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phantasy star online

metafreak

Lakers for life.
for those of you who have played this, can you get any red boxes(? SPECIAL WEAPON) in normal? also, is there going to be a phantasy star online for the PSP? i saw it on a magazine before.
 
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Cdaghostie

Ghost -not really-
pretty sure u can
psp? possibly dont remember anything i know one just came out or is coming out for ps2 called phantasy star universe (which i really want but no ps2)
 
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WinterSnowblind

Guest
Haven't played the game for an extremely long time, but I'm pretty sure you need to be on hard or above to get rare items. If they are in normal, then they are very, very rare, to a point where it's not even worth looking for them.

Phantasy Star Universe holds no interest for me what-so-ever, it has a very generic looking singeplayer, no multiplayer, and still has a monthly fee for the same repetive online play.. The game is going to bomb, hard. The Phantasy Star franchise isn't well known enough to save it.
 

Chris

Old Coot
The only red box rares you'll find in Normal mode are Addslot and Photon Drop. You'll need to jump onto higher difficulties to find rarer items.

As for a PSP release, not happening. Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst is the final release of the PSO line and it's on the PC. Phantasy Star Universe is what Sonic Team is working on and it's going to be on the PS2 and PC.

WinterSnowblind, so it has a monthly fee. Big deal. The online Phantasy Star games have quite possibly the LOWEST monthly fees I've ever seen for online games. PSO:BB is costing me $8.95 a month where as a game like Final Fantasy XI charged me $13 a month for my main service fee and having an extra character. Other games tend to be more expensive.

No multiplayer? Not in the way PSO: Ep. 1&2 had. It's impossible since there's only two controller ports for the PS2 and you couldn't really pull off multiplayer on the PC. However, online play does allow up to six players to be in a group. Plus the battling system's being upped a notch so it's not entirely like PSO (dual-wielding different weapons is a new plus).

It's not going to bomb considering the massive success online Phantasy Star games have had. o_O If anything, this'll just up the demand for PS2 modems. I've played pretty much each version available online and I can tell you that each PS online game has had an incredible amount of online activity and success.
 
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WinterSnowblind

Guest
Sorry, but in my opinion a monthly fee for any game, no matter how large is just out of the question. I happily pay yearly for Xbox Live, and all the services that come with that, but I won't pay every month to play one single game, especially when games like Guild Wars give you the exact same experience, for free.

And there's no reason why it can't have multiplayer, both the Xbox and Gamecube versions gave you split screen, okay, so on the PS2 that you'd only be able to have two people playing, but there's no reason why you can't, and just team up with others online.
 

Chris

Old Coot
The reason for monthly payments for games are to pay for server costs and maintainence. Guild Wars is different from other online games. Guild Wars servers take place on players' computers, unlike games that have their own servers provided by the game companies.

The reason for no mutiplayer on PSU is because it's a single player-story based RPG offline while online is the mode we've become attached to with PSO.
 

Super Aipom

Aipom is on TV now!?
I played it.
My brother played it.
My friends played it.
My brother almost made it to Ultimate, like our friend.
We had like over 100 hours on that thing, level 80ish, with tons of special items. We found a couple of red boxes on normal.
Our data got damaged.
We all cursed the game.
 
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