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[MagiusNecros]

Played for a 8 hour session the other day. This game is magical. You have a light story that gives you mystery and intrigue, interesting weapon and stat weight system determining what you can equip and each race has it's own passives.

My first experience with PSO was PSO2 but for whatever reason with the combat spacing and being able to hotswap between item, spell and weapon menus makes for a very fun archaic game.

Gonna be hard to pull away from it. There really is nothing like it.

 

[MALpractice311]

I sunk many hours into this game on DC and GC. It was amazing.

 

[ClanOfNone]

As a big fan of the Master System and Genesis RPGs, I was crushed when the series went down this direction.
The disappointment was so great that I never even tried the PSO games. Perhaps I would've ended up enjoying them in their own merits, but dammit I wanted 32bit and beyond actual PS RPGs.

 

[clem84]

The official servers are gone, but you can still play PSO online on your Dreamcast, PC and/or GameCube. There's still a thriving community working on server software for the game. Just last year, a single-player hack, Return to Ragol, made waves.

I played hundreds of hours in the original game and PSO+ on the Gamecube. I remember thinking, imagine the exact same battle mechanics, weapon system, magic, the Mag, but in a single player game. A huge overworld with villages and dungeons, a elaborate story, lots of enemies. The battle would've been in real time just like PSO. It would've been unreal. I'm surprised they never did it.

 

[Mengy]

What are your memories of PSO? Did you play on Dreamcast, GameCube, or Xbox? Any stories from your time in the lobbies?

I bought PSO the week it came out and it is far and away the DC game I have played the most. I mean I literally have many hundreds of hours played with PSO, I even bought a Sega keyboard for the DC just for PSO. Its also the first online game I ever played seriously, in fact I only bought WoW in 2004 because I was looking for something to take the place of PSO as Sega had folded by then. Back then PSO was a big game here on GAF. We always played on one specific server (I forget which one it was) so we could all group up together, man so many GAF runs with PSO.

I still play it on my DC from time to time but offline only as the servers are gone, and I still have fun with it. Someday I'll get around to figuring out the Ephinea thing but part of me is afraid I'll get addicted again!

It baffles me why Sega hasn't done a remastered Steam version of the original PSO (or PSO+ from the Gamecube). None of the sequels captured the magic the original had, and I truly think a remastered port on PC would sell gangbusters and even thrive today. Especially if Sega started selling new chapters to it as DLC, I know I'd pay for it.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Game is still alive they figured out online mmo way back than

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I wish we got a new AAA Single Player Phantasy Star

I was never interested in the online games

 

[zerojjc]

I had version 1 on the Dreamcast in 2001. Since we had dial-up, and 1 home phone line that was bounced back and forth between actual calls and the PC using the internet, I never got online with the game. I did used to play 2 players with my best friend though. We only scratched the surface as I remember it being pretty tough for just 2 players, and we never beat the second boss. Then, all these years later, I was staring at my DC on the shelf and my brain started to think about PSO. I decided to check if it was at all even possible to play online still. Next thing I know i discover the Ephinea server on PC. I hopped on there the next day and started having a lot of fun. I then talked two of my RL friends into trying it out. Now the 3 of us have been running through the game each weekend, having a really fun time!

 

[DeVeAn]

God I love this game.

Yeah, what an experience at the time online games on a console.

 

[Hudo]

I wish we got a new AAA Single Player Phantasy Star

I was never interested in the online games

I wish Sega would do more with the IP in general. I once dreamt of a RGG Studio-made Phantasy Star game.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I wish Sega would do more with the IP in general. I once dreamt of a RGG Studio-made Phantasy Star game.

Sega has a lot of IPs especially when it comes to JRPGs where I would want them to bring back as big budget sequels to the older games. Skies of Arcadia 2, Dragon Force III etc etc

 

[Hudo]

Sega has a lot of IPs especially when it comes to JRPGs where I would want them to bring back as big budget sequels to the older games. Skies of Arcadia 2, Dragon Force III etc etc

A new proper Shining Force would also be cool.

 

[TintoConCasera]

A new proper Shining Force would also be cool.

Poor Camelot seem stuck on the Mario sports mines. Wish Nintendo pulled them out from there and allowed them to make a new Golden Sun or maybe even get the Shining license from whoever owns it (sega I guess)