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Anonymous Wed Jun 22 20:29:55 2022 No.9031642 [Reply] [Original]

Why is there nothing else like it? Even its own "sequels" are completely off the track and don't compare

This game is the only reason I got a DC, and then a GC

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 20:35:22 2022 No.9031652 Diablo, Monster Hunter

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 21:07:10 2022 No.9031738 >>9031652 Do people compare MH to PSO just because of the 4-player parties? Because there is pretty much nothing else in common between the two

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 21:32:11 2022 No.9031786 >>9031738 This, and that's why MH was such a huge disappointment for me. Heard it was a "prehistoric PSO."

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 21:52:18 2022 No.9031839 >>9031642 Never played this. Is it fun offline? Is there any way to play it online nowadays?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:12:18 2022 No.9031885 >>9031738 except for it having a main hub town only except most of the ventures into the 'fighting area' being mission-based except being based on item gathering and +1ing. >nothing alike...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:25:10 2022 No.9031912 >>9031839 It can be. Don't pick a FO though and make sure your ID drops a good weapons for your character.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:29:19 2022 No.9031928 >>9031642 You didn't actually say if it was a good game or not.

Anonymous Thu Jun 23 03:10:41 2022 No.9032563

>>9031885
Most of the ventures into the fighting area are free roam explorations that focus 95% on killing mobs and opening boxes, with the boss as a bonus at the end. This is the complete opposite of the MH formula.

Gathering and crafting are not the same thing as straight loot drops. This is one of the differences that most fans hated about PSU.

Not to mention ALL of MH's stats are tied to equipment upgrades, while PSO has independent character levels, stats and stat modifiers, as well as distinct classes and roles. This is a HUGE difference

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 23 04:33:43 2022 No.9032747 >>9031885 Don't forget the game being balanced around committed attacks.

Anonymous Thu Jun 23 06:00:13 2022 No.9032894

>>9031839
>Is it fun offline?
Yes, but it's much more fun online.
>Is there any way to play it online nowadays?
Yes, there are private servers for Dreamcast, Gamecube, and PC. No Xbox, as far as I know. And crossplay doesn't work either.
PC is the most popular. If you want to play on a console, the ethernet adapters for Dreamcast and Gamecube are outrageously expensive, so you're best off playing on a hacked Wii.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 23 06:02:00 2022 No.9032898 >>9031912 >Don't pick a FO What's wrong with them? I've always been a boring melee player but most RPGs seem to favor mages.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 23 12:50:09 2022 No.9033531 >>9032898 Forces are underpowered in the early game, and very resource hungry, especially solo. Your best strategy for a Force is to level up a Ranger first and use them to raise a Tech mag and collect some decent MND units to trade to your fresh FO.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 23 23:55:27 2022 No.9034870 >>9033531 Force is also underpowered in end game.. Force is just underpowered forever.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 00:00:17 2022 No.9034886 >>9032898 >>9033531 >>9034870 Forces are best played as a support class to Rangers/Hunters. That's why solo play with them is the hardest.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 00:05:01 2022 No.9034896 >>9034870 They aren't bad ep 1, but every fucking enemy in Central Control Area and Seabed has 90% resist to all elements.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 04:07:51 2022 No.9035413 >>9031885 >akshully Not him but fuck off

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 04:17:38 2022 No.9035430 >>9031885 what's +1ing

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 07:36:16 2022 No.9035829 File: 146 KB, 756x1000, 1650689459531.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9035430 plus one on a piece of equipment such as Nigger Dick +1, Nigger Dick +2, Nigger Dick +3 etc

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 13:13:36 2022 No.9036210 File: 215 KB, 1024x683, 1650903525084.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Destiny 2 is kind of like PSO1 if you think about it. ;)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 13:18:28 2022 No.9036221 >>9032898 Also people expect you to be the heal bitch especially when zerk happens.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 13:22:33 2022 No.9036225 File: 484 KB, 512x399, Pso_ep3_reflection.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw the best way to FO is to get a red handgun and Elysium and be a discount HU

Anonymous Fri Jun 24 13:27:16 2022 No.9036232
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>>9036225
>>9036221
>>9034896
>>9034870
>>9033531
>>9032898

It's time you bitches found out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW2GCMqw7rA&list=FLfI1v9u_45xToX19iDnhnnw&index=277&t=163s

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 13:29:47 2022 No.9036236 >>9035829 what

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 14:46:35 2022 No.9036352 >>9036210 If Bungie made both Destiny games playable offline, yeah. But Destiny 2 keeps going down the shitter by removing paid expansions once a year. It’s modern gaming at its worst.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 21:28:22 2022 No.9037073 >>9036236 You find items called monogrinders, digrinders and trigrinders. You use them to upgrade your weapons. If I remember each plus raises their attack by one or two points.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 23:23:49 2022 No.9037312 vm server when?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 23:38:22 2022 No.9037349 What makes this game so fun? I like the art style I just don't see how a MMORPG from 1999 can be fun. Sell me on it

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 24 23:45:00 2022 No.9037367 >>9031642 Can't say it was the reason I got a Dreamcast, but PSO was indeed my number one game for the GameCube! The nostalgia of the brand alone is probably still the main reason I haven't quit PSO2 / NGS..

Anonymous Sat Jun 25 00:02:22 2022 No.9037403

>>9037349
First, it's not an MMO. It's a Diablo-like / dungeon crawler / scoot and loot with online co-op.

Second, it's just a very simple and satisfying gameplay loop in a very well made setting and pacing. Playing it almost becomes meditation solo, but can get really hectic with partners.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 25 00:26:34 2022 No.9037454 >>9037403 >Its not an mmo Why not? You gather in large lobbies before heading off to dungeons like most MMOs.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 25 00:28:23 2022 No.9037462 >>9034870 >FO underpowered endgame Not if you want Shifta and deband.

Anonymous Sat Jun 25 00:30:05 2022 No.9037471

>>9037454
An MMO is not about "lobbies" with instanced gameplay, that's a modern bastardization and destruction of the genre because MMOs proper are dead. An MMO, especially in 1999, was a seamless continuous shared open game world simultaneously inhabited by thousands of players. Obviously this could not be done on consoles yet, so PSO was an "Online RPG" of small scale and optional offline play.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 25 00:44:54 2022 No.9037521 >>9037454 It's not an mmo dude and saying that isn't a slight against it

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 25 05:37:23 2022 No.9038213 File: 1.08 MB, 598x980, Phantasy_Star_Portable_2_Material_Ursula.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Infinity perfected the PSO gameplay and PSo2 has the best bosses in the series Cope.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 25 05:53:35 2022 No.9038245 >>9038213 Unfortunately they departed a bit too much from the original's tone, and PSO2 is so radically different from PSO1 in terms of gameplay.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 25 11:57:32 2022 No.9038708 File: 3.30 MB, 1744x1885, NPJH50332_00042_stitch.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9038245 I genuinely prefer PSU series games theme of Family more so than the isolated and lost stuff in PSO

Anonymous Sat Jun 25 14:18:09 2022 No.9038895

>>9038708
This is because you are a lonely virgin who wants to live vicariously through anime cliches.

PSU/PsP/2 have some of the stupidest, color-by-numbers generic plots and characters ever shit onto a script, right down to the "loli anime girl is really a 10,000 year old goddess who sprouts angel wings" tripe.

Anonymous Sat Jun 25 16:47:57 2022 No.9039194

>>9038895
I mean Phantasy Star as a series was certainly inspired by anime at the time of its release. Its just that current PSO is inspired by the worst tropes of modern anime, tropes that just won't die even now and are less interesting than something like "nothing lasts forever".

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 25 19:34:04 2022 No.9039515 >>9038895 Don't project yourself onto others anon

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