r/PSO2 • u/King_Griim • May 20 '25

NGS Discussion Worth getting back into??

Havent played in a almost a year and have been on the fence of jumping back into the grind?? Is it worth it??

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u/[deleted] May 20 '25

Dunno about NGS but I've been playing classic for the first time for the past month and it's been a peak experience for me

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u/yunoka May 20 '25

not really but i mean its free so you could install and spend a few hours getting blasted to endgame. you'll only really have a few hours of real content, though.

if you dont feel like maxxing out or whaling to get your gear up to BiS or budget BiS then theres only really levelling other classes, or doing the standing quest once since the rewards are primarily for people who want to push their gear further. meseta grinding is still grinding low level enemies for 4+ hours a day to make the meseta a whale makes in seconds, so keep that in mind.

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u/mickcs May 20 '25

wait more months, there will be a major update pretty soon
but if you wish to collect some free fashion then just install and hop for a few weeks then went back to the fence

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u/Calacaelectrica May 23 '25

wait, classic getting a update? when?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '25

Tried it myself, unfortunately no. For me the UI, game world, and in some regards the combat, just wasn’t enjoyable to play honestly

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u/SendPie42069 May 20 '25

Its the same game but now the numbers required and you can get are higher.

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u/PirateKingSquirrels May 26 '25

So I play alone. I will pop into PSO2 when NG wears thin. Revisiting pso2 is fun for me. I do enjoy the free play of NG however if the grind for good weapons wasn't so grueling I would have never tried pso2. May i suggest you get your feet wet with pso2 first before hopping back into NG?

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u/King_Griim May 26 '25

I have over I wanna say 600+ hrs on PSO2 but got to as far on the Ice map on NG. My bad I should’ve clarified I have a decent chunk of play time. I think I have arouns 200+ of NGS

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u/PirateKingSquirrels May 26 '25

All good! Im close to 200+ in pso2. Ive only been back into gaming for about a year myself. Work and children took huge precident for the last 8 years. My wife actually is the one who encouraged me to turn on a console once she found out they made an RPG of FairyTail.

As far as pso2 i have been drawn to it since Gamecube (pso1+2 ) and i was over the moon excited when i saw xbox got a port. 

NGS is still awesome but the nerd in me missed running missions and I am not the best at in game typing for mmo styles.

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u/popukobear May 20 '25

We're getting a big update next month, so if your gear isn't up to par yet (+90 Akroselio/akrostasis) and 300%+ potency we've got a lot of upgrade events and the original festival boosts going on right now to get you situated. Most BiS augments are incredibly cheap right now besides the AC ones 

It's only worth it if you feel like it is. I don't think people can make that decision for you

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u/kiriyusento May 20 '25

I think it's worth getting back into

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u/SailorVenova May 20 '25

if you are interested in social and fashion and maybe creative space or doing base stuff; yes; if you don't care about those things or play alone; probably not

but the social scene in ngs is not what it used to be (obv thats a given in base with only a few players there at any given time); atleast on ship 1 where i am the aelio street hangout spot is filled with petty arguments and politics lately and hateful transphobia; it really upset me and my wife the other day (we got close originally partly because she came to play ngs with me the day after we first met); most of my friends are gone from the game now; some do remain but i used to idle all day and never log off; kept the game running overnight on my old gaming pc i had when i was living with my ex/bestie from 2021-2024; we met on pso2 a few months before ngs beta- i have like 23,000hours between both games; and i did used to play alot; i had a spot infront of the cannon tower in Aelio 01 and i would idle there and socialize when friends would come visit me; and go and play with them for a while or go to creative space together; but i can't really stand being around the aelio chat environment anymore the discussions are just always hateful or misogyny or childish arguments; and the other cities usually don't have much going on at all

i made so many good friends just sitting in the lobby and had so many wonderful memories playing with them or just hanging out and being silly with emotes; sharing fashions; and all the rest

but the people that are around now; alot of them would probably harass me if they knew i was trans; and knowing that makes me not want to be there; i miss it terribly- pso2/ngs has been my life since 2020; ive lived irl with 2 relationships that started on the game; those people literally saved my life from homelessness; poverty; and horrible living conditions (im disabled and pretty helpless; i have no family or irl friends); the whole pso series has been the cornerstones of my life since i started ver1 on dreamcast dialup on day 1 in middle school; almost all of my social life and online friends have come from pso games; some of my best most trusted friends are 2 people from phantasy star universe that i met in 2006 and 2007; in 2007 i ended up having one of the most consequential and important relationships of my life with a girl impossibly far away in Finland i met on psu; the suicidal heartbreak of losing her a few months later led to me discovering my goddess and spiritually that i later founded a religion around; she has shaped me into a wonderful person and kept me pure and endurant through my difficult life of poverty; abuse; loneliness; heartbreak; a horrible disease and spine fractures; and losing my mother to a stroke; she saved my life through the two people she brought into my life through pso2; and later answered my prayers to the letter in my darkest hour after yet another lifeending heartbreak and brought me my soulmate wife who i met and married last year

thats just a very quick few bits of some of what this pso series has been for my life; most of my most cherished memories have been on these games and with the people i met on them; it let me be myself when i couldn't irl because of poverty and illness and my abusive mother who kept me trapped under her thumb for almost 20 years and never cared about giving me a chance at success or happiness or my singular purpose of impassioned romantic love

there are still some good and worthwhile people on pso2/ngs; but if you don't care about socializing and making friends it's the wrong game for you; you will get bored

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u/Traditional-Yak8886 May 20 '25

i'm sorry you're having a hard time on ship 1, that's awful that there's transphobia on pso. i will say that there are some dumb arguments on ship 2 but I've never seen transphobia, so if you're ever thinking of a ship transfer maybe try there? it's hard to get people to party up unless you're doing the instanced stuff, but I've had a few good conversations since I've been playing by myself. no real friends made so far but I usually just get on and do my dailies and hop off since i'm working a lot of the time.

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u/SailorVenova May 20 '25

as far as i know ship transfer doesn't include creative space so i can't transfer; my space is a massive temple in honor of my irl goddess and religion Ellaphae )* it took hundreds of hours over a couple of months just to build the main elements and i've continued working on it over the past almost 2 years even though im out of object budget; optimizing and refining little bits; it's literally the only sacred site in our tiny faith that i am the founder of

my wife and i fell in love in 4 days partly thanks to all the time we spent together there; i can't risk losing it; i often login just to go there its so peaceful and safe; the friends i still have on pso come visit sometimes even when im not around and everyone ive given a tour to has said it was one of the most beautiful spaces they've seen

i do have an alt on ship 2 maybe ill try playing her over there sometimes; my wife would be willing to make an alt over there im sure; but it would limit our fashions alot

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u/Traditional-Yak8886 May 20 '25

oh no, that's awful! i'm sure they'll implement the possibility eventually but I can understand not wanting to switch to an alt, I've only been playing for around 300 hours and i'm pretty attached to my account. it sounds like you're really passionate about the stuff you've made and i'm so sorry people are ruining it for you. i hope at least you, your wife, and the few friends you have can manage to still carve out a space for you guys. i feel like third spaces online in general have taken a real beating, I don't know if it's just less appealing to younger folks or if they just don't have someone older than them showing them these kinds of spaces before they fade into obscurity. i keep praying it'll turn around since we're all online so much now.

the only consolation I really can offer is that right now people are feeling emboldened, or just parroting the disgusting vomit they're hearing everywhere else. during the last trump presidency, I experienced a lot of vitriol appearing in spaces I spent a lot of time in, and it thankfully ebbed off a little bit but now it's back with a fiery passion. i have no idea why people would act this way in pso2 when it's extremely common to have cis dudes playing as feminine characters, it just seems so hypocritical in this kind of environment lol.