What have you learned?

[Titan]

Has PSU taught you anything that could possibly be applied in real life?

I've managed to learn more Japanese native tongue from a year on the JP server than the 2 and a half years I lived there. I know a hand full of kanji and hiragana aside from the easier katakana. Other than JP, I've also memorized some basic German words.

[Illuminate]

I've learned that SEGA doesnt' like to be straightforward about telling you they locked you out of your account. :O

"お客様は本商品の利用権をお持ちではありません。=Customer will have no right to use this product." Courtesy of Google Translate.

[str898mustang]

That Random Number Generators are a b!tch!


oh and able to read/write katakana

[Illuminate]

I've learned that the Japanese SEGA website when logging into PSU's billing site requires that you use a Japanese enabled browser. >_>;

[Ryno]

PSU has really taught me nothing....well sort of. but not really. it's becuase i have heard of the word that got my attention. becuase tri-fuids are real in life. noticed in in biology. but still it's nothing becuase it didn't give the full meaning in PSU. it only gave the PSU meaning, not the real life meaning. :D

i've learned / learned my lesson that having iinsufficient funds on me credit card that i had to cancel with spending money on Guardians Cash is bad. which i didn't know at 1st. ( spending almost $600 in GC )

[Keilyn]

PSO and PSU did help me out a lot because I used them a lot for talking with Japanese people within games. Its true I can join a lot of Japanese online communities out there, but I am also a gamer and sharing in different philosophies and going through the language barriers does help a lot.

I remember when I was learning Japanese, I spent a lot of time in the original Dreamcast PSO on the Japanese Ship Blocks making my many mistakes. The first sign I wasn't doing as well as I thought was when I would type my sentences in romaji and a friend would always convert them...

...that was when I learned that I should type everything in kana or kanji. Then I remember the structural problems and how western translation programs are outright failures, specially in music translation.

I remember taking two years of Japanese Language in college and two semesters of Japanese History as Electives.

Playing the game in the servers did help. Thing is that I hate Japanese Politics, but I love some aspects of Japanese Culture. I don't strike down purely the Japanese Public, but I always strike down in any culture the way Governments and Media Push people to act in certain ways.

Its true that there is an anti-foreigner presence in the game, but one thing that is very interesting is how mainland Japanese people treat Japanese who live outside of Japan. This mentality is one generated a lot more by their government, media and history more than anything and only those entities have the financial backing to keep pushing that onto their people....and its a great thing to push since it keeps the Japanese in Japan itself and they are willing to work 2 - 3 times harder than most people for the same wages and a lifestyle that has them give up a lot of things.

I have my battles too elsewhere, but video games themselves...not just PSU truly have connected me to many others and I've met some of the coolest (and frightening) people too and its nice to be part of a subculture so many have high stereotypes and few truly don't understand.

I've been a gamer.
I've been an online gaming clan leader.
I've been a programmer and modder for gaming.
I've been a server operator for gaming servers, web sites and file servers.
I've had my ass kicked many times online and I've kicked tons of all....

...and I always come back for more..

All because I've always believed something special does exist in all of it. I never would have gotten interested in Music or Computer Science if not for all the video games Ive played growing up.

Sure, I deal with all the jackasses and smartasses, but thats part of the fun and charm too. The flamewars, the insult humor, the morbid humor and the way my girls fly 500+ feet and slam into a wall when they take a hit.

I've had entire communities praise me over the years and I've had enough communities hate my guts too, but in the end its an online culture and something that can be fun, annoying and even a blessing and a barrel of laughs all at the same time. Unity and Disillusion all in the same place, specially with all the acts and roles people take without realizing it.

So yeah, I've learned tons and I keep learning more.

~Keilyn

[str898mustang]

PSU has really taught me nothing....well sort of. but not really. it's becuase i have heard of the word that got my attention. becuase tri-fuids are real in life. noticed in in biology. but still it's nothing becuase it didn't give the full meaning in PSU. it only gave the PSU meaning, not the real life meaning. :D

i've learned / learned my lesson that having iinsufficient funds on me credit card that i had to cancel with spending money on Guardians Cash is bad. which i didn't know at 1st. ( spending almost $600 in GC )

that was all on clothes right? lol

[Crysteon]

Outside of forcing myself to learn Japanese (making it a necessity more than a luxury), not much at all.

If it's about how to deal with people, there's nothing new here, since I remember meeting both very nice people and dicks in previous online games also.

I highly doubt that my usage of english has gotten noticeable any better since I joined US a few years ago, but I have to admit I've adquired some misc knowledge about certain words in daily life language, and I'm sure my friends have learned a thing or two in spanish also :0 .

[RemiusTA]

Um. I don't really know.


It taught me alot about videogames and what makes them fun, for one. Comparing PSU to its predecessor, and watching it evolve, ive noticed what seems to help the series, and what seems to just kind of sit there and pretend that its helping the series.


Thats useful for videogame design. But thats about it. PSU is a videogame, and it has a very fun social aspect, but i dont think i can take anything from the SOCIAL aspect into in real life. Especially since so many players of this game indulge in their characters/the virtual environment way too much, and others indulge in the game too much, which always baffled me because when you look into it, the game has ashallow amount of depth to it. I roll with people who like to just joke, have fun, whack stuff, troll/hang out in lobbies or rooms, and chill. But the people who literally dedicate every logged hour to perfect runs and crap annoy me.


which is usually why most of my time in PSU was helping newbies and such get up to arms. I HATED running popular missions because they're only fun once or twice, and finding people who were willing to just run a planet of random missions for fun was pretty damn rare, probably because the only members who did that were newer players who had yet to see all the content.



So, like i said, i learned what helps and cripples a game. Playing PSU for me was best described as a mix of "Wow can't wait to play with these guys tomorrow" with "What was sega thinking when they designed this game" and eventually "Why do I even bother with this crap"

[Omi]

The PC/PS2 version essentially taught me nothing in relation to real life, except to stay the
hell away from overly emo people (I wont start a list).

The JP PC version taught me how to read/write all of katakana, some hiragana, and even less
kanji (but still some), and of course how to type "nou" in 6+ languages (most important). It has
also taught me about the Japanese culture in a minimal way, but still more about it than I used
to know.

...

Why am I posting here?

[Cloudstrife xx]

The PC/PS2 version essentially taught me nothing in relation to real life, except to stay the
hell away from overly emo people (I wont start a list).

The JP PC version taught me how to read/write all of katakana, some hiragana, and even less
kanji (but still some), and of course how to type "nou" in 6+ languages (most important). It has
also taught me about the Japanese culture in a minimal way, but still more about it than I used
to know.

...

Why am I posting here?
It also taught you Pantsu!!!

Also why i am i still up i need to go to sleep...

[Crysteon]

Omi knew that before JP, lol.

[Sinue_v2]

Nothing. Not a goddamned thing.

[Ryno]

that was all on clothes right? lol

Yup! Majority on the GC gacha, but I at least made 5 stacks of meseta selling clothes in one day.

[MaggotSai]

I learned how to be more social from playing PSU. lol

[Omi]

It also taught you Pantsu!!!

Also why i am i still up i need to go to sleep...

Nice try but...


Omi knew that before JP, lol.

QTF. Go to bed Mr. 4:30AM =P

...and just because my brain hurts even thinking about this...


Yup! Majority on the GC gacha, but I at least made 5 stacks of meseta selling clothes in one day.

So worth 600 dollars... We really need a sarcasm font ><!!

[Crysteon]

QTF. Go to bed Mr. 4:30AM =P


Hey ;<...it's been a while since I stopped sleeping at such atypical hours, lol.

[Omi]

Hey ;<...it's been a while since I stopped sleeping at such atypical hours, lol.

Not you... that was directed at Jess it is 4:30 AM his time when I wrote that lol.
Probably should have clarified that lol.

[DeltaViolet+]

That Omi is a loli pervert.

That when it comes to Kata/Hira its alot simpler than I ever expected.

That there is so many miserable people online.

That the Japanese players aren't as "evil" as people make them out to be.

That people complain that they never get anything (Yet they never do runs)

That having a ping of near 350-400 is just as bad as having the slowdown on Xbox.

[Crysteon]

Nou...

Fixed ^_^

[gordon/alpha999]

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I learned, patience ;-)

[RemiusTA]

looking back on this thread


no, nevermind. This game didn't teach me shit.

[Ilikelamp7]

Video game = entertainment

School = education

[Noblewine]

I learned how to manage my money and plan ahead while playing psu.
Also not to punch my computer screen when my PM fails to synth something.
I also learned how to tolerate Laia or the vol Brother stupidity.
I learned how to laugh when lou or tonnio does something funny.
I learned female beasts are the best. Not. (lulz)
I learned from Lou how to not judge people.
I learned how to flirt with girls from Luccain Nav.

[VectormanX]

I learned a lot of Japanese and met a lot friends. which I'm thankful for.

[RemiusTA]

Video game = entertainment

School = education


Can't tell you how much playing Final Fantasy / Breath of Fire / RPGs at 7-8 years old boosted my vocabulary and reading speed, comprehension, and anything else you'd need in a videogame far beyond others in my class. Can't tell you how much playing a few MMOs at a young age helped my typing speed today.


Of course, RPGs these days have terrible voice acting and don't stop talking to you, so kids these days don't get the same benefits. It was like having a book addiction, except it was a videogame. Now it's just like having a videogame addiction.

With bad voice acting.

[Crysteon]

Can't tell you how much playing Final Fantasy / Breath of Fire / RPGs at 7-8 years old boosted my vocabulary and reading speed, comprehension, and anything else you'd need in a videogame far beyond others in my class.
I second that o_o

That's basically how I improved my english the most when I was a child.

[MaggotSai]

Can't tell you how much playing Final Fantasy / Breath of Fire / RPGs at 7-8 years old boosted my vocabulary and reading speed, comprehension, and anything else you'd need in a videogame far beyond others in my class.
Couldn't have said it better myself, classic RPG games practically was my education. My teachers at school always thought I was some kind of genius or something because I knew vocabulary and proper use of grammar that the other kids didn't know.

[pikachief]

The only thing I learned from PSU is that my stupid luck is the same in games and in the real world lol

[RedRaz0r]

So I saw this thread and I stopped and thought...

And I came up with, absolutely nothing.

I continued to think about what other games have taught me...and the one that comes to mind is WoW. WoW taught me so many social skills and how to be a leader and work with a group.

[Tawon]

How PSU can cause anger management problems ...

examples grinding, finding items, etc

[BWS-1]

PC/PS2 PSU refreshed my ability to ''let go'', even though the sensation of loss wasn't as great as PSO ver2 on Dreamcast. I didn't expect PC PSU to go away at some point, or I should say, be abandoned. How hard would it have been to update it as a stand-alone up to be on par with either Japan or the other versions with the PS2 one no longer ''being a drag''?

No matter, it's long gone now. Along with my desire to play PSU.

As I said, it taught me to let go.

[Dragwind]

PSU has taught me that I should never gamble much in a casino.

PSU has taught me that I can be addicted to more than one game in a series, and that I can also severely phase out the importance of the outside world because of addiction to said games.

[bupjo]

PSU has taught me how brave racists are when they are behind a keyboard, headset and avatar. but in real life...a bunch of pussies.

[Halcyote]

PSU has taught me how brave racists are when they are behind a keyboard, headset and avatar. but in real life...a bunch of pussies.
The internet should've taught you that long before PSU entered the picture.

[Sinue_v2]

PSU has taught me how brave racists are when they are behind a keyboard, headset and avatar. but in real life...a bunch of pussies.

The internet should've taught you that long before PSU entered the picture.


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