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Quick Look: Phantasy Star Zero

Jeff and Ryan scratch that PSO itch with this DS incarnation.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Jan. 13 2010

Cast: Jeff, Ryan

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Phantasy Star Zero

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Edited By blair

Fantastic!
 
What a great day for Quick Looks.
 
Z-Z-Z-Zenny and the Jets.

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Edited By raviolisumo

Are there mags? 
 
EDIT: SO CLOSE haha! 
 
EDIT: Jeez, something's weird about the run animation. Really floaty.

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First DS QL?

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Edited By rallier

I can't see the text on medium. You guys should probably make the actual screen take up more space.

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@Chaser324: I think so 
 
 

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I dunno if it's just me, but the resolution these DS Quick Looks are at make the text rather unreadable. And boy there is a lot of text in this video.

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Edited By D_O_A

I love Quick Looks, gives me something to watch at work :)

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Edited By SkylarShelton

Pretty cool that you are doing quick looks for DS games now, but the capture gear turns out a rough video. But hey! Rather have rough DS videos than none at all, keep up the good work!

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Woot, DS Quick look!

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Man... PSO was my first taste of mmos.  I know it wasnt really an mmo but yeah... good times

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Edited By Scooper

Impossible to read the text unfortunantly. I thought it was in Japanese at first.

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Edited By HaltIamReptar

Even on High quality the text is unreadable.  But I don't really know what can be done about it.  Oh well.
 
Fantastic quick look, as usual.  Thank you.

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WoW, never even heard there is a new Phantasy Star game coming out.

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@SkylarShelton said:
" Pretty cool that you are doing quick looks for DS games now, but the capture gear turns out a rough video. But hey! Rather have rough DS videos than none at all, keep up the good work! "
Doubt it is the capture gear. The DS screen in the player is about 200x150 pixels  while the resolution of a DS screen is 256x192. The text being unreadable is because they are showing footage of a DS game that is smaller then what it outputs and since DS games already have such a small resolution it gets extremely messed up.
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Edited By Rowr

I cant read the text on High.
 
High needs to be higher.

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Funny and is that Marion in the background?

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Oh, hi Zenny!

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looks more like theda to me

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Edited By DRE7777

I can just imagine Ryan looking awkwardly over Jeff's sholder to watch the DS that Jeff is playing. 
 
I wonder if thats how it works or if they are somehow watching it on other screens because of the recording? 

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Don't worry Jeff, you're not alone, I also keep buying Phantasy Star games in hope that one day there will be a a new game that brings back that PSO nostalgia.
 
This version gets closer than alot of the others, missed the mag feeding in PSU.

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I rather enjoy PS0. Though a lot of the bosses require you to play multi.

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Histories first DS quick look remember this moment

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Hey anyone want to tell Jeff that TP/Fluids not useless this time round for robots? Just hold down the attack button for a bit and you'll see why.

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Jeff you are not alone! I too love Phantasy Star Online and even played that shitty PSU for over a year and a half. Perhaps someday Sega will fire everyone at that pitiful company and get new people to make a new proper Phantasy Star game.

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Edited By DJJoeJoe

ZENNY!

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zzzzzz

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Edited By FuzzYLemoN

I understand you guys are new to DS QL's, but I hope you're aware of how truly awful the video quality is. I can barely read the text at all. o_O

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When will developers stop using letters they don't know anything about(Æ, Ø and Å)? These are infact real letters and are used in several languages.../rant
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Edited By crushed

Agh! I don't know if it's the capture or if it's been resized or something, but the quality is... not good.

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@FuzzYLemoN said:
" I understand you guys are new to DS QL's, but I hope you're aware of how truly awful the video quality is. I can barely read the text at all. o_O "
Agreed. From the Bombcast, they say they're keeping it in native resolution. If this is true then there is some kind of filtering used that keeps it from being a 1:1 image... JUST like the PSP videos.
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Oh man. Cannot read text in this video at all. Boooo.

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Oh god, what the hell is wrong with the text?

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I can't read the text...

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Edited By MeatSim

Yea can't read the text at all but it's this or no DS quick looks.

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Damn the text is a bit hard to read. I'm not complainin' though if we start getting some more DS quicklooks. They should have totally ordered this capture equipment a long time ago.

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@MrKlorox said:
" @FuzzYLemoN said:
" I understand you guys are new to DS QL's, but I hope you're aware of how truly awful the video quality is. I can barely read the text at all. o_O "
Agreed. From the Bombcast, they say they're keeping it in native resolution. If this is true then there is some kind of filtering used that keeps it from being a 1:1 image... JUST like the PSP videos. "
It's not native resolution at all.
 
Each screen of the DS is 192 pixels along the vertical (384 in total).
This video is encoded at 640x360 and that includes all the extra 'padding' they put around the screens too, probably less than ~300 pixels is actual in-game.
 
IMO they should maximise the real estate of the videos by placing the two screens side-by-side. It will probably mess up cut-scenes that span across, but overall there would be a massive improvement in quality.
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Isn't that DSi graphic missing something in the middle of the hinge?

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DS video is a tough thing to nail with a website designed with a specific video size in mind : \

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Screens should be put side by side, not on top of each other.

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@DJJoeJoe Zenny.
And wow, the Black Tiger page needs some content.  Doesn't even mention the canceled NES port.

/makes appointment for putting chained mace to some dragon face
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I like the fact that you put the DS and PSP in the video box for these quicklooks but it just makes the text near impossible to read.  Even if I make larger the resolution is just crap. 
Anyway, just some random concern... 

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The one problem with this game: WAY too much dialogue. When I play a PSO style game, I just want to kill shit, dammit! Oh well, when I don't have to worry about text the game is so damn fun.

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Text is unreadable. Hope you guys can do something about that in future DS quick looks.

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Gamespot underrated.

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@Legend said:
" WoW, never even heard there is a new Phantasy Star game coming out. "
Yeah, there needs to be more coverage of handheld systems, especially since most Japanese franchises are going mostly handheld only.
 
But video resolution problems aside, Giantbomb is in the right direction.
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Looks like DS quicklooks might be pointless. No text = pass.

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@Chaser324 said:
" First DS QL? "
I'd count the Bowser's Inside Story video as a QL
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That text is really hard to read. My eyes are hurting after 5 minutes of video.
 
 
Didn't the Bowser's Story had text? I don't remind being tough to read.

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@BionicMonster: I suppose you're correct.