Microsoft has put together this sweet, Japan-only Blue Dragon bundle that probably ain't gonna do much to enhance the company's bottom line (read: it's likely subsidized), but will (they hope) juice the 360's pitiable sales in that country.
I had it all wrong...Blue Dragon is awesome!
I bought this game a couple of days ago, along with Lost Odyssey, while they're on sale in the Xbox Store. I never had a 360 back in the day so I missed out on these games, so I'm glad that I'll finally be able to try them out soon on my Series S.
Yep, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, and Gears of War were my favorite 360 games back when they first released.
no doubt. To this day it baffles me when this game gets hate. Sure it wasn't as epic as Lost Odyssey, but in it's own right it was a great game.
Lost Odyssey is one of the best jrpgs of that era but got killed because it was bought up and released on the "wrong" console.
Is there a chance that Lost Odyssey will be released on PS5? I really want to play it and Blue Dragon, too.
Great game. The 360 had some really good turn based games back in the day. Absolutely loved Lost Odyssey too. I think they are both Sakaguchi creations.
Correction. Both Blue Dragon & Lost Odyssey (as well as Infinite Undiscovery) started off as in-house developed projects that went third party after MS killed off their Japanese development studios.
Doesn't really have anything to do with what I said though 😂 Sakaguchi wrote them both
This game together with Lost Odyssey, The Last Remenant and Tales of Vesperia convinced me to buy a 360. This game made my 2007 which ended off with mass effect.
Honestly, a fantastic game, especially if you were a fan of old-school JRPGs. I hate that this genre rarely can come back to these roots.
Destructoid: I remember where I was when Blue Dragon was announced. Although I already had an Xbox 360 and was ready for it, some folks I knew bought one just for it given who was involved (Nobuo Uematsu, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Akira Toriyama): as Mistwalker and Microsoft Game Studios made a mad dash to put out more games from Japanese studios on the Xbox ecosystem.
Blue dragon was fantastic. Love that game. It was my biggest reason for getting a 360.
i wanted to play it, but ...
1. its on xbox
and 2. i missed it when it was on gamepass ha.
I thought it was pretty good but I personally I think Lost Odyssey is better
Also, I know a lot of JRPGs are cheesy but damn…this one was amped up to 11.
Lost odyssey lost me when I started to realize my grinding to level up wasn't adding up. So I never picked it up again. I really really despise that.
Then you missed out on of of the best jrpgs ever made.
Did you at least reach the point where Jansen qas singing? 🥰
I really wish Mistwalker would remaster these games... they're too busy with mobile unfortunately.
The Summer Game Fest 2023 revealed a new Akira Toriyama game called Sand Land, and it has more potential for greatness than a new Blue Dragon would.
Imma call bs on this. Sorry a blue dragon sequel would be dope and much needed. While this one I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I'm interested. I'm kinda stuck on vehicular action. That's where it's losing me.
Why can’t we just get both? In this gamer world of ours, it seems like it’s always one or the other. Games like these seem like they would print money for these development studios if they released multiplatform.
Couldn't they do a bundle with the premium version so Japanese gamers don't have to get the crappy version and then find out they have to buy an hdd separate. But I guess for $250 you can't complain that much.
apparently no one here noticed it but I was offended (so were the bloggers on that web page) about the reference to how us "Round eyes" won't be getting this bundle this christmas
i realized something today, that people are
very sensitive about the way thier eyes are shaped.
Hmm it came to my attention that 360 fanboys bash PS3 with a pashion and a lot of games on the PS2 were Japan RPG's, so please tell me why all you MS fanboys are so excited about this game, especially when it looks like a cartoon, it tells me a number of things most obvious being that you are devoted to MS and will buy whatever they tell you to buy and second you are flamming PS3 for no reason, so please when i here this rubbish about the Xbox being better because of it's games, i laugh because PS3 is better because of it's games, it's obvious Xbox fanboys bash every PS3 game because they are jealous, if any console is better for games it will be buy an inch and that's not giving anyone a good reason to bash either console for that reason, both consoles got great games comming, many multi platform so guys like the Mart stop kissing MS a@s unless you are an employee and start playing your Xbox 360 like you love to boast about, because i guarentee you PS3 will be the dominant console again, no doubt about it.
like a sonyfanboy noob, It's funny how everyday we here the same things from the sonyfanboy goons. I wonder why he thinks his post is any different.
MS probally will not quite in japan just caus eit would be stupid to do so. Once developers start supporting the console over there with promising games like this one, I think they will be alright. This is a good start.