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BTFeather55 on 19 April 2009
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LordMatrix said:
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Shadowblind said:

 

 March 2008 Microsoft held a conference in Japan to announce Last Remnent, Infinite Undiscovery, and Star Ocean 4 though none of them turned out to be worth the hype (at least their 360's versions didn't as far as sales and review scores go).

 

    The conference was in June. And announced games were Tales of Vesperia, Star Ocean 4. Both of which got good review scores and overall reception. IU was announced long before this conference.

      IGN gave the Tales games and Star Ocean games on PS1 and PS2 (and Symphonia on Gamecube)  much higher review scores than they gave Vesperia and Star Ocean 360, and I think other critics did so as well.  Also neither Star Ocean 360 or the Tales games seem to have sold as well as Symphonia or past Tales and Star Ocean games on Playstation systems.

 

You said 'reviews', and not just IGN. Make it clear next time that you are talking solely about IGN. Because overall reception of SO4 and ToV was good. And actually, even IGN praised both games in its reviews.

 

As outlined above, I was talking about sales (the 360 versions of Tales and Star Ocean haven't sold as well as PS1, PS2, or Gamecube versions), and they haven't reviewed as highly at either IGN or Metacritic.

None of these released rpgs have come anywhere near the typical sales of Final Fantasies or the typical review scores for Final Fantasies either.

 

Who gives a rats about metacritic it's jsut somethign to help you out when determining purchases but ultimately it should always come down to how much you want it and how much you end up liking it not some reviewers opinion. You make it sound like ign's got the best reviews i've seen plenty of terrible reviews there the same goes for gamespot, teamxbox, gameinformer etc.

 However I don't jump to conclusions and say "well ign gave it a lower score than past games in series therefore it's bad". Have you played Star Ocean 4 or Tales of Vesperia? I doubt you have to be honest? I hated Star Ocean 3 on PS2 but Star Ocean 4 is now my favorite JRPG this gen followed closely by Tales of Vesperia, Lost Odyssey and The Last Remnant. Those 4 games all have their flaws but I love the story and they have fun gameplay IMO. Either way this discussions over! Get out Sony Fanboy Nearly every post of yours in here has been nothing but trolling. Next time play a game before dissing it no matter what system it's on.

 

     See there you go throwing insults, however, if these rpgs had had review scores closer to review scores for most rpgs on Playstation consoles during the past ten years, or if the 360 had an install base more suited to jrpgs like past Playstation consoles instead of fps games then they would have generated much higher sales.

     And that is something that the makers of jrpgs have to consider when deciding which console to put their games on.  White Knight Chronicles has shown that it can sell almost as well in just one region as many of the 360's do in 3.  And naturally, if the PS3's install base continues to outpace the 360's by a growth of 3x (2.99 at the current rate) or more as it has been doing so far this gen, then it is in jrpg developers interest to choose to put their games on a console where they will sell.

     If Star Ocean IV cost two times as much money to make as 3 but failed to generate 1/4 of the sales, what does that tell you?

 



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