PSO takes place millenia after the first show. The story's definitely there through online assignments as well as single player missions. It advised through weapon text. There's plenty of references to the elderly titles there and here. And that is PSO2 Meseta for sale only episode 1. The story follows the player character going through dungeons discovering notes left. As you follow along with clues and proceed through and unlock dungeons you find out she's been murdered and assimilated to bring on Dark Force's new incarnation.
You discover that he was shot and experimented on with Dark Force DNA and have to fight his mutated form. If you use of the"Red" Weapons, that were his talent to his student, to kill him with, his apparition appears in the event that you return to the boss room after beating him. It's been more than a decade since I have played it I'm sure I'm missing many details and I did not play the first 4 RPGs but there's definitely story and and there are, again plenty of references in it, especially in firearms and their flavour texts, to the old games.
Regardless of how long PSO2 will hold my attention, but I'm 100 percent to give it a shot given how much I enjoyed the first. The latency was a bit much to enjoy from the east coast, although tried playing on JP many years ago. I am west coast but at this point I might too wait for NA servers. Hopefully they do not offer the Xbox One players too much of a head start over us Windows players.Interesting that you mention latency being a problem. I am in Europe and I didn't notice any latency at all save for when loot is being picked up. The battle was not on a 300ms delay which is exactly what I have to any JP server.
In reality, this has been one of its strong points because I didnt feel held back by my space in the servers.This was due to the battle occuring client side. So when there is a lag spike it could appear like things have frozen following the spike is over but activities such as damage will follow through. Same as it pertains to enemy positioning. The strike detection is again client side and as like you hit it it counts even if its not exactly the same as other gamers.
I've begun playing with PSO in my telephone through the dolphin emulator. I have been enjoying on the Ephinea personal server with a buddy. Kinda neat to see this round the corner, but frankly none of the successors really captured the magic of PSO ever again. Phantasy Star Zero for the DS came the closest in my opinion.I loved Phantasy Star Universe. It wasn't a buy Phantasy Star Online 2 Meseta great game by any means but I had a blast playing with it. PSO2 manages to capture the identical sense for me.