Realizing that big western 360 titles like Gears of War 2 will do little to boost its flagging Japanese sales, Microsoft recently unveiled its new strategy to dominate the JRPG market. The 'Xbox 360 RPG Premiere 2008' event held in Tokyo's busy Shibuya district shone a light on four upcoming titles – Tales of Vesperia, The Last Remnant, Star Ocean 4 and Infinite Undiscovery.
Alongside the big-name franchises sits Infinite Undiscovery, the product of close collaboration between tri-Ace and Square Enix. According to producer Hajime Kojima, the idea is to break the rigid formulas that so often regulate the JRPG, introducing action to elements that are traditionally presented in a much more straightforward and static manner. Journeys often abstracted to icons moving across a map, for example, will be replaced by action sequences in which characters evade desert storms and flee powerful beasts.
The gaming community lately makes jokes about companies making games that look like "PS3" or "PS2" games. While this is such a nasty dig, there may be some truth to this in the case of tri-Ace.
Sad really. I used to love these guys but man...they just aren't what they used to be.
The Cod games have been using an engine built in the mid 90s. Nothing wrong with using an old engine if they update it. Bioshock used UE2 and looked better than most UE3 games. Arkham knight used UE3 and looked better than most UE4 games.
Sh it does suck but I enjoyed star ocean 6 the most out of any game last year. I thought it was solid af start to finish. My favorite game that year.
I'd love for Sony to get ahold of them.
To late to edit but I just wanted to add not every game that comes out needs to push a consoles boundaries. Star ocean 6 looked fairly good to me.
Yeah. They definitely squeezed every drop out of that engine for SO6. It was a fun game
I assume you are talking about "Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness" which I do have and am still playing. IMHO it is a good game but for some reason I still prefer "Star Ocean: The Last Hope" that I played on my PS3.
As a side note I have "Star Ocean: Till the End of Time" (PS2 version) which I played on my first gen PS3 but unfortunatly the Australian version of the PS3 did not have full backwards capability like the US version did. I got so far in the game and hit a bug (advancement to a new area between two mountains) that prevented further play.
During the Inside Xbox live stream today, developers from the backwards compatibility team announced that the program would sadly be coming to a close.
What a good run. Assuming every og xbox, 360, and One title will be available on Scarlett. Will make next gen transition easy. Hats off!!
As long as they continue adding more BC once the Scarlett comes out.
The current game selection on Game Pass is impressive, but it’s still missing a handful of big games.Here are the 10 most dumbfounding omissions from Game Pass.
