This is precisely what I had been thinking also and PSO2 Meseta makes the most sense. This way the game still has the primary core aspects players expect but is new and fresh at precisely the same time. I believe it’s still likely to be instanced and not truly open world. Gameplay shown up to now has shown 8 player instance maxes. This wouldn’t break current AI systems, considering the current AI just follow your route or teleport to you if they have stuck. The world is huge and open, but everything out of towns was instanced. I am thinking it will be a similar system to what Dragon’s Dogma Online had. The world is open and huge, but everything outside of towns was instanced. They watered down the climbing to a formula and changed a bunch of classes but now that it has gone I always want to play with it.
I’d love Dragon’s Dogma Online-styled experiences in Phantasy Star if because it gives us a reason to explore the planet (or at least rapid travel to it to hop in and out) and to also have a struggle with the directors and enemies.
I’d imagine with the way New Genesis would possibly be balanced which hopefully every course is workable like how Dragon’s Dogma Online cleaned up the vocations so that they were all complete packages that players could expand on and flesh out without needing to engage in matters like what Phantasy Star Online 2 now has (specifically Mags deciding which courses you’ll excel at along with your skill tree also determining what you gain and lose). I’d drop the whole skill tree, and the most important class/subclass system to have something such as Dragon’s Dogma Online failed together with the habit abilities, core abilities, and also the augments with the ability to mix-and-match reinforces, which everyone unlocks core abilities and has them collectively, and that players set their own playstyle with their custom skills. A large portion of that preference for me is so you could definitely spend your time and resources into updating and unlocking new abilities and skills and then after you are all done you can go back and mix-and-match items to your liking without even realizing you’d need to fall in money like you now do if you wanted to build something like an optimal main course tree and a variant for an optimum subclass tree, or invest in another Mag because you are missing about 6-7% of your overall harm (and therefore are overlooking 200 points to equip your weapons/units).
Despite the extreme grind that the match becomes towards the conclusion (such as running the exact same dungeon like about 40-80 times to gain a single level, amassing Blood Orbs and High Orbs to unlock the little stat boosts that add over more time, and more), I have believed that Dragon’s Dogma Online is definitely an instance of an online game I believe has certainly nailed the”open area” exploration with good gameplay, optional cooperative multiplayer, and provides both a challenge and relatively casual encounter for those who desire it with no putting up nasty traps for players to get caught in to mess up their assembles. I never liked in Phantasy Star you can mess up your skill trees even though you get the free chance to reset them (it doesn’t help when I am attempting to assist new buddies play and they already invested their points without me guiding them or informing them on why they don’t require STR Up and they end up running through Level 50+ without their stances and core skills).
