Phantasy Star Online X-Box
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Astra Superstar
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never played it online - dont you to pay extra to play this one online as well as your xbox subscription?
But i never played online too,have no one for play.
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I would play PSO online, but I just don't want to pay the extra fee on top of XBOX Live.
A Perfect Lie
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How IS Phantasy Star online anyway? I know a few other female gamers who play it on Live (well, they used to, anyway) but I never really played it myself...Decent or no?
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I have Phantasy Star online. I have not played for about 5 months. The extra fee is only a few dollars a month. The game itself is very repetitive. You wander around a area in third person mode and just blast shit with a gun or hack it with a sword. For some reason I actually like the game. Even though it is really repetitive. You get to fight a huge boss at the end of every level.
1 thing I hate about the game is that most all of the people cheat. They have hacked characters. Basically someone makes lots of hacked items for the game and the game is flooded woth them. Although you can avoid the items by just not taking anything a person gives you. You can also create your own room when playing and title it no hackers or cheaters or something like that. I myself always played with legit characters.
I have been thinking of playing the game for awhile. Mainly cause I know the game can actually be beaten in a reasonable amount of time. Unlike FFXI which I played for almost 1 month of in game time and didn't make any progress.
1 thing I hate about the game is that most all of the people cheat. They have hacked characters. Basically someone makes lots of hacked items for the game and the game is flooded woth them. Although you can avoid the items by just not taking anything a person gives you. You can also create your own room when playing and title it no hackers or cheaters or something like that. I myself always played with legit characters.
I have been thinking of playing the game for awhile. Mainly cause I know the game can actually be beaten in a reasonable amount of time. Unlike FFXI which I played for almost 1 month of in game time and didn't make any progress.
Kirk Foiden
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In a way, the main thing that really helps the Xbox version (as something that convinced me to not simply stick with the Dreamcast), is voice communication. This is simply because it's so much easier to communicate what you want people to do, with voice, than using the usb keyboard (which is also an option). This is partially because I play as a force, mostly, and you find out quite quickly that doing all your commands, prepping stuff, is a bit too much and try to communicate stuff in time for your hunters, before they all run off.
However, like pretty much every version of PSO, you really want to play with friends, or people trustworthy. In a way, that's turning out to be a way to play for almost every online RPG, these days. Though, I guess stuff like FFXI and WoW are easier facilities where you have everybody together, and can avoid cheaters, without sticking simply to just grouping with friends. Guild wars suffers similarly to PSO, but I would say it has the highest ratio of people I don't want to play with, I've ever seen. However, like PSO, the option of avoiding them and sticking with just trusted friends, saves it.
FFXI has one achilles heel, as the above poster says, in comparison. That is, rather slow returns. You need more commitment to get anywhere in it. It's still pretty nice, but you simply need more patience and a willing to commit some time.
The nice, but dangerous thing, about the others, is fast returns. You are almost always close to getting that new cool thing. This is how it gets you with that, "just one more" disease.
However, like pretty much every version of PSO, you really want to play with friends, or people trustworthy. In a way, that's turning out to be a way to play for almost every online RPG, these days. Though, I guess stuff like FFXI and WoW are easier facilities where you have everybody together, and can avoid cheaters, without sticking simply to just grouping with friends. Guild wars suffers similarly to PSO, but I would say it has the highest ratio of people I don't want to play with, I've ever seen. However, like PSO, the option of avoiding them and sticking with just trusted friends, saves it.
FFXI has one achilles heel, as the above poster says, in comparison. That is, rather slow returns. You need more commitment to get anywhere in it. It's still pretty nice, but you simply need more patience and a willing to commit some time.
The nice, but dangerous thing, about the others, is fast returns. You are almost always close to getting that new cool thing. This is how it gets you with that, "just one more" disease.
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