I asked you about the Last Story, what's so innovative about the battle system you just saw yesterday.

Xenogears is such a shame too, if the game was in it's completed package, it would have been miles better than FF8 . I have played Xenoblade btw, better than FF13 imo, shit has some scale for a Wii game, downside is characters are butt ugly but you are fighting for the most part anyways so you won't pay attention to it.

I really wish they can remake Xenogears in it's complete form without changing the old direction, I really do, it's really about time.

Woah woah woah here. The battle system is in no way the most innovative in 20 years. Not even close. Never.

You guys are majorly overhyping The Last Story.

Huge variety in ways to defeat and enemy. Combined action RPG elements with strategy elements, general feel of it with breakable terrain is not common at all in the genre, especially on such a scale. The online modes the game has show how good the gameplay is matched to such events, that only tells you of the potential the combat system has within the main game itself. Finally when you see it in action it feels fresh, something JRPG combat systems haven't felt for a long time. Its taken inspiration from western RPG's, Japanese RPG's, third person shooters to give us what is hopefully the new de facto JRPG battle system.

like smacking Tidus in the head or punching his stomach? i'd like that, i cant stand Tidus

The Magic Circle thing is cool as shit, the ability to change your way of playing by toggling auto attack, interacting with surrounding objects in a way that no other JRPG has done before (Just that flip thing along changes everything,) an entirely active 6 player team each with his or her unique roles on the battle field, and all that while still being able to issue commands to the location you want which went even further than what ME2 had. It's balling yo!

He takes the majority he owns the rights, fact is if he left and DQ overtook FF they won't be taking a penny and be left with a very strong rival franchise, you asked why they should care well that's why DQ under SE is not set in stone and given SE's performance this gen DQX is on it's inevitable run to being the top console JRPG of the gen.

I feel it is miles better than FF8 in its current form haha. I agree though Xenogears was so excellent, but could have been so much more. So much of the plot could have been more thoroughly explored and covered. Sometimes I think it would have been better to do a Xenogears Episode 1,2 and 3 as the ambition and scale of Xenogears was massive for just a single game.

A remake of Xenogears, actually stop that, its just making me hope for something that can never ever happen. Nice to hear you enjoyed Xenoblade.

@Boutros

Then what else is? To me this is the most fresh JRPG combat system I've seen since FFIV. Do you have any contenders?

keep in mind that the person did say JRPG, which is kinda true tbh, now, if you mix in other genre, Bayonetta is the hotest combat I've seen in the past 20 years.

Agreed, add in Vaan for good measure.. Come on Lightning you can do it!