PSO2 NGS 9-5-23 Headline Breakdown - About What I Expected
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2023
- Missed today's NGS headline? Don't trip, I've got you! My name's Zeo, and here's what's on deck for the month of September for PSO2NGS!
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Hahaha, this was such a good video! ZEO WHISPERING SEGMENT WAS 100% TRUTH
Hahahahaha! Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
You’re one of the only NGS creators I stick around to watch, Zeo. Great video, as always! 💪🏼
Still in the process of building my new gaming PC, but it likely won’t be done till November (this is Korozenn btw). 😅 Agreed that SEGA needs to make these NGS Headlines for every other month when there is actual content dropping. This was all just recycled content being shown.
Oh well. I’m just along for the ride at this point, as I’m sure a lot of us PSO vets are. I still want to give NGS a try to see if I enjoy it like I do any other Phantasy Star title. That is, not as a serious MMO, but a more casual RPG experience shared with friends alongside other games that I play. I’ve recognized that I need to just bury my head in the sand and accept the current state of the game and its community, like I did in the Episode 4 days of PSO2.
How is Ship 1 these days, Zeo? :)
Ship one is pretty comfy. I dig it. I think we were talking in my stream one time last year which led to that video about Halpha and Algol. Speaking of streams, after I got banned from JP my viewership on twitch exploded.
@@Zeomantic I’m glad to hear that, dude! I haven’t been on Twitch in a looong time; life’s been busy, you know how that goes. You’re so chill to hang out with, so I’m glad to hear viewership has exploded for you on Twitch. 💪🏼 I was going to leave my starting ship in the hands of RNG fate, but I’ll definitely join y’all on Ship 1, in that case. I still can’t believe SEGA banned you after over 10 years of playing on JP, but I’m really glad it seems like everyone was quick to welcome you over here on global.
And yep, that’s me with the whole Halpha/Algol parallel. :D I still believe it’s all an elaborate VR simulation and experiment gone wrong as that skybox and the clouds that seem digitized, especially during UQs, just feel like a dead giveaway to me. lol
Great video! Today was a simple update... not too much going on but, yunno. Not everyone is a banger XD
Why thank you! True story! Can't win them all I guess.
Zeo ASMR 😍
Lol that whispering 😂
4:45 well to your defense Zeo your voice is very nice I could totally see it being ASMR
Hahahahahaha! Thank you!
@@Zeomantic LOL. There’s a translate to English button under your comment. 😂
Too funny
3:46 to 4:43 yeah... I can feel that pain from content creators (official or not)... maybe I'll work on (ACTUALLY) visiting PSO1, maybe finishing stuff I have left on hiatus like Guardian Legend or Ps2 Phantasy Star Generation 1... or doing stuff I have planned but still haven't started like playing Trials of Mana remake on No Future difficulty (which now I think about it... it kinda feels like I'm playing an Ultra Hard quest on classic PSO2), or play Secret of Mana remake (kinda inspired due to your SNES version streams of a few weeks ago)... yeah, or maybe work on my stupidly biiiiiiiig backlog that I'm pretty sure that I won't be able to complete it due to being more than 100 games between a lot of gaming platforms like the NES and PC up to Ps4/WiiU/Switch/Xbox One.
Edit: I have to see what to do for my birthday (or the weekend due to my birthday falling mid-working days to enjoy the free time more).
Well, agreed, guess we don't need Headlines for Slow months like this one 🤔Probably the slowest one in a while
Do not expect much content from this game. I feel like this will be the status quo in the coming future
@@tappc2480 I have been playing for a while o: It used to be way slower :p
And well, indeed, my expectations are toned c: Thus why I still play x)
Game usually gets bi-monthly updates, and months in between relevant updates are usually slow :) Though it did particularly catch my attention that this month in particular is the slowest in a while, but not the slowest overall o:
@@Oishimaru Same. When I get my new PC, I’m going to start playing NGS again. Looking forward to getting back into the game as last I played was back when there was only Aelio and Retem, so it’ll be like coming back to a full PSO Episode 1 experience now, I imagine. :D
So that I don’t get burnt-out, though, I’m going to keep playing other games beside NGS. SEGA seems to have made the game with that expectation in mind, and I’m battle-hardened from the development cycle of the PSO2 JP days. 😂
@@NintenJon2023 Yes indeed! it is healthy to take breaks or do other things you enjoy besides playing NGS :)
The game has gotten many updates since you last played! Hope you enjoy it! And make sure to take your time and not rush; rushing usually leads to burn out :) Personally, when were getting region updates, I always took some time to explore and enjoy the views. And well, with creative spaces? There is definitely a lot of things to play with :)
And current end-game loop is at least interesting o: (Not perfect, but definitely very good improvement compared to the past) But more on that when you get there :)
@@Oishimaru Thanks for the info! Hope to see you around if you’re on Ship 1. :D
Yeah, I’ll have a boatload of games to play, so I’m sure I won’t get burnt-out. I’m looking forward to finally having a working gaming PC again so much. Love taking screenshots and just enjoying the beautiful scenery of video games, too.
In most RPG games, I create my own unique characters with backstories and immerse myself in the game world as them, and I think NGS makes for a brilliant role-playing experience as a result of its unique design. Can’t wait to try out the creative spaces, too. Those look downright incredible and unlike anything I’ve ever seen before in an RPG.
I actually wanted individualized Cel shading. I didn't asked for this but I wanted it.
I also like that they are addressing the "stale gameplay" complaints with something that wont bloat our pallets. Until they introduce a new control scheme with more flexibility I really dont think adding more buttons will be healthy for the game.
That being said Yeah this headline was really mid. Its exactly what I expected from an off month headline and im kinda shocked at the reaction some CC had with this. we've had far worse headlines imho. The Stia launch one from last year was literally just a repeat of what they showed 1 month prior for example. I guess titling the video "this headline is mid" won't bring in the clicks...
I feel like if they only did a website updates though most people would be completely unaware of the new additions and it might be a bit unfair towards the collabs they're partnering with. I don't think eliminating the headlines entirely will a good approach. Maybe rebranding off months to "Headline Mini" would do the trick.
Yeah, not much going on for September, but that's the standard. Though I did kind of like the Operation Report :) Where are my lillipans though >o>? :v
In PSO2 JP, I don’t believe we had their equivalent of headlines every month. Instead, the “filler” months had just the standard new content trailers so that people knew what was coming. My memory might be a bit cloudy, though, it’s been almost 10 years.
By the way, did SEGA ever fix the monitors in Central City? I remembered those videos seemed to have terrible quality compared to what I remembered them looking like back in PSO2 JP. 🤔 Used to love going AFK there. lol
Hey Zeo. What's the name of the song playing in the background from 0:00 -1:33?
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The reactions do seem to get increasingly worse when they do a headline for a dull month. While I still think the game stands to lose more on the bigger months not paying up for the slow ones and never really having enough blockbuster content to make up for the pace of Ver.1, you're right that it seems to do more harm than good to highlight it like this. It creates the impression that SEGA 'thinks' these updates are a bigger deal than they are, and that never goes over well.
Alternatively, they could try to rework their schedule to focus on updates and improvements to existing content in the in-between months. A new boss added to Leciel, or new items to its exchange would be nice. Having the in-between months feature updates to the drop tables based on feedback would be healthy too, I think, because I feel like changes of that nature tend to be needed sooner rather than later. Making stuff a bit easier to get only after it becomes completely 100% obsolete doesn't really fix anything.
Hopefully the custom PAs do change the behaviors and expand players' toolkits. That'd be pretty good for the game. Also Traspo's newest car crash actually looks like it could be a decent arena battle LTQ.
Yeah it seems like those resources are better allocated elsewhere then trying to fluff up what is essentially the same thing during every odd-numbered month.
Completely agree. I’ve noticed a lot of the community’s backlash towards the game has ramped up each time there is a new video from a certain content creator that SEGA has officially blacklisted. Honestly, I can’t blame SEGA for starting to take action against the toxicity that has resulted from it. And, man…I hate using that ‘t’ word, but the community sentiment was so damn bad in NGS that it made me, a longtime Phantasy Star fan of 25 years, quit playing when I tried the game out in early 2022, so it’s not a joking matter when I say that this is the worse kind of hate I’ve seen for a game that, by all metrics, is nowhere near as bad as what people are projecting it to be.
SEGA seems to be in a transitional period with the game that feels a lot like the “ver. 2” of the Dreamcast era before the GameCube received the reworked PSO Episode I & II. I’ve said it before to Zeo, but I’ve always felt that NGS was a prototype for Sonic Frontiers and stopgap for PSO3 while they remake all of PSO2’s cosmetics in the new game’s engine (as it uses Hedgehog Engine 2).
For what it matters, the little bit of NGS that I did play in Chapter 1 of Aelio made me see instantly that SEGA does a lot of things right in NGS in terms of every game system and mechanic feeling like it solves massive design oversights from PSO2 for the long-term. Everything about the experience comes together instead of feeling disjointed like PSO2 does, and I loved that.
However, NGS has a big problem that I hope SEGA does address in the inevitable “Episode 2” or “PSO3” release of the game: you cannot release a massive expansion pegged as an adventure game and expect people to wait for each region to be unlocked like they did in PSO2. NGS should play more like a modern day PSOBB where once an episode releases you can experience most of its story and new zones. That was what went wrong in the game’s first years on the market, in my eyes. All of the development went into its four regions of Episode 1 from Aelio to Stia when they should have been there from Day 1 with a level cap set to 50 so that people didn’t ever experience the slow grind like they did.
moar whispering plz.
You can't see custom PAs/Techs not being slot machiney? Did you not see custom PAs in PSO2?
I never said I couldn't. Maybe you misheard. "Thy love their slot machine mechanics, and I can't see this being any different."
They should fully use the open world maps for their special events materials . It just a waste . Like some items exist only during seasonal time .
That is an aspect that has been woefully underutilized.
@@Zeomantic 😫
The fact that we arent getting anything substancially new to add to combat after 2 years of doing the same shit over an over really makes me lose hope for NGS.
Fair enough.
I know that you don't talk about scratches and merch with the headlines, but can we talk about how tasteless and tone deaf the announcement for the actual merch coming to global markets was? Like, California is evidently all there is for Global with how it was handled, instead of, y'know, making it available through the online stores for all of Global? I left a scathing, and I do mean scathing, comment on the Headline video a few minutes ago saying that the absolutely tone deaf and tasteless plug for Star Fox, Star Fox 2 and Star Fox 64 on Nintendo Switch Online as the only acknowledgement of Star Fox's 30th Anniversary by Nintendo was much more loving to their fans by comparison to how Sega treats the global market. Mind you, if Nintendo actually cared about Star Fox, they would have done much more for the 30th than they did, heck, Star Fox didn't even get a logo. So to say that what Sega did today makes Nintendo's treatment of Star Fox look like the loving treatment that Mario and The Legend of Zelda get, is really saying something, coming from a fan of Nintendo, Star Fox, Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog and Phantasy Star. (Can you tell that I'm not a fan of Sega, just some of their IP?)
I loved Star Fox! Kinda weird that merch being Cali-only. I live near two of the places selling that stuff, believe it or not.