It's sad that the battle backgrounds were so much better in Phantasy Star 1 than they were in 2. Also hot damn this game rocks. I'm playing it for the first time in about 30 years and forgot how advanced everything feels.
Everything in Phantasy Star 1 is better than the sequel to the point where the sequel looks and feels more like an 8-bit game than its predecessor. It's amazing how bad they screwed it up.
>>12041939Any reason to play this over the Ps2 remake?
>Talks about art in old 2D games>Plays with raw graphics
>>12041950>sequel looksthe overworld looks much better in 2 and the dungeons are more interesting. You cant say that a solid red hallway with no decoration at all looks better than any PS2 dungeon. The only thing that looks better in PS1 is the battle screen but even then youre trading the ability to see your team for backgrounds.
>>12041939Phantasy Star 2 didn't even have real battle backgrounds, it had that grid matrix thing.>>12041952No but some retard will squawk about muh aesthetics and bleat about "soul"
>>12041952if you have to ask the answer is no.
>>12041952Any reason to play PS1 over the PS2 remake? Yeah, for starters it's a different game entirely.
>>12041979It's not really that different of a game. it even still has the first person dungeons.
>>12041979Playstation 2 =/= Phantasy Star 2
>>12041952I noped out of the remakes when I I heard they added that annoying button-timing thing in combat
>>12041985Then you should've worded it as "the remake on PS2" my ESL friend.
>>12041986That was in the Phantasy Star 2 remake. The Phantasy Star 1 remake does not have that.
>>12041939Too bad the combat is super bland compared to DQ or FF though. Spell useage should have had a bigger role, they are almost never worth using plus MP is way too low, ressourcement management should be tighter, and don't let the player save anytime he wants within dungeons...
>>12041952OP here, this one is easier to emulate for me and the aesthetic is nostalgic, it was one of the first RPGs I played. But the remake does look quite nice.
>>12041987lmao fuck off retard you have a lot of nerve insulting someone elses english after demonstrating you have the reading comprehension of a chimp
>>12041970>squawk about muh aesthetics and bleat about "soul"Not my fault (you) lack taste.
I've never been a big fan of first-person dungeon crawlers unless they have an automap, so I prefer Phantasy Star 2.The Sega Ages version of PS1 on the Switch edges over the second game though, since it automatically makes a map for you. That makes it much, much more enjoyable for me. I'll never play the original ever again.
>>12041995Damn son, you big mad.
>>12041953those have the scanlines so is taken from an old flat tv or monitor.the game looked bad but due to limitations is kinda like thos retards going about streets of rage 3 with the whole "it didn't upgrade that much from 2" just because they don't know streets of rage 2 was released first in master system and then ported to megadrive a bit before 3.
>>12041987You have to be the one that's ESL if that confused you
>>12041985>see tread abotu phantasy star>somehow retard anon sonyfag thinks on his shitty console then the game.at least you should try to read instead.
>>12041989well that's good to know
>>12041953OP here and I'm this guy. I love raw pixles and despise both CRTs and scanline filters.
>>12042154gay
>>12042154>complains about CRT>says he loves raw pixels>post pic of a CRT TVis this guy full retard or is just pretending to be one?.
>>12042390I kept a CRT around for a long time mostly to play Saturn games because emulation of them was so shit. That tube TV does still exist in the basement but the only thing hooked up to it is a VCR so we can watch old tapes. I haven't used a CRT for gaming in probably at least 10 years and don't intend to unless there's no other option.
>>12042449>I haven't used a CRT for gaming>pic he posted has game earthion that was released a few weeks ago.at least don't go full retard anon-kun.
>>12042554anon you've confused two different space shooter pilots, I'm afraid your 4chan reputation is ruined
>>120419582's world map isn't that great compared to 1, it feels a lot more restricted and is pretty bland. The palette doesn't help it much at all.I personally found the PS1 dungeons better than 2's since 2 overly relied on teleporter mazes. Yes, they're fancy stairwells, but every single dungeon having a slew of floor transitions and slow movement with a slow battle system made them feel far worse than they really were, just because it was breaking my concentration more frequently and for longer periods.
>>12042154>pixles
>>12041950Admittedly it does look sort of 8 bit in areas but I was pretty impressed with other areas when I first played the rom. Seems like it was severely limited by the rom size. The Dungeons I thought look good and had some parallax, FF Mystic Quest really does look like an nes game and even reviews mentioned it.Pic is my attempt to convert it to nes, nes is just that limited unfortunately.
>>12042821If ps2's encounter rate was halved, the dungeons would be more tolerable. More time to explore, and less trips out of the dungeon to restock because some of those dungeons have a huge difficult spike in enemies (especially the Green Dam)
>>12042821And also I was messing around with an emulator and I was able to walk outside of the city boundaries but not on the world map, you can walk to the other towns that way, I haven't played it much so I don't know if you can do that later in the game. You just put FF's in around the 300h range in ram and set to read only, I was trying to take screenshots of the map. I really want to spend some time with it, I've just about beaten Y's which I really enjoyed on the sms.
>>12041939I remember hearing that 2 was in development while the hardware was not yet finalized for the Mega Drive/Genesis and it was still a tight deadline so things had to be cut with the playtime extended by stretching out the grind. Unlike the original which was more fully developed and allowed to be as amazing as it is.
>>12041952Literally every reason. PS1 is a classic. Just look at OP's picture. Play the remake if you want all the soul sucked out of it.
