I remember PSO, Grandia 2, and Skies of Arcadia were the games I wanted to play the most as a kid. Always saw screenshots and ads in magazines and thought they looked amazing, but I never got a Dreamcast (until much, much later).
Luckily for 13 year-old me, PSO came to the GameCube, and I remember seeing a screenshot in Nintendo Power of a RAcast with a chainsawd in VR Temple...fuck I must've read over that preview like a hundred times before the game came out. When I finally got it I must've dropped like 300+ hours into it. I never got past level 65ish though; I had a high capacity 3rd party memory card that would occasionally overheat and fail if I didn't take it out while I wasn't saving, and lost my character so many damn times.
I wanted to play Phantasy Star Online so badly. Never gotten the chance.
Man, it's amazing if you're down for that Diablo-style type of game of just rerunning the same repetitive areas over and over for the loot. PSO2 never coming west is a fucking travesty