"Deep Freeze". It's an Ice attack.
It's quite normal for games to let you use ice on water-based enemies...
I also don't really use symbology (magic) in SO games, so idk if there's elemental affinities going on.
Im hoping that this game breaks the trend of SO games having magic that's only good early-mid game and semi-useful to 'you healin now' late game, to 'your only spell is heal' post-game.
SO3 was so close, too, but even post game spells were more for stunlocking than for damage, and it wasn't reliable.
Purple hair chick has the dumbest looking face I've seen in any video game ever.
I love the models. They look like super-detailed figurines in combination with the art/world style.
Looks so good!
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Agreed. Also the coloring style is nice.
We can only hope, although this is Square Enix we're talking about here. They haven't completely got the memo that dual audio is the ideal way to go in this day and age.
Interesting to see that some devs are still asking the question "How do we translate anime faces to 3D?" question in 2015, and coming up with bad answers.
Nice try. You can take a bad photo of anything. It goes double for things that look much better in motion.
yeah...although I'm ready for both.Looks amazing. Tales of eat your heart out.
It doesn't even look bad to begin with, imho.
Looks amazing. Tales of eat your heart out.
Whatever shading filter they got going on is out of this WORLD. Like holy shit, everything looks so crisp and atmospheric.
Wow, that's a much sooner release date than I was expecting! So a possible 2016 release to the west?? I was honestly thinking it would be more like 2017!
This game seriously looks glorious. And at 1080p/60 FPS...unf.
I think some people forgot how bad Star Ocean 4 looked. 5 looks so much better.
The character portraits during battle look really nice. I hope we'll get these, and not the creepy, uncanny valley 3D ones we ended up with in part 4.
It looks really good. Just please have a decent story. I just want a new Star Ocean that's on par with SO2.
Environments look good, 7 party battles have the potential to be awesome. Character designs are ok. The thing that can make this a no-buy is the story and the characters. If the characters are as shitty as in SO4 I'm out.
I wouldn't really get my hopes up, honestly. After 2 the writing in the series really went to shit. Not that 1 and 2 had amazing, or even "good", writing, but it was at least pretty respectable and enjoyable. I can't even sit through a cutscene in SO4 for a minute without getting embarrassed and skipping.
As you may know, Star Oceans 1, 2, and 3 were a kind of trilogy, if you like,
That was over. When they started making 4, they didn’t continue to take on the same attitude about development. The feel of the game was slightly different, and the way they produced the story was different as well. I was the producer for 4, and looking at it, there was something not really right. Something didn’t really click. I knew some things weren’t in the right places.
When we were making Star Ocean 4, when it comes to the visual aspect, it was part of Square Enix’s business strategy at that time. In those years, the company was really keen to expand their business in the west. There was a general idea that we should make sure our games had global appeal, not just Japanese appeal. That made things very complicated, really. We used outsourcing companies to establish the story, not just tri-Ace. Our mission back then was to expand the universe, rather than sticking to what we’d already created. We derailed a bit from the main plot, which was another issue we had. We learned a lesson from that experience.
I wouldn't really get my hopes up, honestly. After 2 the writing in the series really went to shit. Not that 1 and 2 had amazing, or even "good", writing, but it was at least pretty respectable and enjoyable. I can't even sit through a cutscene in SO4 for a minute without getting embarrassed and skipping.
They've already said the game would be much different from 4 (closer to SO1-3). I also remember reading that Gotanda wrote a lot for this game (SO4 outsourced parts of the story to other companies). I haven't played a Star Ocean with a great story yet, but I think it'll be fine.
http://gearnuke.com/star-ocean-5s-producer-clearly-not-happy-4-explains-went-wrong/
Is that a water based attack on fish-type enemies?
Eh, I should probably not overthink things and just stare at her butt.
O_O
I wouldn't really get my hopes up, honestly. After 2 the writing in the series really went to shit. Not that 1 and 2 had amazing, or even "good", writing, but it was at least pretty respectable and enjoyable. I can't even sit through a cutscene in SO4 for a minute without getting embarrassed and skipping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzG6ig9nRxA
Looks fun.
Edit:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1113292
There's a thread about that footage.