Nai_Calus
Apr 22, 2008, 08:33 AM
Topic: The EN version isn't the only fucking one, you twats.
I am sick to shitting death of hearing that 'All the official PSO servers are dead'. They fucking aren't. JPBB, as I have pointed out numerous damned times, is not only still going, it's still doing rather well and still has fucking events from time to time. That doesn't seem very dead to me. So stop saying all the official servers are fucking dead!
This also goes for all the fucktarded complaining I used to see every time someone posted a JPPSU update, where some idiot would whine that they didn't care and nobody did. The importers did? People who want to know what to look forward to did?
Just because you don't play the JP version of something doesn't mean it doesn't fucking exist or that nobody could possibly be interested in it. Christ.
Topic: I like PSO. Is that fucking OK with you?
(tl;dr version because even I don't want to read that wall of text I wrote: PSO is fucked up beyond belief but I love it anyway. PSU isn't fucked up beyond belief but I hate it anyway. People need to stop bashing PSO on a PSO fansite. I like PSO. Is that fucking OK with you?)
So there's this game that came out eight years ago. It's called PSO. It looks, sounds and feels like a game that came out eight years ago, even stuff from the expansions that came out six and four years ago, which were designed to match the look and feel of the original content. It has the battle system and features you would expect from a game that came out eight years ago designed to be played online over dialup connections. It has glaring fucking flaws that have been in place since day one that were never fixed. At least one of the classes is balanced so poorly that its main viable playstyle doesn't actually work in at least one area of the game due to ludicrous stat maxes, this too not ever being fixed. In its later years the EN version was managed like pure and utter shit and went to complete fucking hell and official EN support died slowly and painfully even as unofficial support came and did things better than the fucking actual company. Nearly every aspect of the game has been fucked up or broken in some way at some point by something and its history is one of fuckups and godforsaken miserable failures.
There is no game I love more. There is no game I care more passionately about.
I know each and every problem and fuckup. I know each and every thing that's just plain poorly done. I hate an entire twelfth of the game, fuck you Caves. It's my favourite class in the game that I spoke of before as being shittily balanced, FOmar's ATA is so low he literally cannot hit in Seabed online, even with a Red Ring, unless he has weapons with really good Hit %, making his most effective playstyle, melee, basically impossible unless you have the luck of the gods themselves, which I don't. Is this fucking stupid? Hell goddamned yes it is. FOrces max at 186, 183, 170 and 163 ATA for FOnewearl, FOnewm, FOmarl and FOmar respectively. The latter two are the ones with melee-oriented stats. There is no fucking reason at all why FOmarl and FOmar shouldn't have had 180 and 177 ATA. The damage FOmar does when he hits is NOT enough to be broken by being able to hit more often, especially not when he's damn near tied with FOnewearl for worst DFP and HP in the fucking game. I play FOmar because he's fun as all hell to play when he works, and he looks good to boot, but jesus christ, ST. The fuck.
Duping? FSODing? DC's NOLing? BB's various fuckshitteries? (lawl grinding an S-rank Twin too fast for the server's tastes, getting DCed by it and losing the weapon, great times, fuck you ST.) All massive cockups. BB's fucktarded EXP loss? Fuck you ST.
Problems every damned place. Hell, the things I hate in PSO are arguably worse than the things I hate in PSU.
And yet, I love the game. I play the game still. Daily if I can. I consider a day in which I haven't played any Challenge Mode a failure, because C-mode is goddamned fun. Working with other people, looking out for everyone's needs, coordinating on puzzles to advance and get items that can directly contribute to the success of the run? Jesus Fucking Christ YES. It's great. Keeping track of not just how many Monomates, Dimates and Scape Dolls I have but how many everyone else has? Knowing how many fluids the Force has and if I need to give them some? Or if I'm the Force, gauging the density of the enemies in the spawn pattern we've gotten and how much of the stage is left to ration out my TP usage? Using every bit of skill I have to kill as fast as possible while avoiding being hit as much as possible? Yes. Yes, yes and more yes. Do want, gib.
I'm hunting a Red Ring with a friend. This is a fucktardedly rare drop. This does not bother me, because while we do this we're doing stuff we would be doing anyway, hunting other stuff at the same time and having a good time to boot. There's also at least five different ways to go about fighting Dark Falz, pick which quest you want depending on what kind of enemy spawns you're looking for.
Sure, I've seen wrestling games with better character creation. (Better character creation than PSU has as well, but) But PSO's serves my needs. I like the looks of the character classes. Sometimes it's nice to not have to fuck around for an hour getting your face just goddamned right. It does what I want it to do, which is make characters I can stand to look at for thousands of hours.
With PSO I see the godforsaken game-breaking flaws and stack them against the things I love and the fun I have and how much I enjoy all the aspects of the gameplay and the world and the story and the feel of the game, and the things I love come out on top. I am not blind to its flaws. I fucking hate them and bitch about them all the damned time. But I love PSO's good points more than I hate its bad points.
PSU... Doesn't strike that balance. None of the things I hate in it are really game-breaking. They're just annoying. There's nothing like FOmar's ludicrously low ATA, or FSOD or what have you. Just 'Blah, this class is boring' or 'ugh, I hate how you access items' or 'Damn near every area in this game reminds me of Caves in some way'.
But it also lacks the love factor. There's no c-mode, just party missions nobody will ever do. The character creation is more robust, but the clothing and designs do little for me. Great, I like how this Beast I made looks, too bad I can't find clothing I really like for him. Oh, hey, this set is nice, but it doesn't come in colours I like, darn.
The story means little to me and I don't care about my characters or feel the urge to make up stories about them. My PSO characters, the main ones and even some of the lowbie alts, all have fucktons of backstory and character development and story. I can tell you what they like, what they hate, how they act, how they got where they are, what they're doing and what they'll do in the future. Hell, some of my alts were made to represent characters I'd come up with. PSU I don't care. I played it for over a year and it never got beyond the vaguest of ideas swiped directly from my PSO characters. Hell, my PSU main was just a PSU version of my PSO main, minus actually giving a fuck about his history and motivations. I've been trying to make a fantasy-style adaption of Nai for a week or so and that has more fucking development than PSU Nai ever got.
Why did I play PSU so fucking long? I don't know. The hope that suddenly it would get better. That x new class or y new area or z weapon or whatever would suddenly open it all up for me and bring on the love. But it never did, and finally after a year and two different versions I quit.
There is no reason at all for me to actively hate PSU, and yet I do. Nothing in it justifies hate, just bland 'eh, who cares'-ing, but I hate the fucking thing.
Quite possibly because of PSOW. It gets fucking tiresome hearing damn near everyone in PSU General whine about how much it sucked, how it's dead, how everyone needs to get over it, or worse when they go to fucking PSO General and whine about it THERE. I dunno, maybe they've stopped whining about PSO in PSU General, I haven't actively read it in like a month, but I keep seeing people come bitch about PSO, in the PSO forum of a fucking PSO fansite.
Yeah, this is Phantasy Star Online World. Five years ago I joined this site because of motherfucking PSO.
Because I liked PSO.
I still like PSO.
I'm not that keen on PSU.
Is that motherfucking OK with you? Can I like my fucking game? You're welcome to like PSU all you want, I won't stop you or even say you're an idiot for it.
But seriously, can I like motherfucking PSO on a motherfucking PSO website? Srsly?
(Unless I've miscounted, I managed to use the F-word exactly 42 times in this post without even trying. FKL ate me?)
I am sick to shitting death of hearing that 'All the official PSO servers are dead'. They fucking aren't. JPBB, as I have pointed out numerous damned times, is not only still going, it's still doing rather well and still has fucking events from time to time. That doesn't seem very dead to me. So stop saying all the official servers are fucking dead!
This also goes for all the fucktarded complaining I used to see every time someone posted a JPPSU update, where some idiot would whine that they didn't care and nobody did. The importers did? People who want to know what to look forward to did?
Just because you don't play the JP version of something doesn't mean it doesn't fucking exist or that nobody could possibly be interested in it. Christ.
Topic: I like PSO. Is that fucking OK with you?
(tl;dr version because even I don't want to read that wall of text I wrote: PSO is fucked up beyond belief but I love it anyway. PSU isn't fucked up beyond belief but I hate it anyway. People need to stop bashing PSO on a PSO fansite. I like PSO. Is that fucking OK with you?)
So there's this game that came out eight years ago. It's called PSO. It looks, sounds and feels like a game that came out eight years ago, even stuff from the expansions that came out six and four years ago, which were designed to match the look and feel of the original content. It has the battle system and features you would expect from a game that came out eight years ago designed to be played online over dialup connections. It has glaring fucking flaws that have been in place since day one that were never fixed. At least one of the classes is balanced so poorly that its main viable playstyle doesn't actually work in at least one area of the game due to ludicrous stat maxes, this too not ever being fixed. In its later years the EN version was managed like pure and utter shit and went to complete fucking hell and official EN support died slowly and painfully even as unofficial support came and did things better than the fucking actual company. Nearly every aspect of the game has been fucked up or broken in some way at some point by something and its history is one of fuckups and godforsaken miserable failures.
There is no game I love more. There is no game I care more passionately about.
I know each and every problem and fuckup. I know each and every thing that's just plain poorly done. I hate an entire twelfth of the game, fuck you Caves. It's my favourite class in the game that I spoke of before as being shittily balanced, FOmar's ATA is so low he literally cannot hit in Seabed online, even with a Red Ring, unless he has weapons with really good Hit %, making his most effective playstyle, melee, basically impossible unless you have the luck of the gods themselves, which I don't. Is this fucking stupid? Hell goddamned yes it is. FOrces max at 186, 183, 170 and 163 ATA for FOnewearl, FOnewm, FOmarl and FOmar respectively. The latter two are the ones with melee-oriented stats. There is no fucking reason at all why FOmarl and FOmar shouldn't have had 180 and 177 ATA. The damage FOmar does when he hits is NOT enough to be broken by being able to hit more often, especially not when he's damn near tied with FOnewearl for worst DFP and HP in the fucking game. I play FOmar because he's fun as all hell to play when he works, and he looks good to boot, but jesus christ, ST. The fuck.
Duping? FSODing? DC's NOLing? BB's various fuckshitteries? (lawl grinding an S-rank Twin too fast for the server's tastes, getting DCed by it and losing the weapon, great times, fuck you ST.) All massive cockups. BB's fucktarded EXP loss? Fuck you ST.
Problems every damned place. Hell, the things I hate in PSO are arguably worse than the things I hate in PSU.
And yet, I love the game. I play the game still. Daily if I can. I consider a day in which I haven't played any Challenge Mode a failure, because C-mode is goddamned fun. Working with other people, looking out for everyone's needs, coordinating on puzzles to advance and get items that can directly contribute to the success of the run? Jesus Fucking Christ YES. It's great. Keeping track of not just how many Monomates, Dimates and Scape Dolls I have but how many everyone else has? Knowing how many fluids the Force has and if I need to give them some? Or if I'm the Force, gauging the density of the enemies in the spawn pattern we've gotten and how much of the stage is left to ration out my TP usage? Using every bit of skill I have to kill as fast as possible while avoiding being hit as much as possible? Yes. Yes, yes and more yes. Do want, gib.
I'm hunting a Red Ring with a friend. This is a fucktardedly rare drop. This does not bother me, because while we do this we're doing stuff we would be doing anyway, hunting other stuff at the same time and having a good time to boot. There's also at least five different ways to go about fighting Dark Falz, pick which quest you want depending on what kind of enemy spawns you're looking for.
Sure, I've seen wrestling games with better character creation. (Better character creation than PSU has as well, but) But PSO's serves my needs. I like the looks of the character classes. Sometimes it's nice to not have to fuck around for an hour getting your face just goddamned right. It does what I want it to do, which is make characters I can stand to look at for thousands of hours.
With PSO I see the godforsaken game-breaking flaws and stack them against the things I love and the fun I have and how much I enjoy all the aspects of the gameplay and the world and the story and the feel of the game, and the things I love come out on top. I am not blind to its flaws. I fucking hate them and bitch about them all the damned time. But I love PSO's good points more than I hate its bad points.
PSU... Doesn't strike that balance. None of the things I hate in it are really game-breaking. They're just annoying. There's nothing like FOmar's ludicrously low ATA, or FSOD or what have you. Just 'Blah, this class is boring' or 'ugh, I hate how you access items' or 'Damn near every area in this game reminds me of Caves in some way'.
But it also lacks the love factor. There's no c-mode, just party missions nobody will ever do. The character creation is more robust, but the clothing and designs do little for me. Great, I like how this Beast I made looks, too bad I can't find clothing I really like for him. Oh, hey, this set is nice, but it doesn't come in colours I like, darn.
The story means little to me and I don't care about my characters or feel the urge to make up stories about them. My PSO characters, the main ones and even some of the lowbie alts, all have fucktons of backstory and character development and story. I can tell you what they like, what they hate, how they act, how they got where they are, what they're doing and what they'll do in the future. Hell, some of my alts were made to represent characters I'd come up with. PSU I don't care. I played it for over a year and it never got beyond the vaguest of ideas swiped directly from my PSO characters. Hell, my PSU main was just a PSU version of my PSO main, minus actually giving a fuck about his history and motivations. I've been trying to make a fantasy-style adaption of Nai for a week or so and that has more fucking development than PSU Nai ever got.
Why did I play PSU so fucking long? I don't know. The hope that suddenly it would get better. That x new class or y new area or z weapon or whatever would suddenly open it all up for me and bring on the love. But it never did, and finally after a year and two different versions I quit.
There is no reason at all for me to actively hate PSU, and yet I do. Nothing in it justifies hate, just bland 'eh, who cares'-ing, but I hate the fucking thing.
Quite possibly because of PSOW. It gets fucking tiresome hearing damn near everyone in PSU General whine about how much it sucked, how it's dead, how everyone needs to get over it, or worse when they go to fucking PSO General and whine about it THERE. I dunno, maybe they've stopped whining about PSO in PSU General, I haven't actively read it in like a month, but I keep seeing people come bitch about PSO, in the PSO forum of a fucking PSO fansite.
Yeah, this is Phantasy Star Online World. Five years ago I joined this site because of motherfucking PSO.
Because I liked PSO.
I still like PSO.
I'm not that keen on PSU.
Is that motherfucking OK with you? Can I like my fucking game? You're welcome to like PSU all you want, I won't stop you or even say you're an idiot for it.
But seriously, can I like motherfucking PSO on a motherfucking PSO website? Srsly?
(Unless I've miscounted, I managed to use the F-word exactly 42 times in this post without even trying. FKL ate me?)