XPost: alt.games.phantasy-star   
   From: shinnokxz@charter.net   
      
   I had held off trying PSU and I am glad I did- the demo they recently   
   released on XBL presented me a game I would not have enjoyed at all. I   
   am a PSOv1 DCer from 2001 (GameFAQs represent yo) so dabbling into this   
   experience was anything but what I expected from the franchise. Now   
   realize I was a pretty healthy WoW player from about Nov. 2004 to Sept.   
   2006 (and WoW got pretty much every aspect you have to get right in a   
   MMORPG right), and a lot of this game seems like it tries to throw an   
   overbearing, over-complicated 'WoW' type 'world' at the player... even   
   in the Demo everything seemed to unnecessarily expansive.   
      
   Not to mention the game is fairly ugly, which otherwise would actually   
   help me swallow the pill a bit better and coax me to actually go explore   
   the areas open to me, but I was disappointed to see that I couldn't even   
   argue that any of the Dreamcast versions of PSO looked any less than   
   this, because honestly they didn't. I tried the level where you are   
   going through an expanse of ruined spacestation tunnels? They were   
   boring, drab and left very little to the imagination- something I   
   celebrated with the old PSOs.   
      
   Can't blame Sega for trying to cash in on the the 'Golf' of society,   
   MMORPGS. But it will take a whole lot more than this to nab subscribers   
   from Blizzard.   
   --   
   Shinnokxz - http://www.coryhansen.com   
      
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