/v/ - Video Games

>>14627839

Yes, that was the plan. There weren't enough earthlings left to mount an invasion of Algol, so they used technology to make them dependent and weak - and then were going to deny them access to the tech they relied on and then use the Nei-Type biomonsters to cleanse the planets of native life - which they could then colonize, or exploit for resources (or just fuck up because we realized it's in our nature to destroy worlds - their motivation isn't exactly clear, and probably more than a little influenced by Dark Force). The Nei-Types were designed to be sterile, to grow to lethality within a year, and die off not long after.

Rika bucks this trend, since the GENE AI which was carrying out the mission of DAUGHTER (Mother Brain's backup) and producing more Nei-Types was destroyed shortly before PSIV - leaving SEED as next in line resume the task, but SEED's primary function was the creation of new life to support the terraformed biosphere, so he created Nei-types with the ability to get pregnant (and spread his cocktail of beneficial genes throughout the human population which they'd need as the planet reverted to a desert wasteland) and with substantially longer lifespans necessary to raise the human/numan hybrid children.

It's even the case in PSO where Sue (I think during one of the Black Paper quests) makes a comment about Numan lifespans - because they're artificially created beings and potentially unstable - that she could die tomorrow.

>TFW the dudes that were doing the PSP2i translation are at like 75% done and don't want to release their work for other people to complete because of e-peen point

>>14628435

They're 100% done. The translation is totally complete and implemented. The problem is the translator is a little faggot who doesn't want to upset the hacker who did most of the programming and find someone else to polish off the last few crash bugs associated with the translation. The hacker is a glory hound shitstirrer who has a half dozen projects going at once and doesn't actually finish any of them, just tries to keep them on the line as long as possible and only shows up to do a bare minimum work if the team tries to find someone to replace him. At least three times now the translator has considered finding some other programmer, then the guy comes back claiming he'll finish it, before doing literally nothing and leaving the cucked translator to sit on his hands for another year or so until people convince him to try again.

If someone could get the faggot to release what he's done so far the translation could probably be released within a week of community effort, but no, he's a faggot.

>>14627793

>got WRX track suit and gay hissing noises suit

>together, they cost slightly less than what I usually make a day doing dailies

If there's one plus to having a male character as my main, it's that the clothes are dirt fucking cheap. Kind of wish I didn't have to run TACOs on multiple characters to keep up with slutwear for my female characters, though.

On an unrelated note, I think the map generation algorithm got fucked with Episode 5. This kind of shit used to be a funny, unfortunate event. Now, it's the annoying standard.

>>14628488

>聖野 疾風

what a generic name

>>14628435

>>14628450

This kills my soul.

Sometimes individuals are just as bad as the companies.

>>14628450

Man this is fucking embarassing.

>>14630612

Never ever, faggot.

>>14630612

12 years ago…

>>14630796

And that's why it shouldn't.

Fan translations is much lesser evil if you don't know jap.

>>14634021

Why do you have win10?

I PLAY THIS ON MY NINTENDO SWITCH BROS!!!!!!!!!

Canon or Cancer?

>>14634004

>Fan translations is much lesser evil if you don't know jap.

Someone's obviously never played Phantasy Star Generation 1's fan translation.

>>14634238

PSIII is my least favorite, and because of that, the one I'm most desperate to see a remake of. Most of what was terrible about it was it's UI and pacing, and the plot being more of a side-story to the main series - but still numbered as a main-line game - didn't help.

It was rushed out of the door to capitalize on PSII's success, but really suffered from not having any of the back-ground lore that Team Phantasy Star created to inform it's story. So it not only didn't really fit in all that well, but it couldn't springboard properly for future lore to wrap around and incorporate seamlessly. Something that, remaking now with the hindsight of PSIV (and maybe PSO) - they could remedy. Or at least smooth out the edges. PSO was apparently originally supposed to be a sort of sequel to PSIII and fill in some of the old plotholes - but that was shitcanned fairly early in development. You can really tell where the seams are in Episode 1, but in later episodes it was completely forgotten.

If they do remake PSIII one of these days, they really need to hew close to Toyo Ozaki's designs and bring them to life. Either the more technical and detailed designs, or the "Sailor Moon" inspired stuff. Either is fine with me.

>>14634238

It doesn't contradict canon in any way shape or form and fits right in the series with its story.

Gameplay is eh, people usually go super hard on it because of how much better PS4 is.

It's still an upgrade from PS2 in both story and combat.

It also has the best character designs in the entire franchise.

>phantasy star II III and IV is on steam

>phantasy star I is not

I wanna try this series anyway, now tell me a good genesis emulator.

>>14635000

Best 8-bit JRPG ever created.

>>14635008

Not that I'm aware of but do know that there is FM sound capability in the Japanese (SEGA Mark III) version, and with this it has the best sound

>>14635008

Compare

>>14635054

>>14635020

>>14634976

>This is how Alis looks now

>>14630170

aristotle's golden mean my man

don't get this confused with an argument to moderation

>>14635305

She deserves more respect

>>14635701

I don't grind those crests I'm not sure.

>Is the manga good?

I didn't actually read it, it just retells what you already pretty much know from the game and focuses on characters I don't give two fucks about, so I have little interest in it.

>>14635657

>I wonder if they go out of their way to make omega version specifically for the game.

>>14634805

>It doesn't contradict canon in any way shape or form

What are Nei weapons doing on the Alissa III, then? Also, the whole idea of a fleet of massive world-ship evacuation pods being present on Palma at a time when travel between planets was pretty much forbidden is odd enough, but that they were likely constructed (or at least maintained and the public knew enough about them to evacuate on short notice) is completely counter to Mother Brain's motivations and stated goals. Also, from the context of the game's release without the hindsight of PSIV's additional lore - how would one even explain how Dark Force could simultaneously be aboard the Alissa III and the Noah? The millennial cycle had already been established, and even PSIII follows this convention despite not having any real reason to.

>>14637256

> I think it's possible since Dark Force is just a figment of Profound Darkness

Yes, but that only applies to post-PSIV lore. At the time it was developed, it was a huge plothole. To make matters worse, the Neo-Palm in Sean's ending makes direct reference to Dark Force - meaning they either fought their own version or had Espers aboard since knowledge of Dark Force wasn't really known outside of Espers and the Landale lineage. Presumably they'd also have to have their own cache of Nei Weapons to effectively fight him if he did infest their ship too.

>>14635812

Thanks Kimura

>>14639103

Old art books weren't as fancy as modern ones.

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>>14627809

>implying PS hasn't been chasing the masterpiece that was PSO for years now

Nigga you dumb as fuck. PSO Ep 1/2 are the pinnacle of PS.

>>14635054

> the japanese version uses katakana for absolutely everything

Was it so hard to put hiragana as well? It's so much more readable if you can tell at a single glance what words are names and what words aren't.

The music difference is glaring. What the fuck

Who would have thought?

>all this IIIposting

I was very surprised when they added nostalgia outfits to PSO2 back in January

>>14637436

Every other plothole notwithstanding, the bit about DF in Sean's ending was only added in the english version.

>>14644820

It's not a myth. It happened during the first few months after the game's official release. Hackers would move vital NPCs, like the ones to take quests or change class, to areas where players couldn't reach and even use hacks to teleport players to those areas. The hackers would then report the innocent players as hackers, resulting in people who had done nothing wrong getting banned. The reason the hackers did this was supposedly because no localization had been announced, so they wanted to "teach Sega a lesson." You can google something like "hackers say they want to teach Sega a lesson" and get a couple of articles with the details. Couple this with SEA monkeys DDoSing the JP server to death for a week toward the end of Episode 2, and you can see why they wouldn't want foreigners anywhere near the game.

After all this time, though, those hackers moved on to shit up other games ages ago, and the SEA server is dead and buried. The main reason there's no localization at this point is because Sega knows there's no market for it. Western interest in the game is near zero after almost six years of waiting for nothing, westerners already call PSO2 pay to win garbage despite not selling weapons or units in its gacha, and anyone who wanted to play it is already doing so on the JP server.

>>14649726

I seem to remember a bunch of the IPs of those "hackers" coming from SEA territories. In any event, that strikes me as a hell of a weak reason to abandon localization to other territories. Japan has it's own share of cheaters, and anybody played PSO on the DC and PSP2i import would tell you the same. Cheaters are going to happen in online games. Period. It's not on the playerbase to police themselves in order to encourage localization, but it's on the company producing and managing the project to be able to identify and correctly deal with the situation in a timely manner. Not saying it's easy, but it's part of doing business. Sega has consistently failed to meet even baseline anti-cheat standards with all of their online Phantasy Star games. At most they usually just slap on GameGuard and offer a website to submit reports. You'd almost think the whole fucking franchise at this point was just a cash generator for funding Sonic game development.

The real reason why don't bring it to the west, and never really planned to, is because very early on in the game's lifecycle they started in hard with the licensing bullshit - which is a complete fucking jew-lawyer filled nightmare and very expensive to manage internationally.

People have been blaming cheaters as a means of propping up apologetics for Sega since the PSO days. It's old, and it's bullshit… and even if it were true, then it's still a load of bullshit that a major international publisher like Sega can't handle what even shitty Third-Rate/Perfect World Korean MMOs manage to do.

The only reason Infinity is better than Portable 2

>>14649892

>The real reason why don't bring it to the west, and never really planned to, is because very early on in the game's lifecycle they started in hard with the licensing bullshit

Not very convincing, to be honest. The localization of PSP2 had almost all of the collab items in it, if I remember right. JP PSU also had tons of collab shit, and SoA handled that by just never bringing any of it west, which would have been a cheap, simple option for a PSO2 localization. Besides, the average western fan of Japanese games generally eats any piece of shit put in front of them (see: Fire Emblem Fates) and probably wouldn't care that collab stuff was gone. In the end, I really do think the real reason is that they knew there was just no market for a game like PSO2 in the west and let the media use the hacking scare to get western gamers to think that was the reason.

>>14649911

I thought the entire new game worth of content, rebirth system, and force not being complete shit anymore were reasons, too, but that's just me.

>>14649643

Also protag from symphogear

>>14644588

http://archive.is/EwyQE

>>14652324

>What the fuck, when does she say this?

>>14655353

I wasn't talking about PSO2, I was talking about PSP2i, where melee classes are objectively the worst damage dealers unless you're playing with other people and relying on them to build chains for you. In every other instance, you're better off playing a Force or Ranger - and a Ranger with CSII Shotgun can put out the same, if not superior damage, while not being half as fragile and the animation sequence is not only controllable - but works equally well for both close range damage sponge enemies as well as crowd control. The only reason you have to switch weapons at all is the occasional out-of-range weakspot on bosses, and rifle CS are fucking multi-hit for some reason so it's like laying down a cluster-bomb fired from a sniper rifle.

>have 400 crests

>would have had slightly more if i didnt skip out on certain parts of the campaigns like hans COs and PvPs fights

>considering doing solo XQ on 5 classes to do it

>start doing it with Summoner

>deus shreds through my pets and keep dying at phaleg due to the gay as electric tiles

>do it as other classes and still die to phaleg

I know im a shitter but honestly i think i'd be better off until may 16th to get my remaining crests. this XQ is stressfull and tedious

>>14663483

I still like the game and all dont get me wrong. I just hate how tryhards (japs obviously because the ENG tryhards are a goddamned joke) complain about muh leechers and muh exper filter. That shit does fucking nothing and makes shit more stupid. Already people are complaining that about the welfare *14s and shit because they cant dickwave their drops as hard nowadays

Posting my favorite game in the series

>>14663540

You're supposed to read the PSII manga if you want a story. As I understand it, the team always wanted to make the games story heavy - but the two most popular JRPGs at the time were DQ & FF which were very story light and didn't even have set characters in favor of generic classes. So Sega released a ton of supplementary material, text adventures, radio shows, manga/tankobon, etc - and it was a hit. So they went apeshit with Phantasy Star IV and tried to make it an extravagant FMV filled story heavy game that had to be on the SegaCD - until the Sega CD died and they had to rework their ideas into what would become PSIV.

Found this on the PSIV Kikepedia page.

Apparently reviewers claimed that PSIV was misogynistic, had terrible music, and had a generic story. Didn't read any of the actual reviews firsthand, but it sounds like a synopsis right out of [[current year]] - a bunch of political moralizing, not actually playing the game, and dick-sucking on more popular franchises for readership loyalty points. Either games journalists have always been terrible or whoever wrote that synopsis was cherry picking according to their current biases.

Bump

>>14665763

Here you go, broseph.

>>14663785

Derogatory towards women!!? what a load of sand worm droppings

Now let me tell you about the measurements of the famous 8 stroke warrior Alys Brangwin

>>14652324

Yeah she states it in ep1-3

>>14663439

I got like 100 and something crests yesterday as prices of completing… who knows what

I thiiiink the Campaign quest gives you stuff once its removed?

However no one likes las vegas so it is gonna take some time plus the 300%hp that they have right now

>>14663785

I think this is the real reason why SEGA wont bring this to overseas, the way they are still behave like a normal game company without the multiculturalism and crap, could give them trouble

And stuff from the game itself like in ep 4 you fight biblical god which should make a lot of people angry

>>14665718

Its kinda funny how threads live this long in fullchan

>>14634004

new PS3 retranslation/bugfix/improvement patch

http://www.romhacking.net/translations/3549/