Phantasy Star Universe
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.)
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.)
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....id=hp_pldwnlst
Pictures
Here are some pictures from various pages.
Thou hath been pwnd.
He's gonna cut off his hand any second now.
This is one of those situations where you wish you had team-mates.
Smile for the camera!
The transformers make an appearance in Sega's next Phantasy Star game.
Running to a near-by whatever that is.
He REALLY should have waited until he was surrounded to use that spell.
I don't care that when you smack it, it spews black blood. Look at your team-mate! He's obese!
You know, that thing actually looks sorta happy. Can't wait to see his reaction when the game comes out.
Wow. Kinda reminds you of PSO, doesn't it?
Raise thy sword!
This is what we call ambushing a helpless monster.
Notice how none of them care for smiling.
Video's
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.p...=game&type=wmv - This video contains bits of some CG-Cutscenes, and some offline-gameplay.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.p...=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.p...=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.p...=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?
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