XPost: alt.games.video.xbox, alt.games.phantasy-star   
   From: kendrick@nospam.io   
      
   In article <1162830483.509569.267830@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
   Jordan  wrote:   
   >Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:   
   >   
   >> What parts seem shallow to you? I feel like PSU has almost everything just   
   >> right, and the more I read the more I think we're just scratching the   
   >> surface.   
   >   
   >I think too much of the story is being told through non-interactive cut   
   >scenes instead of player controlled character interaction. It feels   
   >much more "scripted" and linear that most RPGs.   
      
   That's probably a response to the complaints about the story in PSO. All   
   of PSO was interactive and there were almost no cut-scenes or exposition.   
   It was possible to be completely ignorant of the story unless you put all   
   the pieces together yourself. In this way, PSU is a hundred-eighty degrees   
   facing the other directio.   
      
   >When you're walking around a city and talk to one of the characters who   
   >don't vanish as you get close all you get is a "Hi! My name is..."   
   >dialog and that's pretty much it.   
      
   Which ones have you been talking to? I ran into an AMF officer in the GRM   
   shop who was also a Cast that was ashamed of the racism on Parum. Right   
   outside, the girl running the Koltova Juice bar might be a someone Ethan   
   recognizes from the Holy Light ceremony, but denies being there a little   
   too strongly. Back on the colony, I keep running into Ethan's old friends   
   and people who knew his father. Then there's Lou, who warns you not to   
   talk to the Casts who live in Parum. And that's just in the first two   
   chapters.   
      
   Granted, it's not more than typical NPC dialogue, and it's probably   
   nothing that you have to have in hand in order to complete the game. But   
   it's plenty colorful. I'm dying to see this interface used to present one   
   of the original four Phantasy Star games.   
      
   -KKC, who keeps forgetting that he can't stand reading the PSU web forums.   
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