Another anniversary??
I guess we never end to celebrate 20th anniversaries here in the blog eh!?!!!
Well I wanted to talk today about a very special game (just like PSO) but for other reasons...that appeared in my life around shortly before summer 2005, today is February 14 valentines day and we were 20 years ago still playing a lot of PSOBB, in fact we were about to get ready to try at long last Episode IV which was released as an expansion at the time but at the same time something else was brewing at SEGA and not exactly was PSU as I thought it was gonna be.
Oh no no it was gonna be something completely different ....
it was a brand new MMORPG called "RF Online" bound to be released very soon with an Open Beta Kicking off that summer....
SEGA at the time was gearing up to release the game and there was an incredible teaser site up with a showcase of the 3 races and elements of the game, sadly this one is lost of the internet archive so I cannot record it for you.
THe game was presented as SF Action RF Online, with this slogan it was exciting I remember I saw the game as a PSO for more mature audiences but I wanted to try it too!! and the fact many japanese guys in the PSO lobby began to talk about it and i could only see (as my japanese knowledge was none at the time)
sdoafjnsdofijf RF online!!
dsafoijsdof RF dsaiojdoisjd.
dsads RF defdf?????
fdsajifojdsfiosdjfosfd!!!
A very strange way to hype a game....
We had a little group of friends in PSOBB at the time with 2 english players that stayed playing with us, one of them called Tancients and another called Phoenix and then me, the 3 of us decided to jump into the RF Open Beta in the Ater server that summer and we were blown away.
The game was the first I played where you could actually kill another player, the concept of PvP, PK and the concept of a Korean Grind and such I learned it all here, well...we learned it the hard way you could say.... getting ganked is not fun when you are just trying to level up against very difficult monsters.
I learned a little Katakana from PSOBB but my japanese was still very bad to tackle this game but Tancients helped us with the traslations as this game was VERY hardcore with the kanjis too
But it was an unforgetable experience. A very unique concept, it was also an incredible Tokyo Game Show 2005 where it was the 2nd biggest online title being shown besides PSU and the convention where I got hyped the most of all the cool things that were about to come!!
Ulitmately we had to stop playing shortly after the beta after the TGS because the License for RF Online was prohibitely expensive for all of us (3000 yen a month vs PSOBB's 1050ish a month), it felt like a really premium game for sure...
Many things happened after this opening a new path of stories which also got interwined with my first experience playing Lineage II as well as RF again via private servers, I will write in a later post...
I feel like setting up a private server for it too to celebrate its 20th here at Kiyomizu too like the PSO server, im doing some research if it can be done or not but i dont have too many high hopes as this game is also non-solo friendly, really requires a lot of people online to make it work.
Cat... did you forgot to level up your PT's to their max at the same time as your level???
Yes...but I think i can recover and catch up with you guys
Cat...no, you have to remake the character from scratch and start all over...
BUT BUT WAIT BUT HOW!?!? WHY!!!???
Cat..you just locked yourself out of the game lol
..............*pain*
*delete character* *start again*
Witch...
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クラゲさん、HOTARUさん、TTKさん、みんな！！どこにいる？・・・
めっちゃなつかしい＞＜
楽しかったですね・・
Well I wanted to talk today about a very special game (just like PSO) but for other reasons...that appeared in my life around shortly before summer 2005, today is February 14 valentines day and we were 20 years ago still playing a lot of PSOBB, in fact we were about to get ready to try at long last Episode IV which was released as an expansion at the time but at the same time something else was brewing at SEGA and not exactly was PSU as I thought it was gonna be.
Oh no no it was gonna be something completely different ....
it was a brand new MMORPG called "RF Online" bound to be released very soon with an Open Beta Kicking off that summer....
SEGA at the time was gearing up to release the game and there was an incredible teaser site up with a showcase of the 3 races and elements of the game, sadly this one is lost of the internet archive so I cannot record it for you.
THe game was presented as SF Action RF Online, with this slogan it was exciting I remember I saw the game as a PSO for more mature audiences but I wanted to try it too!! and the fact many japanese guys in the PSO lobby began to talk about it and i could only see (as my japanese knowledge was none at the time)
sdoafjnsdofijf RF online!!
dsafoijsdof RF dsaiojdoisjd.
dsads RF defdf?????
fdsajifojdsfiosdjfosfd!!!
A very strange way to hype a game....
We had a little group of friends in PSOBB at the time with 2 english players that stayed playing with us, one of them called Tancients and another called Phoenix and then me, the 3 of us decided to jump into the RF Open Beta in the Ater server that summer and we were blown away.
The game was the first I played where you could actually kill another player, the concept of PvP, PK and the concept of a Korean Grind and such I learned it all here, well...we learned it the hard way you could say.... getting ganked is not fun when you are just trying to level up against very difficult monsters.
I learned a little Katakana from PSOBB but my japanese was still very bad to tackle this game but Tancients helped us with the traslations as this game was VERY hardcore with the kanjis too
But it was an unforgetable experience. A very unique concept, it was also an incredible Tokyo Game Show 2005 where it was the 2nd biggest online title being shown besides PSU and the convention where I got hyped the most of all the cool things that were about to come!!
Ulitmately we had to stop playing shortly after the beta after the TGS because the License for RF Online was prohibitely expensive for all of us (3000 yen a month vs PSOBB's 1050ish a month), it felt like a really premium game for sure...
Many things happened after this opening a new path of stories which also got interwined with my first experience playing Lineage II as well as RF again via private servers, I will write in a later post...
I feel like setting up a private server for it too to celebrate its 20th here at Kiyomizu too like the PSO server, im doing some research if it can be done or not but i dont have too many high hopes as this game is also non-solo friendly, really requires a lot of people online to make it work.
Cat... did you forgot to level up your PT's to their max at the same time as your level???
Yes...but I think i can recover and catch up with you guys
Cat...no, you have to remake the character from scratch and start all over...
BUT BUT WAIT BUT HOW!?!? WHY!!!???
Cat..you just locked yourself out of the game lol
..............*pain*
*delete character* *start again*
Witch...
-----------------------
クラゲさん、HOTARUさん、TTKさん、みんな！！どこにいる？・・・
めっちゃなつかしい＞＜
楽しかったですね・・
