/vr/ - Retro Games

Why did Final Fantasy become yuge but Phantasy Star did not?

>>4861981
they're not too weak to bulldoze nine hundred dragons on the way through ryuon.

besides, protecting the people is what the agents are for.

>>4862652
i forgot about that part.

you forget, because of the music and the bright color palette, that this game in general was pretty dark.

>>4862609
interesting. i guess that would make sense too. that sequence with tyler and the gaira prison always felt like it sort of came in from some other place: whoa, there's space pirates?

in my dream-game of a Phantasy Star 2.5 there would definitely be a lot more room for space piracy in the Dark Ages between PS2 and PS3. maybe dealing with those surviving earthlings, or recruiting older members of the team, things like this. maybe battling other neifirst-style clones of yourself, who knows. wouldn't you like to have seen another game in the series that explores class conflict, different levels of technology, the kind of chaos that follows?

i really love that setting.

>>4862678
yes, exactly. the destruction of Mother Brain would be a disaster, given that by the time that events in the game begin, she's in control of everything.

but it is tragic, though. what gets exploited is, essentially, the basic goodness of people - no? i mean there is the story of the kid who's dad doesn't work, the guy who becomes a bandit and other things, but essentially it is because people don't have to be violent and warlike and adapt to the system that they all wind up being wiped out.