/vr/ - Retro Games

Can I play this without playing the first 3?

>>5411560
One of my favorite games of all time.
>>5411749
I started with 4. It's kind of cool if you've played through the other games and understand all the references to previous games, but it's not necessary. The games are separated by thousands of years story-wise, so it works well on its own too. If you go back and play the older games you'll still have fun seeing everything that was referenced for yourself.

>>5107261
I like the Phantasy Star IV one.

>>5011276
Always liked this one though.

>>3454365
>>3455619
Pic related: PSIV was strongly advertised as being the final Phantasy Star game ever, the nail in the coffin for the series.
Making a PSV would reneg on the whole advertising scheme.
I and several other people were hugely disappointed when PSO was announced because we shelled out $98+ for our copies of the game. Back in 1995. That's $155 of today's money. For one game. With near zero replay value. And we paid it, happily, while trudging through fifteen feet of snow, uphill both ways, to and from the store to buy it. You kids today with your downloadable games don't know what REAL dedication is.

>>3453656
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>>3454941
I'd toyed around with the idea of using PSIV as a template game to redo and improve on PSIII, but I had trouble figuring out how to implement the generational system, multiple endings and shit like that. Plus, there are addresses only for eleven playable characters v PSIII's eighteen and I have no idea how to create more characters.

>>3465829
I like the black chocobo theme in FFV more.

>>3465330
The reason it was expensive is because of the whole advertising thing I mentioned. It was hyped as being the very last PS game ever made, ever, so those of us who were with PS from the beginning would fanboy out and hand our hard-earned shekels over to our Sega Jewnesis overlords. Those of you under 30 who only heard of the games from some YTer or other mentioning it who then downloaded it to give it a go wouldn't know the excitement it gave for fans of the series back then. And all the bits of fanservice in it, too, for those of us who played all of its predecessors.