Broadbandito
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Blimblim said:Wait till you are at the third DVD. It's almost non stop awesomeness
Making me jealous blim. I want this in my hands asap
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Gametrailers - Lost Odyssey review
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Making me jealous blim. I want this in my hands asap
Kill Your Masters
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You are right. Mass Effect is way too open and you have to make too many decisions and stuff...Synless said:
Seriously, you are joking, right? RIGHT?
Kill Your Masters
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Okay, then I did, and I have to agree actuallySynless said:
Gameplay wise it's impossible to compare them. However, Mass Effect is an "real" RPG in my opinion but one hard to compare with something like Lost Odyssey.
Felix Lighter
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Blimblim said:Wait till you are at the third DVD. It's almost non stop awesomeness
Typically, I skip JRPGs for a few reasons (keep in mind my JRPG experience is limited to FF7,8 and 9):
- Extremely obscure sidequest that you would never discover with out the aid of a Strategy Guide or Game FAQ, which leads to the most important and powerful loot.
- Story and dialog that always seems to lose something in translation. The games I've played suffered from this. Maybe not as severally as in some other games in other genres but story and dialog are far to important in an RPG to ignore.
- Strange difficulty curve. In FF7, 8 and 9, you could easily work your way to the final encounter, only to discover you have 0% chance of victory. That's why my first complaint is such an issue. If you don't level you character properly and gather the right equipment you may not find out about it until the last 45 minutes of the game.
Taking that all into consideration, will I enjoy this game or is this genre just not for me?
Chairman Yang
if he talks about books, you better damn well listen
How much filler does Lost Odyssey have? How much grinding, how many pointless combat encounters, how many tedious item-hunts, and so on?
No Means Nomad
Banned
Durante said:
Good effort.
You'll like it I think. The dialogue has been very well translated - I suspect it was written with English in mind. The combat isn't boring and you can level characters pretty fast - there's a soft level limit for each area that helps ensure each boss is balanced to be a challenge, but not an impossibility.Felix Lighter said:
Not much grinding for exp, as each area has a level cap, so you gain exp really fast then you hit the cap and it then takes about 40 battles to level.
You can grind for SP for your Immortals to learn skills, but that does not take long.
I do warn you, if you often grind like no tomorrow in most jrpg's so you can crush everything, Lost Odyssey's bosses will kick your arse, well the first 2 anyway hehe.
You can grind for SP for your Immortals to learn skills, but that does not take long.
I do warn you, if you often grind like no tomorrow in most jrpg's so you can crush everything, Lost Odyssey's bosses will kick your arse, well the first 2 anyway hehe.
Chairman Yang said:
This fact needs to be broadcast. LOUD. LO has a level cap for every area :lol Diminishing Marginal Returns people!
You can level grind your way through, if you are really an immortal like the game's characters are and you don't mind getting crap exp per fight. Once you've learnt the skills you need, pay attention to the spells in chests, this game is grind free. It is an easy game after the disc 1 at max for neophytes, if you're still having trouble don't be afraid to ask for fear of looking stupid. Everyone's learning curve for different things have discrepancies. That's why Nature v. Nurture is an endless debate.
Encounter rates for the most part is low. Rarely will it get on my nerves. Nowhere is this as ridiculously high as Skies of Arcadia where every 3~5 seconds the battle loading screen pops up - if I have to put an estimate, it is roughly 5~10 times lesser. You can walk freely at one map for 20~50 seconds without triggerring off a random battle.
How many pointless item fetchquests... well I'm not qualified to give an indepth answer yet. An early assessment will be: early in the game, quite a handful of redundant (Cure-all as reward...:x), late in the game when you want to go on a power trip, those are worth the effort. Midgame there are some nice weapons and accessories...but nothing is an absolute necessity to defeating the monsters in LO. Pretty standard fare of jrpgs right? Early game = crap loot; endgame = elite gear.
BloodyYank
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Well they could have given it a 10 by saying its the second coming of Fire Pro Wrestling.
L0st Id3ntity
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The game plays like you're using one all the time.Durante said:
heh heh no. I don't see any reason to get excited for a game that screams "same old, same old in HD"
Even if your going to stick to more traditional design, is it to much to ask for something unique. Suikoden does it. Persona does it etc etc
:lol Well if Gametrailer said the formula was perfect and had no room for improvement, then I might think differently. Fire Pro has very few equals.
â Narayan
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OH GOD. I WANT TO PLAY IT SO BAD.Blimblim said:Wait till you are at the third DVD. It's almost non stop awesomeness
I'm really looking forward to this game. I hope it sells well.
â Narayan
Member
Hey, dumbasses -- let's stop talking about the score, and more about the game.
â Narayan
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3.5/10Second said:
Classic_Gs
Member
Cool, hype +1.
You're being to modest.U K Narayan said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=236182&highlight=Lost+Odyssey
Here's the link. the NA thread is only 4 pages, so apparently not a lot of people want to talk about it.
This game is getting mixed reviews from different sites. Some people praise the story and characters and some abhor it.
Did anyone read Gamespy's review? I dont think its worth starting another thread for so ill post it here.
Pros:
Pretty battles; occasional sweeping vistas; skill systems solid; balanced combat difficulty.
Cons:
Story and characters shamelessly derivative; hideous load times; wide variety of technical issues; story signifies nothing.
Score: 2.5/5
WTF? Which site to true? So the story and characters rock or sucks? Which is it :lol ?
Did anyone read Gamespy's review? I dont think its worth starting another thread for so ill post it here.
Pros:
Pretty battles; occasional sweeping vistas; skill systems solid; balanced combat difficulty.
Cons:
Story and characters shamelessly derivative; hideous load times; wide variety of technical issues; story signifies nothing.
Score: 2.5/5
WTF? Which site to true? So the story and characters rock or sucks? Which is it :lol ?
Kestastrophe
Member
sennin said:
I am looking forward to this game even more now that I know that grinding isn't required.
PistolGrip
sex vacation in Guam
I thought this game would get masacre but I guess its going to be treated nicely by the media.
CowboyAstronaut
Banned
juicyfruitas said:
Because they are idiots
HamPster PamPster
Member
Borys said:
And people LAUGHED at me when I said GT under scored FFXII. Looks like I was right after all!
nelsonroyale
Member
good score...it definitely doesnt seem to be the game I thought it might be (certainly not as dark and mature)...but it seems like a good high budget rpg...the best so far this gen (though thats not saying much yet). I doubt I will get to play it, but seems like anybody with a 360 who enjoys jrpgs should prob give it a shot.
BlackTyrano
Member
We've actually got a good amount of pre-orders on this game. It honestly seems to me that the normal gaming world outside of GAF is really excited about having old school turned based combat. Its almost the first question people ask me when they want to know about the game "Is the combat like the old Final Fantasy's??" So I don't know, but based off people coming into my store (and its just my store not the whole US before some smart ass says something lol) people want an old school RPG.
avatar299 said:
We know, you've said it a couple times. You seem to selectively pick the few mediocre reviews out of the several good ones :lol And goodluck beating Lost Odyssey within a rental time frame.
I can see Lost Odyssey is going to have polarizing reviews like Blue Dragon.