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Message: [QUOTE="Sumea, post: 276275, member: 569"] I personally first dislike that MMO is bit overused and overextended as a term. PSO is not an MMO. If you played it and if you played Final Fantasy XI or World of Warcraft, the difference is night and day. It resembles much more an action RPG like Diablo, and that is because it most certainly is a Japanese Diablo. It's sequel, PSO2, a game I loved and played a ton of back in the day, was also listed as "Online RPG" on Sega's site. Not every online RPG is a MMO, and I think recognizing the tradeoffs for their strengths and weaknesses is nice. Say, most proper MMO's even today do not have fast paced or action combat as that is extremely hard to do for something like World of Warcraft. Monster Hunter is Capcom's "clone" of PSO, but like PSO, both can be played fully offline without any other players. That does not sound like a MMO to me. I would like to personally claim Final Fantasy XI on PS2 as the first Console MMO for sure. XI was huge on PS2 in Japan for sure, and is a MMO like many other's, eccentricities of it's pre-WoW birth included. It was released back in 2002 in Japan, even before Everquest Online Adventures. That said, while it is permitted to mention them, as long as people can understand that I do not consider nor call it a MMO, to me PSO2 was a dear experience I recently realized is just gone. These days, PSO2 is now replaced with a follow up that has some similarities, vast differences and is not necessarily a better game. I could not enjoy NGS like I did PSO2 when I tried it. While PSO2 classic is still accessible as an addon to NGS, it's dead in 2025 on both Japanese and Western servers. Online player count at any given moment is literally 0-20 and seeing it for myself was a memento mori to me. On other hand, last year I got into playing PSO on Xbox, GameCube and even PC with Schthack and Ephinea private servers and those communities are real swell. The people who love original PSO make it fun even today. Shoutouts to Tera though, that game is now just about fully buried but used to be fun for many reasons to many people and I have fun memories with friends there for sure. It's combat was not as action as people tout it to be but it was unique for sure, and RIP in good sauce prince. [/QUOTE]

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