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"Anyone getting Phantasy Star Online tommorow?"

Just wondering if anyone's getting and planning to use a 56k modem to play?

If you is let me know how it runs.

Apparently a certain other site has recieved shipment of the BB and modem adaptors so I'm guessing it'll be all up and running by tommorow.

Edgy wrote:

> Mind you, they claim to not review anything without playing it all the
> way through, yet they say they've not tried the online functions...yet
> the talk about them quite a lot...I'm confused.

They haven't played online with the UK version, but they've been ;playing the Jap version ever since it was released.

I'd download the demo but my PC does in fact, suck balls and wouldn't be able to run it.

Basically you can hack and slash monster with people online

Or hack and slash them by yourself


If you want some idea of what the single player is like, try playing table tennis by yourself.

Why don't you two download the demo from here:

http://www.gamesdomain.com/demos/demo/1671.html

It's only the first level and also has an online option for the first level. Try before you buy, it's always nice to have that.

I've not played it before, but I've read somewhere (though can't remember where) that it has over 100 hours of offline gameplay (ofcourse, it depends on how good the player is and if the game can keep me hooked for long enough) and NGC gave it 90%

Mind you, they claim to not review anything without playing it all the way through, yet they say they've not tried the online functions...yet the talk about them quite a lot...I'm confused.

Is it actually worth playing offline?

I've never played the game before so have no idea what it's really about.

Whitestripes wrote:
> Yes I do, I know that it was repitive and boring.

I can relate to that.

Hack the big Monster, level up and move on. Gets a bit tedious.

But I still had some fun playing the PC demo :-D

I've decided to give it a go - though offline mind!

I wont be going online with my GameCube until online 'Cube gaming goes the way of the Dreamcast - and so, I could be waiting a while...

No.

Most real time RPGs suck. It needs to be at least semi-turn based (Chrono Trigger) to be decent.

Secret of Mana managed to pull it off, but it's also backed up by a much better story/characters/locations than PSO.


Online RPGs don't work. If you want multi-player real time RPG goodness, then wait for FF:CC to show you how it's done. Being online severly limits the RPG-ness of it in my opinion.

Ok, looking at Gameplay terms...

It is pretty much like that, So isn't most RPG's?

Having lots of items doesn't make it good, neither does the novelty of it being an online game.

It doesn't change the fact that the gameplay involves little more than walk forwards and repeatidly press attack when enemies are encountered.