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Tengames
Oct 29, 2008


Samurai Sanders posted:

Huh, I thought I would have remembered such a thing. I only ever played the first version though, on the Dreamcast. It was a loooooong time ago.

they only poisoned on the lower difficulties, The bane of normal to very hard mode was this guy instead:

who's multi missle attack had no mercy invincibility so literally every single one would hit you at once and kill you(it was so fun they gave the attack to tranmizer in this game, complete with lack of mercy invincibility)

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THE FUCKING MOON
Jan 19, 2008
Goodamn PSO EP1 & 2 had some of the most infuriating poo poo in the world and I loved it :unsmigghh:

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
God help you if you were a RAcast or were very high level in Ultimate. Being high level worked against you as attacks started multi-hitting you that were originally meant to knock you down once you passed a certain threshold of HP.

dragon enthusiast
Jan 1, 2010
sega deliver the pso ep1-4 hd edition

Tengames
Oct 29, 2008


kirbysuperstar posted:

And then Ep4 had the single worst enemy in Phantasy Star history. Worse than a tiny room of twelve Signo Beats on Ultimate. Worse than being swarmed by darker fish while Hunar divekicks you.

fuepi
Feb 6, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Tengames posted:

they only poisoned on the lower difficulties, The bane of normal to very hard mode was this guy instead:

who's multi missle attack had no mercy invincibility so literally every single one would hit you at once and kill you(it was so fun they gave the attack to tranmizer in this game, complete with lack of mercy invincibility)

Hell no blowing them up with their own missiles while they lost armor and fired more missiles was a constant source of excitement.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Ep4 in general is pretty lovely aside from Saint Million, come to think of it.

Five new areas!! Three are the desert, two are the underground desert cave. :wow:

fuepi
Feb 6, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
All of the music was good and that was the most important part.

Overlord K
Jun 14, 2009

pon alien posted:

Hell no blowing them up with their own missiles while they lost armor and fired more missiles was a constant source of excitement.

Doing it with more than one of them at once was the most exciting and terrifying thing in game for me.

THE FUCKING MOON
Jan 19, 2008
And the most terrifying thing? Looking up some weapon that you want and seeing that the drop rate was like 1/300,000 :stare:

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

THE loving MOON posted:

And the most terrifying thing? Looking up some weapon that you want and seeing that the drop rate was like 1/300,000 :stare:

And then there's things like Sealed J-Sword's requirements..

Overlord K
Jun 14, 2009

THE loving MOON posted:

And the most terrifying thing? Looking up some weapon that you want and seeing that the drop rate was like 1/300,000 :stare:

That was me after finally looking up what my ID drops were once I was level 20+ and realizing 70% of them were for casting when I was a RAmar. :negative:

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
Section ID droptables are something else people defend as good design.

fuepi
Feb 6, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Remember how in the original dc game you'd drop all your money and your equipped weapon when you died.

Remember fighting De Rol Le in that quest where you escort a level 10 ranger that would fail if he died.

THE FUCKING MOON
Jan 19, 2008

kirbysuperstar posted:

Section ID droptables are something else people defend as good design.

yo nigga you got that Viridia swag? :whatup:

Ardeem
Sep 16, 2010

There is no problem that cannot be solved through sufficient application of lasers and friendship.

kirbysuperstar posted:

Section ID droptables are something else people defend as good design.

Enforced grouping! Especially with paired weapons that dropped on different section IDs. :suicide:

THE FUCKING MOON
Jan 19, 2008
Ultimate Caves VIRIDIA 120+ ONLY

NextTime000
Feb 3, 2011

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http://pso2.jp/players/event/kyoutou2015/charavote/

they got current rankings on the character vote thing; current leaders are Katori, Matoi and Io for favorite lady-ARKS, Huey, Saga, and uh that bodygaurd dude who isnt ARKS at all for ARKS-man, and Loser, Quartz, and Magatsu for favorite boss.

last year's winners, Klotho and Io, got special promo weapons themed after them, but I dont really get what the boss election is for this time around

ThePhenomenalBaby
May 3, 2011
I'm looking forward to the Saga jet boots.

Those other characters can go eat it

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

NextTime000 posted:

http://pso2.jp/players/event/kyoutou2015/charavote/

they got current rankings on the character vote thing; current leaders are Katori, Matoi and Io for favorite lady-ARKS, Huey, Saga, and uh that bodygaurd dude who isnt ARKS at all for ARKS-man, and Loser, Quartz, and Magatsu for favorite boss.

last year's winners, Klotho and Io, got special promo weapons themed after them, but I dont really get what the boss election is for this time around
I found Katori's cravenness oddly appealing at times but I was not expecting her to win.

pidgeotto-san
May 1, 2003

Is it normal to be playing the last week or so without a proxy and then suddenly be shut off from the jp website and servers completely? Is this some comcast fuckery or is SoJ clamping down again?

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
Connectability has cycled like that a few times. I have no drat idea why, though.

Seeeegaaa.

dragon enthusiast
Jan 1, 2010
Website works for me on Comcast :shrug:

Hypocrisy
Oct 4, 2006
Lord of Sarcasm

NextTime000 posted:

http://pso2.jp/players/event/kyoutou2015/charavote/

they got current rankings on the character vote thing; current leaders are Katori, Matoi and Io for favorite lady-ARKS, Huey, Saga, and uh that bodygaurd dude who isnt ARKS at all for ARKS-man, and Loser, Quartz, and Magatsu for favorite boss.

last year's winners, Klotho and Io, got special promo weapons themed after them, but I dont really get what the boss election is for this time around

I'm glad that everyone else loves Huey too.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

Hypocrisy posted:

I'm glad that everyone else loves Huey too.
He's the only one on the guy's side with an identifiable personality so I should hope so.

fuepi
Feb 6, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
I wish I could vote but at least Katori's winning. I hope Saga manages to clutch out a win because Huey already has those rockbear kinkos fire knuckles.

Surprise Noodle
Aug 25, 2011

Samurai Sanders posted:

He's the only one on the guy's side with an identifiable personality so I should hope so.
Huey's great, but Theodore is the only character in the game with anything resembling a character arc or more than two dimensions.


Also he has a rad as hell wandswordscythe.

Super Space Jam 64
Jan 6, 2010

Yet another violation of regulation 1910 subpart D.
I have stubbornly refused to play this game on the grounds that it's supposedly closer to PSU than PSO. Is this still the case?

I liked PSP2 and PSP2i, but couldn't stand PSU.

AndyAML
Jul 24, 2006

HEY BASS WHY MUST I FIGHT YOU WE ARE NOT ENEMIES
Where did you hear that this game is closer to PSU? It has a few weapons that originated from there, but aside from that the gameplay is radically different. PSO2 is way more skill-based with dodging, attack cancels, and guarding. A lot of mechanics return from PSP2 such as the fast PP regeneration and the stuff I mentioned above, but overall everything flows much more smoothly and plays faster along with adding new stuff like freeform combos and aerial combat.

NextTime000
Feb 3, 2011

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I played PSPo2 a bit back in June; having played a lot of PSU and PSO2 but never touching that game before, I will say that PSPo2 felt like a weird middle ground between PSU and PSO2.

inkmoth
Apr 25, 2014


Well, I may have gone completely broke in the process, but I've managed to get my omen charm before reaching level 40 in any class.

Now to do it all over again for skilled trainer as soon as I get a few meseta to my name.

:suicide:

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

inkmoth posted:

Well, I may have gone completely broke in the process, but I've managed to get my omen charm before reaching level 40 in any class.

Now to do it all over again for skilled trainer as soon as I get a few meseta to my name.

:suicide:

Really, at that level skilled trainer isn't all that useful. It isn't that good until you get to the endgame where you can get a lot of money from a high slot bayari soul unit or the like

inkmoth
Apr 25, 2014


Saagonsa posted:

Really, at that level skilled trainer isn't all that useful. It isn't that good until you get to the endgame where you can get a lot of money from a high slot bayari soul unit or the like

I honestly figured as much - its more just that I plan on pouring all my liquid resources into future drop chances since until I started these crazy projects I never spent any of my meseta on anything other than level 1 discs by the case for my mag.

NextTime000
Feb 3, 2011

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A high slot miezer/elder/quartz soul is still good; the thing that makes ulti souls a little hard to use is that they all only boost the affix rate of Stigma; so you need a fodder soul to still help with affixing the power/shoot/tech and stamina/spirita

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

Oh yeah that reminds me, if you're gonna buy fodder with a soul just for boosting transfer rates don't go with Mizer or Quartz. Vardha and EX souls boost shoot/power and spirita and are way cheaper than the alternatives.

NextTime000
Feb 3, 2011

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Saagonsa posted:

Oh yeah that reminds me, if you're gonna buy fodder with a soul just for boosting transfer rates don't go with Mizer or Quartz. Vardha and EX souls boost shoot/power and spirita and are way cheaper than the alternatives.

http://pso2.swiki.jp/index.php?%E7%89%B9%E6%AE%8A%E8%83%BD%E5%8A%9B%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7%EF%BC%88%E6%AF%94%E8%BC%83%E8%A1%A8%EF%BC%89#x3ebdb8f

this page has a nice table to tell you which soul boosts what; that is if you can read Japanese or can sort out Google Translate... you can even click the columns to sort them!

NextTime000 fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Feb 7, 2015

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
When it rains in PSO2 it pours in PSO2.

167th Anga kill:


And then the very next run:


Guess I'm stuck playing bouncer forever now.

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

MR. J posted:

Guess I'm stuck playing bouncer forever now.

If I based my class decisions around the junk twelve-star weapons I've gotten, I'd be a Hunter with a rainbow set of Lightning Espadas :sigh:

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

Those DBs would be really good if you could equip them as a fighter, which I'm honestly surprised you can't do with those but can with the black heart ones

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MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck

The White Dragon posted:

If I based my class decisions around the junk twelve-star weapons I've gotten, I'd be a Hunter with a rainbow set of Lightning Espadas :sigh:
If it's any consolation these are the first 2 things I got that are worth a drat since Ult and XH were introduced.
Only other exclusive item was a Diabo nose long ago.

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