Were you blessed to experience this masterpiece? 😼

Were you blessed to experience this masterpiece? 😼
from lunatique@lemmy.ml to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 03:28
https://lemmy.ml/post/37556280

This is the real gift SEGA gave to the world.

#retrogaming

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__hetz@sh.itjust.works on 15 Oct 04:04 next collapse

I played a little PSO on Dreamcast but never got far; spotty dial-up made it difficult to enjoy online play. Still a console “MMO” was mind-blowing to me at the time, and it was a beautiful game. (Q3A became my primary addiction. Much easier to just connect, mindlessly frag for a few, and not be upset when someone inevitably picked up the phone and starting dialing without listening for the modem first.)

I’ve emulated Dreamcast PSO on my Steam Deck and I know private servers still exist for Dreamcast (and it can made to get back online with an RPi and a little fiddling) but is Blue Burst the preferred game these days? PC version? I’m tempted to give it a proper playthrough sometime.

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 15 Oct 04:15 next collapse

Private servers exist on the PC version. I think eden server is still a fav but it might be a new popular server.

bufke@lemmy.today on 16 Oct 01:03 collapse

The PC version with ephinea private server is the most popular way to play currently. Runs well on steam deck. I had to fiddle with settings a bit. Crashes on some resolutions. It’s still fun today.

batdad90@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 05:53 next collapse

I loved PSO 1 & 2 on the GameCube! I didn’t have the online connection but local play was awesome. Great times!

etherphon@piefed.world on 15 Oct 06:58 next collapse

I too missed out, I played Phantasy Star Universe on the PC some years after it came out, the single player campaigns were still a lot of fun though but it was such a cool universe I'm sure online play was pretty rad.

smeg@feddit.uk on 15 Oct 08:04 next collapse

Did you have the special controller through?

B0NK3RS@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 22:06 collapse

I haven’t thought about this beauty in a long time.

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 15 Oct 17:57 next collapse

Very good times.

pasdechance@jlai.lu on 15 Oct 18:04 next collapse

Same, only played local but I got the game for something like $13 CAD.

I did have the internet connection module, but not for playing online.

I picked up both items in order to use Phoenix to play pirated game but ended up liking PSO.

Minnels@lemmy.zip on 16 Oct 05:07 collapse

I also bought this for playing pirates games. Never really tried the PSO game however which I regret now. I still got a TV I could play this on and I guess it is not too late.

lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works on 15 Oct 20:53 collapse

Same here - every friday rotating around a group of friend’s houses playing this, super smash, soul calibur, the bond fpses (agent under fire and nightfire) etc. Perfect!

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone on 15 Oct 07:44 next collapse

god staying up until 4am in uni posting pso 1 in 2000 was the best feeling ever

Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com on 15 Oct 12:54 next collapse

I played PSO so much! I bought a Dreamcast just for this game. Also played it in Xbox and PC, and private servers on PC. One of my favorite games ever. The soundtrack slaps too.

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 15 Oct 17:56 next collapse

The music was phenomenal. I have a couple of songs from the OST on my phone

B0NK3RS@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 22:11 collapse

I’m always tempted to try private servers but never get around to it.

Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com on 16 Oct 17:05 collapse

PSO is a crazy time sink. If you do a 2 hour play session then you’ve made approximately 0 progress in the game lol. I can’t imagine that being successful these days unfortunately, but it was amazing to get lost in the game as a teenager.

I guess it’s easy enough to leave the game open in the background on PC, not like it uses much power or RAM.

slowtrain33@lemmy.ml on 15 Oct 14:24 next collapse

I didn’t ever play Blue Burst, but I LOVED the first one on Dreamcast. It was my first MMO experience. I was 14 years old, and my parents had just bought me my own 19” CRT TV for my room.

I ran an Ethernet cable from the living room to my bedroom so I could play PSO online with my friend from school. We would play all night, and then geek out about our items the next day at school.

Bitflip@lemmy.ml on 15 Oct 18:42 next collapse

TTF anyone?

Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com on 15 Oct 18:59 next collapse

@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world has a section ID (Skyly) as their profile picture, so I suspect they’ve played this 🤣

brax@sh.itjust.works on 15 Oct 19:44 next collapse

Was there a difference between this and PSO on the Dreamcast? That game was a masterpiece.

Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com on 15 Oct 23:29 collapse

This was the PC version, it was after v2 which changed all the drop rates a lot. And it included episodes 1, 2, and 4. (Episode 3 was a completely different game lol)

UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk on 15 Oct 20:34 next collapse

I don’t remember Blue Burst but I remember setting up my Dreamcast to dial in to my ISP at the time, Demon Internet. Then loading up Phantasy Star Online. Probably the only MMO I really got into. I even purchased the official Dreamcast keyboard to use with it.

B0NK3RS@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 22:09 next collapse

Dreamcast was my first time going online at home, even before getting a pc, so I bought every online game I could and PSO was the best of them.

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 15 Oct 22:13 collapse

Mags and photons

expr@programming.dev on 16 Oct 01:18 next collapse

I didn’t play BB when the official servers were live. I played on Dreamcast originally, starting with Phantasy Star Online and later Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2. Mostly offline, but got to play online with dial-up sometimes (which was awesome, because hacking was rampant and a lot of times people would hop into games and do a “rare dump” of tons of powerful hacked or duped items). Eventually switched over to Episode 1 & 2 on Gamecube. Probably put thousands of hours into the games growing up.

Much later as an adult I spent a decent amount of time playing Blue Burst on the private Schthack server with the friends I played PSO with growing up, which was a lot of fun. Really got more of the online experience that time around (and quest access is much better in the online version of the game).

Oh, and I also played Phantasy Star Universe for a bit on Xbox 360 in between, but it uh… Really sucked.

I also played PSO2 a bit off and on, and it’s not bad. Much more fun and faithful to PSO than PSU was, but still somehow lacking the magic of PSO. Haven’t tried New Genesis.

But yeah, PSO easily was THE game of my childhood. Amazing stuff.

lunatique@lemmy.ml on 16 Oct 01:32 collapse

I was so disappointed with Phantasy Star Universe. Side note; I don’t know if it’s a good game or I was just feening for more Phantasy Star but have you ever played Phantasy Star Zero on the DS?

delcake@lemmy.zip on 17 Oct 03:46 collapse

I was all over Ep.1&2 on the GameCube back then. So many fond memories of nights spent chilling online and grinding out whatever we were going for that night.

My main was a HUcast who made it up to level 168 before memory card corruption took him, and I didn’t have it in me to play seriously again after that.

Though the timing on this post is funny because I’ve just started Phantasy Star Zero like a week ago. It’s incredible having a game so faithful to the PSO-style gameplay with just enough updates to feel fresh. And a bit surreal to have that with an entire new cast of enemies to get used to.

Makes me regret somehow not hearing about Zero back when it came out. I did drop a few hundred hours into both PSO2 and NGS each, but it just never was quite what I was craving - a new PSO.