Gotta say that PSO2 has that SEGA feel. It's something that most SEGA games have, it's hard to explain once you've played a SEGA arcade game you'll understand what I mean by it.
Up until EP2, PSO2 did feel very special. I'd say the beginning of EP3, even, when it seemed like it would follow the same storytelling structure as the previous two. But from EP4 onwards, it barely feels like that anymore. It's a great game, but it definitely doesn't feel like a proper sequel anymore, instead being concerned with anime tropes (more so than PSU).
I enjoyed that one but the one that really affected me when I was younger was the gamecube version that I got to share with my cousins at the time. 3 of us played that game for a thousand hours probably. Had two-three cartridges of high level characters lol
Sega has redeemed themselves!!! FINALLY!!!! I m a Ps4 guy but I bought an Xbox 1 JUST to play Phantasy Online Star 2!! and i am loving every second!!! hit me up ship 3 Jobe lvl 60 hunter 50 fighter
This channel just gets me excited about gaming again ya know . In my junior year of film school right now and I'm pretty stressed by this Corona virus stuff and this channel is just great . I recently started playing this game on the Japanese servers along with PSO 1 on a private server and it's all thanks to your videos on Phantasy star ! So thank Johnny and keep up the great work 👾🦉
You hit the nail on the head with how revolutionary PSO was back on the Dreamcast. It was a true life changer and I literally describe it to people who had never played it just as you did! That said I can see myself coming to the same conclusion as you did for PSO2. I just hope it releases on ps4 and switch quickly!
John it is so good to see your videos popping back up in my suggestions. Your videos make me so happy a snap me out of my depression. Thank you always my friend.
John's Phantasy Star videos are how I found this channel like, wow, 10 years ago I think. I love his enthusiasm for these games and his honest opinion!
I didn't get into PSO until the GameCube days, but man I remember when I first stepped into the online, it blew me away, it was my first online rpg experience.
It wasn't my first, but it's definitely one of my favorites in the memory department (competing with Neverwinter Nights). Heck, I still come back to it. Sometimes I even start anew. It never gets old.
Yeah, a friend of mine had this on DC, blew my mind right out of my skull and on the carpet. Been a personal favorite since, picked it up 2 or 3 times on GC. Though, I've realized nostalgia value is better kept by not playing favorites if they start wearing thin by trying to play on PC private servers. It's a lesson few learn, even though it does have it's own kind of heartbreak to not play again. I'd still be a total sucker for a remastered PSO though. A. Total. Sucker. SEGA. So when's it coming to the Switch?
I don’t know. Phantasy Star Online 2 is honestly exactly what I hoped for/expected. I hopelessly waited for it all these years and I was still pretty damn surprised. Can’t wait to get my mind off everything and play.
Phantasy Star Online for the Sega Dreamcast is one of my favorite games of all time...all the music, especially the one that played during the logo screen
You were spot on with Pso 1 online...to this day I still think about those times and my experience when I first went online.... I often think about pso-1 and every now and then I still play spending hours and hours on... The simple game play The fantastic music... What a gem
I actually see the game being 8 years old as a good thing in the fact that now we are getting a game with 8 years worth of content, updates and episode expansions all at once. The closed beta was a very small taste of what this game has to offer
John...thanks for bringing PSO back into my world...I have started the original master system version because of your videos. Greetings from Louisiana!!!! Thanks for bringing the nostalgia back!!!
I can't wait for John to talk about the game some more when it officially releases. Maybe we'll cross paths in Oracle sometime! EDIT: Changed "gush" to "talk" since John doesn't actually gush about much in the video.
@@henrywilcox1000 That's not what he said at all. Also, rehashed bullshit? All online Phantasy Star games are like that, but that's kind of the point - they're loot grinders... It sounds to me like you're the one who doesn't like the game. No need to be such an ass - "Get a clue!"
I'd love to see complete remakes of the originals.....well, 1, 2, and 4 anyways. How cool would it be to expand upon the story of Alis with this new tech? I know I'll probably never see it, but one can dream.
@@tonyknighton4019 I don't know. I feel like the slow comeback that singleplayer JRPGs have been making in the West over the last half-decade is making it at least more likely than it was beforehand, when conventional industry wisdom had decided that we don't want traditional JRPGs anymore.
Honestly, I had a lot of fun playing through the first three episodes of PSO2 solo. It took a little time, but I was surprised by how invested in its story I wound up getting, and how much I cared about its characters by the end of it. Even some of the seemingly inconsequential side characters got some fleshing out, and a few became more and more important to the story as it went on. Regardless, yes, a return to form for Phantasy Star with a traditional singleplayer entry would be very, VERY welcome.
Thank you for still doing content with all the other stuff going on in the world right now because I really needed a nice little distraction from the news for a few minutes. As you say.... “Until Next Time!!!!”
Really enjoyed your candid thoughts on this game. I have to say, almost verbatim my same thoughts and angst about wanting to play this game. I loved PSO on Dreamcast and spent hundreds of hours playing it with friend's. Loved grinding for rare weapons and items, meseta. The music i still hear it in my head from time to time when I sit back and think about those day's. From Forest, to Caves, to Mines, to Ruins running down that long corridor knowing you we're approaching the boss. I agree this game is a lot more of the same redundancy from before but I think it's more nostalgia for me. I love it and have reached lvl 32 so far on the beta re-release. I'd love to play with you sometime if possible.
100 percent agree man. I’ve been playing this game almost every day and sometimes all day and it’s fun/addicting but it really doesn’t give you the same feeling ep 1, 2 & 4 gave.
Some people say highschool / college were fundamental moments in their life. I say it was a long 3 month summer after highschool graduation, playing Phantasy Star Online. That was a crash course in human interaction, etiquette, romance, and how to care for a child / pet. It was *the* cliche "Boy / Girl has an outrageous adventure while on a summer vacation trip" .
Man...just the booting up of the Dreamcast was a new world unto itself. It was like futuretech we stole from some alien civilization without them knowing. A console with mouse / keyboard / modem / animated memory cards / microphones / a crazy ass controller and *The Internet* ?!?!? . Loading up any game in that thing was like going from Atari to Nintendo 64.
The gameplay style of PSO was somewhat like level grinding from its earlier JRPG roots, and it's level grinding in a good way. You put in the work, you get the rewards. Your characters become more powerful, get more abilities, and get better equipment.
There also wasn't an overwhelming penalty for failure, you simply had to pick up and try it again with everything you picked up along the way. It took time to "dungeon crawl" through the 3-4 areas before each boss ...so you learned the layouts / gimmicks quickly after failing the first time. In the meanwhile, the extra xp, money, items, etc. helped you get further each attempt. Grouping even eased the learning curve until you could do it solo yourself. The game was really great about that, letting players push themselves to get through the game, rather than having artificial gatekeeping or gearchecks. I played from start to finish once as a ranger with just a saber, just because I could. The more you learned about the gameplay, the more you could rely less on gear / xp; but you could always fall back on the rpg element of it to push through content. I would be so bold to say that Phantasy Star Online was Dark Souls before Demon Souls was even a thing. You got what you put into the combat, into the way you gear, the way you raise your mag, just like Dark Souls games. It was always rewarding being great at combat mechanics, knowing enemy behaviors, knowing range limitations on enemy / player attacks, etc. The combat felt visceral, which probably says a lot in why people were willing to put hundreds of hours into it and not even know why. Just look at how much people will rerun silly parts of Dark Souls for no other reason than they can, and they enjoy it. For it's day and age, it was a genre in it's own league.
I picked up on PSO for Dreamcast, played online for the first time today with the power of dreampi and it was amazing and still seems to hold up as it did back then.
This game has a lot more to offer. The beta only offered a fraction of the game's entire content. If you think it won't blow your mind, wait til you see the crazier raids and the frickin mech battles in space. It can still blow minds in 2020.
I have all the various versions of PSO and its been one of my favorite games of all time. We have a very similar story from experiencing it. Also that Macross/Robotech jacket. ;D
PSO on the Dreamcast was brilliant. Tying up the phone line on dial up for 16 hours was great, gaming without getting disturbed by phone calls Lol. I had a mate who ran a local games store here in England and he got PSO in stock a week early. I fired up the game expecting to not get online, but it worked and I spent a few days playing the game with some other lucky gamer's around the UK and some of the guys from SEGA. Great times.
My brother didn't let me play his Dreamcast, so a year or 2 later I got it for Gamecube and played split screen with my 2 friends. Friday nights of PSO, Smash Melee, and frozen pizzas are peak childhood memories.
I love PSO. I played the Dreamcast version a bit, and later on jumped into the GameCube version. I'm currently playing on a private server and having a lot of fun! I can't wait to play PSO2.
For such a hardcore fan, I'm surprised you didn't get desperate enough to play on the JP servers years ago. There are communities out there with guidelines, english patches, etc for it.
Dreamcast was the most underrated console ever imo. The control layout, memory cards with screens, online capabilities, etc. The games that dropped on Dreamcast blew my mind. I been a Sega fan since my dad bought the master system then eventually got me and my brother the Sega Genesis console in 1991 on Christmas. Honestly Sega will always hold a special place in my heart.
Did get to play a bit back in 2012. Was suppose to come out here in 2012. At least it's finally coming out here. Just can't wait for it to come out on PC and PS4.
This is my first time on this channel. Great video! One thing he didn’t mention is all the classes you can play as! I only played the other PSO on the xbox 360. This one seems to have a lot of different classes to play as! I’ve been playing the gunner which is a lot of fun!! This is a free game I definitely recommend!!
Dude can I just say that I hope you're okay. I know you're not 100% right now and with this virus shit going on I just hope you're taking care of yourself. Can't wait for PSO2!
The thing i love about pso2 are the emergency quest boss battles. They just feel like epic fights against world ending foes (unless you party with a group of min maxers who floor the boss in 5 minutes). Plus all the remixes to "the whole new world" whenever the boss reaches low hp.
11:15 That music from PSO1 is in the game. You need to buy it from the second floor of the Shopping plaza to play on a jukebox. If you join the OG PSO Xbox alliance or just visit our headquaters, I play different PSO songs often in my headquarters. Right now, playing 'The Whole New World from Episode 2'. - GT: Lucky 13 X I also have a verify special telepipe in the middle of the room.
pc jp player here If anyone wondering if their potato pc can play the game once the na server pc version arrives. Yes, I have a potato pc but still can play it. I set mine with standard textures, 3-5 rendering and shaders are off or standard. Rendering and Shaders are what impacts the performance of this game, ow and of course shadows as well
Dreamcast PSO was so awesome at the time. I even got a ethernet adapter from Japan and used a gamefaqs page to walk me through registering it on a Japanese website. So great.
As a huge PSO fan who didn't grow up with the series, and didn't get into it until around 2008 or 2009, it just just goes to show how well the game holds up. However, Phantasy Star Online was the first online RPG for the Dreamcast in North America, and presumably Pal territories. However in Japan, Rune Jade was released a few months before PSO. That was the first online rpg for the Dreamcast. Believe me, it is a super easy mistake to make. I have been following the Dreamcast scene for years, and I didn't know about it until just this year.
I remember way back in 2003 when my dad bought me a used copy of Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast. Even though it was already 2 years old, I've never played before, plus it was still kinda new. I had a BLAST playing that game and that day was one of the best days of my life. I remember ooening the jewel case and seeing a picture of PSO on the manual of SA2. I was intrigued by the by that picture and I always wondered what the game was like, but for some reason, to this day, I've NEVER played PSO. I've spent countless hours on the Dreamcast playing Skies of Arcadia, Shenmue 1&2, MDK2, Fur Fighters, and so many awesome games on the machine, but I never played PSO. Boy am I missing out!
you missed out man uu should still play it u can download blue burst on PC and honestly its still a fun game still looks beautiful and thhee combat still keeps you engaged since u can die easily. i was just playing it, looks even better on my 144hz monitor
I used to play pso for the Dreamcast. It brings back some many memories. I don't remember the names of those awesome weapons but they were amazing. The deadly sabres, the twin blades, that needle bow, and mags.good times. And oh yea, the emoji chats and sounds online!
Phantasy star universe for Xbox was also juicy Time flies while playing this game me and my mate racked up 25 hours in the first 2 days I also have 1000+ hours clocked for pc FUN TIMES
I'm really curious to hear your thoughts on Phantasy Star Universe. That was the game that introduced me to the Phantasy Star series, and I never had the chance to fully play through the single player story until a few weeks ago. Back when I was about 11, that game really ignited my imagination and I've been a fan of the series since.
Beautiful review 😭 btw, playing right now from the Netherlands on the Xbox one X. Did locate my regio to United State and download it and did the regio back to Netherlands and it works. To feels man :(
No worries HCG, the Closed Beta was just the "Tip of the Iceburg" - Just wait til Open Beta starts and in the future - the NA Server has reached beyond Episode 2 Expansion. The Oracle Story Arc is from Episodes 1 to 3, 4 is on Earth, 5 is on Omega, 6 is on Oracle but with a bigger Enemy (where the boss of the enemy is loved by the PSO fans especially in Asia).
Came to find out what this games all about. Never had a dreamcast and i dont think ive ever played a phantasy star game but i got to say getting huge xenoblade/saga feels from what ive seen in this series
I'm just happy they're actually having an official english release. Imagine having an annual check-in just to see if PSO2 gets an english release 😩 the struggle
im with you 100% john.. I too have this game for dreamcast sat on the shelf behind me,. I remember playing and thinking wow this is nuts,. we were very lucky to grow up through it all., the golden years for sure,... now everything is just , nahhh whats next! I remember waiting for like at least a year after initially hearing about say chrono trigger to come out,. was like WOW
I played this for 9 hours yesterday night and got to lvl 20. How is this game so good for being so old. It was 4 am till I realized I needed rest. Im about to get back in for the day 😵😂
The Man that has a shirt for everything he talks about. Gotta love the Happy Console Gamer
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Lmaoo true
Very nice King Crimson picture you have good taste do you play pso2?
What about phantasy star universe?
Gotta say that PSO2 has that SEGA feel. It's something that most SEGA games have, it's hard to explain once you've played a SEGA arcade game you'll understand what I mean by it.
That feeling is video games.
It has a nostalgic arcade kinda feel and grit
Up until EP2, PSO2 did feel very special. I'd say the beginning of EP3, even, when it seemed like it would follow the same storytelling structure as the previous two. But from EP4 onwards, it barely feels like that anymore. It's a great game, but it definitely doesn't feel like a proper sequel anymore, instead being concerned with anime tropes (more so than PSU).
I love Sega including the dreamcast
Agreed. I feel that anytime I play Sonic R or Sonic Shuffle.
Pso on the dreamcast is still one of my favorite games of all time.
I enjoyed that one but the one that really affected me when I was younger was the gamecube version that I got to share with my cousins at the time. 3 of us played that game for a thousand hours probably. Had two-three cartridges of high level characters lol
Same
Dude! Pliz, get a DC and let's play it!
Go to dreamcastlive website and join us on PSOv2 =)
Me too. I have hundreds of hours on a few memory cards. I still have my original for my Dreamcast.
Pso on dreamcast chgd my life
Sega has redeemed themselves!!! FINALLY!!!! I m a Ps4 guy but I bought an Xbox 1 JUST to play Phantasy Online Star 2!! and i am loving every second!!! hit me up ship 3 Jobe lvl 60 hunter 50 fighter
This channel just gets me excited about gaming again ya know . In my junior year of film school right now and I'm pretty stressed by this Corona virus stuff and this channel is just great . I recently started playing this game on the Japanese servers along with PSO 1 on a private server and it's all thanks to your videos on Phantasy star ! So thank Johnny and keep up the great work 👾🦉
This is what gaming is all about having fun adventures and making memories with your friends.
"My Sick Addiction, Part 2!"
You hit the nail on the head with how revolutionary PSO was back on the Dreamcast. It was a true life changer and I literally describe it to people who had never played it just as you did! That said I can see myself coming to the same conclusion as you did for PSO2. I just hope it releases on ps4 and switch quickly!
John it is so good to see your videos popping back up in my suggestions.
Your videos make me so happy a snap me out of my depression.
Thank you always my friend.
John's Phantasy Star videos are how I found this channel like, wow, 10 years ago I think. I love his enthusiasm for these games and his honest opinion!
I didn't get into PSO until the GameCube days, but man I remember when I first stepped into the online, it blew me away, it was my first online rpg experience.
Ilitsa Samariya dame but mine was on the Xbox, absolutely loved it
It wasn't my first, but it's definitely one of my favorites in the memory department (competing with Neverwinter Nights).
Heck, I still come back to it. Sometimes I even start anew. It never gets old.
Yeah, a friend of mine had this on DC, blew my mind right out of my skull and on the carpet. Been a personal favorite since, picked it up 2 or 3 times on GC.
Though, I've realized nostalgia value is better kept by not playing favorites if they start wearing thin by trying to play on PC private servers. It's a lesson few learn, even though it does have it's own kind of heartbreak to not play again.
I'd still be a total sucker for a remastered PSO though. A. Total. Sucker. SEGA. So when's it coming to the Switch?
I don’t know. Phantasy Star Online 2 is honestly exactly what I hoped for/expected. I hopelessly waited for it all these years and I was still pretty damn surprised. Can’t wait to get my mind off everything and play.
Phantasy Star Online for the Sega Dreamcast is one of my favorite games of all time...all the music, especially the one that played during the logo screen
Sterling review as ever. Particularly in light of recent health issues, please look after yourself! We need you Johnny! Cheers
You were spot on with Pso 1 online...to this day I still think about those times and my experience when I first went online.... I often think about pso-1 and every now and then I still play spending hours and hours on... The simple game play The fantastic music... What a gem
you can play it for free blue burst ultima server still fun
really happy to see Sega doing so well these days, growing up a megadrive kid ill always love sega
I actually see the game being 8 years old as a good thing in the fact that now we are getting a game with 8 years worth of content, updates and episode expansions all at once. The closed beta was a very small taste of what this game has to offer
I started on Dreamcast too, I was lucky to have the keyboard back then, been waiting for this!!!
OMG that music brought back the feels.
Dude! Pliz, get a DC and let's play it!
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Go to dreamcastlive website and join us on PSOv2 =)
John...thanks for bringing PSO back into my world...I have started the original master system version because of your videos. Greetings from Louisiana!!!! Thanks for bringing the nostalgia back!!!
Good to see you back to your ol’ energetic and upbeat self, Johnny 👍
pso on Dreamcast was a straight up revolution and we played for so damn long, Sega for life baby : P
Dude! Pliz, get a DC and let's play it!
Go to dreamcastlive website and join us on PSOv2 =)
SEGA 4 LIFE
@@DhinCardoso i have a DC is there any straight forward peripheral i can use to jump online aside from the dreampie
I can't wait for John to talk about the game some more when it officially releases. Maybe we'll cross paths in Oracle sometime!
EDIT: Changed "gush" to "talk" since John doesn't actually gush about much in the video.
@@henrywilcox1000 That's not what he said at all. Also, rehashed bullshit? All online Phantasy Star games are like that, but that's kind of the point - they're loot grinders... It sounds to me like you're the one who doesn't like the game. No need to be such an ass - "Get a clue!"
He didnt gush at all
Glad you're doing well man and I can't wait to play PSO2 when it hits Steam!
the BG music
I'd love to see complete remakes of the originals.....well, 1, 2, and 4 anyways. How cool would it be to expand upon the story of Alis with this new tech? I know I'll probably never see it, but one can dream.
Phantasy Star Online 1&2 was also on the GameCube! That’s where I played it first!
Love this game. I have 440 hours into it already. It’s wonderful. Waited so long for this.
Thank you for showing a clip of Pioneer 2. Love how much showcasing you do for the music in your videos in games.. ESPECIALLY THISSSS!! 😍
When he says music is adequate...
*Laughs in Luther theme, double theme, apprentice theme, persona theme, all of ep6 music, Tokyo theme night, .....
He haven't experienced those lol. It's beta anyway
I listen to Dark Falz Luther's theme everyday
I still wish they would make a new single player main story for Phantasy Star.
Same, but as long as PSO makes the big bucks, that most likely won't happen.
@@tonyknighton4019 I don't know. I feel like the slow comeback that singleplayer JRPGs have been making in the West over the last half-decade is making it at least more likely than it was beforehand, when conventional industry wisdom had decided that we don't want traditional JRPGs anymore.
Honestly, I had a lot of fun playing through the first three episodes of PSO2 solo. It took a little time, but I was surprised by how invested in its story I wound up getting, and how much I cared about its characters by the end of it. Even some of the seemingly inconsequential side characters got some fleshing out, and a few became more and more important to the story as it went on.
Regardless, yes, a return to form for Phantasy Star with a traditional singleplayer entry would be very, VERY welcome.
Man it’s so good to see you back making content
Thank you for still doing content with all the other stuff going on in the world right now because I really needed a nice little distraction from the news for a few minutes. As you say....
“Until Next Time!!!!”
Happy Console Gamer... I love you. no Joke... You keep the thrill alive man...
Just fought my first Red Manace Urgent quest yesterday and it feel awesome....
I still play PSO1(GC version) on Wii. It’s timeless, one of my favorite games of all time
Glad your feeling better and still making reviews.
Seeing Johnny shoot Bal Rodos with the turret guns while the hook gun was ready to go hurt me a bit lmao
Glad to see you again. Love your channel!
Careful Johnny, remember what happened the last time you played an MMO! :D
Really enjoyed your candid thoughts on this game. I have to say, almost verbatim my same thoughts and angst about wanting to play this game. I loved PSO on Dreamcast and spent hundreds of hours playing it with friend's. Loved grinding for rare weapons and items, meseta. The music i still hear it in my head from time to time when I sit back and think about those day's. From Forest, to Caves, to Mines, to Ruins running down that long corridor knowing you we're approaching the boss. I agree this game is a lot more of the same redundancy from before but I think it's more nostalgia for me. I love it and have reached lvl 32 so far on the beta re-release. I'd love to play with you sometime if possible.
How I missed my Sunday morning videos!
Love the channel man!
100 percent agree man. I’ve been playing this game almost every day and sometimes all day and it’s fun/addicting but it really doesn’t give you the same feeling ep 1, 2 & 4 gave.
It looks like an astounding game
You are everywhere...
I love these videos man. Well done
Pso changed my life i still play on gamecube and had for dreamcast
Some people say highschool / college were fundamental moments in their life.
I say it was a long 3 month summer after highschool graduation, playing Phantasy Star Online.
That was a crash course in human interaction, etiquette, romance, and how to care for a child / pet.
It was *the* cliche "Boy / Girl has an outrageous adventure while on a summer vacation trip" .
Still waiting for Sega to revive Phantasy Star main series. Not online(seriously, more than 25 years have passed since the release of the fourth part)
I'm playing ps4 for the first time right now. Im really digging it!
Well they tried to do an anime but that thing... it's dumb.
Finally found phatasy star online episode 1 and 2 for gamecube ! Been playing it offline but I still love it !
glad your back john long time fan of the show.
Man, I remember loading up PSO on dreamcast. It was an entirely new world for a lot of us
Man...just the booting up of the Dreamcast was a new world unto itself. It was like futuretech we stole from some alien civilization without them knowing. A console with mouse / keyboard / modem / animated memory cards / microphones / a crazy ass controller and *The Internet* ?!?!? . Loading up any game in that thing was like going from Atari to Nintendo 64.
The gameplay style of PSO was somewhat like level grinding from its earlier JRPG roots, and it's level grinding in a good way. You put in the work, you get the rewards. Your characters become more powerful, get more abilities, and get better equipment.
There also wasn't an overwhelming penalty for failure, you simply had to pick up and try it again with everything you picked up along the way. It took time to "dungeon crawl" through the 3-4 areas before each boss ...so you learned the layouts / gimmicks quickly after failing the first time.
In the meanwhile, the extra xp, money, items, etc. helped you get further each attempt. Grouping even eased the learning curve until you could do it solo yourself. The game was really great about that, letting players push themselves to get through the game, rather than having artificial gatekeeping or gearchecks.
I played from start to finish once as a ranger with just a saber, just because I could. The more you learned about the gameplay, the more you could rely less on gear / xp; but you could always fall back on the rpg element of it to push through content.
I would be so bold to say that Phantasy Star Online was Dark Souls before Demon Souls was even a thing. You got what you put into the combat, into the way you gear, the way you raise your mag, just like Dark Souls games. It was always rewarding being great at combat mechanics, knowing enemy behaviors, knowing range limitations on enemy / player attacks, etc. The combat felt visceral, which probably says a lot in why people were willing to put hundreds of hours into it and not even know why. Just look at how much people will rerun silly parts of Dark Souls for no other reason than they can, and they enjoy it.
For it's day and age, it was a genre in it's own league.
I’m glad you were honest about this. I felt the same thing.
I would pay $60 for a PSO plus on Xbox one.
I picked up on PSO for Dreamcast, played online for the first time today with the power of dreampi and it was amazing and still seems to hold up as it did back then.
I remember playing pso when it first came out! Those were the good ol days.
I remember staying up almost 24 hours to get a lavis cannon 😅
This game has a lot more to offer. The beta only offered a fraction of the game's entire content.
If you think it won't blow your mind, wait til you see the crazier raids and the frickin mech battles in space.
It can still blow minds in 2020.
I was a hunter / Ranger skill tree that specialized Crit rate and air dodging when i played the overseas version.
I have all the various versions of PSO and its been one of my favorite games of all time. We have a very similar story from experiencing it. Also that Macross/Robotech jacket. ;D
PSO on the Dreamcast was brilliant. Tying up the phone line on dial up for 16 hours was great, gaming without getting disturbed by phone calls Lol. I had a mate who ran a local games store here in England and he got PSO in stock a week early. I fired up the game expecting to not get online, but it worked and I spent a few days playing the game with some other lucky gamer's around the UK and some of the guys from SEGA. Great times.
My brother didn't let me play his Dreamcast, so a year or 2 later I got it for Gamecube and played split screen with my 2 friends. Friday nights of PSO, Smash Melee, and frozen pizzas are peak childhood memories.
You have come a long way after your first Phantasy Star Video Johnny, and to be honest I also like the old Johnny with the bandanna. Good old days.
Im am now discovering this channel, its awesome!! Definitely subscribed. Keep up the great work👏👏👍
I love PSO. I played the Dreamcast version a bit, and later on jumped into the GameCube version. I'm currently playing on a private server and having a lot of fun! I can't wait to play PSO2.
"A couple hours here and there"
Meanwhile... Im here putting in 12-16 hours every day into the game.
The fact you can join mid mission and go help is awesome
For such a hardcore fan, I'm surprised you didn't get desperate enough to play on the JP servers years ago. There are communities out there with guidelines, english patches, etc for it.
Dreamcast was the most underrated console ever imo. The control layout, memory cards with screens, online capabilities, etc. The games that dropped on Dreamcast blew my mind. I been a Sega fan since my dad bought the master system then eventually got me and my brother the Sega Genesis console in 1991 on Christmas. Honestly Sega will always hold a special place in my heart.
Ah, the Spread Needle. Gives me memories lol.
This game is so fun. I genuinely enjoy playing it.
just wait when you able n do boss raid against Profound Darkness, Magatsu, Deus, Phantom Mother and Tower Defense 1-4. you gonna realy love that shit
Did get to play a bit back in 2012. Was suppose to come out here in 2012. At least it's finally coming out here. Just can't wait for it to come out on PC and PS4.
This is my first time on this channel. Great video! One thing he didn’t mention is all the classes you can play as! I only played the other PSO on the xbox 360. This one seems to have a lot of different classes to play as! I’ve been playing the gunner which is a lot of fun!! This is a free game I definitely recommend!!
Hey man i really appreciate you! , nice dreamcast keyboard
The new thing for this game 8 years ago was how high quality was for a f2p game
Dude can I just say that I hope you're okay. I know you're not 100% right now and with this virus shit going on I just hope you're taking care of yourself. Can't wait for PSO2!
Sup Johnny!! Glad to see ya and smiling brother.
That was a very well-balanced commentary on PSO2.
The thing i love about pso2 are the emergency quest boss battles. They just feel like epic fights against world ending foes (unless you party with a group of min maxers who floor the boss in 5 minutes). Plus all the remixes to "the whole new world" whenever the boss reaches low hp.
11:15 That music from PSO1 is in the game. You need to buy it from the second floor of the Shopping plaza to play on a jukebox.
If you join the OG PSO Xbox alliance or just visit our headquaters, I play different PSO songs often in my headquarters. Right now, playing 'The Whole New World from Episode 2'. - GT: Lucky 13 X I also have a verify special telepipe in the middle of the room.
pc jp player here
If anyone wondering if their potato pc can play the game once the na server pc version arrives. Yes, I have a potato pc but still can play it.
I set mine with standard textures, 3-5 rendering and shaders are off or standard. Rendering and Shaders are what impacts the performance of this game, ow and of course shadows as well
Dreamcast PSO was so awesome at the time. I even got a ethernet adapter from Japan and used a gamefaqs page to walk me through registering it on a Japanese website. So great.
As a huge PSO fan who didn't grow up with the series, and didn't get into it until around 2008 or 2009, it just just goes to show how well the game holds up.
However, Phantasy Star Online was the first online RPG for the Dreamcast in North America, and presumably Pal territories. However in Japan, Rune Jade was released a few months before PSO. That was the first online rpg for the Dreamcast.
Believe me, it is a super easy mistake to make. I have been following the Dreamcast scene for years, and I didn't know about it until just this year.
I remember way back in 2003 when my dad bought me a used copy of Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast. Even though it was already 2 years old, I've never played before, plus it was still kinda new. I had a BLAST playing that game and that day was one of the best days of my life. I remember ooening the jewel case and seeing a picture of PSO on the manual of SA2. I was intrigued by the by that picture and I always wondered what the game was like, but for some reason, to this day, I've NEVER played PSO. I've spent countless hours on the Dreamcast playing Skies of Arcadia, Shenmue 1&2, MDK2, Fur Fighters, and so many awesome games on the machine, but I never played PSO. Boy am I missing out!
you missed out man uu should still play it u can download blue burst on PC and honestly its still a fun game still looks beautiful and thhee combat still keeps you engaged since u can die easily. i was just playing it, looks even better on my 144hz monitor
It's a great game,I'm already at level 69, enjoying it immensely
I used to play pso for the Dreamcast. It brings back some many memories. I don't remember the names of those awesome weapons but they were amazing. The deadly sabres, the twin blades, that needle bow, and mags.good times. And oh yea, the emoji chats and sounds online!
Hell yeah brother.. back at it.. loving these.. I love PSO as much as you.. Happy hunting
Phantasy star universe for Xbox was also juicy
Time flies while playing this game me and my mate racked up 25 hours in the first 2 days
I also have 1000+ hours clocked for pc
FUN TIMES
Baked like a good Christmas ham playing pso on Dreamcast good times pso2 is awesome 👏
Baked for like 8 years for sure...
I'm really curious to hear your thoughts on Phantasy Star Universe. That was the game that introduced me to the Phantasy Star series, and I never had the chance to fully play through the single player story until a few weeks ago.
Back when I was about 11, that game really ignited my imagination and I've been a fan of the series since.
Beautiful review 😭 btw, playing right now from the Netherlands on the Xbox one X. Did locate my regio to United State and download it and did the regio back to Netherlands and it works. To feels man :(
No worries HCG, the Closed Beta was just the "Tip of the Iceburg" - Just wait til Open Beta starts and in the future - the NA Server has reached beyond Episode 2 Expansion. The Oracle Story Arc is from Episodes 1 to 3, 4 is on Earth, 5 is on Omega, 6 is on Oracle but with a bigger Enemy (where the boss of the enemy is loved by the PSO fans especially in Asia).
Came to find out what this games all about. Never had a dreamcast and i dont think ive ever played a phantasy star game but i got to say getting huge xenoblade/saga feels from what ive seen in this series
Using dreampie, a patch disc, and internet browser disk you can play phantasy star online on dreamcast. Alot of people play it.
Johnny thank you so much :) you give me courage to try youtube video
I'm just happy they're actually having an official english release. Imagine having an annual check-in just to see if PSO2 gets an english release 😩 the struggle
I remember buying the Ethernet adapter for the Dreamcast and playing pso endlessly
im with you 100% john.. I too have this game for dreamcast sat on the shelf behind me,. I remember playing and thinking wow this is nuts,. we were very lucky to grow up through it all., the golden years for sure,... now everything is just , nahhh whats next! I remember waiting for like at least a year after initially hearing about say chrono trigger to come out,. was like WOW
Playing phantasy star universe filled some of those voids
I played this for 9 hours yesterday night and got to lvl 20. How is this game so good for being so old. It was 4 am till I realized I needed rest. Im about to get back in for the day 😵😂