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.
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?
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.
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?