I have not picked up P4 yet, I was deciding between that and VC and since VC is already vanishing from my local stores due to not selling well enough I thought it would be smarter to grab that first. I will at some point get both, but for now I have to go with VC.

We should seriously have a RPG conversation though, would be fun times.

I'll send you a message on PSN with my impressions of VC. By the way, The Last Remnant is actually pretty damn cool, I like the battle style (of course, Team SaGa = Greatest Devs ever).If and when it comes to PS3 you shold give it a rent.

ah dur....I remember that thread now about which you were going to pick up. I plan to buy TLR when it comes on PS3, since I buy every JRPG anyway. I'll be interested to see if it loves up to the praise I've heard from some, but I'll definitely give it a shot. I mean hell, I bought Eternal Sonata and I didn't even particularly like the demo for that one (and I still don't get how IGN can call it an 8.7 or whatever they give it).

If you want me to actually respond it's best to send me messages on VGC instead of PSN. I can never get the energy up to write out a decent message without a keyboard, and am too lazy to switch my keyboard from the PC to the PS3 for a discussion.

Well, if we take the Greenwich meridian as the reference, the Western hemisphere covers Iceland, Ireland, Portugal, most of Spain, most of the UK and part of France...  The rest of Europe is on the Eastern Hemisphere... But people consider all Europe as part of the West because of the civilization similarities, while most of Asia as the East (Middle East, Far East, etc.)...

This reminds me of a XKCD comic:

You'll certainly enjoy The Last Remnant if you enjoy a more tactical & involved affair. Between the QTE critical triggers, and the massive union battles, it's a hidden gem in the 360 JRPG collection - and much better (imo) than the 360's version of Eternal Sonata.

The battle system is a mix (imo) of Ogre Battle and Chrono Trigger - Ogre Battle because your not directing 100% of the action, and Chrono Trigger because you have to be mindful of AoE attacks and various line-of-sight attacks. It's horribly flawed in some ways (technical side), but overall, it's like Dead Rising - brilliant in some areas, flawed in others.

@ Torillian

Alright i'll send it through PM here on VGChartz.

@Mr. Stickball

Not certain if it was you, but did you write up a review on TLR? If so, can you link it to me?

Thanks.

I have not completed my review of The Last Remnant yet. I am going to provide the VGC review once I've completed the game with a second opinion from Louie. He believes the game is a C+ or B-, and I put the game around a B or B+...So we're pretty close.

I'll put up a very lengthy 5-7 page review once I'm done...Hopefully it'll hash out exactly what makes the game tick.

WHAT!!??

Hope my cousin doesn't have trouble finding my copy today D=.....

Exactly.  Japan is ONE country.  There's no other country in the world where JRPGs is more popular than in Japan.  If people want to compare Japan's sales to the sales of the western hemisphere, that's fine, but just look at the sales in proportion to the overall population of that geographic area.  So a JRPG selling 2 million copies in a country of 150 million people is far, far more superior than 5 million copies sold in the western hemisphere where there are a couple billion people.

So... it seems... fairly on track then for about... 200K-220?

Rogue Galaxy sold like 250 first week.

Seems a little less then some people thought.

Looks like i'm on my way to being right though vs what Max king of the wild thought.

Well yeah... that's pretty much how most publishing deals go.