**Lost Odyssey Official Thread**
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nowt today either lol.
19 days ppl 19 days woot.
To the ppl who have preodered it and are getting an exclusive level and weapon. How do you think were gonna get it, dl from xbox live or an extra disk (less likely). Also is there any news on the stats of the new weapon we will get, or anything on the level were getting.
To the ppl who have preodered it and are getting an exclusive level and weapon. How do you think were gonna get it, dl from xbox live or an extra disk (less likely). Also is there any news on the stats of the new weapon we will get, or anything on the level were getting.
Dissapointing....
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This is my first real experience of a Japanese RPG and initially started well with the epic intro, the turned based combat and story telling(the dream sequences etc).
Unfortunately, as i played up to the point with the Great staff boss i found it criminally linear for an RPG. You just follow very narrow routes with an occasional passage that leads off the main route(if your lucky it will have a chest at the end). That is broken up a little with the occasional interactive bit which requires little more than pressing the activate button. Theres of course random battles with enemies(with annoying 80's arcade music on some battles), but they get very repetitive as the same groups of enemies attack time and time again.
As for the graphics, they range from good to decent, the best being near the beginning on the battlefield at Mohl.
I really hope things open up after the Great staff boss as the game greatly limits what i can do, i want to go off and explore, buy cool new items, kill different monsters. Right now its so linear, theres no reason to replay either, you would just start with the same 3 characters following the same route using the same items fighting the same enemies.
As it stands(So far), this game doesnt come close to RPG's like Oblivion, Bioshock and Mass Effect.
Btw how in hell do i kill the great staff boss hes way harder than all the other previous battles. I kill him once then bang another one comes and i then lose loads of health and get paralyzed i then manage to recover and immediatly get battered again, its winding me up.
*Possible Spoilers*
This is my first real experience of a Japanese RPG and initially started well with the epic intro, the turned based combat and story telling(the dream sequences etc).
Unfortunately, as i played up to the point with the Great staff boss i found it criminally linear for an RPG. You just follow very narrow routes with an occasional passage that leads off the main route(if your lucky it will have a chest at the end). That is broken up a little with the occasional interactive bit which requires little more than pressing the activate button. Theres of course random battles with enemies(with annoying 80's arcade music on some battles), but they get very repetitive as the same groups of enemies attack time and time again.
As for the graphics, they range from good to decent, the best being near the beginning on the battlefield at Mohl.
I really hope things open up after the Great staff boss as the game greatly limits what i can do, i want to go off and explore, buy cool new items, kill different monsters. Right now its so linear, theres no reason to replay either, you would just start with the same 3 characters following the same route using the same items fighting the same enemies.
As it stands(So far), this game doesnt come close to RPG's like Oblivion, Bioshock and Mass Effect.
Btw how in hell do i kill the great staff boss hes way harder than all the other previous battles. I kill him once then bang another one comes and i then lose loads of health and get paralyzed i then manage to recover and immediatly get battered again, its winding me up.
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no it doesnt, is it supposed to? This is Jap RPG, oblivion is UNIQUE in its fully explorable world, Bioshock is an FPS/adventure (why you throw that in there?) and Mass Effect is equally linear with a set number of 'arenas' to explore.
Thing is, this IS jap RPG, for better or worse, they are not massivley free roam, most secrets are revealed by repeatedly clicking something. The point of JRPG's is story telling, inventory managment and strategic battle.
If you thought Mass Effect, Bioshock and oblivion were great games then you may not like this. Of course for those who know JRPG's like the Final Fantasy series, you wont be dissapointed
Some people prefer Unreal to Halo, some people prefer WoW to EQ2, some prefer CoD4 to Crysis.
And this is what it's like for RPG's. Western RPG's and JRPG's are often poles apart. Just because you like Oblivion and Mass effect, does not mean you're going to like something from Mistwalker or Square. They're all rpg's but the style and execution is completely different. I'd go so far as to say often they're different genres altogether.
Personally, I love Oblivion. But I'd much rather play Final Fantasy (and Lost Odyssey, I expect, though i've not tried it yet) because of the themes, character development, plot and gameplay. But there's no right or wrong way to make an rpg, it just boils down to personal taste.
And this is what it's like for RPG's. Western RPG's and JRPG's are often poles apart. Just because you like Oblivion and Mass effect, does not mean you're going to like something from Mistwalker or Square. They're all rpg's but the style and execution is completely different. I'd go so far as to say often they're different genres altogether.
Personally, I love Oblivion. But I'd much rather play Final Fantasy (and Lost Odyssey, I expect, though i've not tried it yet) because of the themes, character development, plot and gameplay. But there's no right or wrong way to make an rpg, it just boils down to personal taste.
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Im just saying that as RPG's go, i thought these games were a better experience to me. Its not an attack on the entire JRPG genre. Its just my opinion(taste).
A Role Playing Game, to me, is a game where you develop a character(chosen for you or created yourself) and have a character sheet of stats(reminiscent of the old table top RPG) and an inventory system of some kind. The above games all have that to varying degrees. I wanted to try a JRPG to see what the fuss is about and i picked Lost Odyssey. I like the game as a whole. I like the turn based combat, the inventory management and story telling, im just astonished about how linear it is. that in itself isnt the problem, its how narrow that play area is. At some points the route is so restricted you only need forward on the joystick
Games like Oblivion etc are evolutions of older more limited games, perhaps JRPG need to evolve as hardware improves to give a little more freedom(not necessarily to the scale of Oblivion)? I remember Dungeon seige being very linear, but because the way the environments were done(like a long wide corridor) it gave the feeling of freedom, but you were still following a set route in the end.
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If you wanna try a JRPG then get Final Fantasy 7 on the playstation 1 (you can get a psone for about a tenner) its the best there is, much more freedom to roam and probably the best story imo of all time.
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Heh sadly im a complete graphics W***e so going back to PS1 would be a no go
if your a graphics whore you will dislike JRPG as, although the graphics can be nice, the emphasis is on content. It's much like books versus movies. Not to stereotype you but, a graphics whore typically would choose movies over books, action over drama, team sports over solitary persuits, beer over wine, blondes over brunettes and ibiza over prague.
Look into your soul
if your a graphics whore you will dislike JRPG as, although the graphics can be nice, the emphasis is on content. It's much like books versus movies. Not to stereotype you but, a graphics whore typically would choose movies over books, action over drama, team sports over solitary persuits, beer over wine, blondes over brunettes and ibiza over prague.
Look into your soul
you sort of walked into that one, i couldnt see the point your were trying to get across
Heh sadly im a complete graphics W***e so going back to PS1 would be a no go
Try Final Fantasy XII on the PS2, looks very nice considering its last gen.
Just watched a 1up review of Lost Odyssey - Does look very nice, doesn't look quite like a FF but probably the closest we've had this gen. Don't like the sounds of the load times before and after a battle, are they really that bad? - But just going off the 1up review I would 100% buy this.
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Having seen a couple of trailers, this is probably the release that will convince to buy/borrow/steal a 360....
if your a graphics whore you will dislike JRPG as, although the graphics can be nice, the emphasis is on content. It's much like books versus movies. Not to stereotype you but, a graphics whore typically would choose movies over books, action over drama, team sports over solitary persuits, beer over wine, blondes over brunettes and ibiza over prague.
Look into your soul
i do prefer beer to wine, but your wrong on the rest
As for content, theres a lot of it, yes, but thats sometimes at the expense of quality. Combat aside(which is good), the quality of the gameplay is very by the numbers. Push a block here, push a block there, press A to jump a gap, dodge the patrolling guards ala MGS etc etc
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