PSO: A game for casuals

[W0LB0T]

I mean look at this shit:
-Made for Consoles
-Regenerating health
-Auto aim.

Why do you casuals ever play this kids game.

[Palle]

...but it had the most supreme twitch controls, seeped in nuance that only the proest of bros could discern.

[RenzokukenZ]

Because Diablo 2 wasn't out yet.

[PhotonDrop]

-Regenerating health

I... wat?

[Akaimizu]

Actually, Diablo 2 came out 6 months prior. Still, it was the first major online console game that had servers meant to take hundreds if not thousands of players. With devices to allow people to communicate across language barriers, and even a major use of Beat time to synchronize plans for people living in different time zones.

Then again, it was still during a time where Japanese games around the similar genre were always more casual games than the Western equivalents. For which most of those were meant for a bit of a more hardcore crowd. Ones who can think out of a situation which wouldn't kill off your party within the first 30 minutes of play.

Of course, casual is relative. To others, the same game might be seen as nerdy technical action gaming for which I don't care for all those actions which aren't Jump, Run, Walk, and possibly shoot.

[Nitro Vordex]

srs bidnuss
trufax

[Randomness]

I... wat?

Casts had a slow HP regeneration. Same as newmans had slow TP regen.

[Raikomaru]

It's true. PSO is easy as shit.

[SpikeOtacon]

I await the eventual facebook game port.

[PhotonDrop]

Casts had a slow HP regeneration. Same as newmans had slow TP regen.

Oh duh. That's what I get for not being a robot. :wacko:

[Outrider]

I await the eventual facebook game port.

Now I really kind of want to design that just as a thought experiment.

[TalHex]

That would be a facebook game I would actually play

[Randomness]

Oh duh. That's what I get for not being a robot. :wacko:

It was really bad anyways.

[Dhylec]

It was really bad anyways.

good, if ya an afk bot

[PhotonDrop]

It was really bad anyways.

Hell, compared to Resta and Star Atomizers waiting around to regen is hardcore.

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

Oh duh. That's what I get for not being a robot. :wacko:
Ginger test tube witches, made in the vein of Red Witch Rico.

Don't know about the "Klank Klank."

Space fatigue, marines?!

[PhotonDrop]

Ginger test tube witches

I'mma cut you so bad you're gonna wish I didn't cut you so bad.

[Akaimizu]

I await the eventual facebook game port.


Yeah, if Dragon Age wants to make every derivative in the world from its mythos, (like Facebook), can't see why not for Phantasy Star.

Though it seems like PSO Episode 3 would make the easiest initial system to make into a Facebook game (and maybe also a Mobile one). It requires a lot less thought in terms of how to translate the game into something that works. You can sum that game up into a Statistical game system. Though I would always think it would be too neat to somehow still manage to pull a system like that off and maintain co-op for up to 4 players. Though I could see a general copy of said system, first, just to get the foundation down.

I always liked the way it somehow managed to merge 2 entirely different CCG systems and yet diverge enough to have so much of that PSO atmosphere in it. Sadly, or fortunately, it's quite possible to still maintain the graphics PSO is known for, in one of those games. Mostly due to clever and well-placed image anims. Like anims to produce pulsating light work in traces in the walls, or wall panels that scroll between images (as seen in parts of the VR location in PSO Episode 2). All which could be done with strict HTML programming, javascript, etc. Would require a server if especially making it multiplayer. However, it could initally be written with nothing but web client code and cookies, just to get a working prototype.

Argh. Already thinking about the semantics. That's what you get for being a J2EE programmer.

[Randomness]

Yeah, if Dragon Age wants to make every derivative in the world from its mythos, (like Facebook), can't see why not for Phantasy Star.

Though it seems like PSO Episode 3 would make the easiest initial system to make into a Facebook game (and maybe also a Mobile one). It requires a lot less thought in terms of how to translate the game into something that works. You can sum that game up into a Statistical game system. Though I would always think it would be too neat to somehow still manage to pull a system like that off and maintain co-op for up to 4 players. Though I could see a general copy of said system, first, just to get the foundation down.

I always liked the way it somehow managed to merge 2 entirely different CCG systems and yet diverge enough to have so much of that PSO atmosphere in it. Sadly, or fortunately, it's quite possible to still maintain the graphics PSO is known for, in one of those games. Mostly due to clever and well-placed image anims. Like anims to produce pulsating light work in traces in the walls, or wall panels that scroll between images (as seen in parts of the VR location in PSO Episode 2). All which could be done with strict HTML programming, javascript, etc. Would require a server if especially making it multiplayer. However, it could initally be written with nothing but web client code and cookies, just to get a working prototype.

Argh. Already thinking about the semantics. That's what you get for being a J2EE programmer.

Flash would also be an option. HTML5 is supposed to be able to do a lot of what Flash can (so I've heard, I have little experience in web stuff).

[Akaimizu]

Actually, Flash and HTML 5 would be an option. However, when I think of a game design to go on the web, particularly turn based, I think of how to do it with the least amount of resources first and then use extras (Like flash and HTML 5) as pure extras.

For me, the most important thing is to accomplish stuff like (Castle Age) on facebook, for an audience. Castle Age happens to be one of the most involved time-spender games on Facebook, having lots of layers of gaming within it, and even the ability to form alliances of many folks to take down a tough boss. Pretty much anybody (regarless of access to specific versions of Flash, or HTML 5) can play the game. If you got a web browser, there's no machine that can't play it.

Also, when putting the base code into something so easily transferrable, it's a no brainer to port and add hooks for nicer presentation models. It would make ports no brainers with short development time, and a lack of necessary testing time; because bug-testing the subsystem would amount to 90% of the testing, which you did on your first platform. The browser. Then you'd only have to fix little graphical hitches, for which it's all a case of proper positioning.

[Outrider]

Honestly, drop in a simple Mafia Wars style questing system along with the general loot grind inherent to PSO, and then tie it into the usual bonuses for being social in these games and you have a winner.

Of course, even nicer would be if there were actually some gameplay within the app, but stupid simple sometimes wins out.

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

I'mma cut you so bad you're gonna wish I didn't cut you so bad.
Whatever you do lowers your lifespan, maybe by tomorrow, maybe by a year.

Fishnets better be worn while you still can. :cactus:

[PhotonDrop]

Whatever you do lowers your lifespan, maybe by tomorrow, maybe by a year.

Fishnets better be worn while you still can. :cactus:

As long as you understand the severity of the cutting. :wacko:

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

Can't spell "PSO newman" without emo. STAG CUTLERY

[Mixfortune]

PSO,man

[Nitro Vordex]

Can't spell "PSO newman" without emo. STAG CUTLERY
Staged Cutting.

[PhotonDrop]

What do I look like? A Suicide Girl?

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

Sounds too Black Paper for these forums.

But no, nobody knows what you look like, with or without the cutlery.

[Nitro Vordex]

What do I look like? A Suicide Girl?
God I hope you're classier than that.

[PhotonDrop]

I'm so classy I spontaneously combust at tea time.

[Nitro Vordex]

And you hold on to your teacup at the same time? I tip my hat to you.

[PhotonDrop]

Of course, it's only fire. Nothing I haven't seen before :wacko:

[Outrider]

I'm so classy I spontaneously combust at tea time.

I hear they have medication to take care of that.

[Randomness]

I hear they have medication to take care of that.

Isn't it just an extra-large pot of tea to put the tea-fire out with?

[ShinMaruku]

Of course, it's only fire. Nothing I haven't seen before :wacko:

WITCHERY!

[W0LB0T]

WITCHERY!

ShinMaruku, Chesty Witch Patrol

[Airalean]

Isn't it just an extra-large pot of tea to put the tea-fire out with?
That never ends well.

http://i.min.us/inBva4.png

[PhotonDrop]

ShinMaruku, Chesty Witch Patrol

I am not a witch. :(

[Randomness]

That never ends well.

http://i.min.us/inBva4.png

That depends which side of the fourth wall you're on, doesn't it?

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

I am not a witch. :(
According to his well known Ginger = Witch logic, you are.

Good thing he likes the western robo bro marines and D&D types, because check out that

http://www.bmecha.com/images/post/shin_getter/shin_getter_1.jpg http://www.bmecha.com/images/post/shin_getter/shin_getter_2.jpg

"SHIN GETTER"

http://www.bmecha.com/images/post/shin_getter/shin_getter_6.jpg
http://www.bmecha.com/images/post/shin_getter/shin_getter_5.jpg

Fear the real Shin Getter 1 by Fewture! (http://www.bmecha.com/mecha-robot-toy/fear-the-real-shin-getter-1-by-fewture/)

[PhotonDrop]

You must really love BMecha.com, repeating yourself 4 times like that. You must be one of them robosexuals!

[Mixfortune]

Hotlinks! Getch'yer hotlinks heah! Freeeesh hotlinks!

[PhotonDrop]

I'll take three!

[Nitro Vordex]

Can I get one with Adobe sauce?

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

Shit is so cache.

Regular link sauce-age down there too. Plan ahead for different consumption, good thing too, lotsa imajpegrs to see that weren't chosen.


You must really love BMecha.com, repeating yourself 4 times like that. You must be one of them robosexuals!
See you like the Nei's claw, well why don'tchu marry it!

[PhotonDrop]

See you like the Nei's claw, well why don'tchu marry it!

Cuz the judge wouldn't let me.

[HAYABUSA-FMW-]

PSO2 Vegas Wedding Lobby Endless Weirdmare 1234.

[PhotonDrop]

Is that sometime Towards the Future or in the Respective Tomorrow?

[Sord]

Is that sometime Towards the Future or in the Respective Tomorrow?

Prospective world to come

[Randomness]

Prospective world to come

Crimite Beast?

[PhotonDrop]

That ain't no Hank Williams song

[Wyndham]

Cheeeese-BAAAAALLL!