The first time ever playing your pso...

[TCZid]

Remember when you got a dreamcast for JUST getting pso... You rip open the package and put it in the dreamcast, you first try it offline, then you pop in the web browser set up your isp and you get on pso (With no hl, praise god) then you and your 3 other comrads are fighting with Sabers, wands and handguns.... The highest lvl person is lvl 20 and you think he is god... You hear about these things called Special Weapons, and you think every new weapon you find is a special. Then the first special weapon you find is just great, you freak out and tell everyone. The first person you meet is the person who will be your friend forever. Dont we all just miss those days... I know I do.

[rena-ko]

buying a console just for pso ^_^ did that for ep1&2 some days ago...

then again, yes, the first time online with dc was around 5 or so months after i bought the game, but it was really great - i hope my 'first guildcard' gets GCNpso soon...

[The_Pew]

i got the xbox an the NGC just 4 PSO, i even got a KB 4 the NGC an a adapter to use a KB on the xbox.



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[Riffin]

What really bugs me is the sheer amount of people who dupe online. Not to mention how there are hardly any new people online ever. All there are are lvl 100 and higher people. Makes me feel...(sighs)... so inferior. I enjoy their help, but where are some buddies at my level to help me out? And if they're there, are there any who dont have some altered stats that enable them to use a weapon way too powerful for them? I just want to share in the wonder of finding rares for the first time. I dont want to run around through levels in five minutes, get nothing out of it and then move on to the next level. I want people to run with me and be challenged! I want comrades who want to find stuff for themselves. I have a character the has stuff lended to me by others, stuff that makes him powerful, and he is nowhere near as fun as those chars I have that are struggling on their own! But I'm too afraid to use them online because there will be no one at my level. For Christ's sake! I have a level 10 HUcast with a simple Brand +3 ! I want to use him online with no dupers!!! Who's with me!!!???


Excuse my rant.

Riffin

[gallaugher]

Actually that was not a bad rant. I hate duping but try not to make a big deal about it when playing with someone that does (this rarely ever happens tho). The first week that EP I&II came out was awesome. Everyone was pretty much the same level & duping wasn't widespread. The games been out since the end of October & most people have been playing it since then. That's why you'll see so many 'twinked' characters using amazing weapons at such a low level. I can imagine if you've just started playing this would be quite annoying. I always make sure everyone gets a hit for exp before killing like mad. Sadly it doesn't seem like many other people do this.

[Riffin]

Amen. No, no they dont. People wonder why I always use a spread weapon... sheese. Anyone out there a legit player with a low level character that wants to go do some good old fashioned, albeit slow, hunting through the forests and caves?

[Malkavian]

Now with GC i'm feeling the same as when I started in Dc with the only difference that im not noob hehe

IS a bit weird finding many people that doeasn't know jack

[ABDUR101]

I bought my DC, but not just for PSO. You can only imagine my excitement though as PSO was released. =X

After all of the hub bub with Vers 1 and Vers 2, I thought I was done until the X-box release.

...and then the PSO whore within woke up, looked to her left and to her right, took out a wad of cash, slammed it on the counter and bought a Platinum GC, the largest memory card she could find, a wavebird and PSO, all at once.

Upon getting home and playing, she's only slowed the pace...but it's getting back up. X_X

My wallet hates you > Everyone who posted here and made me unable to wait for the X-box release

[BeatZero]

when i first played the GC version is was a rush of memories from DC version 1.

good stuff >_<

[TCZid]

I skipped school just to get the first pso out... and guess what! I DID! The second he opend the box, it was mine http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

[Guntz348]

I didn't even bother with the offline game, I had the web stuff set up from when I rented Quake 3 Arena, so I just popped it in and jumped online. My first guy was a force. Oh it was so much fun, I didn't even look at the instructions, I didnt even know there was a 3 hit combo, all I knew was foie, that and I had no money. Good times http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

[Zeebo]

first place GC version and I still feel that way!

[TCZid]

My brother had it about 3 days before me. And all I knew was I was gettin this game. So I pretty much knew everything about it. But he was a HUcast I was like forget that... I was like FOnewm was gonna be my character. I had to wait 2 LONG days before I could get it. I went online and me and my brother helped eachother out. aww it was great...

[Blenjar]

Me, I never knew pso before. I bought the game because it was an RPG and after a while I seen the game could go online so I went online 4 free. Don't ask, that site is gone now.

[TCZid]

What site? And I miss the free pso playing. Since they are just causing people to currupt, they shouldnt make us pay. Or atleast shouldnt make us pay until they get rid of duping....

[Yoda86]

Ah, yes, the first time I ever played PSO was at a Friends house. I created a character who I thought was the greatest. Then I start playing and I cannot tell you the number of times I got hit by a Booma and died. I think my friend had to use about 90 Moon Atomizers on me. Well now I'm a heck of a lot more experienced and am hunting every single thing in the game that is rare. Just check my stats in the signature. And that's just after 80 hours!! I wonder what the next 80 will be like!!!

[TCZid]

Is that your first character you ever made? Was a RAmar? Mine was a FOnewm... I loved it. It was even on TV!! you know Gamespot TV, now Extended play? Yeah my first character ever was on that show... freakin awsome...

[Mechashadow]

My first character was a HUmar and by an unfortunate turn of events, was erased...
But my RAmar looks more promising...

BTW, man you are soooooo lucky to show up on extended play!!! You actully played with Adam Sessler?!

[TCZid]

It was just in a lobby, and they had a Pikachu Symbol chat, I dont think it was adam. but when I said "How did you make that!?" the guy left... then about a month later there was me next to him, while he made a pikachu symbol, was very cool... very cool.

[BlairFoxx]

I remember the first time I took my late FOnewmn online the first day PSO hit the US. I joined a game with a HUmar, HUcast, and another male hunter, forget which one. We was havin' trouble with the boombas, so someone asked "Does anybody have a gun?" Being a force, I responded "I can shoot fireballs." but when my message came through the chat bubble it said "I can shoot fire&%##@." I was like "huh?" and tried to save it several times more. My first encounter with the language filter.

[CrashCat]

I'm usually the permanent newbie. I originally bought a used DC to get some cheap games with slightly better graphics, since the DC was on its way out and just about every DC game looked 100% better than my craptacular N64. It was an impulse buy though, mostly, since someone was selling a DC and a couple games and controllers at some computer show. I can't remember if I grabbed PSO at the time I got that or if I got it later in my mad grab for games (I bought big lots of games for a pittance on eBay, of course) but I do remember that I got a BBA which was hooked up to our LAN which was hooked up to, get this, a 56k modem router. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif I really enjoyed the game but I didn't play very many levels (probably never got into normal ruins but once) because of disgust from getting NOL'ed. I don't remember what I felt about the game at first other than "Who the hell came up with these screwy tech names" and being impressed by the amount of involvement I needed to have in my timing and aim even for just a simple melee character.

I had played Diablo 1 and 2 so I was plenty used to dupes and townkills, but I had been playing 2 for a long time so I really couldn't excuse the existence of NOL'ing and death-resta, so I gave up pretty shortly.

Of course, I don't have to deal with those on GC, but not having a keyboard just turned me off. I didn't get a GC for PSO, I really got it for Smash Brothers, so I wasn't too upset that I basically shelved the game after figuring out I'd need to import a keyboard.

Now I'm excited about Xbox and hope I'll find the game playable so that I'll actually stick with it and become a veteran, although again I got the box for other games. All I want is to be able to communicate and not have to worry about stupid things like NOL's, death-restas, save corrupts (hooray GCN! ugh) and various other crap that just strike me as utter laziness ruining a game that I otherwise really enjoy.

[TCZid]

Yes, I agree. I really, really, really, hope that there is nothing that can dupe, nol, or none of that stuff... on the xbox (and no file corruption)


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[Buuyon]

Well sorry to tell you this xBlock er box fans...if i read corectly...cadejunkies.com is saying AR is coming to xbox...and i know what almost every thing stinds for like FSOD BSOD PK but i never owned a DC so can some one tell me what NOL means...

[SubstanceD]

My first experience with PSO began on the Dreamcast.

I had a friend that recomended that I try out some emulators on my new PC so I downloaded a Genesis emulator, I like rpg's so the Phantasy Star series immediatly caught my attention, by the tiem I started playing these games they were horribly dated so they did not make much of am impact on me, that was untill I played Phantasy Star IV, I estatic when I came across this game and I concider it to better than the over rated Final Fantasy 7 which of course caught all my friends off guard.

When I heard rumours about a Phantasy Star game on the dreamcast I immediatly became happy but when I found out it was an online game I became sad since my Dreamcast was defective and had a dodgy modem that would not work and modems weren't sold seperatly over here in Ireland so I would not be able to get online. When the game came out it got medicocre reviews and lots of people said Offline was pointless since it had no story, this put me off the whole entire PSO thing, still one day while walking around town I came across the game and call it what you may, fate, destiny or a simple impulse buy PSO was mine.

I put in the game, was shocked by the whole entire serial no. business, tried a Humar played for half an hour and then developed motion sickness due to the fact that I hated 3D games and the Forest level had so many twists and turns. I played the game a couple of other times but I never got too atached, eventually I put it away and did not go near it for over a year, intially I was not impressed by the PSO experience.

Then one day, when I had grown tired of all my other games I decided to dust off my copy of PSO and give it another try. This time I did some research on GameFaqs before I began to play, I learned all about the character's, thier strenghts, thier weakness, section ID's, and Mag's, I had come to the decision that a Hucast best fit my gameply style. So I picked a purple Hucast named Senyaka ( Redria )and I played for like 8 hours non stop, it was amazing how much enjoyable the PSO experience can be when you know what you are doing ( instead of increasing the mind on your Hucast's mag and not getting any pay off ), in total I logged on about 40 or so hours with Senyaka, the only reason why I stoopped was because Sega had just announced PSO episodes 1 & 2 for the GameCube and I did not want to burn my self out before I got to play it. Anyhow now I am a PSO junkie and I could not be happier.

[IronKnight]

I bought my Dreamcast at launch vowing to stick by my favorite game company's side. Sure the Saturn and the Dreamcast were short-lived but they were both worth the $200 in sheer fun I drew from them.

I remember hearing about Phantasy Star Online and since I wasn't that big of a fan of the RPG series I did a little research. I joined a Discussion Board (www.phantasy-star.net) and fell inlove with the community there. I bought PSO the day it launched and was instantly hooked... It was the bigger, better Diablo 2. I still remember when me and 3 friends stayed up for 3 days playing and each of us collapsing one by one.

PSO v2 sucked for me though. It featured very little new things to keep my interested and I only logged about 10 hours on it.

Hoping to revive the PSO spirit within me, I purchased PSO for GC and was horribly dissapointed. After realizing it would cost me $80 (at the time of launch) to import a keyboard; and the fact that none of my pals wanted to slap down $9 a month for a beat em up. I returned it the same week.

I plan on getting PSO Xbox and taking advantage of lag-free gameplay and voice chat. Now if only I could find a new headset since my cat gnawed my old one in half -_-...

[CajunSamurai]

Man, this brings back some good memories...
I grabbed my copy of PSO on the day of its US release, and WHAT a day that was. I spent all freaking night playing the game... I remember a friend of mine asking me if I had learned how to combo attacks yet. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif Yeah, I've come a long way since.
I remember, later that night, I ran into a Japanese FOmarl that was at Lv40 or 50 or so. Me being Lv10 at best, it was a godsend for her to help me out. I can remember thinking how friggin' amazing it was to see her attack with the Soul Eater for the first time. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif Later on she gave me a Panic Repeater +20, which I coveted for many levels to come. Of course, I'd eventually get much better weapons, but it sure helped out.
A few days later, me and some friends FINALLY made it to De Rol Le at around Lv20 or so... And died miserably. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif It was a horribly long battle with me as the only remaining survivor eventually... but it would be a few more nights until we defeated him. I still can hardly believe it was that difficult for us at such a high level. You gotta start somewhere, I suppose. o_O

Ahh, good memories...

Speaking of Gamespot TV/Extended Play, I once met one of the EP writers on PSOv1 in a lobby. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif VERY interesting guy. Met so many cool people on that game...

[Dark_Cloud]

I'd originally got a DC for sonic adventure, and then my friend said he'd got this new game Called Pghantasy star online and for me to see it. A short time later (when i had the money) i got it threw in the game and created my HUmar and straight online. i'd met up with my friend and he was Lv 37 And he was like a god killing things with ease. I didn't know how to combo and i took an age to learn how to.
flew straight to lv 100 and wanted more. Then came v2 and to my surprise no HL (we just got lucky i guess) and got even more addicted. then came 7 mar 03 and EP1 & 2. only been on it a bit and i'm only a lv 38 FOnewearl and done ep 1 & 2 on normal. and still addicted.

[Mystil]

On 2003-03-18 08:22, Riffin wrote:
What really bugs me is the sheer amount of people who dupe online. Not to mention how there are hardly any new people online ever. All there are are lvl 100 and higher people. Makes me feel...(sighs)... so inferior. I enjoy their help, but where are some buddies at my level to help me out? And if they're there, are there any who dont have some altered stats that enable them to use a weapon way too powerful for them? I just want to share in the wonder of finding rares for the first time. I dont want to run around through levels in five minutes, get nothing out of it and then move on to the next level. I want people to run with me and be challenged! I want comrades who want to find stuff for themselves. I have a character the has stuff lended to me by others, stuff that makes him powerful, and he is nowhere near as fun as those chars I have that are struggling on their own! But I'm too afraid to use them online because there will be no one at my level. For Christ's sake! I have a level 10 HUcast with a simple Brand +3 ! I want to use him online with no dupers!!! Who's with me!!!???


Excuse my rant.

Riffin


Don't mind dupers. Most likely it's people who have started over and did a massive transfer like I did. My lv39 has my lv56's mag and a few rares.

When I first played PSO, I was lv14. Immediatly got in a game, Del Rol was my first online boss. Didn't die. After the game was over we parted ways for the time being. And I met these 3 guys who were lv100. I still remember the name of one of them, "JAMMING". They took my straight to Ruins, revived me like crazy.

13 lvl's gained. Best experience of my life. Been a PSO freak ever since.

[Kujin]

On 2003-03-18 07:53, TCZid wrote:
Then the first special weapon you find is just great, you freak out and tell everyone. The first person you meet is the person who will be your friend forever. Dont we all just miss those days... I know I do.


ah yes, the first person i met on pso is still one of my best friends on pso. and with special weapons, i freaked out when i found a db saber, i showed it to that friend and he stole it (jokingly) and i freaked out even more. we still laugh about it.

good times.

[TCZid]

Lol, Then those stupid codes, and dupe ruined it... dang it...

[Cloud_01]

My first PSO days were on ver.1. I sucked pretty bad when I first played too. My very first character was a RAmar name DragonFang. I was level 41 when I beat normal mode(yeah, I know that's really bad).

I didn't play online till about 6 months later when I finally decided to give online a try. Pretty glad I did too, I had fun playing with all the different people from around the world.

Hopefully, online with GC PSO will be somewhat the same in terms of how fun it was.

[TCZid]

well, alot of people cheat on there. On the first one, I couldnt beat de rol le with my FOnewm, for, like, ever... I would play the forest over and over and over and over... then I got online and didnt play much offline http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

[TCZid]

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