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...
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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・・
Is it?..
Well I wasn't prepared for this sudden low-blow blackpill...
I think it's still happening tho, but not in the way I was hoping/expecting it to be..it is still a very sad state of affairs where everyone loses as Technofeudalism continues creeping in and getting dangerously close to install itself into our world...
But on the bright side, there was an important spell that has been broken, and is the one related to the Jews, they abused it so much that now they are kinda cornering themselves (again).
The world is gonna become a very dangerous place more than ever, as we keep triggering the bad ending route.
Pray and read the Bible
The Great Awakening never happened
— Greg Reese (@gregreese) February 12, 2025
I think it's still happening tho, but not in the way I was hoping/expecting it to be..it is still a very sad state of affairs where everyone loses as Technofeudalism continues creeping in and getting dangerously close to install itself into our world...
But on the bright side, there was an important spell that has been broken, and is the one related to the Jews, they abused it so much that now they are kinda cornering themselves (again).
The world is gonna become a very dangerous place more than ever, as we keep triggering the bad ending route.
Pray and read the Bible
It's a cruel joke
I managed to make the Windows XP Virtual Machine work and instantly decided to begin to ressurrect my original desktop from back in the day, alongside all my design programs and website making stuff.
This blog is not the first website I make, I've been working on the web since the year 2000ish when i was in middle school, albeit at the time I was doing mostly little websites for the school Intranet using FrontPage98, a few years later I decided to begin to make more proper stuff in Geocities using Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
Seeing my XP desktop back even in this form, and seeing all this software packages STILL working as intended without weird subscriptions is a cruel joke its some sort of a cruel torture.
And not only that, but says a lot of how dumbed down and limited all these programs have become, I gotta admit I had to take a few hours to re-learn all the menus again.
From Dreamweaver MX 2004, i'm here editing the main site of the PSOBB server I'm hosting here, in fact my plan is to make the whole site full HTML4 compliant again so I have to rebuild many things around in a backwards way to mae them all compliant with Internet Explorer 6 once again...
Then Photoshop CS2 (and even Image Ready!!) (I will be working in some little banners to share around), hell, even the texture DDS plugin from Nvidia is working again..
Surreal to see the original nVidia logo again when they were a real Hardware company, and it was always exciting to learn about their newest graphic card at the time (which I couldn't get) at the time I went the ATi way anyways with the almighty Radeon 9600XT
Ah but still....it's pure Bliss... (pun intended)
But CAT everyone hates you and your server!! why WORK ON THISAODASDJISAHDNIASUHD!?!?!
,nobody wants to play PSO in a biggoted nazz server!!! they are banning it everywhere too!!! kaput!
Could you please shut up for a minute?? do you really think I care?? *choke*
Let me enjoy better times without all the insanity we are living on at least for 5 minutes in this virtual box....
I'm tired...
Cat, cat... remember when your computer was very shitty coulnd't play PSO??
OH yes! I burned down that TNT2 for sure...but saved the allowance for the Radeon!!
Cat!... I miss those days too we had a lot of fun playing PSO and Lineage :(
Oh yes... yes indeed....
This blog is not the first website I make, I've been working on the web since the year 2000ish when i was in middle school, albeit at the time I was doing mostly little websites for the school Intranet using FrontPage98, a few years later I decided to begin to make more proper stuff in Geocities using Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
Seeing my XP desktop back even in this form, and seeing all this software packages STILL working as intended without weird subscriptions is a cruel joke its some sort of a cruel torture.
And not only that, but says a lot of how dumbed down and limited all these programs have become, I gotta admit I had to take a few hours to re-learn all the menus again.
From Dreamweaver MX 2004, i'm here editing the main site of the PSOBB server I'm hosting here, in fact my plan is to make the whole site full HTML4 compliant again so I have to rebuild many things around in a backwards way to mae them all compliant with Internet Explorer 6 once again...
Then Photoshop CS2 (and even Image Ready!!) (I will be working in some little banners to share around), hell, even the texture DDS plugin from Nvidia is working again..
Surreal to see the original nVidia logo again when they were a real Hardware company, and it was always exciting to learn about their newest graphic card at the time (which I couldn't get) at the time I went the ATi way anyways with the almighty Radeon 9600XT
Ah but still....it's pure Bliss... (pun intended)
But CAT everyone hates you and your server!! why WORK ON THISAODASDJISAHDNIASUHD!?!?!
,nobody wants to play PSO in a biggoted nazz server!!! they are banning it everywhere too!!! kaput!
Could you please shut up for a minute?? do you really think I care?? *choke*
Let me enjoy better times without all the insanity we are living on at least for 5 minutes in this virtual box....
I'm tired...
Cat, cat... remember when your computer was very shitty coulnd't play PSO??
OH yes! I burned down that TNT2 for sure...but saved the allowance for the Radeon!!
Cat!... I miss those days too we had a lot of fun playing PSO and Lineage :(
Oh yes... yes indeed....
Worth it
Being less and less interested in mainstream gaming I decided since like a year ago embrace the hell of Gacha anime games, and as I wrote before I've been playing this tactical military game called Girls Frontline 2, to this day I still continue playing this game on a daily basis.
And to my surprise I started to get into the game a lot lately! when was the last time I was looking forward to play a game so much? and even more a Gacha game???, these games I usually consider them little time killers that offer Events or Stories to watch like a Visual Novel rather to enjoy them too much for their gameplay (or lack thereof) but this time was different...
SO I made my very first purchase in a mobile game! just 1500 yen worth of a weapon pass to get some extra resources in the game to level up the dolls even more, is nothing fancy but it kinda goes against my previous policy of treat mobile games as entirely free to play games....
But for the amount of fun and joy this little game brought lately? I guess it's fair... at least give this small money in exchange...
BUT CAT BE CAREFUL WITH THESE GAMES THERE ARE DANGEROUS!!!
Is like a casino isn't it?
Yes cat but it's okay If you have fun I think it's OK too!
A little bit of thrill in life doesn't hurt from time to time too?
A small 'thrill' cat? your whole fucking life is a fucking thrillercoaster!!!!
Oh shut up....
And to my surprise I started to get into the game a lot lately! when was the last time I was looking forward to play a game so much? and even more a Gacha game???, these games I usually consider them little time killers that offer Events or Stories to watch like a Visual Novel rather to enjoy them too much for their gameplay (or lack thereof) but this time was different...
SO I made my very first purchase in a mobile game! just 1500 yen worth of a weapon pass to get some extra resources in the game to level up the dolls even more, is nothing fancy but it kinda goes against my previous policy of treat mobile games as entirely free to play games....
But for the amount of fun and joy this little game brought lately? I guess it's fair... at least give this small money in exchange...
BUT CAT BE CAREFUL WITH THESE GAMES THERE ARE DANGEROUS!!!
Is like a casino isn't it?
Yes cat but it's okay If you have fun I think it's OK too!
A little bit of thrill in life doesn't hurt from time to time too?
A small 'thrill' cat? your whole fucking life is a fucking thrillercoaster!!!!
Oh shut up....
