voodlar
Jul 23, 2010, 09:35 PM
Hi all. I don't post much. (And I don't play online anymore at all.) Yes, I am a PC player who was ended in March. I miss the game a lot and envy you guys who still get to play but it's all good. -- I'm not interested in starting over in Japanese after having 4 chars capped and seeing the ending to the story. (Giving me a month plus change to fire an edel fucil.)
I'm posting for 2 reasons:
1) I posted a while ago asking for opinions on other games and such when I new my PSU was ending. I researched and played several of the suggestions and would like to thank all the dudes (and dudettes) for their tips. The truth is PSU is an incredible game and addicts you quickly despite its flaws and such. I know ... I know ....it had way more potential and could have been done better in several areas. I have no intention of starting a bash-war thread so I'll leave that alone. No games I tried even come close. Guild Wars looked promising but uuggghhh... the travelling uphill..downhill...uphill...downhill....dead end! I will say however that Guild Wars' community was very strong and extremely polite and helpful. Very, very few toolbags. The only spamming I had to endure were people trying to get anyone to join their guild. But it was worth checking out as were other games.
2) I still enjoy reading some of the more opion-based threads and saw 2 people make some awesome points that hit the nail on the head. I'm not that swift with the quoting and stuff so I apologize for not giving these people credit (by citing their name) for an enjoyable read. Someone was discussing how you will see a commonality in a franchise set of games. They mentioned chocoboos and stuff from FF games. I have only played FF Tactics and I recognized almost every item they named. Well PSU obviously tries to do that too. That should be appreciated and expected. (How long have we been using dimates, foi, megid, killing mother brain, etc?) Some stuff should stay inherent to the Phantasy Star games but I absolutely agree with another dude that said innovation is gone. He may have been somewhat angry with Sega in his posts but basically nailed the problem in that one phrase. Games and movies share that non-innovative plague and so does music. We now have remakes of remakes? Who gets the royalties on that? You can combine 2 songs to make a new hit. (example: Kid Rock combined 2 classics to make a pop-fad piece of garbage that people spooge over.) Soon games may do that too??? They've even made movies about video games. Anyone see Wing Commander??? Not ripping on the old dos game....it was classic back then....but you gotta see that movie --> then demand your money back twofold.
Anyway...sorry for the length. I'm looking forward to reading some more of your replies / opinions. If you're gonna flame..go ahead... but just give me some interesting stuff to read. And good luck with your PSU. You don't realize how much you will miss something until it's gone. (Offline mode is okay for nostalgia but after 2 or 3 missions .... you know)
Here's to hoping there will be some innovative new gem of a game coming down the line soon from some company somewhere?!?!?!?!?!?!:-)
I'm posting for 2 reasons:
1) I posted a while ago asking for opinions on other games and such when I new my PSU was ending. I researched and played several of the suggestions and would like to thank all the dudes (and dudettes) for their tips. The truth is PSU is an incredible game and addicts you quickly despite its flaws and such. I know ... I know ....it had way more potential and could have been done better in several areas. I have no intention of starting a bash-war thread so I'll leave that alone. No games I tried even come close. Guild Wars looked promising but uuggghhh... the travelling uphill..downhill...uphill...downhill....dead end! I will say however that Guild Wars' community was very strong and extremely polite and helpful. Very, very few toolbags. The only spamming I had to endure were people trying to get anyone to join their guild. But it was worth checking out as were other games.
2) I still enjoy reading some of the more opion-based threads and saw 2 people make some awesome points that hit the nail on the head. I'm not that swift with the quoting and stuff so I apologize for not giving these people credit (by citing their name) for an enjoyable read. Someone was discussing how you will see a commonality in a franchise set of games. They mentioned chocoboos and stuff from FF games. I have only played FF Tactics and I recognized almost every item they named. Well PSU obviously tries to do that too. That should be appreciated and expected. (How long have we been using dimates, foi, megid, killing mother brain, etc?) Some stuff should stay inherent to the Phantasy Star games but I absolutely agree with another dude that said innovation is gone. He may have been somewhat angry with Sega in his posts but basically nailed the problem in that one phrase. Games and movies share that non-innovative plague and so does music. We now have remakes of remakes? Who gets the royalties on that? You can combine 2 songs to make a new hit. (example: Kid Rock combined 2 classics to make a pop-fad piece of garbage that people spooge over.) Soon games may do that too??? They've even made movies about video games. Anyone see Wing Commander??? Not ripping on the old dos game....it was classic back then....but you gotta see that movie --> then demand your money back twofold.
Anyway...sorry for the length. I'm looking forward to reading some more of your replies / opinions. If you're gonna flame..go ahead... but just give me some interesting stuff to read. And good luck with your PSU. You don't realize how much you will miss something until it's gone. (Offline mode is okay for nostalgia but after 2 or 3 missions .... you know)
Here's to hoping there will be some innovative new gem of a game coming down the line soon from some company somewhere?!?!?!?!?!?!:-)