Death of a Game: Phantasy Star Online
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But pso2 isn't dead I hope ur talking about the older games (I think u are talking about the older games..... I hope oh u are imma be honest the title of this video in my recommeded scared me thank goodness it wasn't what I thought)
i just hit teen age when i frst saw it from my father's friend's son playing it on the cube its was a joy to watch for my little mind back than, and i would not say pso2 is "dead" along with its ngs counterpart but its not quite what it once was compare to the older games
Take note, the Gamecube versions of the game live on with many of the same servers as PC's Blue Burst. (And oddly Dreamcast v2 has a server or two). Additionally Episode 1 & 2 Plus was another GC release that added in quite a few new things not present in the original release of it (mainly offline playable versions of some of the online missions and has the GBA-link downloadable extra games on disk now all playable offline). Released along the same year as Blue Burst.
The video is literally called Phantasy Star Online. Not Phantasy Star Online 2.
@@nerdSlayerstudioss yeah I should have known sooner tbh
One of the few "Death of a Game" i would not even call a death, an Honorable Passing / still Alive Legacy since so much of it still exists in its original form and in the form of new games still being made to this day
Should've been called "Life of a Game"
Think the private server is going at least.
@@Dewclaw7787 More than going! There were 187 people on Ephinea last weekend. Usually somewhere between 40-50 on at any given time of day, which I notice since I usually play around 3AM. And that's just one of a number of private servers.
PSO is surprisingly spry for a dead game.
@@GELTONZ Yeah. I actually have a Wii, modded to be able to do Gamecube games online. It still plays Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 Plus on the private servers. Always nice when it is one of the famous rare games rescued by fans. So unlike what this video states. PSO never died completely for Consoles. It lives on with Gamecube copies of the game (Dreamcast v2) and PC. (Including those who are running it with the Wii in Gamecube mode). The only console release that I believe lost all online was Xbox, due to its reliance on the old original Xbox Live service to connect. Tying the hunters license to the old defunct service.
New genesis is awful tho, it is nowhere near the original PSO.
This "Death of a Game" is less an autopsy of a victim, and more a eulogy of a dear friend.
Man, I had forgotten how much I loved PSO back in the day.
I still play it on a gamecube !
Losing your favorite weapons to the second boss was such a rite of passage.
Pso 2 exist
@@solblackguy yeah I've got a list of issues with NGS. Starting with the story making me want to play with a fork and a socket, just so I can feel something about the game.
There are still servers around
It is nice to see a game on the channel, that has peacefully died of old age.
If only there wasn't a pso2...
It's not technically dead there's still people playing on private servers
I rather liked the Sequel and the PSO2: New Genesis
@@realdomdom too bad it's shit. Nah it's alright. But pso had that atmosphere, and that vibe you know.
Peacefully died due to age my ass. Check out clementine
Isao Okawa was an absolute legend and doesn't get the attention he deserves. He gave everything to keep Sega going because he wanted the world to be a happier place! RIP
Sometimes we detectives are called to a scene to find that this individual died of natural causes and after a long and fulfilled life.
Love the video! Quick correction: 10:40 Cast are unable to use techniques therefore cannot be a Force class. They made up for this in their ability to use traps, having natural immunity to some poisons/debuffs and higher base physical stats.
In the sequel CASTs can use techniques, but only certain classes. But you are right otherwise.
@@striker0 To be fair iirc everyone had to have a tech class to cast techs
@@koenwebb4157 Not in PSO. Even the non-tech classes could cast techniques, just not past a certain level. It was the CASTS that were unable to.
its so dumb how they made casts use magic and anyone can just do anything in the new ones. it had more of a lore to it when the world has rules.. like even how the weak human magic female had horrible attack power buyt amazing healing, that made sense. kinda dumb seeing a little girl having huge atp with a massive sword
However they are incredibly OP when they get those daggers that casts Shifta/Deband randomly.
Oddly enough this coming out a time where people are questioning the staying power of PSO2:NGS.
Otherwise, PSO was a victim of its own success in a way, but its legacy lives on.
Yea i play NGS and they rly need to add more content since.....there isnt rly so much to do......
I'm holding them to their promise of huge content updates each 6 months. If it's what they claim. I'll see what they have. I still got friends to chill with on there regardless.
@@Tsukiru yeah. Hiro(the showcase guy. NOT the director, says it on an interview
For me, zero, the game is like playing a big demo.
@@Knuspermonster The issue with NGS is quite literally them having the same guy who nearly Killed PSO2 during it's peak in JP in Episode 5 running and directing NGS... aka SEGA making it's same mistakes it always does that nearly kill off their success.
Such an amazingly impactful experience on my life. I still have my gamecube memory card with my characters and play every now and then when I see my neighbor that I played with when growing up. Some of the best coop gaming I've ever had.
That is pretty cool! I still play mine too, but my brother's whom I used to play with don't want to play anymore.
I was fixing to say, "how is this a DOTG"
Then I realized it was more of a recounting of how revolutionary this beautiful game ended up becoming. I'm a bit sad that PSO2 has so much lag issues, hopefully they will fix it up a bit more because I love the series as a whole.
I won't say it's always perfect, but they've got most of the lag ironed out. Nothing like the first 2 days anymore. At least for me anyways.
@@aorimiku It's true. I know NS may not cover this since it's not super in his ballpark but I'm willing to elaborate what you're talking about.
NGS has taken many steps to simplify many of the bloated systems that was featured and added onto in PSO2.
Gameplay: NGS has taken a lot of steps to make the gameplay more dynamic. Enemies react to your hits, the movement is a lot more structured thanks to the universal movement glide mechanic. However, they simplified and took away many moves from the base classes. In normal PSO2 many classes did have extraneous and useless moves in the skill-trees, but they removed some of the nuance which can make some classes a no-brainer. Which leads onto another problem
Grind: The grind in PSO2 was pretty bad in Japan. It was practically removed in most of the NA release save for the controversial augment system which wasn't very intuitive at all. It was good that they got rid of the old augment system, but the new system is too dull. Or, rather, the new system is running around one area killing monsters. This is a measure of a lack of content, mostly, as you don't really have much to do and what you're gunning for is basically just stat boosts. There's no tricky/interesting augments really.
F2P: This is just a flat-out worse product in that regard. They severely limited the player market by requiring a sub to sell items, which means cosmetics (which is 70% of the game tbh) is inflated and makes buying cosmetics a lot harder.
The worst part about NGS though, is just the striking lack of content there is at the moment. The open world is too small, not much in it, little things to do with your friends (no rooms or guild halls) and just a lack to mess around with. It's disappointing, since as a base it does feel better to play.
@@aorimiku yeah PSO2.5. The release just felt very empty with a super low level/content cap, massive latency issues (NA), and a world that feels more closely aligned to an MMO than its predecessor PSO2. Hopefully I can come back in the future but as it stands currently I'm not super eager to throw another several hundreds of hours into a game that (at the time of release) had at most 20 hours to offer excluding all the time spent grinding already dead mobs that had not updated client side.
@@aorimiku Here to back you up. Played PSO2 for thousands of hours, both on JP and on the global release via steam. Didn't play NGS for much more than 10. It's exceedingly shallow and poorly made, and decided to time lock grinds and force players to be active instead of just logging on for EQs?
I wouldn't despise NGS as much as I do if they at least didn't hamper the actual PSO2 experience in the process. But they just keep making stupid decision after stupid decision. Can't even play with half of my old friends because they can't go through the entire NGS tutorial, which is now mandatory to play PSO2 for some reason.
They already fixed lag problem on both network and gameplay. The only problem about NGS is extreme lack of content + pay2win shift from base PSO2, especially due to removal of free shop pass.
I didnt have access to the online segments of the game, but i have hundreds of hours logged in the offline splitscreen. Staying up late with friends trying push into the VH to ultimately get to ultimate.
Fond memories.
Complete the same story as yours, so many good memories.
still play on private servers once in a blue moon, thank you for making this, this game was my childhood.
You mean once in a blue burst? Tehe
I feel like I should say you are extremely lucky to be able to. I'm jealous.
@@rakeril7866 how come you can’t? Im genuinely curious, i want you to play this game too
@@AJ-ed7mx No console for it and looking through on my switch, nothing comes up. Only have a ps4 and phone. Switch is my wife's.
@@rakeril7866 where are you from my friend, usa??? Sega dreamcast can still be found for 50 dollars and under used here where im at, that could be a cheap way in for you to play again
Great send-off! By far one of my favorite games. I will say that a good portion of the PSO downfall could be attributed to the constant hacks from bromop (MOP for short). Lobby crashes, inventory hacks, and item trade thefts pushed a lot of people away in the franchise. They found ways to make player’s lives miserable with every online PS game in the franchise (PSO/PSU being the worst). I remember the lobby getting quieter and quieter as people would get fed up with these constant hacks as they would persist over months of time with Sega showing no signs of fixing it (at least not until DC PSO was down, putting an “anti-hack” agent on BB). Anyways, I just wanted that to be known, since it was certainly a contributing factor. You can find a wealth of information on the topic online if you want to know more.
Yeah I used to constantly lose my save file on the Gamecube version due to hackers. Years later I realize I should have backed it up to avoid that.
I distinctly remember my older brother playing this when I was little, and being fascinated by it. I thought it was a fever dream, til I rediscovered it.
Ah, the nostalgia... I was never able to play this online due to living in the sticks where we barely had dial-up, but even offline single player, this was a blast. I've waded into the private servers a little, and it's still a delight these many years later.
16:45 “Sonic Team can’t do any wrong”. Oh, how I yearn for those days, when the Sonic Team logo was a seal of quality.
This ^
Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 is by far my favorite video game of all time. The joy that I still reminisce about when playing this game with friends and family, nothing else compares to it for me personally. It’s one of my fondest memories and simultaneously one of the most bittersweet ones as well, since we’ve all grown up now and gone our separate ways. But this gem still sees play from time to time, just to take in the nostalgia and feels lol. 10/10 Masterpiece
Same thing here man. All 4 of us playing split screen going to beat dark falz.
Should check out private server then. Just Google Pso Ephinea or TH-cam it.
you should check out the two private servers Ephinia BB for pso episode 1 & 2, and clemintine for phantasy star universe.
Still playable on Ephinea.
If current PSO2 NGS Players would see this video, I think it would spread more appreciation and positivity towards the community. Literally almost shed a tear hearing about all this despite my first entry to this franchise being PSO2 NGS. It's great to know the history of this franchise even if I spent most of my life on PC games compared to consoles.
What a beautiful video. Thanks for this!
I started with NGS this summer. Knew about PSO as a title and nothing more for a awhile. When I mostly ran out of anything to do I started playing base PSO2. As I go further back in history and talk to friends who've played PSU and the first ever PSO I more and more understand of what a big thing it was and now it's never going to be the same.
I remember playing blue burst on a private server years before PSO2 came to the west I play the hell out of NGS now but I always wished I couldve been born sooner to play the OG PSO
Trust me, just Uninstall that trash game which is NGS and come join us on Ephinea PSOBB to enjoy the true phantasy star online.
If NGS took anything from pso it should have been the weapons, they are beyond lame rn.
@@MajoraKamen64
NGS can be summed up in these 5 terms:
Grind Heavy as hell
Wild as fuck insensitive community
Content Drought
Sinking Ship
Battle Power/Combat Power wall
Yeah, it has that very insulting acronym for a reason.
I remember playing this game on a Sega Dreamcast through a free NetZero internet connection. Back when the internet talked before dial-up gaming.
Can confirm how AMAZING this was back on the Dreamcast! Got by with the basic chat for the longest time but eventually invested in a used DC keyboard. The investment was warranted by the amount of hours I put in to the game. It also helped out in the high level runs with geared groups rampaging missions. Thanks for the flashback, cheers!
Not to mention Typing of the Dead was the most fun keyboard game ever! Those keyboards were only $20 if I remember correctly. I got super fast at typing because of those games!
This game just drags me back everytime. Even without online functions I keep coming back to it, sometimes with older chars, sometimes just starting completely anew.
Now I've been playing on Ephinea for around 1 year and a half, and I'll likely be a regular for years to come. That server not only rekindled my nostalgia but also my passion in this game.
I played this game for years and have stuck with the entire sub-series (including Universe) ever since.
Heck, I’m listening to this DOAG while farming in New Genesis.
Private servers for both PSO and PSU are out there if you ever want to revisit old memories ❤
@@Seority I did play on Ephinea and Clementine prior to NGS’s release but my schedule hardly lets me play them these days
@@wiltedcypress3940 I feel ya. Glad you know tho ❤
I remember picking this up for the gamecube and it was so much fun playing splitscreen with my cousins and friends. might have been our first "mmo"like experience
It's nice to see a happier ending for a game, when a lot of others seem to implode or crash and burn, this seems to have done its job and pass on the hat to others it helped bring along
Great Presentation, Never realized how HUGE PSO really was. Never got a chance to play PSO but I got to play PSU for a little while before it died.
One of my most memorable gamer experience evar ♥
What ?
Je m attendais pas du tout à ce que tu pop sur une vidéo PSO.
PSO est génial et j ai investi des milliers d'heures dedans, est ce que tu étais sur les forums de blue-rappy ou psoworld à l époque ?
Raa nostalgie
(secrètement j espère aussi qu'une suite aux RPG solo de fasse mais pas sur que les gens connaissent)
Same for me !
Je chill un peu sur Ephinea pour la ration de nostalgie mensuelle 😁
I was on PSO World too. Great times.
J'avoue, level 400+ here ahahah
Je suis toujours déchiré entre mon envie de jouer à WoW, SWG et PSO sur les pservers. Je crois que PSO recommence à reprendre le dessus ces derniers jours. Je devrais peut être repartir à neuf sur Ephinea bientôt. :)
This series is pretty much the reason I became a gamer and purchased multiple other consoles, even built my first pc for it. All after playing it originally on the DreamCast. The memories and friendships I have made and still have to this day because of PSO is just really crazy to think about what a franchise can do. Thank you for tickling the nostalgia scratch for sure.
Played about 16 years ago, the music was some serious nostalgia. I still have a Gamecube with the save files on a memory card somewhere.
Good times.
when my GameCube died, I used my wii for the longest time. now I have PC, but now all my friends I played with moved on. RIP.
@@cyberbeep5187 rip, I use the dreamcast version on sylverant, people on emulators and real hardware meet and play frequently still.
Also on sylverant you can see gamecube and blue burst users in the lobby and dreamcast v2 users can play with the non blue burst pc port as it's very similar to dc version
only found the spaceship....Olga(during elevator) osts decent XD.....both intro...and ep 2 ending ost too...with that said....each ost had fitting theme for each areas so at least got that redeeming side
Ever since I’ve been WFH I’ve been listening to PSO music in the background at least once a week. Brings back so many good memories.
Man what a blast of nostalgia! Loved playing this with my younger brother and friends all the time back in the early to late 2000s
This game got me through my horrible school days. It will always have a place in my heart.
Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 is by far my favorite video game of all time. The joy that I still reminisce about when playing this game with friends and family, nothing else compares to it for me personally. It’s one of my fondest memories and simultaneously one of the most bittersweet ones as well, since we’ve all grown up now and gone our separate ways. But this gem still sees play from time to time, just to take in the nostalgia and feels lol. 10/10 Masterpiece
Pso is the most memorable game that I played the least of.
I dont remember how I was able to play it but I do remember playing very small snippets of the game and it really opened my eyes to what gaming could be at the time
Naoto Ohshima was Sonic's character designer. Satoshi Sakai was a monster designer and animator on Panzer Dragoon Saga, and his work on that game helped PSO to have character customisation as well as some great monsters. But he was still pretty new to Sega and the games industry.
(small edit, meant to say PSO rather than PSO2)
Could you post a source as well? Thanks for mentioning.
@@nerdSlayerstudioss I don't think viewers can post links? But besides the credits of Sonic and Panzer Dragoon Saga, there's a Wikipedia page on Naoto Ohshima. And Satoshi Sakai's role in Panzer Dragoon Saga and Phantasy Star Online is detailed in interviews that Polygon did for the 20th anniversary of these games in 2018 and 2020 respectively.
I never played the online portion of PSO before it got shut down, but this game is still one of my favorites of all time.
I'll always hold the memories of playing this co-op splitscreen with my younger brother for hours on end. And I'll always be grateful to my friend for introducing me to the series, it really stood out to me when I was a kid and truly felt like something that was unique from other games that were available at the time. The Gamecube version is the one I played on and might be my most played game on the console. Grinding through the various maps, searching drop tables online, and feeding MAGs in 10 minute intervals while watching TV inbetween all stood out to my younger self.
It's amazing to hear how much this game inspired, I had always thought it was a small success for SEGA and unknown to many. Thanks for the great video, the history of the game in interesting for sure!
One of those games that wasn't really "murdered" but more of a game that lived properly and died of natural causes.
The clock is ticking for NGS though.
PS: Casts are still cool.
It's 2023 now and I'm just now finding out about Ephinea. I'm about to spend a lot time grinding this game again and couldn't be more excited.
Same, my dude.
No one every really talks about the Phantasy Star Universe series-Phantasy Star Universe, Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus, Phantasy Star Portable, Phantasy Star Portable 2, Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity.
PSU takes a lot of influences from Phantasy Star Online, and later influenced nearly all of the updated mechanics and style of Phantasy Star Online 2.
Something about PSU felt idk... like it was missing something, to me at least. I really enjoyed PSP and PSP2 though
Google PSU Clementine.
To me the PSU had à weak protagonsit in ethan Weber whose hair cut and style didn't cut it for me.
Also the dialogues in the CG were too long, when you launch the game offline you took much to long to really play the game.
In my country where you didn't have cheap internet back then, offline mode was what I played the most and PSU Wasn't à fun experience.
PSO was fun from the get go.
Thanks to the madlads at gametemps, PSP2i is fully translated, and i'm getting in all my nostalgia from the emulation of that game, instead of the foolishness that is the microsoft launch of PSO:NG.
I imported PSP2i for my handheld since it's not region locked. Gosh even without translations it's pretty good. Grabbed another copy for my partner and we spent so many hours on it- while reading the translations for the story online. Really great title.
I know this was recommended to me because of the fact that I watch a lot of content about the pso franchise but I'm glad I was able to see a recent video about honestly one of my favorite games. I might not have been able to play it when it was officially out (born in 2004) but I have played it on multiple fan servers and I absolutely love the game. I was also able to play the global version of pso2 after its steam release and I loved it aswell. I've recently started playing PSU and PSPo2i and I've loved every second of my life that I've spent on this game up until now. I really appreciate content about this series because of the family I've created online with players of this series. Sorry for the ramble, really great video btw. I'll definitely go check out some moreof your content.
I think it's cool that you played the game "despite" not being born before 2004. Well, a lot of us started playing video games at a young age. I started when I was 7 (but this was in the early 80s, when gaming wasn't mainstream yet - yes, I'm an old geezer) so if you started at about the age I did, PSO must have already looked a bit out of date graphically, yet it still grabbed you :)
@@HansHackfress Yea, I really loved how you actually had to he attentive about your spacing between you and your enemy and at the time i started getting back into it (played it before with some friends before ngs launch) ngs started slowing down for me since I did all the content so fast. It was a nice breath of fresh air and I definitely enjoyed all the time I spent in the game. Same thing with PSU, it was so much fun to learn how the game differed from pso2 and ngs and its unique functions.
Now do Family Guy Online
never heard of family guy online. I guess the game was never popular
lmao what?
An approved comment indeed my good sir
This but unironically
No way that’s true
I remember installing a modem on my broadband router so my Dreamcast could "dial-up" the internet over a short rj-11 cord. I also upgraded the dreamcast video output to a monitor so I could play at 480p. It never looked as good until it released on PC many years later. What was great was you could choose to play on Japanese servers if you wanted to. An incredible experience.
okay hearing this melody after so long brough tears to my eyes.
PSO my first ever ORPG..on GameCube..and still couch co-op was grand.
1:57 Sega had previously released a multiplayer online RPG on the Saturn, "Dragon’s Dream" (1997). It even got a Windows version a year later, allowing for cross-platform online play for about a year before the servers were shut down. And "Rune Jade" from Hudson was an online hack & slash on the Dreamcast that preceded "Phantasy Star Online" by a few months.
I was born a few months before PSO v1 released, and only recently picked up the game on GameCube 2019 after enjoying PSO2 and finding a complete Xbox copy at a store. Sure, I had the BB PC release, but playing on a console just sounded amazing to me.
A trip to Ebay and 2 weeks later, I got a GC copy and went online for the first time. I still remember my first time online, just got my first job interview, it was a success, and I got online once I got home and setup Devolution on my Wii. Met 2 people dancing in lobby, joined voice chat, complained about them letting my die and not giving me buffs, and got some small rare items.
I continued offline, learnt the lore, got better equipment, ran Challenge Mode which solidified my main as a HUcaseal, fell in love with the endgame combat, the unique GC quests, the hunt for rares, and the amazing community.
After 2 years, PSO has become my favorite game of all time. Unlike others, I can always go back to the game and never get bored everytime, take a break and come back, nothing is lost, no power creep, all my items are as good as ever. I love PSO, and I hope it stays online for as long as it can.
My first "MMORPG", and it was on Dreamcast console (a so good console...), I had a cable linked between the console in my 2nd floor bedroom and the office's phone socket at 1st floor. In the end of the month I had to pay the bill, several hundred Francs, all my savings + a loan my parents accorded me.
With a school friend I played with, we spent our evenings to find and trade and duplicate all the rare weapons. I still have everything saved on my Dreamcast's memory card.
Good old times...
I was so excited to show this to my wife. Downloaded a private server link and everything and promptly died to the first Booma.
I'll miss you, PSO.
to a booma ?........my first death was on vol opt i think back as a noob :S or maybe garanz....too long ago......never died to a booma once tough XD(the worse they managed was on ultimate(stun lock for age b4 i could kill them)....never again did i let them surround me XD screw stun lock lol
@@bllllood The private servers are usually online only, so the difficulty is way higher. Dropping down to Forest with a fresh LVL 1 you can absolutely lose pretty quick.
@@AlexAshpool pso-world show 106 atp for online and 80 atp for offline.....dont think it make much of a difference in term of survival..their hp got a drastic increase though.....well unless they can kill in 1 hit online i dont think should be dying to them on normal where their attack speed is super low......unless those priv serv modified the parameters much highter than shown on pso-world for online
Yeah happened to me too. When making a room choose Single Mode as it makes the enemies MUCH easier. Also, if you can't kill it in a single combo, drop the combo after two hits and you can run away and evade an attack.
@@bllllood The private servers aren't necessarily using vanilla values for Blue Burst. All I'm saying is I don't think this guy died to a single player Ep 1 type Booma.
Thank you for this video! GC PSO made up a huge part of my high school years and is still a fond time I bring up with my best friend. This game deserves more love and respect than it gets.
PSO still remains as my favorite game to this day. It's impact is just so massive
Same. I actually equate it to a drug. The "high" PSO gave me could not be matched by anything that came after. It was such a mind-blowing experience back in 2001 that I could hardly believe it was even real and I got totally addicted which basically turned me into an insomniac from then on. But it was totally worth it. PSO and the Dreamcast era was the peak of my life as lame as that may sound.
!!YOU!!!
*need to Play...PSO Nova....my GoodNess
You'll....Never Come Back....
@@priestmorrison6564PS Nova is awesome.
The sound only made me cry. Thanks for the Vid.
Thank you so much for covering this.
PSO often gets forgotten in the conversation of online games from the early 2000s. Happy more people might discover this beautiful game through your video.
My dad had gotten PSO when it was released a year or two before I was born. By the time I was old enough to understand how to use the Dreamcast, the online function was basically nonexistent. Still I remember being barely 10 yrs old and watching my older brother play through the first forests and how the music sounded. I thought it was one of the most beautiful games in the world. I still have the Dreamcast and still play from time to time, but by now the game is so dated and janky, and tbh I’m not a strong player in most games anyways. It still brings me joy tho, and makes me wish I had been able to experience it as it was meant to be played :)
PSO: Revolutionary pioneer of online gaming.
PSO2:NGS: A wonkily launched online RPG with the best combat and movement in an online multiplayer RPG I've seen and not much else.
What happened here?
I honestly miss PSO2 prior to the NGS release.
Mainly cause the specs became too much for my PC to run it, but also because the community started to collapse on itself on both the competitive and fashionista sides.
hears burning rangers mentioned in video.
has flashbacks of central dome fire swirl.
i look back at this game very fondly and remember nearly losing it when the gamecube version was nearing release. i still have the dreamcast keyboard and gamecube ascii controller as memento pieces to this day.
Aside from being another excellent video from y'all, it's pretty cool seeing my own FFXI video footage included and referenced in this.
glad you filling in everyone on how OG pso really was
And now sadly you can easily do one about PSO NGS......oh how they're killing that game so quickly
I think it's a bit too early to say that. besides.. We're in a pandemic.
Even though I don't like the direction Sega's been headed in so far with NGS
Sega also doesn't have the same development cycle as they usually do.
Just wait it out a bit, and eventually the game will be much better, just like how PSO2 was around its launch period.
(And it became a great game!)
@@HippyDipps copium lol
@@negentropyagent7337 people said the same shit in pso2 episode 5 then episode 6 happened with a new director and it was a complete reversal. For some reason they brought back the episode 5 director for ngs year 1, we can only hope the bring the episode 6 director back for year 2.
@@negentropyagent7337 lmao look at this dude doomposting and circlejerking😳
@@vegitohaze2081 The game needs a solid 1-2 years to be something you can play, if they put in content, that is... If all they do is more scratches and idiotic time capped content, and new classes, the game will die for sure, they literally make all the free2play players to quit ,because this game literally hates f2p players in every way possible, and without those players, after some time the wales will quit the game to, so it's not entirely bullshit when they say, the game will die, because so far all they did and even the roadmap is showing a slow death, even with the december update, the game still will be an empty shell. So until i don't see any changes on the direction, i just log in and out after i do the daily things, and won't put any $ in the game, because it's not worth it
PSO is one of the most influential games I've ever played. I spent hundreds of hours on the Xbox and PC versions and hundreds more on the sequels. This was an excellent video as always. Great work!
For me it was FF11.
This game is still very much alive. I still play it to this day on one of the many free servers. They even add small bits of content and extend the core functionality to make it more accessible to todays audience.
Wow, I have watched a lot of your programs and this is the first I actually played my self. Looking forward for it!
I'll remember how addicted I was to all 4 episodes! These where my first online games.
"Nintendo's Nintendo and super Nintendo"
Hmm, maybe should take a second look at that line.
Famicom and super famicom are such better ways to address those consoles.
I actually really like this format. There's a lot of games that no one has explored. This is probably the most refreshing I've ever taken in stories of mmo and company history in general
I've been following him for a year or two now and have watched almost all his videos he's really great
@@angelganon8213 I've been watching him for years. He's never made a video that was sort of a look into history like this. We've been looking how a game failed. But never how a game strived
PSO is really a holy grail game for me. I used to read about it in magazines constantly and pour over the strategy guides at my local shop but I was never able to get a copy. One day I'll finally hook up to a fan server and sink my teeth into it!
i never played this game in any official capacity, only on private servers, it just has this simplistic charm on the surface that makes me keep playing. Even bought copies of the dreamcast version from japan.
Un-Fun-Fact: The Xbox and GameCube versions were different.
GameCube: You could play offline with 4 people on the same console with split screen.
Xbox: You could not get past the title screen to the main menu unless you had Xbox live.
Oh my God, 28:52 that's me. Those are my friends.
Edit:I don't know who BigJake is, but that brought back a lot of memories. I was there for a good portion of the GameCube run. I remember Cranberry and Pink were mine and Black Raidens level 200 game. I remember being there for Cranberrys 200 party, they did their run offline. Sage, Brimada, Rinoa, UltraMagnus. So many friends I had in that game. Thanks for making the video. If only newer games were just as simple and fun as Phantasy Star Online was. PSO 2 is out there, but it doesn't have that spark the original had.
This game was such a massively influential part of my childhood and I never got to play online, just the glory days of couch multiplayer with the boys and my brothers growing up. As someone who's just now getting into phantasy star universe it's depressing to see the lack of videos, footage, or even info on these particular Installments.
Thank you for making unquestionably the best video on one of my most cherished childhood games. These kinds of games need more love
Being a fans of the series for multiple years but never knowing how amazing its legacy actually has been, this video was really an eye opening experience for me.
I got introduced to the series by Phantasy Star Portable on PSP and spend shit tons of my playtime in PSO2 / PSO2:NGS, but I never really get a chance to know about their original predecessor PSO "1".
I never know that its legacy also heavily affected the other 2 games, one I always has been in love with (MonHun) and the other I experienced just for a little bit but still can tell it is a really amazing game (FFXIV).
Such great franchise, kinda sad that PSO2:NGS is quite in a rough position atm.
But eventually Sega probably gonna find a way to make it work ig, just like what happened in PSO2 EP3 and EP6.
Thanks for making this documentary video, I really love the format and how you presents these informations to me as a viewer. This really is a quality content.
Edited: Oh yeah, I almost forgot this.
The blue balls part totally caught me off-guard, I can't help but laugh at it lol
Dammn now this is a game I remember well. Me n friends use to bang this game out so much to the point we found a legit ring of nonces and server rooms that was just filled with people paying for explicit images. Shit was wild
Pso 1& 2 was my life for about 2 years back in my mid teens. I absolutely adored this game and IP
What a freaking game! I still remember playing it in my DREAMCAST then my GAMECUBE. 🥰
PSO was one of the most impactful games in my life. Ill never forget forcing my parents to get a second phone line because I kept playing this game with friends and making it impossible for anyone to call the house. Playing until 3 in the morning. I only found as much fun in an online game with the first Destiny title. But I couldn't get into any other online games.
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Easily one of the two MOST ICONIC games of my childhood, the other being monster hunter, which arguably wouldn't have happened without PSO. Funny thing about PSO, I still play it online to this day, and I'm not alone. Granted at best I've seen 25 players online but that's only on one of the few private servers I know of. There is something to be said when a game is so revolutionizing that players come back even after 20 years of graphic and technological changes. What a wild ride. Thanks for this video. It pulled on the heart strings for sure, reminiscing in the days of old when there were literally hundreds of players online at any given moment.
Come to the Ephinea blue burst servers. Always at least 100 people online, no hackers. All the quests.
@@jacobahl8317 I would if I wasn't already obligated with a couple friends of mine.
@@ryanwilliams5705 Bring them with! I got to lvl 145 in a month of "casual" play. Plenty of generous players to help get your items back. There's also a discord server to buy/sell/trade on.
@@jacobahl8317 they're on GameCubes 🥲
Not gonna lie, I got nervous seeing this video but watched it all the way to the end with a big grin on my face. I too had a lot of nostalgia going into PSO and agree with all of what you mentioned about it, especially with how games like Monster Hunter gave me PSO vibes
I miss playing pso on my GameCube. To this day this is still one of the most beautiful looking and unique games I've ever played. even though we didn't have means to play online me and my friends played the hell out of it
I still hold firm that if SEGA re-mastered PSO with modern graphics and new content, I'd be playing that right now instead of New Genesis. 100% (And keep it in that older style before it went way too far into the anime style) I LOVED PSO. It remains in my all time top five favorite games.
Man we played this series for years on and off starting with a burned copy on dreamcast from a friend's "computer savvy" older brother lol.
Through gamecube, onto BB on PC, onto BB private server schtack (spellcheck lol), and then many years later I put about 300 hours or so into Ephinea's private server.
Eventually I realized I can't get back what I had as a kid/teen/young adult and let the game go. It lives on as extreme nostalgia for me now. I wish I could have that same experience again like when I was young, but that's not how it works.
I'm out here making new gaming experiences now and finding new "I wish I could play it for the first time ever again" games.
Man, what a game series PSO was. Why does time have to go by so fast?
Im a new player, started about 3 months ago, It sadden me that I wasn´t able to start earlier however, I still have hope that this game will shine again as once did.
The original PSO will forever have a place in my heart no other game has been able to fill!
Even now, looking back on PSO1 brings joy to me. I remember the first time playing it was on a gamecube with my friend and his older brother, local co-op splitscreen. A force, a hunter and a ranger, with all of us just laughing as my buddy and I got our asses kicked while his brother carried us through. We made new characters to join his brother and honestly, it was wild playing the game for the first time.
Would love a Death of a Game on "Need for Speed: World"
An absolutely beloved game for me and my friends. We still break out our old characters on GameCube at Christmas back home most years. Never even played it online once.
I really loved the positive vibe on this episode. A game dying isn't always a bad thing. It had it's run and changed the gaming world for the better. Felt more like a celebration than the usual. Very refreshing
There were private servers before that. I remember the old schtserv server I would connect to with the Dreamcast version after the official servers were shut down. There was also a PC version of the Dreamcast PSO, and it shared servers with the DC. The code from the schtserv server is a large reason the Blue Burst servers were able to be done later. (There were Blue Burst servers there while Blue Burst was still live even.)
This video was very insightful. I have over a thousand hours in PSO2 and love that game to death (no pun intended). I've also been enjoying New Genesis quite a bit. I know it doesn't have that much content yet and it could be doing some things better but I'm gonna stay positive and hope that the stuff they add to the game really increase it longevity. The game at it's core has a lot of potential and I hope to see the most made out of it.
This game is probably my most fond memory from the early 2000’s. I had just gotten out of the military and was having a tough time adjusting. This game was my anchor.
My sister and I would get home and play all night. We were both force’s and after that he beginning stages we were unstoppable.
Great times.
Arrrrrrgh hearing that theme music gave me goosebumps. Thank you for doing this one!
At least the game still lives on through servers such as Ephinea/Ultima and Schtserv.
PSO still has a community that is very passionate about the franchise which is great.
Absolutely one of my all time favorites. Every Saturday 4 player split screen with friends in high school... The best times.
I think one thing you left out was the music, it will forever be my favorite gaming soundtrack :)
"Sonic Team can't do anything wrong."
Poorly aged statement of the decade
Because they've never *ever* done anything wrong.
This was kind of true before Sega went third party
Well it got renamed PHANTASY STAR TEAM after PSO2. Due to the parting of the two founding members leaving only Sakai alone in the team with PSU being the last game that had SONIC TEAM credited. Thou in reality he was just using his name as part of the OG SEGA team to raise credit to this team, Sakai is nothing more than an overglorified manager and most of its work is driven by a new generation since the production.
Me and two of my friends used to play this offline coop together and almost 20 years later we still talk about it. PSO is a pioneer
Holy shit thank you for this video, ive been saying for years PSO doesn't get the love or attention it deserves. Lotta people don't realize how heavy of an influence it had on games and not only that, maaaaany Japanese media/Anime/Art had taken a lot of inspiration from PSO.
Truly a one of a kind masterpiece, we can only hope that we can get a game in the future that recaptures its magic.
Also, "I can still see the light" one of the songs used in the video (the end credits music for episode 1) is a beautiful song. I play it on the piano all the time. I love it.
Sonic Team are pioneers. Amazing dev studio unfortunately held back by SEGA's abysmal management.
I really appreciated this video. I still play PSO 1&2 on the Wii online to this day. Such an amazing game and well worth the 800+ hours already logged into my saves.
This was my first online game ever on the Dreamcast it took me till the 360 till I got back into online gaming so many great memories even playing in local with friends on the GameCube will never forget this game
This game is alive and well thanks to the good people at Ephinea 😊
VMU Legit main loss, 2hp resta pk, Nol code, going Legit again in v2, and playing the entirety of DC & GC.
Thank you for this video. I learned new details about my favorite online game.
Two things, first, really surprised you didn't even mention Phantasy Star Zero on the original Nintendo DS despite mentioning all the other subsequent titles. It was rigidly faithful to the the original PSO gameplay mechanics, to a fault even, but included 4 player online co-op. It sacrificed very little of what made PSO good while transitioning to handheld.
Secondly, hard disagree about Phantasy Star Universe being anything but a massive disappointment. I don't think people realize how intentionally bad that game was on launch. ST had a 5+ year plan to slooooowly unlock content on the disc (remember, this game still could only handle minor updates outside of on-disc content, you couldn't download a new areas worth of content in it) and IIRC was charging 10$ a month to play it online (and unlike PSO, the offline component was siloed away, progress didn't carry across both).
This meant for the first month the game was out players had access to 3-5 missions that took about 20-30 minutes to complete each. That was it, and only one of those missions even contained a boss fight. Every subsequent month or so, ST would drip-feed "new" areas for online play. I say "new" because with rare exception, all of these were available in the offline mode on day one.
Couple that meager drip of content with combat that somehow got more mindless since PSO, an unnecessary crafting system that routinely broke your hard earned weapons permanently (!) the same 3 boss fights shamelessly re-skinned ad nauseum, and you end up with a miserable experience that took over a year to even unlock most of the on-disc content.
PSU was bad. People will tell you it got better with re-releases, and that's just not true. The combat system was still mindlessly bad, the game only ended up adding one new boss to reskin, and even the final boss of the expansion was a reskin of the vanilla games final boss!
Pre-planned content was the main reason i didn't keep my loyalty to the series as rough as the original PSO. This was matter to become even worse in PSO2, given they have this whole game idea but slowly gut content off while they working on their sequel, making sure their game is always relevant or alive until the sequel comes out (which was in a thin thread with the NEW GENESIS release were not the hit of the global servers). I suggest the best way to enjoy this games are to play them a month every year and see all the content in the 4 weeks span it takes to make. But it's obvious that they pre-planning is a monetization scheme, which evolved from subscription fees to outright gacha market for the stayers (evolving to only live out of the whales and everyone is free to try).
PSU on the other hand got a better life on its portable spinoffs PSPo1, PSPo2 and PSPo2i (which was the best one of the 3 but never came out from japan...). Had a blast playing them aas they improved and fixed all that was bad with PSU. And they were legit one time purchase titles with online coop for the time.
PSU's English PC servers died a slow death after a massive duplication glitch destroyed the game's economy shortly after it came out. The worst part of it was the fact that SOA had to get SOJ's approval do to any sort of fix or update to the game, so the patch to fix this glitch came long after the damage was done.
@@mariatelos I was there for that, it definitely had an impact. I remember folks trying to use kubara wood (sp?) for haggling, but since the player store system only accepted meseta it just cut the legs out from under the economy.
Though as bad as that was, I feel like it just sped up the inevitable. PSU's initial release was shallow and content dry, it was never going to last.
@@pixillest3468 I remember elemental photons going for over 8k meseta, despite the fact that they were fairly common drops.
So glad this game still has a community even today. Just started playing on Ephinea, and I've also been playing PSOP on my vita recently.