Star Ocean: The Last Hope news.(56k Warning)

[Serene Prophet]

I like lym as well.  I mean from what I understand she just behaves the way she does because of whatever happened to her, kinda broke her mind.  Ya know, like some kids who see their parent(s) murdered, and no longer speak.  Shit like that.  And I assume she walks that way because of those crazy clothes shes wearing :P

I'm on roak, about 11-12 hours into the game.  Still fun.

[Masamune]

Heh, I'm on Roak at about 28 hours.  I'm doing literally everything I can, lots of mining and gathering to complete orders.  Storyline kinda had a big twist, but I'm not sure what to think about it yet.  Still enjoying the hell out of this game though, I wonder if the gameplay will ever get old for me? :P Hope not.

[John]

You guys are slooooow.  I'm at 12 hours.  I'm midway through the second disc, just picked up the last party member.

[Sketch]

You guys are slooooow.  I'm at 12 hours.  I'm midway through the second disc, just picked up the last party member.

I haven't even played the game and even I know that's...wrong. =P

[Losfer]

You guys are slooooow.  I'm at 12 hours.  I'm midway through the second disc, just picked up the last party member.

...

:(

[dalucifer0]

I'm 6 hours in and still on the second planet, but I'm typically slow when it comes to completing RPGs (TotA was the only game I've beaten faster than what most people say.)

[GrimReality]

Johns game times don't count. He has some superhuman time decelerator or something. His game times constantly floor me. I'm normally double or triple what he runs. I honestly don't get it, especially with rpgs. Minus sidequests, shouldn't we all be clocking pretty close to each other?
Oh, uh, I haven't even bought the game yet, but I just had to comment.

[Akanbe-]

Wow, so all of a sudden they threw an extremely difficult boss at me.  I fought the fucker for a good 30-45 minutes until i ran out of items and died.  The funny thing is, I'm so overleveled it hurts.  I did a ton of arena for fun (which also gives XP so I went up about 3-4 levels) not to mention I'm pretty much always running around with a 80-110+% XP bonus modifier.  I really don't want to try this thing again and buying more items is out of the question.  Bah.  Party AI is so stupid sometimes and the targeting system can be a real pain in the ass when you want to target a different enemy.  You pretty much have to hug the damn enemy for it to change targets.

Sucks about Amazon Losfer.  I think I've only had one bad experience on amazon out of many, I guess I was lucky =\

[Blace]

targeting system can be a real pain in the ass when you want to target a different enemy.  You pretty much have to hug the damn enemy for it to change targets.

my only major complaint with the game so far.

[Eusis]

Sucks about Amazon Losfer.  I think I've only had one bad experience on amazon out of many, I guess I was lucky =\

I did have to wait unusually long for Watchmen. I attributed to bundling it with another book for free shipping, and they simply decided to be (justifiably) cheap by waiting until both were out then bundling them. Then the went and shipped my Xbox Live subscription card way ahead of Scott Pilgrim when I bundled them for free shipping, so I dunno. There was an amusing case once though where I ordered a book trilogy together and they sent me the final book ahead of the rest!

[Dice]

Thank GOOOODDD for the cutscene skip&summary.  I found the greater half of them kinda boring...
Battles are fun...  I don't know.  I still kinda like SO3's the most.

[Losfer]

It's okay, lads.  I'm just glad I managed to score a copy.

Game's pretty good so far.  Some of the cutscenes are REALLY cringe worthy.  I'm aiming to get max gamerscore on standard difficulty (900), cause I doubt I'll play the game a second time or a third time to get the last 100.  I'm just like that.  :P  Things are going slow, I'm following three FAQs and only two of those are in English.

Hate Welch.  Hate, hate, hate Welch.  I thought she was fun in the first two games, but...  God damn.  The worst thing about the game though is the bloody frame rate.  Fucking jittery damned battle sequences.

I'm having fun though, I think that's the main thing.

[Akanbe-]

the only time I laughed at a welch scene was when it looked like Edge caught her reading yaoi manga.

It's gotta be pretty difficult to get max gamerscore on a first run, but I'm sure it's possible.  At level 55 and at least 50% of the way through, I just now got the 10% battle trophy achievement.  Good luck with that =P.  I imagine if you switch around characters all the time (who is in battle and who's in control) it'll come a lot faster.  Worst case scenario, dash+skip scene will help tons.

The frame rate in the game is actually fine, minus one town that looked to be a little jittery in its cutscenes.  I imagine you are referring to the battle tutorial which is for some reason, jittery.  It hasn't been jittery for me at all after that.

[Jet16]

I don't know. My fun with the battle system is mitigated by the fact that everything else just sucks. I'm going to have to play this game in very small increments.

[(Tunnels)]

I'm around 46 hours into the game and I think I can go to the final dungeon now. So far I'm very, very pleased. I certainly wasn't expecting a sci-fi epic, and I expected a pretty cheesy storyline, but it's compelling enough to keep me going. Dialogue is hammy too, but I actually laughed a few times. Battle system is crazy fun too; I felt the 3rd's Fury gauge kinda hampering, and I hated not being able to hit enemies who were knocked down.

The characters are two-dimensional, but I would have been shocked if they were anything but, considering the 2nd and 3rd games. I find them charming enough though. And despite him being the cliche "stoic bad-ass" character, I have a savage man-love for Arumat. It might be his ridiculous scythe.