I wasn't thrilled with them chopping the deployable roster down to three people, myself. It's an oversimplification trend in RPGs I really despise, and sort of limits your options. You have more of a margin of error with more active party members, which is important if player control has to be relinquished to AI control. It stings less when the AI does something retarded as long as I have three other warm bodies active, y'know?

Hey, it'd be wild if they actually let you bring all 8 party members into battle in the remakes. The PSPs small screen might not be too accomodating, but a fellow can dream.

Is it really necessary for you to whine about the PS3 in as many threads as possible?

2 threads doesn't count as "as many as possible"

I'm just not interested in spending a lot of money on one series... which is often the issue if a developer doesn't flat out say what system *insert game here* is going to be on.

But I'd like to tack on that it would be odd getting a Star Ocean game thats not at the end of or near the end of a consoles life cycle... because every other SO game has been released near the end of each of the consoles they blessed life spans.

Um, that's not true for either Star Ocean 2 or 3.

I'm also not sure how console ambiguity makes someone spend a lot of money on a series. Platform jumping perhaps... but if they just haven't said where the game is going, it's not like you have to buy up every game system in advance just to make sure.

thats not what I'm saying... if it is dropped on an over priced console you have to buy said console in order to play the game. But at this point the sales of the PS3 don't really make enough of a case for a game like this to be released on it (maybe in Japan but then again the Wii is outselling it there)

Maybe Microsoft will pay them off to make it a 360 exclusive... thats been happening a lot recently... lol

I found this new image in a lj site...

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/6...7196487di0.jpg

I don't think I notice any difference in graphics but just the artwork so far. Claude and Rena look alright but Production I.G. could've done much better. So far SO1 is the only remake that I see. Maybe they polished up the sprites and hooked a few things up like they did with VP:Lenneth so that should be a good thing. I hope to see extras later.

They both feature full fledged voice acting, so that's a change for SO2 right there, since outside of a few cutscenes and battles there was no voice acting at all.

Ah right, forgot about that piece of info..

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Nice to know about the 4 character battle. This is where the PS3 Owners and the Xbots begin to fight each other on which system runs best..

Edge...Maverick.

And I didn't think it could get any worse than Fayt Leingod.

Confirmed hero name for Star Ocean 5: CoolDude McBadass.

The announced heroine's name is actually a misprint. Reimi is actually the name of a supporting character. The heroine's name is Dee Cupsia.

Words do not express how hard i am for this game right now.

Just like the PS2 and SO3, this will probably decide what system I buy. But if it's going to be both, then i'm definetly gettin a 360, oh man.

As for the remakes, despite being on the PSblegh, I'll probably get them anyway. God damn, Rena looks CUTE.

Rena was my first video game crush. (Yes, this is sad) They made her even more adorable. Damnit. :(

I always thought she looked more cuter in her original form than her other two designs (I.G and EX). I just noticed that they shrunk the little moon accessory from her head. uh-oh =/.

Claude looks very original. Definately better than EX's. No green jacket. Thank god. After seeing this, im dying to see Ashton and Dias.

The more i can see Rena's cute ears, the better :love:

I hope they upgrade the sprites a bit.

Christ Rena is adorable. Too adorable. Dear japan, bring on the pics, please!

Finally, I, too hope Ashton looks good. My namesake better not let me down. And his swords better not look arkward in the art this time...

The graphics will definitely be the same, in style if nothing else. The preview screenshots of SO1 pretty much confirmed that they brought back SO2's sprite artist to do both games. Fine by me, I thought he or she did a pretty good job.

I think I preferred the original character art better, myself. Well, except for Celine. Possibly the worst costume design I have ever seen.

These look okay but you can tell they are inspired from the lackluster anime. I'm a little worried about how Dias will turn out since I did not like his EX design much at all. :'(

As long as Ashton has more barrels. They better not take away his barrels. D:

http://xs219.xs.to/xs219/07365/1189175581467.jpg

Star Ocean 1

usually character redesigns come out looking better than the originals... not so in this case....

I hear by name this : Till the End of Timeification

Because it looks like the character designer of Till the End of Time had his way with Star Ocean 1...

Haha, Star Ocean 1 had some pretty ugly art. This is definitely an improvement over it. I think most of Star Ocean 2's art was better though originally, I won't argue that. Milly had buttons for eyes it looked like, solid pink color; it was awkward. The ingame portraits were alright, but the official art for Star Ocean blew ass chunks.

Yeah, these look completly fine to me, i don't see any reason for the complaints.

Whoa. Ratix does look different than his original counterpart. I agree with Ashton on this one. No disagreements here. Just that everyone is upset because they wanted a full remake . Any idea who does the voice acting for the games?

Oh trust me, I'm incredibly fucking upset that it's coming out to some shitty handheld that's only useful for homebrew and maybe 2 games, and not an awesome console like the 360 or even jus thte ps2. But you won't hear any of that from me because i am a cool and collected individual.

Well now that the handheld is getting these games that you guys are totally fapping over, wouldn't that make the handheld, oh I don't know, more useful and possibly worth owning? There are several PSP games out that I am pretty interested in, but I won't get them, or the PSP simply because I would rather play my games on my 40" widescreen than a handheld, but I don't consider the PSP useless.

I lay my interest more on SO1 since I never played it. And if I wanted to play SO2 that badly, I'll just convert the ps1 iso to eboot,etc (which was done 4months ago). All there's to it is voice acting, unknown extra features, and the anime cutscenes. There's lots psp games out there to get. The game is only great to have around as a collection to my psp library (4 games that is..;p ). Anyway, the psp was worth owning from the beginning.


Too Late ;p. But seeing that many people would want to see this and that on Ps3/360, it's probably a sure thing that SO4 will be on both consoles. We'll just have to see which console gets the port *cough*ps3*cough*.