"The Star Ocean series have always been released on the PlayStation platform ever since the first Star Ocean was released on the PSOne. The fourth game however, the Last Hope, was an exclusive on the XBOX 360 but later, Square-Enix decided to bring Last Hope on the PlayStation 3 with goodies of course. Star Ocean: the Last Hope International Edition is the superior version of the XBOX 360 with added content that will please Japanese RPG fans." - Just Push Start
Digitally Downloaded writes: "Some people (who weren't looking that hard) have claimed that the JRPG genre has been floundering this generation, lacking both in quality and quantity.
They're wrong. Though it can be argued that the genre's biggest franchises (Final Fantasy) has lost its way, a little digging beneath the surface reveals a wealth of great games that are equal to, if not better, than the best JRPGs from years past."
My favourite would be Lost Odyssey...it was the real Final Fantasy 13 game for me. Good characters, good voice acting, the music was amazing, the theme music was better, the battle system was good (can't beat turn based). I could go on...
Plus Jansen was hilarious...one of the best characters in a JRPG for me
No mention of Resonance of Fate is a fail. That game can easily go toe-to-toe with any of the games on that list. It had the combat that Final Fantasy 13 SHOULD have gotten.
Garces f, imo, should have made that list. Liked Ni no Kuni, Star Ocean and Nier. Really wished Last Odyssey came to the ps3.
PS3 Attitude: "From tiny outfits that provide no more protection than dental floss, to massive armour that even Chuck Norris would struggle to walk in, it has to be said that costumes in videogames often look pretty ridiculous. We literally could have picked a selection of games at random for this list and they’d still have been relevant, but these are the five characters we chose in the end (after we picked them at random)."
Hey,after suffering through all those "Kay's" I earned the right to see Myuria's skin!
An online retailer is currently offering substantial discounts for several high-defitnion role-playing games on the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms.
Eternal Sonata (PS3) - $19.15
Eternal Sonata (Xbox 360) - $19.90
Record of Agarest War (Xbox 360) - $18.15
Star Ocean: The Last Hope International (PS3) $24.48
That's not really "substantial" as far as discounts go, especially with how old those games are.
If the PS3 version was released at the same time as the 360 version, it wouldn't have had all this content and it'd be just as broken as the 360 version.
I don't have the 360 version to compare it to but, the game is fantastic beginning to end, it had its minor faults (lip synching is actually only one that comes to mind atm) but still I have had no problems with it or burning the hours away on it.
@1.1 That is strange, cannot say I have had this problem in the 60 plus hours I have already spent on the game.
The reviews for this are all over the place.
"The Star Ocean series have always been released on the PlayStation platform ever since the first Star Ocean was released on the PSOne"
Actually the first Star Ocean game was for Super Nintendo if you count Japan-only releases.