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RoninJoku
Aug 24, 2005, 12:00 AM
IGN has posted some new info and screens... Included are a few villian bios...

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/644/644429p1.html

And an edit for the screenies!!! And boy! There are quite a few of them! I must say, that beast dude is rockin' cool! Also there's a screenie of those other 3 characters seen in a few other shots... they are quite hideous...

http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/683/683215/imgs_1.html

Squeee! New info! http://pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

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AzureBlaze
Aug 24, 2005, 12:57 AM
What have they done....
A puppy man. Exqueezeme? Did anyone else go "Space Balls" when they saw that guy? He's like the dog man in there...is he supposed to be a beast? With a cleft lip and puppy ears? Where are his eyebrows? Why won't he zip up his pants?

Ok the fo. So bad it's SCARY. Love the pink cowboy boots. Snappy strappy pink leather pants with studs and a...stripy SKIRT. His pink heart shape hair isn't doing him any good either. If his boots are high-heel with a little star on it......Does this guy offend gay people? Is he supposed to? Even disregarding pink being associated with 'girl color' as an EARTH based notion that they don't have, carving your fro into a heart and running around in a stripy skirt and heels is still a bit much.

Um styleisticly somewhat hispanic looking guy. NoVol
Gets credit for attempting to be 'normal', loses it all with the fabulous shiny pointy white shoes and fur lined 'festive vest'. (raise the point of his hair from the back to the top and he'd have Vegita goin' on)

Sonic Team is now my hero for creating the most tacky-est villains EVAR. They are frightening due to sheer style black-hole-level mishap. Renvolt overpowers people with his fighting skills...these guys overpower with insane design.

Pirate dude Tylor
Is doing somewhat better. Still has hippie pants. NICE skull arm decoration though. I wonder if that's a shield you can get? Also brings up the possibility of place-able scarring with that "X" on his head.

So far, I havn't seen any real 'killer cool' design that makes me want to make a similar/style-like character like it when PSU comes out. These new guys are not helping the cause.

HOWEVER
They all have an interesting backstory. The prospect that they've banded together as artificial brothers is a decent team mechanic. Personalities are as expected, but do contain depth and a nice history. I can definatly see lots of interesting ways to use these guys in a plot. Tylor is quite interesting as well, will he join the 'good guys' and use his pirate ship to help fight SEED?

This is an unexpected and slightly wacky update, but still decent with the info. (Thank you Rurouni Joku, I dont know how you do it first, but I'm glad it's here!) Super curious what everyone else thinks of the new tacky-trio.

Flame
Aug 24, 2005, 01:03 AM
haha that puppy guy's design makes me cry. His friends arent much better. Other than that everything looks ok.

DarK-SuN
Aug 24, 2005, 01:14 AM
Indeed the trio (the one with the puppy face, the pink afro thing and the other) look very strange, but everything else is looking pretty good.

I like Tylor's design, fitting in my opinion, and his "honour code" is definately interesting; seems to me that he'll join or help the good guys at some point, although that might be obvious.

Story wise, I like how they seem to give them all a plausiable background.

_Tek_
Aug 24, 2005, 03:55 AM
Looks good enough to me:
http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2/image/article/644/644429/phantasy-star-universe-20050823070124722.jpg
Atleast they gave the beast race normal human noses, not dog noses. That would be too far. Too late...
http://ps2media.ign.com/ps2/image/article/644/644429/phantasy-star-universe-20050823070127972.jpg
They've showed those characters in actual gameplay in older screenshots, dam they are ugly.

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Nash
Aug 24, 2005, 07:40 AM
In the old shots I'd assumed they were really bad user-created characters!

Tomeeboy
Aug 24, 2005, 10:09 AM
::looks at above picture of PSU trio::



They kinda look like a rejected concept for a street gang pitched for "The Warriors" http://pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

Calibur
Aug 24, 2005, 11:14 AM
After the trio picture, there's is one thing for sure...people that makes silly characters are going to have a blast.

Omega_Nova
Aug 24, 2005, 11:35 AM
Those three characters look to me like they will be similar Biggs and Wedge, and not be taken seriously as villians.

Nai_Calus
Aug 24, 2005, 11:45 AM
ST, please, sweeties, just make a real PS game already. *falls over laughing* You so obviously want to. XD Set it after PSII or PSIV or before PSI or something. *snickers*

Landeel, indeed.

PhruitBaskit
Aug 24, 2005, 01:42 PM
I agree with the Space Balls thing. The puppy dude looks like Barf. And the afro dude looks "uncool".

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adamgnome104
Aug 24, 2005, 02:07 PM
http://pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif

Being flamboyant doesn't make you homosexual. >__<

I think these were ment to behidiously scary and unserious badguy thugs. D: I wanna kill them for exp!!
*shudder* At least the Newman guy doesn't have a FOnewm ass... XD

I love how the Pirate Ship is named Landeel, after the one from Phantasy Star. http://pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif And Tylor looks nice!

Blitzkommando
Aug 24, 2005, 03:09 PM
Seriously, Sega, get a hold of yourselves. Even I find some of your character designs offensive, for more than one reason. I'm sorry but basing the entire clothing system of the game on designs from 20-30 years ago, with flashy and shiny things on them, does not look futuristic. I know, I know, styles cycle, but for the love of Pete! Do they really think humans will not have finally killed off polyester several thousand years from now?

Reenee
Aug 24, 2005, 03:13 PM
Will the fatass bitch dog please get a fitting pair of pants so we don't have to see your ugly undergarments? >>

VioletSkye
Aug 24, 2005, 04:19 PM
I don't want to sound like a hater, but UGGHHH!!!!! Those character designs look nasty. Oh well, its the gameplay I'm looking forward to anyway. And btw when oh when is ST going to tease us with some online screenies. If the offline adventure is fun then great, thats icing on the cake, but I (like many other I'm sure) am looking forward to the online portion of the game far more.

Parn
Aug 24, 2005, 05:04 PM
History definitely repeats itself. I remember when people were bitching about PSO's art a few years ago before its Dreamcast release.

Flame
Aug 24, 2005, 05:53 PM
Does anyone know for sure whether the artist is the same? I deffinitly havent seen anything distinctive of his style yet. All we've seen is CG stuff.

Calibur
Aug 24, 2005, 06:41 PM
On 2005-08-24 15:53, Flame wrote:
Does anyone know for sure whether the artist is the same? I deffinitly havent seen anything distinctive of his style yet. All we've seen is CG stuff.



Well...this are taken from the first trailer...

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/3981/psu04gt.jpg

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/2861/psu46uk.jpg

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/1679/psu53rw.jpg

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/9894/psu65iw.jpg

DarK-SuN
Aug 24, 2005, 08:03 PM
On 2005-08-24 15:04, Parn wrote:
History definitely repeats itself. I remember when people were bitching about PSO's art a few years ago before its Dreamcast release.

I couldn't agree more, Parn.

_Tek_
Aug 24, 2005, 08:03 PM
On 2005-08-24 15:04, Parn wrote:
History definitely repeats itself. I remember when people were bitching about PSO's art a few years ago before its Dreamcast release.



Funny since the PSO character sketches looked way better than the game's models. The HUmar's hair(hair style #1) was cool in the art, but the ingame version was bad, probbly because of graphic restrictions.

But the graphics for the hair and such in PSU look much better.

Also we must remember that those 3 ugly villians may just be the misfiting minions or something, it look like the real bad guys are Alfort Tylor the beast and Renvolt Magashi the cast.

Flame
Aug 24, 2005, 08:53 PM
this is different. That there's a puppy man. A PUPPY man. And thank you caliber for those awesome monster promo art captures! http://pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif At least we know the conceptual artist is the same!

_Tek_
Aug 24, 2005, 10:37 PM
C'mon guys, just think how cute puppyman will look when you create a miniture version of him with big puppy eyes in CC and call him schmupsy or something.

RoninJoku
Aug 24, 2005, 11:11 PM
On 2005-08-24 20:37, _Tek_ wrote:
C'mon guys, just think how cute puppyman will look when you create a miniture version of him with big puppy eyes in CC and call him schmupsy or something.



The tarutaru of PSU... I wonder if that means you will be able to make characters have other animal traits... Cat ears for instance? A whole new level of annoying cat girls that only say meow! and nyah! and purrr! and spam kitty symbol chats! o.o

DarK-SuN
Aug 24, 2005, 11:14 PM
They already spam kitty symbol chats, imagine now if that's possible.

Kurosawa
Aug 25, 2005, 12:31 AM
Anybody that would have the guts to play as any ot those characters gets my total respect. ESPECIALLY the Newman.

_Tek_
Aug 25, 2005, 12:54 AM
I still think it looks female.

But my female newman is gonna be sexy! YES!

I wanted to make a male newman at first but I decided the beastman was close enough, it has pointy ears too, PLUS they get morphing ability!

Reenee
Aug 25, 2005, 10:17 AM
On 2005-08-24 22:31, Kurosawa wrote:
Anybody that would have the guts to play as any ot those characters gets my total respect. ESPECIALLY the Newman.



They're nothing special.

"HAY GUYZ, I'M TEH GAY NEWMAN"
Lobby: "LOL, COOL"
"CAN ANY1 CHEK IF EIYM NEITHER OR BOTH?"
Lobby: "LOL!@%! K"
*chasing ensues*

See?


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ColonD
Aug 25, 2005, 05:00 PM
I wouldn't mind the pink one so much if he didn't have a fro.
I like Bishies and Gay guys. ^_^ And I think his 'skirt' is actually a shirt under his vest.

And I wouldn't mind the brother t othe left, if his pants weren't white.

Fat guy doesn't need explaining. He's ugly, and he'll always be.

However, that one beast guy is pretty awesome. ^_^ I might make a beast character now.

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Zarode
Aug 26, 2005, 08:15 AM
XD! Good lord, those Three Stooges are freakin' funny! It's about time to make some characters/enemies that arn't a serious threat...


Or will they? http://pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif

That beast d00d looks awesome. http://pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif And his sword looks like the Drandrul. :3

Quo
Aug 31, 2005, 10:58 AM
On 2005-08-24 09:45, Ian-KunX wrote:

Landeel, indeed.


To clarify: For those of you who don't know, that space pirate guy is a direct rip from the classic phantasy stars. There was a space pirate named Tyler who piloted the Landale (names from PSIV where you visit Tyler's grave and pilfer the Landale). I think he made his first appearance in PSII, but it could be PSI. I haven't made it that far in PSII yet.

Its cool that they have classic references, but stealing a character from a mostly unrelated game is going a bit too far IMO.

Edit: Also, the Landale is named after Alis Landale the heroine of PSI. PSII's Rolf has the same surname. Landale was sometimes translated as Landeel e.g. PSIV sound test, "Take off Landeel" or something like that.

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DarK-SuN
Aug 31, 2005, 01:13 PM
Expect this one to be a descendant of Tyler or something like that.
You never know, cross-breeding between the diferent species is not that unthinkable.

Reenee
Aug 31, 2005, 04:14 PM
Oh, I'm sure it wasn't. XD