When does the games story get good!
>starts out with a misstion to save your GF and your parents.
>turns into a Wizard of Oz sub-plot about building a weapon for a pointless war
>20 hours because the game clocks you when paused.
>pointless cutscenes regarding this over drawn sub-plot
>Still only three party members.
>Nell gets weaker the further you progress.
How much longer is this damn Aquios subplot!?
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Oh boy, disc 1 is the "good" part of the story. Enjoy the disc 2 tweest!
It will only become worse, user.
Ha ha ha ha you poor fool you have no idea.
Reminder that if you think so3's plot twist invalidates the previous games then you didn't pay attention at all.
Oh boy a plot twist. I'm guessing it's about the weapon and the planet itself. I'm curious now. Hopefully that will be the motivation I need to get to Disk 2.
Ah, you poor, poor child.
>it's another "the twist is bad because no reasons"
Kys each other.
Star Ocean 3' s plot is consistently good from start to finish.
Learn that your personal shit taste =/= objective truth.
That's a valid guess, but you aren't even fucking close. You literally would never be able to guess the twist.
>implying the plot twist isn't good
>implying the first two games aren't fucking trash
3 has biggest main content/story by far, best soundtrack, best extra/side content, best area/maps, best gameplay besides 4.
Characters and story have always been pure weeb hot garbage in all SO games, except 4&5 made it extra cringy, and 1&2 have trash gameplay to boot.
The mere fact battles in 1&2 aren't full 3D and magic totally stops the flow of action is fucking disgusting, also not being able to synth armor and weapons with tons of neat effects.
I was going to agree with you but since you decided to degrade yourself by unironically using the word "cringy" I can't be associated with idiots like you.
You are kidding yourself if you think some of the PAs in SO4 and characters are anything but cringeworthy
Holy shit all the Welch and 'kay girl scenes, that mentally challenged winged girl with the awful voice
Then again, isn't that a problem with Tri Ace in general? Damn, that fucking DINNER DINNER DINNER scene never left my mind
Everything after SO2 is absolute garbage just drop it
It doesn't. It opens with all sorts of races on your ship and feels like you're going to go on a grand, intergalactic journey until you realize you aren't leaving Aquios for the rest of the game until the very end. It's so boring, I thought the twist would be cool but even that was handled badly. When it's over it feels like the biggest waste of an RPG ever made.
How so?
They seem to think because they are just characters in a MMO for 4d people that their experiences and struggles were not valid which is ridiculous considering the game does make the point that in the end they are capable of "real" feelings and emotions and shit as in they are just as humans despite being data
Should i play dub or undub?
After SO4 i'm not sure anymore
Get out now before someone ruins it.
The entire driving force behind that part of the story is that they're so advanced and evolved so far that ultimately there's no real difference between them and they're essentially human. The twist is shit but not because hurr nothing matters.
The dub's pretty good.
Good luck. This was the only game I've ever dropped because of a character . I couldn't stand listening to "edgy-poo" and just quit playing. No regrets.
You're thinking of SO4.
Sophia wishes she was that hot
The dub is mostly decent besides of of Nel's female friends from what I recall
>When does the games story get good!
it doesnt and people who talk about this game have been warning people of its shitty story for years.
your fault for not paying attention.
SO3 is thew game that killed teh franchise story wise user. nothing matters. literally. just play for the broken combos
>Nell gets weaker the further you progress.
Only if you're a shitter who can't cancel to 90%. That dude can lock down one enemy for 10 seconds by himself, while everyone else recovers fury. He is a MUST have if you want a team that can combo Lenneth to death. Nell, maria, Fayt.
?????????????
By the time I got to Lenneth the bitch couldn't even hurt me...hell, the queen barely could either.
The way Atk vs Def worked in this game was asinine....the only real flaw the postgame had for me (was a great postgame)
Uh, have you heard Cliff? He's the worst offender, I'd say.
Star ocean 3 was taken down from emuparadise :(
I just want to relive my chidlhood!
>implying Cliff isn't the best
Never. Everyone always told you that 3's story is trash, so why did you expect anything else?
>can just cheese all bosses with those fucking stun bombs
Sad
>The dub's pretty good.
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The only boss you needed to do that to was the last one and even then it WAS possible not to die from Ether strike even with
3 has decent combat but butchered every single other aspect of the gameplay that was great in 2. And 3's bonus dungeons are complete shit compared to 2's Cave of Trials.
Fuck off, retard.
same tech cancelling. cancel one move with itself by immediately alternating button at the beginning of the cancel animation.
>3 > 4 >> 2
everyone can be used in 2. not everyone can be used in 3 & 4. Therefore, solo runs are possible in 2 with everyone, but only a few characters can solo the game in 3 & 4. That makes 2 the better game.
Star Ocean 3's plot turned into shitfest later on, but despite the twist's silliness I can't hate it that much in retrospect since it's nothing compared to prequel that was Star Ocean 4, retarded from beginning to end.
>Earth is fucked and polluted because of mankind's mistakes, so the main characters join an expedition trying to find a new home planet for humanity
>hop around few planets and see them unfit for colonization
>suddenly TIME TRAVEL BLACKHOLE literally out of nowhere
>the protagonist causes the destruction of Earth by giving a clearly evil scientist a volatile power core because he's a fucking retard, with the main characters barely escaping
>but it doesn't matter because it was an alternate timeline and *real* Earth is completely fine ;^)
>suddenly new evil aliens who want to destroy existence itself because ???
>elf fucboi party member sees a literal non-character girl die and gets depressed
>later he also "dies" in a cutscene, but actually becomes the fucking final boss of the game leading the evil existence ending aliens because clearly existence is nothing but suffering
>the party stop him and everyone gets a happy ending
>Earth is also completely fine and unpolluted now even though the pollution wasn't caused by the evil aliens, guess the writers forgot that plot thread altogether lol
It doesn't
It was so bad I couldn't finish it, I got to the part where it turns out you're in a simulation and it's all VR and dropped it because it required grinding
Best taste user
>>but it doesn't matter because it was an alternate timeline and *real* Earth is completely fine ;^)
Why do people keep saying this? This is what Edge's party tried to tell him to cheer him up, and he told them they were all fucking retarded, because whether it was their Earth or not, he still got billions of people killed.
Thinking SO2 is the best SO is a fucking joke
At least it's not completely forgettable tier like 1 I suppose
3 > 4 >> 2 > 5 > 1
>we accidentaly the entire fucking earth to save a catgirl
>B-BUT IT'S TOTALLY ALRIGHT BECAUSE IT WAS AN ALTERNATE DIMENSION EARTH!!!!!
Every fucking time
when you realize that you can up skirt sophia
>kill Edge when fake Earth explodes
>Reimi becomes new protagonist and saves the world
There you go, story fixed.
>Faize still goes full retard for no reason
Naw
No Star Ocean game has good story or characters.
The only reason to ever play them is for the mediocre at best combat that mostly boils down to spamming very few OP moves.
it was worth it.
speaking of which, where is meracle here?
I quit the game on disk 2. The only game i ever done this.
All the fucking lore, the amazing encyclopedia, all those settings and characters EVERYTHING FUCKING POINTLESS AND IRRELEVANT
LOL VIDEOGAMES
Honestly the only good characters in 4 where the green robotbro and the red haired titty monster elf
Meracle was just pure pandering trash
This is retarded for simple reasons the game itself explains to you and have already been explained in the thread itself
>DUDE I LOVE THE COW TITS GIRL
>DFC IS PANDERING
wtf
I don't care if they gave an asspull explanation, it isn't enough to justify how they handled. The game had some great thing going with a sheer amount of detail, but it had go full retarded because we can't have nice things. It isn't okay to build a world and then throw in the garbage because you want some cheap impact on people. There is a very good reason why "it was a dream all aloong" is a very bad and repeated troupe.
The cow tits lady had a mature and decent personality and just happened to look good
Meracle was just uguu genki catgirl
dude, no she did not. she didn't have a personality at all in fact... her back story was she was a fucking space witch that lost her husband or something... meracle wasn't well written, but dont act like le cowtits was anna karenina
I actually really liked this game, including the twist.
Recently bought the HD version on ps4, need to get back to it
I bought the game because of the boxart, I really didn't know much about JRPGs as my first was Symphonia with FF 7 right after, which my friend recommended. We spent high school playing JRPGs together and made fun of them.
But Star Ocean? Holy fuck, we both dropped the game at the second disc.
You're confused. They didn't asspull the explanation, they asspulled the twist itself. Otherwise, yes they fucked up everything they had going for a plot twist that ultimately had no impact on the characters themselves despite it being something that should have fundamentally changed how they viewed everything.
Star Ocean is one of those franchises that reminds me why Final Fantasy was held so high on a pedestal in the first place. The fact that anyone thinks these games are anything more than garbage is staggering.
The gameplay is the good part. And 2 actually had a decent story all around.
>implying FF games have combat as fun as SO3
Especially the weapon synth, holy shit you can get creative and add so many fun effects like firework and cc weapons instead of just default +ATK/DEF stuff
>literal ancient evils with biblical conotations have awoken
>good story
was one of my favorite games. keep going op you can do it
You can cut down most JRPG plots to "an ancient evil awakens", that's why it's even a meme in the first place. That doesn't mean it's not a decent story when you put all the actual content back in.
I still can't decide of SO4 looks good or not, sometimes it looks kinda meh but sometimes it actually looks really good when you dodge attacks and shit, almost like a weird CG mix that tries to look like action figures
The graphics are pretty good, it just suffers from shit faces and character animation.
The background shit looks nice in SO4.
A whole series where the first game is the only good one
This. And the series started at three.
I can't think of a bigger asspull plot-twist than what Star Ocean 3 has. I can't think of any RPG plot twists that come even close.
You are the only person on this planet to hold that opinion.
Xenoblade's final twist was similar but did it a lot better. When I got there in the game it was more "HOLY SHIT" and less "This is fucking stupid."
Jokes on you I'm posting from the moon
I still don't know how people enjoyed this game, I hated everything about it from the start and I typically like JRPGs
Is SO5 any good? Should I wait for a PSN sale?
No. You shouldn't even pick it up out of a trash can.
>Is SO5 any good?
It's very mediocre
>Should I wait for a PSN sale?
I'd suggest you find a better game to buy user.
We were the video games all along.
dont listen to all these fags, the plot twist was neat
Everything but the faces look great.
4 is a better looking game than 5.
How did they get away with her intro outfit?
But you're wrong, sorry.
It's actually pretty solid and better than most give it credit for, though you do have to accept a few flaws like it's clear lack of budget which it at least hides as well as it can.
>When does the games story get good!
It doesn't.
Could you actually beat round three in the game? I never could.
No way, not me.
Yes. It's possible.
>love second story
>eagerly await till the end of time
>game looks like a shitty n64 with the worst art direction I've seen
>everyone's fucking retarded and the game sucks
>the twist is mindnumbingly dumb and shits on everything this far
Never been so disappointed in a sequel.
The plot twist in this game is so fucking retarded that it made me give up on JRPGs all together.
Seriously, if fucking Ubisoft came up with that shit, it would be the biggest meme ever. But because it's japan it's okay because lol japan aren't they so wacky and eccentric xDD
>Star Ocean 3's plot turned into shitfest later on
Please explain in what way.
Extremely hard mode: without resorting to the "I don't like it, therefore it's shit" argument.
>I can't think of a bigger asspull plot-twist than what Star Ocean 3 has.
Thanks for reminding us how "asspull" is just a buzzword for "I don't like it, therefore it's shit".
Nice argument.
But don't worry: I hardly heard better arguments from SO3's haters.