>born in 1986
>i will never be 15 again living in winter 2001 playing Phantasy Star Online on my Dreamcast with my buddies from high school
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_dWalQdIN0 [Embed]
where has the time gone
>born in 1987
>spend hundreds of hours on this with brother
Was gamecube though.
>>333910139
Wow... What a beautiful video.
What will we have to do to get a masterpiece like that again?
this looks comfy as hell
i wish i got into video games earlier so i could have experienced this
>>333910139
blue burst is pretty good
i play here from time to time
http://ephinea.pioneer2.net/
>>333910139
>born in 89
>family friend brings his dreamcast over 1 time and I play it with him, I'm in love
>dont see him again for a while
>comes out for gamecube
>my entire group of middleschool friends play it from 7th-8th grade
>almost every day after school we'd meet up at each others houses and load up our characters
>got level 120
>what great memories of fighting bosses at 2 am, drinking sprite tropical remix
>walking to the 24 hour corner store to buy more peach rings and blue gummy sharks.
>>333912556
Nigga are you one of my friends?
>>333912556
if your name is; Craig, Josh, Peter, Marcus, or NickYes.
>>333910139
I feels bad missing out on this. One of these days i might get a GC and PSO even if it cost like 70+ dollars.
>>333912052
It was super comfy, but there were some serious problems as well.
I remember getting disconnected because of a phone call (56k was fucking terrible for gaymen) and losing items because Sega did its best to stop duping.
oh incredible memories. this game is the tits
is it still possible to play this game? never played it before and I want to try
>>333914546
On official DC/GC? No, servers are down.
There are private servers on PC, DC, and GC though.
>>333914658
is it worth trying to play the private servers?
I never touched PSO1, but I loved the shit outta PSU
>Free demo on XBLA that anyone could play
>Managed to talk a few friends into actually getting the game.
>Played everyday after school for a fucking year.
>>333914085
it was an amazing thing playing online back in 2001 on a 56k modem with other people. a mean, a console rpg online? wow!
i played it SO DAMN MUCH i remember so much about it and i'll never get those days back.
it all ended when i did the stupidest thing possible and thought i could start up my game file before turning on my TV. at the time, i had an older tv, so it had to warm up for a bit and tl;dr i deleted my save file i had with TONS of 12 star shit, rare mags and a good hundreds of hours spent from about 2001 to 2006.
>>333912052
>>333914085
You lot are aware that you can still play the PC version, yeah? There's not that huge a difference.
>born in 1980
>will never experience /v/ in its prime
Big fucking deal
>>333914796
Yeah, communities are small but the game lives still. Give it a shot.
This guy >>333912315 has the link.
>>333910139
>play PSO on the DC
>someone joins your party and uses Gameshark to kill you
>he proceeds to steal your only Spread Needle and leaves the party
I have nothing but very bad memories of PSO.
>born in 1993
>mom gifts me and my younger brother a gamecube with melee a little after release, holy shit
>see my older brother playing PSO on his PC, do my research and find PS1&2+ for $49 used online
>split the cost with lil bro and get mom to buy it from ebay
>spend hours creating characters and leveling up and enjoying the coolest game ever, invite black and mexican neighbors over and do 4-player split-screen on a 12-inch TV
>tfw this game broke the racial barriers for all of us when we werel so young
>>333910139
I remember having to pay $5-$10 a month for the Sega Dreamcast ISP service because this game would lag like hell for me when using AOL.
I'm surprised how good it ran online with 56k connections.
>>333916575
never had to, PSO v1 was free, v2 had a hunters licence for 10 a month.
>>333916273
>>333916273
I want to slowly rip apart whoever at SEGA thought it would be a good idea to drop your weapon when you die.
>>333912315
>Ephinea
Play on a real server anon.
>>333916809
PSO was a complete hell when everything was clientside
Players using Gameshark were able to create weapons that would only work for players using Gameshark. If that player dropped it and and someone who's not using Gameshark picks it up then the server would kick you and you wouldn't be able to log back onto that character since you would just get booted again.
Why didn't anybody play the fucking soccer game on lobby 15 on the GC? That shit was fucking fun.
>>333910139
dreamcast had online support?
>>333917207
built in 56k modem
>>333917035
I seem to recall getting booted from online when I picked up a soul banish, but I was able to connect again after I dumped it.
The Dreamcast is the main vidya system that brings back so many great memories. About to turn 29 and I have no idea where the time went, but it was a blast. Playing online on a console blew my mind (didn't have the net at home until '99).
>playing PSO v1 with friends and AOL/AIM or forum buddies
>Bomberman Online
>making graffiti and downloading it to use in JSR
>friends staying over fridays, late night trash talk while playing MvC2 or Project Justice
>that one time two friends and I successfully played 'sick' and got to stay home, secretly playing more PSO
>>333916273
>tfw right before I stopped playing I picked up a Gameshark
>had a qt FOnewearl that I'd run around as
>just shit meseta/other simple things to give to people and spam chat bubbles
>>333917207
Yeah, it did. It had a removable dial-up modem and also a (much rarer) broadband adapter.
>>333910139
>wondered why everyone was able to talk real fast in the game
>realized everyone was using the Dreamcast keyboard
>went out the next day and bought one despite having 0 typing skills.
This game taught me how to type.
Thank you Sega.
>>333917280
Not built in, although most consoles did include the dial up modem. Some Asian ones didn't have a modem, only a cover.
>Sega proceeds to shit on it's western fanbase by making PSO2 nip only
>b-but you can still play it and download the translation patch
still doesn't excuse them
>>333910139
Gamecube version was better,
It's basically the same thing, but you could do 4 player split screen.
Me, my friend, my brother, and his friend beat the game doing 4 player split screen. shit was fun as fuck.
I never much cared for ep.2 though....
>you will never come home from school in the early 2000s and watch G4 when it was still 100% video games, and then switch to spike and laugh your ass off at MXC
r-right you are ken
;_;
I have no idea how I could waste so much time on it back then.
Recently looked back at it and it some of the most boring gameplay combined with the worst kind of grinding rng.
How the fuck did I waste so much time on this game?
>>333910139
>born 1985
>played this shit religiously with friends from high school
>at dark falz for the first time in very hard mode
>one of our friends dc's for a long time
>lets do this
>go in 3 manning this shit
>get to his last phase
>2 buddies die to his grantz attack
>be fomarl
>out of moon and star atomizers
>save friends or use my tp to kill him and keep me alive so grantz wont kill me
>decide to solo it
>doing good hes about 1% in
>door bell rings
>let buddies know door bell is ringing
>tell me to not be a faggot and keep playing
>door bell keeps ringing
>oh fuck wat do i do?
>losing concentration
>realize its the pizza i ordered about an hour ago
>decide that this victory will be worth the sacrifice of my pizza
>planets and stars aligned and boss dies
>cutscene plays
>drop control and run out of house and cahse pizza guy
>he heard me yelling and stopped
>i payed him with no tip cause fuck that
run back home
>rez buddies
>we celebrate by yelling and screaming like faggots
>say our goodbyes and i go enjoy my pizza
This was literally the pinnacle of all my gaming experiences. I cannot make this shit up.
The best use of the modem was for porn
I had my dreamcast in my bed room as a kid. I also had a PC in there, but I preferred to look at porn on my 29" TV instead of my 13" monitor.
Only downside was that it was really annoying to navigate with the controller.
>>333917907
GC version also had more items and fixed a ton of bugs
Blue Burst was the best version though
still my favorite game
I play it with my brother every time I see him
dark falz on hard+ is still probably my favorite boss fight
>>333917907
episode 2's vr shit was awful, the mazes and bad camera angles sucked
the rest of it was ok but we never played singleplayer so we never got anywhere
my brother's memory card got lost or something so he was transferred on mine forever ;_;
>>333914901
Mah nigga. That free demo was the shit. My friends and I used to play it constantly because it was the only way to have a multi-person conversation going in the early days of the 360 before the party system was introduced.
We hung out at that juice bar on the one planet all the fuckin time.
>>333910139
Fuck I was not ready for that memory card select music.
Goddamn it.
What happened?
>>333918117
I had a save file corruption on my lvl 52 character,
and my brothers friend had one also, not sure what level he was.
It's too bad the games following weren't anywhere near as good.
I tried Phantasy Star Universe, and it was shit.
I played PSO:2 when it came out, and it just didn't have the same feeling / same magic as PSO1 did.
>>333917374
I had the official strategy guid, and fapped to that elf chick's stomach. Truly a golden age.
>>333917374
>brings back so many memories
>If you are 18 you were born after the development of the dreamcast
>>333915586
You can't get NOL'd in the PC version though.
>>333912556
i dont need this feeling tonight
>>333918397
what about pk'd?
>>333917774
>tfw Episode 4 is disappointing so far
>tfw Yamato would probably be as underwhelming as PD and Magatsu
There should be more EQs like the mining base ones where everyone works together.
>>333917620
they didn't fucking matter
only 1st world countries do
>born in 93
>never get to play it online
>friends never get into it
>solo all the way to the end of ultimate
>spent thousands of hours trying to get that fucking chainsaw they show off in the intro
I was so fucking tired of finding varistas.
>>333918397
mother fucking still remember i got pk'd and lost my legit spread needle.
So what is the best class and why is it RaCast?
>>333918538
how about slicer of assassin?
all my hours are offline, easily over 5000 across the characters I had
>>333917374
>that one time two friends and I successfully played 'sick' and got to stay home, secretly playing more PSO
Jared, is that you?
>>333915586
The difference is that the remaining community is all high level well geared experts, so trying to get into the game now is somewhat of a solo experience. Still well worth playing, though. It's my favorite game of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5LnceyDmro
>>333918397
I pretty much never got past level 20 in PSO DC because I'd always get NOL'd around that point. Good times.
>>333917280
no built in modem
I paid $35 dollers for the attachment.
There is an empty space on the bottom of each Dreamcast, where you can put the attachment.
you buy it and plug it into your dreamcast, then you could go online with it.
online was filled with hackers back then though, much moreso than it is now.
>>333918624
Yeah fucking that too.
My best drop i can think of was a hildeblues head.
Got it right after a hildebears head dropped.
>>333912052
>comfy
You genuinely need to end yourself.
>Born in 1987
>remember when I first got Tetris from Dad
>I bitch about it not having any "bad guys" in it
>On that same day I play it some more just to humor my dad
>Dad says "but you said you didn't like it"
>I tell him "I actually do. It's fun"
>Turns out to be one of my most favorite games of all time
You know, sometimes you just gotta try new things, even if they may not seem like they're all that good initially. You never know what will be a lifetime passion. That was a lesson that Dad taught me that day. Just try it out, you might like it.
this video will trigger some of you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX2T9w0wofM
>>333917936
I'd get home in time for Cinematech.
>ywn be 16 again, wanting to fuck Diane Mizota
>>333917620
>>333918686
Odd, I never knew that in some regions it didn't come with the modem. My friends and I never had to buy one since it had the dial-up already attached (got the systems brand new).
Getting a broadband adapter was pretty much impossible though since it was never in stock and is now a collectible.
>>333918751
Oh, this isn't a nostalgia thread, it's a Phantasy Star general. Sorry.
>>333918308
PSO2 is more like PSU2.
>>333918753
>That moment of sheer panic when you make a mad dash for the power button.
>>333917620
Mine didn't have the dial up modem, only the cover for the spot, I had to pay for the dial up adapter, which fit into the slot in the bottom of the Dreamcast. and I live in America.
so cut your bullshit
NO consoles included the dial up modem.
except for maybe at the end of gen if they released a new version of the console which I didn't hear anything about.
I bought mine the week it came out, I still have it and works great. I only bought the dial up modem to play Unreal Tournament since PSO required you to pay an ADDITIONAL FEE, separate from the online fee for getting you dreamcast online.
>>333918898
Both are fine.
>>333918641
>Jared
Nah, I'mMax.
This game had great style. I miss first-party dreamcast quality.
>>333918883
Do you live in some 3rd world country?
because no new Dreamcast in America had the modem adapter
Why can't they just rerelease this game on a handheld or something? I'd buy ten fucking copies.
>>333918946
Alright, good. Didn't want to seem like the asshole in the room here. I thought about getting Phantasy Star Online back in the day, but in the end I didn't. There was no way my setup would agree with it. My TV being in a completely different room and all. Plus no one else around me played PSO. It's really too bad.
>>333918941
I don't know exactly when I bought my DC, I know it was around 2000-2001. But mine definitely came with the modem already inside.
>>333918751
but anon Tetris is great. Born in 90 and Tetris is in my top 20 games of all time.
>Born in1996
>I will never again go to Blockbuster for game rentals and a candy bar
I may have cause a great deal of commotion in the video game world, but nothing will fill the gap like coming home and loading up spyro the goddamn dragon
>>333918483
Amen to that. Those A.I.S. mechs are fun as FUCK to ride around in. I'd play the mining missions even if you didn't gain gobs of XP just to fuck around in those things.
>>333919101
No worries man.
PSO threads are always chill so you don't seem like an asshole.
Also be glad you didn't get into PSO
It is a huge time sink.
>Spending hours racing around London trying to shave milliseconds off my laptimes.
Photon Drop x1
>>333919145
Yeah I know, I love Tetris. It's just that initially, I didn't like it. I hated it because it didn't resemble the games that had been advertised to me, or the vision I had for vidya. I thought it was just about "killing the guy until he dies" but I was wrong.
Tetris taught me a lesson. Just try new stuff out. Because sometimes it ends up being something truly amazing.
>>333919101
>Plus no one else around me played PSO. It's really too bad.
Somehow we got to know people from even Canada. Were friends with them so much at that point that we even said we'd take a road trip up there when we got old enough.
Of course, these relationships grow cold when the only thing that kept it alive is cut off; we never got v2, and we grew tired of v1 after playing it for so long. I can only wonder what those guys are up to these days.
>>333919267
What were those even used for?
>>333919108
I got mine in 1999,
and then it didn't have it, and it wasn't until later that they sold it as an attachment......
maybe they released a new version of the console under everyone's noses, which as a marketing point doesn't make sense, you think they'd advertise that the new version of Dreamcast has addons that the old would would have to pay more for.
but then again, Sega was never good at marketing, and that is why the console section of them crashed and burned.
>>333919361
Online you could trade for something.
Offline to infuriate you.
>>333919054
>because no new Dreamcast in America had the modem adapter
Uh, yes the did. At least if we're talking about the dial-up modem.
I live in the states. Neither of my friends had to purchase one and the two DCs I acquired (for collection, one was new but I popped the box open to check everything) later on had them also.
>>333918941
I got my Dreamcast at launch and it had a modem
>yfw AddSlot
>>333919361
its been so long, but if i remember correctly you could exchange them for shit, but you needed a TON of them and could only do it at a secret merchant.
>>333919289
It was the same with me and Mario Kart DS. We formed an entire community around it. In the end it all crumbled away. It's sad how life changes like that. Only once did I meet one of those guys, and it was in Chicago. IRL he was really awkward and shy.
I was 18 around that time and he was just a little kid. Looking back I acted like an asshole to him. At that point he learned how flawed people can be, even his heroes. To think he even looked up to me. What a waste.
>>333919405
>he didn't know how to dupe 99 Star Atmoizers and Trifluids using PDs
>>333918753
I got PK'd tons of times but never knew something like NOL existed
Holy shit was I lucky
>>333919416
>>333919421
You are both lying pieces of shit, I still have mine. It's 20 feet from me. the dial up modem did NOT come with the system,
>>333919195
Yeah you guys always seem chill. I think that's partially why I'm drawn to these threads. It's something I always wanted to be apart of but never was.
Perhaps you're right though, maybe it's for the best. Hell sometimes I think finding 4chan was a curse. All the years seem to blend together now.
>>333919405
Infuriate isn't quite what I'd use to describe the 3 stacks of 99 i had on my characters
>>333919531
>>333919267
>That one rare you never found, and got seemingly hundreds of PDs in the process
What's her name, /v/?
>>333919531
Yes, it did. I was another launch buyer in the US - in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, at that - and mine had the dial-up modem as well.
What it didn't have was the network adapter for broadband. That was always sold seperately as far as I know, unless it was packed in late in the lifecycle. But I had no way to use that at the time anyway.
>>333919531
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast
>Chinese economist and future Sega.com CEO Brad Huang convinced Sega chairman Isao Okawa to include a modem with every Dreamcast despite significant opposition from Okawa's staff over the additional $15 cost per unit.
>>333919739
Lavis Cannon
had to get a friend to dupe 1 for me
>>333910139
>born in 90
>I will never be 13 again, living in summer 2003, playing Phantasy Star Online on GameCube with my buddies over the internet
Where has the time gone, indeed, OP.
>>333919531
Just so happens I have my DC box right here. It's the one I got for xmas as a kid.
Dunno why yours didn't come with a modem. That's really odd, dude.
>>333919510
>I don't want to find any rares ever.
>>333919739
I never got any of the katanas
a friend of mine had the j-sword
Pretty much the entirety of Episode 1 put me to sleep, holy shit. I want to have a romping good time with my friends after hours, not be lulled to sleep with the atmospheric music and laid back atmosphere of even the Ruins.Didn't stop me from reaching level 85 or so before quitting, though
>>333919741
>>333919763
All I know is that MINE did NOT have a modem, and in order to play games online I had to buy the modem plugin, which took a telephone plug.
Rangers felt so useless in this game.
If it's close have the hunter deal with it.
If it's far have the force deal with it.
>>333919830
I remember thinking that you couldn't find rares if you weren't "Legit," but my cheating friends found rare items all the time.
Anyone else fall for this?
>>333919969
AND I bought my dreamcast the day it came out...
>>333918941
You imported your console then, all units sold in the USA had the 56k modem. The Japanese console, released almost a year earlier, had a 33k modem or none, until the NA launch when they added the 56k adapter by default. The console is not region locked, as evidenced by that it will also play CD-R backups easily, even the ones that were made after 2001 or whenever the cutoff for that supposedly not working anymore is.
>>333919054
All NA consoles came with the 56k modem. The BBA was incredibly rare (they're 150$ on ebay when they show up twice a year).
![IMG_8146[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/1AsEaoW.jpg "IMG_8146[1].jpg")
>>333918941
No, the standard dreamcast had a modem in the box since launch. It's even in the launch brochure. The only models I could even find that didn't have the model are the HKT-5010 for hong kong and apparent some rev 0 models that were for rental places like block buster and holloywood video. Maybe there are other models, but the modem was standard in mainstream models in America and Japan and there was even mention of it in wiki that sega was reluctant to put the modem in there, but was persuaded to.
No need to be a dick, asshole. Just makes you look like an even bigger douche when you're wrong.
>>333919969
That's fine. Though I don't know why you didn't have yours either.
Quit fucking calling people liars though. You could've googled this to check in five seconds if you were right or we were.
>But seriously Maddox what does everything in the future look like to you?
>Like Phantasy Star Online
>>333920063
This
Mine came with one too.
>>333919830
The hell are you talking about? Doing the 99 Fluids trick isn't gonna alter your drop table you fucking moron.
>>333916853
both servers are full of hackers
at least ephinea is not full of brs and spics and GMs using global braodcast for personal messages
>>333919823
That phone cable was fucking absurdly long.
>look at manual
>it was 32.8 ft long
>>333911513
PSO was literal perfection. I played so much Blue Burst back in the day. What a world.
>tfw the US 3DS Dreamcast theme plays the PSO title/lobby music and pressing the A Button plays the classic PSO confirmation sound
So good.
>>333919531
Your mom must have taken it out to keep you away from the dangerous internets, LOL
This commercial still gives me chills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw6hosekixk
>>333910139
>[Embed]
>>333919969
Then you got fucked, every new DC had a modem. Stop being a raging faggot and admit that you didn't even bother looking it up.
>>333920726
THAT COMMERCIAL
MUH DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK
>>333920767
>being an autist on purpose
hows that working out for you?
>pso comes out
>love it but it feels lacking in areas
>blue burst is the best version of it but the billing service is fucked and the server constantly has problems
>psu comes out
>find it to be a direct improvement in almost every way
>gets even fucking better with aoti and eventually master classes
>everyone is a nostalgia kid who wanks over pso because its the cool thing to do and shits on psu because again, its the cool thing to do
JFMSU
>>333920661
I consulted with my older brother, born in '86 I was born in '90 turns out I made a huge ass of myself on here, and what I was thinking about was replacing the dial up modem with the other addon that made better internet possible.
Even then though, I never played PSO online because it cost extra money my parents didn't want to playl I still beat it though with 3 friends playing split screen on the gamecube version
>>333920483
Needed to go from bedroom to phone port somehow
>>333910139
Game is terrible.
I played with 2 "hardcore fans". All they did was bitch about dying over and over.
I guess, just like WoW, good memories came from being young and sharing the pain with others.
>>333920974
I'm not the one being an autist on purpose though, no need to project your flaws on others.
>>333921003
PSPortable 2 was an even further improvement.
>>333920974
>pointing out something silly
>A-A-A-AUTIST!
Anon, you are the autsts.
>>333918753
Fuck, it's like watching a snuff video. That's just messed up.
>>333916507
I was expecting the story to end in neighbours robbing you
>born in 90
>5th grade meet some new asian kid named george
>become quick friends since we both like video games
>go over to his house to play runescape
>after a long time scaping we take a break and he shows me PSO
>instantly fall in love with it
>the music, the fucking music oh my god
>fucking ROBOTS holy mother
>he shows me the ropes and lets me play for like 3 hours while he plays fire emblem on SNES
>his mom with her super strong vietnamese accent yells "GG DINNA TIME YO FRIEND EAT TOO"
>amazing dinner, don't remember what it was but for a 11 year old white kid in the midwest it was something magical
>after dinner, bike home and rinse and repeat this for about 2 years until he moves away
i can still remember the smell of that tiny apartment to this day and anytime I listen to the PSO soundtrack it brings me back
>>333920016
>>333920282
Not being legit and having an impossible number of items are different things. Supposedly you CAN still find rares if you have a cheated stack of items, but the drop rate is obscenely high. I personally don't remember ever finding the most common of shit rares while I had stack of 99 atomizers/etc in my inventory. I'm pretty sure having a hacked level mag will have the same effect.
>>333921348
that's a great story
>>333921179
The PSP games suck ass because of the chain system. Completely slows the game down and makes killing simple spawns turn into a big ordeal because you need a 10+ chain to do comparable damage to what you would do in PSU
Fuck the PSP games
>>333920726
So.... since it said forever....... could we not legally make a class action lawsuit against them
'
>>333921348
Sounds like you had a terrible childhood..... did your parents beat you?
Aldo born in 1986. PSO is legit one of the top five games of all time. It's a shame that not only do the sequels not play like it, but there haven't been any copycat games either. Meanwhile garbage like Monster Hunter gets tons of clones despite playing like garbage. I hate this industry. Sega should put Blue Burst up on PSN and XBL and make it cross play with the PC version.
>>333921003
I played PSU and I seriously thought / still think it's a single player game... that is why I never dared to compare it to PSO
Are you trying to tell me PSU was an online game?
>>333921864
ok, well you're at least a homosexual,.. right?
from what you've said it sounds like it...
PSO 2 isn't bad, but man does Sega go overboard with the advertising. The last time I played they had an Attack on Titan statue in the lobby, and an ad for Dengeki Bunko on a giant TV across from it.
I kind of want to get back into it though.
>>333921863
Of course m8, the story carried onto online with episodes 2 and 3 (ep3 was aoti only). it took a few chapters to find its placing but you gotta believe me, if you enjoyed the world or characters of PSU, you wouldve loved the online story mode. and the customization, variation, and lobbies made the online fantastic. Events were the best in the series, each one was very different from the last. That god damn feel of completing a mission and watching pink text scroll up saying YOU GOT A RARE MISSION
You missed out on PSU if you never played it online
>>333921003
People want over PSO because it was amazing game. PSU was very underwhelming in nearly every area and deserves to be forgotten.
>>333921863
m8, really? Yes, it was online. Of course the single player mode has very different balance, easymode monster stats and fast level ups, but there was a online mode too.
PSU was pretty shit though, I wouldn't even want to play that one online, story mode was enough.
>>333910139
pls no, I've lived this feel for too long.
>this is PS and Sega now
>>333922069
Epic meme!
>>333921707
But Monster Hunter is the copycat of PSO.
>>333921863
Dude, yes.
Dude, it was MADE for Online!
>>333922175
It's no meme. It was a mediocre game and very disappointing at the time. Just because it was your first videogame doesn't mean you get to dismiss its flaws.
>>333922057
>>333922098
I never played any PS online, so I guess what I meant to say is that I didn't like PSU because it didnt' have 4 player split screen.
I don't want to play online with people I don't know, I have friends in the real world that want to play games with me.
We ended up playing WC3 instead.
>>333922263
I only played it single player, and since it didn't have offline multiplayer I stopped playing it.
>>333922240
Monster Hunter plays nothing like PSO. Monster Hunter is also terrible.
>>333921006
It's all good, dude. We all make mistakes. I never touched PSO Ver 2 since it had a subscription. I only played Ver 1 on DC. One buddy of mine had to constantly find free ISPs to use for dial-up to play PSO and nobody on my block had broadband at the time.
Never had the GC version but splitscreen sounds amazing.
>>333921110
>>333921202
>gets triggered by a simple mistake
>not an autist
fuck off autist
>>333922069
People like PSO because it was a split screen MMO were you and your friends could come togeter to beat shit.
PSU is shit
>>333922441
Dreamcast version wasn't split screen. People liked it for the online. Also there was nothing massive about the game so it was the really an MMO.
>>333922441
Good, PSU is the same thing with more variety and better combat, glad to know its better than PSO
>>333922357
>4 player groups
>mission based
>grind for gear
It's pretty similar, MH just adds a dodge button.
>>333922240
Monster Hunter is a copy of PSO,
but Monster Hunter has much much worse controls.
super clunky controls to where it's barely playable.
only new-age kids like it. because they don't know any better.
If you like Dark Souls and you are over the age of 12, I feel bad for you...
>>333922069
The problem with PSu comes down towards two different ordeals:
Crafting & Grinding
PP Usage and Skill leveling
The first bit was horrible as you couldn't just 'find' a rare weapon anymore, oh no. You found a crafting board. A crafting board had to use collected materials, and your Partner Machine to build the weapon, and after the crafting board was used so many times, that's it, it's gone for good ( almost all of the weapons were 1 time use BTW ). There is a chance for this to fail, and greater still if your Partner Machine isn't upgraded for that style of weapon. Then even IF you somehow got your weapon, you now have to grind it uup to be as strong as it can be. This was horrible as before AotI, grinding would DESTROY your weapon if it failed. That's it, it's gone for good, go get another board and start again. After AotI though, it became a reset to 0, and the max grind was now -1 of what it was before ( +10 was the cap, but it wasn't uncommon to see people stuck with 5/5 or 6/6 weapons due towards shitty luck. Getting a 9/10 or 10/10 was almost insane ).
Then we have the fact that skills no longer come in 'ranks' of levels, but now directly level up from use, and they will get better at 11, and 21 in use with more options. What this means is till you cap out a skill, you were going to spam that skill endlessly without thinking about it. Rangers had it the worse with bullets as even just ATTACKING ate PP.
...but hey, we had PSO in PSU so that's cool.
>>333922591
Dude theyre COMPLETE FUCKING OPPOSITES. Online phantasy stars dont have you chase a shitty retarded boss in a forest for 30 minutes slowly nipping away at its feet until it dies with terrible clunky shit controls. You go from room to room clearing out spawns of simple enemies into 2 or 3 areas/blocks/sectors and finish the level with a boss fight thats less 3 minutes if youre not trash.
Dont EVER compare MH to PS again you faggot ass cuck
>>333922526
but online cost extra, if you had 3 friends that were into the game, you could play together without additional cost. It was a 4 player split screen MMO on the gamecube.
>>333910139
https://youtu.be/swXpOhsY5kA
I will forever hate myself for never playing this
I was a kid and I remember getting this promo DVD in the mail or at Blockbuster or something
I just watched it over and over and thought it was fucking mesmerizing
My brother and our friends used to play PSO on a TV in our garage during the summer, along with Super Smash Bros 64. WITH A GOD DAMN COOLER FILLED TO THE BRIM WITH FLAVORED ICE.
Those were the days.
>>333922758
I agree with this anon.
yeah, maybe compared to an action game PSO combat is clunky, but it is nowhere near as bad as the combat in Monster Hunter.
>>333922149
>No frilly dresses or layered wear
>No expensive accessories
>No pigtails or semi-long hair
No one plays as mature women anymore, loli shit is more sought after.
>>333922821
yeah, but the Gamecube was the ONLY version of the game with splitscreen as well is what everyone else is saying.
>>333922979
The Gamecube version was / is the only version worth playing.
I thought PSU wasokay. The grinding was too much though. Everything had to be grinded and it would take fucking forever to level all that shit up. And then there's the actual grinding thing with weapons that was just pure RNG agony.WHO SAID WE ARE LOST AGAIN IN THIS LONELY WORLD
>>333922821
Version 1 on DC didn't have an online sub. Splitscreen on Gamecube was fucking awesome though.
>>333923091
Another thing I'd like to mention is that there was no reason for this game to have a 15bux subscription. The missions were hosted locally and shit desycn'd like crazy. It was like everyone was playing in their own universe until a boss showed up.
>>333923091
In earnest PSU was the middle ground needed so stuff like PSO2 could be done with better ideas behind it.
I still loved playing it back in 2007/2008 though, yet I know I wouldn't be able to go back towards it today given how painfully slow it all was.
>>333922758
>chase for 30 minutes
lol if it takes you more than 10 minutes to finish a quest, you're just bad
>>333923181
I only played it on Gamecube, to play online cost extrra money, so instead I got 3 friends together to play / beat the game.
>>333923091
That grind was fun though because it made it seem like you were actually a rookie guardian and you werent a master at all of your photon arts immediately. So you had to train/decide what you were going to become an expert in and learn all the kinks of the weapon.
For my hunter, I ended up sticking with sabers, twin sabers, twin daggers, axes, swords, spears, twin claws, and slicers, so i was usually a fortefighter/acrofighter/fighmaster. For my gunner, shotguns, rifles, and laser cannons were my shit. I was a gunmaster permanently when master classes came out. I always wanted to get into force but could never afford good rods and tech mags so I unfortunately never got to master forces.
My gunner did also sub in as an acrotecher and protranser though. Holy fuck was playing support fun in PSU, acrotecher buffs felt so amazing to receive and give, and dropping freeze and stun traps while shooting shit up with my shotgun as a protranser was fucking fun. Both casts, mostly because of pic related >>333923257
MAG was the event where paradi cataract came out wasnt it? Before that got nerfed it was so beautiful to call in and destroy mobs in one go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1SrIWtU6CA&nohtml5=False
>>333923293
Have you never played Monster Hunter?
It's a lot of time hunting down the monster, they trying to beat it with you shitty ass gameplay.
I have no Idea how MH got a sequal, or 4 sequals that it currently has. maybe the people that play don't play actual video games?
The combat in MH is so bad/clunky it's laughable.
>>333923559
Oh and i forgot, my favorite SUV in the game...fucking ares espada. Slamming a giant sword, 7k+ damage per hit x 12 or some shit. Casts were so ahead of the game it was ridic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es5U9BHJiq8&nohtml5=False
>>333923578
>The combat in MH is so bad/clunky it's laughable.
And the combat in PSO is a work of art or something? PSO is the definition of clunk.
>>333922623
PSO and MH both have locked in attack animations, I wouldn't call the controls worse. I'd say better even, it's something you have to adapt to. But I think where people struggle is MH you don't one shot things so you have to learn to play, where as with PSO over time you will be able to one shot enemies before you even have to deal with their mechanics.
I loved both games, but after playing MH I couldn't go back to PSO.
>>333923578
I've got around 3000 hours across all MH games, starting from the PS2 game.
And yeah hunts should not take more than 10 minutes.
>>333923713
PSO is as clunky / less clunky than Monster Hunter Games.
At least PSO has visual effects to let you know an attack takes a moment.
In comparison MH is total shit
>>333923850
You are full of shit.
>>333923850
>At least PSO has visual effects to let you know an attack takes a moment.
What are you even talking about? Attacks taking a moment? PSO combat was usually just light light heavy and getting the rhythm down. You are shitposting. Just get out of this thread.
>>333923850
You mean openings for attack? You learn to read monsters over time, it becomes quite easy actually. MH isn't a casual hack and slash. You have to put effort into learning the monsters and the weapons before you can get gud
>>333923902
What? you're upset about someone disliking your favorite game?
Monster Hunter is clunky bullshitt and ccould never compare to the gameplay of PSO
>>333924034
This is poor bait, my friend.
>>333924034
>>333923850
Why is there a PSOfag desperately shitposting?
I guess there is a first time for everything.
>>333924119
Just report 'em and move on. We were having a good thread until he showed up.
>>333919531
I got my launch Dreamcast and it has the dial up modem.
>>333923559
Yeah, MAG was that event. Man, MAG was both cool...but so shit.
CAST was the best race though, no lie. Tech's in general were nerfed in PSU over what would later be called Photon Arts, and CAST did both Melee and Ranged the best of the the races, with Beast only more HP focused in turn. SUV's though was the best thing, even if CAST were shit statwise, SUV's thematicly were just too cool NOT to pick them just for them. Beast had the super mode sure, but they couldn't customize their Tattoo's like CAST could with their SUV options.
>>333919739
j-sword
>>333924595
All the events were kinda shit honestly. I only did them for exclusive items.
CAST SUPREMACY
Beast mode had nothing on SUV. While I'm firing off rocket salvos, some dumb beast will be running around with low HP and wasting his beast mode.
> born in 94
> coop with friend offline
> beat episode 1 and started on episode 2
> friend turns gc off while saving saying the data will be fine
> never played again after that mistake
>>333924595
Actually techs and forces ended up being the best in the game for the last 2 or 3 years of the game. Masterforce + GAS upgrades along with various tech buffs and pp adjustments meant they could nuke forever dealing 10x the damage a hunter could ever put out and at a range. Techs in PSO were completely useless until episode 4 in BB, where forces could spam fire techs and take down mobs easily on their own. But in ep1 and 2? They were literally just kept around as buff and debuff slaves, with maybe megid or barta techs for stunning enemy animations.
MAG was great until the boss was unlocked sadly...I remember the meme in the community at the time was to call him dark fish instead of dark falz, since he was just de rol le but with a fucked up cooch for a face. But firebreak, shred the darkness, absolute zero, the lightning carnival, 1up cup...man the events in PSU were always varied and tons of fun.
Casts indeed were the coolest choice and there was no reason not to be them for hunter and gunner, since they had good atp along with ata. SUVs outclassed beast mode in every way. But turning into a big fat fuck furry was kinda cool in its own way. The male beast had funny chat ins and the female beasts werepretty sexy 2bh
>>333924965
CAST SUPREMACY indeed.
Some of the events were kinda spiffy enough ( The winter ice SEED ordeal, the almost burning rangers firefighting ordeal for summer ) but given how far behind we lagged with the JP server, it was a given that we were doomed to fail and miss out on a ton of stuff anyway. I don't think we got the event were you do a fight vs 12 Magashi clones all at once in the end. I do admit though, I liked PSU's story. It's rare for a game to have shitty outcomes get played out, and then have you playing doing the aftermath of such.
>>333925312
>dus majarra
Holy fuck everyone and their mom used this PA. That PA single handedly carried hunters for years.
Was it muh-jer-uh or muh-jar-uh?
>>333925296
I'm glad you remember the names for most of those as I forgot the names for Firebreak and Absolute Zero, yet I gotta admit they were pretty spiffy. I don't recall most people suing techs by the time white...something...god damn it's been ages. But the map with those stupid frogs, became like THE prime level up spot. It was mostly Melee's with axes spamming that one launching PA all over the place because the AoE and knockdown was stupid.
Yeah, Dark Fish was the worse part of it. Yet being able to do all 4 of the areas of PSO and the different branches to get the different NPC partners and their gifts was a cool touch. PSO2 tried to replicate that with the story missions, but it's really not the same and those ended up more of a slog then anything sadly.
>New to playing PSO online, but had 400 hours offline years ago
>One day I'm finally able to go online thanks to the internet, I keep to myself mostly, help people tank when asked, help also by giving away extra rares people want
>I realize I need to transfer stuff to some other characters of mine, so I ask a dude in the lobby for help
>I have a shitload of photon drops and offer him 30 if he helps me transfer meseta and items/weapons to my char
>" lol...uh ok..."
>I give him all my stuff, log off and log back on with my char, worried he will just take the stuff and run
>He actually helps me out and everything goes perfectly
>I drop him like 60 photo drops instead since I am surprised (had like 80 each character)
>He laughs and says "thanks dude but you can just go to the bank and type /bank and deposit into a common bank any of your chars can access"
>"o damn that's sick"
>I drop him 20 more and thank him, feeling ecstatic and dumb
good memories
>>333912052
>>333918743
yeah man, everyone knows the correct terminology is Cozy, not Comfy, get it right skrub.
>>333925519
I always read it as the latter with "Ma-Ja-Ra" given that's how the Japanese would break it down anyway.
It's so weird to be able to sit down and share all these images I saved up years back when I was playing this game in earnest doing the end of my College years. But it's nice to remanence.
>>333925680
White beast you mean. That was the prime spot for leveling up, had decent mission point payout, and the boss had good drops. Serafi senbas were the shit for years. The launch of AOTI didnt fix forces, that came a few years later. Maybe 2010 Id say. But when they got rebalanced, hot damn did they tear through shit. That axe PA youre thinking of was anga jabroga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ec-earJ2ug
Just ripped through mobs and was just fun plain to use. I think MAG itself was structured very good, the main mission was fun and had nice touches like you said, the counter prizes, the gift shop were you traded in medals, and the top 500 players got a god damn spread needle shotgun. Doing C rank runs of MAG all day caused my 360 to overheat. I wanted that SN so god damn bad you wouldnt fucking know. PSO2 story I couldnt get into at all and it just feels like a generic anime. PSU hid it better and the characters and plot were way better. Like you said, seeing tragic events happen but actually continuing the story to see it to the end and fix it up is rare.
>>333910139
fuck I miss PSO. I remember playing this on my DC. I have hard nostalgia for the Shenmue Passport music too, I spent ages just hooking up my DC to the internet because it was on the fucking INTERNET HOW COOL WAS THAT.
>the internet will never be cool and exciting and new again.
I remember being blown away by how good the graphics in Soul Calibur were. And how amazing MSR looked and how fun it was to play, and how the game read your clock so every race in a different country was at the correct time of day.
>>333923961
>light light heavy
>not light heavy heavy
>or sometimes triple heavy
>or occasionally light special special (mo' like light miss miss)
>>333925950
It was a shit game, but I spent over a thousand hours playing and met some really nice people in it. Don't have any screenshots though, I played on the PS2.sorry for the console limitations ;_;
>>333926205
>triple heavy
I don't think I ever got an actual confirmation for it but I could've sworn that heavy attacks hit less frequent as the first attack.
>>333926108
YUP! THERE we go! White Beast was all everyone was doing when I was playing for the most part unless you needed materials from a different planet/crafting board and didn't want to put up with buying.
Ahhss, sadly the PC version died after 2008, we outright finished MAG, had 4 months, and then closure out of nowhere. It was fucking sad. I knew the 360 version in the US went on for a few years more before getting shut down as well, but PC/PS2 got gimped so hard. It was one of the first games with a 'true' crossplay though, even if the 360 was locked in it's own little bubble, and I'm glad PSO2 continues that with PC, the Vita and now PS4.
I'm really glad to chat with someone else who's been able to remember all the names and the like for all this stuff, as sadly most of that's more a vivid dream with hazy areas then something I can directly call back without the screenshots for aid.
Still, I'll admit I liked how the game looked back on my Geforce 6800. Ran smooth as hell too.
>>333926414
doesn't matter at all with enough hit, HHH is the way to go.
>>333926414
They do. Accuracy rises as the combo continues, but unless you're having constant problems hitting triple heavy is often a good choice. Of course sometimes it's just asking for some small fry monster to slap you in the face too.
>>333919267
That shade of red honestly gives me PTSD
>>333919214
MSR basically taught me how to play driving games. I mean I'd played a shitton before it, but goddamn if that scoring system wasn't addictive as all fuck. The physics, graphics and music in that game were solid.
I never enjoyed the Project Gotham games that came after it though. I still think about Kudos driving sometimes.
>>333926493
True but that was a good thing in its own right. It encouraged you to replay different missions or planets so you could find materials that were rare and sold them high because of their low quantity. Reading about PC/PS2 server news was so sad at the time, seeing screenshots with the population being 1 star or just a filled in star...Im sorry mang. PSU 360 did great up until 2011 or so when the updates started getting lazy and more players got tired of being so behind the japs. It was a good run but a hard end, but at least the 360 and JP servers both closed in september 2012.
I wouldnt live with myself if I forgot this shit. I had over 10000 hours combined on 360 and japanese server. PSU was my shit for years and helped me through hard times along with being a fun game on its own. The game wasnt a graphic showcase but it had a pretty distinct art style and each planet had its own theme which was cool. Moatoob was a rough deserty place with mines, deserts, abandoned bases, and a casino, perfect for rogues. Parum was high tech and artificial with just a few spots left of the nature. Neudaiz was a japanese inspired water planet with lots of temples, forests, and japanese styled buildings. Guardians colony made for a good command outpost and was futuristic yet had a homestyle feel to it, like a giant shopping mall along with a business section in the 5th floor.
>>333926203
>shenmue
I bought that game brand new as a young teen knowing very little about it save for some promotional material I saw in a magazine.
It blew my mind with its attention to detail, graphics and world. I remember exactly where I was when I beat it.
>at dad's for that weekend
>brought DC and Shenmue to finish it
>dad had strict 'lights out' curfew shit
>stay up late, had small tv in my room that had a headphone port
>remember watching that boat at the ending and being heartbroken that I'd finished the game and the adventure (for the time) was over
>>333919739
>PSO v1
Red Partisan
I had the fucking Red Machineguns, but I could NEVER get the fucking Red Partisan.
>>333919739
real nei claw
this is great, thanks for reminding me about this game, /v/
>>333922850
>I will forever hate myself for never playing this
it is pretty good, you can still play it though, want one?
>That day Nintendo shut down Wi-Fi Connection servers
>will never play Jump Ultimate Stars online again
I'll miss you damn japs and those freeze time glitch with Dio
>>333926986
>It blew my mind with its attention to detail, graphics and world.
Fuck I think I spent my first hour playing just opening every fucking cupboard and drawer in the house. I found basically nothing but the fact that you COULD open all the drawers was fucking mind blowing.finding the mirror in the house is something I'll never forget because it was so cool that it'd been there all the time and I had already ripped that room apart and there were still secrets.
also
>tfw britfag so I just finished Shemue, and booted up Shenmue II and carried over all my save data and inventory to the next game.
FUCKING GENIUS SEGA 10/10 can carry my sonic toys all the way to china.
>>333927431
PSZero is forever stuck in Offline or Local only ;w;
Zero was an weird one, given the PA's were RNG'ed onto a weapon, but I was honestly surprised for a DS game how well it played, looked, and connected.
>>333919739
I'm still hunting my fucking Yas 9Ks.
>>333927646
tfw I was fucking crushed that Shenmue II was scrapped for Dreamcast in USA and only being released on the fucking Xbox.
To this day I still bear a grudge against Microsoft for that. I will never forgive them.
Years later I replayed Shenmue and imported the EU version, did a bunch of shit to convert my save andhardly played it.
>>333911513
I never had a Dreamcast. I can't believe a DC game looked that good and ran at 60 fps.
I only ever got to play this on the DS. And I really loved it. Is there any version I can pirate with either servers still up or private servers and active?
I saw someone mention Blue Burst earlier.
>>333930247
I think you can set up tethella servers for single player somehow.
Should be easy.
Or you could emulate the gc version with dolphin.
>>333930247
There's Phantasy Star Portable 1 and 2 for the PSP. If you like the DS version then you're going to love the PSP ones. Online being active is another issue.
>>333930247
ephinea, shithack and ultima
>>333930247
PSO ultima, eden and ephinea are all private servers you can just download and play. Ultima has lots of players and custom stuff, Ephinea is a vanilla low rate and Eden is a "high rate" with less players but it has been around for years.
>>333930558
Is schthack back up? when I last checked a couple months ago it was dead
>>333910139
I met my first internet friend through PSO Ep 1 & 2
I still have him onMiitomoalong witha lot of Final Fantasy XI friends
Tried the ultima server and it was grindy as all hell. Does the game gain some direction once you level up a bit?
>>333918753
mother of kek
>>333930735
Yeah it got back somewhat recently and seems like chrono is thankfully not managing it
i would restart there but that whole
>hackers are officially allowed now
ticks me off
>>333930949
I don't care what anyone says I ain't never going back to ShitServ
Ephinea for me
>>333931038
>Ephinea for me
Is it true that they removed some hueg ass missions that would spawn lots of mobs at once?
fuck mang i want to live the dream and FOrce my way against 20-30 enemies at once
>>333930676
...What do you mean by low rate/high rate?
>>333919267
>>333931352
by low rate I mean base exp and drop rates like in the normal game, for the high rate it is I believe x8 normal exp that lowers to x2 as you near level 200 and a higher drop rate.
>>333931560
Ah thanks for the explanation bro.
>>333931267
never heard about that
I just hop on and play, alone
>>333930676
I assume the best way is to just torrent BB?
>>333931740
>alone
anon pls
you deserve better
>>333931994
each of those sites has their own client for download, the thing should be under 500mb so it isn't exactly a heavy download. You should just check out those servers and find out which one you want to play on.
I haven't used it yet because of having a DS Lite and router security issues, but can't you guys just play PS Zero online with that new community server? I play it with my brother when he's not working too much.
>>333932002
>you deserve better
nah, I never talk anyway
I'm so quiet party members like to play a little game where they guess what I'm thinking, what kind of job I have, etc.
>Anon-chan, are you done breaking open those boxes? we need you in here
