What made base PSO2 so good was because of the gigantic stakes, a good example is its first intro where it shows a basic boss, a giant insect. As the camera pans to the Oracle fleet, showing that there is a gigantic scale of danger (also the fact that almost every single Falz and Photoner is a universe ender in many ways)
Yeah the glory of ARKs Fleet and how much ARKs had accomplished since PSO1 is being flaunted, and then in actuality, there is a sinister story behind it too that led to EP2.
what made base pso2 so good was that base pso2 was a good game that was mechanically deep with a lot of agency in how you build your character. new genesis removed the core of what made pso2 good, homogenized builds, and made everything into dial-a-combo element matching. the story of pso2 had nothing to do with the game being good, and its presentation was objectively awful. especially with the removal of episodes 1-3's matterboards completely gutting or retconning major storybeats.
Hey Don't you disrespect the ngs side characters There's nadareth,there's ummmm uh poser um habi, and uhhhhhhhhh yeah I can't remember anyone else and I just got Done playing it
PSO2 base: high stakes, Falspawn and Primordial Darkness. Me Vs Persona: "I'm gonna kick my ass" "Same." "Lol" "Lmao" "Wanna save the universe?" "Bitchin'." NGS: "Story got good until Dad died."
Every time you advanced the story, the characters in the ARKs base would have their chatter updated to say something referencing the latest events. Now they just drop Dark Falz and Starless Falz (?) without even an introduction.
I hope they better step up the threat of the dolls. Like making it some sort of planetary assimilation lifeform, or showing us a planet that is entirely doll-isized, or showing a facility that turns ARKS into dolls or anything more interesting than "jello man bad"
I think a big problem with NGS' story is that despite it taking place a millennia after PSO2, the most progress that ARKS has made with its colonization efforts has been rather underwhelming and the central conflict is still the ol' big evil space demon terrorizing the universe except less interesting because the villains in NGS are just generic doomsday monsters rather than human-ish characters with their own different ambitions Its still nowhere near as advanced as PSU's setting
If you ask me. This is pretty much Sega being lazy yet again and not giving a damn, remember when they said they only see NGS as a source of income and not much else.
Pso2 was so awesome 😆 my excitement for the ngs story hit an all time high with the 3 second flashback to Matoi when we went to the nameless city for the first time.
What pisses me off the most is how dolls is such an empty threat,i will not deny that they look very cool but we have barelly any information about them! Like why do they want us dead,how they work and function,how do they produced more dolls,what abilities they may have and the fact there isn't a single sentient antagonist
As someone who has actually entered the field of narrative design, I will have to say that NGS is laughably bad at having an overarching narrative, has little to no transformation (both in-game and towards the player themselves), and has very terrible ludonarrative dissonance ("Hey, this monster has been terrorizing the region for years" *MC kills the region boss the next day*). Also the cliches really ruined it for me (having a "main character," (Garoa) who had potential, to end up dying the first 5-10 minutes in the game, a setting is destroyed, the """amnesia"""", etc.). If you were to play PSO2's story in full, then watch your character in NGS, it's a giant slap in the face because if ONLY the main character did NOT have that crap "amnesia" as a meteorn, they would have gone the rogue route, not affiliate with ARKS, and SINGLE-HANDEDLY defeat every threat that is being caused on the 4 regions and possibly Dark Falz, and more (who knows), and this could obviously be a better outcome instead of the MC joining the ARKS in Halpha, in my honest opinion, knowing that the main character has defeated the multiple Dark Falzes in the PSO2 timeline, Profound Darkness (on multiple occasions), Shiva, the Primordial Darkness/Sodam etc., confronted Persona, and literally re-wrote history. The Great Light ffs has grown an extreme power at this point!
while I will agree that the story is lacking so far, there is indeed lore if you bother to look into the phantasy star rpgs to learn more about the original dark falz lore before the pso revamp of the franchise story. the profound darkness never stays dead, it resurrects every 1000 years. as for why persona/ash/player is in ngs, he/she is the great light, a legendary hero that is the antithesis to the profound darkness that reappears every 1000 years when the profound darkness is reawakening. figured it out yet? 1000 year timeskip, dark falz being back. as for why the dark falz is back, I suspect the god boss from end of episode 4 that adam turned into, turned into a new dark falz and returned. the dolls look very similar in design and color, renus retem's body even looks just like the serpent heads of the urgent quest version of that episode 4 boss if you look hard enough, same color scheme on the necks. also being the great light is most likely why persona was never fully corrupted by dark falz and retained his sanity. also kinda hinted at by the little sphere of light in the profound darkness fight.
@@infern209x actually the reason persona retained his "sanity" is because his strongest desire at the moment he became a dark falz was to save matoi. The goal of a dark falz if decided at the moment of its inception. It's why Luther tried to xorrupt the universe, thinking if he could absorb the universe he could become omniscient like xion. It's why aurora is pretty much just concerned with being worshipped because her vanity caused her to fall when she became forgotten or rather was no longer a public icon. You're strongest desire in the moment you fall is what dictates the goal of a dark falz.
Wait, didn't they specifically mention that your avatar is not related to the base PSO2 story at all? They just look the same. I might be wrong though, but it was one of the first things I looked into when NGS promotion began.
@@Fureimuu nah man, same stuff but they add the amnesia thing, maybe its for the best cuz they can gather new generation of player while keeping the old one in on the story.
@@AndroidNoir-L06k tbh on our character being the same from base it makes sense on one account. Dark falz itself. This isn't the first one in halpha there was another. And that one showed up in lost central and it froze over. Lost is said to have fallen because it's citizens relied too much on tech and not enough on their photons. Now here's my theory to tie the two games together and why it makes sense mc is the same from base. They know they failed because a super strong arks saved them from that arks but ended up freezing lost in the process, similar to naverius. Which klariskrays did to elder. And I think it could be matoi. As in some point in time the guardians were put on ice incase the world needed them again or something similar. Manon also isn't amnesiac because she was the one who deployed them to halpha and jumped ship with them. Halpha is sorta a training planet to forge the strongest arks possible to deal with a new grander threat in the universe that ended or heavily impairs the oracle fleet. Matoi got sent down. Dark falz rose to test them as she's a guardian and they failed but Matoi potentially learning or assuming how to do so from the original klariskrays seals that darkfalz. And then we don't see another one on halpha until the 2nd guardian, us arrive. It makes no sense why the gap in Dark falz appearances otherwise to me. Even if we want to say it got destroyed wholly it's still too long with the technological power of the dolls. An injured Dark falz can come back with a huge upgrade in a month or so idk how long game time but certainly wasn't decades. Give it a few more months and or Dark falz might have hit the lost central form if it didn't already. Another thing is some people seeing aegis' orb drawing attack to be it connecting to some darkness potentially a PD, but not being in a state to fully utilize or maintain it so it has to eject it in a last ditch attack. And if this darkfalz is connected to pd then it makes sense that it would also arrive and resonate with two characters who ended up becoming or being very close to being PD. And lastly if it is a training planet, having the guardians being tested hard alongside the planet makes sense. There literally would be no struggle without Dark falz with the guardians. There's also oddities like seasonal enemies and why the seasonal sisters have similar names to the xion, Xiao and xiera naming conventions. Could they be at the controls behind the scenes to a degree? And why the dolls are gathering data on all arks. And obviously given the sky and amount of command doll units, sending that data to the floating facility in the sky.
I could work with a story with a smaller scale, and don't even mind if it's very simple. However base PSO2 feels like it's at a reading level for teens while NG feels like it was written for spastic children.
I think they were purposely putting the story at the sidelines from launch till like Chapter 4, as the developers just thought that the players don't like the story but in the end, even if PSO2 story had flaws, at least they do their best to make it memorable or workable enough.
Drakaina here again, I hope when the new boss comes out whatever the guy's name is that is said to be the leader of the starless, actually starts to do something more destructive with a bit of show and tell
I do find it funny a common I left the wait over a year ago insulting the strength defenders, and I was right, it just disappoints me that we are this far into the game and there's barely any substance
Well I'm quite worried about how a fully grown Dark Falz would be like though, since this Dark Falz Interception we got is basically not a fully realized Dark Falz yet.
Back then Chad Pso2 : I give you a short epic video for new class and the upcoming map together with new catchy song. Now in virgin NGS Player: cricket sound* no PV for next region and class? P.s I miss those PV and the song as well. I found out the PV actually hype up my gameplay a lot back then in PSO2
PSO2 dev: We made PV of everything to hype players up so they could enjoy their time in the game NGS dev: IDC! Just give us money and go farm in the game!
Legit this is why NGS is doing so badly. They expected us to be okay with mediocre characters, mediocre plot, mediocre reboot, mediocre side characters, mediocre Falz, and a loss of countless mechanics??? Dude PSo2 EVEN HAD PVP. AND A DEVIL TRIGGER. Come on man. How is NGS even worth playing
Features and stuff I believe they are going to implement some form or another later, I am more worried about how basic every storylines are currently. Let's hope Kvaris able to change that around or something but fingers crossed.
@@AzariusR I've got very little faith. The game was launched in bad faith and with hopes that people would spend more on Scratch. Why? Because Meseta got you everything in pso2, and everyone had meseta.
@@Kizen. Well yeah able buy almost everything with meseta is a double edged sword, but I'll prefer it be like this instead of locking cosmetic behind cash currency alone and being not resellable like so many other live service games out there.
@@AzariusR What I mean is, they made NGS as a way to reset the economy and make everyone start from scratch... so they would buy scratch tickets. It was made in bad faith, because Pso2... Nobody needed to buy scratch stuff. Everyone had way more meseta than they coudl ever need
@@Kizen. They are doing that for revenue yes, but that's how it is really for a decade with PSO2. They are a Free To Play Live Service game, that's how they make revenue, though at least we do have more free choices now more than Base PSO2 if you include seasonal exchanges and Mission pass and SG and Special scratches.
I like both Megalith Agnus Dei and Somebody that I used to know, but putting these two together is just one bad bastardization on its own. It hurts. Made me actually forget we're supposed to be hurting at how bad NGS Story is. If there is any.
I chose the better version already but this one felt more epic and somehow fitting as to how Epic PSO2 really is. But yeah Agnus Dei by itself is very great tbh.
Open world was a mistake, It should've stayed an instanced based game maybe that would've made the game decent and not the dumpster fire it is today. They could've had support for base to deal with the downtime of NGS but they decided to leave it to rot instead.
Tbh the illusion of Instanced Dungeon is also really just magical for only so much. In the end Base PSO2's main content eventually became seperate instances instead of Explorations after Ultimate Exploration fell off. Open World is actually like a nice in theory but Extremely hard to execute, hence why most Open World games fail and only a few succeeded.
Megalith Theme is god tier As for NGS, it's not doing the best right now. Let's hope they at least finish the game. (Currently we are waiting on Chapter 7.)
As awesome as the PSO2 story and lore was it didn't start out great, in my opinion up until episode 2 PSO2's story was on par for what we have with NGS so far so I'm hoping that NGS's story can improve like PSO2's did.
Yeah the Base PSO2 story was originally going to be a very time wasting ordeal back then, to waste more time to get through the stories by locking nodes in exploration zones. They already streamline it plenty in Global Release but you can see the cracks in the cutscenes there yeah. It was just the start of PSO2 at that time so it is understandable however NGS is supposed to be a sequel but apparently they just outsourced the Story to another company and hence why the Story was this bad.
@@AzariusR Oh yeah I played on JP in the days of the Matter Board, the transition from that to the more streamlined story did hurt the first 3 episodes, Episode 1 the most in my opinion even if it made actually experiencing the story much less frustrating. I actually didn't know they outsourced NGS's story that's a bit concerning. Still, here's hoping for improvement, maybe they'll move the story in house in the future or have some of the inhouse writing staff be more involved with the outsourced company.
I pretty much enjoy Episode 4. It just never feels the same when they switch from Matter board to Storyboard. In the Matter board, we can do whatever we want until we hit the story branches. In that case, we do another Matter to learn that there are some other things going on and we need to know that so we can change the outcome of the main story. While on the Storyboard, we just need to be at a specific level or clear a specific quest to move on. This reduces the confusion player had with the story but also reduces the 'richness' the story used to have. In Episode 5, I only look forward to unlocking the Dark Blast (lol). While in Episode 6 the story doesn't have any branches and nothing we do changed the outcome of the main story except the last mission before we fight Shiva. Andddd... I never finished the true ending... yeah... Since I played the game in the JP server and didn't complete the story re-telling from Alma (I presume we need to do it to encounter a true ending). I never fight the real end-game boss.
You just got to S rank the last mission to get the true ending so if worst comes to worst just do the last fight against Shiva on normal/casual. I agree something was lost when they switched from the Matter Board but it did help me get through the story at a reasonable rate since I switched to Global once it came out in the West.
@axsprime I think they reduce the difficulty? Because last time I played in the JP server was when episode 6 just ended and it is said that you need to S rank the last mission (basically, no death and rescue all ARKS members along the way). But even after I did that, there are no other prompts to change the ending. I look it up and saw that in order to encounter a true ending, I need to finish Episodes 3 and 4 and S rank the last mission. Which I did, sort of... since I finished Matter Board but not the story re-telling from Alma. I did check that the game did not recognize me finished the first 3 Episodes. I did try to finish it but only to episode 1 before I got bored and switched to global on steam. And I never finished episode 1 and only played NGS...
This kind of makes me sad cause I want to play base pso2 again but everytime I get on there I realize that I've pretty much done everything it has to offer so it isn't funny anymore
As much as I wanted Episode 6 be more story and content or even Episode 7/8 etc, the Base PSO2 game filesize had gotten too bloated, hence they had to pull the plug, because the game was already 70GB++ at Episode 6. The old engine is just not optimized and so they moved on to NGS.
Well we don't exactly know how many ARKs outposts or base camps out there too, but if you look at the Central Command Room, there are details of ARKs Fleets and several other planets visible in this system. Now the question is, are there ARKs stationed on those planets or are they just not contactable at the moment?
@SerbianSpark19 idk pso1 is its own thing. Starless in ngs share similarities with the enemies in pso1 and universe but past that they're their own thing
What made base PSO2 so good was because of the gigantic stakes, a good example is its first intro
where it shows a basic boss, a giant insect. As the camera pans to the Oracle fleet, showing that there is a gigantic scale of danger
(also the fact that almost every single Falz and Photoner is a universe ender in many ways)
Yeah the glory of ARKs Fleet and how much ARKs had accomplished since PSO1 is being flaunted, and then in actuality, there is a sinister story behind it too that led to EP2.
@@AzariusRUm Yeah on a side note PSO1 is unrelated to PSO2.
ARKS Fleet: "Honey it's 4pm, time to save another planet from Dark Falz Doohickey the Trickymahoo!"
Guardian and Matoi: "Yes dear"
what made base pso2 so good was that base pso2 was a good game that was mechanically deep with a lot of agency in how you build your character.
new genesis removed the core of what made pso2 good, homogenized builds, and made everything into dial-a-combo element matching.
the story of pso2 had nothing to do with the game being good, and its presentation was objectively awful. especially with the removal of episodes 1-3's matterboards completely gutting or retconning major storybeats.
And lets not forget all the side characters that had their own reasons to be in arks
Hey
Don't you disrespect the ngs side characters
There's nadareth,there's ummmm uh poser um habi, and uhhhhhhhhh yeah I can't remember anyone else and I just got Done playing it
PSO2 base: high stakes, Falspawn and Primordial Darkness.
Me Vs Persona:
"I'm gonna kick my ass"
"Same."
"Lol"
"Lmao"
"Wanna save the universe?"
"Bitchin'."
NGS:
"Story got good until Dad died."
The coolest character in NGS and he got killed minutes into the story
Zephetto: Yes we need glory and might from 1,000 years ago
Virgin DOLLS Falz vs Chad Elder The Gargantuan.
Oh wow I am glad that this 1000 years legacy is cemented as canon in the recent Chapter 5 of NGS. That means Base PSO2 existed. Rejoice!!!!
Base PSO2 lore: We travel back in time to keep our promise to save the world and to end the war forever.
Every time you advanced the story, the characters in the ARKs base would have their chatter updated to say something referencing the latest events.
Now they just drop Dark Falz and Starless Falz (?) without even an introduction.
Plus every side character is developed and has their own personalities. Even Koffie gets a few cutscenes.
Just wait 'til you see the OG PSO Lore and the OG Phantasy Star Lore.
I hope they better step up the threat of the dolls. Like making it some sort of planetary assimilation lifeform, or showing us a planet that is entirely doll-isized, or showing a facility that turns ARKS into dolls or anything more interesting than "jello man bad"
Pizza Slice Bad but it tanked the Central Cannon lmfao.
I am from the future. The story is starting to get very interesting now.
@ono652 I wouldn't call it "very interesting", more like "not completely garbage" that it was until chapter 5
I think a big problem with NGS' story is that despite it taking place a millennia after PSO2, the most progress that ARKS has made with its colonization efforts has been rather underwhelming and the central conflict is still the ol' big evil space demon terrorizing the universe except less interesting because the villains in NGS are just generic doomsday monsters rather than human-ish characters with their own different ambitions
Its still nowhere near as advanced as PSU's setting
If you ask me. This is pretty much Sega being lazy yet again and not giving a damn, remember when they said they only see NGS as a source of income and not much else.
Whats more fcked up is that DF Aegis isn't really a Dark Falz, just a DOLLs creation by Zephetto
Pso2 was so awesome 😆 my excitement for the ngs story hit an all time high with the 3 second flashback to Matoi when we went to the nameless city for the first time.
Literally universal threat, gigantic even.
What pisses me off the most is how dolls is such an empty threat,i will not deny that they look very cool but we have barelly any information about them! Like why do they want us dead,how they work and function,how do they produced more dolls,what abilities they may have and the fact there isn't a single sentient antagonist
Well the most recent chapter answers those questions
Dolls Falz is not even compared. Chad Eldar crippled the entire Oracle fleets just with his hands fleet.
Base pso2 was dark as fuck when you really think about it.
NGS better have some horrific lore to make this lack of lore worth it.
As someone who has actually entered the field of narrative design, I will have to say that NGS is laughably bad at having an overarching narrative, has little to no transformation (both in-game and towards the player themselves), and has very terrible ludonarrative dissonance ("Hey, this monster has been terrorizing the region for years" *MC kills the region boss the next day*). Also the cliches really ruined it for me (having a "main character," (Garoa) who had potential, to end up dying the first 5-10 minutes in the game, a setting is destroyed, the """amnesia"""", etc.).
If you were to play PSO2's story in full, then watch your character in NGS, it's a giant slap in the face because if ONLY the main character did NOT have that crap "amnesia" as a meteorn, they would have gone the rogue route, not affiliate with ARKS, and SINGLE-HANDEDLY defeat every threat that is being caused on the 4 regions and possibly Dark Falz, and more (who knows), and this could obviously be a better outcome instead of the MC joining the ARKS in Halpha, in my honest opinion, knowing that the main character has defeated the multiple Dark Falzes in the PSO2 timeline, Profound Darkness (on multiple occasions), Shiva, the Primordial Darkness/Sodam etc., confronted Persona, and literally re-wrote history. The Great Light ffs has grown an extreme power at this point!
while I will agree that the story is lacking so far, there is indeed lore if you bother to look into the phantasy star rpgs to learn more about the original dark falz lore before the pso revamp of the franchise story. the profound darkness never stays dead, it resurrects every 1000 years. as for why persona/ash/player is in ngs, he/she is the great light, a legendary hero that is the antithesis to the profound darkness that reappears every 1000 years when the profound darkness is reawakening. figured it out yet? 1000 year timeskip, dark falz being back. as for why the dark falz is back, I suspect the god boss from end of episode 4 that adam turned into, turned into a new dark falz and returned. the dolls look very similar in design and color, renus retem's body even looks just like the serpent heads of the urgent quest version of that episode 4 boss if you look hard enough, same color scheme on the necks. also being the great light is most likely why persona was never fully corrupted by dark falz and retained his sanity. also kinda hinted at by the little sphere of light in the profound darkness fight.
@@infern209x actually the reason persona retained his "sanity" is because his strongest desire at the moment he became a dark falz was to save matoi. The goal of a dark falz if decided at the moment of its inception. It's why Luther tried to xorrupt the universe, thinking if he could absorb the universe he could become omniscient like xion. It's why aurora is pretty much just concerned with being worshipped because her vanity caused her to fall when she became forgotten or rather was no longer a public icon. You're strongest desire in the moment you fall is what dictates the goal of a dark falz.
Wait, didn't they specifically mention that your avatar is not related to the base PSO2 story at all? They just look the same. I might be wrong though, but it was one of the first things I looked into when NGS promotion began.
@@Fureimuu nah man, same stuff but they add the amnesia thing, maybe its for the best cuz they can gather new generation of player while keeping the old one in on the story.
@@AndroidNoir-L06k tbh on our character being the same from base it makes sense on one account. Dark falz itself. This isn't the first one in halpha there was another. And that one showed up in lost central and it froze over. Lost is said to have fallen because it's citizens relied too much on tech and not enough on their photons. Now here's my theory to tie the two games together and why it makes sense mc is the same from base. They know they failed because a super strong arks saved them from that arks but ended up freezing lost in the process, similar to naverius. Which klariskrays did to elder. And I think it could be matoi. As in some point in time the guardians were put on ice incase the world needed them again or something similar. Manon also isn't amnesiac because she was the one who deployed them to halpha and jumped ship with them. Halpha is sorta a training planet to forge the strongest arks possible to deal with a new grander threat in the universe that ended or heavily impairs the oracle fleet. Matoi got sent down. Dark falz rose to test them as she's a guardian and they failed but Matoi potentially learning or assuming how to do so from the original klariskrays seals that darkfalz. And then we don't see another one on halpha until the 2nd guardian, us arrive. It makes no sense why the gap in Dark falz appearances otherwise to me. Even if we want to say it got destroyed wholly it's still too long with the technological power of the dolls. An injured Dark falz can come back with a huge upgrade in a month or so idk how long game time but certainly wasn't decades. Give it a few more months and or Dark falz might have hit the lost central form if it didn't already. Another thing is some people seeing aegis' orb drawing attack to be it connecting to some darkness potentially a PD, but not being in a state to fully utilize or maintain it so it has to eject it in a last ditch attack. And if this darkfalz is connected to pd then it makes sense that it would also arrive and resonate with two characters who ended up becoming or being very close to being PD. And lastly if it is a training planet, having the guardians being tested hard alongside the planet makes sense. There literally would be no struggle without Dark falz with the guardians.
There's also oddities like seasonal enemies and why the seasonal sisters have similar names to the xion, Xiao and xiera naming conventions. Could they be at the controls behind the scenes to a degree? And why the dolls are gathering data on all arks. And obviously given the sky and amount of command doll units, sending that data to the floating facility in the sky.
Ah, when doing time shenanigans caused the creation of an entirely new race
I missed out on an era of pinnacle mmo, feels bad man 😢
It’s still accurate and it’s been 2 years… For a basic year, AND MAYBE a half, of updates
Yes bro, what have they done to the sequel, its soooo rushed
This video is perfect.
I miss the story of pso 2 it was rememberable unlike the NGS story bc I still don't know whats going on
I could work with a story with a smaller scale, and don't even mind if it's very simple. However base PSO2 feels like it's at a reading level for teens while NG feels like it was written for spastic children.
I think they were purposely putting the story at the sidelines from launch till like Chapter 4, as the developers just thought that the players don't like the story but in the end, even if PSO2 story had flaws, at least they do their best to make it memorable or workable enough.
@@AzariusRI thought Base story was good until Ep 4
@@tonyknighton4019 That's because Ep1/2/3 was the planned trilogy and then EP4 and beyond was like whatever lol.
Ngl tea and patty though 🖤 also dudu was always the real final boss of that game~
It's way so far better than NGS that it had its own actual anime series, although animation is getting bad in later episodes
The proportions are so small compared with base game, I really hope this is a simulation so after we get out the real game starts.
Drakaina here again, I hope when the new boss comes out whatever the guy's name is that is said to be the leader of the starless, actually starts to do something more destructive with a bit of show and tell
Well it looks like it got slightly better but I'm waiting until it's fully out
Hahahahahaha! Pretty damn accurate!
I do find it funny a common I left the wait over a year ago insulting the strength defenders, and I was right, it just disappoints me that we are this far into the game and there's barely any substance
Well, now it's just a simulation.
Stia its suposed to be chapter 4 and we are still fighting dinobots bruh
I’m hoping that the new genesis dark falz Is like a captain or a general and this is nothing compared to the major threat we have to face
Well I'm quite worried about how a fully grown Dark Falz would be like though, since this Dark Falz Interception we got is basically not a fully realized Dark Falz yet.
Back then
Chad Pso2 : I give you a short epic video for new class and the upcoming map together with new catchy song.
Now in virgin NGS
Player: cricket sound* no PV for next region and class?
P.s I miss those PV and the song as well. I found out the PV actually hype up my gameplay a lot back then in PSO2
PSO2 dev: We made PV of everything to hype players up so they could enjoy their time in the game
NGS dev: IDC! Just give us money and go farm in the game!
daaamn i miss this too, i remember the first time i see the mining intro with braver class intro, and the magatsu with bouncer. Chill, literal chill.
I'm so tired of the current opening. I was hoping Ver. 2 would finally give us that hype opening change, nope. Still the same 3-year-old crap.
@@SparkstarScope Yea man, I really thought they will do it in ver.2
Legit this is why NGS is doing so badly. They expected us to be okay with mediocre characters, mediocre plot, mediocre reboot, mediocre side characters, mediocre Falz, and a loss of countless mechanics???
Dude PSo2 EVEN HAD PVP. AND A DEVIL TRIGGER. Come on man. How is NGS even worth playing
Features and stuff I believe they are going to implement some form or another later, I am more worried about how basic every storylines are currently. Let's hope Kvaris able to change that around or something but fingers crossed.
@@AzariusR I've got very little faith. The game was launched in bad faith and with hopes that people would spend more on Scratch. Why? Because Meseta got you everything in pso2, and everyone had meseta.
@@Kizen. Well yeah able buy almost everything with meseta is a double edged sword, but I'll prefer it be like this instead of locking cosmetic behind cash currency alone and being not resellable like so many other live service games out there.
@@AzariusR What I mean is, they made NGS as a way to reset the economy and make everyone start from scratch... so they would buy scratch tickets. It was made in bad faith, because Pso2... Nobody needed to buy scratch stuff. Everyone had way more meseta than they coudl ever need
@@Kizen. They are doing that for revenue yes, but that's how it is really for a decade with PSO2. They are a Free To Play Live Service game, that's how they make revenue, though at least we do have more free choices now more than Base PSO2 if you include seasonal exchanges and Mission pass and SG and Special scratches.
I like both Megalith Agnus Dei and Somebody that I used to know, but putting these two together is just one bad bastardization on its own. It hurts. Made me actually forget we're supposed to be hurting at how bad NGS Story is. If there is any.
I chose the better version already but this one felt more epic and somehow fitting as to how Epic PSO2 really is. But yeah Agnus Dei by itself is very great tbh.
Well, lets wait, things will be added, just as how PSO started, so it shall be.
...ngs has lore?
*Exactly*
ngs story is getting better, though
Well its about time, I am waiting for this meme to die when it actually is good XD.
It would seem the lore in ngs is evolving just learned billions are dead
Let's hope it gets better with the starless with the release of the city
About that... it still sucks and no story for a whole year
i made a bet
Halpha were a simulation
Well lets see about how they go forward soon.
Just came here to say that you won the bet
Open world was a mistake, It should've stayed an instanced based game maybe that would've made the game decent and not the dumpster fire it is today. They could've had support for base to deal with the downtime of NGS but they decided to leave it to rot instead.
Tbh the illusion of Instanced Dungeon is also really just magical for only so much. In the end Base PSO2's main content eventually became seperate instances instead of Explorations after Ultimate Exploration fell off. Open World is actually like a nice in theory but Extremely hard to execute, hence why most Open World games fail and only a few succeeded.
I love that they put intro animations instead of showing those boring ass cutscenes that was actually the "story"
Megalith Theme is god tier
As for NGS, it's not doing the best right now. Let's hope they at least finish the game. (Currently we are waiting on Chapter 7.)
As awesome as the PSO2 story and lore was it didn't start out great, in my opinion up until episode 2 PSO2's story was on par for what we have with NGS so far so I'm hoping that NGS's story can improve like PSO2's did.
Yeah the Base PSO2 story was originally going to be a very time wasting ordeal back then, to waste more time to get through the stories by locking nodes in exploration zones. They already streamline it plenty in Global Release but you can see the cracks in the cutscenes there yeah. It was just the start of PSO2 at that time so it is understandable however NGS is supposed to be a sequel but apparently they just outsourced the Story to another company and hence why the Story was this bad.
@@AzariusR Oh yeah I played on JP in the days of the Matter Board, the transition from that to the more streamlined story did hurt the first 3 episodes, Episode 1 the most in my opinion even if it made actually experiencing the story much less frustrating.
I actually didn't know they outsourced NGS's story that's a bit concerning. Still, here's hoping for improvement, maybe they'll move the story in house in the future or have some of the inhouse writing staff be more involved with the outsourced company.
Man even Episodes 4 and 5 shit all over NGS and most people see those as the low points of the story.
I pretty much enjoy Episode 4. It just never feels the same when they switch from Matter board to Storyboard. In the Matter board, we can do whatever we want until we hit the story branches. In that case, we do another Matter to learn that there are some other things going on and we need to know that so we can change the outcome of the main story. While on the Storyboard, we just need to be at a specific level or clear a specific quest to move on. This reduces the confusion player had with the story but also reduces the 'richness' the story used to have.
In Episode 5, I only look forward to unlocking the Dark Blast (lol). While in Episode 6 the story doesn't have any branches and nothing we do changed the outcome of the main story except the last mission before we fight Shiva. Andddd... I never finished the true ending... yeah... Since I played the game in the JP server and didn't complete the story re-telling from Alma (I presume we need to do it to encounter a true ending). I never fight the real end-game boss.
You just got to S rank the last mission to get the true ending so if worst comes to worst just do the last fight against Shiva on normal/casual. I agree something was lost when they switched from the Matter Board but it did help me get through the story at a reasonable rate since I switched to Global once it came out in the West.
@axsprime I think they reduce the difficulty? Because last time I played in the JP server was when episode 6 just ended and it is said that you need to S rank the last mission (basically, no death and rescue all ARKS members along the way). But even after I did that, there are no other prompts to change the ending. I look it up and saw that in order to encounter a true ending, I need to finish Episodes 3 and 4 and S rank the last mission. Which I did, sort of... since I finished Matter Board but not the story re-telling from Alma. I did check that the game did not recognize me finished the first 3 Episodes. I did try to finish it but only to episode 1 before I got bored and switched to global on steam. And I never finished episode 1 and only played NGS...
I enjoyed the most is Episode 5, because it gave the Fairy Tail/Fantasy Isekai feeling... which I love also Hero
New Genesis plays like Genshin Impact with PSO thrown in. And I hate Femboy Impact.
Having played all of ngs and just finished e1, in the middle of e2. Both aren't particularly groundbreaking to me but yeah base>>ngs
mind if i ask what is the song
the start is “Megalith Agnus Dei” but the lyrics are from “Somebody That I Used to Know”.
This kind of makes me sad cause I want to play base pso2 again but everytime I get on there I realize that I've pretty much done everything it has to offer so it isn't funny anymore
As much as I wanted Episode 6 be more story and content or even Episode 7/8 etc, the Base PSO2 game filesize had gotten too bloated, hence they had to pull the plug, because the game was already 70GB++ at Episode 6. The old engine is just not optimized and so they moved on to NGS.
@@XxXQuickScoperXxXJoinTheParty Same too. Just wishful thinking sadly.
@@AzariusR and yet you still have to install that 70 gb game even to play NGS lol
Are these scenes from the main story quests on base game or are they a promotional thing??
Mostly from Openings, but some scenes are from in game cutscenes if you mean the PSO2 one
tfw both are the exact same timeline
Aren't NGS arks are numbered? They don't practice cloning and kvaris are 1 example of ARKS losing the battle other than Garoa's deatht.
Well we don't exactly know how many ARKs outposts or base camps out there too, but if you look at the Central Command Room, there are details of ARKs Fleets and several other planets visible in this system. Now the question is, are there ARKs stationed on those planets or are they just not contactable at the moment?
Phantasy star?
You mean the JRPG's on Sega megadrive right?
Yeah I was talking about Phantasy Star Online series, where the latest title is quite lacking in realising their game's lore.
and no scion class system lmao
i played base pso2 because i wanted to play as luster
but damn i got more than i ask
Wait whats the story of pso2
Both sides boil down to "magic clone baby wakes up and casually kills eldritch abominations after eating lunch"
What happend to kill ailens in pso1
@SerbianSpark19 idk pso1 is its own thing. Starless in ngs share similarities with the enemies in pso1 and universe but past that they're their own thing
Sshhhhaaaaddddeeeee
New Genesis just sucks all around. Its a shame to call it PSO even.
I started with ngs and the story is ass compared to base pso2
Unfortunately the story started like that because it was outsourced but I'm not sure about later region's story though.
doesn't matter. the original pso is miles better than both of em.
Hard Agree.
No
I will never forgive sega for what they have done to pso2...ngs is such a trash game
NGS is the trash, it has no story or lore.
Well not exactly no story but yeah so far not much stakes or substance yet
just kill new genesis and go back to making content to pso2 classic tbqh.