Star Ocean 4 JP site open. Release Feb 19=Japan, Feb 24=NA, April 24=PAL

Caj814 said:
Looks familiar
Tales-of-Vesperia-Judith.jpg

holy hell I just realized that :lol
 
Her 3D model looks the most normal and closest to the art out of the whole cast so far to me. :lol

And she does remind me of Judy somewhat, heh.

Seems you can make roommates for the cast on your ship. Cool little feature. And as always there's a different ending depending on who you had the best relationship with over the course of the game.

Only eight slots there, but if anything this just means our final party is going to be a maximum of eight people.
 
Are these videos on gamekyo new? I can't get them to load no matter how much I try :(

Angelus Errare said:
Must have been, I got the second part. Since IGN has a major disposition of hating on games but at the same token saying how THEY would make them.

But the first part made no sense....then again I jumped into the convo starting on this page. So I might have missed something along the way.

IGN wrote an article for Sqaure-Enix to read, effectively suggesting that the "journalists" who couldn't fact-check their very first point (that Infinite Undiscovery and TLR both used UE3) should be in charge of the multi-million dollar corporation's future investments. Yeah. It was a shit article.
 
Seems the Rush Combo things are even more similar to the Hi Ougis/Mystic Artes of the Tales games than I thought, with its own little twists.

Basically they're a really flashy powerful attack you can link with your special attacks or symbology. You can do one when you have the Rush Gauge maxed out. When doing one enemies won't go into Rush Mode, making it really useful for boss fights.

You can also enter commands or whatever to work with your party and use their battle skills to make a Rush Combo Chain, to do more damage and build up the combo count. You can do up to six.
 
Captain N said:
I'm just going off of the screens shots, but the shine and look of this game feels like Dreamcast RPGs. It's what I'd expect from the Dreamcast 2. That isn't a bad thing since I love(d) the DC.

Uh, what? Sure, Skies of Arcadia and Grandia 2 are great games, but graphically they weren't so far above their contemporaries as SO4 is.
 
Considering how similar Star Ocean and Tales of are already, I'm not sure making them even more akin is the best strategy.
 
New info from the recent scans.

- new character revealed, looks a lot like Judith from ToV. Big breasts and all.
- 100 Private Action events
- You can assign roommates to everyone in your ship. Yes even Edge.
- one of the pics in the article shows slap in Edge's face. DRAMA
- having a roommate affect PA events, dialogues script etc.. etc..
- There's a pic with Faize and Edge fighting each other.
 
Error said:
New info from the recent scans.

- new character revealed, looks a lot like Judith from ToV. Big breasts and all.
- 100 Private Action events
- You can assign roommates to everyone in your ship. Yes even Edge.
- one of the pics in the article shows slap in Edge's face. DRAMA
- having a roommate affect PA events, dialogues script etc.. etc..
- There's a pic with Faize and Edge fighting each other.

The Judith like character seems a Symbology user to me.
Also assigning your own roommate = WIN. I want this game now really I cant wait :lol

edit: anyone wants the trailer site quality? Downloaded it now
 
Yazus said:
I like the sound of "Rush Combo Damage can go over 1.000.000"

Personally I'm only worried if this means there'll be enemies with HP that can go beyond 4D Freya's, and it results in these moves having to be spammed throughout the whole fight to have any chance at getting their HP down in a sane amount of time.

Tales has already started making these kind of attacks repetitive recently (they make them too easy to get in Tales games now to me, with no real challenges or penalties for using them, kinda ruins the fun of them for me in a way) imo, hopefully these are just an extra boost to a fight instead of limiting the player by not using them a lot in boss fights and such.
 
Loving the samples on the site really. The first one has way too much brass, but the rest are GREAT. I LOVE Sakuraba's Star Ocean soundtracks, so I'm really looking forward to this one.

Waiting for a kind soul to rip those images from the site, those are probably the ones I'll use for the official thread I'll make in February.
 
Wait, there are song samples?

Why the heck did they put it in such a hidden part of the screen? :lol

I like "Like the Wind" though.
 
akachan ningen said:
Is this going to be out on PS3 later?

A gaffer posted the japanese cover art recently and there wasn't that 'only for xbox 360' box so star ocean 4 getting released on the ps3 is somewhere between possible and likely as far as I know.
 
Boulayman said:
A gaffer posted the japanese cover art recently and there wasn't that 'only for xbox 360' box so star ocean 4 getting released on the ps3 is somewhere between possible and likely as far as I know.

The "only for" label isn't a decider in this matter. Enchanted Arms had one, and it was released on ps3 a year later.
 
Vorador said:
The "only for" label isn't a decider in this matter. Enchanted Arms had one, and it was released on ps3 a year later.

Yes and so did bioshock but when you see that just a few months ago both Tales of Vesperia and Infinite undiscovery (which I believe is by the same developper-publisher combo as star ocean 4) had that box so it may not be a decider but I do think its' lack is a fairly strong indicator. The current Star Ocean 4 situation reminds me of the Eternal Sonata one.

In any case, I am still cautious about that, that's why I said 'somewhere between possible and likely' ^^

Edit: forgot to comment on those screenshots, they are glorious ! The battle one's level of detail is very impressive and the jungle is glorious :) I do hope we'll have a lot of space decors though. I felt that was lacking in theprevious iteration of Star Ocean.
 
Rpgmonkey said:
Wait, there are song samples?

Why the heck did they put it in such a hidden part of the screen? :lol

I like "Like the Wind" though.


Also Like the Wind plays more like a Battle Music altrough it seems someons leaked the true Battle Music on niconico (posted a few posts ago).
 
Lets just hope the standard def tv users can read the text this time.

yes im still in the jurassic era, and own one. :) IU was pretty hard on the eyes.
 
I'm sort of interested in Tri Ace doing a sequel to IU considering the engine has come a long way since its' release, I personally didn't think the game was half bad and it certainly has a lot of room for improvement.

Staying on topic... those screenshots look amazing.
 
Kyoufu said:
Character designs are pretty uninspiring :( Game looks very pretty though, can't wait to play it.

Yeah... i really dislike some character design choices. But the game looks really solid, pretty and funny.
 
I quite like the 'Like the Wind' track. Reminds me of the battle theme (which can easily be heard on youtube). The other tracks didn't do it so much for me.
 
Boulayman said:
A gaffer posted the japanese cover art recently and there wasn't that 'only for xbox 360' box so star ocean 4 getting released on the ps3 is somewhere between possible and likely as far as I know.

US version has it too. And I agree that it really is the ES situation all over again...
 
Kyoufu said:
Character designs are pretty uninspiring :( Game looks very pretty though, can't wait to play it.
I've only liked a handful of designs from the entire series, so that's to be expected for me. :lol

My interest for this keeps going between "oh god do not want at all" and "oh god come out RIGHT NOW" so we'll see what happens.
 
Error said:
btw, no Welch in Star Ocean 4, at least she doesn't return as the Item Creation lady. Just saw a pic of that. Maybe she'll be a boss in the post-game content?

Speaking of which, the producer confirmed cameo bosses in Star Ocean 4. So you can expect the Valkyrie Profile series getting some cameos, maybe even Radiata Stories.

I would love Welch as a post game content boss.

Also, who do you think will appear as Cameo?
I'd think Lenneth, Freja, Lezard (if theres no leazard i'll cry), Jack Russell, Claude & Rena, Fayt & Sophia. Obviously Gabriel/Queen as super powa bosses.


I'd love a super powerfull Maria cameo boss that kicks your ass with Energy Burst/Scatter Beam :lol:lol
 
Kagari said:
US version has it too. And I agree that it really is the ES situation all over again...
It sucks that people too stubborn to buy an Xbox 360 will have to wait a year or more just to play it, worst case scenario being never. D:
 
SimpleDesign said:
It sucks that people too stubborn to buy an Xbox 360 will have to wait a year or more just to play it, worst case scenario being never. D:

Well, this apply for all the consoles on the market.
 
SimpleDesign said:
It sucks that people too stubborn to buy an Xbox 360 will have to wait a year or more just to play it, worst case scenario being never. D:

I see no reason to pity them. These days you can find 360s in crackerjack boxes. As long as they're not shitting up the official thread with port talk it's not an issue.

Yazus said:
Well, this apply for all the consoles on the market.

I don't see how anyone can go wrong with a sub-$150 console that's currently leading in terms of JRPGs and covers pretty much every other genre out there with tons of quality games. It's easily the strongest secondary system on the market and also the cheapest.
 
Wow, those pictures looked great! I'm beginning to get more and more sold on this game.
Still no EU release dates?
And Mullia looking nice there. Is she a playable character?
 
rykomatsu said:
the new character's breasts are way too fucking big...

Lol I know like in most anime types. Ever since I saw Dragonaut-the resonance, I became far more forgiving with rpgs. No matter how low they sink in terms of breast size, they will just never get as bad as Dragonaut :lol
 
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