Before you throw this into the miscelanouse games thread, just hear me out.
Sega announced today that it will be making a 3rd chapter to the PSO series.
In episodes 1 and 2 the character could be ported between the episodes freely, this 3rd game will not utelize any characters from Episodes 1 or 2... Instead it will feature a REAL-TIME-STRATEGY battle mode, similar to Magic the Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh. It also will feature a DICE style battle game SO similar to D&D and Warhammer you may as well out-right call it a ripoff of the games. Your characters weapons, leveling, and monster battles will all be based on turn-based combat now instead of Zelda-Like Real-time online Combat. This is the soultion so that 56k and Cable players can play in unison. It also has a cool feature that lets you play as the BAD-GUYS this time! !! Featuring old re-used models from Episodes 1 and 2, in all new levels, including 3 new player classes (finishing the balance of the scale) and it will have all new music, environments, AND of course, the GOOD OL' Fasioned Chat Lobby where hundreds of players and their characters can walk about and meet eachother, only this time the lobbies will feature WAY more mini-games and even some real-time battle games reminiscent of PSO Episodes 1 and 2 !!!
^_^ This is going to be sweet! A whole-new game instead of one based on the old systems, but with the same style and flaire! Alright!
If you'd like to learn more about Phantasy Star Online, you can check out
this game in the Ironworks Role-playing forum.
If you'd like to see screenshots from the Episode 3 game you can find them right here!
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The official site is here
So this'll make it the 8th game in the series [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Phantasy Star™ Sega Master System 1988
Phantasy Star™ II Sega Genesis 1989
Phantasy Star™ III: Generations of Doom Sega Genesis 1991
Phantasy Star™ IV: The End of the Millennium Sega Genesis 1994
Phantasy Star™ Online Sega Dreamcast 2001
Phantasy Star Online™ Ver. 2 Sega Dreamcast 2001
Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Nintendo GameCube/Xbox 2002
Phantasy Star Online Episode III T.C.G. Nintendo Gamecube/Xbox 2003
It should debut this winter
sweeeet
hopefully by then we'll have a stinkin' keyboard out for the thing >_>