Ok we've all heard of PSO eversince it first came out on the dreamcast. It was the game that started it all, the first proper massive multiplayer online roleplaying game (ok you had Runescape but pso was on a whole new level!)
In 2007 all official servers were shut down. To this day i cant understand why, Sega, Nintendo AND Microsoft all had this game and still they pulled the plug. Great story, graphics were top at the time, gameplay was amazing, ok i could get a bit repetative at times but the more you progressed the more was opened up to you. But alas they decided to end it.
The fans thought otherwise.
Phantasy star online continues to this day via priate servers. One in particular is http://www.schtserv.com/.
The SCHTHACK is he most versatile private server i've seen not only are you able to connect using the pc version but also the dreamcast and gamecube versions too! it also supports PSO: Blue Burst a sequal-ish to the dreamcast game.
Signing up is free and its easy to set up. SO you'll be playing in no time.
There are a few drawbacks which i must point out. Blue Burst on the pc does tend to lag sometimes depending on the ammount of characters on screen. I thought it was my Computer at first but it turns out it is a problem and they are working on it. The other nack is that in the PC version of PSO chatting is next to impossible. The PC version is a japanese game that wasn't released over in the west so it wont recognise the keyboard. Instead you have this stupid talk box thing with pre enterd words and phrases. There are ways around it but I have yet to get one to work.
But thats it nothing else. The Server has a high member count so you wont be stuck looking for people to play with, support is very good with people there to answer all you questions but you can find all you answers in the forum any how. I would reccommend using a Yahoo account to sign up from, I tried with hotmail, gmail and Gmx but i could not get a response, weather this was all a coincidence or not i dont know but yahoo worked for me.
PSO is still alive and I highly recommend digging out you dreamacst or whatever because i cant see it going under anytime soon.
Classic trailer:
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Saturday, 7 May 2011
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
mmo - fantasy masters
Back to mmos and I'm playing something which at first sounded like the dumbest thing ever, virtual trading card games. I chose to play this because most of the mmos I've played have been 3rd person action quest games, I've never played a virtual card game before (except pokemon).
I mean sure there are magic the gathering games and yugioh games but at least there are real cards. This is entirely online.
Fantasy masters is another mmo that originally started off in Korea that after a few years was translated for the westan market. It's not a very big game, the initial download was only 200mb so don't expect super 3d battles when summoning monsters. I did have i a little problem with the install that it took for
But you know what its not that bad it doesn't try to force ridiculous rules on you the art work on the cards are pretty good and it has a really good tutorial which means you can play from the get go.
There are a lot of downsides to this game though which I'm sad to say. First off the music. Dull dull dull its slow its very repetitive and it just seems rushed.
The graphics aren't much its a card game what do you want? It's got effects for attacks that's pretty much it. As I said before the art on the cards are done well and if it was an actual card game I would go out and start collecting like a maniac!
Gameplay is ok, again its a card game. It plays a lot like magic and pokemon only instead of mana or energy you use land to give your monsters power. It's really simple to play but its not something I've not seen before.
What sucks the most is that when you start up they give you a deck and you can't choose what you get, you don't even get a choice of 3 decks like in most tcgs and if you want to add more cards it will cost you. You earn sp after each game but you need that AND gp to get cards and gp don't come cheap. Another snag is the lack of players I've been on it for a few days now and have seen 3 players at most so I've mainly been playing against the computer but that gets boring quick.
Fantasy masters is an ok game its small so doesn't take much to play but don't expect to be facing off loads of players soon. Maybe more players will join but It's not that well advertised so maybe not.
instead of pictures i found a quick video on youtube:
I mean sure there are magic the gathering games and yugioh games but at least there are real cards. This is entirely online.
Fantasy masters is another mmo that originally started off in Korea that after a few years was translated for the westan market. It's not a very big game, the initial download was only 200mb so don't expect super 3d battles when summoning monsters. I did have i a little problem with the install that it took for
But you know what its not that bad it doesn't try to force ridiculous rules on you the art work on the cards are pretty good and it has a really good tutorial which means you can play from the get go.
There are a lot of downsides to this game though which I'm sad to say. First off the music. Dull dull dull its slow its very repetitive and it just seems rushed.
The graphics aren't much its a card game what do you want? It's got effects for attacks that's pretty much it. As I said before the art on the cards are done well and if it was an actual card game I would go out and start collecting like a maniac!
Gameplay is ok, again its a card game. It plays a lot like magic and pokemon only instead of mana or energy you use land to give your monsters power. It's really simple to play but its not something I've not seen before.
What sucks the most is that when you start up they give you a deck and you can't choose what you get, you don't even get a choice of 3 decks like in most tcgs and if you want to add more cards it will cost you. You earn sp after each game but you need that AND gp to get cards and gp don't come cheap. Another snag is the lack of players I've been on it for a few days now and have seen 3 players at most so I've mainly been playing against the computer but that gets boring quick.
Fantasy masters is an ok game its small so doesn't take much to play but don't expect to be facing off loads of players soon. Maybe more players will join but It's not that well advertised so maybe not.
instead of pictures i found a quick video on youtube:
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