I want Phantasy Star V, either a new modern game or 'classic' style

[parallaxscroll]

Phantasy Star Universe - The game itself isn't too great but SEGA almost tricked me into thinking it might've been Phantasy Star V because in the very first trailer at E3 2004 there was text that scrolled for 2 seconds which read "Phantasy Star V?".

see
http://www.imagepup.com/up/CyXP_1202778049_PSU_E304.bmp

video version here (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/2757.html)

.... it gives me hope that there might be a PSV this gen.

With that said, and while I would not mind a Phantasy Star V done in modern visual style of fancy 3D polygon graphics, if done right, I would much prefer a Phantasy Star V done in classic style of sprites and first person modes with smooth sprite-scaling, as if it was made for the Saturn or similarly powerful
'32-bit' class system.

These are a few of my ideas of how I'd like the viewpoint / perspective / visual style for Phantasy Star V if done 'classic style':




I'd want the PSII, PSIV style of art & graphics, but bumped up with highly detailed Saturn-level or better level of detail.

overhead visuals of this style
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb109/camineetparolit/terra50ty.jpg


wilderness / battle scene graphics of this style
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb109/camineetparolit/jp.png

I selected that pic of Jurassic Park arcade because it reminds me of this perspective from PSI
http://dorando.emuverse.com/images/phantasy-star.kr3.png


1st person dungeon graphics of this style
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb109/camineetparolit/alien3game29vw.jpg

I selected that shot of Alien 3: The Gun arcade because it reminds me of PSI's first person dungeons and also the scrapped/canceled first person dungeons from PSIV
http://www.phantasy-star.net/art/compendium/3dps4.jpg

[VACRMH]

Hell yes.

I really hate how PS ended after 4, with everything else being this MMO style.

[parallaxscroll]

Landale space ship in space-station ready to take off & flying over the surface of planets in the visual style of Galaxy Force II:
http://www.overclocked.org/galforce2/galforce2x01.JPG

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb109/camineetparolit/gforce2_c.png

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb109/camineetparolit/gforce2_b.png

http://www.overclocked.org/galforce2/prfile51.jpg

I selected GFII because I think the space ship flying scenes from PSII, and PSIV
http://www.camineet.net/camineet/ps2images/todezo.gif
http://www.camineet.net/camineet/ps4images/landale3.gif
http://www.camineet.net/camineet/ps4images/landale5.gif
http://www.camineet.net/camineet/ps4images/rycros.gif

could be done much better and also expanded on, not as a shooting game like GFII, but as flying-exploration gameplay


Don't you think that would be awesome?

[Snapple]

Two words of text, four years ago, doesn't mean anything at this point. If anything was in the works as far as a PSV at that point, we would've heard about it by now. So, it's not being made.

As for your question about whether I'd rather have the next PS game be modern or classic style, I don't really care as long as it's GOOD. If they try to make another classic-style game, but it seems derivative and unoriginal, I wouldn't even want them to bother making it. Same thing with the modern game.

[Xian042]

you guys are making me weep at the possibilities of what could have been. Sometimes I wish I had been a Final Fantasy fanboy instead of Phantasy Star as I would have gotten a new fix practically every other year. (every year at this point!) I did like PSO but they milked it waaay too long and I don't like PSU at all.
We should have gotten the PS remakes they made in Japan over here, I still pray that an english language version is in the works, but no such luck. After this mediocre NiGHTS remake, its becoming harder and harder to stay a hardcore Sega fan.

[IronBuddha]

The only way we'll see it "classic" style is if it's released on the DS. That kind of style died with the PSone, but I think maybe there was a few games on PS2? Either way we won't see that kind of style anymore for sure on any new console. Same goes with 2D fighting games are just things of the past.

[FantasiaWHT]

What did people think of the 1-player story mode in PSU?

[parallaxscroll]

Phantasy Star IV was great, but left me wanting more....
I was even somewhat disappointed in it, after having tremendous expections during the very long wait between III (summer 1991) and IV (early 1995).

Dark Falz / Dark Force and The Profound Darkness still needs to show up in epic form to get an epic thrashing.

The final form of The Profound Darkness in IV did not seem to be the 'true' forum of what its name brings to mind.
It (she, whatever) was more like Mother Brain with spikes.... wasn't really EVIL looking.

http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/rpg_series/file5_files/tut5phs4.gif

agree?

I know Darkness still stalks the Algol Solar System, the Andromeda Galaxy, as well as the seen and unseen Universe, heh :)

Only the old SEGA can show us the true face of evil..... and only when they've tried.... They did an awesome job in PSI (Dark Falz) and PSII (Dark Force),
a poor job in PSIII (Dark Force) a decent yet unsatisfactory job in PSIV
(several Dark Forces and The Pround Darkness).

With IV, although it was awesome in many ways, i.e. I was so glad to see Lassic return, i was blown away by the fact that there was a far greater evil than Dark Force
(The Profound Darkness) but i was left kinda disappointed in the execution of The Profound Darkness, with the final battles.

what sparked my imagination of evil so terrible (in an awesome way) was the Japanese cover artwork
http://www.imagepup.com/up/qZSY_1202865784_PSIV.bmp
^THAT's one badass mofo'ing Dark Force^ ya ?

as well as an early screenshot from 1992 not used in the final PSIV
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb109/camineetparolit/darkforce.jpg

That's how I want the final battle against the final Dark Force / Profound Darkness to look like.

When, when will we get to conquer what I think is the ultimate in videogame evil ?

:/