February can't get here fast enough!

Looked great graphically and the character and animations looked good also but i thought the AI on some of the monsters was really messed up....still early though but i definetly love the bigger lands and area's.

Looks good, can't wait for footage from the online portion of the game

New PSU trailer @ IGN
PSU Best Trailer
Not very long but it does show a few new things...
Like vehicles and some insane combo animations.
And that Sonic ring chime... I miss it.

EDIT: This video is also on SEGA's site here.

Guys, guys, guys! Check out the new E3 trailer @ IGN!!!
PSU E3 Trailer

They show some indepth character customization... Change color of eyes and even change the width and height of it... and the standard PSO proportion grid!
They also show what appears to be online mode! I assume since they used the default "Sonic, Tails,.. etc." names.
They still only show 4 players max.
The new dragon they show is pretty awesome too!!
This one is hot!

Sorry for double posting but damn!
I'm gonna watch this game like a hawk

Whoa... awesome...

wow, that's a nice trailer. it gave me goosebumps.

Those new videos are dead sexy. If there's extensive voice acting in the offline mode, I'll bet they'll need 2 DVD's or make it dual-layer.

Wow....just wow.

I really like that there is an offline game as well. And the character customization looks really sweet.

Is there any word yet on what the required specs are for the PC version? Ack...February is forever away.

God this is TORTURE.

everytime i try to watch it some lame jeep video comes up -.-

That's just the ad that loads up. You have to wait for it to finish =\

It's gonna take me three days to create my character with all those options! >_<;

This blows the current PSO out of the water, that's for sure. I look forward to seeing what the droids will look like in character creation.

A bit long overdue but I'll post it anyway.
Gamepro article I "aquired" @ PSOW Not alot of info but it might catch your eye:
Gamepro PSU preview article

1UP.com interview:
Phantasy Star Universe: The director speaks on the next Phantasy Star.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the PSU official site has been revamped again.
http://phantasystaruniverse.com/

Well I guess from that Gamepro article, 6 is the magic number for party members. Works for me!

The Official Site has been updated with some more goodies.
+new characters (some never before seen 13 yr old girl and that beast guy)
+new screens
+new information on areas (check out that space colony! so awesome)

The new images aren't really worth mentioning... except for this one.

Damn...wish the release date wasn't so far off I wanna play right now.

I think its time to check out the PSU site again. They finally put up that HUcast looking dude in the character's section. And that other guy looks like he's holding some sort of gunblade.
There's also some stuff about organizations.

Wow, that be really awesome if HUcasts look like that.

Oh man, those casts look awesome. Bah! Fuck the techs! Robo all the way!

Character Screens from the PSU Site.













Also added these to the avatar gallery.

Damn, that's a pretty damn badass Cast there.

If he can shoot missles out of his privates area, then everything is GO!

hrm... I'm not so fond of the way the HUcast looks. I don't like my 'bots to have too much of a human form and that one really does. But these are just (i am guessing) the characters for the offline RPG game so maybe we will have many more options for 'casts appearance.

I sure hope so, seeing as how 'bots sort of got the sort end of the stick when it came to character design.

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New images over at ign and a new article discussing the races of Phatasy Star Universe in further detail.

chetz page

They also give some back story on some of the main story characters.

I wonder if you can make the Beastmen look like Blanka from Street Fighter.
That would totally own.
ARRrrooooooooooo.... *electric boogaloo*
"Seeing you in action is a joke."

*Tekker music plays* Nice find AC.
For the win!

Karen Erra
Race: Newman
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Affiliation: Guardians

Bio: She has a three-year experience in actual fighting as Guardian, and serves as Ethan's instructor. Due to the experience of her mother being killed by native creatures when she was a child, and to the handicap that she can use no "Technics" despite being "Newman", she has been cautioning herself more than necessary and living stubborn as she strains herself, trying to be strong

I wonder if these characters are totally playable in the storyline? I find it interesting that they made it so she can't use techniques. From this we can see that maybe Sonic Team is really going for a more story and character driven PSU. Gameplaywise a techless newman is kinda useless, but storyline wise it makes for something interesting, especially if she is fighting with you.


I can see the senario writer grinding away at the keyboard now:

"OMG, RESTA ME NOW!!!111!"

"Sorry, I can't..."

"DUDE, OMGWTFBBQ, STFU AND RESTA!!!11!!!"

*She tells her long sad story about how she was born without powers and her mother died at the claws of a beast*

"CAN YOU AT LEAST S/D THEN PLZ???"


Yes, I can already feel the deep and intense character driven storyline now....

Special abilities for Cast and Beast? I like the sound of that!

Story seems like it will be interesting and actually get me to play the offline mode. The character designs are pretty cool, too. Damn, February can't come fast enough.

What was with those shitty babel-fishy story character descriptions, though? Hire some editors IGN, you boobs.

Yeah this game's gonna be crazy. It's cool to get new info on PSU, but damn it's hard wait.

New update over at the PSU website pertaining techs.


http://phantasystaruniverse.com/

Link to a scan from some JP magazine. Containing the same images. haxs

From the looks of some of the images it looks like you can perform a Haduken type of attack. I guess we are gonna start seeing some damn good Goku and Vegeta characters.


Sucks that the site isn't in english. I really want to know about how fighting will be. There is alot of speculation over at PSOW at how the new combat system will be. This one seems to be the most plausible one.

Well, that haduken thing is probably some sort of tech based attack. I don't know too many Vegita Forces.

I wonder about this whole PP gauge and the rest of the combat system? Screen shots are just icying on the cake, but I need my meat and potatoes, followed by an angioplasty.

new trailer :o

click here

That long/great sword fighting was hot! Reminds me of Nightmare/Sigfreid's technique from Soul Calibur.

Along with that new trailer the PSU site has also been updated with some new and tastey images.


I think I just soiled myself.

http://phantasystaruniverse.com/

Anyone know a semi-accurate release time on this yet? Sorry if it was mentioned before, I went back and couldn't find anything.

I think it was something like February 2006 Not sure.

I looks like December 30, 2005 for Japan & February 1, 2006 for US is the"official" release date.

Supposedly it's gonna be a "PC first, PS2 second" deal like with FFXI.

Here are some burning questions I know a lot of us would like to have answered.

Will the Japanses version have an english language setting?
Will the Japanese servers be linked to the rest of the world?
Will the PC servers be connected to the PS2 servers?
How much breast customization is there exactly?

Anyone seen that new character they have up (other than the newman)? People in PSOW says its a cast. Would be fairly interesting to see a character like that holding a big ass shotgun.
Character designs so far look a bit iffy but its starting to grow on me.

Yeah, she's a cast and her name's Lou. She's a guardian like Ethan and Karen.

Looks like you can have casts that look more human in appearance.

Wasn't there some part of the PSO "mythology" that said that Casts were required to wear the outer shells so that they wouldn't be confused with humans? So one would reach the conclusion that under their armor and helmets the Casts look basically human, right? I remember something like that from the PSO Hunters guide book or some shit.

Maybe since PSU is in the future (right?) from PSO, Human-robot relations have progressed to the point where the humans aren't taken aback by the robots that look like them.

In older phantasy star games, casts look mostly human, such as Wren, who at first I thought was a cyborg

Been like 11 years, but I believe the PS3 instruction manual says something to the effect that Wren (or Shiren if you prefer) and Mieu were cyborgs.

Well, regardless of what you guys think, here is actual proof of what I am saying.

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