I miss this game lads.
Why not play it then? There are private servers.
Play on Ephinea private server. There's a /v/ discord if you're interested.
>>344859541
How does it compare to PSO 2?
>>344859541
>see pic
>suddenly can see the loading animation and hear the sound
>get a crushing feel deep inside of me
Holy fuck, w-what was that?
>>344862936
nostalgia pangs
>>344862571
slower, clunkier, much simpler combat
>>344859541
I play on Ephinea server, it's good fun
i'm very quiet though, so don't expect a conversation
>>344862936
>>344859541
Fucking get on Ephinea you faggots. I'm sitting at level 50 trying to get a VHard TTF going at 9 in the morning and nobody is biting and you two are sitting here acting like the game is dead
>>344859541
Ok nostalgia fag. Now go play PSO2 or go to the private servers.
>Everyone will say try PSO2
>Everyone will shit on PSO2
>This thread was made to Shit on PSO2, say PSO1 is the best,etc,etc, etc
/Thread.
>>344866389
>defending the PS series after PSO
Why? PSU was a fucking bust and they didn't even bother to release PSO2 in burgerland
i had the best time playing this on xbox. literally invested thousands of hours into this.
>>344859541
Why is there a white circle where the Humar's head should be?
>>344866760
As much as I loved PSO, you're wrong about PSU. That game had a lot of content added to it with the expansion.
I wish I could play PSO2. It looks interesting.
>>344867182
The expansion was far too late. Single player campaign was awful, the weapon element system wasn't good, breaking your weapons while grinding them just added to the grind, missions dropping you off at different locations didn't work, I could go on. I really wanted to love PSU but it wasn't good.
>>344867324
Did you even play PSU online?
![263237[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/J6KKhSS.jpg "263237[1].jpg")
>>344862571
man fuck pso2
i'm mad as fuck about ranger's rifles and launchers are not fucking fun
im mad as fuck about fighter, hunter, and mother FUCKING PAs
but most of all
most of fucking all
i am mad about the RETARDED, GODDAMN, fucking STUPID gunners and the universal lack of fucking shotguns and no the piss ass rifle PA doesn't fucking count
fuck pso2
>>344867403
I did, and it bored me to tears. They replaced MAGs with that shit robot that just further enhanced the grind instead of being useful or interesting. The only good things about that game were the graphics (for the time) and the lobby actually being a city
>>344867468
Plenty of reasons not to like PSO2 but these are some of the most retarded I've read
>>344867182
>I wish I could play PSO2. It looks interesting.
Why CAN'T you play PSO2?
>>344867182
You can play PSO2 with zero problems. Thanks to the English patch, Japanese servers are filled with all kinds of retards now. Even BRs have joined in on the fun.
>>344859541
>Got it on Gamecube
>Grind endlessly
>Red Sword
>Memorycard corruption
I miss it too, bro. I can't go back.
>>344861657
I am actually, could you link it please? Would be nice to talk about my favourite game since the /m/ discord is pretty dead
>>344861657
Seconding. Fuck /v/ but ephinea is pretty much the best server.
>psu is better than the O's
>episode 3 is good
Fite me fagit.
>>344867725
then kind anon would you elaborate on the not retarded ones? because every reason is a retarded one. every single one. you don't have anything to say so get the fuck out, and take your shitty ideas with you
>>344867758
>zero problems
They have item descriptions for the English patch now?
>>344868238
>psu is better than the O's
all day.
>>344861657
Just did a quick google search, is this the discord you mentioned? http://supforums.com/thread/337688659/video-games/remember-pso-we-just-started-a-little-group-on-the.html
>>344868314
>They have item descriptions for the English patch now?
Not him. I haven't played this game since 2014/early 2015, but I remember there being the standard english patch with two additional download options; Story Patch and Item Translation which I believe worked through the pso2tweaker or something.
>>344867745
I haven't been able to activate an account properly. I did my best to follow the vg guide, but something goes wrong after the captcha.
>>344862571
Combat is really basic.
Basically a weapon can do one combo and that's it.
At best you get a nice special effect.
Wherease a rifle in PSO2 can act like a shotgun, a sniper, an automatic rifle or a grenade launcher at the same time.
It's arguable whether the writing was better or not, but the atmosphere and setting were a million times better, even compared to vanilla PSO2 - before it was invaded by all the anime and game crossover content and had fucking J-pop idol concerts.
>>344868673
Not him but if it's the one I'm thinking of it doesn't work .
>>344866760
I would agree with you if phantasy star portable 2 and infinity didnt exist.
Those games were the last good games in the ps series
>>344868314
Item translation has been a thing for a good while, just don't forget to download it separate package on the tweaker.
>>344868238
Ep III had a great OST.
>>344869119
It had a great competitive scene while it lasted too.
>>344868824
The only thing that could go wrong during the catcha phase is you taking too long to solve the catcha, because the catcha is literally the only thing you have to worry about when creating a SegaID.
>>344868238
>episode 3 is good
all it needed was a way to skip enemys turn phase so the game could move faster then a bucket full of snails.
>>344868854
Writing in PSO2 was great up until Ep3, then it got weird.
Ep4 is just full blown retard now, unsalvageable garbage. Literally took the "IM IN A VIDEO GAME xD" route.
>>344868238
>Unironically liking the card game
For what purpose?
>>344867468
>im mad as fuck about fighter, hunter, and mother FUCKING PAs
All i'm hearing is "I CAN'T GIT GUD WHY DO I KEEP DIEING WHEN I LIMIT BREAK".
PAs are amazing, however that let Sega be fucking lazy and now none of the weapons are actually special or do unique things. They're all just stat sticks to further your PAs which is kind of depressing.
>>344868445
nope
>>344869193
What!? There was PvP in PSU? I only remember PvP from the PSP games.
>>344869295
The card game was good.
Idk what you're getting at.
>>344869295
>"IM IN A VIDEO GAME xD"
So, is PSO2 a reboot or in the same universe as PSO1?
>>344867468
>He doesn't know how fun Gunners are now
https://twitter.com/pso2_Zofy/status/729623569760583681
MPAs will never be fun. Doesn't matter what your class is, 12 people will simply bulldoze through everything.
>>344869295
>LIMIT BREAK
wrong game?
also you shouldn't be hearing anything since its a text post on the internet
>>344869349
It is, if you check the dates on all these sites listed here https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Ephinea+private+server&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=40eGV6rLJ9O6Utb2i9gH#q=Ephinea+private+server+discord they're between 13-18th of may. Sadly either the guy who made the discord link is an idiot and made it 24 hours only or the server owner deleted all the links. This is the one thing I really fucking hate about discord, it's retardedly hard to get into discords at times
Dark Falz or Olga Flow? Who was the better boss?
>>344869601
There's a skill literally called Limit Break for Fighter.
>>344869485
There was some vague chance that it was in the same world as PSO, or at least an alternate timeline or something.
They've thrown that shit all out the window though with Ep4. Nothing is sacred, the next update coming is in literally Las Vegas where the boss is the statue of liberty riding a sphinx. The last one was in Tokyo and you found a hydra made of trains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92bZ5UnPG3w
I like Cutie Androids.
>>344869295
>cant get good
>implying the PA spam that is pso2 takes skill
>even implying that pso2 has an inkling of difficulty at all
>imlying that pso2 was ever hard other then dealing with overseas lag compensation
>>344869747
Lag has never been an issue
>>344869620
Olga Flow easily.
Who wants to grind TTF with me guys xD my jsword is almost unlocked xd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8lkn0WKfA
>>344869620
Falz
>>344869601
Limit Break is a fighter skill that buffs you damage up by a large amount but reduces your max health to 25%. I'm also completely blind and limbless and using text to speech and a trained african grey parrot to use voice input to shitpost at you.
>>344869747
>overseas lag compensation
I'm sorry to hear about your brazilian banananet, anon. I'm on basically a step up from dialup and suffer nearly no delays.
Lets seem the fighter vids.
>>344869295
>Literally took the "IM IN A VIDEO GAME xD" route
Except it didn't?
>>344859541
Sega is so fucking shit. Glad they finally let go of spiral knights and suddenly the game got instant fixes everyone asked for years.
>>344869732
source?
>>344869659
honestly, i was more concerned with how in the early trailers they made ranger look like it played like a western tps. it would have been okay when combined with PA use, but what we gotis so much worse
>>344870028
Somewhere on Pixiv. Find the Japanese kanji for Phantasy Star Online and use it on Pixiv search and you'll probably find it. Though you'll need to be a member and have adult material visible to see it.
>>344869891
Explain the shota literally pulling up the game menu and logging out in front of you, and then you popping out her computer screen, and then her being sucked into her own computer screen and now she has a mystical katana in which she's going to be the plot device to save Tokyo and Earth.
>>344870060
It still plays like that though? Not sure what trailers you were looking at
>>344870013
did it?
checked the forums a week ago and it still seemed like it was in "were working on it we swear! Now buy more costume boxes and play these year old events with grinding that literally rivals pso rare grinding while the games shitty java codeing keeps the game at sub 60 fps everytime an explosion is on screen"
>>344869295
>Writing in PSO2 was great up until Ep3
Don't kid yourself, it was always shit. Been here since beta.
>I wish I could play PSO2. It looks interesting.
Here, lemme sum it up for you:
>You grind to 75 (either main and subclass or all classes) and grind your mag to 200
>You grind money to upgrade your shit by doing daily orders and/or time attack orders
>You get decent 13* weapons from collection files
>You join MPAs and steamroll through everything unless you're a shitter with shit gear like the rest of your party
>Once you've got the best gear all you can do is grind money for future upgrades or costumes
Pic related for the last part.
>>344870214
He probably means a TPS like a shooter, not RPG numbers shooting.
>>344870161
Sierra has some theories about it during the main story board events. Nothing has been explained clearly yet, but the one thing repeated over and over throughout is that you are literally not in a videogame.
>>344870361
The drop rates got fixed literally the day after. Suddenly you get the fire gem stuff at a reasonable amount to not have to grind a year to break from 4 star to 5 star gear. The pricebox custome spam stopped. New stuff was added rather quickly with slime coins and the casino.
>>344867946
>tfw I got the GC version and couldnt even get online
>Still played it for like 2000 hours
>Had friends play
>They barely made it past lv50
>I had 3 lv130ish chars
You know as much as I love PSO I've NEVER gotten a character to lv200. Got to like 189 on DC PSO and I think around the same level on Schthack private server. The grind is just too much. Love the shit out of the games though and probably played them off and on for like 12 years or so. PSO 2 is okay and I might pick it up again but we'll never have another PSO ever again and that makes me sad.
>>344870518
So you can't?
>>344870518
>"You aren't in a video game!"
">YOU'RE IN A TABLETOP GAME!"
There will always be a private server somewhere, but it's no substitute for the split screen co-op on gamecube. This game epitomized my teenage years as a budding young weeaboo. I miss those days, but they're long gone now. Even if I had many friends, none of them would probably like the game unless it was a part of their childhood, and it's too much of a commitment to even get one person into it. And after all that, it's still hard enough in it's own right to coordinate 4 grown ass adults to hang out and play vidya together at home, let alone on a regular basis in an RPG where you play for hundreds of hours. I ache knowing I will never have that experience again.
>>344869240
Thanks, anon. I'll try again today.
If you're joining up on Ephinea because you're a "veteran PSO player" and you aren't going Hardcore just know that we are laughing at you .
>>344870745
It's easy, guy. Not like we aren't surrounded in social media networks now a days.
I've got a 4 man crew to play this and Crystal Chronicles with. Took maybe 4 days to figure it all out.
>>344870482
That's how it plays though, you just need to press Z
>>344870392
>Been here since beta.
Same here buddy, Ep1 wasn't bad and Ep2 was actually pretty decent. Hell even Harukotan was pretty cool just as concept but it was a little weird to just be fighting some random other unrelated ancient evil that happened to be lurking around.
Costumes are basically the end game. This is the best character customization game out there currently barring heavily modded Bethesda trash. Just so happens to have a moderately fun game attached to it too.
>>344870518
> but the one thing repeated over and over throughout is that you are literally not in a videogame.
That's called character perspective. She's not an out of character narrator, she's a character in her own universe who lived her whole life as not a video game character, so the concept would be pretty hard to grasp for someone like that right?
Ask Hitsugi instead, she would tell you a freakish robot popped out of her video game to fight monsters that suddenly showed up in her world, and then she got pulled into her fucking video game somehow.
Then again I highly doubt Sega is competent enough at writing to take something like character perspective into account.
is there a widescreen patch for psobb?
>>344871029
Traditional shooters don't tend to rely on character stats or player activated skills (PAs etc.). It's just guns and nades. That's the point of contention here. It doesn't feel like a traditional shooter, and it's most certainly not a traditional shooter, so playing it in TPS mode feels off.
>>344870658
It's connected to Mother, Ether, investigation of the fate of photoners - things that at best had some vague hints about what they even are, left alone how they work. You know, because the episode that is supposed to last for over a year has barely started.
In absence of solid plot reason why you aren't in a videogame, you could explain how you are in a game when it's the one of the few things that have been confirmed that you aren't.
>>344870028
Since I was in there anyway...
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=51084950
>>344870013
>>344870361
they have yet to do anything worthwhile. so far the only thing thats happened is a small amount boring old 5$ cash-only box shit got reissued but now you can open the boxes with about 2$ worth of crowns. so look forward to more old shit that nobody wanted the first time round, and of course the things everyone really want will still be 1% of 5$ cash-only boxes like usual.
they'll never fix the actual problems, you know, the ones that crashed their old company and made staff leave to work on their own multi million game
>>344870807
>the mode where 90% of your time will be spent solo because normal players cant join hardcore rooms
>the mode that makes playing hunter even worse then in normal
>the mode where one stray megid can make you lose 100+ hours of progress
>the mode where you can potentially get trapped into hard quest where the only way out is to die and lose everything
dont kid yourself, theirs a reason people dont play HC and it isnt due to difficulty
>>344871256
ARKS ship is currently parked outside the Earth's orbit, so the two seem equally real.
>>344868854
>but the atmosphere and setting were a million times better, even compared to vanilla PSO2
Definitely. If they ever make a PSO3 several years down the road, I'd love it if they took PSO2's systems and combat and combined it with PSO1's look and atmosphere. That would make my dick rock hard.
>>344869512
Holy shit that looks stylish as fuck.
>>344871564
>HC can join normal rooms
>what are scape dolls?
>>344871342
>confirmed
I've been playing phantasy star portable and enjoying it. I have a big laser katana, and that's cool. That's my story to add to this thread, thanks for reading.
>>344873242
Laser swords are cool.
>>344873242
the portable games were extremely underated.
>>344868238
WEEEEE WILL CHOOOOSE TOOOOO FIIIIIIIIGHT
>>344876269
FOOOOR A WOOORLD BEEEEYOOOOOOOOND
>>344868238
>>psu is better than the O's
I'm ok with this.
>>344869512
The game could really use more encounters like that.
>>344859541
phantasy star universe had a better soundtrack
what is it with early seventh generations games having amazing soundtracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYZ9n-cOnp0
>>344859541
I miss this game even more. At least you can relive your nostalgia and play on a private server.
This game will likely never get the support it deserves. Such a great and underrated game.
>>344861657
>>344868445
Actually, there is one. Hours late, yeah, but it exists. A lot of people are taking a break right now, though. Might be a wee bit trickier to find games with people directly in the group, but I know I'll be playing again once summer event kicks up. Also kinda quiet recently but we are here kind of.
https://discord.gg/5hWrN
can anyone link the discord, been waiting hours now
>mfw I hear modern MMO kiddies complaining about 2 percent drop rates
>>344866389
>>344866760
Still, PSO2 has one of the coolest even I have ever seen in a MMO.
Kuna's concert are really fun too.
>>344870643
>Yahoo! MAG
Holy fuck this game had everything
>>344879172
>>344879107
Wow that was some slick timing, thanks pal
>>344867468
Personally, what's hurts me the most about PSO2 is how fucking awful Swords are in it.
Like, holy shit why Sega?!
>>344879298
Swords are great for crowd control now, but you need to switch to something that is a partisan when facing a big enemy.
>Tfw no one was ever able to beat my score
>>344879290
No prob. Decided to take a peek at the board and noticed a PSO thread. Don't make 'em much myself but I figure I'd take a peek in.
I've never playing PSO desu
gonna try one of these private servers
>>344879021
My nigga. I always thought that would have made an amazing handheld game. I kept waiting for a port.
>>344879404
You mean that Mining base invasions aren't fucking painful anymore?
>>344870643
I had about as much time as you. I loss two sets of characters to the FSOD X glitch. Those were hard days.
>>344879681
Oh, no, they're still the FO's playground. Don't get your hopes up.
>tfw haven't played PSO since dreamcast days
>tfw toaster, not sure if blue burst will work
I might try later anons, are private servers as good as it used to be?
>>344870013
>>344870013
>Glad they finally let go of spiral knights
One of the first games on steam I played when I made my account. Got pretty boring really quick though.
>>344879681
They are if you are the only decent player, as usual, but war cry and charge parrying work especially well there.
There's still no good mobility option other than Guilty Break when you have a sword out, so don't expect to outdo Forces and Bravers.
>>344879817
God fucking dammit.
>>344879927
>War cry
Last time I used this seriously, pic related ALWAYS happened.
Did they finally buffed it or something?
WHO SAYS WE ARE LOST AGAAAIN IN THIS LOOOONELY WOOOOOOOORLD
>>344867403
Fuck I miss speed running white beast, fuck you Sega for killing it with a community still playing it
>>344879861
The game itself doesn't hold very well (The MH series is essentially it's successor with better everything) but if you like PSO you'll like the private servers.
Ephinea is essentially the official server because it's the most vanilla and stable one out there, although it does have a few minor QoL improvements.
Ultima looks good if you want something with a completely different end-game (custom enemies/weapons with ridiculous stats that make vanilla enemies & weapons not shit)
>>344880063
This feels like a lag or desync issue more than anything. Sometimes this happens when I use War Cry, sometimes every Goldrahda gathers around me if I use Show Time. Same with Gravity Bomb, though that thing is almost guaranteed to not work on suicide bugs.
My biggest problem with PSO2 can be simply resumed with this picture.
>>344879569
Ephenia for a vanilla pso experience
scht for a hacker fuckfest but semi different pso
i dont know what eden has
>>344880819
yep, downloading ephinea
is there a friend system so I can add /v/irgins
>>344869620
Flow was incredible, not to take away from Falz tho. This game is incredible, i dont know how it hasnt had an HD remaster for iOS/Android or Steam. I'd even take a 3ds port at this point.
>>344880379
I guess i'll try joining Ephinea if it works and after i've scoured the wiki for character infos/weapon loadout/etc
I haven't seen much of phantasy star since PSO but I did try one of the psp ones. it was, ok-ish?
I want to try PSO2 aswell but they won't port it >=(
FEEL THE LIGHT THE MIGHT THE HEROS AGAIN LET THE DAWN STAND IN ALL OF US EVERYONE EVERYTHING INFINITY
>>344869620
It's sadly hilarious that the final boss of Ep.4 was so shit that it doesn't even merit talking about
I played PSO on the Gamecube and shithack back in the day. What happened with PSO2? Why did it never come over to the west?
WHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
CAN I STILL SEEEEEEE THE LIGHT INSIIIIIIDE?
Can the Vita game be played in NA? online and everything?
>>344881090
Because the west is coming to PSO2 instead. >>344869668
>>344881209
IF you can read japanese, yes.
>>344880948
Not exactly a friend system but we have a discord. ( >>344879107 ) Again, it's been kinda quiet recently but we've been at it for about two months. People are taking time off to do other things, and I'm kinda waiting for a date on summer event.
>>344881090
It became a NEETbait money printing machine. While the base combat and such is technically better, it's so fucking piss easy it's boring. All new 'content' is also easy as fuck or just a shitload of collaborations with various trash animes to siphon money from people.
Let's not fucking mention the fact that their newest area in the game is TOKYO. ON EARTH. And the enemies? Fucking tanks, dinosaurs, birds, steamrollers, helecopters, a fucking train, yakuza members, rats, bears... it's a huge fucking shitshow. The new story quest is the worst I've seen in a game in recent times. The new 'emergency quest' they added LITERALLY CANNOT BE FAILED.
>>344881026
Don't bother with PSO2. It's a waste of time. PSP2 and PSP2i are good, though. Ephinea is also a good server. There's a summer event coming up as well because server's one-year anniversary, so that could be neat.
>>344881090
Because Sega is the grand champion of mismanaging their IPs.
>>344881209
Both PSO2 and PSNova can, though you need some wizardry with your PSN account or something.
>>344869620
Falz is a far better constructed boss. Olga can be trashed in 10 seconds both forms by any well equipped RA/HU.
>>344871289
Not that I know of, sadly.
>>344869620
Falz is the better fight, but Olga Flow part 1 is GOAT music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3AdN80WKXw
>>344869620
I like Falz more out of nostalgia, but holy shit is he just a gear check. Hope you can survive auto-target Grantz and random Megid! Seriously, were you supposed to have light and dark resistance equipped?
>>344881686
light resistance is so hard to find and useless outside of falz i just use hp mods to try and live it.
Why don't they want to bring PSO2 to the west again?
>>344881090
>Game is built around selling anime collabs that they would have to renegotiate or drop for the western release
>The current Phantasy Star fanbase has invested too much time in the JP version to make the switch.
>>344882328
They do, it's coming soon!
>>344882430
>100 years later
>>344881090
>>344882328
PSO2 was released when SEGA were going through a difficult time. Everything was going poorly for them, through poor decisions or poor sales. There's evidence that at one point they were working on an English release of PSO2, but as the company was about to crash and burn, they decided to focus on "core franchises", which meant closing a bunch of their external studios and shelving PSO2's localisation and western release.
In the years since, there have been some clear attempts at attempting to bring it westwards, with hiring ads at Sega-owned studios for project managers who have experience with working with Japanese studios and online games, and stories of them trying to give it to another studio entirely to bring over to avoid the problems that came with PSU.
However, as PSO2 is now several years old, and makes most of its money from anime collaborations that wouldn't be feasible outside of Japan, it's probably destined to never leave their shores, as the hype for it has long since passed (you've either played it by now or not) and it would be dead on arrival here.
>>344882328
I don't know about initially, but it's clearly too late now. Anyone who really wants to play is already playing the Japanese version. The cost of upkeep and translations would not be recouped at this point.
>>344882747
Actually the PS4 release more than quadrupled the playercount, but its tapered back down to a steady triple or so during prime time.
It was so full that they had to shut down new character creation on Ship 4. They're trying their hardest to bring in new players constantly, running commercials about Episode 4 and everything.
Has there been a single game with a better loot system AND loot than PSO?
>you will never spend hours on pso-world.com again daydreaming about that super rare item that only your section ID can get
>you will never again lose you lvl 170 RAcast with Heaven Punisher and Frozen Queen to your gamecube freezing and corrupting your data
>you will never again pray to every diety known to man while watching your game daya saving, praying that there are no power outages or random shit
>you will never bully your younger siblings to play this with you for hours on end
Why even live?
>>344883202
Stop, I didn't ask for this feels trip
>>344882931
Western hype. Outside Japan people only know PSO2 as a symbol of Sega's incompetence.
>>344883815
but people in other parts of asia play pso
Anyone want to play on Ephinea? I have a lvl 80 character but I took a break because I didn't feel like farming Frozen Shooter.
>>344866760
>they didn't even bother to release PSO2 in burgerland
You say this like it's a bad thing. Getting Americans on board has done nothing but hurt the online games in the past, you're better off playing the version that exists regardless of where you are from, and we, the players, are better off with less Americans.
>>344884710
Just installed the game, gonna take me a while to level up since I'm new
>>344868314
Item names, but not many descriptions. It's just fluff though. Is being able to read descriptions like 'it's a sword that looks like a baseball bat' really a make or break?
>>344885171
Don't units have bonus stats that are only mentioned in the description?
>>344885171
I got to know the story of the baseball bat tho. Tell me it's story, it's legend.
>>344883478
https://youtu.be/o5QUwgpcwKg
Official thread song
>>344866983feminism
>>344885479
It often isn't mentioned even in the description. You can view the set info in a separate, easily readable tab, but for the unit's "hidden" properties, 9 times out of 10 you have to refer to the wiki.
Who /gamecube/ here? 4P offline splitscreen was baller as hell.
>>344880064
WE'RE ON THE SAAAAME SHIP
aight, I'm on the ship and I have no idea what to do
>>344870643
>mfw lvl 180-200 takes as much exp as 1-180
>>344886024
I played on the Gamecube and loved it. I've played a bit of BB (official and schthack) since but nothing has quite captured me like the GC version.I played using the dial-up modem.
>>344886479
ITS CALLED STARSHIP EEEEEE@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@RRRRRTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>344871289
The private server that everybody's talking about has a widescreen client, yeah. They still haven't released the local version as far as I know (empty promises).
>>344879021
Oh hey, this rappy image is from that game! I thought it was fanart. I'll play Episode 3 one of these days.
>>344861657
Didnt that Ephinea server add in-game voice chat? I remember they were beta testing something like that at one point.
>>344879021
>tfw i bought this at the same time as ep i&ii and thought 'i'll play it when i'm finished with this one'
>ep iii is still sealed because i never stopped playing epi&ii
help me /v/, I'm retarded
I made this image 7 years ago when /v/ was playing SCHTHACK, maybe you will find use for it today.
>>344887238
Start a lobby and kill shit
>>344859541
I miss it too. PSO had a really unique economy before hacks/exploits screwed it up. You hunt for rare items and then trade those rare items with other players. Nothing was soulbound or trade limited. If you didn't have rare weapons/armor, you could trade people photon drops instead. I remember spending a large portion of the game just trading all the shit I collected and socializing with people through symbol chat.
2004 was forever ago
>>344887236
Sell it if it's still sealed. It should be worth something.
I still got a used copy of PSO plus edition somewhere and they are going about $70 for just the disc.
>>344868238
Why would I fight someone with a mental illness?
>>344887412
I remember when people posted pso:bb on /v/ it was near Christmas, so it was literally like a Christmas present for me. I had played to like 160 solo on gamecube as a FOmarl and I played again on PSO PC that I had to learn to burn to discs and install through complicated ways, and it only had episode 1 so I got bored. When the private server came up and everyone was playing, I think I ended up playing a huge amount in the /v/ rooms just running TTF. Playing a FOmarl with a group was so satisfying, knowing my buffs weren't just getting used by myself equipped with the mantis daggers. Episode 4 was worth the wait too.
>>344887529
Looking back, it was a shitshoot of grinding to try and be the very best.
And yet, I really do miss it. It had such a charm that no other multiplayer game like this has achieved in my opinion.
>>344859541
Hello fellow kids
It's a shame if something would happen to your character...
>>344884938
FFXI is a game where the addition of Europeans to the game (after JP and NA were playing together for years) qualitatively ruined the community, so nah, not really
>>344887236
>>344887742
>mfw I got Episode 1 and 2 for $10
The store owner said it was a useless collectible because the servers were gone.
should I be playing this game with a pad
>>344886525
In the lobby? Go to the counter and create a room.
In the town? Walk into the big teleporter behind the guards and go get beat up by boomas.
>>344888465
yep, fighting niggas now
>those fucking 1/10000 rare drops
>mfw I had action replay
>>344887128
Yeah, and annoyingly it's on by default. I don't like having to opt-out. It should be an opt-in feature.
>>344888430
I've gotten three chars to 130+ with keyboard but its really just personal preference.
>>344888326
Gaijins in general destroyed ship 2. Though it has to be yuros again if Brexit symbol arts are of any indication.
>>344888329
My friend had two copies and traded me one for a broadband adapter. Bought another one for myself and we went to town.
>>344888329
Lucky. Even though the servers are indeed dead, the original PSO for GameCube is still sought after by GameCube enthusiasts.
Fun fact: if you have a modem or broadband adaptor for GameCube, you can setup a proxy server on your PC and trick your GameCube connecting to it which you can exploit into loading homebrew which can be used to play pirated GameCube games.
>>344888134
Yup, some of that was probably me.
I used to hoard an entire bank full of Varistas, Cross Scars, DB Sabers, all sorts of low-end rares and passed them out to anybody from /v/. Varista was fucking useful early game. That's actually about where I found my firstventrilo group. Saw a passworded room with a few newbies in it with an obvious /v/ name, so I guess it was "rage" and just started shitting fun loot out and we had a blast.
>>344888859
>Varistas
god the memories of seeing a red box drop and getting excited as fuck only to see it be a fucking varista. Good times.
>>344888859
>tfw varista was my first rare drop
>tfw i had a bunch of rare daggers i couldn't use because I was a ranger so i gave away the extras to low-level hunters
>>344888430
I use a pad because I'm so used to playing PSO with a controller, I use a Xbox 360 controller and it works great.
>>344888430
Yes. It was orignally made for the Dreamcast so look up the DC layout and set your controller buttons accordingly.
Am I crazy for wanting to just start a brand new character in PSO2? I know there's class switching and all, but I think it's time to start anew.
Any way to not feel like that?
Also, is ship 4 or 2 more populated?
Which one has more english speaking players?
>tfw exploring the ruins while listening to alien ant farm
maximum comfy
>>344888551
Section IDs were a bullshit system if you were playing solo, but it did encourage other players to play together and trade.
I really like how Ephinea has the luck system from PSU, makes hunting for rares easier.
>>344888743
Oh I know, I just have no money now or I would believe me. I'm completely dead broke, and I'm sure those BBA are expensive now.
>mfw I found an adapter for $14 a few years ago but it was the telephone cable one and not ethernet
>>344888723
Sounds like you had a good time.
>>344889054
>>344889062
just gonna play with mouse for now until I get a new controller, feels pretty comfortable desu
>>344889305
Ship 4 has the highest population.
Ship 2 has the highest ratio of english speakers.
>>344889305
You don't gain much from restarting, since only your mag requires money to reset. If one of your free slots is still vacant, it is a good idea to make a new character even if you won't use it, but generally, you lose a ton of progress by scrapping an old character completely.
>>344867468
Those are your reasons? Not the
>butchering of atmosphere and character design
>not the copy paste rare weapons that are functionally the same as their 1* counterparts aside from potentials (shitty passive power boosts or passive specific boosts)
>inflated droprates that makes PSO look like kids play and the addition of rare boosts so you HAVE to run with them in order to get some chance of a rare
>addition of markets that trivializes most rares and was the reason rares were so expensive in the first place
>progression being so fucked that they had to release cards to give you a free rare
>trade and player market being gone and replaced with a shitty AH
>passives stats being really strong and having the worst system to add them on to armor
>emergency quest and how all relevant updates and gear are being added to them instead of adding difficulty modes
>plethora of mission but all are shit and only relevant content being available to EQs (can't play at a certain time? Fuck you)
>Skill tree being expansive and massive with lots of possibility but only one build is viable making (glass cannon or bust) most new players have to restart or make mission take much longer
>combat being extremely PA heavy making some weapons good in theory but falling off fast due to EQ mobs
>maps losing the puzzle element and being randomized blobs of garbage
>bosses outside of SOME EQ bosses posing no threat
>class balance being abysmal and favors range
>balance revolves of nerfing something to being useless or buffing it until it broken
>ways to make money outside of the AH are tedious and you cannot hunt rares in harder missions to make money since they are only available at certain times and the drop rate is so abysmal you wont find them (save for the new 13* tokyo rares)
>best rares in the game are not sellable or tradeable so weapon market is basically worthless
I can go on but i'll bump this thread. I hate pso2 and I payed since alpha.
>>344889440
>play with mouse
Huh? How... what? You... no, what? Double what? I can't process this.
How fucking hard was it to take PSO and make it better, Sega? Why did the "sequel" have to be a bigger disappointment than I am?
the music in this game is amazing
>>344889481
>>344889790
Thanks guys. I'll probably just use a free slot on 4 and keep my main on 2.
Also, how do I dish out more damage? Back when I was playing, everyone at my level was dishing out 2-5x more damage than me regularly. I'm getting sick of being useless
>>344859541
>2003
>Get home from school
>Boot up PSO on GameCube and head into the lobby
>People having photon chair races, spamming symbol chats, and tons of of people doing quests or trading
>Join a TTF group and end up finding a Yamato weapon
>Awesome this weapon looks cool
>Join a trade group after and some hucast offers me a chain sawd for the Yamato
>We both teleport to forest and show off each other's weapons
>Holy fuck that chainsawd looks badass and the stats are good too
>Trade him and add his guild card so we can hunt later
>Go back to lobby and just chill
>Look at the clock
>It's already night time
Feels
>>344890330
Shifta drink!
>>344890093
just to move around
also, I'm just spamming enter because I don't know the controls
>>344890330
Most of you damage comes from your skill tree and you work your way down
>Skill Tree
>Weapon being +10
>Weapon element being 60
>Weapon potential max
>PAs
>Drink
>innate class bonus
>affix on armor/set bonus
>affix on weapon
>Shifta
So prioritize whats on top. I may have forgotten something though.
>>344890115
Sega doesn't care about making good games anymore, just what makes the best profit.
PSO2 is more profitable than PSO.
>>344890597
F12 to open main menu
>>344890856
oohhhh, you use the fuckin arrow keys
>>344890330
Most damage skills act as multipliers, so stacking them improves your numbers by a lot.
Weapon's element should be maxed, and potential at least unlocked.
Affixes are deceptively important. Having +70 on each piece of gear gives you a nice boost.
Shifta drink, or, if you have the time and enough base attack for it to work better, Photon drink's secondary effect.
Team tree buff if it's available.
Techer's buff if you have one or are one yourself.
If you are talking parser numbers and not just what you see on the screen, most classes that aren't Force or Braver need proper setup to deal damage effectively.JA frames
>>344890597
> I'm just spamming enter because I don't know the controls
I dunno want enter does, but there are three types of main attacks, and two of them are ones you're gonna want to use right from the start. There's a quick attack and a strong attack, strong has less accuracy but every hit in your three hit combo is more accurate than the last.
I think by default the attacks/main pallate are bound to the arrow keys? Fuck knows why.
Like I said, made for gamepad. I use a PS2 controller connected with a cheaparse Chickenfeed convertor.
>>344859541
I hate what PSO2 ended up becoming. I remember the pre release trailers showed the game to be pretty much a remake of PSO but with jumping. In the end, we got a game with hatsune miku concerts, Gaacha scratch offs, anime promos playing on screens in the lobby, and people caring more about how they dress up their waifu than gearing up their character to make unique character builds.
>>344891607
It's not that surprising. Anyone who was on PSU JP towards the end could tell you of the bad things that were going to happen with PSO2. They started putting in heavy cash shop paywalling everywhere on quests, items, and clothing shit.
>>344891263
thanks, I didn't know you had to get the timing right for the three hit combo
>>344891924
That didn't really start with PSO2, considering how a lot of the quests were behind an actual pay wall in PSU.
>>344892050
thats what i said.
>>344891924
Pay wall wouldn't be a problem if the game wasn't a shallow puddle of piss. There is barely any content besides the constant anime collab shit.
BAHH FUCK!. I can't decide to i take the time to patch up pso2 or just say fuck it and go back to psobb?.
How good is the ephinea server compared to schthack?
>>344892621
I honestly wouldn't mind paying money for PSO2 if they actually introduced new battle content on a consistent schedule.
Something like FFXIV where every 3 months there's a new major patch that adds dungeons, bosses, and more story development.
>>344891607
Unique builds and their advocates still exist in PSO2, and they are just as worthless as they were in PSO. The only difference is that the only way to keep them out of your party now is to organize with 10 other people instead of three.
>>344892913
Story has been going at a faster pace than that as far as I noticed, and don't they add new content at similar intervals? There was a drought where you only got limited quests between Tokyo and Yamato, but now there's been the ship, the new PD and now Odin within two months.
>>344878739
>My room
My nigga, the game was shocking but I well up every time.
Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoZEx27LPA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViUaLcKfDtI
>>344890115
Barely anyone still in the industry is concerned with making a good game.
finally
>>344892916
Unique builds in PSO2 revolve around following a cookie cutter skill tree you found online and going with that. There's hardly any room for unique builds through itemization except for mags but that's stretching it.
Unique builds in PSO revolved around your actual character race and how you gear them. For example, a Formar is classified as a Force exclusive class. However, Fomars can cast spells faster with fist weapons or unequipped (no other race can do this) and benefit from a larger range of melee weapons because of their higher than average ATP. This made them excellent melee mages if you gear them appropriaty (demonic fork allows your Megid spell to pierce through enemies, double saber special attacks that consume TP to deal high damage, real neis claw boosts potency of your spells and is a fist weapon so it benefits from Fomars fasting casting passive effect).
Even though the game tells you specifically that they are more suited for ranged casting, you can turn them into different roles through proper itemization.
it's 5am here
seeya guys in another thread, I'm gonna level up and I hope we play some time when I git better
I wish there was a reason to play classes that aren't Force in PSO2.
>>344893651
Cool, so PSO2 has good game design, and PSO has shit game design, Good to know.
>>344894018
PSO2 has the worst game design possible. Everyone is mostly the same role. There's no opportunity to be different outside of dressing your character.
>>344892903
its vanilla pso bb with some quality of life enhancements.
>>344894109
Its a 50 v 1 zerg fest. You just gear to do the most damage possible, and most classes are pretty comparable end game (although some have to be more risky to keep up in DPS than others like limit break fighters)
PSO2's game design fits the gameplay perfectly. Theres lots of ways to optimize.
Sandbox Mode in Ephinea is awesome. I'm too lazy to grind in PSO again but being able to cheat in a controlled environment and still able to interact with other players has been fun.
>>344894109
Are you kidding? That's the best part.
Fuck the whole "holy trinity" bullshit every other MMO touts.
NOW EVERY CLASS IS DPS. NOW EVERYBODY GETS TO PULL THEIR OWN WEIGHT!
![[001849].png](https://i.imgur.com/8WVwLdq.png "[001849].png")
>>344882328
Iam still kinda pissed and confused about this, mostly because they have fully translated version of the game and they decided to give that version to the Japanese players who speak english.
I thought it was a joke and still hope so because that is bullshit when I read that article about SEGA localizing games.
>>344894403
What's the difference between a Ranger and another Ranger in PSO2? None. They are all railroaded to the same job. If you don't follow what's the best path for them, you're losing damage and thereby wasting everyone's time.
This stale game design didn't exist in PSO. Every character was different from the items they had, to what racial abilities each race had, and how they raised their mags.
>>344894487
>Everyone is a DPS class
>Everyone follows the same build to do max DPS
>Game gets boring quick especially with the lack of content PSO2 has and nobody does anything but Emergency Quests
>>344894714
The difference is how well you can play. Being able to stay alive with proper dodging and put out good damage is hard, and a LOT of people suck at it. Differentiate yourself by playing well, not by choosing the cheesy race/class combo at char gen. PSO mechanics were garbage because if you didnt cheese out a broken min max character starting from char gen you were useless.
>>344894714
One could go launchers, but in reality two rangers are just more coordinated weak bullet dispensers. Or they're completely uncoordinated and keep overwriting eachother's shit.
What's the difference between two RAcaseals in PSO?
>>344894704
The real reason PSO2 hasn't been localized for the west is because of the outstanding licensing issues involved with all those animeXgame promos they do in-game.
>>344894912
>Because having one guy stand in front of a boss holding a guard button while maintaining an arbitrary "aggro" meter, while a techer mashes resta would be way more fun.
What are you trying to get at here?
>>344886569
When I found this out I pretty much gave up. It took me like 6 months to get to 180. I remember looking up the exp values on PSOworld.
And you wanna know whats absolutely fucking crazy? They REDUCED the exp to get to lv200 when they repackaged the game to sell as ep 1&2. So on dreamcast pso v2 you needed something like 200 million exp to hit 200 (I think they reduced it to 185 million in subsequent releases, as well as giving you areas that gave more exp). The top level area (ultimate ruins) gave something like 150k for a full clear. I seriously don't believe anyone ever got to lv200 legit on dc pso (there were tons of lv200 around as hacking was rampant). Jeez it would have taken years.
>>344894948
One Racaseal can gear specifically for launcher builds like snow queen that can freeze anything in a line and spread needle that paralyzes anything it hits.
The other Racaseal can focus on damage traps and blasting enemies with charged Vulcans which use meseta as damage.
One Racaseal is built for support, the other is built for damage.
Play its sequel which has better combat
>>344888326
>For years
Literally came less than a year later in Europe. And NA came out less than a year after JP release as well so I'm not sure what are you on about.
Most of cheaters were NA, biggest botting shells were NA. RMT started to proliferate the moment NA players arrived as well. You could easily tell when doing HNMs during EU prime, everything was so fucking easy, JP players were asleep, NA cheaters not home yet.
>>344887238
>Playing HUmar
Yeah you are a retard. Thats like the worst class in the game.
>>344895313
Too bad PSO2 is freemium shit that has no lasting content
>>344895407
and grinding the same zone for hundreds of hours from 180 to 200 in PSO is "lasting content" get the fuck out of here
>>344865889
Any reason to be move there? My 200's are on schthack and I don't want to restart on another server.
>>344895313
but nothing that takes advantage of that combat. sega only wants you to button mash in mpas.
