PSU is amazing!

[hoppimike]

Just wanted to start a thread to express my enthusiasm for the game... and also my confusion as to why it gets such a hard time.

To be honest, perhaps 2006 was just a tough year for Sega and Sonic Team because Yuji Naka left, which left some of the games like PSU and Sonic '06 a bit more muddled.

However, here are the pros and cons of PSU as opposed to PSO, as I see them:


Pros:

- Voice chat

- More social areas and more variety of social areas (club, pub, casino and so on)

- Personal rooms and shops

- Obviously, improved graphics and so on


Cons:

- Less captivating storyline

- Class system seemed a bit overly complicated and required magic "weapons" to do magic attacks

- More expensive to play


I really don't know of any more cons. I do think the storyline was more engaging in PSO, but I found PSU an incredibly immersive, social and expansive gaming experience that I will never forget.

I am bewildered as to why people give it flak. I'll admit it would have been nice to see more development from PSO, but that's not a con as such.

Anyway, awesome game, and I hope to find some kind of private server like EGS to play around on in future

[blazzze]

PSU was amazing played it till the servers got shut down :'(. Just started playing PSO 2 today (after i got the english patch and such), now im just looking for some peeps to game with!

[Lumpen Thingy]

I played this game for 5 years and no PSO was a much better over all game

[ThePendragon]

I played this game for 5 years and no PSO was a much better over all game

This is factually incorrect.

[Zorafim]

Combat is stiff, with a very low skill cap. Defense is trivial, to the point where pressing a single button is all you need to stay alive. Exploration on a map is very linear, to the point where you already know where to go the instant the map loads.

The gameplay is just bad. You don't feel like you have any control over anything. In many aspects, it's even worse than PSO where you could at least outskill most enemies. You'll probably notice certain aspects of the game which just aren't good designs. Until then, enjoy it.
And try out PSP2. It has many of the good points of this game, with far less flaws. Or just get PSO2, which is free anyway.

[Dr.No]

PSU was poorly received due to how lacking in content it was during launch. One of the planets wasn't even unlocked online when it first came out! Crafting and grinding items was a giant pain in the ass as you could fail to either make the item for no decent reason or you could fail to grind your weapon and have it lost/unable to grind it to its full potential.

The game eventually got so facerolling easy you could solo most maps with ease, and the only source of (false) difficulty were the one-hit kills. Not to mention the laughable support that came during the middle of PSU's lifespan.

I'd say try out PSPo1 and/or PSPo2 instead.

[Zorafim]

Have we complained about worms yet? Because worms are terrible. Instantly invincible, lower your stats, can attack without any counters, and they were everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason everyone got burnt out by Parum was because of them.

And yeah, PA leveling was another terrible one. I only ever played as fortefighter, and later fightmaster, because any time I tried switching classes, I always got burnt out trying to catch that class up. It took hours to level up skills, when the gameplay wasn't even much different.

Elemental weapons was another one. Having 50% 1*s was better than having the rarest, most powerful weapon, because it meant you suddenly had 50% more attack power.


Ah, complaining about PSU... I haven't done that in a while.

Zorafilm - I much prefered PSU to PSP2... it just has more stuff. It feels far more fleshed-out, but then I love the social aspect of the game. I actually spent more time hanging out with my new friends on there and buying stuff than I ever did leveling!

We often joke that PSU was an amazing chat group. The game was terrible, but it was so easy to bond with people through it. One advantage PSU has over PSO2 is that you could chat up with a group in different areas. VCC used to enjoy hanging out in the tundra, for instance.
Still no undersea area for me to lounge in...

I don't think PSO2 is much worse, though. There's less private areas to hang out in, but rooms are good enough sometimes.

[hoppimike]

We often joke that PSU was an amazing chat group. The game was terrible, but it was so easy to bond with people through it. One advantage PSU has over PSO2 is that you could chat up with a group in different areas. VCC used to enjoy hanging out in the tundra, for instance.
Still no undersea area for me to lounge in...

I don't think PSO2 is much worse, though. There's less private areas to hang out in, but rooms are good enough sometimes.

I think herein lies the difference in the way we both saw the game.

For me, the social aspect WAS part of the game. So saying "the social part of the game was great but the game was terrible" makes no sense to me, because the social part of the game was a PART of the game.

You wanna know what level I got to in PSU? 40. Yup! 40. And I played for SO many hours!

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.

PSU was awesome, for me. I saw very, very few shortcomings. But surely you see that there are different ways to enjoy the same game?

[Lumpen Thingy]

I think herein lies the difference in the way we both saw the game.

For me, the social aspect WAS part of the game. So saying "the social part of the game was great but the game was terrible" makes no sense to me, because the social part of the game was a PART of the game.

You wanna know what level I got to in PSU? 40. Yup! 40. And I played for SO many hours!

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.

PSU was awesome, for me. I saw very, very few shortcomings. But surely you see that there are different ways to enjoy the same game?

if you only got up to lvl 40 then you really haven't actually played the actual game or end game what so ever and yes there were tons of flaws not saying the game was awful but it was FAR from perfect

[TenebriS]

if you only got up to lvl 40 then you really haven't actually played the actual game or end game what so ever and yes there were tons of flaws not saying the game was awful but it was FAR from perfect

Nobody ever said it’s perfect. They only said they enjoyed the game just as it was and that’s their opinion. Think what you want but to them it was awesome and nothing you say can change their mind.

Btw, I actually played the game for quite a while, especially on the Japanese servers the game really was great. I miss it sometimes with all the lobbies, Lobby actions, the class systems and the leveling system. And most of all, I miss to level my PAs, it just kind of feels boring to find a disc and suddenly max level PA/Technic. Leveling them felt rewarding to me. o.o
Yeah it was not perfect, but it was a pretty good game nonetheless.