XPost: alt.games.phantasy-star   
   From: kendrick@nospam.io   
      
   In article <9ZMuh.1$mc7.0@newsfe06.lga>,   
   Shinnokxz   wrote:   
   >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   
      
   To be fair, a lot of the things that are unappealing about the demo are   
   specific to Xbox Live and not to PSU in general. After trying the first   
   demo way back November, I decided to get the game... on PS2. :)   
      
       
   >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.   
      
   How many of the other environments were available in the most recent demo?   
   I was pretty disappointed with the dungeon level in the colony, but once   
   they opened up Neudaiz and Parum for the old demo I was hooked. Those   
   lobbies are pretty appealing aesthetically, and the forest and plain   
   environments are just lovely. There's also a couple of dungeons on Parum   
   done in the spirit of the PSO mines, with lots of depth and flashy,   
   technological landscape.   
      
   >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.   
      
   Is that really what they're trying to do though? I'm not much of an MMO   
   player, partly because I can't stand PVP. To me, PSU is a nice, fresh   
   breath of counter-programming, more in the spirit of Guild Wars. I have to   
   imagine that there's enough of a market to support both types of games.   
      
   -KKC, who's too busy levelling up in Wizardry...   
      
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