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never returning to /vg/ edition...
>NGS Headline WAVE (02/24/2026)
https://www.youtube.com/live/civLWenJfvU
>Scratch Tickets:
https://pso2.com/players/fashionitems/
https://www.bumped.org/phantasy/category/scratch/
>News/Events/Etc:
https://pso2.com/players/news/
>NGS Wiki:
https://pso2ngs.swiki.jp/
>NGS Damage Calculator:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SgSmKVXDZet4F8Ot6-PsbUSUPHGe2e VChUVA9uS3g0k/
>NGS Verification Data (frame data, enemy stats, game mechanics, etc):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_OgubzM5QFe4rua4Xu0GSMAI8Idoq8 r2yI8Ioyec6oY/
>Item Codes and Keywords:
https://ngs.pso2-makapo.com/category/in-game-keywords/
>Fashion History
https://nekowabot.io/pso2/fashion
>NGS Roadmap:
https://pso2.com/players/about/roadmap/future/
>PSO2 Information/FAQ
https://pastebin.com/ZDJZdzJJ
>Older Phantasy Star Games
https://pastebin.com/cdsJcqUC
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>>2257683
No, I'm just a catalog enjoyer and don't feel ashamed to post in threads that I don't frequent in. But if my 2nd ever post in this general has some schizo trying to connect me to someone, that's pretty funny.
I checked the blue protocol thread, and left a reply too. Just to fuel your schizophrenic antics, anon. >>2257699
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>>2257468
this u?
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>>2257481
its ok to stop directing a video game that you're not even playing
>>2257472
it got worse after they changed the anticheat from gameguard to xsigncode and I'm tired of sheep pretending it didn't have any detrimental effect and was optimized
>>2257623
this game is infamous for loading the region mag sound from continents away because these devs have always sucked at optimization and were better at instanced games as they re-load everything in a map on every map load, pso2 was the peak of segas own innovation and they ruined it like the idiots that they are
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>skims through headline
>more pso2 music nostalgia bait (even pso2 used its own introduced tracks about all the time)
>0% gameplay and even making people rerun the same alter realm retem quest
if there is no game, why are they even keeping the game up? pso2 may have been 80% fashion 20% game, but the 20% game accounted for 80% of the actual experience and 80% fashion accounted for 20% of the actual experience. what level of skeleton game is this posing as the reboot of pso2?
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>>2258363
They stopped active development on the game four years ago. It'll stay online until the cost of modeling a few new bikinis every month is greater than the money they get from the handful of whales still playing. Either they've been making a new Phantasy Star game since 2023 and they're going to try again in a couple years, or they're just going to play it out until it's no longer financially viable.
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>>2258386
>it'll stay online until the cost of
now that phil spenser has called it quits hopefully that will be soon, after gathering all the negative feedback through two player surveys done to ensure it was no fluke, they are almost certainly setting up this story to fail to prove that they can shut the game down
>Either they've been making a new Phantasy Star game since 2023
there is no secret game in development, these dinosaurs want to run this cushy "game" until this series is all burnt to the ground, its basically the largest ponzi scheme
>>2258387
and thats how you get a tourist game that only supports tourists that stop by every few years to see if its improved and nothing else inbetween. if you keep telling people don't like don't play, then everyone follows that and the devs are forced to do endless recycling e.g. alter realm retem because nobody played the content. your entire game is on repeat because of your smartass advice. funny that the player character WOULD be the one to break this sort of cycle, BUT obviously the player character is not the same and we are playing a phony game otherwise that would have happened already.
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>>2258406
>there is no secret game in development, these dinosaurs want to run this cushy "game" until this series is all burnt to the ground, its basically the largest ponzi scheme
That's just not how a business works, even one in complete shambles like Sega. NGS was shit from day one, but it obviously had a fully-staffed development team working on it full-time up until the end of 2022, at which point they very obviously pulled off everybody except a tiny skeleton crew that finished some of the in-progress projects (Creative Space, Leciel) before getting shuffled off and wound down further.
AFAIK Sega hasn't made the news by firing a whole development team, so they're still employed, and they're not paying them to do nothing, so they're working on something, and it clearly isn't NGS.
It's very possible that they moved them to work on those Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, etc spinoffs they announced, but they almost might not want to let one of their more historically successful franchises die just because it released one terrible flop.
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>>2258386
you might be right that they are giving up development on the game, but it definitely did not start its complete downfall four years ago. after a string of pso2es/sonic collabs nobody cares about as they are part of sega, 2026 started with a cast collab that nobody cares about either. effectively theres been a FIVE MONTH COLLAB DROUGHT ongoing, and because there is only a single collab for april-may and jun-july and aug onwards on the roadmap, there will be TWO and THREE MONTH COLLAB DROUGHT. jun-july might not even count if its sonic shit again. contrary to what the defenders are saying, they are putting even LESS effort into the game. it was never that dire until recently.
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>>2258460
You measure the development resources by looking at the content the game is getting, not the cosmetics. Look at how small and half-baked Stia was compared to the first three regions; they obviously decided to pull the plug partway through its development, which would have been mid to late 2022. It then took them more than half of 2023 just to finish Creative Space and Leciel. After that there's really been nothing; Nameless City is cobbled together from existing assets, other additions to the game have just been floating rocks in the old existing areas, different lighting effects, old enemies with a different symbol on their head. The only thing left is, what? Maybe one new Dark Falz fight a year? It's not in active development.
Collabs are just more cosmetics, which don't really require a development team and get replaced with original outfits if there's nothing to do a collab with.
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>>2258500
>You measure the development resources by looking at the content the game is getting, not the cosmetic
if nothing is funding or advertising this game, the development suffers as well. its inseparable for this game. despite how much shit people give the fashion, it is the only thing keeping the series alive. the only problem is none of that profit has been channeled into the game and now nothing is funding it.
>It then took them more than half of 2023 just to finish Creative Space
they cited created space updates will depend on the popularity of the mode and it was like 50% or something because duh they didn't even offer a finished product and most pso2 stuff have no sound or are uninteractable to sell paid idle motions.
> It's not in active development.
they cited line strike development is dangled to the devs as a reward for completion of development goals.
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Reminder
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>>2258726
I feel you. I was Unity gaming for a bit and gave my VRC character some nerd glasses, it was fun. Now I just listen to this new Glass Beach album before I head out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga1esK-kp4Y
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post your character + song if you'd like
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Can someone paypal me 30,000,000 n-meseta desu
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>>2258418
talk about the headline then if you like it so much instead of others having to sift through for any improvement. what do you think a discussion board is? an rp board? anyway what happened to this game introducing people to series that isn't isekai media?
>>2258676
>furries ruin everything
not helping to beat the joke allegations with this dying game at first it was persona 5 collaborations and you know what that probably was the start of ruination too
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Where did all the pso2g anons run off to now?
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>>2259422
I didn't get anything althoughbeit
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>>2259801
The game still gets marketed to the jp player base where as global's marketing branch has completely given up, and allegedly actively conspiring to sabotage it given the many times they've completely lost the plot and fucked things up from a marketing stand point. It should not be hard to market anime space game to weebs.
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>>2259589
The answer is always gacha games
>>2259718
Literally 1984
>>2259801
Jp has 10 years of attachment while global only has 2. They actually think that supporting this shit game is "thanking" sega for pso2.
>>2259848
The real reason is that the japanese are downright vicious and nasty in negative remarks...but only behind closed doors. So sega of japan gets to run a meat grinder machine that many unsuspecting players fall into because the sheep auto silence themselves instead of bleating. Example of absolute vile closed door critism that the devs will never hear:
https://rocketnews24.com/2026/02/24/2653445/
So basically hiro was in effect redundant all along because the japanese generally won't air the dirty laundry on social media out of respect for the company, instead directing other players to use email feedback that goes nowhere. Player number doesn't matter. Turnover rate and whether people stay does. Just because phantasy star disneyland gets visitors everyday doesnt mean that the park is getting good updates. It just means the playerbase has become so geriatric theyd settle for dext base slop even after cradle slop. Tower of Fantasy made scifi anime mmo real again and laid back sfter two years like every gacha game. Sega hasn't picked up the slack at all now that its back to the only anime space scifi mmo on the market.
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>>2259901
>Sega hasn't picked up the slack at all now that its back to the only anime space scifi mmo on the market.
Which goes back to the real root problem as far as global is concerned. "How the fuck we undo all of the damage done to make the game marketable to global side of things?" Again it should not be hard to market an anime scifi rpg to weebs, the same shit they use to pander to the Japanese works all the same, so there's really no need to cater to western standards or tastes, that shit was thrown out the window everytime China blatantly shows that by ripping off literally any and all unapologetic Japanese anime tropes known thus far, westerners both weebs and even normies will eat that ahit up no problem. What's been done to pso2 reputation is a serious problem for the game as that no matter how you slice it is a mass access of revenue they need but can no longer properly tap into due to how horrible the reception is and virtually nothing in all that time has been done to fix it. I imagine this notion that "global is unsalvagable" how everyone over seeing this disaster is still holding on to their jobs, but someone needs to call them out on this and tell them "that's bullshit. You had like 4 years to get this under control"
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>>2259954
No even after those first six months they still had time hell as >>2259917 even stated, the fact Pso2 by the some unexplained phenomenon, Pso2 is back to being the only scifi anime mmo on the market and really action anime mmo in general means they still could actually be working to fix this mess. It isn't a "they had one chance and they blew it" kinda thing. It's more of "the longer this wild trash fire burns, the more the house gets caught on fire." That's and even worse and more urgent scenario because this effects not just pso2Ngs by itself, but the whole IP of Phantasy star and then even further than that, Sega's credibility itself.
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>>2259962
No, it's a "they had two chances and they blew both of them" situation.
They had one chance when the game launched, but it flopped.
They had a second chance to say, at some point in the first ~6 months, "We fucked up, and we're going to fix it," presented with a clear plan of action. They didn't do that.
Games don't turn around when they flop out of the gate and then continue doing the things that made them flop for the next year, let alone two years, let alone two years of the same shit followed by drastic reductions in content production. It doesn't matter if it has some unique selling point or particular niche, and it wouldn't make a difference even if Sega somehow decided to restart full production on the game.
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>>2259984
>Games don't turn around when they flop out of the gate and then continue doing the things that made them flop
That's basically my point. They have well more than two chances to correct the course, they still get chances even now. But my point is the longer they wait and continue to do shit. In only gets harder and harder and harder to repair the damage. You are dead right they can't just start over completely and make a new game. That was what I meant when I said the longer they keep NGS like this, the worse it will be for any future Phantasy star title.
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>>2259999
No, they HAVE to start over and make a new game (if they want Phantasy Star to continue being an active IP, which they may not). NGS will never do any better than it’s doing now, no matter what they do with it.
Repairing the damage doesn’t get “harder and harder.” It starts off hard, and then becomes impossible.
It’s dead. It’s over. It’s long past the point where there’s any damage for NGS left to do to the next Phantasy Star game, if there is one. Nothing they do to it will damage a potential next game any further, and nothing they do to it will make the next game more successful.
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>>2260036
Okay so let me ask you this, say they do start over and make a new game. If the same people who ran NGS are still their, the reputation and bad taste NGS left is still there fresh in people's minds with almost nothing that shows a hint of being well managed. Why should anyone give any reason to care about this new game that comes out? As it stands a new process would just be another NGS. If you don't make the changes at NGS, your never gonna make the changes ever because everyone will still point the Dumpster fire you allowed to grow called NGS.
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>>2260045
Because this scenario happened with ep5 with the same director and ep6 fixed a majority of issues because you need a new director to truly fix the issues of the previous director. Every year has been an opportunity to turn this game around and each year they rot the series to its core instead. This is why people expect better to begin with and why ngs has been doomed to failure because there has always been better than this and sega should have figured this that people will never be truly satisfied because they know this game could be a hundred times better. People who never went through the actual ep5 era and tourists gatekeep this game from ever improving. Left to run the game for 5 years because they kept painting the critics as doomers and look at what the game has become. Anyone who defends the game has lost all credibility.
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>>2260045
They have to start over because this is the failure arc which started with ep4 and ep5. Ep4 was executive meddling demanding they make an isekai anime tiein. When that horribleness failed, they returned to the original ep4 plan in ep5. a horrible interpretation of falz origins. This reboot of pso2 called ngs focused on and acchieved both, it was a shitty isekai and a shitty falz reinterpretation if every leader on halpha is a reincarnation of the previous falz. Ngs is the worst of pso2 given form again that has nothing to do with the space faring arks at all that people played this game for to begin with. Thats why people are saying to scrap it all and start with a new game. Even with the same director which godno should not happen but touch wood it would still be better than ngs even if beset with similar problems because this premise is already beyond fucked because sega learnt nothing from the ep4 ep5 episodes.
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>>2260098
>Because this scenario happened with ep5 with the same director and ep6 fixed a majority of issues
Why do you think I keep saying changes need to be done at NGS? That's exactly what needs to happen. A new director and new producer. That's the changes that needs to happen and it needs to happen at NGS to show that going forward their will be actual effort being put into improving games from here on out. NGS is where that point needs to be made because that will show there would an actual sincere attempts being made into actually improving this game and future games, as opposed to scrapping this and jumping to the next as the next lazy cash grab
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>>2260161
>Discussing the state of the game is shitposting
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>>2259330
Buzz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XugTKgUWtUw
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>>2260142
They had every chance to make sincere attempts but stopped making player surveys after retem and stopped making item design contests using a dumb rainskipper creator drama as a given excuse, which explains why they made the global version, to scapegoat all problems and so many sheeple fall for it. There is no "toxic community", they lump RMT and bots as player toxicity to inflate numbers, and presented cases per month as a lump sum of all cases so far to confuse readers into an impression that they are doing anything active about the game. And this afk detection. Waiting at the eq gather spot like a newbie instead of warping via map? Waiting in an open map for a free field boss with others or gigantix during rainy weather like the start of the game? Get matchmaking sanctioned or banned idiot. Yeah I can see segas implementation of anything going well. Remember expert matchmaking that weeded all the bad players? They don't want to create a better experience. They just don't want to manage the game and would rather automate it to death. Ironic, as this is what they are going after.
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>>2260233
>They had every chance to make sincere attempts but stopped making player surveys after retem and stopped making item design contests using a dumb rainskipper creator drama as a given excuse, which explains why they made the global version, to scapegoat all problems
That's exactly my point. That whole post is my entire point. It's why I'm saying no one should be asking for a new pso or a start over of anything, before anything else they should demanding public apologies, demanding mass firings and demotions, demanding that Sega and this time finally take this game seriously before even thinking of moving on and trying to sweep away what realistic, when consider the entirety of pso2's life, a 12 year life span of them fucking up what should have been easy money.
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Give it a rest there's no way to salvage this game without completely remaking it.
The biggest mistake was keeping it tethered to original PSO2 which is why we're stuck with the awful mechanics and engine from that game.
We should have got a whole new type of PSO game. NGS is just literally base PSO2 V2 with the same glaring issues it had back from 2012 with slightly better graphics.
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Cute baby monkey.
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>>2260722
SEGA should hire you.
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>>2260788
Wow you really think so?
If they did hire me this is the first emote I'll get implemented into the game.
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>When you check player shops now if they use a stamp that plays sounds it plays the sound as you open their shop
scared me half to death
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>>2260284
they don't even have to salvage ngs. all they have to do is return to fully supporting base pso2. if they are so content with making people go through pso2 again but through a reboot, why not reboot pso2es and idola too? it makes no sense that everyone is getting a third of the original experience, maybe even less if you count pso2comi and the episode oracle animation. you cannot reboot the pso2s multimedia franchise through just a shitty game. do you know why chairs have three legs or more. because you need as many legs as the dimension they reside in to be stable in the XYZ axis. ngs does not even obey the laws of physics. it has already failed.
>>2261199
>I like the refed gameplay with no new classes, no new photon arts, no distinct weapon potetials or ways to play, and no appearances by npcs, in this static field set on the same map
bleugh
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>>2261241
what I have learnt is that its always projection when it comes to lashing out so its amazing how you people filtered by just attacks think you belong now compared to the vets who didn't wait 8 years to play the game. ywnbj.
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>>2261107
Log into NGS so we can play together!
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>>2261250
if you want a game where taunt actually makes a difference, play grand chase
>>2261252
not beating the allegations I see
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>>2261236
>they don't even have to salvage ngs. all they have to do is return to fully supporting base pso2.
They can't do that because that, because NGS is considered and expansion to pso2, not a new game. By that logic they are already "supporting" base pso2 and with people want to play base, it's technically still accessible. This makes the situation even worse because the two games are joined together people can easily go play the husk of pso2 base, compare that to NGS and go, " WTF how did we get so watered down, in terms of everything?". This is why people think the answer is to "simply go back to doing base". All that will do is just make people rightfully go " why couldn't any of this new base content have been done for NGS in the first place." There's no way around it There's no sweeping it away and dismissing it. NGS HAS to be addressed and there only options are to mass demote everyone, actually get all hands on deck to finally make the game get back to where it it should have been or they just straight up EOS and live with having to count pso2, as a whole, now being considered a failure when all is said and done, regardless if all the periods of success it's had in it's life time. What ever gets done at this point by now though, it's clear either way HMZK needs to be ousted.
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>>2261451
they could backport ngs improvements and pso2 would still be the better game that feels fresh every time because of the random instanced maps and successors that create true new weapon combinations. true leadership is to take the fault of your subordinates and because HMZK doesn't want to admit fault, he isn't the root cause of the problems yet at the same time is the root of all problems, because when he doesn't take responsibility, none of the team take it seriously or put any effort either. they had no problems writing idola off and pso2es and pso2 off, I don't see why ngs needs to have a special exception.
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>>2261467
>they had no problems writing idola off and pso2es and pso2 off, I don't see why ngs needs to have a special exception.
Idola and es, were supplementary extensions. Side content being made with no intention of ever being used to directly influence and change the main game. NGS however is a direct expansion as well as a soft reboot, developed with the mindset of directly taking over to continue pso2. That's why it's can't be written of as just a fluke or one off, the same way Es and Idola can.
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>>2261482
ngs is a tumor designed to remove 10 years of player shaped experience from pso2 and to make everything segas way because to sega "the players are always the problem". and lo and behold sega had no idea what they were doing from start to finish. it should have been buried by now as a gigantic tax writeoff.
>>2261487
nobody is going to care when ngs dies, there are a billion chinese open world games that have already embraced the japanese art style knowing that this is what players want so womp womp if ngs dies.
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>>2261549
What part of "NGS is a part of pso2" are you not understanding. People will notice when NGS dies, because when NGS dies, so too does pso2 and phantasy star as a IP goes. My entire point has not been a defense of NGS in anyway, it's been solely highlight the severity of how badly they fucked up with NGS and how big a scale the damage really is. The only people who deny this reality are the naively believe "we can just keep playing the private pso2 server" until Sega makes a new game that's good". And if you're stance on the matter is " Well Sega has shown they don't care about the franchise, it should just die then.", then you should have no problem with anything I'm saying, because all I'm doing is putting perspective on how badly they fucked up with NGS .
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>>2261568
>What part of "NGS is a part of pso2" are you not understanding
ngs is like omega and at the end of ep5 shiva closed the book on omega and declared it a load of rubbish. so that should just happen already.
>People will notice when NGS dies, because when NGS dies, so too does pso2
it already died when they did away with the original storywriter ryohei uno who wrote the plot of the game for over a decade and the absence of him shows. there has been nothing other than aina being a whiny brat and saying garoa sucks, like bitch we didn't even get to know him for 0.5 seconds, and from the looks of it calling him a shitty overprotective parent isn't really believable when he was the sole parental figure. and this is the heroine we are supposed to like or something. if she wanted to be arks so much, why didn't she just go to central, dumbass.
>naively believe "we can just keep playing the private pso2 server"
good, because it won't be 200GB updated over and over on shitty maint and several ngs in your face just to play pso2
>Well Sega has shown they don't care about the franchise, it should just die then.
by now its probably dead like they've ingrained ngs for too long that its damaged the reputation so badly there is probably no way they can come back from this. if they don't want to uproot ngs then it should be mercy ended already. if a service game doesn't want to keep improving there is no point in paying a premium subscription for one. pso2 was so good players just chucked fuck you money back at them despite how bad scratch ticket prices could be, to support the devs, and back then scratch tickets on discount could be hoarded and gold scratch set boxes were a thing. if they're not going to bother than why the hell is the game still up. nobody needs to be refed pso2 nostalgia if pso2 exists. its all empty gesturing.
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I actually agree with everything, including the part where the private server people seem like dumbasses because I've seen one developer member barge into the modding server and ask "how do I shoot web" which is not really faith inducing having tourists be in charge of it.
its all just very cathartic to lay it on the people who have called these doomposting and even vanned some other people for realizing all of this and now they can't defend any of it. ngs was really eye opening on how genshin like retarded defender the main game community has become and how people hate change and would rather ngs rot in perpetuity with gameplay that was completed in the beta with nothing new.
so its not just ngs that has to be uprooted. the entire community at this point has to be refreshed. because they are also part of the problem. discords impeding death presents a new opportunity. the time for the real pso3 with a new reborn community is now.
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whats the point when the gameplay in ngs sucks and nobody stays for victory screens because the fights are hollow and the main character is poorly defined in what they do in ngs that you might as well dress them as a cameraman for aina and manon? when was the last time this game got new player voices that aren't collab to liven it up and give inspiration? that time they added 40 new ngs voices and it was just the main ngs cast doing alternate dubs? yuck.
ngs doesn't even do defined hip bones or provide muscular body outside of very choice outfits for men, its androgynous at best. face is shared between male and female unlike body sliders because sega is retarded. and slider rounding is fucked incrementing is by 2 while decrementing is by 1 due to rounding error. also the lighting in ngs is permafucked by accounting for sunlight all the time while pso2 relied on "internal lighting" for everything giving it a distinct anime feel while being 3D and now its just 3D unless you pay sega for rental premium lighting which is stupid. there is nothing more depressing than idling for a few seconds in the city ingame and getting barraged by lookbook likes because the character creator is more effort than its worth to many with how convoluted sliders affect one another that they can't be bothered and can't be faulted for not trying.
what you can do with the free place hair fringe with physics in code vein 1 was amazing and what you can instantly create in tower of fantasy is instantly perfected like "this is my character" with a little bit of fiddling even with its limited sliders and free place makeup is already good enough. thats what the original pso2 strived for and its lost completely on ngs. so no, it is not the best character creator. the dawn of automatic character creation by inputting words or pictures will be soon and ngs needs to do more to stay ahead of the pack. its long fallen behind. ngs did seem like an improvement at first, but it really is not.
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Honestly baffling how they keep bringing up garoa as if he is somehow important
>does nothing
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>hey remember him??
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it's 8:46 for me now
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>>2263005
For me, it’s competing against
Jiggu
Karina
Kayou
Sparrow
Nia
Tok
Koishi
Stena
Gyro
Caelestis
Shiro
Nyll
Minette
Zero
Renee
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>>2263194
Pso2 has been out for like 14 years. The games far past that anon's expected EOS life span so clearly somehow there's an interest in keeping it alive, the problem now is though what they are even doing to keep it alive, which has people baffled.
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>Seems forced.
Because it is. /Pso2g/ has been completely replaced and now skin walked by, if I had to guess, the private server grifters, forcing this place to be as unappealing as imaginably possible, believing that this will help driven NGS closer to EOS. Before NGS this place still had people calling people's chars uggos, and drama like that, however it didn't take up literally 99% of all these threads like it does now. And then considering how actual discussion of the game is met with the most the most utter contempt. Like we can call the game shit, we can talk about other games are so much better but we can not have any genuine discussions about the main game the general is even about. People who do so are obsessed weirdos who can't let go. This filters out pretty much anyone who actually plays or is interested in seeing the sad state of the game, and then basically just leaves them here to spam the same gooner type post and the same incessant manufacturers clique dramas over and over until the cost is clear then they basically monitor and makes sure this place stays dead for good.
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>>2263392
Never heard of it
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>>2263484
How and why would AI posts be a problem here? Is anybody here suppose to be taken as if they have some legit credibility. Are we really concerned about spam bots being in play? In this thread of literally nothing being talked about? Bruh that's just crazy.
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>>2263660
When the real people can't even talk about the game at all neither a out how much they enjoy the game or can't even shitpost and tear the game apart for being utter shit, chatgpt is totally a a welcomed welcomed improvement.
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You ain't even talking about that, this entirety has mentioned a single recent outfit or accessory by name or how absurdly overpriced, overused etc etc. Barely any fashion is being posted despite all the gooning and for how as you just said the game is only good for dress-up, literally no dress up is actually being discussed.
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>you HAVE to discuss this shitty game with me stop posting things I personally don't like
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>Talking about the shitty game people in this thread (hate but still play even now/genuinely enjoy and play alot.) Isn't fun and considered no fun allowed.
t. /pso2g/
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>>2263871
No, what's wrong is seaniggers are mentally ill, you still, after years of this song and dance, blame players for the decisions of multi-billion dollar corporations, you're basically a broken toy that my government forgot about
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>you still, after years of this song and dance, blame players for the decisions of multi-billion dollar corporations,
Funny notion you got there anon, because I seem to recall that every time someone complains about said multi billion corporations for fucking up this game, they and everyone agreeing or engaging with them get label as " seething global babs, mad they're server is dead and inferior" even though both fronts have the exact same problems making the game shit as far as what's in the corporation's dorect control itself.
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I'm just trying to understand what the lanes are here now these days, are we shitting we are we actually happy with the game? If we are shitting on the game. Then why are undermining all the complaints about the game's problems and dismissing them as irrelevant ? If we genuinely like the game here, why is no one talking about the game at all and anyone who wants to, gets called a loser who can't move on when they want to talk about phantasy star and the entire point of the thread is to talk about Phantasy Star. Like what are actually suppose to be doing here? Shitposting? Evidently not that because people seem to not want to even shitpost?
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I'm trying to upload something for you but I keep getting errors...
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>>2263903
Thread doesn't have gameplay players. They all fucked off to other avenues for what little discussion there is remaining. All that's left is shitposters with really stale bait and gooners in this containment thread.
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You forgot there's also pure saint gameplay anons like me.
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>>2263903
This game hasn't been a credible game for years, so posting about boss fights and affixes and shit or even the story is pathetic, nobody does it
Sega themselves gave up on the game years ago, so there's no point in going on and on about how bad it is. Best-case scenario you're getting yourself worked up to be 3-4 years late to a conversation that really finished with nothing left to say around the time Stia launched, worst-case scenario you come across as a delusional lunatic who still thinks there's something to be done or some point in improving on a game that's been dead for years, which is even more pathetic than if you tried to act like you still liked the game.
Even the gooning and the ERP is insincere. There's two dozen people left who log into the game and they all have established friend groups for that kind of thing, so even if there are two or three people sincerely hornyposting, they're just meeting each other over and over again.
The remaining purpose of this thread is to be one of those "This is not a place of honor" signs they put on nuclear waste disposal sites that warns people against trying to play this useless nightmare of a game.
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I woke up with a feeling of wonder. As if a field of flowers was blossoming nearby, a child was saved from death. A thousand heretics were burning alive, begging and sobbing and howling for death.
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It's time for humans to prosper.
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who even gives a fuck. I'm sick of this demon enemy that telegraphs its orange lanes of doom attacks nonsense they call starless. the director didn't even get far before lapsing to his old ways. darkers were a real threat because they sought to extinguish all light in the universe. theres already sect(s) of arks that dumped photon usage completely, making the starless a laughable threat.
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they were nevertheless part of it, and the team chemistry that created pso2. everything of ep4-5 including the unfinished stratos arc annoyed the dev team so much it resulted in ep6.
now when the junior devs voice out that MARS should be AIS like they actually get shot down by HMZK and KMR. who would even want to improve phantasy star when your ideas get constantly shot down by the most incompetent in the team who are whats left of pso2.
they weren't holding base game back because there was the ep6 turnaround. but for ngs, they let the same people be in charge of the "ultra evolution v2 update" and predictably nothing good came out of it. it's disturbing that people treat an mmo with no major shakeup update as normal. whatever happened to versioning?
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I don't mind MARS as because I think genuinely think is was the best way to reimplement the SUVs Universe and make them better because that there's some form of customization. But MARS shouldn't be thought of as a full on replacement for AIS. We could be having both systems but it requires content that facilitates it, which both options would complete suffer from now. Because we are still contained in fucking Halpha.
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>ep6 turnaround
I do remember them commenting during Episode 5 that things weren't going well, which is why they let YSOK take the reins, but if EP 6 was considered a turnaround that was received well, it baffles me that they still haven't given NGS the same level of redirection from its crash course that could have been foreseen from month 1, year 1. Also, Sakai used to be front and center interacting with fans while KMR hides behind his pre-recorded horseshit. Nobody is going to invest in a game that acts like it's edging EoS every single year with an unresponsive team.
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>because I think genuinely think is was the best way
there it is. ngs is genuinely causing retardation, there is no excitement or stimulation, its large acres of land are used as an excuse for the poor unfinished design of everything and is causing brainrot. games should be part educational and the lack of storywriting and item flavor text has worsened literacy rates. pso2 was a national treasure, ngs is a shitshow.
>best way to reimplement the SUVs Universe because that there's some form of customization
lets start from the beginning. phantasy star sold itself on being an outright rpg, it had traversal followed by random encounters with a variety of fauna on varied terrain, that made you methodologically think and adapt using your versatile toolkit, be it myriad photon arts, equipable weapons with many potentials, class abilities and enormous skill tree.
ngs has violated these principles by introducing photon dashing to sell cosmetic dashes, replacing movement techniques like dodge rolling and mirage escape, and changing urgent quests to fixed encounters with minimal enemy variety. now its just starless which are recycled reskinned dolls and no new fauna, only ruine. each class only has four photon arts because sega figured everyone just plays one class and one weapon and committed to the idea by making them all play almost the same, importing the latter sins of the successor classes that only managed because they supplemented them with complex mechanics and abilities. meanwhile, ngs skill trees are bare minimal and use three times as large textbox to pad out how empty it is.
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mars commits all the above sins of ngs while set on the same unchanging unrandomized map which they could easily rectify with their instanced maps if they actually gave a shit, and feels like a diluted version of dark blast than any meaningful evolution. even AIS evolved itself by becoming the space AIS with tech like freeze grenades and counter shields instead of only spam or held down arts. they also denied further upgrades, claiming that the current level of customization is enough so its a done and dusted deal. because sega doesn't want to balance shit anymore or to have servers that support fast ping, they scale everything back on purpose. scaling it to the player combat power is also a serious violation when the AIS empowered even regular non combat ARKS, and the lack of leveling upgrades that dark blast had nor free recoloring that isn't tied to equipped cosmetics only makes it feel like an empty unfinished concept much like everything in the game.
we did not need a general use tech by now when most of the kit in ngs already functions like mars. what they really wanted was to make everyone have a standardized laconium sword against a sky dragon again. ngs is still missing the original successor classes with only a fraction of their playstyles distributed to the ngs classes. holy fucking shit, instead of this mid tier crap they could have dedicated to new class, weapons, weapon potentials or new planet. wuthering waves has already gone to the moon and is about to have the cyberpunk collab that ngs keeps dreaming about. tower of fantasy already has space mechs. ngs does not need new content to facilitate improvements, fuck sega for using that excuse since the start of the game. 10 years of developing pso2 and they shit out an inferior reboot and continue to offer way less than pso2 which had the casino, pvp and challenge mode.
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and? it doesn't even matter if they come up with AIS again. Photon Blasts have shit the bed by replacing the summoning sequence with Build Up arts. MARS has shit the bed by having an open world and they don't let you use AIS to truly boost and fly. EX Skills have shit the bed by having one tech per Melee/Ranged/Technique and by pigeonholing classes into one damage type. they don't want to give power to the player anymore because they want to sell paid stack affixes and will apply region specific level nerfs.
you keep posturing about future fruit when the foundation is already rotted. they need to rip ngs out entirely. even dark blasts were better than MARS because they had an insta press ult and was an answer to nanoblasts. MARS is by far one of the worst pilotable mechs ever seen, and they took the action completely out of the action game by being so braindead in combat. its actually impressive how badly they managed to fuck it up.
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My point being you went on a massive sperg to say at me to say pretty much the same thing I said about MARS. MARS and AIS don't work in NGS because not enough is there to really warrant the use of them, and by that extension there's no need further give them anything. That's really the main issue with MARS and NGS as a whole. They start the foundation of something, but then they just never go further with it leave it half ass and let it rot so they can go back to churning out more rehashed LQ. The foundation isn't completely unusable, it just needs to actually be used, and for whatever reason are not allowing to use that foundation to it's fullest. The issue isn't really the material, again it's the builders that are at fault here.
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>MARS and AIS don't work in NGS because not enough is there to really warrant the use of them, and by that extension there's no need further give them anything.
wrong. AIS is so much better than the photon cannon bullshit.
>They start the foundation of something, but then they just never go further with it leave it half ass and let it rot so they can go back to churning out more rehashed LQ.
wrong. if you had even scanned through what was said earlier instead of sperging out, its a laconicum sword rehash for vael.
>The foundation isn't completely unusable, it just needs to actually be used, and for whatever reason are not allowing to use that foundation to it's fullest. The issue isn't really the material, again it's the builders that are at fault here.
wrong again. since pso2 has every material but better, they should just scrap ngs because it has been a waste of effort for 5 years. you can take your mars material and shove it in a dumpster, and give us silver and golden magatsu keys back. there is nothing worth salaving here, ngs could shut down and everyone would just move on to gacha games because ngs has become nothing but filler.
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