shit sucks

Its an awesome game but dont bother with the trophies. Its not worth it. Unless you REALLY REALLY like maid outfits, then don't bother.

Don't mind these maggots. Just know that you're going to enjoy the twist at the end.

I enjoyed it, thought the plot was kind of broken.

>>24336054
I really liked it, it was a fun game. Just don't get discouraged at all the SIDE KICK combos that you will constantly be racking up.

OP here. Comments appreciated. Should I go for the unlockable difficulties...or are they just a cheap way to extend gameplay?

>>24336363

Side Kick, Side Kick, Side Kick, Side Kick, Side Kick, Side Kick, DIMENSION DOOR, Side Kick, Side Kick

Repeat ad nauseum. Sweet game though.

Yeah, fun game. Kind of like Xenogears in that the plot keeps getting more and more absurd until finally you're just in a state of submission. Kinda like "OK whatever happens next I haven't seen it coming so bring it on"

Also kind of like Xenogears in that you'll get slightly sick of the battle system by the end.

Still one of my favorite games ever.

might as well reserve one year of your life trying to get those dammned 300 bts

How many fucking items did this game have?

The game is bad and you should feel bad.

Oh hay lets take everything that was good about SO2 and do the opposite in 3, surely that's what the fans want.

Don't even get me started on the plot "twist".
Even M. Night Shyamalon would have trouble fucking up the plot any more.

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time is one of the worst games I've ever played. Don't waste your time. The graphics are terrible, the voice acting is terrible, the story is terrible, the music is terrible, everything about it is just lazy. That's the key word here: Lazy. Very little imagination went into the game's design and the story is padded by never ending fetch quests. It's really sad that Motoi Sakuraba was so uninspired that he fell back on really generic electric guitar pieces, because he can do so much better. The battle system is barely functional, almost to the point of uselessness. It lacks all of the finesse of SO and SO2. There are so many other fantastic games, hell, fantastic RPGs you could be playing instead. PS2 alone has dozens of fantastic titles. There is no excuse for playing this game.

The game was pretty good, but it got old and I didn't end up beating it.
I didn't like the idea of having characters I couldn't control, so from the very beginning I only used the main character...
I never had a problem. Eventually nothing could even hurt me.
Way too easy.

>>24336713
Yeah, Jesus Christ, what's with the progressive rock soundtrack in the dank dungeons?

DONT GET PEPPITA

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT TAKE HER WITH YOU

As expected, there's tons of hatred for SO3. That's always been something I didn't understand, maybe because my first SO game was this one.

What was so amazing about the other two? The first one came out recently for the PSP, so I dled it and played a bit so far. And I'm not seeing it. The battle system's really the same.

The story's okay so far, I'm hoping it picks up soon. All I've seen so far is "Oh great, they're turning people in stone for a cloaking device. Time to time travel into the past for a cure. Oh crap, we got split up." Not mocking it, mind you. Just saying it's not that different from "Hey, vacation tim-oh crap run before you get blasted! Holy shit I crashlanded on an ancient planet, someone help me." Not going to bring up the twist since OP's playing for the first time ever.

And voice acting wise...I cringe every time I get in a battle or whenever I hear Ilia's voice. Ugh.

And the skill system thing? I don't even know why I'm learning these skills in the first place.

Someone enlighten me here. Not trying to defend or bash any of the SO games, just wondering and hoping someone can tell me what's what.

Protip:Everybody is a program

i honestly couldn't beat this game.

i went through it once, maxed the HP stats (they increase seemingly exponentially, its like 50 then 100 then 250 then a thousand then 5 thousand, what the fuck) and i couldn't beat any bosses because their damage apparently scales with your hp.

i tried again without putting any points in hp and i still failed at actually killing anything, and the story is incredibly frustrating and annoying.

MOST RETARDED PLOT TWEEST EVAR

Great game. Too many useless cutscenes that last for 5 minutes, though.

I AM ABOUT THE SPOIL THE PLOT, BUT IT'S BASICALLY FOR YOUR OWN GOOD.

After roaming around in fucking medieval worlds for half the game you learn you are literally fighting God because all the long range lazer attacks are coming from the motherfucking 5th dimension or some shit. You find out your parents coded you, Sophia, and this gun bitch to be living barcodes used to access some gate shit which is on a barren planet and no one knows what the fuck it is.

You get there, and GET PULLED INTO ANOTHER WORLD AND FIND OUT THAT YOU ARE IN SOME UBER-FUTURISTIC SOCIALIST SOCIETY WHERE NO ONE HAS TO WORK EVER AND THE WORLD IS RULED BY A FUCKING MMO CORPORTATION CALLED SPHERE 211.

Your entire universe, nay, the ENTIRE Star Ocean universe, is just a massive MMO being played by the people of this world and created by Sphere 211, and you have to fight "god" who is the president of the company.

You beat him but he goes "DELETING FUCKING EVERYTHING" and erases your universe, but at the last possible second your whole universe goes "we think therefore we are" and are alive.

>>24336412
for me it was just AIR RAID AIR RAID AIR RAID x 9001
2 min later final boss dead.

I've beaten it. The ending is really stupid and really much invalidates the entire series' purpose, but other than that, it was a pretty solid action-RPG. Most characters are pretty forgettable, and the story feels like it drags on more than it's worth, but overall it's okay, but nowhere near as good as Star Ocean 2.

>>24337399
>to access some gate shit which is on a barren planet and no one knows what the fuck it is.

This anon has neither play the original Star Ocean, which explained the Gate, nor has he ever seen Star Trek, which most of all this stuff is "homaged" from.

And quite honestly, if anyone had paid attention to the Database in Star Ocean 2 and the first parts of Star Ocean 3, the TWIST would not have been that much of a surprise.

Meh I thought the crafting thing was kinda fun. You really should invest in getting a lot of orichalcum for your weapons to make it less grindan. And yea I'll admit that I forgot most of the characters even their names and plot, but not Albel. He was the best character in the game along with that ninja girl.

Suddenly...

>>24337705

Glad someone agrees.

>>24337705
No way, Nel was best.

Kinda got turned off when the plot went "lol, 3D and 4D". Though a pretty good RPG if you don't mind the stupid twist.

>>24337705
Doesn't Albel try to get it on with Fayt?

>>24337841

Oh, is that a challenge?

>>24337399
Wow...you know, that doesn't seem as bad as I thought.

>>24337901

I'll take that as a request

Definitely one of the best RPGs for the PS2

>>24337399
Way to make the plot sound TOTALLY FUCKING AWESOME

>>24336054
amazing game, shit gets awesome when you become skilled enough to craft your own items and customize your weapons. I must have spent days just beefing up my best weapons with elemental effects and shit. The sidequests were fun too, I'm actually playing through this game again for the battle trophies since I forgot to activate them on my first playthrough.

>>24337399
>but at the last possible second your whole universe goes "we think therefore we are" and are alive.
I lol'd fucking hard. I'm kind of glad I'm having second thoughts about buying this game now.

Sucks compared to SO2. Play that instead.

>>24337901

He tries to stab Fayt in the face in his sleep. So... maybe?

>>24336934
>> The story's okay so far, I'm hoping it picks up soon. All I've seen so far is "Oh great, they're turning people in stone for a cloaking device. Time to time travel into the past for a cure. Oh crap, we got split up." Not mocking it, mind you. Just saying it's not that different from "Hey, vacation tim-oh crap run before you get blasted! Holy shit I crashlanded on an ancient planet, someone help me." Not going to bring up the twist since OP's playing for the first time ever.

It doesn't. I'm being honest with you. I wasted about 20 hours and it was still "ROD DICK AND IILA SEARCH FOR THEIR MISSING COMPANIONS" RIGHT AFTER THE FUCKING ARENA SIDEQUEST.

So I deleted it. Nothing of value lost.

I bought SO3 for cheap and haven't even started it. Too busy with Persona 2: Innocent Sin (Fucking dungeons are wearing me out) finishing Persona 3: FES (Journey and then BURN MY GRIND Answer) before I start Persona 4.

FFFFFFF. TOO MANY FUCKING RPG'S I'M OVERLOADED. I'VE GOT VAL CHRONICALS ON THE BACK BURNER. OH GOD.

>>24336934
The skills are really helpful. A lot of them increase your stats. Kitchen Knife increases your ATK by a lot. With the skills, you can make healing items, armor, accessories, upgrade weapons, make gems with alchemy to sell at high prices, etc.

what is this shit

POST SOME ALBEL/NEL GODDAMNIT

HOT SAMURAI + HOTTER NINJA
BOTH LACK CLOTHING
NEED TO BE FUCKING
KTHS

if your MP goes to 0 you die.

>>24338224
yeah I just created a blade with Roddick's level 8 crafting skill that boosted me from 470 atk to 970 atk, and I'm just level 40! Shits awesome

>>24338234

I would, but wouldn't you know it? All my Nel artwork is hideous. Here's something for you anyway.

I liked it. But that Twist ruined it for most people. I still think the game is good just have to ignore the retarded ass story.

>>24338278
Fucking retarded.

Wait, here's a passable one.

>>24338521
i said albel/nel not nel/claire is in love with me oh god get this dyke away from me halp shes trying to shave a rune into my pubes haaalp

shit game

>>24338564
I liked the twist ending...

the joy of getting to lv250

>>24338669
I managed to get just Fayt, Cliff, and Maria to level 100

>>24338587

Fine, maggot. Enjoy your worm food.

>>24338804
MORE PROMOTIONS

>>24338846

Fools

>>24338929

>>faytalbel.jpg

Nice try.

>>24338929
lol rename your files

Now for something...

...wtf?

>>24339127
>>24339139

No matter. Someone's bound to click on it out of curiosity anyway.

I actually just bought this too OP, but I was going to play Yakuza first.

>>24339347
>>24339271
stop posting shitty fanfic fanart and post some hardcore dick in vag sex plz

I just hated the ZOMG FORCED ALCHEMY, ZOMG ANGEL/DEMON SUPA STRONG NOW

Maria was the hottest chick in the game. Sophia had some hot unzipped jeans though.

SIDE KICK SIDE KICK SIDE KICK SIDE KICK

GRAVITY LASER GRAVITY LASER GRAVITY LASER


and mariaxfayt otp

>>24338709
protip the level cap is 255, you fail a lot, lier

>>24339721

>>24339743
>lier
underage spotted. notice the post he was referring to. hes talking about how difficult it would be to get to 255

>>24339743
protip: I didn't know the level cap was 250, but I knew you could go past 100, that just happened to be the point where I stopped grinding with those 3 characters.

god I really do love this game.

Heh...

>>24339861

Easy way to get to 255 is Sphere 255(211?)

>>24339917
damnit, you..

>>24339813
fucking fangirls. cliff is NOT bishie. stop it!!!!!!!!

I got spoiled by the in-game encyclopedia like a half-hour into the game. That was quite an awkward feeling.

>>24339981

Speaking of which, this is the worst atrocity I've seen so far.

>>24340032

>>24338278
A good idea, actually. If you use MP that much you just aren't using your far more powerful physical skills enough. Also Battle Skill that swaps MP damage for HP.

>>24338637
The story was good. The ending was forced and bad.

>>24338278
IF YOU LOSE ALL YOUR CHAKRA YOU DIE.
LIKE IN NARUTO

>>24340123
I guess so, though I stand by me opinion I did think that having some random guy named Luther as the final boss seemed like a bit of a letdown. I mean, he came out of fucking nowhere.