World of Warcraft Vs. Phantasy Star Online - It's the Hunters Gazette!

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<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - July 28 2005 - 6:54 PM ]</font>

<P align=center><IMG alt="Phantasy Star Online Vs. World of Warcraft - The BIG Debate!" hspace=0 src="/uploads/news_images/hg_29_07_05_13.png" align=baseline border=1></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Another Fortnight, so another Hunters Gazette - It's like Bread and Butter, and just as tasty, well especially this edition anyways, as we settle the score!</FONT></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ever since the release of <EM>World of Warcraft</EM>, the amount of activity on not only the <EM>Phantasy Star Online</EM> servers, but also here has slowed right down, and we're pointing the finger at <EM>World of Warcraft</EM>, naturally! We know it's stolen many of our forumers, and i personally know its taken a lot more then that... but were they right to leave?! Well, lets go and have a peek as this fortnights Ragol.co.uk Hunters Gazette puts both <EM>PSO</EM> and <EM>WoW</EM> under the lamp (Well... we can't afford a spotlight).</FONT></P><P align=center><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="http://ragol.warcrafttavern.com/images/icons/gazette.gif" align=middle border=0><EM><STRONG>&nbsp;Hunters Gazette</STRONG>&nbsp;-&nbsp;World of Warcraft Vs. Phantasy Star Online</EM></FONT></P><P align=center><EM><A href="http://ragol.warcrafttavern.com/articles/EEkkVlAAFlYbRqACue.shtml"><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Click Here to go the the Hunters Gazette</FONT></A></EM></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><A href="http://ragol.warcrafttavern.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=8135">Once you've read it, why not have your say on the matter on our forums in this thread!</A></FONT></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">See you next time!</FONT></P>

[Ria]

I should of seen this coming! *gets in a bunker and puts a helmet on*

Ok, stupidly large world? Gimmie a break! It's perfect! A virtual world to live in, hunt in etc

With WoW it gives you more of a strategic play to it.

With PSO it's mainly a hack and slash game.

[Lee-yoshi]

Hehe, seriously, it is stupidly large! To run across would take a lifetime

And as i said, WoW is more strategic while PSO is more action H&S.

[Dark Imakuni]

I have to agree with Ria.

To be perfectly honest, I much prefer World of WarCraft to PSO. PSO can get repetitive and therefore boring if you do the same things over and over again. With WoW, you can discover new things each day (I have so far).

There is one major turning point though - the servers. Blizzard Entertainment's servers get knackered really quickly (well they seem to in my server Azjol Nerub) and crash often whereas PSO's servers rarely ever crash.

The one reason I don't play PSO Blue Burst is because I can't pay. I can pay in WoW though.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to attach a poll to this post...

[Ria]

PSO can get repetitive and therefore boring if you do the same things over and over again. With WoW, you can discover new things each day (I have so far).

That is true, listen... let's compare the GC version (since haven't played BB) shall we? I hope BB is quite similar here

You practically have levels in PSO. WoW offers you a continues world. In PSO you are supposed to explore a world, a few achers of land more like compared to WoW. The possibilies are endless, infact how can you be bored of the same levels when there is miles of land to explore!

WoW wins in the amount of weapons to collect.

PSO has 16 spells I take it? WoW has far more with status changing effects and more.

Above all which I particually like is you can SEE the armour you put on in WoW. Excuse the very few you can see on PSO.

I do like PSO, but I'm in favour of WoW here.

Blizzard is also more caring than the crappy ST are. Dare I say read a snippet in the latest Games master magazine to show how much Blizzard care.

[A.S.]

If I played WoW as long as I played PSO, I think I would have more interested in WoW. Come on.. ST sucks, you know it.

[Lee-yoshi]

While World of Warcraft is a HUGE game, i just cant see how the endless running around from one place to another (When you first start at least) wouldnt drive you nuts. Theres so much running around my finger turns blue from holding down the Up arrow key for so long :/ And obviously because of the size of the game, WoW would win in the amount of weapons because for a game this big you'd need to have a lot of different weapons to collect! How would it compare if you downsized it to the amount of weapons PSO has for its levels though?

Also, yes the servers are a lot more, here and there so to speak. When you get to a location with 3 or 4 different people roaming around it gets laggy very quickly. I mean, don't even bother with Ironforge! Although there are many great things to do in Ironforge, it does come at a hefty price of patience!

[Poo Fly]

PSO all the way!
you might say its repetitive, i just call it replayability!!

[Ria]

Well LEe, that's true WoW requires are huge amount of RAM, I belive it will run almost perfectly on 512MB RAM, Sol has 1GB of RAM which he says he doesn't get an inch of lag.

You just try playing the bloody game on 184MB RAM (My RAM ;. *cries*

[A.S.]

It's 500 MB for BB :(