Phantasy Star Online

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Pioneer 2 has crossed the stars to reach the planet Ragol, and just as it settles into orbit, an enormous explosion rocks the surface and every colonist already down there falls silent. Phantasy Star Online sends you planetside to find out why. Sonic Team built it as the first worldwide online RPG on a home console, and on the Dreamcast it was a statement of intent: a game designed around the system's built-in modem, with players from different countries sharing one adventure at a time when online console play barely existed.

The structure is beautifully simple. You create a character from three classes, Hunter, Ranger and Force, across human, Newman and android types, then descend from the city into four zones: the Forest, the Caves, the Mines and the Ruins. Combat is real-time with a rhythm of its own, built on timed three-hit combos, and each zone ends with a boss fight worth remembering, from the Dragon in the Forest to De Rol Le, Vol Opt and finally Dark Falz. Along the way you raise a Mag, a floating companion that grows as you feed it items, and chase rare weapons with the kind of obsessive dedication that kept players coming back for years.

Online, up to four players formed a party, and Sonic Team tackled the language barrier with Word Select, which translated preset phrases between languages, and Symbol Chat, a system of expressive custom icons. Those original servers have long since gone dark, but the game was always more than its lobby. An offline mode carries the full adventure, following the trail of the hunter Red Ring Rico through the message capsules she left scattered across Ragol, and it makes a satisfying solo dungeon crawl.

Phantasy Star Online carried a classic Sega RPG name into a new era. It led to Ver. 2, the GameCube and Xbox editions, Blue Burst on PC and eventually Phantasy Star Online 2, and its loop of loot, levels and four-player boss runs echoes through countless online action games since. The original Dreamcast release is where that lineage starts, and a vivid reminder of how far Sega was willing to reach with a single disc and a dial-up connection.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2000
Publisher
Sega
Developer
Sonic Team
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-op
About the game

Pioneer 2 finally completed it's long voyage to the new home world. But as the ship entered orbit, an enormous explosion shook the entire planet, and all contact with the thousands of people already there was lost. Now, in the first worldwide online console RPG, players from around the globe must unite to discover what has happened. Phantasy Star Online continues in the tradition of one of the most popular series of all time, and becomes a revolutionary and truly global gaming experience in an online, persistent world.

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