Lurker > Mad-Dogg

My PS5 play time is more than everything else I own combined. (Which is basically everything at this point).

I haven't played the hell out of a game like FF7 rebirth in a very long time. *Since persona 5 and monster hunter world to be honest).

Its been very worth it if you don't give a shit about PC gaming like me.

(I do own both a steam deck and a desktop PC, but the desktop when it comes to video game purposes is only really used for the few times in a year I feel like booting up some emulators for oldschool gaming and playing indies. Steam deck is also for mainly indies).

Tales of destiny PS2's battle system is a whole different thing compared to it's original PS1 version, which aged pretty poorly since that and tales of phantasia snes were the only 2 tales of games in existence at the time. The only thing that is similar between the two is that its action based in where you can move your character around, but it ends there when it comes to the mechanics/how everything works and all that.

*Now I am starting to imagine if tales of destiny PS2 were to be a modern release just how bad a vocal minority of tales of fans would legit complain about it being different from destiny PS1's more basic battle system, lol*

Baron_Ox posted...

if true, I wonder if there's no BC for the Switch 2

Man, if this happens to come to pass god damn I cannot imagine the rage from all those people who opted to get switch versions of games from places like limited run games or strictly limited. That and all the indie support with switch versions tending to sell really well in general. (The idea being that whatever nintendo's successor is would no doubt be BC with how succesful the switch was....

.....which imo nintendo never was all that trustworthy when it comes to supporting BC and is usually a toss-up. There has been those times when nintendo was good for it, but also those times when nintendo is all like lul now buy super metroid for the 3rd time. You just never know, lol).

KFHEWUI posted... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10IR8oVwU1Y

Not going to lie, its a little strange the one news caster chick was laughing about the whole thing. Like my first thoughts was that its impressive that homeless people make things like this work but also a little messed up that some people have to take measures like that.

I took me way too long to figure out that one card carnival puzzle.

I didn't realize you can level up the card space even if a card gets destroyed, so I sat there wandering what the hell for like 40 minutes before the lightbulb in my noggin cut on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKp50DuDRy8

The first mini-game that actually had me stuck for a bit. I liked that pirate shooting gallery one right before this one.

Justin2Krelian posted...

I don't remember that one, was it 1980s?

Yeah, from 1986 to 1990 in the united states.

It aired on different channels for france, australia, the UK, japan etc., but it was in that general time frame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ycG-xe1uSM

I'm old enough to remember watching this on nickelodeon. All these years later and I still remember that theme song, lol.

TheGoldenEel posted...

How is that a self own though?

such a weird thing to be winning the poll. They basically said fuck you to their fans and then laughed all the way to the bank

made a shitload of money with Diablo Immortal, then released Diablo IV and everyone bought that anyway too

Agreed. Activision-blizzard doesn't give a damn about the rep as long as that money keeps flowing. Basically like EA, lol.

Speaking of old school commercials, nintendo dished out this donkey kong country one after they started they swapped off passive mode to aggressive toward's sega's own aggressive marketing tactics of the era, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbHL8-XkXMA

Kamil posted...

I chatted with ya Mad-Dogg, and I trust ya. I know all about Toys R Us. I just never realized Kay Bee Toys was such a big player at a time. Did you like that retro ad I dug up? I was looking for something about the Sega Saturn haha I used to own one, and have opinions but I digress.

I got Phantasy Star IV for 30 bucks new once, that store rules. But a lot of times I just still think of it as a toy store. I know Toys ' R US had all those tickets you would take to the register. Hehehe youth.

Yeah I did, and I totally remember now after seeing it again lol. I just like seeing all those old ads in general, the commercials or pictures of the catalogues/newspaper ads and whatnot.

One of my best buys was waltzing into funcoland in the late 90s and buying super mario rpg for 20 bucks. Those were the days.

KB toys was right alongside toys r us as one of the major video game retailers of the era (they were the 2nd actually), and seeing as how north america was one of the major regions for video game money (at least I think north america was slightly ahead of japan for video game sales in the 90s counting consoles, PCs and arcades. NA is undisputed the number 1 region for sales today, but its a toss up between NA and JP then. I'm thinking NA though) getting black-listed by K B toys was indeed a very big deal.

*Yeah, north america was putting in the money for those video games even back then, just glancing over the video games in the 90s and seeing the console, portable, and arcade revenue on the wikipedia article.*

As bad as the xbox one thing was, sega's fuck ups with the saturn, both the instant release after announcement thus no games from devs being ready and the exreme amount of in-fighting between their branches was bad enough (that shit pissed off both wal-mart and k b toys so bad they refused to stock saturn products, and I'm assuming this stunt did not go over too well with other retailers. Wal-mart did eventually change their mind and stock the dreamcast when it came out, but k b toys was perma-done with sega) that it snowballed into a downward spiral that they never truly recovered from. *Because of the petty in-fighting, saturn's actual sonic game sonic xtreme did not become a thing. Dudes was confidant in being able to get it down asap if they could use the nights into dreams engine, but yuji naka threatened to leave the company if the americans touched it. Dudes was just some old clowns with the japan vs north america rivalry.* (Also the one dude bernie stolar just....did not help at all. The whole "our future is not the saturn" thing....like, why would you announce this instead of fighting to make a come back. Dude was responsible for blocking so many 2D games coming from japan which was the saturn's biggest strength. Yeah, it isn't the new fad with 3D gaming, but its better than having absolutely nothing coming out in the west).

With the xbox one's whole thing you can always point and laugh but at the end of the day microsoft has more money than god so they aren't leaving the console industry until they say so. Sega's dumbasses fighting with each other and stupid stunts like the 32X, yuki naka being a bitch, the saturn outside of japan and shenmue took them out of the console game for good, and everything was totally their fault after the very successful genesis.

Pikachuchupika posted...

When construction people take their big ass drills and drill into the planet, do you think the planet can feel it? Do you think it is hurt?

https://youtu.be/PufXbFng8VQ?t=159

That sound effect right there at 2:39 is how I would imagine the planet is taking it.

Gotta' be the super switch.

Played the hell out of river city girls 1 (this game does not have native online co-op, but you can use the playstation 5 and 4's built-in shareplay to play it online with your friend) and river city girls 2 (which does have native online) with my best friend and bro.

Actually, because of the playstation's shareplay ability you can consider any game that has a local co-op function to be able to be played online, like deathwish enforcers and contra operation galuga.

*If you never used shareplay before and want to learn how it works, I made a old post about it on the TMNT cowabunga collection's board*
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/360793-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-cowabunga-collection/80135719

Using playstation share play, you can even boot up some disney afternoon collection just to play chip n' dale rescue rangers NES online, lol. Stuff like tales of symphonia and tales of vesperia definitive edition, the collection with zombies ate my neighors+ghoul patrol, games like this benefits from share play.

If either of you are a fan of dynasty warriors, then dynasty warriors 8 xtreme legends can actually be played online with the PS4 version on free mode. (Alongside one piece pirate warriors 3 and 4).

Dragon's crown pro is a good one.

There is this old indie game called mercenary kings that I thought was cool to hop on co-op with my brother every now and then. (Can get hard as hell though).

Mythforce is alright. (80's cartoon art style inspired first person action game rogue like).

Capcom beat'em up bundle.

Saint's row. (Now hear me out......the glitches can be hilarious on co-op, and I believe all of the game-breaking bugs have been patched out at this time. Enjoy the cheesy story together).

Diablo 3 is always a good time.

Back 4 blood is alright if you happened to forget this game is a thing that exists.

Monster hunter world and monster hunter rise both gives a ton of good co-op hours.

If you want a tower defense game to play on co-op then orcs must die 3 is cool.

Yeah I followed him back to the room because I was laughing too hard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaFmNGk_sLk

This game is great. I already know I am not going to do the hard mode playthrough no time soon though once I beat this initial run.....game is definitely a lengthy one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/69e63400.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/48906d2a.jpg

Still thinking about this, lol.

Boat tournament. I'm going through all this blind so I still don't know whats coming......played against the bro in round 1 and bodied him, decided to play again tifa for round 2 and so she got pounded (thinking I should have played barret though since he was talking shit, lol. Not the pounding). Murked madame M for round 3, chucked chadley in the recycle bin for round 4, and played that lady from the bouncer for the finals match.

I swear I absolutely lost my shit when red 13 popped up, lmao. The moonwalk, the shuffling over to sit down with him pulling the other leg over to cross his legs, that whole segment was perfect. I remembered red 13 wore the shinra outfit in the OG game, but for some reason I thought the gag wasn't going to pop up for the remake....I should have known better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y19N1Iqn_4Y

But yeah GG bozos. Red 13 almost got me in that match but I really bodied that chick.

Madame M is the worst I blown someone out so far.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ec8a146a.jpg

vycebrand2 posted...

The Switch is pretty much a 7.5 gen system. Switch 2 is a 8.5 gen system.
Drop the handheld, keep the joycons, upgrade the specs to current Gen. People are playing your systems because of the IPs not the latest gimmick you can think up Nintendo.

That would be the absolute worst thing nintendo can do since the portability hybrid idea is what lead them to being wildly successful on their home turf (have to remember that japanese gamers by and large prefer mobile and handheld gaming these days) and being extremely successful everywhere else, and when it comes to being a "console" there is still certain things nintendo really sucks at compared to both sony and microsoft. *Their online play set-up being the biggest one.*

Since launch day. Love the oversized bastard.

I got all the modern platforms at this point.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/321095ce.jpg

MacadamianNut3 posted...

I also have the PC, PS5, and Switch combo. The PS5 is starting to become redundant since pretty much all but 5 or so games on it are also on PC, and there's not even a split screen multiplayer benefit to it. Installing games and updates on PS5 also goes at a snail pace compared to PC.

What do you mean? There is games with a split-screen option (that the PC versions opts to not bother with at times) still coming out here and there. Like said tiny tina's wonderland game, and...well, fortnite (splitscreen supported on the playstation and xbox, not for mobile, switch, and PC) for example.

supermichael11 posted...

There is rumors that Dragon Ball Sparking Zero might not have local multiplayer thanks to Microsoft and Sony.

https://gamerant.com/dragon-ball-sparking-zero-no-splitscreen-multiplayer-rumor/

It isn't official at the moment, so maybe it isn't true.

Yeah, I really don't buy this one at all. One of the biggest releases of last year baldur's gate 3 had split-screen, so if sony and microsoft was trying to interfere and prevent these devs from putting split-screen in the game just to sell more consoles and subscriptions then they definitely would have tried to pull it with baldur's gate 3 first.

When devs opt to make their games online only and to get rid of things like LAN, they do it because they want to do it, like with activision-blizz and diablo 3 compared to diablo 4 and diablo 2 remake. There is nothing stopping them for continuing to do their local thing like with gearbox and borderlands 3+the more recent tiny tina spin-off game.

If this rumor is actually true then the dudes they interviewed obviously is not trying to say anything to put heat on their bosses at bandai-namco and they know damn well gamers will kick up a storm on social media when influencers spread the world which could effect day 1 sales/pre-orders, so they are going to just shift the blame to sony and microsoft instead. (And honestly, its most likely going to work lol).

Zelda 1, and I indeed did suck at the game (I was 4 in 1987, lol).

I actually beat adventure of link way before I beat zelda 1 for my first time, and the only reason my brother and I finally managed to clear zelda 1 is because he had got that nintendo power issue that had the entire zelda 1 map and what to do to actually find n' get into each dungeon.

Rika_Furude posted...

The exception is very specifically games like South Park Stick of Truth which pick that FPS on purpose to achieve a particular art style.

Ah yeah I do agree with this though.

These days not really. Console gamers dealt with it from the PS1, saturn and N64's 3D games up until the PS4, xbox one, wii u.......and the switch because thats just how things were, but the PS5 and xbox series x finally gave us the option to prefer performance in the system settings. Let each person decide if they want to lower resolution, reduce npcs walking around etc. and cut off shadows for better performance. Final fantasy 7 rebirth's "fuzzy" perfomance mode is fine to me since my really good TV helps deal with the picture....I would have been annoyed forced into 30fps with that one.

Also for crying out loud stop forcing ray-tracing on us....Gotham knights, final fantasy 16 (which i believe they eventually patched it to where you can cut it off thankfully), and that plague tale game weren't no better for it.

pinky0926 posted...

Console gamers be like "I just like this" and PC gamers take that very very personally

Pretty much is always the case, lol.

I have a desktop PC (and a steam deck) but I still prefer to game on consoles. The PC is mainly used for gaming purposes to play smaller indie games that isn't available on consoles yet (stuff like the indie horror game them and us or the warioland-like pizza tower), or in river city ransom underground's case never will be, to play around with mods (which isn't all too often for me nowadays), or if I am retro gaming via emulators.

The smaller game/indie game and retro gaming thing can easily be done with just a steamdeck.

Crimson_Corsair posted...

Wtf, did I wake up in a different universe? Since when was the N64 and GC considered duds.

The nintendo 64 actually is a dud if we are going by sales. In japan it had it's ass kicked badly by the sega saturn (via all those saturn games that did not get to be localized. Thanks bernie stolar), which in turn got trashed by the PS1. With how huge nintendo was over there with the famicom and super famicom, it was seen as extremely humbling/pretty bad. In europe nintendo's sales for the NES and SNES never was that all that high, and the N64 either barely sold better or sold worse than those. (EU peeps were too busy playing the master system, mega drive, the commodore 64, and the PS1 lol). *It also did not help that the N64 launched pretty late in the UK, and at a way higher price than everything else. Sony already had a comfy foothold over there and at a way cheaper price by the 64's EU launch.*

https://www.resetera.com/threads/remember-how-badly-nintendo-used-to-handle-the-uk-europe.81740/

North america straight up carried the 64 with the bit of success it had.

As far as the gamecube goes, the og xbox despite being the new kid on the block managed to outsell the gamecube barely.

TheHoldSteady posted...

GameCube was the most powerful console of its gen but sold the least, which is why Nintendo never released a straightforward powerful console again and started making weaker consoles with gimmicks attached

Nah, the og xbox was a bit more capable than the gamecube. The rule of thumb when it came to 3rd party ports of the era was the xbox's version would be on top, with the gamecube's in the middle. The PS2's sometimes were flat out ass depending on the game. (Return to castle wolfenstein. This game supported full campaign co-op and had 16 player online multiplayer for the xbox version. The PS2 version could only support the campaign. No co-op, and no online). There was very few exceptions to that.

To be honest the only one I can remember off the top of my head being in the gamecube's favor was phantasy star online episode 1 and 2. That port was specifically designed for the cube', and so the gamecube version had it's own unique special effects that did not show up on the xbox port of the game, not even in the later PC port with PSO blue burst. (the wavy effect that you could see on telepipes, when you use high level fire spells, and on high level megid).

Hopefully that physical I put in for should be actually shipping quick this time around....

.....lol. =(

Yeh. Angry cristina vee is fun.

StarSpangled posted...

In any case, one of the reasons for this is that manga is more visibly varied. Yes, shonen is the main bigshot among mangas but there are still a lot of other genres that are big and even among shonen there are a variety of different premises and genres.

Got to give japan props on this one....they got me to read a manga about creating a manga in bakuman. Its got good art, goofy bad romances, but dammit it was entertaining. Well the one arc was a little weak, but at least it didn't last forever. I also really got into act-age, but that one got canned because the writer was a creep, but yeah....good manga about a girl acting the hell out of everyone.

When it comes to comics I like stuff like empowered. Just a bit of a wait for new ones to come out.

epik_fail1 posted...

Didn't Hi fi rush do fairly well? I feel like they shut down the studio when they were getting more and more brand recognition. That's dumb. Some franchises like Persona used to be niche and it sells tons of copies now

Yep we actually have a good deal of video game franchises throughout gaming history that managed to succeed after years of either legit bad sales, or just years of so-so/average sales. All it takes most of the time is for the IP holder to just not give up and possibly try again. Try harder with advertising, or trying out new strategies like letting social media influencors hype a game for you if it actually is a good game.

It always did pretty good in japan, but I bet a ton of younger gamers just do not know or remember just how small time IPs like yakuza, persona, fire emblem (hell we didn't even get a single one of these until marth and roy showing up in melee (who were stupid close to getting cut for all versions of the game out of japan) and their popularity with their character usage caused people to wonder about the game series they came from) or the big one final fantasy used to be. Hi-fi rush with it's one single game had a nice start all things considered, but nah its not some kinda' fortnite success right out the gate it ain't worth keeping around, =/ Just mad short-sighted/want that blockbuster success NOW instead of leaving that sucker in the pressure cooker for maximum tenderness, lol.

*Actually kind of pisses me off how bandai-namco treats the tales of series. This series actually had a few moments where it could have popped off (post symphonia, post vesperia, xillia 1's surprisingly good sales when it got localized, arise's success) outside of japan but with each moment of surprisingly good sales bandai-namco just sort of.....picks their noses and do nothing. No new ports, no quick collections, not a damn thing.

Better believe when final fantasy 7 blew up on the PS1 square was quick to make a ton of ports, small collections like the anthology and origins PS1 release, actually set up a EU branch so they can start getting final fantasy and other squaresoft games like with north america period, made a damn movie (which admittedly failed, but hey its the thought that counts lol) etc. Atlus/sega was quick to push with persona and yakuza when they finally popped off, nintendo does the same with fire emblem and xenoblade, but here is bandai-namco.......being bamco. Just had to rant real quick, lol.*

Of course one of the companies pushing a bigger budget game with a more unique art style and gameplay system gets the boot. It always sucks when the more creative games like this don't sell enough for the suits on top. (I bet its one of those square-enix with tomb raider 2013 kind of things where the game still did well enough on steam at least, but it just wasn't enough for what the execs and shareholders wanted).

*I'm actually really hoping the hi-fi rush gets a good bit of sales once that physical from limited run games drop.*

Hell yeah. I put mushrooms in basically everything that I can.

Mushrooms with my stir fry, pizza, mushrooms with my grilled steaks, burgers and shish kabobs, mushrooms with philly cheese steaks sandwiches etc. Man I even add them to my turkey, bacon and cheese grinders I get from a local italian restaurant I go to, lol.

You know the dating game is rough when a guy has to evolve to get a big-ass head to compete.

wackyteen posted...

Yeah I was avoiding it at first because I was trying to speed through the game and didn't need a dozen plus hour distraction in the form of a card game.

I was surprised how kinda easy it was though. Minor adjustments aside, once I had a deck focused around boosts I was able to beat most opponents within a few hands and that was mostly because of my initial hand/draws not giving me enough to claim opponent territory well.

Yeah queen's blood clicked fast. (I understood how to play queen's blood faster than I did with the version of fort condor in yuffie's DLC for remake). The general winning strategy def seems to be starting your hand off with 2 of your better 1 pawn cards, 2 of your better 2 pawn cards, and 1 of your strongest 3 pawn cards. Make sure them suckers synergize and power up one another with their special abilities, and then bum-rush your opponent's side of the queen's blood board to take their spots from them. Then double back to your own side to finish them off. Hasn't failed me yet, lol.

Queen's blood is probably my favorite card game spin-off I ever played in a rpg, slightly ahead of witcher 3's card game. Definitely like it way more than the one they came up for in FF9.

Mortal kombat shaolin monks and namco's urban reign (uses the same engine for tekken so it has a lot of that tekken feel when it comes to launching people, lol) is also among the best 3D beat'em ups that came out on the PS2. Played the hell out of both of'em with my brother.

Always wanted urban reign to get one of those PS2 to PS4 ports.
https://youtu.be/ELsVHfbg3Z0?t=2401

It also had those cool co-op moves. Game sadly got overlooked during the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULitqjE5ox0

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Still, I always had a good time with it on NES. I actually thought the NES version was better than the arcade version, which almost never happens.

To be honest with you, I think there is a good bit of us beat'em up fans that would consider double dragon 1 better on the NES compared to it's arcade version. While it lacks the co-op, the learning new moves as you got exp was pretty entertaining. All we were doin' in the arcade version of part 1 since the AI was so busted was elbowing everything to death anyway.

Double dragon 2 could go either way, but my family did play the hell out of the NES port, and the extra levels was fun (who all remembers wiping out those continues on the stage with the gears before we got the hang of jumping, lol). Double dragon 3 was straight up garbage in the arcade, and while the NES version also was pretty jank you can at least say it was better than the arcade's pure trash.

Yeah it really was one of those rare beat'em ups in the late 80s/early 90s that had better home versions.

wackyteen posted...

Yeah they should have covered that in the practice lol

Ah yeah that is true. It wouldn't have hurt for them to go over that again since the first part/remake was like 4 years ago for most of us or it just would have been nice to go over it again in general.

I see this lady looking like the one lady from the bouncer:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6d654e7c.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8193376f.jpg

And I'm about to wreck everyone in this queen's blood tournament. I actually really got into this card game, so I like when it pops up. Lets do this.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/16055ba9.jpg

wackyteen posted...

Look, if they indicated your performance (like they fucking did in Remake) on each button, it'd been so much easier to have a fucking clue how well you did.

The only thing that really matters is the max combo, how many times you got great and good timed button presses compared to bad ones (notified with the ding sound when you get great ones) and you get extra points playing on the 3 star/hardest parade formations. Did the combo break? The player fucked up. More button presses via 3 star formation difficulty+the combo is high+a lot of great button presses=they doing good. My combo broke a few times in the final section means I was messing up. That is all you really need to know here.

I'm actually curious about that, if the news lady can just roast you for sucking lol.

What the game does not really tell you is that the more stars on the parade formation difficulty thingy is actually a good thing. (Compared to assuming since 1 star is easiest that means you should easily get all those points/ratings. You get less points overall meaning you have to be absolutely flawless, compared to playing with more stars, which=more button combinations, but that also=way more leniency for screwin' up).

I only restarted the first time halfway through because I forgot you can edit the parade formation, but on my second attempt I fumbled my way to victory/muh trophy.

When I first seen this commander lady, that got me to thinking if she is elena's older sister. I remember that japan only phone game before crisis awhile back and how one of the turk player characters was elena's older sister. They definitely look alike in rebirth.

Thought I wasn't going to make the requirement for that trophy at the end there, but I barely made it at the end lol. I actually like these music sequences and hope there is 1 or 2 more later in the game somewhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJKAYxop-QE

I am also happy I got my HD cloud riding a dolphin. I wanted to know what it'd look like with modern technology, and I got it. Thanks square-enix. I also got marshmallow barret, so that was great.

Now I must play on because I must know if that one old dude in cosmo canyon bugenhagen(sp?) has legs. It always looked like his bottom half was a floating crystal ball in the original so I'm trying to see wassup with that. Also palmer getting hit with a truck better still be in.

Also I find it amazing how tifa and aerith just nailed that performance after only like what, 2 minutes of practice lol.

Fenriswolf posted...

Super Double Dragon isn't that good IMO, especially with everything that got cut from the game, and the game is too slow and doesn't even use the DD theme. The Japanese Return of DD is a little better.

Yeah, its slow, but the hits were meaty, lol. Like POW. Its kind of why my household also like the combatribes despite this game also being pretty slow with the 3 player characters being chonker cyborg dudes.

It is a shame super double dragon got such a weird release. I think both the localized version actually existed first and then they cleaned up a few things for the japanese release. It was just weird.

But yeah the SNES had much better beat'em ups to get into. Battletoads and double dragons, brawl brothers (damn shame this is another series where it's 3rd game just got shit on for it's localization), final fight 3 and whatnot.

_____Cait posted...

It had like, 2 good games.

Eh, It'd say 4.

Double dragon 2 NES, super double dragon, double dragon advance and double dragon neon are all pretty good. I will say there was other beat'em ups around during their time periods that did the genre better, but still....these 4 were the real good ones.

When it comes to these modern beat'em up revivals imo double dragon got kinda' screwed, lol. Double dragon gaiden is basically a clone of that indie dev's own previous beat'em up roguelike game, and wayforward's river city girls 1 and 2 is way, way better in comparison.

Speaking of river city girls, billy and jimmy is getting added to river city girls 2 so they are going to be in a better game then the modern one for their actual series, lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aHIuKxDXs

Kind of expecting ohma to job out of respect for the older series, lol.

When the pickle crashing the party though. And who is yujiro going to kill because we all know damn well he is going to pop up and ruin some unfortunate soul.

Baphometa posted...

There's active private servers with great content and a rom hack coming out soon that looks very promising.

I've actually played on the ephinea private server for a little bit in the past but a rom hack type of thing does sound interesting.

Phantasy star online episode 1 and 2. My fav video game of all time.

I played a lot of the xbox version too and a good bit of blue burst on the PC, but the gamecube version stands out as the one I played the most, met all the online friends that became real life ones (and still talk to them today), and it has it's own graphical effects that no other version of PSO managed to replicate, including the PC's blue burst.

(The heat wavy-like effects that you can see on things like the telepipe, high level megid, and the foie spells on the cube' version).