB, 960x720, 4L_Skezbg2I.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How do I map things to the row on the bottom?

Anonymous Sun Sep 16 23:02:37 2018 No.5047903
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>>5047741
Not really, when there is a toaster friendly PC alternative with more than double the content available. I like my Dreamcast too, but yeah nah. Just play the non-dead version of the game.

Anonymous Sun Sep 16 23:03:54 2018 No.5047908
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>>5047892
Go to the same customise option in the menu you use to modify the action pallette but then press number keys to assign them instead of pressing the OK button.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 16 23:08:44 2018 No.5047912 >>5047908 I would never have guessed that. Thanks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 12:16:33 2018 No.5048632 Can anyone recommend a good mag guide? I finally have a little extra meseta and want to start making some progress on my HUcast.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 12:47:45 2018 No.5048687 >>5043402 >It's still playable on the DC Damn, really? The other day I was packing some of my old stuff and my old VMU still had every save in there, including PSO. There's no way to transfer your character between versions, is there?

Anonymous Mon Sep 17 13:27:14 2018 No.5048737

>>5048632
you are gonna need potentially four different guides

first you need http://www.pso-world.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=1021

This is a relevant feeding chart. What to feed your mag depends on your class and what the highest stats on it are so now you need to look at http://www.pso-world.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=1240 to determine how you need to raise your mag to get the photon blasts you want. Since you are making a hucast mag the only thing you want is twins so that means for the first 50 mag levels your mag should have more dex than the rest of your stats combined but the second highest stat needs to be power. You still want to check that guide though as your section ID determines what form your mag takes at level 50 and what you need to raise a rare mag.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 17:18:31 2018 No.5049142 >>5048737 Great. Thanks, anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 18:13:50 2018 No.5049272 >>5043390 it may be a bit more clunky than i remembered, but that fun hasnt gone anywhere over the past 10 years

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 18:25:43 2018 No.5049303 >>5047741 It is. There are still players

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 20:10:38 2018 No.5049486 I played Phantasy 1-4 when they came out and liked them pretty good. Should I try this online thing?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 20:17:56 2018 No.5049494 Wanted to play this on DC but I heard a lot of reports about it not working because of a used code on pre-owned copies. Didn’t want to invest in something that wouldn’t work. What’s the deal with that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 20:20:08 2018 No.5049495 >>5043390 Is Quake 3 still alive? I still have my old Pentium 3 PC pimped out over the years ready to go back into service

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 20:21:23 2018 No.5049496 >>5049486 No harm in trying, it's all free these days. It has no relation to the original series except some of the item names and the whole sci-fi aesthetic. You might like it if you enjoy Diablo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 20:27:54 2018 No.5049502 >>5049495 People play Quake 3 and other games but the player base is so small it's scheduled in advance. PSO is the only game with a steady online presence I think. https://www.dreamcastlive.net/

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 20:30:49 2018 No.5049505 >>5049502 I was looking for something to play, PSO seems fun, Xbox version is dead, right? I havea LCD VGA screen to spare for a Dreamcast

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 20:36:00 2018 No.5049512 >>5048687 I -FEEL- like you could carry your character from DC V1 (vanilla PSO) to DC PSO V2 (OP's pic). AFAIK, that's the only thing I've heard of that can be done - others might know more though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 21:00:04 2018 No.5049550 >>5049496 thanks mate I'll give a go

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 22:02:00 2018 No.5049663 >>5049512 That is correct. Loading a character in version 2 converts it to a version 2 character and they cannot be used again in version 1. Only version 2 has this feature.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 22:11:27 2018 No.5049687 Just got done with an Ultimate Mines run with my friend on GC, we've been playing this game for like 15 years now and still haven't found all the rares we want

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 22:16:14 2018 No.5049696 >>5049505 Yea the Xbox version ran on Xbox Live servers which have long since shut down.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 22:18:13 2018 No.5049703 File: 7 KB, 200x200, rare drop3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5049687 And you never will. How's that feel?!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 22:52:46 2018 No.5049773 how do you use symbol chat? I can't figure it out.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 17 23:06:28 2018 No.5049793 >>5049663 V2 is better in every way than V1, so you're not losing anything if you upgrade. >>5049502 The DC servers seem to be fairly inactive when I check them, but it could be a case of people coming once they see someone on the server.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 03:32:44 2018 No.5050121 >>5047903 Fuck I remember that ad.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 04:36:04 2018 No.5050164 >>5049486 Phantasy Online is kind of like Phantasy Star 2 turned into a 3D MMO. the aesthetics, monsters, and minimal storyline feel very similar. So yeah. You should. Do not play any of the Phantasy Star Universe games. Ever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 06:45:23 2018 No.5050248 File: 179 KB, 861x686, Capture.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] too rich for my blood

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 07:04:06 2018 No.5050267 >>5049773 nvm, accidentally figured it out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 07:13:19 2018 No.5050274 >>5050248 Dreampi is all you need and is a bigger community than official.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 07:40:00 2018 No.5050293 >>5050274 don't have any desire to relive dial up bullshit

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 17:47:56 2018 No.5051395 >>5050293 Playing in anything but 56k is not authentic.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 19:26:25 2018 No.5051578 >>5051395 >i was too poor to have broadband in the 00's wew lad

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 19:52:00 2018 No.5051621 >>5051578 DC broadband adapters weren't just expensive, they were in very short supply. I had to import mine.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 23:47:35 2018 No.5051975 >>5051621 I remember doing that, and then I had to do it all over again for the Gamecube. All so I could spam three attacks for hours on end.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 23:49:44 2018 No.5051980 >>5047892 Is that from the private server's client? Can you map game controller buttons to the bottom row?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 18 23:59:39 2018 No.5051994 >>5051621 Sega gonna Sega.

Anonymous Wed Sep 19 00:28:46 2018 No.5052026

>>5051980
>Can you map game controller buttons to the bottom row?
You could use external software similar to Joy2Key to accomplish this, of course there's only so many unused buttons on a controller in PSO. I suppose you could use the two unused shoulders, back/select, analogue stick buttons and the axis on the right stick... I guess that would cover 9 out of the 10 slots. But it hardly seems worth it, the game's quick menu is good enough.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 19 02:15:40 2018 No.5052138 >>5052026 A controller gives you better control over your character than the keyboard does, but all the room for extra binds that the number keys is nice. Easy access traps, techs, and Trimates are just 2gud.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 19 02:50:08 2018 No.5052180 >>5052138 Well, yeah. I use a controller mainly but use the keyboard hotkeys for quick mates and sometimes for traps when my photon blast meter is full. (though usually I end up doing pic related >>5047908 instead)

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 19 03:02:06 2018 No.5052189 >>5051578 I didn't have broadband where I was living in the early 00s. It came like a year or two after PSO v1 was released.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 19 03:12:26 2018 No.5052197 >>5050274 I've been looking to give my pi a new function after using it as a shit emulation box.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 19 03:15:18 2018 No.5052201 File: 205 KB, 495x1091, ffe2bfd13fcdeb700e622e7853c1f28e.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5052197 Go for it anon. It's not like you're out anything if you don't like it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 19 04:09:17 2018 No.5052251 >>5052201 If I want to play PSO ver2, do I NEED an official copy or would I be able to find an image that can fit on a regular CD-R?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 19 04:15:24 2018 No.5052256 File: 552 KB, 621x853, 47678552_p0.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5052251 An image works fine. You can grab an image that's already prepatched to go to the Sylverant server at http://psopalace.sylverant.net/downloads.html..

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 19 04:21:12 2018 No.5052264 File: 24 KB, 640x480, 170150611.8_38751324_10160680813715430_695508965051596800_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5052256 thanks!

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 19 10:21:31 2018 No.5052668 >>5043390 >softmodded wii >wprks ovsr wifj >usb kepboard support

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 19 14:12:39 2018 No.5053140 >>5052668 Wait, you can play the GC version online with a Wii?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 20 13:49:43 2018 No.5055153 Anyone want to get together to play on Ephinea?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 21 00:57:57 2018 No.5056248 >>5055153 That looks like a recent post, are you on right now?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 21 00:58:59 2018 No.5056249 >>5056248 Whoops, looks like I can't read a 24 hour clock! That wasn't recent at all.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 21 13:47:36 2018 No.5057007 >>5056249 If only 4chan posts were in beats, we wouldn't have this issue.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 21 13:56:05 2018 No.5057017 >>5057007 1000 BEATS A DAY

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 21 15:17:04 2018 No.5057126 >>5047903 Aww fuck... I hadn't thought about this in years but >When I was a kid, I carefully cut/tore ads out of magazines and put them on my walls >This was one of the ads I put on the back of my door. Man... Do kids even do that anymore?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 21 15:38:46 2018 No.5057161 >>5057126 My kids don't, that would mean they buy magazines, which I'm thankful they don't. I cringe at how much I spent on that nonsense when I was their age, all to get a demo disk and a couple of posters.

Anonymous Fri Sep 21 15:53:02 2018 No.5057183

>>5057161
I really liked gaming mags. Between my aunt and my parents, I had three or four subscriptions. If you were just looking for promotional stuff, I could see why you'd be disappointed, but I really liked the late 90s/early 2000s magazines that actually had communities based around them. Like Tips & Tricks, Nintendo Power, and the Pojo gaming mags.

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