Ok, let me start this from the beginning: I haven't liked a single game Square has made ever since Final Fantasy 7 (Kingdom hearts and Drakengard don't really count, as they were made in collaboration with other companies eg. Cavia, Disney). Final Fantasy 10 had a lead character (Tidus) i badly wanted to see get killed and overall it just didn't...click with me i guess (I enjoyed the characters other then the lead character but..eh, just didn't grab me). Entry 12 upped this by placing not one, But TWO main characters i wanted to see dead (Vaan and Panello)...it's bad enough when you make me miss Tidus, but the games combat was more like an MMO and the story just seemed kind of uninspiring as did everything else. Final Fantasy 13 i found to be better then 12, although thats not all that hard to do if you put your mind to it, but....well it was just overall boring. I think it was mainly the cutscene overuse and the linearity that turned me off it, but i just found it boring. (And no i havn't played entry 8 or 9 in the series cause Playstation 1 games are damned near impossible to find nowadays where i live)
So, i decided one day to pick up Star Ocean: the last hope because it was cheap and i had some strange urge to give it a go. So, i start playing it and about part way after the first planet i experienced something that i hadn't experienced with a Square game since Final Fantasy 7....i was actually having fun, but the thing is i don't know why.
Maybe its the fact it's a Science fiction setting to a degree, maybe its the fact that you can actually have conversations with party members back at the base, maybe it was even the combat system and setting but...I'm having fun with it.
Ok, the characters are nothing much in originality but they are atleast tolerable and the story seems to be a bit over the place, but you can still follow along with events..and the fact I'm staving off wikipedia to find out what happens next is a sign that I'm having enough fun to not go spoil it for myself. Plus, while the english dub is pretty bad it isn't the worst i've ever heard.
I guess the point of this topic is basically...did anyone else experience something like this with Star ocean and possibly be able to explain to me why i like it so much? Or, you can discuss games that you went into thinking you'd hate and somehow ended up liking. Either way, up to you.
So, i decided one day to pick up Star Ocean: the last hope because it was cheap and i had some strange urge to give it a go. So, i start playing it and about part way after the first planet i experienced something that i hadn't experienced with a Square game since Final Fantasy 7....i was actually having fun, but the thing is i don't know why.
Maybe its the fact it's a Science fiction setting to a degree, maybe its the fact that you can actually have conversations with party members back at the base, maybe it was even the combat system and setting but...I'm having fun with it.
Ok, the characters are nothing much in originality but they are atleast tolerable and the story seems to be a bit over the place, but you can still follow along with events..and the fact I'm staving off wikipedia to find out what happens next is a sign that I'm having enough fun to not go spoil it for myself. Plus, while the english dub is pretty bad it isn't the worst i've ever heard.
I guess the point of this topic is basically...did anyone else experience something like this with Star ocean and possibly be able to explain to me why i like it so much? Or, you can discuss games that you went into thinking you'd hate and somehow ended up liking. Either way, up to you.
