The Lost Xbox MMO: True Fantasy Live Online

[@slurrygeyser8133]

Found this channel from the AVGN video, happy to have a bunch of videos to watch about really niche crap like this :) Great stuff

[@SpicyPunkRockerOfficial]

I wish this game came out

[@AndrossUT]

I hope someone finds the dev files

[@AndrossUT]

Level 5 had alpha servers going. Everything worked except voice chat.

[@Chocoburger]

PSO had keyboard support on Xbox (required adapter), so I can't imagine keyboard support for this game being an issue. FFXI ran pretty good on PS2 in most areas, but in populated cities with a massive crowd it did indeed lag hard. But still don't make it sound like they game was always laggy and sluggish, it was a well optimized technical marvel on PS2.

[@HYDRAdude]

I remember reading in a magazine article, probably OXM, that the game's development was being moved to the Xbox 360, only for it to be cancelled a few months later.

[@Chelaxim]

Have y'all played Final Fantasy XI? The PS2 could handle huge areas and the Xbox was much more powerful. You just need to compare Dead or Alive 2 Hardcore to Dead or Alive 3. The PS2 had it final game in 2013 and it never had a single game that rivaled the raw power of a launch title on Xbox. Also Phantasy Star Online was ported to the Xbox with voice chat. If Resident Evil 2 can run on the N64,Tekken 6 can run on the PSP,Street Fighter 4 can run on the 3DS,Dead or Alive 5 can run on Vita and Hellblade can run run on Switch...i wouldn't doubt level 5 could make this work on the Xbox.

[@bojangler9685]

If ffxi(predates this game/development started in like 1999) existed on the ps2(even if it used the hdd) this could of easily been a REAL game. This is the #1 game i think of when i think of canceled games to this day. A mmorpg coming from the creators of DQ8/Rogue Galaxy/Dark cloud would of been EPIC. FFXI players would of loved this game NO DOUBT. but seriously... calling it a fake game. dude this is like level 5 at its finest in my eyes. I def believe they had no experience with network coding though which probably played a big role.

[@JoshiiWah]

Glad you guys covered this, my friend and I used to watch the trailer on the MSN website over and over again. 12 year old me was soo hyped for this to finally come out 😂

[@jhvghjgjkhlihli]

i remember reading this in a game pro mag and being hype af gor it

[@Crushbandido]

oh man I remember following the little information there was when this game was originally announced

[@nngnnadas]

win 9x is not actually just a visual shell on top of dos. Games (or any other program) can either run directly on dos or on top of windows. The later give you nicer APIs and being able to be 32-bit. But the reason a lot of developers haven't use it is that Windows 9x also consume some very precious resources for itself.

[@michaelsaunders1064]

Bro this game i prayed for waited and waited when i was a kid for this 🙏 but then never came. Wish they would brang it out 😢

[@DijaVlogsGames]

I‘d guess that they developed it for PC, planning to port it to Xbox and fully expecting the Xbox port being cancelled.

[@louie242y]

I feel like this game was going to be an MMO excluesivey on PC targeting the Korean or Chinese market. Maybe that's why it had a lot of assets already produced. They must have pitched what they already had to Microsoft to moneyhat a console exclusive North American localization or something.

[@AlexandriaBrah]

assuming your conclusion about this game being fake is true, (which i am unsure about), perhaps this was more of a proof of concept that was marketed in hopes of generating more Xbox sales in Japan. this would be THE game to generate hype in that market that was underperforming. maybe it really was always going to be cancelled and the trailers/screenshots/assets that we've seen are really all that exists of the game. it would also explain the rather silly title of the game. to assume there was "lore" and a story is a jump from what you showed of the game in this video. although another comment about this being a possibly cancelled PC port seems more likely.

[@tristangruener9571]

I think this game is real and it was really more of a pso type ‘mmo’ than something like EverQuest was at the time. I mean how many max chatacters do you really see in these screenshots? And is it that hard to believe that like 16 to 32 players could occupy a world at once? Being level 5 in this era the combat was most likely a basic arpg system, similar to pso. I just think the most compelling evidence is how far along they were with all the assets and just how polished it looked

[@TheYoungVulnerableAnimeGirls]

It's painful to hear people talk about the original Xbox these days. Lots of misconstruing of information happening. Hearing somebody say Dead or Alive 3 came along at one point is extremely agonizing. That's like on par with somebody saying oh yeah I didn't Xbox have an Oddworld game?

[@DijaVlogsGames]

I really don’t get your point here

[@TheYoungVulnerableAnimeGirls]

@@DijaVlogsGames just two guys talking about a lot of shit on which they have no idea. DOA3 was a launch title for original Xbox. That's just a small example of many here.

[@AndrossUT]

man Munches Odyssey and Strangers Wrath were super underrated

[@Crushbandido]

oh man I remember following the little information there was when this game was originally announced