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Famitsu brings us the first images of Star Ocean 4 |
Listed in: Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Famitsu, Square Enix
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Well folks, have we got some interesting news for you. Jeux France has found a few new scans from Famitsu detailing Square Enix's development of a brand new Star Ocean game, currently called Star Ocean 4.
According to the information on these scans, there are currently two main characters presented: the male protagonist named Edge Maverick (who will probably become the player character), and a female heroine known as Reimi. Also, Jeux France is saying that you'll now be able to take four companions into battle as opposed to the usual 3 seen in the previous iterations of the franchise.
Currently, very little information has been made available, but we expect some more concrete details once the Tokyo Game Show rolls along. Till then, sit tight, and pray that Star Ocean 4 becomes a multiplatform game.
Via Famitsu
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Now, I am not whining and saying that the PS3 has been shafted (on the most part though they have), I am just saying that a port of this game; this most crucial next-in-line game of a wonderful series would best be suited for a monoplatform release...specifically on the PS3 because they may very well take the time to use what the PS3 has to offer (i.e., the cell, graphics chip, tra la la).
I think this is what people mean when they say that they don't want it multiplatform. Not because they necessarily despise another console, more so because we (the PS3 gaming public) are tired of getting ports (basically the 360 hand-me-downs). I wouldn't have written to much if this wasn't the said of game of discussion.
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But I'm sorry for the writer of the article, but I would be really supprised to see the game on the x360 since square-enix do 85% of their money in japan... That's why they don't really care about how big the ps3 sale, since the x360 is selling... no systems in japan. That's why all their games are on japanese systems... (only last remnant and one other game on x360 also since they used unreal engine. but normally, they do their own engin, like the FF13 and vs13 engine (white engine), and that's why they won't make any FFs on the x360, because it would cost too much to port, for maybe 10% of their sales, it's not worth it, it's only good when they traduct (it's already costing a lot of money) the game in english and "voilà!".
anyway, the game will rock and I'm gonna buy my ps3 soon anyway, so I'll buy this one the day it pops (surely li 2009 :'( )
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Fact. Devs will make games for the best-selling concole: the Wii, because it will make them $$$$$$$$.
Fact: Star Ocean will never sell well because they never had. Tossing it on the FPS-dominated XBlowx711 will only lose SE money because there are only 1 out of 20 JRPG nerds who own XBlowx711s.
Fact. If anyone will buy it, it will be Wii owners. The cutesy graphics fit the demographic of the Wii market.
Fact. JRPGs do not do well in other parts of the world besides Asia unless it's Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts. Making a JRPG STRICTLY for an American audience is a huge mistake. Take a look at Blue Dragon. ROFL!
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Star ocean wasn't only released on sony consoles, there have been other games for at least the snes and gamboy with the star ocean title.
I can only hope there are a lot of interesting skills with a lot of worth playing characters like in star ocean 2.
'Edge Maverick'... how original...
Hopefully the game play makes up for the ... 'story'. It seems like the game is the same basic story every time, with a twist.
Fast speed battles. Interesting skills. Super powerful enemies that could border on overpowered. With a lot of investigation the right set of skills and items will lead to powerful abilities.
Also keep the super dungeon. Those are always fun.
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Fact Star Ocean TTEOT sold OVER 1 million copies (1.29 million copies to be exact) and 0.74 million copies were sold in the Americas
Fact two out of the two star ocean games released over here sold VERY WELL it didn't sell well the first time because no one knew WTF it was
Fact Star Ocean did it's best on Playstation so the best choice would be the ps3
Fact all Star Ocean's have been HUGE GAMES (SOTSS - 1.4 GB, SOTTEOT 8 GB to 16 GB depending on if it was DL, SO - 6 MB which HUGE for a SNES game) so i imagine it'll be huge still which could very well mean 40 GB+ Star Ocean 4 which it would be exclusive to ps3 (could go to Xbox 360 it'd just be 3-4 DVDs which isn't that bad, and STOP CALLING IT XBLOWX711 have some respect)
*FACT* it is developed by TRI-ACE!!!!!! Square-enix is the publisher
It was very replay able with different characters to get, different difficultys, different stuff to collect (voices, battle trophies) and it had like 60+ different ending.
JRPG's do pretty well over here even without "final Fantasy" or "Kingdom hearts" slapped on
Star Ocean stands well to do great again over here because it has that Star Wars/Star Trek feeling to it.
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