@Gamers-are-so-oppressed said in Can we not cut out anymore story scenes and stop it with censorship in general.:

I get on from time to time but I'm not too heavily invested myself since NGS is on the horizon

NGS being on the horizon makes me feel like all the money spent and everything I have done on PSO2's base game is fairly pointless

My thoughts, In odrer:

1 I can't tell you how many times I've gone to enter a quest and realized my tree buff expired or have to wait for another player to go load their alliance quarters, run to the tree, select their buff, and load back into the area, be re-invited, and then start the quest again. so annoying.

2 I find this completely unnecessary and think all PA Fragment based custom discs should be under the same heading, either with more boosts available by leveling up or requiring more acheivements to level up their categories.

3 Without a doubt this is the biggest thing on this list. I would go a step further and add the ability to choose a Dark Blast form from the palette by which blast it is, not have to activate it, select it, and then choose. from what's available, I usually go with luther/loser form because it's ranged damage is very useful for inconsistant or lower dps classes such as Te mains against levels with high mobility bosses (PD comes to mind)

4 I'm tired of listening to whatever BS is playing in lobby while talking with friends. I usually just mute the BGM altogether, and play spotify or something in the background. When I'm talking to other players in a voice chat not on xbox, it's outright annoying to have music playing in the background because it splits my focus and I find myself saying "what? huh? can you repeat that?" etc, even with the 80% volume reduction when it detects voice input.

5 The game shows you how many slots X item has when you over it. If you pick it up to sell it, you can sort the items by enhancement level, rarity, number of augments, item type, even lock certain items and sort that way. Completley redundant at this point.

6 yeah, 7-9 star items shouldn't even be red boxes. they literally drop like candy in SH quests. you can turn off their notifications in options tho. Grind bait at best.

7 Just make auto meseta pickup true to name and give it a range that requires you to walk through the level. It's way too narrow as it is.

8 The color white comes to mind for disc highlight for Lv 11 or higher PAs.

9 Yes. I sit about 20 feet from my 55" TV and I can't read most dialogue boxes unless I move closer.

I would also add that when using lock on and attempting to go around/run from an enemy, sometimes the game locks up super close and spins around the enemy super fast, and refuses to let you move away, usually resulting in the player dying. Can we get an option to double tap something so that players with smaller hands (like me, my hands are half the size of shaq's hands, barely reaching the edge of his palm when placed base to base ;.;) as controllers get bigger, and have more buttons, I have a harder time not using a keyboard, and I find keyboards foreign when playing games. reaching for that L button means I can't use the d-pad, etc.

Most people are only playing story mode for dark blast and it's fairly easy exp, SG, and items from what I've found.

To me, there are more reasons to skip through the cutscenes than actually watch them. Like that time in EP4 when the girls are fawning over "Al," but they're twice his age and still underage. That's weird and borderline disgusting. then there's the "censored" part where he appears to sleep fully dressed. Never met anyone who sleeps fully dressed. Completely unnecessary because they're depicting al, who can't be more than 10, in a sexualized way. The implications are disgusting.

On the other hand, "All the content" as was brought up on page 1 is an outright lie at this point. Sega has been censoring or outright removing content and items from american gamers since the dark ages of video gaming. Remember Parasitic Gene Flow, Red Ring, and a whol slew of other tiems that didn't make it into the servers outside of Japan in Phantasy Star Online 1?

If you decide to release a game in the west, give us everything. Censorship is BS in this day and age. Who are we protecting? What are we protecting them from? It's not like you can't go and search literally anything on the internet, right? Responsibility should rest with the consumer, unless you're literally teaching someone how to build a volatile explosive or something. Fairly easy to set up parental controls, isn't it? It's the same with non-subscription radio and TV. We don't live in the 70s anymore. Time to change.

Censoring laws in america are made and upheld by people who are so fantastically out of touch with reality that it's embarassing, but lets not go down that road.

When you promise a game to a non domestic market, release it in the domestic market, and then delay it for 8 years, and then basically say fuck you to your non-domestic fanbase with "oh we need money for a new game/expansion/graphical update/etc, let's cash in on fan's anger but only give them part of the story and release it in stages to maximimze profits" as your mindset, you make the money, but disservice your fans. the content is there, it's been there for years release it all or don't do any of it. hurr durr I'm paying for a stripped down version of a game that was free in japan with more content.

Also, I feel like so much is missing from EP4's story in general, like WTF?

@Redex yeah, exactly as they did in JP. I played JP for a while using a VPN, so I know.

Dreamcast might have been the system they gave up on too soon and manufactured it with lower quality parts than it should have gotten, but it is still a decent platform, imo.

@Leonkh99 Yes, but they'd be unjustified because they've had time to actually play that, where the majority of the NA market hasn't.

@Leonkh99 Wow cosmetic BS that has literally no effect on game play.

It isn't like they didn't charge money for stargems and make them insanely time consuming in NA (they're much easier and more plentiful in JP) to mine or release the gacha cards that are 80 SG each, or roughly 4 dollars.

I played one and got a male, non-cast outfit that I'll never use because I only play one character - A Female cast

@Leonkh99 I would have preferred New Genesis to be a true standalone released worldwide (like pokemon has been, recently) and NO release of PSO2 in NA at this point. remember PSP2I that got online play and then that didn't come to america? Yeah, gimme a full game as released elsewhere with only cosmetic stuff missing, and I'll take that any day over a BS money pit.

I used to say that PSO2 wasn't a money pit like most free to play games, but yeah, That's BS now.

@RainGnyu And this is why you're exactly the person video game companies like.

@Leonkh99 Allow me to clarify that SEGA NA here refers to the player base of sega games in the NA market. Apologies for the poor choice of words.