I find it wierd that JRPGs tend to have cringe worthy dialogue.  I thought publishers figured out how to localize their games properly.  BTW, The Last Remnant could've been amazing if it wasn't rushed out.

"the last hope is plagued by a number of problems, but if you can invest the time needed for this game to blossom(thats a big if) the combat system and mystirious plot reward you well for your time" well its a jrpg so its obvious its gonna get marks like this, but im suprisingly enjoying infinite undiscovery which scores less that this.........il certainly be looking at so4 looks to be a good game,

DQ IX, DQ X, FFXIII and Versus will all be AAA games with at least a million sales first week. Same old same old, some things never change and that includes no other JRPG franchise being any good.

If you played any other Star Ocean games, you'd know it's nothing like IU. So who cares about the score it got, it shouldn't affect what you think of the Star Ocean series. If they were to release an IU2 then your concern would be valid. It's like if you've let a score on a Mario Party affect what you think of Zelda... It would make no sence. Two different games.

Roffle, a 7. It's cute that GameInformer is rating the game like Star Ocean doesn't transcend reviews. That also goes for the fanboys looking for a reason to bash this for being on 360.

The one thing I don't get is that they took off points becuase of poor dialogue.  Yet, Gears of War 2 has that "problem" as well yet gets high scores.  It's like a double standard.

Dunno about the story and plot, but if you compare the technical dept. , gameplay and visuals of SO4 with IU then the former is miles ahead. Also IU was developed by the 2nd team of Tri-Ace and was the first game to be developed with their new engine (and they don´t have the ressources to spend years and years of improving the engine for just one game, like SE does) whereas SO4 by the main team on an improved engine.

I´ve been following SO4 for a very long time and I´ve seen countless of CGI, real-time and gameplay vids of the game and I´ll be buying it day one no matter what reviewers say. Even if all reviewers give it crap grades I´ll buy it day one.

Damage control?

I could do the same. Famitsu gave Haze a 34/40 (keep in mind Halo got like a 35)......even though IGN gave it a 65

I have played another SO game, though I never finished it, but it has a very similar battle system, and IU looked poor, and it was poor written and designed, and given that both games are made by the same developer, I am slightly concerned.

According to wiki, they have 153 employees, and so I doubt that there are completely differnet people making the games, I am sure there is some overlap in the teams. It is not like Ubi Montreal, where the people who made the Lost game have absolutely nothing to do with those who made Assassin's Creed, there will be an overlap, and when they recently made a poor game, I am slightly concerned about what they are going to produce

 Those 2 games stay true to the (JRPG) genre.  SE's games have become very "Westernized" lately.  and I'm sure he's never played those two games.