>this is PSO2NGS newest villain
>>736436013phantasy star is dead, just cherish the memories you made and move on
It's fucking Elmir again. Globabs wouldn't know, but in JP dub he has Elmir's mannerisms.
>>736436382And who do you think this giant titty fuck is?
I played some of NGS to unlock Classic and it honestly didn't seem bad. The combat was responsive enough, the movement felt good. What's the issue with the game?
>>736436013wooow noo way! no one saw it coming!!!how many years did it take them to finally reveal it? what a shitshow
>>736436579> What's the issue with the game?The main problem is launch. SEGA more or less fuck over PSO2 base while giving NGS the very bare minimum. I am talking like the only content is just the forest exploration and UQ. That it. NGS right now is fine but it took them 5 years to do it.>BUT MUH STORYMost of PSO2 Base story is really, really bad but they will never let Matoi go.
>>736436616That not the real Crawford, though. That is just a starless that took his form for shit and giggle.
>>736436528The design is all over the place. People see everything in her, some argue it's another Shiva-like photoner, others say it's Zephetto's cloned body stolen and trooned out by Vael, and there are even people who think it's a weaponoid because she's similar to Gene.
>>736436808>Shiva-like photonerThis is what I would assume as well. She probably a remnant of her or was those geometrical monster that turn into a human girl.> Zephetto's cloned body stolen and trooned out by VaelHe already done that already with Pharia
>>736436981It was a good while ago, but Zephetto made that ultimate 4th generation clone and had Pharia help him transfer his mind into it. Vael took it for himself, then nobody knows what happened to it after the fight. PSO2 already had recovered former dark falz hosts like Yucreta and Aika. PSU also had Lumia.
>>736436579Launch was dogshitThey clearly rushed it because they were trendchasing the genshit moneyDestroyed base by attaching this turd of a game as mandatory install instead of the oppositedestroyed the lightning (PSnova is the only way to see the "old" game)NO content, at all, if you want a comparison with something that just released it had the same content as marathonSimplified the game way too muchOnly good thing i want to say is the affix stuff but i stopped caring about metaslaving because SEGA just does handovers every update>>736436750maybe i should make some space for it and play it properly, is the tweaker still fucked by that anticheat swap?I'd rather not play with gl*bal TL
>>736439503The item translation patch is gone, most of the game is translated but they're behind on the story stuff from entire past year. Tweaker troons are saying that item patch is never coming back, but someone on their team was experimenting with using the proxy for swapping packets instead of doing it locally.
>>736439503Is the game fun now? Ive only played it at release and like you explained, there was shit nothing to do so I dropped it.
>>736439926It peaked around 2 years ago, that's when there was the most shit to do. After that they changed the entire game format to be about one limited quest to run for the next 2 weeks. They don't add new difficulties or update the drop tables for any older quests. Everything that's relevant drops only in the current quest.
>>736439926Not him but general content is>do daily >UQ everytime its up>level to max>finishing up the story>whatever the event or newest update is on like Limited Time Quest/Leciel/City>fashion if you can afford>Creative Space if you want housing>Base PSO2 if you want that itchThere are like trillions of side stuff that barely reward you with anything at all, and while you could work on your gear and leveling up, at this point, its a waste of money. SEGA kept giving out freebie set just so the players could do the latest content. Yeah, you could spend trillions minmax, but it WILL get outdated.
>>736440205It didn't help that block4 kept getting kill and all the alliance members that usually hang out there get spread apart. There isn't a block where we could hang out.>but block 1lolno
Need a way to play PSO2 without NGS taking up a bunch of space.
>>736440481It's ridiculous how NGS ballooned up to over 90 GB despite having very little story or voiced cutscenes. It's all dogshit fashion nobody uses from almost 50 AC scratches per year.
>>736439737it's fucking over
It annoys me that people complain there is a "lack" of CAST parts when there is just as much in the NGS than in Base. Then they rerelease the set as variant for free.
It's not a game, it's a dress up doll simulator with weaponsJust play on Ephinea or emulate Infinity
>>736443648I emulate infinity on my tabletNobody else is playing it online. Shit is frustrating.
No one cares
>>736436013>my name is RETEP and I am evil >:)
>>736443648Until those games have this amount of customization, then no.
>>736436013>Alter CrawfordWTF, what happened to the lab dude?
>>736443896I emulate it on PC, even got to transfer my save from PSPo2. No idea how to play online though, I imagine you can join a PSOworld discord and find people though like back in the day
>>736444052Again,>>736443648>It's not a game, it's a dress up doll simulator with weapons
>>736444170>I play these games soloWhats the point? Teaming up with others is the purpose of these games.Until ngs anyways. Why they locked all the team stuff behind a lvl 60 cap is beyond me.
>>736444383They're perfectly playable solo. Been playing mostly solo since v.1 on the Dreamcast.It's a fun dungeon crawler
>>736444131Its just another guy that looks like him. He is calling himself Crawford in a mocking way.
>>736444504I dunno man. I play these games for the co op. Its fantastic when it all works with other people. Thats just my humble but handsome opinion though.
>>736443408Variants just have different color channels or added camo pattern. And some sets are remakes of parts from previous games.NGS male sets: 36, 6 of which are N-spec remakesPSO2 male sets: 75, some as old as Ogi from PS Zero
>>736444383>Until ngs anyways. Why they locked all the team stuff behind a lvl 60 cap is beyond me....They didn't...? You just can't find anyone since only dead-enders that are high-level are left.
>>736443994this lil nigga cares a lot actually
>>736444571Oh, whew. I haven't missed anything in the story then.
>>736439503>NO content, at all, if you want a comparison with something that just released it had the same content as marathona more direct comparison, because somewhere down the line of telephone it's what was ultimately being ripped off: it's like if the tutorial area made up the entire of BOTW. same scale.
>>736444856They open chapter 8 with the real Crawford saying that we got a "brief" period of respite after killing Vael. That was 14 months ago. It looks like we were supposed to get chapter 8 like a year ago.
>>736445092>It looks like we were supposed to get chapter 8 like a year ago.Yeah, I'm like Level 110 and tapped out, I haven't bothered with getting the +5 on all the classes because it's clear Sega isn't going to do shit with the game and as you say: the story takes forever to update for like 1-2 hours maximum "updates."
>>736436808>The design is all over the place. People see everything in her,[That's probably intentional, seeing the Alter realm, now that finally have actual context for it, is being somewhat described as a alternative realm of AI generation where certain landmarks and aspects of a region are there, but the mapping and terrain is all fuck.
>>736436579Launch was barebone and too early. Once they finished the world... they haven't done shit with it.Story is dripfed out.No content. What you've seen to unlock classic is what you're doing for the whole game.
>>736445278People thought there would be more to this story update and it turned out all of it except new roastie's name reveal was already shown in the trailers. 2025 roadmap and the 5th anniversary page had a new concert planned for this year. Nadereh actually said during the Vael EQ that she was working on a new song to commemorate that fight. Reasonable thing to expect, right? Instead we got an April fools joke song on the level of Dudu's lines getting remixed into a character song. Entire division 3 was dragged off to work on the super game scam and there's actually more story in Fudechin's comic strips by now.
>>736443896>Nobody else is playing it online. Shit is frustrating.join the cord bwo
>bwo
>>736445987>super game scamI hope the guy who came up with the "Super Game" gets publicly ousted in a massive PR scandal for the damage they've done to Sega.
>>736446573what's wrong sis?
>>736436013I seen a vid advertised to me about PSO2 Japan discourse or something so I guess this is why? How is NGS still alive if all I've heard is bad things about it all these years?
>>736447095Because it's costing Sega (and MS for global) next to nothing. MS foots the server bill to show the "POWER OF AZURE™" (which blows as much ass as Rocket League's servers did on Amazon Web Services), while Sega gets money from MS for doing the hosting.Honestly, you should be asking:>Why hasn't Global End of Serviced Yet?Because Global is sub-5,000 players on Steam. The other platforms aren't doing much better either since in-game all the server blocks are near dead.
>>736440602Most of that filesize is old PSO2 shit that has to be available cause someone might want to use an old outfit or accessory lol
>>736447401I should be asking that, but sadly I know for a fact a lot of players that stuck with NGS since I knew them when they divebombed MaximillianDood and some other popular streamers that were trying to show the NGS experience off in the past and ran most of them off. Those people are giga roaches that will throw their paychecks at this game no matter what since it lets them live out their wildest fantasies of being oversized boob monsters and sometimes slap a licensed IP on it for peanuts from a collab.I hate seeing the series as it is in modern times, but I just don't see how it can be course-corrected either by now.
>>736447095Kept alive by tens of thousands of people who are not content with the online landscape being mobile gachas, hero shooters and roblox.I paid attention to some numbers last night. I play on JP servers during their late night to early morning hours. Highest cross-ship block I got placed into was numbered 25, and those are created as previous blocks fill up. That means 5000 concurrent players who actually run quests instead of idling in lobbies during the lowest traffic hours. There was another 800 to 1000 lobby squatters and dext farmers between all 10 servers too.
>>736447095The game isn't in that bad of a state, but it's nowhere near where it should have been if it were ran competently. But what's going in is that at Sega everyone is seeing that they need to get this game back on track but you got Hamazaki in charge of the games internal decisions and all he does is just keep pushing players on retarded gearing treadmills that burns people out faster and it's only recently that they started whipping in to finally stabilizing the plot development into consistency(though every 4months still isn't enough unless the next story up day is about 4 times bigger than this one we just got, not holding my breath for it though). And then outside of the Phantasy Star team, you have who ever is still pushing for "SUPER GAME", even now as literally every other Sega Ip has taken pretty big declines since the announcement if this and they aren't in the position to cover the negligence of NGS like Sega originally thought. NGS like it or not that's the last bastion of SEGA right, it and Sonic.
Post good looking toons or sybau
>>736447095No alternative. You simply cant name another online game with the same amount of customization it offers. Gameplay is also good but it's used on a tiny amount of content that's been recycled for 6 years now.
>>736447864>>736447769It pisses me off that there could have more players if they didn't go full retarded with the ban at launch or the faggot cm from /vg/ went on a banning spree on all the vg guilds.
>>736447997
>>736448098All you had to do was not spam the sponsored streamers with nigger nigger nigger like a child
>>736436013It's still alive?
>>736447769>but I just don't see how it can be course-corrected either by now.Course-corrected to the Phantasy Star you remember or course-corrected to modern success? They can do the latter by investing money and actually working on PSO3, keep the nostalgiafags happy with a PSO remaster and PSO2 classic server to build up momentum for a PSO3 launch, if you mean the former it's too late, the people who originally worked on PSO has already left.
>>736448148Streamer Gate was an inside job
>>736448148What were they thinking?
>>736448142Sexo where can I find more?
>>736448153It's not going anywhere. Online services revenue is keeping Sega just barely alive after they fucked up Yakuza, Sonic and sunk a fortune into Rovio.Next fiscal report is coming in a month, right after the golden week.
>>736448473>fucked up Yakuza,wat
>>736448383We will never get anything cool like that ever again. I loved seeing all the stupid symbol arts that people would make.
>>736448516Kiwami 3 was poorly received
>>736436013where luther nose at>>736436528why kanna in the game
>muh symbol artsThey spam that shit all the time in Aelio Block 1. There is now a good amount of STAMP that is being use in their place just as much.
>>736446573>bwoi think it's cute!!
>>736448612It was poorly made
>>736448098>It pisses me off that there could have more players if they didn't go full retarded with the ban at launch or the faggot cm from /vg/ went on a banning spree on all the vg guilds.That person is no longer working with Sega so jokes on them. That's straight up discriminatory. Say what you will about 4chan but damn, there's also a lot of people who're here to play with other anons and make friendships. Community Manager is a retard.
>>736448516Sega's own fiscal reports and famitsu/teiten charts say as much. The last few Yakuza games sell less than 100k copies between PS4 and PS5 plus a couple thousand copies on tendie tablet. The older games that used to be considered giga flops like Kenzan and Dead Souls were all selling 250-400k units. Sega's own reports also say that all new titles in the past few years are underperforming and the old games are selling better.
>>736448848I agree
>>736448153>>736448473Getting a consistent 1k players daily on Steam is a very good sign.. On top of that, console players could be more. I mean, how likely out of the bunch who are literal pay whales? You wanna thank them for keeping the lights on, deadass.
>>736448594Symbol arts have been back for years but they're kinda soulless now since someone made an image to art converter that works pretty well
>>736448903I guess that make sense.
>>736436013>huh there's weird evil arks trying to kill folks and they're identical to the ones we found dead, and there's an evil version of crawford, and we're in a duplicate of the region>what could this possibly mean???>oh well we should take five minutes in the middle of our urgent mission to try to have cutesy name giving for the mystery amnesiac slayer girl>and now you'll have to wait another year for the actual next plot beat before anyone actually puts two and two together BYEEEEE
>>736436013Tranny game
>>736448725>kannawho
>>736448903Did they really expect to do numbers with the literal diarrhea they have been putting out?Sega are even more disrespectful of their IPs than fucking Konami
>>736449031>>and now you'll have to wait another year for the actual next plot beat before anyone actually puts two and two together BYEEEEEYou're getting 5 month worth of mystery amnesiac slayer girl comic, however.
>>736436579Launch NGS was ruined spectacularly with broken servers and a barren empty game that makes most early access releases blush. They lost the extreme majority of the players who tried to pick up the game during the first month and retained almost nothing over the first year, all because the game released 4-5 years too early. Combat absolutely did not feel good on launch, with shit like blocking/countering being directional except some attacks you blocked by looking at the enemy while others by looking at the direction of the limb swiping, or the fact that some classes were so awful that using subclass weapons was normal for 2 years just to avoid using your own classes weapons.Modern NGS is ruined by the fact that the only gameplay-related end game is running boss kill leaderboards which have such an extreme pay-to-win cost that the difference between a whale who plays sporadically and someone who drops $10 a month but farms religiously is, assuming fully equal skill, a 1:30 time versus a 1:45 time. The combat feeling good is extra frustrating because your only outlets for combat are to farm easy bosses (yes including the "hard" bosses) or you go lift your legs up and let the hefty spenders anally rape you publicly on leaderboards because you can't afford to drop 200 million meseta and $350 for fixa substitutes every 2 months for a disposable weapon just for one class.The game could be dramatically improved by pulling SEGA's cock out of the monetization of it, which would make it playable to an enormous amount of people. But that can't be done as PSO2:NGS revenue is propping up the company. It's a deadlock. The only way for the game to be fixed requires SEGA to make a bunch of good games and also for PSO2:NGS to stop making money. If they try to fix it otherwise, SEGA will literally fucking melt.
>>736439503>Only good thing i want to say is the affix stuffThis killed the game so you are part of the problem. Paying large sums for magic pills instead of farming for equipment with meaning lead to the slot machine cycle which dumped us in the current hellscape.
If they had left PSO2's shaders intact or an option between new and old with tweaks to accommodate the NGS shit, and found better ways to keep it intact than just random UQs with no cohesion or reason, maybe people would still give a fuck because endgame PSO2 was actually pretty damn neat despite how fucky the power creep got. But instead it got sacked, mutilated, and neutered to promote NGS, and doesn't even get extra benefits like cel-shading backported. They wanted that shit fucking buried for NGS.
>>736449156Well it's the same company that seriously expected to revolutionize the entire entertainment industry with their super game that was supposed to be more than just a game. Between various interviews and patents, they wanted to create some abomination that was several games stitched together by a cross-progression system and had various adjacent multi-media projects like NFTs, anime and themed pachislot machines. Last year in November they already announced the project's scope was too ambitious (i.e. expensive and retarded) and they're scaling down the whole thing.
>>736449202I miss PSO2COMI, too bad the artist has already moved on
>>736436013That trash is still going? Damn.
>No PSV>No PS Classic collection / remaster>No PSO Ep. V>No Infinity remasterSega are just stupid
>>736449541It didn't kill anything. I straight up refused to engage with this whole bullshit system in old PSO2. Downslotting and all or nothing gambles were just as jewish as the PSU grinding system.The real problem is the lack of quest diversity. There used to be a time when we went to different places and different quests to farm different capsules. Even Leciel was originally the sole source of welfare affixes. Then they fucked it up by making the current biweekly quest drop everything.
>>736449541>try to upgrade the gear with one more slot>lose 3 slot insteadFuck off with your rose-tinted faggotry.
>>736449963No you're stupid because no one is going to buy that shit.
>>736450274There's probably an audience for Portable 2 Infinity because we've got zero publisher dungeon crawlers for that sort of itch besides Diablo, and a grand total of like one notable indie game for furries.
>>736450274There are more people playing PSO private servers than there are playing NGS
>>736450462>There are more people playing PSO private servers than there are playing NGSI agree that they should bring PSOBB in some form and do a remaster with some added content. But everything else? Not really. And on top of that, you know damn well Sega will do everything to milk that game so even if that was a thought they'd add a bunch of monetization options
>>736450435>and a grand total of like one notable indie game for furries.Then they have to be furries then.
>>736450274bodied that freak>>736450462no there aren't even if we're only counting dead ass global
Trannyware is not welcome, this is a chud board.
>>736450435I wish Atlyss was good.
>this thread up>/vm/ thread diesevery single time
>>736450462>There are more people playing PSO private servers than there are playing NGSThis is factually untrue. NGS gets 1K consistent players daily. PSOBB Ephinea gets like 150 to 250 daily, give or take. PSU Clementine? Barely gets 50+ daily players.
>>736450753>NGS gets 1K consistent players dailyGrim.
>>736450753And there are 100k people playing PSP2i through ad-hoc multiplayer
>>736436013If I like original PSO and I still play Ephinea when I get the itch, I'll probably hate PSO2 right?
>>736450849It's a mobile "game"
>>736450872You will love it. Go on and give it a try.
>>736450872They're very different games so if you're expecting PSO2 to be a continuation of PSO in terms of gameplay or even atmosphere you'll hate itIf you treat it as a separate game, it just depends on your tastes
>>736448516So remember how they said that Yakuza was gonna stay on turn based, focus on Ichiban, retire Kiryu, and Judgment would be the series to keep old style alive? They had to walk all that back, whore out Kiryu and Majima past points of toleration, and now everyone's burnt out on Yakuza.
>>736450890It was the best of times, it was the worst of timeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGmdKUoId7A
>>736451067But Like a Dragon protag suck and the turn base IS retarded.
>>736450890PSO2 was in Vita, and now it can be play in the steam deck
