SO4 anyone?

[Mirage]

Here, have a link.

[Flying Mullet]

Interesting.

Speaking of Star Ocean, I still haven't finished SO3...

[Mirage]

Then you know just what you have to do.

[ReloadPsi]

How do they plan on continuing the series after that absolutely horrible (SPOILER)the whole world is a computer program and you're a virus plot twist? How do the expect a single player to take the next game's story seriously?

[Mirage]

because it makes no difference if there is a dimension over you. Would you think your life would be less worth if you found out you were a program?

[The Last Oath]

Yes, so3 had a killa story.. and in the end they became beings who thought for themselves

[Crossblades]

Here is some more info

RPGamer - News Bulletin - First Star Ocean 4 Details Revealed

New details have been released for Star Ocean 4, and it seems, so far, as if Square-Enix and tri-Ace are trying to find a delicate balance between old and new.

• It has been announced that SO4 will be released for only one platform, but exactly which one remains unknown.
  
• This game will live up to its title more than past games in the series by allowing the player to pilot a spaceship and travel to different worlds.
  
• The story is finished and will have a slightly different setting than Star Ocean 3 but it will not be so different that characters from past games will not be able to return.
  
• There will be more than just a few planets in the galaxy this time around.
  
• The heroine's name will be Reimi and the hero's name will be Edge Maverick.
  
• You will be able to have five members in your party (including you, the player) and the battle system will not be the same as the one featured in SO3.
  
• Private Actions will be back.

More details will be revealed soon after the release of Star Ocean: First Departure and Star Ocean: Second Evolution, the remakes of Star Oceans 1 & 2.

[Ouch!]

I've never picked up any Star Ocean games before, but I've always been interested. I'm assuming it's still the kind of series I can just pick up anywhere?

[Mirage]

You can,but you'll get more of the references if you start with them chronologically.

[Zeromus_X]

Ooh, a different system than Star Ocean 3's. I'm very interested to know how they'll be improving the battle system even further, and very excited about five characters in battle at once!

And, PAs didn't really go away in SO3, they were just automatic and not triggered outside of a town by the player. I assume this means they'll be going back to activating the PAs outside of towns, which is cool.

[Lawr]

The plot twist in SO3 ruined it for me, but I won't let it get to me in SO4.

[Ultima Shadow]

This is awesome. I must have this game at all cost.

[The Last Oath]

God i love Star Ocean, i started with 3. Seriously, its one of the best stories i've ever witnessed.

[Mirage]

That's pushing it.

[Madame Adequate]

How do they plan on continuing the series after that absolutely horrible (SPOILER)the whole world is a computer program and you're a virus plot twist? How do the expect a single player to take the next game's story seriously?

If you think like that, you missed the entire point. Which was that (SPOILER)just as Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am". The game was saying, basically, in another fifty years if we can make videogames so powerful that the AI therein is genuinely intelligent and thinking, what have we done? Can we just have shmups in a situation like that? Is turning off your game murder? And so forth. It worries me how many people who one would think would consider games as more than 'just games' in fact go directly to "it's just a game" when they find out this plot twist and somehow the whole thing is supposed to have lost meaning.

And anyway, even if you didn't like 3, their own conciousness created a universe once the thing was turned off, so their universe is now real and you don't need to worry