How on Earth do you fuck up "It's like a Tales game but IN SPACE"

I personally liked MP death. It gave a new layer of strategy in fights where depleting an enemy's MP actually meant something for once and gave you an alternate method to try to defeat enemies. Managing on your party's side of thing was never that much of an issue for me, personally.

I LIKED 4 AND IM IM NOT AFRAID TO SAY IT

it will make you want to play 2 again because 5 is awful with its "in game cutscenes" laziest thing i've ever seen, someone look up the scene with the "BATTLE IN SPACE"

Star Ocean was cursed from the get go. The entire franchise's existence has always been working off the scraps of Tales of since its inception, especially its combat. 2 was a fluke and the only real worthwhile entry.

Only casuals hate MP Death

>The entire franchise's existence has always been working off the scraps of Tales of since its inception
The team that broke off from the Phantasia team used to be talented considering they made Valkyrie Profile.

No no no. S02 was "Like Tales but in space"
S05 is FF15 non-combat for 20 hours if even. Was not worth the 50 shekels I put on it. and all I remember was that one asshole bandit guy kicking my shit in and the final boss being a complete and total pushover.

>It's like Tales in Space
>You're stuck on a backwater planet, defeating the novelty of being sci-fi

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this is sadly true

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4 had great gameplay and stellar combat but the story, dialogue, and voice acting was.... not good
I think the series peaked at 2 and the transition to 3D more or less broke it

if they popped SO6 out as a 2.5D game with sprites, prerendered CG towns, and 3D world maps and all, it'd probably be fantastic

3 was the most kino in terms of atmosphere and post game content

As much as people hate the end game twist, the prologue and the second half of the game have infinitely better locales than anything in 1 and 2

4 was legitimately a better game than 5. I'm still in disbelief about how hard they fucked up with SO5 because it sounded like they knew what the hell they were doing.

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>It's like a Tales game
That's how.

I dropped SO2 because encounter rate in final dungeon is insane and final boss is op as fuck

I put 80 hours into SO5 thinking it couldn't get as bad as SO4 and hoped it was as good as SO2/3, but it's easily the worst game in the series. I don't even mind SO4 now, it's like what happened to Silent Hill 4 after the REALLY shitty games came out.

It's a shame. Tales always tried to copy it but failed miserably.

Those 80 hours felt like 800. But, the 300 I put into SO3 felt like 30. Weird how that works.

Only retards hate the "twist", or even call it that.

>tales tried to copy it
Other way around zoomer.

>star ocean
>what's that? your plant just got armageddon by a bunch of eco terrorists?
>instead of going through space to catch them we're going to a barren plant to ask a rock to send us to the past.
they even made it worst with the re-release of the first game.

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There was something about SO I really got angry about with the villains motives and I cant remember it now.

>final boss was op
???
Unless you somehow managed to unlock unlimited indy blind, normal indy is easy as fuck. And even if you did unlimited indy is meant to be fought after you beat cave of trials and are done farming Isario queen

I'm sorry you were as dumb as I was to buy it when it came out. I hate I paid full price for it since it's a 10 hour game. It's a shell of an SO game with a 5 dollar budget or something. I don't even know why they bothered making it, honestly, since it just makes Tri-Ace look bad throwing something like that out of there.

the remake of the game was top tier, you shut your whore mouth

What did you do for 80 hours? I beat the story in just over 10 including doing what little side stuff there was. It was embarrassingly short. I didn't do the post-game dungeon because I didn't really care anymore after the main part, but I don't know how that'd take so much longer to finish.

>3
>Not the hot garbage that was 4
AIMING DEVICE!

4 had good combat, at the very least
and, at the end of the day, it had reimi and meracle whereas 3 had nothing

Maxing levels, skills, grinding cathedral of Oblivion, etc.

I mean, still not very long compared to getting the plat in SO4. That was a bit of a hassle.

I loved 3. Granted it was also my first Star Ocean game, but still.

youtu.be/lnUZXwY14l0?t=327

3 HAD NEL AND ALBEL YOU FUCK!

But yeah, with Reimi and Meracle I would've shot myself in the head.

shoe string budget. It could have been decent, even if the story was still cheesy.

>game let you NTR with older women
I wish more JRPG do this

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What the hell is that absurdly lewd outfit?
I love it.

>a tales game
What, you mean the shitty company that went under because their games sucked?

>Namco bandai went under
Pardon? theyre doing better than they have in years. Triace is in the shitter.

Blame Baba. Tales of has always been solid even from a gameplay perspective arguably until Graces F

2 had better post game content and was a better game overall

>game let you NTR with older women
Proceed...

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I will never understand why people "reee" over this outfit, fuck it's hot

>the remake of the game was top tier
>no dash button like in the SNES version so you're stuck walking slow as molasses everywhere
>slower textboxes
>interconnected world turned into a generic world map
>shitty remixes
The only thing it did better was implementing SO2's battle system and skill mechanics. They stripped down everything that made it unique and just made it SO2 but with a different plot.

They spent more time animating that girls ass than making the game good.

>the director of 5 spent all his time shitting on 4 and promising to return back to Star Ocean's origins
>makes something even blander than 4

The fucking mobile game turned out to be better than 5.

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>e-everything is gonna be ok from now on
youtu.be/6cuXgRVMvZ0

Its unironically one of my favorite star ocean designs

This is wose than that one episode of that show where the guy is sword and hunts down other swords.

>just made it SO2 but with a different plot
and that's a good thing

Time well spent

To be fair the best PR the game had was revealing this character. Too bad they couldn't deliver a good game as well.

Those SO5 interviews really hurt once the game came out.

That doesn't sound too bad, actually. At least, it doesn't even compare to what you pointed before:
>instead of going through space to catch them we're going to a barren plant to ask a rock to send us to the past.
Now that was shit. The whole last stretch of the game was pants-on-head retarded.

I think if money went to animating cutscenes to be actual cutscenes, the game would have been a lot better

Like in 3 it was kind of charming because its PS2, but they really need someone at Tri ace to be able to animate faces and direct a cutscene

Hot

Not even sad that tri-ace is pretty much finished with how rubbish SO5 ended up.
Would've been nice to get Valkyrie Profile 3 though...

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>release this tech demo
>start to believe in tri-Ace again
>get Star Ocean 5

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fuck now I need an emulator to play SO again

god damnit Yea Forums I DON'T HAVE A PS2 ANYMORE WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME

I would say get SO3 on PS4 but it's stupidly overpriced and they never patched the random crashes you can get.

Man fuck thid games "cutscenes" the whole argument of seamless gameplay doesn't mean much when your character interactions are boring as fuck. The space battle that only hear people talkij g about and a shitty image on a big screen, with everyone just standing there was the most laughable thing. Hell they had to give you a skill that unlocks emotes cause the game knows it's boring, but are too lazy to fix it and just tell you to figure it out.

>Mass Effect, if Japan made it

Hmm

>early 2000s
>buy SO3 for some anime space scifi jrpg adventures involving high tech and a plethora of interesting aliens
>1 hour into the game get stranded on some medieval planet where high technology is banned and begin fighting wolves

Why

>finished
not really user

It's sad that it's another decent series that's dead/dying, but 5 was a poor attempt at trying to make a strong return.

I'll just hold on to the good times we had.

whats that cute girls name so i can look her up on sankaku

Lymle

Albel Nox.

I played 1 and 2 on the psp years ago and i really enjoyed them. I tried the one that came to pc a while ago(4 i think?) and i just found it boring. Is it worth getting back into?

Edge Maverick

Second half of the game has A LOT more space shit in it. But yeah early bit drags.

4? no

Fayt Linegod

no no no bros

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By starting with "it's like a Tales game"

What about 3?

meracle chamlotte

Last good one.

Cliff Fittir

quad get

i looked her name up myself nevermind it's Fiore Burnelli
based non spoonfeeding gang

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To be fair we did get Ressonance of Fate and that game was alright

Phantasy Star V will be that game.

Really? I started SO2 one week ago after finishing SO1 and i was hoping for actual Sci-Fi settings

sorry dad

SO1: It was average
SO2: Pinnacle of JRPG Perfection
SO3: Ironically enough, I love it to death and I really think it was a good game.
SO4: Great Mechanics, Great Soundtrack, Visuals were meh, MC is a hotpile of garbage after destroying a planet.
SO5: Everything was great, but it was too short, not enough character interactions, take away the 7 man battle system, give it a colosseum, give it more places to go in space and more extra dungeons and it would have been fucking perfect.
SO:An is pretty fun for a gatcha, but it has more depth than most people think and you don't have to rely on pay to win to enjoy it or beat it.

Honestly, I love Star Ocean, I just hope one day they will make one that will finally be accepted by others.

checked
and also yes, 3 is a pretty cool game with an interesting story and quite a lot of content

And yet the first time I heard anything about this game it wasn't about that outfit, it was the Miki diaper controversy.