Star Ocean: The Last Hope

[Xblade]

The game looks absolutely beautiful.
I hope it plays as well as it shines.


I seriously hope it gets ported to ps3.

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Originally Posted by Sonic2036

the PS3 needs to be a little more slimer??? the way I see it , its as big as a laptop lol
i remember psp slime was more slimey

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[Ignis]

MC looks too much like a blond fayt (I hated fayt with a passion).

[cooliscool]

Really looking forward to this one - Till the End of Time was simply amazing, haven't played a better RPG since.

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[snickothemule]

The depth of field, bloom and HDR certainly help make this game look incredibly cinematic. Here's hoping the frame rate can keep solid and silky.

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[Kaizen]

I can't wait till there's a working 360 emu 10 years in the future to upscale these awesome looking games

[raksmey1309]

IS that CG movie shot or real in game?
Is it just me i saw some ingame shot Not CG movie it looks bad. XD

[runawayprisoner]

Well, that's more than likely CG. Gameplay is this:



And it's nothing ground-breaking in terms of visuals imo. MGS4 would beat this even in terms of CG, and not that MGS4 has that many CGs to begin with. Even a normal scene in MGS4 is breathtaking enough.



Now then... when S-E has reached that (^) kind of quality for gameplay alone, let me know. ;p

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[raksmey1309]

Yes ingame gfx looks like that not impressive

[runawayprisoner]

Well, S-E has (arguably) not been the best when it comes to real-time renders. They might win some art direction awards, but not with real-time awards.

If you want truly breathtaking graphics, you should find them in Crysis, Far Cry 2, Fallout 3, or Metal Gear Solid 4 and the likes.

Fun fact: most, if not all, of the best real-time render games are FPS. The only exception I've found might be Gran Turismo 5.

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[Radix865]

*vents opened, cooling process completed in 5, 4, 3...*



*...2, 1, cooling completed.*

Luckily for us PS3 owners the fact that The Last Remnant which was also supposed to be crapbox exclusive is now coming to PS3 too along with PC version... So it just might be that this game will also shore on PS3 at some point. It would just be foolish for S-E to not port it to PS3 no matter how much failsoft is paying them!

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[JJXB]

Originally Posted by Radix865

*vents opened, cooling process completed in 5, 4, 3...*



*...2, 1, cooling completed.*

Luckily for us PS3 owners the fact that The Last Remnant which was also supposed to be crapbox exclusive is now coming to PS3 too along with PC version... So it just might be that this game will also shore on PS3 at some point. It would just be foolish for S-E to not port it to PS3 no matter how much failsoft is paying them!

why so angry? anyway, i thought fanboyism was disliked on here.i may not own a ps3 but there's 2 reasons:
1. too expensive
2. no good games of note.
i would describe those reasons and my view of your post in a different way but as i said on another board:

i keep 4chan **** on 4chan

as for SO4:
while i'm glad it's coming out on the 360, namco have decided to change the artstyle and menus for the US/EU releases so i'm pissed off at that. i have yet to play any other SO games apart from SO1 (played the SFC one and own first departure on PSP)

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[dolphin1984]

Star ocean 2 is one of my rpg top 5 Star Ocean 3 was good as well just didnt like the whole 4d space story bit Il be buying an xbox when this comes out. With ff13 and a couple of SO's on there way the only thing left is for suikoden 6 to be announced and id be the happiest guy on earth well in terms of gaming anyway

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[runawayprisoner]

Originally Posted by Radix865

*vents opened, cooling process completed in 5, 4, 3...*



*...2, 1, cooling completed.*

Nothing comes of increased temperature aside from risks of hardware failure. It's their game, so let them make the decision.

Luckily for us PS3 owners the fact that The Last Remnant which was also supposed to be crapbox exclusive is now coming to PS3 too along with PC version... So it just might be that this game will also shore on PS3 at some point. It would just be foolish for S-E to not port it to PS3 no matter how much failsoft is paying them!

Mmm... different engine? And The Last Remnant was a planned multiplatform game. It was built with that in mind since the engine used was UE3. They wanted to test out their new and shiny toy.

And not that I really care since I already have a 360 for this.

I'd prefer this game to be exclusive to 360 or PS3, and to actually look or play well instead of being a half-arse job.

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[Radix865]

Originally Posted by JJXB

why so angry? anyway, i thought fanboyism was disliked on here.i may not own a ps3 but there's 2 reasons:
1. too expensive
2. no good games of note.
i would describe those reasons and my view of your post in a different way but as i said on another board:


as for SO4:
while i'm glad it's coming out on the 360, namco have decided to change the artstyle and menus for the US/EU releases so i'm pissed off at that. i have yet to play any other SO games apart from SO1 (played the SFC one and own first departure on PSP)

Well, I'm mad because first: I'm a star ocean fan, I have played them all except blue sphere... Second: I have PS3 so of course I'm pissed that one of my favourite game series is turning into crapbox exclusive! I don't have money to buy another!!! ...And that leads to third: I'm boycotting failsoft(microsoft) products with a decision NOT to buy ANY of their products!

And as far as I know the changed artstyle and menus mean only that the heavily anime styled faces in the bottom of the battle screen as well as the main menu are going to be switched into versions of the actual game style. Not that big of a loss, when I saw the images of the original japanese version and the images of the version coming to west I like the west version better...

Western version:


Japanese version:


See what I mean, those face icons in the bottom, which looks better?

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[Allegro]

After the gut-punch that was the last 20% of SO3, it's kind of depressing to see a new game in the franchise. It looks beautiful and will play great, but it's kind of disheartening when you know how it ends. That's true with most prequels, though.

[runawayprisoner]

Originally Posted by Radix865

Well, I'm mad because first: I'm a star ocean fan, I have played them all except blue sphere... Second: I have PS3 so of course I'm pissed that one of my favourite game series is turning into crapbox exclusive! I don't have money to buy another!!! ...And that leads to third: I'm boycotting failsoft(microsoft) products with a decision NOT to buy ANY of their products!

They aren't too bad. Not like they killed children or burned my house or anything. S-E just decided to go exclusive with them for a few games. That's all. You should have known this a while ago if you were truly a Star Ocean fan... because I remember them saying that Star Ocean 4 would be 360 exclusive like a few years ago.

See what I mean, those face icons in the bottom, which looks better?

The ones from the west look much too emo because they all frown. :P What's that? Can't look cool without frowning?

IMO, health bars and magic bars as a floating rectangle on top of the character or to the side of the character would be more "modern" and practical. The fixed menu makes viewing the battle stage a little bit hard.

Aside from that, though, game looks like total **** compared to most current 360 titles. Only the CG part looks good, but then again, some games look just as good as the CG part of SO4, but those games run in real-time. S-E has run into a technical wall lately, it seems.

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[Densetsu]

I liked what I've played of Star Ocean 2 so here's hoping we see a PC release

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[Radix865]

Originally Posted by Allegro

After the gut-punch that was the last 20% of SO3, it's kind of depressing to see a new game in the franchise. It looks beautiful and will play great, but it's kind of disheartening when you know how it ends. That's true with most prequels, though.

What? I know that the last hope will take place before the events of all the star ocean games but that's not exactly the same as knowing the ending...

Originally Posted by runawayprisoner

They aren't too bad. Not like they killed children or burned my house or anything. S-E just decided to go exclusive with them for a few games. That's all. You should have known this a while ago if you were truly a Star Ocean fan... because I remember them saying that Star Ocean 4 would be 360 exclusive like a few years ago.

Yes I've known it for years but I'm still mad because of it!

Originally Posted by runawayprisoner

The ones from the west look much too emo because they all frown. :P What's that? Can't look cool without frowning?

IMO, health bars and magic bars as a floating rectangle on top of the character or to the side of the character would be more "modern" and practical. The fixed menu makes viewing the battle stage a little bit hard.

Aside from that, though, game looks like total **** compared to most current 360 titles. Only the CG part looks good, but then again, some games look just as good as the CG part of SO4, but those games run in real-time. S-E has run into a technical wall lately, it seems.

Ahh, but if there weren't fixed menu for health & mana bars it wouldn't be star ocean! ...Its a tradition! And I actually like it, never tought it made playing any harder or annoying... Its easy to see the situation of the whole group as they're not all in the screen the whole time, especially as battles have always been fast paced in star oceans.
And never really cared about graphics and those look more than good enough! But what do you mean run in real-time, star oceans have always had real time battles, not turn based!

Its also nice to see that they went back to 4 character groups unlike in SO3 with only 3 chars... I also hope the healer aspect is back!

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Originally Posted by runawayprisoner

And it's nothing ground-breaking in terms of visuals imo. MGS4 would beat this even in terms of CG, and not that MGS4 has that many CGs to begin with. Even a normal scene in MGS4 is breathtaking enough.



Now then... when S-E has reached that (^) kind of quality for gameplay alone, let me know. ;p

FFXIII. Seriously.

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"Save the balls, save the world."

[Allegro]

Originally Posted by Radix865

What? I know that the last hope will take place before the events of all the star ocean games but that's not exactly the same as knowing the ending...

Without letting loose any huge spoilers, it's a buzzkill for me because I know that the game (and all the others) are essentially inconsequential.