Whether you consider it a cryin' shame or prefer fans to cry in shame, you can expect Sakaguchi and Friends to unveil more titles in the future. Old habits die hard.
Whether you consider it a cryin' shame or prefer fans to cry in shame, you can expect Sakaguchi and Friends to unveil more titles in the future. Old habits die hard.
Reader Comments (39)
Posted: Dec 26th 2008 2:19PM (Unverified) said
Why yes. The game was a very good classic RPG. So sad you couldn't enjoy it. Better luck next time!
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 2:45PM Streeks1984 said
I dont know bro I agree i didnt know that their were fans of this game is was ok. It wasnt a must play game in my opinion.
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 7:15PM falcomadol said
It was excellent. The character designs are classic Toriyama, the job system was fun (if derivative of the team's previous projects), and the story was alright.
Not sure what else you want from a JRPG.
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Not sure what else you want from a JRPG.
Posted: Dec 26th 2008 11:50PM (Unverified) said
"Not sure what else you want from a JRPG" Gameplay that doesn't suck.
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 1:15PM (Unverified) said
I didn't even know this existed so I'm not exactly shedding tears.
But it's not good news to be sure. Considering the market it definitely isn't the greatest of times to release new fresh original games. Especially RPGs.
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But it's not good news to be sure. Considering the market it definitely isn't the greatest of times to release new fresh original games. Especially RPGs.
Posted: Dec 26th 2008 1:19PM (Unverified) said
Unfortunate for the people that were looking forward to this title :(
On the bright side, this raises my hopes for Drakengard 3 :D
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On the bright side, this raises my hopes for Drakengard 3 :D
Posted: Dec 26th 2008 2:10PM (Unverified) said
lets be honest, nobody was looking forward to this game
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 2:09PM (Unverified) said
LO sold pretty well and was quite awesome at the same time
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 2:19PM (Unverified) said
Lost Odyssey is better than Persona 3 or 4. There, I said it.
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 4:38PM (Unverified) said
Say what you want about Blue Dragon... Lost Odyssey blew me away. Character customization was deep. Combat actually consisted of more than just: Buff, attack, heal, repeat. The XP cap in every area made the boss fights actually difficult.
It looked stunning as well.I don't mind that LO was slow, I want more of the same from Sakaguchi.
Also, kind of strange so many people critisise LO when FFX is so similar, yet people love that.
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It looked stunning as well.I don't mind that LO was slow, I want more of the same from Sakaguchi.
Also, kind of strange so many people critisise LO when FFX is so similar, yet people love that.
Posted: Dec 26th 2008 6:14PM Snowblind said
Again, Lost Odyssey was anything but mediocre. It played like a classic JRPG, without relying on tired, cliché story elements. It was very original, interesting and moving.
Anyone who thinks Aerith's death scene was sad, will be in tears by the end of LO's first disc. (not exagerating either :P)
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Anyone who thinks Aerith's death scene was sad, will be in tears by the end of LO's first disc. (not exagerating either :P)
Posted: Dec 26th 2008 2:10PM Cerpin Taxt said
A Sakaguchi RPG canceled? They're taking the credit crisis seriously.
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 2:24PM (Unverified) said
I thought LO was as good as FFX. Blue Dragon, on the other hand, was as bad as a game can get before stepping into "shovelware" territory.
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 2:28PM (Unverified) said
I dunno about all these "LO was awesome" comments. I'm on disk 4 and I'm struggling to force myself to finish it. It's the first next-gen jrpg I've played so the graphics made me go "wow" in the beginning, the gameplay was good for a little while, I thought the dreams were enjoyable and unique, but the story just seems so drab. It has definitely failed to pull me in. Now that I'm finally in the "open" part of the game I find myself incredibly bored with it.
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 2:30PM (Unverified) said
In fact, the only reason I went back to it this winter was because NXE drastically reduced loading times.
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 2:38PM (Unverified) said
The story may be a bit bland but the characterization is some of the strongest in all of gaming. I don't know what your problem is but I found almost the entire game perfect for RPGs.
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 3:25PM (Unverified) said
I've played pretty much any and every RPG that's come out in the past decade I would guess? I even purchased and finished Last Remnant. Bought both Persona 3 and Persona 3 FES, finished both, played Persona 4 JP, bought and then played Persona 4 US. RPGs are by far my favorite genre.
And yeah, I would still say Lost Odyssey is a better RPG to me than Persona 4. P4's cast is extremely likable and the story is enjoyable and I really enjoy the simulation parts but LO really captured that feeling of an immense adventure that made me truly love the genre in the first place. It was excellently-acted with unbelievable characterization. The soundtrack only enhanced it further.
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And yeah, I would still say Lost Odyssey is a better RPG to me than Persona 4. P4's cast is extremely likable and the story is enjoyable and I really enjoy the simulation parts but LO really captured that feeling of an immense adventure that made me truly love the genre in the first place. It was excellently-acted with unbelievable characterization. The soundtrack only enhanced it further.
Posted: Dec 26th 2008 3:21PM chantastic said
"current market environment and forecasts" = move everybody over to DS and Wii development.
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 4:10PM NutMan said
Ah too bad. I don't care though. I never got excited because I didn't see videos or screenshots.
I'm looking forward to whatever else they got cooking. I know there will be more since Lost Odyssey sold 200,000+ copies in the US in its first month and made it into the NPD top 10.
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I'm looking forward to whatever else they got cooking. I know there will be more since Lost Odyssey sold 200,000+ copies in the US in its first month and made it into the NPD top 10.
Posted: Dec 26th 2008 4:33PM SpartacusMagnus said
Not a JPRG fan, but it is sad to see so many cancellations and closings on Joystiq today. Hopefully we only see the wheat separated from the chaff in these times rather than great games getting the axe.
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 8:42PM (Unverified) said
I for one am glad to hear another shitty JRPG wont be wasting store shelf space. I tried the demo and it was really repetitive an boring, fuck it wasn't even an enjoyable story line.
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Posted: Dec 26th 2008 9:47PM (Unverified) said
I love the titular irony of news stories like this.
In other news, Duke Nukem Forever has been delayed again.
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In other news, Duke Nukem Forever has been delayed again.
Posted: Dec 27th 2008 12:59AM (Unverified) said
My LO story is that I was excited about it at E3 because at the scene where they showed a wizard like character fighting the worm, I immediately thought "Elementalist Class, YAY".
Sadly, that was not to be when I finally bought the game right when it came out, however when I first bought it I couldn't play it for more than 30 minutes because it was a horrible navigation system for those not initiated into that type of rpg (big fan of rpg's myself) and some other issues.
6 months later, I put it in, and BOOM I can't stop playing and go from disc 1 to 4, and do every bonus thing I can find.
Yeah... it was a good game, though they played on that one sad scene a bit too much in my opinion, of course if I had something like that happen to me, I might think about it all the time too.
Good scene, great screen writing for the dreams... EXCELLENT game.
- Cere.
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Sadly, that was not to be when I finally bought the game right when it came out, however when I first bought it I couldn't play it for more than 30 minutes because it was a horrible navigation system for those not initiated into that type of rpg (big fan of rpg's myself) and some other issues.
6 months later, I put it in, and BOOM I can't stop playing and go from disc 1 to 4, and do every bonus thing I can find.
Yeah... it was a good game, though they played on that one sad scene a bit too much in my opinion, of course if I had something like that happen to me, I might think about it all the time too.
Good scene, great screen writing for the dreams... EXCELLENT game.
- Cere.
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