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[Psychotext]

http://japan.gamespot.com/xbox360/videos/story/0,3800076101,20361425,00.htm?ref=rss

New trailer. Potential spoilers. Pretty solid trailer, and the vocal song is.... interesting. Definitely different from the usual type.

Woah... see I'm really torn now. That looks superb but the impressions here regarding framerate etc are telling me to hold back my interest.

 

[Herpes Reasons]

http://japan.gamespot.com/xbox360/vi...00.htm?ref=rss

New trailer. Potential spoilers. Pretty solid trailer, and the vocal song is.... interesting. Definitely different from the usual type.

those funky glasses the main character is wearing, its rather....funky.

 

[Blimblim]

those funky glasses the main character is wearing, its rather....funky.

Items are visible on your character, so you won't have to see the glasses if you really don't want too

 

[Herpes Reasons]

Items are visible on your character, so you won't have to see the glasses if you really don't want too

that's a nice perk. wide variety of costumes and such?

 

[Blimblim]

that's a nice perk. wide variety of costumes and such?

Unknown.

 

[L0st Id3ntity]

I can't load the new trailer, someone help please. :/

i.e Upload it somewhere.

 

[Blimblim]

Gamespot uses the rtmp protocol, so it makes the stream ripping a tad more difficult (though not so much) than usual. I'm not touching this anyway since it's watermarked.

 

[FFChris]

that's a nice perk. wide variety of costumes and such?

Only accessories, weapons and amulets can be worn, so I think those are the only things that will effect the look of your character.

I'm happy simply with different looking weapons.

 

[Green Shinobi]

Amazed some of you guys think Japanese games should be held to different standards than games from other areas of the world. Bzzt, wrong answer, try again.

Not games, but jRPGs. Would you give Chrono Trigger an 8 if its framerate sputtered a few times? Keep in mind that by doing so, you'd be saying that it's basically as good as Legend of Legaia or Kingdom Hearts II.

 

[reriel]

voice actors:

Cooke?YUKO(FLIP-FLAP)
Mack?AIKO(FLIP-FLAP)
Sed????? Akimoto Yousuke
Tolten?????? Horigawa Ryou
Gangara???? Jou Haruhiko (maybe ?)

don't know who they are ^^;

 

[Hunahan]

Amazed some of you guys think Japanese games should be held to different standards than games from other areas of the world. Bzzt, wrong answer, try again.

Amazed that some of you guys think this game has bad graphics.

Further amazed that some of you guys think Eternal Sonata was a good game. Ehhhh, to quote a phrase..."bzzt, wrong answer, try again."



.....not trying to be a dick, but you're seriously riding the jock of this one way too hard. Sorry you think it looks so disappointing, but you're going to have a hard time convincing people that it's as bad as you say it is after we've all seen that trailer and compared it to your comments about how crap the visuals are, right?

LO may not be the second coming, but as Nelsonroyale pointed out, it's pretty much all fans of big budget, FF-esque, high production RPGs have to look forward to at the moment. If the only sacrifice we have to make is that the animations hitch up on framerate some of the time, I think that most can certainly live with that...

...beggars can't be choosers and all that. Cheer up, mate.

 

[duckroll]

Not games, but jRPGs. Would you give Chrono Trigger an 8 if its framerate sputtered a few times? Keep in mind that by doing so, you'd be saying that it's basically as good as Legend of Legaia or Kingdom Hearts II.

If Chrono Trigger ran at sub-20fps levels in all battles, and the camera moves such that it makes battles look retarded, then yes, it would not be as good a game. I don't see how anyone can argue otherwise. By using stupid numerical comparisons and saying "omg then you are saying its as good as Legend of Legaia or Kingdom Hearts II" is just retarded. Seriously.

 

[Green Shinobi]

If Chrono Trigger ran at sub-20fps levels in all battles, and the camera moves such that it makes battles look retarded, then yes, it would not be as good a game. I don't see how anyone can argue otherwise. By using stupid numerical comparisons and saying "omg then you are saying its as good as Legend of Legaia or Kingdom Hearts II" is just retarded. Seriously.

It would still do everything else better than almost every jRPG ever made. And a couple years later, you'd get tons of threads saying "LTTP: Chrono Trigger. What were the reviewers thinking?"

Is the camera really that broken in LO though?

 

[duckroll]

It would still do everything else better than almost every jRPG ever made. And a couple years later, you'd get tons of threads saying "LTTP: Chrono Trigger. What were the reviewers thinking?"

I don't even see where you are going with this. Are you trying to deliberately stir up shit just waiting for someone to say "CT wasn't that great"? Because last I checked, LO has nothing to do with CT, and this isn't a fucking CT thread.

Is the camera really that broken in LO though?

Probably not? But that's not what you asked.

Dismissing technical problems just because it's a JRPG is stupid, and that's all I'm trying to prove. You can't say they SHOULDN'T matter, because they do. Any flaw in presentation affects the enjoyment of a game.

 

[Green Shinobi]

I don't even see where you are going with this. Are you trying to deliberately stir up shit just waiting for someone to say "CT wasn't that great"? Because last I checked, LO has nothing to do with CT, and this isn't a fucking CT thread.

Must be late over there.

I was saying that frame-rate and camera are pretty much the least important aspects of a jRPG and shouldn't influence the score that much compared to things like the battle system, dungeon design, characters, music, story, etc.

 

[Diablos54]

To be honest though, that really isn't saying much.

Shut your mouth you heathen!

 

[duckroll]

Must be late over there.

I was saying that frame-rate and camera are pretty much the least important aspects of a jRPG and shouldn't influence the score that much compared to things like the battle system, dungeon design, characters, music, story, etc.

You're the only person that goes on and on about "the score". Why?

 

[Green Shinobi]

You're the only person that goes on and on about "the score". Why?

Sorry about that. I must have been hanging out too much in the Uncharted and Mass Effect threads. I'll stop.

 

[Diablos54]

Wow, new trailer's pretty good, could do without that English vocal song though. >_> Game looks awesome on all fronts, I just hope these apparent tech issues don't hold it back any.

 

[L0st Id3ntity]

Has the trailer been uploaded anywhere else other than Gamespot? I've tried several times, it just refuses to load for me.

 

[Awntawn]

In a lot of respects it's FFVIII in HD.
Sakaguchi is taking his FF vision and trying to make it "real" like FFVIII, with more realistic looking characters. I don't think there's anything wrong with the character models, but the animation is clearly not great, and there are issues with camera and potentially issues with frame rate. None of these things are what make an RPG for me though. An RPG is playable if it has good characters, system and story, and this looks like it has potential in all three departments.

This is the best news I've ever heard in since 1999.

 

[chaostrophy]

Since I've been playing mostly PS2 RPGs lately I won't mind if Lost Odyssey doesn't look next-gen. But it will be frustrating going from smooth-flowing games like Valkyrie Profile 2 and Persona 3 to a game on vastly more powerful hardware that's hiccupy and glitchy.

 

[Lebron]

Has the trailer been uploaded anywhere else other than Gamespot? I've tried several times, it just refuses to load for me.

a little late, but here you go if you haven't had luck with it yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf7Me2b7WS4

 

[nelsonroyale]

eh, that trailer was pretty cool...and I thought it looks good graphically, sure the animation isnt impressive, but everything looks clean, detailed and nicely designed...first disappointing music Ive heard in the game...

 

[FFChris]

eh, that trailer was pretty cool...and I thought it looks good graphically, sure the animation isnt impressive, but everything looks clean, detailed and nicely designed...first disappointing music Ive heard in the game...

Seems like every Mistwalker game has to have a godawful track in it among the amazing ones.

 

[JayDubya]

Seems like every Mistwalker game has to have a godawful track in it among the amazing ones.

Where's the bad track in Blue Dragon? I'm near the end of the game and it's all been pretty much perfect.

 

[FFChris]

Where's the bad track in Blue Dragon? I'm near the end of the game and it's all been pretty much perfect.

I hate the boss music.

 

[Synless]

Looks pretty damn good too me, I can't wait for this game it comes out in february right?

 

[Synless]

Where's the bad track in Blue Dragon? I'm near the end of the game and it's all been pretty much perfect.

The boss song......it grew on me just like that damn birthday cake song in Jet set radio future........somehow it just happened.

 

[Lebron]

Where's the bad track in Blue Dragon? I'm near the end of the game and it's all been pretty much perfect.

http://www.bestofvgm.com/paroles/eternity.php?langue=en



As for the music in the trailer, well the beginning bit was good I thought, but then it all went to hell when the singing part kicked in. Brings back bad memories of having to hear the singing parts in FFX-2. Yup, I went there.

 

[L0st Id3ntity]

a little late, but here you go if you haven't had luck with it yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf7Me2b7WS4

Thanks, appreciated.

 

[nelsonroyale]

http://www.bestofvgm.com/paroles/eternity.php?langue=en



As for the music in the trailer, well the beginning bit was good I thought, but then it all went to hell when the singing part kicked in. Brings back bad memories of having to hear the singing parts in FFX-2. Yup, I went there.

hahah those lyrics are hilarious...

 

[Lebron]

Here's one of the stories taken from "The 1000 Year Dream" book. Pretty much talks about a past event in Kaim's life, but may be spoilers for some. So read it at your own risk I guess.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/reading-is-fun/lost-odyssey-in-short-story-form-325245.php

 

[duk]

looks good

 

[duckroll]

http://japan.gamespot.com/xbox360/features/story/0,3800076631,20361618,00.htm

Last blitz of hype before the official thread! 2 pages of preview from Gamespot!!!!!!!! GOOOOOOO GOOCH POWER!

 

[Basch]

http://japan.gamespot.com/xbox360/features/story/0,3800076631,20361618,00.htm

Last blitz of hype before the official thread! 2 pages of preview from Gamespot!!!!!!!! GOOOOOOO GOOCH POWER!

What does it say? Pretty screenshots, though.

 

[mintylurb]

http://japan.gamespot.com/xbox360/features/story/0,3800076631,20361618,00.htm

Last blitz of hype before the official thread! 2 pages of preview from Gamespot!!!!!!!! GOOOOOOO GOOCH POWER!

Ohh, those screen shots look sweet.

 

[duckroll]

Also heard Lost Odyssey got 9/8/8/8 at Famitsu Xbox360.

 

[Aaron]

Also heard Lost Odyssey got 9/8/8/8 at Famitsu Xbox360.

Not a single 10? It's so doomed.

Edit: Damn, from the 360 super high scoring mag too. It's ultra doomed.

 

[Kafel]

Also heard Lost Odyssey got 9/8/8/8 at Famitsu Xbox360.

uh oh

 

[jj984jj]

Also heard Lost Odyssey got 9/8/8/8 at Famitsu Xbox360.

Awesome!

Edit: Wait, it's not awesome? Meh, I can never tell with reviews anymore, and this is a Famitsu magazine.

 

[L0st Id3ntity]

Uh oh!

28/40 for famitsu confirmed?

 

[fart]

Here's one of the stories taken from "The 1000 Year Dream" book. Pretty much talks about a past event in Kaim's life, but may be spoilers for some. So read it at your own risk I guess.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/reading-is-fun/lost-odyssey-in-short-story-form-325245.php

this guy is an "award winning japanese author"? jesus christ.

 

[reriel]

Also heard Lost Odyssey got 9/8/8/8 at Famitsu Xbox360.

I wonder what they say. Nothing about it ?

 

[sprsk]

this guy is an "award winning japanese author"? jesus christ.

To be fair, this was most likely not translated by an award winning translator.

 

[llTll]

Awesome!

Edit: Wait, it's not awesome? .

that is :lol :lol :lol

 

[Belgorim]

9/8/8/8 is realy realy bad...

the game must have some serious flaws.

I'm holding out hope that its not true though!

 

[Opus Angelorum]

9/8/8/8 is really, really bad...

Joke post?

 

[AndriaSang]

The story that was translated at Kotaku is actually one of the lesser passages, so don't judge the whole book based off it.

I've read seven of the stories so far and can't put the book down -- although I'm pacing myself at one a day. Fantastic stuff so far.

The author seems to have really put some thought into the story's main theme of life for 1000 years.

 

[Belgorim]

Joke post?

still undecided.