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Phantasy Star Online Beta
Topic Started: Oct 13 2006, 02:45 PM (174 Views)
Blakey
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For anyone interested, the beta version of Phantasy Online is available to download for free for all xbox live gold members.

The catch? It's only live until Tuesday.

Personally I'm really excited about this. The DC original introduced me to online gaming and is imho an massively under-rated gem.
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Jocky
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Played it for a couple of hours, and it's ok ish.

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GTAbiker
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I'm tempted but is it worth the download for like 3-4 days play?
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Zaichik
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It'll be gone before you resolve this tricky moral dilemma! :P

Seriously, why don't you just download it and see whether you like it! :ph43r:
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Jocky
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Yeah, download it and try it - I got the dowload in about 40 mins.
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P.S, You need a gold XBL account to play it.
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SteMacD
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It wouldnt let me play it the whole time i had the beta. I think it went well :rolleyes: hehe
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It's bad starting off, but then in Monster Hunter who really enjoyed having to collect dung for 10 hours till you got to fight something?

Once you get a few new weapons, and more importantly your Photon Arts up and running, it gets signficantly better; monster have more variety, weapons and moves, and of course you learn the "unique" lobby-mission structure.

Unfortunately it dosent seem to get better after that. The moves seem limited, no dodge/roll or jump as in MH, as a ranger shooting was far easier than MH, but sort of unexciting. I didnt get the level 20 super (SUV?) gun mode in time, but there didnt seem many options like choosing different levels of shot-power or charge attacks. Synthasising stuff seems more complex than MH, but overall about the same - but then i found collecting and making stuff sort of arduious in MH too. At least in PS:U you dont have to search under trees and stuff, but again that at least provided variation than picking up glowing cubes off respawning monsters. To me it just seemed like theres a limited amount of skill required (better than MMORPGs where you dont even have to move or target) whereas MH you needed to be kinda good to fight the bad-arse stuff.

The menu system is really bad. Is there anything really wrong with the board MH had? it gave you the missions at your level, and you could join your party and just let the leader click start after. Really odd design choices.

The graphics are apparently so bad because its a PS2 port, but why no option to change the text size, i was squinting like anything and its shoddy to make so few changes to accomidate better hardware. Yeah its a beta demo, but the lag was shocking at times.

I suppose its fun for its social and MH side of things, but i dont think i'll get it unless everyone else does, as the issues and monthly fee are offputting.

Some videos:

SUV weapons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fp2dupaRdI...related&search=

level 30 melee skills: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VdlFSeoCvY...related&search=

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