a major thing that prevents me from playing mmos is the extreme amount of buttons you have to press, coupled with the ui clutter. this is why i liked runescape so much when i was younger and why i like pso/pso2 a lot as well. they are so much more simple and elegant.

every single time a new mmo comes out it'll pique my interest, but then i look at the gameplay and it's all just a shit ton of who knows what on the screen and that is an instant turn off for me.

@beardalaxy >but then i look at the gameplay and it's all just a shit ton of who knows what on the screen and that is an instant turn off for me
This was PSO2 to me when I first played it. Everyone is biased to their favorite MMO thinking its the only good one just like with gachaniggers

@Ace66062 and it's not that i think other MMOs are bad, it's that they just really are not my thing whatsoever because my brain shuts off when there is that much stuff i have to keep track of. i'm much more a fan of pso2's focus on movement, positioning, and timing, rather than having to juggle a lot of different skills.

@PurpCat @Ace66062 i've got about 2,000 hours across base jp/global and NGS. have probably only missed a couple dozen or so days since the global beta in 2020. haven't played since september though, because SEGA horrifically fumbled the main story and continue to do so :P

@beardalaxy @Ace66062 I think I got into trying pso2 too late, I would play hundreds of psu hours back in the day and then put some on clementine too
@beardalaxy >not even comparing them with the "good" PSO2
Lol. In any case they're all following a similar layout with tab target combat the only thing thats different in new gaynesis here is the hotbar

@Ace66062 pso2 and ngs have the exact same UI i didn't think it mattered

@beardalaxy I only played a bit (read: got past the tutorial) of NGS before figuring out how to actually boot to PSO2 so I don't remember if they were exactly the same. In any case tab target MMOs share similar HUD elements yet they're all equally confusing at first, PSO is not an exception to this. (FF14's HUD is entirely customizable mind you and the default layout admittedly sucks dick)
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