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Message: [QUOTE="Mitochondria, post: 268628, member: 351882"] Someone already mentioned PSO, but I'm going to say specifically the first Phantasy Star mainline game. Phantasy Star was SEGA's first JRPG, and at the time, Medieval Fantasy was common for JRPGs which made PS stand out more with it's Sci-Fi Fantasy setting. It was also one of the first few games to feature a female protagonist. The graphics, story and complexity of it's gameplay were highly praised and seen as ahead of it's time plus their competitors. Several of it's staff's career were launched thanks to it's success. Rieko Kodama directed the 4th game, considered one of the greatest JRPG, later working as a producer for Skies of Arcadia (another highly praised JRPG). Yuji Naka worked on the 2nd game as a programmer, alongside Rieko (was the 2nd game's artist), going on to serve as producer for Phantasy Star Online. Naoto Ohshima went on to create Sonic the Hedgehog while collaborating with Yuji Naka to work on several of the Sonic games. It's a shame how the IP fell off and SEGA can't even grace it with a remaster or any new mainline games. They can't even be bothered to port the other Phantasy Star games like Universe or 0. Don't even get me started on that walking corpse, New Genesis, that tarnished the IP's name. It's sad to see an IP with such rich and amazing history get mistreated like this.[ATTACH type="full" size="1280x1024"]91913[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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