Official Star Ocean 4 Thread

[Aiemond]

FinalEvangelion said:
My impressions so far

- Combat is really fun and probably the best so far in this generation of jRPGs
- The lead character is alright in personality. Not someone I will be constantly pissed off at like Squall.
- The item creation system seems much more user-friendly than SO3 right now. Also, healing items are much more reasonably priced.
- The color palette is awesome. Environments are beautiful.

- Voice acting is not the best, but it's bearable. As an anime fan, I've seen better as well as worse.
- The story is good enough to keep me interested

- Character modeling is about PS2 level for NPC characters. Not great for playable characters either.
- The native resolution SUCKS if you are playing on an HDTV. It is VERY noticeable that it is sub-HD resolution.


That's about it so far.

 

I play on sd and the text is pretty small. Honestly, they should have made it so text worked well on hd and sd tv. Also, the low load times are nice. No LO type loads here. Game is fun, battles rock and the bonusboard is pretty neat.Skill points being used for basically every type of skill (symbology, techs, item creation skills, etc) is nice imo.

 

I'm gonna disagree about character modeling. Its far better than ps2 level for playable characters. Smoother, more detail. And item creation is far more user friendly, not any of the " do i have to reset due to a fail" stuff that was in SO2.

Last quick impression so far, camera control sucks. When you change screens you can expect it to sometimes have a total shit angle. You can control the camera but even then sometimes you will have issues. Thats the only real complaint (text thing is not that bad, just a tad bit annoying)