Discussion of this upcoming content is taking place in the forums.
Update: The Japanese Xbox 360 homepage has also been recently updated with this information.
A new trailer for PSP2 has been posted on the official Japanese website. Shown in the video are some old and some new faces to the PSU/PSP storyline.
Once again, the release date is set for December 3rd of this year. A demo is slated to arrive in November.
The newest episode has arrived! *Highlights are as follows:
There is currently a thread in the forums discussing this new episode.
Reported on the official forums by GM Edward, there are a few event missions that will be posted this week. They'll end on October 8. They are based on the previous Winter Event missions, however with an S2 difficulty added. This difficulty is AOTI exclusive and features enemies that are LV150+.
There will be an update at Desert Arms Shop as well as a rotation at Casino Voloyal. There is already a thread started in the forums.
Update:*The Japanese Xbox 360 homepage has been updated. In addition to reiterating the above info, it also mentions an update to the NPC shops.
Update: The English update page is located here. It confirms everything listed above.
The official JP PSP2 homepage has received an update with a new video. *It stars Producer Satoshi Sakai as "Dragon Sakai", Arisa Noto, and Yui Ogura as "Hal".
The video starts off with a commercial for the recently announced Valkyria Chronicles 2 for PSP and then leads into a live action version of Gurhal Channel 5. *After this, the producer shows up (as Dragon Sakai) to discuss the game with an unsuspecting woman. *Halfway in, sections of the previously uploaded video are shown. When this is finished, the producer (in his normal form) reviews some of the already announced information with accompanying gameplay footage. Later, they show the promotional PSP2 cards as well as the printable certificate. Essentially, this certificate is to confirm your willingness to go on an adventure in space with three of your friends. The names you put in will appear on the upper right of the document. Concluding the production is a previously released promotional video with footage of character creation and gameplay.
This series will continue with several more episodes slated before the game's release. Also, as mentioned in the linked blog entry, there is a change to the framerate of multiplayer. The original PSP was set to 20 frames per second, while PSP2 will be running at a maximum of 30 frames per second.
There is currently a thread in the forums discussing this new video.
The original Sega Master System version of Phantasy Star hit the Virtual Console today in North America. It was released in Japan on April 21st and Europe on August 14th. Pricing for the game is 500 Nintendo Points.
For those keeping track, this is the last of the original series to do so. Phantasy Star II, III, and IV have already been released at 800 Nintendo Points a piece.
Update: There is now a game page about Phantasy Star on Sega's own site as well as a blog entry about the release from PSU's current GM.
As reported on the English and JP 360 PSU homepages, there will be a content update this week which contains the following:
The current Moatoob GBR will be ending with this maintenance period. The Fireworks lobby on Neudaiz, the event-related traps, and the current bonuses due to compensation will also be removed during this maintenance period.
Discussion is already taking place in the forums.
Recently, Sega opened up a teaser page to count down to a new RPG. Some believed this would turn out to be the seemingly already confirmed Phantasy Star Portable 2. They would be right.
A forthcoming issue of Famitsu presents a multi-page spread concerning the currently in-development title. *The game will feature a storyline three years removed from the current events of Phantasy Star Universe, Ambition of the Illuminus,*and the original Phantasy Star Portable. *New content and new story characters are referenced and shown in the article. *We'll be sure to post more information as it comes in.
Thanks to EspioKaos for bringing in these details. His post is part of an ongoing discussion about the sequel in the forums.
Update: 1Up has posted a summary of the Famitsu article. Here are the key points:The newest dashboard update (previously mentioned here) is currently going out to all 360 owners as a mandatory upgrade. *As a part of this update, Microsoft is implementing a simple user rating system. It is possible to rate just about any piece of content on the marketplace (as well as retail games) from one to five stars.
How did Phantasy Star Universe (the original retail disc) and Ambition of the Illuminus (the currently 800 point expansion) rate on your own profiles? Did you focus more on the gameplay, content, or time you've put into the game? *Is it more representative of your current feelings about the game or does it encompass the time that you've played overall? *Do you feel this will offer a more accurate view of the game in comparison to a summary of professional scores or not?
If you haven't gone ahead to try the user ratings yet, go and check it out. *A simple score may or may not be effective in determining the worth of a game like PSU in comparison to others, but it will still be of interest once enough players have put in their rating.
8/13 Update:*New functionality has been added to the PC-accessible version of the marketplace. *This includes the ability to see and rate content. *As of about 3 PM PDT, PSU is scoring 4.25/5 with 2245 votes and AOTI is scoring 4.5/5 with 141 votes. *The PSU marketplace page can be found here.
Previously mentioned, many 360 users have been able to obtain the August 11th dashboard update early by way of a preview program. It was recently discovered by some that installing a game post-update will result in less space taken up on your hard drive. As of right now, there don't appear to be any performance changes in comparison to installing a game prior.
AngelusInsomnus from the official forums has reported this detail for PSU. Formerly, PSU itself took up 6.8 GB of space. With this new update, you can reinstall the game to drop it to 6.4 GB. For reference, Ambition of the Illuminus takes up 1.92 GB of space.
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amtalx May 15, 2024, 11:08 PM