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It is one of my top 5 favorite series of all time. Online play was an absolute fucking joy growing up. My parents paid monthly so my brother and I could lose ourselves in the GameCube version lol. So glad private servers exist.

C.A.R.D. Revolution was fantastic as well, but it never got re released and the PC version was canceled.

I did play that game a little last year co-op with other players. I don't know if I'll go back to that game or not.

I played it some offline on the gamecube, never played it online. It was alright I guess.

I was addicted to both the Dreamcast and GameCube versions.

yeah, it's still fun even with all the balance issues and small amount of content

i wish it'd get a remaster but i 100% know it'll be fucked up with a bunch of bad pso2isms and the aesthetic will get gutted. i just want the same game but with better balance and more areas and variety

Yes, on Dreamcast, Gamecube and PC.

AND I still play it on a private server and I stream it, too.

I played a shit-ton of PSO. Sadly, I never had internet for it. When PSU came out, I hooked up my PS2 to the internet and actually payed the subscriptions for that, and got the PC version too. And I was playing PSO2 just a few minutes ago. Saw a group of people hanging around outside town talking to each other.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bdd59a3a.jpg

I was hooked on the Dreamcast and GameCube version. Still keep in touch with some of the friends I made on there.

I remember when Episode 3 came out, GAME released it a week early and I swear I must have got a special version. I never rolled anything less than a 5 on the dice every single time

love PSO, hate the gacha anime direction PS02/New Genesis went

i still fire up the gamecube version to play single player. the vibe is still unlike anything else

I was super addicted to it and came dangerously close to failing my senior year of highschool because of the sheer amount of hours I dumped into it in just 2 months. (I was graduating that may when it dropped in NA january 31st 2001. That is how much I played this damn game, lol). Got into yelling matches with my mom because she used to get on me for how much I clogged up the phone line with that game on the dreamcast. (Her friends and acquaintances used to page her to complain about not being able to get through when I was on the net). When I got the broadband adapter for the gamecube and we swapped the internet over to that sweet AT&T DSL it was like magic to me.

Some of the friends I met in this game became my life-long friends IRL with two of them becoming my best friends. My older brother met my boy's older brother and so they started hanging out in their own online gaming groups. The group of online gamers I chilled with across the original xbox, champions of norrath, everquest online and resident evil outbreak on the PS2, the xbox 360, the wii, the PS3, the PS4, wii u, all the online capable portables, maple story for a short time, world of warcraft, city of heroes, xbox one, steam, and the PS5?.....that exact same phantasy star online friend group+our family and friends.

Yeah, game had a community so awesome I legit created friends for life because of this game.

I would easily do it all over again. Phantasy star online episode 1 and 2 on the gamecube is my favorite video game of all-time.

I also agree that phantasy star online 2 is ass and that while it is neat the fans keep the older games alive via fan-servers I desire a true successor to what PSO blue burst or hell even phantasy star portable 2 infinity was.

Played a ton of it offline on the Dreamcast. Never played it online so I knew I was missing out on a lot but still nice to explore the world on my own. The music is iconic.

You guys should join Ephineas server of PSOBB then!

I played it offline on gamecube I think I was a robot maid or something

Frosted_Midna posted...

You guys should join Ephineas server of PSOBB then!

I play on Ephinea. I have a level 200 FOnewm I named Enuo, after the FFV superboss. I also have a HUcast well into the 100s. Let's play some time.

Mad-Dogg posted...

I was super addicted to it and came dangerously close to failing my senior year of highschool because of the sheer amount of hours I dumped into it in just 2 months. (I was graduating that may when it dropped in NA january 31st 2001. That is how much I played this damn game, lol). Got into yelling matches with my mom because she used to get on me for how much I clogged up the phone line with that game on the dreamcast. (Her friends and acquaintances used to page her to complain about not being able to get through when I was on the net). When I got the broadband adapter for the gamecube and we swapped the internet over to that sweet AT&T DSL it was like magic to me.

Some of the friends I met in this game became my life-long friends IRL with two of them becoming my best friends. My older brother met my boy's older brother and so they started hanging out in their own online gaming groups. The group of online gamers I chilled with across the original xbox, champions of norrath, everquest online and resident evil outbreak on the PS2, the xbox 360, the wii, the PS3, the PS4, wii u, all the online capable portables, maple story for a short time, world of warcraft, city of heroes, xbox one, steam, and the PS5?.....that exact same phantasy star online friend group+our family and friends.

Yeah, game had a community so awesome I legit created friends for life because of this game.

I would easily do it all over again. Phantasy star online episode 1 and 2 on the gamecube is my favorite video game of all-time.

I also agree that phantasy star online 2 is ass and that while it is neat the fans keep the older games alive via fan-servers I desire a true successor to what PSO blue burst or hell even phantasy star portable 2 infinity was.

Dude that is fucking sick. My brother and I would go over our cousins house once a week for HOURS of 4 player splitscreen. Every week. Good times.

Kinda ironic that GC was the furst console I played online.

Super_Slash posted...

Dude that is fucking sick. My brother and I would go over our cousins house once a week for HOURS of 4 player splitscreen. Every week. Good times.

Yeah the 4 player split-screen was such a awesome move for it's time. If I wasn't no-lifing the online mode I used to play a lot of split-screen with my brother, and 2 of my nephews.

My first level 200 character was my hunewearl mad-dawg. (Spelled in a way to where she could have the redria section ID). I played so much PSO that I used to remember the most notable rare drops by heart for each section ID, lol. With redria it was pretty easy to get god/battles so I used to gather them up and give them to all of my friends and family.

I also used to know how to raise mags without needing a guide lol (I really, really loved me some PSO) so my friends was constantly dumping their mags off on me to raise them up. If I wasn't actively playing the game (I was a real night owl. My family used to own this little tiny TV we had set up on the kitchen counter, which is also in the area of the house where the family PC+modem was set up. I used to plug up my gamecube to the tiny TV on the kitchen counter and raise mags while using the bigger TV next to the PC+modem to watch adult swim. The sealab 2021, space ghost coast to coast, brak show, aqua teen hunger force, mission hill, inuyasha just starting up, tenchi universe, original gundam, mobile suit gundam 0083 and 0080, and harvey birdman attorney at law era).

I have so much nostalgia for that time in my life. PSO episode 1 and 2 on the cube' with that small TV and adult swim watching on the other TV, lol. Real good times.

What are the chances it comes to the GameCube NSO?

Played the hell out of Episode 1 & 2 and 3 om the GC online. Played BB on the shthck servers.

BigG777 posted...

What are the chances it comes to the GameCube NSO?

less than 0% divided by an atom

I'm playing it right now on my steam deck. I loved both 1&2 and 3. A shame 3 never made it big, it's such a fun strategy game

Frosted_Midna posted...

You guys should join Ephineas server of PSOBB then!

See that it's still dead af

Yes, the GameCube version was one of my favorite games

Played it on Dreamcast but never was able to play it online :(

Frosted_Midna posted...

You guys should join Ephineas server of PSOBB then!

I'm on there. I only got to level 18 I think, before I quit playing. I forgot what my character's name, it's definitely not Shane. Though I might play some more, once I get moved out next week and get Internet set-up.

BigG777 posted...

What are the chances it comes to the GameCube NSO?

The GC version is missing Episode 4 so I would never go back to it, personally.

Mad-Dogg posted...

Yeah the 4 player split-screen was such a awesome move for it's time. If I wasn't no-lifing the online mode I used to play a lot of split-screen with my brother, and 2 of my nephews.

My first level 200 character was my hunewearl mad-dawg. (Spelled in a way to where she could have the redria section ID). I played so much PSO that I used to remember the most notable rare drops by heart for each section ID, lol. With redria it was pretty easy to get god/battles so I used to gather them up and give them to all of my friends and family.

I also used to know how to raise mags without needing a guide lol (I really, really loved me some PSO) so my friends was constantly dumping their mags off on me to raise them up. If I wasn't actively playing the game (I was a real night owl. My family used to own this little tiny TV we had set up on the kitchen counter, which is also in the area of the house where the family PC+modem was set up. I used to plug up my gamecube to the tiny TV on the kitchen counter and raise mags while using the bigger TV next to the PC+modem to watch adult swim. The sealab 2021, space ghost coast to coast, brak show, aqua teen hunger force, mission hill, inuyasha just starting up, tenchi universe, original gundam, mobile suit gundam 0083 and 0080, and harvey birdman attorney at law era).

I have so much nostalgia for that time in my life. PSO episode 1 and 2 on the cube' with that small TV and adult swim watching on the other TV, lol. Real good times.

Yeah, but did you ever find that god damned Psycho Wand or Heaven Punisher?

If any older PSO gets ported over I would prefer it to be blue burst since it never got a console release.

A remastered style re-release, but I wouldn't mind if it did a nier replicant and devil summoner raidou type of thing where its a remaster on paper but there is a few quality of life touch ups to the old gameplay system.

BigG777 posted...

What are the chances it comes to the GameCube NSO?

i'd literally never play it when blue burst exists

the novelty of splitscreen only works for so long when you have a vastly superior option with way more content on pc

I had the Gamecube version for the longest time and never played it.

About 4 years ago, I finally turned it on and played through it offline, start to... almost finish. I didn't beat the final boss because I was deeply underleveled and it would've taken some serious grinding.

A strange experience playing through it offline, so very long after it was popular. It's kind of a simple and repetitive game, basically an endless grind, so it's not my favorite. But at the same time, it's enjoyable enough.

So I did not play Phantasy Star Online. I played Phantasy Star Offline. Lol.
Seeing the remnants of one of the very first online games was fascinating. It's sort of a historical artifact now. It was worth the experience just for that.

GameCube 1&2, Blue burst on SCHTHACK, and PSO 2 on XBone until new Genesis or whatever came out

I play Ngs pretty much everyday...infact im playing it as we speak....
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Super_Slash posted...

Yeah, but did you ever find that god damned Psycho Wand or Heaven Punisher?

I never found either of these two. Mine was dupes sadly.

I did however find my own lavis cannon. Via redria's splitting of the rare red slimes. I used that toward the future quest to farm them.....at least I think that was the name.

Once I finally found it, I made a oran hucaseal just so I can hunt the rare Hildetors for that syncesta item (I think that is the name bare with me lol) that transforms the lavis cannon to the lavis blades, and then another to transform it into the double cannon. This was by far my favorite hunted down rare. Mine had different stats compared to all the duped lavis cannons out there so I felt all special lol. Thing was like 30 native 25 hit or something. (I knew about rerolling on the tekker so you don't get those crap 5 percents. Thats how you knew someone screwed up and didn't know about tekking, lol).

My second favorite rare was my monkey King bar. I busted my ass doing ultimate seabed runs to hunt down the purple squids since that was where it dropped for redria. It took me half a year to finally get it.

I still have seabed's goofy battle music burned into memory because of all the runs.
https://youtu.be/skskBNj_lsE?si=06PjPXmjNhHgnw6S

Another thing I used to love was challenge mode. I had all my characters with the highest challenge mode rank and got all the challenge weapons for the hell of it.

Mad-Dogg posted...

Another thing I used to love was challenge mode. I had all my characters with the highest challenge mode rank and got all the challenge weapons for the hell of it.

I remember having to team up with the Japanese to play challenge mode since they were the only ones who played it in the dreamcast days

Mad-Dogg posted...

Another thing I used to love was challenge mode. I had all my characters with the highest challenge mode rank and got all the challenge weapons for the hell of it.

I always wanted to do Challenge Mode online, because if you completed it with a high-enough rank, you got to have a weapon that you could personally name.

Its why I created my first GameFAQs account when I was 13. I played offline solo/multi with neighborhood kids for the first few years then discovered the schthack server, got easily over 1000 hours of play time.

Frosted_Midna posted...

You guys should join Ephineas server of PSOBB then!

I downloaded this recently, tried playing with controller but having some issues where some buttons register as two different button inputs. I wasnt really sure what the issue was and couldnt fix it or find a solution through Google.

i've gotten the lavis series before. a shame it's pretty outclassed. other notable rares i've fought are: psycho wand 801, 101, 502, s-parts201. sadly the game's balance kinda means that many rares suck. braveman, vise, and vjaya are common and top-tier. wands/rods only matter if they have element boosts, and basic ass charge partisans/swords/vulcans with hit outclass most rares in general

i've used every class so far except for racaseal, which feels super redundant. while it is the best at landing instant death in the game, its damage is just too low and its defense is less valuable that racast's higher hp. at least humar offers a still-high atp with much better ata than hucast and ramarl and hunewearl are really good when there isn't already a force

i really wanna finish challenge mode at some point. i think it's a really good spin on the regular game flow

I played a few hours of it with friends and we didn't really care for it. It was just okay.

I do love the regular phantasy star series

joe_stalin518 posted...

I remember having to team up with the Japanese to play challenge mode since they were the only ones who played it in the dreamcast days

I was very fortunate I had the PSO friend group I had. We relied on one another to get this done for multiple characters.

Kisai posted...

I always wanted to do Challenge Mode online, because if you completed it with a high-enough rank, you got to have a weapon that you could personally name.

Yep. I was always just naming my weapons mad dogg's *whatever the weapon was here*. Vast majority of them I put on the charge special (the one where you use your money for higher damage).

anttttt posted...

i've gotten the lavis series before. a shame it's pretty outclassed. other notable rares i've fought are: psycho wand 801, 101, 502, s-parts201. sadly the game's balance kinda means that many rares suck. braveman, vise, and vjaya are common and top-tier. wands/rods only matter if they have element boosts, and basic ass charge partisans/swords/vulcans with hit outclass most rares in general

i've used every class so far except for racaseal, which feels super redundant. while it is the best at landing instant death in the game, its damage is just too low and its defense is less valuable that racast's higher hp. at least humar offers a still-high atp with much better ata than hucast and ramarl and hunewearl are really good when there isn't already a force

i really wanna finish challenge mode at some point. i think it's a really good spin on the regular game flow

Yeah, finding a lot of the game's rares was basically just for style and pride, lol. With the way the game's combat worked nothing was better than getting some basic mechguns, having charge on them, and hoping they had high hit for max deeps. Any multi-hitting weapon like double sabers, twin daggers, or for rangers shotgun type weapons with charge. Frozen shooter for easy freezys or the ep1 and 2 nerfed spread needle that still did a good job with paralyzing.

Some rares was still pretty good though. One of my main weapons was the meteor cudgel double saber since it's freeze special actually used to hit. Monkey king bar was also pretty good since it had the devil cut HP special on it.

Kinda' why I hope that if we ever got a PSO remaster then some of this stuff can be tweaked a bit.

AvlButtslam posted...

I downloaded this recently, tried playing with controller but having some issues where some buttons register as two different button inputs. I wasnt really sure what the issue was and couldnt fix it or find a solution through Google.

lmk if anyone has a solution for this btw

On Dreamcast, but I don't think I ever went much farther than the 2nd boss/3rd world. For some reason, I would hit that point then start a new character instead and do it again.

Got dial-up internet just for the Dreamcast(didn't have a PC at the time). First real experience with online games was PSO. I'd totally play a remastered release, but I don't think that has any chance of ever happening.

Super_Slash posted...

I play on Ephinea. I have a level 200 FOnewm I named Enuo, after the FFV superboss. I also have a HUcast well into the 100s. Let's play some time.

Hell yeah, you play on Fodra right?

I put thousands of hours into the Dreamcast and Gamecube games. I've dabbled with the private servers as well but never got super deep into them.

Every once in a while I get the itch, but lately I've been helping with a rebalance project for it rather than diving back into Ephinea, etc.

Did Ephinea ever cave and add instanced drops? It made it feel a bit infeasible to play with randos since you couldn't reliably get any rares even if they dropped. And I didn't have a friend group to go back with otherwise.

Episode 1&2 on Gamecube. Never played it online, though, so I never got the full experience. I did play it split screen with my siblings and friend back then, though.

Sadly, I sold it in 2016 (along with some other games I had) when I was having severe money issues.

I never did play PSO.

I played the ever loving holy fuck out of the first four (I still do need to be at PS2) however.

Sounds like I may need to check out PSO at some point.

I played the original PSO on Dreamcast; yes. I remember when Episode 2 got announced and many of us thought the idea of paying for PSO was ridiculous because there was nothing to warrant doing so. So many stuck to the original before we got bored and moved on.

being a G.I.R.L., it was pretty easy to get your gear replaced after disconnects wiped your inventory. Hated when that happened but I guess that's the early days of console game servers for you. Hackers and weapon thieves roamed PSO so losing gear to DC or theft was easy to replace if you knew someone.