Star Ocean 4 : questions.

[benmanu]

Domicinator said:
I should clarify on what I said about putting your 360 on 720 resolution for Star Ocean. There are many many many users out there complaining about freezing during Star Ocean 4. I was one of the unlucky ones. The game freezes for me randomly during the animation after battles. It also freezes if I'm down to my last living character in a nasty boss battle--when I try to add that person into the battle the game would freeze. (Basically, this translates to: if you lose a boss battle, the game locks up.) This was happening to me so much on discs 2 and 3 that I almost completely quit the game. Then I found out on these very forums that putting your 360 on 720 resolution will stop the freezing--after I did that, the game never locked up again. And you will see no visual difference because that is Star Ocean 4's native resolution anyway. I would say play it at 1080 at first, and if it starts locking up on you, put your 360 down to 720.

As far as the end boss having a "kill everybody in one shot" move, he doesn't as long as you're powered up enough. My characters were all at about level 85 when I beat him. He fights really hard, but he's totally beatable. It just takes awhile and you have to use lots of ranged attacks. My strategy (SPOILER ALERT):

--Have Edge fully powered up in the ATK skill
--Use a powered up Lymle and Reimi for ranged magic/bow attacks
--Play as Meracle to manage healing potions, bombs, power up items and also to get in and do some absolutely devastating attacks when the moments present themselves. Have lots of physical and mental potions stocked up as well as items that will heal the whole party at once. (such as Perfect Berries)

Basically if you use that strategy, all you have to really concentrate on is keeping everyone alive, which again, I used Meracle for.

as adajio said, is the freezing issue there when you play the game on 1080 while the console read the disc or even with installation, the problem still occurs in that resolution no matter what?

because if it is a problem of resolution, i tried to changed my resolution from 1080i to 720p (do the freezes make difference between 1080p and 1080i ? ) and my console just put it back to 1080i without me asking for it, so if it only concerns 1080p or 1080 resolutions but only while discs will be read, installation can solve the problem, right?

i suppose the best would be to install and put in 720 p. lol.

thanks to you too.