Star Ocean

SilentSoul92 · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:06 pm Post subject:

As you might know, I'm a star ocean fanatic. No actualy, I'm more of a raving, obssesive, compulsive, crazed lunatic when it comes to the SO series. Then I realized a shocking truth. MOST OF YOU PEOPLE HAVE NEVER PLAYED SO 1 or 2. Only the third one, till the end of time. Soooo, I've taken the liberty of finding a good site for SO 1. I'm still working on SO 2 but anyways, this site gives you translation for the intro (since Star Ocean 1 was only in japnese...I think. I haven't found and english one yet) and the walkthroughs include the cutscenes so you can follow along and get a basic idea what the game is about.
STAR OCEAN SITE a.k.a click

JINTEIthe76thKAISER · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:10 am Post subject:

Okay, Rita, SO expert! You've already finished 1-3,yes? I have a question!

Is there any Battle Trophy for 300, 500, or 1000 bonus battle chains?
or the same numbers for consecutive killing blows or battles alone or anything that involves these kinds of large numbers?

If there is, please tell me so I can install a permanent pillow in my seat. This things take lots of time, you know? like 7 hours or so.

Rita, help me! I'll be your drawing buddy! AHHH!!!

*crosses fingers*

No really, I'll be your drawing buddy*sinister snicker*

Just help me, please.
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SilentSoul92 · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:00 am Post subject:

ok ok, calm down, now as for battle trophies, you do know a similar rewards system is used in every game. In other words, which game are you talking about, 1, 2, or 3.

JINTEIthe76thKAISER · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:35 am Post subject:

Today is another day, so I've calmed down. Thanks for acknowledging. I'm talking about the third title: Till the End of Time.

I've earned the "100" rewards already for battles,whether they were chains or consecutive with no damage or alone,etc.. I dont know if there is a "300" or "500" reward for these kinds of battles.

I'm still proggressing through level 13 at Whipple. Since the enemies there are not a burden, I figured I could get as many trophies I could get my hands on which involve large annoying numbers.

Well, are there any?

Hmmm...this was my bad. I should've just looked at gamefaqs....

Sad

Sorry if I consumed your time. But, if you insist on telling me I cant stop you.

Thanks anyway, Rita.
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--People don't mean to kill each other. It happens because they are poor or desperate or really thirsty or in need of a vacation or something.

SilentSoul92 · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:03 am Post subject:

*Sigh* well since I've got some time. Yes I'm pretty sure there's a reward for 350 or something and one for over 1000 I'm not EXACTLY sure since I just tried out different things till I got rewards.There is a reward for fighting the same type of enemy 50 times or something.

Nova_Eclipse · Has No Life Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 451

Rita I was wondering if on star ocean till the end of time, if there was any way to have pepitta in your team after moonbase AND have a choice of roger or albel on Elicoor (i choose nel to go into space) i had adray in my team before fighting vox will that change any thing?
Ive fought albel but he wont join

Edit: sorry if im being annoying, but i really want albel

SilentSoul92 · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject:

well, if you have adray, and you sent nel into space, that's actually a coding for future characters. Don't let adray onto you team, and I'm not sure, but I know in one of my games, I DID get pepitta and abel, not sure if I got them before or after moonbase. You can run a search on yahoo for walkthroughs. I'm sure they have more info.

Nova_Eclipse · Has No Life Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 451

if you dont take adray then, he becomes a permentant member later, sorry i thought you might know because your the authority on star ocean on this site ^^

Edit: I found this pic of Albel, so Rita are SO and SO2 better than till the end of time?

SilentSoul92 · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:

well in terms of graphics, no. But the storylines, sidequests, extra endings, etc, yeah. I think the game designers got lazy after 3 games. I know adray becomes a permenant member later, but if you don't get adray, you should be able to get abel and adray and pepitta, not sure, I'll have to check.

Nova_Eclipse · Has No Life Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 451

Welli had adray, then when i got back he didnt join my team, but no matter how many times i fight albel he wont join, ive got over 20 philosophers symbols i had to sell them

JINTEIthe76thKAISER · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject:

Hey, thanks, Rita.

My family and I went out yesterday so I didnt have time to reply. Well, anyway, thanks.

I could still be your drawing buddy.Heh-heh. Just kidding*chuckles*
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--People don't mean to kill each other. It happens because they are poor or desperate or really thirsty or in need of a vacation or something.

SilentSoul92 · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:58 pm Post subject:

ooh boy, well here, this is a link to some online walkthroughs, look through them, maybe one of them will help more.
click

JINTEIthe76thKAISER · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:26 pm Post subject:

do I annoy you? You should get used to it. I'm the annoying type. Though I'm pretty harmless.

Just get used to my personality.
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--Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas. But of a humble heart, the Lord wil not scorn, and from its abundance the mouth speaks.

--People don't mean to kill each other. It happens because they are poor or desperate or really thirsty or in need of a vacation or something.

SilentSoul92 · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject:

not you, my bro's 10 time as annoying. I was trying to help Nova out. Dang...20?! Man, I never bothere getting more then 10, unless I needed money...

JINTEIthe76thKAISER · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject:

Well, good luck with your game......and with your brother. Godspeed*salutes*

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--Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas. But of a humble heart, the Lord wil not scorn, and from its abundance the mouth speaks.

--People don't mean to kill each other. It happens because they are poor or desperate or really thirsty or in need of a vacation or something.

SilentSoul92 · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject:

thanks, and I'll need it, my brother once broke his arm just so I wouldn't play his game...o.o

JINTEIthe76thKAISER · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:43 am Post subject:

Hmmm......things you do.......

I keep on wondering if he really is your brother, with his attitude.......but.......that's none of my business. Sorry. PEACE.
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--Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas. But of a humble heart, the Lord wil not scorn, and from its abundance the mouth speaks.

--People don't mean to kill each other. It happens because they are poor or desperate or really thirsty or in need of a vacation or something.

SilentSoul92 · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject:

well, the first game, I found the storyline very good, the graphics were good for a game of that age, also, I liked the battle system, it was a good chalenge. Also, I like the second story mainly because of the stroyline. I also liked how you can get different ending and cutscenes depending on events, not many games do that.

Fayore · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 6195

I honestly love the Star Oceans. I can't really comment on Second Story (because I've only seen EX and I haven't actually played the game) but I really like the first game and TtEoT.

The storylines were all right. I thought that the first game's story was a little more intriguing than the third one; that one melted my brain after I got to the 4D Space stuff. ;_; At least, they were more interesting than the Final Fantasies, in which the plots are becoming quite cliched.

Another reason is because of the open endings. I think the PA system is a really innovative idea, especially since it effects which ending you'll get. This makes the replay value really high, I think. Not only that, but the item creation ability. It's really fun to experiment with, and, this way, it doesn't cost you 10,000,000 fol to get all the super-awesome weapons you want. . . . .

;

Half the time I was creating something in SO3 was just because I wanted to watch their expressions. XD

I'm not too worried about the random battles in SO1, but I guess that's because I never ran into them very often. In SO3, it was changed so there weren't any random battles, and that was even better (although I still fought all the enemies because it's good training. :3 ).

I suppose the battle system is a different experience for each person, but I enjoyed it. It's much more realistic than many rpgs' turn-based system (which irritated me so much: yeah, in real life, your enemy is going to [i]wait[/i] for you before they attack, despite the fact that they want to kill you oh-so badly. . . . .

; ). This way, you can also control whether your attacks connected or not as well as whether the enemy misses you or not: it's all up to how you control the character and not up to chance, like most generic RPGs. Also, the battles end much more quickly: the final boss battle (in SO1) only took me less than a few minutes to finish. In comparison to any given FF boss battle (I'm looking at you, Ultimecia. ><), I'd say this is a really good thing.

I was okay with only controlling on character at a time; for that kind of battle system, it makes sense. Besides, I could just switch to another character and have them do something if I needed it. I thought the different AI settings were pretty good, too. Usually, it did all right, and I know you can do AI training in SO3, as well, so you can fix up any flaws it might have.

Um. My brain just melted. Oh well. ^^;
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SilentSoul92 · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject:

HANG ON!!! A. It was a SNES game? B. Do you guys all know how to read Japanese or something? My friend had to help me translate the whole time.