Lost Odyssey delayed till 2008

Since 6975 Days

No idea if people know, but MS pre-TGS conference is going on now. Anyway, Sakaguchi confirmed LO will ship in 2008 for every region, except Japan which will get it on Dec 6. Not really a big deal to me, free up my time from an already busy Fall.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/819/819483p1.html

The highly-anticipated RPG is coming December 6 in Japan. Hold your horses Americans and Euros, this date is for the Japanese release only. The U.S. and European release has been pushed back to February 2008.

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Optimusv2

Since 6892 Days

Damn... looks like I'll be grabbing Mass Effect this year then.

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Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

October 20th 2007 (A good day)

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Phaethon360

Since 6846 Days

Did I not call this? Did I not? I am the man.

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kenshin2418

Since 6975 Days

some impressions from the live demo done by Sakaguchi, who eventually died! At least we know it's harder than BD :p

9:16 - 9:28 - [Lost Odyssey Gameplay Description] Kaim is in a room. He walks outside to a mountainside. An event kicks off with two other characters. A great rain starts to fall. Very pretty. The screen fades to black.

Cut to Castle of Uhra Castle Hall. A maid is delivering food to someone who's sitting at a long table. The guy at the table is dressed in gold. He seems very important, but very cold. He's a prince, I think. Someone named Gangara comes in and tosses his food on the floor.

He takes out a mouse and puts it on the spilled food. The mouse eats the food, then collapses. Tentacles emerge from it. Apparently someone has attempted to kill the prince.

Gangara and the prince are speaking. Cut to a scene of Gangara walking out of the prince's banquet hall. He gives money to the maid and thanks her for her work. Apparently Gangara is trying to maniuplate the prince. Cut back to the mountain scene.

Pouring rain. Sakaguchi is now controlling.

It seems hard for Kaim to move int he rain -- I presume this effects your movement when actually controlling. Cut to a cut-scene. I think Kaim is having a flashback. The flashbacks are the sequences that were written by the famous author who's on the project. Sakaguchi says that because theres no time, he's going to skip it.

He takes control of Kaim again, walking through the rain. He gets into a battle. The battle here has Kaim, Sess and Yansen fighting together. Doesn't really look too different from past versions. Back to climbing up the mountain.

Sakaguchi is explaining some stuff about the battle system, but I can't hear him over the music [sad].

When the characters do some attacks, a targeting ring appears around the enemy as the characters charge in for attack. Another battle, this one against two flying creatures and a ground creature.

The attacks are prety brutal in the game, both for enemy and ally sides. You can really feel it if you have the sound up, which they do.

Back to the mountain top. Sakaguchi makes it all the way to the top of Ipsilon peak. It's clear up here.

A cut scene as the characters walk up to the top. The game uses little cut in windows to show closeups of the characters talking as they walk. I think this was known before, but it's much improved over the original demo.

Kaim sees a town in the distance and begins to have a flashback. The game switches seemlessly to a pre-rendered cut-scene.

Kaim has apparently been at that structure before. One character asks, "Is it just dejavu, or has some lost memory suddenly been found?" As they speak, a giant flying creature comes in and attacks.

Boss fight time!

The targeting circle things appear to require that you input button presses. They show perfect or good and so-on depending on your timing. The targeting circle looks really neat because the camera switches to behind the character's perspective as they charge in. It provides an intense view of the action

The beast does a super powerful attack, killing Sakaguchi. Everyone laughs. Sakaguchi apologises.

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some impressions from the live demo done by Sakaguchi, who eventually died! At least we know it's harder than BD :p

[quote]9:16 - 9:28 - [Lost Odyssey Gameplay Description] Kaim is in a room. He walks outside to a mountainside. An event kicks off with two other characters. A great rain starts to fall. Very pretty. The screen fades to black.

Cut to Castle of Uhra Castle Hall. A maid is delivering food to someone who's sitting at a long table. The guy at the table is dressed in gold. He seems very important, but very cold. He's a prince, I think. Someone named Gangara comes in and tosses his food on the floor.

He takes out a mouse and puts it on the spilled food. The mouse eats the food, then collapses. Tentacles emerge from it. Apparently someone has attempted to kill the prince.

Gangara and the prince are speaking. Cut to a scene of Gangara walking out of the prince's banquet hall. He gives money to the maid and thanks her for her work. Apparently Gangara is trying to maniuplate the prince. Cut back to the mountain scene.

Pouring rain. Sakaguchi is now controlling.

It seems hard for Kaim to move int he rain -- I presume this effects your movement when actually controlling. Cut to a cut-scene. I think Kaim is having a flashback. The flashbacks are the sequences that were written by the famous author who's on the project. Sakaguchi says that because theres no time, he's going to skip it.

He takes control of Kaim again, walking through the rain. He gets into a battle. The battle here has Kaim, Sess and Yansen fighting together. Doesn't really look too different from past versions. Back to climbing up the mountain.

Sakaguchi is explaining some stuff about the battle system, but I can't hear him over the music [sad].

When the characters do some attacks, a targeting ring appears around the enemy as the characters charge in for attack. Another battle, this one against two flying creatures and a ground creature.

The attacks are prety brutal in the game, both for enemy and ally sides. You can really feel it if you have the sound up, which they do.

Back to the mountain top. Sakaguchi makes it all the way to the top of Ipsilon peak. It's clear up here.

A cut scene as the characters walk up to the top. The game uses little cut in windows to show closeups of the characters talking as they walk. I think this was known before, but it's much improved over the original demo.

Kaim sees a town in the distance and begins to have a flashback. The game switches seemlessly to a pre-rendered cut-scene.

Kaim has apparently been at that structure before. One character asks, "Is it just dejavu, or has some lost memory suddenly been found?" As they speak, a giant flying creature comes in and attacks.

Boss fight time!

The targeting circle things appear to require that you input button presses. They show perfect or good and so-on depending on your timing. The targeting circle looks really neat because the camera switches to behind the character's perspective as they charge in. It provides an intense view of the action

The beast does a super powerful attack, killing Sakaguchi. Everyone laughs. Sakaguchi apologises.[/quote]

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GrimThorne

Since 6872 Days

Posted by kenshin2418

No idea if people know, but MS pre-TGS conference is going on now. Anyway, Sakaguchi confirmed LO will ship in 2008 for every region, except Japan which will get it on Dec 6. Not really a big deal to me, free up my time from an already busy Fall.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/819/819483p1.html

The highly-anticipated RPG is coming December 6 in Japan. Hold your horses Americans and Euros, this date is for the Japanese release only. The U.S. and European release has been pushed back to February 2008.

Good, my wallet is going to need a break with the fall/holiday release schedule.

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Optimusv2

Since 6892 Days

Sounds good! :)

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Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

October 20th 2007 (A good day)

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of the greatest books ever.

pssh! more like electronic gay-ming monthly! amirite

RAZurrection

Since 6873 Days

Yeah, getting it out for Holidays in Japan was the right thing to do, it'll move a few units like BD did. I can wait a little longer.

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Heretic

Since 6973 Days

first ten minutes...in text format :p

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/819/819482p1.html

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Halo 3 Bitches!!!

Beware, Heretic is on the prowl!!!

alimokrane

Since 6930 Days

not a problem fopr me at all ... let them take all the time they need with the game. I have my assassins creed instead :D

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Acert93

Since 6971 Days

Posted by Phaethon360

Did I not call this? Did I not? I am the man.

I like called this... last year!

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a_vasi

Since 6707 Days

My precioussss....

Since May '05 I have been waiting for Lost Odyssey to be released....having to wait now 1 or 2 months longer is nothing for me.

The IGN Article sounds pretty awesome!!!
Thanks for posting.

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Blue Dragon --- August 28th 2007!!!
Lost Odyssey --- Holiday 2007!!! XD

Optimusv2

Since 6892 Days

I just read through a thread on gaf and everyone is complaining about it looking easy.

Last I remember Final Fantasy 7 nor 8's regular encounters were hard either. I breezed through practically every normal enemy encounter just like Sakaguchi was doing in that lost odyssey demo or as I'm doing in Blue Dragon. Even a number of bossfights were easy except for specific ones. I get the feeling people forgot how easily you could destroy regular enemies in games like ff7 or even ffx :)

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Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

October 20th 2007 (A good day)

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of the greatest books ever.

pssh! more like electronic gay-ming monthly! amirite

Jollipop

Since 6883 Days

I can't remember if 7 and 8 were hard but 9 was frikkin hard as hell in places.

Turn based games are naturally easy unless you are under-leveled or stupid in your choices.

I will be getting the JP version because i can't stand to wait a month for the US version (which i will probably get aswell)

This game couldn't come fast enough for me, I haven't bought a game on 360 since Idol Master which was back in Jan.

Posted by RAZurrection

Yeah, getting it out for Holidays in Japan was the right thing to do, it'll move a few units like BD did. I can wait a little longer.

That doesn't really make much sense, Japanese don't celebrate Chistmas.

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a_vasi

Since 6707 Days

Posted by Jollipop

I will be getting the JP version because i can't stand to wait a month for the US version (which i will probably get aswell)

I wanna hear Kaim's original English voice! So I won't be doing that even if I could. Besides, I can't read Japanese unfortunately....I will start visiting every Forum far less often; I'm a fraid of spoilers you know.

Anyway, Lost Odyssey is the only game that really gets me excited!!!

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Blue Dragon --- August 28th 2007!!!
Lost Odyssey --- Holiday 2007!!! XD

kenshin2418

Since 6975 Days

Posted by Optimusv2

I just read through a thread on gaf and everyone is complaining about it looking easy.

majority of JRPGs are pretty easy, especially turn based/action based. I find Strategy RPGs to be the most difficult out of the bunch normally.

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Acert93

Since 6971 Days

Posted by Jollipop

That doesn't really make much sense, Japanese don't celebrate Chistmas.

The new year period is a high sales period in Japan though.

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Optimusv2

Since 6892 Days

Posted by kenshin2418

majority of JRPGs are pretty easy, especially turn based/action based. I find Strategy RPGs to be the most difficult out of the bunch normally.

Same. To me I personally don't think a game needs to be hard to be fun. Even easy games can present challenges in places if you aren't careful. Sometimes I actually think it works best for certain kinds of games that they not be too difficult except for specific enemies and or bosses because then too big a focus ends up being put on the combat aspect that it affects the overall enjoyment or destroys the balance of the game. I think this is especially true for jrpgs.

I was going to use another game as an example, but then I realized what it might lead to so I'll use Kotor. Majority of the battles in that game were very easy especially as your jedi powers grew, but it was fun to mow the pawns and even some bosses down as if they were nothing. Although the last set of fights in the game were hell the game on the whole is what I'd classify as pretty easy, but it was extremely fun and that's the most important thing.

Easy doesn't mean divoid of fun afterall :D

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[quote=kenshin2418]
majority of JRPGs are pretty easy, especially turn based/action based. I find Strategy RPGs to be the most difficult out of the bunch normally.[/quote]

Same.  To me I personally don't think a game needs to be hard to be fun.  Even easy games can present challenges in places if you aren't careful.  Sometimes I actually think it works best for certain kinds of games that they not be too difficult except for specific enemies and or bosses because then too big a focus ends up being put on the combat aspect that it affects the overall enjoyment or destroys the balance of the game.  I think this is especially true for jrpgs.

I was going to use another game as an example, but then I realized what it might lead to so I'll use Kotor.  Majority of the battles in that game were very easy especially as your jedi powers grew, but it was fun to mow the pawns and even some bosses down as if they were nothing.  Although the last set of fights in the game were hell the game on the whole is what I'd classify as pretty easy, but it was extremely fun and that's the most important thing.

Easy doesn't mean divoid of fun afterall :D

Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

October 20th 2007 (A good day)

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of the greatest books ever.

pssh! more like electronic gay-ming monthly! amirite

Jollipop

Since 6883 Days

Posted by Acert93

The new year period is a high sales period in Japan though.

Yes but New Year is Jan not December. (the term Holiday season generally refers to Thanks Giving and Christmas and is only relevant to Americans, the rest of us just called it christmas)

Anyway, did anyone download the LO press confrerence off the marketplace, same stuff just in higher res.

There was a Square Enix press confrence which had Infinite Undiscovery and Last Remnant, can't wait to see all 3 trailers on the 20th .

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Optimusv2

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Posted by Jollipop

Yes but New Year is Jan not December. (the term Holiday season generally refers to Thanks Giving and Christmas and is only relevant to Americans, the rest of us just called it christmas)

Anyway, did anyone download the LO press confrerence off the marketplace, same stuff just in higher res.

There was a Square Enix press confrence which had Infinite Undiscovery and Last Remnant, can't wait to see all 3 trailers on the 20th .

Does a zebra have stripes? =P

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Hironobu Sakaguchi is coming back to reclaim the throne :)

October 20th 2007 (A good day)

Don't ask any questions just shut up and buy Halo : Ghosts of the Onyx one of the greatest books ever.

pssh! more like electronic gay-ming monthly! amirite