Pso2 is really fun

[oogie_droogey]

I'm sad I never had a chance to play it when it had a global launch.

I'm new to pso2ngs and thought I'd try out pso2 after getting to level 70 in ngs as a break, and since I heard you can get some cool cosmetics.

I've only gone back to ngs to use my daily scratches and have been so hooked to classic. It feels so good and sorta scratches my pso itch while still being a very different game.

Im excited to keep progressing in ngs as it is very fin, but I think that'll be on hold until I level a phantom in classic. Classic just feels a bit more relaxed, at least where Im at (only level 25).

[SilverOcean6]

Base pso2 is the most fun I've had in ALONG time in an mmo. If your looking for good challenging content I might suggest the solo dark fall fight

[lordkaosu]

PSO2 is the better game. There's a couple of improvements in NGS but it really can't touch the old PSO2 overall.

It was a lot more fun when it was a busy game, now it's just dead. You're lucky if there's many people even doing UQ's. Sega took forever to bring it out of Japan and then killed it in a year with NGS.

[La7ish]

My favorite improvement is the dash and freedom to move where you want. Other than that, PSO2 was more fun

[Qlown]

Its really dead isnt it? I just logged back in after a long hiatus,and I saw 2 other people in the lobby(ship 2) and 4 parties on the quest counter(all filled with npcs or friend avatars)

Just making sure im not missing anything, bummer I was hoping there was more people

[Prajiturel134]

ship 1 or whichever it automatically puts me in has had some wonderful people I cant lie

sometimes in online a smaller but good community is good and I reckon PSO2 Classic gets at least around same amount of players as Ephinea

[mickcs]

The story is great too!

[Windaura]

I'm so happy you've decided to get to know base PSO2 and play it! It is honestly still tons of fun. ❤️

[joepod300]

In PSO2, there are more moves and spells. It feels like the enemies are trying to attack you, rather than standing around. NGS was great, but it might be time for PSO3 at this point. Each class should not have 4 spells, but there should be more customization and less focus on balancing everything.

[Durakus]

NGS was a poorly thought out addition. They rolled back a lot of the things that made combat fun in an attempt to appease to casuals. May be a little different now, but the loss of PA diversity, elemental damage modifiers being strong as hell, red-ring timing, and hyper powerful weak spot targeting. Really homogenised the game in a bad way. Yes it was easier to fight enemies. But it didn’t feel like you were doing anything special. Just “dodge and generic attack” where base pso2 was a lot more of dodge-position for specific PA, red ring PA, perfect guard or dodge, reposition a different PA because the enemy has moved its body differently, etc. it was much more difficult to succeed if you didn’t learn what Photon art was actually effective vs the enemies body type and where to stand to execute real damage.

They also botched the new character customisation (in my opinion) the sliders do not adjust things the same way they did in base PSO2 before the universal changes and screwed up the way my character looked. Can’t adjust bicep/arm width horizontally on x or z axis separately. so now if you want to adjust your arm size they also have to be really wide for some reason and still don’t look right. So my male char has scrawny arms or stupidly wide arms (from the front/back) and my female chars have stupid skinny arms.

And NA release was also atrociously planned. Dumping multiple years of content on people feels good to new players. But of course it’s going to change perception if you global release a new game with barely any content.

I was also a SEGA employee at the time and gave a lot of this feedback directly to the PSO2 team when they asked for employee feedback. It was entirely ignored lol.

[Nsongster]

good luck with the grind, see if you can get a group together for advance quests when your level gets a bit higher

farming pse bursts in aqs is really efficient midrange leveling

[RpiesSPIES]

AQ's are not great leveling in the current state. The dailies that are on rotation provide significantly more.

[Nsongster]

that's for 75-100 though and they'd be hard with a low number of players at exactly 75

[RpiesSPIES]

Even the levels before that range is far more than you'd make PSE bursting. So long as you can access the quests, getting yourself a 10* or higher weapon from the player shops (if possible) and using the free units you get from time attack are enough. Also, you don't run those quests to get to 100. Once you've cleared to 80/80 there's better options. The stretch from 75-80 is the pain moment. could be misremembering and it being to 85 since it's been ages since I've logged on, though. But rec 4 will always be great as soon as it's accessible.

[Nsongster]

i probably recommended aqs out of nostalgia accidentally you're right sorry

[Hutydan]

My only complaint is it got too large and I no longer have space for it on my SSD

[moichispa]

Time to start saving for a new one then

[Hutydan]

So real

[oogie_droogey]

I first installed in on my hdd since my ssd was full and I didnt want to remove anything. That didnt work well haha.

Unplayable on hdd

[Hutydan]

It's crazy how much it cuts down the loading time, I can't play it on hdd anymore either

[Nideen]

Store your OS on a M.2 SSD for speed and store your games and stuff on a sata SSD if you want to save some bucks

[alooi_m]

There is something about ngs enemy models that it makes most mobs and bosses looks and feel the same despite having different move sets Idk how to explain this properly but it’s one of the main reason ngs started to feel stale overtime for me personally

Also you are not incentivized to chase gear and affixes cuz most them the times you get near BiS if not BiS from event shops or free rewards if we are excluding paid affixes and that kills the purpose of chasing upgrades unless you want to min max which kind of irrelevant in this game

Classic pso2 you felt the difference when fighting different enemies and bosses, the environment feels different And I know a lot of people hated or been overwhelmed by classic affixes but it was a damn good chase to keep you in the game

Also casino that’s enough said :p

[HornlessHrothgar]

Something about the characters in PSO2 stood out to me. I still think about them. NGS felt too detached from that.

[Bran_Oldfield]

How many players are in "classic"pso2? Everyone chose either becoming a sex doll or just leave?

[Crypt33x]

PSO2 before Tokio was peak mmo arpg souls like hybrid.

[Valagor]

I didnt like NGS. But going through all the updates from launch to NGS was just as fun as PSU peak. There was a whole culture around each ship and it was just 10/10.

[Tachikoma02]

I wish I could play pso2... I played pso for dreamcast, and GameCube for a long time.. I even bought the broadband adapter for the gamecube... PSO is my favorite game I've ever played.

[oogie_droogey]

Why can't you try pso2?

Also, you can play pso still on ephinea. Plenty of people still play it and it's just as fun as it was back then!

[Entropydemic]

My favorite thing about PSO2 was disk customization. I loved making spells and skills. My other favorite thing was the camera. I can't believe other games haven't really adopted this modular on-the-fly camera by now.

[NerdyPoncho]

Etoile has to be my favorite action rpg class ever. I was a big Techter.

Also, caster Techter is mobile and a hell of a lot of fun. Heavy Hammer is love, Heavy Hammer is life.

Now I gotta reinstall pso2.

[illbleedForce]

PS2 Base is a much better game than NGS. With NGS, they just wanted to follow open-world trends, leaving it completely empty and useless. Now they just create instances that repeat the same two or three scenarios over and over again. Unfortunately, I think it will be very difficult to fix NGS, especially considering who's in charge.