Anyone having this problem? Sometimes at the end of a battle when a character does their little victory dance, my game will freeze up. Of course, this almost always happens after I've played for about 2 hours without hitting a save point. (For those of you who are tempted to suggest that I save more often, Star Ocean 4 does not lend itself well to that tactic. You can't just save whenever you want.) The game also freezes if I am down to my last party member in a battle and try to switch to that character. In other words, if I lose a boss battle, the game is inevitably going to lock up. I should also mention, this is NOT a hardware issue. My 360 never locks up except for this game, and I have read in several other forums that people are having the same exact issues I'm having on this title. What I have yet to find out is if anyone knows a way to recover from these crashes.
It has been suggested on other forums that creating a new save spot and installing the discs to your hard drive will prevent this from happening. I have discs 2 and 3 installed on my hard drive and create a new save spot almost every time I start the game. The error still occurs. Has anyone yet figured out a way to eliminate this issue on SO4? Or better yet, does anyone know of a patch coming out that will remedy the situation?
In my opinion, this is a fatal flaw of this game. I was really enjoying it and really looking forward to seeing how it all ends, but at this point I have no choice other than to put the game down until a patch comes out. A game I used to think of as an 8 or 9 out of 10 is now a 1 out of 10 because its bugs are preventing me from finishing it. It is such a waste of my gaming time to have to go back and replay 2 or 3 hours worth of battles just because the game is broken.
