Thursday September 20, 2012 10:45
Phantasy Star Online 2 Vita Version Preview and Concert Announcement
Last night’s presentation of the Tokyo Game Show covered the Vita version of the game. Famitsu covered a brief recap of the event and now 4Gamer also posted an update, some previous information was updated.
The Vita version is expected to release in the Spring of 2013. It is roughly the same as the PC version, where the interface, graphics, and controls have been adapted to work intuitively with the device. Since the updates are carried out around the same time as the PC version, Vita users won’t have to worry about being left behind.
Since the last time we’ve seen the game, there has been a considerable increase in quality. Now it has roughly similar graphics to the PC version, like a cross between the “simple” and “standard” shader graphical settings. In the future they may perform even more upgrades and optimizations to the game’s graphics and performance.
Due to Vita’s touch screen interface, they made an emphasis on how intuitive it is to play compared to the PC version. The touch screen lets you quickly navigate to your shortcut menu, or use items with a simple tap. The lower right corner of the screen has your attack and photon art icons and also contains a button to access your chat.
The main attraction for the PlayStation Vita version is cross platform play with the PC version. This was performed live during the presentation with no lag.
Each ship will have two types of blocks, PC exclusive blocks and PC+Vita blocks. PC players can switch to the PC+Vita blocks to play together with other Vita users. They are also examining if they are going to have a beta test of sorts, but they plan to have a PSVita announcement sometime near the end of this year or early next year.
The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra presents the Phantasy Star Series 25th Anniversary Concert: Sympathy 2013 (Sympathy is the name of PSo2′s music system.)
Concert Date
- March 30th, 2013
Location
- Hibiya Public Hall
Conductor
- Masamichi Amano
But what’s most important is the survey, after answering your gender, age, and occupation, you can choose from a list of your favorite songs throughout the entire Phantasy Star series. This is your chance to request what songs you’d like to hear at the concert.
The “Sexy” Hunewearl and Cute Fonewearl
- Category: Phantasy Star Online 2
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Manta
September 20th, 2012 at 6:02 am
Ricardo Look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhuuefdcCWw&fe…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL4hH7u10T8&fe…
Kimiko
September 20th, 2012 at 6:43 am
Ooh, I can't wait for the Vita version to finally appear. I want to play too! ^_^
djecliptik
September 20th, 2012 at 6:55 am
Thanks Ricardo, as always! Oh, how I wish there would be a recording on DVD of this concert…. I would soo buy it!
-Z-
September 20th, 2012 at 9:12 am
mang… that cosplay just falls short especially those ears, couldn't they have at least TRIED to match the models' skintones? 8P
Ren
September 20th, 2012 at 9:25 am
@-Z-: Even funnier is that the cosplayer now has three kinds of skin tones. The ears, chest area and torso.
Shugo
September 20th, 2012 at 9:35 am
Anyone else notice the Fal Claw wired lance?
Crevox
September 20th, 2012 at 10:14 am
Vita running at 30 or 60 fps?
Manta
September 20th, 2012 at 10:19 am
Ricardo New Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8MnEDvlBDs&fe…
Scoobs
September 20th, 2012 at 11:05 am
looks like 30 FPS on the Vita, I will stick to the PC version.
Aewyn
September 20th, 2012 at 11:40 am
30 fps on the Vita? Damn good for a handheld, that's PS2-game style and more than enough to enjoy the game. Sounds like a viable alternative to be sure. I'm wondering if they'll release it here?
Manta
September 20th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX8zLSFhI0Q&fe…
weeaboo
September 20th, 2012 at 2:14 pm
ricardo u were right man.
"like a cross between the “simple” and “standard” shader graphical settings"
awesome.
really all i care about are the character and monster/boss models being shaded. i really couldn't care less for all those fucking particle effects that lag up my screen in a pse burst looool.
Lulli
September 20th, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Sorry that i ask here, but i have problem with client, i just reinstalled win7 64 and while i got around the problem with gameguard (some tricks from sleeve), now PSO2 doesn't want to run Full-Screen (not Virtual, the normal one), while windowed mode works great, game just hangs up whole PC on loading 1st movie [SEGA], and need to hard reset PC, anyone knows how to help? :3
cshard
September 20th, 2012 at 5:02 pm
This is making me seriously reconsider my lack of plans to get a Vita. It sounds like it would be great for bringing the game with me on work trips without needing to drag a personal gaming laptop along for the ride.
I recall that previous announcements stated that you'd still need wifi to play though – has there been any info so far on whether play over 3G might be possible?
Jenna
September 20th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
my question is, will the PS vita version come to the US and Europe?
Ricardo
September 20th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
They didn't announce it for NA/EU
Anon
September 20th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
I added "A Lush Load" from EP2's Jungle Area as a song I'd like on the 25th Anniversary Concert. I really don't know how they forgot to put that on the list.
anon
September 20th, 2012 at 9:18 pm
@cshard
pretty certain no vita can game over 3g, asynchronous only. i blame sony for giving us a last gen device.
you mentioned pc crossplay but it sounds like only pc gamers can go into vita blocks and not vice versa.
hmm
September 20th, 2012 at 11:20 pm
have they said if you can use the same character on your pc game as your vita etc? and share the same character between the versions?
cshard
September 21st, 2012 at 3:50 am
@anon: Thanks for clarifying that. Guess there's no point to getting 3G just for Sony to push more ads to you.
On another point, I wonder if Sakai chose that outfit set purposely to cosplay Captain Kirk. :3
Luke
September 21st, 2012 at 4:21 am
Hum, that PSV screen looks busy. Hope some elements will auto-hide, but I don't think so.