The year 2025 is a huge year for the Phantasy Star franchise, most notably due to a few anniversaries the series will be celebrating. In this video, I’ll break down all of the main anniversaries the series commemorates in 2025, as well as discussing anything we may see as a result.
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Interesting, I wonder what is happening with PSOBB
Humm
Old pso game news? I'm down.
I agree with you on your stance of a PSO remake or remastered. I would absolutely love to see Sega do something with PSO…. but I think it’s highly unlikely.
Long time PS/PSO fan here. I'm not sure I'd like to see a remake of PSO for exactly the reason you mentioned in the video. I'm not sure if SEGA can recapture the feeling of the original. It had a dark story, full of mystery. At some times, it almost felt horror-lke. The atmosphere, the music, the simplicity of dungeon diving and seaching for rares. The well-written stories and interesting characters. I just don't see SEGA capturing that feeling again, especially with their recent track record. The only way I could see a possibility of this was if it was released as an offline split screen version or something like BG3 where you can create a room for 4 players to join up and play together. I don't see it being a full online game.
And I say this because NGS is their flagship live-service game. It's not a perfect game by any means but it makes SEGA soooo much money due to the gatcha aspects. If you look at it from a business standpoint, it wouldn't be wise for SEGA to release another game to a fanbase that's already very divided when they could just keep updating their already available game. They just released the roadmap for NGS a few days ago. There is an unamed SEGA-title collab coming in June-July. It could be something PS/PSO/PSU related. Who knows?
I'm with you though. I do wish PS/PSO would get the love and attention it desperately needs. I just keep hoping SEGA stops treating it like a red-headed stepchild and starts advertising and updating it with actual good content.
I would love to see more of PSO1 enemies in PSO2NGS. Delsabers still scare me.
Playing NGS myself, I feel there's almost a 100% chance they'll do something in game for the 25th anniversary of PSO. I'd be shocked if they didn't acknowledge it with an event or at least some outfits/weapon camos. That said, my preference would be a PSO remaster for the Switch/Switch2. I'd probably sink hundreds if not thousands of hours into that. I agree that the original MS/Genesis RPGs need a remaster more, but I feel a PSO remaster would do better and perhaps have a bit more longevity.
At this point, I've completely lost faith in Sega to make anything even remotely resembling a good decision. But hey, maybe they'll surprise me.
I also wouldn't like a complete remake for pso, I dont think I trust them to not ruin it. And I dont think I care that much about just a rerelease on pc. I already play ephinea. I would be interested in a new Phantasy Star single player RPG.
PSO is dark to get into? PSO2 is the hard to get into game imo. I like the character creator but the game just isnt super engaging.
I want a return to form. More quests, instanced content. Classic PSO and PSO2 style stuff.
i would be happy to see ANY phantasy star content outside of NGS lol. i totally understand your trepidation on a PSO remake but i think it'd be worth it!!!! even just an HD collection or something…. older established players are pretty much the only ones willing to go out of their way to play on a private server; i think even if the experience was diminished on modern platforms it would be worth it to breathe some life back into the phantasy star community and for the IP to go beyond just NGS, which is something i feel it desperately needs to do.
PSO content always makes me click. Hoping for a remake, I would love to play this on my Switch, remake or not. Just do it, Sega.
I honestly had a blast on PSO2 NGS for a year or so, had friends and we had plenty of fun with it, till they slowly started leaving and it became another mmo i play solo and got boring. I wish they would make a new pso3 and use everything that was good about pso 1 and 2, the difficulty, the dungeons, the old school style we all loved and still love, the glamour, etc etc.
It'll never happen but man oh man would I go wild for an official Phantasy Star Online 1 rerelease. Playing on Ephinea is a treat but if you could just hire that team to take Ephinea and make it crossplay with console versions I'd never ask Sega for anything else for as long as I live. When it comes to updating PSO1 but keeping it faithful to the original, Ephinea just nails it. Modified drop rates might need to be made a bit stingier since you'd end up with a bigger userbase and wouldn't want everything to become worthless as a result, but the way Ephinea handled leagues, PSO2-style drops and more just feel like the perfect QoL updates to an otherwise timeless game anyone can love. Again, I know I'm more likely to get struck by lightning than get a PSO1, PSU or PSP2:I rerelease but I will continue to dream :')
Ideally though we at least see a PS1-4 collection within the next year or two. It is criminal how difficult it is to get your hands on all of them and how often rereleases of any specific game have been locked to specific platforms. Just give us a gosh darned universal release of 4 of the best RPGs the 16-bit generation had to offer already damnit! I'd love a remake of one of them as well, probably 3 even though 4 is my favorite. Considering Sega have their hands full with like 6 announced games that still don't have release dates I certainly hope they don't announce anything else until some of that stuff finally releases, but eventually I'd like to see SOMETHING. If I have to settle for a 1-4 collection then I at least hope it releases before I'm dead.
Also, how is NGS these days? I stopped playing just days after launch because it had so little content but I figure some 3 years later they've surely had to have done more than just add endless amounts of cosmetics to the game, right?
phantasy star online 1 remake or just blue burst remake would deplete the ngs population and im so excited for that possibility 😂 but it wont happen unless they can sell gacha banners somehow
PSO2 and NGS was the worst thing to happen to the series.
y'know what i would like? a port of phantasy star portable 2 infinity on steam, that's it.
modern sega would either censor or botch any Phantasy Star remake, NGS is dead and at most we would get one costume or something so minimal it would not be worth it and remaking PSO1 would probably make SEGA want to go after the private servers.
so just port PSP2i to steam with peer to peer multiplayer, i would buy it without even thinking.
PSO is my childhood. I had 6 Gamecube memory cards just for that game. Hunting down rare items was my thing. "Yes, it dropped a red box! NO!! Photon Drop!" Good times. Sato is my mag too! This video hit me in feels. I think I had 900 hours on my level 158 female Ranger.
PSO is here to stay. So many of us grew up with the game that, now as adults, we have adult money and will not let it die so easily.
I just want a Universe series collection to Switch xD
I don't want a new game in the classic series, I think it had a really good happy ending to the saga, but something like Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters would be awesome.
I think a better question is, if PSO Episodes 1, 2, and 4 gets remade/remastered, what would you want in it? What features, quality of life improvements, and overall changes/additions would you like to see Sega do for a hypothetical definitive version of the game?
The only reason I wouldn't want a pso remaster remake port is segas ban happy staff no fun allowed