Lost Odyssey gets found in North America Feb. 12; free DLC with pre-order

I will get this game when it arrives. I am looking forward to this. I haven't played a good RPG since...Chrono Cross in 2004. I remember playing Chrono Cross when I FINALLY got the tunes in the correct order in order to beat Lavos and get additional ending.

February 12th? Pfft.. no thanks. Starting February 10th, I will be completely consumed with Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the next year. After that I'll only be partially consumed, but still completely obssessed.

this is a new attempt to see if they can increase the pre-oder stage of a game the did extra content with lost planet i remember that one cuz i fell for it

I'm interested in this. Just hope it's not another Blue Dragon yawnfest.

It does sound good.

If this game is as good as I hope it is, I'll buy a 360 for it.

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but just wtf is the extra shit

was this already released in japan? did they like it?

@Freeze

How old are you and where have you been?

Chrono Cross is one worst RPGs ever made. (The only good thing about that game is the music.)

There are better RPGs out there.

@Freeze

How old are you and where have you been?

Chrono Cross is one the worst RPGs ever made. (The only good thing about that game is the music.)

There are better RPGs out there.

I was reading in the Xbox forums that a couple of guys are playing this game right now. They gave praises for the story and more so for the music. I have enjoyed the masterful music of Nobuo Uematsu. He is a genius. Good choice at collaborating with Hironobu Sakaguchi. The Dynamic Duo-san.
And as far as you Yasunori Mitsuda-san, I am sorry that's how you feel about Chrono Cross. I wished you could of enjoyed it. But Golden-san is right, how I feel about the game doesn't make me wrong. You are right though when it comes to the music because Yasunori Mitsuda-san did an excellent job.

Do the 50 hours include the 25 hours of cut scenes and animations that you won't be playing the game?

@bm
I hope this helps. This is from the impressions of "kitzkozan" about Lost Odyssey:

Current Play Time is 20:24, start of Disc 3.

Overall I'm really enjoying Lost Odyssey. It's not without a fair share of problems though, both technical and story-wise. There are some slight design issues, but overall where the game really shines is in the gameplay. The battle system is fun and well thought out. The battles are pretty traditional, but balanced to be relatively challenging. There are random encounters, and the encounter rate is pretty similar to any other JRPG. Sakaguchi is a dirty liar for promising a low encounter rate. :(

The character customization options are pretty good, and there are tons of skills to learn from accessories and mortal party members. The ring making system is pretty interesting as well, and adds a certain tactical element to battles since you can change equipment in battles on the fly. There's no harm in making a bunch of rings that give different elemental or racial bonuses since you can swap them during battles depending on the enemies.

The dungeons and towns/cities are really well designed. They look good, and more importantly they play well. Each area has it's own unique little properties and gimmicks, and the puzzles and design logic on the maps and stuff are pretty neat. Areas are sizable and exploring corners or dead ends almost always reward you with items and stuff. The game also has various side events in each town/city and it always feels like there's something extra to do in the game.

Storywise, LO is a mixed bag. On one hand, the cutscenes are pretty well directed and the voice acting in both languages is pretty spot on. The characters are interesting and have unique personalities, and the worldview is pretty interesting and fleshed out. On the other hand, the game never really seems to want to take advantage of this, instead preferring to stay low-key most of the time. Even with the themes of immortals, great empires, betrayals and conspiricies, and high fantasy - the actual story remains muted and chooses instead to focus on more mundane interactions between characters showcasing their personalities and quirks.

A good comparison for this would be FF:TSW and Xenosaga Episode 1. The way the story and presentation is paced is very similar. The cutscenes and events focus more on the character side of things than the larger picture, and it never really tries to take hold of the viewer's attention to make the game more exciting or epic. It's not exactly negative, but it just seems odd that the game keeps throwing in epic otherworldly themes and elements but never really let them take center stage.... or any stage at all. They're just terms and throwaway dialogue pieces.

The Thousand Years of Dreams short stories are really fantastic, and there isn't really anything to say other than it's pretty much one of the best visual novel package I've seen. The way each story's text is presented with the background, text effects, sound and music - it's pretty much perfect in that aspect. Too bad it doesn't really have anything to do with the game. When it's well integrated into the game, the transition from game to visual novel is wonderful, but many a times I just feel that it's kinda forced into the game at certain points. They're always nice to read, but very often they have nothing at all to do with the game or the game's world, which is a little disappointing I guess.

In terms of technical aspects, the game is a lot better than I expected. All texture pop-in issues have been eradicated and there isn't really slowdown while moving around towns and dungeons. Unfortunately the game also has a shitload of LONGASS longing. It's long and there's a lot of it, no two ways around it. While the slowdown doesn't affect the movement part of the game, in battles and in cutscenes it's a whole different issue. Many cutscenes are filled with slowdown that hinder the true intention of the presented scenes, and make the animation seem more unnatural than it actually is. Several battles are also plagued with jerky pans and framedrops when enemy attacks interact with character models. When the slowdown occur, and they occur quite a bit throughout the game, it makes the entire presentation far more amatuerish than it should. It's a pity they couldn't iron out these issues.

I'll keep playing, but most of these observations have been consistant across two discs, so even if anything changes, they still apply for pretty much half the game. I do expect the story to get more interesting, it just isn't as deep and complex as I expected. It's actually rather simplistic, with a ton of offbeat humor injected in the scenes. Interesting combination....

And this also bm from: aevanko (sorry for all of these posts)
I think the townsfolks are quite interesting, and talking to them not only unlocks some 1000 year dreams, but also leads to small mini-quests that net you cool items. As far as FMV, there are some sections that have a long period of stuff to watch, but it's never spread out so much that you feel like you're only playing half the time - it's more like you play like crazy to earn a cool FMV, although a lot of them use the in-game engine. It is very linear, but on disc 4 you get side quests, etc. It's very similar to FF10 in this regard.

Now if only people actually gave a damn about FF13. I'm sorry, but after 7, which was meh imo, the FF franchise took a huge nose-dive as no game afterwards came even close to the awesomeness of their predecessors. Anyhow, I'm actually excited about Lost Odyssey, as long as they don't pull a Blue Dragon with it.

i think it got better up to ff9 (and ff8 dipped just a bit from 7), then took a huuuuuge nosedive for ffx and still hasn't recovered

If the premise of this game sounds interesting and you have a PC built after '97 or so, go grab a copy of Planescape: Torment and give it a whirl. One of the best RPGs ever made.

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@GoldenS1104

a) "where have you been?"

That's kind of ironic because you apparently haven't noticed the reply button that Joystiq added a while ago.

I did use the reply button.(That's why i double posted) It didn't work for me, oh well moving on.
(I'm not using the reply button anymore)

b)"Chrono Cross is one worst RPGs ever made."

It's considered by many to be among the best RPG's of all time. Just because you personally feel it was one of the worst doesn't make him wrong. You have no right to criticize. Opinion and fact are completely different.

No shit, i know that. It's a free country (for now), i can say whatever want. Also, i never said he was wrong.

Why can't i say something negative about Chrono Cross? But, if i were to say something postive about the game, then it's ok? WTF! (Why is everyone so sensitive?)

It's just like Halo 3. If you say something negative about it that, then clearly something wrong with you.

WTF! again

Looks like 360 fans were right all along - Blu-ray sucks. Why would anyone want to use Blu-ray? Swapping discs is cool, right? Right?

/sarcasm

So am I the only one that's going to talk about the 4-disc DL-DVD set for this game. If it was Blu-ray, all you would need is 1 DL Blu-ray ROM or 2 SL Blu-ray ROM.

this game is gonna be shit anyway .because the so call creator for FF .made the first final fantasy and that was the worst game in the final fantasy series .i think ff5,6,7 was the best in the series