More PSO Episode 3 shots, Commentary by yours truly! Options

[Crushinator]

Here's the logo...lookin' pretty spiffy.


Oh....beautiful lighting. The cards say SABER, DODGE, ATTACK, GUARD, DB SABER.
Notice the 9 block grid on the cards...I think this indicates the effective range of the card. Since both weaps are saber types, they can only attack the forward adjacent square, while the DODGE and GUARD cards have the entire area highlighted...


Cool jungle level...I hope that blue thing on the FOmar's head is a turn indicator and not another goofy hat. Since it says "move" seems like this game will take your battlefield position into play...that will add some strategy game elements.


HUnewearl and RAmar versus a FOmar in what looks like a spiffed-up Cave 2.


Bird's eye view of this awesome tower in the middle of the jungle...maybe its the elevator from P2 to the surface? (yeah yeah why do they need an elevator when they have teleporters...shut up.) I wonder what dice have to do with a card game.


HUnewearl and RAmar versus the FOmar and his RAcaseal compatriot. Looks like the FOmar's team has the advantage with a delbiter on their side...but the HUnewearl is weilding the Chain Sawd so anything goes!


I think this is the coolest looking area shown so far...That windmill is just too swawsome. Is that a mericarol I spy on the battlefield?


This screen says "DECK EDIT"...the HUnewearl's name is "SORUFA" or something. Sophie in english? Anyways, I love the new art direction for PSO. Very cool style to it, and it comes across in in the enhanced character models too. Let's see some HUcast action!


OOh a scary Hildebear! Card says "HILDEBEAR" duh. If my theory above holds true, looks like he can attack in a 3 block range in front of him. Does the red bar across the top of the card indicate he is fire element? I like how on the artwork for the card, there is a HUmar about to get punched in the face.


Ow! 4 damage, thats gotta hoit! Can't really tell who is taking the damage though...since the bar on "SORUFA"'s side is low, I guess its her. Cards say HILDEBEAR, SORUFA, and DARK FLOW. Weapons have HP eh?

[Crushinator]

The card lobby, I suppose. Since the card game uses pre-made characters, I guess this is the only spot where our custom characters (imported from PSOv3 I hope) will be used. Notice the ship name "Naka". How conceited!


Sweet jungle battle area. I like the lights cutting through the canopy of the forest.


Bird's-eye of the jungle battlefield. Man, those Chaos Bringers are big!


Beach battle area...In this screen we can actually see the grid on which you move. Check out the cutie FOnewarl with the poofy hat.


More cave battlefields. Looks like all the normal enemies will be represented in card form. I wonder if you can get boss monster cards.


Lots of cards here. From left to right..."C CANE", "FOIE", "MAGICAL P", "FOIE", MAGICAL P", "ATTACK", "PHOTON CLAW", "PHOTON CLAW", "SABER". Look at the grid on the FOIE cards...The effective range extends 2 blocks beyond the front of the grid.
Check out the RAcast with the C.Bringers rifle...he's so cool. I like how they combine Ultimate and regular difficulty monsters as different units. Finally Boomas and Tollaws can battle!

[DarkEpyon]

Looks cool, but the game engine looks more and more like MtG and Yu-Gi-Oh with PSO's graphics.

[OzzaJW]

ooh they look perty!!! i wasn't against this game, liemany were, to start with, and now i've seen this cool grid thing, it's starting to get me all excited. maybe like an online, 4 player jazzed up chess????

[Mute]

Some of the stage graphics look really great. I'm anxious to see this game in motion. The more I see it, the more I'm drawn to it. I'm not the biggest fan of card battle games, but I was highly addicted to SNK vs. Capcom Card Fighter on Neo Geo Pocket. If it's anything like that, I'll be hooked for sure.

[Henge]

those caps are pretty indeed... the characters in battle are PRE-created? i guess we'll have to see if it lives up to the images, and if the damn thing will cost more ontop of normal pso.

[OzzaJW]

woth some of ,my patented "Ozza-deduction" (a.k.a guessing) i've come to the conclusion over characters.

The character in the battle, are in fact cards. if you look at the sorufa picture, she is a card, with ranges and such. i think, as they are in every pic so far, that you MUST have a character alive to play,say in chess it's the king (i don't know chess at all, so i may be wrong here) and if she or he dies you lose. I think then you lay down certain thigns, eitehr equip them with things, or send out new monsters, so i reckon for lobby chat you can use your own look character, as shown in the lobby.

also i have deduced that the RAmarl 12345 is in fact a bingo-caller in her spare time. She has one of those suncaps with apparently no use, as they are see-thru, and have a gaping hole in the top, and then she has the patented bingo-caller puffy hair...

[Layrinn]

Well, here's something kinda interesting: (blatantly ripped from PSOW's front page)

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Play online and interact with Hunters from PSO Episode I & II in the lobby

Now, there are several ways to interpret this statement... but it might mean that the card game is in fact just an addition to what we already have now. Imagine this, if you will:

Our characters have the ability to collect cards in addition to their regular inventory. When we log on, it's business as usual... we chat in the lobbies and we can make an ep1 or ep2 game like always. If we want to play cards, we go to the new lobby and sit on the "ready area". (Notice how the three occupied positions have arrows in the one in front of the HUmar does not?) All three episodes existing together in happy harmony. ^-^

Ok, yeah... so it's wild speculation. *shrug* But it sure would be cool if that's how it ended up. Where's our E3 info, dammit?!? =O

[Sheik]

Oh yes, this is starting to change my mind. I would be willing to give it a shot. It might not be so bad after all. Seeing all those screen shots and such is changing my mind about the idea even it it is totally card battle, but I would hope that like Rinn said earlier that it will be integrated with EP1 and 2...

Even if it is not then it would still be neat as a side thing to do but I would hope that they keep the same format of the game as EP1 and 2 have already.

[DarkEpyon]

Hopefully, we'll be able to do just as 'Rinn said above. There are endless possibilities here. The answer to the whole photon sphere bit may lie within this game. There may even be ways to obtain weapons/items that are currently inaccessable in this version. A friend of mine told me something about a gold lavis musashi and some other stuff which he couldn't remember. Any of the aforementioned info should be taken with a big grain of salt.

[Dive]

I managed to get a hold of the preview video.

You can download it here.

Caution 4.8 Meg File

[Crushinator]

Rinn, that is my theory as well. Perhaps there will be "card lobbies" that will be added as an extension, just like the soccer lobbies were added to PSOv2...and the PSOv1 players simply couldn't access them. C.A.R.D. battle will just be another mode to PSO, like challenge or battle modes.

As for E3 info...well E3 hasn't even started yet so hold onto your horses! We'll know all we need to know by the end of this week.

Heh, that video is pretty cool. I like the effect of the monsters "loading in" when you select them.

[Sheik]

That video totally rocks. I like the way the enemies spawn in. From what I see it looks like the card game is a side thing. Let's hope so. But, still the idea is cool and I am more then willing to give it a try.

[Bryn]

QUOTE (Layrinn @ May 13 2003, 03:32 PM)

but it might mean that the card game is in fact just an addition to what we already have now.

This would make me very happy, and I would willingly shell out the $50 for the game. I'm really hoping that current characters can just be transferred over, and you will be able to access the new card lobbies (much like the transition from V.1 to V.2), although this may be a tad hopefull.

Either way, after watching the movie, Im definately more interested in the concept than I was before. I just dont want to have to maintain a seperate HL, if I'm still playing EPII.

[Tysie]

[ NO! NO! NO!

No new,i don't want another. Pleeease no.

Maybe...if i had a demo.

But NO!