Phantasy Star Universe Closed Beta, Starting this thurs! Options

[kyori]

I'm surprised no one posted about this... In any case. Here's info for those that did apply:

[Akukame]

Wow, I haven't posted here since uh... that ep3 tournament... where I got owned in the finals by two indi belra. EDIT: Actually, looking back on it, I had signed up here so I could enter that tourney since I played with you all in ep3. Oh well, you get flooded with my pics anyways.

Oh well, I posted this a couple other places to try to get people into the game, but here are some pics, with how crappy it runs on my comp.

So, my journey began with me being shafted entrance to the beta. Over a week went by, and I got no acceptance letter to the closed beta. So, using a hacked version of the client, I atleast played with the character creator.


But, due to Kyori's acquaintance needing to prepare for e3, I was given a chance to play for a week. Here's me finally making it out of the newbie area.


But that new area owned me like you wouldn't believe. So I ran back to the newbie area. But I still ended up encountering some things that looked distinctly new (atleast when compared to PSO). Heres my first weapon drop, which didn't even happen till I was level 12! I also bought a Bow, because bows are cool. And even encountered a funky looking healing circle. Not that I needed healing. I also began using an earth elemental spell that was not in PSO (this is radigga, there was also a digga).


Being poor sucked. But I needed something to aspire to! So I went window shopping, tried on some clothes in the dressing rooms. But it was all so expensive. x.o A new shirt cost 40k! I was only making like... 4-5k per hour!


I ended up partying with some japanese people. Actually, I partied with japanese people alot. Got some decent japanese practice in. Though I had to make sure to start conversations with "Kanji yomemasen ^^;;" Yes I included the smilie when I said that. Though I really tried to just be quiet, unnoticed, and say the normal "yoroshiku" at the beginning of every mission and "otsukaresama" at the end of every mission. Heres also a picture of a cast doing an SUV. Its like... a robot super move.


Another english speaking person needed to level (Skidean), so a few of our higher level friends came to help us. It ended up being a 4 FOnewearl party of craziness. Level 30 was the max level for the beta btw.


Look, I bought some new clothing :D (Put me out almost 40k too. I also bought glasses and green lipstick) Then I ran to group up with some more people, and I found that midori and radix communicate in alien speak.


You know that place I wandered into when I was level 9? Well, it was pay back time. I got a party together, and we went to go kill the boss of the area! But wait a minute, whats this!? I died!? Oh well, I'll just get another group together and go kill the boss! Wait, what the hell!? I died AGAIN!? Actually, over the course of maybe the 7 times I fought that boss, I only managed to stay alive the entire fight once. And between the other 6 fights... I probably died about 20 times. Its not my fault he deals like 1200 and my max hp is barely over 500.

Kyori's perspective:
http://www.taleschannel.org/PSU/psu20060509_234209_022.png
http://www.taleschannel.org/PSU/psu20060509_234631_025.png
http://www.taleschannel.org/PSU/psu20060510_000824_026.png (just before boss)
http://www.taleschannel.org/PSU/psu20060510_000933_027.png
http://www.taleschannel.org/PSU/psu20060510_000952_028.png
http://www.taleschannel.org/PSU/psu20060510_001317_032.png (different perspective of me dead)

We decided to finish the second to last day by beating the first dungeon again. It was a massacre. But we got a nice group shot there at the end.

Kyori's perspective.
http://www.taleschannel.org/PSU/psu20060510_002927_038.png (dancing outside of mission area)
http://www.taleschannel.org/PSU/psu20060510_003601_039.png
http://www.taleschannel.org/PSU/psu20060510_004410_041.png
http://www.taleschannel.org/PSU/psu20060510_004738_045.png
http://www.taleschannel.org/PSU/psu20060510_005055_046.png (group shot)

And finally came the last day, one last run through the final boss. Yes, I ended up dieing. But they gave us free money on the last day, so everyone could res. We got some final group shots, including some nekkid posing in front of the onsen. Also, note I changed to a ranger instead of a force for the last day. Guns instead of Magic.