You know what they should fucking make? Xenogears II.
As far as I'm concerned being about 10 hours into Xenosaga ep 3 (easily the best in the series in every way), they're not connected at all. I kind of like it that way.
But when I say a Xenogears II, I mean less of a direct sequal to the plot is Xenogears and more of a game just made in the same 'universe' or whatnot. I think there's certainly room for an epic story not involving Fei, Elly, or anyone else we know of in the game. Wouldn't even be on the same planet.
Xenosaga is cool, but it definitly doesn't have that 'spark' that Xenogears had, which is something I'd like to see. Xenogears was a bit more traditional I guess, and that could be what makes it so endearing.
I'll wait and see if the PS3 gets a port that fixes this stuff. If not, I'll probably never play it just because I hate my 360. The game itself looks cool, though. It seems unique.
Who care if Hillary is a dude, chick, or what-have-you. All I know is I agree w/ basically just about everything he said about what Square-Enix needs to fix themselves.
They need to keep up with the rest of the RPG gaming world. It's not like they ain't capable of it, either. They were once one of the leaders in the console RPG.
Let's face it, most Japanese-developed RPGs still use the same design philosophy that worked 20 years ago. Just about every Square-Enix RPG has towns you walk around in, with dozens of people you speak with for no reason. There are poorly conceived fetch quests and uninspired city designs
Yay, let's make DLC for our broken game!They need to do that first, before doing DLC. I mean -- what good will DLC be if it don't fix any of the crazy amount of issues this game supposedly has? :o
I wonder if they'll do any patching.
Maybe that's the future of DLC... buy a patch so your game will work.Geez, I sure hope not...
Last Remnant For PC Dated, Detailed In Japan
New features to include bilingual voice and battle speed-up function.
By Nick Des Barres, 01/28/2009
The latest issue of Famitsu reveals the first concrete details for the PC version of The Last Remnant, to be released in Japan on April 9 for 8,190 Yen ($90 US).
The PC edition of Square Enix's fantasy "RPG for the world" promises to sport enhanced graphics, dependent on how hardcore your rig is -- let's hope that nasty texture pop-in gets tackled -- as well as several new, exclusive features.
Most significant among them are the ability to speed up the game's lengthy battle animations, and the removal of restrictions on leader units -- you'll be able to place as many leader-class characters in your union as you like, which should make the PC version much easier. Other new features will include a visual preview for equipment in menus, as well as bilingual English/Japanese voice tracks.
Square Enix will release a Last Remnant benchmark app on January 30 (in Japan), followed by a demo some time before launch.
The Last Remnant PC is going to be distributed via Steam on April 9, 2009. (http://store.steampowered.com/news/2286/)Is it exclsuively via Steam or is it optional?
None of the press releases say exclusive. If it was, you'd think they'd brag about it.Well, Relic didn't brag about it for DoW2 -- and we pretty much found out at the last minute (like say a few weeks ahead of time) that Steam was going to be required for all versions of the game.
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Artistically it's great, I expect nothing less from SquareEnix.Awesome.
Last Remnant PC activation issues News
News by Rob Purchese
Today 14:54
The PC version of The Last Remnant, which launches today in Europe, cannot be played nor installed as far as we - and a Eurogamer reader with the same problem (and an entire Steam forum with the same problem) - can ascertain.
The problem revolves around Steam, with which the game needs to be activated using a registration code found on the back of the manual.
Any attempt to do so, however, is met by the following message: "The Last Remnant has not been officially released, and cannot be unlocked at this time. Please check Steam news to find out the release time. Steam will notify you when the game becomes unlocked."
Worryingly, The Last Remnant is not due for launch on Steam until 9th April, when it will become the first Square Enix game on the digital distribution service.
Square Enix was unavailable to tell us whether we will have to wait until then to activate and play the game. We'll keep chasing them. It's not like we can sit here playing the game after all.
Thanks to Eurogamer reader John Garbutt for pointing this out.
That's retarded. Pardon the pun.
I'm pretty sure there's a way around the Steam issues, namely finding a way to bypass Steam altogether. What the heck would this game need Steam for anyway?!
I was looking around for more material on The Last Remnant, videos, commentary etc. In one of the vids it shows parts from the intro and some moments were just "heh??" Some of the dialogue is questionable too. According to the intro the leader of some forces just used his "Remnant" power and it was quite destructive, it shatters the ground and the main character "Rush" and a supporting character fall in to a cave beneath. Keep in mind they just met, Rush has no idea what this war is about. This is a bit of the dialogue:
Emma: The "Gae Bolg" created a crack in the ground and we fell into this cave.
Rush: Cave?
Really? That's questionable part in that sentence?
It's part of the intro.. From what the player gathers Rush is just a kid who's looking for his sister and he mistakes Emma for her and just dashes right into a battlefield. Emma knows what the Gae Bolg is but Rush, who was living on an island with his his sister isolated from the rest of society, was just thrust into this turn of events when his sister was kidnapped a very short while ago. I guess it stands to reason he may have never been in a cave before but the way the dialogue goes in the game seems kinda lost in translation.
Hehe imagine you and I having a dialogue like this:
X: Ok MyD, let's grab some shawerma and head back to the car.
M: Car?
Of course, I'm assuming "shawerma" is a foreign thing to you :P
LOL @ car.Haha the picture they have there is a very bad representation of a Shawerma. The description is right but the pic will totally throw you off. Firstly we don't use tortilla. Secondly the meat in that picture is ground not shaved.
Well, I don't drive and get out much, these days and age... ;)
Oh, about that shawerma...that's something I never heard of before until now. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawerma)
Hi everyone,
We will soon be discontinuing digital and physical sales of The Last Remnant on PC.
Sales will cease at the times below:-
Japan region: Wednesday 5th September, approximately 2:00 (JST)
NA region: Tuesday 4th September, approximately 10:00(PDT)
EU region: Tuesday 4th September, approximately 17:00(GMT)
Anyone already owning the game will still be able to play as per usual.
Thanks to everyone who’s adventured with the Mitras, Yamas, Qsitis and Sovanis!