Honest Review of PSO2:NGS (Please Read Dev Team)

[TTVAbigorTheRaged]

SO this is more feedback and an honest review of the game. First off i would like to say that PSO2 was my all time favorite based on the story plot, the events , and the overall feel of the game (this also includes cosmetics , combat mechanics , and skills you get for each class.)

PSO2:NGS is a hot mess of half baked development from the dev team. I say this out of respect but the game is slowly losing its support from players. The graphics in the game is very decent for the engine they are running but the story plot animations , the lack of voice actors that impact each character, and also the feel of the game is very lack luster given. comparing the two based on all the factors PSO2 > PSO2:NGS based on the overall development and the scope of the game on a player standpoint. even tho pso2 is a bit downgraded it was very impacting and gave me the feeling i was more in depth with my character than in NGS.

Overall rating given the 2.0 update: 3.5/10

Graphics: 8/10
Decent Graphics for a better engine but very lack luster in all other factors and i will explain why.

Gameplay:5/10
The Overall Game play is very decent being a open world mmo, the down side is the map is so big that it still feels empty and needs more redesigning in the maps alone to make it feel more alive. Filling it with more mobs is a lazy approach to fix a poorly designed map.

Story plot: -2/10
Very disappointed in all honesty. I get the story plot but def feels like lazy writing who ever decided this needs to really go back to training more or do some research in other games and learn a thing or two about how to grasp a players emotions, the thrills of urgency , and the impacting of character progression. feels like every new major update is too rushed and need to step back and focus on quality than quantity. Players can wait as long as needed to make decent content , as long as the events are good we have time to kill.

Combat Mechanics: 7/10
very decent for whats given and very flashy based on animation designing and the fluidity of the movements and spells/skills def makes you feel like you are overpowered for your own good. Movement enhancements and traversals are very nice given the map size.

QoL (Quality of Life): 3/10
nothing to say here but disappointment.

Class System: 9/10
This is the only good side about this game i will deem acceptable.
Class system is very good in this giving players 2 classes to choose from to make a combo caster to a blade user with machine pistols. the possibility is endless here and the skill tree system as more depth and more boost of power for later builds.

[UrbanMech]

Replying to your "please read devs" part. You'd be lucky if the Global Team reads this or even maybe a CM but this wont be going to the actual JP devs nor would they care for a overseas players opinion if they saw it.

Disagree with your class system high rating. Class system kind of sucks here with major nerfs to subclass abilities compared to base PSO2. There's a lot less possibilities here.

[Miles Bluefalls]

Dev team: "Are you a whale? Preferably an 'influencer'? No? Then who cares what you think?"

(bonus points: put an extra dozen sarcasm quotes around "influencer")

[Hermit]

The dev team won't even know of the existence of any of the posts made on Steam. They simply don't care. If they cared, we wouldn't be back to doing the exact same things we were doing in the first few months of games release.

The game play loop is combat zones and Gigantix. It's been that way since the beginning and for some weird reason, Sega thought it was a winning formula.

[DRIFTER]

You'd have better chances of someone reading this if you posted in the official pso2 discord https://discord.gg/guQSnppZNp

There used to be forums but even those are gone from the official site. Discord is likely the only way now.

[O_Goncho]

sega no longer reads these forums. you would need to go to the discord or submit a ticket

[0000]

I agree with your score.
If they give tools to sandbox the map/dungeon...

I will put this game score from 5/10 (edit ehh.. imma give them 5) to 8/10. (Yes, that much boost for a score for 1 feature)

[TTVAbigorTheRaged]

Originally posted by blimsoon:

The plot is not that bad, If you completely ignored all of them.

i didnt really ignore them. i got the ghist of it. but just the story plot and how the animations / story cuts didnt make too much sense it felt very lack luster like they didnt make any effort into making it impacting like pso2 did. just it didn't feel like a new game and new design skills were used just felt more copy paste and half baked.

[Hermit]

Originally posted by Shirokami:

Originally posted by Laguna:

Yep, there's a major communication issue with Sega. This has been constantly said for the past year now on their Reddit ,Discord, and all Social Media and nothing has been done about it.

Yeah but those channels are pretty much echochambers. Reminder they banned even people who said Ultra Update was a mess at release despite being completely valid feedback.

Discord especially. I always warn people to never reply to or acknowledge the mod in their called Joof. The guy will ban you just for disagreeing with him. Their mods are terrible and they are everything people hate about moderators.

[EggBread]

There's a lot of general statements within this review. Personally if I was a SEGA developer, I wouldn't exactly know what is good and what isn't based on this. It just kind of comes off as shot in the dark criticism.

[Lapinoire]

That's not how you do ratings.

A sum of 32(-2, or 30) out of 60 is a 5/10.

You also must give a minimum of 0, as -2 is not a valid rating, for actual reviews.

[Hermit]

Originally posted by Shirokami:

Originally posted by HermitST:

Discord especially. I always warn people to never reply to or acknowledge the mod in their called Joof. The guy will ban you just for disagreeing with him. Their mods are terrible and they are everything people hate about moderators.

Ah yes, the mod who instantly banned me for asking if there was another way to inquiry bans since my banned friend got no ticket reply in a month.

There's a lot of dirt rumours going around that mod too.

But yeah how can you expect any feedback to go through when you have those gate keepers.

I wouldn't care if the Discord was unofficial, but seeing as they are using it for ways to communicate with the devs and they link it to in game rewards, they need proper mods in there and not a bunch of Redditors who get off on having mod power. He banned a bunch of people for complaining about Sega misleading everybody with Ultra Evolution and Ver2. I was there when it was happening too, and there was nothing that went against TOS. It was ridiculous.

I don't think Sega of Japan realise how bad the North American team aka California Crazies hurt their reputation.

[Murasakino Rin]

You also must give a minimum of 0, as -2 is not a valid rating, for actual reviews.

i kinda agree with the -2 in this case, the plot is not at all interesting and makes the character into a plot tourist.

would have dropped gameplay to a 3 mostly because of the map itself. too much vertical, no dungeons, "cities" not being labeled properly as they are outposts instead. the only one that kinda makes sense although should still have more structure is Kvaris Camp. and being "towns" and being tiny are kinda unbelievable on how people live there due to thier rather small size. (makes more sense if you cant see the entire town)

i found the map kinda small in comparison to other games where they arent so free with thier movement to where they go letting players go above a certain range. and well the world map itself doesnt make too much sense either since we can always see all of it. like what are the point of the barrier around the zones?

arent classes and combat almost the same thing in this case?

[Lapinoire]

Originally posted by Murasakino Rin:

You also must give a minimum of 0, as -2 is not a valid rating, for actual reviews.

i kinda agree with the -2 in this case, the plot is not at all interesting and makes the character into a plot tourist.

Just because you agree with it, doesn't make it right.

That's simply not how ratings work.

[Aleca]

I think the only people they actually listen is the Japanese player base. That's where the majority of players are.

[00039]

Originally posted by Aleca:

I think the only people they actually listen is the Japanese player base. That's where the majority of players are.

They don't listen to them either and needless to say they are way more pissed than the western fanbase.