@Miraglyth said in So are NGS forums just not happening anymore?:

[...] or if the intention is to keep it visible for 6-12 months and then delete it.

Probably that, although I doubt they got a timeline for that yet. But it's kinda inevitable, once it's no longer in active use it'll eventually be seen as dead wood to be cut away.

Personally, I'll see it as a good opportunity to stop procrastinating reading this forum and instead do something more productive. I like Discord for its voice chat quality, but I only intend to engage in that with people I already know well and only on special occasions (like raids). I never got much use out of it otherwise, it usually devolves into idle chatter and memery, which is fine for something like a private guild discord meant for socializing, but I can't see it as a replacement for a discussion board.

Similarly, I like reddit for sharing short video clips, screenshots, fanart and witty one-liners, but especially when a discussion goes back and forth, it just quickly vanishes in the comments as it shifts ever further to the right and leaves long trails of empty space behind. Moreover, I regularly experience issues with copy&paste.

So... yeah.

@The-Merfox said in Improving the community:

Considering the fact it's been disabled after not even 3 years in use, I don't think it was working very well either.

It's not exactly a system suitable for a huge playerbase. Regardless of vote, every case had to be approved by a GM in the end (if only to decide on the severity of the punishment) and the sheer amount of GMs you need for one of the largest playerbases out there is just too much of a cost. Waiting for reviewers to vote on the cases also made things fairly slow, since there weren't a whole lot of them (and when you add an incentive to get more, well... a lot of people just blindly hit punish to get the rewards).

Pretty much every company would have looked at automation there.

I just want an option that hides other people entirely tbh.

It's pretty much the same "event" as previously, lol. There's not even event mobs in Vanford II and Resol Forest, only Magnus II, just like the first time.

Although I guess there's the terminals. Part of me wonders if they had intended something similar with the translucent stars in the first one, but it got canned.

@TechyAzeem said in Finally, Another Phantasy Star Online In-Depth "Review." Also I Kinda Want Anamana React to This Video Like Asmongold:

Me personally, If I'm interested in a game but not sure if I'm going to fully enjoy it, I'll look up "X-Game Gameplay." on YouTube.

Same.

Though I generally search Google for the game instead and then hit the video tab, since it also finds snippets from reddit, twitch or other social media sites. Then I search for some thumbnail that looks like it's an unedited screenshot with some non-flashy title in the hopes of finding some generic gameplay without distracting commentary, intro, facecam or external music.

I find that very helpful to get an idea of what kind of game it is.

@Furious-0

Yeah, having less mainstream preferences certainly pays off.

Although I wouldn't call PSO2 a dress-up simulator. It's more of a dress-down simulator.

Thankfully, there's other options as well and they're usually fairly cheap in comparison, so if there'll be something for me in a future scratch, I'll probably not have to break the bank for it - Assuming it'll be AC stuff in the first place. The stuff I use right now has mostly been SG stuff and I got over 10k of those still stockpiled.

@Levant21 said in NGS Braver Balancing:

I agree with you it's an absolute joke the way SEGA has balanced stuff so far.

It's violating game design 101.

WA counters and sidestep counters serve the same purpose (negating and countering an attack via timing a brief trigger window right) and are mutually exclusive, you can only either sidestep, or parry an attack, not both at the same time. To have a WA counter at all requires a skill point. A sidestep counter does not. Skill points are a sparse resource that are supposed to make your character stronger (Hence why they are factored into BP). Therefore, a WA counter should be better than a sidestep counter by default.

This is on principle, a talented skill should never be worse than an untalented one with the same purpose. For braver in particular, it already applies to the counter itself, without even considering the shockwave utility. The shockwave is an additional skill point and isn't an issue for what it does. It gives you an additional utility you didn't have before, exactly what a skill point should do. But the counter itself already needs to be able to stand on its own, which it doesn't.

The issue with step counter being better than using the WA counter that needs actual skill point investment is not unique to braver.

Braver doesn't even have omnidirectional guard and thus omnidirectional WA counter. Sidestep is omnidirectional from the get-go. It's silly that after two limited skill points and meeting an additional facing requirement, WA counter is still only "situational" compared to sidestep, if that.

@SalutexMO said in Sega added a "Shutdown OfOnline Services" section to the EULA:

LMAO it kinda makes you think what was even the point of NGS?

Moving fingers and better wetlook effects, apparently.