Ok. So after about 4 hours tonight I took my character to level 18 and got a pretty decent grip on everything. As someone who put hundreds of hours into the first PSO, I'm slightly disappointed with this one.
There's just no structure to it. It's a mess of menus and systems, I'm not quite sure what certain things even are yet. There's a lot to learn and a lot to discover, but because the missions are all over the place you can easily skip so many seemingly important teaching tools. I ran both Urgent quests but they were a cluster fuck of players jumping around and numbers flying everywhere. No strategy. No sense of a reward. I didn't even see where you obtain this Dreamcast mag everyone keeps talking about in this thread despite clearing the quest. Did I win? Yes. Did it feel like I won? No. I even got a rare drop and identified it as a Gunblade , which despite playing a Ranger I can't equip yet for an unknown reason.
The game play in general feels like a faster paced PSO, but quite honestly I liked the slow methodical fighting a lot in the original. Being able to move and shoot feels super overpowered to the point the game is incredibly easy thus far. So I don't feel challenged, I don't feel particularly rewarded, I'm pretty ho hum about this game despite wanting it ever since I heard it was in development. I'm sure it'll grow more on me but the first impressions didn't blow me away.
