Star Ocean: The Divine Force Announced

[Reinhardt]

Western gaems - everyone is Black and Brown BIPOC of Color. Japanese games - blue-eyed blonde man.

 

[Raghar]

Yea. Japanese can appreciate proper white blue eyed blondes. You can't have dumb a brick blonde male main character without him being a blonde.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

In a perfect world Tri-Ace announces Resonance Of Fate 2 right after this releases

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Western gaems - everyone is Black and Brown BIPOC of Color. Japanese games - blue-eyed blonde man.

Woke trash then. What are blue eyed blondes in Japan, less than .10 of the population?

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Character designs and illustrations for this game are being done by former Capcom artist Akira Yasuda, aka Akiman.

Posted a few characters on his Twitter a while back.

He designed the characters for the recently dead gacha game and the Star Ocean V, so that's not a surprise. Although still the 3D models don't really reflect that well.

Yeah, the 3D models don't quite capture his designs for the game...and the art is the better looking thing so it's a shame. The textures (along with the faces and hair) should be more along the lines of a colorful version of Resonance of Fate, that'd match the art more than what they're actually doing.

 

[mediocrepoet]

You can't have dumb a brick blonde male main character without him being a blonde.

That's pretty profound. Have you also recently determined that A = A?

 

[Raghar]

You can't have dumb a brick blonde male main character without him being a blonde.

That's pretty profound. Have you also recently determined that A = A?

Well, the problem is some TV makers and game developers are not able to grasp this fact. For example:

They are completely willing create a dumb as a brick male blonde that is looking like black or asian.

 

[mediocrepoet]

You can't have dumb a brick blonde male main character without him being a blonde.

That's pretty profound. Have you also recently determined that A = A?

Well, the problem is some TV makers and game developers are not able to grasp this fact. For example:

They are completely willing create a dumb as a brick male blonde that is looking like black or asian.

... Do you know what blonde means, sir?

 

[Raghar]

Obviously. A female with a yellow to white hair. When term blonde is used as a description of a male, it implies the person is silly, scatterbrained, or easily misguided (or dumb).

Silly, easily misguided, or people with head in clouds were very enjoyable characters in computer games. They often created interesting gameplay, and when plot needed to screw up the party bad, it provided reasonable excuse why they fell for an obvious ploy.

 

[Duraframe300]

 

[Kruno]

The first Star Ocean game on the SNES I liked, and every other one I disliked, and the same can be said of the Tales of games, Phantasia is the best and the rest can go kick the bucket!

 

[LESS T_T]

 

[yes plz]

so, will this be yet another 'Tales of' clone like the last few or will it go back to having multiple recruitable characters, different story routes, and a crap ton of endings?

 

[koyota]

Where does Star Ocean get its systems from?

Vast majority of JRPG lineage can somehow be traced back to Either DQ/FF Line or your Wizardry Black Onyx inspired Line, Having almost no influence from CRPG`s after Ultima/ Wizardy.

Whereas with Star Ocean, it feels like the Devs kept playing CRPGS and made the most JRPG version possible of mid 90`s CRPG systems.

Skill points system, which you can put into Art / Music / Cooking / Alchemy / Survival (Outdoorsman) / Pickpocketing (Actually steal from NPCs as a system in a JRPG) / Identify Magic Items / Scouting / Familiars (COME ON BUNNY) / Machinery (Science) etc etc

 

[deuxhero]

koyota
Star Ocean originates in Tales of Phantasia devs being screwed over by Bamco and making their own company. One will quickly notice similarities between the two games.

 

[Poseidon00]

Looks like shit, will probably be even worse than Integrity and Faithlessness, let alone The Last Hope.

Star Ocean 1, 2, and 3 were all amazing. The systems are rock solid and don't need any changing beyond how they were in 2. Somehow they just keep fucking up what should be a relatively simple formula. Many such cases, I guess.

 

[somerandomdude]

I'm curious how the crafting system is going to work, is it gonna be some gacha bullshit, which is typical of games these days? I thought 3 had the best crafting system of the bunch, little bit of RNG, but it wasn't totally annoying, and you could narrow it down with the cost ranges.

 

[Jinn]

I fail to see how this looks particularly shit, and definitely cannot see how it looks worse than Integrity and Faithlessness. Everything looks fun from what I've seen so far.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

So what are these? Space games with pew pew and pow wow action or just stuff like that Ys or tales of stuff in SPEHSS? Far as I can see only star ocean 4 is on Steam, is it any good?

 

[Jinn]

Well, the reviews are coming out and it's pretty much just as I expected. Gameplay is king here, with a solid story and likeable cast to back it up. The price is a bit steep, sure, but I'd urge anyone who has enjoyed Tri-Ace's games to consider supporting them with this release. It's pretty much their swan song. They have always been an unwaveringly experimental developer, which has always saw them met with derisive reception. I appreciate them greatly for their spirit.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

It's pretty much their swan song.

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They are closing Tri Ace?

 

[Abu Antar]

It's pretty much their swan song.

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They are closing Tri Ace?

I read somewhere that their future might hang on the performance of this game. They also seem to have worked with a shoe string budget.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Jesus I googled and see the news that they are insolvent. I mean with a lot of Star Ocean being shit after SO 3 and the fact that they don't have any big hit it makes sense but it still hurts.

I dunno, will this game be able to save them even? I was not sure to buy it or not but I guess if game is decent might as well support one of the dev responsible for a lot of PS era games i loved

 

[Poseidon00]

The Last Hope and Integrity and Faithlessness were a slap in the face to fans of the series. Idk if I can even give them the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Abu Antar]

I have fond memories for some of their games, but the real "magic" hasn't been there for their last few releases. Reviews for SO6 are mixed. The question is if the low budget of the game means that expectations for the game aren't great in the first place.

It doesn't look good, but this discussion pops up after every Tri-Ace release.

Me? I think this will be the nail in the coffin.