Official Topic: Phantasy Star Universe! Brand New Game!

[Lee-yoshi]

:O

Wow... maybe i shud try and come along just to see the car

[Scott Bull]

The TVR is yellow, and the BMW is silver, (and is my favourite), I only use the TVR when I generally need to make a scene for an award or a performance or something, (though in this case, for the fact the Zafira isn't exactly the poshest of cars, and the BMW may start a 4th world war, [I believe there was a 3rd world war, but I don't want to get into politics), the Zafira is black by the way.

To see any of the cars, you can easily do a search on Google, I'll try to take some pictures when I can be bothered to buy another digital camera, (my mini-dv is a right bar steward to take stills with).

You're always welcome to come along, just tell me if you change your mind.
It's like any of my musical performances, if they're open to the public, anyone here can come along so long as they buy the tickets, (which usually cost aroun £10 for a regular seat, depending on location).

Speaking of vehicles, I hope we get to drive the vehicles in the PSO5/PSU movie, rather than them just being part of a cut scene, (it's standary policy to show the best bits of a game rather than in-game footage, despite saying it's in-game footage).

[Lee-yoshi]

Hehe, very nice indeed! But i guess its time to get onto PSU again - in which case, to my knowledge, you will be able to ride/drive the vehicles that you saw in the initial trailer for the game at last years E3, aswell as a few others.

Another reason to look forward to Universe

[Scott Bull]

They said that about the vehicles in Perfect Dark, and all you get to ride are one of the hover-units, which had the guns removed from them, (they originally had 2 machine gun's docked onto them, similar to the defence bots featured), and also there was supposed to be other vehicles too, never trust them when they say, "oh, yes, you can do everything in our game", they're just saying what you want to hear, so they get your custom.

[Lee-yoshi]

Hehe too true, and i never realised that about PD! That would have been so sweet

Anyways, i guess we'll find out soon enough whether they'll make it to the final cut soon enough!

[Scott Bull]

Well I'm back and the show was moderatly good, there was a new PSO5/PSU video showing some footage in a forest like area but it wasn't playable or anything, so it could've just been showing the game engine, (the person making the presentation was only speaking in Japanese, not French or English), suffice to say the next PSO game didn't win any awards, though I did meet a French games programmer who said he had heard quite a bit about a PSO being on the DS, but I'm not sure whether it was concrete or not, (while there I was only able to briefly check on my web-site).
Unfortunatly I wasn't able to sneak any equipment into there because the searches were strict, the only piece of equipment I left in there is a camera I kind've borrowed when I left the military, but that needs a 2nd person with a computer within a range, and no-one was able to join me.

The video looked quite impressive, but disappointingly not all that much of a push from PSO1/2, as if you think about it, they've had nearly 2 years to develop this game from PSO3/PSOBB, and when you look at it, you think; "why couldn't they have done this on the GC 3 years ago with PSO1/2 or a total remake".

Briefly off-topic about PD: shame when you barged at the enemies, all they done was got in your way and not became a hood-ornament.

[Lee-yoshi]

Oh, so there was a new video? Thats good to hear, shame you couldnt have taken a few snaps here and there. I wonder why they were searching people so thoroughly :S

Ah well, sometimes with PSU, you wonder whether its all been worth it after this long, but in the end, its a new game, so better something then nothing!

[Scott Bull]

From what I was able to understand it was for security reasons because it was a trade show, according to the person who got me in, a few years ago someone sued the people who host the show because another company stole some copyrighted material from a game, so that ask you to walk through a metal detector door, and also put electronic tags on all the sensitive items, (sort of like the tags you get in clothes shops, only these things are blue squares for the most part).