Hope For Star Ocean: The Last Hope On PS3?

By Spencer . July 27, 2009 . 5:37pm

Hope For Star Ocean: The Last Hope On PS3?Square Enix’s first retail PlayStation 3 game might be Star Ocean: The Last Hope. Nothing official, but Gamefly has a listing for said title. (Thanks for the tip Ryan!!)

 

Gamefly has a good, no superb, track record for leaking games. However, this situation is unusual since Star Ocean: The Last Hope would be announced in Japan first and then leaked by Gamefly. A PlayStation 3 port seems inevitable, but Gamefly is the only retailer with a listing for the game so don’t get your hopes up *too* much.


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  • Chris

    I found Star Ocean 4 pretty awful. I could forgive the fact it has the most bland forgettable cast in RPG history and obnoxious Sesame Street level 'importance of friendship' lessons if they didn't totally butcher the combat.

    It's like they wanted six year olds to be able to play it so they took the great combat system from Star Ocean 3 and gave it a total strategectamy. Blindside is pretty much a glorified tech you can't unequip that amounts to a lot of free damage from anywhere on the field at will. Then there's rush break. If they were going to copy one thing from Final Fantasy games, why did it have to be limits? Limits were a bad idea in FF7, and they've been an even worse idea in every game that's copied them. It's like, forget the need to aim, use tactics or plan strategy, just take a huge amount of free damage at set increments. Then having you auto-guard whenever you're not moving? Yeah, ten year old me called. Bestest game he's ever played. Me, I'll pass.

    Maybe with a port they can put in some kind of option that makes it a *little* tactical. Like, turning off blindsides and rush breaks completely, and adding back in more interesting techs.

  • Aoshi00

    The constant frame rate drop, slow down, texture pop-in in town (characters disappearing during battles), etc, just hiccups that marred the overall presentation and experience you know. I played w/ HDD install, so I don’t know how much worse it was w/o it from reading the disc. Also PC version has the new fast forward feature to skip watching the long fights.

    I like the English dub okay, some lines kind of make you cringe, like Rush's “Come on, let’s kick some A!!” still stuck in my mind. Problem is the lip movement was made to match English, just like Lost Odyssey, so Japanese is actually the dub. I like David’s unique accent, otherwise I prefer the Jpn cast (especially Rush), except the lip movement not matching.

  • Aoshi00

    Since I hear most technical issues were addressed in the PC version, I assume it would carry over to the PS3 port. It's too bad many developers can't really iron out the Unreal 3 engine issues, while Gears and Bioshock seem to play pretty smooth. Well, I got both Eng/Jpn version for 360 anyway, but it would be cool if there's an improved console version w/ dual audio tracks and PS3 owners also have a chance to play it.

  • Aoshi00

    And that was a huge issue of course, since it's fun to explore and do more planet hopping to complete the sidequests at the end… it's ridiculous they expect people to swap discs constantly :(…

  • http://www.myanimelist.net/profile/Hraesvelgr Hraesvelgr

    fyi, if SO4 were released on the PS3 first and 360 later, I'd be saying the same thing. I'm not against games being ported, I'll even buy them again if they're worth it, but bad games should be left alone.

  • Hraesvelgr

    fyi, if SO4 were released on the PS3 first and 360 later, I'd be saying the same thing. I'm not against games being ported, I'll even buy them again if they're worth it, but bad games should be left alone.

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