PSU is amazing!

[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.

[hoppimike]

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.

Well said!

There are many ways to enjoy a game, as I say, especially one as multifaceted and complex as PSU.

It wasn't perfect but to be fair I didn't find many flaws, as such. I preferred the PSO magic system (hated equipping a wand or whatever every time) and felt like the core structure of the game - particularly the combat sections as opposed to social areas - hadn't evolved enough from PSO.

Other than that though I simply adored it - it's probably my favourite online game, at least so far

[Original_DFO]

PSU is trash.

[hoppimike]

PSU is trash.

If you want me to really blow your mind, I also adore Sonic '06 haha

[The Walrus]

Seriously?

[Squall179]

Actually, and maybe I'm not remembering right but didn't PSP2 utilize PA/Technic discs the way PSO2 does, instead of leveling?

[Dragwind]

Actually, and maybe I'm not remembering right but didn't PSP2 utilize PA/Technic discs the way PSO2 does, instead of leveling?

This is correct. In my opinion, it's a much better system.