In Retrospect...

[Kimil Adrayne]

I stubbled upon some old PSU Vinila pics from way back when (http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1437015&postcount=1145). I nostalgia'd hard for a bit there. I realized, with PSO2 about to start, I needed to pay homidge to PSU...

Looking back to PSU vanilla, I feel like that was easily the funnest time during the game for me. The missions were hard, the S anks were rare and the bosses were new. The classes weren't balanced, but I liked the way that Wartecher made a good frontline medic, before the broken Acro-classes and Master-classes were added.

Population was higher in those days for the PS2/PC server. Back then, I was in the last year of highschool, with a PS2 hooked up to a tiny CRT in the kitchen. Played with only a handful of people that I met online: the Loli Express and then eventually the VCC. I was a really fun time, probably the best time I've had with online video games. I sunk a LOT of hours into PSU.

People on here nostaglia over PSO back on the dreamcast, but that was before my time. With all of the english PSU servers down, I will truely miss it.

I will nostalgia hard over PSU. Goodbye Beasts, goodbye customization clothes, goodbye semi-fun broken-ness and constant Segac neglect...

Hello PSO2:-)

Hopefully PSO2 vanilla will give me great memories, just like PSU.

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Anyone else gonna miss PSU?

[Drifting Fable]

Rest in peace, Beasts. I shalln't forget them.

I'm still pretty ticked that Ethan's hoodie never became a player outfit, though.

[goldwing]

Rest in peace, Beasts. I shalln't forget them.

I'm still pretty ticked that Ethan's hoodie never became a player outfit, though.

I to raged at that i to......

[Lintor]

Yeah, wasn't there, I did have a fond memory of the x360 beta/demo client.
Only PS I played before this was PSO:BB on the ******** private server. I bought a clearance copy of PSU for the free month, but this was well after the game was a barren wasteland.

[Lightshow in the sky]

Beasts ;_; They quickly became my favorite race, really sad to see them go. I'll get a bit more time with them since I've yet to play Infinity, but still.

Really am looking forward to PSO2, though. My friends and I used to have so much fun on PSO GC.

[terrell707]

Lol its been so long since i played PSU that i forgot you could have 6 people in a party at once. Seems like overkill now.

[soulpimpwizzurd]

never got into psu

the portable series was fantastic though.

[Zorafim]

Ah, PSU. A never ending series of WTF all compacted into one game. What a wonderful chat program.

[Halcyote]

>acro classes / master classes
>broken

um... by the time these classes were introduced the game was already easy mode

so idgi.

anyway, on topic, i've already passed my "grieving" period of psu since pc/ps2 shutdown. wasn't around at the beginning of vanilla psu, but i do have fond memories of my first forays into the game. the game is not as bad as a lot of people were led to believe, but it had significant problems that led to it being labeled as a dud.

i look forward to pso2 but i am well prepared for that point when the game becomes completely uninspired, turned to easy mode and become not as fun.

[dias_flac_0g]

>acro classes / master classes
>broken

um... by the time these classes were introduced the game was already easy mode

so idgi.

anyway, on topic, i've already passed my "grieving" period of psu since pc/ps2 shutdown. wasn't around at the beginning of vanilla psu, but i do have fond memories of my first forays into the game. the game is not as bad as a lot of people were led to believe, but it had significant problems that led to it being labeled as a dud.

i look forward to pso2 but i am well prepared for that point when the game becomes completely uninspired, turned to easy mode and become not as fun.

Solo S4's if you want a challenge. Even some of the best JP PSU players get a good challenge from S4's especially if they are soloing them.

You can also run Ohtori on S3 for an even bigger challenge so stop complaining about "easy mode".

[moorebounce]

Half of me will miss PSU. I'll miss the online part because that was the most fun I had with the game. I even actually enjoyed online play in PSU more than PSO. I glad to see that what I felt was good from PSU made it into PSO2. In respect to the thread R.I.P. PSU

[Angelo]

Hmm, about 6 years, ah?

...has it really been that long already?

I enjoyed the PSU launch probably a bit more than the PSO launch, but mainly because of who I played with.

Seemed like I had a whole team under me for PSU, but back in PSO I was a little fish.

I'm not such a little fish anymore but I certainly have that feeling of solitude this time around and there's something kind of bittersweet about it. The Phantasy Star games were actually a bit of a catalyst with the relationships I had growing up among friends both near and long-distance. The series means quite a bit to me. With bridges burned and love lost, this really feels like a fresh start, another PSO.

Bah, here I am ranting again.

Here's my PSU vanilla story in pictures:

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/SuperAngelo64/PSU/psu20061105_142903_001.jpg
Good times
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/SuperAngelo64/PSU/psu20061218_125135_000.jpg
^ These two are married now and have a kid on the way.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/SuperAngelo64/PSU/psu20061125_160159_007.jpg

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/SuperAngelo64/PSU/psu20061101_112315_000.jpg
Seraph, you rascal.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/SuperAngelo64/PSU/psu20061204_171821_001.jpg
My friend Jonna (of youtube's 'kilplix' fame) and I know what's up; beast pride.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/SuperAngelo64/PSU/psu20070305_031100_007.jpg
A girl I was seeing at the time this game launched.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/SuperAngelo64/PSU/psu20070312_141347_003.jpg
Said girl's little sister. While she was away in Europe for school, she would miss her big sister, log into PSU, and chat with me in the bar until she went to sleep. Probably one of my most fond memories of vanilla PSU.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/SuperAngelo64/PSU/psu20061125_163436_010.jpg
My friend and I discussing over PSU how he was going to propose to his girlfriend, our mutual friend.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/SuperAngelo64/PSU/psu20070201_052235_002.jpg
The girl I was seeing (Samiko) was the best friend of my best friend's (Seraph) future wife (Naoko)
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/SuperAngelo64/PSU/psu20070220_144259_000.jpg
Though things never quite pan out how we hope. Eventually I became the third wheel.

I had meant to do a fun group picture of everyone from launch, but I never got around to finishing it:

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh108/SuperAngelo64/16346_164106803511_528728511_2993054_2491071_n.jpg

[AlMcFly]

I recognize some of those party members :D