SEGA Reveals Phantasy Star Nova w/ Single Player Offline (New TGS Pics Added)

[ChaosAngel92]

This is really exciting and sad at the same time.
It is the first time I see a franchise I love goes insane on Japan and doesn't reach America.

But I don't get it whats with people complaining about no online play like pso2.
If you want PSO2 online on vita, well there is PSO2 Vita por that right?
Why 2 separate games? Is obvious, me thinks.
2 separate games = more income to sega. (dividing offline mode and online mode seems like a smart move to get more cash).

I mean, Phantasy Star Nove is probably PSO2 but focused on the story elements.
As the trailer suggest, this project seems to cash in even more for the nostalgia of PSO, exploring a planet with the solitude around you, with no one to help.

This is what PSO2 lacks imo.
It is built around all this "you are Arkz and you are a GROUP of players and all united..." etc, kinda what the Guardians things were intended.
But in PSO, you were alone. Yes you were a hunter but you were completely on your own.

[Blue-Hawk]

Ah yes. Another PS game that will never see the light of day over here in the US, outside of importing.

Why bother getting our hopes up Sonic Team/SoA?

[Variant]

Ah yes. Another PS game that will never see the light of day over here in the US, outside of importing.

Why bother getting our hopes up Sonic Team/SoA?

They didn't, we just sorta eavesdropped. As opposed to them announcing PSO2 in the west and never delivering, this is a bit different.

So only offline? No online play like psp2?

It's got 4 player co-op at the least, here's hoping there'll be some online play.

[Blue-Hawk]

They didn't, we just sorta eavesdropped. As opposed to them announcing PSO2 in the west and never delivering, this is a bit different.



It's got 4 player co-op at the least, here's hoping there'll be some online play.

We'll see when the time comes. The Vita isn't doing so hot anyway over in the US so why would they give it to us? Did we even get PSP2 Infinity here? No. And don't forget that SoA screwed the proverbiable pooch on PSO2 pissing off a lot of people here and in the UK. Not a stellar track record as of late for them.

[gigawuts]

If you could stop blaming SoA for things both SoA and SoJ are at fault for that'd be just super.

Leave it to the PS community to get furious about a game's announcement.

[Blue-Hawk]

If you could stop blaming SoA for things both SoA and SoJ are at fault for that'd be just super.

Leave it to the PS community to get furious about a game's announcement.

Well, I tried blaming Sonic Team but I was horribly corrected a while back.

[Vashyron]

http://psnova.sega.jp/

[Sp-24]

http://psnova.sega.jp/

Is this the new Monster Hunter game?

[gigawuts]

Yeah, my first reaction on seeing that enemy was "monster hunter with guns on the monsters" too.

But with such little information it's hard to really gauge.

If the vita TV isn't region locked I'll import this in a heartbeat. Hopefully there will be some give and take between the games, with lessons learned in PSO2 being used to more appropriately balance things in PSN and the things people love in PSN coming back to PSO2.

Either way, the vita TV thing alone is a nice thing for me. Worst case, I get to play PSP2i. So at least there's that.

[Variant]

Yeah, my first reaction on seeing that enemy was "monster hunter with guns on the monsters" too.

Monsters with guns... Digimon!?

If the vita TV isn't region locked I'll import this in a heartbeat.

The PSP and PS Vita are both region free, so presumably the Vita TV is too. I don't see why they'd give up the import market without some huge financial loss-esque reason.