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[Aoi]

In a hero situation, you do expect some kind of physical standard though. Like, you wouldn't expect expert thief [of the stealthy persuasion] to be the size of a sumo wrestler. (He may, however, be some kind of sniper. Physical roles too though, as those guys tend to be really strong, and surprisingly agile for their size... particularly if they DO make it to a heroic state. )

Breast size is one of those things that are *relatively* unimportant to the role one could occupy (for females as well as males, though males with large breasts usually suggests some kind of hormonal disorder or a bulkier physique). Admittedly, heavily physical roles would probably be accompanied by bindings to prevent supreme discomfort and injury, but that's more clothes than bodytype, which may lead to "I made a martial artist with huge breasts, but they never show up in armor!"

I do rather approve of one suggestion somebody made though-- the ability to change the size of the male "package". It's rather equitable in a quirky way, nu? =P

Now... a question that's actually related to this game:

Looking at the guide for setting stuff up shows that it supports controller-style input. How important is that? I've seen a few games that were very obviously designed for the controller, to the point where keyboard/mouse control was practically impossible due to some of the weird combinations required or type of interface used.

[Logical2u]

Looking at the guide for setting stuff up shows that it supports controller-style input. How important is that? I've seen a few games that were very obviously designed for the controller, to the point where keyboard/mouse control was practically impossible due to some of the weird combinations required or type of interface used.

I find the keyboard/mouse controls really natural - feels a lot like a first person shooter to me with the default controls - left click fire, right click alt fire, WASD for movement, space for jump, scroll wheel for weapon swap, and shift key for alternate palette. The worst buttons for the setup as dodge and third-person-shooting mode (x and z, respectively) because they are in what feels like an unnatural spot, directly below the movement keys. I ended up mapping dodge to a 4th mouse button, but double-tapping a directional movement key will also result in a dodge.

[Patchy]

So what is the system specs? I may be interested if they aren't too high... which they probably are as I do have a dinosaur of a computer here. I did spend a good bit of time playing the first PSO back in the day and the various rpgs for the genesis even further back. Needless to say, I'm an old phantasy star fan.

[Logical2u]

So what is the system specs? I may be interested if they aren't too high... which they probably are as I do have a dinosaur of a computer here. I did spend a good bit of time playing the first PSO back in the day and the various rpgs for the genesis even further back. Needless to say, I'm an old phantasy star fan.

OS Windows XP 32bit Edition, Windows Vista/7 32bit or 64bit
    CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 or higher (AMD Athlon X2 5000+ or higher)
    Memory   Windows XP: 1.5GB or more, Vista/7 2 GB or more
    HDD free space   More than 8GB
    Monitor Resolution 1280 × 720 or higher
    Graphics card   NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT or higher (ATI X1800/1900 or higher)
    Sound card   Audio support Directsound (DirectX 9.0c or higher)
    DirectX DirectX 9.0c or higher
    Internet access Broadband (fiber optic, etc. ADSL)

The download for the beta is itself about 3 gb, and the first patch was another gb, so patience and hard-drive space are virtues.

[Sirus]

I played the hell out of PSO Episodes I & II for the Gamecube, and Phantasy Star 0 for the DS. That said, I shall wait for an English release.

[Dariush]

The download for the beta is itself about 3 gb, and the first patch was another gb, so patience and hard-drive space are virtues.

Sounds like pretty much every single other F2P online game released in the last several years.


Does this mean what I'm afraid it does? (i.e. that my OS is unsupported)

[Wayward Garden]

Does this mean what I'm afraid it does? (i.e. that my OS is unsupported)

Let me Google translate that for you:
"Phantasy Star Online 2 does not correspond to the OS of your computer."

Also, here's the link, if you want to hear how it's pronounced or whatever.

[Greiger]

Like Guild Wars me and a friend have been keeping an eye on this game.  He knows enough Japanese to get by but doesn't feel comfortable playing a game in Japanese, so he decided to wait for a NA release.  We're both PSO veterans (him more than me, I joined shortly before the official servers shut down),  And we both played Phantasy Star Universe for a little over a year, followed by short stints of PSP.

My faith in sega online games was shaken a bit with PSU (oh hey lets release a promotional item into the main servers with a massive bug that deletes your characters when used! Woops!  Don't we test these things?), but it looks like a few years of mediocrity have got them making good (or at least good looking) games again.

In short posting to watch the thread.  All you guys ingame already have fun, and save me a ☼Rappy Meat Roast☼!

[Dariush]

Daaamn. Why do developers hate XP x64 so much?

Does anybody have any advice as to how to install anyway? I.e. make the game think that I have an x86 system.

[Gunner-Chan]

Wait, this topic. How did I miss it. I loved the first game at least on the Master system and actually played a bit of the old PSO before it died out. I had no idea they were doing this again.

Hope this gets localized. Looks fun and I don't really wanna fiddle around with untranslated menus.

[DeKaFu]

I started playing this in the Open Beta.
I was introduced to PSO via Blue Burst and also played PS0 on DS. So far this has seemed like a rather large departure from the formula I'm used to, in both good ways and bad...

Spoiler: Spoilered for lengthy opinions (click to show/hide)

On the positive side (I guess), the combat feels a lot easier. In PSO, not timing your combos correctly meant not getting a combo (as in, your button presses wouldn't result in attacks), whereas in PSO2 it apprently just means your combo is slightly weaker. It also forced you from running into slow-walking whenever you were within a certain distance from an enemy, which meant that timing really had to count because not flinching them meant you were taking massive damage (speaking as a melee-attacker). This made it a lot more skill-based than your average hack-and-slash, and I actually hated it at the time. But now for some reason I almost miss it, because it almost feels like the game's been dumbed down for accessibility without it...

The other thing that's really been bothering me is the total ruination of the different races. 
In PSO, each of the three races were really distinct. For example, Newmans were the only race who got TP-regeneration, making them better at techniques (magic) at the cost of some physical prowess, whereas on the opposite end of the spectrum Casts (robots) couldn't use techniques at all (and had zero TP) but had access to traps which could make up for some of the functionality. It really made them distinct and added interesting flavor to the setting.

In PSO2 that's completely out the window. There's literally no difference between races besides looks and (maybe, barely) stats. Everyone (including Casts) has access to techniques, and everyone (including non-Casts) has access to traps (which are currently pretty terrible and lack the functionality they used to have - no healing traps that i've seen, for example). Every race also has identical super-fast TP regeneration. And perhaps most annoying of all, while every race has access to techniques, you can only use them if you're in the Force (mage) class. Gone are the days of my HUnewearl being able to debuff the defence of a room full of enemies or heal themself without items... You can do magic or melee but not both at once. At least you can change classes now, but come on...

So yeah, I have mixed feelings for now. We'll see how things turn out as the game gathers updates.

Sounds like pretty much every single other F2P online game released in the last several years.


Does this mean what I'm afraid it does? (i.e. that my OS is unsupported)

I got that when I tried to install on my non-x64 Windows XP. Turned out all I needed to do was update from SP2 to SP3. *shrug*

[Alkhemia]

So what is the system specs? I may be interested if they aren't too high... which they probably are as I do have a dinosaur of a computer here. I did spend a good bit of time playing the first PSO back in the day and the various rpgs for the genesis even further back. Needless to say, I'm an old phantasy star fan.

OS Windows XP 32bit Edition, Windows Vista/7 32bit or 64bit
    CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 or higher (AMD Athlon X2 5000+ or higher)
    Memory   Windows XP: 1.5GB or more, Vista/7 2 GB or more
    HDD free space   More than 8GB
    Monitor Resolution 1280 × 720 or higher
    Graphics card   NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT or higher (ATI X1800/1900 or higher)
    Sound card   Audio support Directsound (DirectX 9.0c or higher)
    DirectX DirectX 9.0c or higher
    Internet access Broadband (fiber optic, etc. ADSL)

The download for the beta is itself about 3 gb, and the first patch was another gb, so patience and hard-drive space are virtues.

I can run it fine and I only have a single core but my NVIDIA card is better so that might be why.

[Patchy]

So what is the system specs? I may be interested if they aren't too high... which they probably are as I do have a dinosaur of a computer here. I did spend a good bit of time playing the first PSO back in the day and the various rpgs for the genesis even further back. Needless to say, I'm an old phantasy star fan.

OS Windows XP 32bit Edition, Windows Vista/7 32bit or 64bit
    CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 or higher (AMD Athlon X2 5000+ or higher)
    Memory   Windows XP: 1.5GB or more, Vista/7 2 GB or more
    HDD free space   More than 8GB
    Monitor Resolution 1280 × 720 or higher
    Graphics card   NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT or higher (ATI X1800/1900 or higher)
    Sound card   Audio support Directsound (DirectX 9.0c or higher)
    DirectX DirectX 9.0c or higher
    Internet access Broadband (fiber optic, etc. ADSL)

The download for the beta is itself about 3 gb, and the first patch was another gb, so patience and hard-drive space are virtues.

Hard drive space isn't a problem for me, I got far more than I know what to do with. It's the other specs I have to see, ram, vid card, processor, etc. And yeah I'll have to get around to buying a new pc it looks like. No biggie though, gives them time to get a US localized version hopefully. Since I wouldn't like playing and not being able to understand the menus or dialogue.

[Valid_Dark]

does the PSO2 beta client work for the full version of the game? or do I have to hunt down different game client?

[Logical2u]

does the PSO2 beta client work for the full version of the game? or do I have to hunt down different game client?

I was playing the open beta and I've now played the full release as well and didn't have to get a new client. There have only been about 25 megs in updates between the end of the open beta and today. If you have a client from the closed beta then you will probably have to download a bunch of updates but not change clients.

Also just as a note that apparently character creation on ships 1 - 3 is currently blocked. If people were wanting to play on Ship 2, where the largest English-speaking population is, well, that's not possible any more.