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Im telling you man, make a Hucaseal, and hunt down a god/body it gives you the highest attack speed in the game and is amazingly fun for a hunter playstyle
At this point the original PSO and it's counterparts all the way up to Blue Burst are considered to be abandoned wear it will never happen It is the same state with phantasy Star universe
I mean considering how quickly SEGA practically abandoned original PSO2 after New Genesis came out, I doubt they have any interest in bringing PSO1 back.
@@Only_Some not really sonic team and sega can still make a remaster/remake, remember nothings exactly abandonware if the company is still around, its only abandonware if the company shuts down, so all rights are gone, sega and sonic team brang some pso cosmetics to pso2 back in 2022 or was it 2023? so they still remember the game existing, thats like saying dark souls and demon souls are abandonware which sony brang that back and from soft let blue point remaster darksouls(you know two games that havent seen a release since 2009 and 2011) until very recently(iirc 2018 and 2020 respectfully) so yeah nothing is abandoned if the company that made the game still exists. remember sega has a remake collection coming out at some point, remember jet set radio? yeah not abandonware remember crazy taxi? not abandonware as remakes are releasing at some point. that said all comes down to sega actually listing to fans or being scum usually they are scum as they never listen to sonic fans and pso fans.
@@Ninetails94 SEGA refuses to self compete and refuses to touch the older games because they know that the moment they bring up a remake of PSO or PSU their PSO fans will quickly abandon PSO New Genesis (the game where they make money by selling cosmetics) because people know those are better games. This mentality even affected new releases. They released Phantas Star Nova on PS Vita and outright refused to include an online mode because they didn't want people to abandon PSO2 at the time.
This game got me into MMOs and played it singleplayer back on Dreamcast. When the Gamecube version got released with splitscreen it was the best day of my life. Played so many hours with my brother and sisters. Play it once a year and now even on the Wii with my og CD online is so great
PSO is a nostalgic trip for me. Played as a kid and here I am now as an adult with a 6 year old. We've been playing together and have taken down the first 3 bosses! 😮 I've killed these bosses hundreds of times, but these are by far the most memorable kills. What a wild experience. This is one game that is still just as fun as a I remember. We dont get that often when chasing nostalgia.
I played the Phantasy Star Universe free monthly trial on xbox 360. Even though the game would delete your account after a month and you had to start all over. Still had the best time ever. Sad day when they shut the servers down and everyone gathered one last time and talked until the servers stopped. In that moment, everyone's messages froze and stayed like that until you turned the game off. A moment forever frozen in time, the absolute last second of an era.
Still remember the first time I played version 1.0 online. Was blown away by simply bein able to talk to ppl from Japan and having my text translate in real time. The dreamcast was the first console i bought with my own money, saved up and got the console, sonic adventure, grandia 2, and pso ver. 1.0. So much fun, n so smooth for playing on dial-up internet.
I used to play this game till 5 in the morning every night. I remember when the dreamcast servers shut down and we were all exchanging email addresses. I tried Blue Burst for nostalgia purposes... I can't believe I played that game so much. Different times, man. One thing that was awesome about it is there was no wiki. There were probably gamefaqs guides, but being able to check that while you were playing would have been an extreme luxury at the time. You had to actually learn things from other players. You could get a rare drop and no one in your team had even heard of it before. I played for so long before I even saw that pistol the final boss of episode I drops.
Still one of my favorite games ever to this day. That drop chart and the color system was amazingly creative and addictive. I had a skyly Hucaseal with a meteor cudgel, chain sawd, and a god/body that i had to make a whole other redria character to hunt hildeblues for. Dammit man why cant our games be FUN and SIMPLE anymore?! R2 D2 is a skyly name btw, at least it is on GameCube.
Phantasy Star Online on gamecube was definitely the height of socialization for MMOs. I luv’d all the shenanigans that went on in the lobbies 😂 even the chaotic trolls who spammed crazy sht. I was 13 years old at the time n got addicted to this game. Made a lot of friendships on it. I ended up playing World of Warcraft after that n it just never was the same 😢
I still think Phantasy Star series as a whole is very not talked often The Turn Based Games are earliest very scifi heavy RPG, and Alis surprisingly was also a very early RPG Main Heroine before Samus The quadology did different things, but 4 easilly is the most polished of the Turn based era Phantasy Star With the 3D or Online series on the other hand, on top of being early console MMO, it weirdly enough is the game that end up inspiring games like Monster Hunter, God Eater, and Dark Souls, even the PSO Devs who was a friend with MH Dev says that their game was much closer to the concept PSO1 had in mind both in gameplay and how the player has to FIND the lore instead of being directly given The Phantasy Star Universe games despite being the more problematic of the series(Includes making interaction with the West much harder especially during the era Yuji Naka being a jerk), still managed to be quite the inspirational Scifi RPG with its unique Hub World and World building And lastly theres Phantasy Star Online 2, also known as "The single reason why SEGA will never go bankrupt even if their other games do bad" Like trust me, PSO2 is unironicly a huge thing in Japan its actually Dragon Quest level of popular, the only thing going to make SEGA die is if the PSO2 fanbase starts to fully dissapear
@@GrayFoxRJYeah PSO2 NGS is deffinitly in a weird area Its doing not soo great, but somehow you litteraly cant see it going to die because SEGA doesnt want it to die And they do seem to actually improve funnily enough
I was the kid that made himself the shortest height because I was a kid lol. I never had the "online" portion so I am glad Offline still let you play...unlike most modern mmos.
I would like to see one of the earliest WoW Clones ever made. Runes of Magic. Or, it's much better, but privately operated and updated fan version, Chronicles of Arcadia.
@@sawmanUK Runes of Magic came first, then the game failed and was abandoned, and a small loyal group of players turned it in to what is now Chronicles of Arcadia.
Loved this back in the day! Did not get very far but that's besides the point! Hoping to get you to checkout another game from my childhood, an MMO called Xenimus. Thanks for the content!
I know this is impossible but I'd kill to have a port version for modern consoles with Sega buying/working together with Ephinea, so they keep making updates, more missions, events, etc. Also to not loose my characters from there 😅 The gameplay might not look the fastest at the beginning but in the endgame it can become really interesting with room to optimize the damage and combos while being satisfying to play
I sometime go to my fiends house with my Game Cube and play spit screen PSO ep1 & ep2 to relive those times (plus doing the item dupe glitch because we both have the same weapons in the bank as a backup).
I still love this game to this day. Considering buying a GameCube because of it, though I do play on private servers and go back to them every year or so.
@@belojah2 yep! theres 2 or even 3 servers for DC v1,v2, GC and PSO PC(Pre PSOBB) one of them is sylverant,Schthack and PSO Something(i forgot the last one,but it was the most faithful one of the bunch)
A lot of the stuff that was limited in PSO was fixed in PSO2 base game and PSO2:NGS which is free to play on PC and consoles. I owned and played most of the console versions of PSO. I even play PSO2:NGS today. The Dreamcast version was great until people learned to hack it. PSO: Blue burst (PC) was the best version of PSO. As much as I love PSO it's kind of hard to go back with all the advancements PSO2 and NGS has made. PSO is my favorite game of all time.
@@sawmanUK Probably not bult in, there were plenty of consoles that could go online with separate tools. Even the SUPER NINTENDO could do it with the x-band cartridge.
I had a DC back in 2000 and actually rented a copy of this from my local video store, so technically it was my first MMO as well, even though I was 20 years old and too stupid to know what the hell I was doing in it, because I had never seen an MMO before. Btw I don't know if it's on your shortlist or not, but consider trying out Fallen Earth Classic. I have about 55 hours in that game and it's a really nice and immersive, post-apocalyptic MMO with at least a few hundred people still playing.
Man i miss this game i still have it and my dreamcast. As for another MMO Once Human has honestly been pretty fun as you brought up "MMO" is quite different nowadays but it still has the core pillars while switching it up to a survival crafter as well.
@@Chloroxite i hope starlight fix that too! PSO2 actually fun compared to other MMO on the market(but ofc bad compared to PSU and PSO) and NGS is very sad state
I only ever played it offline as a kid because we didn't have internet. I have fond memories of it but yeah it was probably not the ideal way to play it.
I'm still very much playing it. Got a copy of PSO Plus and remade my old characters, got them both over level 100. I'll never find my 40% hit Red Sword again (or 45%, can't remember), but I'm still very much enjoying it.
This game was everything to me during my high school years but version 2 was where it’s at. I was in a small group (I would say 60+ ish through Dreamcast AND Gamecube) that only did certain battle rules particularly 6. Gosh, I must went through like 3 Dreamcasts up until the GameCube release.
There's more to classic games like this than just nostalgia. Lots of old games had things that new one's simply don't. New doesn't necessarily mean better. I mean hell, most New games suck, particularly as all the AAA companies have gone to shit.
SEGA made a lot of really cool stuff for the Dreamcast and a lot of them actually still hold up pretty well. They should consider remastering this game for steam and current machines. I think it would sell pretty well.
Pso2 is an absolute piece of dogshit. I spent hundreds of hours forcing myself to enjoy it. But I can’t. A jumbled piece of shit that shares no characteristics with the original other than item names, and no charm to make up for that.
as a PSO1 player, going into PSO2, its just not the same. PSO2 is way more of a MMORPG, theres dailies, weeklies, all these currencies, etc etc, its very much a MMO, but its just not as good as FFXIV, WOW, FFXI, GW2, etc. Whereas PSO1 is more like Diablo, you can hop in for a bit, do a couple runs, and actually find an upgrade, without having to deal with all the MMO shit.
I'd call it an online co-op game or an mmo-lite. It's online aspects are closer to Monster Hunter in format, but gameplay wise, I agree it is very much an mmorpg. Ppl still can't even agree on what an mmo actually is, so maybe it's a moot point.
@@sawmanUK They keep forgetting Monster Hunter had several MMO spin-offs/clones. PSO functionally acts like Monster Hunter Frontier, Monster Hunter Online, Hunter Blade. So, it is a full-on MMORPG. If they are going to use Monster Hunter, they should use the MMO versions. Not the private local lobby ones.
I love this game! Used to play it on Dreamcast back in the days, with a 56k modem nad it didn't lagg! Crazy good job for these days what SEGA did in terms of online play on a console. Sadge that you didn't use much of the PSO soundtrack, it's insanely good! Nice video anyways!
Have you done Star Wars Galaxies? It was cancelled many years ago but it survives via SWGEmu and last I saw - years ago, granted - it still had quite a community and cult following. It also has an interesting history, if not somewhat sad, that I think would be good for a video. I played from beta to cancel and it was, and still is, my all-time favorite MMORPG. Well… before the combat upgrade.. and then the “new game enhancements,” which all but destroyed what made the game so amazing in the first place and wiped all the professions I had mastered (creature handler, smuggler, ..hair stylist..) in favor of more traditional classes. I continued playing anyway because my characters were automatically OP after the NGE and I was then able to have some fun with the Jedi class (which was almost impossible to attain before then)… until Sony gave up and cancelled the game. I played the pre-NGE version of SWGEmu for a bit after that until I moved on to other things and then life got too busy for MMORPGs. I’ve periodically tried to find an MMO that made me feel the way SWG did, but nothing ever evokes quite the same sense of wonder and.. I can’t think of a word. Ark came close for a bit. But yeah, I just loved that game so much, and I know I’m not the only one. And this is from a guy who spent thousands of hours on EQ way back in the day, MUDs before that (Avalon: The First Age).
I got in to pso quite late in to it's Xbox life cycle, made it to only like level 60 something but I had a blast playing it and that felt like it was a lot of play time for me, honestly a simple MMO like this again would be amazing
I always felt bad about this game in the end, the constant differences between ports and I had never the chance to play the cardgame made it sad for me. IT was even significant because the droptables would change so dramatically depending on which version you were playing. I played Blue Shift on the computer on a private server and oh boi... the fun....
17:00 this boss battles is pretty awesome stuff for the year 2000 on a DC, or GC/Xbox. I had a dc back in 2000/2001 when I was like 10. No Internet though. I wouldve absolutely loved this and I never would have moved off of it 😂.
I couldnt agree more. Im guessing people have become anti-social bcuz of toxic egotistical elitism but that can be minimized through systems like what FF14 has with marking new players as sprouts so ppl can be more understanding if a sprout makes mistakes in a dungeon. I wish MMOs would give players at least the option to decide whether to do group content or solo content. Rather than force one over the other. There needs to be an equal amount of group content and solo content if that will be the compromise, not solo content 90% of the game like FF14’s main story questline.
I love how you explain in clean and easy understanding how to your able to play PSOBB Private server on your Video and very well done and is pure 100% accurate and very helpful. but in future dude you don't have to use Avatar DOG for this video >.< omg CREEPY MUSH.....I give a like button to your video for very well done video guide. BUBA NU DOGGIE okay
Ik this is very niche but AQW or adventure quest worlds a flash mmorpg form 2008 was my absolute sh*t as a kid as it was free and it could fit right in your web browser with no downloads. Hours and days I put in that game, it's not the same beast it use to be but it's incredible it's still online to this day!
I played a lot of PSO on xbox. I remember back then right after you started playing, someone would drop a bunch of duped mags on you. You'd fill your bank with them even though you didn't understand what they did.
You should try Requiem: Desiderium Mortis its a unique old/dead mmo that was revived quite a bit ago. for me it was hard to get up and running but if steam does not work they have their own website where you can get the game as well. Nice video thanks for covering content like this.
Man I had no idea what I was doing on this game as a kid on my Dreamcast. All I remember is fighting those bear things in this video and turning the game off every time😭
good good gj bud u picked the right private sever Ephinea is the best sever up right now all others have extremly few players on it to maybe 10 or 20 or so at a time ephinea can have up to 500 at a time online
"lacked in large lobbies" wrong. They did have lobbies basically the size of a football field where people spammed art work and you could play football in the lobby when the game was at its peak. Good times, good times indeed
Crazy i never played this game online lol just offline on my own, didnt know there was an online option to play with others o.o i kept trying to just get my siblings to play with me in person to defeat hard bosses
Thanks for Watching, if you are interested in trying PSO for yourself, I have some instructions on my website: dogwatergaming.com/how-to-play-phantasy-star-online-in-2024/
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Do a video on the Vita PSO!
I subbed but am tempted to unsub due to asking to like and subscribe. Just have it animated on screen. It loses subs at this point asking.
I started playing this game last year and its probably one of my favorite games of all time
Same here
Im telling you man, make a Hucaseal, and hunt down a god/body it gives you the highest attack speed in the game and is amazingly fun for a hunter playstyle
Nintendo and Sega should make a Classic Server on Switch
At this point the original PSO and it's counterparts all the way up to Blue Burst are considered to be abandoned wear it will never happen
It is the same state with phantasy Star universe
If you have a retro handheld running Android or an Android phone, you can now play the GameCube version online (and reliably!)
I mean considering how quickly SEGA practically abandoned original PSO2 after New Genesis came out, I doubt they have any interest in bringing PSO1 back.
@@Only_Some not really sonic team and sega can still make a remaster/remake,
remember nothings exactly abandonware if the company is still around,
its only abandonware if the company shuts down, so all rights are gone,
sega and sonic team brang some pso cosmetics to pso2 back in 2022 or was it 2023?
so they still remember the game existing,
thats like saying dark souls and demon souls are abandonware which sony brang that back and from soft let blue point remaster darksouls(you know two games that havent seen a release since 2009 and 2011) until very recently(iirc 2018 and 2020 respectfully) so yeah nothing is abandoned if the company that made the game still exists.
remember sega has a remake collection coming out at some point,
remember jet set radio? yeah not abandonware remember crazy taxi? not abandonware as remakes are releasing at some point.
that said all comes down to sega actually listing to fans or being scum usually they are scum as they never listen to sonic fans and pso fans.
@@Ninetails94
SEGA refuses to self compete and refuses to touch the older games because they know that the moment they bring up a remake of PSO or PSU their PSO fans will quickly abandon PSO New Genesis (the game where they make money by selling cosmetics) because people know those are better games.
This mentality even affected new releases.
They released Phantas Star Nova on PS Vita and outright refused to include an online mode because they didn't want people to abandon PSO2 at the time.
Man, that teleport sound really hits the nostalgia hard.
I think everything is nostalgic right off from the press start music.
This was my shit back in the day
Same
Same tbh.
I went through so many free netzero accounts to get on
Same
Same. Will never forget it
This game got me into MMOs and played it singleplayer back on Dreamcast. When the Gamecube version got released with splitscreen it was the best day of my life. Played so many hours with my brother and sisters.
Play it once a year and now even on the Wii with my og CD online is so great
PSO is a nostalgic trip for me. Played as a kid and here I am now as an adult with a 6 year old. We've been playing together and have taken down the first 3 bosses! 😮 I've killed these bosses hundreds of times, but these are by far the most memorable kills. What a wild experience. This is one game that is still just as fun as a I remember. We dont get that often when chasing nostalgia.
I played the Phantasy Star Universe free monthly trial on xbox 360. Even though the game would delete your account after a month and you had to start all over. Still had the best time ever. Sad day when they shut the servers down and everyone gathered one last time and talked until the servers stopped. In that moment, everyone's messages froze and stayed like that until you turned the game off. A moment forever frozen in time, the absolute last second of an era.
Still remember the first time I played version 1.0 online. Was blown away by simply bein able to talk to ppl from Japan and having my text translate in real time. The dreamcast was the first console i bought with my own money, saved up and got the console, sonic adventure, grandia 2, and pso ver. 1.0.
So much fun, n so smooth for playing on dial-up internet.
I used to play this game till 5 in the morning every night. I remember when the dreamcast servers shut down and we were all exchanging email addresses. I tried Blue Burst for nostalgia purposes... I can't believe I played that game so much. Different times, man. One thing that was awesome about it is there was no wiki. There were probably gamefaqs guides, but being able to check that while you were playing would have been an extreme luxury at the time. You had to actually learn things from other players. You could get a rare drop and no one in your team had even heard of it before. I played for so long before I even saw that pistol the final boss of episode I drops.
Same it was so good I however got to play it on Xbox
The early 2000 mmo experience was something that i doubt we ever going to get back.
Heaven Punisher?
i go through a month or two long phase every year of replaying this on console. i love that the community is still alive
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the poster for doing this. Let's also appreciate the music score of this game.. amazing.
Dreamcast games had such a distinctive and beautiful look. You can always tell a DC game from how it looks.
can't beat sega blue
Oh, the human sacrifices I would commit to have this simply ported to Nintendo Switch with online play.
Almost 200 people in game is pretty impressive. That Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League numbers.
You need to include information that most people were playing on dial up internet. That was the biggest relevant point to make and it was missed.
The most relevant point is that you should shut the fuck up or make your own video.
Still one of my favorite games ever to this day. That drop chart and the color system was amazingly creative and addictive.
I had a skyly Hucaseal with a meteor cudgel, chain sawd, and a god/body that i had to make a whole other redria character to hunt hildeblues for. Dammit man why cant our games be FUN and SIMPLE anymore?!
R2 D2 is a skyly name btw, at least it is on GameCube.
Played a ton of this on GameCube. Loved it
I didn’t realise till recently that game cube had internet 😹
Tons of people still play GameCube online
It works online with the Dolphin emulator too.
The explanation of the story with the ships is absolutely fantastic
I love PSO it holds up so well thematically, musically, aesthetically
Wow 👌 pso was so ahead of its time.
Thank you for the nostalgia! I loved this on Dreamcast, but my favorite memories are from playing on Xbox Live of episodes 1 & 2
Phantasy Star Online on gamecube was definitely the height of socialization for MMOs. I luv’d all the shenanigans that went on in the lobbies 😂 even the chaotic trolls who spammed crazy sht. I was 13 years old at the time n got addicted to this game. Made a lot of friendships on it. I ended up playing World of Warcraft after that n it just never was the same 😢
Pso with fable soundtrack, big nostalgic overload combo.
this was one of my favorite times to game, PSO on Dreamcast while watching Adult Swim
I still think Phantasy Star series as a whole is very not talked often
The Turn Based Games are earliest very scifi heavy RPG, and Alis surprisingly was also a very early RPG Main Heroine before Samus
The quadology did different things, but 4 easilly is the most polished of the Turn based era Phantasy Star
With the 3D or Online series on the other hand, on top of being early console MMO, it weirdly enough is the game that end up inspiring games like Monster Hunter, God Eater, and Dark Souls, even the PSO Devs who was a friend with MH Dev says that their game was much closer to the concept PSO1 had in mind both in gameplay and how the player has to FIND the lore instead of being directly given
The Phantasy Star Universe games despite being the more problematic of the series(Includes making interaction with the West much harder especially during the era Yuji Naka being a jerk), still managed to be quite the inspirational Scifi RPG with its unique Hub World and World building
And lastly theres Phantasy Star Online 2, also known as "The single reason why SEGA will never go bankrupt even if their other games do bad"
Like trust me, PSO2 is unironicly a huge thing in Japan its actually Dragon Quest level of popular, the only thing going to make SEGA die is if the PSO2 fanbase starts to fully dissapear
They tried really hard to Kill It with NGS, but even with the messy release, It is slowly getting fixed. Lets see what the Future holds for pso
@@GrayFoxRJYeah PSO2 NGS is deffinitly in a weird area
Its doing not soo great, but somehow you litteraly cant see it going to die because SEGA doesnt want it to die
And they do seem to actually improve funnily enough
I was the kid that made himself the shortest height because I was a kid lol. I never had the "online" portion so I am glad Offline still let you play...unlike most modern mmos.
I would like to see one of the earliest WoW Clones ever made. Runes of Magic.
Or, it's much better, but privately operated and updated fan version, Chronicles of Arcadia.
I can honestly say I've never heard of them, but ill add them to my list
@@sawmanUK Runes of Magic came first, then the game failed and was abandoned, and a small loyal group of players turned it in to what is now Chronicles of Arcadia.
i remember trying this. it was very wow like but had pay to win iirc?
Loved this back in the day! Did not get very far but that's besides the point!
Hoping to get you to checkout another game from my childhood, an MMO called Xenimus. Thanks for the content!
This game is so much better than New Genesis
I wish I could play the OG on my Series S as I never got a chance to even try it
@@earl_duke13there is a way to put your Xbox into some mode that allows you to download games like this!
I know this is impossible but I'd kill to have a port version for modern consoles with Sega buying/working together with Ephinea, so they keep making updates, more missions, events, etc.
Also to not loose my characters from there 😅 The gameplay might not look the fastest at the beginning but in the endgame it can become really interesting with room to optimize the damage and combos while being satisfying to play
Wild. Played this on my modded Wii a few years back. There’s always a handful of people still playing online
Don't sell yourself short. That Optimus Poo joke made me sub.
I sometime go to my fiends house with my Game Cube and play spit screen PSO ep1 & ep2 to relive those times (plus doing the item dupe glitch because we both have the same weapons in the bank as a backup).
I still love this game to this day.
Considering buying a GameCube because of it, though I do play on private servers and go back to them every year or so.
Remember GameCube pso can still go online with a bba adapter. But the Wii can get online waaay easier
@@belojah2 yep! theres 2 or even 3 servers for DC v1,v2, GC and PSO PC(Pre PSOBB)
one of them is sylverant,Schthack and PSO Something(i forgot the last one,but it was the most faithful one of the bunch)
My friend had a Dreamcast, he didn't have this game. But my brother had EverQuest Online Adventures 2 for PS2 and FF11 for PS2.
I used to play this like mad as a kid. In this past week, I'm finally discovering the Online side to this game, and it's been so much fun
A lot of the stuff that was limited in PSO was fixed in PSO2 base game and PSO2:NGS which is free to play on PC and consoles. I owned and played most of the console versions of PSO. I even play PSO2:NGS today. The Dreamcast version was great until people learned to hack it. PSO: Blue burst (PC) was the best version of PSO. As much as I love PSO it's kind of hard to go back with all the advancements PSO2 and NGS has made. PSO is my favorite game of all time.
The first console Mmorpg is Dragon's Dream (1997) for the Sega Saturn :D.
The first widely known and successful was Phantasy Star Online.
Holllllddddd up.... Sega Saturn had internet?
@@sawmanUK Probably not bult in, there were plenty of consoles that could go online with separate tools. Even the SUPER NINTENDO could do it with the x-band cartridge.
This was the first game I ever played online I was up 3days no sleep. I was 10.
So many hours, so much nostalgia. What a beast of a game.
I had a DC back in 2000 and actually rented a copy of this from my local video store, so technically it was my first MMO as well, even though I was 20 years old and too stupid to know what the hell I was doing in it, because I had never seen an MMO before.
Btw I don't know if it's on your shortlist or not, but consider trying out Fallen Earth Classic. I have about 55 hours in that game and it's a really nice and immersive, post-apocalyptic MMO with at least a few hundred people still playing.
More pleople playing this game tonight than Concord at its peak
Wild Times and enjoy it so much.
Man i miss this game i still have it and my dreamcast. As for another MMO Once Human has honestly been pretty fun as you brought up "MMO" is quite different nowadays but it still has the core pillars while switching it up to a survival crafter as well.
Always good to see more people coming back to real pso. Hope you're srull enjoying it!
I still wish they'd bring this to the Nintendo switch
The way PSO2 was handled and basically "Mobile game enshittified" and turned into a confusing split game boondoggle breaks my heart.
Hopefully when those private servers go up pso2 will be worth playing again
@@Chloroxite i hope starlight fix that too!
PSO2 actually fun compared to other MMO on the market(but ofc bad compared to PSU and PSO) and NGS is very sad state
it's the PSO2:NGS to be exact. Original PSO2 (Episode 1 - 6) has some great timeline
i actually thoght you added that famous slap sound on the first monster attack
this game was my childhood
Man, it's great that these games are still played to this day, this is what preservation is about🙏🏻❤️
I only ever played it offline as a kid because we didn't have internet. I have fond memories of it but yeah it was probably not the ideal way to play it.
I am so glad the community is still active for this game.
I'm still very much playing it. Got a copy of PSO Plus and remade my old characters, got them both over level 100. I'll never find my 40% hit Red Sword again (or 45%, can't remember), but I'm still very much enjoying it.
This game was everything to me during my high school years but version 2 was where it’s at. I was in a small group (I would say 60+ ish through Dreamcast AND Gamecube) that only did certain battle rules particularly 6. Gosh, I must went through like 3 Dreamcasts up until the GameCube release.
genuinely great video!!
🥹👍
There's more to classic games like this than just nostalgia. Lots of old games had things that new one's simply don't. New doesn't necessarily mean better. I mean hell, most New games suck, particularly as all the AAA companies have gone to shit.
Lol i just noticed , now the dog moves and talks 😂. In a few more years ur going to have a VR avatar version of the dog lol
When I upgrade ms paint ..
Great vid mate, keep up the great content 👍
Cheers, I appreciate it
Still works better than some modern online games. Love playing on Gamecube and some BB on PC. Might get my Dreamcast running it too.
Man takes me back. I played PSO on PSP ssssssoooo much.
It’s a whole new world. Shining like a pearl. A WHOLE NEW WORLD.
SEGA made a lot of really cool stuff for the Dreamcast and a lot of them actually still hold up pretty well. They should consider remastering this game for steam and current machines. I think it would sell pretty well.
Next on the list PSO2?! Live reaction to Quna's concerts?! 😸 Great video
It is in my steam library....
Pso2 is an absolute piece of dogshit. I spent hundreds of hours forcing myself to enjoy it. But I can’t. A jumbled piece of shit that shares no characteristics with the original other than item names, and no charm to make up for that.
as a PSO1 player, going into PSO2, its just not the same. PSO2 is way more of a MMORPG, theres dailies, weeklies, all these currencies, etc etc, its very much a MMO, but its just not as good as FFXIV, WOW, FFXI, GW2, etc. Whereas PSO1 is more like Diablo, you can hop in for a bit, do a couple runs, and actually find an upgrade, without having to deal with all the MMO shit.
@@theremix54 The original PSO2 was great. New genesis was meh when it came out and would only be good if it didn't have the name association.
I'd call it an online co-op game or an mmo-lite. It's online aspects are closer to Monster Hunter in format, but gameplay wise, I agree it is very much an mmorpg. Ppl still can't even agree on what an mmo actually is, so maybe it's a moot point.
MMO-Lite , I like that 👍
@@sawmanUK They keep forgetting Monster Hunter had several MMO spin-offs/clones. PSO functionally acts like Monster Hunter Frontier, Monster Hunter Online, Hunter Blade. So, it is a full-on MMORPG. If they are going to use Monster Hunter, they should use the MMO versions. Not the private local lobby ones.
The story of the game is told in the intro cut scene. Even in the first lines. Crazy that you got it wrong.
crazy
I love this game! Used to play it on Dreamcast back in the days, with a 56k modem nad it didn't lagg! Crazy good job for these days what SEGA did in terms of online play on a console.
Sadge that you didn't use much of the PSO soundtrack, it's insanely good!
Nice video anyways!
This looks so good for 2000 😮
It really is good. The drop rate system in this game is top tier. I like all the weapon switching mechanics too.
i miss this game so much, i really hope sega does a remaster on it like they plan on doing for the other games.
Have you done Star Wars Galaxies? It was cancelled many years ago but it survives via SWGEmu and last I saw - years ago, granted - it still had quite a community and cult following. It also has an interesting history, if not somewhat sad, that I think would be good for a video.
I played from beta to cancel and it was, and still is, my all-time favorite MMORPG. Well… before the combat upgrade.. and then the “new game enhancements,” which all but destroyed what made the game so amazing in the first place and wiped all the professions I had mastered (creature handler, smuggler, ..hair stylist..) in favor of more traditional classes. I continued playing anyway because my characters were automatically OP after the NGE and I was then able to have some fun with the Jedi class (which was almost impossible to attain before then)… until Sony gave up and cancelled the game. I played the pre-NGE version of SWGEmu for a bit after that until I moved on to other things and then life got too busy for MMORPGs.
I’ve periodically tried to find an MMO that made me feel the way SWG did, but nothing ever evokes quite the same sense of wonder and.. I can’t think of a word. Ark came close for a bit. But yeah, I just loved that game so much, and I know I’m not the only one.
And this is from a guy who spent thousands of hours on EQ way back in the day, MUDs before that (Avalon: The First Age).
I got in to pso quite late in to it's Xbox life cycle, made it to only like level 60 something but I had a blast playing it and that felt like it was a lot of play time for me, honestly a simple MMO like this again would be amazing
I love your dead and irrelevant content :D keep it up please :D
I love the video. Just wish people took character creation and name selection more seriously.
I love v2 on the Dreamcast. On the road to Level 200 with a RAcaseal.
I always felt bad about this game in the end, the constant differences between ports and I had never the chance to play the cardgame made it sad for me. IT was even significant because the droptables would change so dramatically depending on which version you were playing. I played Blue Shift on the computer on a private server and oh boi... the fun....
17:00 this boss battles is pretty awesome stuff for the year 2000 on a DC, or GC/Xbox.
I had a dc back in 2000/2001 when I was like 10. No Internet though.
I wouldve absolutely loved this and I never would have moved off of it 😂.
I miss MMORPGs like this :( Wish more were made like this nowadays, but people are just too anti-social nowadays...thus devs design based around that
I couldnt agree more. Im guessing people have become anti-social bcuz of toxic egotistical elitism but that can be minimized through systems like what FF14 has with marking new players as sprouts so ppl can be more understanding if a sprout makes mistakes in a dungeon. I wish MMOs would give players at least the option to decide whether to do group content or solo content. Rather than force one over the other. There needs to be an equal amount of group content and solo content if that will be the compromise, not solo content 90% of the game like FF14’s main story questline.
I love how you explain in clean and easy understanding how to your able to play PSOBB Private server on your Video and very well done and is pure 100% accurate and very helpful. but in future dude you don't have to use Avatar DOG for this video >.< omg CREEPY MUSH.....I give a like button to your video for very well done video guide. BUBA NU DOGGIE okay
cant wait you review PSU(Phantasy Star Universe)
Played this game on Dreamcast to Xbox. Every night with some friends until 4am in the summer.
Imagine a nintendo switch ver.
Thank you for this! I am downloading the client now!
Enjoy!
I was playing this on my ogxbox for awhile was a crazy experience. Bought a USB keyboard and everything to type on it haha
Ik this is very niche but AQW or adventure quest worlds a flash mmorpg form 2008 was my absolute sh*t as a kid as it was free and it could fit right in your web browser with no downloads. Hours and days I put in that game, it's not the same beast it use to be but it's incredible it's still online to this day!
Do a video on the Vita PSO
I was never able to get online with this sadly but that didn't mean I didn't put over 100 hours into it as a kid. This game started MMOs for me.
On Xbox I would save my char to a memory card and walk over to a friend's house for local multiplayer. No Internet needed
I played a lot of PSO on xbox. I remember back then right after you started playing, someone would drop a bunch of duped mags on you. You'd fill your bank with them even though you didn't understand what they did.
You should try Requiem: Desiderium Mortis its a unique old/dead mmo that was revived quite a bit ago. for me it was hard to get up and running but if steam does not work they have their own website where you can get the game as well. Nice video thanks for covering content like this.
Man I had no idea what I was doing on this game as a kid on my Dreamcast. All I remember is fighting those bear things in this video and turning the game off every time😭
good good gj bud u picked the right private sever Ephinea is the best sever up right now all others have extremly few players on it to maybe 10 or 20 or so at a time ephinea can have up to 500 at a time online
I still have my dreamcast and PSO.
Even a demo of Sonic Adventure 2 at the time.
Ephinea still blows me away
the dragon looked as good as any wow dragon boss. this game was probably alot of fun when it came out
I've never played this game but man, it looks dope;I might give it a try
The franchise started out on console so you dont need to explain why youre playing BB with a gamepad
"lacked in large lobbies" wrong. They did have lobbies basically the size of a football field where people spammed art work and you could play football in the lobby when the game was at its peak. Good times, good times indeed
@@TikachooYT 😹😹 I meant the 4 people lobbies, but that does sound like a good time
@@sawmanUK Oh I got cha! Yeah basically a delve 👀😂
Crazy i never played this game online lol just offline on my own, didnt know there was an online option to play with others o.o i kept trying to just get my siblings to play with me in person to defeat hard bosses
Please try Phantasy Star Universe Clementine next! It's a great game that doesn't get a lot of rep.
I played this off-line. On the GameCube. The first MMO i ever played. Offline though haha
I see PSO in current year and I watch. Also I hit like