Phantasy Star

Ok I just lost the first battle at Zio's tower and Alys is hurt and it's playing music that I swear is the same chord progression as "Hotel California".

Ok my jaw just dropped at the first Land Rover battle. Cool 3d effects!

http://www.phantasy-star.net/art/screenshots/psiv/advanced.jpg

I grew up w SNES. SNES RPG's didn't have purple-haired cyborg cat babes.

OK I beat Phantasy Star IV. Wow, really the coolest RPG I think I've ever played. Amazing music & graphics, loads of fun, great storyline, everything you could ever want. I tried starting II but it just felt like such a big step back graphics/sound wise it kinda scared me off. PSIV is really just unlike any game ever.

Also, this was the first time I played an RPG with frameskipping and thus when it came time to level up, I kicked the game up to 8x and set a bunch of macros and was at Level 80 in no time.

so, how early did you fight the sandworm

i wonder why i never tried these games, i was always curious about them. i mean, i played this all the way through iirc:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Vermilion

Uh I can't remember. Probably halfway through, right around the time you first leave Motavia. Mainly I wanted to help out Rune cos for some reason he was just the weakest link the entire game for me.

Later on I trained at Vahal Fort but once The Edge opens up, there's a battle in there that consistently nets 13000+ experience points for everyone in your party. It's at the end of the game, but it's pretty useful for making that final battle easy.

The original Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System is incredible. I can't imagine how mind-blowing it must've looked back in 1988 when all we had was the first Legend of Zelda game. Even Dragon Warrior was a year away.

Um.....ok so I'm watching the first episode of Dirty Pair and it takes place on a world where the environmental systems are all controlled by a computer called Brain. Sounds familiar...

Eh, nevermind, it's Brian. Still, close. Lol

bought the iphone version of ps2 thanks to this thread. touchscreen controls are a drag but i think once i sit down with some kind of getting started/intro guide it's gonna be pretty fun.