There's Dual Quests if you don't care about mindless grinding.
NGS is a grinding game like Black Desert or Lost Ark. People love that shit even if you don't.
The only people that still play this are overdosing copium and can't escape their sunken cost
I just play because there isn't another game with a similar combat system. The melee counters, the fact that Ranger kinda plays like a TPS/FPS, and the fact that the "Mage" class has a timed block with a counterattack mechanic is wholly unique to NGS.
lmao shut the hell up, not even the most deranged, copium addicted retards have touched cannonball bullshit or ordinal tower since the week they were introduced outside of afk'ing them for arks record badges
They drop expensive cosmetics. It takes you running them over-and-over again, but you will make money.
Combat is dumbed down as fuck from base pso2, removal of JA was removal of any skill required. now it's just pressing the same button over and over with most jobs having no more than 4 attacks. How can you act like this is good combat, you are a braindead casual ARPG retard.
Let go of your redundant rhythm game mechanic in my action MMO, old man.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>JA are a rhythm game mechanic
way to out yourself as a massive fucking flaming homosexual retard. have a nice day unironically.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
seething is not a valid argument
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I'm not arguing with a retard, that is a complete waste of time. Anyone who defends this pile of shit is fucking mental. Also, you're clearly a trashy NGS secondary that has never played base PSO2, so it'd not like you'd remember when the game had any depth to the combat anyway.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Also, you're clearly a trashy NGS secondary that has never played base PSO2
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
lol, have a nice day right this second
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
this is the saddest post I've ever seen
REALLY? and you still think how you do?
[...] is right. open up wide, sega's gonna drop a big one right in your mouth soon I'm sure.
>My argument was proven invalid, and I can no longer defend my beloved rhythm game mechanic so I must hurl insults.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Not any of those anons but sega has literally sucked every single ounce of action gameplay out of the game besides muh counters in NGS, there's absolutely nothing to like about that shit. JA's are just the tip of the iceberg. NGS is watered down dogshit, in fact it's embarrassing that they bothered developing the simple action mechanic because it almost cannot get any simpler.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
have a nice day Grizzermacht.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>one of the most unhinged schizos out of all of /pso2g/
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
The problem is that replace it with anything. You barely need to time your attacks as the parry frames are so forgiving and most classes can just cancel into parries now. Instead of something like DmC the game is more casual and forgiving than nu-GoW.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
this is the saddest post I've ever seen
REALLY? and you still think how you do?
[...] is right. open up wide, sega's gonna drop a big one right in your mouth soon I'm sure.
dilating status: in progress
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
this is the saddest post I've ever seen
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
REALLY? and you still think how you do?
you are talking to a /vg/ NGS general spastic, do not bother. sega could release a feature where they literally shit in your mouth and these people would still play it, they've been playing the exact same game with "new content" being reskinned bosses/areas since NGS was released.
is right. open up wide, sega's gonna drop a big one right in your mouth soon I'm sure.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
you are talking to a /vg/ NGS general spastic, do not bother. sega could release a feature where they literally shit in your mouth and these people would still play it, they've been playing the exact same game with "new content" being reskinned bosses/areas since NGS was released.
Combat is dumbed down as fuck from base pso2, removal of JA was removal of any skill required. now it's just pressing the same button over and over with most jobs having no more than 4 attacks. How can you act like this is good combat, you are a braindead casual ARPG retard.
He did. he also thinks they are relevant content, even though both were dead on arrival.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Cannonball is the equivalent of the slingshot aiming mini game in oot, except in oot it's a 2mn minigame while in NGS it's been pushed for more than a year as a consequent piece of content.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Nah, the slingshot minigame is way more rewarding than Cannonshit ever was.
Never mind the fact that Cannonshit is boring as fuck and is literally pointless in any way shape or form.
you probably ran into the mentally ill freaks from the ngs general thread who dedicate their whole life to ngs, they have been having schzio meltdowns about the GMs for years even though no normal player will ever run into them
I do however think it’s a shame that the missions aren’t more popular. I’ve put in about 15 hours and I haven’t teamed up with anyone outside of my friends.
unsalvageable disaster, so bad that it not only killed itself but its predecessor too because sega are staffed by retards everywhere and not just in their insane chud gm team
unironically it has probably killed the phantasy star franchise unfortunately
>even though no normal player will ever run into them
yeah, sure, deliberately changing the tos so you can't say things in private chat with your friends is definitely behaviour of people who will not get involved :^)
kneecapping your na playerbase, which was already small, by systematically banning half or more of them because you've got mental problems seems like positively excellent behaviour from a game mod.
I dunno there was a thread the other day where everyone was talking about some mod banning a bunch of people or some shit.
Like I said, I ignored it and had fun.
One of PSO2's game moderators is a nutjob who lurks in Ganker threads in order to stalk anyone who posts here, in addition to reading any and all text chat anyone has ever sent in the game (public or private, NGS or PSO2) just so he can come up with excuses to ban random people.
I don't know if that person is still employed or they got gone with how much of a stink has probably been brought up regarding their activity, but as long as you don't reveal your in-game identity and understand that none of your chats in-game are private, the "politics" will not affect you.
I will never understand why they buried old pso2 underneath the trash that is NGS. it's impossible to even play old pso2 anymore, the playershops are dead, there's no one running anything, it's a non-entity that no longer serves any purpose being there. at first, it only served as an excuse to have no content since you could "just go back and play old pso2 lmao" and to soothe whales who dumped so much money on scratches so they wouldn't feel like it was all a waste.
but it was. it was completely a waste.
I would never play NA servers because of this shit and tweaker's proxy no longer works for JP, so that ontop of me fucking hating NGS anyway, I've called it quits with this game for good. No, I will not just get a vpn to play pso2, this game is trash.
>I will never understand why they buried old pso2 underneath the trash that is NGS
Because they've Pso2 basically ran it's course as far as new content goes and updates go, it's literally a 13yr old vita. If you want more content for it, that's literally what NGS is supposed to be, a segway into newer stuff for pso2, from graphics, Qol, and even gameplay. Even understanding all that you'd think they'd have had a plan to make sure the transition would be way smoother than what we got, But when you known Sega as long as say since the 360/ps3 era, at the very least, you know full and well how easy it is for them to shoot themselves in the foot.(( Like sacrificing this game's release reception, dev plans, and budget, for Sakura wars, "allegedly"))
Personally I didn't give a fuck and wished they'd just shut down PSO2 and start over. They had ruined it way before NGS anyway.
But of course I also wanted NGS (better yet, PSO3) to actually be good. Oh well.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Again, in a sense them starting over is NGS so that's kinda redundant. There best course of action is to keep building on this because if NGS dies, that's it for Sega, there reputation as a game company would be finished.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Again, in a sense them starting over is NGS
Feels too much like PSO2.5 but sure. >There best course of action is to keep building on this
Nah, it's inherently shit, and the team has no idea what they're doing. >if NGS dies, that's it for Sega, there reputation as a game company would be finished
Deserved it.
PSO2 was okay, but Ep4-5 were ass. Too bad it was shown the upstate farm.
NGS on the other hand, I came back to after two years since Aelio and it's just...still really dry. Combat over-rewards countering attacks for virtually every class, nothing interesting happens with the open world or itemization, Zephetto is probably the only remotely interesting character in the story, and the grind for augment capsules and fixa are boring as fuck. And now they want you to make an even more specialized set for just one subset of quests. The fuck are the devs doing.
Gwiz? Recall him also saying on stream something along the lines of wanting estrogen to be borderline mandatory for kids too. But even with the chud shit aside, he's also playing his part in the problem why Phantasy Star is poorly handled in the west and is a legitimate tumor who banned people without giving them a valid reason or explaining why (including someone who posthumously got their entry picked by Sega in a Designer Dreams contest).
>Combat over-rewards countering attacks for virtually every class
that's how pso2 has been for all of its later episodes and when a class has no viable counters you get memes like jet boots that take twice the time to clear sodam compared to the average class, or gimmicky weapons that only exist to counter specific boss hitbox types and is shit against the rest
At least scion class counters played into other mechanics like maxing out a focus gauge that you would spend for big damage in other ways, ngs classes have 0 depth and counters are all that matter at all, like on that shitty nu-gunblade class you can literally just sit there and mash weapon action and clear everything in the game. Not to mention ngs devs seem completely afraid or averse to adding any real mobility or utility to classes.
oh my god I can mindlessly grind more levels PSO2 IS SAVED
You don't even grind levels, every level cap update they just dump a side quest on you that will bring you up to the new cap immediately.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>that shitty nu-gunblade class you can literally just sit there and mash weapon action and clear everything in the game
Why am I not surprised they wouldn't learn anything from what made Luster >fun?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Bro I could go on for hours about how shitty Slayer is and how it's an absolute disgrace compared to Luster.
They tried to copy Swift Slash and Swift Shot into slayer but they're so fucking bad that you don't even spec one of them in your skill tree because it's clunky, low damage, and no utility.. while the other people automate by using macros and specific subpallete setups so they can literally hold down the one photon art worth doing while they aren't countering shit. It's actually infuriating how fucking poorly designed this shit is.
And all yet those scions had more mechanics going on, like built-in weapon swaps to encourage meter gain and marker buildup. Even the simplest one in Etoile (who lacks sidestep counters!) has more personality than any of the NGS classes, and Slayer can barely hold a candle to Luster as-is. Multi-weapon was probably the closest thing to making NGS combat potentially any more interesting but in practice is just either a shortcut from making another weapon entirely or solely just to grab a weapon action.
Not just a game moderator, one of the community managers for the game and apparently has significant pull with the game designers. Also not just a lurker in Ganker threads, an actual jannie (for free) in /vg/.
I haven’t paid for anything in the game and am enjoying it. I just finished retention region. The story with the song was shit though I’ll give you that.
I enjoy it. I haven't played in a whilen but the last time I did, I watched FULL EPISODIC anime on the big screens with other players in that one snow region headquarters. Was some really comfy times.
Avoid playing with anyone in this game in general because they are all extremely lonely trannies, they will cling to you like flies on shit and try to groom you into erping with them.
They're seemingly hellbent on never doing anything they've done before, it must be some retarded japanese honor thing or something, like iterating or copying anything that worked before is an admission that they can't create anything new and good. Every single thing they've ported from base pso2 into NGS has had glaring, fundamental problems from them trying too hard to reinvent the wheel.
Take Duel Quests, for example. Your gear you farmed so hard to make doesn't even work in the quest, they start out dickstompingly hard instead of having a functional difficulty curve, etc. Meanwhile, years ago they developed shit like solo ultimate masquerade and sodam fights that were actually almost perfect in design, difficulty curve, reward, etc.
Joined late last year due to a friend returning and another who played. The latter barely plays at all anymore due to the toxicity of the community, the former is barely a friend anymore because of the group who scalped them from our alliance, and grooms them into their perfect little pet.
New Genesis is full of cunts dressed in the skimpiest outfits they can find, idiots who make the most insane outfits they can, or weebs trying to be <Anime_Protag_Here>.
NGS also has virtually no endgame content, combat is repetitive, depending on class and weapon, either fun, or extremely boring. Grinding is tedious for minimal returns. You want an actual story? Fuck you, we ditched that in classic PSO2 - Sega. All the depth classes had in PSO2 got yeeted to be mindless and newbie friendly.
I would agree that the community is some of the worst parts of it
it's literally filled with gays, trannies and Hispanics, a deadly combination for any online game, let alone an mmo.
>All the depth classes had in PSO2 got yeeted to be mindless and newbie friendly.
I just remembered how versatile Rifle originally was with how it has a PA for every kind of boss and some mobbing ones if your launcher sucked.
Actually sad to see this game gets a decent amount of threads and posters, and it's just overwhelmingly negative every single time. Full of people who just want/wanted it to be good but sega has failed them on every single level for years now. I see the same thing when I play other games and mention pso2.
They've got a fucking guaranteed-win formula for a game; stylish action, space monster hunter, with big booba waifu character creator. Monster Hunter: World, which released in 2018 and hasn't had an update since 2019, wasn't designed as a live-service retention-focused game AND has a sequel out with similar player count numbers, still gets 4-10(ten)x more daily peak users than this piece of shit. If I was in management higher up at sega and I seen how terribly the team on this game were handling this I would fire every single person on the project.
The dev team somehow is on some advanced cope and thinks the game is not shit and praises eachother constantly for their work, and even thinks the current director is good. They will never admit any fault with the game, and they do not play it in the slightest. The game will never, ever improve due to that. It's over.
If that were true they wouldn't be holding Q&A struggle sessions at the end of every Headline stream, nor would they even bother doing streams like bi -monthly in the first place.
>Q&A where they cherrypick questions and avoid negativity >entire headline streams of "Sugoi!!" and clapping over and over while they reveal the game still isn't getting new content for 6+ months
yep, they're doing great.
I'm not saying they aren't doing thah, what i'm saying is if they were truly as arrogant and unwilling to learn as you claim, they wouldn't be bothering with that in the first place. The fact that could be cherrypicking questions and doing all that postering, means they know they are not in a good spot.
It seems clear to me they are extremely out of touch with absolutely no awareness of their game. That's the only explanation for the state it's currently in and the awful decisions they make. Whether the devs themselves genuinely are aware or not, I can't say. One peek online should probably make the player's dissatisfaction clear, and I doubt it's any different with Japanese players and their discussions of the game.
I remember a time in old pso2 they had to apologize to the playerbase for calling them whiney on a stream and gave out some meager compensation ingame for it, so it could be sega just actively dislikes their own playerbase, but that's me talking out my ass
Anyways, I really don't fucking know what's going on in their heads tbh, it's not like they have had any degree of transparency even with the streams.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>and I doubt it's any different with Japanese players and their discussions of the game. Funnily enough, I heard the 5ch NGS threads are still quite active only thanks to people coming to them to keep shitting on the game. So exactly the same as here.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
What is most likely going on, is that the Sega higher ups are doing there damnest not to step on eggshells with the dev team so they don't just up and leave all together, because this most likely became the mess it's been in the first place thanks to Sega siphoning their budget for a failed 300billion yen gacha game and left the team to deal angry revolt of the players at release, and then there's also them having to deal with HMZK too. It's been slow but it seems like they are at least finally getting there budget back and are hopefully working out a new road map to follow.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>It's been slow but it seems like they are at least finally getting there budget back and are hopefully working out a new road map to follow.
It's too late, as I said its unsalvageable anon.
It would require an ff14 2.0 style relaunch, and even then their brand and marketing has been decimated for it, so the game they re-launch would have to be legitimately exceptional. Is anything about it currently even close to exceptional? Not at all. Tiny little improvements here and there, more garbage copy pasted 'content', more scratches, are not going to ever salvage the wreck. It's a start over again situation if you want any hope of ever being good
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's currently Sega's most profitable game outside of pachinko machines.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
LMAO how are people still repeating this bullshit
You got it wrong anyway, it's their 2nd most profitable FREE TO PLAY game..
Do you know what the 3rd is?
A mahjong game from 2013
Give it up retard, the game is a fucking failure
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
What's the first?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Some hatsune miku game nobody outside of hikikomori coomers in japan has heard of
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
It's mobile gacha cancer, of course people have heard of it. Unfortunately.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
the fact of the matter is that the biggest accolade people can give ngs is that its 2nd in a competition of 2, if even that
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
that means literally nothing anon.
1. they have no massive amount of live service games to compete with
2. its a 0 effort gacha scratch ticket creator that 50 retards buy hundreds of. that doesn't make the game good or garner it a real playerbase, it just means they've got 50 retards they can keep milking
and 3. it also takes upkeep. does yakuza take upkeep? does their 2013 mahjong game take any budget or real upkeep? hell no.
they cratered pso2, and the choices are give up and build on a new bit of land, bury whats been built in the crater over and start over on the same bit of land, or option 3 continue pouring resources and money constantly into the massive crater praying that someday people will start enjoying being in a massive hole
new genesis is legitimately worse than 14 1.0 was, the only difference is 14 blew a massive budget on itself, whilst new genesis had its massive budget funnelled into a gacha game instead that itself also cratered
gj sega
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I still know retard whales that get excited for pso2 scratches.
It's fucking sad.
All it takes is a new skimpy bikini and they're whaling hundreds of dollars worth of scratches.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
The majority of the players in pso2g alliances scratch for a few hundred bucks EVERY new scratch.
Yes, and that's the choice sega can make. They can cater to those couple dozen players and accept the death of their game and ip, or they can try and fix it. And I mean try, not the 'try' they're currently doing lol.
The reality is, private server pso1 is better than any official server for any pso currently playable. Can sega make a game equivalent or better? Probably not honestly, pso2s monetization and the entire game, every aspect of it, being designed around "how do we piss them off with inconveniences so they want to buy stuff from us to make it stop" automatically puts it below pso1 or any private server experience. A pso2 pre-ng private server would do better than sega releasing their own pre-ng server simply due to their shit cash shop centric design. How clueless do you have to be to try and make people pay to respec their talents, or to actually have storage and inventory space when you designed the game to drop them 50 fucking items at the end of every UQ
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>base pso2 private server
we need this so bad, it'd be so fucking based.
imagine what a good game pso2 could actually be with that monetization shit removed.
custom content would be sick too. more endless modes?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Imagine endgame gearing that actually made sense, shit like the mission badge capsules being earnable from in-game grinds instead of time-gated bullshit or just not at all anymore, being able to actually find Sein Burn and that one all-class bow, etc.
Kinda doubt many people would be into it but I actually think ladder resets (infrequent and separate from the main, permanent ship) could be fun in a game like pso2 if the 85+ exp curve and gearing wasn't quite so grindy.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
First reply is back, in all industries, image matter more than quality: NGS failed too hard and murdered itself and the brand, no matter how good (as if), ver2 ends up being it's never ever seeing PSO2 numbers ever again as the game has already been dismissed as a dumpster fire in the collective consciousness.
From there I only see two moves, either keep the servers alive with minimal low budget updates, or close NGS soonish to recoup all costs on another game instead to rebound while it's still in the cards.
I think they're going for 1) for low effort money
I wish I could find something to replace base PSO2 for me, nothing really scratches that action combat itch besides stuff like DMC and Bayonetta.
Personally I don't think games where the vast majority of your character's actions have lengthy cooldowns compare at all but to each their own.
Yeah that's why I say I can't find anything that replaces PSO2 for me despite liking those games a lot.. having some semi-regular content updates and also some casual side content, plus the ability to really customize your character and housing, is kinda important for longevity and personal investment.
Speaking of which, get in here.
https://www.youtube.com/live/aYUa6X_Ow-M I kept telling myself I'd never actively play another online game again, but now I'm not sure. The NT was pretty comfy.
>The blocks fluctuate based on user counts. >Blocks being pulled >Because no players >ANON THEY PULL BLOCKS BECAUSE THE PLAYER BASE IS DECLINING!
Yes, thank you for reiterating my point, you giant retard. What are you trying to add?
The game is dying. There was like 70+ blocks at launch. Now there is about 25 and lowering. Hell, the "Aelio for newbies" is only 5 blocks and none of those are full.
because they rely on the Yakuza IP too much as is, any more and they'll end up Like Konami where they didn't do anything but cash in on Metal gear when literally everyone INCLUDING Kojima was telling them green light stuff other than Metal gear.
The stuff they DO green light flops (RIP, VC4). But being fair that stuff (VC4) they fuck up handling it (releasing VC2 on Steam despite a PSP game and finally officially translating VC3).
Sega self-inflicted all their troubles. Just like NGS could be a good game if they didn't release it in early access phases and properly had content (Retem at least on launch) and optimization (to where running around in world doesn't have the game go from 60FPS to 15FPS because it can't fucking load the world outside of chunks and the chunks are so fucking small for the region that you get drops going AROUND THE GODDAMN REGION).
>Ameritards derailing the discussion into leading people to believe NGS is failing because of a global only chud mode and politics.
You are and will remain second class citizens, ameritards.
But to get back to the topic: NGS is a fucking terrible game with terrible design decisions.
You ever saw a dungeonless mmo? That's NGS
Good thing they keep forcing incredibly long, boring, forced solo only content, with the latest optional content also being solo only, eh? Really making good use of the "online" part of the game.
No. Your appearance will carry over, but you'll stand out so much in lowres old pso2 stuff, it looks ugly in ngs. old units can be used but they are dogshit in ngs even if you had top affixes in old pso2. You pretty much get nothing in ngs from having played before.
>You pretty much get nothing in ngs from having played before
It almost feels like you get punished for having played base game because you'll have a bunch of base game items in your storage taking space. One of the biggest reasons I hate the fact that NGS is attached like a tumor instead of just being a new, separate game. At the very least they could have given their loyal fans that played before NGS some free storage space but they're just too out of touch.
Ugh... I have so much base stuff in my storage I can't bring myself to throw away. I grinded so hard for some of that shit but I know I won't ever use any of it again. It's depressing.
>Thank you for playing Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis.
Trust me though I know exactly how it feels. I even have some stuff I'd still like to do in base game (d100 sodam and maybe endless on different classes) so I'm even less likely to clean it out. Really feels like shit that they couldn't at least make the storage separate for each game or something.
dont forget having extra wait time after some of the weekly 6+ hours of maintenance for the tweaker people to wake up and run their shitty auto translate bullshit
oh and isnt the shithead who stole from people trying to buy AC running that shit? oh boy im just itching to rely on them
Absolutely terrible game.
It’s receiving a patch that’s going to buff every single class in the game, because ONE class was doing good.
They have no idea what they’re doing, even now.
You are adorable.
You don’t fix bad balance by buffing every single class in the game. Your retard containment field “game” will continue shooting itself in the foot
It's the best dress up game on the market + it's free but that's all the pros it has going for it. The market is bogged to hell and forces you to scratch or to bog as well. I've made over hundreds of millions bogging compared to what this game gives you for drops to sell. Treat this game as what it is, a dress up game. Oh and stay away from the active player base, they're all mentally ill
Peak PSO2 was playing weekly TAs, Endless/Challenge mode groups and duo HTPD runs in the big japanese discord server. Nothing will surpass that level of international brotherhood and cooperation. NGS wishes it could hold a candle to PSO2 on both a content and social level but it can't when it offers nothing and drove everyone away. Also F for the kino streams JP used to get and the big IRL events, we lost the entire Phantasy Star IP at this point to westerners and SEGA chasing NFTs/SUPERGAME.
Everyone I met since 2012 that I managed to keep in contact with from JP is just playing other games, hoping and waiting they throw away NGS and make a proper successor to PSO2. That's both sides EP1~3 enjoyers and the EP4~6 enjoyers. Literally nobody likes what NGS did to the core gameplay. Most play PSOBB/PSUC in the same groups for a fix but it's looking pretty bleak seeing how SEGA is.
I'm in the same boat. Every last one of the OGs is retired from the game while the NGS newgays shit up the alliance. I don't think there will be much to come back to even if PSO3 happens.
Vanilla PSO2 was janky and bloated, but it was also teeming with content and soul. NGS feels cleaner and streamlined, but also sterile. I still play it on occasion, but I liked it more when it was just PSO2.
Oh well, at least I still have my cute robot girl.
a literal, unironic chud game. built from the ground up for them.
Playing it as we speak
And the only game with playable Gunpla
And a Sci-fi MMO
And a mix of Magic & Science Fantasy
And a grind game
And a chat room
It'll get worse on June 7th when they release player/alliance housing
It's because they've made actual improvements to the game. Took them two damn years, but it's slowing getting better.
oh my god I can mindlessly grind more levels PSO2 IS SAVED
There's Dual Quests if you don't care about mindless grinding.
NGS is a grinding game like Black Desert or Lost Ark. People love that shit even if you don't.
I just play because there isn't another game with a similar combat system. The melee counters, the fact that Ranger kinda plays like a TPS/FPS, and the fact that the "Mage" class has a timed block with a counterattack mechanic is wholly unique to NGS.
Black Desert and Lost Ark both have vastly better gameplay than NGS
>t. played all of them against my better judgement
>Black Desert and Lost Ark
lole NGS might've shat the bed but it's still better than both of those games.
Is there content on this game? Or is it just cosmetics still? And are the na servers still controlled by trannies?
I think you know the answer to those.
No, Yes, and Yes.
>Is there content on this game?
They've added dungeons like Cannon Ball Rumble and Ordinal Tower
Outside of those, there's Dual Quests. They're 1-on-1 fights with each boss in the game. Drops are pretty profitable.
Story is also improved. Chapter 5 was like 1000% better than anything they've put out before.
>Or is it just cosmetics still?
That's still endgame
>And are the na servers still controlled by trannies?
Always will be
Hard disagree. Say what you will, NGS' combat is the best combat system in any MMO without PvP.
>the recent story has been better than literal dog shit
Wow!
lmao shut the hell up, not even the most deranged, copium addicted retards have touched cannonball bullshit or ordinal tower since the week they were introduced outside of afk'ing them for arks record badges
They drop expensive cosmetics. It takes you running them over-and-over again, but you will make money.
Let go of your redundant rhythm game mechanic in my action MMO, old man.
>JA are a rhythm game mechanic
way to out yourself as a massive fucking flaming homosexual retard. have a nice day unironically.
seething is not a valid argument
I'm not arguing with a retard, that is a complete waste of time. Anyone who defends this pile of shit is fucking mental. Also, you're clearly a trashy NGS secondary that has never played base PSO2, so it'd not like you'd remember when the game had any depth to the combat anyway.
>Also, you're clearly a trashy NGS secondary that has never played base PSO2
lol, have a nice day right this second
>My argument was proven invalid, and I can no longer defend my beloved rhythm game mechanic so I must hurl insults.
Not any of those anons but sega has literally sucked every single ounce of action gameplay out of the game besides muh counters in NGS, there's absolutely nothing to like about that shit. JA's are just the tip of the iceberg. NGS is watered down dogshit, in fact it's embarrassing that they bothered developing the simple action mechanic because it almost cannot get any simpler.
have a nice day Grizzermacht.
>one of the most unhinged schizos out of all of /pso2g/
The problem is that replace it with anything. You barely need to time your attacks as the parry frames are so forgiving and most classes can just cancel into parries now. Instead of something like DmC the game is more casual and forgiving than nu-GoW.
dilating status: in progress
this is the saddest post I've ever seen
REALLY? and you still think how you do?
is right. open up wide, sega's gonna drop a big one right in your mouth soon I'm sure.
you are talking to a /vg/ NGS general spastic, do not bother. sega could release a feature where they literally shit in your mouth and these people would still play it, they've been playing the exact same game with "new content" being reskinned bosses/areas since NGS was released.
Combat is dumbed down as fuck from base pso2, removal of JA was removal of any skill required. now it's just pressing the same button over and over with most jobs having no more than 4 attacks. How can you act like this is good combat, you are a braindead casual ARPG retard.
DID HE JUST CALL CANNONBALL AND ORDINAL DUNGEONS?!
He did. he also thinks they are relevant content, even though both were dead on arrival.
Cannonball is the equivalent of the slingshot aiming mini game in oot, except in oot it's a 2mn minigame while in NGS it's been pushed for more than a year as a consequent piece of content.
Nah, the slingshot minigame is way more rewarding than Cannonshit ever was.
Never mind the fact that Cannonshit is boring as fuck and is literally pointless in any way shape or form.
Fuck off Xan.
>And the only game with playable Gunpla
NGS Casts look awful. PSO/early-PSU gen are proper human-sized mecha.
You know what, I played ngs this evening and I didn’t hate it as much as I did when it first released.
If you find the right people to play with and ignore the politics it’s alright.
What politics? The only issue people have with the game is the lack of end game content while Sega keep pumping out gacha crap.
I dunno there was a thread the other day where everyone was talking about some mod banning a bunch of people or some shit.
Like I said, I ignored it and had fun.
you probably ran into the mentally ill freaks from the ngs general thread who dedicate their whole life to ngs, they have been having schzio meltdowns about the GMs for years even though no normal player will ever run into them
Yeah that’s most likely.
I do however think it’s a shame that the missions aren’t more popular. I’ve put in about 15 hours and I haven’t teamed up with anyone outside of my friends.
unsalvageable disaster, so bad that it not only killed itself but its predecessor too because sega are staffed by retards everywhere and not just in their insane chud gm team
unironically it has probably killed the phantasy star franchise unfortunately
>even though no normal player will ever run into them
yeah, sure, deliberately changing the tos so you can't say things in private chat with your friends is definitely behaviour of people who will not get involved :^)
kneecapping your na playerbase, which was already small, by systematically banning half or more of them because you've got mental problems seems like positively excellent behaviour from a game mod.
never happened
only racists got banned
deserved
One of PSO2's game moderators is a nutjob who lurks in Ganker threads in order to stalk anyone who posts here, in addition to reading any and all text chat anyone has ever sent in the game (public or private, NGS or PSO2) just so he can come up with excuses to ban random people.
I don't know if that person is still employed or they got gone with how much of a stink has probably been brought up regarding their activity, but as long as you don't reveal your in-game identity and understand that none of your chats in-game are private, the "politics" will not affect you.
Wow. What a sad little gay.
I will never understand why they buried old pso2 underneath the trash that is NGS. it's impossible to even play old pso2 anymore, the playershops are dead, there's no one running anything, it's a non-entity that no longer serves any purpose being there. at first, it only served as an excuse to have no content since you could "just go back and play old pso2 lmao" and to soothe whales who dumped so much money on scratches so they wouldn't feel like it was all a waste.
but it was. it was completely a waste.
I would never play NA servers because of this shit and tweaker's proxy no longer works for JP, so that ontop of me fucking hating NGS anyway, I've called it quits with this game for good. No, I will not just get a vpn to play pso2, this game is trash.
>I will never understand why they buried old pso2 underneath the trash that is NGS
Because they've Pso2 basically ran it's course as far as new content goes and updates go, it's literally a 13yr old vita. If you want more content for it, that's literally what NGS is supposed to be, a segway into newer stuff for pso2, from graphics, Qol, and even gameplay. Even understanding all that you'd think they'd have had a plan to make sure the transition would be way smoother than what we got, But when you known Sega as long as say since the 360/ps3 era, at the very least, you know full and well how easy it is for them to shoot themselves in the foot.(( Like sacrificing this game's release reception, dev plans, and budget, for Sakura wars, "allegedly"))
Personally I didn't give a fuck and wished they'd just shut down PSO2 and start over. They had ruined it way before NGS anyway.
But of course I also wanted NGS (better yet, PSO3) to actually be good. Oh well.
Again, in a sense them starting over is NGS so that's kinda redundant. There best course of action is to keep building on this because if NGS dies, that's it for Sega, there reputation as a game company would be finished.
>Again, in a sense them starting over is NGS
Feels too much like PSO2.5 but sure.
>There best course of action is to keep building on this
Nah, it's inherently shit, and the team has no idea what they're doing.
>if NGS dies, that's it for Sega, there reputation as a game company would be finished
Deserved it.
NGS runs like shit and every update causes it to get worse.
Meanwhile base: Smooth as butter beyond the initial load.
I'd rather they target the Sony Velveeta Shells and Cheese over the Sony Playstation 5 if THIS is the best they can do with the NGS engine.
you can't tell the difference over 24fps anyway
are you talking about that trannie CM or someone else?
gwiz
More like whizz.
As in peepee
PSO2 was okay, but Ep4-5 were ass. Too bad it was shown the upstate farm.
NGS on the other hand, I came back to after two years since Aelio and it's just...still really dry. Combat over-rewards countering attacks for virtually every class, nothing interesting happens with the open world or itemization, Zephetto is probably the only remotely interesting character in the story, and the grind for augment capsules and fixa are boring as fuck. And now they want you to make an even more specialized set for just one subset of quests. The fuck are the devs doing.
Gwiz? Recall him also saying on stream something along the lines of wanting estrogen to be borderline mandatory for kids too. But even with the chud shit aside, he's also playing his part in the problem why Phantasy Star is poorly handled in the west and is a legitimate tumor who banned people without giving them a valid reason or explaining why (including someone who posthumously got their entry picked by Sega in a Designer Dreams contest).
>Combat over-rewards countering attacks for virtually every class
that's how pso2 has been for all of its later episodes and when a class has no viable counters you get memes like jet boots that take twice the time to clear sodam compared to the average class, or gimmicky weapons that only exist to counter specific boss hitbox types and is shit against the rest
At least scion class counters played into other mechanics like maxing out a focus gauge that you would spend for big damage in other ways, ngs classes have 0 depth and counters are all that matter at all, like on that shitty nu-gunblade class you can literally just sit there and mash weapon action and clear everything in the game. Not to mention ngs devs seem completely afraid or averse to adding any real mobility or utility to classes.
You don't even grind levels, every level cap update they just dump a side quest on you that will bring you up to the new cap immediately.
>that shitty nu-gunblade class you can literally just sit there and mash weapon action and clear everything in the game
Why am I not surprised they wouldn't learn anything from what made Luster >fun?
Bro I could go on for hours about how shitty Slayer is and how it's an absolute disgrace compared to Luster.
They tried to copy Swift Slash and Swift Shot into slayer but they're so fucking bad that you don't even spec one of them in your skill tree because it's clunky, low damage, and no utility.. while the other people automate by using macros and specific subpallete setups so they can literally hold down the one photon art worth doing while they aren't countering shit. It's actually infuriating how fucking poorly designed this shit is.
And all yet those scions had more mechanics going on, like built-in weapon swaps to encourage meter gain and marker buildup. Even the simplest one in Etoile (who lacks sidestep counters!) has more personality than any of the NGS classes, and Slayer can barely hold a candle to Luster as-is. Multi-weapon was probably the closest thing to making NGS combat potentially any more interesting but in practice is just either a shortcut from making another weapon entirely or solely just to grab a weapon action.
Not just a game moderator, one of the community managers for the game and apparently has significant pull with the game designers. Also not just a lurker in Ganker threads, an actual jannie (for free) in /vg/.
lol reddit bro define cashgrabs by "its fun with friends" again
you guys never learn and own every console possible
…what…?
i gather from your post that you have no friends
im not forcing them to play any fotm slop
>fotm
>game and discussion been around for a fucking decade
newfags are so fucking dumb lmao
I haven’t paid for anything in the game and am enjoying it. I just finished retention region. The story with the song was shit though I’ll give you that.
>Thoughts on Phantasy Star Online 2?
>Shows photo of New Genesis
which one do u want my thoughts on
I enjoy it. I haven't played in a whilen but the last time I did, I watched FULL EPISODIC anime on the big screens with other players in that one snow region headquarters. Was some really comfy times.
I miss jp pso2 episode 1-3 so much bros...
I miss the traditional dungeon stuff.
I dunno why they decided to add that ball throwing mission in ngs.
Garbage, it's so bad that Sega no longer shows Phantasy Star on their website because NGS killed the IP.
Avoid playing with anyone from the alliances Oyasumi, Toblerone, Daikkuri, Tendoku, world with me or Stardust Drive.
Avoid playing with anyone in this game in general because they are all extremely lonely trannies, they will cling to you like flies on shit and try to groom you into erping with them.
Nah, most normie players are chill. Those /vg/ alliances are full of unhinged, hostile groomers.
If you play a male character, you're safe.
If you play a female character, they will try to suck you into it without question.
Sounds kinda hot tbdesu Not even trans
Rent free
the best customization and one of the best and smoothest controls in an action game wasted on a game with little things to do
thicc anime thighs and tiddies.
It's ass and ugly.
The same I have every morning in the toilet before flushing
The only people that still play this are overdosing copium and can't escape their sunken cost
it's ok. I started playing it earlier this year and it just never clicked with me
>2 fucking months straight of the same tired, formulaic seasonal event
Game is shit.
Will always be shit.
You will never be a woman.
No amount of cope will change that.
the og was good until summoner
ngs is trash
it's shit but I still log in at least once a week
>once a week
>He doesn't know
Enjoy your gimped mesta production now. They fucked over weeklies in the attempt to juice user numbers.
don't care
So long as you know they're fucking you over, that's ok.
chud game and you should have a nice day right now
It's so fucking bad that I'm just waiting for EoS so that the private server dev releases the base PSO2 private server.
worst mmo i've ever played. Why not just make a new psu?
They're seemingly hellbent on never doing anything they've done before, it must be some retarded japanese honor thing or something, like iterating or copying anything that worked before is an admission that they can't create anything new and good. Every single thing they've ported from base pso2 into NGS has had glaring, fundamental problems from them trying too hard to reinvent the wheel.
Take Duel Quests, for example. Your gear you farmed so hard to make doesn't even work in the quest, they start out dickstompingly hard instead of having a functional difficulty curve, etc. Meanwhile, years ago they developed shit like solo ultimate masquerade and sodam fights that were actually almost perfect in design, difficulty curve, reward, etc.
Pretty okay if played in small doses. Ganker's community is nothing but mental illness, don't even bother communicating with anyone.
Joined late last year due to a friend returning and another who played. The latter barely plays at all anymore due to the toxicity of the community, the former is barely a friend anymore because of the group who scalped them from our alliance, and grooms them into their perfect little pet.
New Genesis is full of cunts dressed in the skimpiest outfits they can find, idiots who make the most insane outfits they can, or weebs trying to be <Anime_Protag_Here>.
NGS also has virtually no endgame content, combat is repetitive, depending on class and weapon, either fun, or extremely boring. Grinding is tedious for minimal returns. You want an actual story? Fuck you, we ditched that in classic PSO2 - Sega. All the depth classes had in PSO2 got yeeted to be mindless and newbie friendly.
I would agree that the community is some of the worst parts of it
it's literally filled with gays, trannies and Hispanics, a deadly combination for any online game, let alone an mmo.
>All the depth classes had in PSO2 got yeeted to be mindless and newbie friendly.
I just remembered how versatile Rifle originally was with how it has a PA for every kind of boss and some mobbing ones if your launcher sucked.
Actually sad to see this game gets a decent amount of threads and posters, and it's just overwhelmingly negative every single time. Full of people who just want/wanted it to be good but sega has failed them on every single level for years now. I see the same thing when I play other games and mention pso2.
They've got a fucking guaranteed-win formula for a game; stylish action, space monster hunter, with big booba waifu character creator. Monster Hunter: World, which released in 2018 and hasn't had an update since 2019, wasn't designed as a live-service retention-focused game AND has a sequel out with similar player count numbers, still gets 4-10(ten)x more daily peak users than this piece of shit. If I was in management higher up at sega and I seen how terribly the team on this game were handling this I would fire every single person on the project.
The dev team somehow is on some advanced cope and thinks the game is not shit and praises eachother constantly for their work, and even thinks the current director is good. They will never admit any fault with the game, and they do not play it in the slightest. The game will never, ever improve due to that. It's over.
If that were true they wouldn't be holding Q&A struggle sessions at the end of every Headline stream, nor would they even bother doing streams like bi -monthly in the first place.
>Q&A where they cherrypick questions and avoid negativity
>entire headline streams of "Sugoi!!" and clapping over and over while they reveal the game still isn't getting new content for 6+ months
yep, they're doing great.
I'm not saying they aren't doing thah, what i'm saying is if they were truly as arrogant and unwilling to learn as you claim, they wouldn't be bothering with that in the first place. The fact that could be cherrypicking questions and doing all that postering, means they know they are not in a good spot.
It seems clear to me they are extremely out of touch with absolutely no awareness of their game. That's the only explanation for the state it's currently in and the awful decisions they make. Whether the devs themselves genuinely are aware or not, I can't say. One peek online should probably make the player's dissatisfaction clear, and I doubt it's any different with Japanese players and their discussions of the game.
I remember a time in old pso2 they had to apologize to the playerbase for calling them whiney on a stream and gave out some meager compensation ingame for it, so it could be sega just actively dislikes their own playerbase, but that's me talking out my ass
Anyways, I really don't fucking know what's going on in their heads tbh, it's not like they have had any degree of transparency even with the streams.
>and I doubt it's any different with Japanese players and their discussions of the game.
Funnily enough, I heard the 5ch NGS threads are still quite active only thanks to people coming to them to keep shitting on the game. So exactly the same as here.
What is most likely going on, is that the Sega higher ups are doing there damnest not to step on eggshells with the dev team so they don't just up and leave all together, because this most likely became the mess it's been in the first place thanks to Sega siphoning their budget for a failed 300billion yen gacha game and left the team to deal angry revolt of the players at release, and then there's also them having to deal with HMZK too. It's been slow but it seems like they are at least finally getting there budget back and are hopefully working out a new road map to follow.
>It's been slow but it seems like they are at least finally getting there budget back and are hopefully working out a new road map to follow.
It's too late, as I said its unsalvageable anon.
It would require an ff14 2.0 style relaunch, and even then their brand and marketing has been decimated for it, so the game they re-launch would have to be legitimately exceptional. Is anything about it currently even close to exceptional? Not at all. Tiny little improvements here and there, more garbage copy pasted 'content', more scratches, are not going to ever salvage the wreck. It's a start over again situation if you want any hope of ever being good
It's currently Sega's most profitable game outside of pachinko machines.
LMAO how are people still repeating this bullshit
You got it wrong anyway, it's their 2nd most profitable FREE TO PLAY game..
Do you know what the 3rd is?
A mahjong game from 2013
Give it up retard, the game is a fucking failure
What's the first?
Some hatsune miku game nobody outside of hikikomori coomers in japan has heard of
It's mobile gacha cancer, of course people have heard of it. Unfortunately.
the fact of the matter is that the biggest accolade people can give ngs is that its 2nd in a competition of 2, if even that
that means literally nothing anon.
1. they have no massive amount of live service games to compete with
2. its a 0 effort gacha scratch ticket creator that 50 retards buy hundreds of. that doesn't make the game good or garner it a real playerbase, it just means they've got 50 retards they can keep milking
and 3. it also takes upkeep. does yakuza take upkeep? does their 2013 mahjong game take any budget or real upkeep? hell no.
they cratered pso2, and the choices are give up and build on a new bit of land, bury whats been built in the crater over and start over on the same bit of land, or option 3 continue pouring resources and money constantly into the massive crater praying that someday people will start enjoying being in a massive hole
new genesis is legitimately worse than 14 1.0 was, the only difference is 14 blew a massive budget on itself, whilst new genesis had its massive budget funnelled into a gacha game instead that itself also cratered
gj sega
I still know retard whales that get excited for pso2 scratches.
It's fucking sad.
All it takes is a new skimpy bikini and they're whaling hundreds of dollars worth of scratches.
Yes, and that's the choice sega can make. They can cater to those couple dozen players and accept the death of their game and ip, or they can try and fix it. And I mean try, not the 'try' they're currently doing lol.
The reality is, private server pso1 is better than any official server for any pso currently playable. Can sega make a game equivalent or better? Probably not honestly, pso2s monetization and the entire game, every aspect of it, being designed around "how do we piss them off with inconveniences so they want to buy stuff from us to make it stop" automatically puts it below pso1 or any private server experience. A pso2 pre-ng private server would do better than sega releasing their own pre-ng server simply due to their shit cash shop centric design. How clueless do you have to be to try and make people pay to respec their talents, or to actually have storage and inventory space when you designed the game to drop them 50 fucking items at the end of every UQ
>base pso2 private server
we need this so bad, it'd be so fucking based.
imagine what a good game pso2 could actually be with that monetization shit removed.
custom content would be sick too. more endless modes?
Imagine endgame gearing that actually made sense, shit like the mission badge capsules being earnable from in-game grinds instead of time-gated bullshit or just not at all anymore, being able to actually find Sein Burn and that one all-class bow, etc.
Kinda doubt many people would be into it but I actually think ladder resets (infrequent and separate from the main, permanent ship) could be fun in a game like pso2 if the 85+ exp curve and gearing wasn't quite so grindy.
First reply is back, in all industries, image matter more than quality: NGS failed too hard and murdered itself and the brand, no matter how good (as if), ver2 ends up being it's never ever seeing PSO2 numbers ever again as the game has already been dismissed as a dumpster fire in the collective consciousness.
From there I only see two moves, either keep the servers alive with minimal low budget updates, or close NGS soonish to recoup all costs on another game instead to rebound while it's still in the cards.
I think they're going for 1) for low effort money
First reply is right*
God I hate autocorrect
I’m playing it until blue protocol releases. Or wayfinder.
Thank fuck for those alternatives.
I wish I could find something to replace base PSO2 for me, nothing really scratches that action combat itch besides stuff like DMC and Bayonetta.
Personally I don't think games where the vast majority of your character's actions have lengthy cooldowns compare at all but to each their own.
I like those kinda action games but it’s a shame they are pretty much single player orientated.
Yeah that's why I say I can't find anything that replaces PSO2 for me despite liking those games a lot.. having some semi-regular content updates and also some casual side content, plus the ability to really customize your character and housing, is kinda important for longevity and personal investment.
Speaking of which, get in here.
https://www.youtube.com/live/aYUa6X_Ow-M
I kept telling myself I'd never actively play another online game again, but now I'm not sure. The NT was pretty comfy.
FFS JUST ANNOUNCE AN OPEN BETA ALREADY
PLS
JP won't have it, had too many closed betas already. Global might, but who knows if it's even coming out this year after all the delays.
Make sure to watch the Sony showcase tomorrow 😉
I don't even care, will either play on JP or not at all.
But…tomorrow…Sony 🙁
fucking lol
Gawd dammit
Gawd fucking dammit
No hope for anything by Scamco and Amazon.
Nobody but retards care about the amazon version.
Reminder
Why americans are so fucked in the head? Unironically. South america is not like this at all.
why does Burgers live in yuromutts head?
>Anamana
Fashion isn't that bad to get started with, why does he still look like a broke, mismatch bitch?
Literally a dead game. The amount of blocks has been steadily getting pulled over the past two years.
They think their Minecraft-Forge hybrid mode is going to save the game since they don't give content: It won't.
The blocks fluctuate based on user counts.
>The blocks fluctuate based on user counts.
>Blocks being pulled
>Because no players
>ANON THEY PULL BLOCKS BECAUSE THE PLAYER BASE IS DECLINING!
Yes, thank you for reiterating my point, you giant retard. What are you trying to add?
The game is dying. There was like 70+ blocks at launch. Now there is about 25 and lowering. Hell, the "Aelio for newbies" is only 5 blocks and none of those are full.
No I mean they have a default number of blocks and add more when there are more people.
GAWL.
Why don’t they make a yakuza online where you and your friends take on npc gangs
because they rely on the Yakuza IP too much as is, any more and they'll end up Like Konami where they didn't do anything but cash in on Metal gear when literally everyone INCLUDING Kojima was telling them green light stuff other than Metal gear.
Kinda like how Bamco is now with everyone saying they need to stop the prioritizing Tekken.
The stuff they DO green light flops (RIP, VC4). But being fair that stuff (VC4) they fuck up handling it (releasing VC2 on Steam despite a PSP game and finally officially translating VC3).
Sega self-inflicted all their troubles. Just like NGS could be a good game if they didn't release it in early access phases and properly had content (Retem at least on launch) and optimization (to where running around in world doesn't have the game go from 60FPS to 15FPS because it can't fucking load the world outside of chunks and the chunks are so fucking small for the region that you get drops going AROUND THE GODDAMN REGION).
Trash game. Only reason to play is for CASTs and e-bois(Japan only).
the first PSO was better
Reminder that reddit and discord janitors were instructed to purge this video off their platforms on the grounds of transphobia and hate speech.
Fuck the gr00mer community managers and their unpaid clique of jannies
transphobic chud. hope he dies.
>Ameritards derailing the discussion into leading people to believe NGS is failing because of a global only chud mode and politics.
You are and will remain second class citizens, ameritards.
But to get back to the topic: NGS is a fucking terrible game with terrible design decisions.
You ever saw a dungeonless mmo? That's NGS
Dead game about to get desecrated by BP release on 14th June.
>but muh global release delayed
No one cares about global fags
I can't wait for BP to reduce pso2's playercount to single digits and for sega to realize how badly they fucked up.
Literally nothing will change.
You're fucking delusional. Every pso2 player I know is eyeing BP right now. Every single block on pso2 will be empty on BP launch day.
Loved it. Wish we could get a proper sequel
Even on jap server it's in pretty sad state of affairs.
chud apocalypse on global is just an icing on shitty cake.
The majority of the players in pso2g alliances scratch for a few hundred bucks EVERY new scratch.
Futureless trannies, leave those to their own shit they'll all be dead in 10 years when they realize they're old with nothing ahead of them
>did not finish floor 100 solo
>did not finish lvl 200 tpd
>did not finish floor 999 masketta man
your opinion literally does not count
basically zero people care about that challenge content shit. it's an mmo, not some solo garbage
Good thing they keep forcing incredibly long, boring, forced solo only content, with the latest optional content also being solo only, eh? Really making good use of the "online" part of the game.
Have a JP character that I havent logged in since ep4 I think? The one that introduced Hero. Do I get anything If I use the same char to play in NGS?
No. Your appearance will carry over, but you'll stand out so much in lowres old pso2 stuff, it looks ugly in ngs. old units can be used but they are dogshit in ngs even if you had top affixes in old pso2. You pretty much get nothing in ngs from having played before.
>You pretty much get nothing in ngs from having played before
It almost feels like you get punished for having played base game because you'll have a bunch of base game items in your storage taking space. One of the biggest reasons I hate the fact that NGS is attached like a tumor instead of just being a new, separate game. At the very least they could have given their loyal fans that played before NGS some free storage space but they're just too out of touch.
Ugh... I have so much base stuff in my storage I can't bring myself to throw away. I grinded so hard for some of that shit but I know I won't ever use any of it again. It's depressing.
>Thank you for playing Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis.
Trust me though I know exactly how it feels. I even have some stuff I'd still like to do in base game (d100 sodam and maybe endless on different classes) so I'm even less likely to clean it out. Really feels like shit that they couldn't at least make the storage separate for each game or something.
Garbage. Just play PSo1.
the only trannies that play this are from /vg/. They use horsecock futa mods and take screenshots on /aco/ all the time. Truly deranged.
American problem, anybody that can use a computer has been playing on Jp since 2012
Chat full of dumbasses vs chat full of shit I can't read, on top of trash content, this game has absolutely no value
dont forget having extra wait time after some of the weekly 6+ hours of maintenance for the tweaker people to wake up and run their shitty auto translate bullshit
oh and isnt the shithead who stole from people trying to buy AC running that shit? oh boy im just itching to rely on them
Skill issue
ywnbj
Ynbat2
072046
don't ever reply to me again gay
Cope seethe mald chud out
Absolutely terrible game.
It’s receiving a patch that’s going to buff every single class in the game, because ONE class was doing good.
They have no idea what they’re doing, even now.
>why i can't be the only good class everyone must be below me
have a nice day retard
You are adorable.
You don’t fix bad balance by buffing every single class in the game. Your retard containment field “game” will continue shooting itself in the foot
Never heard of balance by the bottom huh.
Lets me make cute robot girls with lots of freedom for customization, no other mmo does that at the moment.
have a nice day Shiro.
This is an obese man in his 30s
and thats a good thing
Im amazed the game is not shut down yet. I cant think of a compelling reason to play this even over shit like Genshin Impact
It's the best dress up game on the market + it's free but that's all the pros it has going for it. The market is bogged to hell and forces you to scratch or to bog as well. I've made over hundreds of millions bogging compared to what this game gives you for drops to sell. Treat this game as what it is, a dress up game. Oh and stay away from the active player base, they're all mentally ill
Peak PSO2 was playing weekly TAs, Endless/Challenge mode groups and duo HTPD runs in the big japanese discord server. Nothing will surpass that level of international brotherhood and cooperation. NGS wishes it could hold a candle to PSO2 on both a content and social level but it can't when it offers nothing and drove everyone away. Also F for the kino streams JP used to get and the big IRL events, we lost the entire Phantasy Star IP at this point to westerners and SEGA chasing NFTs/SUPERGAME.
there really is no multiplayer action combat game that can even begin to compare to peak pso2
i really regret not playing more when it was alive
Everyone I met since 2012 that I managed to keep in contact with from JP is just playing other games, hoping and waiting they throw away NGS and make a proper successor to PSO2. That's both sides EP1~3 enjoyers and the EP4~6 enjoyers. Literally nobody likes what NGS did to the core gameplay. Most play PSOBB/PSUC in the same groups for a fix but it's looking pretty bleak seeing how SEGA is.
I'm in the same boat. Every last one of the OGs is retired from the game while the NGS newgays shit up the alliance. I don't think there will be much to come back to even if PSO3 happens.
>HTPD runs
What's that?
It was so good.
Then it became so bad.
NGS is the series weakest game, come play psobb with Ganker instead.
Vanilla PSO2 was janky and bloated, but it was also teeming with content and soul. NGS feels cleaner and streamlined, but also sterile. I still play it on occasion, but I liked it more when it was just PSO2.
Oh well, at least I still have my cute robot girl.
It Is SHIT, but I still play it religiously.