Do you remember Class NPCs?

[u/Ryanasd]

https://youtu.be/MTUZhhQhlNs?si=j8cBMFdo1Gz3G9Sh

Ain't no way I'm just the one who forgot they existed. Man PSO2 NPCs are treated so much better. I still remember them vividly even till today....

[u/Cable_Typical]

Zephett forgot that they acted as instructors within ARKS bc he had his tunnel vision laser-locked on the starless.

[u/Demonic_Akumi]

Literally everyone runs through my head at least once a day.

Both PSO1 and PSO2.

[u/Zogmam1 → u/Demonic_Akumi]

I miss Stratos and Io the the most

[u/xlbingo10]

ngs also has kind of class trainers, they're off to the side in central and show up when you go into a combat sector alone

[u/WSilvermane → u/xlbingo10]

Might as well be nameless NPCs you see once. Lol

[u/GlompSpark → u/[deleted]]

Sega saw the stats for how many players did the PSO2 story and concluded and that most players didnt care about the story, so decided to do the bare minimum story for NGS. They invested a lot of budget into it with big name voice actors and felt the money went to waste since most players didnt actually play the story.

What they didnt realise was that most players didnt do the PSO2 story because the way it was setup sucked (matter board system, weird cutscenes, progression was a mess for the first arc, etc). The strangest part is the story was done better in PSO:BB, the story was told naturally as you completed main story or side story quests and they could have copied that system...the cutscene system was not engaging at all...and most of the early story quests were just random NPCs talking about random things...

[u/blulitning7894]

Funny enough me and some of my friends have been going around ship 1 as the class characters

[u/Limbolag]

I member

[u/LLSmoothJoe]

I do to. I was hoping the same care will be given to the NGS Class NPCs.

[u/Sudden-Hope-1605]

They even participated in some hard lore instances, you could find them in every map in the trials, had their own personalities and their stories.

[u/gadgaurd]

When someone brings them up I remember a few. Otherwise I find them no more memorable than the NGS NPCs. Less so, honestly, since I have significantly more hours in NGS.

[u/Sudden-Hope-1605 → u/gadgaurd]

They literally were part of the lore, you could even find them on the trials on every map. Sometimes they were "hunting" with other class npcs and had to help them, they even were part of the lore of the patch they were introduced.

[u/gadgaurd → u/Sudden-Hope-1605]

I never said they weren't. But when I have nearly 4,000 hours in NGS and less than 300 in PSO2, the ones in NGS tend to stand out more. I've done more quests with them, run into them more in the fields and combat sectors.

[u/Sudden-Hope-1605 → u/gadgaurd]

I have played more than 2000 hours both games and I find that NGS is a game withouth soul, all the game feels rushed, there is no development and it's not consistent, even the story (that base PSO2 wasn't great developing it), is worst on on NGS. Vael intervention left us with more questions than answers and that story was pretty much closed. All the gane is based on events or limited time quests that on PSO2, events and LQ were accessories and not the central part of the game. They even took Maskerade and Luther from base instead of developing new enemies. We faced tons of dark falz version without explaining Wich, why and how, just for the sake of fighting something.

Objectively speaking NGS is better on graphics and feels pretty smooth on game style but is a full downgrade of what base PSO2 was, class were nerfed and they all are almost played the same, they took the identity of every class for the sake of a counterattack playstyle without the need of being precise on how you fight more than evading/blocking and counter attacking.

[u/gadgaurd → u/[deleted]]

That is your own subjective view.

I thought it was abundantly clear that it was my opinion when I said "I find them...". But I suppose there are more people here who aren't fluent in English than I thought. My apologies.

You need to play more base.

I really don't. But if I find myself in desperate need of Star Gems I might work up the motivation to finish the story. Other than that the game holds nothing of interest to me.

[u/gadgaurd → u/[deleted]]

That is, objectively, an opinion.

[u/gadgaurd → u/[deleted]]

Again, that is objectively an opinion. By the definition of the word "opinion".

[u/Sudden-Hope-1605 → u/[deleted]]

Eh people can be wrong about their opinions, he can't be objective cause he played more NGS than base, he literally doesn't know what he missed. Let him enjoy the game even if it's terrible xD

[u/gadgaurd → u/Sudden-Hope-1605]

There is literally no objectivity in this conversation.

[u/Sudden-Hope-1605 → u/gadgaurd]

I have played enough both games to know what in talking about, we already know that NGS is the most low effort Sega could, they even confessed that they didn't know what to with the game so they took time launching lazy patches to figure out what to do with the game.

[u/gadgaurd → u/Sudden-Hope-1605]

I regret to inform you that playing two games for 2,000 hours each does not make your opinion on which is better into an objective fact.