Seraphic_Sixaxis said:
Exactly, im surprised no one mentioned this. |
Are you referring to it being bad news for Playstation fans (lower chance of port since IU hasn't come out on PS3), or bad for Star Ocean 4?
In the latter case, we can make the argument that just because an engine is used in 2 different games, does not mean that since one was bad, the other will be.
Take Unreal Engine, for example. There are some marvelous examples of uses for the engine - Mirrors Edge, Bioshock and Gears of War are all 3 exceptional UE3 titles. Of course, then, you do have crappy games that used UE3 such as The Last Remnant (from a technical standpoint at least. The game is still awesome from a gameplay PoV), Hour of Victory, and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.
Now, from a JRPG standpoint, you can look at Namco's Eternal Sonata and Tales of Vesperia which used the same engine...Which is the proof that just because 2 games can use the same RPG engine, that it doesn't mean both are doomed to mediocrity - the former (ES) was rather mediocre, but gorgeous, while Tales of Vesperia was a near-masterpiece and executed on virtually every front - visually, storyline, technical, and so on.
So if your worried that just because IU uses the same engine, it'll suck, should be thrown out the window. There are plenty of other prescidents of games using similar engines and the successor being wholly better (Fallout 3 is also another current game that used an older engine - Oblivion - and created a far better game).
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
