I kinda miss the janky setup to get into the Japanese game... and also the almost routine instances of me and my partner running at each other, both being chased by monsters way above our level...
What’s the state of the original on the Japanese servers? Is it still up? Does the proxy launcher still work? I never ended up trying to English release only the JP servers
PSO2 is still up and running as far as i know, but they swapped places, when NGS released it was basically a DLC for PSO2, now PSO2 it's a DLC download for NGS, it's not dead, just on life support.
@@unlimitedslash that’s a shame, but I’m glad it’s still playable. I had a lot of really good memories playing the game and it holds a special place in my heart. I think it’s truly a 1 of 1 game that we’ll never get again
Tbh, I feel like Phantasy Star has died as a franchise. No remakes/remasters, and, most importantly, it's been like 4 years (?) since NGS release and still no collab with older PS titles? Universe, Portable+Infinity, OG PSOs - nothing but stupid anime and vtubers. I finally got into the base game ~ 2 months after pc/steam release only thanks to Universe collab despite hating UI and palette system (yes, I'm a ff14 vet and I have certain standards when it comes to QoLs and accessibility). And damn, it was so worth it, especially when we got scion classes - Etoile and Luster are my personal peak combat design in PS series. Especially Luster. It was so comfy even tho I had certain skill issues :D I and many others tried to have a civil discussion on subreddit about how "to make NGS great again", comparing the competition (including ff14, gw and others), but guess why we stopped caring and just silently moved on. I know that 14 is not in the best spot right now for many good reasons, but it's still way better in comparison to NGS despite everything.
They should have stuck to the mission based centralized hub areas instead of the open world trash we got. I don't know why every game has to be this open world slop designed to waste our time instead of actually playing a game.
Turns out Syberbolt was right, and i was saying this since the game came out years ago, i've been banned in the official PSO2 discord, and many other discord servers and forums, the only one i haven't been banned from is the one dedicated to the PSO2 Tweaker, just for pointing out the trash burning in the corner of the room, and suddenly that trash burning is literally the whole room.
I still play PSO:NGS, yet I have no kind of goal to achieve. At least OG PSO2, you had a goal and it encourage you to grind for the mats for augment combination, weapon, armor, etc. NGS heavily lacking that. The augments are pointless cause it's given to you, getting weapons and armor is way too easy to obtain. There's no engagement. They need a new director or something to just reboot Phantasy Star Online.
We have TH-camrs like Keropii who is clearly lying to themselves thinking it's good, trying to convince you the game isn't boring. His videos are always "Yeah! This new event, the same one we've had 300 times in a row, it's so fun guys! You HAVE to play it so you don't miss out! Oh right and don't forget the NEW boss fight, which is basically the same design as one we already had but it does 2 more attacks and it's PURPLE! IT'S SO COOL GUYS"
You basically said everything I felt about the game literally, I love the game when it first came to psn but it’s literally just dress up now,i loved the combat and I still do but I have nothing to do on it it’s over.
Jugo, I agree with your points 100%. New Genesis is a complete failure because it doesn't feel like a Phantasy Star Online game and the story is poor. I wasn't a fan of the open-world environment and the game spent more time on "Fashion Collaboratives and AC Scratches," rather than making chapters to explain more background on the characters. The original Phantasy Star Online (Episodes I & II) was successful because it had the player on a rescue mission and investigating what happened to Pioneer One and Heathcliff Flowen. Although PSO2 had different timeline settings, it expanded the best elements from the original and the story explained the origins of Dark Falz. New Genesis doesn't offer anything new or refreshing and I don't like the medieval looks.
But waifu was in OG game Do you fight for Matoi. or Quna? Even PSU cast was in Pso2 With Voice acted with Emilia and Vivienne But in NGS there nothing to fight for. There no connecting that is solid and hard enough that make you feel
The outfits have always been revealing, even in base game though. This isn't a NGS thing, it's always been like that for PSO2. Global just didn't get a lot of costumes on release.
@@rockongalaxy I agree, thats why I don't really like the "gooner anime dress up" criticism because it's always been that way, but generally on Global you're more likely to find crazy fetish shit. Doesn't help that it seems unmoderated, as last time I was on I saw someone using accessories to look nude.
Yeah honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the community was one of the bigger reasons the game can’t retain new players. There are several others I’m sure but my god some of these people are utter freaks that need to touch grass urgently.
I miss pso2 base, every time I enter NGS I want to quit the game or gaslight myself to play it for a while to feel the good times again but it doesn't work. Everyone I used to play with has already stopped playing and moved on, 90% of the people who still play are people who started on the NGS and like the game the way it is, which makes me sad. The funny part is that SEGA probably recognizes this and tries to appeal to nostalgia by recycling content from the base game (or is it just laziness).
Bruh NGS is just a second life with a crappy action jrpg minigame stapled on. I do miss the crappy pvp and the casino from base pso2. I pray pso3 or PSO ep I & II remake are better than ngs.
Yeah because they treat this game like a business transaction a market and not an actual RPG, why it's failing. I almost Wana quit, I haven't had an active update story in so long ... like last June
OG PSO2: We're on Mothership, Earth, Admuskia, Lilipa, Wopal, Illusion Space, Planet of Nightfallers and Daybreakers. NGS: We're on Halpha, the only planet where story goes. OG PSO2: We got a lot of characters, where each one had their own fate and story, they had their own class-squads. NGS: We have Crawford, Aina, Nadereh (ngl kinda dramatic), Manon. OG: PSO2: "Emergency! Code:..." - and you're about to fight, rescue, defend or escort the designated target, no matter where. While hearing pilot's "Enemy on X O'Clock!" or "Li-Li!~" as operator says "They are so cute!" NGS: "Trial start..." OG PSO2: I could use over 10-15 skills on Ranger, choosing my playstyle. I could play this game as a slasher or shooter. NGS: 4-5 skills should be enough. You don't even need TPS mode at all (on Ranger at least). OG PSO2: "You have a precious person to you, that can't remember until passing the story. But this story gets your soul. You have good friends that can help you in combat as well" NGS: "You're helping 2 persons to find themselves?" Or "You're trying to save the planet from DOLLS" - but I say: "You're trying to oversize your battle power" OG PSO2: I followed the steps of Zenora (Shoot to kill!), tried to master Ranger in all ways possible, and almost did it. Used free time to spend with Risa to shoot baddies, cuz it's fun! NGS: I'm grinding training quests with only one reason - to max stats. OG PSO2: (Urgent Quest) - you're looking at the monitor and see some fleets battle, or Dark Falz invasion. NGS: (UQ): You have a cool UQ theme (not gonna lie, really good) and red zone where it's spawned. But the only feel of its importance can give you music, not an event itself. I'm still playing OG PSO2, from time to time. And even planning some fan-project on its lore (first-person shooter, including all weapon manufacturers). But I'll never forget first 4 chapters of the Storyline, Echo x Zeno's story, The Great Six, ARKS city, Phaleg (the most hardcore boss I've ever had to deal with), Lilipa silo defense with D-AIS And I cannot memorize anything from NGS (excluding Crawford, Nadereh with her Resistance and that ADS Cannon).
Base pso2 died for nothing. I stop playing NGS because there is too many good games out right now and why waste your time on ngs when there is no new content on ngs. Ngs is just a dress up simulator now. Just play Warframe, TFD, Black myth wukong, Stellar blade, Elden ring dlc, Ff16, Silent hill 2 remake, marvels rivals, and etc good games out there. Why play NGS when there is no new content besides reuse assets over and over again besides MARS systems. TFD made me quit NGS because it has more content than NGS and ngs has been out longer is just fucking sad. Play something else over NGS because NGS just ain't it.
Yeah, I have to agree, for me is sad that I didn't play classic (base) pso2 before NGS began (aside of playing ONE time the Profound Darkness UQ when I gave the game a very quick try back in December 2020), aside of sometimes doing dailies here and there to see if I can get a cosmetic or two... I have been playing mostly my backlog games like SMTV Vengeance and those are more fun than NGS (a game that sadly had no real updates since like june 2024... yeah, I dunno how long NGS will last but that's not good at all).
Then in that case, PSO2 was NEVER good compared with both PSO: Blue Burst and Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity. THOSE TWO were PEAK PSO, not this "waiting around to run ACTUAL content" bullshit that PSO2 started. Only times PSO2 felt decent (not good, but decent) was when EQs popped. After that, then what?? Sit on your ass and troll in Block 7? Go to a crap casino? Play the "Phasion EndGame?" Nah fam! I just logged off and played something else. NGS just made it ALL WORSE.
@@Rakadramon The cap in here is absolutely nuts. Even as someone who mainly just did EQs, I knew there was always tons of other stuff for me to do in the game. Even aside from that, I love the combat and enemy design, so I could just wipe out entire Exploration maps if I wanted to without getting bored, with the random chance events also being a bonus that kept me going. Also, I feel like EQs being on a SCHEDULE (not just a hidden random timer like now) is actually a really helpful change. It lets you plan around it with your friends/team instead of there always being those guys who just can't be there for some reason or another, and helps keep every boss fight relevant just from it being the thing you can fight at this moment. Besides, if you wanted to fight something else whenever you wanted, you could use Triggers. You can even just do it Solo, and that would be another form of content/challenge. If I had to propose a solution/middle-ground, how about having all of the fights available, but the schedule is now for super-boosts to that boss' drops? Now that I think about it, I think that might be how it works in some private servers? Though I don't play often or long (or look at the website) enough to really know. I still prefer the, if possibly minor, community experience of getting together to fight the big thing that appeared, and feeling that this is my chance to get that perfect run, and other little things. I feel like even with my solution, people would either be too spread out or stop caring/burnt out from grinding the same two bosses endlessly. Anyways, look, I get you're like the old man who shakes your fist at the newfangled generation that just doesn't get how much better it was, but you don't have to couch that with statements like base PSO2 was bad and that we're coping or something. Now, before you say anything, I have played the original (if my previous comment didn't already imply), and I watched some friends play through PSU. They are very neat games and there is nothing that can replace the Dreamcast vibe, but I honestly wouldn't put them so far and above any of each other. To me, they're like completely different series (which i suppose in a few ways they are?), it would be like comparing KINGDOM HEARTS to Devil May Cry just for them being action games when they're nearly 100% different. PSO1 would only just barely beat 2 for me because of just how perfect the eternal weapon grind loop is, but PSO2's combat is just better, so it's like they're both in a state of superposition for being in 1st. Whatever, I just said that so you see I'm not just trying to play favourites here. Hope you have a good one and don't just cry that I sent you a long, thought out reply!
So I went through a whole journey last year, playing through the stories of Phantasy Star Universe, then getting into the PSP games and then getting to PSO2. Base PSO2 and the PSU games filled this gameplay niche that I had an itch for. Even though there's never any new content for base, I always find myself logging back in every so often if I need to just turn off my brain and grind. The only reason I caught up with NGS's story is because SEGA gave me a ticket that brought my level up to the cap, and I wanted to earn SG to get a returning outfit from PS Portable 2. I feel that speaks for itself.
Game's a failure alright. That's already a well established fact and has been discussed to death so I've got nothing add that hasn't been stated a 1000 times. I just wanna know what the hell happened behind the scenes. Especially when you consider how the game launched when it was practically just an alpha build. It's quite clear that somewhere along the development process something went horribly wrong. There's absolutely no way SEGA wasn't aware of the game's disastrous state when it launched. Unfortunately SEGA is a JP company which means they ain't telling us a thing.
Personally i check in every now and then because log in touch an event for 2 minutes and you catch up fully. Currently come the next UQ which seems to be the big bad is when i'll hard leave if they got nothing going. Timing for it seems exactly like its the death or some turning point. Leaning hard towards death.
Just like Darcy7257 said earlier, they never should have outright killed OG PSO2, straight up, OG PSO2 was a better game overall, and you could tell that a lot of love was put into that game, fuck, just look back at the concerts, one of them had Sakai dancing alongside the whole block, it was fire! Even the bosses where epic as fuck rather than these generic dolls that hold near to no threat over us, since the whole damn pso2 NGS was a simulation lore wise. On the note of people being freaky, well, base pso2 had quite a few on JP server, ship 2 specifically, but not on this level, NGS is just a mix of "What the fuck even" and "Bloody hell I`ll gauge my eyeballs".
He is right the game is dead, I can tell ages ago, cause of my experience with Dauntless. The end game content is rubbish, and not listening to their gamers, just wanting us all to spend money. F that wake up all, teach Sega a lesson, stop giving them money. Peace.
it sucks worse when the fan base also harrested a youtuber that made a whole review of the current state of the game caused him to get doxxed for calling out the problems of it, and to be honest and real with chu, the studio that made ngs might as well get hit with lays offs and the game best be shut down cause at this point the game is just garbage in my new player experience. if its not gonna be fix by the longevity then whats even the point of it? all in all you might as well play current newer sage titles coming which i have not play for waiting trends calm down before i hop on the train. all in all [again] its a good video and state majority i had an issue with plus the game
We still have PSP2i thank god. With english translation, 60 fps patch, right stick hack (works with mouse too), on emu you can play it with friends (I have none, so I play with NPCs T-T) and it's such a blast, no micro transactions, huge amount of content, great combat (no jump button thoe). And sega can't ruin it retroactively, because it's 100% offline game.
If they sold the complete edition of PSO2 or even including PSO2NG in a ver. Offline package, I would buy it. I played PSO1 offline and I spent hundreds if not thousand of hours into that game on Dreamcast. I played PSO2JP since the very beginning until they banned all non-JP IP's, and continued playing using VPN until real life hit me like bricks. I can't keep up with the online pace anymore so I much prefer something I can keep playing no matter how long or even when the servers are dead. Still play PSOBB from time to time as opposed to PSO2/NG.
As someone fully geared and done most of the content: the only content that I ever had interest in was the 4 person major suppression target (dark falz) and… basically there’s no word on getting what would be most likely the next one (aegis rank 2) And dark falz Vael will be a fucking uq. It’s safe to say that I’m extremely disappointed that the only content that posed any serious challenge or was even alittle bit fun has just been dropped on its face. It’s too casual now and keeping up as a f2p player is near impossible. You’re also right about lobbies, it gets weird with some of the avatars I see nowadays.
Ya know, I played it last year for awhile. Got to max level on a few classes, did a bit of end game content then put the game down and kinda forgotten about it until now. Kinda a shame ya know?
The writing was on the wall when mostof the peole covering PSO2 moved to FFXIV. Hell, a furry version of PSO2 just came out and has more players than NGS has had in 4 years
3:45 you say Sega thinks the game will continue to make money, but the playerbase is quickly dwindling so Idk about that one chief. Like you said this game is dead, statistically speaking it is dead or dying. Less and less people are playing it, so less and less people are buying anything, more and more people are moving on from their sunk cost fallacy character and on to a better one in a better game. This game is shutting down in the next few years I'm calling it.
I remember when i started playing OG PSO2 i loved it, shit was hilarious i used to play it with my old friend group, we'd joke about stuff while farming, to the point that the running gag of me sitting in the casino hopping from machine to machine saying "No this one doesn't have the good juju" was a staple among us i met some people on the game, had fun, it was great but when Neo genesis came out, felt like i was just playing an almost soulless knock off in a sense which probably sounds shitty but it's just a shame
I like fashion, but when the combat is literally just counter spam, and the combat setting for new bosses is so bland, the game is not really worth it to me. Even if it were a good fashion based game (run around collect resources and stuff to sell for money to buy stuff, with little to no combat.) , I prolly still wouldnt play it a ton as i never really fit into those sorts of playerbases anyway.
I’m going to stick with it to the end. Probably not do much besides maybe run combat sectors, play base, and wait for someone to make a base game private server. I don’t know when, or who will, but I want a base game private server.
Syberbolt ultimately got the last laugh and I can't say I'm surprised. As for the community? OH BOY, lemme tell ya, I've seen some weird bastards and some wild (and sometimes racist) outfits. I remember in my old alliance, a player was mad that he was banned for his German soldier outfit. So I asked him what era was it based on...he straight up said it was a WWII German outfit. So I told him "yeah, there's your reason" and he got pissed at me for agreeing with the ban. When it comes to fashion, I honestly prefer it in FFXIV. Yes its limited, but I much prefer that over seeing players with two sets of insanely large breasts. The game looks like a minefield to stream with all the down bad people
Fans of pso2 kinda feel abandoned by sega and many of my frens quit im just on copium back in the day i had frens who would whale on pso2 cuz they loved base pso2 but ngs is just a weak game i dont consider it part od the main pso2 franchise cuz like its just dress up where are the cool combat in space where are the cool persona concerts where are the coll collab eq like elzelion and 6th angel. YOU ARE 100% RIGHT NGS SUCKS ASS no offense to ppl who like it but i dont feel like spending on this game at all anymore cuz it dont deserve it no more if it was base pso2 100% yes
They should not have bum rushed pso2 global release like they did. Then new genesis a year after. No real story content, battle feels lacking. No real upgrade to skills/techs like previous generations making you actually feel like you’re getting stronger. They have 2 different markets for items from original pso2 and ngs. Players are split between grinding currency between 2 versions where they are so inflated it’s a joke.
I logged in like a month ago after trying NGS the first time when it first cameout and hating it. Long time BB/PSO2JP Ship2 player. Good lord, I could't even play the game for like 1 hour because the game has so much junk. Inventory was always full, you unlocked stuff to do and inventory would get more full. Go here and do that. Please buy, sale. No. Just no.
Game was ass since the beginning. The original pso2 is leagues better, and ngs could've gotten better, it never did. Character creation was the only part that made it interesting, but its predecessor already has the same character creation anyway. Ngs is ass and forever will be, unless Sega decides to actually make it good.
Wanted to add, when I said predecessor, I meant the original pso2, not pso1. Also, ngs I loved for it's character designs, but the characters themselves were terrible and barely had a reason to be there. The sex appeal for the female characters specifically i can tolerate a little bit, but for those don't like sexual outfits for characters in these types of games, pso2 ngs is definitely a game to avoid, but not just because of that. It's also because of the gameplay is just ass, no matter how you look at it or change the combat to fit your playstyle, it's ass, comeplete, ass. Also, the graphics are fucking dreadful from afar, and the framerate can be ok but mostly terrible on hardware like the Xbox one and ps4, so I already hated the game at launch, but going forward those two issues got fixed for me when I finally got a ps5 on Christmas in 2022. As for why pso2 base is better, there's several reasons, and those are: 1-the combat 2-the music 3-the artstyle 4-the story and 5-the character creation system, which is my personal favorite part of the game, and no, ngs doesn't count because it's the exact same system in thay game. Pso2 base is the better game. If only Sega didn't murder it and only leave the server on to drag the dead horse.
Damn bro I'm actually shopping around for a new mmo cause I'm tired of FFXIV and how shit the content treadmill is and was looking to PSO2 to try but I'm glad I watched your shit first, I know how shitty it can be to drop an mmo you loved so gl bro you're actually really funny so I hope your youtube pops off
@unlimitedslash oh okay ill do a little more digging then it seemed like pso2 was taken down and replaced by this but I'm glad to know i was wrong I'll check it out tyty
@@FullHeartGrit by how they talk makes it look like that, but they just moved the original pso2 to be a dlc of new genesis, so yeah... You gotta download both it's quite scummy
just go and play it, at least is free 2 play so you don't miss anything, so just go for the story on both ps2 and ngs to experience them and then leave
im convinced Phantasy star is going need a reboot. I’ve come to appreciate the universe/portable series more than this dress-up chatbox simulator. i cant get into ngs even as a long time fan of the series.
Im putting more hours into PSOBB on the Ephinea server than any other game latly since this year stsrted. Great community and live 200+ player server reliving the good old days.
I wonder if The First Descendant is on the same path. I played a bit and found the systems pretty mediocre. The gameplay is decent, but it doesn't hold up, and the game's performance is terrible on most PCs. The only thing I've seen after that are videos after videos just talking about the characters appearance, with zero focus on reasons to keep people playing.
It's been going down that path for a good bit. Basically, they marketed the game towards gooners who only want to stare at tits and ass rather than making an enjoyable game and as a result, even criticizing the game for its obscene difficulty will result in you getting dogpiled. I still remember explaining why the Devourer was an unfair boss due to its insane health recovery. People instead said "git gud" or to make a build. The kicker? All the good character builds required modules from Hard mode usually. Combine that with the abysmal drop rates, I realized how cooked the game was and quit. Seems I was right to do so and I'm already expecting the shutdown announcement since that's Nexon's specialty. Least I got Monster Hunter Wilds to look forward to
@@salad229 I wish Portable 2 Infinity was an mmorpg, the fact it's on the PSP really limits it, someone would have to emulate like the whole PSN server to make it less annoying to matchmake in multiplayer, that one is so fun feels like a mix between PSO2 and PSU. There's Phantasy Star Nova too, which is a spinoff of PSO2 that plays like it, but that game is much less accessible to play.
I quit almost 2 years ago and it is still one the best decision I've made. I know it's been almost 2 years cause I've been back to Warframe for as much. I literally quit PSO2 to play Warframe again. I did log in once during March last year according to my last played on Steam but yeah nothing changed. And I do have about 8112 hours in that game. I practically no life'd it during Covid.
At first I found NGS quite entertaining, especially the character creation. But it's true that the game is currently quite boring, it's just the same old thing. What bores me the most is that as an RPG exploration is supposed to be part of it, but there are no new areas to explore, only combat zones that are time-limited and very boring. The other thing is the UQ, always the same "DF this..." "DF other..." the game doesn't leave DF, there's nothing new. It's as if DF was everything and nothing else, terrible. The other thing to highlight for my part is the incredible amount of people who create real monstrosities of female characters, they look like tanks or whales, it's the most horrible thing I've seen in an RPG honestly. And the toxicity of this game has already gone beyond the limits, so I left it for ToF and now I really enjoy a real RPG.
Base PSO2 is bad if not worse than NGS. And it's quite clear you never actually played base PSO2 (Japan). You played Global base PSO2 which consisted of 10 years worth of content from the Japan version which came out in 2012. You don't know about things like Weapon Passes and Armor Passes being locked behind Premium membership on the Japan version. Which means you couldn't buy a single 10* weapon or 10* armor or higher from the Player Shop without SPENDING MONEY FIRST. NGS got 3 Classes in 1 year. On PSO2 Japan you got 1(ONE) class every 365 days (you can confirm this by watching the Episode 2 Opening with Braver and the Episode 3 opening with Bouncer). There is so much bad about base PSO2 Japan that makes NGS looks 1000 times better that you didn't experience because you only played the Global version with 10 years worth of content handed to you in a single year. Now I'm not saying NGS is good. However, right now NGS is approaching year 4 and I kid you not base PSO2 in its 4th year on the Japan server doesn't even have HALF the content that is in NGS lmao. It's not even close. I didn't even name everything about the experience on base PSO2 JP. Like spamming the same Exploration quest because there was nothing else to do. Like NGS has 5x the amount of UQs. Around this time In PSO2 JP you ran Falz, Magatsu, Mining Base 1, TACOs (Time Attack Client Orders), Advance Quest and that's it. All the other stuff you remember from Global PSO2 came years later. Not months, years later.
You're not wrong, been playing PSO2JP since 2014, and can confirm that it has some BS like the paid 10* weapons, but those weapons weren't truly necessary to progress, they where a nice endgame, yes, but for main story and most content, equipment you could grind or obtain as reward was more than enough once upgraded and affixed. But NGS didn't come from nothing, it's not a brand new game made from scratch like PSO2 was at release, it's an expansion converted into a "new game", borrows a shitton of stuff from base PSO2, and yet it's worst at it in ever single aspect: combat? combat at 4yo PSO2 was already well defined, the just attack system was there, and it was fun, and super well paced, mean while the removal of just attack on NGS, and the absurd simplification of all jobs has made NGS a boring game to play, and that's only regarding combat, music? you listen to NGS music compared to the PSO2 playlist and it's a bland bootleg, and that's it, the same with characters, even year 4 PSO2 had really good characters, meanwhile NGS has "retail generic npc #1~999" and that's it, the same with the story, although i remember the story progression using the matter boards i think they where called a bit convoluted, still had good story, some times great, at some points dropped a bit, but overall the lvl was much higher than NGS story at any given point. One would think that they would've learned after 11years of PSO2 on what works and what doesn't, but these guys learnt nothing and they are still making blatant design mistakes at every possible turn in ever possible aspect of the game. This isn't just about "oh, but PSO2 has 11 years of content" it's a "has 11 years of content that was mostly good or better than what NGS is providing", and i think there is a good bunch of stuff i could say to be bad content, or systems, like the subscription based private room, some quest types, like the rogue lite mode, which i loved, but there was never people playing it, the PVP mode they eventually released was a hot garbage they never fixed, and i could be here all day talking about what i liked and dislike about the OG PSO2, but still, it was a great game, even at it's infancy.
@@unlimitedslash Bull, it's basically PSO3. Sure they released it as an expansion but that was WHOLLY to avoid people throwing strops about their cosmetics being left behind. It's a new game, and it's a new development cycle. Yes the combat changed. Did you play PSO2 early days? Because you sure as shit don't seem to remember how many times the lobby was empty becuase there was nothing at all to do. At all. You did explorations. That was it. For about 3 years that was ALL you did. The story in NGS isn't especially great but I'll say as of the last chapter it's actually going somewhere and had a nice enough conclusion. Was it a good story? Not at all. Did it have a nice pay off? Sure! I'm excited to see what comes next. (And don't forget Base PSO2 story was so damned bad they tore it out and turned it into an anime so don't act like it was perfect.) Music is 100% subjective so I ain't touching that (I love the music in Forgotten City!)
This. Not to mention I've known people that were complaining about the game being a "waifu dress up simulator" as far back as before Dark Falz Elder on base. And it's clear that Jugo wasn't around for the open slave markets and flat out sex going on in blocks like 34 and 69 (lol go figure) if he thinks the gooning is worse in NGS, people weren't even getting banned back in base global like they are now in NGS. Shit was openly encourage by not just the game with both the story and the scratch tickets, but by the actual staff of the game also if those syberbolt vids are to be believed. Base game was a hot mess that just happened to be given to people 7 or 8 years later and will tell you it's PEAK. LOL.
@@LilPika11you keep saying this weird thing about the story... All they did was change EPISODE 1-3 from the Matterboard into how the rest of the story is formatted. They didn't "tear it out". The anime has no relation to it either, since it happened years after that change released.
Devs has lack of taste, enemy designs are bad, world looks bad, everything glows, attack effects are too colorful and flashy but doesn't make sense, NPC characters looks generic. The only thing I love about this game is that it has verticality in combat.
I started PSO2 and although it feels basic, slow and outdated. It was very fun! clocked in over 800hrs and Got to end game and grind end game weps. Was very happy. New Genisis just feels soooo strange.. like a big open of nothing. After the first week, it was nice.. But nothing after that.. just mindless outfits that I had already had in OG.
I remember making so many friends on the day before NGS released. We were hyped to see what SEGA had in store. I only log on now to play base, and every friend I made no longer logs in. It's such a shame the game is just stuck in this state for the past 4 years. Don't even get me started on the gameplay. How tf do you abandon a good, working combat system and make it shit? Best thing I've done is start PSO Blue Burst on Ephinea. Infinitely better than NGS.
The game isnt gonna die so easily, even though their road map is simple as duck, they will still continue to update the game, honestly I always felt like NGS was just a simplified Base and Im okay with that, the only thing I ask of this game is, give me tougher bosses and I hope the new Dark Falz will be just like that
Mercy killing for this game can't come soon enough. Like Ngs is the sega 32x of mmos and you take quotes form the avgn 32x review and apply to ngs and it fists so well just replace the words Geneisis with pso2 and 32x with ngs. "You plop it on the top of pso2, like they're mating. God, I mean, do you think that's enough add-ons? It doesn't even look aesthetically presentable. I mean, it's just like an ugly tumor. I mean, did they really need all this bullshit leeching on the pso2? That poor pso2 is just thinking: "Oh, please, God, take this shit off me." "Look at this. It's a fuckin' mess. And what a perfect visual analogy. Sega invented NGS to increase the lifespan of pso2, and that's exactly what the friggin' thing looks like. It's on life support." Aabsolutely no ones surprise (unless you are sega employee or ngs shills like Keropii) Syberbolt was right.
The game died when we lost Quna But seriously, something is just wrong with NGS. PSO2's gameplay loop was repetitive, but somehow it was always still fun. You could go to all kinds of planets, areas, even outer space, and pretty much always have a cool new scenery to do combat in. NGS is just as repetitive but even less fun. We're stuck on this stupid planet, there's no high sci-fi fantasy, no space ships, no planets... There's less meaningful stuff to do, and if you're into the story/roleplay like me, NGS's story REALLY SUCKS. PSO2's worst episode is still better than peak NGS. Even the NGS voice acting is completely phoned in. I know people have differing opinions on the PSO2 Classic dub, but I think we can all agree the Classic lines are delivered MUCH better than the robotic dub we got for NGS (no shame to the VA's, I'm sure they were just given zero budget voice direction). PSO2 died when they stopped Classic's login bonuses, mission passes, and scheduled events. They had something amazing going, and it's a shame what they did with it.
the characters themselves are robotic in ngs, check any cutscene: none of them even move or change expression, they just stand there staring at each other and talk without any motion or animation, then check any pso2 cutscene and characters move all over the place gesturing and reacting to each other the only times that happens in ngs is during the stia attack cutscene or when firing central cannon
i played New Genesis when it came out. i was disappointed. so i stopped. i don't know if i'm going to get flak here or not. but there's nothing wrong with having sexy/cute/pretty waifus and what not. i'm a boob guy. so im' always happy to see it. but it shouldn't be the whole game. and it seems that NGS is just that. was gonna give it another chance in 2025. but i guess not. on a side note, anyone play clementine? i do'nt know if it's still running. or if anyone have any other games that can scratch that Phantasy star itch? i miss those good old days playing with my friends on the gamecube.
Nothing beats the pso 1 and 2 when i played it on game cube. When i played pso ngs I thought it be like it but wasn't. Like its had beautiful scenery but i didnt like it.
I think the saddest part about your video isn't even how upset you are with the state of the game, nor how bad genesis is because believe me its beyond abhorrent, it's sad that you probably grew up far after phantasy star 1/2/3 came out on the sega genesis; and worst that you probably never experienced the life changing magic that phantasy star online 1 episode 1 and 2 on the Dreamcast were back when that was peak in all ways gaming could conceive the astmophere and immersion of older phantasy star titles were entrancing man. I'm sorry that the world has robbed you of something near damn divine.. that you may never know i hope future titles can fill in where Sega has faultered you deserve everyone deserves to experience that man it was something else.
why are you making it seem like phantasy star is god's gift to mankind? i played all previous phantasy and they were fun sure but relax my guy. I'm sure he'll be just fine.
beyond dead, any form of originality from the good directors are all gone since theyve taken a hands off approach to even straight up leaving sega. I literally just go in for dailies a bit of meseta grind and i leave the game alone in the corner. Like some people complain about games not respecting the playerbase, this game, the director and even sega lack a shred of respect - even for themselves. I've been a long time player for the game; so much so i literally got a pc build just to play pso2 jp after the release date. sure i still play the game, but you HAVE to be very specific when you play this game. you cant come in a play like a normal game since theres nothing to do that would be a good use of your time. if you want to use this as a chat platfrom thats not too bad since base was kinda like that. a big weird part is that a joke that would usually be used is fashion is the end game but thats all its become now for this game. gacha, gacha all day and majority of the shit is trash.
Same video as the one from 5 months ago? Got it. It must truly mean the game is over then if we can simply just rehash the same video concept over and over for years. 😅
oh, the unlimited grind fest of a game.. i play for a month or two and get bored. every new chapter = new weapon to grind.. endless grinding with time gated events. don't have that many hours to play.
finally you accepted that this game is death? what happened that you suddenly realized it. lol. PSO PSU and PSO2 were "THE GAME" dont waste your life here dude.
PSO2 died after the alpha, really. it had so much going for it, they could have made it unique, but they went the PSU route and made everything the same, boring, soulless, reskin. An attempt at making something like PSO. but like PSU, it isnt and never will be. When they were considering whether to name it PSO2 or PSU2, they should have picked PSU2. that would have saved a lot of PSO fans from huge disappointment. it's just a soulless cash grab relying on similarities to the old games to draw in players. yell yes its dead, i quit in 2012 when it become obvious sega was never going to fix things and just let that shill Satoshi Sakai make another trash game. He was only the art director on PSO, and it shows at every turn.
I agree with you on most of the things...related to gameplay: it's stale. But the rest of it, especially the community part, that's exclusive to the global version. I am always surprised to hear how fucking horrible you guys have it. Over here in JP it's a completely different vibe. I have been in the same team since the very real beginning, more than 10 years ago. And even though I'm not that talkative, the vast majority of people, both Japanese and gaijins, are good people. On the other hand, you guys on global have the same weirdos that play FFXIV and WoW to roleplay. Also, the part about the "gooner" content is just laughable. The PS series changed since PSU, to call this game "gOoNEr bAiT" is stupid, more so seeing your character is named "Lust Vampire". The game has had sexy stuff since day 1, and since previous games. I am so glad none of you know what ES is. Same thing about the art style, that's just your opinion mate, I respect it but I disagree wholeheartedly. But then again, I completely agree with you regarding the gameplay and current state of things. It's very clear though: SEGA made an experiment, turning a real game into a mobile-tier game. And the experiment was a success.
NG is a pefrct example that giving players to much creative freedom is a bad idea. That's why i apreaciate FF14 more. Im playing NG on and off when they drop new story bits in.
@@Metal_Sign-Friday_Patchouli Right? Shit, the creative freedom is probably the single strongest point. As much as I loathe them, the gooners and their bad financial decisions are probably the only reason the game is still alive. It's everything else about the game that's the problem...
NGL you did say some true things. About like the outfits that certain people wear in the game are too sexual. There is a lot of furries in the game lmao. I do think that pso2 ngs does a good job explaining the basics of the game. Also people shouldnt be bullying or gatekeeping in games. Those people should be reported for doing that. You just have to read the text. Also the game is not bad. I don't know why people keep saying this game is bad or it sucks. To me if the game was bad then nobody would be playing the game at all and it would've failed within a year. I think the gameplay is repetitive but the combat is pretty good. All the combat in the game is basic but has a high skill ceiling. PSO2 NGS has a came a long way from its initial release. Also I can tell you didn't do enough research with base PSO2. Cause we all got around 11 years of content in the span of 1 year.
"Bruh NGS is bad bruh cause It's so bad bro like bro is so bad bruh its so dead bro like its so bad bruh I mean like bro NGS is bad bruh cause It's so bad bro like bro is so bad bro like its so bad bruh" god I love it when blue yeti havin' hit piece mf come out with a rant video that can't focus on a single point. go write a script then come back.
Gonna go against the grain here and say that even OG PSO2 was and always has been a shitty gooner dress-up game with okayish combat stapled on. The more things change, the more they stay the same...
Not to shit on your opinion here, but... there is like double the content in NGS after 4 years than there was in base PSO2 after 4 years. The global release of PSO2 had 11 years of content to play through and you could blast it all out in about 100 to `120 hours. Especially after they removed Episode 1-3 and turned it into an anime. Right now NGS has about 100 hours of life in it. That's more than base PSO2 at the equivalent point in it's life. Which is crazy to think about. I think the big problem here is people are playing this expecting every update to be a full on expansion size content drop when that's _never_ been the way PSO was done. Ever. Not in any of them, PSO1, PSU or PSO2. Just go play any of them and check the amount of content compared to the 11 year run of PSO2. And then count how long it takes you to get through PSO2s content. Also when it comes to numbers, this game's primary install base is on Xbox, both the Xbox app and the machine. Not on Steam. Steam came MANY months later. I think I know one person who launches through steam in the Team i'm in. (Full team, too!)
@@soniplushie8852 It's called maximum copium. NGS players have been making things up in their heads since launch. It's delusional. The funniest part was saying that most players are playing on Xbox 😆
lol i disagree. its a great beatem up. idk why you would call this an mmo. tge player count is more than enough to sustain itself. steam isnt the main platform its played on. i like big tities and furries in my games. its great for me, but im not a tryhard and a few minutes a day is all i have for gaming these days. i think that goes for most humans.
Steam is the main platform the game is played on, it's been proven countless times. Also, the fact that this game attracts some of the biggest group of freaks around (furries) it's not exactly a good look.
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They never should have killed OG PSO2 a year after the global release
I kinda miss the janky setup to get into the Japanese game... and also the almost routine instances of me and my partner running at each other, both being chased by monsters way above our level...
What’s the state of the original on the Japanese servers? Is it still up? Does the proxy launcher still work? I never ended up trying to English release only the JP servers
@@Sai1523 It's still up and still playable on JP. Proxy still works. Just not really worth it outside of enjoying some nostalgia.
PSO2 is still up and running as far as i know, but they swapped places, when NGS released it was basically a DLC for PSO2, now PSO2 it's a DLC download for NGS, it's not dead, just on life support.
@@unlimitedslash that’s a shame, but I’m glad it’s still playable. I had a lot of really good memories playing the game and it holds a special place in my heart. I think it’s truly a 1 of 1 game that we’ll never get again
Tbh, I feel like Phantasy Star has died as a franchise. No remakes/remasters, and, most importantly, it's been like 4 years (?) since NGS release and still no collab with older PS titles? Universe, Portable+Infinity, OG PSOs - nothing but stupid anime and vtubers. I finally got into the base game ~ 2 months after pc/steam release only thanks to Universe collab despite hating UI and palette system (yes, I'm a ff14 vet and I have certain standards when it comes to QoLs and accessibility). And damn, it was so worth it, especially when we got scion classes - Etoile and Luster are my personal peak combat design in PS series. Especially Luster. It was so comfy even tho I had certain skill issues :D
I and many others tried to have a civil discussion on subreddit about how "to make NGS great again", comparing the competition (including ff14, gw and others), but guess why we stopped caring and just silently moved on. I know that 14 is not in the best spot right now for many good reasons, but it's still way better in comparison to NGS despite everything.
EMULATE WHILE YOU CAN
They should have stuck to the mission based centralized hub areas instead of the open world trash we got. I don't know why every game has to be this open world slop designed to waste our time instead of actually playing a game.
Turns out Syberbolt was right, and i was saying this since the game came out years ago, i've been banned in the official PSO2 discord, and many other discord servers and forums, the only one i haven't been banned from is the one dedicated to the PSO2 Tweaker, just for pointing out the trash burning in the corner of the room, and suddenly that trash burning is literally the whole room.
They wouldn't have cut his tongue if he wasn't.
I got banned from the steam forums for saying the game is a huge grift, BY A SEGA DEVELOPER.
they should have never killed the original PSO2, it was already so far ahead
I still play PSO:NGS, yet I have no kind of goal to achieve. At least OG PSO2, you had a goal and it encourage you to grind for the mats for augment combination, weapon, armor, etc. NGS heavily lacking that. The augments are pointless cause it's given to you, getting weapons and armor is way too easy to obtain. There's no engagement. They need a new director or something to just reboot Phantasy Star Online.
The removed the grind on purpose because they didn't want players to feel "forced" like they missed the whole point of a video game having a goal.
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We have TH-camrs like Keropii who is clearly lying to themselves thinking it's good, trying to convince you the game isn't boring. His videos are always "Yeah! This new event, the same one we've had 300 times in a row, it's so fun guys! You HAVE to play it so you don't miss out! Oh right and don't forget the NEW boss fight, which is basically the same design as one we already had but it does 2 more attacks and it's PURPLE! IT'S SO COOL GUYS"
The gaslighting is real
That's why I don't like NGS creators they know the game is dying but won't admit it
Keroppi thinks NGS is Sega's super game......that guy couldn't be more out of touch.
@@hermityt1 lol I seen the video I'm like how is NGS a "super game" I'm sure Sega is focusing on making games like jet set radio, etc
@@twilightotaku4355 ngs is a super game! A super 💩 game!
one of the best feeling when I started playing PSO2 NGS, but after a month of grinding it grew old real fast.
A certain youtuber: "ngs is a super game".
super bad, yes
You basically said everything I felt about the game literally, I love the game when it first came to psn but it’s literally just dress up now,i loved the combat and I still do but I have nothing to do on it it’s over.
The combat is great, It's a shame.
Jugo, I agree with your points 100%. New Genesis is a complete failure because it doesn't feel like a Phantasy Star Online game and the story is poor. I wasn't a fan of the open-world environment and the game spent more time on "Fashion Collaboratives and AC Scratches," rather than making chapters to explain more background on the characters.
The original Phantasy Star Online (Episodes I & II) was successful because it had the player on a rescue mission and investigating what happened to Pioneer One and Heathcliff Flowen. Although PSO2 had different timeline settings, it expanded the best elements from the original and the story explained the origins of Dark Falz.
New Genesis doesn't offer anything new or refreshing and I don't like the medieval looks.
Pso2 was a whole vibe then sega sucked the soul out to make us play that dress up beta
But waifu was in OG game
Do you fight for Matoi. or Quna?
Even PSU cast was in Pso2 With Voice acted with Emilia and Vivienne
But in NGS there nothing to fight for. There no connecting that is solid and hard enough that make you feel
Gooner anime dress up was so true lmao
Look at how the murdered my franchise 😭
@Sanjixoxo you'll get used to it, pay your respects by visiting if you have to goon 1 day
The outfits have always been revealing, even in base game though. This isn't a NGS thing, it's always been like that for PSO2. Global just didn't get a lot of costumes on release.
@@rockongalaxy I agree, thats why I don't really like the "gooner anime dress up" criticism because it's always been that way, but generally on Global you're more likely to find crazy fetish shit. Doesn't help that it seems unmoderated, as last time I was on I saw someone using accessories to look nude.
Yeah honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the community was one of the bigger reasons the game can’t retain new players. There are several others I’m sure but my god some of these people are utter freaks that need to touch grass urgently.
I miss pso2 base, every time I enter NGS I want to quit the game or gaslight myself to play it for a while to feel the good times again but it doesn't work.
Everyone I used to play with has already stopped playing and moved on, 90% of the people who still play are people who started on the NGS and like the game the way it is, which makes me sad.
The funny part is that SEGA probably recognizes this and tries to appeal to nostalgia by recycling content from the base game (or is it just laziness).
Bruh NGS is just a second life with a crappy action jrpg minigame stapled on. I do miss the crappy pvp and the casino from base pso2. I pray pso3 or PSO ep I & II remake are better than ngs.
Yeah because they treat this game like a business transaction a market and not an actual RPG, why it's failing. I almost Wana quit, I haven't had an active update story in so long ... like last June
OG PSO2: We're on Mothership, Earth, Admuskia, Lilipa, Wopal, Illusion Space, Planet of Nightfallers and Daybreakers.
NGS: We're on Halpha, the only planet where story goes.
OG PSO2: We got a lot of characters, where each one had their own fate and story, they had their own class-squads.
NGS: We have Crawford, Aina, Nadereh (ngl kinda dramatic), Manon.
OG: PSO2: "Emergency! Code:..." - and you're about to fight, rescue, defend or escort the designated target, no matter where. While hearing pilot's "Enemy on X O'Clock!" or "Li-Li!~" as operator says "They are so cute!"
NGS: "Trial start..."
OG PSO2: I could use over 10-15 skills on Ranger, choosing my playstyle. I could play this game as a slasher or shooter.
NGS: 4-5 skills should be enough. You don't even need TPS mode at all (on Ranger at least).
OG PSO2: "You have a precious person to you, that can't remember until passing the story. But this story gets your soul. You have good friends that can help you in combat as well"
NGS: "You're helping 2 persons to find themselves?" Or "You're trying to save the planet from DOLLS" - but I say: "You're trying to oversize your battle power"
OG PSO2: I followed the steps of Zenora (Shoot to kill!), tried to master Ranger in all ways possible, and almost did it. Used free time to spend with Risa to shoot baddies, cuz it's fun!
NGS: I'm grinding training quests with only one reason - to max stats.
OG PSO2: (Urgent Quest) - you're looking at the monitor and see some fleets battle, or Dark Falz invasion.
NGS: (UQ): You have a cool UQ theme (not gonna lie, really good) and red zone where it's spawned. But the only feel of its importance can give you music, not an event itself.
I'm still playing OG PSO2, from time to time. And even planning some fan-project on its lore (first-person shooter, including all weapon manufacturers). But I'll never forget first 4 chapters of the Storyline, Echo x Zeno's story, The Great Six, ARKS city, Phaleg (the most hardcore boss I've ever had to deal with), Lilipa silo defense with D-AIS
And I cannot memorize anything from NGS (excluding Crawford, Nadereh with her Resistance and that ADS Cannon).
Base pso2 died for nothing. I stop playing NGS because there is too many good games out right now and why waste your time on ngs when there is no new content on ngs. Ngs is just a dress up simulator now. Just play Warframe, TFD, Black myth wukong, Stellar blade, Elden ring dlc, Ff16, Silent hill 2 remake, marvels rivals, and etc good games out there. Why play NGS when there is no new content besides reuse assets over and over again besides MARS systems. TFD made me quit NGS because it has more content than NGS and ngs has been out longer is just fucking sad. Play something else over NGS because NGS just ain't it.
Yeah, I have to agree, for me is sad that I didn't play classic (base) pso2 before NGS began (aside of playing ONE time the Profound Darkness UQ when I gave the game a very quick try back in December 2020), aside of sometimes doing dailies here and there to see if I can get a cosmetic or two... I have been playing mostly my backlog games like SMTV Vengeance and those are more fun than NGS (a game that sadly had no real updates since like june 2024... yeah, I dunno how long NGS will last but that's not good at all).
Me waiting for PSO3 for the past 7 years.
2:46. lmao, so true. I saw one person whose whole body was the boob accessory with a bird face.
This game is fucking garbage bro, just let us download base pso2 without this NGS crap, I miss when this series was good.
Then in that case, PSO2 was NEVER good compared with both PSO: Blue Burst and Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity. THOSE TWO were PEAK PSO, not this "waiting around to run ACTUAL content" bullshit that PSO2 started.
Only times PSO2 felt decent (not good, but decent) was when EQs popped. After that, then what?? Sit on your ass and troll in Block 7? Go to a crap casino? Play the "Phasion EndGame?" Nah fam! I just logged off and played something else. NGS just made it ALL WORSE.
@@Rakadramon NGS is so aggressively mid that it's gaslighting people into thinking base was actually good. It's kinda tragic.
@@Rakadramon The cap in here is absolutely nuts. Even as someone who mainly just did EQs, I knew there was always tons of other stuff for me to do in the game. Even aside from that, I love the combat and enemy design, so I could just wipe out entire Exploration maps if I wanted to without getting bored, with the random chance events also being a bonus that kept me going.
Also, I feel like EQs being on a SCHEDULE (not just a hidden random timer like now) is actually a really helpful change. It lets you plan around it with your friends/team instead of there always being those guys who just can't be there for some reason or another, and helps keep every boss fight relevant just from it being the thing you can fight at this moment. Besides, if you wanted to fight something else whenever you wanted, you could use Triggers. You can even just do it Solo, and that would be another form of content/challenge.
If I had to propose a solution/middle-ground, how about having all of the fights available, but the schedule is now for super-boosts to that boss' drops? Now that I think about it, I think that might be how it works in some private servers? Though I don't play often or long (or look at the website) enough to really know.
I still prefer the, if possibly minor, community experience of getting together to fight the big thing that appeared, and feeling that this is my chance to get that perfect run, and other little things. I feel like even with my solution, people would either be too spread out or stop caring/burnt out from grinding the same two bosses endlessly.
Anyways, look, I get you're like the old man who shakes your fist at the newfangled generation that just doesn't get how much better it was, but you don't have to couch that with statements like base PSO2 was bad and that we're coping or something.
Now, before you say anything, I have played the original (if my previous comment didn't already imply), and I watched some friends play through PSU. They are very neat games and there is nothing that can replace the Dreamcast vibe, but I honestly wouldn't put them so far and above any of each other. To me, they're like completely different series (which i suppose in a few ways they are?), it would be like comparing KINGDOM HEARTS to Devil May Cry just for them being action games when they're nearly 100% different. PSO1 would only just barely beat 2 for me because of just how perfect the eternal weapon grind loop is, but PSO2's combat is just better, so it's like they're both in a state of superposition for being in 1st. Whatever, I just said that so you see I'm not just trying to play favourites here.
Hope you have a good one and don't just cry that I sent you a long, thought out reply!
as an oldbie ARKS, I just wait for PSO3
Don't it's gonna be equal or worse than PSO2NG, get used to it, this is SEGA's new direction, minimum effort, maximum benefit.
So I went through a whole journey last year, playing through the stories of Phantasy Star Universe, then getting into the PSP games and then getting to PSO2. Base PSO2 and the PSU games filled this gameplay niche that I had an itch for. Even though there's never any new content for base, I always find myself logging back in every so often if I need to just turn off my brain and grind.
The only reason I caught up with NGS's story is because SEGA gave me a ticket that brought my level up to the cap, and I wanted to earn SG to get a returning outfit from PS Portable 2. I feel that speaks for itself.
Game's a failure alright. That's already a well established fact and has been discussed to death so I've got nothing add that hasn't been stated a 1000 times.
I just wanna know what the hell happened behind the scenes. Especially when you consider how the game launched when it was practically just an alpha build. It's quite clear that somewhere along the development process something went horribly wrong. There's absolutely no way SEGA wasn't aware of the game's disastrous state when it launched. Unfortunately SEGA is a JP company which means they ain't telling us a thing.
Personally i check in every now and then because log in touch an event for 2 minutes and you catch up fully. Currently come the next UQ which seems to be the big bad is when i'll hard leave if they got nothing going. Timing for it seems exactly like its the death or some turning point. Leaning hard towards death.
Just like Darcy7257 said earlier, they never should have outright killed OG PSO2, straight up, OG PSO2 was a better game overall, and you could tell that a lot of love was put into that game, fuck, just look back at the concerts, one of them had Sakai dancing alongside the whole block, it was fire! Even the bosses where epic as fuck rather than these generic dolls that hold near to no threat over us, since the whole damn pso2 NGS was a simulation lore wise.
On the note of people being freaky, well, base pso2 had quite a few on JP server, ship 2 specifically, but not on this level, NGS is just a mix of "What the fuck even" and "Bloody hell I`ll gauge my eyeballs".
He is right the game is dead, I can tell ages ago, cause of my experience with Dauntless. The end game content is rubbish, and not listening to their gamers, just wanting us all to spend money. F that wake up all, teach Sega a lesson, stop giving them money. Peace.
it sucks worse when the fan base also harrested a youtuber that made a whole review of the current state of the game caused him to get doxxed for calling out the problems of it, and to be honest and real with chu, the studio that made ngs might as well get hit with lays offs and the game best be shut down cause at this point the game is just garbage in my new player experience.
if its not gonna be fix by the longevity then whats even the point of it? all in all you might as well play current newer sage titles coming which i have not play for waiting trends calm down before i hop on the train. all in all [again] its a good video and state majority i had an issue with plus the game
Finally someone have the balls to say what need to be said instead of mindlessly praising a dead game.
NGS feels like retirement home at this point. There may be couple cool boss fights in store, but 2025 appears to be very stretched and dripfed.
We still have PSP2i thank god. With english translation, 60 fps patch, right stick hack (works with mouse too), on emu you can play it with friends (I have none, so I play with NPCs T-T) and it's such a blast, no micro transactions, huge amount of content, great combat (no jump button thoe).
And sega can't ruin it retroactively, because it's 100% offline game.
If they sold the complete edition of PSO2 or even including PSO2NG in a ver. Offline package, I would buy it. I played PSO1 offline and I spent hundreds if not thousand of hours into that game on Dreamcast. I played PSO2JP since the very beginning until they banned all non-JP IP's, and continued playing using VPN until real life hit me like bricks. I can't keep up with the online pace anymore so I much prefer something I can keep playing no matter how long or even when the servers are dead. Still play PSOBB from time to time as opposed to PSO2/NG.
As someone fully geared and done most of the content: the only content that I ever had interest in was the 4 person major suppression target (dark falz) and… basically there’s no word on getting what would be most likely the next one (aegis rank 2)
And dark falz Vael will be a fucking uq.
It’s safe to say that I’m extremely disappointed that the only content that posed any serious challenge or was even alittle bit fun has just been dropped on its face. It’s too casual now and keeping up as a f2p player is near impossible.
You’re also right about lobbies, it gets weird with some of the avatars I see nowadays.
it will has a solo or 4man version like every other main boss in ngs ans pso2
Ya know, I played it last year for awhile. Got to max level on a few classes, did a bit of end game content then put the game down and kinda forgotten about it until now. Kinda a shame ya know?
this game been 💩. Loved base but ngs straight trash
The writing was on the wall when mostof the peole covering PSO2 moved to FFXIV. Hell, a furry version of PSO2 just came out and has more players than NGS has had in 4 years
3:45 you say Sega thinks the game will continue to make money, but the playerbase is quickly dwindling so Idk about that one chief. Like you said this game is dead, statistically speaking it is dead or dying. Less and less people are playing it, so less and less people are buying anything, more and more people are moving on from their sunk cost fallacy character and on to a better one in a better game. This game is shutting down in the next few years I'm calling it.
base pso2 was so fun sould have kept it as is ngs was a flop and the combat is so boring there
I remember when i started playing OG PSO2 i loved it, shit was hilarious
i used to play it with my old friend group, we'd joke about stuff while farming, to the point that the running gag of me sitting in the casino hopping from machine to machine saying "No this one doesn't have the good juju" was a staple among us
i met some people on the game, had fun, it was great
but when Neo genesis came out, felt like i was just playing an almost soulless knock off in a sense
which probably sounds shitty but it's just a shame
does people still play OG PSO2 ?
I don't know, the people I met on NGS who played the base game just dropped the game entirely in search of new RPGs. I did the same.
Very rarely
I like fashion, but when the combat is literally just counter spam, and the combat setting for new bosses is so bland, the game is not really worth it to me.
Even if it were a good fashion based game (run around collect resources and stuff to sell for money to buy stuff, with little to no combat.) , I prolly still wouldnt play it a ton as i never really fit into those sorts of playerbases anyway.
Ngl, i would love it if sega remade the original PSO or even the portable ones. I had a lot of fun playing those than pso2ng. 😂
I’m going to stick with it to the end. Probably not do much besides maybe run combat sectors, play base, and wait for someone to make a base game private server. I don’t know when, or who will, but I want a base game private server.
i really miss base PSO2 since i hate how new Genesis is right now its really sad man
You can still play it btw
Yeah, NGS did feel way under developed than og pso2. what a shame
Last Played: June 16, 2021
Playtime: 89.8 hours
Syberbolt ultimately got the last laugh and I can't say I'm surprised.
As for the community? OH BOY, lemme tell ya, I've seen some weird bastards and some wild (and sometimes racist) outfits. I remember in my old alliance, a player was mad that he was banned for his German soldier outfit. So I asked him what era was it based on...he straight up said it was a WWII German outfit. So I told him "yeah, there's your reason" and he got pissed at me for agreeing with the ban.
When it comes to fashion, I honestly prefer it in FFXIV. Yes its limited, but I much prefer that over seeing players with two sets of insanely large breasts. The game looks like a minefield to stream with all the down bad people
Dress up simulator 💀💀💀 Psu and Base would NEVER let this happen peep the gooner and scratch shills in the comments copings 😂😂😂
Fans of pso2 kinda feel abandoned by sega and many of my frens quit im just on copium back in the day i had frens who would whale on pso2 cuz they loved base pso2 but ngs is just a weak game i dont consider it part od the main pso2 franchise cuz like its just dress up where are the cool combat in space where are the cool persona concerts where are the coll collab eq like elzelion and 6th angel. YOU ARE 100% RIGHT NGS SUCKS ASS no offense to ppl who like it but i dont feel like spending on this game at all anymore cuz it dont deserve it no more if it was base pso2 100% yes
They should not have bum rushed pso2 global release like they did. Then new genesis a year after. No real story content, battle feels lacking. No real upgrade to skills/techs like previous generations making you actually feel like you’re getting stronger. They have 2 different markets for items from original pso2 and ngs. Players are split between grinding currency between 2 versions where they are so inflated it’s a joke.
I logged in like a month ago after trying NGS the first time when it first cameout and hating it. Long time BB/PSO2JP Ship2 player.
Good lord, I could't even play the game for like 1 hour because the game has so much junk. Inventory was always full, you unlocked stuff to do and inventory would get more full. Go here and do that. Please buy, sale.
No. Just no.
Game was ass since the beginning. The original pso2 is leagues better, and ngs could've gotten better, it never did. Character creation was the only part that made it interesting, but its predecessor already has the same character creation anyway. Ngs is ass and forever will be, unless Sega decides to actually make it good.
Wanted to add, when I said predecessor, I meant the original pso2, not pso1. Also, ngs I loved for it's character designs, but the characters themselves were terrible and barely had a reason to be there.
The sex appeal for the female characters specifically i can tolerate a little bit, but for those don't like sexual outfits for characters in these types of games, pso2 ngs is definitely a game to avoid, but not just because of that. It's also because of the gameplay is just ass, no matter how you look at it or change the combat to fit your playstyle, it's ass, comeplete, ass. Also, the graphics are fucking dreadful from afar, and the framerate can be ok but mostly terrible on hardware like the Xbox one and ps4, so I already hated the game at launch, but going forward those two issues got fixed for me when I finally got a ps5 on Christmas in 2022.
As for why pso2 base is better, there's several reasons, and those are: 1-the combat 2-the music 3-the artstyle 4-the story and 5-the character creation system, which is my personal favorite part of the game, and no, ngs doesn't count because it's the exact same system in thay game. Pso2 base is the better game. If only Sega didn't murder it and only leave the server on to drag the dead horse.
kavaris update was the most fun i had in ngs but it fell off hard after.
Damn bro I'm actually shopping around for a new mmo cause I'm tired of FFXIV and how shit the content treadmill is and was looking to PSO2 to try but I'm glad I watched your shit first, I know how shitty it can be to drop an mmo you loved so gl bro you're actually really funny so I hope your youtube pops off
PSO2 i think it's still worth it for the story and gameplay alone, New Genesis is the dogshit. They are two different games.
@unlimitedslash oh okay ill do a little more digging then it seemed like pso2 was taken down and replaced by this but I'm glad to know i was wrong I'll check it out tyty
@@FullHeartGrit by how they talk makes it look like that, but they just moved the original pso2 to be a dlc of new genesis, so yeah... You gotta download both it's quite scummy
just go and play it, at least is free 2 play so you don't miss anything, so just go for the story on both ps2 and ngs to experience them and then leave
im convinced Phantasy star is going need a reboot. I’ve come to appreciate the universe/portable series more than this dress-up chatbox simulator. i cant get into ngs even as a long time fan of the series.
Im putting more hours into PSOBB on the Ephinea server than any other game latly since this year stsrted. Great community and live 200+ player server reliving the good old days.
I wonder if The First Descendant is on the same path. I played a bit and found the systems pretty mediocre. The gameplay is decent, but it doesn't hold up, and the game's performance is terrible on most PCs. The only thing I've seen after that are videos after videos just talking about the characters appearance, with zero focus on reasons to keep people playing.
It's been going down that path for a good bit. Basically, they marketed the game towards gooners who only want to stare at tits and ass rather than making an enjoyable game and as a result, even criticizing the game for its obscene difficulty will result in you getting dogpiled.
I still remember explaining why the Devourer was an unfair boss due to its insane health recovery. People instead said "git gud" or to make a build. The kicker? All the good character builds required modules from Hard mode usually. Combine that with the abysmal drop rates, I realized how cooked the game was and quit. Seems I was right to do so and I'm already expecting the shutdown announcement since that's Nexon's specialty.
Least I got Monster Hunter Wilds to look forward to
i literally thought about coming back. but honestly i might just make a new character and play regular pso2.... again. maybe ill play universe?
I started playing on a PSU private server like a couple of months ago its pretty fun
@@salad229 same
@@salad229 I wish Portable 2 Infinity was an mmorpg, the fact it's on the PSP really limits it, someone would have to emulate like the whole PSN server to make it less annoying to matchmake in multiplayer, that one is so fun feels like a mix between PSO2 and PSU. There's Phantasy Star Nova too, which is a spinoff of PSO2 that plays like it, but that game is much less accessible to play.
There's no fixing NGS. Maybe the next Phantasy Star game will be decent.
I quit almost 2 years ago and it is still one the best decision I've made. I know it's been almost 2 years cause I've been back to Warframe for as much. I literally quit PSO2 to play Warframe again. I did log in once during March last year according to my last played on Steam but yeah nothing changed. And I do have about 8112 hours in that game. I practically no life'd it during Covid.
At first I found NGS quite entertaining, especially the character creation. But it's true that the game is currently quite boring, it's just the same old thing. What bores me the most is that as an RPG exploration is supposed to be part of it, but there are no new areas to explore, only combat zones that are time-limited and very boring. The other thing is the UQ, always the same "DF this..." "DF other..." the game doesn't leave DF, there's nothing new. It's as if DF was everything and nothing else, terrible. The other thing to highlight for my part is the incredible amount of people who create real monstrosities of female characters, they look like tanks or whales, it's the most horrible thing I've seen in an RPG honestly. And the toxicity of this game has already gone beyond the limits, so I left it for ToF and now I really enjoy a real RPG.
Base PSO2 is bad if not worse than NGS. And it's quite clear you never actually played base PSO2 (Japan). You played Global base PSO2 which consisted of 10 years worth of content from the Japan version which came out in 2012. You don't know about things like Weapon Passes and Armor Passes being locked behind Premium membership on the Japan version. Which means you couldn't buy a single 10* weapon or 10* armor or higher from the Player Shop without SPENDING MONEY FIRST. NGS got 3 Classes in 1 year. On PSO2 Japan you got 1(ONE) class every 365 days (you can confirm this by watching the Episode 2 Opening with Braver and the Episode 3 opening with Bouncer). There is so much bad about base PSO2 Japan that makes NGS looks 1000 times better that you didn't experience because you only played the Global version with 10 years worth of content handed to you in a single year.
Now I'm not saying NGS is good. However, right now NGS is approaching year 4 and I kid you not base PSO2 in its 4th year on the Japan server doesn't even have HALF the content that is in NGS lmao. It's not even close. I didn't even name everything about the experience on base PSO2 JP. Like spamming the same Exploration quest because there was nothing else to do. Like NGS has 5x the amount of UQs. Around this time In PSO2 JP you ran Falz, Magatsu, Mining Base 1, TACOs (Time Attack Client Orders), Advance Quest and that's it. All the other stuff you remember from Global PSO2 came years later. Not months, years later.
You're not wrong, been playing PSO2JP since 2014, and can confirm that it has some BS like the paid 10* weapons, but those weapons weren't truly necessary to progress, they where a nice endgame, yes, but for main story and most content, equipment you could grind or obtain as reward was more than enough once upgraded and affixed.
But NGS didn't come from nothing, it's not a brand new game made from scratch like PSO2 was at release, it's an expansion converted into a "new game", borrows a shitton of stuff from base PSO2, and yet it's worst at it in ever single aspect: combat? combat at 4yo PSO2 was already well defined, the just attack system was there, and it was fun, and super well paced, mean while the removal of just attack on NGS, and the absurd simplification of all jobs has made NGS a boring game to play, and that's only regarding combat, music? you listen to NGS music compared to the PSO2 playlist and it's a bland bootleg, and that's it, the same with characters, even year 4 PSO2 had really good characters, meanwhile NGS has "retail generic npc #1~999" and that's it, the same with the story, although i remember the story progression using the matter boards i think they where called a bit convoluted, still had good story, some times great, at some points dropped a bit, but overall the lvl was much higher than NGS story at any given point.
One would think that they would've learned after 11years of PSO2 on what works and what doesn't, but these guys learnt nothing and they are still making blatant design mistakes at every possible turn in ever possible aspect of the game.
This isn't just about "oh, but PSO2 has 11 years of content" it's a "has 11 years of content that was mostly good or better than what NGS is providing", and i think there is a good bunch of stuff i could say to be bad content, or systems, like the subscription based private room, some quest types, like the rogue lite mode, which i loved, but there was never people playing it, the PVP mode they eventually released was a hot garbage they never fixed, and i could be here all day talking about what i liked and dislike about the OG PSO2, but still, it was a great game, even at it's infancy.
@@unlimitedslash Bull, it's basically PSO3.
Sure they released it as an expansion but that was WHOLLY to avoid people throwing strops about their cosmetics being left behind.
It's a new game, and it's a new development cycle. Yes the combat changed. Did you play PSO2 early days? Because you sure as shit don't seem to remember how many times the lobby was empty becuase there was nothing at all to do. At all. You did explorations. That was it. For about 3 years that was ALL you did.
The story in NGS isn't especially great but I'll say as of the last chapter it's actually going somewhere and had a nice enough conclusion. Was it a good story? Not at all. Did it have a nice pay off? Sure! I'm excited to see what comes next. (And don't forget Base PSO2 story was so damned bad they tore it out and turned it into an anime so don't act like it was perfect.)
Music is 100% subjective so I ain't touching that (I love the music in Forgotten City!)
I was there since 2012 during the tweaker days and block 20 it was leaps and bounds better
This. Not to mention I've known people that were complaining about the game being a "waifu dress up simulator" as far back as before Dark Falz Elder on base. And it's clear that Jugo wasn't around for the open slave markets and flat out sex going on in blocks like 34 and 69 (lol go figure) if he thinks the gooning is worse in NGS, people weren't even getting banned back in base global like they are now in NGS. Shit was openly encourage by not just the game with both the story and the scratch tickets, but by the actual staff of the game also if those syberbolt vids are to be believed. Base game was a hot mess that just happened to be given to people 7 or 8 years later and will tell you it's PEAK. LOL.
@@LilPika11you keep saying this weird thing about the story... All they did was change EPISODE 1-3 from the Matterboard into how the rest of the story is formatted. They didn't "tear it out". The anime has no relation to it either, since it happened years after that change released.
it has been 1k players for a year :D
Thats pathetic
Devs has lack of taste, enemy designs are bad, world looks bad, everything glows, attack effects are too colorful and flashy but doesn't make sense, NPC characters looks generic. The only thing I love about this game is that it has verticality in combat.
I started PSO2 and although it feels basic, slow and outdated. It was very fun! clocked in over 800hrs and Got to end game and grind end game weps. Was very happy. New Genisis just feels soooo strange.. like a big open of nothing. After the first week, it was nice.. But nothing after that.. just mindless outfits that I had already had in OG.
for me it's the classes being designed backwards, every weapon feels slow and unresponsive
I remember making so many friends on the day before NGS released. We were hyped to see what SEGA had in store.
I only log on now to play base, and every friend I made no longer logs in. It's such a shame the game is just stuck in this state for the past 4 years.
Don't even get me started on the gameplay. How tf do you abandon a good, working combat system and make it shit?
Best thing I've done is start PSO Blue Burst on Ephinea. Infinitely better than NGS.
The goat is back
The game isnt gonna die so easily, even though their road map is simple as duck, they will still continue to update the game, honestly I always felt like NGS was just a simplified Base and Im okay with that, the only thing I ask of this game is, give me tougher bosses and I hope the new Dark Falz will be just like that
I literally only log on now to work on my creative space. Game is total ass otherwise 🙃
Mercy killing for this game can't come soon enough. Like Ngs is the sega 32x of mmos and you take quotes form the avgn 32x review and apply to ngs and it fists so well
just replace the words Geneisis with pso2 and 32x with ngs.
"You plop it on the top of pso2, like they're mating. God, I mean, do you think that's enough add-ons? It doesn't even look aesthetically presentable. I mean, it's just like an ugly tumor. I mean, did they really need all this bullshit leeching on the pso2? That poor pso2 is just thinking: "Oh, please, God, take this shit off me."
"Look at this. It's a fuckin' mess. And what a perfect visual analogy. Sega invented NGS to increase the lifespan of pso2, and that's exactly what the friggin' thing looks like. It's on life support."
Aabsolutely no ones surprise (unless you are sega employee or ngs shills like Keropii) Syberbolt was right.
"SUPER GAME" - more like "Super DEAD".
The game died when we lost Quna
But seriously, something is just wrong with NGS. PSO2's gameplay loop was repetitive, but somehow it was always still fun. You could go to all kinds of planets, areas, even outer space, and pretty much always have a cool new scenery to do combat in.
NGS is just as repetitive but even less fun. We're stuck on this stupid planet, there's no high sci-fi fantasy, no space ships, no planets... There's less meaningful stuff to do, and if you're into the story/roleplay like me, NGS's story REALLY SUCKS. PSO2's worst episode is still better than peak NGS. Even the NGS voice acting is completely phoned in. I know people have differing opinions on the PSO2 Classic dub, but I think we can all agree the Classic lines are delivered MUCH better than the robotic dub we got for NGS (no shame to the VA's, I'm sure they were just given zero budget voice direction).
PSO2 died when they stopped Classic's login bonuses, mission passes, and scheduled events. They had something amazing going, and it's a shame what they did with it.
the characters themselves are robotic in ngs, check any cutscene: none of them even move or change expression, they just stand there staring at each other and talk without any motion or animation, then check any pso2 cutscene and characters move all over the place gesturing and reacting to each other
the only times that happens in ngs is during the stia attack cutscene or when firing central cannon
i played New Genesis when it came out. i was disappointed. so i stopped. i don't know if i'm going to get flak here or not. but there's nothing wrong with having sexy/cute/pretty waifus and what not. i'm a boob guy. so im' always happy to see it. but it shouldn't be the whole game. and it seems that NGS is just that. was gonna give it another chance in 2025. but i guess not. on a side note, anyone play clementine? i do'nt know if it's still running. or if anyone have any other games that can scratch that Phantasy star itch? i miss those good old days playing with my friends on the gamecube.
Nothing beats the pso 1 and 2 when i played it on game cube. When i played pso ngs I thought it be like it but wasn't. Like its had beautiful scenery but i didnt like it.
I watched this video to see if pso2ngs had gotten any better yet... It seems not.
I think the saddest part about your video isn't even how upset you are with the state of the game, nor how bad genesis is because believe me its beyond abhorrent, it's sad that you probably grew up far after phantasy star 1/2/3 came out on the sega genesis; and worst that you probably never experienced the life changing magic that phantasy star online 1 episode 1 and 2 on the Dreamcast were back when that was peak in all ways gaming could conceive the astmophere and immersion of older phantasy star titles were entrancing man.
I'm sorry that the world has robbed you of something near damn divine.. that you may never know i hope future titles can fill in where Sega has faultered you deserve everyone deserves to experience that man it was something else.
why are you making it seem like phantasy star is god's gift to mankind? i played all previous phantasy and they were fun sure but relax my guy. I'm sure he'll be just fine.
The one before this 1 was alot better but i had reached the stronger weapons and end game anyway so 🤷🏾♂️ it was inevitable
I still remember playing for hundreds of hours in 2021 solely based on how fun the base game scion classes were. Hero was just next level fun for me
beyond dead, any form of originality from the good directors are all gone since theyve taken a hands off approach to even straight up leaving sega. I literally just go in for dailies a bit of meseta grind and i leave the game alone in the corner. Like some people complain about games not respecting the playerbase, this game, the director and even sega lack a shred of respect - even for themselves.
I've been a long time player for the game; so much so i literally got a pc build just to play pso2 jp after the release date. sure i still play the game, but you HAVE to be very specific when you play this game. you cant come in a play like a normal game since theres nothing to do that would be a good use of your time. if you want to use this as a chat platfrom thats not too bad since base was kinda like that. a big weird part is that a joke that would usually be used is fashion is the end game but thats all its become now for this game. gacha, gacha all day and majority of the shit is trash.
I never understood new genesis.
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Same video as the one from 5 months ago? Got it. It must truly mean the game is over then if we can simply just rehash the same video concept over and over for years. 😅
Lol
oh, the unlimited grind fest of a game.. i play for a month or two and get bored. every new chapter = new weapon to grind.. endless grinding with time gated events. don't have that many hours to play.
finally you accepted that this game is death? what happened that you suddenly realized it. lol. PSO PSU and PSO2 were "THE GAME" dont waste your life here dude.
Go play PSO both pso2 and pso2 ngs is far better. And have you played any other phantasy star game? Alot of mmos have the fashion side.
PSO2 died after the alpha, really. it had so much going for it, they could have made it unique, but they went the PSU route and made everything the same, boring, soulless, reskin. An attempt at making something like PSO. but like PSU, it isnt and never will be. When they were considering whether to name it PSO2 or PSU2, they should have picked PSU2. that would have saved a lot of PSO fans from huge disappointment. it's just a soulless cash grab relying on similarities to the old games to draw in players.
yell yes its dead, i quit in 2012 when it become obvious sega was never going to fix things and just let that shill Satoshi Sakai make another trash game. He was only the art director on PSO, and it shows at every turn.
I agree with you on most of the things...related to gameplay: it's stale.
But the rest of it, especially the community part, that's exclusive to the global version. I am always surprised to hear how fucking horrible you guys have it.
Over here in JP it's a completely different vibe. I have been in the same team since the very real beginning, more than 10 years ago. And even though I'm not that talkative, the vast majority of people, both Japanese and gaijins, are good people. On the other hand, you guys on global have the same weirdos that play FFXIV and WoW to roleplay.
Also, the part about the "gooner" content is just laughable. The PS series changed since PSU, to call this game "gOoNEr bAiT" is stupid, more so seeing your character is named "Lust Vampire".
The game has had sexy stuff since day 1, and since previous games. I am so glad none of you know what ES is. Same thing about the art style, that's just your opinion mate, I respect it but I disagree wholeheartedly.
But then again, I completely agree with you regarding the gameplay and current state of things. It's very clear though: SEGA made an experiment, turning a real game into a mobile-tier game. And the experiment was a success.
if you're complaining about fanservice in an anime style game, you're forgetting that's what the core playerbase wants.
Pso2 New Grift
NG is a pefrct example that giving players to much creative freedom is a bad idea. That's why i apreaciate FF14 more. Im playing NG on and off when they drop new story bits in.
The creative freedom is _not_ the problem with NGS
@@Metal_Sign-Friday_Patchouli Right? Shit, the creative freedom is probably the single strongest point. As much as I loathe them, the gooners and their bad financial decisions are probably the only reason the game is still alive. It's everything else about the game that's the problem...
NGL you did say some true things. About like the outfits that certain people wear in the game are too sexual. There is a lot of furries in the game lmao. I do think that pso2 ngs does a good job explaining the basics of the game. Also people shouldnt be bullying or gatekeeping in games. Those people should be reported for doing that. You just have to read the text. Also the game is not bad. I don't know why people keep saying this game is bad or it sucks. To me if the game was bad then nobody would be playing the game at all and it would've failed within a year. I think the gameplay is repetitive but the combat is pretty good. All the combat in the game is basic but has a high skill ceiling. PSO2 NGS has a came a long way from its initial release. Also I can tell you didn't do enough research with base PSO2. Cause we all got around 11 years of content in the span of 1 year.
I never played it because they censored it. Deserved.
what a self report
"Bruh NGS is bad bruh cause It's so bad bro like bro is so bad bruh its so dead bro like its so bad bruh I mean like bro NGS is bad bruh cause It's so bad bro like bro is so bad bro like its so bad bruh"
god I love it when blue yeti havin' hit piece mf come out with a rant video that can't focus on a single point.
go write a script then come back.
Gonna go against the grain here and say that even OG PSO2 was and always has been a shitty gooner dress-up game with okayish combat stapled on. The more things change, the more they stay the same...
If the game really dead then no one gonna talk about it even hate about it. You made conclusion fast
Not to shit on your opinion here, but... there is like double the content in NGS after 4 years than there was in base PSO2 after 4 years.
The global release of PSO2 had 11 years of content to play through and you could blast it all out in about 100 to `120 hours. Especially after they removed Episode 1-3 and turned it into an anime. Right now NGS has about 100 hours of life in it. That's more than base PSO2 at the equivalent point in it's life. Which is crazy to think about.
I think the big problem here is people are playing this expecting every update to be a full on expansion size content drop when that's _never_ been the way PSO was done. Ever. Not in any of them, PSO1, PSU or PSO2.
Just go play any of them and check the amount of content compared to the 11 year run of PSO2. And then count how long it takes you to get through PSO2s content.
Also when it comes to numbers, this game's primary install base is on Xbox, both the Xbox app and the machine. Not on Steam. Steam came MANY months later. I think I know one person who launches through steam in the Team i'm in. (Full team, too!)
I don't even know how to respond to this... It's just wrong. Nearly every sentence, wrong...
@@soniplushie8852 It's called maximum copium. NGS players have been making things up in their heads since launch. It's delusional. The funniest part was saying that most players are playing on Xbox 😆
lol i disagree. its a great beatem up. idk why you would call this an mmo. tge player count is more than enough to sustain itself. steam isnt the main platform its played on. i like big tities and furries in my games. its great for me, but im not a tryhard and a few minutes a day is all i have for gaming these days. i think that goes for most humans.
Steam is the main platform the game is played on, it's been proven countless times. Also, the fact that this game attracts some of the biggest group of freaks around (furries) it's not exactly a good look.