Rumor: Lost Odyssey 2 GDC/E3 Announcement?

Having the abbreviated E3 and GDC right together in the headline sort of makes the news look desperate and far-fetched. However, it's very possible that the game could be running into a little PR exposure at either event given the recent update on Mistwalker's website.

[Software_Lover]

The story in Lost Odyssey was top notch. The dreams were very well written. At first I was pissed that there was no CG, but reading them was far better. You could put your own imagery there.

[dktxx2]

Ya Lost Odyssey had such a great story, i'd even put it up with the greats like Gears and Killzone.

[GWAVE]

Lost Odyssey was incredible...for the first two disks. For those first two disks, LO was definitely the best RPG this gen, IMO (yes, even better than Fallout 3, Oblivion, Mass Effect, etc). But after Disk Two, the storyline completely fell apart. Every plot point was telegraphed. Every emotion was forced. If there's a LO2, I hope they make the storyline awesome from start to finish, not from start to the middle.

[Immortal Kaim]

Agree Gwave, LO's story sort of fell away near the end but overall I thought it was in incredible game. I have put 110 hours into it. LO is one of my favourite games this gen.

The dream sequences were incredibly inspiring. As literary pieces they evoked emotions and imagery not conveyed through simple cut scenes. I hope they don't get rid of them because of complaints from the minority.

Please announce Lost Odyssey 2 ;)

[Willio]

i actually thought the plot thickens on disc 3. Disc 1 + 2 seemed too slow pace to my liking. However, i do agree with you on forced emotions and the plotline being predictable.

[GWAVE]

@ people who liked Lost Odyssey's storyline

Definitely try out "Planescape: Torment" or "Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn" on PC, especially Planescape.

Planescape is pretty much a better, more mature version of Lost Odyssey with a better storyline that stays good throughout the entire game.

[sack_boi]

OMG please let this bz true. I loved the first game, but I think it lacked something... Summons maybe?

[gaffyh]

LO2 is the only game I want Mistwalker to announce, hopefully they don't announce Blue Dragon 2, that was a pile of crap.

[thats_just_prime]

Gwave is actually right about something but If you want Planescape: Torment or BG2 be prepared to a for it.

You might not of liked Blue Dragon but the game sold really well in japan so we'll be seeing another one for sure

[jlemdon]

This might be another Blue Dragon game(hint the dragon in Back ground).

I sure hope it's like Blue Dragon manga Ral grado.

[urban bohemian]

It looks like a more mature version of Blue Dragon (blue tattoo & dragons).

I also hope it LO2 as I thought it was a great game!

[Zeus Lee]

Good stuff!

[N4Sony]

Like poor design choics, long loading, boring battle sequences/effects (over-dramatize more! It works!), a lack of truly fun sidequests, no consistent overworld map (they need this, FFXIII supposedly will have one too!), and NO FREAKING LEVEL CAP. God that was the worst force-pacing I've ever seen in a JRPG. Come on!!!

Fix that, and I'll be interested.

[Raoh]

lost odyssey is underratted... instead of the square enix flops, microsoft should be pushing mistwalker games more

[rob6021]

Don't Use the Unreal Engine please.... The first game was really good; good music, a good story, just barren of a pretty color pallet - with frame rate hitches all over. Hopefully the sequel will get a better budget so they can do a better job on animations and graphics.

[Willio]

yah tell me about it. Case and point was on disc 3 on top of the train and prior to every battle entrance. sigh...

[REALgamer]

Think there'd be any chance of them licensing Square's new Crystal Dynamics engine (the FFXIII one)? It's now complete and looks very impressive.

Would be preferable to use an engine designed for RPGs than a middleware solution like UE3 that doesn't seem to like the large open areas RPGs require (demonstrated by the frequent loading in Lost Odyssey and Last Remnant).

[SpoonyRedMage]

Hmm, Crystal Tools, not Crystal Dynamics. Altough they should have both soon!;)

But yer, that's a possibility, it'd show there's no hard feelings and everything. Would be cool if it happened but it's doubtful.

[hippo24]

Well that would be good news, assuming they make the ending stronger.

[Why dis]

360 fans are going to love this news when ever they see this rumor.

[N4Garbage]

I'll 1000/1000 this just like I did Star Ocean4 :D

RPGs are well worth $60 if they're good.

Lost Odyssey was great but IMO after Gongora pwned Ghoza and became leader of Urah the story got pretty stale and I almost didn't even feel like finishing the game.

It became really aching to even play the game....after beating Gongora I was glad it was over.

Star Ocean4 stayed pretty interesting till the end and they never really said anything about the Final Boss so you kinda were on the edge of your seat to see how it turned.

For all those with Star Ocean 4

Don't try to fight the Empress if you're not level 100+ because you will DIE!!!!!

[Why dis]

I played the hell out of SO4 and I was sort of wondering why Faize's vanishing and return wasn't more detailed.

Its a good game KAY

I only played it on normal is there more bosses on a higher level? I heard the game is worth playing through again on a harder setting but can't remember why. I only got to level 65 at the most I don't remember that character.

Meracle FTW

[sack_boi]

Oh shiz! I guess I need to get SO4 now.

[militant07]

you gota be fuucking kidding me, 1000/1000 on so4 is a nightmare probly hardest game in achievement ever its may take 200hrs to get 1000

[N4Garbage]

There actually is a secret dungeon after you beat the game that is SERIOUSLY hard....its like end game content for an MMO. You cannot beat a boss in there unless your whole team is lvl 100+

Yeah man 1000/1000 is pretty hard. 154 hours.

Battle Trophy percentages is the hardest..

What I did was play Singles at the Colleseum with every character that unlocked alot of trophies for each character.

Some Battle Trophies you won't get until your level 80+ because that's when you start getting artes that hit over 10,000.

[tplarkin7]

He looked like a 40 year old high-school bully (who never left high-school). He did not look like a menace to society.

[JEDI WOLVERINE]

LO was a beautifully crafted game with music,gameplay and a story that were all top notch.

Sure the graphics werent amazing (but adaquate) but the overall package was well worth the price.

[N4PS3G]

Mistwalker is working on a new game but that art is not from Lost Odyssey 2

http://www.gamersyde.com/ne...

Edit: Fujisaka says the artwork is not of Mistwalker's next game, even though he's working on it.

[sukru]

Even though, I found the fights repetitive and boring (especially on the last two discs), I kept on going, the story, and presentation was top notch.

I hope the next one catches up with the "latest innovation" in RPG games, i.e.: ability to skip encounters if we wish. I really disliked forced random encounters with low level enemies, which takes 4-5 mins, but gives only 1% experience.

[REALgamer]

I really enjoyed LO, found the characters to be quite likeable and some beautiful art.

So far this generation LO has been my favourite JRPG (and yes, I play all of them on both consoles).

Well, favourite perhaps until Star Ocean 4. I'm still annoyed we have to wait until June 30 for SO4 in Australia. >=(

[Firstkn1ghT]

Never liked playing JRPG's but everybody keeps on telling me to play LO. Is it that good? Mass Effect is my favorite game of all time. I'm no to keen on metrosexual kids that band together to fight some devil looking enemy. Isn't that what every jrpg is about?

[kewlkat007]

Since most rather Action-based JRPG's these days ala...FF12, SO4..etc, though SO4's battle is way more fun then FFXII.

If you ever played an old-school Square JRPG, then Lost odyssey is right up there. just doesn't have final Fantasy on the Box.

The game is actually a tear jerker halfway through and the presentation is nothing like I've seen in JRPG's. You actually have to know how to read...lol, if you wanna take all of it in. The dream sequences Kaim remembers over living 1000 years, which makes the game that more interesting. I didn't sped through them , I pay $60 for a JRPG, I'm gonna enjoy it and take it all in.

There is a part of the game where you actually take part in a Funeral. Never have I done that before. You usually would watch a cut-scene or something like that. Plus, the game has plenty CGI for those that love them. The game was reviewed before NXE, so the load times were exaggerated(review copies), now with NXE, it's even faster.

I put over 100 hrs into it and any JRPG I put that much hours into get a seal of Approval. Hey how can you go wrong with these names "Nobuo Uematsu" and "Hironobu Sakaguchi".

[green]

Go and buy Lost Odyssey as soon as possible.I had never played a JRPG before and was looking to give other genra a try since i was getting really tired of FPS.But i am so glad i did, because it gave me a deep gaming experience that in my opinion is second to only Mass effect.I put in 83 hrs into it.

Sure it was not perfect,cutscenes were too long and some very unnecessary but overall the game was better than the sum of it's parts.Really good game and i hope a sequel is announced soon.

[REALgamer]

I got choked up at 2 points in the game, and one was from the Thousand Year Dreams!

For anyone who hasn't played LO, the Thousand Year Dreams are actually text short stories that are uncovered throughout the game written by a famous Japanese novelist. They fill in some of the memories Kaim's had over the thousand years he's been alive (h's immortal, can't die even if he wants to).

Seriously, they are amazing. Some will get you choked up. They tend to focus on the passing of familiar things and people over time, for example seeing generations of friends and lover growing old and dying with nothing you can do, and seeing the memories of wars and significant people forgotten over time by everyone except Kaim whose had to live through them all.

You can probably find the transcripts of them online, but considering you can pick up LO now for less than half original price it's worth it just for the stories.

[felidae]

oh please!!!

[NinjaRyu]

but if I was a betting man I say this would artwork for a new mistwalker game. LO just came out a year ago so unless their using UE3 again to make LO 2 & or they were making the second LO with the first like GOW series did I don't think will be seing a LO 2 announcement for a while.

[thats_just_prime]

As for LO2 I think its reasonable to assume we'll see something from it soon.

[SpoonyRedMage]

Awesome, some new JRPGs from Sakaguchi please!

If they could make Blue Dragon 2 a little less stupid(kinda kiddish) than the first one it would be fantastic. Lost Odyssey was good also but a bit too melodramatic.

[DragonWarrior46534]

Lost Odessey may be the best current gen rpg but that isn't saying much. I dont know what rpgs you guys have played in the past, but seriously, the story to this game was @ss. The graphics were cool, and I love turn based rpg's, but seriously that was the only good thing about the game. For me its all about the story. This one was null to me. I cant seem to point out what everyone loved about this game?

The rpg genre has been dead to me since FFX-2. No rpg on current gen consoles compares to Skies of Arcadia, FF 1 through X, Xenogears, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Warrior 1 through 8, Grandia 2 and 3, Summoner, Fable 1, Jade Empire, Morrorowind, Breath of Fire 2, Phantasy Star online (Dreamcast version), Kingdom Hearts, Starwars knight of the old republic 1 and 2, DarkCloud, Atelier Iris. Really I could go on. I wouldn't trade one of these games now for every current gen rpg ever made thus far. I don't think any of you actually know what a good rpg is?

[green]

Bioware are my all time favorite devs and i love Jade Empire a lot.But are you seriously saying that Mass Effect is not better than Jade Empire or Fable 2 not better than Fable 1?

[DragonWarrior46534]

Yes, Im saying that these current gen games dont have nothing on old school rpgs.. Fable 2 maybe looked better then the first, but the magic use in fable 2 and the end of the game killed it for me. They changed the things that didn't need fixing. Thats my problem with the sencond one.

As for Mass Effect. The story was pretty good, and the exploration was pretty awesome, but they should have taken their time and added more to the game. It felt incomplete. The exploration from one solar system to another was awesome, but every planet seemed the same, just a different color background. They really should just have given it more dev time because it was a really ambitious game. I still would pick skies of arcadia over it any day.

[BadboyCivic]

skies of Arcadia on dreamcast was an absolute masterpiece...

[FantasyStar]

I would be stoked if LO2 came true. I would also like it if LO2 was an entirely different story. You know, go the FF route where each game is different. I can't imagine a sequel happening since LO1 ended on a perfect note.

[FantasyStar]

You can't be a villain without a codpiece!

[NinjaRyu]

is from that cancel game cry-on right?

[FantasyStar]

Oh really? I didn't know. ahaha! Sorry bout' that.

[tplarkin7]

I would have played LO a few more times if they would give us the option to avoid random battles. It's a crime that you spend 40-60 hours beating the game, and they make you fetch everything you earned. At least let me avoid the random battles?

[Elle Bishop]

Troll

[baodeus]

there is an item in LO that eliminate any random encounter