Yeah it's my second favourite Sonic game ever after the Dreamcast version of Sonic Adventure 2!
Sure it's buggy and unfinished, but underneath is a stylish, exciting, ambitious, imaginative and well-designed game :)
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So erm, does anyone here play on that private server? Is it still up?
Production for that server has been discontinued. Essen no longer has interest in it, nor motivation. He's moved on. If you need the official statement from him, here it is:
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A disagreement on definitions, then. I take everything I see as a series of parts, so that if one thing I do is lacking in one part I need, I can make up for it by doing something else which has that one part in abundance. This is why I play both WoW and PSO2. WoW's community is lacking, as is its action. But its world, story telling (weird, right?), and RPG elements are pretty great. PSO2 has almost no world, no story to speak of (it's getting better), and terrible RPG elements. But it has a wonderful community and communication environment, and its core gameplay elements are fantastic.
They fit together perfectly. So when I get enough of one, I switch to another. I can't get all of what I need from just the one game.
I understand this completely. That's why I said PSU was a fantastic chat group. It almost makes me wish there was no combat at all, so that more focus would be put into the the social aspects.Quote:
Why? Because I loved hanging out on there. I loved chatting to my new friends, working on my room, buying cool stuff, developing my shop, messing around at the casino... and then when aaaaall that messing around was done... we'd go blast through a level or 2.
surely you see that there are different ways to enjoy the same game? :)
The shame is that you missed PSU in its most active. There were fan made events going on almost every week, with tons of participation. These things are why I kept on playing despite there being no core game design going on. I wonder if I shouldn't finds some fan videos. I participated in more than a few of those...
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PA leveling was tiresome. It also took extremely long to get to PA levels, for some, in order to really get the true benefits from it. The thousands of hours doing PA levels, and only seeing an upgrade after each 10 slow levels. While certain weapons were easier, many took forever in PSU. The Portable version was way more kind. Not to mention, many gun classes had the long haul to have to get their PA levels to the highest level of all elements before they actually get the class-specific benefit of using them on many of the high-health mobs in the game. Otherwise your stuff doesn't proc or help with damage enough that someone with straight damage could just run in with.
That and swords were totally messed up, doing way less damage for much slower performance and high risk, while they could use Slicers and do way more damage for little risk at all.
The early social game was pretty awesome, I'll say. It also showed a lot of promise given the way combat was speedier and smoother than PSO. You could immediately run around the battlefield, and attacks could happen more frequent. Though, PSO's walk-then-run did have 1 main advantage, it made things easier to aim given that it also meant that your initial movements were fine tuned before they accelerated.
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I also loved PSU there was so much to do between the leveling PAs, hunting gear, leveling characters, the frequent events that added more to the game, etc (JP servers) It's funny how people complain that the game sucks when they put in hundreds or thousands of hours and play it for years.
They are clearly doing something right because you people kept coming back or stayed playing it. I personally never understood the the appeal of PSO. It is grindy as hell, boring combat, and repetitive. Let's run this one mission or spawn 300 times to get a single drop over and over and over. No PSU was nothing like that if you wanted to farm something. I have never had to spend more than maybe 50 runs for a single weapon/unit/item/armor/board that I was looking for. Also PA/Bullets/Techs leveling was easy and took maybe a few days to get 41+ if that. Even without a PA boost I was able to get within a week all 36 of my PAs half of my Bullets and all my techs to 41+. While gaining AP at the same time.
This is all of course my opinion so no I am not attacking anyone's opinion.