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KentaRawr!

02-05-2006, 02:02 AM

Yes, Phantasy Star Universe was delayed. Delayed into a far time away we like to call: "Many months away." In the mean time, why not read about it? I have gathered much info for you to read.

The Character Creation

As you probably already know, the character creation will allow you to change "From glasses to sock color", as stated by sega. But judging from video's (Video's at bottom of forum post), it goes beyond that. Here is a list of the choices I have seen from the video's:

Gender (Duh.)
Race (Androids, Humans, etc.)
Face Proportion (That includes things like Eye-Size.)
Eye-brow type (You can make your character look like they ran into Anti just by switching their eye-brow type. :p )
Body Proportion (Height, muscle, fat, etc.)
Pants Type
Shirt Type
Coat type (Yup.)
Sock Type
Ear-Type (They don't just have to be regular ears. They can be animal-ears, too!)
Face Accesories (Like glasses.)
Hair Accesories (Yes, guys can wear them, too...)
Facial hair
Eye Color (Yeah, Eye Color no longer counts as face-type. :cool: )
Skin Color (It's now a bar going from light to dark. Not a selection from 1 to 4 like in PSO.)

Pretty much everything listed above can have different colors.

Cast Character Creation: (Cast = Android)

Helmet-Type
Face-Type (Face-Type and Helmet-Type go together to decide Head-Type, unlike in PSO.)
Suit-Type (You can make a muscular android... hmm...)
Armor: Chest (Armor goes over the suit.)
Armor: Arms
Armor: Legs
Armor: Foot (Omglolz f00t armorz...)
Suit Color 1 (Key-Word: 1)
Suit Color 2 (Yes. You don't choose from a list of color combinations, but you decide the color combination yourself, unlike PSO.)

You probably agree with me that once online, no one is going to look like you. >_>

Information
Let me tell you, the Lobbies (Or what seem to be the lobbies) look amazing. Judging from a video, lobbies range from futuristic towns to PSO like lobbies the size of a basket-ball court. Now in the lobby, you have a selection of movements to perform. (Similar to PSO, where you would hold Ctrl and press a button to do something.) Something out of the norm, however, is the ability to have your character's face pop up on everyones screen on the left side, showing some sort of emotion. Basically, they are avatars.

As many of you have heard, there are vehicles. Not just in cut-scenes, but in game-play as well. There are vehicles such as star-ships, for going from planet to planet (Only confirmed for offline mode), and Hover-Bikes, for going across the surface.

The battle-system, judging from video's, is very similar to that of PSO. But sort-of not. It's hard for my puny mind to explain, but it is certainly alot faster than that of PSO. Video's containing game-play footage are at the bottom of the post. According to IGN, there are two types of attacks. Strong and weak. These attacks can be chained together to make various character-specific combinations. There is also a first-person mode which you can use to blast everyone away, if you like. n_n According to IGN, weapons aren't the ones with move-sets now. It's Character and Weapon. Meaning if say a Hunter uses a sword, a ranger will use it differently.

The graphics are also greatly improved, but I will allow the pictures and video's to tell you the rest of that. :)

The classes Hunter, Ranger, and Force have made their returns, but there are also 4 races for each class. The 3 you remember, Humans, Newmans, and Casts (Android = Cast) and a new one. The beast, which according to IGN will make the most dramatic alteration to the ability system.

The offline mode of the game is supposed to be much more story-based than the other online PS games. It is expected to be from 40 to 50 hours long, and takes place in a brand spanking-new universe called the "Gurhal Solar-System", which consists of three planets. 100 years ago, there was a great war, but a peace treaty was made then, thus ending it. Now, 100 years later, Ethan is going to the festival with his little sister, and disaster strikes...

Also according to IGN, the game is supposed to have many references to other Phantasy star games. The story will be non-linear in nature, contains over 3 hours of voiced-over cut-scenes, and can be enjoyed even without the online mode, just as an offline RPG.

We still know not of many things in PSU. Such as the maximum amount of players playing at one time, a monthly fee, if both versions of the game are compatible with each other (It's coming out for the PC and the PS2), how many characters per account, etc. We will just have to wait and see.

Here is a link to the PSU News page of IGN: http://ps2.ign.com/objects/683/683215.html#news

Here is a link to the PSU Page at Sega.com: http://www.sega.com/games/game_temp.php?game=psu&id=hp_pldwnlst

Pictures

Here are some pictures from various pages.

http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2/image/article/651/651485/phantasy-star-universe-20050916111915292.jpg
Thou hath been pwnd.

http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2/image/article/644/644429/phantasy-star-universe-20050823065619214.jpg
He's gonna cut off his hand any second now.

http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2/image/article/644/644429/phantasy-star-universe-20050823065616074.jpg
This is one of those situations where you wish you had team-mates.

http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2/image/article/644/644429/phantasy-star-universe-20050823065608137.jpg
Smile for the camera!

http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2/image/article/644/644429/phantasy-star-universe-20050823065557841.jpg
The transformers make an appearance in Sega's next Phantasy Star game.

http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2/image/article/640/640020/phantasy-star-universe-20050808111909819.jpg
Running to a near-by whatever that is.

http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2/image/article/640/640020/phantasy-star-universe-20050808111917209.jpg
He REALLY should have waited until he was surrounded to use that spell.

http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2/image/article/634/634270/phantasy-star-universe-20050715072656058.jpg
I don't care that when you smack it, it spews black blood. Look at your team-mate! He's obese!

http://ps2media.gamespy.com/ps2/image/article/613/613522/phantasy-star-universe-20050513015208386.jpg
You know, that thing actually looks sorta happy. Can't wait to see his reaction when the game comes out.

http://www.sega.com/games/title/psu/ss/ss_psu_05.jpg
Wow. Kinda reminds you of PSO, doesn't it?

http://www.sega.com/games/title/psu/ss/ss_psu_10.jpg
Raise thy sword!

http://www.sega.com/games/title/psu/ss/ss_psu_11.jpg
This is what we call ambushing a helpless monster.

http://www.sega.com/games/title/psu/ss/ss_psu_01.jpg
Notice how none of them care for smiling.

Video's

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=6259&pl=game&type=wmv - This video contains bits of some CG-Cutscenes, and some offline-gameplay.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=6037&pl=game&type=wmv - This is the trailer from E3 2005, which contains mostly offline footage, but some online as well. Including character creation.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=7673&pl=game&type=wmv - This is a trailer from the Tokyo Game Show of 2005. It contains entirely offline mode content.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=7714&pl=game&type=wmv - Another trailer from the Tokyo Game Show of 2005, but this one includes character creation footage and online-lobby footage.

Hope to see you in the Phantasy Star Universe when this game comes out for the PC and PS2, everyone. I hope I can make a character that looks like my old PSO character, Glenn. o.o

So, what are your opinions on the game so far, everyone?

Erdrick Holmes

02-05-2006, 02:43 AM

This is going to be the best game ever made. The single player of this game will be what probably connects PS1 and PS Gaiden.

StarlightAngel

02-05-2006, 03:21 AM

...oh my god. *spazz* *twitch*

Well, I suppose I'd best start saving up for a PS2, controlers, and the whole monthly payment for being online. Not to mention the game itself.

KentaRawr!

02-05-2006, 04:53 AM

...oh my god. *spazz* *twitch*

Well, I suppose I'd best start saving up for a PS2, controlers, and the whole monthly payment for being online. Not to mention the game itself.

Yes, yes you should. :p

Or, if your PC is good enough, you could just get a Ps2 controller, a Ps2 to PC adapter, and the game itself. Much cheaper, but at the risk of going into a world of only PC gamers.:eek:

Erdrick Holmes

02-05-2006, 05:05 AM

I'm just gonna play the single player game. I'll get playing it online after I get stuff for it.

KentaRawr!

02-05-2006, 05:44 AM

I'm just gonna play the single player game. I'll get playing it online after I get stuff for it.

Almost opposite for me. I am going to play it online first, but then once that weird thing in PSO happens that causes everyone you know to just get bored and go into the offline mode, I will follow, and go into the offline mode and get obsessed for a while. Then go back online, then do offline, online, offline, and it goes on until the next online PS game comes out. Or until I need to use the bath room.

Fonzie

02-05-2006, 08:06 AM

Dude i was just playing PSO1 and 2 lmao this is going to be awesome.

Rostum

02-05-2006, 11:49 AM

KentaRawr!

02-05-2006, 02:43 PM

I looks pretty interesting. So how does the online part work with the offline part? Can you go through the game with other people, or do it yourself. Or is the online thing a completely different section?

The offline game is supposed to be an Action RPG, lasting from 40 to 50 hours. We don't know much about the online part of the game, but it is supposed to take place right after the offline mode's story. So, judging by the current information, you cannot play the story mode with friends. :(

Rostum

02-05-2006, 09:12 PM

So, judging by the current information, you cannot play the story mode with friends. :(

It'd be so much cooler if you could. ,_,

Erdrick Holmes

02-05-2006, 09:38 PM

The offline game is your standard fair action RPG with a story, cutscenes, voice acting, the works. Since Sega's delayed this game so many times they better put some effor into the voice acting.

Dreddz

02-05-2006, 10:14 PM

Sega has been slacking recently, and have only made a few, if any quality games over these years.
Hopefully, PSU will prove me wrong, I myself, arent a massive fan of PS, and probably wont get this game. Too many other games to get excited about. Hope this game turns out to be good, my mate will probably get it, so Ill probably end up playing it anyway.

KentaRawr!

02-05-2006, 10:36 PM

Dreddz

02-05-2006, 10:40 PM

I have played PS, the Gamecube version. It was my mate who likes those games. I got a pretty damn good Magic user, I think I built him to LvL 34 or sumin. We stopped playing it after Tekken 5 came out, then we just played that instead ;)

KentaRawr!

02-05-2006, 10:42 PM

Dreddz

02-05-2006, 10:57 PM

pfft, I stopped playing it. If I had contniued, a character so great would of been produced it would of crashed your Game ...

KentaRawr!

02-05-2006, 11:04 PM

pfft, I stopped playing it. If I had contniued, a character so great would of been produced it would of crashed your Game ...

I suppose you're right. We have enough FSOD'ers already. :p

Erdrick Holmes

02-06-2006, 02:12 AM

Vyk

02-06-2006, 04:03 AM

Condemned = Developed by Monolith Productions.
Spartan = Developed by Creative Assembly.

Never heard of Sonic Dash. Sega.com has nothing on it. Do you mean Sonic Rush? If so I'll see your Sonic Rush, and raise you Shadow the Hedgehog :P Personally I'm still waiting for Sega to get their head out of their ass. They've done crap and mediocrity for years now. I know they can do better. Its rare for them to get something right anymore. I'll hope PSU is it

Erdrick Holmes

02-06-2006, 04:34 AM

Rush, that's what I ment.

EDIT: FBWQFJBEFAEJFNAWEJ Shadow was NOT that bad.

LunarWeaver

02-06-2006, 05:19 AM

I WAS excited about this game...But I was excited for Shining Force Neo, Arc the Lad:End of Darkness, both Fullmetal Alchemist games, and Gauntlet:Seven Sorrows, and each and every one has turned out to be a complete piece of garbage. Action RPGs, I love them and they get the bad treatment so often.

The only obvious answer is that gnomes have cursed me by making everything I hope and dream for to become crap instead. I mean, what else? So now I've decided that PSU and Kingdom Hearts II will be the worst games ever made, and when they turn out to be the best you'll all be buying drinks for ME *cackle*!!

Seriously though, I do sort of worry about this game. I love PSO, but Sega has a nasty habit of making the same game over and over again and never improving anything that needs it. Sonic (both 2 and 3-D) has been the same since forever. Yeah, they have new things in them, but they're pretty much the same. Besides, Shadow the Hedgehog. That's all that needs said about that situation. Here's to hoping for a yummy experience though! And TP that regenerates :D

Vyk

02-06-2006, 05:53 AM

If it's not broke, don't fix it? The problem with Sega is that they have a bad habbit of thinking broke things are working, these days. Capcom's famous plundering of Street Fighter 2 iterations out the wazzoo is a good example. And I've bought more than one myself. Sometimes a little something new is all you need, 'cause the core was close to perfect (for the time) anyway. This is true for the original (2D) Sonic games. Problem occured when they took it to 3D and delusioned it was great so they did it again and again. Thanks to Sonic Rush changing that. Haven't played it, but I'm sure I'd enjoy it more than Shadow (sorry Holmes, I haven't played that one either ^_^'). Same old Sonic, different hat. But the old Sonic was good, so the new hat likely works out

So hopefully this PSU offline thing is on par with PS4 with a really really awesome new hat

Dreddz

02-06-2006, 09:10 AM

*coughSonicDashcough*
*coughCondemnedcough*
*coughSpartancough*
Vyk already explained Condemned and Spartan, and I wouldnt consider Sonic Rush to be that great as its just the old formula with a little polish.