Star Ocean 4 Producer Takes Stealth Jab at Xbox 360
Take that, limited DVD storage!
Posted Feb 05, 2010 at 15:09, By Anoop Gantayat
Star Ocean 4 Last Hope International saw release yesterday, at last allowing PlayStation 3 owners to experience the RPG epic that Xbox 360 owners got to play nearly a year ago.
Dengeki covered the game's release with an interview with producer Yoshinori Yamagishi. What's unique about this interview is that the site's readers were the ones asking the questions.
One of the more interesting questions and responses came towards the end of the interview:
Reader: "For this version as well, were there any areas that you were forced to delete due to memory capacity and other things?"
Yamagishi: "If 'this version' means the PS3 version, there was nothing deleted."
Take that, Xbox 360's limited storage capacity due to DVD format!
Does this possible jab at Xbox 360 from Yamagishi infuriate you as a Star Ocean fan who pitched his tent in Microsoft's camp? Well then, here's a response you might like:
Reader: "About SO4I being the last entry in the series, is it really true that new titles will no longer be developed?"
Yamagishi: "I really don't know if a new title will or will not be made. If a request for production comes in from tri-Ace it probably will be made. However, at the very least, I don't think I'll be dealing with the series."
It seems that Yamagishi, who may very well be a closet Xbox 360 hater, will no longer be dealing with the Star Ocean series.
Yamagishi is more confident about one thing. For Star Ocean 3, Square Enix released a Directors Cut, which updated the game in various ways. It looks like there won't be such a release for SO4I. Said Yamagishi in response to a reader question about a possible re-release, "There is absolutely no plan for development."
Since you're here anyway, be sure and view some official media that Square Enix released for Star Ocean 4 International yesterday.
First, some full resolution screens, arranged in a confusing array of varying sizes. Perhaps you can use these for comparisons with the Xbox 360 version?
Next, some official videos. These show the intro, the opening, and a battle.
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Reader Comments (showing 4 of 4)
jonnyram @ 2010.02.05, 16:49
After Star Ocean had such a great second game, it's amazing how the series just turned shit for the 3rd and 4th games. Must have been a lucky sophomore album :)
lech @ 2010.02.06, 1:24
Is that why this series gets so much love, and hate? I only played through 1 remake and 4. Played 2 for like an hour before I quit, and I never made it past the title screen of 3. Maybe that's why I never felt these games were particularly brilliant. It's decently fun button mashing, not much else.
anoop @ 2010.02.06, 4:00
I played through a good deal of Star Ocean 3 for IGN. I remember enjoying it but feeling disappointed with how, despite having this grand theme of space and time its progression felt like a generic Japanese RPG.
Cosign @ 2010.02.06, 6:11
You know, looking at those screens, and how they have not changed since a year ago, somewhere, deep inside in the hearts of every Japanese developer at Tri-Ace, deep down their thoughts might be: 'how I freaking hate this shit - hate the **** plastic models'.
But being the incredibly rigid and voiceless employees of a corporate world they are, none would make the tiniest voice, ever.
I exaggerate.