PHANTASY STAR ONLINE
Fuck. If you are like me, and I think you are, the mere mention of this game will send an uncomfortable shiver down your spine. You may start frothing at the mouth. You may feel an urge to kill something (and hope it drops a red box, dear God, let it drop a red box...), or may simply revert back to a nearly comatose, sleepless state staring at the computer screen and pushing imaginary buttons on that mammoth monstrosity known as the original Xbox Controller (or Dreamcast for you old schoolers) as if it were a phantom limb.
Now I have tried addicting games before: I've played World of Warcraft.. meh. I thought I was addicted to Snood for a bit, but I was just bored. I even spent many sleepless nights in Vana'diel playing FFXI. None compare to the MONTHS and HOURS I put into this stupid, repetitive, glitchy, beautiful game created by God himself.
The plot? Um, actually, I dunno... in the hundreds upon hundreds of hours I played this game, i didn't catch one. Something about being in space? Yea that's it! You're in space, and the humans and elfy things and robots are all living happily, until monsters come and steal all your Meseta and put all your most valuable items in a box, and eat them. The only way to get them back is to kill the beasts, which will cause them to dissapear, leaving the boxes behind. Conveniently, these creatures labeled the box by least rare to most rare, so that the players working together to recover the goods can yell and scream about why they deserve the contents of that precious red goodness.
Why is it so amazing? Well, you continuously smash the same button over and over again doing mundane combos, killing everything in a room, then moving on to the next one. Sound great? It is. It's a freaking loot drop game, and that's what's most important. And when you play it with friends, it's even better.
A few fun tidbits?
Sure. While I had multiple characters, my human character Deralma was the most used, reaching about Level 120 (the max being 200, yes I didn't even max out). He used both Melee and some magic for healing and ranged damage.
His initial outfit was red, and he specialized in Fire magic. He later used ice magic and turned to a frosty blue color (with hair to match). After receiving what was his ultimate weapon, two devastatingly powerful yellow shortswords (dual wield, FTW!), he changed his outfit and hair to match to a fun yellow, and used lightning. Wheeeeee!
While I put in hundreds of hours, most of it was logged in Offline with my friends (fronz?). I didn't have a Live account for long, since internet didn't work at college with XBox, and when I tried playing it online at home, it was rampart with cheaters and hackers. Of course, the hackers are responsible for my favorite weapon in the game, my dual yellow swords...
Now I have tried addicting games before: I've played World of Warcraft.. meh. I thought I was addicted to Snood for a bit, but I was just bored. I even spent many sleepless nights in Vana'diel playing FFXI. None compare to the MONTHS and HOURS I put into this stupid, repetitive, glitchy, beautiful game created by God himself.
The plot? Um, actually, I dunno... in the hundreds upon hundreds of hours I played this game, i didn't catch one. Something about being in space? Yea that's it! You're in space, and the humans and elfy things and robots are all living happily, until monsters come and steal all your Meseta and put all your most valuable items in a box, and eat them. The only way to get them back is to kill the beasts, which will cause them to dissapear, leaving the boxes behind. Conveniently, these creatures labeled the box by least rare to most rare, so that the players working together to recover the goods can yell and scream about why they deserve the contents of that precious red goodness.
Why is it so amazing? Well, you continuously smash the same button over and over again doing mundane combos, killing everything in a room, then moving on to the next one. Sound great? It is. It's a freaking loot drop game, and that's what's most important. And when you play it with friends, it's even better.
A few fun tidbits?
Sure. While I had multiple characters, my human character Deralma was the most used, reaching about Level 120 (the max being 200, yes I didn't even max out). He used both Melee and some magic for healing and ranged damage.
His initial outfit was red, and he specialized in Fire magic. He later used ice magic and turned to a frosty blue color (with hair to match). After receiving what was his ultimate weapon, two devastatingly powerful yellow shortswords (dual wield, FTW!), he changed his outfit and hair to match to a fun yellow, and used lightning. Wheeeeee!
While I put in hundreds of hours, most of it was logged in Offline with my friends (fronz?). I didn't have a Live account for long, since internet didn't work at college with XBox, and when I tried playing it online at home, it was rampart with cheaters and hackers. Of course, the hackers are responsible for my favorite weapon in the game, my dual yellow swords...
Awards and other titles worth noting:
#7 in best games of all time
Most Addicting Award
The Multiplayer Award
The Did-I-Really-Just-Play-That-Level-For-The-Thousanth-Time Award
The Most Pointless Familiar in anything Ever award.
The I Wanna Shoot My Friend in the Face for Being A Bigger Loot Whore Than Me Award
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3 comments:
SOOOOO many lost hours!!!! (shutters!!)
This is one of the only games, other than Morrowind, of course, that I have skipped multiple college classes to play. Seriously....like 5 hours at a time in Kristina and Maggie's bowling alley dorm room.
Well, you know. You were there.
I think my PSO character is at level 120?
how pathetic is that?!
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