What are your thoughts on the Star Ocean series?
>>3919331It has the hottest male protags of any JRPG series
Memorable and endearing, not perfect, but worth playing. 1 was a peak snes era rpg, 2 was the best and had a cozyness that almost no other rpg can match, 3 was a mess and the beginning of the mediocrity. 4 and 5 i enjoyed but knew they were both close to being bad games. And gave up after that. The music is amazing in all of them. Blue sphere is neatAnd rpg fan not having played 1 and 2 os doing a disservice. Walking up to Arlia village that first time never stops making me feel emotional
>>3919331I've never seen such a 4.5/10 series get hard carried by one game.
>>3919331The MC hair color pattern it has is hilarious. Cless from Phantasia split into Ratix and Claude.
>>3919331Shaping to be a good series but then it starts to go downhill from 3. Not even the waifus can make 4-6 passes as 6/10 jarpigs for me that the gachashit ended up slightly better in a way
None of the games are a masterpiece, and in fact they mostly all have shitty plots and characters. But the are fun as hell to play. 4 is the best one btw.
>>3919331Divine Force is jank kino.
Are any of them actual sci fi games or do they all bait and switch you into generic fantaslop?
>>39193312 and 4 are some of my all time favorite jrpgs. The other games are pretty good too
I really enjoyed 2 and didnt fully understand the circlejerking that 3 has received since its creation
3 is the "till the end of time" one, right? it was ok. i remember it had some sick guitar solos in the OST. i dont remember much past that tho lol. i liked the SNES one better. never played 2
>>39202322 is easily the best one.
Is the undub for Second Story any good? I heard that PS1 tri-Ace games are really finicky because of the way they were programmed and undubs make them crash heavy but didn't try them yet
>>3920212>didnt fully understand the circlejerking that 3 has received since its creationit's one of the ps2-babbies first jrpgs. it was either this or Wild Arms 3.
>>3919331Tales is McDonalds, Star Ocean is Perry's
>>3920068nope
>>3920068>fantaslopfuck off, juggalo faggot
Fuck the federation
>>3919331Not enough black people. Pass.
>>3919331I like em, warts and all. Albel/Fayt best ending.
2 is easily the best, probably because it was Final Fantasy, but Star Trek to book end. Japan loves to copy popular media from the US. 1 and 2 come off the wake of success of Star Trek The Nest Generation. The inspiration there is incredibly obvious if you're familiar. 3 sheds a lot of the Star Trek tones. Only letting it pop up really strongly, for it to be quickly dismissed. 4 leans back into it, but is a prequel and then a very typical JRPG. 5 goes back to the Star Trek like framing, idk 6
>>3919331Despite the cool aesthetics the games are piss easy and therefore not much value in playing.
4's shitty exploration stopped me from continuing the series.
>>3919331There are way too many missables in TriAce games. It's the biggest thing holding any of them back.
>>3919331excellent music, only redeeming quality in any of themall of them have shit gameplay, bad stories despite the novel idea of mixing scifi and standard fantasy, are stuffed full of references to themselves like you should know or give a fuck about their world or the developers themselves, and every single one has a terrible final act which ends them on a bad note
>>3919331They piss me off because:>cool title>sci-fi jrpg>look inside>grassy forests, fighting animals with regular non-laser swords with your childhood crush with a bowI liked the first one's story enough (didn't beat it), but I thought it was more Star Trek than anything else. Thought that was neat. The modern ones are super lame and I don't know how they keep getting to make these.
>>3920394Wild Arms 3 is the best Wild Arms game, granted.
>>3919331I love SO3. Most fun battle system, fantastic post game dungeons, god tier music, memorable companions.
>>3919331Fascinating premise, that is utterly botched in execution. Maybe I've only played the shit ones, but being swindled into "Here is a science fiction, space themed RPG, in which you spend 99.9% of the game in the most generic fantasy setting imaginable" even once has made me pretty fucking cagey about the rest.
>>3919331>>3930682hideous animoo gooner slop.
>>3930844This is the plot to 1, 2 and 3. 2 at least it's only 70% of the time. >>3919539Pretty accurate. 2 is great, the rest are mid to boring even. I'm shocked it keeps getting made. It blows me away they had a good thing going with 2, which got a gameboy spin off, but then 3, 4 ect none of them touch 2. They just use the name to sell games that are vaguely similar like a mountain dew flavor.
