4 years ago, the Japanese server was shut down for Sega's Phantasy Star Universe. 2 weeks prior to this, the international Xbox 360 version was shut down. The games servers and harddrives were recycled for usage for Phantasy Star Online 2. And as of October 2006, this game will be 10 years old.
What are you memories of this game? What server did you play? Favorite classes, PAs, missions?
Those are some thick thighs.
I never got to play it but i heard it was a fucking mess on consoles and the Japanese server (as per fucking usual with modern sega) was were the best experience could be had. I did play phantasy star portable and people say that its a straight upgrade from universe.
It was a dumb piece of shit that couldn't compare to PSO.
That is Karen Erra. She's waifu material after playing the game
The PS servers have been split since the Dreamcast days because of American and European hackers ruining the game. Japan doesn't tolerate our shitty culture, grow up. PSU was much better than the PSP games.
She's a...Newman, was it?
Yes, one can tell by the knife ears. Humans had regular ears. Casts had no ears. Dirty beasts and beast girls had furry ears
Biggest disappointment ever
No need to get pissy fami
Im just saying that sega is fucking dumb for punishing the entire western fanbase for the actions of very few and never actually fixing the problem of hacking.
They did but they got more serial keys and continued to pk, nol, dupe, and a bunch of other dumb shit.
Ethan had to be the worst protagonist in a JRPG ever. PSU's story was so bad.
The PC version also used Gameguard which was a glorified rootkit. It refused to work on Vista and Windows 7 for months and it constantly caused problems.
I played on JP PC and never had any problems on vista. Ethan became a lot cooler after ep1
>they did
except they actually didn't, they just made quick fixes that hackers found an easy work around and actually served to screw over legit players (double saving when logging out)
nonsense, they were banned but just kept coming back. Same shit happened in psu but it was protected better. Bunch of money dupers flooded the economy and fucked up the market, sega banned their ass hard, and then a bunch of these fags started crying how unfair and shit sega is
I'm not sure about JP but the American version had loads of issues with Gameguard. Ranging from crashing the game when you open certain applications like FRAPs or Firefox, when you uninstall the game Gameguard still lingers on your PC, peformance goes to shit as a memory leak can occur, and in some cases the program will BSOD your computer since it tries to force close important Windows processes found in Vista/7 thinking they are cheats. Some of these issues got fixed eventually but it's still a huge piece of shit.
Well the english pc/ps2 version was the worst server to play on. Gameguard has rarely worked. I think jp psu used the same thing but was fine but thats mostly cause the community is better so eh
I remember getting the meseta cap in PSU from a hacker who visited my room. I never got banned for it.
Yes, Newmen, the space elves with a japanese culture fetish.
>tfw you got a copy for cheap but your ps2 hates it for some reason
I missed out when it first came out and played psp first, which I put lots of hours in before losing it all. I have enjoyed the small bit I have been able to play of the first game though, still wish we got psp2i.
in retrospect PSU was awful. the missions were just a slog to go through, crafting was such a pain and was timegated out the ass if you played online, and the itemization in PSU was so boring compared PSO. Getting a Snow Queen in PSO was so fucking great but getting a rifle with ice element in PSU was fucking awful.
At least he had a cool sword fight with the final boss
That is literally the only thing I remember concerning Ethan that was positive, a minute long fight.
>What are you memories of this game?
I remember fapping like mad when I saw Karen getting a pantyshot.
Turns out it wasn't, the concept art reveals she wore short shorts underneath her ludicriously mini minidress.
Didn't play it but the PSU characters are handing out weapons from their games at the moment on PSO2 to celebrate the game for some reason.
More games should feature space elves.
THey're mega assholes through, the newmen are the nicest space elves and they're gigantic pillocks, the others are outright genocidal or find it a positive consequence to their plans
I remember getting excited for this when I heard about it, only to get disappointed when it wasn't actually PSO the sequel.
I remember hating Ethan's shitty english voice acting, why anime face pop ins kept happening, and how this was a mockery of PSO. Also the option to give you saber and gun, but you had to stop moving to use the gun.
Universe blew.
Will Clementine succeed? I miss this game.
kill yourself
It might, but it will be years before its at least 2011 360 sega quality. Expect it to be at maybe 2008-2009s content. I dont know how much to expect beyond master classes. Event data is gone
i loved the cross play on pc and ps2. I would bring my slim ps2 over to my friends and we would play all night.
Man I had a huge thing for Karen for some reason, to this day I am still crushed her porn is so limited.
And that PSO2 is a huge shitfest.
Are there any fan-servers for PSU like the Ephinea server for PSO? Are those fan-servers any good? Was PSU even a good game? I've just had it sat around for a while and not played it much (I got far enough to know Ethan's VA sucked).
She was very sweet and always friendly to ethan, but still had a bit of edge and attitude around others. I think i put laia just above her because i want to ravage a dirty beast girl
All I remember about PSU was wishing it was PSO. Cause man was it not very good.
PSU started slow but the expansion was great and updates down the line continued to make the experience even better. Its my favorite PS game easily. A server, clementine, is in the works but it will be a while before its ready. It was available to play for a few months in spring
Cool stuff, homie. I'll keep an eye on that. Is the PS2 version good to play or would I be better off going for the game on another platform?
Can't some hacker turn their attention away from the Clinton's and the DNC for five seconds and hack SEGAs servers to get the server software and stuff for psu. I mean honestly come on its 2016
Nah, ps2 was the worst one in every way. If you want to play the original v1 story then the 360 or pc works. However the expansion cant be used or even download on 360 anymore unless you have it in your history, they removed when the server went offline. You can play a good amount of AOTIs (the expansion) content offline on PC as well do episode 2 which is a follow up of the events after episode 1. The story honestly does get good from episode 2 and beyond. If its ethan youre worried about hes out of the picture for the most part as he became a background character involved in conspiracies and criminal activity
>She was very sweet and always friendly to ethan
Mostly because he's the team retard for almost the entirety of the first game.
He was basically a conscript rookie who had a rough start because he got separated from his sister, give him a break user. He got better near the end of the game and was awesome in ep2 and 3
>give him a break user
That would be reasonable. If I was reasonable, I wouldn't be on this board.
I wont argue that one
That was in large part because sega sat on their fucking asses and let it happen for so long.
They were RMTing the shit like crazy all over the web for over a month, while sega - and nprotect with their nigger gangster protection operation nprotect - stood around like dumbfucks until there was too much damage to undo.
SoA has always been shitters of the worst order. It just doubled down when SoJ decided for good they couldn't be trusted to even change a diaper without two months of back and forth negotiation about it. By then it was both sides fucking up PSU.
I mad as fuck. Still mad as fuck. And still dying for a shot to kick clumsyorchid in his fucking nutsack.
It started like that because sonic team had all the tools and was in charge of the game across all servers. SOA had little power because SOJ neutered them. They just translated content whenever it was available and the rest was on sonic team to code it and implement it into the server. They were good at this for the first year or two but the gap got huge at some point. I think near the end of 2008. PSU pedia has the update table but i cant be bothered to search through it
>impliment blue burst update
>forget to switch flag on server
>anyone picking up a red box kicked for cheating, possibly banned
Yeah, nah, SoJ oppressed them, but SoA were retarded as fuck. Even back on the dreamcast, you had to get the good DL quests from booyaka in japanese because they couldn't be bothered to make them work in english.
Do not sexualize the newmen
That is all.
I remember the Casts had like a big limit break thing instead of some stuff that the other races had.
I always used a cut in when I used mine: MAN AND MACHINE POWER EXTREME!
No one ever got it...
Also I had a little loli robit.
I dont remember who handled PSOs servers. But i do know that for psu, sonic team and sega japan was in charge of it all. 360, en pc/ps2, jp pc/ps2. Frankly i wish they never bothered with the en pc/ps2 version. The 360 one was better in every aspect
Shes cute. I had 3 characters. One of them was that one you have, the other was the little genie, and the other was the dinosaur looking guy with the ank pico i think it was.
>Also I had a little loli robit.
Clearly that took prescient over the Centurion reference.
ST ran every version of PSO (and later PSU) into the ground. This isn't just limited to awful GM work (honestly Japanese GC GMs were probably the only staff worth a shit and that only lasted as long as EP3 did.) The games themselves had some of the worst security and problem handling. DC in particular left a lot of shit that had no business being in a game to begin with, but well whatever. Every single version of PSO has this amazingly retarded error handling system that ends up with ANYTHING it doesn't recognize crashing whatever player the invalid packet got sent to. Private servers handle this far, far better thankfully but it's a little late when you consider how old the game is (and how long it took a competent person to make a public server.)
Frankly PSO2 is probably the first time they've gotten hacking under control, but even then they wiped peoples hard drives so lol
Why all the hate? I like PSU! I've never played PSO, but I've played .hack which I love and PSU reminded of a shittier .hack. Not a bad thing since it was the only other game on the PS2.
I guess my biggest gripe beside the ridiculously chessey story, was that it wasn't .hack =(
This game had the worst community known to mankind, but I loved playing it anyway.
For years it felt like the game had no events up until M.A.G happened, and then I felt obligated to compete in that shit to get to the top 500.
The changes they made to the combat in PSP2 were fantastic, and while playing that, I wished it was a full-on expansion to PSU.
PSP2 ruined the combat system
Especially fapped to the scene where she was KO'd and separated with thugs on that train. Such prime doujin fodder, that never manifested oddly enough
>you had to stop moving to use the gun.
You actually didn't. Both handguns and rifles can be used on the move while aiming.
The only PSU private server in existence is an unplayable mess right now. I think they even took it down because it was so useless. It's called Clementine or something if you want to look it up.
This
Literally fuck clumsy