Ok put your bias aside and enjoy the awesomeness of Lost Odyssey

With Sakaguchi and Uematsu finally back on the line, I expect LO to be a worthy successor of Final Fantasy VII and Xenogears.

However, what about the combat system? I'm all for turn-based, but there's got to be a twist, something JRPGs haven't done before, like the Esper/Materia/G.F. systems that made FFs 6 to 8 lovable.

Blue Dragon put the sword through FF's chest. Now LO is turning the blade, left, right, up and down. FF killer combo complete! :shock:JiveT

I loled so hard at the mention of blue dragon :lol:

[QUOTE="ss_49"]

LO is one of my most anticipated games of '08...

Watched the first 3 of those vids last night and honestly, it looks amazing.

However...a few things kinda pissed me off...

1. Why do all the soldiers have exactly the same face? :|

2. Voice acting seems kind of lame :(

3. Kaim's running/walking animations seem a little choppy :?

4. What's up with the long pauses when the game shifts from cutscene to gameplay? Is this a lack of player input or the game locking up for some reason?

None of my complaints are major and to be honest I've almost come to expect these hindrances in jRpgs.

Still looks to be fairly epic and after the FF series has decided to destroy itself ( FFXII combat system: I'm looking at you :P) LO should providethe "classic" jRpg experience I've been craving. TURNBASED, the way it should be :).

ejstrup

Yes! Turnbased ftw! I'm hoping FFXIII goes back to turnbased :/

Anyway, LO looks pretty good. Looking forward to this game :D

Wait did blue dragon put the sword through ff's chest because either though its on 360 ff 12 looks better than that on my ps2Animal-Mother

Did you just say that FF12 looked better than BD graphically, because if so you couldn't be more wrong, BD is vastly superior. If you were talking from a art style point of view though, i would agree. BD looks almost like a pixar movie, though its second to R&C in that respect.

[QUOTE="ejstrup"][QUOTE="ss_49"]

LO is one of my most anticipated games of '08...

Watched the first 3 of those vids last night and honestly, it looks amazing.

However...a few things kinda pissed me off...

1. Why do all the soldiers have exactly the same face? :|

2. Voice acting seems kind of lame :(

3. Kaim's running/walking animations seem a little choppy :?

4. What's up with the long pauses when the game shifts from cutscene to gameplay? Is this a lack of player input or the game locking up for some reason?

None of my complaints are major and to be honest I've almost come to expect these hindrances in jRpgs.

Still looks to be fairly epic and after the FF series has decided to destroy itself ( FFXII combat system: I'm looking at you :P) LO should providethe "classic" jRpg experience I've been craving. TURNBASED, the way it should be :).

meetroid8

Yes! Turnbased ftw! I'm hoping FFXIII goes back to turnbased :/

Anyway, LO looks pretty good. Looking forward to this game :D

No its turn-based. Which i prefer anyway.

Meh, nothing awesome about it. Should be a good game a solid 7.0 here at GS, great musical score though.

IGN"Of course, everyone who got their hands on that very demo a bit later learned the secret. While the interactive opening sequence was a remarkable pairing of cinematics and gameplay, what followed might as well have been a first generation PlayStation 2 game in high definition."

IGN"In the six hours that I've played so far, Lost Odyssey has been a technical mess, with framerate problems in just about every cinema and on most maps, an animation system that looks like it was ported straight from a PS2 engine, and frequent, inconsistent load times accompanied by visual stuttering as new data loads in."

[QUOTE="too_much_eslim"]Oh quick note: Make sure you see vid five. It is hilarious towards the end.Chutebox

You know, you're right about that 5th video. Got pretty funny at the end haha.

Also, I see what was said about the animation of the characters, but it wasn't a big deal at all.

Meh, nothing awesome about it. Should be a good game a solid 7.0 here at GS, great musical score though.

IGN"Of course, everyone who got their hands on that very demo a bit later learned the secret. While the interactive opening sequence was a remarkable pairing of cinematics and gameplay, what followed might as well have been a first generation PlayStation 2 game in high definition."

IGN"In the six hours that I've played so far, Lost Odyssey has been a technical mess, with framerate problems in just about every cinema and on most maps, an animation system that looks like it was ported straight from a PS2 engine, and frequent, inconsistent load times accompanied by visual stuttering as new data loads in."

Adrian_Cloud

no offense, but jrpg stories usually crap. But I'll check the video to see if there is such thing called "good jrpg story"Mystery_Writer

the official hype is A so don't expect too many people to get all crazy about it with you.CaseyWegner

So what they need to see the truth for themselves

Blue Dragon put the sword through FF's chest. Now LO is turning the blade, left, right, up and down. FF killer combo complete! :shock:JiveT

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!