Phantasy Star- Just an FF Wannabe?

I don’t know if you remember the late 80’s. Three RPGs clashed for dominion over the video gaming market- Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior (I think that’s what it’s called), and Phantasy Star. Of the three, Phantasy Star was the most underrated. But PS had some good qualities of its own… then came PS3: Generations of Doom. The worst of the series. Now I don’t know about you, but do you think that Sega was just trying make PS be another Final Fantasy by releasing that game?

Um… the business has always been about money. Enix came through with Dragon Warrior first (and kick-started the console RPG genre), Square came in with Final Fantasy and White Mage’d themselves out of bankruptcy, and Sega (not wanting to be outdone by the NES) created its own RPGs for the Mega Drive.

I’ve no doubt that Phantasy Star was created as a reaction to Final Fantasy (why do you think they called it ‘Phantasy’?), but from what I’ve heard, they are dcent games in their own right.

they are good games, even the third one, fourth was the best.

They are pretty good but the third one had the most boring battle and mazes. I guess you could say PS3 was.. decent, at most.

Well the thing with Phantasy Star was that it was entirely sci-fi based rather than epic like most of Final Fantasies. The stories were also "linked" in a way unlike FF. I wouldn’t say it’s a FF wannabe… they don’t even have the same battle system, type of story, nothing really close to each other than it being an RPG.

Um… the business has always been about money. Enix came through with Dragon Warrior first (and kick-started the console RPG genre), Square came in with Final Fantasy and White Mage’d themselves out of bankruptcy, and Sega (not wanting to be outdone by the NES) created its own RPGs for the Mega Drive.

I’ve no doubt that Phantasy Star was created as a reaction to Final Fantasy (why do you think they called it ‘Phantasy’?), but from what I’ve heard, they are dcent games in their own right.

I’m pretty sure Phantasy Star came out before Final Fantasy. And the use of the word fantasy is pretty obvious. Most RPGs are in fantasy settings, as are the board games and such that came before their creation. If Final Fantasy had been called "The Crimson Tale" and Sega had come out with "The Red Story" a few months later, then I think you’d be on to something.