Tri-Ace’s Yuichiro Kitao, best known for his programming work on the Star Ocean series, has announced his departure from the company after 14 years.
Siliconera spoke with Square Enix and Gemdrops developers about the process of preparing Star Ocean The Second Story R.
Loved it. I’m going to go back and play it some more to get the platinum at some point soon. They did a great job with this one.
I'm sitting at 87 hours or so and I'm still just on claudes playthrough, my streams are already at 23 parts. Going right into rena after. Great fking game
In the nineties, Squaresoft became famed for its cutting-edge visuals, largely driven by its use of pre-rendered CG. But in 2023, arguably the most progressive visual style the company is championing is a return to history - the great pixel art revival.
The gaming community lately makes jokes about companies making games that look like "PS3" or "PS2" games. While this is such a nasty dig, there may be some truth to this in the case of tri-Ace.
Sad really. I used to love these guys but man...they just aren't what they used to be.
The Cod games have been using an engine built in the mid 90s. Nothing wrong with using an old engine if they update it. Bioshock used UE2 and looked better than most UE3 games. Arkham knight used UE3 and looked better than most UE4 games.
Sh it does suck but I enjoyed star ocean 6 the most out of any game last year. I thought it was solid af start to finish. My favorite game that year.
I'd love for Sony to get ahold of them.
To late to edit but I just wanted to add not every game that comes out needs to push a consoles boundaries. Star ocean 6 looked fairly good to me.
Yeah. They definitely squeezed every drop out of that engine for SO6. It was a fun game
I assume you are talking about "Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness" which I do have and am still playing. IMHO it is a good game but for some reason I still prefer "Star Ocean: The Last Hope" that I played on my PS3.
As a side note I have "Star Ocean: Till the End of Time" (PS2 version) which I played on my first gen PS3 but unfortunatly the Australian version of the PS3 did not have full backwards capability like the US version did. I got so far in the game and hit a bug (advancement to a new area between two mountains) that prevented further play.
