Wii U Launching With More Than 23 Games

That was fucking disturbing 0_0

Yeah, I’d want it on the Wii U. I think the GamePad would be perfect for the form of gameplay that PSO2 has. I have an iMac now, so PC is out of the question for me, and I despise both the PS Vita and Android (have an iPhone, Android sucks monkey butt). For our western region, only the PC version has been confirmed (with what little news we know).

I’m hopeful it’s in the works for Wii U because Reggie stated we still have many third-party games that have not been announced yet for the Wii U.

I think I may have accumulated around 1500 over PSO Ep. 1 & 2 on the Nintendo GameCube and Blue Burst on PC after combining all of my play-time data for each of my characters.

If it does come to the Wii U, I hope we can just pay the normal retail price for the game and not have to worry about the freeware crap associated with it (play it like a REAL Phantasy Star Online sequel in other words without the microtransactions).

I’ve never liked Monster Hunter because the game is too gritty and realistic for me to really bother with, but I can see why the Japanese love the game to death. I have always thought of the PSO community as one that is stronger in the West than it has been in Japan.

I mean, PSO has a rich history of being the FIRST ever online game for a console (the Dreamcast). That alone speaks for itself and why it has such a large and diverse fanbase all across the world. That said, I do want the developers to take advantage of the Wii U’s capabilities though. A direct port with a couple of enhanced features that don’t try to do anything special with the interaction between the GamePad and the TV screen just won’t cut it for me.

In other words, all I ask for is a PSO2 on Wii U that doesn’t just display a map and your menu on the GamePad screen and call it finished. Use the GamePad to allow players to shoot in first-person mode as a Ranger when the display is above the screen (think Wii Sports Baseball Demo from E3 2011), allow us to play the game solely on GamePad, support Wii U Pro Controller (for PSOGC veterans), incorporate Miiverse functionality into the experience, interactive map on the GamePad (fleshed out and easy to search through with the tap-and-scroll of a finger like in Pikmin 3), streamline menus to GamePad, chat functionality (voice and text), and, most importantly, let up to five players play together (with one using GamePad and others using traditional Wii U Pro Controllers) to play some classic offline multiplayer gameplay.