star ocean 3

[Jalbrean]

Finally Square-Enix has given us the month it'll be released, and we are getting the Directors Cut. Woo!

Star Ocean 3 Coming Stateside In August
By David Smith
2/23/2004

After well over a year of speculation, Square Enix USA today confirmed an American release for Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, the first PlayStation 2 RPG from Valkyrie Profile developer tri-Ace. The Director's Cut version of the third Star Ocean RPG will arrive in North America this August.

Though the original version of Till the End of Time arrived in Japan all the way back in last February, its developer wasn't happy with the version that saw release for more than a few reasons. The fatal crash bugs in the first run of the game drew plenty of media attention, but there were also many bits of game content that had to be cut to make a February release.

tri-Ace thus took the game back to the shop for several months, adding new characters, new story elements, new cinematics, a new Vs. battle mode using the game's realtime action combat system, and other extra features.

Square Enix USA's announcement makes note of one minor name change in the localization. The main character, called "Fate Linegod" in the Japanese version of the game, now bears the slightly more distinctive given name "Fayt." The "Linegod" part is unchanged, though, and his quest is the same, to find his lost family after they're separated by an alien invasion.

Now that its stateside release has been confirmed, we'll have many more details on Star Ocean in the coming months (one more bit for now: it will have a T-for-Teen rating). Look forward to it.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Yeah, I liked that.

[DJZen]

Star Ocean is one of those games I just can't play. I just don't have the time. The gameplay is too deep and complex to get through in an amount of time that's realistic for me. This is the only thing I hate about RPGs. You can't play them and have a social life at the same time. *sigh*

[Big Ogre Umaro]

Originally posted by Lord Chainsaw
Star Ocean: The Second Story had some reference to the original, namely Ronixis Kenni.

I would like to see some reference, such as this in Till the End of Time.

I for one "care".

Indalecio was a very well done villain, but you just had to go through sidequests to unlock his past. That is obviously something you didn't do.

And I'm a bit curious, who is your favorite villain? I'm sure I could grind him into the dust. And please for the love of god don't say Sephiroth.

Wow, I never saw this post. I'm glad I came back to this thread randomly. I sure am happy that there are guys like you on the Internet to put wimps like me in our place. Your blind flailing attempt to bruise my ego has proven that you are a brilliant young mind, and the fact that you care about a video game villain enough to vocally ponder about references to him in a new video game is not indicative of a sad, lonely individual as I had previously thought, but rather is proof that you are, indeed, the master of video games. I apologize for questioning you, as your Internet Trash Talk has broken my spirit.

Please, Lord Chainsaw, lead us into a new Golden Age of electronic discourse and video gaming.

And, for the record, my favorite video game villain is you. I hope your offer still stands.