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mckg1
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I might give Star Ocean a shot. I'll see because with White Knight Chronicles just a few days away and The Last Rebellion a few weeks a way, and Sword of Uruk(anime) on the way and season 1 Part two of D.Gray Man on Blu Ray, Also GOD OF WAR 3. I really don't know if i'll be able to get star ocean. I'll see hows the money flowing...
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BleuVII
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It could be. It's definitely not Kajiura's style (Xenosaga II and III). One thing is for sure... it's beautiful. And as far as I'm concerned, that name change to Xenoblade made it a must-buy for me. I would have never paid enough attention to it to know the staff behind it before, but now that I know who is making it, I want it. |
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teh*darkness
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It's not a few days away, it's out now, if you haven't noticed the new skin and the banner ads all over the site.
Geez, does you guys actually read the column, or just jump straight to the reviews? You're the second person I know of to be complaining/asking about this. There were 2-3 columns in a row end of November-early December where Todd mused about reviewing games that came from outside Japan, and he decided on going for it. The expanded coverage is evidence of this, and not a bad thing. |
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Dimlos
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Shadowrun20XX
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I was working on a car the other day and I suddenly had past memory. Inindo: Way of the Ninja and how I never finished it. Weird that you would mention it.
I can't wait to get Bioshock 2, man. Did anyone else find the hidden staircase, where all the creepy plaster mannequins actually come to life, and chase you around? You had to go out of your way to find it. DATA EAST ARCADE CLASSICS: I'm sad to realize that those in the know, and those with a rom fetish have no use for collections such as these. Not since they found out how to reverse engineer the frame from such collections, for emulators. They are part of history. Hold, on. Who keeps buying these Star Ocean games? Same group that thinks Persona 3 was "new" and "fresh" I'm guessing. Megaten games are awesome, though. SUPER MONKEY BALL STEP & ROLL : I'd step over my own grandmother for another serious Monkey Ball title. I'm serious. Monkey Ball 2 is something that will never leave my collection. Everything from the music, to the levels, the anger it brought on, and the Wavebird that made it all possible. Classic. This new one just looks like a pain. Especially that guitar string level. METAL WARRIORS: I will never forget where I was, when I had first played this game. I was super into sprite art at the time, and this game has so much tiny detail it's astounding. Try making sprites, it's tough. It's such a note worthy title in my opinion. A great title for a collector, in any range of collecting. |
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belvadeer
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Dimlos: Well people wanted the Japanese because, as you say, even if the acting is only marginally better emoted, the thing that really irked people was Lymle's "kay" which turns out to be a poor and inelegant way to say "na no yo" despite that it's actually correct to some degree as well as Matthew Mercer completely missing the point behind Edge's character. And yes, some people wanted the anime style HUD in battle rather than the ugly CG things that combined anime with realism. Trust me, the list of complaints is longer than you think. Even the disc swapping to get to old planets you visited is understandably a decent complaint.
On a whole, the entire game needs some serious revamping. But since Star Ocean has reached the end of its long journey through video game space, that's no longer possible. Last edited by belvadeer on Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:22 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Lord Geo
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Todd, just so you know, you don't have to say "1-Various" for the number of players in Data East Arcade Classics, as the focus of that collection is the fact that every game in it can be played with 2 players, so "1-2" under number of players would be just fine.
Now if we get a second collection that has games like Road Blaster (which is single-player only) and Dunk Dream '96 (which goes up to 4 players) then the "Various" can certainly apply. I'm actually kind of surprised that this colelction doesn't have either of the Fighter's History titles, as that is one of Data East's more famous, or maybe infamous, series and it certainly was available to Majesco for this collection. Oh well, let's hope for a second collection in the future, as there's too many titles from Data East that have to be played, and one collection is too little. |
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Hiyugi
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Oh yeah, I definitely buying DATA EAST ARCADE CLASSICS. I want to relive those old days of playing those games either at the arcade or on my 1st computer...commodore 64...yeah I said it. When I play those games, it makes me wish I was 7 years old again when arcade games were so awesome back then like trying to plea to my grandmother "Can I please have 4 quarters Grandma, pleeeassse" and she kindly replied "There you go knucklehead!"
LOL. |
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leafy sea dragon
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I think the Super Monkey Ball series wants to put in a different control scheme for each game; I see this as a defining trait of the series as a whole, as the only two games to have had the same control scheme are the first two. After that, it functioned on the D-pad, then on the DS touch screen, then the Wii Remote, then the iPod/iPhone motion sensor (which works way differently than the Wii Remote), and now the Wii Balance Board. The WarioWare games work the exact same way. I'd bet the fans of that series would riot if two WarioWare games came out that worked around the same principle as far as control goes. |
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ConanSan
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The Xbox version of SO 4 was an incomplete mess. I'm sorry, but which bright spark at Square Enix thought removing the targeting system was a bright idea should be fired out of a cannon into some sort of wall.
And the whole game has a whole load of issues beyond that. Man did I feel dirty for playing that game. Seriously, no other lesser fellpool up to that date dressed like catwoman after she had an accident with the paper shredder so why did that game start? And Lemmel can just piss off for all I care. I swear, "It's thanks to you edge-y!" Every...freaking...victory. |
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yellow ledbetter
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Wii only for Last Story and Xenoblade? Vomit. Way to alienate the key demographic of ps3 owners.
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seryass
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Before I get on the topic I just want to ask Shadowrun a quick question. Who is that in your avatar as I'm sure I recognise that art style?
Now back on topic. 
I personally gave up on the Star Ocean franchise after the third game which was a huge letdown and contained what I feel to be one of the most overused, contrived and just plain irritating plot twists. From the sound of things the fourth game doesn't sound much better. The second game will always be my favourite but then bizarrely I seem to have a connection with second games in series (Suikoden 2, Star Ocean 2nd Story and Tokimeki Memorial 2 are all of my favourite games from their respective series). Of course this doesn't always apply (Final Fantasy and Front Mission stand out as being the exceptions) but it does happen more often than not for me. I've always liked the look of Tatsunoko vs Capcom but sadly I don't have a Wii. On that topic I'm also upset that over here in Europe based on what I've read only the Wii version of Sakura Wars V will be coming out over here which also upset me. |
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sfried
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Shadowrun20XX
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sfried
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