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Forums - Microsoft - Infinite Undiscovery Review IGN 7.1/10

Xen on 27 August 2008
Rock_on_2008 said:
JRPG's are as a whole on a downhill slide. On the other hand, WRPGs are on the rise and are continuously improving and innovating.

Tales of Vesperia, Eternal Sonata, Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon were average 7 to 7.5 rating games.

Infinite Undiscovery follows in the footsteps of the other X360 JRPGs with another average review score.

Anything below an 80% average review score these days is considered mediocre.

ToV is something like 8 average... LO... the only review that matters to me is IGN and it's 8.2. But Blue Dragon is POS, and below mediocre IMO.

 



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EaglesEye379 on 27 August 2008

The complaints about 20-30 hours, too many characters and inventory management dont bother me at all. Story, gameplay, sound all check and ready to go.



mrstickball on 27 August 2008

No one has yet to actually comment on what was IN the review, but only the score, eh?

The actual review, for what it's worth, doesn't sound as bad as you'd think, in my opinion.

Goldstien laments that you *gasp* have to micromanage your characters! OMG! Such a major design issue!

It just doesn't seem like the score should be that low for what he's arguing....Kind of like a good bit of the Tales reviews. This generation has to be the generation of hating JRPGs...Every good RPG, even some WRPGs (The Witcher) have received bad scores, but the few cream of the crop games are WELL above, and separate everyone and everything....Does not compute!

Oh, and a scorecard for IGN reviews and RPGs:

Mass Effect 9.4 Eric Brudvig
Oblivion 9.3 Charles Onyett
Folklore 9.0 Ryan Clements
The Witcher 8.5 Dan Adams
Tales of Vesperia 8.2 Ryan Geddes
Lost Odyssey 8.2 Hillary Goldstien
Enchanted Arms 7.6 Eric Brudvig
Infinite Undiscovery 7.1 Hillary Goldstien
Two Worlds 6.8 Travis Fahs
Culdcept Saga 6.5 Nate Ahearn

Kingdom Under Fire:

Circle of Doom

 5.8 Nate Ahearn
Spectral Force 3 4.9 Eric Brudvig

 



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Riachu on 27 August 2008
Xen said:
Rock_on_2008 said:
Not a good score at all. IGN is usually provide a good review. JRPG though niche genre.

Funny, how did Tri-Ace drop like getting their last game, SOTET, a 9? IGN is the only reviewer I really trust.

 

Star Ocean 3, as much as a few hated it, was a more refined and polished game than IU.  IU is a good example of an innovative JRPG that should've taken atleast another year to refine the game more.

 



 

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Xen on 27 August 2008

In any case, when I get a 360, I'm getting that game. 7.1 or not.



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Riachu on 27 August 2008

18 characters wasn't exactly one of Tri-Ace's best ideas.



 

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Pristine20 on 27 August 2008

Looks like almighty square isn't what it used to be. They keep proving it daily.



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Xen on 27 August 2008
Riachu said:
18 characters wasn't exactly one of Tri-Ace's best ideas.

It's a bad idea in general. The only complaint that I have to FF VI is that it should've had 8 characters, not 16.

 



Xen on 27 August 2008
Pristine20 said:
Looks like almighty square isn't what it used to be. They keep proving it daily.

Well.. they are not Square for a long time now. Besides, they are not the dev.

 



DMeisterJ on 27 August 2008

7.1 isn't horrible, but it's not going to set the world on fire.

and 20-30 hours is pretty short for an RPG. Twenty hours is a week at most, and a weekend for the hardcore. I was never excited about the game, so it doesn't matter for me, but I don't see the point in MS getting all these JRPGs and none of them are greatly reviewed, it doesn't make sense to me.