Comments on: The Last Remnant: Now Loading Battles

By: Mazen

Mazen — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:21:45 +0000

To the people say this game is buggy, Do you know what buggy mean?
this game have zero bugs and glitches as far as I seen but it has some technical issues in loading times and textures,
bugs are like the freezing that happen in Fable 2 (write Fable 2 and freezing in google to see how wide spread it is) or the random lock ups (as Bethesda themself call them) that happen in fallout also various weird glitches with items and NPCs. also there is GTA4 that gets 10s from everyone that game breaks consoles.

These are bugs this game have zero bugs and glitches and I think that Iam near the end of the game.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:18:54 +0000

Hopefully SE will fix the problems for the pc and ps3 versions

By: Mangledmon

Mangledmon — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:26:09 +0000

I think the thing is that we’re used to the kind of ‘perfection’ normally attributed to really good JRPGs (or just Japanese games in general), hence why Last Remnant’s getting picked on. Though with the use of Western game engines, it’s not surprising that the games are buggy as hell, with lotsa slow-down, glitches, bad loading times and so forth. I miss the days where Japanese studios could make good current-gen games in-house without having to bolt them onto rubbish western game engines. Program to the machine dammit, and we’ll get a much better experience. I’m sick of frame rate drops in the current gen, if I wanted to experience that I’d be playing on a PC

By: Li

Li — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:25:14 +0000

^mass effect was garbage. it was such a boring game.

By: JeremyR

JeremyR — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:49:21 +0000

You did hear a lot of complaining about the loading and texture pop-in in Mass Effect, but they never seemed to affect review scores.

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:40:28 +0000

While the technical hiccups are no way game breaking, they do take away the overall experience and chips points off the overall presentation.

I only played Last Remnant off of the HDD from the beginning, load time btwn screens is down to 1-2 secs, but textures still take 2 seconds to kick in which can look pretty awkward. Frame-rate further slow down the alrdy long battle sequences. One way to be more engaging in the fights though is the timed btn press for critical hits, unfortunately it’s not nearly as fun as Shadow Heart’s judgment ring or the same in Lost Odyssey, so it’s not worth it and the computer does it tons better netting you consecutive attacks.

I can imagine how bad it is w/o the install. For those who only have the 20gb, chances are they need to install disc 1, finish it, uninstall it, then make room for disc 2. While each install takes no more than 6-7 mins, it’s still a hassle for say Lost Odyssey which has 4 discs. I have a 120 gb and it’s down to 20 now because I install all the games I’m currently playing, drive is silent and system doesn’t overheat.. So it’s good at least we are given this option (most new PS3 games now have mandatory installs too)

Lost Odyssey is one of my favorite recent RPGs, it’s old school to the max w/ a great story and good chars, but I would be lying if I say the frequent load times didn’t irk me, testing even the most patient, just imagine if they’re not there. But the game is so good I could overlook all of that. And it’s certainly unfair WRPGs and JRPGs are held to diff standards since the latter seems to be becoming less and less popular on this side of the Pacific.

Overall, I enjoy greatly Last Remnant’s battle system, but the story leaves a little to be desired (I’m only at the beginning of disc 2 though..) The thing I would remember the most from this game? Rush’s “Let’s kick some A!”

By: jarrod

jarrod — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:58:18 +0000

Secret of Mana is buggier than The Last Remnant. Revisionist History sucks.

By: MissaGauzeMacabreKisou

MissaGauzeMacabreKisou — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:59:49 +0000

@Jaxel

“I’ve been so disappointed with S-E this generation. It seems that with all these “360 Exclusives”, Microsoft has been pushing them to release their games as fast as possible. Which of course means that these games are unfinished, buggy and simply need a few more passes. Remember when S-E would hold a game back for years while they got it perfect? I miss those days.”

Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII all say, HI! (Long development time)

By: G

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:17:11 +0000

This reminds me of the framerate and loading times problems with lost odyssey (Unreal engine)…

Anyways, when I buy this game after x-mas, I’ll be installing this game on my 20GB HDD… and after a while, deinstalling it (so I can install something else, or for more arcade titles, etc.)

By: wario4ever

wario4ever — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:16:56 +0000

i own both sonics and Sonic & the Secret Rings. plays better. how sad
oh well. back to adventure i mean topic.