Do any of your friends play pso?, have they ever? Options

[Dive]

My brother and a couple friends of mine used to play v1, but they quickly lost interest and moved on to other games, diversions etc. I don't know what keeps certain people playing pso for as long as most of us have. This is by far the longest I have ever played a single game.

Do your friends or family think you are strange for holding onto a game for so long? My brother is always trying to get me to join him and his Clan for some Quake 3, or Enemy Territory action. That's really fun but after a while I think to myself that I could be getting another level or knocking off a few minutes on one of my C-Mode characters.

So does anybody you know in real life play pso?

[Crushinator]

Back when PSOv1 first came out, my two best friends in high school bought it on the first day, along with me. One was a FOnewm named Mojo, and the other was a RAcast name Puscifer. They both played it pretty regularly (though not as much as I did) for the first 2 months or so, but they got bored after that and quit. "Puscifer" came back with a HUnewearl named "Tokiko" about 5 months after he quit, and got her to 100. He was way into duping on v1 too. He was one of the first people to get their character items reset after using the "email your backup save to yourself" trick . Neither of them returned for v2 But who cares, I was knee deep in AT when that started, so I was playing with plenty of cooler people anyways

Fast-forward to PSOv3, one of my friends whom I met through DDR was all hyped about PSO, thinking it was going to be the best game ever, and when he finally got it for christmas, he played till about level 24 and decided it sucked. He had a FOmar named "Kyoujin" and a RAcaseal that I forget the name of.

One of my fellow ninjas (Cero, the stupidest one) also bought PSO, after I let him create a character on the import, and play offline multiplayer with me. His story is the most amusing.

He can't get online because his mom is crazy and ripped the phone lines out of the wall so that the only access to telephone is through her room. So anyways, he only plays offline, his first characters (RAcast and FOmar) got to about level 130ish, and one day he brought his memory card to school. I usually gave him rides home since he doesn't have a car, and I felt sorry for him having to take 2+ hour bus ride just to get home, and he would always suggest we play pso because I was "so awesome" on it. (I think i was about 150ish at the time). Well anyways we get to my house, and he cant' find his memory card! It had fallen out of his backpack at some point during the day, so we drove back to the college campus and followed his whole path thru the day to find it, but no dice. So there's two 130's down the tube (all offline, mostly solo I would say he probably played 200 hours total?)

So he buys a new memory card, and starts over. This time, he pretty much only focuses on FOmar, and he gets to about level 120. Then his crazy mother flips out and THROWS HIS GAMECUBE IN THE GARBAGE one day while he was at school. Yeah, she is crazy as all fuck. So there is another 90-100 hours down the tube. Not to mention over $200 of games and hardware as well (he had a wavebird, so the controller is now worthless since the reciever was in the GC when it was tossed out with the trash).

Then, about a month ago, he steals his mom's credit card, buys a new GC, new PSO, and new memory card, and charges it all to the card. Important side note...they are pretty damn poor. They usually can't make their gas or phone bills, so that shit is off half the time. I can understand his feelings toward what is mom did to him, but he is an adult and should have some consideration for his family situation...but anways I digress. So he is now about level 90 as a RAcast. About 2 weeks ago, he calls and asks to come over and pick up some CDs that I had for him, so I say "yeah you can come over tomorrow, but I won't be there, so just take it off the kitchen table." Well, the guy came over, memory card in tow, and WHILE I WAS NOT HOME took my Yasminkov 3000v, Spread Needle, and a level 200 mag!!!!!! My brother had let him in, and he told him "Crush said I could take it" The worst part is, as I had told him "ok you can pick it up tomorrow" the thought crossed my damn mind to specifically say "don't take any shit from my PSO characters" I should have known better.

Anyways, end of story, 2 days later when I saw him again, I punched him in the chode and took my shit back. I will trust him as far as I can throw him. And I have toothpick arms, so that is not very far.